“Can’t we go with you?” Xu Yingdei spoke in a timid voice.
Yin Kongchan shot a meaningful glance at Xu Yingdei; it seemed as if Xu Yingdei’s character had changed overnight.
“Don’t worry, otherwise you would not feel good even if you went to the Ya Lun City.” Ning Cheng spoke while he walked towards the lake.
Ma Ang quickly took out a leather bag and handed it to Ning Cheng before speaking, “After you go down into the lake, you can tie this pouch to your back; the pouch has a pipe that you can grasp with your mouth, when you feel like breathing just suck on the pipe. It would help you in staying under the lake for a longer time.”
“This is truly a good thing.” Ning Cheng smiles, he couldn’t help but think that it was a simplified oxygen cylinder.
Seeing Ning Cheng go down the lake, Xu Yingdei and Yin Kongchan started becoming nervous as they strained all their senses towards the lake. At the same time, they also paid careful attention to the people who had suddenly came here to harvest the Aquatic Essence Tendons.
Fortunately, these people were different from the two men that they had met before. Not only were they polite, but they were also very enthusiastic. Soon the two of them become a bit more familiar with the two other women from their group, even borrowing a set of clothes from them.
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As Ning Cheng entered the lake, once again, the shadows came out, but once these shadows met Ning Cheng’s tri edged thorn, they immediately took the initiative to retreat.
In just a short time, Ning Cheng once again arrived at the bottom of the lake. Once he reached the bottom of the lake, he could vaguely see some of the scenery, although it was vague, but he could still see that the bottom of the lake was full of large swaths of those long aquatic grasses.
With the help of Ning Cheng’s tri edged thorn, he was able to cut apart the aquatic grasses just as if he was harvesting wheat. In just a short time, he had already collected a big bunch.
At the lake, Ma Ang and the others who were nervously waiting for Ning Cheng. They did not have to wait for long when they saw Ning Cheng coming out of the lake carrying a large bundle of Aquatic Essence Tendons.
“So much?” Ma Ang and the other people simply were not able to believe it even when they saw the large bundle of Aquatic Essence Tendons in Ning Cheng’s hands. They had come to this place time after time, but at most, they could only harvest just a third of what they saw in front of them, moreover it would only be the upper portions of the Aquatic Essence Tendons, let alone even seeing the parts closer to the roots or even the roots themselves. Yet Ning Cheng not only was able to bring up so much, he even brought up the roots.
Some of them had initially not believed in Ning Cheng’s words, but at this moment, they were also looking at Ning Cheng in shock. Their eyes were also full of admiration towards him. It proved the point that capable people, in any kind of place, would be able to earn everyone’s respect.
After Ning Cheng changed the oxygen bag, he once again continued to dive into the lake.
In just the short span of half a day, Ning Cheng had already harvested ten huge bundles of Aquatic Essence Tendons. Feeling that it was almost enough to fill up an entire carriage, Ning Cheng decided to just harvest one last bundle before stopping.
At the bottom of the lake, the Aquatic Essence Tendons grew in a vast area, however at this moment the area had already shrunk by almost half because of Ning Cheng’s harvesting, mainly because Ning Cheng’s tri edged thorn was simply too sharp.
However, at this time Ning Cheng’s tri edged thorn was suddenly blocked, indicating that his tri edged thorn encountered a particularly hard object, to the point that the backlash was strong enough to even shake his hands.
Ning Cheng reached out his hand to feel what it was; but all he felt were just a lot of bones. From this, it can be seen that innumerable people had lost their lives in this lake over a long time.
Although Ning Cheng had currently no cultivation to speak of, but he had already seen so many things that he was simply not impacted in the least on the sight and touch of all these bones.
Brushing them away, Ning Cheng soon caught sight of the dark object that hindered his tri edged thorn, it was something similar to an iron rod, and was also cold to the touch. It made Ning Cheng think that it was not a simple object. He tugged at this iron rod, but although the iron rod shook, he was not able to pull it up.
The rest of the Aquatic Essence Tendons were all far away to be of any impact to Ning Cheng, so Ning Cheng simply sheathed his tri edged thorn back to his calf once again. Then used both of his hands to tug on the iron rod, this time he was finally able to pull out the iron rod.
A kind of heavy feeling was starting to congeal in his heart, which was also mixed with some joy. Ning Cheng’s hand touched the base of this iron rod he found it to be somewhat flat, but when he touched the other end, he speculated that this iron rod might just be a long spear. Did a powerful person perish here, resulting in their magical weapon to be left behind in this place?
But magical weapons were something that one stored inside their rings, so how were they able to take it out?
Ning Cheng thinking of this, when he suddenly thought of a remote possibility, once the restriction on the ring was broken or the ring was damaged, wasn’t there a possibility that the things in it would come out?
However, once the ring was damaged, no matter how good the things inside were, they would all turn to dust. The force created by the collapse of the space inside was not something that ordinary objects were able to block.
If the ring was damaged but this thing from inside the ring was not damaged by the spacial collapse, then it meant that it was truly of excellent quality. In other words it was definitely good stuff.
Ning Cheng’s heart suddenly leapt up, if he could obtain that ring that was not able to destroy the long spear even after the collapse of its internal space, wouldn’t it be a great fortune for him?
Suppressing the inner excitement and joy, Ning Cheng started feeling out the surroundings with his hands, only when he was convinced that there was nothing else in the surrounding area from where he obtained that rusty long spear, did he quickly rush out of the lake with the long spear in hand. As for harvesting the Aquatic Essence Tendons, he had already lost his interest in them.
Every time Ning Cheng came up, he would bring up a huge bundle of Aquatic Essence Tendons, but this time Ning Cheng unexpectedly just brought up a rust stained iron rod, which made a strange scene to the people at the lake.
“Elder Brother Ning, what’s this?” Ma Ang did not ask why Ning Cheng did not bring any Aquatic Essence Tendons, but rather curiously looked at the rusty long spear in Ning Cheng’s hand.
Ning Cheng just gave a sigh and spoke, “Alas, I think I ended up cleaning out the Aquatic Essence Tendons, I looked for a long time, but only found a few scattered roots, I think it’s better to forget it now. I found this iron spear at the bottom of the lake. It should have been dropped by a person fishing for the Aquatic Essence Tendons before. I just lack a similar kind of weapon, so it should be easy to use for me.”
“It looks like our harvest for the Aquatic Essence Tendons is more than enough. With so much Aquatic Essence Tendons, even if we do not come back for many years, it would still be enough. Elder Brother Ning, you really are quite skilful.” Ma Ang did not mind Ning Cheng’s iron spear, but rather was more excited to see that huge amount of Aquatic Essence Tendons.
Ning Cheng also seemed to not have any intentions of explaining about it any way and just spoke, “The fact is, I can be considered as half a martial artist. I used to train in a martial art before, called ‘Splitting Tendons Grinding Bone Hand’. This kind of martial art has been quite useful for me, unexpectedly it was very handy in pulling out Aquatic Essence Tendons, and even I did not think that it would be this easy.”
Listening to Ning Cheng’s words, not only Ma Ang, but even the rest of the people suddenly seemed to have gained enlighten
ment. No wonder Ning Cheng’s speed of harvesting Aquatic Essence Tendons was so fast, and was even able to pull them out by their roots. It turns out that he originally belonged to a martial family, and had even practiced a martial art by the name of Splitting Tendons Grinding Bone Hand.
Only Xu Yingdei and Yin Kongchan were aware that Ning Cheng was only talking nonsense, the reason Ning Cheng was able to harvest this much Aquatic Essence Tendons was entirely because he had a dagger. But currently, even their attention was drawn to the rust stained long spear in Ning Cheng’s hand, the spear was almost two meters long, but whether it was the spear body or the spear head, all of it was covered in rust spots, giving it a look of an ordinary iron rod.
However, Xu Yingdei and Yin Kongchan were not people without vision, looking at the long spear in Ning Cheng’s hand, they could easily guess that it was definitely not a normal long spear, and the rusty stains on the rusty long spear were also not actual rust.
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Since Ning Cheng was able to harvest so much Aquatic Essence Tendons, it could be said that everyone ended up gaining a huge profit, while at the price of not risking anything. Because of this, everyone ended up respecting Ning Cheng even more.
As for Ma Ang, who was the leader among them, in order to create a favourable impression on Ning Cheng, evenly distributed the ten bundles of the Aquatic Essence Tendons among the two beast carriages. Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdei, as well as the other two women took up a beast carriage, while Ning Cheng and the other four men rode in the other beast carriage. There were also two more people, specifically the carriage drivers.
After a few days of travel, Ning Cheng already made acquaintances with the few people, and understood a bit more regarding the Ya Lun City.
The Ya Lun City unexpectedly turned out to be a legalized and ordered city, but the governing laws were quite severe, even Ning Cheng who listened to all of it was speechless.
For some petty thievery, they would cut of their hands, for outright robbing, it would lead to being beheaded, as for cheating it was castration…
Not only that, in Ya Lun City, everything had to be purchased through money, even procuring drinking water would cost money. However, Ning Cheng was accustomed to spending money to buy drinking water, especially since he used to live on Earth; where it costed money to use water.
From Ma Ang’s words, Ning Cheng also came to know that the most powerful person in the Ya Lun City was the City Master. At the same time, one must never offend the people from the City Master’s Mansion. As for living inside the Ya Lun City, it was differentiated by grades and hierarchy. If it was a nobleman who committed an offence, then they could use gold coins and other valuable stuff as compensation. However, if it were a civilian who committed a crime, then they simply would not have any means to compensate. In order to temporarily live in the Ya Lun City, Ning Cheng specifically consulted Ma Ang about all kinds of legal details.
It could be guessed that it was because of the Ya Lun City’s strict laws; the people that Ning Cheng met were quite friendly. As everyone trudged along the way, the talks amongst each other became a bit livelier.
On the tenth day, the beast carriage finally left the desert, while at the same time its speed also increased. On the thirteenth day, the majestic looking brown coloured walls of Ya Lun City appeared in Ning Cheng’s line of sight.
Chapter 0315 – Even A Glance Can Cause Trouble
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Ya Lun City was more like the ancient cities that Ning Cheng had seen on television, although the walls had become mottled and dark brown over the years, but even then, it could be seen that the majestic looking walls in front of them were once made out of huge bluestones.
The gates were quite huge, with a total of three of them. The middle entrance was about three feet wide, while the doors on both of its side were about two feet in width.
Just as they were about to enter the city, Ma Ang pulled aside the beast carriages with the Ning Cheng trio, and suggested them to change into a set of ordinary clothes. Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdei also got down from their beast carriages and stood beside Ning Cheng.
Ma Ang pointed to the largest gate in the middle and spoke, “This is the gate that the City Master uses and the city’s troops also move through this gate. However, ordinary people must never use this gate; rather they can only use the side gates.”
Ning Cheng thought that compared to the laws that the Mainland cultivated; this place was really a bit too tedious. In a place that cultivated true virtue, generally a city gate can be used by anybody.
Just as Ning Cheng was about to ask something, sounds of hooves pounding on the ground arrived, which was then followed by a luxurious convoy moving towards the middle door.
Ma Ang hurriedly pulled aside Ning Cheng, “Elder Brother Ning, hurry up and stand aside. This is the City master’s most doted upon Princess Man who loves to go out, do not bump into her…..”
Ning Cheng quickly took a few steps back, while at the same time took a glance at them. He was surprised to find that there was a blue green crystal point on the forehead of this Princess Man. He had just glanced at this bright spot, when he immediately felt himself go dizzy.
Ning Cheng hurriedly pulled back his eyes, before lowering his head and stood on one side.
The rapidly moving beast’s hooves suddenly slowed down, before coming to a stop in front of Ning Cheng. Ning Cheng felt his heart tighten up; at this moment, he felt that he should not have glanced at this Princess Man. But at the same time, he also thought in his mind that he had only taken a look, so nothing should happen, right?
“You’ve got a lot of nerves, daring to look up at me.” Princess Man spoke out in cold voice at Ning Cheng.
Ma Ang on hearing those words, immediately felt his heart sink. He realized that he had forgotten to tell Ning Cheng an important point, that is, never to even look at the people from the City Master’s Mansion at any time.
Before Ning Cheng could even explain himself, he heard the princess speak up with an indifferent voice, “Drag the man out, beat him to death and dig both of his eyes out.”
Ning Cheng was completely furious in his heart, it was just a glance, but it turns out this woman was simply too vicious. Not to mention killing him, what was the deal with even digging his eyes out?
“Princess don’t! We have just arrived at Ya Lun City, so none of us has a good understanding about the laws of this place. I ask the princess to forgive him just this one time, this little woman is willing to pray for the princess’ wellbeing day and night……” Xu Yingdei immediately took the initiative to plead.
Ma Ang on seeing this scene gave out a sigh, pleading while not kneeling in this situation was akin to rushing full speed towards death.
Of course, he did not know that Xu Yingdei was a premier disciple, so how could she kneel before a Princess Man as a premier disciple? It can be even said that it was comparing a child to a fully grown adult in terms of status, just calling the other party as a princess was in itself showing a huge amount of face.
“Huh, you dare to plead in front of me?” This Princess Man on seeing Xu Yingdei unexpectedly dare to come forward to plead felt surprised for a moment before she spoke, “You, lift your head up.”
Xu Yingdei looked up and nervously glanced at this Princess Man. With that kind of delicate and charming look, coupled with her already strikingly beautiful appearance, it would cause an immediate resonance in the heart of any person who looked at her.
Princess Man was also no exception to this, although beautiful women in the Ya Lun City were akin to clouds, moreover she was also quite a beautiful woman, however she had to admit that she had never seen anyone more beautiful than Xu Yingdei.
“Are you willing to follow me?” Only after a good long while did
this Princess Man inquired, not even blaming Xu Yingdei for not kneeling.
Xu Yingdei hurriedly spoke up once again, “This little girl is already married to a husband and is already a pair of husband and wife, vowing to go through life and death together, as such I would not be able to serve and wait on the princess. So this little one will have to ask for the princess forgiveness.”
Contrary to all the expectations, Princess Man nodded and spoke, “Good, it is a pity that you have such a virtuous woman to plead for you, so just for her sake I will spare your small life, and only reward you with three knives and six holes.”
“Ding dong…” A narrow dagger was thrown out by one of the surrounding guards, before it fell not far from Ning Cheng.
Although Ning Cheng was thoroughly angry in his heart but he knew that, he simply did not have any choice. If he could recover his cultivation, then all he would need was to just send out a fireball to take care of all of them. This Princess Man was simply too self-righteous to take human life seriously.
But the fact was that he knew it in his heart that this might also be the best outcome for him in this situation. Ning Cheng was just about to pick up the dagger, when Xu Yingdei stepped up first to grab the dagger, before she raised her hands and in just a moment punctured it through her shoulder in one move. Blood instantly erupted, dying half her body in red.
Ning Cheng was simply too shocked, he had no idea that Xu Yingdei would do such a thing. He quickly stepped forward and held Xu Yingdei in his hand, while at the same time snatched the dagger from her and spoke, “I already told you last time to not do such a thing.”
Just as the voice fell, Ning Cheng stabbed the dagger in his hands twice through both his left and right shoulder. Combined with Xu Yingdei, it completed the three knives and six holes punishment.
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