Chapter 49: Nature, Talent

"Huh?" Meng Chong was stunned.

Seeing 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 thinking too much, you know?"

He shifted his gaze and landed it on Meng Chong: "Don't you feel strange right now?"

Meng Chong was dazed for a moment, then slapped his head: "Oh, right! Sun Lao, 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 all leak out uncontrollably, eventually reducing me to a waste."

"But I've clearly run out now and stopped the alchemy, yet I haven't leaked uncontrollably."

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

Meng Chong: "Huh?"

Sun Lie said: "The Art of Human Alchemy is a demonic alchemy method. As a dignified righteous practitioner, how could I know it?"

Meng Chong: "Huh?"

Sun Lie revealed: "True dissipation of cultivation must still start from you yourself. You possess a super-grade talent in the cultivation world, and this is the best key."

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

Sun Lie nodded: "That's right."

"Galloping Thunder is a super-grade 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 truly a pity; it's like a precious medicine, hiding outstanding medicinal properties, yet failing to exert them—simply a waste of heaven's gifts!"

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

"Therefore, I set up this layout, which was to make you fall into a desperate situation."

"In a desperate situation, if you can be wholehearted, without any distracting thoughts, abandon everything, and advance fearlessly, you can stimulate your innate talent!"

Meng Chong: "Huh?"

This genius youth blinked his eyes, suddenly thought of something, and said directly: "So, Sun Lao, 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!"

Seeing Fei Si frowned: "Young Master Meng Chong possesses super-grade immortal talent and is the City Lord's own grandson; you actually roasted him like food? And set a trap? Why are you so certain that this act could stimulate his immortal talent?"

Sun Lie glanced at Seeing Fei Si and disparaged: "Are you a Grand Alchemy Master? What do you understand?"

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

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

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

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

Meng Chong: "Huh?"

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

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

"Talent and nature actually correspond to each other, 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 stimulated."

"The medicinal herbs in that alchemy furnace were all carefully prepared by me and were not useless at all."

Seeing Fei Si narrowed his eyes, a flash of brilliance appearing in his eye slits. Hearing this, he understood and also 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 smoke screens."

"I originally wanted to disguise that I was drunk and sleeping during the alchemy process, roasting you for a long time. This would make you have a misjudgment, feeling that you were in a desperate situation."

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

"Once you broke out of the alchemy furnace, disregarding my previous threats, and overturned the high pressure I created for you, your nature could erupt."

"With your nature erupting, supplemented by alchemy qi, and mixed with your dissipated magic power, it could not only draw out your talent, Galloping Thunder, but its power would also surge more than ten times."

When Sun Lie said this, he sighed leisurely.

"Danger reveals liver and gall; life and death reveal one's true colors."

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

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

He suddenly realized.

This talent, Galloping Thunder, had been hit-or-miss before.

"I was just focused on wanting to kill that demonic cultivator! At the critical moment, Galloping Thunder erupted, which made me feel 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, Sun Lao!"

Sun Lie smiled: "I didn't think that at this juncture, there would be demonic cultivators coming 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, breaking out of the alchemy 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 held his head high: "My surname is Meng, and my Meng family is a top-tier clan of the Nandou 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. Sun Lao, your previous care was all thrown to the back of my mind."

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

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

"In my opinion, Meng Chong, you have such a super-grade immortal talent; you don't need to compete for any mechanism inheritance at all. There are a hundred arts in cultivation, and the mechanism art simply doesn't suit you."

"The cultivation method that suits you is one that allows you to charge and collide, galloping freely."

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

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

Seeing Fei Si said: "The Three Sects Master is a Void Refinement-level great power; his palaces are not just one. It's just that the Molten Lava Xian Gong is a mechanism immortal city, possessing the inheritance of mechanism skills."

"In fact, according to the intelligence collected by the City Lord and the calculated results, although the inheritance content in the Molten Lava Xian Gong is mainly mechanism arts, it is definitely not just these."

"The Three Sects Master relied on his own fortuitous encounters to cultivate three paths simultaneously, which is rare in the world. It is said that in his later years, he created a wonderful method for cultivating three paths simultaneously, and the Molten Lava Xian Gong was exactly his layout in his later years."

"The Five Elements Qi Law transmitted by the Transmission Bell leaves one wanting more; 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 very likely two other cultivation methods that complement it, corresponding to the other two dantian."

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