Chapter 696

Two days later.

A stream of light flashed in the teleportation room, and Unlike Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong appeared in the teleportation formation.

"Little Zhuo, come, follow me," Sun Lingtong stepped forward and led the way.

He pushed open the door directly.

Unlike Ning Zhuo followed him and entered the formation hub room together.

Sun Lingtong walked straight toward the formation disk, which was the size of a millstone. He stretched out his chubby little hand, placed it on the formation disk, and directly poured in magic power.

The formation disk made a buzzing sound, emitting a faint glow, and obeyed Sun Lingtong's command.

Sun Lingtong sighed: "The Luo Shu is truly a divine artifact; if I hadn't relied on it to study, even if you gave me a hundred days, I wouldn't have been able to solve this place."

It only took two days for Sun Lingtong to crack the cave dwelling formation of the Shuyu Study.

Unlike Ning Zhuo praised sincerely: "When it comes to cracking formation arrays, I still have to look to you, Boss."

Sun Lingtong giggled, very proud: "Little Zhuo, you have talent. When you have time in the future, I will teach you well, and you can be as excellent as me. Of course, you might even be more powerful than me!"

Unlike Ning Zhuo, however, shook his head: "Boss, your sense of space is extraordinarily sharp, and you can always point to the correct answer. This talent is extremely beneficial for setting up formations. I do not possess it."

"However, once I join the Wanxiang Sect, I will definitely read the sect's classics well, study hard, and enrich myself!"

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Unlike Ning Zhuo was eager to learn.

He had once read all the books in the Ning family's library.

It was just that in order to seize the Molten Immortal Palace and travel abroad, he had no time to read anymore.

He was still too young, only in his teens, and there were too many aspects for him to grow in.

Time was really not enough!

Sun Lingtong beckoned: "You come, refine the formation disk once too, and leave your magic power aura first."

Unlike Ning Zhuo did as usual; this way, he could move freely within the Shuyu Study.

The two of them walked together, touring the Shuyu Study.

Although Unlike Ning Zhuo had been through the Human Life Hanging Thread the whole time, as if he had descended in person, adventuring in the Shuyu Study with Sun Lingtong, now that his true body had arrived here, it was a different feeling, and his emotions fluctuated for a moment.

Sun Lingtong had already figured out the layout of the Shuyu Study by this time.

The Shuyu Study was a complete palace, but after Meng Meng Yaoyin's transformation, the true layout had undergone drastic changes.

The center was the formation hub room, where a small teleportation room had been added later, and the teleportation formation inside connected to the stone teleportation room inside Baoteng Cliff. This was a secret route in and out.

The formation hub room had six doors, leading to the Paper Puppet Room, Fish Dance Pavilion, Storage Room, Shuyu Courtyard, Divination Room, and Living Room, respectively.

Between the formation hub room and the six rooms, they were connected by corridors, known as the Six-Curved Corridors, which were formed using the superb technique of the Formation-Space Construction Realm.

Unlike Ning Zhuo walked in the water-glimmering corridor, unable to help but think about how his mother lived here.

"The colorful fish shadows of the Jade Lake flowed on Mother's elegant Daoist robe, but she had no time to appreciate them. Her footsteps did not stop, and she walked straight toward a certain room."

Unlike Ning Zhuo came to the Fish Dance Pavilion. He stopped by the spring water, stared carefully, and with a thought, took out some spiritual food and sprinkled it into the spring water.

The red-scaled golden fish lived here, able to swallow spiritual energy and eat water plants. Seeing spiritual food being fed, they scrambled for it, seemingly wanting to change their taste.

For a time, the school of fish became active, splashing the water surface.

Unlike Ning Zhuo couldn't help but ask in his heart: "Did Mother also feed the fish by the spring to relieve boredom when she was occasionally annoyed?"

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The golden fish ate the spiritual food and then spat it out.

Some were choking on water, and some turned their bellies up directly.

"Uh..." Unlike Ning Zhuo was stunned, discovering that he had used dark cuisine to feed the fish.

He hurriedly performed a spell to rescue them.

The golden fish came back to life, one by one diving to the bottom of the pool, avoiding Unlike Ning Zhuo.

Unlike Ning Zhuo came to the Paper Puppet Room.

He sat at the table, gently stroking the tabletop: "Mother must have often sat like this before she passed away, working at her desk to make all kinds of paper puppets."

He looked up, casting his gaze at the surrounding walls, and saw the shadow puppets of the twelve zodiac animals: "Did Mother make all of these?"

Unlike Ning Zhuo came to the Shuyu Courtyard.

He looked at the jade pit, but what he imagined in his mind was the scene of Meng Meng Yaoyin sitting alone on the edge of the pit, pinching finger seals, and collecting jade stones.

Unlike Ning Zhuo came to the Living Room again.

A picture emerged before his eyes: Meng Meng Yaoyin returned here dragging her exhausted body. She lay alone on the huge shell couch,

frowning as she fell asleep.

Three hundred and sixty dream-wandering beads floated quietly around her, emitting a faint light to soothe her soul, but they could not dispel the fatigue and hidden worries between her brows. Even in her dreams, Meng Meng Yaoyin was tempering herself.

Finally, Unlike Ning Zhuo came to the Divination Room.

He stood before the water vortex, watching it change constantly, and scanned the room that had been turned upside down and mostly destroyed, as if seeing Meng Meng Yaoyin facing the Luo Shu page here, struggling with her divination.

The brilliance of the spells made her figure appear exceptionally small and lonely, like an ant exploring heaven and earth, seeking the answer to her own destiny.

Sun Lingtong sighed at the water vortex: "This question is too difficult to solve; it is changing at every moment."

"The formation in the corridor uses the external cloud phenomena as a reference to change at will. But this water vortex uses the Luo Shu page to calculate."

"To quickly obtain the Luo Shu, one must violently destroy the water vortex. This formation is just quite complex; its true volume is not enough. As long as we are well-prepared, we can still destroy it directly."

"But doing so would cause a huge commotion. The entire Shuyu Study might not even be preserved."

Sun Lingtong sighed repeatedly.

His personality was such that he couldn't stand seeing treasures right before his eyes while only being able to watch. This made his heart itch!

Unlike Ning Zhuo maintained his usual steadiness: "Don't worry, Boss."

"That Niu Cheng has already been stabilized by me."

"Let's move the objects in the cave dwelling into the Ten Thousand Mile Swimming Dragon first."

Sun Lingtong nodded: "Let's go, let's do it together."

Before, it was not convenient for him to take action.

Now it was different; the formation of the entire cave dwelling was under the control of the two of them, so moving these objects would not trigger alarms or the formation's defenses.

After some hard work, basically all the objects were moved into the Ten Thousand Mile Swimming Dragon.

After Unlike Ning Zhuo checked them, his mood gradually stabilized.

Up to this point, he had successfully completed one of the items in the message jade slip left by the Buddha-Doctor Meng Meng Yaoyin.

"According to Mother's instructions, as long as the Great Snake Sickle vibrates, I can burn all of these to replenish Mother's spirituality."

"I just don't know how much spirituality I will get after burning a cave dwelling like the Shuyu Study?"

"And that Cloud Seal Flow Workshop. The talisman-making room inside is where Mother often stayed before she passed away. According to intelligence, Mother also personally participated in many of the buildings in the talisman-making workshop."

Originally, Unlike Ning Zhuo also counted the Fetal Breath Spirit in it, but the Buddha-Doctor Meng Meng Yaoyin specifically mentioned this quasi-spirit treasure in the jade slip, strictly ordering Unlike Ning Zhuo not to burn it.

Unlike Ning Zhuo was a good child, so of course, he would listen to his mother.

Sun Lingtong finished moving and clapped his hands, as if dusting off ash: "Little Zhuo, are you going to recover the Cloud Seal Flow Workshop next?"

"According to the intelligence, this won't be easy."

Deputy Workshop Master Jin Mao had long since become the person in control of this talisman-making workshop. He respected Meng Meng Yaoyin very much and always mentioned her to outsiders from time to time.

And he often issued tasks, driving many cultivators to go out and search for Meng Meng Yaoyin's whereabouts.

Although Meng Meng Yaoyin's soul lamp in the sect had already gone out and the Shuyu Study had been sealed, Jin Mao put on an attitude of not believing it.

Since taking charge of the talisman-making workshop, he had been conscientious and had not been the slightest bit slack or careless, calculating every penny, and managing the entire workshop so that not a drop of water could leak through, with business becoming more and more prosperous.

Although Sun and Ning were young, they had both tasted the warmth and coldness of the world and knew the beauty and ugliness of human hearts, and they both saw Jin Mao's intentions.

His relationship with Meng Meng Yaoyin was not close; he was just one of the subordinates Meng Meng Yaoyin recruited from the outside, but he put on an appearance of not forgetting his old master, using the smallest cost to win people's hearts and "justifiably" controlling the entire talisman-making workshop.

He was quite attentive to the workshop, clearly treating this workshop as his own private property in secret.

Sun Lingtong therefore judged that if Unlike Ning Zhuo took the contract and went to collect the workshop directly, it was very likely that he would not get his wish, but instead would alert the enemy.

Unlike Ning Zhuo smiled: "Don't worry, don't worry."

He had already gotten his hands on the relics, so he was really not in a hurry.

Unlike Ning Zhuo had his own plan: "Wait until Wen Ruanyu finishes reporting his duties, my identity is exposed and recognized, and then go to collect the talisman-making workshop; the difficulty will definitely be much smaller than it is now!"

Sun Lingtong giggled: "It seems my worry was superfluous. Little Zhuo, as long as you are clear about it."

That night, Wen Ruanyu sent a flying letter.

In the letter, he told Unlike Ning Zhuo about his progress: First, he had been stationed in White Paper Xiancheng for too long, and there were too many things to report, so he was delayed in terms of time.

Because the Flying Cloud Assembly was imminent, most cultivators were busy with this major event, and there were not many cultivators inquiring about and recording Wen Ruanyu's report.

Second, the Wanxiang Sect attached great importance to White Paper Xiancheng. This time, White Paper Xiancheng had another major incident, so they had to ask high-level sect members with sufficient qualifications to personally inquire about this matter.

But the candidates for the high-level positions had been slow to be finalized.

Wen Ruanyu keenly felt that the high-level members of the Wanxiang Sect had already developed a conflict of interest regarding White Paper Xiancheng, and multiple forces were competing in the dark, all wanting to strive for the quota of this person in charge.

In this way, a certain force could directly intervene in the affairs of White Paper Xiancheng through the person in charge.

Regarding this speculation, he also revealed it directly to Unlike Ning Zhuo in the letter.

Wen Ruanyu also mentioned that he had not yet informed the high-level members about Unlike Ning Zhuo's situation, but asked Unlike Ning Zhuo to be prepared as soon as possible.

"The Yin Tide Black Wet Swamp is located between Flying Cloud Kingdom and North Wind Kingdom, which is very subtle and indeed needs to be controlled."

"And there are extremely rich cultivation resources for the Ghost Dao and Soul Dao there. Even the two major neighboring countries find it hard to have such a treasure land."

"In that case—it's not bad either."

Unlike Ning Zhuo needed time to adapt to the new environment.

The identity of being Meng Meng Yaoyin's son was beneficial to him. If nothing else, the inheritance alone was quite rich. The identity of being the descendant of a Golden Core True Inheritor of the sect could be said to be deeply rooted and could make fellow disciples recognize him more.

But once this identity was exposed, it would also make Unlike Ning Zhuo lose his hidden advantage. For example, Jin Mao would definitely focus his attention on him.

This was not what Unlike Ning Zhuo wanted to see.

For more than a decade, Unlike Ning Zhuo had been better at enduring and acting low-key. It was only after he started traveling that he gradually changed and had the atmosphere of acting openly and striving for the lead with iron and blood.

"Being in the dark allows one to see things more clearly."

"The identity of being Meng Meng Yaoyin's son is also a very important identity for White Paper Xiancheng. Not to mention, I also have the position of Deputy City Lord. In the eyes of the high-level members, this should be a pawn that must be fought for."

Unlike Ning Zhuo already had a premonition that he would fall into the eyes of the high-level members and become an object that many forces would compete for.

It was just that now, Wen Ruanyu was deliberately taking care of Unlike Ning Zhuo and had not yet reported to him, indirectly buying him some time for free movement.

Unlike Ning Zhuo was secretly grateful and practiced diligently.

The Three Sects' Supreme Method had reached the cultivation stage of study, but the "Blood-Stained Tendon Demon Technique" was still a drag.

The focus of Unlike Ning Zhuo's cultivation was the Five Elements Golden Core Wheel.

The previous Golden Core Wheel could only accommodate one Golden Core of the Five Elements category. Then, through the formation in the wheel, one element would generate the other four.

The entire wheel thus provided Five Elements magic power.

A new wheel was designed by Unlike Ning Zhuo; it was just slightly larger, and compared to the previous one, it had an extra obvious triangular formation pattern.

At the three corners, there were circular slots where any three Golden Cores of the Five Elements category could be embedded.

Yes, the new Five Elements Wheel could accommodate three Golden Cores of the Five Elements category at the same time. In this way, the scale of magic power provided by the wheel,

was at least three times more than before. The magic power rotated between them, which was also much faster than before.

Unlike Ning Zhuo took out three Golden Cores that met the standards, tried to operate them, and found that the effect was about the same as what he had designed.

Design successful!

The inspiration came from Yu Heyie's Reverse Five Elements Golden Core. After Unlike Ning Zhuo tried to manipulate it, he had a deeper understanding of the Five Elements.

And the biggest help was the Luo Shu page.

It was precisely with the help of this Dao Treasure's deductive ability that Unlike Ning Zhuo was able to obtain a new Five Elements formation after a large amount of calculation.

The Five Elements formation was carved into the formation disk, and after refining it a few more times, the formation disk and the formation were fused into one; only then could it be considered a great success.

The technique of setting up formations was quite widely applied in cultivation. One could see a glimpse of it from the Five Elements Golden Core Wheel. Otherwise, setting up formations would not be recognized as one of the four arts of cultivation.

Unlike Ning Zhuo succeeded in his research and showed it off to Sun Lingtong.

Sun Lingtong was sincerely happy for Unlike Ning Zhuo, his eyes shining: "With this, our Cang Tie Han Jia will be even more powerful! Let me play with it quickly."

Unlike Ning Zhuo smiled and handed the Five Elements Wheel to Sun Lingtong, while pointing out: "Boss, you should play with it like this—"

Unlike Ning Zhuo pointed out halfway, and suddenly his expression stiffened, stopping his words.

Sun Lingtong just wanted to ask what was wrong, but seeing Unlike Ning Zhuo's expression, he immediately closed his mouth and said nothing.

Unlike Ning Zhuo was currently urgently capturing the flash of inspiration in his mind.

He caught it!

Once the inspiration was captured, it was as if he had poked through a layer of window paper, and his understanding of the Five Elements Qi Law Formula deepened by more than double.

Unlike Ning Zhuo immediately sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes tightly, and reviewed the content of the Five Elements Qi Law Formula with all his might.

In his Qi sea, his Dantian shone, producing strange phenomena, and the strange phenomena condensed into a talisman seed.

Up to this point, Unlike Ning Zhuo's Qi sea had also reached the stage of talisman seeding from strange phenomena!