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They decided to play fair.
Although Hong Yi has already received Jiang Lu's promise, and although Jin Yao has had an unclear relationship with Jiang Lu for a long time, but now that things have come to this, they have decided to take a step back and start fighting again for Jiang Lu's ownership.
Although they were still angry about Kang Ryul's bad words and deeds, they also understood their true hearts.
For Jin Yao, she had had special feelings for Jiang Lu from the very beginning entirely because of the Queen Mother of the West. In a sense, she cared more about seeking recognition through Jiang Lu and competing with the Queen Mother of the West than the person himself. She was completely competing with herself.
But after Hong Yi appeared, she discovered that she no longer just regarded Jiang Lu as a yardstick, but really had deep feelings for him. At least at the moment when she learned that she might lose him, the first thing she thought of was not that she lost to the Queen Mother of the West, but what she would do without Jiang Lu.
For Hong Yi, at first she just wanted to curry favor with Jiang Lu because he was a big shot who was above Dong Wanggong. Objectively speaking, she had the indisputable intention of currying favor with him. After making love, because of a small episode, she got Jiang Lu's sincerity and promise, and this feeling gradually turned into being flattered and touched. But until this time, it could not be considered true love.
Until the confrontation with Jin Yao, when she was facing the Queen Mother of the West, who was of the same status as her and whom she could not afford to offend, she could have protected herself and withdrawn voluntarily, but she still chose to face the challenge. Only then did she finally realize that Jiang Lu was not someone who would not matter to her, but the person for whom she could give everything.
After thinking this through, they were both extremely confident in their feelings and did not think they would lose to each other, so they decided to have this battle between women.
"Haha, now that we have decided, don't even think about escaping after your employer and we meet up. If you leave before the winner is decided, I will find you after I take back everything that belongs to me and make you admit your defeat in person."
Jin Yao started to speak harshly.
Hong Yi smiled and said nonchalantly: "Don't worry, I will go to Kunlun Mountain with you, and I will witness your failure with my own eyes."
"Okay, okay, you are really confident and courageous." Jin Yao was delighted: "I am beginning to like you a little bit."
"I admire your dominance and toughness." Hong Yi glanced at Jiang Lu and said, "No wonder he was so easily taken advantage of by you. In a way, I am the lucky one."
Such a development was completely unexpected for Scythe and the performers.
"I...I don't quite understand..." For some reason, the performer felt that the current situation made him instinctively want to escape.
Scythe pondered for a moment: "If you change your perspective and regard this as two men deliberately showing off their personal charm in order to win the hearts of their loved ones? After all, there is nothing better than praising your opponent to show your generosity, right?"
After hearing what he said, the performer suddenly realized: "I...I think I can understand it again..."
The two of them simultaneously looked down at Jiang Lu, who was smiling as brightly as a flower.
"Great! But they are all so attractive, it's really hard for me to choose. I'm really looking forward to how they will compete in front of me! Hehe."
"Then..." Jin Yao crossed her hands in front of her chest, crossed her legs and leaned against the back of the sofa: "I am preparing to build my foundation now. Are you willing to help us, if you understand?"
"What a coincidence." Hong Yi also sat up straight, with his chest held high and not showing any fear: "When I was at the mountain gate, I always helped my junior brothers and sisters build their foundations. From ordinary foundation building to heavenly foundation building, there is nothing I am not familiar with. No matter what foundation building materials, they can be used to the greatest extent in my hands. I think I should be able to help you a lot."
"Oh my, you are really so shameless."
Jin Yao snapped her fingers at the performer without even turning her head: "Come on, open the box that was just brought in and see what materials are inside."
The conflict...has already begun.
Chapter 314 Joint Research and Development
The performers opened a gift package of precious foundation-building materials for four people delivered by the Law Enforcement Bureau.
"Wow, so many good things." Jin Yao showed a little surprise: "Did you save the director's life?"
Hong Yi was also surprised: "If these things are used properly, they can be enough to increase the success rate of cultivators who build their foundation by 30% when they cross the immortal tribulation..."
Jiang Lu, who had not yet been untied, smiled modestly: "It's a bit too much to say that I saved his life, but it's okay to say that I gave him a chance to live a new life."
The things in the box were dazzling. Various medicinal herbs that ordinary people could hardly find were now arranged in front of the people in different categories. It was enough to see how much Director Ye valued Jiang Lu.
As the saying goes, cutting off someone's financial resources is like killing his parents. So it is not an exaggeration to say that Jiang Lu, who has given Director Ye a second chance at a bright future, is his adopted parent.
However, the sickle and the performers knew nothing about these materials. In their opinion, these were actually not much different from the bundles of herbs prescribed to patients by traditional Chinese medicine clinics.
The only ones present who had studied this were Jin Yao and Hong Yi.
So, they, who were in the middle of a female competition, started to give a long talk about each herb in front of the other people, from its name to its efficacy, from its history to its present life, and even how to combine it with other ingredients to achieve the best effect. They could come up with all kinds of recipes in various combinations, which left Jiang Lu and the others stunned.
The more they competed, the more Jin Yao and Hong Yi realized that the other was not simple.
Hong Yi was fine. He had long known about the close connection between the other party and the Queen Mother of the West. He was mentally prepared and was not that surprised.
But Jin Yao was not feeling well.
She knew so much because her family background was good and her parents were both supreme creator gods, so she was born with knowledge. In addition, she grew up with Dong Wanggong and was very familiar with the daily necessities of life.
But what makes you think you can do that?
I'm employed by someone and do the work of a secretary, or in other words, a runner. How could I be as good as me in this aspect?
This was hard for the always proud Jin Yao to accept.
But this situation is not surprising. Hong Yi grew up in Fangzhu Mountain. It can be said that she was born with all kinds of precious elixirs and medicines. There is no medicinal material in the world that she has not seen.
And in a sense, the two people's understanding of medicinal herbs is actually the same.
The first generation was naturally Pangu the Great, and then it was passed on to his descendants, Dong Wanggong, and then they continued to pass it down.
So strictly speaking, Jin Yao and Hong Yi were both taught by the same master, and their moves cannot be broken at all.
However, Jin Yao didn't know that her employer would actually be her own brother, so when Hong Yi told her detailed information about a material that most people only knew its effects but didn't know why it had such effects, she felt that she had met an expert.
"Who exactly is your employer?"
She was keenly aware of this point that he had always overlooked.
Before, because she knew that the man ran a casino, and she could not connect the gods in the fairy world with the people who ran a casino in the mortal world, she had a preconceived notion that the other party's employer was just a character who had some power in the mortal world and who she did not need to pay too much attention to.
But Hong Yi's understanding of various herbs exposed her background, making Jin Yao clearly feel that something was wrong.
for example.
If a piece of newly unearthed jade is placed in front of people, most people can tell that it is jade, but only a few people are able to judge its value based on its quality and condition. This is considered connoisseurship.
However, only a very small number of people can understand its history or even the way and craftsmanship of its formation, and they are considered experts.
But now, both of them have a level of understanding of the same piece of jade that goes beyond that of experts.
They actually said exactly which tomb it was dug out from, which is quite terrifying.
Because of this, Jin Yao had to doubt Hong Yi's origins.
This kind of experience is definitely not something that ordinary people have!
"My employer..." Hong Yi glanced at Jiang Lu, and remembered that the latter had warned her not to tell Jin Yao that the man in the monitoring room was Dong Wanggong, so she kept it a secret: "You will meet him soon, why are you so anxious to ask?"
Don't want to say...
Jin Yao seemed to be thinking about something when she saw this.
Since the other party doesn't want to say it, it means that there may be some unspeakable secret behind it.
But the only thing she was sure of was that this so-called employer was definitely not a grassroots person like Jiang Lu and his group, but a genuine person from the immortal world.
She couldn't help but start making reasonable guesses.
It seems like there is an invisible hand pushing me forward. Perhaps there are many people who want to see a battle between me and the Queen Mother of the West... It's really interesting.
Thinking of this, Jin Yao stopped asking questions.
She turned to the sickle and the performer and asked, "Do you remember everything we just said?"
The performer was stunned for a moment, then said uncertainly: "Remember... Remember it..."
After saying this, he did not forget to secretly glance at the sickle.
Scythe looked serious and answered confidently, "I remember it."
Jin Yao nodded, not caring whether the two really remembered it or not. Anyway, she was teaching them just to give Jiang Lu face, and she did it casually. To put it bluntly, it was a cramming education. I just read out the book, and whether you can learn it or not depends on whether you have the understanding.
"Okay, then I will show you how to build your foundation. I will only teach you once, and you can do it yourself when you build your foundation. Do you understand?"
"clear."
"Ming...understand."
As for Jiang Lu, no one gave him any advice, or no one cared about him at all.
He doesn't even understand how to practice Qi now, and it's still too early for him to build a foundation.
To put it in a more vivid way, when others are trying to master advanced mathematics, he still can't figure out how to add one plus one, so he doesn't need to pay attention to them.
After that, Jin Yao asked Hong Yi again: "Then do you know about the arrangement of the foundation formation?"
"The upper limit of the magic circle I set up depends on the upper limit of the user." Hong Yi's face was almost full of madness.
Her meaning was very clear. The bolder a person was, the more productive he would be. As long as the foundation builder was willing to bear the consequences, she could create any kind of magic array.
Jin Yao had no doubts about this. After all, the recipes for the material combinations they had just discussed were actually closely related to the arrangement of the foundation-building formation.
Since she can explain it clearly, she must have done some research.
But even though she believed it in her heart, Jin Yao still refused to admit defeat: "I hope you won't let me down."
After that, the two began to work together to take out the materials from the box and arrange them together.
As the beginning of cultivation, foundation building is the most important and the only stage that can determine the upper limit of a cultivator. A good foundation building can even allow a person with average talent to break through his original upper limit and make the road of cultivation smooth.
Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to arrange the foundation-building array by simply throwing all the materials aside and then mixing them together. It is a systematic and quite sophisticated science.
First of all, according to the compatibility of the materials used, a magic array that can connect them and make them complement each other must be drawn with special ink. This is equivalent to the underlying code, which is the most basic and important part.
For this step alone, one needs to consider the mutual promotion and restraint of the five elements, as well as the properties of the materials to be carried in the corresponding positions. If a material with fire properties is placed in a water property framework, that will definitely not work. Not only will it suppress the medicinal properties, it may even cause harm to the foundation builder.
So is it enough as long as it can stimulate the medicinal properties? Not really.
The more precious the medicinal material is, the more complex its ingredients tend to be, and the medicinal properties required by the foundation builder may only account for a part of it.
Medicinal materials may have multiple attributes, among which the fire attribute needs to be suppressed, while the earth attribute needs to be stimulated. How to deal with this? Draw a water attribute framework to suppress the fire? However, the earth attribute in the medicinal materials conflicts with the water attribute. Then we can only draw another line and use the wood attribute to guide the earth attribute in the medicinal materials to another carrier framework, thus separating the components of the medicinal materials.
There may be dozens of medicinal materials that require complex processing.
This is like arranging a horoscope. Medicinal herbs are like the eight characters. When drawing the array, one must ensure that the various attributes in the horoscope operate reasonably and complement each other, and also ensure that the elements entering the horoscope do not contain attributes that are not conducive to the entire horoscope. Only then will it be possible to obtain the best horoscope.
And every time a new medicinal ingredient is added, the number of arrangements and combinations as well as the factors that need to be considered will increase exponentially. You can imagine how difficult this task is.
Ordinary people, let alone mastering the methods, have to work hard to even recognize various types of materials. If they don't have enough IQ, understanding, and the ability to think independently, it will not work. The entry threshold is extremely high.
Therefore, when most people in the martial arts world are building their foundation, they prefer to use the magic arrays passed down by the older generation.
It's like using a widely recognized formula as the underlying code, and then putting what herbs in what positions and taking what amounts, and just following the same pattern.
This results in an extremely high threshold for cultivating immortals. Ordinary people who want to build a foundation must rely on the mountains, so that they can have the standard foundation-building formula to use and have channels to collect materials for building the foundation.
As for those independent practitioners, although they have not joined large enterprises, they usually have help from noble people or some opportunities. They are equivalent to private entrepreneurs who start their own businesses halfway through their careers. They are also rare outstanding people.
A generally recognized powerful formula is good, but it may not be suitable for everyone. It is like a person who is not destined to be a princess but has princess syndrome. Not only will she not enjoy the treatment of a princess, but she will also be called an idiot.