The Gate Of Good Fortune (造化之门)

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Chapter 0018 – Cant Marry

“My name is Li Shao, that day when my benefactor saved my little boy…..” Li Shao spoke with fear, he did not know if he should fear telling Ning Cheng his identity, but he was also very grateful that Ning Cheng saved his son.

Ning Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, Li Shao had taken his carriage along with them through increasingly remote roads, and no one had pursued them.

“Brother Li, let the horses rest. You brought us here while risking your life, there should no longer be any problem.” Ning Cheng saw that the horses were tired and volunteered his help.

Li Shao also knew that the two yellow horses that he was tirelessly driving were also in distress, so after listening to Ning Cheng’s words, he stopped the carriage. At the same time he took out some dried rations and gave them to Ning Cheng and An Yi and said, “Benefactor, you do not need to worry, I will send you in a single trip, you can bypass the Dean Town Relay Station. Then I can go directly to Haicheng City, there are also many adventurers from the Mingot Sea there, I can earn more silver coins there in a single trip than before.”

An Yi who had never spoken till now said, “Brother Li, I know some of the routes here, you can directly go to the Haicheng City, I can take Ning Cheng and walk out here by myself.”

Seeing that Li Shao was going to reply, Ning Cheng simply said, “All right, Brother Li you helped us bypass the Dean Town. It is time that we separate, Brother Li Shao you can go to the Haicheng City.”

An Yi had no idea, now that Ning Cheng had said this, of course she would have no objections with it.

Ning Cheng rested for the entire day, since he was a cultivator of the Qi Gathering 3rd Level, plus he also had the help of An Yi who knew the art of healing, his injuries healed at a very fast rate.

The three people, after the horses had a good rest, continued on their way. The next morning, Ning Cheng and An Yi separated from Li Shao.

An Yi did not speak nonsense this time, she really knew the way. Although they walked all the way along the mountain paths, they never went astray. And after they walked for two days, Ning Cheng entered a lush green forest. After entering the forest, An Yi directly took Ning Cheng’s hand and said, ”Here there is an Array Formation, it would be better if you followed closely behind me, otherwise you will definitely get lost.”

Ning Cheng did not come to this world one or two days ago, of course he was aware of Array Formations. It seemed that the ancient civilisations of China also had some resemblance, like the orientation and layout of the things, it was very mysterious. Anyways, he knew nothing in this case.

Following An Yi and taking seven or eight turns, they were finally out of the forest, in front of Ning Cheng appeared mountain peak that was not high. At the foot of the mountain there were several acres of fields, with some of them having small vegetables and the likes growing. Halfway up the mountain contained a nunnery of dust color, with three words on the nunnery that Ning Cheng could distinguish, Blue Heart Temple.

“The Blue Heart Temple is the place where you live?” Ning Cheng asked.

An Yi released Ning Cheng’s hands, and with a happy smile on her face she said, “Yes, I grew up here, although I went out for a few days, I would always remember it, now I am finally back. I want to my master, you come with me……”

As An Yi spoke, she quickly accelerated her pace as she rushed towards the Blue Heart Temple on the mountainside.

With Ning Cheng behind An Yi, he felt some worry in his heart. An Yi was a cultivator of the Qi Gathering 3rd Level. So An Yi’s master’s cultivation would also not be too bad, but if An Yi’s master had an eccentric disposition, then what would he do? This was not Earth, he did not have any kind of reason to stay here.

“Come in.” A slightly hoarse voice entered Ning Cheng’s ears, Ning Cheng knew that this was An Yi’s master, An Yi’s master knew that he was coming.

Ning Cheng walked in through the mottled doors, immediately he was able to smell a faint smell of sandalwood.

This made Ning Cheng think that an accident happened, An Yi said that her master was going to die, but there was not even the slightest breath of a person dying, there was only the scent of the sandalwood.

The master that An Yi depended on was a middle aged woman who did not look her age, she was wearing a gray robe and sitting in the center of the main temple. She did not seem to be old, but her complexion was very pale. Ning Cheng could feel that her body was emitting a death like chill, An Yi had said that her master was going to die, now looking at her, it was clearly true.

What made Ning Cheng surprised was not how old she looked, or that she was going to die nor her cultivation which he could not see. But the fact that An Yi’s master was clearly not a nun, because she had long hair, even when she was surrounded by death Qi, her hair was still black, but had a bit less gloss.

“An Yi has always been at her master’s side, but the fact is I cannot teach her anything. Surely you can see that I am about to die, An Yi is pure hearted, and still do not know how to handle personal affairs. If you can, I hope that you can take An Yi with you, until she is able to live by her own.” The gray robed woman looked at Ning Cheng and said in a calm voice.

She did not ask about how Ning Cheng and An Yi met, nor did she ask about Ning Cheng’s origins, much less ask about his injuries, but said those words in a straightforward manner.

An Yi was suddenly frightened, “Master, I am not going to leave you. I am going to stay in the central temple. How can I go ahead with Ning Cheng? Ning Cheng was just passing through here.”

Ning Cheng also quickly replied, “Senior, i am going to the Mingot Sea. I heard that it is very dangerous, and one can be killed off at any time, and i got a few enemies of my own, An Yi would be a lot safer here than accompanying me.”

These words, Ning Cheng said weren’t said without thinking, he was still worried about An Yi. An Yi was simple and pure, similar to a piece of blank paper, but now that he had arrived at the temple, Ning Cheng did not worry. There were lot of defensive Array Formations here, an ordinary person simply couldn’t enter.

An Yi’s master sighed, pulling An Yi’s hands gently, said, “I eventually have to go, you also need not consider me as your master, this place seems to be safe but it is in fact, extremely dangerous. Once I’m gone, if you stay alone at this place, you undoubtedly will be unable to live.

After that, she no longer tried to persuade An Yi, but rather, looked towards Ning Cheng and said, “People will eventually die, you also have seemed to see it. Regardless of how you came to know An Yi, I believe you are not a treacherous person, so I want to ask you if you are perhaps engaged or married…..”

Ning Cheng, hearing these words, immediately thought, was An Yi’s master was thinking of letting him marry An Yi? How could he take a nun as his wife? Even if An Yi wasn’t a nun, he couldn’t take her to be his wife.

After clearly understanding this, Ning cheng said, “I have a girlfriend, although recently some small conflict broke us up, I still want to get back to her.”

Ning Cheng, saying till here, his heart became gloomy. He knew that Tian Muwan’s decisive attitude at that time made him incapable of getting her back. Even if Tian Muwan changed her mind, could he see her again?

Thinking that, Ning Cheng again added, “I still have a fiancee, she has only left temporarily…..”

Ning Cheng didn’t say anymore after that, because he himself knew that he and Ji Luofei couldn’t be back together again. As for whether he could reach the Hua country, even if he could, Ji Luofei and he were a thing of the past. He was really grateful to Ji Luofei but as to really liking her, he didn’t feel the same way.

What Ning Cheng didn’t expect was, the middle aged woman wearing the grey gown on hearing what he said, contrary to what he expected, nodded and said, “That makes me feel relieved, you need to remember, An Yi can be together with you but she absolutely cannot get married. Also you should absolutely not have any emotional disputes with another person, otherwise …….”

She hadn’t even finished speaking, when a faint line of blood flowed out from the corner of her mouth. An Yi, quickly hugged the middle aged woman wearing the grey gown, wept and shouted, “Master, what’s going on with you?”

Ning Cheng never imagined that this grey robed woman asked him if he was married or was engaged, was to remind him not to have any ideas on playing with An Yi, he was mistaken. An Yi, according to this person, could not marry, no wonder she was a little nun, though he did not know the reason why. But then he saw the grey robed woman’s expression become even more sluggish, Ning Cheng also dared not to say anything else.

The grey robed woman waved her hand and beckoned An Yi to come closer, she took out the piece of pear yellow jade hanging on An Yi’s neck, and also took out a brown colored bag that was hanging on her waist, and said, “An Yi, when I found you, this jade was on your side, it was presumably left by your parents. This bag is the storage bag that I have used for many years, remember never take it out for others to see it….. Also, you must remember that you cannot marry……”

With that, she stared at Ning Cheng and said, “You must take care of An Yi in the future, An Yi’s future is not ‘ordinary’ she will not treat you unjustly…..”

Ning Cheng clasped his hands and said, “My life was saved by An Yi, senior please be assured that as long as this Ning Cheng draws breath, he would never let An Yi get hurt.”

“An Yi, it is time for me to go away, you must live well, don’t be sad. The past will always be the past, as long as you keep walking forward. The path for you is very long, take good care of yourself.”

After the grey robed woman finished speaking, she looked up at the sky outside the temple, sighing slightly, her eyes were filled with a little loneliness, as she slowly closed them.

An Yi was a cultivator at the Qi Gathering 3rd Level, she immediately knew that her master had passed away as her life dissipated, she suddenly began to cry. Even though she had known that this day would eventually arrive, she still wasn’t able to accept this fact that her master had passed away,

Ning Cheng knew that the grey robed woman had known that he would look after An Yi, otherwise she would have not said that. He came up and patted An Yi’s shoulder and said, “An Yi, illness and death, it is only human. You don’t need to be too sad, we will have to step into the future together, it rather just arrived sooner than later.”

[TL Note – This is Chinese saying here, please do tell me if it was translated correctly.]

As Ning Cheng spoke, he also sighed, he knew that when he ‘died’, he didn’t even get to say goodbye to his sister Ruolan.

An Yi’s master’s cultivation was clearly dozens of times stronger that him, even so, she could not escape the shackles of heaven.

An Yi knew that Ning Cheng’s persuasive words had a valid reason, but she was still unable to contain her grief. Over the past decade, she had always followed her master and they had lived and depended on each other. Now that her master suddenly had passed away, she didn’t know what to do.

Ning Cheng looking at An Yi, knew that he was the only one who must deal with these things.

With Ning Cheng’s persuasion, An Yi gradually eased up her sadness. Then, together with Ning Cheng, they buried her master in the the field of orchids behind the Blue Heart Temple.

After accompanying An Yi in guarding the orchids behind the Temple for three days, Ning Cheng and An Yi left together, continuing their journey towards the Mingot Sea.

After three days time, with the help of An Yi, the injuries sustained by Ning Cheng were completely healed. The mood of An Yi also became more depressed, she was already an introverted and shy with people. Now after what happened with her master, An Yi spoke even less.

Although Ning Cheng was anxious to see what was in the bag An Yi received, but he was rather ashamed and embarrassed to speak about it.

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Chapter 0019 – Ji Luofei’s Sadness

Ji Luofei opened her eyes in a daze, and she immediately saw a room that was not very big, there were a total of six people in the room, and she was lying on a wooden bed. Beside her, there were Zhuang Tianya, Jian Sujie, Dan Xiang Ling, and two others she did not recognize.

“Where is this place? Is Ning Cheng here?” Ji Luofei reacted, she quickly sat up and asked anxiously.

Dan Xiang Ling had always been someone who didn’t talk much, and Jian Sujie was not a stranger to Ji Luofei, the other two girls Ji Luofei was not able to recognize so she did not know what to say. Only Zhuang Tianya said, “Right now we are on an airship type magic artifact, this airship has just now crossed over the Daan Forest. In a few days we should be arriving at the Zhuo Country.”

“Zhuo Country? What about Ning Cheng?” Ji Luofei suddenly jumped down from the wooden bed, looking at Zhuang Tianya for an answer, she asked, “My aunt? Did she also bring Ning Cheng?”

Zhuang Tianyi remained silent, Ji Luofei immediately knew what was had happened, she turned and tried to run out. Zhuang Tianya immediately became startled, as she hurriedly caught Ji Luofei’s hand in horror and said, “Do you not want to live?”

“Even if I do not, I’m going to save Ning Cheng, Ning Cheng is alone in the Cang Qin Province, he does not have the physical …..” Ji Luofei anxiously said, “You let me go.”

Zhuang Tianya did not let go of Ji Luofei, instead she just sighed and said, “Luofei, if you rushed out to return to the Cang Qin Province, you would not be able to live, even your aunt would be heavily punished, and besides you absolutely wouldn’t be able to return to the Cang Qin Province. Do you know how high the cultivation base of the senior operating this aircraft type magic artifact is? The senior is at the Mysterious Liquid Realm. Your aunt is just an instructor at the academy, she can only bring you back to the Zhuo Country’s Yi Xing Academy, there are many things…….”

Ji Luofei calmed down a bit, and did not continue to pursue her desire to go out. Of course she knew that only when a person has successfully cultivated to the 9th level of the Building Yuan Realm would they be then qualified to step into the Mysterious Liquid Realm. For a person to advance to the Mysterious Liquid Realm is very rare, especially in the low class countries, the people that have stepped into the Mysterious Liquid Realm hold a very high status and position.

The Building Yuan Realm is just equivalent to casting the foundations to enter the Mysterious Liquid Realm. While in the process of cultivation of Qi, it can be said that the Building Yuan Realm is the first real bottleneck that a cultivator would face. After successfully completing the nine level advancements of the Building Yuan Realm and entering into the Mysterious Liquid Realm, the Qi would gather into a form of liquid, forming a Dan Lake in one’s abdomen region also known as the Dantian. With the cultivation of the real Qi liquid, the Dan Lake would keep on expanding, while enhancing and strengthening one’s body at the same time. Once a person forms a Dan Lake, their strength would be much stronger than a cultivator of the Building Yuan Realm.

The best example for comparison of the strength between the two Realms would be, just as her aunt killed the two cultivators of the Qi Gathering 6th Level, a cultivator at the Mysterious Liquid Realm can also as easily kill her aunt, who was a cultivator of the Building Yuan Realm, in the same manner.

Seeing Ji Luofei’s hand trembling, Zhuang Tianya said, “Besides, you would not be able to go out to rescue Ning Cheng, What’s more, even if you did manage to get out alone, do you think you would be able to return there?”

“How was he?” Ji Luofei asked in a trembling voice.

Zhuang Tianya did not hide anything and said, “While Ning Cheng was in the Academy, because Gu Fei had insulted you, he ended up clashing with Gu Fei. The result was that he challenged Gu Fei…..”

Ji Luofei clenched her fists so hard that her hand had turned blue. In fact, Ning Cheng was most impressed by Ji Luofei not because him and her lived under one roof for a number of years, but because she helped Ning Cheng by killing Xian Yuankui, in her memory, it was only after that incident that Ning Cheng was forced to run away.

In was only for a short period of time, but Ning Cheng gave her the impression that there was a lot more to him that met her eyes.

“Don’t be nervous…..listen to me”

“Luofei, you already know my qualifications, remember to take revenge for me, I do not want to think that when I die there would not be anyone who would take revenge for me.”

“Luofei, you are not ugly ah…..”

It was like she could hear Ning Cheng’s voice in her ears, but where was Ning Cheng?

To truly understand a person, sometimes many years would pass, even then one may not be able to understand them clearly. Sometime even a moment, could feel like a lifetime. Ji Luofei could still feel Ning Cheng’s touch, for the short period of time that she had been in contact with Ning Cheng in the few days of the past, she was able to fully understand Ning Cheng.

“What happened to Ning Cheng then?” although Ji Luofei knew that the odds of winning were against Ning Cheng, but she still gripped Zhuang Tianya and asked anxiously.

Zhuang Tianyi could feel Ji Luofei’s hand trembling, she sighed in her heart, in her view, Ning Cheng was far from being a match for Ji Luofei. She really didn’t know why Ji Luofei still wanted to be closer to Ning Cheng.

Zhuang Tianya comfortingly pats Ji Luofei’s hand and said, “Gu Fei challenged Ning Cheng, Ning Cheng proposed to Gu Fei to compare their speeds. Ning Cheng by proposing this wanted to escape, but the difference between his and Gu Fei’s cultivation bases was just too big, plus he also had Gu Yiming on his side.”

Ji Luofei was not aware that the hand that she had been clutching for so long had broken out in blood, she was very clear, although Ning Cheng’s ability to cope with things was much higher than Ji Luofei. But in the face of absolute power, what could Ning Cheng do?

Ning Cheng, I will avenge you, I will not die till I avenge you ……

Ji Luofei embedded each and every word into the deepest parts of her heart, once she successfully cultivated to a higher level in the future, she would definitely come back to kill Gu Yiming. And there is also the King of Cang Qin Province, and…….

Ji Luofei looked coldly at Jian Sujie who was next to her, she was very clear that even though she was not involved with Ning Cheng, but she was definitely involved in the complete extermination of the Ning Clan. In the future, she would definitely have the opportunity to kill Jian Sujie and Qiu Yingguan for Ning Cheng.

Seeing Ji Luofei glance at her coldly, Jian Su jie felt her body chill all over. But she quickly responded, she seemed to know what Ji Luofei was thinking at the moment, then she similarly looked at Ji Luofei and said indifferently, “”You want to retaliate against me, Jian Sujie, to help take revenge of Ning Cheng.”

“Your Jian Clan and Qiu Clan partnered up and framed Ning Cheng, Ning Cheng was not even at the Qi Gathering 1st Level at that time, how could he be rude to you? My eyes are not blind. Ning Cheng is gone, his matter I, Ji Luofei, would definitely complete it for him.” Ji Luofei said in a tone that was completely devoid of even the slightest of emotions.

Even Zhuang Tianya who was listening to her felt her heart go into shock, she had an unfounded feeling, that Ji Luofei changed into a person that she didn’t know, before she did not have a frozen heart, but she was still the kind Ji Luofei.

Jian Sujie felt her heart quiver, but she still said, “Originally the fact Ning Cheng molested me was definitely true, It was only later that I came to know that he was framed, but it was definitely not me. Because of that, I am also a victim here, believe it or not, I did not want to continue to kill him, but also saved him once.”

Ji Luofei closed her eyes and slowly sat down, she no longer paid any attention to Jian Sujie.

……

After a month’s time, Ning Cheng and An Yi had taken many detours. An Yi continued to be silent, but at least she was not doing nothing. At least she knew how to cook and also knew a lot about spirit grasses, but she did not eat meat. Ning Cheng brought back many a game, but An Yi never ate them.

Ning Cheng wanted to encourage An Yi to eat something, but she always ignored it, he also continuously studied the various books given to him by An Yi regarding Spirit Grasses. At this point, he had made much progress than when he first came out of Cang Le City. He was able to at least identify half of the different Spirit Grasses.

An Yi remained silent, but depended on Ning Cheng a lot. Each time Ning Cheng went out to hunt food, she would become anxious, only after Ning Cheng came back would she quite down. Her master’s death was a serious blow to her.

On this day, Ning Cheng and An Yi had climbed over a mountain. The two people were able to smell the scent of sea, and it made Ning Cheng exited. Even if everything was strange, the sea now and in the past, was still exactly the same, at least on the surface it was same.

Thinking about going off onto the vast and boundless sea, Ning Cheng felt his own heart become boundless. He was even eager to find the beach and then scream that he finally was able to see the sea.

Just when Ning Cheng looked back and saw the still silent An Yi, his passionate impulse faded rapidly, he looked at An Yi and smilingly asked, “An Yi, why did your master say that you can’t get married?”

Ning Cheng was afraid that An Yi would continue in be depressed for a long time. An Yi did not understand this, but it did not mean that he also would not understand it.

“I don’t know, master said that I can’t get married, so I won’t get married. Didn’t you also tell me that you also couldn’t marry?” An Yi looked at Ning Cheng with her big eyes and said.

Ning Cheng looking at her pure and matchless eyes, he felt that An Yi has lost a some brightness in them, he felt a bit sorry for her in his mind. He then put those emotions aside and still smiled and said to An Yi, “An Yi, from where I am, the priests can also get married and have a family.”

“Brother Ning Cheng, do you want me to marry you?” An Yi immediately asked, being together with Ning Cheng, she could never hide the questions in her heart. She had been living together with Ning Cheng for almost over a month, in this period of time the status of Ning Cheng in An Yi’s heart rose to the level of Elder Brother.

Ning Cheng scratched his head in distress, and said, “No, I already have a girlfriend, I mean…..”

An Yi just smiled and said, “Elder Brother Ning, you don’t have to worry about me, thank you for taking care of me. My master has already passed away, and because of this my heart was sad. Now I have gradually realized, you do not have to devote yourself to comfort me.”

Ning Cheng stared at An Yi, who said this little nun was stupid, he just had to get impatient with her. An Yi always knew what he was thinking, but was reluctant to speak out.

Seeing Ning Cheng’s awkward gaze, An Yi suddenly said, “Elder Brother Ning, I will always be grateful to you in my heart, after my master passed away, I really did not know what to do.”

With that, she took the initiative to speak first and said, “Elder Brother Ning, you said you had a girlfriend, and then your girlfriend broke up with you after a little fight, are you also going to look for her?”

Ning Cheng did not expect that An Yi would remember this sentence, he initially said those words to An Yi’s master so that she would keep An Yi safe with her, who knew An Yi who was in such a sad situation, would still be able to remember it. Sure enough, you never know what a woman was thinking, it didn’t matter if the woman in question was a nun or not.

“No, and besides I can’t find her now.” said Ning Cheng as he shook his head.

An Yi asked again, “Elder Brother Ning, if you are able to find her, would you not look for her?”

Ning Cheng remained silent, Tian Muwan left him without any explanation, and so did he.

A woman showing a bit of temper was nothing, but Tian Muwan should not have given the pearl head ornament to Zha Zhiyi. Not only did Zha Zhiyi take it, he even threw it into the sewers, Tian Muwan also said that he could just buy her a new one. No matter what Tian Muwan was thinking, Ning Cheng would have found it difficult to go back and treat her the same way as before.

At that time he had bought two pearl head ornaments, for the two people that were the closest to him, he regarded Tian Muwan as close to his heart as his younger sister Ruolan, the same as family. When Tian Muwan discarded the pearl head ornament through Zha Zhi Yi’s hands, it was equal to discarding his sincerity towards Muwan.

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Chapter 0020 – The Sinister Waters Of The Mingot Sea

Ning Cheng did not answer, because a sharp breaking voice interrupted his train of thought. A grey shadow with a roaring sound flew out not much farther in front of him, a moment later, there was another black shadow that flew past in its pursuit. After a few breaths time, the two shadows disappeared without a trace.

Ning Cheng’s heart was awestruck, seeing the two shadows he was reminded of the flying artifact used by Ji Luofei’s aunt. He had heard that there were hundred of countries, who let their countless forces that came to the Mingot Sea for practicing cultivation and looking for resources of dubious origins. Now it seems that it really was so, the two shadows that just disappeared from their visions were definitely not people from the Cang Qin province.

To have a flying artifact, one must be an absolute powerhouse, like the cultivators of the Building Yuan Realm. It looks like if one wanted to live in the Mingot Sea Area, it would not be an easy thing. The excited moment that Ning Cheng had just now instantly diminished a lot, he finally began to think of how to survive in this sort of place.

Even An Yi could see, that the two people who just flew past, their cultivation bases compared to Ning Cheng and her, it was simply too low. She was not completely sure about Ning Cheng’s cultivation base, however it also seemed that it was not high either.

“An Yi, we have to be careful from here, there seems to be danger everywhere in the Mingot Sea Area.” said Ning Cheng as he quickly pulled down An Yi from the high area, and came down to a small remote place near the roadside.

An Yi also forgot to ask Ning Cheng what he meant by that, she just made an ‘um’ sound, and followed Ning Cheng closely behind. If she was the only person here, then she would not have known what to do in this kind of situation.

“That storage bag that you have, An Yi, never expose it.” said Ning Cheng as he thought about An Yi’s storage bag. Once An Yi’s storage bag was exposed, not only would An Yi be killed off, even he would suffer the same fate.

An Yi hurriedly put her hand on her waist and said, “Elder Brother, I will take it out and give it to you, it will not be safe with me …….”

Ning Cheng stopped An Yi and said, “An Yi, your master left this bag to you, you put it close to your skin, and also have your things inside it, giving it to me would not be very good.”

Ning Cheng also would have liked to see the materials in the storage bag, but afterwards thinks that it was some sort of inheritance that An Yi’s master had left for An Yi, if he took it, it would be the same as trying to read other people’s personal thoughts.

An Yi quickly said, “Elder Brother Ning, this is not a simple bag, but a storage bag. Storage bag and a simple bag are completely different, although the storage bag looks small, the space inside a storage bag is very big. With just a thought, the Spatial Array inside the storage bag, will help you place items larger than the bag itself inside it.”

Ning Cheng realised that a simple bag and a storage bag had a big difference, one could put a lot of things in the storage bag, Ning Cheng could feel an itch in heart, he really wanted one of these bags.

……

After going through this matter, Ning Cheng took An Yi away from the road as far as possible.

“Elder Brother Ning, there is a relay station here.” An Yi knew that the words she spoke only made Ning Cheng more worried about her. Although her master’s death left a huge scar on her heart, but she also took the initiative to ask Ning Cheng about somethings but she was careful as to not ask about Ning Cheng’s girlfriend. She also did not ask Ning Cheng, who was his girlfriend.

Ning Cheng also saw the distant relay station, it did not look big, but it made Ning Cheng stop.

“Elder Brother Ning, Li Shao said that, after the Relay Station at Dawn Town, we would be able to get out of the scope of the Cang Qin Province. Although it is a relay station, perhaps it is not of the Cang Qin Province.” Seeing Ning Cheng stop, there was even some caution in him, so she took the initiative and said those words.

Ning Cheng nodded, “Let it be, we first go over and have a look.”

The relay station was not big, it was just a pure relay station, in addition there were only a dozen soldiers to guard it and it also doubled up as a small hotel. In the largest space in front of the relay station, was the dock for keeping the beast carriages. Many of the beast carriage owners were shouting for customers. The board above the relay station, made Ning Cheng completely calm down, it said “Fire Element Country, Fu Ye River Relay Station.”

Ning Cheng and An Yi had just arrived when they met up with a short woman with a rough face, “Are you two friends going to the Mingot Sea? Take my beast carriage, just twenty gold coins per person.”

Ning Cheng was shocked, 20 gold coins for one person? Isn’t this too high? Li Shao had previously said before that he would earn only a few dozen silver coins for a single trip, how could there be such a high price here?

“Isn’t the price too high?” Ning Cheng was not certain if this woman would not kill him, as he asked in a hesitating way.

The rough faced woman froze for a moment, there was no answer from her, but a man came up next to her and said, “My friend, this price is not high. Not to mention that it would take more than 10 days to reach the Mingot Sea Area, because of the dangerous waters of the Mingot Sea, such a price is fair regarding the risk. It is the carriage driver who has to drive the beast carriage, she has to keep both her brain and body alert all the times, if it was not necessary, it’s best not to bargain.”

The speaker was a man with some stubble on his face, he only seemed to have the cultivation of Qi Gathering 3rd Level. But he talked in a very relaxed way, and did not let the people who he was talking to feel as if he would suddenly erupt. There was a wide gap between a cultivator at Qi Gathering 3rd Level and the 4th Level, a sort of bottleneck if you will, compared to a Qi Gathering 3rd Level cultivator, a cultivator at the Qi Gathering 4th Level was more than 10 times stronger.

Ning Cheng quickly clasped his hands and said, “Thank you my friend, me and my sister have come to the Mingot Sea Area for the first time to live, but we don’t know about the condition of the market here. As my friend said, that 20 gold coins are really not that high.”

Speaking of his sister, Ning Cheng immediately thought of Ning Ruolan, it felt as if his heart was being crushed.

An Yi had a white turban tied up on her head, clearly one could see that she was a nun. Ning Cheng said An Yi was his sister, this short man did not think that Ning Cheng was telling lies, he just nodded and said, “My beast carriage’s Sister He has a very good reputation, I just happened to have to go the Mingot Sea, do you want to board the beast carriage with your sister, or just go by yourself.”

Ning Cheng said in an embarrassed way, “I do not have a single gold coin, I would have liked to go to the Mingot Sea, but it seems it wouldn’t be possible currently.”

On his body, there were only two things that were valuable, one was the knife wrapped up inside, it was taken from the corpse of Gu Fei. The other was the Qi Gathering Stone, which Ji Luofei had given him, but still haven’t used it. In addition to it he only had the two thin leather bound books of the Ning Clan.

At this time he had some regrets after killing Gu Fei, he did not search Gu Fei’s body carefully, maybe there were some other valuable things with him.

The short man looked at Ning Cheng and said with a smile, “Qi Gathering 3rd Level, a freind such poor as you are really not that many. The gold coins for the beast carriage, I can help you out with that, it can be considered as paying for friends.”

Ning Cheng after listening to the short man talk, he was immediately overjoyed and clasped both his hands and said, “Thank you my friend, after I go to the Mingot Sea, I will find a way to return the favor.”

If only Ning Cheng had not offended Gu Yiming, he really did not want to owe such a favor. Now for Ning Cheng, the farther he could get away from the Cang Qin Province the better. The Mingot Sea Area had all kinds of people and even if there were people from the Cang Qin Province, it would not count for anything, this place was the most secure.

“Its just 40 gold coins, you don’t need to return it. My name is Feng Feizhang, I usually travel between the Mingot Sea and the Fu Yi River Relay Station. Although the goods go back to the Fire Element Country, here I can even earn more than double, but truthfully I’d rather sell my things here, it would save a lot of time.” This short man said while laughing.

“My name is Ning Cheng, this is my cousin An Yi.” Ning temporarily changed sister to cousin. They declared before that they were brother and sister, if the surnames were different, how can they be brother and sister?

Feng Feizhang did not mind that Ning Cheng had told something different before, and said with a great interest, “Everywhere in the waters of Mingot is full of gold coins, as long as you have to ability and skill. Since I do not have the qualifications to enter into the middle ranks of the Qi Gathering Realm, so I just want to earn enough gold coins, so that I can go back and establish a family.”

“Brother Feng, isn’t the Mingot Sea full of dangers and killings?” asked Ning Cheng after listening to Feng Feizhang say that he has been to the Mingot Sea before, he wanted to find out from him, regarding the situation in the Mingot Sea area.

After listening to Ning Cheng’s words, Feng Feizhang’s facial expression becomes solemn and said, “Yes, Brother Ning. In the area of the Mingot Sea, our cultivation bases might be considered to be weakest, but compared to some of the lowest level of adventurers we are slightly better off. I can only fish for something near the shore, but I do not dare to go too far. The most abundant and resourceful area in the Mingot Sea is far away from the shores, there you can find many people, but trying to acquire things from there, now that would be very difficult.”

After a pause, Feng Feizhang continued, “If you want to go deep into the waters of the Mingot Sea then you need to form a team, in the recent years, I also formed a team with many of my friends. But the reality is many of them could not come back, I have watched many of my friends fail in front me but I just did not have the ability to help them. Maybe one of these days, I will also be like them, forever remaining in the Mingot Sea.”

An Yi had been living in a safe place with her master, and did not have much idea of this. But Ning Cheng was worried, although he was also at Qi Gathering 3rd Level, but his fighting experience was not rich. Last time he was able to kill Gu Fei, precisely because he was at his level. Even then, he had suffered many serious injuries by Gu Fei’s hands before he was able to kill him.

What Ning Cheng was the most worried about was, his aptitude was was very bad, basically he couldn’t advance in his rank. If he could return back to the Cang Qin Province, then it would not only be very easy for him to raise his cultivation base from the Qi Gathering 1st Level to the Qi Gathering 3rd Level but also solidify and improve his cultivation, and then go to the Mingot Sea.

Feng Feizhang saw Ning Cheng very worried, and took the initiative to speak, “In fact, as long as you are cautious, you would not necessarily die in the Mingot Sea. I have been in the Mingot Sea area for almost 10 years, but I am still alive and good. At this time, since we have teamed up, I will also tell you how to survive in the Mingot Sea.”

Ning Cheng felt very grateful and clasped his hands and said, “Brother Feng is very warm, this Ning Cheng would like to thank you.”

The Mingot Sea was such a dangerous place, with teams of people, of course, it would mean an abundance in experience. The stronger the person the better, but he had no experience. Feng Fiezhang took in Ning Cheng and An Yi, if he did not have any malicious intentions, then he really was a warm hearted person.

“Sister He, does the carriage have a seat, we must go to the Mingot Sea Area.” along with the voice, two more people walked towards them, one was a man and the other a woman. The man’s appearance was good, but he had a red scar on his face, which made him look a bit disfigured. The woman looked somewhat odd, it was obvious that she was very sexy, but if you looked carefully, she actually looked like a solemn, quiet and a refined young lady.

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Chapter 0021 – Golden Cicada Fruit

Both these man and woman who came over, obviously also knew Sister He.

“There is, we will be leaving immediately.” Sister He said extremely loudly.

In a very short period of time, Sister He immediately gathered five people. Ning Cheng and An Yi, along with the other people, followed Sister He to her beast carriage. This beast carriage actually was no better than the ordinary small commercial vehicles back on his planet Earth.

Pulling the carriage weren’t horses but rather a beast which Ning Cheng had seen previously. Ning Cheng had originally seen this kind of beast in the Cang Le city, only that beast he had seen was pure white in color, this one however was of a mixed color. Ning Cheng had listened to Jian Sujie whistling for her horned beast, she seemed to call it as Xiao Shi.

This unicorn was to pull such a big carriage and furthermore, there were also many people in it, would it be able to pull it? In the begining, Li Shao’s carriage, which they were travelling in previously, only had two horses pulling it.

“Get in, we will immediately leave.” Sister He spoke and then proceeded to occupy the driver’s seat.

Ning Cheng and An Yi, along with the other people went inside the carriage, only to find that there was already a person sitting inside it. The person was an old man, with the same cultivation base of Qi Gathering 3rd Level. Even though the old man was at the Qi Gathering 3rd Level, Ning Cheng felt that this old man’s cultivation base was many times more fierce than Feng Feizhang’s.

The elderly man saw Ning Cheng and the five other people getting on the carriage, he merely swept a glance towards them and then continued to keep his eyes closed. In just this brief moment when this old man opened and closed his eyes, Ning Cheng felt a wave of killing intent. Ning Cheng knew this killing intent was not directed towards him or other people in here, but it was because this old man had an incorporeal murderous aura on his body. Clearly, this person was an extremely dangerous killer and had killed many in the past.

An Yi sat right next to Ning Cheng, she had also felt that old man’s killing intent. She chose to sit close to Ning Cheng and didn’t dare to look at the elderly man.

Sister He sat in the seat of the driver, took out a whip and immediately whipped it in front of her, the horned beast immediately let out a loud roar, and stomping its foot on the ground it immediately rushed out. Such a large carriage was easily pulled by it, unexpectedly there wasn’t even a lag of half a minute.

Not only that, but the speed of the carriage also was not slow, the only thing a bit troubling was that the carriage was a bit bumpy. Ning Cheng and the others who were sitting in this bumpy carriage, could clearly see the scenery outside through the transparent window.

The people who were sitting in the carriage had all experienced so many life and death situations, that even their eyes were filled with matchless cruelty. Ning Cheng and An Yi understood at a glance that many people here had experienced killings, since these two people were going to the Mingot Sea, besides Feng Feizhang’s thoughts of helping them, the other three people were sneering in their hearts and minds that Ning Cheng and An Yi were just trying to court death by going there.

“This should be the virtuous husband and wife, Miao Xiuming and Tian Fei, right? I have heard so much about you, to sit with you in the same carriage is a great honor for this Feng.” Feng Feizhang said with with great enthusiasm and warmth, and took the initiative to greet the man and woman sitting opposite to him and even gave them a respectful fist salute while speaking.

[TL Note – To those who might not know, it is Chinese Tradition something like clasping one’s hands to show their respect. You can google it up for more information.]

The man with the red scar on his face did not think that Feng Feizhang actually knew him, but he was not surprised. Although his cultivation was low, but coupled with his wife and working together for many years, they were not afraid of facing against even a strong Qi Gathering cultivator. Along the edges of the Mingot Sea, they built up a bit of small fame and reputation.

“Yes, I am Miao Xiuming, and this here is my wife ……” the man with the red scar on his face had not finished speaking, when he noticed Ning Cheng staring at his wife. It was obvious that he was uncomfortable with others staring at his wife.

[TL Note – The raw says ‘lover’ but I changed it to ‘wife’ to suit the context better.]

Feng Feizhang also found Ning Cheng to be rather rude, and quickly coughed, this made Ning Cheng come back to reality, with some awkwardness he clasped his fist, but did not explain anything. He knew that this kind of thing, there was no way he could provide a satisfactory explanation.

Just when he heard that the woman sitting opposite to him was named Tian Fei, he had unconsciously thought of Tian Muwan, after some time of being lost in his memories, he ended up staring at Tian Fei, in fact in his eye’s was not Tian Fei’s image but rather Tian Muwan’s.

Seeing Ning Cheng did not continue to be impolite, Miao Xiuming did not attack him. But he had a heart to teach Ning Cheng a lesson, he then specifically looked at An Yi who was sitting beside Ning Cheng. An Yi had a white head head cloth wrapped around her head and was wearing a plain blue robe, before he was basically inattentive. But when Miao Xiuming looked at An Yi closely, his heart suddenly started to beat faster.

According to him, An Yi was too pretty and delicate, just like a fairy in human form. She sat there quietly, just like a crystal clear white lotus. He had seen many beautiful woman before, but he had not seen someone like An Yi, who was very pure looking, which made his heart beat go faster.

This woman was too pure, he must get his hands on her, Miao Xiuming inwardly said to himself as he clenched his fists.

“I don’t know if Brother Miao heard of the Golden Cicada Fruit?” Feng Feizhang quickly changed the subject, and took the initiative to speak the first sentence.

Hearing the words of Feng Feizhang, Miao Xiuming returned to reality and immediately said, “Is Brother Feng talking about the Langsa Island in the waters of the Mingot Sea where the Golden Cicada Fruit grows?”

Feng Feizhang laughed and said, “Brother Miao really has heard of it, truthfully if I could get a Golden Cicada Fruit, then I would not have to break my back scavenging in the Mingot Sea and could comfortably live out my entire life till I die.”

Miao Xiuming seemed to have forgotten about the insolent thing that Ning Cheng did, it seemed he did not mind, and said, “The Lansha Island is something that people could go in but cannot return. Recently, I heard that a team did go in, but none of them ever came out. Furthermore, Golden Cicada Fruits are something that we cannot touch. Even if one did manage to get a Golden Cicada Fruit, it would lead to him dying faster.”

Feng Feizhang did not know that Miao Xiuming had already set his eyes on An Yi, he just meant to divert his attention of Miao Xiuming from Ning Cheng, now that he heard Miao Xiuming speak, he immediately nodded and said, “True, even if we were able to obtain the Golden Cicada Fruit, and not get killed in the process, there is no way that the Golden Cicada Fruit would help one condense a Dan.”

[TL Note – For those who are ignorant, Dan is something like a medicine that can greatly boost one’s cultivation base, maybe even help them breakthrough different levels.]

Ning Cheng had recently studied about all kinds of Spirit Grasses including the names and uses of many different Spirit Grasses, this Golden Cicada Fruit was a type of Spiritual Fruit that he had heard about. It was classified as a Level Three Spiritual Grass, and can be refined into a Dan, by refining into a Dan it could be useful to the cultivators in all the nine Qi Gathering Levels. What Feng Feizhang meant was that, even if an ordinary cultivator gets his hands on the Golden Cicada Fruit, he would not be able to refine it into a Dan. That was because where would he be able to find an Alchemist for making a Dan for a Qi Gathering Realm cultivator?

In fact, Ning Cheng also realized that Feng Feizhang had another hidden meaning, in fact not to mention that even if there was no way for one to refine the Golden Cicada Fruit into a true Dan, it can be refined into a Dan medicine, but with his cultivation level how would he be able to take it? They were only cultivators of the Qi Gathering 3rd Level, while at worst only the cultivators of at the Qi Gathering 9th Level could only use the refined Dan.

The old man who had his eyes closed and which were filled with killing intent, said, “In fact the Lansha Island is not so terrible, once you know about the Array Methods around it, you can easy and safely come and go from there. However, if you want to get the Golden Cicada Fruit, then the opportunities for that is very low.”

“What?” the old man’s words immediately attracted Feng Feizhang, Miao Xiuming, Tian Fei and the other three people, they just couldn’t believe what the old man has just said.

An Yi kept her head down, she did not hear the conversation between the couple of people clearly. Although Ning Cheng had heard it clearly, but he was not interested in it. Regardless of what this man said was true or not, even if it was true, if he got the Golden Cicada Fruit it would not be useful to him. Moreover, he had also affirmed that the old man’s words were not really dishonest.

But he also believed that Feng Feizhang, Miao Xiuming and the other people also did not believe the old man’s words, they were just surprised that the words of the old man were too far off the mark according to them.

“You may think that my words are a lie, I can tell you clearly, there is not even half a word that I spoke was false. The Lansha island is not far away, but if you are going to search for the Golden Cicada Fruit then you need have a great luck and opportunity.” The old man continued.

Miao Xiuming could not help but ask, “My friend, since the Lansha Island can be easily entered, then why are so many cultivators who enter the Lansha Island are unable to come out?”

“That’s because they don’t understand the Array Formations outside and inside it, the outside of the Lansha Island is enveloped in sea fog, in fact, this fog was a Battle Array Formation. But only on the 15th day of each month can one hope to enter the island. Also one must have person who is proficient in Battle Array Formations with them. I was able to enter the Lansha Island many times, and was also able to come out, it is precisely because I am proficient in Battle Array Formations.” The old man said proudly, his voice had a trace of disdain in it.

“My Friend, you say that you have been to the Lansha Island a few times? The Lansha Island in the Mingot Sea?” Feng Feizhang could still not believe it and asked again, he felt that this old man did not seem to be lying.

After hearing Feng Feizhang ‘s words the old man despite having despised them, said with some decadence in his voice, “Although I have been in and out of Lansha Island many times, but it did not mean that I was able to obtain anything good. I have even seen a Golden Cicada Fruit, but I was never able to get it, urgh!”

“You have seen the Golden Cicada Fruit?” this sentence almost made Feng Feizhang, Miao Xiuming and the three others to jump out and ask.

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Chapter 0022 – Forced To Team Up

“Of course, but unless you are really lucky, even if you went to the Lansha Island and found the Golden Cicada Fruit, don’t think you would be able to get it.” said the old man leaving no room for doubt.

“Why not?” the woman called Tian Fei could not help but ask.

The old man said in a deep voice, “That’s because the Golden Cicada Fruit tree is surrounded by a Level 5 Attack Array Formation which would kill any cultivator who coveted the Golden Cicada Fruit Tree by beheading and they would just ultimately become nutrients for the Golden Cicada Fruit Tree.”

With that, the old man looked at Feng Feizhang and said, “You do not have to doubt that I deceived you, the reason that I disclosed this news to you is because the route map to enter the Lansha Island would be auctioned at the end of the month at the Mingot City Auction House, moreover there are only a hundred copies. Even if I did not tell you this, there would be a lot of people who would come to know about it by the end of the month.”

[TL Note – According to the raws, it says ‘Circuit Diagram of the Lansha Island’, but I felt it would be weird to keep on saying ‘Circuit Diagram to enter the Lansha Island’ for I decided to simplify it to ‘route map’. Do share your views about this in the comments, as it is just the first few chapters and can easily be changed now rather than coming back later.]

There were quite few people who had some doubts about this man before, but now many of them believed the words of this old man. If the route map for the Lansha Island was being auctioned at the Mingot City Auction House, then it meant that the words of the old man were really true. The Mingot City Auction House in the Mingot Sea Area had, both a powerful influence and a powerful force, if they said that there were only a 100 copies, then there really only were only a 100 copies, absolutely no one would dare to copy the route map from the Auction house and try to sell it. Unless they were tired of living.

“Friend, can I ask how did you get to know about the route map to enter the Lansha Island, that too even before the auction?” Feng Fiezhang asked.

The old man just nodded his head and said, “Even if you did not ask about it, I would have told you. At the start, this route map was not something that I created, it was made by another person, presumably he, just like me, had been to the Lansha Island many times in the past. He also could not get the Golden Cicada Fruit, and chose to sell the map in the auction.”

The several people present did not speak, since the old man had said those words, it means that what he said certainly must be true, indeed it was just like that, after the old man finished speaking about that, he again continued, “I myself am well versed in Array Formations of low levels, and this time I intentionally asked high level Array Formations Master, and found out that it would require at least one Level 5 Array Formations Master to break it. But in addition to this method, there is also another way, but it requires eight people, and they must attack the Array Formation regularly and simultaneously from eight different directions, this can also help us in breaking the Attack Array Formation. But this method of breaking the Array Formation, I do not know if it would end up destroying the Golden Cicada Fruit.”

“Friend, are you indirectly inviting us to join up with you?” Miao Xiuming immediately asked.

The old man replied, “Indeed it is like that, I am only at Qi Gathering 3rd Level, and thus I cannot dare to invite cultivators of the Qi Gathering Intermediate stage. But if we are able to procure a Golden Cicada Fruit stub, as each stub would at least contain 36 of those fruits, so even if all eight people participate, each person can get as many as four or more fruits. Here, we already have a total of 6 people, we can find two more in the Mingot City, and then after gathering the eight people together, we can then go to the Lansha Island. That said, let me first introduce myself, my name is Pu Jingye, everyone calls me Taoist Pu. Moreover, I am willing take an oath by the sea, that the words I spoke are completely true.”

[TL Note – Intermediate Stage in a Realm is not a new stage, but rather the various realms are divided into 3 stages, the beginner stage (from 1st to 3rd Level), intermediate stage (from 4th to 6th Level) and advanced/late stage (from 7th to 9th Level)]

After listening to the words of Taoist Pu, Miao Xiuming clasped his fists and said, “Tian Fei and I will also go, but before we go, can we ask Brother Pu to let us look at your route map. Otherwise, I am afraid I would not agree to it.”

He also had some understandings about Array Formations, and had also visited the surrounding area of the Lansha Island in the past, although there was no way that he could get in, but he was clear about it from the periphery, if he was not satisfied with the route map of Taoist Pu, then even if he swore an oath by the sea, he would never agree.

Feng Feizhang also hesitated for a moment, before clasping his hands and said, “Brother Pu count me in too, but before agreeing with your request, just as Brother Miao said, we need to look at the route map that you spoke of.”

Taoist Pu just laughed and said, “That is for sure, before we leave, I will let you all have a look at the route map. Even if you get your hands on the route map from the auction, I figure that when you see my route map, everybody here would also be satisfied with it.”

At this time all the people looked at Ning Cheng, they wanted to know his decision. From the behavior before it was clear that An Yi obviously followed Ning Cheng, so they all thought that as long as they could convince him, it would be ok.

Ning Cheng just smiled and said, “Of course, I would also like to participate, it would be a disadvantage for me if I did not participate.”

Ning Cheng was just laughing on the surface, but in his heart he was very depressed, he thought that only a fool would go to the Lansha Island and participate as a team. Regardless of whether what Taoist Pu said was true or false, even if what he said was true, the Lansha Island and the Golden Cicada Fruit affair, why did he not ask the help of an Advance Array Formation Master in the past? Even if an Advance Array Formation Master was reluctant to help him in the past, surely the Auction House would try to invite a high level Array master to take a look at it to verify its authenticity.

If you could get more than 30 pieces of the Golden Cicada Fruit, then the Auction House would definitely do it.

This senior in front of them was probably an Advanced Array Master himself, not just a simple Taoist that he claims to be.

There may, of course, be the possibility that he really was just a simple Taoist. But Feng Feizhang and Miao Ximing had survived around the Mingot Sea Area for several years, and thus were very shrewd in nature. They should be able to tell if this so called Taoist Pu was spouting nonsense or not. If they chose to believe in this Taoist Pu, then presumably the words spoken by him were most likely not nonsense.

But to Ning Cheng, even if it was completely true, he did not wish to participate. He was originally from Earth, and had long pursued a simple truth, that the sky would not fall out for no reason. What was an oath or a vow? On earth, some people would make promises and vows just as easily as they would eat and drink, none of which would they fulfill.

[TL Note – For those who are a bit confused, the above lines mean that since Ning Cheng was from Earth, he had seen many people who would make many empty promises but would never fulfill any one of them. Meaning, the words spoken by those kinds of people are just hollow words with no weight behind it. Kinda like the many people we encounter in our daily lives.]

Besides, he and An Yi had just arrived, was what they were doing a good thing? Even if it was a good thing, he could have asked the cultivators in the Late Qi Gathering Realm, why did he chose someone from the Qi Gathering 3rd Level?

But no matter what, he had to agree, as Miao Ximing and the so called Taoist Pu’s eyes were filled with a clear intent to kill. It was clear that if he refused, the two men would be the first to kill him. As for Feng Feizhang, they had met by only chance so he could count on him.

As Ning Cheng thought about what was happening, Ning Cheng could only blame himself for not knowing how distinguished was a Level 5 Array Formations Master. To let a Level 5 Array Formations Master be invited to the Mingot Sea Area for the sake of a Golden Cicada Fruit, it was just absurd. But Ning Cheng does not know, that a Level 5 Array Formations Master were not someone who could be easily invited.

Seeing Ning Cheng agree without hesitation, Feng Feizhang was stupefied for a moment. He thought that as Ning Cheng had just started out, even if he did agree, he was prepared to explain the situation to him. He would tell Ning Cheng, that the Taoist Pu may not necessarily be a lie. But because the auction of the route map to enter the Langsha Island would take place at the end of the month, they did not know if the route map that the old man claimed to have in his possession was reliable or not.

In addition, there was one other thing, this Taoist Pu was even willing to take an oath of the sea. The cultivators living at the edge of the Mingot Sea, knew how terrible the oath of the sea was, as long as they were alive, they would have to fulfill it, otherwise the only thing that awaited them was death.

“Well, since you all believe me, then I will take out the Lansha Island’s route map for everyone to look at.” said Taoist Pu as he took out 5 of the Lansha Island’s route maps and handed them over to the five people present.

Ning Cheng just took one and said, “I and my cousin can just have a single one.”

He knew that he did not know anything about Array Formations, even if they were going, they could only follow behind the others. As for the route map, he was planning on giving it to An Yi, as he could not understand it.

“No, it is better if you had one more, for security purposes, just in case you end up losing the first one, it would be better if you kept it as an alternate.” said Taoist Pu as he handed back the route map to Ning Cheng.

Ning Cheng also thought about what he just said, and he silently took the second route map, but did not give it to An Yi. He accepted the two copies of the route map, kept one in his bag and the other one in hand, and was preparing to look at it, if he could not understand it, he could just ask An Yi when it was convenient.

Taoist Pu just smiled at Ning Cheng and said, “You can also let your partner see it. If you do not understand anything, you can just ask me.”

Ning Cheng came to understand that it was was not as simple as it looked on the outside, he had to be careful at all times. Originally, he harbored some fear towards this Taoist Pu, but now when he said those words, Ning Cheng immediately increased his sense of vigilance. This Taoist Pu not only gave two copies of the maps to them, but he also specifically asked to give one to An Yi. Why should he be concerned with this matter?

Although Ning Cheng felt that something was wrong, he still laughed and said with a smile, “Don’t mind it, my cousin does not understand anything about Arrays Formations, plus she is also not in the mood to see it. When she is in a better mood, I’ll give it to her.”

An Yi certainly did not refute Ning Cheng’s words about Arrays Formations, Ning Cheng already knew that An Yi’s knowledge about Array Formation was much better than him, but she still did not refute Ning Cheng’s claim.

Instantly a cold light flashed in the corner of the old man’s eyes, Ning Cheng was able to catch it, it let him further strengthen the feeling that something was definitely not right.

The several people were looking at the route map of the Array Formation around the Lansha Island, Ning Cheng after observing for a moment, was not able to decipher anything, he simply took the route map from his hands and placed it in the back of his bag.

“I haven’t asked asked what name does our friend goes by?” Seeing Ning Cheng put the route map away, Taoist Pu asked with a smile.

Ning Cheng just lightly said, “We are only going to cooperate to get to the Lansha Island, there is no need to ask about that.”

Taoist Pu did not get angry, he just smiled and nodded, and no longer chose to speak.

Sister He drove the carriage fast and steady, Ning Cheng even doubted if this carriage was fitted with rubber tires, with commercial vehicles in general, aren’t they known for their bumps?

[TL note – What Ning Cheng meant was that the commercial transport vehicles like buses and auto rickshaws are always characterized by how bumpy they move. One of the best examples for this is an auto rickshaw.]

After a few days of travelling, since it was the time for rest, Sister He stopped the beast carriage and got everyone out for something to eat, in addition to the usual except for Ning Cheng and An Yi, the others were either studying the route map, or asking Taoist Pu about the various situations in Lansha Island, or discussing how to enter the Island.

These sort of discussions, Ning Cheng did not attend, nor did he say more than a sentence when Ning Cheng was asked. Also because of this no one bothered Ning Cheng, they thought that when the time comes as long as he could perform the task it was good enough. As the beast carriage moved forward, the fishy smell of the sea only became heavier.

In the past few days, Taoist Pu also did not find Ning Cheng to talk nonsense, instead he continued explaining the route map to Tian Fei, but he would often look in the direction Ning Cheng and An Yi, but he did not ever find the two people talk.

When travelling in the beast carriage on the seventh day, Ning Cheng was just thinking about how not to participate in this team, when he heard a loud scream, then the carriage in which they were sitting shook violently, it seemed as if everything turned upside down.

Ning Cheng’s reaction was lightening fast, almost when the carriage started to shake, he picked up An Yi who hadn’t even reacted yet, punched open the roof and jumped out of the carriage.

At the same time that Ning Cheng came out, Taoist Pu also managed to escape from the carriage, and instantly left the carriage hundred meters away. At the same time Feng Feizhang and the others also came flying out similarly.

Ning Cheng was immediately able to see a dozen feet long gully in front of the beast carriage, the unicorn beast had been split in half, while the other half was missing. As Ning Cheng was thinking, a whistling sound came, Ning Cheng rushed out quickly with An Yi, he did not give any regard to the direction in which they were rushing.

He had just rushed out when, at the same time, they heard a sound of explosion coming from the back. There seemed to be two shadows in the sky, Ning Cheng basically did not think of anything else, and immediately with An Yi, Ning Cheng crazily rushed to the side.

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Chapter 0023 – Frenzied Escape

From the glimpse of the two shadows fighting at the same time, Ning Cheng could only think of escaping. Originally when he had arrived at the peripheral area of the Mingot Sea, he saw the same two shadows flashing past them, the impression that those two shadows gave him was too deep.

The herculean unicorn beast being cut in half, creating a huge gully of several feet on the hard road, plus the terrible explosion from behind. How could Ning Cheng not know, that it was a fight between two powerful masters?

This kind of fight, if one chose to remain here, it would only result in their death, only by running far away would one be able to escape. The two masters fighting wouldn’t care about him, a measly cultivator at the Qi Gathering 3rd Level, so he could only flee, the faster and farther he could go the better.

As to the direction in which he escaped, Ning Cheng knew that he would have to run away from the old man in the future. He was obviously thinking about how to escape from the business of the old man, now that had the chance, he obviously took the direction opposite to the one taken by the old man. And he was also certain that this Taoist Pu would not care to deliberately escape in his direction, he estimated that he himself would be eager to run a little faster.

After the time it takes for half an incense stick to burn, An Yi who was still in Ning Cheng’s bosom whispered in Ning Cheng’s ear, “Big Brother Ning, I can run by myself, will you release of me.”

[TL Note – Changed ‘Elder Brother Ning’ to ‘Big Brother Ning’ for a more cosy feeling.]

Ning Cheng was hell bent on escaping, even now, he did not realize that he was embracing An Yi tightly in his bosom right now.

Ning Cheng released An Yi, and at the same time he was rejoicing in his heart, the two masters that were fighting did not come this way, if those two people had come their way, they most definitely would be dead.

An Yi also followed Ning Cheng as they fled, and asked, “Big Brother Ning, do you not want to form a team with Taoist Pu and the others?”

An Yi may not have understood what had happened, but she was not stupid, she was very clear that Ning Cheng was just putting up an act at that time.

Ning Cheng then remembered that he had forgotten something in the beast carriage, and rushed back to retrieve the two route maps that were thrown on the ground, wrapped them in his bag and handed it to An Yi and said, “An Yi, can you keep this bag in your storage bag?”

“I can” An Yi nodded, and did not think, she directly put Ning Cheng’s bag into the storage bag. And then she asked, “Do we still have to escape now?”

“We not only have to escape, but also have to speed up, we will change our direction a little, the farther we go the better.” Ning Cheng spoke, while he shifted his direction slightly and continued to crazily run.

Of course An Yi also followed Ning Cheng, wherever he went she would also follow immediately.

An Yi and Ning Cheng were cultivators at the Qi Gathering 3rd Level, so when these two people put all their strength into rushing to escape, then their speed was extremely fast. After running for almost the entire day, the sky was already darkening, when the sound of waters hitting the reef reached them, Ning Cheng stopped and said, “We should be close to the beach, let’s not continue to run, and first find a place to hide.”

Ning Cheng had just finished speaking, when a shadow fell down from the air in front of them with a “bang” sound.

This unexpected sound, made Ning Cheng scared, and he pulled back An Yi and withdrew several meters, he could only see the back of the shadow that fell from the sky.

A wretched man was lying completely covered in blood on the beach, it was clear that this man was the shadow that fell from the air previously. His head was just half an inch away from a huge rock. He did not know if this person had a huge luck or if he had controlled his fall.

“The two of you, please do me a favor ……..” This bloodstained man did not faint. On the contrary, he called out to Ning Cheng and An Yi in a weakened voice.

Ning Cheng did not move, he saw An Yi taking a step forward, and immediately pulled her back. In this world he had seen many injured people, and he was also kind to them. But this man that had landed on the beach, although he was seriously injured, but they could still not perceive his cultivation level. Ning Cheng could vaguely guess, that this person maybe even more powerful that the cultivators in the Qi Condensation Realm.

But there was also one other reason why Ning Cheng was not willing to come forward to help, because he could sense that this person in front of them was the same person who had killed the unicorn beast while fighting in the air. A fight that disregarded the lives of the innocent, he definitely was a person who was extremely cruel and merciless.

“I was plotted secretly by the other person, the two of you please look at this fellow, in turn I will also help the two of you.” This injured man still said earnestly.

Ning Cheng whispered to An Yi, “An Yi, you just follow me one step behind.”

An Yi did not question Ning Cheng, if Ning Cheng wants her to follow him, she would naturally tightly follow behind him.

The man lying on the ground who was injured, seeing Ning Cheng and An Yi come towards him, he took a deep breath and said, “Thank you, my two friends, I am a person from the Mingot City, I will surely thank the two of …….”

Ning Cheng quickly said, “It is not necessary, just as you said, we are all fellow humans, helping a kindred soul is really nothing.”

Ning Cheng was not able to determine if the person in front of him was someone who disregarded human life, his heart was also wary, but he also knew that regardless of if he really was or not, this person’s cultivation base was definitely millions of times stronger that him. Fortunately, the person in front of them was severely injured, to the point that he could not even get up.

Ning Cheng was just less than two feet away from this man, when suddenly without warning Ning Cheng pulled An Yi and fell down to the side. Two feet is the most threatening distance for a Wind Edge Spell, in Ning Cheng’s view, even if the other person was injured, even if their cultivation base was higher, the amount of Qi that was available to him was limited. He reasoned that in addition to the Wind Edge Spell and the Fireball spell, there should not be any other spells that he could cast at the moment.

Regardless of the Wind Edge Spell or the Fireball Spell, this two feet distance was the most threatening. No matter what the opposite party would do, he would first go into hiding. Otherwise, even if the opposite party was severely wounded, he possibly would not be able to evade it.

“Puff……” two blood colored Wind Edge Spells, flashed beside Ning Cheng and An Yi before dying off.

Although Ning Cheng was able to escape, but he was still too slow, the Wind Edge Spell had bit into his waist, and blood instantly spilled out.

Ning Cheng had taken the darkest path for insurance, if it wasn’t for his smart-aleck side, then both the Wind Edge Spells would have sliced apart Ning Cheng and also An Yi who was behind him.

After the Wind Edge Spell flew by, Ning Cheng almost at the same time was bombed by a Flame Edge Spell. He felt that this Flame Edge was stronger than the Wind Edge. But this time, he not choose to escape like previously, although this guy’s cultivation base was high, it was obvious that he was seriously injured.

Ning Cheng was long since ready for this Flame Edge, as he was vigilant all the time, with his vigilance he was only hurt a bit by the Wind Edge, how could he not be prepared to deal with this Fire Edge?

After Ning Cheng dodged the first Fire Edge, An Yi also reacted, as she immediately sent out two Wind Edges.

The man who had fallen to the ground did not expect that a mere Qi Gathering 3rd Level cultivator was able to avoid him within two feet of his Wind Edge. This was completely beyond his expectations, in his view, even if it was a cultivator at the Qi Gathering 4th Level, at this distance, his sneak attack would not be avoidable. Under his shock, he had not yet made the next move, when Ning Cheng’s Fire Edge had already reached him.

The Fire Edge accurately chopped through his waist, this man originally was completely covered in blood stains, and after this moment it was thoroughly dyed in his blood.

“This….” the man had only said a word, when the two Wind Edges from An Yi simultaneously arrived.

Ning Cheng certainly would not repent for what he did, this time he already understood the rules of survival in this world, one cannot absolutely be soft hearted when dealing with the enemy. Moreover, you must take the opportunity immediately, he was almost done with the Fire Edge when in the meantime he also sent out several Wind Edges.

This number of wind blades combined with An Yi’s together, directly spilt the man into several pieces.

When Ning Cheng killed Gu Fei for the first time, his hands were shaking, but because his life was threatened he ended up forgetting the fear of killing, and now when he had had killed this man who wanted to behead him, he only felt a slight discomfort.

But An Yi turned pale, the was the first time that she saw a murder. Fortunately, she was just an accomplice. Even if that was the case, she still did not understand that why this man had to die, she and Ning Cheng were just coming to save him, why would he kill his benefactor? If not for Ning Cheng, she would have definitely been killed.

Prior to this she had also saved Ning Cheng, but why was Ning Cheng so good to her? An Yi subconsciously glanced at the pale face of Ning Cheng, she suddenly remembered that Ning Cheng was also struck by the Wind Edge, quickly took out some medicinal powder and sprinkled it on Ning Cheng’s wound.

Ning Cheng was already at the Qi Gathering 3rd Level, and had already contained the bleeding, now with An Yi’ powder, the wound did not bleed anymore.

An Yi felt relieved, in this world, perhaps other than Ning Cheng there were not many people in this world like her master.

Ning Cheng walked a few steps to the front of the man he had just killed, and lifted a storage bag from his waist with his hands.

At the same time he searched that man’s body a few times, and pulled out a Jade Card. Ning Cheng simply did not look at the Jade Card and handed it to An Yi and said, “An Yi, we have to cast a fireball on this guy and then hurry and get out of here.”

An Yi knew it was not the time to question Ning Cheng and the two people simultaneously casted the Fireball spells. They continued this till the man’s body was burnt to a crisp charcoal, once the body turned to charcoal, Ning Cheng immediately threw it into the sea.

“Brother Ning, we just now ……..” An Yi watched Ning Cheng in horror, she and her master lived in heart of the temple, and never before did they see such a thing. How long ago did she come out? She knew that this kind of thing would not be their first time.

Ning Cheng said in a deep voice, “Let’s go quickly, we have to get as far as possible, the sooner the better.”

The two people changed their direction again, and started to run desperately. After running for the whole night, when dawn was about to break, the two people, Ning Cheng and An Yi, stopped.

At this point there was a boundless reef forest in front of them, Ning Cheng found a cave below a huge rock. After the two people hid in the cave, only at this time they were able to catch their breath.

From the reefs outside, the sounds of the waves crashing could be heard, and there was even a hint of light, this made Ning Cheng’s heart that was wound tight to slowly relax a bit. He never would have imagined, that one day he would have to run this hard for his life.

“Big Brother Ning, how were you able to dodge so fast? If it were me, I wouldn’t even be able to escape the Wind Edges.” An Yi was still scared, if not for Ning Cheng pulling her out of the harm’s way, she would definitely be dead by the Wind Edge sneak attack of the man on the beach.

Ning Cheng just sighed and said, “When I was going, I felt that there there were some problems, I really did not seem to be wrong indeed. You wait for me a bit, I have some heavy injuries, I need to heal them first.”

Ning Cheng did not have any good treatment methods, after he was injured last time, he was constantly using the modified cultivation practice method to get his injuries to recover faster, he was still using the same approach.

But when Ning hadn’t even completed a single cycle of circulating his Qi, his face immediately changed.

[DemonKiller]

Translated at Demon Translations

Translated By – DemonKiller, MeTaL MaX
Edited and Checked By – DemonKiller
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Chapter 0024 – Powerful Capabilities

An Yi had been concerned about Ning Cheng, when she saw Ning Cheng’s expression change, she quickly asked, “What’s the problem?”

“I was just now circulating my Qi, when it suddenly appeared like…….” Ning Cheng did not finish his sentence, and then again said, “Now I get it.”

Then he immediately proceeded to take off his clothes, An Yi who was originally staring at Ning Cheng, seeing suddenly take of his clothes, she immediately blushed and turned her head away.

Her mind was pure, her being a young nun was not false, but it did not mean that she did not know about the distinction between the sexes. But she soon turned her head towards him once again, since she had not been together with Ning Cheng for one or two days, she completely believed and had complete faith in Ning Cheng. If Ning Cheng suddenly started to take off his clothes now, then he must have done it with some important reason.

“Indeed it is as I expected.” Ning Cheng looked and touched the black scar on his chest and said while gnashing his teeth.

“Is that a mark of a talisman?” Although An Yi had not seen such a thing, but her master had told her about it, she could immediately discern it with a glance, that the black scar on his chest was definitely a mark of a talisman. As long as one had this mark, even it they walked far away, the person who was marked by the symbol can be found with the help of the original talisman.

Ning Cheng had also read about the mark of a talisman in the Ning Clan’s cultivation practice manual, and when he had just tried to complete one circulation cycle of the Qi a moment ago, he suddenly felt uncomfortable. In his body there seemed to be a piece of something that should not exist in his body, this thing kept him from practicing with ease.

“It really is a mark of a talisman.” After listening to An Yi’s words, Ning Cheng was sure that he was not wrong.

This symbol on his chest was in the shape of the character Lu. As long one can get their hands of this kind of talisman, if one would even touch it, the mark would be mysteriously attached to their body, ordinary people simply would not be able to notice it.

Ning Cheng immediately became infuriated, this talisman’s mark directly rushed from the pit of the stomach to his chest, and formed a faint black light in front of his chest. Just as the symbol rushed out, at the same time, Ning Cheng also casted a fireball on it, burning the mark of the talisman without a trace.

Although Ning Cheng’s level of Fireball was very low, but it was enough to be able to burn down the mark of the talisman, this also showed that the level of the symbol was also low.

“Fortunately, I was just trying to concentrate on circulating my Qi just a moment ago, otherwise if the old Taoist Pu ended up finding him, he would really not be able to escape.” Although Ning Cheng saw that the symbol mark had been burned off, he still had a lingering fear.

An Yi was astonished when she saw Ning Cheng do that and said, “Brother Ning, my master said that, there was no way to run away from the mark of the talisman. If it was a cultivator at the Qi Gathering 7th Level, then he could be able to find it from the response of his body. An ordinary cultivator has no way to force out the mark of the talisman, how did you do it?”

Ning Cheng immediately thought of the modified cultivation practice method and said with some uncertainty, “My cultivation practice method is a bit special. Fortunately, it was lucky that you did not have a look at those copies of the route map of Lansha Island, if you had looked at them then we would have been finished. I am sure that this mark of the talisman was placed on me through that route map, this Taoist Pu is really sinister, he was definitely scheming for something.”

An Yi also nodded and said, “Yes Big Brother Ning, if I had the symbol mark, I would certainly would not be able to find it. Maybe I would have to strip naked to let you carefully find it.”

When Ning Cheng heard An Yi speak, although An Yi was speaking about the wellbeing of both of them, it still felt a bit hilarious. How could he let An Yi strip and help her slowly find the symbol? But Ning Cheng sensed that what An Yi said, it certainly wasn’t funny, she would definitely have to undress to find the symbol, otherwise how would they be able to escape that Taoist Pu?

Seeing Ning Cheng put on his cloths, the previous awkwardness in An Yi was long gone, and she took the initiative again and put the medicinal powder on Ning Cheng’s wound,

After wearing the clothes, Ning Cheng felt helpless, if he could not raise his cultivation, then he did not know if his decision to come to the Mingot Sea was right or wrong? He had chosen to come to the Mingot Sea Area partly because his parents had gone missing here.

When he had not been reborn, he would often dream about this, as he had been living in the Cang Qin Province for his entire life. Now that dream had finally become a reality, but Ning Cheng was still a bit suspicious, it was as if the body in which he was reborn into was not that of a stranger, but rather his past life.

It was also because of this, that he in his life on Earth did not have any affection towards his parents.

Ning Cheng knew that he had acquired the storage bag of the man from the beach, he desperately wanted to look at what was in the storage bag, and thus took out the storage bag, but still held back the idea, and instead picked up the Jade Card he had picked up from him.

The light in the reef cave was very weak, but the words on the Jade Card were very clear, it read, Cang Yan Four Star Academy’s Third Elder, Xue Taichu.

[TL Note – This Cang Yan Academy does not belong in the Can Qin Province, it was mentioned at the end of the chapter, just wanted to let you all know so that you would not end up confused.]

He did not know if the status of a Third Elder in an Academy was high or not, but Ning Cheng was very clear about the status of the 4 Star Academy. A 4 Star Academy was equivalent to a real country, Can Qin Province was just a small vessel state, forced with nowhere to go, he ended up killing an elder of a 4 Star Academy, once this was out, would he still have a chance to survive?

Ji Luofei’s Aunt was merely an errand teacher of the 5 Star Academy, but at Cang Qin Academy, she could go anywhere she wanted. This Xue Taichu was an Elder, their positions couldn’t be compared in any way.

An Yi also saw the sign on top of the character, she was somewhat worried and asked, “Big Brother Ning, are we in trouble?”

Ning Cheng again looked at the Jade Card, that he had just acquired, stood up, shook his head and spoke, “There is no trouble, as long as we don’t meet anyone from Cang Yan 4 Star Academy. The most important thing right now is to improve one’s own cultivation base, if there comes a day where we can surpass the Building Yuan Realm, then a 4 Star Academy would also be nothing to worry about.”

Ning Cheng comforted An Yi but his own heart, however, wasn’t. He didn’t know of the capability of a 4 Star Academy, previously, a Cultivator at the Qi Gathering Third Level was able to put a mark of a talisman on his body without him noticing, this 4 Star Academy’s Elder and that cultivator were clearly not on the same level, there was difference of over ten million times. Could one find two of such of existences as easily? Ning Cheng didn’t dare want to find out.

Grabbing the storage bag, he looked over it for a long while, only then did he ask, “An Yi, how do you open this storage bag?”

An Yi immediately explained, “We at the Qi Gathering Realm don’t possess a spirit sense, but rather we have spirit thought. We can use our spirit thought to communicate with the storage bag, if it doesn’t open, we can slowly try lift the restrictions put on it. However …..”

An Yi spoke till lifting the restrictions, she immediately recalled that lifting restrictions required one to have some knowledge about restriction techniques. Whether Ning Cheng understood them or not, she was not clear on it.

Ning Cheng knew about spirit thought, after An Yi finished speaking, he immediately used his spirit thought to communicate with the storage bag in his hand. But, Ning Cheng immediately became aware that this was useless. This storage bag completely lacked any reaction when he tried to communicate with it through his spirit thought. Afterwards, he could only try touching the strange seal, but these seals were all similar to iron locks which he could not open.

An Yi saw that Ning Cheng didn’t understand anything about restrictions, so she simply took out a book and gave it to Ning Cheng while saying, “Big brother Ning, this is a Basic Array Formation Methods book given to me by my master, you can take a look at it.”

If it was something else, Ning Cheng would certainly not welcome it, since at present he didn’t quite even understand spell techniques, right now, as he could not open the storage bag so he couldn’t know what was inside this storage bag. Therefore, seeing An Yi handing over the books on the Basic Array Formation Methods, Ning Cheng did not hesitate to receive it, after a moment of thought, he opened the book.

……

An Yi stared blankly at Ning Cheng, as Ning Cheng consecutively read the book for three hours, she could only see him unceasingly flipping over the pages of the book, he only stopped for a moment when he made some gestures with his hands, his facial expression also constantly changed as he continued to read.

These were all Array Formations, coming into contact with Array Formations for the first time, when master was teaching her, she was only able to learn upto the third page. When she was able to comprehend those three pages, her master said that she was a genius, but compared to her Big Brother Ning, just what was going on with him?

An Yi really wanted to ask Ning Cheng, but she was afraid that she would annoy him. She could only silently wait for Ning Cheng to wake from reading that book on Foundation Array Methods, only after that, could she ask him.

Ning cheng could not know what An Yi was thinking. From the time he opened up the book, he could only see that there were various types of Array Formations, many technical terms relating to the Array Formations and also the descriptions of the positions of the various Array Flags required, their refinement and explanations including their uses……..

These all naturally formed and fixed themselves in his mind, even before his consciousness appeared to correct them, allowing him to not only understand these stuffs, but also helping him in automatically correcting these Fundamental Array Formations.

At this point, in his mind, there emerged another Array Formation Method, this method was based on the original Array Formation Method. However this newly formed method, was formed by modifying the original method and automatically correcting it to form an even more comprehensive Array Formation.

The vast knowledge of the Array Formations and Ning Cheng’s automatically correcting consciousness combined, made Ning Cheng appear as if he was a sponge soaking water.

His formidable comprehension ability and powerful memory played a very big role at this time.

……

At a place, several hundred kilometres away from Ning Cheng, four people were forced together in a difficult situation. These four people were exactly the ones who had travelled with Ning Cheng in the beast carriage, who were getting ready to team up to go to Lansha island together.

“Those two people fighting in the air are absolutely in the later stages of the Building Yuan Realm, what a terrible power.” Feng Feizhang spoke with a lingering fear in his heart.

Miao Xiuming and Tian Fei also nodded, very much approving Feng Feizhang’s words. That battle in the gorge, they, together with few others had been able to see. If they had been even a little bit slow in escaping, the after-effects of that battle could have very well killed them.

“Hey, how come those two have still not returned? Could they not have been able to escape?” said Miao Xiuming when he saw that Ning Cheng and An Yi hadn’t arrived. Even if Ning Cheng hadn’t been able to escape , however An Yi , with her dewy like appearance, if she was killed, then it would make him feel a great sense of shame.

Taoist Pu slightly smiled and replied, “Those young people ought to be very clever, I clearly saw him rush out first, there escape should not be a problem. I was able to see the direction in which they ran, but since they have still not arrived till now, I estimate that they probably weren’t able to find us, we will continue to walk in the direction in which they escape.”

Feng Feizhang also nodded in agreement, the Mingot Sea was not very far, once they were able to find Ning Cheng and An Yi, they can arrive at the Mingot City in a day’s time.

When Taoist Pu spoke of locating Ning Cheng and An Yi, there was no objection from any of them, not that they were afraid of Ning Cheng. But because Ning Cheng and An Yi had a copy each of the Lansha Island’s route map, if it was not taken away from Ning Cheng, then for them, it would not be a good thing.

[DemonKiller]

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Translated, Checked and Edited By – DemonKiller
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Chapter 0025 – Information About The Mysterious Yellow Qi

“Brother Pu, why did you stop walking?” Seeing Taoist Pu stop walking, Feng Feizhang asked in a puzzled voice.

Taoist Pu’s face changed slightly, but he still continued to walk forward for a kilometer and then stopped again, this time he did not wait for the rest for the people and took the initiative to speak, and said, “Brother Feng, I guess Ning Cheng and his cousin An Yi could not escape that disaster, we might as well go the Mingot City and then find a few more people, what do you say?”

The reason why Taoist Pu said this was because he saw Ning Cheng drop the two copies of the route map. He had placed a mark of a talisman on each of the copies of the route map that he had handed out before and thus he had the confidence that he could search for them easily. Even if he saw him take away the two route maps, but because his connection to the mark of the talisman that he had placed on them was completely cut off, he could no longer sense them, and thus he stopped.

Whether Ning Cheng and An Yi was dead or if they managed to escape, at least for now, he had no way to find out.

This Taoist Pu was very clever, since he did not leave to pick the route map that was in the possession of Ning Cheng, the remaining few people also had no suspicion towards his words. Now that this Taoist Pu said that it would be hard to find Ning Cheng, and in addition also proposed to go to the Mingot City to look for more partners, they obviously did not have any objections to it.

Taoist Pu was the one who handed out the route map, if he himself doesn’t mind to recover it, why would the others care it?

……

When Ning Cheng opened his eyes the book was almost one third finished, he immediately saw An Yi staring at him.

“An Yi, why are you looking at me like that?” Although Ning Cheng asked this, he was still immersed in the joy of studying the basic Array Formations, he now felt that he had been exposed to such a new and vast field. He finally understood what Array Formations stood for, what the so called restrictions were, and why and how Arrays Formation operated.

“I did not think you would be able to read hundreds of millions of words in one go, you see it’s already been three days and three nights since you started studying that book, are you not hungry?” An Yi implored, when she saw that Ning Cheng had finally woken up.

Before she had only heard her master say that one can get engrossed in trying to comprehend all kinds of things to such an extent that one would even forget themselves, and today she, for the first time see, that someone could read almost a hundred million words in one go, completely forgetting about themselves.

When Ning Cheng heard what An Yi said, he immediately felt an intense hunger hitting him, but then he immediately smelt a strange smell coming from his body. By going into a three day retreat while at the same time gaining enlightenment regarding the Array Formations, some of the impurities and odors were automatically squeezed out of his body.

“You wait for me for a while.” Ning Cheng embarrassingly mumbled these words to An Yi, and quickly climbed out of the cave, then he proceeded to take off his clothes and cleaned them along with his body in the seawater and also using his cleaning spell he had learned before, after his clothes were thoroughly cleaned and odor free, he put them back on and entered the cave again.

Seeing Ning Cheng come back clean and tidy, An Yi finally let out a smile. Then she took out a few pieces of dried rations and gave them to Ning Cheng and said, “It’s better if you first eat something.”

Ning Cheng couldn’t wait anymore and immediately swallowed the food down, and once again picked up the storage bag.

“Elder Brother Ning, the storage bag should have some restrictions placed, there is no way for you in three days to……” An Yi had not yet finished speaking, when she looked at Ning Cheng with shock in her eyes, and said, “Elder Brother Ning Cheng, you actually are able to open the storage bag?”

Ning Cheng just laughed and said, “It is not that difficult, not difficult at all. The restriction array placed on it was very simple, I just casually looked at the books you gave for a few days and was ready to go.”

An Yi sat there dumbfounded for quite a while, and then said, “Elder Brother Ning, for a cultivator, Array Formations Methods are the most difficult, it is even several times more difficult than cultivation practice, how can you say it that it is not difficult?”

“The Restriction Array Formation placed on the storage bag was very simple, so…….” After Ning Cheng subconsciously said this sentence, he corrected himself and said, “Well, I can’t say that it was not difficult, at the beginning when I was examining it, I thought that half an hour to an hour would be enough to successfully dispel, but apparently it will take several days more days, it seems deploying the Array Formation is a bit harder than lifting a simple restriction.”

Listening to Ning Cheng admit that Array Formations were a bit hard, An Yi also agreed with a nod. Her thoughts were simple and pure, one would think that she was a bit stupid compared to many smart and clever people like Ning Cheng. So seeing Ning Cheng laughing through the explanation, even then she agreed to it. As for Ning Cheng’s way of speaking, she had already gotten used to it.

On the usage of the storage bag, Ning Cheng was already familiar with it. He raised his hands to bring out hundreds of white stones. These hundreds of white stones, seemed to contain an extremely rich aura.

“Hey, these are pure Qi Gathering Stones. At that time I only saw a dark yellow Qi Gathering Stone, but these stones are actually milky white, this really is a new thing.” Ning Cheng holds a white stone heaves a sigh and said.

Ji Luofei in order to help him get a Qi Gathering Stone, went through a lot, and even almost got killed in obtaining it. Today, he was able to acquire more than 100 of these stones, and at the same time they were pure Qi Gathering Stones.

An Yi said from the side, “Elder Brother Ning, the thing that your holding in your hands is not a Qi Gathering stone, but a Ling Shi. The thing in your hand is a low grade Ling Shi, my master said that Ling Shis are a top grade commodity.”

“Ling Shi?” this was the first time that Ning Cheng heard the word ‘Ling Shi’, but he felt that these two words were a more appropriate name for these pieces of stone.

An Yi just humphed and said, “A low grade Ling Shi can be exchanged for a hundred Qi Gathering Stones, but this is just the starting market price. Qi Gathering Stones are generally used for cultivation practice by low level Qi Gathering Cultivators, although they are rare, they can still be found easily. But a Ling Shi is a bit different, the aura and Qi contained in it is extremely rich. This helps in raising one’s cultivation level even more, initially my master had given me a Ling Shi. This time you were able to get so many, you would now certainly be able to raise your cultivation level by several times.”

Ning Cheng suddenly realized, no wonder that this stone did not feel like a Qi Gathering Stone, he would now no longer have to gather many Qi Gathering Stones to quicken his cultivation practice speed. Originally a Qi Gathering Stone was a low level stuff, then, wouldn’t he be able to get 10000 gold coins for a single Ling Shi?

Then Ning Cheng realized that he was just thinking blindly, according to An Yi, a Ling Shi was very precious, how could one be such a fool to want to exchange a Ling Shi for gold coins. Not to mention 10,000 gold coins, perhaps even if one was to offer tens of thousands of gold coins, one wouldn’t be willing to part with it.

“So to say, a top grade Ling Shi can be exchanged for a hundred low grade Ling Shi? A top grade Ling Shi…….” Ning Cheng began to think the value of a top grade Ling Shi, suddenly he felt his heart yearn for it. Even if he could not practice cultivation with it, to hold a top grade lingshi, was something that he wanted.

An Yi just shook her head and said, “Basically, a medium grade Ling Shi can only be exchanged for 10 low grade Ling Shi, and a top grade Ling Shi can only be exchanged for a minimum of 10 medium grade Ling Shi”

Ning Cheng also nodded and said, “That is also very substantial.”

Then, once again, Ning Cheng took out several jade bottles, many books, some other material along with some spiritual grasses from the storage bag. In addition, there was also a flying sword type artifact.

This let Ning Cheng a bit disappointed as he could not find any flying type artifact. Although he knew that with his ability, he would not be able to handle a flying type artifact, but this kind of flying artifact was something he was greatly interested in.

An Yi did not know why Ning Cheng’s heart was not satisfied, and continued to explain to Ning Cheng that, “The storage bag is already yours, but you need to refine it yourself and then place your own restrictions on it. The restrictions that you can place on the storage bag must be based on your own understanding about restrictions, the higher you understand about restrictions, the higher restriction you can set on it.”

Ning Cheng nodded, leaving aside the jade bottles and the Ling Shis, he put all the other stuff into the storage bag. He then took 20 of the Ling Shis and giving them to An Yi said, “An Yi, if we want to go adventure in the Mingot Sea, our cultivation level currently is too low. Now I am going to use the Ling Shis to begin practicing cultivation, you can also use these Ling Shis for your cultivation practices. Once we have a person promoted to the Qi Gathering 4th Level, then we would not have to be afraid of that Taoist Pu. These bottles, see which of them can be of use to you, I would like to continue cultivating now, you must not disturb me in my cultivation.”

Ning Cheng was fully aware that his cultivation level was very poor, but now with the help of the Ling Shi, he was anxious to know if he could advance to the Qi Gathering 4th Level. If the Ling Shis could not help him get through, then he really would have no way of advancing.

So he took the Ling Shis, after giving 20 of them to An Yi, he immediately began to cultivate. He did not even get up to block the entrance of the cave, nor did he even arrange an Array Formation.

An Yi’s experience when compared to Ning Cheng was still low, Ning Cheng did not remember to arrange an array formation, but that did not mean she would not know about it. But she deeply agreed with the words of Ning Cheng, that indeed their cultivation bases were very low.

So after getting the Ling Shis, they began to cultivate. Thus, these two inexperienced people, in this unsuspecting place started their closed door cultivation without closing the doors.

[TL Note – I am assuming that the author wanted add a pun here.]

……

Ning Cheng was deeply immersed in the joy of absorbing the rich Qi from the Ling Shi, how long ago did he feel such a sensation of letting him lose himself in cultivation.

But this was not what surprised him the most, what surprised him the most was that the cultivation practice method that he was practicing was revised again in his mind. The Qi that had not appeared in his meridians for a long time appeared again

This continuous circulation of Qi in the meridians, let Ning Cheng vaguely feel that his Qi was steadily increasing. After continuously circulating the Qi for a day, his meridians constantly developed and expanded. Although it just expanded a little bit, it gave Ning Cheng the feeling as if it opened up a completely new world for him.

In his mind, because of the new and improved cultivation practice method, it made Ning Cheng completely abandon the Ning Clan’s cultivation practice method, and get immersed in this new world.

Ning Cheng did not know how long he had been sitting while cultivating, Ning Cheng could heard his body giving out a crisp and resounding sound “Bang”, strong Qi started circulating in his merians, this allowed Ning Cheng to know that he successfully advanced to the Qi Gathering 4th Level.

Between the Qi Gathering 3rd Level and the 4th Level was a sort of barrier, making a lot of people unable to break through even with the help of spirit grasses and other medicines, but unexpectedly he was able to break through. This made Ning Cheng filled with joy, at the same time he started to consolidate his cultivation base, while continuing to absorb the Qi as he continued to circulate it throughout his body.

Suddenly a faint yellow light appeared in his mind, which made Ning Cheng surprised, he felt a hint of familiarity with this yellow light. It seemed to be mellow, yet it seems to be filled with vicissitudes of life, but at the same time also gave a comfortable feeling which was difficult to describe. Prior to this when he felt his Qi, his Qi now felt somewhat different.

As Ning Cheng focused all his attention on the yellow light before him in his mind, he felt his body shake, the next moment, he unexpectedly appeared in a world which was filled with a yellow mist.

“What is this place? An Yi, An Yi…….” just when Ning Cheng appeared in this place, he immediately woke up and hurriedly shouted for An Yi.

At this time, as if from an ancient time this information automatically entered and was directly imprinted in the mind of Ning Cheng, “The mysterious yellow Qi buried in the heavens and earth, flooding the universe…….. It seemed like a truth, but looks like a tool…………….. It filled the cracks of day and night, and spread through the stars…………………. It was said to be a divine truth……….”

At this moment, whether Ning Cheng was able to understand it or not, a heavy amount of information just flew into the brain of Ning Cheng, letting him have no leeway for refusal.

[DemonKiller]

Translated at Demon Translations

Translated By – DemonKiller, MeTaL MaX
Edited and Checked By – DemonKiller
Proofread By – CurlyAdi

Chapter 0026 – Intangible

Even if Ning Cheng’s mind was very tough, and even if his memory and comprehension ability also were incomparable to others, because so much information entered his mind, it made even him not able to adapt quickly enough to it. For a moment, Ning Cheng felt his brain was about to explode, it was simply intolerable.

Fortunately, over time, he knew that he could gradually sort out the matter. The place he was at, apparently was just a bead, this bead was called the Mysterious Yellow bead.

[TL Note – The raw says Xuan Huang Bead, but we used a more literal translation for it and changed it to Mysterious Yellow Bead for easy remembering.]

The Mysterious Yellow Bead was an object which could split heavens and earth and its full name was Good Luck Mysterious Yellow Bead. Furthermore there were four other magical treasures artifacts on the same level as the Good Luck Mysterious Yellow Bead, they were the Good Luck Green Lotus, Good Luck Jade Plate, Good Luck Gold Leaf and the Good Luck Indestructible Axe.

From the information he received he came to know that the Mysterious Yellow Bead had seventeen owners till now, the one with the highest cultivation level who owned it before was called Qiang Xuang.The reason Qiang Xuang was able to have the highest cultivation level was because at the time when he had obtained the Mysterious Yellow Bead, he was still practicing cultivation but still hadn’t stabilized his foundation.

The rest of the sixteen previous owners of the Mysterious Yellow Bead obtained the bead when they already had a small accomplishment in their cultivation, therefore they were not able to make the Mysterious Yellow Bead recognize them as its genuine master and so they were not able to enjoy the Mysterious Yellow Bead’s blessing. They were only able to get the Mysterious Yellow Bead’s Qi assistance which was specific to only to the Mysterious Yellow Bead.

The Mysterious Yellow Bead was a world in itself, it could produce the Mysterious Yellow Qi, by using which cultivators could not only improve their spirit knowledge but also their spiritual root, it even automatically corrected the deviations of cultivator’s martial techniques. Moreover, the cultivating speed would be dozens or even hundreds of times more than the other cultivators. Not only that, spending long time in cultivating The Mysterious Yellow Qi could make one unequalled and without rival…….

Ning Cheng was quivering with excitement, but now he was fully awake. He was already extremely intelligent, then how could he not know what he had obtained? He had obtained the Mysterious Yellow Bead, and this Mysterious Yellow Bead was able to produce the Mysterious Yellow Qi in unlimited quantity if one was able to access it.

What was the Mysterious Yellow Qi, he originally didn’t know, but now his mind already had a plethora of information coming in like a herd of frightened cows, this let him clearly understand early on what the Mysterious Yellow Qi in the Mysterious Yellow bead was.

“No wonder, the last last time, in front of the Spiritual Root Testing Artifact, my Spiritual Root changed from a muddy yellow color to a pale yellow color, as it turns out, it actually because of the Mysterious Yellow Qi and was simply not my Spiritual Qi….” Ning Cheng’s heart was brimming to the full with astonishment and ecstasy, he knew that this bead was not an ordinary thing.

Ning Cheng was even more incomparably astonished from the information that he had received from within the Mysterious Yellow Bead, he almost could not believe that he had such a good luck.

Besides the Mysterious Yellow Bead, there was an even more formidable thing, and that was precisely the Mysterious Yellow Origin. If a person who had already started his cultivation practice and has already established his foundation, if he/she obtained the Mysterious Yellow Bead at that point of time, they would simply be unable to become aware of the Mysterious Yellow Origin. Only those who had never cultivated before, after obtaining the Mysterious Yellow Bead and making it recognize them as its master, could they be able to obtain the Mysterious Yellow Origin.

[TL Note – FYI, establishing foundation here means breaking into the Qi Gathering 1st Level.]

Because Ning Cheng had never cultivated before and thus did not establish his foundation, he was able to obtain the approval of the Mysterious Yellow Origin of the Mysterious Yellow Bead. Although he still couldn’t fully utilize the Mysterious Yellow Origin, that was still okay for him as he was the first person who was truly acknowledged by the Mysterious Yellow Bead as its master. Although before him, seventeen others had owned the Mysterious Yellow Bead, but when they had obtained the Mysterious Yellow Bead, even the one with the lowest cultivation level, Qiang Xuang had already established his foundation. Because Qiang Xuang had already established his foundation and thus was already cultivating Qi, he was unable to obtain The Mysterious Yellow Bead’s Origin. He could only use the Mysterious Yellow Bead, but could not gain true approval of the Mysterious Yellow Bead.

It turns out, I am the first genuine master of the Mysterious Yellow Bead, but I don’t know if I would be the last. Ning Cheng mumbled to himself, he was not at all clear about the real importance of the Mysterious Yellow Origin. That Qian Xiang who had practiced cultivation before he obtained xuan huang bead, he was not sure if his cultivation practice method and his Qi Gathering Cultivation Level was the same with him or not.

Ning Cheng, at this moment, had completely forgotten that he was still within the Mysterious Yellow Bead, he was whole-heartedly thinking of ways to exploit this Mysterious Yellow Bead.

If Ning cheng hadn’t obtained the information regarding the unrivalled rank of the Mysterious Yellow Bead, he might have blindly believed that this Mysterious Yellow Bead was indeed unrivalled without any peers. But the information he had obtained made him feel somewhat disdained towards this unrivalled rank. Because the previous seventeen people who had obtained this Mysterious Yellow Bead were all beheaded. If it really was of an unrivalled rank, how could those people have been killed easily?

He believed the information about the bead being unrivalled was left by the first true owner of the Mysterious Yellow Bead, otherwise how could it, on one side be unrivalled and on other side, let its owner get beheaded easily.

Ning Cheng did not know, that this information was only available to him, because he was the first genuine master of the Mysterious Yellow Bead. Other people may have obtained the Mysterious Yellow Bead in the past, but the information regarding the unrivalled rank of the Mysterious Yellow Bead was not provided to them by the Mysterious Yellow Bead, rather only by absorbing the Mysterious Yellow Qi which gave birth to their confidence.

Ning Cheng did not understand the meaning of the Bead’s Origin, but it didn’t mean that he didn’t comprehend that the Mysterious Yellow Bead could correct the Cultivation Practices with the help of the Mysterious Yellow Qi.

The Ning Clan’s cultivation practice method clearly couldn’t satisfy his current needs, He wanted to find a type of cultivation practice method which suited him through the means of the Mysterious Yellow Qi. Or, he could go find a high level cultivation practice method and correct it with the help of the Mysterious Yellow Bead.

Ning Cheng began to seek for information within his mind, he wanted to find a cultivation practice method which suited him. It was reasonable to say since he was not the first owner of the Mysterious Yellow Bead, it was certain the predecessors would have left behind some information regarding cultivation practice methods.

However, even after half a day, Ning Cheng still didn’t find any information regarding cultivation practice methods, he merely able to find a six character cultivation practice method incantation, “Xuan Huang You Xing Wu Xiang”.

[TL Note – The incantation roughly translates to “The Mysterious Yellow Is intangible/without phase” or “the Mysterious Yellow Invisible Appearance” which is also the original title of this chapter but was shortened to “Intangible” since I cannot fully and correctly translate it to English.]

Ning Cheng did not understand what this “Xuan Huang You Xing Wu Xiang” meant, even though his comprehension ability was one which went against the heaven, plus he was also bathed by the Mysterious Yellow Bead’s Origin and it was clear to understand. But in just a short period of time, Ning Cheng was able to figure out what Xuan Huang You Xing and Xuan Huang Wu Xiang were, he was shocked and almost stood up.

Xuan Huang You Xing, this made his so that if he come in contact with any kind of martial techniques, magic techniques, and through the means of cultivating within the Mysterious Yellow Bead, it would correct them and would also make them even more formidable. Although, Ning Cheng was aware of this point but he didn’t feel anything much.

What genuinely shocked Ning Cheng was the Xuan Huang Wu Xiang, this was the Mysterious Yellow Bead’s genuine cultivation practice method. This ‘Xuan Huang Wu Xiang’s’ information was a special type of cultivation practice method, not only did it vary from person to person but also differed due to time and place. This was a type of transforming cultivation practice method, one could use the Mysterious Yellow Bead’s technique correction, but yet one could not always obtain the transforming cultivation practice method.

A cultivation practice method that could change at all time depending on the cultivators need, this was the genuine way of the heavens and earth, also called Xuan Huang Wu Xiang. Only by having the Mysterious Yellow Bead’s Origin, could one get the true Xuan Huang Wu Xiang. In other words, apart from Ning Cheng, all the previous owners only knew about about Xuan Huang You Xing.

Ning Cheng could not help being shocked, and stood up. Xuan Huang Wu Xiang, he would simply not need any other cultivation practice methods, this practically was a cultivation practice method of all the other cultivation practice methods. As long as he wanted to practice cultivation, the Mysterious Yellow Bead would automatically provide pointers and even modify the the cultivation practice method to suit his needs. All he had to do was, on one hand, absorb spirit qi and on other hand, cultivate according to the pointers provided by the Mysterious Yellow Bead.

[TL Note – What it means, it is the mother the of all cultivation practice methods, i.e. it can be said to be the origin of all cultivation practice methods.]

Before Ning Cheng, hadn’t practiced cultivation, his contact with the the practice of cultivation was a short one when compared to his peers, even though he had reached Qi Gathering 4th Level, it was without anyone guiding him. If one must say that someone guided him, then that guide was the Mysterious Yellow Bead. Granted, he was not at all clear on this Mysterious Yellow Bead, from the information he received from within it, he knew that it went against the heavens and also knew how terrifying it’s ability was first hand.

Xuan Huang You Xing and Xuan Huang Wu Xiang what could these methods accomplish? If this Mysterious Yellow Bead was so difficult to deal with, what about the other Good Luck Treasures, were they also as difficult to deal with as the Mysterious Yellow Bead?

His only regret was, that he was unable to make use of the Mysterious Yellow Origin, likewise, was unable to make use of Xuan Huang Wu Xiang. Although he was aware of Xuan Huang Wu Xiang, his cultivation practice method still came through the other cultivation practice methods, that was Xuan Huang Wu Xiang. Only after the day, when he could realize the Mysterious Yellow Origin, only then can he understand this Xuan Huang Wu Xiang.

Currently only Xuan Huang You Xing met his needs. But at this moment Ning Cheng felt a strong pressure, he became surprised and felt uneasy, he began to look and analyze his surroundings. Only then did he discover, that the place where he was, was not big at all, merely several kilometres of circumference, and was surrounded by a yellow mist all around.

How do I get out of this place? Ning Cheng had only just thought of going out when in the next moment he was already standing inside a cave in which he was practicing cultivation.

It was the same as the last time when he woke up after researching the Array Formation Methods, An Yi was still watching him. Only it was a bit different than last time, An Yi’s eyes this time had a shocked expression in them.

“Just what’s going on?” Ning Cheng and An Yi asked each other at the same time.

Ning Cheng did not know what had happened after he entered the Mysterious Yellow Bead, An Yi seemed to have seen something, and he quickly asked again, ”An Yi, what did you see just now? Will you tell me.”

“I saw you disappear, and then in your place there was a pale yellow bead suspended in the air where you were and then you suddenly appeared again, what’s all this about?” An Yi asked as she was starting to panic.

Ning Cheng hesitated for a moment, he chose to believe in An Yi and said in a very solemn tone, “An Yi, I obtained a mysterious bead, it should be the one that you just saw. This bead is very precious, once people come to know about it, I would be killed immediately for it. So I think you should not tell anyone, not even your master……..”

Ning Cheng was going to say that even if you and your master shared a close relationship, you must not say anything about it. But he immediately understood the relationship between him and An Yi, and it was far away from the relationship between An Yi and her master. Besides, An Yi’s master had died, even if An Yi wanted to share this information with her, she would not be able to.

But An Yi just prudently nodded, “I know it, you are my big brother, except my master, you are the only one dearest to me, I will not tell this any other people.”

Ning Cheng was a little relieved, and then said, “This time I do not know how long have I been training, but unexpectedly I did not feel hungry, I estimate that I will be very hungry very soon….. Hey An Yi, did you also advance to the Qi Gathering 4th Level?”

Only at this point, Ning Cheng was able to discover that An Yi had also advance to the Qi Gathering 4th Level, just like him, this really was a good thing for both of them.

An Yi finally showed a hint of a smile on her face and said, “Yes, Big Brother Ning, I have only used 3 Ling Shis and was able to advance to the Qi Gathering 4th Level. When I had just woken up, I immediately say a yellow bead in front of me.”

“That’s really good, since we have Ling Shi for our cultivation, our cultivation speed is definitely much faster…..” Ning Cheng was pleasantly surprised when he said this, the effect of using a Ling Shi was very good, he had more than 100 hundred of those, so why would he be afraid of not being able to advance?

“But although you were also able to advance to the Qi Gathering 4th Level, but it seems the Ling Shi’s effect on you is more…..” An Yi said after she pointed to the Ling Shi powder at the feet of Ning Cheng.

Ning Cheng discovered that he had nearly used up a hundred of the Ling Shis that he had obtained for advancing from the Qi Gathering 3rd Level to the Qi Gathering 4th level, he had actually spent that much for the advancement.

Ning Cheng, in his heart was very shocked, it was too late to think about it carefully, and he hurriedly started to practice, he wanted to see if he could practice cultivation without using the Ling Shi. This let him thoroughly down, without the Ling Shis, although he could still feel the Mysterious Yellow Bead in his dantian, but he was unable to cultivate.

“What should I do now?” Ning Cheng was alarmed, he knew that he was very lucky in coming across the hundred pieces of Ling Shis. So many Ling Shis were used up in advancing from the Qi Gathering 3rd level to the 4the level, how would he be able to continue practice from now?

With the help of this Mysterious Yellow Qi, his cultivation practice was indeed very fast, but it required a terrible amount of Lingshi for that.

An Yi suddenly said, “Here, Big Brother Ning, I have a few more dozen pieces of Ling Shis, but I think we should first leave from this place. Before I saw the yellow bead, it seems that some of the light might have spilled outside, I fear that people might come to know about it, and would……..”

“Ha Ha,…….really now, there really is something here.” They were able to hear a laugh coming from the outside, then a man with face full of scars appeared in front of Ning Cheng and An Yi in front of the entrance to the cave.

Rough Translation of the Terms (any ideas would be welcome for alternate names):

Xuan Huang Bead – Mysterious Yellow Bead

Xuan Huang You Xing Wu Xiang – “The Mysterious Yellow Is intangible/without phase” or “the Mysterious Yellow Invisible Appearance”

Xuan Huang You Xing – Mysterious Yellow Tangible

Xuan Huang Wu Xiang – Mysterious Yellow No Phase

[DemonKiller]

Translated at Demon Translations

Translated, Checked and Edited By – DemonKiller
Proofread By – CurlyAdi

Chapter 0027 – Mingot City

The man that Ning Cheng saw, clearly had the face of a rogue, but the man was was a cultivator of the Qi Gathering 5th Level, a level higher than he.

This person had a cultivation base higher than the cultivation base of that Taoist Pu, if he had met this person before that Taoist Pu, Cheng would also have some fear after seeing this man, but after seeing this person, Ning Cheng’s heart did not have much worry.

After advancing to the Qi Gathering 4th Level, Ning Cheng felt that his own strength had increased several fold, this kind of strong and powerful Qi gave Ning Cheng a difficult to express confidence.

“What happened to that thing?” The person standing at the entrance of the cave asked as he immediately frowned. Apparently he did not find what he was looking for.

He does not wait for Ning Cheng to reply, and continued, “I just saw a yellow light from here, it should be a sign of a treasure being born. At the time when I came, I also heard you say about a yellow bead, you, where did you put that yellow bead?”

Ning Cheng and An Yi were only two people, but he did not even pay any attention to them. Once he saw then, he knew that Ning Cheng and An Yi have never experienced killing, moreover a Qi Gathering 4th level and Qi Gathering 5th level, although they were both in the intermediate stage of the Qi Gathering Realm, but the difference in the degree of the amount of Qi between them was not a little bit.

Ning Cheng did not even say half a sentence and raised his hands sending out 6 Flame Edge. When he was in the Qi Gathering 3rd Level, he could only send out 2 Flame Edge, but now that he was at the Qi Gathering 4th Level, he could instantly send out 6 Flame Edge.

Not to mention the fact that he had the Mysterious Yellow Bead, it was something that cannot be leaked out, since this rusty faced man overbearingly intruded into his territory, Ning Cheng certainly would not be lenient towards him.

This rusty faced man did not seem to think that a Qi Gathering 4th Level person would dare take action against him, but the speed of those Flame Edge was too fast, he immediately felt a great anger. The next moment a long knife with a green handle appeared in his hand, the long knife had a cruel green blade, he wanted to use it to block Ning Cheng’s Flame Edge.

In his view, Ning Cheng was just a Qi Gathering 4th Level cultivator, wanting to injure him with a Flame Edge was simply a dream. The more he split apart the Flame Edge, the more his power declined.

“Bang, Bang….” three explosions continuously rang, out of the 6 Flame Edges sent out by Ning Cheng, three of them were directly split apart by the long green bladed knife of the rusty faced man. After splitting them apart, these flames hit the walls of the reef cave, sending gravel flying randomly.

Originally this rusty faced man thought that he could easily split apart those 6 Flame Edges sent out by Ning Cheng with his long knife, but he did not think that he could only block 3 of them and stop. After he blocked the 3 fire blades, he immediately withdrew the long blade, and the remaining three Flame Edges directly flew across his long blade that was retreating, and arrived in front of his eyes in a flash.

The rusty faced man did not expect that a Qi Gathering 4th Level cultivator, who looked like he had no prior experience in combat, could use the Flame Edge in such a way, but fortunately he had lived for many years in the Mingot Sea waters around him and had gone through a lot. Although this was critical moment, but he did not panic. He just twisted his body a little and the three fire blades just slipped by him.

When Ning Cheng saw this man slightly change his body’s posture, he immediately knew that his combat experience was much lower than him. Just from the point of view of the power of his Flame Edge, he was able to ascertain that this man’s ability to utilise the Qi at the Qi Gathering 5th Level was higher than many of his peers at the same level.

This rusty faced man had a rich combat experience, he discovered that even though the cultivation level of Ning Cheng was a level less than him he could fight with him evenly, at this time, he wanted to immediately retreat and wanted to completely exit from the entrance of the cave. For him, fighting on the rocks outside the cave was much more favorable. Even now, he did not put Ning Cheng in his eyes.

Seeing this man wanting to retreat, Ning Cheng’s heart was surprised, he was not afraid to have a death match with him, but he was afraid of him escaping, Once this man escaped, if he could not catch up him, it would not be a good thing for both of them.

At this time Ning Cheng no longer thought of anything else, he directly took out the Flying Sword from the storage bag, holding the Sword, he immediately slashed out with it as he infused his Qi in it, it split the air. Although he could not understand how to use a flying sword, but since he did not refine this flying sword, this flying sword could only be treated an ordinary weapon in his hands.

“A flying sword artifact?” This Qi Gathering 5th Level cultivator saw Ning Cheng pull out a flying sword, immediately called out in frightened voice.

There were numerous cultivators trying to survive in the Mingot waters, but the ones who used an artifact were very few. Even if there were a few, it would have been accumulated over the years or that person would have been from a large family or in other words the origin of these kinds of people were certainly not ordinary.

Because the owner of the flying sword had fallen because of Ning Cheng, even if Ning Cheng had not refined it, under the influence of his Qi Gathering Realm, it still brought out a streak of light that over ten feet long.

The rusty faced man was full of panic, he hurriedly used his long sword to block. If he knew that Ning Cheng had a flying sword artifact, he would not have tried to have a close quarters duel with Ning Cheng before, he would not have even rushed into the cave entrance. This time his experience had deceived him, in his eyes Ning Cheng and An Yi were trying to hide in the reef cave, he thought they definitely did not know the immensity of the heaven and earth, he did not think these these poor people in his eyes would have taken that kind of risk. He never imagined that such a person, not only had a flying sword type artifact but it even seemed that it was a high level one.

“Ding Ding.” sounds emerged, the long blade in the rusty faced man’s hand was as if it was a brittle jade, the flying sword directly split it into two. But this flying sword was not even impeded even in a bit by it, just as it split the long blade in two, it also cleaved the rusty faced man in half as if he was a soft tofu.

As for An Yi, she did not have any fighting experience, until she saw Ning Cheng kill the opposite party, only at that point she woke up, at that point she had no way of helping him.

Ning Cheng did not speak with An Yi, as he directly took the gold coins that the man had wrapped up on him and sent a few fireballs towards him, directly turning the man into ash. He then collected the ashes of the man and threw them outside the cave into the sea, and turned to An Yi and said, “We need to quickly leave, this is not a place that we can stay for long.”

A few fireballs turned this man into ash, Ning Cheng could feel that even his spells were upgraded as his cultivation level rose. If he was still in the Qi Gathering 3rd Level, then his fireballs absolutely would not be able to turn the man into ash.

“Yes.” An Yi also knew that they must leave as soon as possible.

After the two people left the reef cave, they rushed all the way to flee as far as possible, after more than an hour, Ning Cheng slowed down his pace and said, “OK, now we are similar to the rest of the average persons in the Mingot Sea area,”

Ning Cheng was very much confident on himself, he affirmed that his cultivation base rivalled that of a Qi Gathering 6th level cultivator, the only thing that he lacked was combat experience. Of course, he also lacked the necessity of being a killer.

At this point An Yi said, “Elder Brother Ning, your cultivation is much better than mine, even if you are at the Qi Gathering 4th Level, but the power of your spells that you cast are even more powerful than the ones cast by some of the cultivators of the Qi Gathering 5th Level.”

Even if An Yi did lack in experience, but it did not mean that she could not see with her eyes.

Ning Cheng again took out the Flying Sword, looked at it and said, “It is thanks to this Flying Sword Artifact that I used, otherwise even if I was not afraid of him, I may not necessarily be able to kill that man. Evidently equipping artifacts is very important, ah.”

When An Yi heard Ning Cheng say ‘equipping artifacts’ she did not know if Ning Cheng knew what it meant, she pointed towards the flying sword in Ning Cheng’s hands and said, “Your Flying Sword should be a high grade artifact, but now it’s yours. You should refine it, this can help in maximising its power. My master said, if you had a spiritual consciousness, then you would be able to remotely control the flying sword to attack the enemy, you can even step on the sword and use it to fly.”

Ning Cheng understood what spiritual consciousness was, it was the soul, or rather it was the prototype of the soul. As for what An Yi said about riding the sword to fly, but it can only be done after entering the Building Yuan Realm. Only after entering the Building Yuan realm, would one be able to use and expand their spiritual consciousness to outside their body.

Of course, with the cultivation of a formidable cultivator, one could even separate their consciousness from their body. But a consciousness is still weak, it is unable to drive the flying sword’s flight, and also cannot be used with the flying sword to attack the enemy.

Ning Cheng nodded, thinking about the words of An Yi, he deeply agreed to it, and said, “An Yi, you are right, for now we should find a place to refine this flying sword. My biggest task right now it to find a heap of Ling Shis, let us continue to rise our cultivation level again. Perhaps in the future there will be one day, when I could go back.”

“Big Brother Ning, are you trying to increase your cultivation level with the aim to go back to your hometown?” when An Yi heard Ning Cheng, she was somewhat perplexed.

“Of course.” Ning Cheng said without any hesitation, and asked An Yi, “An Yi, what is the purpose of you practicing cultivation?”

An Yi was silent for a bit, then shook her head and said, “I have no purpose in practicing cultivation, I only practiced cultivation only because my master wanted me to teach me cultivation practice.”

“What about your master?” Ning Cheng asked again.

“Master said that she was in pursuit of a higher realm, if master could advance to the higher realm, she would not have had to die while sitting.” when An Yi spoke about her master, she again became gloomy.

Ning Cheng was also silent, his aim was to go back and see his sister Ruolan, but he was very clear that this kind of goal may not be achievable in this lifetime.

Indeed, because of the Mysterious Yellow Bead, he needed lots of Ling Shis in order to cultivate. If one day, he could not find Ling Shis then it would be difficult for him to advance, he would also end up like An Yi’s master, would end up dying while sitting.

Seeing Ning Cheng silent, An Yi suddenly spoke again, “Big Brother Ning, my master said that if there was even a slim chance, if one did not put efforts to work hard, then they would have no opportunity. Because I listened to master’s words, I went outside to look for the Day Colored Fragrant Glazed Iris Spirit Grass. Although I was not able to find it, at least I put in the efforts.”

Listening to the words of An Yi, Ning Cheng woke up from daze. Yes, when he compared himself with the other people, then he had more Qi than them, he even had the Mysterious Yellow Bead’s support. If you are not willing to work hard, then in the future how could you always have good luck? Now that he woke up from his daze, he thought An Yi did not know the difficulties in obtaining the Day Colored Fragrant Glazed Iris spirit grass, not only did she go looking for them in the wrong places, but with her ability she would not be able to go to the places where they they can be actually found.

Thinking of all this, Ning Cheng once more regained his formidable confidence, “An Yi, thank you, I must work hard.”

……

The damp sea breeze and the sounds of the waves crashing drifted into the Mingot City, Mingot City was very lively and bustling. This is the largest town in the Mingot Sea Area, it was also the land which has the largest amount of cultivators gathered. But in this bustling town, the people had a varied expressions, some had a cold one, some had an indifferent one, some kept a serious face as they hurriedly walked around.

Although there were many adventurers and cultivators here, in order to achieve greater profitability, they take the things back to the cities in their mainland, but there were also some people who did not wish to take the long journey back to their mainlands, and directly sold their wares that they obtained in the Mingot Sea Area in the Mingot City. As such all year round in the the waters of the Mingot Sea, the people referred to this place as the the old Mingot.

At the outside of this bustling city was a man and a woman, the man looked very young, his face was slightly thin, but it was like a knife. He had extremely bright eyes, but had a calm expression on his face, he gave the feeling as if he was an old general of the Mingot City. The black hair was slightly messy, scattered a bit near his ears, and it seemed very casual.

At his side was a woman who was half a head shorter than him and looked very pretty, as beautiful as a lotus flower in water, even though she did expose her long hair, but the white turban on her head was completely dust free and made it seemed as if she was very refined.

[DemonKiller]

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Chapter 0028 – The Place Where The Strong Eats The Weak

These people in front of the Mingot City were obviously Ning Cheng and An Yi, after Ning Cheng spent some time in refining the Flying Sword, he directly, along with An Yi, arrived at the Mingot City. Although he was able to advance in his cultivation practice with the help of the Mysterious Yellow Bead, but he was only able to do so by using a huge amount of Ling Shis, and it seemed that this was just the beginning. Even if he had the Mysterious Yellow Bead, Ning Cheng was still worried about his cultivation practice.

“Big Brother Ning, it seems to be very busy and prosperous here.” An Yi had always lived in the area around the Blue Heart Temple, and had rarely seen such a bustling city like the Mingot City.

This was also the first time for Ning Cheng to visit such a busy city, although Cang Le City was also quite bustling, but it could not be compared to the Mingot City. By comparing the two, Ning Cheng was now preferring to be in the Cang Le City rather that coming to the Mingot City.

In the Cang Le City, the highest powers were the Cang Qin Royal Family and Cang Qin Two Star Academy. Even though Cang Le City emphasized on the law of the jungle, but it emphasised more on cultivation practice, even if a person was of a low status, if he had a good comprehension ability regarding the practice of cultivation they would be able to be respected and also be unified and integrated with the city forces.

But Mingot City was different, when Ning Cheng first arrived in the Mingot City, he felt that there was absolutely no unified force. He was able to feel that in the Mingot City there were many different forces, the law of the jungle, these were the words that could be strongly attached to this place.

“The Auction Meeting, The Mingot City Auction meeting…….” a thin girl who was holding dozens of brochures in her hand said while shouting as she waved those brochure in her hands, “This auction will have many artifacts, high quality medicines, and the most important of all, the route map to go into the Lansha Island Array formation…………..”

Ning Cheng did not intend to participate in the auction, beside he only had a few gold coins, and no other good stuff. In this kind of auction, even if he had more gold coins it would not be of much use, much less the combined amount of the gold coins that they have.

“The two seniors should have just arrived at the Mingot City, and I have a hunch that you do not have a map of the Mingot City, not do you have an introduction to any of the major forces in the Mingot City, the price is not expensive, I only want 50, no only 30 silver coins……”

The girl who had seen Ning Cheng and An Yi arrive immediately came over to sell her stuff. Her eyes were very sinister, with just a glance she was able to determine that Ning Cheng and An Yi were not the regulars of the Mingot City, nor were they from the Mingot Sea Area.

Ning Cheng took out a gold coin and handed it to this girl, and said, “OK, if you can help me get me a copy of the map of this place, the remaining silver coins, you can keep them, and also give me a brochure of the auction.”

This little girl saw that Ning Cheng was very generous and hurried to grab the gold coin, while simultaneously taking out two books to give to Ning Cheng, her speed was very quick.

Ning Cheng had some doubts about it, but she had already left. When Ning Chang saw that there were many people surging forward to sell the manuals, he understood a bit, it seems that there is a very competitive atmosphere here to sell the manuals.

“Wait Wait, I’ll first find a place for us to stay.” said Ning Cheng to An Yi as at the same time he pulled An Yi along with him onto the street.

Although he was not a rich man back on Earth, but that did not mean he was always remained outside without a fixed residence. After coming here, Ning Cheng had never found a safe place to sleep. At present in the Mingot City, in any case, he was going to live here for a period of time, so he had to take care of this situation immediately. He of course knew that he would not be able to buy a house here to live in, but at least he knew how to find out which inn was better.

Of course since An Yi was also depended on Ning Cheng, so she did not have any comment about it, Ning Cheng opened the map of the Mingot City and saw that the map was clearly marked with the labels of the several big powers. The First Mingot Meeting, this was the Mingot City’s largest organisation. They controlled more than 50 percent of the Mingot City’s trading, and were like the ace within the cloud. The second was the Wolf Palace, third was the Houhai Village ……

Ning Cheng looked in front of him, he sensed that there was someone standing in front of him and An Yi. Ning Cheng looked up and saw a pretty girl wearing a red dress, and was at the Qi Gathering 2nd Level. This woman in the red dress looked very pretty and beautiful, at her side stood two equally beautiful female companions. Looking at the attire of the two companions, he came to the conclusion that they were the servants of the girl wearing the red dress.

“Did you just arrive in the Mingot City?” this woman in red dress pointed at Ning Cheng and bluntly asked.

Ning Cheng, in his heart felt a bit unhappy, he had just arrived here, what relationship did he have with her? Facing the woman in red dress, Ning Cheng felt himself to be a little uncomfortable.

“Yes, me and my cousin had just arrived in the Mingot City.” Ning Cheng replied calmly as he clasped his hands, he knew that he could not afford to provoke anyone in the Mingot City.

“Oh, so this is your cousin?” The woman in the red dress swept her eyes over An Yi, as Ning Cheng saw it, the objective of the woman in red dress seemed to be An Yi.

Not waiting for Ning Cheng to answer, the woman in the red dress said again, “I really like your cousin, I am a person from the Houhai Village. Let your cousin come with me, I will not treat her unjustly.”

Ning Cheng immediately wrinkled his brows and said, “Sorry, my cousin will not walk with anyone else, we can support ourselves.”

“If you do not let your cousin come with me, you will not be able to live.” This woman in red dress did not think the Ning Cheng would dare to talk back, and immediately said in a cold tone. However she immediately thought that Ning Cheng should have just arrived to the Mingot City, so he did not know how fearsome was the Houhai Village.

Ning Cheng held his anger back, he knew that in the Mingot Sea Area, Mingot City was not a good place, but he did not think, that just when he arrived here, not only he found himself in trouble, but they even unexpectedly wanted to take away An Yi.

“Lu Yan, the two of them should have just arrived at the Mingot City, what you are doing is not good, right?” Ning Cheng had not yet spoken, when a voice arrived from the side.

On one side he felt someone come and help him and An Yi out, this made her feel slightly relieved. Letting her leave Ning Cheng, she would definitely not agree to it. Moreover when she saw the look in the eyes of the woman in the red dress, it definitely made her uncomfortable, it even made her feel a kind of fear.

Ning Cheng also saw this person come over, this person was a young man dressed in a very fine dress. The rim of his eyes even had a hint of blue in it, and looked very thin and emaciated. But this person’s cultivation level was higher than this red dressed woman called Lu Yan, it was at the Qi Gathering 3rd Level. Behind him there was also a servant, but his cultivation level was at Qi Gathering 6th Level.

The red dressed woman called Lu Yan immediately retorted, “Miu Wenhong, do you think that I don’t know what you want to do? The last time I allowed you once, but this time I will never let up. What happened to the girl you forcibly took away last time? I’m afraid that you have already wasted her.”

Miu Wenhong coldly snorted and said, “That girl is now in the Wolf Mansion and is well, what did you mean by saying I wasted her? You bring back the person that you wasted. You are a woman, but you also like the attention from other women, aren’t you the one who is spoiled?”

[TL Note – I had to tone it down a bit, for the younger audience. But for those who know about some stuff would have already understood the meaning of it.]

Hearing the words of Miu Wenhong, Lu Yan was overflowing with anger, the two people immediately began to argue.

Ning Cheng came to understand something, that these two people were in no way a good thing for them. He pulled An Yi and said, “An Yi, let’s go, this is not a good place.”

“Since you have arrived just now, don’t rush to leave.” Seeing Ning Cheng just about to leave, Lu Yan and Miu Wenhong immediately stopped quarreling.

Ning Cheng looked around, unexpectedly the people who came to watch the spectacle were not a few, not only they came to watch, they were also secretly eyeing them. It was clear that these two people fighting held much influence in the Mingot City.

Ning Cheng felt a strong killing intent from the two, and said in a slow voice “Me and you two are strangers, can a person only enter the Mingot City and not leave?”

Saying these words, Ning Cheng was already thinking about how to run out of the Mingot City. The servant who was at the Qi Gathering 6th Level would not be able to stop him, and in the meantime he also wanted to take make use of the good opportunity to kill Miu Wenhong and Li Yan. Now that he had just entered the city, he completely had the opportunity to rush out.

With Miu Wenhong’s and Lu Yan’s natures, even if he did not kill them, they would not let them go, so he wanted to go ahead and kill them so as to save them the future trouble. Since he had already offended them, then it would be better to offend them to the end, there was no need to be timid in front of such people.

“You can return, that’s true, but I will not let you go and would definitely not let you walk away. Tell this woman beside you to stay, then you may be able to leave.” Miu Wenhong’s tone was still nasty, but with his tone it was revealed that, without a doubt, his status in this city was very high.

“Oh, what would you do if I allow those two to go away?” exclaimed a voice.

This time, there were four people approaching them, three man and a woman, the man in the front was wearing a light blue dress and was also a bit thin.

Ning Cheng had already noticed, all these four people had a similar mark on the cloths of their chest, it was apparent that these four were from the same place. Ning Cheng did not speak, here in the Mingot City, there was a complex mix of forces, he was not sure if those people who had just arrived had any intention of helping them.

[DemonKiller]

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Chapter 0029 – Calm Heart Academy

What made Ning Cheng shocked was that the lowest cultivation level of the four people was the Qi Gathering 6th Level and the highest one of the four blue robed youths was at Qi Gathering 8th Level. Although the four people in front of them had their ages similar to Ning Cheng and An Yi, but the cultivation levels of these four people, were far higher than Ning Cheng and An Yi.

“Who do you think you are? Daring to speak in such a way in the Mingot City…..” When Miu Wenhong heard this, anger immediately welled up in him.

In Mingot City, there was unexpectedly still a person who dared to talk to Miu Wenhong in such a manner, did he not know that he was the Young Master of the Wolf Palace?

“San Pi, kill him.” Miu Wenhong did not even finish his angry words, and instructed his servant behind him to kill the guy who had just spoken. In Mingot City, if Miu Wenhong wanted to kill someone, it would be as easy as crushing an ant.

Although Miu Wenhong’s anger was senseless, but that did not mean that the servant would also act senselessly, hearing Miu Wenhong’s nonsensical order, that servant of Miu Wenhong immediately stepped forward and whispered in his ear, “Master Wenhong, these people are from the Calm Heart Three Star Academy, look at the badges on their chests……”

This servant called San Pi could clearly see that the lowest cultivation of the four people was not worse than him. Not to mention beat them, he did not even want to provoke their anger, as they were basically untouchables.

Hearing the hint from the old servant, Miu Wenhong reacted immediately, he had certainly heard about the Calm Heart 3 Star Academy. Just now when he saw the young people in the blue dresses, he felt dizzy, he did not choose his words correctly before. Although he was the Young Master of the Wolf Palace, it was only in the Mingot City, a small part of the Mingot Sea Area. The Wolf Palace would not count for anything, also even if they were the ruler of this entire entire area even then they would not be able to compare with the Calm Heart 3 Star Academy.

Calm Heart 3 Star Academy belonged to the Guo Mingyi country, even if the Academy did not have any relationship with the Country, the entire Mingot City, not to mention the Wolf Palace, would not be able to compare itself with a 3 Star Academy.

Ning Cheng, at this time, was able to clearly see the badges on the chests of the four people, they were engraved with the words Calm Heart Academy. At the bottom of the words there were three bright stars.

Seeing the demeanour of the four, Ning Cheng in heart let out a dark sigh. These people from the Calm Heart 3 Star Academy were amazing. The students who came out from there were very tough, this was because they had the advantage of a powerful supporter, evidently he was thinking that if he could join this Academy, then they would have a big academy on which they could rely on.

However when Ning Cheng thought about his spiritual roots, he immediately dispelled that idea. With his spiritual roots, even going to a 1 Star Academy would be difficult, not to mention the higher Star Academies. Moreover Ning Cheng did not dare to go, since his spiritual roots were also improving as his cultivation rose, once his spiritual roots improved to a certain extent, how could people not be able to notice?

“So these four brothers were from the 3 Star Academy, this Wenhong was impolite just now, please forgive me……” This Miao Wenhong was able to quickly adapt to the situation, after he came to know that these 4 people were from a 3 Star Academy, he immediately greeted them with a smile.

The youth in the blue robe who had just spoken, lifted his hand and slapped his face, Miao Wenhong did not think that he would be slapped in the face. Or even if he thought, he would not be able to dodge the slap to his face. Just at this moment, when his face was slapped, more than a dozen teeth and blood flew out into the air.

That slap was really tyrannical, and the surrounding people who were secretly watching suddenly sucked in cold air. The Young Master of the Wolf Palace, Miu Wenhong just flew out like a garbage.

Lu Yan took only a moment to react, she immediately came forward with a smile and bowed in salute to this blue robed youth and immediately said, “Houhai Village’s Lu Yan greets Elder Brother, Elder Brother, are you from the Calm Heart 3 Star Academy? You really are amazing, you even get to practice cultivation in that Academy. Lu Yan is quite envious.”

While Speaking, Lu Yan’s face was filled with worship and admiration, she even wished that she could get the opposite party’s signature in her signature book.

The way this blue robed man treated Lu Yan and Miu Wenhong was clearly different, when he heard the words of Lu Yan, he immediately smiled as his face softened and said, “The Calm Heart 3 Star Institute is not too far away, but it is also not near. If you wanted to pass by it, even if you took a beast carriage, it probably would be very difficult.”

“Can this Lu Yan ask about Elder Brother’s name? I would really love to hear it, as I also long to go to the 3 Star Academy.” as Lu Yan spoke, on her face the color of worship was getting more and more stronger.

“I am called Le Bohong, you wanting to enter the Calm Heart Academy is not impossible. A year later, our Calm Heart 3 Star Academy will start enrolling students, you can still give it a try.” The blue robed youth expression was getting more and more gentle, it was as if what happened a moment ago did not happen at all.

Lu Yan was pleasantly surprised and immediately said, “Big Brother Le, this really is great.I must let my father take me and go over to have a look. Right Big Brother, you and other two brothers and sister have just arrived in Mingot City, you certainly must be tired. If you don’t mind, I can take you to the Haihai Village to rest, I can also stay with you behind to learn a thing or two from you.”

Le Bohong waved his hands and said, “The path to the sea does not go from the Houhai Village’s territory, so we have no interest to go there.”

There was an intense disappointment on the face of Lu Yan, she seems to think of Ning Cheng and An Yi, she hurriedly walked to An Yi and said with a smiling face, “This sister, can you help me persuade Big Brother for me, then you can also come together to my Houhai Village.”

Lu Yan does not even ask An Yi to speak, Le Bohong had not seen An Yi, now that Lu Yan talked to her, Le Bohong immediately noticed An Yi, this guy’s eyes suddenly shines, this girl really is too beautiful and slender.

Ning Cheng in his heart sneered, how could he not understand Lu Yan’s trick. Le Bohong had treated Miu Wenhong and Lu Yan with two completely different attitudes, it showed that Le Bohong only had good treatment for a woman who had some sexual attractiveness to him. She wanted An Yi to come together with Le Bohong to the Houhai Village and wanted to find any excuse to bring them both to the Houhai Village’s territory.

This was of course based on the condition if Le Bohong likes An Yi, if Le Bohong does not like An Yi, then he could only be a blind man.

Ning Cheng did not wait for Le Bohong to speak, and said to Lu Yan, “Go Away, thrash.”

Le Bohong was forced to take back the words that he was about to speak that he did not want to go to the Houhai Village’s territory, and was somewhat looking at Ning Cheng in a puzzled way. He did not understand why Ning Cheng would fire off such words?

Ning Cheng ignored the ugly look on Lu Yan’s face, and turned to Le Bohong and clasped his fists and said, “Thank you friends for extending your helping hand.”

Le Bohong had recovered, before he saw that there seems to be some dispute between Lu Yan and Ning Cheng, but he did not think that Ning Cheng would call Lu Yan a trash. Now that Ning Cheng was thanking him with gratitude, he also clasped his hands and said, “This was just a small matter, it is not worth mentioning, I haven’t had the chance to ask my friends name, shall we go out to drink together.”

“I am called Ning Cheng, me and my cousin had just entered in Mingot City when these two mad dogs started biting at us, and now we don’t want to stay here. With brother’s help today, is something that would not be forgotten.” Ning Cheng did not want to go with these people, so hurriedly refused and said while clasping his hands.

He had already offended Miu Wenhong and Lu Yan, he was not a fool, why would he continue to stay here? Besides, these few people from the Calm Heart 3 Star Academy, had quite a good cultivation base, the lowest one one had a cultivation level of the Qi Gathering 6th Level, he basically had no chance against them.

Hearing Ning Cheng was not willing to go together with them, Le Bohong’s eyes flashed with disappointment, he inadvertently glanced at An Yi, then he smiled and said to Ning Cheng, “Brother Ning, the Calm Heart 3 Star Academy will host the recruitment of student within the entire Ping country. Brother Ning, if you and your cousin are able to enter the Calm Heart Academy, it would be certain that you would be able to scale new heights.”

Ning Cheng certainly wanted to participate in the enrollment but his spiritual root was very bad. However if there was a chance to go to the Calm Heart Academy with An Yi then it would be good. Fortunately this thing was still early, as he would have to seek the opinion of An Yi, about what she thought about all this, he once again said, “Thank you Brother Le, in the coming year if I have the chance, I would definitely come to the Calm Heart Academy, But first for today, we must take our leave.”

“Good, next year I will patiently wait for Brother Ning to clear the entrance of the Calm Heart Academy.” Le Bohong said with enthusiasm, it was regretful that An Yi never said a word, and also didn’t see him even once.

Miao Wenhong’s face was full of blood, and was barely able to stand up with the help of his servant, he did not even dare to speak even half a word, and could only watch as Bohong and the others left. As for Ning Cheng and An Yi, he dared not come forward to speak anymore nonsense.

Lu Yan also stared at Ning Cheng with her eyes filled with the intent to kill, she pledged that she would no doubt kill Ning Cheng herself.

Ning Cheng and Le Bohong said goodbye to each other, but before departing he took An Yi and Ning Cheng and helped them to buys several sets of clothes from the Mingot City, and also purchase several maps of the surrounding areas in the Mingot Sea Area, then they hurriedly left the Mingot City.

After experiencing these things, it made Ning Cheng clear on the fact that, at least in Mingot City, there was not a place where he could live, at least for the present.

……

“Big Brother Ning, Lu Yan was so sincere, but why did I always feel uncomfortable? She wanted to invite me, but why did she threaten big brother?” An Yi did not understand much of the ways of the world, this kind of complicated relationship, she was completely confused by it.

Ning Cheng said with a sneer, “That woman was a broken piece of glass, that kind of woman is not even worth mentioning, even if she was an arrogant piece of thrash.”

“What is a glass?” An Yi did not understand.

[TL Note – Yeah that’s right the raw definitely says ‘glass’ even double checked the dictionary for it. For reference the line in the raws is “什么是玻璃？” so if anyone can give me an alternate for it, I will change it immediately.]

Ning Cheng just waved his hands and said, “These things you do not need to understand at present, even that Bohong guy is not as simple as he looks, if we stayed in the Mingot City it would not be good for us, it’s better to go somewhere else.”

With the identity of Bohong, he could have have completely killed Miu Wenhong, but he went so far as to bear it, and just went ahead and slapped him in the face. It was obvious that this person was not simple on the surface, he was aware that even though he could kill Miu Wenhong, he would end up with some troubles.

Ning Cheng and An Yi travelled continuously for about half a day, and had already left the Mingot City behind in a distance. Ning Cheng in his heart was continuously thinking about what those people came to the Mingot City for, some important people would sometime come, but only for the experience. In Ning Cheng’s view, if it was not for an important matter, Le Bohong would have definitely killed Miu Wenhong.

“Are the two friends going out to the sea?” a hearty voice that came from far away stopped Ning Cheng and An Yi by calling out to them.

[DemonKiller]

Translated at Demon Translations

Translated, Checked and Edited By – DemonKiller
Proofread By – CurlyAdi

Chapter 0030 – Pursued Till Death

“Letting your grandfather suffer such a loss, and you still want to walk away?” Miao Wenhong was shouting at the top of his voice, obviously his hatred for Ning Cheng had become bone deep.

After seeing Ning Cheng and An Yi, the person who had called out to them wanting them to come aboard his boat for business, on seeing Miao Wenhong rush towards them on a one horned stone beast and yelling out loudly, his facial expression suddenly turned pale. Moreover on seeing that he did not ask Ning Cheng a second time, he immediately turned away, and in only a short time, he ran to the wharf boat at the seaside, and the next moment the boat immediately pulled up the anchors and set sail into the vast sea waters.

Ning Cheng did not care about the boatman, but he was surprised that Miao Wenhong even dared to chase them. Miao Wenhong did not only chase them alone, but had also brought along just the servant who was at the Qi Gathering 6th Level, he did not bring any other person with him.

Only a mere two people, and they wanted to kill him and take away An Yi with this? He could already kill a cultivator of the Qi Gathering 5th Level with ease, and was not afraid in facing a cultivator at the Qi Gathering 6th Level.

Ning Cheng, of course, was aware that if his meridians did not have the Mysterious Yellow Qi flowing through them, generally for a cultivator at the Qi Gathering 6th Level, killing two cultivators at the Qi Gathering 4th Level, would not really be a laborious task. Not to mention in the eyes of Miu Wenhong and his servant, Ning Cheng and An Yi were just like lambs to be slaughtered, as they thought that they did not even have a shred of combat experience.

“San Pi, waste this bastard first, I will slowly let this kid know……” Miao Wenhong had yet to arrive, as he said through gnashing teeth while he was stared at Ning Cheng with a cutting glare. It was obvious that in his view, the reason he had lost face in the Mingot City, was all because of Ning Cheng.

This San Pi seemed to be a loyal servant of his, he seemed to know the meaning of the words spoken by his young master, although they had yet to arrive in front of Ning Cheng, they were flying towards them on their unicorn beast, while simultaneously sweeping a white sword slash towards Ning Cheng.

This white sword slash was aimed at the two feet of Ning Cheng, evidently he did not want to kill Ning Cheng in the first strike.

This was an artifact, Ning Cheng was able to feel the sword slash and at the same time came to understand. Before when he and the rusty faced man at the Qi Gathering 5th Level clashed, he had used a common dual bladed weapon, although it was not low level one, but weapons and artifacts were just not the same concept.

San Pi was just a family servant, but already had an artifact on his body, thus it was evident that Miu Wenhong would have more good stuff on him.

Ning Cheng did not want to think, that as this white sword slash was coming towards him, in the meantime if he used his flying sword that had fallen into his hands, would he be able to split it into two like the past.

San Pi did not think that Ning Cheng would still dare to make a move, using a mere sword to dare to stop his sword type artifact, it was just simply seeking his death.

Howeree this idea of San Pi was instantly shattered as an ear piercing sound of an impact arrived, he did not imagine that the sword in the hands in Ning Cheng, would slice through it like a tofu, completely shattering his sword slash completely. As the powerful energy shock wave reached him, San Pi felt as if his chest had been hit with huge blow from a hammer.

Not good, this kid was definitely concealing his cultivation, he must be at the Qi Gathering 6th Level. Moreover his foundation was definitely deep, it was not even half a bit inferior to his own. San Pi, when he received the powerful shock wave, was forced to take a few steps back, but he also understood that not only Ning Cheng was not at Qi Gathering 4th Level, but the artifact in his hands was even of a higher level than the one that he was using.

San Pi and Ning Cheng had just exchanged one blow, but in that instant he could clearly feel that if Ning Cheng took the initiative to attack, he could easily beat him, he felt that he and his young master would be easily killed by him. This cultivator was very audacious, he simply did not seem to consider his fate if he killed the young master.

“Ice….Fire…..” San Pi saw that his attack had no effect on Ning Cheng, but he once again sent out a long sword slash, he was howling in his heart with fear. He no longer cared about anything, raising his other hand he shot out a talisman from his body, while simultaneously infusing his sword artifact with his Qi, the sword blade in his hands started to shine in two different colors.

One side was ice, while the other side was fire. Two distinct kinds of lights wrapped around the sword blade in front of Ning Cheng, Ning Cheng could suddenly feel the air around him stagnate. He himself felt that regardless of if he was to block the icy light or the fiery light, he could only block one of them, making the other’s power and influence increase.

Not only Ning Cheng, but any low leveled cultivators would appreciate this, it was natural as the opponents Qi and attributes was completely opposite to each other and would end up producing some kind of resistance to each other. If the other party was a cultivator with a fire attribute, while using his fire attribute to block the other party’s fire attributed attack, he would inevitably produce a Qi with a fire attribute to resist it, but would then be relatively weakened because of the other party’s ice attribute. But some of the more experienced cultivators of the lower levels, all have their unique ways to deal with such a situation.

Ning Cheng’s combat experience was not rich, thus because the blade attack had both ice and fire properties, so he immediately had to make a tradeoff between them.

Ning Cheng was able to block the flame attack, but could not block the ice attack completely. Fortunately his Qi was not weaker that the one in front of him, in fact even if the Qi of the other party was several times stronger than him it would not have mattered. Under the urgency of the situation, in Ning Cheng’s mind flashed several distorted movements, it was the same distorted and twisty movements of the rusty faced man he had encountered previously. At that time he had sent out 6 Flame Edges, and the other party was able to block only 3 of them, the other three, he could not block, but actually twisted his body to escape them.

This kind of distorted body skill, in Ning Cheng’s mind, in just a short moment, became very clear, the San Pi’s ice attack, now that Ning Cheng had learned this Distorted Body Skill, he just willed his body to twist to one side.

“Puff……” blood spurted out, but Ning Cheng calmed his heart down, it was because he could not entirely escape the ice attack, but at least he avoided the vital point that it was aimed at, as a result he was just slightly wounded.

San Pi after he used his ice and fire technique, his expression immediately turned pale, it was clear that using that dual attributed attack with with sword blade had a consumption that was clearly not small.

He did not wait for him to recover, Ning Cheng immediately drew his sword up, while sending out several Flame Edges. Ning Cheng’s means of attack was very simple, besides using the flying sword to attack, he only used the Flame Edges to threaten. His body which he had twisted to escape, had not yet fully recovered.

In order to quickly kill Ning Cheng, San Pi had consumed too much of his Qi, now knowing that Ning Cheng sent out a sword flash, he could only escape stiffly. Ning Cheng sword flash spit the shoulder of San Pi apart, he was able to avoid a crucial hit but was ripped apart by the several Flame Edges thrown at him.

On one side, when Miao Wenhong saw San Pi was killed, he knew that the outcome was already decided. Ning Cheng was not killed, but San Pi was.

“You actually killed San Pi…….” Miao Wenhong still did not dare believe it even after he looked at Ning Cheng, San Pi had told him that Ning Cheng was only at Qi Gathering 4th Level, how can a Qi Gathering 4th Level Cultivator kill a Qi Gathering 6th Level one? Moreover, under the circumstances San Pi had even displayed his incomparable Ice – Fire blade technique.

Ning Cheng felt his Qi recover quickly, he would not let Miao Wenhong return to Mingot City. After he killed Miao Wenhong, he would escape to the inner regions of the Mingot Sea, if he stayed in this place he would just be courting death.

“You better pray for a good fortune in your next life.” Ning Cheng just finished saying, when the sword in his hands split him into two.

Miao Wenhong opened his mouth, he even could not say the words to beg for mercy, even when Ning Cheng’s sword arrived, before he died, he still couldn’t believe that, in the Mingot Sea there was someone who dared to kill him.

Ning Cheng was extremely skilled with fire as he quickly burned the two corpses, he put the things of the two men away, turned to An Yi and said, “An Yi, we use these two unicorn beast to flee.”

“Big Brother Ning, where are we going now?” An Yi had been living together with Ning Cheng for sometime, she knew that Ning Cheng was very capable in making good decisions, thus when Ning Cheng killed Miao Wenhong and his servant, it did not feel strange to her.

“Let’s go to the sea, before didn’t some people ask us to travel by boat? Since there was one ship, then there is also a possibility of another ship.” Ning Cheng said in an affirmative way. When he had killed the two people, Miu Wenhong and his servant, he was already thinking about it, since there was a boat before, then there definitely would be another one to go out to the sea. The Mingot Sea was endless, and the people coming here were also many, thus there would absolutely be not just one or two boats here.

An Yi just gave a ‘hmm’ sound, she hesitated for a while before asking in a puzzled way, “Big Brother Ning, I heard my master say, that anyone who practiced cultivation, only practiced one main attribute. This is also why we all have just a single main spiritual root, even without the main spiritual root, one must look for a suitable attribute that works suitably as the primary attribute for their support spiritual roots.”

Ning Cheng does not wait for An Yi to finish, he could already understand what An Yi wanted to ask, and then immediately asked “An Yi, you want to ask why this San Pi person could simultaneously use the two ice and fire skills, right?”

Ning Chang was now not a person who was ignorant, now that he had already advanced to the Qi Gathering 4th Level in his cultivation practice, he was also able to understand some of the truths. Fireball Technique, Waterball Technique, these were the most basics of spell techniques, any kind of spiritual root can display these sort of spells. However the achievement’s in it would be limited, and one would not be able to use them in combat.

Before when San Pi had used the Dual Attributed Attack with his sword blade, it was already a very strong and thus would consume a lot of Qi, this was not something which could be explained with the basic magic spells.

“Yes, I have been wondering how this San Pi was able to use two different attributes with his sword blade. If it was me, I really would not have come up with way to counter it. Could it be that this San Pi had two main Spiritual Roots? Dual Spiritual Root Cultivator?” An Yi just nodded.

Ning Cheng laughs and said, “You may not be able to about it now, but when your cultivation base is high, you would immediately know. If this San Pi had two main spiritual roots, and was even Dual Spiritual Root cultivator, then today the one who died would have been me and not him. When he casted the ice and fire double edge, he used a talisman, it should have been a secondary talisman.”

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Chapter 0031 – A Strange Ship

Ning Cheng and An Yi, both haven’t rode a rock unicorn beast before, although they were riding this stone unicorn beast, there speed had increased but not by much.

“An Yi, hurry up, we need to escape.“ Ning Cheng felt the ground was somewhat shaking, this was definitely because a large amounts of those rock unicorns were galloping across the ground, it was clear that someone was chasing them.

An Yi simultaneously also felt the subtle vibrations from the ground, she did not need Ning Cheng reminding her, the two people riding on the stone unicorns, were trying to crazily escape along the shores of the Mange Sea .

The vibrations from the ground were getting even more intense, Ning Cheng’s heart was extremely anxious, he and An Yi had been searching for a long time but still hadn’t found a single boat. If they had found a boat, they could have absolutely escaped without delay.

But, in ten breaths, Ning Cheng already could see a dark swarth covering a large expanse of land coming over, his heart was cold, they really were lagging behind. What was the origin of this Miao Wenhong? Actually getting so many people to chase after him?

“Big Brother Ning, there is a boat.” Ning Cheng was paying attention to the dark swath of soldiers chasing them from behind, An Yi, however, saw that there was a ship at the shore of the Mingot Sea.

“It really is a ship, quickly go up.” Ning Cheng immediately called out to Anyi, both people after jumping from their beasts, landed on the ship.

When Ning Cheng arrived on the ship, he at once called out to the ship master to set sail, even if the ship was not going to sail, he would forcibly make the other side to set sail. This was a matter about his small life, so he may not be able to speak kind words. Not only that, Ning Cheng also knew, that most of such ships would also in a large part be comprised of adventurers.

Bluntly put, adventurers were those people who couldn’t practice cultivation, so they and cultivators were two entirely different concepts.

But when Ning Cheng arrived at the side of the ship’s cabin, he immediately swallowed what he wanted to say, the ship wasn’t small but he didn’t see a single person on it, the entire ship was quiet, there not was even the slightest sound.

But there was a faint smell of blood and also a bloody dark aura that was coming from inside the cabin, this made Ning Cheng frown.

“There is no one inside the ship.” said An Yi as even she was also able to sense it, as she somewhat nervously approached towards Ning Cheng.

“This is not right.” Ning Cheng suddenly said, those shiny dark green horde of pursuers he saw a moment ago were also not right. Even if Miu Wenhong’s status was extremely high, it was impossible to quickly track and chase them, moreover with an entire brigade.

As Ning Cheng finished speaking, he subconsciously looked back, only to find that he and An Yi, who were standing on the boat had already left the shore of the Mingot Sea behind. He was even not able to see where the shore was, or in which direction was it.

Where did the pursuers behind them go? In addition to that, the sky was getting more and more dark, and all he could see was the vast expanse of the endless sea, other than that he could no longer see anything.

A cold wind blew past, Ning Cheng felt a cold shiver run through his body, he was also subconsciously shivering with fright, from his dantian the Mysterious Yellow Bead suddenly shone and sent out some Qi, which swept away the chill in his body.

“An Yi, where are you going?” when Ning Cheng saw An Yi take a step forward, he immediately pulled her back to be safe. He had just come back to his senses when he saw An Yi approach the cabin, it seems that she wanted to enter the cabin. If he had even been a breath late, An Yi would have entered the cabin.

Ning Cheng had just caught the wrist of An Yi, when he could feel a strange cold and sticky aura around her. Just when he felt the strange cold aura, the Mysterious Yellow Bead again released a soft warm Qi, and the strange cold aura disappeared without a trace.

An Yi recovered and looked at Ning Cheng in a daze and asked, “Big Brother Ning, what happened to me a moment ago?”

Ning Cheng beckoned with his hand, but did not release An Yi’s wrist, he just stared into the darkness of the cabin and said, “Something’s wrong with this ship.”

An Yi was about to say that they should look for another ship, but immediately understood that she and Ning Cheng could simply not change ships. They were in the middle of the sea and there was no one to control the ship, plus the ship’s speed was also not slow.

“I do not care if you are a ghost cultivator or something, me and my cousin are going to borrow your deck to stay for a while, we are irrelevant, but if you dare to plot against us, then I will immediately burn down the ship.” Ning Cheng stood outside the cabin and shouted out the few sentences but did not go in.

Ning Cheng knew a bit about Ghost Cultivators, there was kind of a vague concept in his memory. Ning Cheng was confident that with his cultivation level, if the other party was just merely some ghost spirit, then he would not have the slightest fear about it.

Ning Cheng had just finished saying these words, when they heard a faint laughter that came from inside the cabin, this was a very strange laughter, and Ning Cheng was not able to pinpoint the specific source it came from.

Ning Cheng subconsciously pulled An Yi and withdrew a few steps back, even if he had great courage and was already an Intermediate Stage Qi Gathering Level cultivator, even then this faint laughter made his scalp tingle.

Almost at the same time at the back of Ning Cheng, Ning Cheng could immediately subconsciously feel two ice shadows appear behind him in the shape of arrows, he immediately took hold of An Yi and dodged to the side. Those two things definitely had substance to them, he was able to feel them as they flashed past his face, thanks to him perceiving them early, he was able to dodge them otherwise his head would definitely been pierced through by them.

It was very terrifying sneak attack, if not for his mind that mysteriously presented the path of the first invisible arrow’s track, he would surely have been hit by the arrow.

Ning Cheng had never been a good speaker nor was he an easy man, even if he knew that the dark shadow who released the arrow was conspiring against him, he would not just suffer the beatings and not strike back.

Not waiting even for a moment to let more such arrows to appear, Ning Cheng in the next moment fired off a number of Fireballs as he raising his hands. Without exception, all the fireballs were thrown into the cabin. At this point since his life was already in danger, why would he be concerned if the cabin would end up burning?

Just an instant before those few shadowless arrows were shot out from the cabin, An Yi was also able to detect it. If Ning Cheng had not pulled her, she knew that she definitely would not have been able to dodge them. Now when she saw Ning Cheng constantly throw fireballs one after another into the cabin, she also did not hesitate and also started throwing fireballs into the cabin.

This ship was originally made of wood, and An Yi and Ning Cheng kept throwing fireballs at the cabin continuously, these fireballs were not made of ordinary fire, this led to the damp ship to start burning. After some time, the inside of the cabin was filled with smoke, and the fire also started to rise up.

Ning Cheng did not stop his bombardment, he once again started to throw out fireballs, and this time he wanted to completely burn down the top of the cabin.

At this time, a cold voice arrived, “Stop, quickly put out the fire, otherwise everyone will die.”

Ning Cheng, when he heard the voice being transmitted from the cabin, immediately began to throw out fireballs with even more vigour. He could never let a person who threatened him like that live, whether it was a ghost or a ghost cultivator, since they decided to plot against him, they could not blame the actions he would take. Before when he was on the deck he had clearly stated that he did not want to stir up trouble, but since they decided to come for his head he would definitely retaliate against them.

“Do you want everyone to die? It is not necessary, right? We were just looking for a deck to survive. You being a ghost or a ghost cultivator, you already have the word ghost, we do not want to get in contact with you ….. ” While speaking, Ning Cheng again threw a number of fireballs out, this time even the top of the cabin was already on fire.

“All right, this time I am in the wrong. I am neither a ghost nor a ghost cultivator, will you please extinguish the fire, I am willing to give you some compensations for it.” a helpless voice with a bit of frustration in it came from the cabin, he could only compromise with Ning Cheng.

“What would you compensate me with?” Ning Cheng was not the kind of guy who would be moved easily, if there was some fear in him before, he did not have even a trace of it now. Ghost Cultivators and ghosts, he had never seen them, he did not know whether it was an incredible affair or not. Of thing that could not be seen, people would always have some fear towards them. Since the other party was not one of them, what was there to be feared about?

I am familiar with the waters of this area, I can also help you in advancing into the late stages of the Qi Gathering Realm. Otherwise with your cultivation level of Qi Gathering 4th Level, you cultivators would only be food for someone else.

“I do not like to be stabbed in the back.” Ning Cheng said slowly, he did not make any demands, nor did he stop him.

“Bang…..” a piece of wood from the crossbars at the top of the cabin fell down, hitting the deck of the ship, and issued a ‘bang’ sound.

“I swear, if I, Fang, dare plot against you again, I will be frightened out of my wits, I will not give any opportunity for it to happen again.” The voice from inside the cabin said as it came to understand that Ning Cheng was not someone that it could easily deal with, and swore to not dare cheat him.

“You are called Fang?” Ning Cheng continued as he stopped throwing fireballs out.

But the voice from inside the cabin was urgent, and said, “After you put out the fire on the ship, you can then ask my name, OK?”

Inside the cabin the fire was burning everything, having not yet become too powerful, after Ning Cheng threw a number of Waterballs over, the flame was immediately suppressed, but after a moment once more rose again. Ning Cheng seeing this, raised his hands and directly brought up the water under the ship, and threw it at the raging fire, An Yi also came to help, with the two people working together, they managed to put out the flame.

“Quite good, a mere Qi Gathering 4th Level, but unexpectedly have such a thick Qi. No wonder you could escape my shadowless arrow.” The voice from the cabin came unexpectedly.

Ning Cheng said with a voice filled with disdain, “I am only at the Qi Gathering Realm, wait till I get to the Building Yuan Realm, then to deal with such a ghost, I could just use you as a sacrifice for my flying sword.”

“Well, the people here are too stupid, who told you that you could not be able to control a flying sword while being in the Qi Gathering Realm? As a Qi Gathering Realm cultivator you can utilize Qi, if your Qi is strong and thick enough, you can use the same to control the Flying Sword.” When the voice from the cabin heard the words of Ning Cheng, he replied with an equally cold voice filled with disdain.

After these cold words from him, he seem to remember that Ning Cheng had called him a ghost of sorts, he was not happy with it and once again said, “Do not call me a ghost, I am called Fang Yijan, and am not a ghost, I am a Primordial Spirit Body. But since you are also able to survive my attacks, it show that you are also capable, come in let’s talk about it.”

“Primordial Spirit Body? I thought you were a ghost. It looks like the large amount of people who were chasing them on the shore were really related to Miao Wenhong’s background.” Ning Cheng heaved a sigh of relief, he did not think that the people from the Mingot City’s Wolf Palace would react so fast and also be able to form a large team to chase them in just a short amount of time.

The other party claiming to be a Primordial Spirit Body with the name of Fang Yijan said with a cold voice, “You are wrong again, that brigade rushing towards you, they were real spirit soldiers.”

[TL Note – I translated the term “元神体” as “Primordial Spirit Body” after consulting the MDBG dictionary. If any of you have a better alternative to it, please do share them with us.]

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Chapter 0032 – The Helpless Fang Jiyan

“Soul Soldiers?” Ning Cheng was stunned for a moment, soul soldiers apparently meant that they did not have the soul composition of life. But a moment ago weren’t they valiantly beating their hooves, how is it possible for them to be soul soldiers? Then again, do we really have a soul?

Seeing Ning Cheng’s stupid expression, Fang Jiyan’s voice again sounded, “What’s there to be surprised about, in the countless years, don’t you know how many innumerable cultivators have died in the waters of the Mingot Sea, a cultivator’s soul is already powerful, and many of them even have their own shape, the forms of the soul soldiers are thus also not surprising. Those soul soldiers all look alike, although they are a bit fearful, taking your cultivation level and vigilance into consideration, they are not worth mentioning.”

Ning Cheng this time understood clearly, the voice of Fang Jiyan was coming from the hull of the ship

He understood that this was the home of Fang Jiyan, and slightly loosened his heart, leading An Yi to enter the cabin with him.

“You have taken shelter in the woods of the hull, does that mean the wood of the hull is made from something special?” Ning Cheng knew that for a soul of a Primordial Spirit Body to take shelter in the wood, he immediately came to understand that the wood that the ship was made of was not ordinary. Otherwise Fang Jiyan would have left early on, even if he burned the ship to the ground, Fang Jiyan should not have cared about it.

“Its nothing special, it’s just that I like this ship, and was foolish enough to get accustomed to this ship.” Fang Jiyan nonchalantly said.

Ning Cheng glanced around and found that the same material made up many other things, and he immediately said, “So is the case, this type of wood, I know about it, it can be used to make a chair that can be quite refreshing to sit upon, this ship has quite a few of such wooden material, I’ll dig them up and start using them. I am sure that this will not split apart the boat, you can rest assured about it.”

Seeing Ning Cheng ready to tear down the rest of the remaining stains of the soul nourishing wood, Fang Jiyan’s voice was alarmed and said, “Do not dismantle it, I will tell you why you can’t, these wood pieces are from the Soul Wood Tree, in each stain here there is an inch of the soul that is the Soul Wood’s Heart, I am depended on it preserve my body and soul, if you demolish them, I would also be finished.”

“It is a soul wood…..” When Ning Cheng heard this he was overjoyed, he had seen this Soul Wood in the book that An Yi had given him.

In fact, people usually keep the Soul Wood actually for the Soul Wood Heart, each stub can hold a soul, but it is really useful in keeping the soul preserved in the one inch wooden heart. Here there were already four of such stubs, even if he left one for Fang Jiyan, he could still obtain the remaining three. Of course, he would certainly not take the three stubs away, for him, as long as he could keep the wood heart of the soul wood he would walk away.

Seeing the glowing look in Ning Cheng’s eyes, Fang Jiyan thought that it was not good, this guy was too greedy, and he quickly said, “You have eye’s but fail to see how the ship was built, digging out the Soul Wood would be akin to cutting down the ship, if had not met me, this would simply have been a waste of nature’s resources. By the way, can I ask what is the name of this friend who has no respect?”

Ning Cheng did not know what was the meaning of Fang Jiyan’s words? Did Fang Jiyan wanted to remind them that since he was the one who found the soul wood, thus it was his. However Ning Cheng just ignored the meaning of the words spoken by Fang Jiyan, he was almost killed by this guy, how would he be kind to him? He just proceeded to smile and said, “I am called Ning Cheng, meeting you today was just destiny. I think that you are quite pleasing to the eye, there are four one inch stubs of the soul wood here, I decided to leave you one of them, as for the other three one inch stubs, I am taking them away.”

“Brother Ning, you cannot do this…….” Fang Jiyan saw Ning Cheng go forward to dig out the three stumps of the soul wood, he was suddenly shocked. He had stayed here because of the soul wood, if he didn’t have the soul woods, he was finished, staying here would not have any significance.

Ning Cheng complexion turned completely cold and said, “Brother Fang, I had heard others say if two people each covered half the distance to a certain avenue, they would gain some wealth and share it amongst themselves. However, when one accidentally strayed from the avenue and asked the other if he could break the rule and share some wealth with him, do you think that he should just disregard the rules and divide the wealth with him?”

[TL Note – I think what he wanted to say is, would a person share the promised rewards when the other person broke their promise.]

Fang Jiyan had lived for countless years, he did not think that he would hear such words. What’s this ‘disregard of rules’? This was plain and simple robbery.

“I did not mean that, I mean that I am a Primordial Spirit Body, and you have a body of flesh, once you take the soul wood away, for me it would be a disaster. Place yourself in my shoes, if Brother Ning you were in my position, you would probably also have the same idea like me.” Fang Jiyan said as he forced back his anger, without the soul wood here, why would he stay in this ****ed up place? He didn’t know that the rascal kid in front of him would do such kind of business, originally he thought that the two cultivators had a pure psyche, but he did not think that they would use his own thoughts against him and find him guilty.

Contrary to what Fang Jiyan expected, Ning Cheng just noded and said, “What Brother Fang said was absolutely right, thanks for reminding me Brother Fang. This person had no foresight and must have caused you to immediately worry, don’t worry I will dig out only the soul wood core so that I could use it in the future, thanks a lot.”

Fang Jiyan wanted to cry, he was trying to persuade Ning Cheng to not dig, but didn’t think that it would be counterproductive. When he saw Ning Cheng take out a flying sword, and pointed it towards one of the the soul wood stumps, he carved out section of the soul wood and brought out the core of the soul wood, when he saw this his heart was almost bleeding.

Ning Cheng did not stop and went on to the next soul wood stump and dug out the second wood core that was in the soul wood stump. Seeing Ning Cheng go to dig out the third soul wood core from the third soul wood stump, Fang Jiyan could really not hold back and said, “Brother Ning, please stop. Brother Ning is just at Qi Gathering 4th Level, surely there are many things that you do not understand. If Brother Ning is willing to leave behind just one soul wood core, any question that you have, I will try to help and teach you with the best of my knowledge. Others may not dare, but I can guarantee that you would successfully pass through the Qi Gathering Realm in the shortest time.”

After listening to the words of Fang Jiyang, Ning Cheng stopped his actions and said, “Brother Fang, you said that yourself, I do have some questions for you. We can just use this Soul Wood as your reward.”

If he had teeth, then, at this time Fang Jiyan would have already bitten him to death, as is saying that those soul woods were cleary for his own good? Nevertheless, he could only smile drily and said, “Brother Ning please ask what you want, this Fang will definitely reply if he had the knowledge of it.”

“Yes, Brother Fang, I heard that a Primordial Body Spirit can take possession of other bodies, how can I prevent myself be possessed by you?” Ning Cheng pulled An Yi and sat down, as he suddenly asked an irrelevant question.

“Brother Ning really likes to joke, how can I take possession of my brother.” Fang Jiyan said with a smile but he was shouting abuses at him in his heart. Cultivating to this age, and also a mere Qi Gathering 4th Level, without looking at his spiritual roots he could tell that he had rubbish talent, only an idiot would try to posses you.

But Ning Cheng cautiously nodded and said, “Then I can rest assured, I heard people say that only by practicing cultivation to the Building Yuan Realm, only then one would be able to manifest their spiritual sense and transform it into consciousness, and only then bring it outside their body. When in the Qi Condensation Realm, only then would have the means to control their artifacts with their spiritual sense. But Brother Fang said earlier, that even a Qi Gathering Cultivator can bring out their spiritual sense?”

When he heard about this cultivation practice, Fang Jiyan’s tone immediately became full of disdain and said, “People who say these words are just idiots, a genuine cultivator in the Qi Gathering Realm can also use their spiritual sense externally, but only upto a certain limit because of their cultivation method and insufficient spiritual sense. Even so, Qi Gathering Realm cultivators can also control the artifacts and use them to attack the enemy. In Le Zhou contry, Qi Gathering Cultivators that use flying swords to attack are all too common.”

“Is the matter you spoke of true?” Ning Cheng hurriedly inquired.

Since Fang Jiyan had already fallen, so he had nothing to hide and said, “The aura in the Le Zhou Country is very rich, and even the cultivation methods there are also numerous, the level of power of these cultivation methods is clearly something not a mere low grade country can compare to. In fact even in many midgrade countries, there are many Qi Gathering Cultivators who can control the flying sword with their spiritual sense. Since Low Grade counties are deprived of aura, in order to expedite the cultivation speed, some of the cultivation practice methods will weaken the role of spiritual sense, this results in only Qi Condensation Realm Cultivators are the ones who can only use the artifacts, while Building Yuan Realm Cultivators can manifest their spiritual sense outside.”

“So the cultivation methods we use to practice cultivation with are actually simplified versions of the original cultivation practice methods.” Ning Cheng suddenly came to understand, so as to say, the cultivation practice methods that his Mysterious Yellow Bead had modified, the one that he was currently using, should be the complete version of the cultivation practice method. He wanted to try if he could use it to control the Flying Sword.

“You bring the ship to the sea side, but it is clearly not intended for fishing? Deceiving people to embark? What happened to the original people on this ship?” When Ning Cheng thought how he was able to embark the ship, he suddenly became clear in his mind.

Although Fang Jiyan did not understand what he meant by fishing, listening to the words of Ning Cheng he was able to understand a part of the meaning behind it, and immediately replied, “That’s right, I really was fishing? I am a Primordial Spirit Body, in addition to nourishing the soul with the help the soul wood, because I practice a powerful cultivation method, so I also have to swallow some souls to grow. This ship originally had some problems, and I happened to be the one who consumed those souls.”

Ning Cheng sneered in his heart, there were certainly a number of glaring issues, he was certain that he would have to kill this Fang Jiyan himself.

“Can you give me a few of the those cultivation practice methods, I want something of a higher rank, I was cheated by you to board the ship, you can at least show them to me right?” Ning Cheng was certain that Fang Jiyan had good background, perhaps he has many good things on him.

When Fang Jiyan heard Ning Cheng to show him his cultivation practice methods, he just quickly waved his hands and said, “I do not really practice cultivation, I am just a Primordial Spirit Body.”

“Really?” Ning Cheng asked him once more.

Fang Jiyan shuddered, in his heart he was increasingly regretting letting Ning Cheng board his ship, this was the first time he had met a person who could dodge his shadowless arrows which could easily massacre groups of cultivators at Qi Gathering 4th Level.

“I do not have any, but I have a way to help you get a cultivation practice method, thus I must make the trade with you. In a place not far from here, this is an island called the Dragon Island. You help me spread the news inside the Mingot City, that another island called Dragon Island appeared in the Mingot Sea which has a lot of low leveled treasures from the sea. When the time comes I will give you a map, as long as you accomplish this for me, I will definitely help you make a breakthrough in your Cultivation Practice Method.” After Fang Jiyan finished speaking, he felt that he was lacking a bit of confidence in his own words.

Ning Cheng immediately understood the idea behind the words of Fang Jiyan, since the Dragon Island had plenty of low level treasured from the sea, it would certainly attract many adventurers over. But at the same time it would also attract a lot of low leveled cultivators to come over, then this Fang Jiyan would hide in the Dragon Island with the others, and then slowly devour their souls.

Ning Cheng emotionlessly replied, “I am really sorry, I was just inside the Mingot City and had already offended the Wolf Palace and the Houhai Village, you want me to go to the Mingot City, do you want to see me dead that badly?”

After Fang Jiyan listened to those words, he was already cursing loudly in his heart, this kid really is not a good thing, a mere cultivator of the Qi Gathering 4th Realm, but brought calamity everywhere, even unexpectedly offended the two main powers of the Mingot City. He had swallowed numerous souls, so of course, he understood what was in store for Ning Cheng in the hands of Wolf Palace and the Houhai Village.

“It appears, you really do not want to give me the cultivation practice method, it is really regrettable, I will not trouble you again, um, there is a small boat on this ship, me and my cousin will be taking that boat now.” Ning Cheng said as he slowly stood up.

“Don’t worry, I will think of a way……” when Fang Jiyan heard Ning Cheng wanted to walk away, he was suddenly alarmed. He and Ning Cheng had not been together for a long time, but to him it felt that Ning Cheng was a very shameless person. If he did not satisfy Ning Cheng, perhaps Ning Cheng would really disembark, and then afterwards he would throw numerous fireballs from behind to burn up the ship.

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Chapter 0033 – A Different Path

With a rustling sound, several Jade pieces were thrown out.

“What are these Jade pieces?” Ning Cheng did not understand when he saw those Jade pieces, on the contrary he felt a bit strange.

“I heard my master say, that when one practiced their cultivation, one could carve their knowledge into those Jade pieces. Engraving and recording them with your spirit, when compared to writing on a parchment, it can store many many times more information. However it is necessary for one to have a good spiritual talent, otherwise the contents will be invisible.” An Yi whispered with a small voice in Ning Cheng’s ear.

Fang Jiyan said with some contempt in his voice, “What that little girl said is right, the Jade pieces before you contains a lot of records, even I do not know how many records they contain.”

Ning Cheng himself was looking forward to it, and quickly put the Jade pieces away and asked, “Is there anything else?”

“I just gave you the Jade pieces than contain a top class cultivation practice method, a person like you would not be able to finish practicing it anyway, what possibly more could you want?” Fang Jiyan said in a somewhat angry manner.

“For example, you could still give me the Jade pieces containing the Array Formations methods.” Ning Cheng just nonchalantly said.

“Here you go, these are the Jade pieces that contains the basic Array Formations Methods, inside you will find the entry level Foundation Arrays and also an introduction to them.” Fang Jiyan said as he sneered in his heart, with your qualification, you also want to learn Array Formation Methods? Bah!

“Another example would be the Jade pieces that contain information regarding spirit grasses, I will not demand it from you……..”

“Here you go.”

“By the way, I think that if I could have one or two more powerful spells, then I could be able to beat other people, it shouldn’t be much expensive. Of course, I am just casually saying.”

“Here you go.”

Fang Jiyan forced back his anger inside, these things that he gave to Ning Cheng, it was simply a turtle eating the barley, it was a complete waste of food.

[TL Note – For those who are confused, it means that it’s just a waste to throw resources on a person who basically had not talent or future.]

“Thank you, Brother Fang, you really helped me greatly. This time when I was in the Mingot City I saw someone selling a Dan Medicine, my heart was filled with envy, if I could also make immortality pills, in the future I would be able to save up a lot of Lingshi.” Ning Cheng did not even delay for half a minute in front of Fang Jiyan, and still was deeply lamenting while sighing.

Fang Jiyan said with a voice filled with disdain, “Do you want to refine Immortality Pills? Do you even know how difficult Alchemy is? Do you know that even in large families and clans, it is very difficult for them to train a Dan Medicine Master? With you cultivation level, even if there was some chance, I will still advise you to give up on this idea.”

Ning Cheng just disagreed and said, “There is an Immortality Pill auction at the end of the month in the Mingot City, aren’t these Immortality Pill made and refined by humans? If other people can learn them, then why can’t I study them?”

Fang Jiyan sneered, “Can those pieces of garbage even be called as Immortality Pills? Even the best level of their products cannot be regarded as an Immortality Pill. At most those products can only be regarded as Red Pills and nothing more.”

“Red Pill?” Ning Cheng asked immediately, since he did not understand them, now that he had the opportunity, he would not be polite about it.

Fang Jiyan did not grasp the tone in which he said, and directly said, “These people have a limited knowledge about spiritual sense, nor have they inherited the refining procedures of the Immortality Pills, and thus are unable to refine Immortality Pills, they can only make Medicinal Solution Liquid. This so called medicinal liquid, refers to using some simple methods to purify the spirit grasses, and then mixed with each other according to a certain proportion. Red Pills and these medicinal solutions are the same, they do not come out from refining in a furnace, but by solidification of the solution.”

Ning Cheng was stunned, he did not think that refining Immortal Pills was so difficult, after listening to him speaking, those so called high quality medicines that he had referred to as Dan Medicines, that was a little bit too shameless.

Seeing Ning Cheng silent, Fang Jiyan said again, “Even if I am was able to refine Immortality Pills, I do not have any Jade pieces regarding Alchemy to make such pills.”

Ning Cheng knew that Fang Jiyan does not have any Jade pieces regarding alchemy, and said with a depressed voice, “Since it it like that let us forget this matter, I would like to leave now, goodbye.”

Although Fang Jiyan was anxious for Ning Cheng to get out of his ship, but he was also afraid that once Ning Cheng left, he would send out a fireball to burn down the ship, and he reluctantly said, “This is a pretty big ship, if you want you can also stay here…….”

Ning Cheng unhurriedly said, “Brother Fang, the personalities of two of us are different. Your ship is specifically designed to kill people, and also to refine their souls. Me and you also have no common language between us, I am good person, how can I be together with Primordial Spirit Body like you in the same place?”

Having said this, Ning Cheng directly pushed the small boat into the sea, he jumped onto it along with An Yi. I just a blink of the eye, the boat that came from the ship disappeared into the vast waters of the Mingot Sea.

When Fang Jiyan saw that Ning Cheng was not throwing fireballs to attack his ship, he was relieved and at the same time cursed out to them, “The two of them had different personalities, what a load of fart, you little bastard, why don’t you take all my Jade pieces? Take away all the things of your father, besides saying those shameless words once again to my face.”

“Big Brother Ning, I think what you did was right, although that Fang was a senior, but he would just casually kill innocent people, this definitely should not happen.” An Yi stood on the boat, and was in admiration of the decision made by Ning Cheng. She felt that she was really starting to understand Ning Cheng.

Ning Cheng was actually embarrassed and standing on one side of the boat he said, “In fact, I am actually not that refined or noble.”

In this world only the strong would have a place of respect in this world, Ning Cheng will not be as noble or refined as to casually blame Fang Jiyan for killing innocent people casually. The main reason why he had left the ship, was because he was afraid of staying there.

Although this Fang person was just a spirit body, he was already able to shoot groups of such shadowless arrows, the only way he would live together with such a person, was unless he was really tired of living. This Fang Jiyan feared that he would burn his ship, but he also feared Fang Jiyan. If he had the ability to get rid of this Fang Jiyan, perhaps he really would have gotten rid of that guy already. If there was a large ship, who would use a boat? Moreover Ning Cheng knew that burning the boat was something which would harm other without benefiting oneself, Ning Cheng was not brain dead, of course, he would not do such a thing.

An Yi knew that Ning Cheng’s mind was glistening with his intestines, but she still looked at Ning Cheng with an esteemed face and said, “Big Brother Ning, it was fortunate that I met you, if not you, then, I would have to stay back in the Blue Heart Temple, and I think that it would not be easy. As my master had said, perhaps some people might have come there with bad intentions.”

[TL Note – I think what the author meant was that Ning Cheng was pining for the death of Fang Jiyan.]

Ning Cheng did not refute what An Yi had said, he just nodded his head and said, “Before I did not understand anything about Array Formations, and thought that the Blue Heart Temple was a safe place, but I just came to know about it now, it really was not safe there.”

The Array Formation around the Blue Heart Temple, at best, would be able to act against Ning Cheng who was a rookie in this area, but for others it would certainly pose no problem. For someone who was even slightly proficient in the Array Formation Methods, he would be be able to crack it open easily.

“Big Brother Ning, where are we going now?” At this time as they were already in the middle of the sea, and as she depended on Ning Cheng she did not give it any more thought.

“We first start by finding an island nearby to gain experience and to train while simultaneously raising our cultivation levels. After a period of time, the information about us will slowly die down, and then we will go ashore again. Anyway, we have brought more than enough things with us, at least we would not be afraid dying due to starvation.” The boat under Ning Cheng and An Yi could also be stored in the storage bags, and moreover in the storage bags they had enough stockpiles of food and water.

Meanwhile Ning Cheng started to inspect the spoils that he had obtained from Fang Jiyan, An Yi saw that Ning Cheng was occupied with his own matter, and simply rowed the boat.

Miao Wenhong and his servant did not have a storage bag on them, it showed that storage bags were quite rare, the best thing that San Pi had was a low grade artifact. Miu Wenhong estimated that the equipment of San Pi was good enough to have an advantage over them, thus he only gave San Pi a low grade artifact.

As for Miu Wenhong’s articles, apart from some gold coins, there was only some obscene/filthy medicine and the likes. Ning Cheng despised this kind of young master, the kid had advanced to the Qi Gathering 3rd Level, presumably because his spiritual roots were even better than him. This kid placed all his time and energy in the embrace of women’s belly, even carried things related to it on him, there was basically no good stuff that he could use.

Throwing those things into his storage bag with his hands, Ning Cheng began to continue his studies of Array Formation from the books that An Yi had given him. As for the pieces of Jade that were given to him by Fang, Ning Cheng did not use them. He knew that the him now was still weak, and so trying to study from those Jade pieces would not be possible at the moment.

As Ning Cheng researched the basic Array Formation Methods, he once again entered the sudden enlightenment condition. An Yi and Ning Cheng had not been with each other for a short time, she had long since become accustomed to Ning Cheng’s method of learning. She did not disturb Ning Cheng, and at the same time controlled the boat herself, but she often put some food and water nearby Ning Cheng.

Ning Cheng was completely immersed in his state of concentration, in his mind emerged a three dimensional array formation method screen. The orientation of the array formations was unceasingly evolving in his mind, while it was constantly being modified by him.

Five days flashed by, when Ning Cheng turned the last page of the book, he unexpectedly discovered that he had already completed understanding the foundation array formation method.

“I had read the book for several years, but was only able to gain a smattering of knowledge, but I did not expect that in just a half a month you would be able to completely comprehend the entire book.” As An Yi saw Ning Cheng turn over the last page of the book, she said quietly from the side.

She had always been a quite person, although for these past ten days, Ning Cheng and she had never said anything to each other, but she did not feel lonely.

Ning Cheng looked at An Yi with an apologetic look in his eyes, and was just about to speak, when a huge wave rushed over, he and An Yi were directly thrown off the boat. The next moment, the sky turned gloomy, with lightning flashing across the sky, followed by the sound of thunder, and raindrops the size of soybeans started falling densely packed together.

[DemonKiller]

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Chapter 0034 – Deserted Island

Ning Cheng was just planning to arrange a separate Rain Array Formation, when the boat was burst open by the wave, and two rows of dense and sharp white teeth tried to bite Ning Cheng.

This time An Yi reacted unexpectedly quicker than Ning Cheng, sending out a Wind Edge past Ning Cheng, it directly split the sea beast with the sharp white teeth letting it fall back into the sea.

Ning Cheng looked at An Yi in a surprised way, in his view, An Yi was always slower than him in reacting, but now, how did she react this quickly? Although this sea beast was nothing to speak of in front of him, as even a cultivator at the Qi Gathering 1st Realm could take care of it easily, but this reaction speed from An Yi made Ning Cheng see her in a high regard.

Seeing the surprised look on Ning Cheng’s face, An Yi said in a shy manner, “These days, there have been a variety of sea animals attacking our boat, I was prepared all the time, so…..”

Ning Cheng suddenly understood, because he was caught up in the research of the Array Formations, An Yi did not allow these low level sea beasts to disturb his research, so she assumed the task of defending him and the boat from the attacks of those wild sea creatures.

Although the strength of these sea beasts were low, it was a thing that most adventures like to hunt the most. There were many valuable things that one could get from the body of these sea beasts, one of these a sea beasts can easily sell for a few dozen gold coins. Ning Cheng, at present, did not care about gold coins, even if it was Qi Gathering Stones, he did not care about it very much. What he cared about were Ling Shis, in order to practice his cultivation and also increase his Qi, ordinary Qi Gathering Stones were not much use to him.

Another wave arrived, Ning Cheng did not even have the chance to say thanks, when he hurriedly took control of the boat once again. When Ning Cheng was preparing to arrange the Array Formation, he found that he did not even have a single Array Flag, as he basically did not refine any Array Flags. At this point of time, for him, all the Array Formations and the Array Flags, were all theoretical things, at present he could not make them into reality.

The rain was growing harder and harder, and even the waves were growing larger with each passing moment. Ning Cheng and An Yi absolutely did not have any means to take shelter from this rain at this time, the two of them had to control the boat with all their strength, at least they did not want the boat to overturn.

Although Ning Cheng and An Yi were both at Qi Gathering 4th Level, and the heavy rain didn’t seem to stop anytime soon. The two people controlled the boat for the whole day, but unexpectedly it rained harder and harder.

In addition, the waves were also several feet high, although the boat was being controlled by Ning Cheng and An Yi, but it was slowly breaking apart.

A small wooden boat, under this kind of wind and waves, was able to persist for a whole day, it can already be regarded as exceptional.

The boat completely broke apart under the unending storm, and Ning Cheng and An Yi both fell directly into the sea. Ning Cheng first grabbed a wooden plank, and turned to find An Yi, but he could only see a few pieces of An Yi’s clothes. Ning Cheng panicked, while clutching onto the wooden plank, he directly gathered his Qi into his hands and rushed out, grabbed An Yi and held her tight to his bosom.

An Yi was also a cultivator at Qi Gathering 4th Level, but because she did not have any experience of the sea, and as she was constantly fighting the storms and the waves of the sea, she was already very exhausted. Moreover prior to this, she was also constantly taking care of Ning Cheng for nearly a week. At the time when the wooden boat began to split apart, she did not say that she could swim, even if could swim, she would be unable to because of her exhaustion. Fortunately, Ning Cheng was able to react quickly, and caught An Yi with his hands, or else, An Yi feared that she would have been washed away by the rough waves of the sea.

An Yi broke out of the surface of water with the help of Ning Cheng, spat out a few mouthfuls of the sea’s salty water, and said, “Big Brother Ning, are we going to die?”

Ning Cheng was hugging An Yi as he treaded the water, his heart was also gloomy, if he still had the broken wooden plank, maybe he could find a way deal with the situation for some more time, but now he had lost the broken wooden plank, even if he was more powerful, he did not know how long would he be able to persist.

“Big Brother Ning, if the both of us die, will we also become like those soul soldiers, coming in and out of the periphery of the sea everyday?” An Yi said as she unexpectedly thought of the soul soldiers that she heard about back then.

Ning Cheng quickly said, “Don’t go blindly thinking of things, we may not die, as long as the storm stops, we can be perhaps be saved. Well, if we could fly out by riding on the flying sword, we wouldn’t have to be afraid of the waves……”

He did not even speak a few words when a large wave directly crashed onto Ning Cheng, making him plunge into the water again.

After the rough sea wave, An Yi lifted her hand to help Ning Cheng remove her hair that was sticking to his face and said, “Big Brother Ning, it would be better if you let me go, but I am a person who is really afraid. I am not a person who is afraid of death, but I am afraid that I may turn into a soul soldier……”

Ning Cheng was barely holding onto An Yi, but unwillingly said, “Do not be silly, how could I let you go? Death is always death, letting you go is all the same, if two people go with each other at least both of them will have a companion. I have already died once, and if I die once again, perhaps I can still go back…….”

“Big Brother Ning, does a girlfriend have the same meaning as fiance?” An Yi saw that Ning Cheng suddenly turned silent and did not finish his words, and suddenly took the initiative to ask.

Initially An Yi had asked Ning Cheng about his girlfriend, but at that time they were suddenly interrupted by those two cultivators who were flying about and fighting with each other. Ning Cheng did not expect that An Yi would ask about it again in this situation?

Ning Cheng was just thinking about Ning Ruolan a moment ago, but now he was thinking of Tian Muwan, this time he did not know if he would survive, now that An Yi had asked again, he did not conceal anything and replied directly, “A girlfriend is not a fiancee, to want a girlfriend to become ones fiancee, you have to propose to her and get engaged.”

“Is she your girlfriend because you forgot to propose to her, so did you both ended up in a fight because of that?”

Ning Cheng sighed and said, “That’s not it, that person who is currently is my fiance went in that person’s car in front of me, although I know that she might have done it intentionally, but with my personality I just can’t accept it, I think…..”

An Yi face suddenly changed, and said in a fierce tone, “Big Brother Ning, who is this shameless woman? You still bring her up…….”

Another rough sea wave hit them, Ning Cheng by now had a bit of experience, and holding onto An Yi plunged into the water, escaping the waves in the process, and once again brought their heads up to the surface.

Wiping the water from his face, Ning Cheng forcibly smiled and said, “An Yi, you mentioned something a moment ago, but I never originally mentioned her.”

In the meantime, in his heart, he was speechless, he knew An Yi hasn’t been to Earth, so this kind of viewpoint can be considered normal. This sense of shame were simply two different things, rather Ning Cheng had no way to explain this kind of thing to An Yi.

“Sorry, Big Brother Ning, I should not have brought it up.” An Yi felt Ning Cheng’s sadness, suddenly even her heart did not feel that good. She had always followed her master to practice cultivation together, but together with Ning Cheng, she felt that she could speak up a little more than with her master.

“An Yi, did you look at those sea beasts that had surprise attacked us?” Ning Cheng said as he subconsciously embraced An Yi tightly, but his heart was cold as ice.

A dense cluster of those sea beasts were approaching Ning Cheng and An Yi, each of those sea beast’s eyes were filled with a bloodthirsty tint, as their sharp white teeth shone. It was obvious that they were seeing them as their prey.

“It’s a type of canine…..” An Yi was in a state of panic, it was inconceivable for her, if the two of them were to be attacked by that dense cluster of sea beasts, then there would not even be a shred of meat left behind.

Ning Cheng took out the flying sword, holding the sword in one of his hands, he darted to the front of the dozens of those sea beasts, and started to directly tear them apart with the sword. These sharp toothed sea beasts immediately surrounded those dead sea beasts, they were entirely eating up their dead comrades that Ning Cheng had cut up just now.

The waves seemed to be getting smaller and smaller, and actually did not crash over them for a long time, but for Ning Cheng it was getting harder every passing moment, he was wielding the flying sword continuously as he killed those sea beasts, while holding An Yi and retreating back as much as possible. Because of the sea’s resistance, he could not increase his speed.

Wanting to survive at any cost, Ning Cheng erupted with an unprecedented power and strength, he took An Yi as he was retreating while killing, unexpectedly, he went on like this for more than half a day. Those sharped toothed sea beasts were just too much, as soon as he killed some, he would have to kill many more.

“An Yi…..” Ning Cheng was going to say that he did not have any more strength to continue, when a piece of reef appeared in front of him.

An Yi also saw the piece of reef at the same time, she was about to speak, when Ning Cheng joyfully shouted, “We have arrived at an island……”

Speaking that, Ning Cheng once again erupted with the last amount of strength that he could muster, with An Yi clutched to his bosom, he started to pick up speed, and eventually rushed out of the water and unexpectedly fell onto the reef on the outer periphery of the island.

After taking a few steps into the island, he could not go any further and fell onto the ground saying, ”Finally escaped with our lives……”

Ning Cheng suddenly stopped speaking, he just stared at An Yi who was pressing her body onto him.

To be honest, Ning Cheng had never regarded An Yi as an adult, but the An Yi now had her clothes completely soaked which showed her exquisite womanly shapes which could even be compared to the best of the women.

Ning Cheng had a unique feeling in his heart, this little nun usually is ordinary at all times, just did her bosom get so big?

[DemonKiller]

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Chapter 0035 – Lansha Island

An Yi did not realize that she was completely exposed in front of Ning Cheng, but instead was tightly holding onto Ning Cheng, and was even trembling.

“An Yi…..” Ning Cheng was just going to ask An Yi if she was alright, but he felt that something was not right, he and An Yi were completely surrounded by a foggy haze, even An Yi’s snow white chest was blocked out by the fog, and appeared indistinctly.

“There are soul souldiers……” An Yi said in a trembling voice, she seemed very afraid of the soul soldiers.

Ning Cheng already threw An Yi’s chest problems aside in his mind, and instantly sat up, he simply refused to be exhausted, he immediately grabbed An Yi and hid behind a protruding piece of rock.

A headless man carrying his head in his hand was slowly moving forward in the foggy haze. After the headless man walked a few steps forward, he suddenly removed his bloody palm from the head in his hands, and then immediately plugged it into the mouth of the head. The head in his other hand, unexpectedly began to slowly chew on that bloody palm.

Ning Cheng’s scalp was tingling unceasingly, even when he was on that Fang’s ship, he did not have this kind of eerie feeling.

After the head completely chewed through the bloody hand, it suddenly turned its head in their direction, the two grey eyes were like dying embers and were staring directly in the direction where Ning Cheng and An Yi were hiding, there was even blood dripping from the corners of its mouth.

Ning Cheng felt his heart turn cold, but at the same time the Mysterious Yellow Bead sent out a strand of Qi again, driving the ice cold feeling out of his body.

Fortunately, it did not seem that that headless man knew that Ning Cheng and An Yi were hiding in the direction he was looking, and it leisurely walked away into the foggy haze disappearing from their view.

“Big Brother, that soul soldier did not have a head…….” An Yi spoke with a bit tremor in her voice, apparently she had not seen such a strange and frightful scene before.

Ning Cheng spoke while lowering his voice, “An Yi, I suspect that it was not a soul soldier that we had first met, we have just arrived on this island. Now suddenly there is a lot of fog around, it simply makes us not see thing clearly. Here it is very likely to be an Array Formation, perhaps it is an Illusion Array Formation. A person that had no head, simply does not exist, it is an illusion produced by our own minds.”

Although he was comforting An Yi, Ning Cheng in his heart was not completely sure either, he could not confirm if that was an illusion or not, because it felt way too real.

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the fog gradually disappeared, and Ning Cheng and An Yi were again able to see the original island that was in front of them.

“I know, this is the Lansha Island.” Ning Cheng finally had something that clicked in his mind, he felt that the surroundings were somewhat familiar, it was clearly depicted in the route map provided to them by that Taoist Pu.

Ning Cheng never forgot the details, although he had already thrown away the two route maps, but the Array Formation that was drawn in the route map, he still remembered it clearly. The blue sands in the outer periphery of the Lansha Island were actually the Array Formations, that was in front of them.

“What do we do now? I heard that a Golden Cicada Fruit Tree appeared here, it would mean that there will be a lot of people coming over.” said An Yi when heard Ning Cheng say that this island was the Lansha Island, she asked this in a bit worried voice.

Ning Cheng immediately said, “That Taoist Pu wanted us to join their team, they absolutely did not have any good intentions towards us. No matter if this Taoist Pu had already come over before the 15th of that month or during the 15th of this month, currently we do not have sufficient strength to act against them. There are still 15 days till this Island opens once again for the people, we first have to find a safe place to hide.”

If there was even a boat around, Ning Cheng wanted to leave this place as soon as possible. Unfortunately, there was not even a boat around let alone a ship, they simply could not walk away from here. He did not believe that he could obtain the Golden Cicada Fruit, this kind of thing like the Golden Cicada Fruit, it was not something that was easy to obtain, how could that Taoist Pu and the others who were only at the Qi Gathering 3rd Level obtain it?

Ning Cheng and An Yi did not dare to enter the heart of the island, they were walking along the edge of the island for more than an hour, finally they found a huge rock on the side of the island.

Ning Cheng took out the low grade artifact that he had obtained after their confrontation with San Pi, it was a long knife, seeking a secluded place for them to hide, he began to dig with the help of the artifact. Ning Cheng was cultivator at the Qi Gathering 4th Level, in addition he had a low grade artifact, but at the same time he did not cherish that artifact, in as little as half a day, Ning Cheng was able to dig out a huge rocky cavern from the huge stone.

At this time An Yi had already changed into a fresh set of clothes, and followed Ning Cheng into the new cave he had dug out of the huge rock. They had only just entered the freshly made cave, when the foggy haze enveloped the outside once again.

“It is very strange here, I have to find a way to refine some Array Flags, then we can arrange an Array Formation to seal up the entrance. An Yi, you already have the Ling Shis with you, it’s better if you start practicing your cultivation first.” Said Ning Cheng as he saw the fog outside getting more concentrated as every moment passed by, he was secretly glad that he ended up making the right choice. If he was still in the fog, perhaps he would have already lost his sense of direction and would directly enter into the heart of the island.

An Yi also did not have any objections to the views of Ning Cheng, she knew that Ning Cheng’s cultivation practice needed a huge amount of Ling Shis, the small amount of Ling Shis in her possession were meaningless to him, it might be better if she used those for her own cultivation practice. Waiting for her to advance to a higher cultivation level, she would then help Ning Cheng in going out to look Ling Shis for his cultivation.

Seeing An Yi starting to practice her cultivation, Ning Cheng also took out some materials to start refining an Array Flag. He had never studied refining Array Flags, but inside the books for the basic Array Formation Methods, it did have some simple introductions to it. After two days of exploration and a number of tests, Ning Cheng unexpectedly refined some First Level Array Flags. Though they were still a bit rough, but these Array Flags can be arranged to form a First Level Array Formation.

But Ning Cheng was still very unsatisfied, he was somewhat regretting that he did not ask that Fang for several pieces of jade regarding refining. At this time he was very clear, refining and Array Formations were really closely linked. He was very clear that if he did not learn Refining, then he could not become a good Array Master.

Thinking that Array Formations and Refining were very closely linked, Ning Cheng Sighed, Refining was never easier than Alchemy i.e. refining pills of immortality. The Mysterious Yellow Bead could only help in correcting the Cultivation Methods, it actually can’t help him in quickly master the skills of Alchemy and Refining. It appears that even if he mastered more theories of Array Formations, it was unlikely that he would become a powerful Array Master.

After arranging the First Level Concealment Array Formation at the entrance of the cave, Ning Cheng began to take out the several pieces of Jade that he had obtained from Fang. On one of the two pieces of jade for the magical spells, Ning Cheng could not even see a single word. He did not know if his own cultivation level was too low for it or if the Jade piece given to him by Fang was a fake.

Ning Cheng again took out the four pieces of Jade that contained cultivation practice methods, the first one he was not able to see, the second one also he could not see anything, the same with the third one …….

Ning Cheng in his heart felt that he was cheated by Fang, even if he was unable to see everything from the Jade Pieces, with the help of the Mysterious Yellow Bead he could correct the cultivation practice method, making it even more stronger that what the other average Qi Gathering cultivators were practicing. But now he was unable to see even a single word, if that Fang did not lie to him, then what was this?

With this view in mind, Ning Cheng picked up the fourth jade piece, but this time something changed, in the fourth piece Ning Cheng was actually able to read some things while sweeping it with his spiritual sense.

“Wishful Mysterious Wood Tactic……”

Words started to appear in front of Ning Cheng which were no problem to him, but the words that were behind them were becoming more fuzzy, all Ning Cheng could see was ‘Qi Gathering into Building Yuan, achieving Qi Condensation is true’ at this time, his mind started to hurt, and was unable to look again. However, Ning Cheng had an abnormal memory, as long as he had seen it once he could not simply forget about it.

It was wood based cultivation practice method, Ning Cheng closed his eyes and carefully thought about this cultivation practice method again. After discovering this cultivation practice method, he wanted to see how much further ahead the corrected and modified cultivation practice method would be when compared to the original.

Ning Cheng did not want to practice this cultivation practice method, he was thinking about An Yi. At this time An Yi was practising her cultivation, after Ning Cheng heard the words of Fang, he was thinking about An Yi’s cultivation practice method which seemed to be very general. He interrupted An Yi who was cultivating and asked, “An Yi, what is your spiritual root? Also what cultivation practice method are you using for cultivation?”

An Yi whose eyes were closed just a moment before as she cultivated, opened her eyes and said, “My main spiritual root is of wood, and the cultivation practice method that I can use is ‘Wooden Tactics’. My master said, if I wanted to enter into the Qi Condensation Realm, then I had to find a new powerful cultivation practice method.”

“Only wood cultivation methods ah, it should be one of the most low grade cultivation methods. Fang gave me this cultivation method, it is the Mysterious Wooden Wishful Tactics, I cannot use it, I am leaving it to you for practicing it.” Ning Cheng said, as he put the Jade Piece in the hands of An Yi.

“Mysterious Wood Tactic? This should be a Black Level Cultivation Method, my master had not seen something like this, if that Fang had given this to you, then he really must be rich.”

An Yi just took a look at the jade piece, and exclaimed in surprise. Even if she did had a strong last name, receiving a Black Level Cultivation Method would really make anyone excited. She certainly knew how precious a Black Level Cultivation Practice method is, her master had said that even in a Three Star Academy, may not even have a few black level cultivation practice methods.

Most Cultivation Practice methods are classified into low level, followed by the True level, and then the higher one were classified as the Black Level. But after the Black level there was another level of cultivation practice methods known as the Advanced Day Level cultivation practice methods, but they were simply stuff of the legends.

Even if An Yi did not have a powerful surname, receiving a black level cultivation practice method, she just couldn’t wait to start reading and practicing it. Unfortunately her spiritual sense’s strength was less than that of Ning Cheng, she basically could not see even a single word.

Seeing An Yi’s facial expression, Ning Cheng understood that she could not see even a single word from the Jade Piece, and simply said, “I will narrate it to you, you just write it down OK.”

An Yi knew that Ning Cheng was able to read the contents of the Jade Piece and did not feel strange about it, as she spent more time together with Ning Cheng, she was becoming more and more comfortable with the strange affairs of Ning Cheng.

Although An Yi’s memory was quite good, but it was far from being compared with Ning Cheng’s memory which was simply abnormal. Ning Cheng had already demonstrated it several times before, An Yi was fully confident that Ning Cheng would have already completely memorised the Mysterious Wooden Wishful Tactics.

“Big Brother Ning, do you want me to change my cultivation practice method to ‘Mysterious Wooden Wishful Tactics’.” An Yi said after taking a look at the ‘Mysterious Wooden Wishful Tactics’ Cultivation Practice Method, it was immediately clear that it was much more powerful than her own ‘Wood Drive’ cultivation practice method, but she did not know how many time more powerful it was.

Ning Cheng was the same as An Yi, they did not know that changing a Cultivation Practice Method although it was dangerous, but because the cultivation practice method was much better, so of course they would definitely change to the new and powerful cultivation practice method, this type of thing was not nothing new.

Ning Cheng was just about to approve An Yi’s words, when suddenly a delicate fragrance spread into the cave coming from the entrance. Ning Cheng sniffed it a few time, and he suddenly felt refreshed. He subconsciously stood up, “What’s that smell? It seems similar to the smell of a Spiritual Fruit, or something like that, I think…..”

“It is the Golden Cicada Fruit.” An Yi also stood up, Ning Cheng had read about it in the books of Spiritual Grasses that he had got from An Yi, Ning Cheng was able to tell that it was the smell of the Golden Cicada Fruit from that book, it was obvious that she would also know about it.

“Is it really a Golden Cicada Fruit?” Ning Cheng said in a tone that was filled with excitement.

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Chapter 0036 – Entering The Heart Of Lansha Island

“Is it really the Golden Cicada Fruit?” Ning Cheng said in a tone that was brimming with excitement.

He did not want to enter the heart of the Lansha Island, not because he despised the Golden Cicada Fruit, but he knows that him going there would be useless. His cultivation base was simply too low, he cannot simply go and grab the Golden Cicada Fruit. Moreover he suspected that the fruit was not really the Golden Cicada Fruit.

He could also clearly see that those students from the Clear Heart Academy were also going to the Lansha Island for the Golden Cicada Fruit, and also the worst cultivation level among that group was Qi Gathering 6th Level, if he took something wouldn’t the others be able to snatch the Golden Cicada Fruit from him easily?

“This is not right, An Yi, today does not seems to be the fifteenth of the month, how can we even smell the aroma of the Golden Cicada Fruit? Did that Taoist Pu deceive us by telling us those things?” Ning Cheng said as he immediately remembered that Taoist Pu had mentioned that one could only enter the Array Formation only on the 15th of every month.

“Big Brother Ning…….” An Yi was just about to call out to Ning Cheng, when she saw in his eyes what Ning Cheng wanted to do.

If they did not smell the aroma of the Golden Cicada Fruit, Ning Cheng would certainly would not have moved, in his view, even if there was a Golden Cicada Fruit, it’s not that he could not get it, but rather the him now he might not even find the Golden Cicada Fruit.

But now it was different, he could clearly smell the aroma of the Golden Cicada Fruit. This indicated that as long as he followed the direction from which the aroma originated, he could certainly arrive at the Golden Cicada Fruit.

This issue could not be directly neglected by Ning Cheng, practicing cultivation in this place, if such a fruit like the Golden Cicada Fruit appeared in front of him, if he still remained unconcerned, then what kind of opportunity could he even speak of? What was chance and opportunity? He would have to take care of this chance and opportunity immediately.

In the Ping Continent, the Golden Cicada Fruit was one of the most valuable kind of Spiritual Fruit, it can help a cultivator at the Qi Gathering Realm to successfully advance to the Qi Condensation Realm. This kind of thing, how could he give up? If he gave up this time, maybe he would no longer see it. What’s more, perhaps the Golden Cicada Fruit here was ripe, since there was no one here, this was just the right moment to meet.

“An Yi, I decided to go look for the Golden Cicada Fruit, you stay here and wait for me. If I don’t come back, you wait till your Ling Shis are exhausted, and then look for opportunities to leave this Lansha Island.” Ning Cheng said in a determined voice.

Those words spoken by Ning Cheng, it surprised An Yi as she directly stood up from the ground on which she was practicing and said, “Big Brother Ning, I am coming with you. If you went away, my stay here will be very lonely, I really am very afraid of those soul soldiers.”

Ning Cheng scratched his head and said, “An Yi, I told you, I always wanted to return to my home. My hometown is very far away, and my cultivation is simply very poor and cannot go back. I do not know to what extent would I have to practice cultivation before I can go back, but I do not want to give up, therefore if there is any opportunity for me to advance in my cultivation level, I do not want to let it go.”

“I know that the opportunity to go back is very slim, but no matter how slim the chances are, I will still try to go back. This time if we went to look for the Golden Cicada Fruit together, it would certainly be tough to escape, but I can not give up this opportunity, you must go. You are different from me, your home is here, there is no need for you to accompany me.”

“Big Brother Ning, why do you have to go back to your hometown, isn’t the Ping Continent not good? We even go to the other continents. Before in the Mingot City, the people from the Clear Heart Academy said something about the enrollment examination of the Clear Heart Academy, we can even go to the Clear Heart Academy. Is it because your girlfriend is in your hometown, therefore you are so worried about it?” An Yi asked carefully.

Ning Cheng shook his head and said, “It is not because of her, it is because of my sister. I have a younger sister, without me, she must be very worried. Unfortunately, I cannot go back to her. Therefore I want to practice cultivation, so that one day when my cultivation base is high enough, I could go back.”

“Big Brother Ning, I will come with you to find the Golden Cicada Fruit.” said An Yi simply after listening to his words, she did not give any reason or explanation again.

Ning Cheng looked at An Yi’s determined and firm look, knew that continuing to persuade her would be useless. He just helplessly nodded and said, “All right, but you must always stick to me. With us two together, at least we will not be lonely if death approaches.”

Since Ning Cheng knew that until he cultivates to the Building Yuan Realm, only then would he be able to leave the Ping Continent, as for returning to Earth he knew that it was extremely uncertain if he could accomplish it. But as he said, even if there was even the slightest chance, he did not want to give up on it. Don’t give up, even if there was the slightest of chance, if he gave up that opportunity, he knew that there would not be a second one.

God had given him a chance, letting him have the Mysterious Yellow Bead. This Mysterious Yellow Bead went against the will of the heavens, but also needed a large amount of Ling Shis to help him in practicing cultivation, not only that it also required a lot of spiritual grasses. He did not have any family, he even could not enter into the doors of any Academy, if he did not go desperately looking for various magical things, then who would help him? Besides, even if he wanted to be disciple of an Academy, there would be no such Academy that would take him, who would give him heaps of Ling Shis just to practice his cultivation.

……

Ning Cheng led An Yi carefully to the entrance of the reef cave, and directly followed the direction from which the fragrant aroma of the Golden Cicada Fruit came. After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, that indistinct foggy haze shrouded them once more, Ning Cheng could only vaguely see An Yi close to him.

Ning Cheng grabbed An Yi’s hand, he knows that in this place, if one of them was lost, then the two of them could never be able to be together again.

“Pata, Pata…..” There was a sound of footsteps approaching, Ning Cheng and An Yi immediately stopped.

The footsteps were getting closes, but to the horror of Ning Cheng he could not even see anyone’s shadow, he could only hear the sounds of the footsteps non stop.

Suddenly, the footsteps stopped, it seems that whatever it was, was just a few meters in front of Ning Cheng. An Yi also subconsciously tightened her grip on Ning Cheng, she was just like Ning Cheng, she also could see who those footsteps belonged to.

A kind of cold wave hit them, in Ning Cheng’s eyes there suddenly appeared a bright and clear path, Ning Cheng was just about to pull An Yi onto the path, when the Mysterious Yellow Bead emitted a burst of Qi. This burst of Qi invaded Ning Cheng and the cloudy and cold feeling was instantly dissipated from his body, immediately “patter” sounds of the footsteps that Ning Cheng heard had also gone.

“Big Brother Ning, I just now saw a path a moment ago, but that path quickly disappeared, I think it was a fake.” An Yi already understood that path she and Ning Cheng was a fake.

Ning Cheng muttered, “This Mingot Sea Area and the Lansha Island are somewhat strange, before there were soul soldiers, then a man without a head, and now footsteps without people. We cannot go on like this, wait a minute.”

Ning Cheng slightly hesitated for a moment and then he said, “According to the route map of Taoist Pu, I feel that the route map that he gave us was real.”

An Yi just humphed and did not speak again.

After Ning Cheng recalled the route map of the Lansha Island given to him by Taoist Pu, he immediately changed directions. He had committed the route map of the Lansha Island to his memory, in addition he could also use one or two Array Formations himself although only low level ones, so after taking just a few step he arrived to find himself in front of a small bend in the road.

When Ning Cheng and An Yi found this curved path, the fog surrounding them also grew a bit lighter. Not only that, the aroma of the Golden Cicada Fruit was getting more concentrated as they moved forward.

“That map is right, let us hurry up.” Ning Cheng said as he tightened his grip on An Yi, as he turned on the small curved path from time to time. Their speed was also getting faster and faster, they also did not encounter anything strange in their path.

After an hour, Ning Cheng and An Yi stopped, in front of them there was no longer a path, the route map given to them by Taoist Pu only led so far.

“There is no way ahead.” Ning Cheng said as stared in front of the curved path that disappeared and frowned. He also knows that there was also a Battle Array Formation, unfortunately, that Array Formation was too advanced, currently he had no way to find the correct path.

“Big Brother Ning, the aroma of the Golden Cicada Fruit seems to have disappeared.” An Yi said suddenly.

Ning Cheng was paying careful attention to the path in front of him, at that time he did not pay attention to the aroma of the Golden Cicada Fruit, when An Yi said those words before he could even react. He was not even aware that the aroma of the Golden Cicada Fruit had disappeared.

“An Yi, you stay close to me, I am going down this road, if it is not right, we will come back again.” After Ning Cheng carefully explained to An Yi, he carefully advanced step by step into the curving path.

“Boom……” Ning Cheng had just taken a step forward on this path, when he heard a loud bang in front of him.

At this point of time Ning Cheng was paying attention to everything very carefully, when he heard the first muffled boom, he wanted to turn back to the original path, but when he looked back at the path he found that it had already disappeared. It was as if they were taken out of thin air, around him there were only weeds and rock around him.

“An Yi…..” Ning Cheng felt that something was wrong, and discovered that he did not know when An Yi had disappeared. Next to him there was a hazy fog all around, where did An Yi’s shadow go?

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Chapter 0037 – Blood Red Walls Of The Courtyard

Ning Cheng in his heart was suddenly shocked, if An Yi ended up lost in this place then there was no way that he would be able to find her, it was really a narrow escape from death.

“Big Brother Ning……” a panic stricken voice sounded out, Ning Cheng on listening to it immediately knew that An Yi was safe.

At this time Ning Cheng did not think if this sound was really false, and threw himself directly towards the direction of the voice. Immediately he saw in the faint hazy shadow of the frightened An Yi, the distance between him and An Yi was less than 2 meters.

Ning Cheng immediately stepped in front of An Yi and raised his hand to grab An Yi’s hand and said, “What’s the matter, An Yi? I clearly was holding your hand before, how did you come here?”

The hand of An Yi that he was holding was icy cold, but when Ning Cheng caught her hand, the Qi from the mysterious Yellow Bead automatically cleansed the icy cold feeling out of her body. At this time he did not have the time to think how An Yi had suddenly disappeared from his side, nor did he find anything suspicious.

By rights, because of the strange disappearance, he should not have found her so easily.

After An Yi’s hand was grabbed by Ning Cheng, her pale complexion finally turned a bit healthy, she subconsciously approached Ning Cheng, and just said, “Just when I stepped onto the curved path, I found that you were not around. Then I saw a huge back claw grab me, and I was unable to speak. Just before the dark claw was going to pull me, suddenly on my chest a dark yellow light emerged that blocked that jet black claw, and then I screamed out.”

“A dark yellow light emerged from your chest?” Ning Cheng immediately remembered that just before her master died, she had given An Yi a Yellow Jade Pendant, that jade pendant was hanging on An Yi’s chest. Was it that jade pendant that protected An Yi?

Regardless of if it was true or not, this place was somewhat strange,

Ning Cheng took out a string and tied it to his and An Yi’s wrists connecting them together, “An Yi, you and I are going to walk side by side, so that I can avoid not seeing you.”

“This is …..” Ning Cheng was just speaking to An Yi, when he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

In front of An Yi and him appeared a towering blood red walls, the walls seemed to be endless, there was simply no end to it in sight. As to what was on the other side of the wall, it couldn’t be seen. At this point he and An Yi were in front of a door of the wall directly on the Bluestone Road that they were walking on.

This Bluestone path lead directly to the door on the blood red walls, the front of the door on the walls was unlatched. For a long time the aroma of the Golden Cicada Fruit did not appear, about this Ning Cheng was very clear, but now the aroma of the Golden Cicada Fruit was coming out from the other side of the wall through the unlatched door.

“Big Brother Ning, the Golden Cicada Fruit seems to be on the other the red walls, it seems that this big wall were actually build by the seniors who lived here?” An Yi whispered in the ear of Ning Cheng.

“This is not right……” Ning Cheng was in his mind very clear, he discovered that he could clearly see the front courtyard clearly, he could even see the path leading to it clearly. However in his peripheral vision, and also behind him, it was completely fuzzy.

Ning Cheng forced his Qi to circulate in his body, he did not cultivate the Mysterious Wood Tactics, but rather he practiced his Clan’s modified cultivation practice method, when the Qi of a cultivator is already powerful enough, he would be able to control his Qi actively, and can make his eyes to see more clearly.

At this point he was forcing his Qi to circulate in his body, and wanted to to see if he could see the things around him more clearly. In the next moment, around 1 meter of area around him appeared a bit fuzzy within his consciousness.

This was the result of using his spiritual sense? Ning Cheng had just thought of bringing his spiritual sense to the outside, and was already able to see around one meter around him, before it disappeared once again.

“Are we going in?” An Yi whispered, she suddenly did not want to enter those bloody red walls, she felt that the bloody red walls were a bit strange.

Ning Cheng waved his hand, and once more forced his spiritual sense out of his body, this time he could see an area that was slightly larger than before, his viewing area seemed to have been increased to 1.5 meters. A vague vision of a person appeared within his spiritual sense, this figure seemed to be staring at him and An Yi, and seemed to be lifeless.

Ning Cheng was shocked, he did not think of anything, and sent out a Flame Edge towards it chopping it into two. After he heard a sharp cry, the shadowy figure in front of Ning Cheng disappeared without a trace because of Ning Cheng’s Fire Edge.

Ning Cheng was relieved, although these forms were unable to be perceived by one’s eyes completely, but once they were perceived by his spiritual sense, as long as he could throw out a Flame Edge it could be resolved. From this, he found that using one’s spiritual sense made one much more powerful that just using one’s eye. At this moment Ning Cheng made a firm resolve, when he was practicing cultivation, he must not neglect practicing and strengthening his spiritual sense.

“What’s going on? Big Brother Ning?” An Yi asked as she did not understand why Ning Cheng threw out a Flame Edge suddenly, but the sharp cry that she had heard was crystal clear.

Ning Cheng waved his hand again, and cast out his spiritual sense once again. This time several shadowy figures appeared within his spiritual sense, among a few of those figures Ning Cheng could even feel a breath of life emanating from them. He immediately knew that these few figures and the others were different, it seemed that there were more people in this place that just them. Ning Cheng hurriedly took An Yi and retreated back a few step, hiding in a patch of grass behind them.

When those figures arrived from the curved path in front of the blood red walls of the courtyard in front of the path, Ning Cheng could see them clearly. There were a total of eight people, of these eight people, Ning Cheng even knew four of them. Taoist Pu, Feng Feizhang, Tian Fei and Miao Xiuming.

After the eight people arrived from the curved road, they immediately saw the blood red walls, but at the same time they also noticed that the door was ajar.

“Thats right, this is definitely the aroma of the Golden Cicada Fruit, it really is here, it also seems that this wall was built around it. If I had not sniffed the aroma, I was thinking that we were going in the wrong way.” One of the Qi Gathering 3rd Level cultivator who had just stepped off from the curved path and had narrow slit like eyes, called out in surprise.

Taoist Pu just said with a sneer, “Xue Sinian, do not blame me for not reminding you. Even if this place was to somehow disappear, it would be a normal thing, we eight people arrived here after breaking the Array Formation by working together, otherwise you probably would have disappeared a long time ago.”

“Yes Yes, what Brother Pu said was right, if not for the route map for the Array Formation provided by Brother Pu, we would not have been able to come here. Brother Po’s warning, I have already taken it to heart.” That slit eyed cultivator thought that this Taoist Pu wanted to reaffirm his role in the group, and hurriedly repeated those words many times.

Taoist Pu also did not bother to remind the guy about his role in breaking the Array Formation, it seems that the Array Flags Identifiers and the Array Formation Route Map path were inexplicably missing. Fortunately, now that they have reached the blood red wall in front of them, even if the Flag Identifiers was lost, the problem would not be too great.

“Brother Xue, I would like to remind you that you not only play a role in this Array Formation, but also remind you that you should not lose your Flame character.” Feng Feizhang understood the meaning of Taoist Pu.

Taoist Pu did not continue to explain, and just said, “After we enter through the blood red walls of the courtyard through the door, do not rush inside, listen to my instructions, each of us eight people will occupy a corner, and we will then proceed to break open the Defencive Array Formation around the Golden Cicada Fruit.”

“Of Course, we will listen to your instructions of Brother Pu, Brother Pu just say the word.” Miao Xiuming immediately echoed out, indicating the he insisted on standing on Taoist Pu’s side.

Taoist Pu nodded and said, ”There are already a lot of people who by now have gotten hold of the Lansha Island’s route map, but they think that they can only come here on the 15th of every month. What they absolutely do not know, is that the Golden Cicada Fruit matures rapidly by the 10th. Unfortunately, many of them did not have the power to break the Array Formation and thus failed, even if they knew about it, they would only come here to die. Today is the ninth day, it is exactly the time that suits us to break the Array Formation, and then we can take the Golden Cicada Fruit away.”

Ning Cheng in his heart was cursing Taoist Pu for being so shameless, as he himself said that they could only arrive on the 15th, but fortunately, he arrived at the Lansha Island first. And moreover this guy even had the Flame mark of the talisman, but did not disclose it to the other. If not for him, An Yi would have been one of his victims and would have almost disappeared.

Taoist Pu led the other people to the front of the slightly open door, and pushed it open carefully. The slightly opened door gave out a loud ‘squeak’ sound, it was not exactly loud but it seemed to pierce through and grab at their hearts making them feel uncomfortable.

Looking at the eight people entering the open door from the side, Ning Cheng dispelled the idea of going in behind them. They had not yet entered the blood red walls, but have already seen so many strange and weird things, once they went inside, would that even be good? It was not that he was afraid of getting into trouble, but because his cultivation was very poor, only at the Qi Gathering 4th Level. The Golden Cicada Fruit was definitely good, but it was also possible that he would have to fight for his life in the present situation, it was not worthwhile to gamble with his life in that manner.

Ning Cheng did not plan to go, since the Golden Cicada Fruit was in front of him, he was not the kind of person who would be courteous towards such a shameless person. Ning Cheng already vaguely felt that there was some problems with that Taoist Pu, even though the route map and the Array Formation Breaking Methods were provided by Taoist Pu, and even proposing to divide the things equally, he believed that this Taoist Pu was not this kind of a classy guy. But now with those eight people inside, he could not think of how Taoist Pu would use the other seven for his own purpose.

Ning Cheng also did not follow them inside for two reasons, one was he did not know how to get out of that place, and the other was he wanted to kill that Taoist Pu.

Before in the Beast Carriage, that Taoist Pu used the others to blackmail him into joining his team, if he did not do something about this hatred, then this was not Ning Cheng. Moreover, if Taoist Pu came out from the inside of the blood red walls, then it would also mean that he would have obtained the good stuff.

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Waiting for the time to pass, on the first day Ning Cheng and An Yi could only hear an intermittent dull thumping sound coming from the inside of the dark red walls. At the start, the interval between the dull thumping sounds was very short, but as the time passed the interval between the dull thumping noises was getting longer and longer while the sound was getting weaker and weaker.

The next day, Ning Cheng and An Yi could not even hear even half a sound coming from inside, the eight people who entered the blood red walls, it was as if mud falling into the sea, it was completely lifeless without any sound.

Ning Cheng did not have to confidence to continue to stay there for longer periods of time, if he continued to stay there, maybe in a few days, many people would start to reach the island. Moreover he had a strange and vague feeling that this fog seemed to have a pair of eyes staring at him and An Yi which made him very uncomfortable.

“Big Brother Ning, I am always feeling that someone is calling for me, wanting me to enter the blood red walls. If you did not hold onto me, I am afraid I wouldn’t be able to resist it.” An Yi whispered into Ning Cheng’s ear.

Ning Cheng was about to speak, when the door in the blood red wall again sent out a ‘squeak’, as Taoist Pu crazily rushed out from the inside. This time that Taoist Pu had disheveled look on him, what happened to his calm appearance from before?