"Ah?" Meng Chong was dumbfounded.
Fei Si narrowed his eyes: "There's something hidden in your words, what do you mean? Could it be that those three Demon Cultivators were summoned by you?"
"Bullshit!" Sun Lie cursed directly, "You're overthinking it, you know?"
He diverted his gaze to Meng Chong: "Don't you find it strange now?"
Meng Chong was stunned for a moment, then slapped his forehead: "Oh, right! Old Sun, you mentioned before that I couldn't leave the Purple Sun Furnace casually. Otherwise, the external pressure would decrease, the supply of medicinal herbs would be insufficient, and my spirit, essence, and energy would leak uncontrollably, eventually rendering me useless."
"But now I've clearly run out and interrupted the alchemy, yet there's no massive leakage."
Sun Lie then laughed: "Of course, that was just to deceive you."
Meng Chong: "Ah?"
Sun Lie said: "The Human Pill Technique is a Demon Cultivator's alchemy method. How could someone of the Righteous Path like me practice that?"
Meng Chong: "Ah?"
Sun Lie revealed: "To truly disperse your cultivation, we have to start with you. You possess superlative talent in the Cultivation World, which is the best key."
Meng Chong: "Are you talking about my Frenzied Rushing Thunder?"
Sun Lie nodded: "That's right."
"Frenzied Rushing Thunder is a superlative Immortal Aptitude, rare among cultivators, exceptional!"
"However, I discovered that this talent has not been truly mastered by you. It's a pity, like a treasure of a medicinal herb, hiding its outstanding properties yet not being utilized, truly a waste!"
"As long as you fully utilize this talent, you can disperse your cultivation quickly. Half a day might not be enough, but one day definitely is."
"Therefore, I set up this situation to push you into a desperate situation."
"In desperation, if you can be completely focused, devoid of distractions, abandon everything, and charge forward fearlessly, you can unleash your innate talent!"
Meng Chong: "Ah?"
The talented young man blinked, suddenly thought of something, and said straightforwardly: "So, Old Sun, when you made me smear honey and cumin, it was really a joke?"
Sun Lie slapped his thigh and laughed: "Of course, I wasn't lying to you!"
Fei Si frowned: "Young Master Meng Chong, with such superlative Immortal Aptitude and as the City Lord's own grandson, you dared to roast him like food? Why are you so sure that this would awaken his Immortal Aptitude?"
Sun Lie glanced at Fei Si, dismissing him: "Are you an Alchemy Grandmaster? What do you understand?"
"All things in heaven and earth can be seen as medicinal herbs."
"It's the same for people. In people, humanity is the medicinal property. If you fully stimulate humanity, you stimulate the medicinal property."
"In the Demon Path, before using people to refine pills, they often subject people to extreme torture, filling their hearts with pain, hatred, anger, and sorrow. This is also to stimulate the medicinal property."
After explaining, Sun Lie asked Meng Chong: "Have you ever thought about why your Immortal Aptitude is not of another kind but precisely Frenzied Rushing Thunder?"
Meng Chong: "Ah?"
Sun Lie shook his head: "You think it's just luck. Actually, it's not! Immortal Aptitude not only receives the favor of heaven and earth but is also closely related to the cultivator themselves."
"It is precisely because you are naturally brave and fearless, prefer simplicity over complexity, and are straightforward, that you have such an Immortal Aptitude."
"Aptitude and nature are actually mutually responsive, reflecting each other."
"Therefore, as long as you fully stimulate your nature, supported by some Alchemy Method techniques, you can trigger your Immortal Aptitude."
"The medicinal herbs in the Pill Furnace were all carefully prepared by me, not without purpose."
Fei Si squinted his eyes, a gleam of insight flashing in the narrow gap, understanding and guessing Sun Lie's plan.
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."
"I originally intended to feign drunkenness and sleep during the alchemy process, roasting you for a long time. I wanted you to misjudge and feel you were in a desperate situation."
"Using this to force you, to awaken your innate nature."
"Once you broke out of the Pill Furnace, disregarding my previous threats and overthrowing the pressure I created for you, your true nature would explode."
"With your nature unleashed, supplemented by the alchemical energy, mixed with your dispersing mana, not only would it draw out your Frenzied Rushing Thunder talent, but its power would also increase tenfold."
Sun Lie sighed deeply here.
"In adversity, true colors are revealed."
"To see a person's true nature, observe their choices and behavior at critical moments of life and death."
Meng Chong: "So that's how it was."
He suddenly realized.
The talent of Frenzied Rushing Thunder had previously been intermittent.
"I just wanted to kill that Demon Cultivator wholeheartedly! At the critical moment, Frenzied Rushing Thunder erupted, making me exceedingly joyous and feeling quite lucky."
"I was puzzled why this time the power of Raging Thunderbolt was so strong."
"I didn't expect it to be thanks to your efforts, Old Sun!"
Sun Lie smiled: "I never expected that at this crucial moment, a Demon Cultivator would attack the Ziyang Courtyard."
"At that time, I was on the brink of death, and it was you who disregarded your own life and charged out of the Pill Furnace to save me."
"I 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 straightened his chest and said proudly: "My surname is Meng, our Meng Family is a top aristocratic family in the Immortal Nation of Southern Bean. How could we shrink back in battle? How could we stand by and watch our comrades being killed?"
"Honestly, I didn't even think too much. I completely disregarded your previous warnings, Old Sun."
"At that time, my heart was full of anger, wishing to punch that Demon Cultivator to pieces, so I rushed out directly."
Sun Lie praised: "That's precisely the awakening of your true nature."
"In my opinion, with such superlative Immortal Aptitude, Meng Chong, you don't need to compete for any mechanical inheritance. In cultivation, there are a hundred arts, and mechanical techniques simply don't suit you."
"The cultivation technique suitable for you is one that allows you to charge forward freely."
Fei Si coughed and hurriedly interrupted Sun Lie's speech.
As a subordinate, Fei Si naturally had to defend the City Lord's decision.
Fei Si said: "The Three Ancestral Masters are great cultivators of Cultivating the Void level, their palaces are more than one. However, the Magma Fairy Palace is a Mechanical Immortal City with the inheritance of mechanical techniques."
"In fact, according to the information collected by the City Lord and the calculated results, the inheritance content in the Magma Fairy Palace, although primarily mechanical techniques, is absolutely not limited to that."
"The Three Ancestral Masters, through their unique opportunities, cultivated three paths simultaneously, which is exceedingly rare in the world. It is said that in their later years, they created a wonderful method of cultivating three paths together, and the Magma Fairy Palace was arranged in their later years."
"The Five Elements Qi Regulation Art transmitted by the Dharma Transmission Bell has lingering meanings. Although it is a Daoist cultivation technique, it also has the charm of the Buddhist and Demon Sects. After studying the cultivation technique, the City Lord speculated that there might be two other cultivation techniques complementing it, catering to the other two Elixir Fields."
"Imagine, if using the Three Paths' wonderful method for Foundation Establishment, how profound would the foundation of cultivation be? How many Foundation Establishment Methods in the world practice with the Three Elixir Fields simultaneously?"