Taking a step back, even if Levelled Heart Heavenly Emperor decided to help Everlasting Sacred Shrine, by the time he arrived, there was a good chance that Everlasting Sacred Shrine would have turned to ashes.
“Did you say Luofei is still alive?” Ning Cheng quickly moved towards Seeking Caution. He even raised both his hands and grabbed Seeking Caution’s shoulder.
Seeking Caution, trying to resist the fear in her heart, spoke up, “That’s right. Sacred Master wanted to kill Qionghua and Luofei, but I asked Yiyi to take them away. Jing Yiyi will be here soon. You can just ask her then…..”
Ning Cheng took in a deep breath, and the red in his eyes gradually faded, “How about Qionghua? How is Qionghua?”
Seeking Caution’s eyes flashed with guilt as she spoke, “I’m sorry, I couldn’t fulfil my promise. Sacred Master didn’t allow Sacred Lady Qionghua to cultivate under the Everlasting Sacred Tree. I could only let Luofei secretly take Qionghua and leave the Everlasting Sacred Shrine.”
Ning Cheng looked up, and tears streaked down his face silently. It was a long time before he suddenly let out a soul-tearing roar.
Qionghua had risked her life to use the forbidden technique, but since she could not heal by cultivating under the Everlasting Sacred Shrine’s Everlasting Sacred Tree, there was a good chance that she had already fallen. This was Qionghua’s last reincarnation, if she died in this life, it would mean there would no longer be a Qionghua anymore.
Why did Qionghua have to go through such a wretched destiny?
“I’m sorry, Dao Friend Ning, I really did my best. This matter has nothing to do with my Everlasting Sacred Shrine. Please don’t take out your anger at my Everlasting Sacred Shrine.” Seeking Caution spoke with a trembling voice.
Even if Everlasting Sacred Shrine’s Seeking Intelligence fell, it would still be a significant force in the Nine Plate Starland. But in front of Ning Cheng, it couldn’t amount to much.
“Elder Brother Ning, Uncle-master Seeking Caution speaks the truth. I was the one who brought out Luofei and Qionghua out of the sacred shrine. The rest have nothing to do with it.” Jing Yiyi hurried over and bowed to Ning Cheng. At this time, she had already reached the Celestial Bridge Realm.
“Thank you, Junior Apprentice Sister Yiyi. Do you know where Luofei went?” Ning Cheng took in another deep breath and thanked her sincerely for confirming that Luofei had not died. Even if he slaughtered a hundred Everlasting Sacred Shrines, it would not bring the same relief those words just did.
Jing Yiyi bowed again and said, “I’m sorry, Elder Brother Ning, but I really don’t know.”
After saying that, she seemed to have recalled something and said, “Many thanks for saving my life last time, Senior Apprentice Brother Ning.”
Ning Cheng knew that Jing Yiyi spoke about the Changing Earth Mountain incident. But he just shook his head and didn’t answer.
Seeing Seeking Caution about to speak, Ning Cheng waved his hand and said with a cold voice, “Dao Friend Seeking Caution, I will not destroy the Everlasting Sacred Shrine, but you will have to take me to the Everlasting Sacred Tree.”
Seeking Caution still wanted to say something, but seeing the look in Ning Cheng’s eyes, she knew that she could not afford to offend this person by even the slightest bit, “Please come with me, Dao Friend Ning.”
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Ning Cheng stood in the most mysterious area within Everlasting Sacred Shrine looking at the verdant Everlasting Sacred Tree in front of him. Sensing the vitality coursing through the Everlasting Sacred Tree, he gave out a sigh in his heart. If he had this cultivation back then, would Seeking Intelligence dare refuse to let Qionghua heal under this tree?
Seeking Caution, along with several others, followed Ning Cheng but did not dare to show any dissatisfaction.
After a long time, Ning Cheng suddenly brought out the Nirvana Spear. Then, with a burst of violent imposing aura, thrust it into the Everlasting Sacred Tree.
“Don’t….” Seeking Caution screamed in horror, but it was already too late.
“Boom…..” The verdant Everlasting Sacred Tree, filled with strong vitality, quickly crumbled under Ning Cheng’s spear, and its spirit dissipated almost instantly.
Ning Cheng turned his head and looked at Seeking Caution, who still stood there in terrified shock before speaking coldly, “Even the disciples of your own sacred shrine cannot come to heal under this Everlasting Sacred Tree, so what’s the use of keeping it around? Since you saved Luofei once, I’ll spare you this once. Goodbye.”
In the middle of the conversation, Ning Cheng’s figure flashed and disappeared from the Everlasting Sacred Tree’s garden. He didn’t take anything from the Everlasting Sacred Shrine and didn’t even look back at the Everlasting Sacred Sword.
Sacred Lady Qiang, who Ning Cheng had blown back twice, once again moved towards the corpse of Seeking Intelligence and picked up the Everlasting Sacred Sword. After watching the Starry Sky Wheel disappear with a calm expression, she knelt on the side of Seeking Intelligence’s body and clenched her fists slowly before murmuring to herself, “Master, please rest assured. One day, I will kill this person with my own hands and put his head in front of Master’s tomb. If I disobey this oath, this Shu Qiang will turn to dust…..”
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“Master, where are we going now?” Chasing Bull still regretted leaving the Starry Sky Spiritual Fruit Banquet at Levelled Heart Emperor Mountain. Unfortunately, it didn’t know how long it would have to wait before it could attend such a banquet.
Where should I go?
Ning Cheng silently pondered. As this moment, he found himself at a complete loss as to where to go from here.
Chasing Bull understood that its master was in a bad mood and could only shut up and concentrate on controlling the Starry Sky Wheel’s flight. After a long time, Ning Cheng finally spoke up, “Look for places close to the Nine Plate Starland.”
With Luofei’s limited cultivation, even if she left the Nine Plate Starland, she would not be able to go far.
“The celestial river closest to Nine Plate Starland is the Night Essence Celestial River. Master, do you want to go to the Night Essence Celestial River?” Chasing Bull carefully spoke up after looking at the positional display of the Starry Sky Wheel.
“Let’s go to the Night Essence Celestial River first. If I find no news there, we’ll then return to Culmination Starland.” Ning Cheng gave a sigh. He knew that this kind of search was akin to looking for a needle in a haystack. The chances of succeeding were almost non-existent.
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Tipping Rainbow City, one of the starry sky cities of Night Essence Celestial River.
Although Ning Cheng knew about the extremely remote chances of finding information about Ji Luofei, who would have kept herself hidden, he still decided to come here.
Ning Cheng made his way to Tipping Rainbow City’s trade union to inquire about any new mystic realms opening in recent years. Although Luofei had a soft character on the outside, she was an extremely strong-willed woman on the inside. Once the cultivation resources he gave Luofei dried up, Luofei would definitely venture out to search for more cultivation resources.
If she wanted to get hold of sufficient cultivation resources quickly, she would have to explore at least one mystic realm or other dangerous places. Although risky, it could bring high payoffs if successful.
“This guest, what can I do for you?” The person in charge of the trade union was a middle-aged female cultivator, but with only a Celestial Shatterer cultivation. Although such people spoke politely, if you didn’t come here with a specific purpose, you’d only get some polite words and nothing else.
“I want to post a team mission for the Ancient Shadow Temple.” A Heaven’s Mandate cultivator came over, cut in line to the front of Ning Cheng, and spoke up.
The middle-aged female cultivator immediately left Ning Cheng aside and spoke to that Heaven’s Mandate cultivator with a face full of smiles, “Of course, ple
ase tell us your requirements.”
But after that Heaven’s Mandate cultivator posted his task and left, the middle-aged female cultivator did not turn to Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng took out ten Perpetual Moon Pills, put it in front of the middle-aged female cultivator, and asked, “I want to find out about the new mystic realms that opened up in Night Essence Celestial River during recent years, or places with rich cultivation resources.”
When this female cultivator saw Ning Cheng actually take out ten Perpetual Moon Pills, she immediately stood up, and the Perpetual Moon Pills in front of Ning Cheng suddenly disappeared. At the same time, she not only turned more enthusiastic, even her tone turned more polite, “Night Essence Celestial River has a lot of mystic realms, but the most famous of all is the Devouring Bone Sea. Although dangerous, there are many good things in that place. Many rogue cultivators like to adventure within Devouring Bone Sea for this reason. Some people even obtained Celestial River Essence Qi King Pills while adventuring. Apart from the Devouring Bone Sea, Thorn Tooth Lake and Internal Enjoyment Valley are also good places to find cultivation resources. I have a jade strip map with me here. If you want to go to any of the places listed, please let me know. I can help you put up team tasks here…..”
While talking, this female cultivator politely handed over a jade strip map to Ning Cheng.
“Many thanks.” Ning Cheng thanked her and accepted the jade strip map.
The female cultivator continued, “There’s no need for that. However, I want to remind you that you should steer away from the Ice Immortal Ridge on Radial Immortal Star. That place is strange. I heard countless cultivators died there, and only a few managed to come out alive. It didn’t matter initially, as the Ice Immortal Ridge always remained closed. But something happened a few years ago, and an ice passage and cave appeared inside the Ice Immortal Ridge. Many people continue to lose their lives because of this passage, but found nothing good in it.”
“I want to post a team mission for the Ancient Shadow Temple…..” Another Heaven’s Mandate cultivator came over and spoke.
Ning Cheng secretly wondered, what exactly was this Ancient Shadow Temple? In just a short span, two people cut in line to post team missions for this place. From this, how could he not extrapolate the number of cultivators teaming up for this place in just a day?
This time, the female cultivator did not ignore Ning Cheng; instead, she first said to Ning Cheng, “Please do look at the jade strip map. If you have any questions, you can ask me about it. I’ll do my best to answer them.”
Ning Cheng waited for that Heaven’s Mandate cultivator to post his task. After the cultivator finished posting the assignment and left, Ning Cheng asked, “Two other people posted individual team mission for the Ancient Shadow Temple while I talked to you. Is this Ancient Shadow Temple near here?”
The middle-aged female cultivator quickly explained, “The Ancient Shadow Temple is a new mystic realm that opened up in Named Descendant[1] Celestial River’s Second Revenant Star. I have to say, the mystic realm is massive. I heard that it contains countless treasures in it; even many experts in Heaven Seated Realm have tried exploring it. However, to get to Named Descendant Celestial River from here, you need to be at least at Heaven’s Mandate Realm; moreover, it’s costly. If you want to go there, you might be better off going to the Devouring Bone Sea first.”
[1]
Decided to change Kun Zhuo Celestial River to Named Descendant Celestial River.
Chapter 0711 – The Lively Covered Snow City
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Named Descendant Celestial River’s Second Revenant Star!
Wasn’t this where he first went looking for Ruolan?
He had also visited Second Revenant Star while exploring the trail of the metal origin. But back then, he never expected the Mysterious Yellow Aura to leak out during secluded cultivation, which resulted in him almost dying at the hands of Guo Sangan. It had forced him to flee to the Ancient Desolace Abandoned Land and enter Eternal Night Domain.
After learning that the Ancient Shadow Temple had appeared in Second Revenant Star, Ning Cheng decided to go visit the Ancient Shadow Temple. Since this mystic realm appeared on Second Revenant Star, maybe he might cross paths with someone familiar. If a cultivator from Graceful Star Mainland did come to the Ancient Shadow Temple, he could then at least ask them for information about Ruolan.
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The Starry Sky Wheel flew at a much higher speed compared to average flying weapons. But after the Starry Sky Wheel entered Named Descendant Celestial River, Ning Cheng quickly understood the attraction of the Ancient Shadow Temple and put it away. Most of the flight-type weapons he saw along the way were heading to one place, Named Descendant Celestial River’s Second Revenant Star.
Just as Ning Cheng heard, Second Revenant Star looked quite lively right now. As for Covered Snow City, the closest location to the Ancient Shadow Temple, it was already bursting to the brim with people. The formerly desolate Covered Snow City now seemed filled with beautiful skyscrapers. Starry sky chambers of commerce from different regions rushed up like cats smelling fish to set up shops and stores.
Land prices in Covered Snow City skyrocketed in just a day and now even a small store in Grand Culmination Starry Sky’s Eternal Heaven Starry Sky City did not cost as much as it did in the Covered Snow City.
Initially, no one earned much money; including people who took possession of the more favourably positioned properties in this area. Of course, only those who had the strength could occupy these locations; otherwise, even if one held the spot, other people would rob it from the weaker ones and might even eliminate them to remove competition.
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“There are too many people here.” Chasing Bull, who walked behind Ning Cheng, felt excited. It liked being around such lively places.
Chasing Bull was right; there really were too many people here. But Ning Cheng and Chasing Bull had still not yet entered the Covered Snow City; in fact, they were still some ways from the actual Covered Snow City. However, even this area brimmed with people and activity. Makeshift markets and trading venues could be found almost everywhere outside of the Covered Snow City, attracting hordes of cultivators and crowds from all over the place.
Coming to this place, Ning Cheng did not see any signs of the Ancient Shadow Temple; instead, he only saw a sea of people. This reminded him of the days when he was on Earth when all the major tourist attractions would attract hordes of crowds during the holiday season.
“Master, there are too many people outside the Covered Snow City. But it might not be as bad as inside the city.” Chasing Bull whispered on the side.
Ning Cheng understood Chasing Bull’s meaning. Since there were already so many people outside the Covered Snow City, wanting to enter the city, then there must be more people inside. Chasing Bull’s words did not mean that it feared crowds; it implied that they would have to squeeze through the crowds.
But Ning Cheng planned first to explore Covered Snow City. Besides, even if he wanted to enter the Ancient Shadow Temple, he would have to exit through Covered Snow City’s east gate. Since he was coming from the west side of the Covered Snow City, it meant that he would have to cross through the entire city and exit from the opposite side to reach the Ancient Shadow Temple.
“If you want to take your companion beast into the city, pay up 20,000 green coins for two.” The guard at the city gate stopped Ning Cheng and spoke.
20,000 green coins was not a small amount for an ordinary cultivator, but Ning Cheng couldn’t care about it. Since he spent 10 Perpetual Moon Pills as a reward before coming here, why would he care about 20,000 green coins? He grabbed a thousand purple coins and put them in the guard’s hand and casually spoke up, “Keep the change.”
For any cultivator at Ning Cheng’s level, they exclusively used Perpetual Moon Pills and Permanent Essence Pills, sometimes even Starry Sky Essence Qi Veins. Celestial coins, however, were just optional, almost marginalised, objects for them. Even Celestial Essence Stones had a much greater use to him than celestial coins.
By this time, Ning Cheng and Chasing Bull had already moved quite far. Only then did the guard realise that he had made a fortune and quickly ran up and thanked them, “Many thanks for the reward, Senior.”
Celestial coins practically had little to no use for Ning Cheng, but for ordinary cultivators, this was a valuable cultivation resource. With this in hand, one could buy medicinal pills, weapons and practically anything else they currently needed…
Although Chasing Bull didn’t make a wrong estimation, the inside of the Covered Snow City did not look as crowded as the outside.
Ning Cheng quickly understood why. It should be because of the 20,000 green coins as the entry fees for the Covered Snow City. For an ordinary cultivator, it was a very high price.
Ning Cheng naturally did not come here to buy weapons or medicinal pills, he just came here to explore the Covered Snow City and reach the other end. At the same time, his spiritual consciousness continually swept out in waves. The shielding restrictions could not stop Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness as it passed by. Fortunately, Ning Cheng only had the intent of locating someone he might know. Although his spiritual consciousness penetrated into the restrictions, it did not damage or destroy it; as such, no one dared to come out to say anything. Besides, how could it simple to use spiritual consciousness to break shielding restrictions?
As time passed, Ning Cheng finally made his way to the bridge connecting the east and west part of Covered Snow City but did not find even a single acquaintance.
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