The Gate Of Good Fortune c1-905

by Demon Translations

Years seem to flow by like flowing water before his eyes, but it all felt substantive as if he could just reach out with his hand and catch the flow of time.

  “Life within heaven and earth; passes by like a white colt….”

  Since the realisation of the spirit technique ‘Dusk’[1], this sentence had given Ning Cheng many revelations. But this time, when he immersed himself in the Laws of Time once again, he gained another brand-new understanding of this sentence.

  Time was like a white colt that flashed by as it leapt over a gap to reach the other side. If one wanted to seize ‘time’, then one just had to grasp this ‘gap’.

  This gap went by very fast, and this gap was also very short. But no matter the speed, as long as you can understand the essence of this ‘gap’, you can then grasp it. Even if the colt cannot see it, as long as it could feel this ‘gap’, it could reach into this ‘gap’ and seize it at any moment or even let it pass.

  The Dao Charm flowing around Ning Cheng started to grow bright. One could vaguely begin to sense the formation of a Dao Charm Spirit Technique similar to that of the Temple of Time’s gate. However, this Dao Charm Spirit Technique felt slightly different from the Dao Charm Spirit Technique embedded in the Temple of Time’s entrance.

  The Dao Charm Spirit Technique within the three-coloured Temple of Time’s gate started flowing more quickly. At the same time, the spirit technique’s Dao Charm began to fuse with the Dao Charm around Ning Cheng.

  “Boom….” An explosion erupted within Ning Cheng’s Sea of Consciousness, and he opened his eyes.

  Ning Cheng breathed out slowly. It was the third time he experienced an epiphany because of the Laws of Time since entering the Time Wilderness. However, although just touching upon the Laws of Time, Ning Cheng vaguely felt that the Laws of Time within the Time Wilderness weren’t perfect. Even if he understood all the Laws of Tine within the Temple of Time, it would still feel as if it lacked something.

  To truly control the Laws of Time, he had to integrate what he learned into his understanding of time and change it again.

  Looking at the Temple of Time’s gate, which still shone with three colours, Ning Cheng did not continue to perceive the Dao Charm of Time. He felt that he had already learned and understood everything that was to be understood. If he continued to study someone else’s understanding of the Laws of Time, it would cause him to deviate from his own Returning-to-one Dao.

  Moreover, deep in his heart, he felt that all the Laws of Time in Time Wilderness were of low-level, and not the real Laws of Time of the universe.

  Ning Cheng’s gaze finally focussed on the Temple of Time’s three-coloured ice-crystal gate. As he kept looking at the faint aura of flowing time, he saw the door open again and closing at the same time. He recalled that opening the door had forced him into a state of epiphany.

  Ning Cheng took a step forward, raised his hand and waved it.

  A Dao Charm filled with flowing time, invisible to the naked eye, gently blew by the ice-crystal gate of the Temple of Time. As Ning Cheng’s Dao Charm-filled ‘flowing time’ flowed past the ice-crystal gate, the three-colours on the ice-crystal door gradually slowed down, before finally stopping.

  Ning Cheng then began counting before suddenly stopping and spitting out a blood arrow. At the same time, he also stopped moving his hands.

  It’s not that he did not comprehend the full spirit technique, which could theoretically turnaround time. It’s just that he wasn’t strong enough to sustain it for more than a few moments. Moreover, he understood that he still did not have the power to reverse the flow of time, to let the triangular door return to the moment before it just opened.

  The three-colours quickly faded and disappeared, letting the three keys fall to the ground.

  Ning Cheng didn’t feel disappointed. He raised his hand once again and picked up the three keys. The three keys then entered the three keyholes on the Temple of Time once again.

  The triangular-shaped ice-crystal gate, just like before, started to flow with a black, white and grey coloured Dao Charm. Just a moment later, the triangular-shaped ice-crystal gate opened once again.

  But before the triangular-shaped ice crystal gate ‘closed’, Ning Cheng raised his hand and manifested a seemingly profound Dao Charm.

  After Ning Cheng cast the Dao Charm Spirit Technique, it connected with the ice-crystal gate. It forced the Dao Charm’s flow over the ice-crystal door to slow down once again.

  The time around the door still kept flowing, but the flow on the triangular-shaped ice-crystal gate paused. It’s as if a barrier split the two into two different worlds.

  This ‘pause’ was like a gap for the white colt to pass. If one didn’t take advantage of this gap, this gap would pass by in the blink of an eye.

  But this gap was more than enough for Ning Cheng. When time paused, he stepped through the Temple of Time’s gate which had not yet closed.

  When Ning Cheng entered through the Temple of Time’s gate, the three colours on the ice-crystal gate of Temple of Time started to flow once again. It felt as if this door had never opened at all. The only thing different was that Ning Cheng, who stood outside the door a moment ago, now stood on the opposite side of the door.

  “Ding….” Ning Cheng had just entered the Temple of Time when the three keys fell in front of him.

  The other side of the Temple of Time’s gate looked precisely like the outside, with the same three keyholes. He had opened the door from the outside. But after he entered the Temple of Time, the keys also fell in.

  Ning Cheng picked up the three keys and felt a little speechless about the Temple of Time’s creator. Facing that mighty gate, even if one had the three Perpetual Moon Time Keys, it wouldn’t matter. Without comprehending the Laws of Time, one couldn’t open the door at all, let alone enter.

  If he had known about it earlier, he would have let Duan Gantai give it a try first. In any case, Ning Cheng didn’t believe that Duan Gantai had prior experience with the Laws of Time.

  In any case, Ning Cheng felt quite happy with entering the Temple of Time. However, he couldn’t see any treasures.

  Wasn’t the Temple of Time supposed to be a place filled with treasures?

  Therefore, after Ning Cheng scanned the Temple of Time with his eyes, he then scanned it more thoroughly with his spiritual consciousness. Very quickly, however, his expressions turned ugly.

  The Temple of Time, famous throughout the four grand starry skies, turned out to be just a circular chamber with an area of less than 20 square meters. But it contained nothing. Nothing at all, apart from the ice-crystal walls composed of array formations and random ice crystals.

  Even the Starry Sky Spirit Qi inside wasn’t any different to the outside.

  Ning Cheng frowned. If the Temple of Time was this bad, he shouldn’t have even bothered to come here.

  He had gained a deeper understanding of the Laws of Time Spirit Technique at the Temple of Time’s triangular-shaped entrance. However, this kind of enlightenment was just icing on the cake. Even if he didn’t come to this place, his understanding of the Laws of Time would have eventually reached this level by itself.

  Ning Cheng felt quite disappointed at such a turnout and looked around the Temple of Time a few more times. But even after using his spiritual consciousness to scan everything for over an hour, he couldn’t find anything. In the end, he finally came to a stop once again at the triangular-shaped door. It looks like the Temple of Time was a misnomer. There wasn’t anything good here except for the Laws of Time embedded in the door.

  It meant that the benefits one would obtain from the Temple of Time weren’t even comparable to those one could get from the Sea of Twilight and the ice plains ravaged by time wheels. At least in those places, one could still obtain some Time Stones and other treasures.

  Ning Cheng took out the Perpetual Moon Time Keys again and decided to leave this place. He sent the three Perpetual Moon Time Keys into the keyholes in the Temple of Time’s triang
ular-shaped entrance. It once again lit up like the time when Ning Cheng came in, and the Dao Charm once again began to flow over the Temple of Time’s gate.

  But to Ning Cheng’s surprise, he didn’t see the Temple of Time’s door open despite sensing the almost substantial flow of time. Moreover, this time, the flow felt completely different from the flow of time he had detected before stepping inside the chamber. Previously, the Laws of Time he comprehended felt soft and elusive, almost fleeting. But this time, it felt sharp and violent, like a fierce and ruthless blade.

  Although it was not Ning Cheng’s first day to come in contact with the Laws of Time, it now felt as if he had never perceived the Laws of Time.

  [1]

  ‘Dusk’ and ‘Sunset’s Twilight’ are the same spirit technique despite the different words. Old Five switches the wordings for the technique every few chapters.

  Chapter 0774 – Spirit Technique – Time Wheel

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  A faint grey, almost invisible, wheel crossed through Ning Cheng’s consciousness. Although just a perception, Ning Cheng still felt his Sea of Consciousness bursting with pain.

  Invisible and immaterial, it’s as if this invisible grey-white wheel erased everything that wandered into its path. Ning Cheng vaguely felt that even his Domain at full power couldn’t block this grey-white wheel for even a moment.

  What the hell was this, how was it so terrifying?

  The shock that emerged from the bottom of his heart awakened Ning Cheng suddenly. He looked up at the Temple of Time’s gate, which still flowed with three colours, and then suddenly turned around. He raised his hand and tried to trace some of those mysterious trajectories, which then immediately spread out.

  A faint light wheel composed of the Laws of Time then suddenly shot out of Ning Cheng’s hand. Even Ning Cheng himself felt shocked to see the disc. He felt sure that others couldn’t see it as it comprised entirely of the Dao Charm of Time. Even he couldn’t capture it with either his gaze or spiritual consciousness. Only cultivators who comprehended the Laws of Time, or experts much more powerful than him, could feel this vague light wheel.

  Everything before this light wheel would return to dust. Any life that appeared in front of its path would come to an end.

  The initially empty Temple of Time’s circular chamber after Ning Cheng’s light wheel came out, immediately started to rattle. It seemed as if Ning Cheng had split apart something. But when Ning Cheng looked at the empty chamber before him once again, he still couldn’t find anything.

  No

  , once the grey-white light wheel came out, the Temple of Time’s circular chamber turned clearer. Ning Cheng took in a breath of air and suddenly realised that something else had appeared in the Temple of Time. It’s just that Ning Cheng couldn’t see it right now. And the reason he couldn’t see it was because of a vague Sealing Array Formation. His attainments in array formation hadn’t reached the required level yet to see through it.

  From the looks of it, as his grey-white disc shot out, it most likely cut through one of the primary nodes of a Sealing Array Formation within the Temple of Time’s circular chamber. It most likely weakened the formation and caused everything in front of him to turn clearer. If not for the contrast, Ning Cheng wouldn’t have realised it at all. Processing everything a few more times, Ning Cheng realised that he currently stood in the array formation’s eye.

  “Time Wheel….” Ning Cheng now no longer cared about what was in the Temple of Time. Instead, he raised his hand and carefully looked at his palm.

  The huge shock from a few moments ago had drawn in Ning Cheng’s full attention. Even if Ning Cheng turned into an idiot, he realised that he had just unconsciously comprehended another spirit technique.

  That’s right. It was the Time Wheel

  . Although derived from the Laws of Time, it comprised of a very different type of Law of Time. The Time Wheel had a very violent and destructive nature. Anything that stood in its path would turn into nothingness under the annihilating power of time contained within it.

  The ice-crystal plain was the best example. Time wheels ravaged the ice-crystal plain for countless years, turning that place into a flat and endless plain. Nothing raised existed in that place as the Time Wheels erased anything in its path and return it to the previous flatness.

  Even if he didn’t obtain anything from this place, Ning Cheng couldn’t contain the inner ecstasy. He had just comprehended the second Laws of Time Spirit Technique, Time Wheel.

  In terms of power, the Time Wheel was not worse than his initial Law of Time Spirit Technique, Sunset’s Twilight. It’s just that the later was like a gentle wind, while the former was a vicious storm.

  As the excitement gradually subsided, Ning Cheng once again started to look at the circular Temple of Time carefully. The circular Temple of Time still looked as if it contained nothing. Rather, even if it did have something, under Ning Cheng’s newly comprehended Spirit Technique, Time Wheel, it might have turned into nothingness.

  However, as Ning Cheng carefully looked around once again, a circular jade platform about half a meter in diameter suddenly appeared in the very centre of the Temple of Time. Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness repeatedly scanned it and determined that this jade platform didn’t pose any danger to him. But despite that, Ning Cheng still kept caution as he carefully walked up to it.

  Ning Cheng had just reached the jade platform when a horrifying wave of Starry Sky Spirit Qi washed over him. Ning Cheng immediately stopped. Even if he had seen and consumed many precious treasures during cultivation, he had never encountered anything with such an abundant Starry Sky Spirit Qi.

  An ordinary person would explode just by standing near this wave of Starry Sky Essence Spirit Qi, let alone try cultivating using it. This wave of Starry Sky Spirit Qi had a terrifying feel to it. But what felt even more frightening was that this Starry Sky Spirit Qi wasn’t even an overflow, it was just a remnant portion.

  Ning Cheng took in a deep breath and let his spiritual consciousness penetrate the jade platform. Unfortunately, although he could feel an unparalleled quantity of Spirit Qi inside, and even absorb it, his spiritual consciousness could not enter the jade platform at all. It also meant that, even if he wanted to, he couldn’t take away this Starry Sky Spirit Qi-filled jade platform.

  Ning Cheng didn’t have anything else to do right now.

  In any case, wasn’t he desperately trying to search for more sources of Starry Sky Spirit Qi?

  This abundant Starry Sky Spirit Qi definitely could help him in cultivation.

  Ning Cheng no longer wanted to head out immediately. Instead, he immediately activated his cultivation method to absorb all the Starry Sky Essence Spirit Qi.

  With the Mysterious Yellow Formless, the thing Ning Cheng feared the most was not drowning in cultivation resources, but not having enough cultivation resources. For others, cultivating within Permanent Essence Pills and Spiritual Veins might produce better results. But for Ning Cheng, they could no longer bring in any significant results.

  But in this place, he could absorb nearly infinite amounts of Starry Sky Spirit Qi. Moreover, he also felt that if the jade platform continued to prove the same quantity if Spirit Qi, he might not even manage to incorporate it completely.

  Since returning from the Eternal Night Domain, Ning Cheng rarely experienced such a happy cultivation opportunity. Even absorbing Permanent Essence Pills and Starry Sky Essence Qi Veins couldn’t compare to cultivating in this place.

  Ning Cheng continuously extracted the endless and pure starry sky Essence Spirit Qi and absorbed it. Very quickly, a starry sky Essence Spirit Qi cocoon formed around him. Once it fully encased Ning Cheng, not a single strand of starry sky Spirit Qi leaked out.

  At the same time, Ning Cheng’s cult
ivation level also started to rise under this kind of crazy cultivation.

  Time was the least valuable thing when it came to secluded cultivation. But three months later, Ning Cheng finally had to open his eyes. He felt ecstatic with this cultivation session. However, his Good Fortune Origin Aura could no longer smoothly integrate with the Spirit Qi’s circulation as it did in the past, which undermined the progress by a bit. It resulted in limited growth of his perception and meridian development. Therefore, in these three months, despite absorbing so much starry sky Spirit Qi, his cultivation had only risen from the peak to full-circle of middle-level Life and Death Realm.

  Thinking of this, Ning Cheng took out the Mysterious Yellow Bead and put it over the jade platform and then entered it. Without the Mysterious Yellow Bead’s full cooperation, his cultivation speed would always remain slow.

  After placing the Mysterious Yellow Bead in close contact with the jade platform, Ning Cheng then once again entered another crazy cultivation session inside the bead.

  This time, Ning Cheng had just barely begun the cultivation session, when his cultivation broke through the shackles with a much smoother integration of the Mysterious Yellow Origin. An instant later, he entered the late-stage Life and Death Realm.

  Ning Cheng felt thankful that he found this place at the right time. Once reaching the late-stage of the Life and Death Realm, his absorption of starry sky Spirit Qi more than doubled, in both volume and speed. Without the Temple of Time, he would not have found a suitable cultivation location at all. Even with many Permanent Essence Pills and Starry Sky Essence Qi Veins, he would only be able to increase his cultivation one step after another. What’s more, he didn’t have any of those things right now.

  ……

  Since the return of Culmination Grand Starry Sky’s Levelled Heart Heavenly Emperor, the Culmination Grand Starry Sky once again returned to its usual tranquillity. However, during the past few years, many people discovered a problem. That is, Levelled Heart Heavenly Emperor no longer seemed to care about the things going on in the starry sky as he once did in the past.