Chapter 49: Nature and Talent

"Huh?" Meng Chong was stunned.

Fei Si narrowed his eyes into thin slits: "You have something behind your words. What do you mean? Could it be that those three demonic cultivators were summoned by you?"

"Fart!" Sun Lie cursed directly, "You're overthinking it, you know?"

He shifted his gaze to Meng Chong: "Don't you find it strange now?"

Meng Chong was taken aback, then slapped his head: "Oh, right! Elder Sun, you said before that I couldn't leave the Purple Sun Furnace at will. Otherwise, the external pressure would drop, and lacking the replenishment of medicinal herbs, my essence, qi, and spirit would leak out uncontrollably, eventually reducing me to a waste."

"But I've clearly run out now, stopping the alchemy, yet there's no leakage."

Sun Lie laughed: "That was naturally a lie to you."

Meng Chong: "Huh?"

Sun Lie said: "The Art of Human Alchemy is a demonic cultivation method. How could I, a righteous cultivator, possibly know it?"

Meng Chong: "Huh?"

Sun Lie revealed: "True dissipation of cultivation must start from you yourself. You possess a superior talent in the cultivation world, and that is the best key."

Meng Chong: "Are you talking about my Galloping Thunder?"

Sun Lie nodded: "Exactly."

"Galloping Thunder is a superior immortal talent, one in a million among cultivators, truly extraordinary!"

"However, I discovered that this talent has not been truly mastered by you. It's a pity, like a precious medicine with outstanding medicinal properties hidden within, yet not utilized—it's simply a waste of heaven's gifts!"

"As long as you truly unleash this talent, it will allow you to dissipate your cultivation rapidly. Half a day might not be enough, but a full day is definitely sufficient."

"Therefore, I set up this scheme to force you into a desperate situation."

"In a desperate situation, if you can be wholehearted, without distraction, abandoning everything, and charging forward fearlessly, you can trigger your innate talent!"

Meng Chong: "Huh?"

This genius youth blinked, suddenly thought of something, and said directly: "So, Elder Sun, you making me smear honey and cumin was really a joke?"

Sun Lie slapped his thigh and laughed: "Of course, I didn't lie to you about that!"

Fei Si frowned: "Young Master Meng Chong has superior immortal talent and is the City Lord's own grandson. You actually treated him like food to be roasted? And set a trap? Why were you so certain that this would trigger his immortal talent?"

Sun Lie glanced at Fei Si and disparaged: "Are you a master alchemist? What do you know?"

"All things in heaven and earth can be viewed as medicinal materials."

"People are the same. In a person, human nature is the medicinal property. As long as human nature is fully stimulated, the medicinal property is stimulated."

"In the demonic path, before taking a person to refine medicine, they usually torture the person, filling their heart with pain, hatred, anger, sorrow, and other emotions. This is also to stimulate the medicinal property."

After explaining, Sun Lie asked Meng Chong: "Have you ever thought about why your immortal talent is not another type, but specifically Galloping Thunder?"

Meng Chong: "Huh?"

Sun Lie shook his head: "You just think it's luck. Actually, it's not! Immortal talent is not just heaven's favor; it is also closely related to the cultivator themselves."

"It is precisely because your nature is brave and fearless, hating complexity and loving simplicity, and being straightforward, that you have such a talent."

"Talent and nature are actually mutually reflective, acting as each other's exterior and interior."

"Therefore, as long as your nature is fully stimulated, supplemented by some alchemy methods, your talent can be triggered."

"The herbs in that furnace were all carefully prepared by me; they were not useless."

Fei Si narrowed his eyes, a flash of light in the slits, and hearing this, he understood and guessed Sun Lie's layout.

Sun Lie looked at Meng Chong: "Making you enter the Purple Sun Furnace, using the Human Alchemy method, and smearing honey and cumin were all just decoys."

"I originally wanted to fake a scenario: being drunk and asleep during the alchemy process, roasting you for a long time. Making you misjudge and feel you were in a desperate situation."

"Using this to force you and stimulate the nature in your bones."

"Once you broke out of the furnace, ignoring my previous threats, and overturned the high pressure I created for you, you could explode with your nature."

"With your nature exploding, supplemented by alchemy qi, and mixed with your dissipated magic power, it would not only trigger your Galloping Thunder talent, but its power would also surge more than tenfold."

Sun Lie sighed leisurely as he said this.

"Danger reveals one's true colors; life and death show one's true nature."

"If you want to see clearly what a person's nature is like, look at their choices and performance at critical moments like life and death."

Meng Chong: "So that's how it is."

He suddenly realized.

The Galloping Thunder talent had been hit-or-miss before.

"I just wanted to kill that demonic cultivator! At the critical moment, Galloping Thunder exploded, and I felt pleasantly surprised, thinking I was quite lucky."

"I was even wondering why the power of Galloping Thunder was so strong this time."

"I didn't expect it to be your credit, Elder Sun!"

Sun Lie smiled: "I never thought that at this juncture, a demonic cultivator would come to raid the Purple Sun Courtyard."

"At that time, I was hanging by a thread, and it was you who disregarded your own life and death to break out of the furnace to rescue me."

"I've noted this favor, kid!"

Sun Lie gave Meng Chong a thumbs up.

After this incident, he found Meng Chong extremely pleasing to the eye.

Meng Chong puffed out his chest and said proudly: "My surname is Meng, and my Meng family is a top clan in the South Bean Immortal Kingdom. How could I shrink back in battle? How could I sit by and watch a comrade be killed?"

"To tell the truth, I didn't think much at all. I threw your previous warnings to the back of my mind."

"At that time, my heart was full of anger, wishing I could smash that demonic cultivator into slag with one punch, so I just rushed out."

Sun Lie praised: "This is exactly the stimulation of nature."

"In my opinion, Meng Chong, with such superior immortal talent, you don't need to compete for any mechanism inheritance. There are a hundred arts in cultivation, and the mechanism art is simply not suitable for you."

"The cultivation method suitable for you is one that allows you to charge and gallop freely."

Fei Si coughed, hurriedly interrupting Sun Lie's speech.

Sun Lie was disparaging the City Lord's decision, and as a subordinate, Fei Si naturally had to defend it.

Fei Si said: "The Three Sects Master is a Void Refinement level powerhouse, and he has more than one palace. It's just that the Lava Immortal Palace is a mechanism immortal city, possessing the inheritance of mechanism skills."

"In fact, according to the intelligence gathered by the City Lord and the results of calculations, the inheritance content in the Lava Immortal Palace, although primarily based on mechanism arts, is definitely not limited to these."

"The Three Sects Master relied on his own fortuitous encounters to concurrently cultivate three paths, which is rare in the world. It is said that in his later years, he created a wonderful method for cultivating all three paths, and the Lava Immortal Palace was his arrangement in his later years."

"The Five Elements Qi Law transmitted by the Law-Transmitting Bell is unfinished; although it is a Daoist cultivation method, it also has the thoughts and rhymes of the Buddhist and Demonic sects. After studying the cultivation method, the City Lord speculated that there are likely two other cultivation methods that complement it, corresponding to the other two dantians."

"Tell me, if one uses the Three Sects' wonderful method to cultivate and establish a foundation, how profound will this foundation of cultivation be? May I ask, in the world, how many foundation establishment methods involve the concurrent cultivation of three dantians?" ===== CHAPTER 50 =====