How could he let off the murderer who killed Luofei just because of Yi Zhuzhu’s pleading?
Yi Jin and Chang Manyin stared at Ning Cheng’s disappearing back. They naturally understood the intent in Ning Cheng’s last sentence. That is to say, the couple saved Yan Ji, and Ning Cheng saved and reunited the family. From this point on, there were no grievances between each other, nor did they owe anything to each other. If there were only a sentence left unspoken, then it would be that if Yi Zhuzhu dared to offend Ning Cheng once again, then Ning Cheng would also not hesitate to kill her.
“Don’t go…..” Yi Zhuzhu still kept screaming. However, Ning Cheng had long since disappeared.
Yi Jin hurried forward to hold Yi Zhuzhu. This daughter of his was just too much. Even in the face of their family’s life-saving benefactor, she not only did not speak even half a word of thanks or even greeted him, she actually gave her mind and body to someone who brought harm to their benefactor’s wife.
“Katcha.” The male cultivator’s body that still burned within Ning Cheng’s flaming shield finally gave out a crisp brittle sound before the frame finally collapsed into ashes before disappearing into the air without a trace.
Yi Zhuzhu stared at the ashes of her Brother Hang’s body. Her expressions turned sluggish while her body trembled all over. However, she became utterly silent.
“Zhuzhu……” Chang Manyin called out to her daughter in a worried tone before reaching out to her daughter’s hand.
Yi Zhuzhu slowly raised her hand and pushed Chang Manyin’s hand away. She slowly stood up and looked in the direction where Ning Cheng disappeared. She clenched her fists, and a layer of grey slowly covered her eyes.
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Ning Cheng and Shi Qionghua rushed out of the Rootless Black City and in just one incense stick worth of time arrived at the place marked in the jade strip, the Bridge of Storms.
A path seemingly comprised of light winds appeared, as Ning Cheng’s Spiritual Consciousness swept out, he finally noticed a bridge. More specifically, a bridge made from those light winds.
The billowing winds formed into a general shape of a bridge, neither diffusing nor dying. This wind bridge was nearly a hundred miles long and stretched around the edges of a dilapidated island suspended in the void. Ning Cheng only then noticed that even his Spiritual Consciousness could not penetrate through to reach this ruined and seemingly empty void island.
“Qionghua, there might be some danger inside. So you should head into the Miniature World first. I’ll go inside and have a look.” Ning Cheng believed that with his current cultivation, his Miniature World would not face any problem even if he decided not to put it inside the Minor Five-element Array Formation within the Mysterious Yellow Bead.
Letting Shi Qionghua into the Miniature World, Ning Cheng then immediately rushed forward. As he walked towards the wind bridge that went around the edge of that broken Void Island, a vortex suddenly opened up emanating a powerful suction force. If Ning Cheng had not reached the Celestial Bridge Realm, this strong suction force could have easily sucked him inside.
However, Ning Cheng did not try to forcibly retreat. Instead, he took a step forward and rushed into the vortex.
As soon as Ning Cheng entered the vortex, he found himself surrounded by powerful storms. Seeing this, Ning Cheng affirmed that even ordinary Celestial Bridge and Undead Cultivators would find it extremely difficult to stabilise their bodies enough to try to use their Spiritual Consciousness to explore this place.
Fortunately, Ning Cheng was not an ordinary Celestial Bridge Cultivator. Although he couldn’t keep his body stable, his Spiritual Consciousness could actually penetrate through the storm. Simply put, the wind in this place could not hinder Ning Cheng’s search by much.
Soon Ning Cheng realised why this place was called the Bridge of Storms. One would find violent winds everywhere, and these storms blew in strange and unpredictable directions, creating one wind bridge after another, covering the entire island. Moreover, these wind bridges were utterly different from the light breeze-like outside and contained incredible power.
Ning Cheng speculated that facing such formidable wind bridges, as long as the wind even grazed someone, it would easily tear apart the body of a cultivator in the Plundering Life Realm.
Ning Cheng grew increasingly worried as he thought about it. When he left, Luofei was still around the Ninth Level of Crucible Transformation Realm. If Luofei entered this place without advancing to the Plundering Life Realm, it would truly end up bad for her. At this moment, he regretted not asking about Luofei’s cultivation before coming here.
However, the more worries piled up, the calmer Ning Cheng became. His Spiritual Consciousness swept out from one Wind Bridge to another and found that many cave-like holes that had formed under them, created by the storms raging outside withering away at the island. Some of these caves were hollow while some looked no different from ordinary caves.
As Ning Cheng observed everything with his Spiritual Consciousness, he found that some of these caves were in the blind spots of the storms. That is to say, they were in a place where the winds could not reach.
After Ning Cheng observed this clearly, his heart finally started to loosen. If Luofei managed to find such a cave, it would be no problem for her to survive in this place for a decade or two with her cultivation.
At this point, Ning Cheng naturally did not enter those empty wind caves. Instead, he swam forward through the violent storms that formed the wind bridges while pushing his Spiritual Consciousness to its limits.
Not a single cave escaped Ning Cheng’s Spiritual Consciousness at this time.
After half an incense stick worth of time, Ning Cheng immediately realised that he had guessed correctly. That is because he saw a few cultivators scattered in different caves where the storms could not reach. This suggested that Luofei might also still be alive with her cultivation if she managed to get into such caves.
However, as Ning Cheng probed one windless cave after another using his Spiritual Consciousness, Ning Cheng once again started turning anxious. He had already noticed at least a dozen surviving cultivator, but none of them was Ji Luofei.
After another incense stick worth of time, a relatively large storm cavern appeared in the range of Ning Cheng’s Spiritual Consciousness.
This storm cave was at least dozens of times in size compared to the medium-sized storm caves out in the front and had a distinct interior. More importantly, in this vast storm cave, no storm blew inside. Instead, the raging bridge of winds intersected and created chaos outside of the cave. It was safe to assume that if any ordinary cultivator fell into this storm cave, then they could only preserve their life. As for escaping, one could simply forget about it. Even cultivators in the Domain Realm, if they tried to come out, they would be torn apart to pieces by the rampaging winds outside the cave entrance.
Although Ning Cheng could not completely stabilise his body, he still managed to control the speed of his body as the storms tried to blow it away. At the same time, Ning Cheng also used his Spiritual Consciousness to infiltrate the storm cave.
This storm cave not only contained cultivators, but there was also more than one person inside. It included both men and women, and each of these cultivators occupied a piece of land to concentrate on his or her cultivation. However, since they all were trapped in such a place, the starry sky Essence Qi in this place could not satisfy them all. Moreover, without any medicinal pills and cultivation resources to help, they would find it extremely difficult to advance in such an environment.
Most of the cultivators trapped in this cave were in the Plundering Life Realm, and only a few were in the late-stages of Crucible Transformation Realm. Ning Cheng scanned past one cultivator after another, and when he saw a female cultivator wearing rough-looking robes in the corner, his eyes immediately turned red. Even his throat choked up. Luofei, he finally saw Luofei.
The raging wind around the bridges rolled in, trying to take
Ning Cheng deeper. Why would Ning Cheng willingly let it take him further away? Raising his hand, he immediately punched at the wind bridge. Spirit Technique, Sunset’s Twilight.
Time slowed down indefinitely at this moment, but Ji Luofei, sitting in the corner suddenly felt shocked. She quickly stood up and looked towards the cave’s entrance in astonishment.
Chapter 0630 – I’ve Been Waiting For You
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As soon as Ji Luofei stood up, everyone immediately focussed on Ji Luofei.
This cave already had a balance that came into place a long time ago; without exceptional circumstances, no one would randomly move anywhere. Ji Luofei’s cultivation had already reached the Seventh Level of Plundering Life Realm. Therefore, once such an expert suddenly stood up, it immediately alerted all the people. Many people immediately started to wonder if this woman had made some progress in her cultivation. Did she intend to redraw her territory?
In any case, Ji Luofei’s cultivation and the location she occupied did not match. With cultivation at Seventh Level of Plundering Life Realm, she could have quickly taken up the best spot, not a small corner. If Ji Luofei truly wanted to grab more territory or even shift locations, it definitely would involve a scuffle.
Every time a new fellow came here, it would always involve a scuffle. Relatively speaking, when this female cultivator named Ji Luofei came here, it only created the smallest of fights.
Instead of starting a fight with her neighbours, Ji Luofei slowly walked towards the entrance of the cave. As she passed by where a middle-aged cultivator sat, the middle-aged cultivator immediately stood up, “What does this Dao Friend want? This is my place.”
Ji Luofei behaved as if she hadn’t heard the words and still kept walking forward.
Even if he wasn’t Ji Luofei’s opponent, the cultivator could not bear to ignore it in such a situation. Otherwise, he would have no place in this cave.
The cultivator raised his hand and brought out his weapon before attacking at Ji Luofei. However, he did not use his killer move, and just wanted to feign an attack to force Ji Luofei out of his territory. It was not that he did not want to kill her, but the fear of how Ji Luofei would act kept him in check. He was at the Third Level of Plundering Life Realm while Ji Luofei was at the Seventh Level of Plundering Life Realm.
Everyone kept his or her gazes trained at Ji Luofei. They all wanted to know how Ji Luofei would handle this situation. Although Ji Luofei possessed high cultivation, she rarely provoked the cultivators inside this cave. She did not willingly fight with others. However, this was the first time she readily spurred others by her own initiative.
This was the reason why the cultivators here felt wary, as they had no idea about Ji Luofei’s skills. When Ji Luofei came inside the cave, it caused a slight commotion, but after she killed a late-stage Crucible Transformation Cultivator with just a swipe of her hand ‘accidentally’, Ji Luofei then decided to occupy that deceased cultivator’s territory and did not try to expand it. Therefore, although others feared here, they simply had no intuitive impression of her.
For example, Ji Luofei was also quite a beautiful woman, yet no one actively came up to court her. It’s not that people inside this place thought that they were all in the same boat, but because of Ji Luofei’s cultivation reaching the Seventh Level of Plundering Life Realm. Because of this, the other cultivators did not dare to come to find trouble for themselves.
Ji Luofei had a vague feeling that Ning Cheng’s aura had appeared outside the cave and she couldn’t stop herself from wanting to rush out of the cave to see Ning Cheng. At this moment, if someone actually dared to stop her, how could she tolerate it? Thoroughly stimulating her Celestial Essence, a colourful glazed light shot out and exploded onto the weapon of the cultivator who wanted to block Ji Luofei’s path. The powerful Celestial Essence made it impossible for the cultivator to stay still and the Celestial Essence force directly flung him away before finally coming to a stop after he hit the wall on the other side of the cave.
As for Ji Luofei, she acted as if she felt nothing and still walked towards the entrance of the cave. She did not even think that her attack; the outburst of her strength had already gone beyond the scope of her cultivation.
Only silence reverberated around the cave. Even the only Eighth Level Plundering Life Cultivator looked at Ji Luofei in shock. He hadn’t made a move before because he had focussed all of his attention on cultivation; moreover, he also held no interest in women. However, only now did that fellow realise that this woman held tremendous power within her. If he ended up in a fight against her, he would most likely lose.
At this time, the cultivators within Ji Luofei’s path immediately moved aside as she walked forward. From this, one could see that Ji Luofei did not want to try seizing territory. Moreover, Ji Luofei’s cultivation had also completely suppressed all the cultivators around her.
“Bang……” The bridge of storms outside the cave suddenly brought in a figure. Ji Luofei who kept her eyes peeled at the entrance of the cave, on seeing this figure, suddenly rushed up to hug this figure, even wrapping her arms around this figure tightly.
“Ning Cheng…… Dear….. It’s really you……” Ji Luofei’s body trembled violently. Not just her hands and her legs, even her voice trembled.
She could clearly make out that Ning Cheng was in her arm. No, even if she closed her eyes, she knew that the figure in her arms was the person she was wanted to find.
Although Ning Cheng was not seriously injured, coming inside had consumed too much energy. Even if he was a Celestial Bridge Cultivator, he could only head downstream on the Bridge of Storms once he exhausted his strength. Although he used the Dusk Spiritual Technique, it only forced the Bridge of Storms to a standstill; however, even Ning Cheng’s cultivation would not be enough to rush back during that moment with most of his strength exhausted.
The instant Ning Cheng used the Dusk Spirit Technique on the raging Bridge of Storms, it had almost depleted his Celestial Essence and Spiritual Consciousness to the bare minimum. If it weren’t for his strong determination and the heaven defying strength of the Dusk Spirit Technique, he would have gotten himself caught in the Bridge of Storms before it rolled him away to a different place.
Nevertheless, the Bridge of Storms still managed to draw blood from him, and he currently looked as if he was bleeding profusely.
But Ning Cheng knew that he hadn’t suffered any severe injuries, just some superficial skin abrasions. With his body, even if he lost a majority of his Celestial Essence reserves, the Bridge of Storms would find it extremely difficult to tear his body apart, and would only give him some slight injuries. As long as his Celestial Essence and Spiritual Consciousness recovered from the exhaustion, he would return to normal in just a short while.
At this time, when Ji Luofei held him in her arms, he felt so excited that he even forgot to take out any medicinal pills and just stood there at the entrance.
“Luofei……” Ning Cheng finally felt immensely relieved. This kind of feeling almost made him groan out of happiness.
Ji Luofei could not see Ning Cheng’s cultivation. She did not know that Ning Cheng had forced himself to go upstream in the Bridge of Storms by his own strength. She just thought that Ning Cheng had tried looking for her and coincidentally ended up being swept into this cave by the Bridge of Storms outside.
Watching Luofei walk back to her own territory with Ning Cheng still in his arms, the rest of the cultivators finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Ning Cheng with envy. Ning Cheng didn’t particularly look handsome, so how was he able to get such a beautiful and high-levelled female cultivator like Ji Luofei?
“Luofei, I’m all right.” Ning Cheng finally took out a medicinal pill and put it into his mouth. With the help of a
Grade 4 Celestial Pill, his Celestial Essence and Spiritual Consciousness started to recover rapidly.
“Ok….” Ji Luofei still hadn’t recovered from her excitement. Ning Cheng, who had just gotten free from Ji Luofei’s arms, finally stood up to get a good look at her.
The two people gazed at each other for a long time and even forgot to speak. It seemed as if this world contained only two of them, and everything else around them had disappeared entirely.
Time seemed to have frozen, with only the two people, Ning Cheng and Ji Luofei, in this place.
At this moment, no language could describe Ji Luofei and Ning Cheng’s excitement, so they simply chose not to speak at all.
“Luofei, I’m sorry. I didn’t keep my promise to come back soon. I’ve made you suffer through a lot.” Ning Cheng reached out and finally spoke up while stroking Ji Luofei’s hair before dropping his hand onto Ji Luofei’s shoulder, feeling myriad emotions flowing through this heart.
Ji Luofei wore coarse robes, and only Ning Cheng knew the reason why. She wore this robe in the Cang Qin Province in the beginning. Back then, it was to attract less attention to her appearance, but now it was the most important thing to remember him.
Ji Luofei shook her head and spoke, “No, I knew you would return. You would definitely come back.”
As she spoke, she kept her gaze glued to Ning Cheng. “You once said, ‘just listen to me’ so I listened to you. I’ve been waiting for you, I knew that you would return.”
In Ji Luofei’s mind appeared Cang Qin 2-Star Academy in the Cang Qin Province. When she felt confused and didn’t know what to do, Ning Cheng had taken her hand and said to her, “…… Just listen to me.”
Since then, she believed those words with her entire heart and soul. Ning Cheng had told her to wait for him in the Rootless Black City; therefore, even though she had many opportunities to leave the Rootless Black City, she did not move and kept waiting for Ning Cheng to return. That is because she believed in Ning Cheng, she believed in his words ‘just listen to me’.
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