Chapter 445: Horse Hooves Tread on Falling Flowers

"Quick, try it out." Sun Lingtong also felt very excited.

Ning Zhuo closed his eyes and silently sensed his new spleen.

In a trance, he seemed to have entered a temple.

He sat on the platform and became the Earth God statue worshipped in the temple!

From the outside of the temple, a large amount of blood, essence, qi, etc., continuously drifted in. After falling into the temple, they were illuminated by the Earth God statue and underwent one round of baptism after another.

The baptism was continuous, absorbing impurities, settling them down, and enriching the mud of the foundation under the temple.

The function of the spleen itself was to transport and transform food and blood, and to resist disease. Now, with Ning Zhuo's own spleen as the foundation, the Earth-element Spleen Temple was even more efficient in this regard!

"It can also absorb all impurities and settle them, as if it were the earth, accepting everything, bearing everything, and nurturing everything. After deep accumulation and the scouring of time, it finally turns waste into treasure."

This immediately reminded Ning Zhuo of the Stone Casting Earth Treasure divine ability!

He began to infuse magic power and activate the Earth-element Spleen Temple.

Immediately, a surging power rose from the depths of the spleen and then poured into all directions, actively participating in the life operation of his entire body.

Ning Zhuo felt as if he had been pushed hard, and a sense of unspeakable comfort gradually arose throughout his body.

He sat down and tried to absorb the surrounding natural spiritual energy.

In an instant, a large amount of earth-element spiritual energy was absorbed and poured into the Earth-element Spleen Temple in his body.

Such a spiritual energy absorption effect made Ning Zhuo's heart shake violently.

Even though he was the improver of this spell, he was pleasantly surprised by the actual cultivation effect!

"This level of spiritual energy absorption is far beyond my use of the Tornado Car magic tool."

"No wonder the Five Elements God Lord cultivated all five elements back then, and his cultivation speed was still extremely rapid."

Five Elements Qi Law Art!

Ning Zhuo quickly absorbed the vast majority of the earth-element spiritual energy and converted it into the other four elements of spiritual energy to maintain the balance of the five elements in his body's qi sea.

"In the future, if I can possess a complete Five Elements Five Viscera God Temple, my cultivation speed will inevitably be a huge leap."

Ning Zhuo could not help but be moved.

"The Five Viscera Temple Spirit Divine Art I designed currently requires the essence of the five elements, and it must possess spiritual nature to be good."

Without spiritual nature, Ning Zhuo could not create external gods.

He blood-sacrificed his organs, more to use his own spiritual nature to create temples and control external gods.

He had just refined it, and he was almost the god statue himself, with the deepest level of control. But as long as his spiritual nature could not be replenished at all times in the future, the spiritual nature derived from the Old Monster of Stone would inevitably raise its head, or even gradually occupy the dominant position, eventually controlling the Earth-element Spleen Temple.

This was the drawback of the Five Viscera Temple Spirit Divine Art!

"Therefore, the Earth-element Spleen Temple cannot be separated from the physical body for too long; it must often return to itself to replenish spiritual nature and suppress the external god."

Ning Zhuo secretly warned himself.

"Next, this is the key!"

Ning Zhuo's heart moved, and he immediately caused his own spleen to shake, break free from its original position, and turn into a ball of earthy yellow light.

Ning Zhuo opened his mouth and spat out the ball of light.

While controlling the ball of light to burrow into the stone ball, he activated the Demonic Dyeing Blood Tendon Art, causing the missing part of the spleen to form a patch of blood tendons as a temporary substitute.

The ball of light followed the thin hole previously drilled on the stone ball and reached deep into the stone heart.

There, the ball of light expanded, filling the stone heart's void, vaguely turning into an earth-element temple. The temple gate was wide open, and a god statue sat inside, the face of the god statue resembling Ning Zhuo.

Ning Zhuo's connection with his Earth-element Spleen Temple was extremely tight. He immediately controlled the Earth-element Spleen Temple to quickly infiltrate the stone ball itself.

A moment later, it was as if he had grown another organ.

He mobilized the earth-element magic power within the top-grade spirit crystals in the stone ball, and the magic power sprayed out, immediately causing the stone ball to flip and roll everywhere, extremely flexibly.

Ning Zhuo's heart moved, and the Earth-element Spleen Temple immediately erupted with strong suction, immediately sucking back the sprayed earth-element magic power and storing it in the spirit stones.

Sun Lingtong had been watching from the sidelines, and seeing this scene, he clapped his hands vigorously: "Little Zhuo, you succeeded!"

Ning Zhuo also showed a bright smile: "Boss, with the Earth-element Spleen Temple, I can control the stone ball itself like an arm."

"But it still needs to be transformed internally into a mechanism to facilitate my better use!"

The core layer of the stone ball was a large amount of top-grade earth-element crystals, containing surging Nascent Soul-level magic power, which was a natural magic power pool.

Ning Zhuo also planned to make multi-faceted stone mirrors.

The stone mirrors originated from the Mirror Platform Spirit-Communication Art, which had an alternative amplification for spiritual sense, and combined with the stone ball, it could be said to complement each other.

Time was very tight, and Ning Zhuo did not sleep or rest, working continuously for two days and two nights before reaching the expected goal.

He returned to the Three Generals Camp with a pale face and two quite obvious dark circles under his eyes.

While training the new recruits, the three generals were also very concerned about Ning Zhuo.

After all, Ning Zhuo had taken away a considerable amount of military funds and had no news since he left.

Learning of Ning Zhuo's return, Liu Er laughed loudly and went out of the camp to welcome him personally.

When he saw Ning Zhuo, he was stunned.

The Ning Zhuo of the past was dressed in white, with bright eyes and fair skin, full of spirit. The young man now was haggard, pale, with puffy eyes and deep dark circles, as if he had been sucked of most of his yang energy by a female ghost.

Liu Er took a deep breath and reached out to support Ning Zhuo's arms: "The military advisor has done too much for our army, to be so exhausted!"

"Just enter the military camp, rest for a few days, and nourish yourself well; you must not work so hard again."

He only cared about Ning Zhuo and did not even mention the matter of divination.

Such social skills, regardless of whether they were sincere, made Ning Zhuo feel warm at this moment.

Ning Zhuo shook his head immediately and transmitted his voice to Liu Er: "Reporting to the Grand General, this subordinate has not failed the mission this time; the divination was successful, and I have calculated a prophecy poem."

"The content of the poem is thrilling, so I dared not rest at all and immediately rushed back to inform the General."

"This prophecy poem is—"

"Horse hooves tread on falling flowers,"

"Wind rises, shadows sink in the sand."

"Who can keep the bright moon,"

"Who will bury the mist and clouds?"

Liu Er heard this, frowned, pondered for a moment, looked at Ning Zhuo, and transmitted his spiritual sense: "Military advisor, how to interpret this poem?"

Ning Zhuo shook his head and gave a bitter smile: "I cannot fully interpret it either; just looking at this poem, I feel that the future is full of crises."

"The so-called horse hooves treading on falling flowers, the horse hooves seem to imply that our army is about to set out."

"The word falling flowers makes this subordinate tremble with fear. As the saying goes, falling flowers and flowing water; I am afraid that the army's advance is worrying."

Liu Er shook his head: "Horse hooves tread on falling flowers, if interpreted according to my understanding, couldn't it be that our army sets out, trampling the enemy along the way, and beating them to falling flowers and flowing water?"

Ning Zhuo was slightly stunned: "This prophecy poem cannot be interpreted sentence by sentence, Grand General."

"Because next, 'Wind rises, shadows sink in the sand' indicates that the situation will take a sharp turn for the worse; the enemy is like the wind rising, and the situation becomes confusing and dangerous."

"'Who can keep the bright moon', the bright moon represents hope."

"'Who will bury the mist and clouds', mist and clouds represent the smoke of war."

"The two sentences indicate that someone will lose their life in the upcoming crisis, and someone will survive until the second night, seeing the hope of survival. This means that our army itself has not been completely wiped out, and there is still a light of hope."

Liu Er listened carefully and shook his head again: "Military advisor, you are too pessimistic."

"In my opinion, the last two sentences clearly say that both sides on the battlefield have casualties; some people survived, and some people lost their lives."

"We need to be careful of enemies who are good at using mist and cloud spells."

"But as I see it, our Fire Cloud Camp can stir up fire clouds and cover the battlefield; isn't that 'mist and clouds'?"

"Hahaha."

Ning Zhuo was speechless.

When he came, it was indeed a bit rushed; he only conceived this prophecy poem halfway.

As a result, he came to persuade Liu Er, but the latter was unexpectedly optimistic.

Ning Zhuo took a deep breath: "Grand General, I personally divined and personally experienced it; I have my own inspiration and touch."

"My mood is quite low; this is the greatest revelation!"

"The General must not be paralyzed and careless."

Liu Er nodded repeatedly, continued to comfort Ning Zhuo, and sent him to the military advisor's tent to rest.

Zhang Hei and Guan Hong learned that Ning Zhuo had returned to the camp, so they both came over during the training break.

Halfway there, the three of them bumped into each other.

Liu Er waved his hand: "This time, the military advisor is exhausted from the divination; let's all go back and don't disturb his rest."

Zhang Hei laughed: "Hey, I knew the military advisor was worth trusting!"

As he said this, he glanced at Guan Hong.

Guan Hong stroked his beard: "I just stated that everything is possible."

He asked Liu Er about the result of the divination again.

Liu Er told the prophecy poem.

Zhang Hei was dumbfounded, while Guan Hong pondered: "The military advisor's and the big brother's interpretations both make sense. Prophecy poems have this ambiguous tone."

Just as they were talking, a military messenger carrying a military order rode a fast horse and ran into the military camp.

Seeing the three Golden Core generals, the military messenger still rode his horse without any salute, just raised the military order: "Order the Three Generals Camp to prepare to set out early tomorrow morning and set out to the front line with the army!"

Liu Er, Guan Hong, and Zhang Hei stared at each other, and Zhang Hei even took a light breath.

Such a strange reaction actually startled the messenger.

"You still don't accept the order? Do you want to disobey it?!" the military messenger shouted.

Liu Er hurriedly took the military order token.

As soon as the military messenger left, Zhang Hei could not hold back: "Big brother, second brother, the military advisor is worthy of being a military advisor; he really has some skills."

"He actually predicted that our army would set out."

"Does this... mean that our future is very bleak?"

Guan Hong pondered and did not speak.

Liu Er took a deep breath, his face solemn: "Second brother, third brother, actually I believe the military advisor more."

"After all, the military advisor is good at divination, and I am a complete layman."

"But why did I still comfort the military advisor like that?"

Speaking of this, Liu Er said very solemnly: "Two virtuous brothers, if the future is full of crises and there are life-and-death dangers, will we therefore retreat?"

"I won't!"

Liu Er took a deep breath, his eyes red: "Although I am a relative of the Blood Slaughter Emperor, so what?"

"Who would look up to me because of this identity?"

"More people disparage me as a half-breed of human and monster!"

"I want to get ahead."

"I want to very much!"

"But in today's cultivation world, cultivators with my identity are hard to be recognized."

"The two-note nation's expedition to the Thousand Peaks Forest this time is an opportunity that I must grasp!"

"So, even if it's dangerous, I have to go on."

Liu Er's words were sincere and resonant.

Zhang Hei was moved and said immediately: "Big brother, I understand you!"

"I brought a part of my clan to move to Canglin Immortal City because I wanted to use the resources near the Thousand Peaks Forest to develop and grow. But when I really migrated, I found that important positions were occupied by others."

"Although Canglin Immortal City is big, there is too little room left for outsiders to develop, too little!"

"Only by participating in the crusade can I make contributions, not be excluded, and truly get strengthened and developed."

"So big brother, don't worry, on the battlefield, I, Old Hei, will definitely rush to the front!"

Guan Hong also said: "I have traveled the world and seen this prosperous age like cooking oil with raging fire, with so many cultivators, as many as locusts."

"I think that a world of great contention is bound to come!"

"Good men of our generation should follow the trend and ride the waves at the forefront of the era."

"Big brother, third brother, Guan will never flee without a fight."

Seeing the two express their hearts, Liu Er was overjoyed and grabbed their arms with both hands: "Good! Worthy of being my sworn brothers. From now on, the three of us will advance and retreat together, watch over and help each other, and we will surely achieve something in this world!"

"Big brother (Big brother)!"

"Second brother, third brother!"

"Big brother (Big brother)!"

"Second brother, third brother!"

The three generals were of one heart and one mind, and their friendship deepened by another layer.

The three generals began to dispatch soldiers and make many preparations for breaking camp and moving forward early tomorrow morning.

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The next day.

Heavy fog.

Thick fog covered the mountains, rivers, and vegetation, all swallowed by the white fog. The distant mountain peaks were looming, and the contours of the mountain tops were blurred, as if they would be completely swallowed by the mist at any time.

The vegetation by the roadside hung low, moist dew covered the branches and leaves, shaking gently, like silent whispers.

In the mist, even the sunlight of sunrise appeared pale and powerless, as if everything had fallen into endless silence, empty and confused.

As the commander of the Golden Halberd Army, an important general of the two-note nation—Sun Gan, was responsible for this march.

The messenger reported: "My lord, General Liu Er of the Three Generals Camp sent someone to ask, since the heavy fog is thick today, should the march be suspended?"

Sun Gan sat on the commander's seat, was stunned when he heard this, and then sneered: "How can mere fog block the march? Ridiculous!"

After another moment, Sun Gan sent someone to ask: "Why hasn't the Three Generals Camp, as the vanguard, moved yet?"

Immediately, someone reported that the Three Generals Camp had not finished dismantling the tents.

Sun Gan snorted coldly, extremely dissatisfied: "A bunch of trash!"

The deputy general on the side said disdainfully: "The Three Generals Camp was originally a mob. Xu Dali, the general of the Savage Monster Camp, is at least a military man and specializes in military strategy. What are Liu Er, Guan Hong, and Zhang Hei? They just learned some military strategy and think they can lead troops to fight? It's ridiculous!"

Sun Gan: "Pass the order down, the Three Generals Camp is marching too slowly, violating military orders; punish the main general Liu Er with thirty heavy boards. Record it first, and execute military law when we arrive at Wooden Wheel Town."

"Order the Savage Monster Camp to take the lead and be the vanguard army!"

"The White Jade Camp follows."

"My Golden Halberd Army is in the middle."

"Behind our army is the Red Flower Camp."

"The Three Generals Camp brings up the rear."

"The whole army sets out!"

Sun Gan's punishment and questioning were immediately passed to the Three Generals Camp.

Ning Zhuo said guiltily: "According to my plan, it has implicated the Grand General to be punished with thirty boards; it is Zhuo's fault."

Liu Er waved his hand immediately: "Mere thirty boards, I can withstand it, it doesn't matter."

"The military advisor thinks for our Three Generals Camp, and we all understand it in our hearts."

"Let's not talk about it, pass the order down, let the whole army pack up properly, be vigilant throughout the journey, do not allow any negligence, and violators will be punished with sixty heavy boards!"