Chapter 39: Nature, Talent

"Ah?" Meng Chong was taken aback.

Fei Si's eyes narrowed into thin slits, "There's something behind your words, what do you mean? Could it be that those three demonic cultivators were your doing?"

"Bullshit!" Sun Lie cursed directly, "You're overthinking things, you know that?"

He shifted his gaze, landing on Meng Chong, "Don't you find it strange?"

Meng Chong was stunned for a moment, then slapped his head, "Oh, right! Old Sun, you said before that I couldn't casually leave the Violet Sun Furnace. Otherwise, the external pressure would drop, and lacking the supply of medicinal ingredients, my essence, qi, and spirit would all leak out uncontrollably, eventually turning me into a cripple."

"But I've clearly already run out, stopped the elixir refinement, yet there's no uncontrolled leakage."

Sun Lie then smiled, "That was, of course, a lie."

Meng Chong: "Ah?"

Sun Lie said, "The Art of Human Elixir is a demonic cultivator's method of refining elixirs. How could I, a righteous cultivator, know such a thing?"

Meng Chong: "Ah?"

Sun Lie revealed, "The real dissipation of power must start from you yourself. You possess superior talent in the cultivation world, this is the best key."

Meng Chong: "Are you talking about my Rampaging Thunderous Dash?"

Sun Lie nodded, "That's right."

"Rampaging Thunderous Dash is a peerless celestial talent, one in a million among cultivators, extraordinary!"

"However, I've discovered that this talent hasn't been truly mastered by you. It's a pity, like a precious medicine, secretly containing outstanding medicinal properties, yet it hasn't been brought into play, simply squandering nature's gifts!"

"As long as you truly unleash this talent, it can make you quickly dissipate your power. Half a day might not be enough, but a day definitely will be."

"Therefore, I set up this scheme, precisely to put you in a desperate situation."

"In a desperate situation, if you can be wholehearted, without distractions, abandon everything, and dash forward fearlessly, you can stimulate your innate talent!"

Meng Chong: "Ah?"

This genius youth blinked a few times, suddenly thought of something, and said directly, "So, Old Sun, you letting me smear honey and cumin, was really just a joke?"

Sun Lie slapped his thigh and laughed loudly, "Of course, I didn't lie to you!"

Fei Si frowned, "Young Master Meng Chong possesses peerless celestial talent, and is the City Lord's own grandson, yet you actually treated him as food to roast? And set up a scheme? Why are you so sure that this action can stimulate his celestial talent?"

Sun Lie glanced at Fei Si, belittling him, "Are you an elixir refining master? What do you know?"

"All things in heaven and earth can be regarded as medicinal ingredients."

"People are also like this. In people, human nature is medicinal property. As long as you fully stimulate human nature, you are stimulating medicinal property."

"In the Demonic Path, before taking people to refine medicine, they usually torture people greatly, filling their hearts with pain, hatred, anger, sorrow, and other emotions. This is also to stimulate the medicinal properties."

After explaining, Sun Lie asked Meng Chong again, "Have you ever thought about why your celestial talent isn't other types, but specifically Rampaging Thunderous Dash?"

Meng Chong: "Ah?"

Sun Lie shook his head, "You only treat it as luck. But that's not the case! Celestial talent isn't just favored by heaven and earth, it's also closely related to the cultivator himself."

"It's precisely because you are naturally brave and fearless, hate complexity and like simplicity, and are straightforward, that you have this talent."

"Celestial talent and natural disposition actually correspond to each other, and are mutually complementary."

"Therefore, as long as you fully stimulate your natural disposition, and assist it with some alchemic methods, you can stimulate your celestial talent."

"The medicinal ingredients in that alchemic furnace were all carefully prepared by me, and are not useless."

Fei Si narrowed his eyes, and a flash of brilliance flickered in the slits of his eyes. Hearing this, he understood and guessed Sun Lie's plan.

Sun Lie looked at Meng Chong, "Letting you enter the Violet Sun Furnace, using the Art of Human Elixir, and smearing honey and cumin, were all just pretenses."

"I originally wanted to pretend to be drunk and asleep during the refining process, roasting you for a long time. To make you misjudge and feel that you were in a desperate situation."

"To use this to force you, to stimulate the nature in your bones."

"Once you break out of the alchemic furnace, disregarding my previous threats, and overturn the strong pressure I created for you, you can unleash your natural disposition."

"When your natural disposition erupts, it will naturally lead to your celestial talent, which is Rampaging Thunderous Dash!"

Sun Lie sighed leisurely at this point.

"Difficult times reveal true character, and life-and-death situations show true colors."

"If you want to see clearly what a person's nature is like, look at their choices and performance in critical moments such as life and death."

Meng Chong: "So that's how it is."

He suddenly understood.

This talent, Rampaging Thunderous Dash, was sometimes effective and sometimes not before.

"Just now, I was single-mindedly trying to kill that demonic cultivator! At the crucial moment, Rampaging Thunderous Dash erupted, making me feel surprised and quite lucky."

"I didn't expect that it was all thanks to you, Old Sun!"

Sun Lie smiled, "I didn't think that at this juncture, there would be a demonic cultivator attacking the Violet Sun Retreat."

"At that time, I was on the verge of death, and you disregarded your own life and death to break out of the alchemic furnace to rescue me."

"I've remembered this favor, kid!"

Sun Lie gave Meng Chong a thumbs up.

After this incident, he found Meng Chong extremely pleasing to the eye.

Meng Chong straightened his chest and raised his head, "My surname is Meng, and my Meng family is a top clan in the Southern Bean Immortal Kingdom. How could I possibly shrink back in battle? How could I possibly sit idly by and watch a comrade be killed?"

"To be honest, I didn't think much at all. I forgot all about your previous care, Old Sun."

"At that time, my heart was full of anger, and I couldn't wait to blast that demonic cultivator into dust with a single punch, so I rushed out directly."

Sun Lie praised, "This is precisely the stimulation of natural disposition."

"In my opinion, Meng Chong, you have such superior celestial talent, you don't need to compete for any mechanism inheritance at all. Cultivation has a hundred arts, and the mechanism art is not suitable for you at all."

"The cultivation methods that are suitable for you are those that allow you to charge and roam freely."

Fei Si coughed, and hurriedly interrupted Sun Lie's remarks.

Sun Lie was belittling the City Lord's decision, and as a subordinate, Fei Si naturally had to defend it.

Fei Si said, "The Lord of the Three Sects is a Void Refining level great expert, and his palace is not just one. It's just that the Lava Immortal Palace is a mechanism immortal city, with the inheritance of mechanism techniques."

"In fact, according to the information collected by the City Lord, and the results of his deductions. The inheritance content in the Lava Immortal Palace, although mainly focuses on the art of mechanisms, is definitely not limited to these."

"The Lord of the Three Sects, relying on his own fortuitous encounters, concurrently cultivated the three paths, which is rare in the world. It is said that in his later years, he created a wonderful method for cultivating the three paths simultaneously, and the Lava Immortal Palace was his arrangement in his later years."

"The Five Elements Qi Rhythm Mantra transmitted by the Transmission Bell leaves a lingering charm, although it is a Daoist cultivation method, it also has the thoughts and rhymes of Buddhism and Demonism. The City Lord speculated after studying the cultivation method that there are likely to be two other cultivation methods that complement it, corresponding to the other two dantian."

"You tell me, if one cultivates with the wonderful method of the Three Sects, and performs foundation establishment, how deep will the foundation of this cultivation be? I ask the world, how many foundation establishment methods cultivate the three dantian simultaneously?"