Chapter 746: Ban Family Design

Ning Zhuo came to a hall of the Commerce Hall, attracting attention.

"Who is that boy?"

"White clothes, big head, looking at his appearance, it seems to be..."

"It should be Ning Zhuo. One of the first-class newcomers who emerged in this Flying Cloud Conference!"

Many cultivators cast curious glances, or discussed in low voices, or communicated with spiritual sense.

Ning Zhuo walked to the counter.

The cultivator on duty behind the counter felt his heart pounding, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet: "Fellow Daoist Ning Zhuo, what do you want to buy or sell? If you want to buy secretly, you can use spiritual sense to communicate, I will definitely keep it secret for you!"

Ning Zhuo smiled slightly: "Thank you, but no need. I want to buy some Confucian cultivation spells."

He didn’t use spiritual sense, but communicated with words.

The cultivator on duty was stunned for a moment. Ning Zhuo’s request was unexpected.

Ning Zhuo participated in the Xingyun Small Trial, shouldn’t he be learning everywhere, why instead study the way of teaching others?

"He is a first-class genius, naturally he has ideas that we ordinary people don’t understand." Thinking of this, the cultivator on duty immediately checked and quickly recommended them to Ning Zhuo.

This is a prosperous age of cultivation.

There are dozens of related Confucian cultivation spells. Ning Zhuo carefully screened them and picked out eight.

They are: Standing in the Snow at the Master’s Gate, Ruler Discipline, Earnest Teaching, Tuition Enlightenment, Strict Teacher Training, Teaching Whip, Inheritor, and Passing the Torch.

The Standing in the Snow at the Master’s Gate technique, Ning Zhuo’s current Confucian cultivation foundation cannot be cast. But he can use the relevant magic array arranged to assist in success. If this Confucian method is successful, the target cultivator will be able to understand the taught content directly, pass through the door, cross the threshold, and enter the hall.

The Ruler Discipline technique requires the use of a specific magic tool, the ruler, to be used. It can make cultivators learn useful knowledge through the beating of the ruler.

The Tuition Enlightenment technique is a Confucian sacrificial method. Cultivators use the portraits of Confucian sages to receive tuition from students and then bestow them with a certain wisdom and knowledge.

"Buy them all." Ning Zhuo took out spirit stones and paid on the spot.

After he obtained Qing Huangzi’s heritage, he obtained a batch of spirit stones, used for daily expenses, and finally got rid of the awkward situation of always using Ghost Dao Jin Dan.

"Walk slowly." Under the gaze of the cultivator on duty and others, Ning Zhuo left this Commerce Hall hall leisurely.

Ban Jie sat by the window on the second floor of the restaurant.

The flying letter was delivered and landed in front of her.

"Ning Zhuo came to the Commerce Hall this time, actually just to buy some Confucian spells?"

Ban Jie looked closer, her brows slightly frowned: "Why are they all means of teaching others knowledge. This... what is the intention?"

Ban Jie, as a person specially sent by the Ban family, felt puzzled when seeing this information.

"Regardless of these. Where is Ning Zhuo?" Ban Jie stroked the jade pendant on her waist and contacted the subordinates around her.

Her subordinates kept an eye on Ning Zhuo at all times and responded immediately. The information handed over layer by layer was quickly sent to Ban Jie.

Thus, when Ning Zhuo was halfway there, Ban Jie successfully appeared in front of him.

"Fellow Daoist Ning, wait." Ban Jie blocked the way, "I am Ban Jie, a cultivator of the Ban family."

Ban Jie took the initiative to bow and introduced herself.

She deliberately said it loudly. Just to the southeast of the two was a mountain peak, where a market was being held, crowded with people.

Sensing Ban Jie’s movement, many cultivators immediately noticed.

"Look! It’s Ning Zhuo."

"Ban Jie? Someone from the Ban family? And took the initiative to find Ning Zhuo? Are they going to severely teach this outsider a lesson?"

"Hurry over, there’s a good show to watch!"

"There were many sayings before that Ban Ji was jealous of talent and secretly hired demonic cultivators to make things difficult for Ning Zhuo. Now the Ban family has even sent someone."

Many cultivators became excited, some cast detection spells, and some simply set up floating clouds, left the mountain peak, and drifted towards the position of Ning Zhuo and Ban Jie.

Ning Zhuo looked Ban Jie up and down. She was wearing a hundred-tough silkworm silk garment inside, an autumn-scented cloud-entangled robe outside, and an amber coiled-silk gauze over the robe.

Her brows were as thin as blades, and at her temples, two mysterious copper brow nails were embedded as pivot gears, rotating, with a micro-imperceptible amplitude.

A sharp light flashed in Ning Zhuo’s eyes, and vigilance immediately arose in his heart. He quickly scanned the crowd of cultivators flying over to watch the excitement, snorted coldly: "Ban Jie? What are you here for?"

Ban Jie’s face showed a trace of just-right pain and sincerity: "The previous disturbance, my brother Ban Ji was framed by someone! The so-called 'hiring demonic cultivators' is just a trick by a villain to provoke a dispute between the Ban and Ning families, and his heart is punishable! My Ban family is a famous family, and will never do such a thing. If this misunderstanding is not removed, both families will be hurt, and the righteous path will be covered in dust!"

Speaking of this, Ban Jie looked around the audience, and then fixed her gaze on Ning Zhuo: "Today Ban Jie is here, carrying the thick intention of the family elders, offering some thin gifts, to show sincerity, hoping to resolve the misunderstanding with Fellow Daoist Ning Zhuo, and turn enemies into friends."

"Fellow Daoist has unique insights into mechanism arts and five-element wonderful methods, with a piano heart and sword gall, and a jade-like appearance, which is truly a leader of our generation, naturally making people feel admiration and desire to make friends."

"Enemies should be resolved rather than knotted, turning swords into jade and silk, is a beautiful story. Even in the future, working together with one heart and one mind, and carrying the Great Dao together, is not a delusion."

The surrounding cultivators heard this and couldn’t help but look at each other, communicating with spiritual sense.

"The Ban family actually wants to resolve the misunderstanding with Ning Zhuo?"

"Ning Zhuo looks like he is alone, but it’s just that his family is outside the Flying Cloud Kingdom. The Ban family’s move is quite wise."

"I said the Ban family’s style wouldn’t involve demonic cultivators. I didn’t expect it to be someone else’s trick!"

"Many cultivators became excited."

Ning Zhuo frowned, about to speak.

Ban Jie observed his words and expressions, decisively interrupted, and directly patted the storage bag on her waist, releasing the gifts for visiting Ning Zhuo this time.

For a time, treasure light burst out, and as the light flowed, the spiritual energy became misty, making people witness it and couldn’t help but feel their hearts shake.

The crowd of cultivators exclaimed repeatedly.

"Did I see it wrong? This bottle seems to be Nine Heavens Mysterious Ice Marrow! Such extreme cold treasure, the Ban family actually gave three drops!"

"Earth Fire Lotus Seed? This kind of spiritual plant is rare. It is said that if cultivated properly, it can contain fire seeds."

"There is actually such a large Void Spirit Stone! This is a top-notch treasure material for arranging teleportation arrays or refining space magic treasures!"

Ning Zhuo couldn’t help but be attracted.

He noticed that among them, there was a pagoda. A nine-story small pagoda, crystal clear, was spinning quietly at this time. The tower body was covered with dense mysterious magnetic threads and micro-gears, matching the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, precise enough to make people dazzled.

Ban Jie introduced at the right time: "This is the Mysterious Magnetic Thousand Mechanism Nine-Curve Treasure Pagoda. The treasures hidden inside are often very rare, otherwise, they wouldn’t be stored with such means."

She pointed her finger at a jade stone: "This is the Ten Thousand Year Empty Green Divine Wind Jade."

Her finger moved to a crystal clear spiritual egg: "This is the Green Phoenix Egg, which can be hatched into an excellent means of transportation."

Finally, she introduced an ancient animal skin scroll: "This is the 'Heavenly Evolution Ten Thousand Transformations Beast Spirit Contract'. As long as you cultivate it, you can establish a contract with any monster, and turn it into your own use. Even if the monster dies in battle, there is a certain possibility of forming a beast spirit, continuing to be driven by the cultivator." Ning Zhuo’s brows frowned even tighter, and the noise of the surrounding cultivators grew louder and louder.

"My God! The Ban family is generous! This is a thin gift?"

"Nine Heavens Mysterious Ice Marrow! Earth Fire Lotus Seed! Void Stone! My Dao heart... I have only seen it in this life!"

"The Ban family acts atmospherically! To prove innocence, they don’t hesitate to pay such a price, but Ning Zhuo himself is indeed worthy of such attention."

Ban Jie stared at Ning Zhuo, not letting go of any tiny change in his expression.

She whispered in her heart: "Ning Zhuo! Such heavy gifts are right in front of you, just one word from you, and you can make them all your own. I don’t believe you are not moved!"

"As long as you accept them, our Ban family will have a righteous name!"

"You accept the benefits, and the Clan Fate Pivot Chain in the ancestral hall can take action, and take action against your luck again!"

How is it possible to accept the Ban family’s treasures for nothing?

Ning Zhuo will inevitably pay a more painful price! And these prices are almost impossible for outsiders to detect.

"Heh." Ning Zhuo gave a light laugh, his eyes shot cold stars, his gaze sharp as a knife, landing on Ban Jie’s face.

"Fellow Daoist Ban Jie, the Ban family... is really a sincere big gift."

"This Nine Heavens Mysterious Ice Marrow has nothing to do with my five-element circulation. It is not needed for five-element harmony. The storage method requires a large amount of pure Yang and wood attribute heavenly materials to build a special seal to preserve it."

"The Earth Fire Lotus Seed originally grows deep underground, in magma. If I want to cultivate it, I need a massive amount of fire-attribute resource input, which will take a long time."

"The larger the Void Spirit Stone, the more difficult it is to use. When arranging the array, if its internal stability is damaged, it will self-destruct. When the time comes, the space will collapse, and I will fall into the void, and there will be no place to die!"

"And this Mysterious Magnetic Thousand Mechanism Nine-Curve Treasure Pagoda, to solve the problem and find the treasures inside, I don’t know how much time and energy it will consume?"

"As for the 'Heavenly Evolution Ten Thousand Transformations Beast Spirit Contract', looking at the appearance of this secret book, I’m afraid it’s an ancient method? How long do you want me to study it?"

"It’s hard for you to specifically send a Green Phoenix Egg for this, to urge me to have more motivation to practice this ancient method?"

Ning Zhuo commented sentence by sentence, making the cultivators in the field stop talking.

Ban Jie, who was exposed, didn’t panic at all, and shook her head repeatedly: "Fellow Daoist Ning Zhuo has too deep a misunderstanding of my Ban family, and has already fallen into the villain’s trick."

"These were carefully selected from the clan treasury of my clan. Even if Fellow Daoist Ning Zhuo doesn’t use them, selling them to the Commerce Hall is a huge income."

"This Ten Thousand Year Empty Green Divine Wind Jade can nourish the soul, empty the mind, and is a top-notch treasure to assist in understanding wind and space. It is beneficial and harmless, I don’t know how Fellow Daoist misinterprets it again?"

Only Ban Jie knew the truth in the field.

These gifts were indeed "carefully selected", each with drawbacks. What Ning Zhuo said, although there were small mistakes, was generally correct.

The Ten Thousand Year Empty Green Divine Wind Jade also has drawbacks. The wind principles inside are too sufficient. When cultivators understand it, they are very easy to indulge in it, so that their body and mind are eroded by the principles, and they cannot be completely digested and mastered, leading to the foundation being polluted, which is more troublesome than scattering cultivation and rebuilding.

Ning Zhuo snorted coldly, his eyes like electricity, piercing Ban Jie: "Cunning words, hypocritical to the extreme!"

"Ban Ji hired demonic cultivators to harm me, I have sufficient evidence in my hands, but I don’t want to be distracted at the moment."

"Wait until the end of this Flying Cloud Conference, I will definitely make it public and confront your Ban family."

"You blocked me halfway, trying to paralyze me with heavy profits, leading me astray, and having no time to take care of other things!"

"This calculation is really sinister."

Ning Zhuo raised his voice, scanned everyone present, and immediately announced: "The Confucian sage said: To come and not go is not polite!"

"Your Ban family has harmed me twice or thrice, do you think I am an ignorant child?"

"Simply unreasonable!"

"I, Ning Zhuo, swear again, I will definitely repay Ban Ji with all my strength, and I will not stop until I beat him to cry for his father and mother and flee in a sorry state!"

"I have to trouble everyone present to witness for me!"

The crowd roared.

Ning Zhuo knew very well that there must be Ban Jie’s shills in it, but most of them should be passersby.

The cultivators all widened their eyes, and their expressions towards Ning Zhuo were full of surprise.

"I didn’t expect Ning Zhuo to be so fierce!"

"Too reckless, Ning Zhuo is provoking not just Ban Ji, but the Ban family. What reliance does he have?"

"Speaking of which, does Ban Jie’s gift-giving have any sinister intentions?"

After Ning Zhuo finished speaking, he glanced at Ban Jie coldly and flew away directly.

Ban Jie tried to suppress her anger, called out repeatedly, but couldn’t call Ning Zhuo back, and could only watch the big-headed boy leave with a flick of his sleeves.

The corner of Ban Jie’s eye finally twitched slightly.

"This little brat is actually unmoved in the face of heavy gifts!"

"I already reminded him that he can sell it for money, and he actually didn’t accept it!"

Difficult.

Ban Jie had her first confrontation with Ning Zhuo and harvested a defeat.

"But my methods are more than these, hum hum, you just wait. Ning Zhuo!" Ban Jie stared at Ning Zhuo’s gradually receding back, constantly brewing killing intent in her heart.

Point Star Peak.

Council Hall.

Yan Linglong stood beside Situ Xing and whispered: "Leader Situ, as the saying goes, to settle the outside, one must first settle the inside."

"We have two first-class geniuses here, which is a great thing."

"But Ning Zhuo doesn’t enter the ranking, and everyone has discussed this matter many times today. Is he looking down on us?"

"You are the one sitting in the first chair, followed by Lin Jinglong and Shen Xi. Ning Zhuo doesn’t even have a chair, he received the stone plaque, his reputation is rising, and he hasn’t even met you."

"If this situation continues to develop, I’m afraid everyone will have a strange feeling."

Situ Xing frowned, looking out the window and pondering: "Indeed."

"The chair ranking is our rule, but Ning Zhuo doesn’t follow this rule. Every moment he is outside, he is destroying our rules."

"What do you think should be done?"

Yan Linglong smiled slightly. She knew Situ Xing’s temperament well and said deliberately: "This is easy. Leader Situ might as well write a letter, persuade him gently, and arrange for Ning Zhuo to sit in the second chair."

Situ Xing frowned even tighter.

Yan Linglong knew the heat was enough and immediately resigned in the name of cultivation.

Arriving at her own cave dwelling, quiet and deserted, she sent a flying letter to Ban Jie: "I have done what you asked me to do. Situ Xing and Ning Zhuo will definitely have a battle in the near future!"

Yan Linglong knew the time was ripe and immediately took her leave under the pretext of cultivation.

Upon arriving at her own cave dwelling, which was secluded and empty, she sent out a flying letter to Ban Jie: "Everything you asked me to do, I have done. Between Situ Xing and Ning Zhuo, there will surely be a battle in the coming days!"