The True Purpose

"Treat the illness, save your own life!"

Zhou Yueyan finally got a satisfactory answer from Zhang Xuezhou.

It's no secret that Zhang Xuezhou has a health problem; anyone familiar with Zhang Xuezhou knows that Zhang Xuezhou is indeed ill, often conscious and sometimes unconscious.

The scions of the major Lineage in Western Capital City have always maintained a united front, but there is also a tendency to exclude outsiders. Zhang Xuezhou is one of the very few young people who have successfully integrated into Western Capital City.

Capable, not threatening, and lacking competitiveness—these are the many labels attached to Zhang Xuezhou, even though Zhang Xuezhou once led his team to win the championship at a sequencing conference.

Few people would be jealous of Zhang Xuezhou, after all, being jealous of a sick person is nothing to be proud of, not even the most unambitious scions of Lineage in Western Capital City.

Moreover, Zhang Xuezhou is a decent person; he has never hesitated to contribute money and manpower when necessary, and rarely caused dissatisfaction.

Even though spending 20 million yuan in cash this week did not yield the desired results, Zhou Yueyan left satisfied.

Zhang Xuezhou didn't have much time left to be conscious, and it was clearly inappropriate for her to take up even less of the other person's time.

"Sister Zhou, Professor Luo Hui injected me with antitoxin serum and said my body will recover in about two months. After I recover, can I receive the reward for advancing the gene sequence?"

"Sister Zhou, could you help me contact Brother Zhang?"

"I have mastered the Sunflower Manual and the Nine Swords of Dugu that he taught me. I would like to ask Brother Zhang for advice on how to proceed next!"

"I've already used up all of that medicinal paste. I'd like to ask Brother Zhang to buy some more of it."

Zhou Yueyan spent a long time in Zhang Xuezhou's laboratory and blocked ordinary communication; only members of the Sequence Committee were able to contact her.

She only received Ning Que's message when she returned to Western Capital City.

Ning Que has sent her a lot of messages these days.

Part of it is about Ning Que's body, but most of it is related to Zhang Xuezhou.

Ning Que's foundation in Western Capital City was very shallow. Apart from the kindness that Zhang Xuezhou showed him even when he was preoccupied with his own problems, Ning Que's remaining connections were Zhou Yueyan, which was even a connection that Zhang Xuezhou had given to Ning Que.

Besides asking Zhang Xuezhou, the only other person Ning Que questioned was Zhou Yueyan.

"Sunflower Manual, Nine Swords of Dugu, and Medicine Paste?"

Looking at the communication information that she barely understood, Zhou Yueyan frowned slightly.

She keenly sensed that Ning Que's message contained content she did not understand.

After a moment's thought, she quickly took the video camera, logged onto the internet, and found the online novel "The Smiling, Proud Wanderer".

She quickly flipped through the pages of the novel, which had already been adapted into a TV series, and found the section where Ren Woxing gave Linghu Chong the "Sunflower Manual".

"To master this skill, one must castrate oneself..."

Aside from the first eight characters which seem like a joke, what follows is a cultivation technique that the author 'made up'.

Completely different from the cultivation of Gene Fighting Technique, the "Sunflower Manual" looks more like an ancient cultivation method copied from somewhere.

Unless you are completely absorbed in reading a novel, even to the point of being engrossed, you are unlikely to practice this kind of content.

Zhou Yueyan quickly turned the page again, and it turned to the scene where Feng Qingyang taught Linghu Chong the Dugu Nine Swords.

As usual, there's a 'fictional' cultivation method included in this book, and the author even mentioned in the comments that purchasing a physical copy would include a cultivation diagram.

The cultivation methods in the novel are undoubtedly absurd and unbelievable; no one with a sound mind would practice them. However, Ning Que linked these novel cultivation methods with medicinal paste, which made Zhou Yueyan realize the truth belatedly.

"What level have you reached in your cultivation of the Sunflower Manual?" Zhou Yueyan asked in reply.

"Sister Zhou, I've reached the second level! Brother Zhang said the Sunflower Manual has nine levels, and I still need to practice seven more!"

Ning Que replied very quickly, seemingly waiting for a reply from Zhou Yueyan or Zhang Xuezhou. Zhou Yueyan sent her message, and Ning Que's reply arrived in just two seconds.

"What level of the Dugu Nine Swords have you mastered?" Zhou Yueyan asked.

"It's also the second level!"

What will the third layer bring?

"It should be the ability to heal wounds faster; I suspect it might even heal injuries involving internal organs!"

When Ning Que's reply appeared on the display screen, Zhou Yueyan felt for the first time that she seemed to be on a different path from Ning Que, Zhang Xuezhou, and the others.

"They're practicing an ancient cultivation technique, and they've even succeeded! Could it be Ren Yisheng...? But this is clearly a novel written by Zhang Weimeng!"

Zhou Yueyan immediately attributed the matter to Ren Yisheng, after all, Zhang Xuezhou was Ren Yisheng's last student, and Ren Yisheng had been studying ancient classics.

But Zhou Yueyan soon discovered that things wouldn't go as she expected; Ren Yisheng's story wouldn't end up in Zhang Weimeng's novel.

Moreover, the Zhou Household itself is Lineage that practices ancient martial arts, and Zhou Yueyan spent a lot of time and effort practicing the basics when she was young.

The cultivation methods in the novel seem to differ from those of ancient cultivators, and Ning Que mentions that the Dugu Nine Swords can heal wounds.

If it were anyone else saying that, Zhou Yueyan would just think they were bragging, but Ning Que achieved first place in sequencing based on his actual combat skills.

In the battle of the sequencing stage, Zhu Shengnan, the Third Sequence, was seriously injured, Luo Gaogao, the Second Sequence, was almost crippled, Zuo Teng, the First Sequence, was slightly injured, while Ning Que, the sequencer in the sequencing battle, was almost unharmed.

If it weren't for the health problems caused by handling that human head specimen, Ning Que would be in the best condition to participate in the struggle for the sequence.

Fighting inevitably results in injuries, but Ning Que emerged unscathed, especially considering his opponent had fought his way up from the lower ranks in an almost unbelievable manner.

This might also correspond to the other party's ability to heal wounds, which is why someone like Ning Que, a commoner, has reached this point.

I may have misjudged him!

"You must practice ancient martial arts." "Yueyan, don't look down on ancient martial arts." "It's something our ancestors summarized over thousands of years, and it's still useful today." "There will inevitably be a difference in strength between those Sequence Holder practice ancient martial arts and those Sequence Holder don't have a foundation in ancient martial arts at the same level." Zhou Xin's nagging in Zhou Yueyan's ear in previous years surged into her mind again.

Perhaps it was because Zhou Yueyan was getting older and it was becoming harder to improve, or perhaps Zhou Rihui successfully took over from Zhou Yueyan, or perhaps it was the ever-changing Gene Fighting Technique, but Zhou Xin stopped talking about Zhou Yueyan ten years ago.

"Sequence Contest: Sequencing Champions, Sequencing Conference Champion Team!"

One, Ning Que, relied on a blank slate to break into the Scarlet Alliance State and become the strongest in sequencing; the other, Zhang Xuezhou led his team to easily win the championship group at the sequencing conference.

These are two young people who lack a strong foundation, but they are also two champions representing the younger generation of the Scarlet Alliance State. Whether we acknowledge it or not, these people are the most outstanding, even the best, of this generation.

Even if Zhou Yueyan doesn't acknowledge the adaptability of these ancient cultivation techniques at higher levels, such abilities are undoubtedly powerful weapons at lower levels, capable of providing immense assistance.

Two layers of the Sunflower Manual and two layers of the Dugu Nine Swords propelled Ning Que forward; how much could nine layers possibly propel him? This was an answer Zhou Yueyan found difficult to determine.

Now, Zhou Yueyan finally understood the true purpose of Zhang Xuezhou's emetics.