Chapter 50

Ding Ning had no more time to study the wonders of the mind's enlightenment, nor did he pay attention to his left eye, which was swollen and nearly blind. He had to save his master immediately.

He took out the brush and yellow paper he carried with him, quickly dipped a bit of ink, and swiftly wrote the character "fire" on the yellow paper.

He never expected that there would still be such a filthy place in this world, and that there would be someone like the Earth God, a scoundrel who almost got both him and his master killed.

As he finished the last stroke of the "fire" character on the yellow paper, Ding Ning let out a long breath.

With the sharp aura of his recent breakthrough, the talisman was successfully formed without any doubt.

"Let this fire thoroughly drive away the darkness here!"

Ding Ning flicked his wrist and threw the talisman paper.

Compared to the thunder talisman, the fire talisman was a bit lower in rank, at least the yellow paper could withstand the fire.

It wasn't the Three Pure Fires, the Fire of the Heavenly Palace, or the Red Lotus Fire; it was just ordinary flames. However, with the power of the talisman, the fire's strength was relatively harder to extinguish.

When Ding Ning wrote the thunder talisman, it was during a thunderstorm, which was an exceptional performance. Today, he wrote the fire talisman because his realm was sufficient, and writing such a not-so-advanced talisman was no longer difficult.

With the brush stroke, the talisman paper was completed. Filled with anger, Ding Ning threw the talisman paper at the group of venomous snakes.

"Bang!"

Sparks flew in the air, the talisman paper shattered, and the scattered sparks fell like fireworks on the grass, igniting upon contact!

The fierce flames immediately burst into flames. The bodies of the venomous snakes contained oil, which acted as a fuel.

As the crackling sound of the flames rose, the smell of roasted meat wafted through the air.

On the ground, the venomous snakes fled in a panic, like crawling torches.

The consequences were disastrous. Venomous snakes not only entangled in a mass during mating but also in times of crisis. The snakes went berserk, quickly entangling their own kind in the flames.

The cave was filled with fire, and the venomous snakes, entangled in groups, could not use their venom, and their thin bodies were not resistant to the flames, quickly turning into charred remains.

As the flames rose, Situ Huang fell onto the mound. The intense movement had accelerated the flow of the venom. Although he could suppress it with his qi, he couldn't completely control it.

The dark cave finally had some light, and Situ Huang finally saw Ding Ning clearly.

And Ding Ning finally saw his master clearly.

No wonder his master couldn't leave the cave. One of his legs was injured by a bullet, the flesh and blood mangled. Dragging such a leg, he couldn't break through the snake swarm in the dark cave.

Because his position was on a raised mound, the snakes couldn't easily rush up, ensuring temporary safety.

"Master! I'm here!"

Seeing Situ Huang's face turn blue, Ding Ning knew the poison had already spread in his body. He immediately rushed over.

When he landed at his master's position, Ding Ning felt something unusual under his feet.

The mound was made of yellow earth, but it felt abnormally hard. Ding Ning's heart stirred; could there really be a pill furnace?

He carried the already fallen Situ Huang on his back, one hand supporting his master, the other holding a large guandao.

He tapped the ground with the guandao, producing a metallic sound.

"Indeed, it's there!"

Ding Ning was overjoyed, took a step forward, and used the guandao to pry up the object. It was immediately lifted.

It was a pill furnace, about the size of a jar, covered in mud, its original color indiscernible.

Ding Ning didn't care about that. He carried his master on his back, one hand supporting him, the other using the guandao to lift the pill furnace onto his shoulder.

Situ Huang, in a daze, felt he was almost done for, but saw Ding Ning use the large knife to dig out the broken furnace. This kind of behavior, wanting both the sesame and the watermelon, almost made him bleed from anger due to his extreme irresponsibility towards his poisoning.

Situ Huang had long discovered this pill furnace, but he didn't know its value, thinking it was just an ordinary antique.

"When did you become so greedy, kid?"

Situ Huang mumbled, then fainted, whether from the deepening poison or from anger at Ding Ning.

Ding Ning, unaware of his master's anger, lifted the furnace, carried his master, and started running out of the cave.

The cave had become a steaming pot, and the venomous snakes were not yet fully burned.

"These things must have been attracted by the aroma of the pill residue in the furnace, gathering here and reproducing quickly. I wonder how many years this furnace has been here to gather so many venomous snakes."

"But the pill residue has no spiritual energy, so they can't be nurtured and ultimately can't become anything significant."

Ding Ning ran all the way to the entrance of the land temple, under the fallen statue of the Earth God.

First, he threw the pill furnace up, then attached the guandao to his master's belt, and climbed up, pulling his master up.

Because his left eye was nearly blind, Ding Ning used his right eye to look around.

"Being a one-eyed dragon is really inconvenient!"

Ding Ning's head turned, cursing inwardly.

He could feel that his eye wasn't blind but was being suppressed, temporarily unable to see.

Just as he was about to carry his master out to find Yue Ge'er's car, Ding Ning sensed someone in the land temple!

He had been chasing the Earth God, but after arriving, the Earth God disappeared, and Ding Ning didn't find him.

But this time, Ding Ning sensed someone!

Ding Ning remained silent, pretending not to know, supporting his master while secretly observing.

The feeling was extremely faint. Normally, Ding Ning might not have found the person, but as his gaze swept over the wall, a blurry figure appeared on it!

To be precise, it was behind the wall!

The wall had a hidden layer, made extremely finely, but Ding Ning saw it at a glance. It wasn't that his senses had become that sharp, but his left eye had detected something.

The suppressed power in his left eye surged out, and in Ding Ning's eyes, the Earth God was nervously standing in the wall's hidden layer. A string of corn hung on the wall, and behind the corn was a small gap, through which he was observing Ding Ning.

Ding Ning's gaze didn't meet his, pretending to be indifferent, but the situation of the Earth God was already clear to him.

Ding Ning was surprised to find that his left eye could see some details about the Earth God, like a character's attribute introduction in a game.

"Guan Jingnian, nickname Earth God, 62 years old, poor fortune in youth, low fortune in young adulthood, low fortune in middle age, high fortune in old age, high fortune in late life...."

Apart from his name, age, and fortune, Ding Ning couldn't see anything else.

This discovery shocked Ding Ning. His left eye had such a function, able to observe a person's fortune.

Amidst the shock, he was extremely dissatisfied. Why should the Earth God still have high fortune in his old age?

He was 62, not yet in his late years. Did this mean that today's events wouldn't bring him much trouble? Would he still be able to act as he pleased in Yue Family Village after they left, without facing severe legal punishment?

Ding Ning was unwilling. Although he had the memory of a cultivator, he also had Ding Ning's memory, and his nature was still dominated by Ding Ning's character, knowing that killing was a big trouble.

The Earth God deserved to die, but he couldn't kill him in front of so many people. After all, he still had to go to school and had a family.

If he were to kill, it had to be done without anyone knowing. But seeing the Earth God's situation, Ding Ning felt extremely aggrieved.

"Absolutely can't let this old man live comfortably in the future!"

As soon as this thought arose, Ding Ning's left eye involuntarily focused on the Earth God, and a change occurred behind the wall.

A faint, white aura, visible only to Ding Ning, began to float from the Earth God's body.

The Earth God's basic situation also changed under the gaze of Ding Ning's left eye.

"Guan Jingnian, nickname Earth God, 62 years old, poor fortune in youth, low fortune in young adulthood, low fortune in middle age, moderate fortune in old age, moderate fortune in late life...."

As the white aura dissipated, his fortune in old age and late life changed from high to moderate.

This magical change immediately piqued Ding Ning's interest. He tilted his left eye, and more white aura floated from the Earth God's body.

"Low fortune in old age, low fortune in late life...."

"Very low fortune in old age, very low fortune in late life...."

The Earth God, seeing that this guy who could summon lightning had come out of the cave alive, had no courage to resist. He could only hide behind the wall, hoping the guy would take Situ Huang and leave.

But the fat guy seemed to have gone crazy, just standing there, one eye staring at him, looking extremely annoying.

Being watched, the Earth God, though confident he wouldn't be discovered, felt extremely uncomfortable, as if something extremely terrifying was about to happen to him.

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