Chapter 334: Ordinary Cultivators

"Predecessor."

Yang Shan pretended to be panicked:

"Thank you, senior, for showing mercy!"

"Don't talk to me about this, kid, I..."

Seeing the wine jar that Yang Shan took out from the ring, Xuan Nu Lei Zun paused:

"I really admire you, kid!"

Xuan Nu Lei Zun collected the memory of the remnant soul, and naturally knew the last sip of apricot blossom wine that the remnant soul drank when it dissipated.

Apricot blossom wine is a type of wine that only ordinary people in mountain villages can make.

The materials and brewing techniques are quite simple, and even the brewed wine is not intoxicating.

But the sweet and fragrant taste in his mouth left a deep impression on Xuan Nu Lei Zun, a wine lover.

For this powerful man who enjoys a great reputation in Zhongzhou, mundane things are actually the most difficult for him to access.

It was only when I wandered around in my early years and accidentally entered a secular village that I had a taste of it.

A thousand years passed in a flash, and Xuan Nu Lei Zun no longer had any memories of the ordinary time he spent in the village.

It was apricot blossom wine, which brought back memories from thousands of years ago.

That's why when the remaining soul of Xuan Nu Lei Zun was about to dissipate, he said that it tasted better than "Bai Nian Xiang".

Yang Shan waved his hand casually, and the stone table and wooden chairs were immediately placed in place.

Yang Shan is a person who really pays attention to details.

Others would like to fill their storage rings with powerful items.

Yang Shan's storage ring is filled with a lot of food and daily necessities.

It is designed to deal with these scenarios.

Xuan Nu Lei Zun flicked his long sleeves and sat down majestically.

Yang Shan stood aside, respectfully preparing to pour wine for Xuan Nu Lei Zun.

But seeing that Xuan Nu Lei Zun seemed dissatisfied and wanted to speak, Yang Shan immediately took the wine glass.

Then he took out a jar of apricot wine from his ring:
"Senior, this is the way to drink this wine!"

Xuan Nu Lei Zun's eyes lit up:
"Boy, you really understand!"

Wine tasting is a science, but some wines are not meant to be tasted.

The alcohol content of this apricot blossom wine is relatively low, and it doesn't taste spicy at all when you gulp it down. Instead, the fragrance fills your mouth, tongue and throat.

Xuan Nu Lei Zun raised his head and took three big gulps, then burped happily:
“It’s so comfortable!”

Yang Shan also sat down and drank two sips, then said calmly:

"I didn't expect that Senior Lei Zhanghao, who has already entered the Saint Realm, would be so fond of ordinary wine."

Xuan Nu Lei Zun was just about to take a few more gulps when he heard Yang Shan's words and put down the wine jar with interest:

"Boy, I am called Zun, I am a Dou Zun strongman!"

Yang Shan took a sip of wine.

"As far as I know, a Dou Zun strongman can live for a thousand years. For a Dou Zun at the peak of the ninth level, each level adds fifty years, totaling one thousand four hundred and fifty years! Senior's time was approaching a thousand years ago!"

"I believe that you are a rare genius in the Douqi Continent in the past thousand years! In just ten years, you have risen from an ordinary Dou Zun to the peak of the Nine-Turn Dou Zun, and you also have the method of longevity to prolong your life. If this is the case, then you should be like a dead tree, waiting to decay, and you shouldn't be so domineering in your every move, showing no signs of aging!"

“So, I believe that I am ignorant of the vastness of the universe and underestimated you. You must be a rare genius that only appears once in ten thousand years! The limit you broke a thousand years ago was not the peak of the Nine Revolutions Dou Zun, but the Dou Zun into the Saint, turning into the legendary Dou Sage in this world!”

Yang Shan was apparently analyzing, and in fact his analysis was indeed well-reasoned.

However, between the lines, there is no lack of praise for Xuan Nu Lei Zun.

Xuan Nu Lei Zun is an old senior who is one or two thousand years old. How could he not hear that Yang Shan is praising him?
But Xuan Nu Lei Zun couldn't find any way to refute!
Because Yang Shan was just analyzing the reasons why he broke the deadline and became a Fighting Saint, and he also included some personal opinions.

Who doesn’t want to be praised?
Who wants to be scolded?

Especially since Yang Shan had just defeated Xuan Nu Lei Zun and was now being praised like this, it really made Xuan Nu Lei Zun feel happy.

"Boy, if you can talk, you can say more!"

Yang Shan raised his eyebrows:
"So, Senior, do you admit it?"

Xuan Nu Lei Zun pretended to be profound:
“Yes, Mysterious Thunder Lord is the name I left behind in Zhongzhou, but when I return to Zhongzhou, my name will be changed to Mysterious Saint!”

Yang Shan stood up and saluted:
"Junior Yang Shan, nice to meet the Saint Xuannu!"

"Hahahaha, great! You kid, not only are you crazy, you also have brains! Much better than me! Back then, if I hadn't been brainless, cough cough!"

Xuan Nu Lei Zun seemed to have let something slip and quickly waved his hand:
"Don't bow, sit down and have a drink with me!"

After Yang Shan agreed, he said nothing more and drank like crazy with Xuan Nu Lei Zun.

Getting along with others is a subject that you will never finish learning.

For an old senior like Xuan Nu Lei Zun who has remained true to himself after thousands of years, it is best not to reveal even a hint of his desires.

Although now is the time for the "Trial of the Heart Demon", once you seize the opportunity, you may benefit from it.

But in Yang Shan's opinion, no matter what good things Xuan Nu Lei Zun gave him now, it was not as important as giving him favorability!

An old senior who has at least reached the realm of "Semi-Saint" would be considered a "foundation-level" powerhouse of the top forces in Zhongzhou!
(PS: After reaching the peak of the Nine-turn Dou Zun, one reaches the Semi-Saint level. The next level after the Semi-Saint level is the Dou Saint level, but the Semi-Saint level can have the title of “Saint”.)
Even Yao Chen, the "No. 10 Alchemist on the Continent", was only at the peak of Dou Zun in his heyday before the incident. A golden-printed earth-level intermediate technique and points of favorability for Xuan Nu Lei Zun, Yang Shan would definitely choose the latter!
Because this old senior has already revealed that the martial arts he is currently learning is of the Heavenly Grade!

Yang Shan is now ahead of all the players.

But his memory advantage can only last until version 3.2.

If Yang Shan doesn’t want to be overtaken by other top players after version 3.2, he needs to pave the way for his longer-term future!

Xuan Nu Lei Zun is an old senior from whom Yang Shan can gain huge benefits even after he breaks into the Dou Zun level.

Let’s take good care of the senior first!
So after they each finished a jar of wine, Yang Shan immediately took out six more jars of apricot wine from his ring:

"Senior, thank you for your great wisdom in creating the "Mysterious Art of Wrathful Thunder" just now. This junior has benefited a lot!"

"These three altars are for the chance of the strange thunder you set up! I have been through life and death several times in the Black Horn Region, and it is only thanks to the strange thunder from the sky that I am able to live to this day!"

"I will finish these three jars! Senior, please do as you please!"

Seeing Yang Shan's sincerity, Xuan Nu Lei Zun slammed the table and stood up:

"What do you mean by casual? Can I get drunk? Come! I will drink three large jars of wine with you!"

How can you drink without food?

Yang Shan waved his hand again, and several large plates of snacks appeared on the table.

What about salted and crispy peanuts, smashed cucumbers, and braised beef?
These dishes have a special feature.

The materials used are very exquisite!

Whether it is a spiritual plant or not is irrelevant.

It only highlights the fragrance and good taste.

For example, the salted and crispy peanuts are really grown by ordinary people.

These were all made by Concubine Ya herself for Yang Shan with great effort.

Because the quantity was so large, Yang Shan spent 48 RMB on the game before he could use it!
(Players can eat fixed foods in the game. The higher the level, the less demand for ordinary food, and delicious food is a paid item.)
Yang Shan is a typical example of “doing great things with little money”.

The higher the level of the NPC, the less likely it is to eat ordinary food.

It doesn't mean that once you become a fighting saint you will be free from desires.

The patriarch of the ancient clan, Gu Yuan, a nine-star fighting saint, even had a daughter!
Sometimes, it is these most mundane things that can cause emotional fluctuations among the big guys.

Xiao Xun'er squatted on the ground waiting for the beggar's chicken to be cooked. This scene would basically not appear in other people's minds.

Because this does not fit Xiao Xun'er's "personality".

So, this is something Xiao Xun'er has never experienced!
No experience = novelty = impressive impression = favorability!
So the next time he saw Xiao Xun'er, Yang Shan planned to let her try beggar's chicken.

What do you mean fairies in the sky are detached from worldly matters? Who isn’t a human being?

Look at that little girl Xiao Xun'er, she is almost becoming autistic because of the control she received from the ancient clan!
After three rounds of drinking, Xuan Nu Lei Zun also opened up:

"Boy, to be honest, I'm very curious, why do you want to refine the strange fire? It's not like I haven't seen geniuses who have cultivated two kinds of wonders in the world at the same time, and their cultivation still soared rapidly, but they cultivated the same attributes!"

Yang Shan: "Is there no one who has different attributes?"

Xuan Nu Lei Zun thought for a moment:

"The Douqi Continent has existed for who knows how many billions of years. Perhaps there are powerful people who have never been recorded in ancient books and have walked this path, but now the orthodox cultivation methods all encourage practitioners to specialize in one attribute in order to maximize its power!"

Xuan Nu Lei Zun gave an example:

"Refining the wonders of heaven and earth, not to mention the nourishment, just talk about the spiritual roots."

"Spiritual roots are innate and can be reshaped later, but you also know that the stronger the spiritual roots, the more powerful the corresponding skills and fighting techniques can be. With the same opportunity, if you have 100 strands of lightning spiritual roots, and 50 strands of lightning spiritual roots and fire spiritual roots respectively, the power they can exert is obviously different."

As expected of a Dou Sheng, his spiritual roots all start from 100!
Indeed, after the spiritual roots exceed 20 points, each additional point of spiritual roots can increase the full effect by 0.5%.

If you have 100 points of Thunder Spirit Root, you can get a 40% increase in full effect.

This increase includes attack, defense, fighting spirit consumption, as well as hidden attributes such as fighting spirit control and cultivation speed.

Moreover, there are many high-level martial arts and fighting skills that have requirements for spiritual roots.

There are very few ways to obtain spiritual roots. For ordinary players, starting from Dou Ling, it is already quite good if they can obtain spiritual roots through blood, flesh and attribute elixirs in each major realm.

But for Yang Shan, using his spiritual roots as a price to exchange for strange fire and overload, the latter's future will undoubtedly be brighter!
Not to mention anything else, if you conquer the strange server-wide announcement of heaven and earth, you will be rewarded with a large number of spiritual roots!
Yang Shan’s investment in the Fire Spirit Root was actually far less than imagined.

Again.
As a frequent visitor to server-wide announcements, it might be okay for other players to lack spiritual roots, but could he also lack spiritual roots?

Facing Xuannu Leizun's advice, Yang Shan put down the jar of wine.

In the left hand there is a thunder from the sky, and in the right hand there is a flame from the sea.

One is thunder and the other is fire.

One was born in the triple heaven, the other was born in the deep sea.

Two completely different wonders of heaven and earth, now lying obediently in the palm of Yang Shan's hand.

"Senior, the orthodox cultivation method now encourages the cultivation of a single attribute. Can this junior think so? Ordinary cultivators do not have the talent and ability, so they can only be encouraged to cultivate a single attribute. Otherwise, they will achieve nothing in the end?"

Xuan Nu Lei Zun was speechless for a moment.

Yang Shan's answer
But it’s really crazy!

(End of this chapter)