The Gate Of Good Fortune c1-905

by Demon Translations

  Only if one’s cultivation reached a certain extent, would one not be affected by these things. From this, one could also make out that the cultivators who fell in this place during ancient times, definitely had high cultivations.

  At this moment, the Everlasting Blue Thunder City within Ning Cheng’s Sea of Consciousness suddenly started shaking violently. Sensing the violent trembling, Ning Cheng felt shocked within his heart and subconsciously stopped.

  The Everlasting Blue Thunder City was something that he had acquired within the Law’s Way. As his cultivation kept improving, the refinement of the Everlasting Blue Thunder City also grew deeper and deeper in tandem. At this point, the projection of the Blue Thunder City that he could bring out no longer looked like an actual shadow. This ‘shadow’ even showed the walls of the city turning solid.

  Even as the level of his refinement of the Everlasting Blue Thunder City grew deeper and deeper, it still wouldn’t show any movement without the stimulation from his Spiritual Consciousness. However, he had not even touched the Everlasting Blue Thunder City this time. Yet, the Everlasting Blue Thunder City actually shook this violently within his Sea of Consciousness, which definitely meant that it was not a small matter.

  Ning Cheng’s Spiritual Consciousness immediately swept out. Ordinary cultivators would not be able to sweep out over a wide range in this place. However, Ning Cheng had the support of his starry sky Sea of Consciousness, which made his Spiritual Consciousness far more powerful compared to the average cultivator.

  A moment later, Ning Cheng discovered a broken star field a thousand miles away from him, with a large black arrow embedded into one of the larger pieces of rock. Ning Cheng had never seen such a large arrow before; not only was it huge, but as soon as Ning Cheng’s Spiritual Consciousness encountered it, he felt a one of a kind deathly repression coming from it. It created an unspeakable sense of discomfort within his heart, which caused his Sea of Consciousness to tremble violently, inducing a feeling of nausea. Not waiting for Ning Cheng to get over it, he ended up spurting a mouthful of blood the next instant.

  After spitting out a mouthful of blood, Ning Cheng’s Sea of Consciousness finally calmed down, and it no longer trembled and did not give the feeling of an imminent collapse.

  When his Spiritual Consciousness came into contact with that black arrow, not only did it cause his Sea of Consciousness to tremble, even the Everlasting Blue Thunder City within his Sea of Consciousness shook with a much higher intensity. Ning Cheng took a deep breath and forcibly calmed the shaking Everlasting Blue Thunder City.

  That black arrow also gave him a familiar feeling. With the reaction of the Everlasting Blue Thunder City, coupled with the results of his Spiritual Consciousness sweep just now, Ning Cheng quickly realised why he felt a sense of familiarity with this black arrow.

  When he had entered the Thunder Domain in the Law’s Way and gained the acknowledgement of the Everlasting Blue Thunder City, he had seen a person destroying a planet with a single punch. Then he saw a purple spear, this one spear had actually managed to counteract that annihilating explosion.

  At that time, Everlasting Blue Thunder City’s formidable Thunder Rays blew away and nullified the rest of destructive energies around it, showing its unique and supreme imposing aura.

  But even so, a black arrow had suddenly shot into the Everlasting Blue Thunder City. Directly ripping open the surrounding void, it had forced the Everlasting Blue Thunder City into it. At the same time, it had also blasted the Everlasting Blue Thunder City’s spirit into a different Spatio-temporal location. From that, Ning Cheng understood the terrifying power contained within this black arrow.

  At this point, Ning Cheng felt sure that the black arrow that he had seen just now through his Spiritual Consciousness was the same one as that time. Moreover, from the jade strips that he had purchased, that black arrow was called the Foreign Heaven’s Arrow. It stated that one should never use Spiritual Consciousness to look at the Foreign Heaven’s Arrow. On the off chance that such a thing happened, the arrow would not just destroy that person’s Sea of Consciousness, but even the body of the person would end up annihilated to dust. He had only arrived here and had not paid attention to such detail. Feeling the violent shaking of the Everlasting Blue Thunder City, he had unconsciously swept out towards the black arrow.

  Fortunately, he had the support of the starry sky Sea of Consciousness; as such, the residual power had not reached the level where it could cause the collapse of the Sea of Consciousness.

  “Brother Cheng, why did you stop…..” Warren asked, but when he saw Ning Cheng spit a mouthful of blood, he immediately changed his words, “Brother Cheng, we are not far from the Foreign Heaven’s Arrow. You mustn’t sweep out with your Spiritual Consciousness……. You didn’t sweep out with your Spiritual Consciousness, did you?”

  But then he quickly realised that it should be an impossible matter. Even with his Spiritual Consciousness fully deployed, it couldn’t reach the location of the Foreign Heaven’s Arrow. Ning Cheng’s cultivation had not even reached his level, so how could his Spiritual Consciousness extend to the area of the Foreign Heaven’s Arrow? Moreover, even if his Spiritual Consciousness somehow managed to reach the location of the Foreign Heaven’s Arrow, spitting a mouthful of blood would be the least of one’s concerns.

  Ning Cheng quickly waved his hand and replied, “No, I just had to spit out a mouthful of congealed blood because of my internal injuries. It’s much better now. Brother Warren doesn’t need to worry about me. Just keep moving forward.”

  He would never admit that his Spiritual Consciousness could actually reach the Foreign Heaven’s Arrow, which would have invariantly exposed the might of his Sea of Consciousness. However, within his mind, Ning Cheng made a decision to return to this place in the future, once he obtained sufficient strength and take away the Foreign Heaven’s Arrow. The Everlasting Blue Thunder City was in itself a potent weapon, yet this black arrow had still managed to force it into the void.

  Just what was the extent of this black arrow’s power?

  It was not that nobody wanted to take away the Foreign Heaven’s Arrow, it’s just that nobody had the ability or the strength to take it away. Although Ning Cheng had the starry sky Sea of Consciousness, even he couldn’t take it away. At the same time, his cultivation was also not up to the mark.

  After another half a month of continuously flying forward, Yu Wanxue, who led the way, finally stopped. Seeing that, Warren and the others also stopped. Ning Cheng put away his flight-type weapon and understood that they should have arrived at the Crow’s Nest.

  In the distance was a dark shadow of another broken star, supposedly the Crow Star, the place where Daoist Crow had gained enlightenment while in seclusion. However, at this moment, the Crow Star was in complete ruins, without any shred of vitality. Standing at the periphery, one could only feel a powerful one of a kind fire-attributed aura apart from the vicissitudes and desolation.

  Ning Cheng could see a few cultivators rushing into the Crow Star from time to time through his Spiritual Consciousness. They presumably were like their group, who came here in the hopes of either obtaining Daoist Crow’s Dao Confirmation Insight, or for collecting raw materials for flight-type weapons, or the Scarlet Crow Flame.

  “That’s Crow Star up ahead. No one’s Spiritual Consciousness can extend over a range of ten square miles within the Crow’s Star. Despite the damage to the Crow Star, Daoist Crow had laid out many unresolved restrictions and array formations. The only way to find Daoist Crow’s Dao Confirming Insight within the Crow Star is through the joint efforts put forth by all of us. But you don’t have to worry too much about it Brother Cheng. We are different from the others, we only have to explore a limited area. To keep in touch with each other, we’ll leave communication pearls with each other.” As Warren finished, he was the first one to take out a communication pearl.

  Ning Cheng also took out a communication pearl, and Warren’s party of four le
ft their Spiritual Consciousness Tags over it.

  “Let’s go in. As long as it’s not Daoist Crow’s Dao Confirming Insight within the Crow’s Nest, whatever treasures one obtains within the Crow’s Nest would belong to the one who obtains it. If anyone of you found the location of Daoist Crow’s Dao Confirming Insight, you need to contact the rest of us immediately. In any case, the place containing Daoist Crow’s insights is not something that could be opened by a single person. No matter who finds it, they must inform the others in the group so that we could work together to open it.” Yu Wanxue came forward and spoke.

  Ning Cheng nodded to indicate his understanding; moreover, he also understood that the Crow’s Nest, in fact, collectively referred to the Crow Star. However, there were also innumerable crows’ nests within the Crow Star. Most of them were built by the Flame Wind Crows after Daoist Crow left, and these crows’ nests would contain either Flame Wind Crow’s tail feathers or the Scarlet Crow Flame.

  Chapter 0643 – The Mistakes Of The Past

  Translated By – DemonKiller

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  Ning Cheng followed the rest of the people into the Crow Star and immediately realised that his Spiritual Consciousness was once again different compared to others. Warren had said that one’s Spiritual Consciousness could only extend to a range of approximately ten miles at most. However, he could quickly sweep to a hundred miles around him using his Spiritual Consciousness without putting any effort. Some of the broken restrictions couldn’t even stop him at all. If he were to extend his Spiritual Consciousness’s range forcibly, Ning Cheng would be able to reach even further.

  Looks like his Sea of Consciousness was much superior to that of the others, Ning Cheng mused to himself.

  Although Ning Cheng did not have any clarity about the exact scope of the Crow’s Nest in its prime, after coming inside, he only saw potholes, ravines mixed up with collapsed mountains and rivers everywhere his eyes could see. From this, he could speculate that a lot of cultivators used to live in this place. Not only that, when the Crow Star finally started to crumble, it definitely involved apocalyptic levels of destruction.

  Yu Wanxue seemed to have a good familiarity with this place, although she did not use any flight-type weapons in this place, she swiftly moved through the area without any misstep. Not only did she not stop even for a moment, even her speed gradually increased.

  Ning Cheng had initially thought that Warren was the one who initiated the search for Daoist Crow’s Dao Confirming Insights, but it now looked like Yu Wanxue was the one who started it.

  After the five of them rushed through the area for two days, Yu Wanxue suddenly stopped, and her expression quickly turned ugly.

  “What happened? Junior Apprentice Sister Wanxue.” Warren asked in a hurry.

  Yu Wanxue turned to Ning Cheng and said, “I thought that I was the only one who knew about this gorge. But with so many people already here, it looks like I’m not the only one who obtained this information.”

  Hearing Yu Wanxue’s words, Warren felt a little lost. With so many people already here, even if they found what they were looking for, their chances to obtain it looked very slim.

  Ning Cheng smiled, “I don’t think there is anything to worry about. Although there are many cultivators gathered here, I haven’t seen anyone else coming to this place on our way here. In any case, we all still have the same chances. Moreover, fortuitous occurrences are only in the hands of fate. It would not necessarily fall into the hands of those who came here first. Since we already came here, it’s better to go in and take a look at the situation.”

  “Brother Cheng is right. There are lots of forks within this gorge, and we anyway have to go into the gorge personally to search for what we want. In any case, one can only obtain this treasure if one is destined for it. If there is no destined connection, then even if that treasure appeared in front of you, you would not necessarily know about it.” Warren immediately echoed Ning Cheng’s sentiment.

  “Well, that’s that then.” Yu Wanxue was the first to rush inside; apparently, Ning Cheng and Warren’s words spurred her into action. One needed to have a destined connection with treasures to obtain them, if there was no destined connection, then even if you stood in front of a heap of riches, so what?

  Ning Cheng also followed the rest into the gorge.

  This gorge seemed to have a distinctive characteristic to it, the deeper one ventured inside, the more spacious it became. Moreover, the deeper one went inside, the higher number of forks would one find within the gorge.

  Entering the depths of the canyon, Ou Hongxin was the first to choose a fork and enter. Warren decided on a different fork, and half an hour later, Yu Wanxue decided to enter a different fork to explore.

  In the end, only Ning Cheng and Dou Di were left.

  Dou Di had the lowest cultivation among the five, only at the early stages of the Undead Realm. Even Ning Cheng had higher cultivation compared to her.

  After the two went deeper into the gorge, Ning Cheng felt a faint sensation of water coming from one of the forks in front of him. Since his Mysterious Yellow Bead had already integrated with the Water Origin Bead, he had become a little more sensitive towards Water Aura compared to the average cultivator.

  Since the moment he stepped foot onto the Crow Star, Ning Cheng had not seen even a drop of water anywhere within the Crow Star. Nor did he feel any hints of water. Now that he sensed a trace of water aura, Ning Cheng immediately wanted to head inside and explore.

  Just when Ning Cheng wanted to speak a few words before parting ways with Dou Di, Dou Di suddenly stopped and spoke, “Brother Cheng, please wait.”

  Ning Cheng already had intentions to stop and split ways, and now that Dou Di called out to him, he immediately stopped and asked a question in doubt, “Junior Apprentice Sister Dou, what’s the matter?”

  Dou Di hesitated for a little while before speaking up, “Brother Cheng, even though you recently joined our team, I feel that you’re a little more reliable compared to Ou Hongxin. I initially wanted to ask Ou Hongxin to cooperate, but if Brother Cheng feels willing, I would like to work with you.”

  “What’s this about working together? Besides, aren’t we already working together?” Ning Cheng asked with a bewildered look over his face.

  Dou Di spoke up directly, “Brother Cheng, I know some secrets about Daoist Crow. I had intended to return sometime later, but the news about this place has already leaked outside, which brought in a lot of cultivators to this place. Because of this, I have to push my plans forward. If Brother Cheng swears to not harbour any disloyalty, I would willingly share those secrets with you and give it my all to work with Brother Cheng.”

  Dou Di had a relatively petite figure, with average looks and thin yellowish hair. It gave her a very humble appearance. However, Ning Cheng didn’t pay much attention to it. It wasn’t until now that Ning Cheng actually observed Dou Di and even used his Spiritual Consciousness to probe her.

  To Ning Cheng’s surprise, Dou Di exuded a faint demonic essence aura, unlike other average cultivators. However, this aura was very weak, if Ning Cheng had not taken the initiative to probe her with his Spiritual Consciousness, he would have never perceived it.

  Ning Cheng gave a calm reply, “I can cooperate with anyone. As long as they do not have a bad heart and don’t scheme against me, I will also not do anything to them. However, I will never swear on such a thing. It’s not a matter of courage, it’s just that I don’t want to swear on this kind of thing. If you believe me, then we can cooperate; if you don’t believe me, then it would be better to go our separate ways. I don’t mind finding my own way within this gorge by myself.”

  Hearing Ning Cheng speak about finding his way within the gorge, Dou Di’s eyes flashed with a slight surprise; however, this flash of surprise quickly disappeared. Sh
e then took the initiative to speak with Ning Cheng, “Brother Cheng, if I didn’t believe in you, I wouldn’t have said what I just said. I wonder, does Brother Cheng know about Daoist Crow’s most terrifying spirit technique? ”

  “It should be something related to fire, I guess.” Ning Cheng spoke with no certainty. As he pondered over it, Daoist Crow was a fire-attributed demonic cultivator, who most likely also possessed a top-grade flame. Therefore, it would be quite reasonable for this fellow’s most powerful spirit technique to be a flame-related spirit technique.

  Dou Di nodded, “That’s right, Daoist Crow’s most powerful technique is a flame-related Spirit Technique; however, no one knows what flame Daoist Crow used.”

  “Isn’t it the Scarlet Crow Flame?” Ning Cheng asked with incredulity.

  Dou Di spoke with a calm voice, “Although Daoist Crow had access countless tongues of Scarlet Crow Flame, the flame that he used was not the Scarlet Crow Flame but the Heaven Seizing Ancient Clouds[1].”

  “Heaven Seizing Ancient Clouds?” Ning Cheng repeated the words in surprise. He now no longer was a person without any knowledge after reading through the book that Zhongli Baichi had given him.

  Heaven Seizing Ancient Clouds was a top-grade flame spark, second only to his Celestial River Flame. His Celestial River Flame’s actual name was Celestial River Scarlet Flame and was ranked second within the entire vast expanse. Except for the non-existent first, one could actually consider his flame as the first listed flame within the whole vast expanse.

  Moreover, the Heaven Seizing Ancient Clouds occupied the fifth position among all the flames within the vast universe. This kind of fire definitely was an existence that could not be ignored.