“The Ancient Shadow Temple originally was a place to absorb yin spirits. Moreover, the fall of countless cultivators in this place also produced many yin spirits, which the Ancient Shadow Temple sucked away. However, they all ended up as food for the growth of that ghost cultivator. Moreover, that ghost cultivator had seen Zhong Wuchang cultivating the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique, and also started cultivating the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique in this place. Although that ghost cultivator only managed to scrape the surface of it, it still managed to cultivate something similar.”
“Then, how did you appear here? Where did that ghost cultivator go?” Learning that someone had taken away Grey Toottoot, Ning Cheng couldn’t help but feel somewhat disappointed, which came out in his tone.
The black-robed man quickly replied, “I accidentally found the Ancient Shadow Temple while roaming and ended up in this place. However, that ghost cultivator captured me and ordered me to help him collect the yin spirits who had not crossed the Bridge of Coping. The Yin Qi within this place is just too overbearing. Therefore, after staying in this place for a long time, my cultivation not only didn’t improve; it even started to fall. Because of this, I could only modify my cultivation method to start using yin spirits for cultivation. Fortunately, the yin spirits that came here were of a low-grade, something the ghost cultivator didn’t need at that point. Moreover, I also knew that as long as I could get my hands on some high-grade yin spirits, my cultivation would gradually rise.”
When the black-robed man spoke of this, he seemed to remember the time when the ghost cultivator controlled his actions. “In the end, I’m only here to help that ghost cultivator grab various yin spirits, stuck in an endless, thankless loop. I could only cultivate for a while in between collections. Fortunately, I have good qualifications, so my cultivation improved ever so slowly. Later, that ghost cultivator felt that the level of yin spirits here was too low. So he ordered me to attract cultivators with high cultivations to enter this place. For that, he even forced me to take out those five treasures……”
Ning Cheng understood something after hearing all this, and immediately asked, “You mean you put those five treasures in the five-sided hall?”
The black-robed man nodded, “Yes, that ghost cultivator forced me to put them up. Only that ghost cultivator knew the method to control the array formations within the five-sided hall and the regional gates. But although I put those things up, I couldn’t get them back even if I wanted to. However, those few things indeed attracted a lot of top-grade cultivators for that ghost. Once the ghost cultivator swallowed the essence spirits of those people, he would order me to put those things up once again.”
“It went on till one day I found a Soul Subduing Card on one of the yin spirits. When that ghost cultivator started to absorb those yin spirits for cultivation, I suddenly took my shot. I managed to suppress the ghost cultivator with the Soul Subduing Card. But my cultivation couldn’t compare with the ghost cultivator. Therefore, despite managing to suppress him, the two of us remained in a stalemate. Moreover, the control of all the array formations within the Ancient Shadow Temple remained with the ghost cultivator.”
“Then, how did Grey Toottoot get to this place?” Ning Cheng asked again.
The black-robed man replied, “It was because of a Heavenly Cloud Zoysia that had manifested some spiritual wisdom. Grey Toottoot found the Heavenly Cloud Zoysia, but that Heavenly Cloud Zoysia escaped into the Ancient Shadow Temple. Grey Toottoot chased after it. Because it’s not easy to find a beast like Grey Toottoot, I brought it into this place. Speaking of that, that ghost cultivator also helped. If it wasn’t for him opening the array formations, I couldn’t have brought Grey Toottoot inside even if I wanted.”
“After knowing that Grey Toottoot had a trace of All-devourer’s blood, I’ve been trying to force that trace of blood out of it by all means I knew. However, I never succeeded even once.”
Ning Cheng’s heart filled up with even more killing desire. No wonder that ghost soldier had kept a tight grip on Grey Toottoot while over the Bridge of Coping. It wanted to force out Grey Toottoot’s blood.
“Then a few years ago, your group entered the Ancient Shadow Temple. You even came to the Yellow Spring Pool. But because the ghost cultivator didn’t want to cooperate with me, he deliberately let those who entered the Life and Death doors to break the barriers around this place. I wanted to prevent those people from escaping, but it proved quite expensive for me. Plus, since you took away my most important treasure, the Measureless Gourd, I had no choice but to chase after you.”
With that, the black-robed man’s eye filled up with regret.
“As a result of your actions, the ghost cultivator broke free, isn’t it?” Ning Cheng asked in a cold voice. He finally understood why Chuan Xinlou and the others could get out after being trapped in this place. From the looks of it, someone had been aiding them from the shadows. It also meant that people like Striking Order might have already fallen.
The black-robed man sighed, “Yes, that ghost cultivator took the opportunity to break away from the Soul Subduing Card. We battled it out, but he severely injured me and then snatched away Grey Toottoot. He had a Breaking Boundary Talisman on him, which meant that I couldn’t chase after him.”
Ning Cheng estimated that this black-robed man hadn’t lied as this fellow’s strength had truly fallen by a lot.
“You know about the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique, you also know about Zhong Wuchang, did that ghost cultivator tell you about all of it?” Ning Cheng stared at the black-robed man.
“Yes, these were all things he had told me in the past.” The black-robed man could feel the strong killing desire building up in Ning Cheng. He knew that Ning Cheng wouldn’t spare him today; therefore, he didn’t even bother to ask for mercy. He could only hope that Ning Cheng would keep his promise and allow him to enter the reincarnation cycle.
“What’s the name of that ghost cultivator?”
“His name is Ling Zhi.”
“Zhong Wuchang built a mystic realm right outside the Ancient Shadow Temple. Was it for cultivators to explore it as a trial and then use the opportunity to extract their soul?”
“Yes, but later he felt that the cultivators who came in for the trials were too low-levelled, which was why he sealed the Ancient Shadow Temple and left.”
After hearing those words, the accumulating spear intent in the Celestial Rainbow Purgatory Spear that had already locked on to the black-robed man, burst out abruptly. An instant later, the black-robed man exploded into pieces. Ning Cheng kept his promise and allowed the black-robed man to enter the reincarnation cycle by sparing a wisp of his soul.
Even though he had never seen or met that Zhong Wuchang, Ning Cheng understood that he was a truly ruthless person. For the sake of cultivating a spirit technique, he created a mystic realm to lure people inside to their death. At the same time, he also made the Hell’s Gate, the Yellow Spring Pool, the Life and Death gates, the Bridge of Coping….
One could only imagine how many people had fallen here based on the thick Yin Qi. Otherwise, even with high attainments in array formation, Zhong Wuchang couldn’t have arranged something like those violent gloomy winds. A phenomenon that could easily tear apart Eternal cultivators.
No wonder the Covered Snow City had snow covering it all year round. A place with such high concentrations of Yin Qi, it would have been quite strange if this place didn’t have even a bit of snow.
After killing the black-robed cultivator, Ning Cheng began to destroy everything in the Ancient Shadow Temple. Ning Cheng couldn’t arrange such high-level array formations, but he had no problems or qualms in crushing them. The most potent aspect of the Time Wheel was ‘nihilation’. With Ning Cheng’s Time Wheels blasting out one after another, the fake First Bridge of Coping, the Yellow Spring Pool, the Life and Death gates, the pitch-black public square, and even the five-sided great hall quickly reduced to dust.
After Ning Cheng razed all
the array formations and the other areas to dust, the Yin Qi trapped in this place started to dissipate. As long as no one touched it for a few more years, the Yin Qi in this place would dissipate naturally.
After doing this, Ning Cheng sealed the entrance to the real Ancient Shadow Temple. As for the trial grounds outside the Ancient Shadow Temple, Ning Cheng didn’t do anything to it.
After leaving the Ancient Shadow temple again, Ning Cheng finally felt some relief. Although he couldn’t find Grey Toottoot inside, he had at least removed the lingering threat of the Ancient Shadow Temple.
That Zhong Wuchang truly was a lunatic. For the sake of cultivating a spirit technique, he built such a ridiculous place in this location.
As for the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique, it truly sounded frightening. Unfortunately, he had no idea about it. Just when this last thought crossed his mind, Ning Cheng suddenly stopped.
Seven Bridges Spirit Technique?
He had obtained a wordless book from the Formless Sect’s stone stele, which also contained seven pages. During the past few years, he had managed to refine the book a little during his cultivation sessions in the Mysterious Yellow Sect. However, he only came to know the name of the book, the Seven Bridges Realm Book. However, he couldn’t refine it any further.
Was there a connection between these two Seven Bridges?
Chapter 0817 – Traceless Gate
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After Ning Cheng returned to Covered Snow City, the first thing he did was to go into seclusion to refine the Seven Bridges Realm Book. If this wordless book truly contained the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique, it meant that it was at least on the same level as the Five-coloured Star Splitter Arrow.
But to Ning Cheng’s disappointment, even after refining the book for three months in seclusion, the wordless book still contained only its name. Other than that, he obtained nothing.
In the end, Ning Cheng could only give up on continuing to refine the book. He couldn’t spend all his time on it. He needed to go to the Thorn Tooth Lake to study the teleportation array. Yan Ji had teleported away from within the Thorn Tooth Lake, which didn’t provide much of a relief to Ning Cheng.
As for the Mysterious Yellow Celestial River and Stately River Star, Ning Cheng knew that he wouldn’t need to worry about it at all.
He had already done a lot of things in Striking Order Starland and Nine Jewels Starry Sky. Therefore, even if the news didn’t spread throughout the Culmination Grand Starry Sky, people around the Mysterious Yellow Celestial River understood a few things. That is, even Chuan Xinlou did not dare come to Stately River Star to find trouble with Ning Cheng, so who else would dare do anything? One could even say that the Stately River Star, and even the Mysterious Yellow Celestial River, were the safest places in this part of the starry sky.
Of course, only a handful of people knew that Chuan Xinlou had already left the Culmination Grand Starry Sky.
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Night Essence Celestial River, Orchid Restraining Star’s Thorn Tooth Lake. Since the time Ning Cheng killed Shangguan Fei and Shangguan Xiang a few years ago, few people rarely, if ever, came venturing to this place. Moreover, after Luo Sizhe took complete control of Nine Jewels Starry Sky, Luo Sizhe immediately listed this place as a forbidden zone.
It has been two years since Ning Cheng had come alone to study the teleportation formation under the Thorn Tooth Lake. Over these past two years, he had deduced various formations with the hope to rearrange the one-way part of this teleportation array. Even if it couldn’t teleport him to the original location, he hoped that it would bring him somewhere nearby.
Even without factoring in Ning Cheng’s Mysterious Yellow Formless, very few people could match his deduction ability. Yet, even after two years, he still couldn’t deduce the layout of this teleportation array, let alone advance to the rank of Array Dao Master.
Moreover, to help Ning Cheng, Starry Sky Emperor Luo Sizhe of Nine Jewels Starry Sky also collected the best Array Dao Jade Slips within the Nine Jewels Starry Sky. Unfortunately, these Array Dao Jade Slips couldn’t help Ning Cheng in improving his understanding of the Dao of Arrays.
Studying array formations for so many years, and not caring about anything else, yet, still unable to advance to the level of an Array Dao Master. It made Ning Cheng deeply understand the difficulty in becoming an Array Dao Master. From a Starry Sky Grade 7 Array Master to a Starry Sky Grade 9 Array Emperor, Ning Cheng hardly needed to spend any effort. It all came naturally to him.
As such, it was the first time for Ning Cheng to run into such trouble. He couldn’t reach the Array Dao Master-level even after so much effort.
Fortunately, he at least gained some understanding of what held him back. After years of researching the Dao of Arrays, Ning Cheng understood that to reach the Array Dao Master-level, he lacked a most fundamental requirement. In other words, he lacked an understanding of the Laws of Space.
No one was like him, in contact with the Laws of Time for so long, yet not even touching the Laws of Space. In terms of complexity of laws, the Laws of Space held a lower pedestal to the Laws of Time. As such, one would have a much easier time touching the Laws of Space compared to the Laws of Time. Yet, Ning Cheng came into contact with the Laws of Time first.
When it came to the Dao of Arrays, especially for the arrangement of ultra-long distance teleportation arrays, an Array Formation Master must first have an understanding of the Laws of Space. Otherwise, no matter how profound the master’s comprehension and deduction ability was, it wouldn’t be of any use. Just like how one first needs ‘wings’ to fly. It didn’t matter whether your ‘wings’ were physical or in some other form, one would need them to start flying.
To start sensing the Laws of Space, there were only a few places within the four grand starry skies. They were the Spirit Heaven Grand Starry Sky’s Sky Ridge and Demon Domain Grand Starry Sky’s Traceless Gate. These two places enjoyed a similar level of fame as Striking Order Starry Sky’s Time Wilderness. The only difference was that Time Wilderness was a place to perceive the Laws of Time, while Sky Ridge and Traceless Gate were places to sense the Laws of Space.
Sky Ridge was a place filled with spacial collapses, spacial cracks and spacial dislocations. It even contained dense pockets of spacial blades. Because of this reason, most cultivators wouldn’t come to this place to sense the Laws of Space. Going to this place meant holding your head in your hands at all times.
The Traceless Gate in Demon Domain, in contrast, was a much safer option than the Sky Ridge. It’s said that it hardly contains any spacial dislocations. However, the Traceless Gate had many small independent spacial pockets inside of it. Entering these small pockets would also render your spiritual consciousness ineffective. Even if two people stood in adjacent pockets, they wouldn’t be able to see each other or even sense each other. It was also one of the primary reasons why many cultivators entering the Traceless Gate would never come out of it even after perceiving the Laws of Space.
Only those who went inside the Traceless Gate would understand that the dangers within it were no less than that of the Sky Ridge.
Since Ning Cheng wanted to get in touch with the Laws of Space in the shortest time, he must go to one of these two places. After thinking it over for some time, Ning Cheng decided to visit the Traceless Gate first.
He had seen many spacial dislocations and spacial collapses. However, he never managed to perceive even the slightest bit of the Laws of Space. On the contrary, Ning Cheng had only heard about the Traceless Gate but had never seen it. Hence, curiosity was also one of the factors.
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The Traceless Gate was a testing ground to help in the perception of the Laws of Space. However, the Traceless Gate wasn’t accessible to everyone. That’s because the Traceless Imm
ortal Pond guarded the entrance of the Traceless Gate. The Traceless Immortal Pond was a true sect.
This sect was one of the major forces within Demon Domain Grand Starry Sky. If anyone wanted to enter the Traceless Gate’s trial grounds, they would have to first get permission from this sect.
Standing outside the Traceless Immortal Pond, Ning Cheng couldn’t help but feel shocked. This place might not be as diverse as Chuan Xinlou’s Levelled Heart Emperor Mountain, but this sect was truly the grandest he had ever seen till now.
The nine huge Heaven Connecting Array Columns at the entrance told everything he needed to know. Each of these Heaven Connecting Array Columns required many top-grade materials and a lot of money. Moreover, each column required many artefact-crafting masters and array formation masters to work in parallel to design and craft it. Even as the master of Stately River Star, he wouldn’t waste so many materials in crafting such a monstrosity, which served no practical purpose.
He also saw several suspended waterfalls out in the distance, half-hidden by the passing clouds and mists. But Ning Cheng understood with a glance that these waterfalls were the concealed array bases for the Sect-protecting Grand Array. Moreover, the majestic sounds of the waterfall showed that this truly was a powerful sect no weaker than a top-class force.
Moreover, this was just a corner of the sect. Ning Cheng, as top-grade Array Emperor, could easily see countless array formations arranged everywhere within the Traceless Immortal Pond with a single casual glance.
While Ning Cheng observed the surroundings for a while, a young female cultivator came out to receive him. After hearing Ning Cheng’s intention, she didn’t speak even a word of nonsense and asked Ning Cheng to pay 100 Permanent Essence Pills. She then took Ning Cheng to the Traceless Immortal Pond’s guest hall after receiving the payment.
Ning Cheng was a well-known entity in Culmination Starry Sky, and even the Devil Domain’s Silent Bubble Starland had heard of Ning Cheng. However, in Demon Domain’s Traceless Immortal Pond, no one had heard of Ning Cheng at all.
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