Flender Spends Gold Coins! Stinginess Is Also a Good Habit!

System, give me treatment options for Ma Hongjun's martial soul defect.

Nine Yang Divine Skill: 5 million Emotional Value!

Immortal Herb · Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower: 2 million Emotional Value!

External Soul Bone · Phoenix Wings: 1 million Emotional Value!

Oh ho!

There were more than thirty options.

Zhuge Lan only glanced through them, but he had no intention of redeeming any.

He said to the expectant Flender, "Since you know the Blazing Flame Sect Master, you should know about the Earth Three Sects, right?"

Flender nodded decisively.

"The Earth Three Sects consist of the Blazing Flame Sect, the War Soul Sect, and the Undying Sect."

"As far as I know, the War Soul Sect's inherited martial soul is the Seven Kill Sword, wielded by the current Titled Sword Douluo of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School."

"As for the Undying Sect, I've only heard a little about it and don't know much."

"Could it be that you're from the Undying Sect, Zhuge?"

Zhuge Lan replied.

"The Undying Sect's martial soul is the Nine Heart Begonia, a purely healing support martial soul."

"As for me and the Earth Three Sects, we have absolutely nothing to do with each other."

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The four people present were all speechless.

If you had nothing to do with them, why bring them up?

"Don't worry about where I'm from." Zhuge Lan chuckled. "I have no fewer than thirty ways to cure the Evil Fire in Ma Hongjun's martial soul."

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With "a new all-time record" over his head, Ma Hongjun dropped to his knees and slid toward Zhuge Lan's thigh.

He moved so wildly that even his cloak flew off.

It scared the hell out of Zhuge Lan!

He instantly pushed Spiral Nine Shadows to its limit, darting backward more than ten meters with three afterimages trailing behind him.

He was terrified Ma Hongjun would actually make intimate contact!

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Flender stared at the three fading afterimages, his eyes filled with shock!

With his eyesight,

he could naturally tell that this was neither a soul skill nor a Soul Bone Skill.

It was a Self-Created Soul Skill, just like the Great Sumeru Hammer and Dragon Transformation!

How could an ordinary family possess such a powerful movement-type Self-Created Soul Skill?

A Hidden Family!

The kind of family that sought neither fame nor profit, cultivated peacefully on its own little patch of land, and produced monsters generation after generation.

There was no lower limit, and their upper limit was unknown.

The only certainty was that Zhuge Lan had the real deal.

"Ma Hongjun!" Flender barked. "Although your Evil Fire erupted just now, you still attacked him. Why aren't you apologizing?"

Ma Hongjun nodded repeatedly.

"Big Brother Zhuge, it was this little brother's fault!"

"From now on, you're my big brother!"

"If you tell me to go east, I'll never go west!"

"Please, save this little brother!"

"These past years, I've suffered far too much!"

His attitude was incredibly sincere.

But more importantly,

the Emotional Value over his head was popping out by the thousands.

Zhuge Lan pretended to ponder, squeezing out a little more value.

Only after the returns from the same type of emotion diminished did he slowly speak.

"As a top-tier Beast Soul, the Nine Heavens Rainbow Phoenix is even slightly stronger than the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon."

"It's not much weaker than a God-level Soul Spirit."

"Ma Hongjun's problem is congenital underdevelopment. When his martial soul awakened, he couldn't bear such a powerful martial soul, resulting in a benign incomplete mutation."

"It's like Yu Xiaogang of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. He had the same problem. His Martial Soul Fusion Skill, the Golden Sacred Dragon, was the martial soul he was originally supposed to awaken."

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Flender's eyes lit up, and his emotions surged.

But he did not interrupt.

Zhuge Lan continued—

"That was why the Evil Fire Phoenix formed, a special martial soul that was powerful in itself but carried defects."

"From what I can see, Ma Hongjun relies on indulging his desires to vent the Evil Fire, such as lust and gluttony. That's the lowest-level method."

He stopped.

He just looked at Flender and Ma Hongjun without saying another word.

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Ma Hongjun was nearly hopping mad!

Come on!

Just say it already!

You're killing me here!

Flender, however, understood the ways of the world better.

"Zhuge, just tell me what you want."

"I'll do my best to satisfy you."

Now that was the proper attitude when asking someone for help.

Zhuge Lan said directly, "I sneaked out this time, so I didn't bring much money with me."

He gave Flender a look that said, You know what I mean.

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As a miser, Flender's heart ached terribly.

But—

after looking at the disciple he had raised,

he let out a helpless sigh.

"I'll waive the 100 Gold Soul Coin tuition fee."

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"Only 100 Gold Soul Coins?"

Zhuge Lan curled his lip.

"Then I'll give you information worth the same amount."

"A fire-attribute cultivation method that is supremely hard and supremely yang can help him regulate the Evil Fire."

"Not only will it stop affecting his emotions, it can even speed up his cultivation."

"The Blazing Flame Sect once had a similar cultivation method, but I suppose it's been lost."

"You can look for families that specialize in fire-attribute martial souls and ask whether they have one."

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Flender and Ma Hongjun looked at him resentfully.

What was the difference between saying that and saying nothing?

Without a cultivation method, it was all useless!

Wait!

"A cultivation method?" Ma Hongjun asked in confusion. "What's that? Is it something you eat?"

Flender seemed thoughtful, but he said nothing.

"Ignorance!"

Zhuge Lan sighed.

"When Soul Power circulates through different routes and according to different attributes, it can produce special effects such as accelerating cultivation, restoring oneself, repairing defects, and generating protective qi."

"That Tang San cultivates a certain cultivation method. His aura is relatively upright and peaceful, giving him an advantage in tempering his mind."

"But compared to the cultivation method I practice..."

Zhuge Lan abruptly stopped.

As if he had said too much, he clammed up.

He had hooked everyone's curiosity.

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Seeing Zhu Zhuqing's Emotional Value pulling far ahead of the rest, Zhuge Lan secretly laughed.

—Now I have another way to keep you in my grasp.

"I'll investigate that, but it'll be difficult to see results in the short term." Flender said awkwardly, "Zhuge, isn't there anything that can work immediately?"

"There is."

Zhuge Lan held out his index finger and thumb, rubbing them together alternately.

—Get the money in place first!

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Flender gritted his teeth!

He pulled a money pouch from his robes and reluctantly tossed it to Zhuge Lan.

"There are 500 Gold Soul Coins in there. It's the registration fee I just collected, and I'm giving it all to you!"

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Zhuge Lan weighed the money pouch in his hand and watched Flender's Emotional Value soar.

He was very happy.

Sure enough, only by striking at an enemy's weakness could you make them spill gold coins.

What was wrong with being stingy?

Used in the right direction, it was a good habit too.

He spent 10,000 Emotional Value to exchange his belt for a genuine Storage Belt.

He put away the money pouch.

Only then did Zhuge Lan curl his lip and say, "Forget it. You don't seem to have much money anyway."

"I'll do a good deed and tell you this for free."

"Immortal Herb · Cockscomb Phoenix Sunflower."

"External Soul Bone · Phoenix Wings."

"Primordial Exotic Inner Core."

In one breath,

Zhuge Lan listed all thirty-odd methods.

But Flender and Ma Hongjun...