Similar paths
Wang Jiangtao once suspected that the Ren Household possessed a secret medicine for Heavenly God General, and in his later years, he stormed into the Ren Household in a frenzy.
But no one agreed with Wang Jiangtao's guess.
The Heavenly God General spent a huge amount of money and manpower to develop the secret medicine in Luofu during the Luofu era. No one believed that Ren Yisheng could develop the secret medicine with just a villa and a house in the Canglan Academy.
"Wang Haoran, Li Yingbo, Qin Wenhan, Song Bu'er all know about our Ren Household's secret medicine. Guess why they dared not use it? And why did they use it to treat me after I went mad?"
"Committee Member Li Qi, you may not trust me, but you can certainly trust your son!"
"The secret medicine originated from the Luofu era. Wang Jiangtao's burning of the villa truly destroyed everything in my home!"
"The Luo family possesses sixteen secret remedies; you should be paying more attention to them!"
"Whether you want to recreate the Heavenly God General's Secret Elixir is up to you, and whether you decide to inject it is also your own decision!"
Ren Yisheng calmly recounted the relevant events.
He allowed everyone to judge, and also gave them the conditions.
If someone fails to follow the conditions, resulting in a sudden death like Ren Aiguo's, then he cannot be blamed.
Ren Yisheng remained calm. Even after Li Qi recounted the targeting Ren Aiguo had experienced, Ren Yisheng showed no particular emotion. Instead, he calmly recounted everything related to the incident and handed the initiative over to Changkong Luo and the others.
"In other words, only those who have developed a resistance layer of the Seventh Sequence can withstand the secret medicine; otherwise, they can only rely on their life force," Changkong Luo asked in a deep voice.
"A sufficient level of Mental Strengthening is also required," Ren Yisheng said. "If the Divine Sense is insufficient, even if the body can withstand it, the brain will be damaged to the point of idiocy. This is especially serious given your current state of mental decline in old age!"
"What are the chances of Lao Luo succeeding in injecting the secret medicine?" Zhong Rang asked.
"I'm not sure about the success rate, and you can't guarantee that Committee Member Changkong will be willing to participate in the test!"
Ren Yisheng pointed to himself, then to Changkong Luo.
This made Changkong Luo give an awkward smile.
Changkong Luo would not attempt to test drugs unless he was in his twilight years or felt that he was near death.
Now that he can cultivate the Mental Strengthening Chapter and wait for the longevity medicine to be renewed, with this hope, it is difficult for him to fight to the death. Moreover, Changkong Luo has never heard of the Heavenly God General's secret medicine that can prolong life.
"I sense that my sequence strength is slightly stronger than before, which shouldn't be happening to me. Is this an effect of the Mental Strengthening Chapter?" Zhu Bufan asked curiously.
"The Mental Strengthening Chapter has an enhancing effect on deterrence-type fighting techniques, but we are not sure if it will have an effect on other fighting techniques," Ren Yisheng said, shaking his head.
"Committee Member Zhang, is your superb marksmanship due to Mental Strengthening?" Li Qi asked.
"Perhaps Mental Strengthening has activated some kind of marksmanship talent in me," Zhang Xuezhou replied with a smile. "Perhaps each of you committee members also possesses similar abilities, but you haven't discovered them yourself, or perhaps your level is too high to exert influence!"
Ren Yisheng had never stood out before, and not many people were watching Ren Yisheng.
Once Ren Yisheng gained widespread fame, more people began to keep an eye on Ren Yisheng.
Zhang Xuezhou once showed off at the Wanping Youth Challenge, and now it's Ren Yisheng's turn.
While Zhang Xuezhou's situation might be somewhat acceptable, Ren Yisheng's act of intimidating and suppressing the ferocious beast was difficult for many to accept.
But this is a necessary process.
Just as Zhang Xuezhou became a leader among many young people, Ren Yisheng's ambition to become the spiritual leader of the Scarlet Alliance State also depended on his ability to intimidate the masses.
Zhang Xuezhou's method at the time was to kill one person with one shot, making those at the same level despair, and few dared to challenge him.
After Zhu Shengnan, a rising star among the younger generation, was defeated in an instant, no one dared to dream of such a thing again.
Ren Yisheng used a similar method, but the one who caused the Sixth Sequence to collapse instantly on Alliance Island was Ren Yisheng, which reduced the effectiveness of deterring the top echelons.
It wasn't until Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng worked together again to suppress the ferocious beast that Zhong Rang and the others came to their senses.
But humans and ferocious beasts are completely different; their intimidation doesn't inspire despair, which led to this visit.
Compared to Zhang Xuezhou and Zhu Shengnan's direct confrontation, Ren Yisheng's approach was different, making it difficult to resolve the situation through a direct conflict.
Zhang Xuezhou listened to the conversation, occasionally adding to Ren Yisheng's points.
"Has Committee Member Zhang been injected with the secret drug?" Li Qi asked with a smile, "Are you also close to the realm of Heavenly God General?"
"If I say I haven't had the injection, you'll definitely be suspicious. If I say I have, you'll wonder why I didn't die after the injection," Zhang Xuezhou laughed. "How am I supposed to answer that?"
"As long as it's true," Li Qi sighed. "The Scarlet Alliance State can't do without Ren Yisheng Ren Yisheng, and neither can we. We can't have any unrealistic expectations; we just want an answer."
"I have six more hours before I fall into a coma!"
Zhang Xuezhou said something out of the blue, and Li Qi was just taken aback when he suddenly remembered Zhang Xuezhou's symptoms, and his face turned pale.
People in the Luofu era didn't follow any particular order; they simply relied on their physical strength to get by.
Luo Zhong the same situation back then; the other party did not adhere to the basic conditions mentioned by Ren Yisheng.
However, nowadays, they need to follow more conditions, which undoubtedly reveals a flaw in Ren Yisheng's explanation.
Luo Zhong may be lucky, but others may not be without good fortune, especially since their current physical bodies are many times stronger than they were back then, and there is always a part of luck in their hearts.
When Zhang Xuezhou mentioned his coma, it further corroborated the dire situation Ren Yisheng had in the past.
Ren Yisheng had a difficult life back then, and Zhang Xuezhou was trapped in a situation where the symptoms and drawbacks were difficult to solve.
No matter who repeats this situation, it will be difficult for anyone to bear it.
"An Ran, have you ever taken any secret medicine?" Zhong Rang asked.
My performance in the Youth Challenge was inadequate!
Ren Anran's response was curt. She neither confirmed nor denied that she had received the injection, but only mentioned that her performance in the Youth Challenge was unsatisfactory and that she did not have the same overwhelming and intimidating effect Zhang Xuezhou.
"It seems you only have the power of Mental Strengthening to drive you forward," Zhong Rang thought to himself before sighing with regret.
"I'd like to ask about Committee Member Ren's level of expertise in the Mental Strengthening Chapter," Zhu Bufan frowned. "What level of expertise is required to ignore most Fourth Sequence users?"
"Chapter Six," Ren Anran said briefly.
"But we've only covered four chapters," Zhu Bufan said in astonishment.
"Chapter Five has its drawbacks," Zhang Xuezhou said. "The professor took the wrong path back then and had to rely on the external force of the secret medicine. I followed the wrong direction as well!"
"The unique copy our Ren Household has obtained represents only one person's opinion, and it only contains the four chapters deduced by my father. It's not as good as the original copy obtained by the Luo family. I don't mind sharing the contents of my fifth deduced chapter, nor do I mind sharing the sixth chapter," Ren Yisheng said. "But I suggest you each find your own direction. Following my direction will inevitably lead to obstacles."
"Once my father's image is in my mind, it becomes impossible to find a path that suits me, and there's basically no chance of reaching Chapter Seven," Ren Anran added.
"If we're going to make mistakes, we can make them together, and we can even learn from those mistakes together," Zhang Xuezhou urged. "Professor, hurry up and tell us about Chapters 5 and 6 of the Mental Strengthening Chapter so we can discuss them and see where we went wrong!"
"Oh dear, Committee Member Zhang, please don't do that!"
Zhang Xuezhou is definitely the one who disrupts the normal order.
The proper procedure should be to first provide reasons and explanations, then emphasize them, then provide supporting facts, and only then can a conclusion be reached.
However, Zhang Xuezhou ignored the serious procedures after only a few words and announced the result before a judgment was made.
Although Changkong Luo and the others did have such thoughts in their minds, and after putting aside their thoughts on the secret medicine, they returned to the Mental Strengthening Chapter, before they could figure out the cause and effect, Zhang Xuezhou was already urging Ren Yisheng to do the same.
Ren Anran was right. Once Ren Yisheng's image is in your mind, it's hard to get rid of Ren Yisheng.
However, Ren Yisheng's life path was fundamentally flawed.
If time were not so urgent as to be unbearable, Changkong Luo and the others would never choose the wrong path. Instead, they would combine their investigations and deliberations with others to forge their own path.
With their level of strength and vision, Changkong Luo and the others were not ignorant children, but rather possessed considerable knowledge.
This is why they entered the fourth stage of the Mental Strengthening Chapter in just a few years at the Twilight Mansion, and Changkong Luo and others are indeed deducing the fifth stage.
Like a formula being laid down continuously, they are not without a path, but the path is just more complicated and cumbersome. Furthermore, due to Luo Tianming's influence, everyone's efforts to Mental Strengthening are different, which has led to countless problems.
Even if they took Ren Yisheng's fifth chapter, they couldn't apply it directly. Instead, they would need to take the core of Ren Yisheng's work, modify it to suit their own needs, and then repeat the path that Ren Yisheng had taken.
Given the opportunity to forge their own path, they will undoubtedly not repeat the mistakes of Ren Yisheng.
Only when they truly step out of Chapter 5 of the Mental Strengthening Chapter will Changkong Luo and the others go to see how Ren Yisheng overcame this hurdle.