Essentially, Ming Yi was a man who loved to delve into things.
Therefore, when he just came of age, he became the new generation of Ming Yi for the Ning family.
His curiosity, thirst for knowledge, and research abilities were definitely top-tier in the world.
These forbidden things, he knew them clearly and wouldn't touch them, which is why he was a genius.
However, the line between genius and madman is razor-thin.
He yearned for knowledge, and thus, he was extremely curious about zombies and the process of becoming a zombie. Now, a perfect opportunity to explore knowledge lay before him.
How could he possibly let it go?
He wanted to slowly uncover everything within this.
He could refrain from doing these things, but he needed to understand, to witness.
"You..."
The man looked at Ming Yi, his mouth agape.
"Hmm?" Ming Yi immediately reached out and grabbed his jaw, then poked around in his mouth with a finger. "To be honest, this is the first time I've discovered an oral cavity like this... They say that in order to refine poisons, some seniors in the Ning family learned a martial art called 'White Jade Hand,' after which their hands would become impervious to blades and impervious to all poisons."
"I know this technique too."
"But, this is the first time I've found traces of this technique in someone's oral cavity." Ming Yi clicked his tongue in amazement. He had never imagined such a use.
If used this way, the mouth could indeed be a good place to hide poisons, and one wouldn't even need to prepare any special containers.
"The Three Skills and Six Arts, you are still far from it! The Ning family now is a declining and decadent Ning family, no longer possessing the strength to rival the Ethereal Immortal Palace!"
Suddenly, a sentence came from the man's mouth that caused both Lin Xiao and Ming Yi's expressions to change.
Instantly, Lin Xiao's hand rested on the man's shoulder again. A surge of true qi was injected into his body. He then glanced at the people in the hall and said to Zhu Guangyu, "Arrange a room for me, and bring all these things on the ground, along with this person. I still have some questions for him."
"Alright."
Zhu Guangyu did not ask too many questions. With the immediate problem resolved, his work pressure significantly decreased. Moreover, news had just come in that the colleague from the hospital, although now missing a hand, had woken up and was conscious.
They would arrange a prosthetic arm for him later, and of course, all the necessary procedures for work-related injuries would be followed.
Absolutely not one cent should be borne by this colleague.
When they arrived at the room, Lin Xiao unbound the man.
"Are you satisfied now?"
Lin Xiao said.
He even let the man sit on the bed, though his cultivation could not be released.
"You... what do you want to do?"
Lin Xiao's sudden change in attitude made him suspicious. This guy must be thinking of something bad, otherwise, he wouldn't have let him go for no reason.
"I want to know what you meant by the Ning family, which you mentioned could rival the Ethereal Immortal Palace." He had never heard anyone say that the Ning family and Ming Yi could be compared to the Ethereal Immortal Palace.
After all, the reason there were so many Divine Realm experts on the continent of Dragon Country back then was all thanks to the inheritance of the Ethereal Immortal Palace.
His ancestors were no exception.
And yet, the Ning family could rival the Ethereal Immortal Palace?
"It seems that the younger generation of the Ning family has lost their former pride." The man sneered upon hearing Lin Xiao's words, "A hundred years ago, my Ning family and the Ethereal Immortal Palace split the world!"
"Why have I never heard of this?"
If there had been any mention in any of the family's texts, Ming Yi would definitely have known. He had an eidetic memory, but he had never seen such a statement.
Therefore, he even suspected that the man was just speaking carelessly.
However, neither he nor Lin Xiao were sure.
"You? What could you possibly have heard? This period of history has long since vanished after being suppressed by the people of the Ethereal Immortal Palace." The man sneered and stared at Ming Yi. "Even the descendants of the Ning family now do not know that the Ning family of that year relied on the 'unmelted bone.' In this world, only people from the Ethereal Immortal Palace could resist the unmelted bone."
"The Divine Realm experts from decades ago, the top ten on the Heavenly Ranking, were they not powerful? But those people, when they encountered the unmelted bone, could only retreat." He spoke of the unmelted bone with deep longing on his face.
"A hundred years ago... how do you know?"
Not only Ming Yi, but Lin Xiao was also confused. When he had sealed the man's cultivation earlier, he had roughly estimated his age based on his physical condition. He was at most sixty.
How did he know about events from a hundred years ago?
He glanced at Lin Xiao: "I, Ning Yuan, am now one hundred and twenty years old. When the Ning family was invincible in the world, I was full of vigor and looked down on all under heaven."
"One hundred and twenty years old?"
Ming Yi stared at Ning Yuan, scrutinizing him several times, and said disbelievingly, "Impossible, looking at your body, there is no way you could be that old."
"Ignorance."
Facing Ming Yi's confusion, Ning Yuan calmly shook his head. "One hundred years ago, the Ning family and the Ethereal Immortal Palace engaged in a peerless war."
"In that battle, the Ning family made a tactical blunder."
"In the end, our generation of talented disciples were all sealed."
"This seal lasted for eighty years!"
Speaking of this, he was filled with emotion. "In this seal, other disciples died early as time passed. But I, a prodigy, had already reached the Void Profound Realm at that time. Within the seal, by relying on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the technique of hidden breath, I barely survived and managed to endure eighty years in that lightless, dark existence."
"Void Profound..."
Lin Xiao had not examined it carefully when he had sealed the man's true qi earlier. A Void Profound expert, and one who was already in the Void Profound Realm so many years ago?
"If it weren't for the gradual depletion of spiritual energy in the world as time passed, the seal would not have loosened, and I would not have been able to escape." Ning Yuan spoke of the past with gritted teeth. "Since I have escaped, I will surely seek revenge from the Ethereal Immortal Palace!"
"Unfortunately, the current descendants of the Ning family have long forgotten the pride of the past... I can only take a group of people and prepare to re-establish all the inheritances." Ning Yuan clenched his fists.
"Those people from the Joyful Union Sect, were they taken by you?" Ming Yi finally understood that this man was the fuse for the split.