Chapter 783

Unlike Ning Zhuo quietly returned to his cave dwelling.

After a hurried meeting with Chef Lao, Qing Chi, and Brother Gongsun Yan, he plunged into the martial arts formation to go into seclusion.

His feelings in many places were very different from before.

The most direct was his five senses.

Unlike Ning Zhuo frowned slightly, his eyes focused, and his vision immediately became clear; distant scenes seemed to be magnified by half, while nearby objects were almost visible in minute detail.

He took out a stone and stared at it carefully, able to distinguish the finest layering patterns of the rock. He took out a piece of wood material, and even if the surface was worn, he could still see the grain of the growth rings clearly.

He summoned Brother Gongsun Yan and asked him to use his magic power to roughly control the Green Bamboo Puppet to attack him.

Unlike Ning Zhuo closed his eyes, sealing off his sense of smell and touch, relying only on his hearing.

Once he entered a combat state, his hearing immediately became sharp, accurately capturing all information related to the battle from the complex sounds. The footsteps of the Green Bamboo Puppet, Brother Gongsun Yan's breathing. Unlike Ning Zhuo could even feel a hint of curiosity and fighting spirit from Brother Gongsun Yan.

When the Green Bamboo Puppet fought him for a moment, he heard the rhythm of the internal mechanical engagement and the humming of magic power flow from the sounds made by the puppet's movements, which allowed him to clearly grasp the strengths and weaknesses of these Green Bamboo Puppets.

"The sounds captured during combat are the Daoist principles I benefited from the School of War. Being able to hear the sounds inside the Green Bamboo Puppet is the addition of mechanical Daoist principles."

These were things Unlike Ning Zhuo didn't possess before.

He asked Brother Gongsun Yan to step back, put away the puppet, and began to try artifact refining.

He channeled his magic power to form flames; when burning wood, he listened carefully, hearing the subtle sound of the flames licking the surface of the wood and the crackling sound of the wood.

At a certain moment, he suddenly withdrew the flames, took out the wood, and checked it, immediately finding that, just as he had heard, the heat of the roasting was just right!

"From this, it seems that the addition of artifact refining Daoist principles has increased my ability to process materials by dozens of times."

And this was a conservative estimate.

Unlike Ning Zhuo's nostrils flared, and he used his tongue to taste, testing the improvement of his sense of smell and taste.

He could now distinguish a large number of subtle scents from the air and could, to a certain extent, trace their origin. That is, follow the scent to find the source.

Not to mention his perception of mechanical creations and so on.

His sense of touch also improved significantly.

Unlike Ning Zhuo's fingertips brushed over the rock, and he could clearly perceive its hardness and potential fracture surfaces.

He used his magic power threads to control mechanical creations and found that he could perform far more subtle control over the mechanisms than before. A small movement of a finger that used to be a single motion could now be broken down into at least three different detailed levels.

He took out a magic tool and, just by touching it, could perceive the precise state of the array patterns and talisman patterns on it, whether they were worn, and the degree of wear.

After testing his five senses, Unlike Ning Zhuo found that his perception in the fields of the School of War, mechanics, and artifact refining had achieved explosive growth.

The School of War gave him more practical combat ability, while mechanics and artifact refining made his heart itch, wishing he could immediately refine magic tools and manufacture mechanisms.

In the formation space of the martial arts arena, Unlike Ning Zhuo began to move his body.

He stretched his arms and threw punches, shaking his muscles, and found that when he exerted force, his muscles twisted like steel wires tempered a thousand times. When he didn't exert force, they were loose as usual.

His bones became very hard, comparable to some metal treasures.

His strength didn't increase much, but his force became very precise and controllable.

Unlike Ning Zhuo tried to handle a stone treasure; he gradually increased his force, able to keep the damage to the stone completely under his control.

His skin was much tougher than before, almost like being covered with a thin layer of armor, but the weight hadn't changed at all.

Unlike Ning Zhuo used weapons like swords and sticks to gesture on his body for a while. He found that he had a stronger ability to resist piercing and cutting damage.

Click.

Unlike Ning Zhuo just flicked his arm slightly, causing it to dislocate.

Then he used a little force to retract it.

Click.

The dislocation disappeared.

Unlike Ning Zhuo swung his limbs and performed various movements, finding that his control over his limbs had reached an unprecedented level.

"I feel like I've become a mechanical puppet. The joints are sturdy and flexible, and every movement can be broken down to achieve ultimate precision."

He roasted himself with fire, froze himself with frost, struck himself with electric currents, and cut himself with wind blades—

"Sure enough."

"My physical body has a great resistance to attacks from the five elements, etc., which has increased by at least seventy times compared to before."

He used the 'Shou Zhuo Lun Zhan' formation and found that the control was a hundred times easier than when he was in Xuan Jia Cave.

After practicing for a while, inspiration burst forth in his spiritual sea, allowing him to see many shortcomings in this battle formation, which could be further improved.

Sun Lingtong had been observing Unlike Ning Zhuo through the Life-Thread.

The worry in his heart dissipated for the most part, and he exclaimed: "Little Zhuo, your physical body has great secrets and is extremely unusual!"

"The addition of so many Daoist principles without any conflict is simply a miracle."

"Do you know what this means?"

Unlike Ning Zhuo nodded slightly: "I understand."

Cultivator cultivation inevitably involves the addition of Daoist principles.

For example, a cultivator practicing a wood-element cultivation method adopts wood-element magic power, circulating it in and out of the body along a certain path. While increasing the total amount of magic power, the relevant Daoist principles of the wood element are imprinted on him bit by bit.

Whichever cultivation method one practices, the corresponding Daoist principles will be added.

After the addition, the cultivator will have insights into the principles of this aspect. Even if his original comprehension wasn't good, he would possess excellent understanding due to his affinity.

Becoming something often means understanding it better.

Cultivators cannot practice cultivation methods at will.

On one hand, the foundation of cultivation methods lies in the three major Dantians, and there are at most three. On the other hand, different cultivation methods have different transformations for a cultivator's physical body and soul, with different directions and effects.

Many times, these effects will cancel each other out. For example, a soft method and a hard method. Sometimes, the effects of cultivation will conflict, causing harm to the cultivator. For example, a cultivator practicing a fire-element method and a water-element method at the same time usually causes a serious backlash of water and fire being incompatible.

Therefore, the Three Sects' Supreme Methods are the world's top cultivation methods. Because the three methods focus on the three major Dantians, and the cultivation process does not conflict.

"I cannot practice a fourth cultivation method." Unlike Ning Zhuo had already learned a profound lesson on this point.

That was when he was heading to the Thousand Peaks Forest and subconsciously practiced the "Heaven-Born Earth-Raised Fetal Breathing Great Method," leading to a backlash.

"But I can use other methods to add Daoist principles to my physical body and soul, and accumulate foundation!"

Unlike Ning Zhuo's main three cultivation methods didn't help his physical body much, but the "Heaven-Born Earth-Raised Fetal Breathing Great Method" could. Unlike Ning Zhuo couldn't practice it, but he could help himself through the Fetal Breathing Spirit Boat.

Therefore, even if he didn't practice it, he could still obtain the relevant Daoist principles.

"To a certain extent, the Fetal Breathing Spirit Boat is the same as the Stone-Casting Earth Treasure and the Jade-Rinsing Courtyard. These three are magic treasures, divine abilities, and cave dwellings, respectively; they seem different, but they all add Daoist principles to other things." Unlike Ning Zhuo understood in his heart.

The Fetal Breathing Spirit Boat can improve a cultivator's physical foundation.

The Stone-Casting Earth Treasure can make ordinary objects become Earth Treasures.

The Jade-Rinsing Courtyard is similar, adding Daoist principles to stones, improving their quality, and forming pieces of beautiful jade of different categories.

Thinking of this, Unlike Ning Zhuo guessed: "Being able to carry different Daoist principles means I can use any method in the world to bless myself and increase my foundation."

"Of course, there should be a limit to this."

"Is this caused by my Immortal Talent?"

Sun Lingtong pondered: "When we were at the Ten Thousand Medicine Sect, the Five Elements God specifically warned you not to investigate your Immortal Talent, as it would be detrimental to you."

"Since he has already passed the Five Elements true intent to you, he shouldn't harm you."

"Little Zhuo, instead of investigating your Immortal Talent, you should focus on the current Flying Cloud Assembly. There are opportunities everywhere here!"

Unlike Ning Zhuo nodded, agreeing with Sun Lingtong's view.

After the Xuan Jia Cave trial, Unlike Ning Zhuo's path of cultivation had a brand-new landscape.

"I have made great progress in the School of War and should be able to fully comprehend the 'Warrior's Return' technique. Then, using the 'Soldier's Armor' and 'Gao Sheng's Last Letter,' I can acquire a second military battle formation."

"I have become a Mechanical Grandmaster. Can the difficult and miscellaneous illnesses of Yuan Dasheng, Meng Yehu, and even my mother be solved?"

"In terms of artifact refining, I have also become a Master. This is one of the four great arts of cultivation, and it has a comprehensive and fundamental improvement for my practice of mechanical arts and even other skills!"

"What's even better is that this reward is only known to me and Qingwu Langjun, and the outside world knows nothing about it."

"If it were exposed, I'm afraid it would set off a whirlpool of public opinion!"

"Now, the things that spread my reputation are just that I won first place and defeated Seeing Ban Ji for the second time."

"Seeing Ban Ji—"

Unlike Ning Zhuo thought of this opponent, and his eyes couldn't help but shine brightly.

"It would be best to find out Seeing Ban Ji's new movements."

"This person and I are quite fated. Why do I feel that I can gain more from him?"

Just as Unlike Ning Zhuo was planning, a jade talisman was delivered to the cave dwelling and fell into his hand.

Unlike Ning Zhuo scanned it with his spiritual sense and showed a look of astonishment: "Oh? The duel between Situ Xing and Zhu Fenxiang has ended; Situ Xing was seriously injured and defeated, and Zhu Fenxiang was also not lightly injured!"

"Wonderful, once this battle result comes out, the eyes of the cultivators will immediately shift from me to the two of them."

"Especially Zhu Fenxiang."

Unlike Ning Zhuo picked up the jade talisman: "I want to see the scene of this battle."

Others couldn't see the specific battle scene, but Unlike Ning Zhuo was a good friend of Shen Xi and Lin Jinglong.

Both of them were at the scene and secretly used magic to record this battle.

This jade talisman came from Shen Xi.

He took the initiative to convey this intelligence to Unlike Ning Zhuo, also to let Unlike Ning Zhuo better guard against Situ Xing.

As Unlike Ning Zhuo's magic power and spiritual sense were poured into the jade talisman, the battle scene between Situ Xing and Zhu Fenxiang also appeared in the high sky of Unlike Ning Zhuo's spiritual sea.

"Zhu Fenxiang, challenging me is your biggest mistake!" Situ Xing scolded, the space behind him rippling, revealing seven brilliant sword lights.

The sword lights circled Situ Xing's body, immediately forming a 'Big Dipper Seven Luminaries Sword Formation.' The sword light was magnificent and revealed deep blue starlight.

Zhu Fenxiang's yellow robes fluttered, his hands formed seals like lightning, and he chanted ancient divine words in his mouth.

Divine Invocation—North Black Tortoise!

Divine light soared into the sky, instantly condensing into a Black Tortoise divine body several feet high. The tortoise shell was vast and as firm as a rock.

The snake raised its head and coiled, locking its gaze on the Big Dipper Seven Luminaries Sword Formation.

A cold glint flashed in Situ Xing's eyes, and he attacked first.

He pointed a finger, and the dual-star sword light representing Tianxuan and Tianji in the Big Dipper Sword Formation suddenly glowed brightly, shooting out, piercing the air, making a sharp whistling sound, and stabbing at the Black Tortoise divine body.

Boom!

The sword light and the Black Tortoise divine body collided violently. Sword light, starlight, and divine light splashed wildly, and the space twisted violently.

The Black Tortoise divine body trembled violently, cracks appeared on the tortoise shell, and the Black Tortoise divine body was forced to retreat a few steps.

Zhu Fenxiang's face turned slightly pale, and he used the Divine Invocation again.

The next moment, a giant divine body appeared on the battlefield; it was the Giant Spirit God.

The Giant Spirit God focused on attacking, while the North Black Tortoise focused on defending, resisting Situ Xing's attack.

Situ Xing was surrounded by seven sword lights, forming a battle formation, which could be said to be both offensive and defensive.

He didn't fight head-on but moved around, so the scene fell into a stalemate.

Unlike Ning Zhuo watched the two go back and forth, sighing in his heart: "The North Black Tortoise and the Giant Spirit God are both bodies created out of thin air, but both have Golden Core-level combat power."

"Once Situ Xing's Big Dipper Seven Luminaries Sword Formation is built, he can fight back and forth with Golden Core cultivators."

Situ Xing and Zhu Fenxiang were both at the peak of Foundation Establishment, had deep accumulation, and superb cultivation talent, so they both possessed Golden Core-level combat power.

Just in the first round of clashes, both exposed their true combat power.

Unlike Ning Zhuo wasn't surprised at all.

Every time the Flying Cloud Assembly is held, it makes the Wan Xiang Sect famous in the Flying Cloud Kingdom. At the same time, it also attracts outsiders to join, and the terms are quite generous.

In such a vast crowd, the geniuses who can stand out must be well-known within a kingdom or have a slight reputation.

It's not strange that their combat power can rival Golden Core.

Slap.

Zhu Fenxiang clapped his hands and used the Divine Invocation again, inviting a Martial God.

Three gods drove the temporary divine bodies, surrounding Situ Xing and making him scurry around.

Situ Xing gradually fell into a disadvantage, eager to turn the situation around, but every result was vastly different from his expectations.

"Uh-ah!" Situ Xing roared like a wild beast, his eyes filled with bloodshot veins.

He channeled his sword techniques to the limit, and his true essence and essence blood were burning wildly! The 'Yaoguang' star position in the Big Dipper Sword Formation erupted with unprecedented tragic light, and the light of the other six stars was also forcibly extracted and gathered together, forming a condensed sword light the size of an infant's forearm.

The sword light carried Situ Xing's expectations, flew through the air, pierced through the North Black Tortoise, and clashed with the Martial God, inseparable.

And the Giant Spirit God was left idle, fighting in front of Situ Xing.

Situ Xing retreated repeatedly, barely maintaining the scene with the sword formation.

Good times didn't last long; the Giant Spirit God seized the opportunity, used a divine ability, and destroyed the sword formation.

Once the sword formation was gone, the seven sword lights around Situ Xing were restored to their original appearance.

His face turned livid, and he had to reveal a trump card in advance.

Once the trump card was out, it immediately changed the battle situation.

But Situ Xing had such a trump card, and Zhu Fenxiang came to fight in person, so naturally, he also had a corresponding trump card.