: Innate Nature, Innate Talent

"Huh?" Meng Chong was stunned.

Fei Si narrowed his eyes into slits: "There's more to your words. What do you mean? Did you summon those three demonic cultivators?"

"Bullshit!" Sun Lie cursed directly. "You're overthinking it, you know?"

He shifted his gaze to Meng Chong: "Aren't you feeling strange right now?"

Meng Chong was taken aback for a moment, then slapped his forehead: "Oh, right! Elder Sun, you said before that I couldn't leave the Purple Sun Furnace casually. Otherwise, the external pressure would drop, and without the replenishment of medicinal herbs, my essence, energy, and spirit would drain uncontrollably, eventually reducing me to a waste."

"But I've clearly run out now, stopped the alchemy process, yet I'm not draining away."

Sun Lie then laughed: "Of course, that was a lie."

Meng Chong: "Huh?"

Sun Lie said: "The Human Pill Technique is a demonic cultivator's alchemy method. How could I, a righteous path cultivator, know it?"

Meng Chong: "Huh?"

Sun Lie revealed: "To truly dissipate your power, we must start from you yourself. You possess a supreme innate talent in the cultivation world; this is the best key."

Meng Chong: "You mean my Galloping Thunder?"

Sun Lie nodded: "Exactly."

"Galloping Thunder is a supreme immortal talent, one in a million among cultivators, extraordinary!"

"However, I've discovered that this talent hasn't been truly mastered by you. What a pity! It's like a precious medicine with outstanding properties hidden within, yet not utilized—simply a waste!"

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

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

"In such a predicament, if you can wholeheartedly, without distraction, abandon everything, and fearlessly charge forward, you can stimulate your exceptional innate talent!"

Meng Chong: "Huh?"

The talented young man blinked a few times, suddenly thought of something, and said directly: "So, Elder Sun, when you had me smear honey and cumin, that was really a joke?"

Sun Lie slapped his thigh and laughed heartily: "Of course! I wasn't lying to you!"

Fei Si frowned: "Young Master Meng Chong has a supreme immortal talent and is the city lord's own grandson. How could you treat him like food to be roasted? And set up a scheme? Why are you so certain this would stimulate his immortal talent?"

Sun Lie glanced at Fei Si dismissively: "Are you a Grand Alchemy Master? What do you know?"

"All things between heaven and earth can be seen as medicinal ingredients."

"Humans are no exception. In humans, human nature is the medicinal property. Fully stimulating human nature is stimulating the medicinal property."

"In the demonic path, before refining humans into pills, they often torture them greatly, filling their hearts with pain, hatred, anger, sorrow, and other emotions. This is also to stimulate the medicinal property."

After explaining, Sun Lie asked Meng Chong: "Have you ever wondered why your immortal talent is Galloping Thunder, and not some other kind?"

Meng Chong: "Huh?"

Sun Lie shook his head: "You think it's just luck. But that's not the case! Immortal talent isn't just a blessing from heaven and earth; it's closely related to the cultivator themselves."

"It's precisely because your innate nature is brave and fearless, disliking complexity and preferring simplicity, straightforward and direct, that you have such a talent."

"Innate talent and innate nature actually reflect each other; they are two sides of the same coin."

"Therefore, as long as we fully stimulate your innate nature, supplemented by some alchemical methods, we can stimulate your innate talent."

"The medicinal ingredients in the alchemy furnace were all carefully prepared by me; they weren't useless."

Fei Si narrowed his eyes, a gleam of light flashing within the slits. Hearing this, he understood and guessed Sun Lie's scheme.

Sun Lie looked at Meng Chong: "Making you enter the Purple Sun Furnace, using the Human Pill refining method, and smearing honey and cumin were all just decoys."

"My original plan was to pretend to be drunk and asleep during the refining process, roasting you for a long time. To make you misjudge the situation, believing you were in a desperate predicament."

"Using this to pressure you, to stimulate the nature deep in your bones."

"Once you broke out of the furnace, disregarding my previous threats, overthrowing the intense pressure I created for you, you could erupt with your innate nature."

"When your innate nature erupts, supplemented by the pill energy, and mixed with your dissipating法力, it can not only draw out your innate talent, Galloping Thunder, but also increase its power more than tenfold."

Sun Lie sighed leisurely at this point.

"Adversity reveals true character; life and death show one's true colors."

"To see a person's true nature, observe their choices and performance at critical moments like life and death."

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

He suddenly understood.

His Galloping Thunder talent had been unreliable before, sometimes working, sometimes not.

"Earlier, my only thought was to kill that demonic cultivator! At the critical moment, Galloping Thunder burst forth, surprising and delighting me; I felt quite lucky."

"I was also wondering why the power of Galloping Thunder was so strong this time."

"I never expected it was actually thanks to you, Elder Sun!"

Sun Lie smiled: "I never thought demonic cultivators would attack the Purple Sun Villa at such a critical moment."

"At that time, my life was hanging by a thread. It was you who, disregarding your own life and death, broke out of the furnace to rescue me."

"I'll remember this favor, kid!"

Sun Lie gave Meng Chong a thumbs-up.

After this incident, he viewed Meng Chong extremely favorably.

Meng Chong puffed out his chest and raised his head: "My surname is Meng. My Meng family is a top great clan of the Southern Bean Immortal Kingdom. How could I possibly shrink back in battle? How could I stand by and watch a comrade be killed?"

"To be honest, I didn't think much at all. I completely forgot about your previous warnings, Elder Sun."

"At that time, my heart was filled with rage. I wished I could punch that demonic cultivator into dust, so I just charged out directly."

Sun Lie praised: "This is exactly the stimulation of your innate nature."

"In my opinion, Meng Chong, with such a supreme immortal talent, you don't need to compete for some mechanical inheritance at all. Cultivation has hundreds of arts; the mechanical path simply isn't suitable for you."

"The techniques suitable for you are those that allow you to charge recklessly and roam freely."

Fei Si coughed, hurriedly interrupting Sun Lie's speech.

Sun Lie was disparaging the city lord's decision. As a subordinate, Fei Si naturally had to defend it.

Fei Si said: "Patriarch Sanzong is a mighty Void Refinement stage expert. He has more than one palace. It's just that the Molten Rock Immortal Palace is a mechanical immortal city, containing the inheritance of mechanical arts."

"In fact, according to the intelligence gathered by the city lord and the results of his deductions, while the inheritance content within the Molten Rock Immortal Palace is primarily focused on mechanical arts, it certainly isn't limited to that."

"Patriarch Sanzong, relying on his own unique encounters, cultivated three paths simultaneously, a rarity in the world. It's said that in his later years, he created a wonderful method for cultivating all three paths together, and the Molten Rock Immortal Palace was precisely arranged in his later years."

"The Inheritance Bell transmitted the Five Elements Qi Rhythm Art, which feels incomplete. Although it's a Daoist technique, it has undertones of Buddhist and Demonic philosophies. After studying the technique, the city lord speculated that there are likely two other techniques that complement it, corresponding to the other two dantians."

"Tell me, if one uses Patriarch Sanzong's wonderful method for cultivation and Foundation Establishment, how solid would this cultivation foundation be? I ask you, how many Foundation Establishment methods in the world cultivate all three dantians simultaneously?"

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