“Since you came to me, you need me for something, right?” Since Ning Cheng didn’t know anything about the attitude of old man Kong He, old man Kong He took the initiative to speak up.
Ning Cheng felt happy on hearing those words and quickly took out the dilapidated battle disc Sifting Orchid. “Master Kong He, I want you to help me repair this battle disc.”
Old man Kong He’s words implied that he should have no problems in agreeing to help him repair this starry sky battleship. Therefore, Ning Cheng immediately took out Sifting Orchid and stated his request.
Kong He looked at Sifting Orchid in front of him and said with a slightly depressed voice, “You want me to fix this low-level thing?”
Since Ning Cheng came here specifically for repairing it, he couldn’t help but speak up with a weak voice, “That’s right. Sifting Orchid is something important to me. Therefore, no matter the cost, I have to fix it.”
Old man Kong He glanced at the pile of materials and said, “You have a lot of materials. But it’s far from enough to complete that top-grade battleship. As for repairing this low-level battle disc, it’s a lost cause. Even if you kill me, I won’t stoop so low as to repair such a low-level thing.”
Ning Cheng felt very upset about it.
Since you disagree, then why did you pick out my materials? If you want my materials for nothing, even if it’s you Kong He, don’t even think about it.
“If that’s the case, then forget it.” It wasn’t in Ning Cheng’s character to beg Kong He for such a thing. He’d rather go anywhere else in Pill Rice Celestial River to repair this technological battle disc, but not Kong He.
After saying this, Ning Cheng raised his hand to put away the materials on the ground. However, Kong He spoke up at this moment, “Whatever little experience I have, I stored it in the cabin across the public square. If you study inside for a few days, you might be able to repair your Sifting Orchid by yourself. You can even try your hand at this top-grade starry sky battleship. The only condition is your materials. Of course, if you disagree, you can go ahead and leave. One more thing, my jade strips aren’t something that people can copy; otherwise, they all will self-destruct.”
Ning Cheng felt his heart move. He came from a planet with a very low-level technological civilisation. However, he had managed to cultivate to the Eternal Realm, and also had a starry sky Sea of Consciousness. Even if one took away these things from him, few people in the world could compare to his learning and comprehension abilities. Otherwise, it would have been an impossible thing to have such an achievement in the highly complicated Dao of Arrays.
In Ning Cheng’s view, pills, array formations, artefacts, talismans or anything else he had learned so far. They were all countless times more complicated than learning technology. Since Kong He agreed to let him study his research, why would he still care about asking his old fellow’s help? Kong He also said that he could look it for a few days, which also meant that Kong He had no plans to disturb him during those few days.
“I agree.” As soon as Ning Cheng’s words fell, old man Kong He raised his hand and took away the materials he had selected.
Ning Cheng didn’t care about it either. After putting away the rest of the materials, he immediately walked to a small wooden cabin on the opposite side of the public square.
Kong He chuckled and mumbled to himself, “Study for a few days? It would be a miracle if you could even come out after a thousand years. No, you will have no choice but to come out in two years. Because in two years, my things will naturally follow me into the void.”
After talking to himself, Kong He immediately went inside one of the battleships and continued to perfect it. The reason he said that was not because he looked down on Ning Cheng, but that what he kept in that cabin wasn’t the same as average technological research. Those were all his self-contained understandings that combined technology with starry sky artefact-refining methods. In a sense, one could even regard it as a brand new path.
It didn’t matter how heaven-defying of a genius Ning Cheng was. Without spending at least a thousand years studying his research, Ning Cheng wouldn’t grasp even a bit of his understanding. Just think about how long it took for one to become an accomplished Weapon Emperor? Even if one had access to sufficient materials, it would still take many thousands if not tens of thousands of years, right? Moreover, when it came to his understandings, if one wasn’t a Weapon Emperor, one couldn’t even think about learning it.
He did it only because he had taken a fancy to Ning Cheng’s materials. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have allowed Ning Cheng to enter his wooden house even if he knew that Ning Cheng couldn’t learn his things.
……
After Ning Cheng entered the house, only then did he understand how many things were inside of it. This wooden house was nothing but a space-shrinking artefact that stored hundreds of millions of jade strips.
Fortunately, Kong He classified everything in an orderly manner. From low-levelled things to high-levelled information, one level after another level.
Ning Cheng didn’t take out any of the jade strips to read. He knew that if he took out and viewed them one after another, he might not finish them within a hundred years. Instead, his spiritual consciousness fell onto the first jade strip. Absorbing all the information quickly without reading any of it, he then moved from the first jade strip to the second jade strip, then the third, fourth…..
In just half a day, Ning Cheng had already immersed himself in all the knowledge he absorbed from the jade strips into his Sea of Consciousness. It was just like Kong He’s prediction. Sometimes knowledge was also a kind of poison. Once one got immersed inside of it, one would find it impossible to come out of it until one understood it all. Kong He had already predicted that as long as Ning Cheng fell into this state, he wouldn’t give up on it casually.
All of Kong He’s entry-level jade strips contained only simple information. As long as one read through it, one could then follow the instructions to combine it with the methods of artefact-crafting. However, for ordinary people to understand all of his information and experience, it would only be a foolish and idiotic dream.
Unfortunately, Ning Cheng wasn’t an ordinary person. He was a top-grade Weapon Emperor himself, and his artefact-crafting method didn’t lose out to Kong He. It’s just that Kong He didn’t know about it. If Kong He knew that Ning Cheng was also a top-grade Weapon Emperor, he would have never let Ning Cheng in here. This wooden cabin was Kong He’s countless years of accumulation and effort. Even if he helped Ning Cheng complete that battleship for free, he wouldn’t agree to let Ning Cheng learn his things.
Ning Cheng’s Sea of Consciousness and comprehension ability was just too strong. The information within the millions of jade strips within the room transformed into flowing streams and flowed into his Sea of Consciousness. In the beginning, Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness had to sweep through one jade strip after another. But now, Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness could quickly sweep through thousands of jade strips at a time.
In just over a year, Ning Cheng had swept through all the jade strips, leaving none behind. Not only that, because of his cultivation method, he also found a few problems in Kong He’s jade strips. Therefore, to understand these things better, Ning Cheng didn’t leave the cabin and instead used it to seclude himself and organise his understandings. He also carved these observations into some blank jade strips.
Ning Cheng decided to give these jade strips to old man Kong He. Since Ning Cheng had learned and gained so much from Kong He, he wanted to carve his understanding into new jade strips and give it to Kong He as a reward.
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The flame grading goes like this: Ordinary, Spiritual, True, Celestial, Celestial River, Starry Sky, Spirit….
Chapter 0834 – Siege Caused By The Array Pattern
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Before Ning Cheng could finish his jade strip, he felt the space surrounding him fluctuate. He rushed out of the room instinctively, but the next moment, the cabin erupted with a bright light before disappearing into the void.
The cabin escaped into the void?
Ning Cheng understood a few things and quickly looked in the opposite direction, and found only one of the two huge starry sky battleships still present on the public square. As for the other one, it had disappeared without a trace.
Ning Cheng quickly rushed towards the remaining battleship and carefully scrutinised it. Fortunately, nothing had happened to the battleship, and everything inside of it also remained untouched.
Apart from old man Kong He and his battleship that disappeared from the public square, the other thing this place used to contain was the cabin filled with information. However, it had also disappeared.
Because Ning Cheng had immersed himself in imprinting a jade strip with his deductions inside the wooden house, he didn’t consider that such a thing would happen. Now that he sobered up, he quickly understood why it happened.
That old man Kong He truly didn’t have a good heart at all.
Kong He allowed him to study the scientific and technological information he had collected within the wooden house. But the knowledge inside was a fusion of technology and artefact-crafting. Apart from a top-grade Weapon Emperor, nobody else could have comprehended even a part of the information within two years.
Besides, even if one were a Weapon Emperor, if this person didn’t have a mighty Sea of Consciousness and comprehension ability, this person wouldn’t be able to understand the information inside it.
In other words, replaced by an ordinary person, he or she wouldn’t have understood any of the knowledge inside the cabin before Kong He swept it away.
Fortunately, Kong He didn’t know that Ning Cheng was also a highly accomplished Weapon Emperor, let alone know about his Sea of Consciousness. Replaced by anyone else, they probably couldn’t have comprehended even one hundred thousandths of the information within these two years. It was also the primary reason why Kong He made such a generous offer.
From the looks of it, Kong He already had planned it all out. That is, once Kong He completed his battleship, he would immediately leave this place. And since that cabin was his blood, sweat and tears, Kong He naturally wouldn’t leave it behind.
After understanding this, Ning Cheng nearly raised his middle finger to Kong He with contempt.
Fortunately, even though Kong He was very stingy about that thing, he at least wasn’t a truly disgusting person. At least he didn’t leave with both battleships. If Kong He had decided to go with both battleships, it would have left Ning Cheng with no alternative.
After understanding Kong He’s thoughts, Ning Cheng no longer felt the need to give Kong He what he understood.
Ning Cheng didn’t stay here to finish perfecting this top-grade starry sky battleship. Instead, he put away the starry sky battleship and left Kong He Emperor Mountain. With his current ability, he could complete this starry sky battleship without any help. But it would take a considerable amount of time. As for Sifting Orchid, Ning Cheng could now restore it to its original state at any time without much effort.
Therefore, he decided to repair it slowly after he returned to Stately River Star.
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Pill Rice Celestial River was the most famous technological celestial river among the four grand starry skies. Most of this celestial river’s planets and stars followed the path of technology, engaging in the specialised production-related activities. Moreover, laser weapons and various battleships were their best-selling items, along with planetary space locking equipment.
Grand Nursing Star, where Ning Cheng went before, was Pill Rice Celestial River’s most famous starry sky battleship production star. Even compared to the rest of the Pill Rice Celestial River, Grand Nursing Star far outclassed every other place when it came to starry sky battleship production.
However, not all planets and stars within the Pill Rice Celestial River were purely technological planets. At least Sifting Forest Star wasn’t one. Sifting Forest Star had a large number of starry sky sects, similar to other sects found in different grand starry skies. In other words, one would mainly find starry sky cultivators within this star. However, they still used technological products for some activities. Primarily, however, they used these technology-focused products for auxiliary support in cultivation.
Rainbowfall Sword Sect wasn’t a prominent sect within Sifting Forest Star, at best it was only a very ordinary sect. Even its current sect master, Sect Master Xian Chanxu, was only a Heaven’s Mandate cultivator. Even the sect’s most powerful cultivator, Elder Yu Bo, hadn’t come out in ages. People had only heard that he had reached the late-stage Life and Death Realm, but it was only a rumour without any evidence.
Ning Cheng had never been to the starry sky’s Rainbowfall Sword Sect before. But he could judge from Feng Kai’s posture in front of Liang Qiurui that Rainbowfall Sword Sect wasn’t a dominant sect within Sifting Forest Star.
But now that Ning Cheng came to Rainbowfall Sword Sect, he felt that his initial conjecture might have been a wrong one. Rainbowfall Sword Sect didn’t seem to be a small one, at least the area occupied by the sect looked and felt quite right. It had abundant Starry Sky Spirit Qi, and the mountain range surrounding it formed a naturally defensive array.
What surprised Ning Cheng, even more, was that the entrance of Rainbowfall Sword Sect looked very lively and crowded. If it were a makeshift market’s entrance, Ning Cheng wouldn’t have felt surprised. But as a sect entrance, he saw all kinds of miscellaneous people coming in and out of it. Moreover, the two sect disciples guarding the gate didn’t seem to care about it all, which made Ning Cheng a little puzzled.
Ning Cheng walked through the defensive array around the Rainbowfall Sword Sect along with the many other cultivators who entered and exited. As expected, no one came forward to stop him or even used their spiritual consciousness to look at him.
Was Rainbowfall Sword Sect open to outsiders to such an extent?
Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness swept out and quickly scanned the rest of the sect grounds. Soon, he saw the Rainbowfall Sword Stone. This Rainbowfall Sword Stone, however, was much larger than the one in Graceful Star Mainland. Even he couldn’t figure out if Graceful Star Mainland imitated the sword stone here, or if the sword stone here was an imitation of the one in Graceful Star Mainland.
Just past the sword stone, he saw millions of cultivators packed together over Rainbowfall Sword Sect’s public square. In the middle of the public square, however, was a duelling platform. The duelling platform had a few ordinary restrictions around it, with two male cultivators fighting each other in what appeared to be a serious fight.
Right above the Rainbowfall Sword Sect’s sword stone, he also saw a few people sitting, who Ning Cheng guessed as the various heads and elders of the sect. Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness swept through them lightly and found quite a few Eternal cultivators among them.
Was the Rainbowfall Sword Sect this powerful? Did it truly have so many Eternal cultivators?
Ning Cheng initially thought that it was just a regular sect competition or maybe a grudge match between two sect disciples. But when one of the fighters beheaded the other, he understood that it wasn’t a competition but a deathmatch.
“Round seven, Rainbowfall Sword Sect’s Shang Yongzhan fell, Constellation Sect’s Fu Xu wins.” With the announcement, Ning Cheng realised that Rainbowfall Sword Sect’s disciples were fighting against disciples of other sects. And that, Rainbowfall Sword Sect suffered a loss.
But Ning Cheng quickly noticed something wrong about the whole situation. He immediately pulled a Celestial Shatterer cultivator next to him and asked, “My friend, I just came here. May I ask why Rainbowfall Sword Sect’s disciples are fighting again
st disciples from Constellation Sect over the duelling platform?”
This Celestial Shatterer cultivator could feel that Ning Cheng was someone much stronger than him. Therefore, he didn’t dare show any neglect and replied. “My friend, what you said isn’t correct. Rainbowfall Sword Sect’s disciples aren’t just fighting against disciples from Constellation Sect. Rather, it’s a competition between seven forces. Rainbowfall Sword Sect’s disciples are fighting against disciples from Constellation Sect, Scarlet Cloud Faction, Green Feather Spirit Religion, Void Border Gate, Universal Development Sect and Blue River Mountain.”
“Why?” Ning Cheng felt even more baffled.
Since it was a battle between seven factions, why put the battlefield in the middle of Rainbowfall Sword Sect?
The cultivator whispered, “I heard that it’s because Rainbowfall Sword Sect’s Liang Yi and Feng Kai joined forces to kill Universal Development Sect’s Liang Qiurui. They had even snatched a treasure from his body. Universal Development Sect immediately came here with big fanfare demanding Rainbowfall Sword Sect compensate the Universal Development Sect for its loss. Universal Development Sect claimed that the treasure stolen by Feng Kai was something extraordinary and asked Rainbowfall Sword Sect to surrender its Rainbowfall Mystic Realm.”
“Rainbowfall Mystic Realm?” Ning Cheng frowned and asked again.
“It’s only the cultivation mystic realm of my Rainbowfall Sword Sect and also the source of my Rainbowfall Sword Sect’s starry sky spirit grasses. Those people are just too shameless and want to grab it for themselves…..” A teeth-grinding voice emerged from behind Ning Cheng.
Hearing this voice, the Celestial Shatterer cultivator who just explained a few things to Ning Cheng stopped answering Ning Cheng’s questions and quickly squeezed into the crowd.
“Are you from the Rainbowfall Sword Sect?” Ning Cheng asked, looking back at the young woman behind him.
This young woman had hatred clouding her eyes, but wore a snow-white robe and similarly white-coloured accessories over her head. If one talked about a fusion between pretty and filial piety, this woman vividly reflected it with her attire.
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