Chapter 743: Object Luck, Human Luck

The night grew deeper.

Blue Stone Cave Dwelling.

Ning Zhuo put down the jade slip in his hand, looking tired and thoughtful.

He had just roughly and quickly flipped through all the jade slips.

"Empty Valley Note Green Mechanism Tube—" the big-headed boy muttered.

This Nascent Soul grade heritage possesses multiple cultivation technique jade slips, involving multiple aspects.

The true main cultivation technique is named "Great Thousand Mechanism Sound Scripture", which is a cultivation technique for mechanism cultivators, focusing on the Upper Dantian. The technique can perceive the musical temperament of objects, enabling the cultivator to possess a special spiritual sense, capable of perceiving the special musical scales possessed by the mechanism parts themselves.

Ning Zhuo first looked at the "Empty Valley Green Mechanism General Outline". This jade slip is equivalent to a general catalog and also has a guiding role for the rest of the heritage content.

Besides this, there are other methods, covering many aspects.

For example, "Empty Valley Returning Phoenix Transformation", this sound attack technique can use echoes to imitate bird calls, forming an amazing sound wave attack technique that can penetrate multiple heavy armors, with amazing effects.

Another example is the "Green Bamboo Sifting Wind Essentials", which is a principle realized by a certain generation of successors while practicing in the bamboo forest, feeling the swaying of countless bamboo poles in the wind. It is not a cultivation technique, nor a spell, but purely a perception of heaven and earth, an exposition of principles.

There is "Thousand Mechanism Reed Tongue Profound Essentials", mainly for making mechanism part reed tongues. The book records thousands of models, allowing the reed tongue to simulate most of the sounds in the world. The "Mother Sound Reed Book" that Ning Zhuo learned and the "Consonant Reed Book" that he deduced are just the beginning content.

There is also "Sweeping Clouds and Wiping Heaven Book". This is a set of martial arts that uses a broom as equipment. It was recorded by a certain generation of successors who seized an opportunity, and thus developed corresponding spiritual bamboo puppets, with unique effects.

"Broken Jade Score" is a musical score. According to the records in the general outline, it was originally lost. But in the life encounters of a certain generation of successors, he accidentally obtained a remnant, and after using it, found it extremely compatible with this heritage, so he collected it with all his strength. Later, through the efforts of successive generations, this musical score was recorded completely.

After Ning Zhuo quickly flipped through these jade slips, he had a clearer understanding of the entire [Empty Valley Note Green Mechanism Tube] heritage.

"To fully master this heritage, two cultivation techniques are needed. One is mechanism art, and the other is musical technique."

"The actual effect of the heritage is mainly to use musical techniques to control mechanisms, and use mechanisms to exert musical techniques, complementing each other. Therefore, when fighting, music lays the field, and various sound attacks form a battlefield suppression advantage. The enemy has to deal with sound attacks on one side and various mechanism creations on the other, often becoming flustered and overwhelmed."

"The most important cultivation resources in the heritage are various spiritual bamboos. From the very beginning of the origin of the [Empty Valley Note Green Mechanism Tube] heritage, it was about modifying the bamboo forest to defend against enemies. The foundation originated from spiritual bamboo. The third and fourth generation successors both had profound cultivation techniques in spiritual planting and spiritual farming, thus setting the tone for the entire heritage."

Therefore, in the jade slips, there are also many cultivation techniques, experience summaries, etc., related to spiritual planting and spiritual farming.

What Ning Zhuo cares about most are the various mechanism creations recorded in the jade slips.

There are mechanism-type musical instruments, such as the Gold-Breaking Stone-Splitting Whistle, Sifting Wind Leaking Moon Flute, Holding Festival Guarding Heart Flute, etc. There are various mechanism puppets, such as Green Bamboo Holding Festival Sword Attendant, Empty Heart Folding Blade Personal Guard, Shadow Bamboo Sticking Wall Dark Guard, Sweeping Dust Listening Wind Monk, Teary-eyed Green Puppet, etc. There are also mechanism weapons, such as the Langgan Hundred-Section Whip. There is also a mechanism carriage, called the Forest-Piercing Green Python Shaft.

Ning Zhuo subconsciously compared them with Yuan Dasheng, Meng Yehu, Xue Cai Nu Hui, and Xue Shu Yu Xie.

"The mechanism bodies used by these dead people are all my designs."

"Compared with the mechanism creations in the [Empty Valley Note Green Mechanism Tube] heritage, my designs are obviously much rougher, and one can see at a glance that there is a huge gap."

The various mechanism creations recorded in the [Empty Valley Note Green Mechanism Tube] heritage are either well-tested or tempered. Those that are unqualified are not recorded to avoid harming future generations.

Therefore, these mechanism creations have undergone countless improvements and constant iterations, and the design is very mature. The room for improvement, at least in Ning Zhuo’s view, is equivalent to none.

"Can I build these mechanisms with my current strength?" This was Ning Zhuo’s first thought.

He thought for a while: "I have a mechanism pedestal, and my ability to manufacture mechanisms far exceeds the Foundation Establishment, and even the Jin Dan stage."

"Now I have complete and detailed mechanism construction drawings, so most of them should be no problem."

"It’s just that I can’t build Nascent Soul level ones yet."

"Because I don’t have the orthodox spiritual power of the 'Great Thousand Mechanism Sound Scripture', many steps in refining mechanisms also need corresponding improvements."

"Hmm—I still need to study hard, thoroughly understand this heritage, so that manufacturing mechanisms will be more efficient. Otherwise, if I build them right away, the possibility of failure will be higher, it will be easy to waste materials, and it will take a long time."

Ning Zhuo has quite a bit of confidence in learning.

He has already mastered the various methods of Confucian cultivators and has tried them repeatedly.

"These jade slips are all ancient objects, mostly from the original cultivators, and even more so, successive successors have written in them, adding various insights."

"If I use them for copying, the effect should be very outstanding!"

"It’s a pity that from a rough look, there is no wonderful method to solve Yuan Dasheng and Meng Yehu."

Ning Zhuo finally checked the three storage bags.

One of them contained many spirit stones, more than 100,000 low-grade spirit stones, tens of thousands of medium-grade spirit stones, and thousands of high-grade spirit stones. This solved one of Ning Zhuo’s awkward situations.

"From now on, at least I won’t always have to pay with Ghost Dao elixirs."

Ning Zhuo had made a fortune in the Thousand Peak Forest and was not surprised by the number of these spirit stones.

"There are low-grade, medium-grade, and high-grade spirit stones, and this heritage is also preventing various dangerous situations for the heritage. When in trouble, if you take out high-grade spirit stones, it will only attract greedy people and evil hearts."

The second storage bag contains treasure materials. Mainly various spiritual bamboos.

There is Dragon Chant, with holes in the bamboo joints, sounding like a dragon roar when the wind passes.

There is Startled Swan Bamboo, with a slender bamboo body, shaking violently, emitting a vibrating sound that can tear silk.

There is Ghost Weeping Bamboo, with leaves falling like ghost weeping, capable of capturing souls during night rain.

There is Gold Jade Bamboo, with a gold bamboo body and jade bamboo leaves.

There is Silk-Twining Bamboo, with bamboo silk as soft and tough as dragon tendons, capable of binding enemies tightly.

There is Ground-Lying Green Python Bamboo, which does not grow vertically but spreads along the ground, with bamboo joints stretching and contracting like a snake.

There is also Empty Valley Sound-Transmitting Bamboo, which is an excellent treasure material for making sound-transmitting objects.

The third storage bag has the fewest items, but it is the most practical for Ning Zhuo.

There are many Foundation Establishment level magic tools, etc., which don’t need to be mentioned.

Just to mention, there is one Jin Dan level treasure, the Great Thousand Mechanism Sound Robe, which is a Jin Dan level long-sleeved magic robe.

There is a Green Bamboo Hundred-Change Armor, which is a mechanism armor. When scattered, it has 720 parts, and when gathered, it can become one, fitting tightly and protecting the cultivator’s physical body.

There is a Langgan Hundred-Section Whip, a mechanism magic treasure, which can explode with sound attacks when whipped, and the sound attacks can assist the long whip in swinging.

There is a Jin Dan level spiritual bamboo puppet, which is the Empty Heart Folding Blade Personal Guard.

Finally, there is a mechanism carriage, called the Forest-Piercing Green Python Shaft, which is best at traveling in complex forest areas.

"There is no Nascent Soul level mechanism creation." Ning Zhuo was a little disappointed, but he could also glimpse the predicament of Qing Huangzi’s lineage.

"If he had such a mechanism creation, he would have Nascent Soul level deterrence, and wouldn’t have fallen to this point, urgently selecting a successor through the Xingyun Small Trial."

Ning Zhuo tried to use these mechanism magic treasures in the space within the martial arts array.

He found that the power these magic treasures could exert in his hands was less than 50%.

"Firstly, I lack orthodox spiritual power, and secondly, the sound control technique requires proficiency in this [Empty Valley Note Green Mechanism Tube] heritage to meet the manipulation standards."

Ning Zhuo tested it himself and found that only the mechanism vehicle Forest-Piercing Green Python Shaft had the lowest difficulty to control and required the least sound control technique.

"I happen to lack a means of transportation. Next, I will first master this mechanism vehicle."

"When Qing Huangzi passes away, I will take over Green Bamboo Peak and use the various spiritual bamboos on the mountain to cultivate this [Empty Valley Note Green Mechanism Tube] heritage."

Thinking of Qing Huangzi, Ning Zhuo’s mood couldn’t help but sink a little.

He fell into a silence, and after a long time, he sighed deeply, full of emotion.

"Green Bamboo Peak was originally a place of heritage, but it was incorporated by the Myriad Phenomena Sect. I, the successor, can only rent it."

"Although Qinghuang's talent is not exceptional, he has been maintaining this heritage with his full effort, not failing the instructions given to him beforehand."

What do people live for?

What is cultivation for?

Heritage—

The significance of this matter is quite significant, and it is one of the mainstream survival meanings and cultivation meanings in this cultivation world throughout history.

There has never been an immortal!

Cultivation to a new great realm can indeed increase lifespan, but it has never been infinite.

A cultivator’s lifespan always has a limit, and no matter how strong a person is, they will always die.

Besides bloodline, innovating cultivation techniques and skills and passing them on to the next generation is one of the life meanings pursued by the vast majority of cultivators.

Although I died, I existed, and my cultivation has meaning. Even if my improvement is only a small drop, as long as it brings blessings and influence to later generations, there will be later generations who think of me, and my existence is valuable.

Ning Zhuo naturally knows the meaning of "heritage".

But before, he only understood it through books, and even if he benefited from the Five Elements God Lord, the feeling was not profound.

Now, Ning Zhuo met Qing Huangzi, who was just a passing traveler in his life, not strong, and facing death, but brought Ning Zhuo a huge emotion.

"Young Master, this is information about Chen San." Gongsun Yan knocked on the array to report.

Ning Zhuo gave a hum, opened a crack in the martial arts array, burst out an invisible suction force, and lightly took the information jade slip from outside the array into his palm.

Must thank the Commerce Hall.

This hall is very capable, able to trade a considerable number of commercial goods, and information is one of them.

Ning Zhuo was a newcomer, relying on the Commerce Hall, easily making up for his major defects in information acquisition.

Black Kite Chen San—

Around 1875 of the Flying Cloud Calendar: Suspected to be a descendant of mine slaves in an abandoned mine pit attached to the "Green Fu Sect".

1878-1882 of the Flying Cloud Calendar: Served as the lowest-level miscellaneous servant in the "Green Fu Sect", responsible for peripheral sweeping. During this period, he was called "Hidden Rat" by some disciples.

1883-1888 of the Flying Cloud Calendar: Frequently employed by low-level medicine gardens and small mining points around Gray Swamp Town and Black Stone Town, serving as a guard or tracker.

Same year: The rumor spread about "rich red copper veins discovered in Xilin Ditch" led to a nearly 30% surge in the price of red copper ore in the West Market in the winter of 1889 of the Flying Cloud Calendar, triggering small-scale panic buying and chaos, later confirmed that the mineral vein news was false.

Cloud Calendar 1893: Confirmed through multiple channels, the "Kite Whistle" information network has stably covered the three towns of "Gray Swamp", "Black Stone", and "Qinghe" and the surrounding 50 miles. Chen San has become a key node for bottom-level information circulation in this area, effectively providing clues on the edge of ruins, trends of low-level monsters, friction between small forces, etc. The charging model is clear (small amount of spirit stones or equivalents), and the timeliness of information delivery is recognized by the bottom level.

After Ning Zhuo quickly read it, he fell into deep thought.

He didn’t know Chen San, and Chen San’s public expression of defection was unexpected by Ning Zhuo.

But Ning Zhuo knew that this matter could not be handled simply.

Therefore, he didn’t agree or refuse, but let Chen San send Ah Huo a spiritual meal, which was essentially still delaying time.

After Ning Zhuo left the restaurant, he immediately sent a letter to Gongsun Yan, asking him to collect information on Chen San.

Only by obtaining this key information could Ning Zhuo make the right choice.

After reading the whole information, Ning Zhuo found that this Chen San was not a demonic cultivator, was born at the bottom, and was a loose cultivator, drifting away from the righteous path and surviving in the gray area.

"So, should I use this person or not?"

Flying Cloud Kingdom, Ban Family.

Clan Ancestral Hall.

A group of Supreme Clan Elders, the core members of the Ban family’s power, were almost all gathered together, each with a livid face, staring coldly or heavily and gloomily at a huge mechanism creation in front of them.

Clan Fate Pivot Chain!

This huge mechanism with a peculiar shape involves luck and can monitor the Ban family’s luck at all times.

"Is the abnormality of the Clan Fate Pivot Chain because of Ban Ji’s tribulation this time? If handled slightly improperly, our clan will have a crisis?!"

"What kind of tribulation is so terrifying? You must know that Ban Ji has the King’s Mandate!" "No, his King’s Mandate hasn’t erupted yet."

"That’s not right. We arranged for Ban Ji to join the Myriad Phenomena Sect, which was calculated many times. As long as he joins the Myriad Phenomena Sect and obtains the several mechanism heritages we planned, he can gradually stimulate his King’s Mandate. Why is there such a big discrepancy now?!"

"The current situation is like this: Ban Ji’s human tribulation this time is named Ning Zhuo, now confirmed to be an outsider from another country, and his specific origin and background are still under investigation. Based on various signs, this person’s origin is definitely not simple, and he is a genius junior at the same level as Ban Ji."

"Currently, he has already snatched two opportunities from Qing Huangzi and Che Zhuzi, forcing Ban Ji to only take the third one in the plan."

"It doesn’t matter, right? Even if the King’s Mandate hasn’t erupted and is in a latent dragon state, it’s not something an outsider can easily suppress."

"In the latent dragon period, it is indeed weak. Don’t forget, out of selfishness, shortly after Ban Ji was born, we used the Clan Fate Pivot Chain to completely link his luck with our clan’s luck. In other words, Ban Ji is being dragged down by the entire family."

"How can it be called dragging down? He is surnamed Ban and is a descendant of our family’s bloodline. How many resources have we secretly funded for him? This is escorting him!"

The Supreme Great Elder interjected at this time: "That’s right, this time we will also escort him again."

"Drive the Clan Fate Pivot Chain, connect to Ning Zhuo through Ban Ji’s luck, I want to see this person’s current luck state."

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Others hurriedly obeyed and drove this town-clan mechanism luck magic treasure.

The Clan Fate Pivot Chain immediately began to rotate various parts, including sliders, chains, rotors, etc., making the entire appearance change greatly.

The Supreme Great Elder frowned first, keenly feeling that the Clan Fate Pivot Chain was difficult to operate. After the upper part deformed, it was difficult to move forward to the lower part.

A Supreme Clan Elder shot a sharp light in his eyes: "This child’s background is indeed not small, he must have a magic treasure to cover his own luck, or his family has a town-clan luck magic treasure, our clan’s Clan Fate Pivot Chain can’t even calculate it."

Another said: "Only calculating half of it is enough to glimpse many details. Hmm?"

While speaking, he saw the mechanism in the upper part begin to deform again.

Such an abnormality attracted the close attention of many Supreme Clan Elders.

After more than ten breaths, the change of the Clan Fate Pivot Chain ended, and the new mechanism structure made many Supreme Clan Elders change color.

"Bad, Ning Zhuo has another encounter now!"

"His luck suddenly increased, what heavy treasure did he obtain?"

"Not only is there treasure luck, but also human luck. More accurately, this human luck accounts for the most! This indicates that Ning Zhuo will meet a talent who is important in his life and can bring him huge help."

The Supreme Great Elder reached out and stopped the increasingly urgent discussion of others: "Don’t be impatient."

"The mechanism is still changing slowly."

"The form has not been truly determined, which means Ning Zhuo has not yet obtained the person, and is still in his choice and hesitation. Everything is not yet settled."

The Supreme Clan Elders couldn’t help but hold their breath, looking a little nervous.

This human luck is really strong. If Ning Zhuo gets it, it will cause a more powerful blow to Ban Ji.

And Ban Ji’s King’s Mandate hasn’t erupted yet, and being suppressed means the entire Ban family is being suppressed!

This is a very serious loss for the future of the Ban family.

The night was deep, and Chen San arrived in front of the Blue Stone Cave Dwelling.

He landed lightly, shrinking his hands and feet, observing the cave dwelling entrance, and pursed his lips nervously.

He bowed silently, his demeanor humble, and then sent a flying letter, indicating that he had handled the things Ning Zhuo had explained, and wanted to request an audience and report.

He bowed silently, his demeanor humble and cautious, then sent out a flying letter to indicate that he had handled the matter Ning Zhuo had entrusted to him and wished to request an audience to report back.