Chapter 699: I am a Good Youth Who Cures Diseases and Saves People!

Unlike Ning Zhuo spreads his spiritual sense, covering the two flying letters, and reads them quickly, learning the cause and effect.

"A bit interesting." A sharp glint flashes in Unlike Ning Zhuo's eyes.

He looks at the two flying letters in his hand and begins to ponder the value of this information.

Unlike Ning Zhuo originally thought that his performance on Yu Heyue was enough to convince Shen Xi, Situ Xing, and others to let him join this team.

But now, Situ Xing is making things difficult for Unlike Ning Zhuo again.

"No, he is not making things difficult for me, but making Shen Xi look bad." Unlike Ning Zhuo knows clearly that he and Situ Xing have never met at all.

"Shen Xi recommending me is to use me to increase his right to speak in this group."

"Beside him, there is currently only Su Su Lingkou."

"But Situ Xing is very vigilant against Shen Xi, and there is a secret contest between the two; I am just a chess piece in it."

Where there are people, there is a world.

As an outsider, Unlike Ning Zhuo stepping here and encountering such a situation is very common.

Look now, just joining this kind of small group, Unlike Ning Zhuo has to be involved and reduced to a chess piece in the contest between Shen Xi and Situ Xing.

It is conceivable that if Unlike Ning Zhuo truly joins the Wanxiang Sect and cannot figure out the situation, he is very likely to become a front-line chess piece for the replacement of the old and the new.

Small groups like Shen Xi and Situ Xing are fine; after all, their strength is ultimately only at the Foundation Establishment stage. But if one is ignorant of the situation and gets involved in the big chessboard of the Wanxiang Sect, being swept into the vortex of the replacement of the old and the new, that would be a big trouble.

"Boss." Unlike Ning Zhuo transmits his spiritual sense, contacting Sun Lingtong in the Shu Yu Zhai through the 'Human Life Hanging Thread'.

During Unlike Ning Zhuo's short retreat and breakthrough in cultivation, Sun Lingtong had been in the cave dwelling of Meng Meng Yaoyin before her death, using his talent to rub against the pages of the 'Luo Shu' and comprehend the array.

Sun Lingtong listens to Unlike Ning Zhuo's simple description, thinks for a moment, and responds: "Little Zhuo, you can make the decision on such small matters."

Unlike Ning Zhuo is stunned for a moment: "Boss, are you so at ease with me? Before we set off from Fire Persimmon Immortal City, we agreed that whenever it involves some relatively major decisions, we must discuss with each other and communicate in advance."

Sun Lingtong giggles: "Wasn't that just agreed upon before we set off? We traveled all the way, transferred through several kingdoms, even participated in the Thousand Peak Forest crusade, and even destroyed the century-old layout of the Wangchuan Prefecture Lord."

"You are already different from before."

"You can make the decision on this kind of thing!"

A warm current of being trusted surges in Unlike Ning Zhuo's heart.

Sun Lingtong is already impatient: "If there is no real major event, don't disturb me."

Unlike Ning Zhuo breaks contact with Sun Lingtong and reads the second flying letter again.

The first letter is fine, but in the second letter, Shen Xi explains in detail some intelligence about Brother Gongsun Yan.

The intelligence content includes the other party's talent, appearance, combat habits, etc.

Shen Xi also speculates: because Brother Gongsun Yan is one of the most capable subordinates beside Lin Lin Jinglong. If Unlike Ning Zhuo participates, he will likely be an enemy in the future.

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated. Therefore, knowing some enemy intelligence in advance is not a bad thing.

If it were an ordinary person, perhaps they would have been secretly moved by Shen Xi's warm-hearted behavior.

But Unlike Ning Zhuo knows very well: he and Shen Xi are already on the same front, and Shen Xi helping Unlike Ning Zhuo is helping himself.

Unlike Ning Zhuo rubs the mechanism ring worn on his finger, thoughts emerge one after another, and then dissipate immediately.

There are too many ways to deal with problems.

But just like dealing with Yu Heyue before, he needs to figure out the situation and grasp the strength of his move.

If the strength is light, the other party won't react. If the strength is heavy, turning into enemies would be going too far.

What should he do?

Inside the cave dwelling.

Brother Gongsun Yan sits cross-legged on a futon, staring at a piece of wood in his hand.

This piece of wood is about three feet long and as thick as a child's arm. It has been struck by lightning into a piece of charcoal, but it is not dead.

If one observes carefully, between the charred cracks, warm and jade-like green-blue light shines through, in wisps. Between the flow of green light, one can also see some incomplete lightning patterns, appearing and disappearing.

Brother Gongsun Yan holds this piece of wood in his hand and can feel the warm heat coming from the wood.

This is precisely the precious wood he exchanged for agreeing to Lin Lin Jinglong's battle—Lightning-Struck Wood · Spring Life!

This has to start from the Lin family's main cultivation method, "Ten Thousand Wood Spring Thunder Guide".

This cultivation method can gather the essence of ten thousand woods, cultivate Wood element magic power, and then convert it into spring thunder.

The essence is: thunder, rain, and dew, life and death shine together. Wood element magic power has always been characterized by growth and persistence; the 'Ethyl Wood Spring Thunder' can not only injure enemies but also transform life.

Any cultivator who practices the "Ten Thousand Wood Spring Thunder Guide" has the ability to mass-produce Lightning-Struck Wood · Spring Life.

Brother Gongsun Yan is no stranger to this kind of precious material.

He skillfully crushes spirit stones to increase the concentration of spiritual energy in the cave dwelling.

The Lightning-Struck Wood · Spring Life is immersed in this spiritual energy, and a layer of green mist gradually forms on its surface. Brother Gongsun Yan takes a deep breath, feeling the air fresh, as if he were in a forest after the rain.

He can feel more deeply the vitality of the sprouting grass and trees in early spring contained in the Lightning-Struck Wood · Spring Life, as well as the biting cold of the lightning that cleanses all things.

The distracting thoughts and irritability that have always lingered in his spirit sea dantian slowly dissipate under this aura.

This is precisely the reason why Brother Gongsun Yan uses this kind of wood.

His talent, 'Melted Heart', is only a low-grade talent. This level of talent has both strengths and obvious drawbacks.

'Melted Heart' can produce heart fire. Heart fire can be seen as a quasi-fire seed, which can be matched with any fire-type cultivation method in the world to form a corresponding fire seed.

The advantage of heart fire lies in complete control.

Cultivators do not need too many fire-type realms or cultivation attainments; they can naturally have complete control over heart fire.

He can perform the most detailed fine-tuning, letting every bit of heat of the heart fire be under his control.

Such heart fire is naturally suitable for alchemy and artifact refining!

Because of this talent, Brother Gongsun Yan chose artifact refining among the hundred arts of cultivation. Also because of this talent, he chose to attach himself to the Lin family—he needs Lightning-Struck Wood · Spring Life to alleviate the drawbacks brought by heart fire.

The more times heart fire is used and the longer the time, the more it can affect the balance of the five elements in the human body, easily causing the body's mechanism to lose balance and produce various diseases.

Therefore, Brother Gongsun Yan's inhuman appearance, bronze skin, and dark golden muscles are all forced changes.

This kind of mechanism imbalance does not just affect the cultivator's physical body, but also the cultivator's spirit. Using heart fire for a long time can make people become irritable, rough, reckless, eager for quick success, and lose calmness.

This is even more fatal.

Because even for the most basic cultivation, once the state of mind is unstable, there is a risk of qi deviation.

Not to mention matters like artifact refining, which require persistence and patience; being irritable and eager for success will definitely not be done well.

Precisely because of this negative impact on the cultivator's state of mind, when Brother Gongsun Yan carefully chose his cultivation direction, he abandoned alchemy and chose artifact refining.

This is because alchemy, compared to artifact refining, pays more attention to fine control. Artifact refining, relatively speaking, is rougher and has a higher fault tolerance rate.

Brother Gongsun Yan worried that his state of mind was unstable, leading to failure in alchemy, and ending up with nothing.

The consequences of failure in alchemy are often more serious than in artifact refining.

Precious medicinal materials are mixed together, and the medicinal properties penetrate each other; failure in alchemy often results in waste materials.

But artifact refining is not like this; sometimes even if it fails, one can recover some costs from the waste materials, reducing losses.

Don't underestimate this kind of loss.

A cultivator's life will not be short, and the number of times they refine artifacts and alchemy will be many. The accumulation of every loss, throughout a lifetime, will be a huge number.

And what this huge loss represents is very likely the cultivator's lifetime cultivation height and achievements in various aspects.

Brother Gongsun Yan held his breath and focused his mind, slowly activating his innate talent to unleash his own heart fire.

The heart fire was cast into the lightning-struck wood, Spring Thunder, before him, rapidly igniting the charred outer shell of the wood and emitting a faint cracking sound; the precious material burned, dyeing the orange-red heart fire a greenish-black.

Brother Gongsun Yan carefully retracted his heart fire.

Of course, he only retracted a small portion of it.

The greenish-black heart fire merged into his body, bringing with it the power of life and death from the Spring Thunder. The heart fire flowed through his entire body, leaving behind countless fine,

shimmering greenish-jade burn marks wherever it passed.

After these wounds appeared, they rapidly healed under the nourishment of the unique vitality of the Spring Thunder.

The necrotic tissue was instantly disintegrated and reshaped by the vitality-imbued lightning power, as if undergoing a baptism of lightning and a stimulation of vegetation from the inside out.

Each time of breaking and then establishing brought Brother Gongsun Yan immense pain throughout his body and mind. But as he healed, a feeling of relief, as if reborn, would spontaneously arise from the depths of his heart.

The greenish-black heart fire arrived in his upper dantian, the sea of consciousness.

A large amount of distracting thoughts, anxiety, impatience, and the like dissipated under the might of the Spring Thunder, as if washed clean by a vast spring rain, leaving not a trace behind.

Brother Gongsun Yan felt increasingly relaxed, his mind gradually approaching the clear and bright state of "an empty mountain after rain, a bright mirror and still water."

But just at this moment, a laugh suddenly came from behind him.

"Hee hee hee."

Brother Gongsun Yan suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils shrinking to the size of needle points! The hair all over his body stood on end; he had never expected that someone could sneak into his cave dwelling and come up behind him without him sensing a thing.

A strong sense of crisis made Brother Gongsun Yan act without thinking, ready to activate his defensive measures.

At the same time, he turned around urgently, wanting to face the person who had snuck up on him.

But just as he turned halfway, his vision went black, and he passed out completely!

Sun Lingtong whistled.

Brother Gongsun Yan's cultivation base was not strong, merely at the Foundation Establishment stage.

Sun Lingtong was capable of dealing with Golden Core cultivators, let alone someone of the same level.

Unlike Ning Zhuo had requested his help, and he had easily knocked Brother Gongsun Yan unconscious.

Not long after.

Slap, slap, slap.

A series of slaps landed on Brother Gongsun Yan's face. The latter opened his hazy eyes, his mind dazed.

But the next moment, Brother Gongsun Yan remembered, his body twitching as if electrocuted; had he not been tied up tightly, he would have jumped up long ago.

"Who are you?!" he asked in shock and anger, looking at Unlike Ning Zhuo before him.

"Don't move, don't move around." Sun Lingtong stood behind him, his small hand brushing over Brother Gongsun Yan's shoulder, directly restraining him.

In just a few breaths of time, cold sweat had already seeped from Brother Gongsun Yan's forehead.

He carefully sized up Unlike Ning Zhuo, seeing that the other party was in a white shirt, like a sunny youth, only his head was a bit large; in short, he had a kind and approachable temperament. Brother Gongsun Yan was not infected by this temperament—what a joke!

Would a kind and approachable person sneak into someone else's cave dwelling and ambush another cultivator?!

Unlike Ning Zhuo smiled at Brother Gongsun Yan: "Don't be afraid, I'm here to treat your illness."

His smile and his words made Brother Gongsun Yan even more afraid: "Is this young cultivator afraid of having some kind of mental illness?"

"Or is he a perverted demonic cultivator who takes pleasure in torturing others?"

Don't look at Brother Gongsun Yan's burly body and inhuman appearance; in fact, he didn't have much combat experience and was more focused on artifact refining. His cultivation resources were usually exchanged for the fruits of his refining.

He had been sent by the Lin family to assist Lin Lin Jinglong, and his accurate position was not a combatant, but to provide technical support.

However, even so, due to his innate talent, equipment, and other factors, Brother Gongsun Yan's combat power was still among the best of Lin Lin Jinglong's subordinates.

Unlike Ning Zhuo knew that words were useless; he stretched out his palm and directly grabbed Brother Gongsun Yan's head, as if pinching a ball.

"Damn it, is this demonic cultivator going to search my soul!" Brother Gongsun Yan's heart suddenly jumped to his throat.

But Unlike Ning Zhuo only used his magic power and spiritual sense to inspect Brother Gongsun Yan's physical condition.

Brother Gongsun Yan had no power to resist and could only let Unlike Ning Zhuo's spiritual sense sweep through his body at will, seeing his inner situation clearly.

"You are indeed very ill. Don't be afraid, I can cure you." Unlike Ning Zhuo showed him a friendly smile.

He then took out his life-bound mechanism fan.

Brother Gongsun Yan widened his eyes, his upper body subconsciously leaning back, wanting to distance himself from Unlike Ning Zhuo.

He did not succeed.

Brother Gongsun Yan threatened: "Wait, wait! Do you know that I have already joined the Lin family? If you want to lay a hand on me, you must think of Young Master Lin Lin Jinglong, think of the Mo Gaofeng Lin family!"

Unlike Ning Zhuo turned a deaf ear, only fanning the Five Elements Mechanism Fan.

His life-bound technique, the Five Elements Life-Death Technique, showed its power on the spot!

The imbalance of the five elements in Brother Gongsun Yan's body, which caused various symptoms, was affected by the Five Elements Life-Death Technique, and immediately underwent a earth-shaking change.

Brother Gongsun Yan's body shook, his eyes widened, first showing a look of confusion.

But the body's reaction was real.

It was like a dry desert suddenly welcoming a heavy rain.

In the rain, the fire element significantly receded, the water element irrigated, the earth element nourished, the wood element rose, and the metal element grew, finally reaching a balance of the five elements.

His bronze-colored skin was significantly dimmed, and his dark golden tendons and bones also revealed a normal luster.

The power of Spring Thunder was to break and then establish, which was treating him. Unlike Ning Zhuo's Five Elements Fan, however, was fundamentally rebuilding the balance of the five elements. The former treated the symptoms but not the root cause, while the latter directly solved the root cause!

These were two completely different levels of solutions.

Brother Gongsun Yan looked at Unlike Ning Zhuo in disbelief: "You, how did you do it?"

How could he rebuild the balance of the five elements in his body in an instant?

Brother Gongsun Yan had been troubled for a long time and had tried countless methods. In the end, he helplessly chose to join the Lin family precisely because the treatment plan to rebuild the balance of the five elements was too difficult to implement.

Unlike Ning Zhuo smiled: "It's very simple, I'm just fanning you."

"You're lucky, it just so happens that I have such a Five Elements Fan."

Brother Gongsun Yan's eyes suddenly became hot, staring tightly at Unlike Ning Zhuo's life-bound magic treasure, dazed for a moment.

Unlike Ning Zhuo then introduced: "My name is Unlike Ning Zhuo, I believe Fellow Daoist Brother Gongsun Yan should have heard of me."

Brother Gongsun Yan was dazed for a moment before he reacted.

"Unlike Ning Zhuo? You are Unlike Ning Zhuo?!" He was no longer so afraid, but questioned aloud, "Do you know that treating me like this is a violation of sect rules!"

"We agreed to resolve our conflict at the Martial Arts Hall."

"Yet you snuck into my cave dwelling and attacked me." Unlike Ning Zhuo interrupted: "No, I came to treat your illness."

Brother Gongsun Yan sneered: "Sophistry—"

Unlike Ning Zhuo spread his hands and interrupted again: "Just tell me, is the effect good or not?"

Brother Gongsun Yan's expression stalled, then he gritted his teeth: "Do you think I'm so easily cured? My physical problems can be solved, but how can the various irritability, anger, and distracting thoughts lingering in my sea of consciousness be eliminated? I still need the help of the lightning-struck wood!"

Unlike Ning Zhuo was clearly prepared and waved his fan again without thinking.

The wind fanned out this time directly affected Brother Gongsun Yan's upper dantian, gathering all the irritability, anger, and so on in his sea of consciousness and sweeping them away completely.

Unlike Ning Zhuo smiled: "How about it?"

Brother Gongsun Yan opened his mouth wide, the whole person stunned, dazed as he looked at the mechanism treasure fan in Unlike Ning Zhuo's hand.