"Ah, Elder Chen, you're back!"
The man waiting outside Chen Lin's cave saw Chen Lin and immediately came up to him enthusiastically.
Chen Lin glanced at him and said calmly, "At such a critical moment, Brother Sun is not guarding his own fairy city, but running to me. Is there something important?"
The person who came was Sun Caiyi's uncle Sun Yushi. He had a bad impression of this person and didn't want to have too much contact with him.
Sun Yushi didn't care about Chen Lin's indifference, and still smiled as he said, "Now Elder Chen and our Sun family are considered a family. In order to show our closeness, the clan leader specially ordered me to send some treasures to Elder Chen, which will be my niece's dowry. I hope Elder Chen can treat her well."
After saying that, he took out a storage bag.
Chen Lin was stunned. He didn't expect that the other party was here to give him a gift.
He took the storage bag curiously, probed his spiritual sense into it, and found that there were only three things inside: a ball, a jade slip, and a yellowed paper scroll.
Do I need to use a storage bag for this little stuff
Chen Lin secretly complained.
However, he felt that given the Sun family's status and strength, since they sent these three items as a dowry, they could not be too shabby, so he took them out directly to examine them.
Then he looked surprised.
Sun Yushi took the opportunity to speak: "I recently heard that Elder Chen was collecting secret techniques that could produce earth spirit roots. Our Sun family happened to have them, so we sent them to you."
He continued, "The sphere is called the Earth Spirit Bead, and it is the basic spiritual object for generating spiritual roots. The paper scroll contains an ancient recipe for quickly cultivating and strengthening spiritual roots. Although the materials required are very expensive, it should not be difficult for Elder Chen to obtain them."
Chen Lin's eyes flashed slightly, and he put the things into the storage bag.
These three items were tailor-made for him, which showed that the Sun family had conducted a careful investigation on him. However, this was nothing. Since they wanted to get close to the Silver Fairy through him, they naturally had to know the details.
"The things are very useful. Thank you very much, Brother Sun. Please also take me to say hello to the chief of the tribe, Sun Yuguang, and tell him that I will definitely treat Miss Caiyi well and will not let her suffer any grievances."
After receiving the treasure, Chen Lin's attitude improved a lot and his tone became gentler.
However, he did not invite the other party into the cave, nor did he mention Sun Caiyi's matter, and the other party probably didn't care.
What the Sun family needs is just this relationship. As for whether he takes Sun Caiyi as his wife, it is not important. As long as the Silver Fairy approves, it will be fine.
After exchanging pleasantries for a while, Sun Yushi said goodbye and left.
Chen Lin entered the cave and took out the three things given by the other party.
First, he read the contents of the jade slip again. The secret technique recorded in it was called "The Art of Transforming Four Spirits into Earth". As the name suggests, one needs to first have the other four spiritual roots, and then use the principle of the five elements to fuse the earth-attributed spiritual objects to form a new earth spiritual root.
The reason why he said that this secret technique was tailor-made for him by the Sun family, rather than an ancient inheritance, was because of this limitation.
Although the fact that he has the four spiritual roots of gold, wood, water and fire is a secret, it can be found out if one wants to find out.
The Sun family has inherited the innate ability of earth element, and they must have done in-depth research on earth element skills and secret techniques. It is not impossible for them to create such a secret technique.
He had thought of going to Sun Caiyi to ask about this secret technique before, but he had never put it into action.
After studying it carefully for a while, Chen Lin nodded with satisfaction and put it aside.
The spiritual root formed by this spell is also a pseudo spiritual root. If it wants to become a real spiritual root, it needs to be constantly tempered with special means, just like the way he obtained the thunder spiritual root before.
Then he picked up the yellowed paper roll.
The recipe for the elixir recorded above is called Tuyuan Dan, which is used to nourish and strengthen the earth spiritual roots. All spiritual medicines are basically of earth attribute. Although they are precious, they are not impossible to collect.
Finally, he picked up the Earth Spirit Pearl and looked at it, then put it down and took out a box from his sleeve.
Peel off the shielding symbol on the box, then open the lid to reveal a wooden hairpin and a mini umbrella.
The wooden hairpin trembled slightly, and the figure of Yun Xiu Niang appeared.
As soon as the body condensed, a sense of danger that was very familiar to Chen Lin enveloped the cave. Yun Xiu Niang hurriedly picked up the Tianji Umbrella, enlarged it and held it above her head.
The sense of danger receded like the tide.
Chen Lin breathed a sigh of relief. This natural calamity had left him with a trauma and he didn't want to be struck again.
"Why did you let me out today? Aren't you afraid that I might disturb your good deeds?"
Without the danger of being struck by lightning, Yun Xiu Niang felt relieved, and then looked at Chen Lin angrily.
Chen Lin shrugged and didn't respond.
In the past, he had not been on guard against this woman, because most of his secrets were known to her. But ever since she once spied on his and Qin Lingyu's intimacy and was discovered by him, he sealed her in a box. If she wanted to come out, she had to make a noise in advance, and he would let her out.
So the other party started to get mad and never asked to come out, even when he summoned him.
But recently it seems that it can't help it anymore, and this time it ran out as soon as the box was opened.
"What do you want from me? If you have something to say, please say it quickly, or I will have to go back!"
As if she was angered by Chen Lin's expression of disregard, Yun Xiu Niang glared at him fiercely and said angrily.
"Hehe." Chen Lin laughed and said, "Why, you don't even call me husband, isn't that a bit too heartless?"
"Pooh!"
Yun Xiu Niang spat, but her ghost body couldn't spit out anything. She could only look at Chen Lin with eyes full of resentment and said, "You have locked me up, and you still want me to call you my husband. Do you think I am stupid?"
"No." Chen Lin shook his head and said, "In my heart, the embroiderer is a peerless beauty who combines beauty and wisdom!"
"Humph, you men only know how to flatter others, none of you are good!"
Yun Xiu Niang rolled her eyes at Chen Lin, but her anger had subsided a lot. She curled her lips and said, "You definitely wouldn't have summoned me if nothing happened. If you have any questions, ask them now. I'm in a good mood now, so maybe I can tell you something."
Chen Lin smiled and pointed at the three items on the table, saying, "It's nothing, I just want you to help check if there is anything wrong with these three items."
The other party's origin was mysterious, and his knowledge and vision were far superior to his, so he asked the other party to help take a look.
"There is a problem, a big problem. It seems that your character is really not very good. There are people everywhere who want to harm you."
Yun Xiu Niang just glanced at him and sneered before speaking.
Chen Lin was stunned.
He originally went to check on the other party just because of his cautious nature, and he didn't think that the Sun family would really dare to do anything bad to him.
You have to know that Sun Caiyi is still in his hands, and the other party is so deliberate in order to get close to the Silver Fairy, how could he do such a thing to dig his own grave
"No way, did you see it correctly?"
Chen Lin was a little unconvinced and looked at the other party suspiciously.
Yun Xiu Niang's anger rose again, and she said angrily: "If you don't believe me, what do you want me to see? I don't want to bother with you anymore. I'm going back to the wooden hairpin. Don't call me anymore!"
Chen Lin hurriedly took the wooden hairpin in his hand and said, "Okay, okay, I was wrong, okay? This matter is very important to me, tell me what's going on."
Seeing that Chen Lin was really anxious, Yun Xiu Niang stopped acting petty. She just felt resentful towards Chen Lin for locking her up, but she would not really ignore anything that really concerned Chen Lin's safety.
"There is something wrong with this Earth Spirit Pearl."
Yun Xiu Niang pointed at the beads and said seriously.
"Beads, isn't this an Earth Spirit Bead?"
Chen Lin felt the rich earth-attribute energy within the bead and felt that it was exactly the same as the Earth Spirit Bead recorded in the records. He could not see anything unusual.
Yun Xiu Niang shook her head and said, "That's because you don't know enough about this kind of treasure. The Five Elements Spiritual Pearls are all evolved from the five elements' qi. They are born from nature, but your pearl is artificially made!"
"What's the difference?"
Chen Lin frowned, picked up the beads and examined them carefully, but found no signs of artificial manufacturing.
"Originally there is not much difference, it's just that the spirituality of artificial creation is a little worse."
Yun Xiu Niang explained, and then immediately continued: "But yours is different. This one is defective. The maker deliberately cut off the Yin attribute of the spirit bead when making it, leaving only the Yang attribute. It doesn't matter if it is used for other purposes, but if you use it as a basic spiritual object to generate spiritual roots, then the spiritual roots that are generated will be incomplete."
Chen Lin frowned even deeper when he heard this.
He wondered, "Isn't the Earth Spirit Pearl a pure earth attribute? How can it have yin and yang attributes?"
Yun Xiu Niang shook her head and said, "Everything in the world has yin and yang, and the Earth Spirit Pearl is no exception. The same is true for other five-element treasures. It's just that if they are not used for extremely special purposes, yin and yang are not important, so few people pay attention to this. Moreover, this yin and yang nature is hidden, and it is indeed difficult to distinguish without special observation skills."
After listening to this, a grim look flashed in Chen Lin's eyes.
He naturally believed what Yun Xiu Niang said, so the Sun family's actions were despicable. Even if he was not vindictive, the Sun family must pay a bloody price for this matter!
He didn't believe that the Sun family, whose main heritage was earth-based, would not know that the Earth Spirit Pearl was flawed. What's more, the pearl itself was a product of the other party, and it also came with a method to create spiritual roots, which must have been intentional.
"What would happen if I merged this Earth Spirit Pearl to form a spiritual root?"
Chen Lin needs to understand the drawbacks clearly and then analyze the purpose of the Sun family's actions.
Logically speaking, he is now the bridge that helps the other party get closer to the Silver Fairy, and the other party has no reason to harm him.
Yun Xiu Niang said calmly: "That depends on what you want to do with this earth spirit root. If you just use it to cast spells, not only will it not be harmful, but it will enhance the power. But if you use it to condense the Nascent Soul, then you are doomed to fail!"