Nature, Talent

"Ah?" Meng Chong was startled.

Fei Si's eyes narrowed into thin lines: "You have something hidden in your words. What do you mean? Did you invite those three Demonic Cultivators?"

"Nonsense!" Sun Lie immediately cursed, "You're thinking too much, you know?"

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

Meng Chong was stunned for a moment, then slapped his head: "Oh, right! Old Sun, you said before that I couldn't leave the Purple Sun Furnace casually. Otherwise, with the external pressure decreasing and the lack of medicinal supplies, my essence, qi, and spirit would rapidly drain, and I would eventually become useless."

"But I've clearly run out now and stopped the pill refining, yet I'm not draining rapidly."

Sun Lie then smiled and said, "Of course, that was a lie to you."

Meng Chong: "Ah?"

Sun Lie said, "The Human Pill Technique is a pill refining method used by Demonic Cultivators. How could I, a dignified righteous cultivator, know it?"

Meng Chong: "Ah?"

Sun Lie revealed, "To truly dissipate your cultivation, you have to start with yourself. You possess Superior Grade Immortal Talent in the cultivation world, and that is the best key."

Meng Chong: "You mean my Raging Bolt?"

Sun Lie nodded: "Exactly."

"Raging Bolt is a Superior Grade Immortal Talent, one in a million among cultivators, truly extraordinary!"

"However, I discovered that this talent has not been truly mastered by you. It's such a pity, like a precious medicine with hidden outstanding medicinal properties that haven't been unleashed, simply a waste of heavenly resources!"

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

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

"In a desperate situation, if you can be wholeheartedly focused, without any distracting thoughts, abandon everything, and charge forward fearlessly, you will be able to stimulate your innate talent!"

Meng Chong: "Ah?"

The talented young man blinked for a moment, then suddenly thought of something and said directly, "So, Old Sun, you telling me to smear honey and cumin was really a joke?"

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

Fei Si frowned: "Young Master Meng Chong has Superior Grade Immortal Talent, and he is the City Lord's own grandson. You actually treated him as food to bake? And set up a scheme? Why are you so certain that this action can stimulate his Immortal Talent?"

Sun Lie glanced at Fei Si and scoffed, "Are you a grand master of pill refining? What do you know?"

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

"Humans are the same. In humans, human nature is medicinal property. As long as human nature is fully stimulated, it is stimulating medicinal property."

"In the Demonic Dao, before refining humans into medicine, they usually torture people severely, filling their hearts with pain, hatred, anger, sorrow, and other emotions. This is also to stimulate medicinal properties."

After explaining, Sun Lie asked Meng Chong again, "Have you ever thought about why your Immortal Talent is not of other types, but specifically Raging Bolt?"

Meng Chong: "Ah?"

Sun Lie shook his head: "You just think it's luck. Actually, it's not! Immortal Talent is not just favored by heaven and earth, but also closely related to the cultivator themselves."

"It is precisely because you are inherently brave and fearless, dislike complexity and prefer simplicity, and are straightforward, that you have such a talent."

"Talent and innate nature are actually interconnected, reflecting and complementing each other."

"Therefore, as long as your innate nature is fully stimulated, supplemented by some alchemical methods, your talent can be unleashed."

"The medicinal ingredients in that pill furnace were all carefully prepared by me, not useless at all."

Fei Si narrowed his eyes, a sharp glint flashing in their slits. Hearing this, he understood and also guessed Sun Lie's plan.

Sun Lie looked at Meng Chong: "Having you enter the Purple Sun Furnace, using the Human Pill Technique, and applying honey and cumin were all just a facade."

"I originally wanted to pretend that I was drunk and asleep during the refining process, baking you for a long time. This was to make you misjudge the situation, thinking you were in a desperate plight."

"I used this to force you, to stimulate your inherent nature."

"Once you broke out of the pill furnace, disregarding my previous threats and overturning the immense pressure I created for you, your innate nature could erupt."

"With your innate nature erupting, supplemented by the pill qi, and mixed with your overflowing magic power, it could not only draw out your Raging Bolt talent, but its power would also surge by more than ten times."

Sun Lie sighed softly at this point.

"In times of crisis, true courage is revealed; in life and death, true character is shown."

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

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

He suddenly understood.

The Raging Bolt talent had been inconsistent before.

"I just wanted to kill that Demonic Cultivator with all my heart! At the critical moment, Raging Bolt erupted, which surprised me greatly and made me feel quite lucky."

"I was still wondering why the power of Raging Bolt was so strong this time."

"I didn't expect it to be thanks to you, Old Sun!"

Sun Lie smiled: "I didn't expect a Demonic Cultivator to raid the Purple Sun Villa at that moment."

"At that time, my life was hanging by a thread, and you disregarded your own life and death to break out of the pill furnace and rescue me."

"I'll remember 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 puffed out his chest and said with his head held high: "My surname is Meng, and my Meng family is a top clan in the Southern Bean Immortal Kingdom. How could I flinch in battle? How could I sit by and watch a comrade be killed?"

"To be honest, I didn't think much at all. I completely forgot about the care you showed me before, Old Sun."

"At that time, my heart was filled with anger, and I wished I could blast that Demonic Cultivator into dust with one punch, so I just charged out directly."

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

"In my opinion, Meng Chong, with such Superior Grade Immortal Talent, you don't need to compete for any mechanism inheritance at all. There are a hundred arts in cultivation, and mechanisms are simply not suitable for you."

"The cultivation method that suits you is one that allows you to charge straight ahead and gallop freely."

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

Sun Lie belittled the City Lord's decision. As a subordinate, Fei Si naturally had to defend him.

Fei Si said, "The Three Sects Forefather is a Void Refining level mighty figure. He has more than just one palace. However, the Magma Immortal Palace is an automaton immortal city, containing the inheritance of automaton techniques."

"In fact, according to the intelligence gathered by the City Lord and the results of his calculations, although the inheritance in the Magma Immortal Palace is primarily focused on automaton techniques, it is definitely not limited to just those."

"The Three Sects Forefather, relying on his own fortuitous encounters, cultivated three paths concurrently, which is rarely seen in the world. It is said that in his later years, he created a marvelous method for cultivating all three paths simultaneously, and the Magma Immortal Palace was arranged by him in his later years."

"The Five Elements Qi Rhythm Art transmitted by the Dharma Transmission Bell feels incomplete. Although it is a Daoist cultivation method, it also contains the essence of Buddhist and Demonic paths. After studying the cultivation method, the City Lord speculates that there are likely two other cultivation methods that complement it, corresponding to the other two dantian."

"Tell me, if one cultivates using the Three Sects' Marvelous Method and establishes their foundation, how profound will their cultivation foundation be? I ask the world, how many Foundation Establishment methods cultivate all three dantian simultaneously?"