“Step on the bridge, don’t look back, you’ll find no one looking homewards.”
“Don’t look, don’t hesitate, as stepping on this bridge will break your heart….”
A sense of sadness and depression started to well up in his heart, and Ning Cheng felt as if he couldn’t go on by himself. He had a vague feeling that he would lose all interest in life as long as he stepped off this khaki bridge. He wanted to turn his head to look back, but a compelling aura suppressed that thought, preventing him from turning his head. This kind of sadness made him want to take the second step immediately. Since he would eventually lose his heart, he no longer wished to wander and wanted to put an end to it.
But when Ning Cheng was about to take the next step, the Seven Bridges Realm Book once again rushed out of Ning Cheng’s palm and hovered over the yellow bridge.
The Seven Bridges Realm once again sucked away the endless dao charm aura and all the surrounding scenery. In just a few moments, the view around Ning Cheng disappeared entirely.
Ning Cheng looked down at his raised foot and immediately started sweating. This Second Bridge of Looking Homewards was just a spirit technique’s projection. Yet, it had almost caused his mind to drown in overwhelming emotions. Rather, if not for the Seven Bridges Realm Book, he would have already lost his mind. No wonder so many people perished in the Grand Essence Seven Bridges. If he didn’t obtain the Seven Bridges Realm Book, he would have also died here. From the looks of it, those cultivators who could escape from Grand Essence Seven Bridges all had top-grade escape talismans or an unyielding grasp on their mind.
By the time Ning Cheng flew to the opposite side of the Bridge of Looking Homewards, the Seven Bridges Realm Book had already sucked away the Bridge of Looking Homewards. But this time, the Seven Bridges Realm Book didn’t escape but voluntarily fell into Ning Cheng’s hand. Ning Cheng still hadn’t gained full control of the Seven Bridges Realm inside it, but he had at least branded his spirit sense into the Seven Bridges Realm. Therefore, as long as no one tried to rob it from him, it was only natural for the Seven Bridges Realm to return to Ning Cheng.
Turning over the Seven Bridges Realm Book, Ning Cheng noticed that the second page, that initially had nothing, now had a faint outline of a bridge.
He had obtained two of the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique. Although Ning Cheng couldn’t cultivate these two spirit techniques right now, as long as he collected these spirit techniques, he would eventually cultivate them in the future.
With experiencing the First Bridge of Coping and the Second Bridge of Looking Homewards’ spirit techniques, Ning Cheng reached the Third Bridge of Forgetting River’s bridgehead. But instead of stepping on it, he first threw out the Seven Bridges Realm Book.
The Bridge of Forgetting River looked like a foggy bridge. Except for the faint outline in the middle, it only had fog surrounding it.
Ning Cheng quickly crossed the Bridge of Forgetting River when the Seven Bridges Realm Book began to absorb all the scenery and the body of the Bridge of Forgetting River. This time, he didn’t experience any effects and quickly reached the opposite bank of the Bridge of Forgetting River.
As the Third Bridge of Forgetting River disappeared, a bridge shadow appeared on the third page of Ning Cheng’s Seven Bridges Realm Book. With that, Ning Cheng then moved on to the bridgehead of the fourth bridge.
The Fourth Bridge of Yellow Springs had a tumbling yellow river below it. However, it had a body wholly made out of blue-coloured stones and looked like it had a majestic, imposing aura. Ning Cheng had just reached the bridgehead when the dao charm leaking from the bridge almost completely suppressed Ning Cheng, to the point that he couldn’t even stand.
Ning Cheng, fortunately, did the same thing he did before and threw out the Seven Bridges Realm Book.
The Bridge of Yellow Springs had incredible momentum. But under the Seven Bridges Realm Book, the dao charm aura that had formed this path got sucked into the Seven Bridges Realm Book.
By the time Ning Cheng reached the opposite bank of the Bridge of Yellow Springs and grabbed the Seven Bridges Realm Book, the fourth page of the Seven Bridges Realm Book had already formed an outline of the Fourth Bridge of Yellow Springs.
The Fifth Bridge of Afterlife looked even more blurred than the Third Bridge of Forgetting River. At least one could still physically see the Bridge of Forgetting River. But standing in front of the Bridge of Afterlife, Ning Cheng couldn’t see anything except the words Fifth Bridge of Afterlife.
But Ning Cheng didn’t care about this. He couldn’t even touch the First Coping Bridge’s spirit technique, let alone the one in the Bridge of Afterlife. All he could do was throw the Seven Bridges Realm Book and let the Seven Bridges Realm Book take away all these spirit techniques. Ning Cheng could slowly comprehend and then create any of these bridges with a wave of his hand in the future.
No matter the power within the Bridge of Afterlife, under the Seven Bridges Realm Book, it didn’t mean anything. In just half an incense stick’s worth of time, the Seven Bridges Realm Book once again fell into Ning Cheng’s hand. Moreover, the outline of the Fifth Bridge of Afterlife also appeared on its fifth page.
After Ning Cheng’s Seven Bridges Realm Book sucked in the fifth bridge’s spirit technique, his surroundings immediately turned chaotic, and even gave out a dull roar.
Within just a few moments, everything within the range of Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness turned clear. Even the aura that suppressed Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness disappeared abruptly. Within the scope of Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness, besides the turbulent space, where was the Sixth Bridge of Other Shore?
As the roars became louder and louder, the space around Ning Cheng also started shaking, becoming extremely unstable.
No, it was a prelude to a spacial collapse
. Ning Cheng quickly understood and stimulated the Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds and rushed out. In just a moment, an earth-shattering rumbling sound came from somewhere behind him. Dust spilt into the sky, and the toxic white mist in this area also started to fall apart. In just a few more moments, the white fog disappeared entirely.
Ning Cheng stood in the void and watched the disappearing Grand Essence Seven Bridges with shock.
The Grand Essence Seven Bridges collapsed when he took the five spirit techniques, and he didn’t see any signs of the sixth bridge. From the looks of it, Ling Zhi had spoken the truth. The Seven Bridges Hole Emperor truly hadn’t comprehended the spirit techniques linked to the sixth and the seventh bridge. It also meant that his title as Seven Bridges Holy Emperor was nothing more than bragging.
Ning Cheng even started to suspect that the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique wasn’t something created by the Seven Bridges Holy Emperor. Rather, this Seven Bridges Spirit Technique existed long before him. Most likely, Seven Bridges Holy Emperor obtained the Seven Bridges Realm Book and the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique and then named himself as Seven Bridges. But in reality, he could only comprehend up to five bridges.
With the Grand Essence Seven Bridges collapsing, Ning Cheng understood that news of it would quickly spread out. Therefore, he pushed the Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds to the limits and promptly left the area.
As for exchanging the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique for points, Ning Cheng never even thought of it. Since he got the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique, why would he take it out for others? Even if he knew that others couldn’t learn it, he would never take it out.
After Ning Cheng left, the sudden collapse of the Grand Essence Ruins’ Grand Essence Seven Bridges quickly spread out. Grand Essence Seven Bridges was one of the most famous places in the Grand Essence Ruins. Therefore, learning that this place collapsed, countless cultivators started to rush towards it. It meant that the collapsed Grand Essence Seven Bridges no longer held any danger, at least it would now be less dangerous compared to the past. Simultaneously, the news also forced many influential people to make the trip to Grand Essence Se
ven Bridges. They all wanted to find out what caused the Grand Essence Seven Bridges to collapse suddenly.
Chapter 0859 – Law Soil
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“Wait….” Ning Cheng, who was in a hurry, got stopped by two cultivators, a man and a woman, both at the late-stage Eternal Realm.
Seeing Ning Cheng stop, the male cultivator cupped his fists towards Ning Cheng and asked, “Is this dao friend coming from the Grand Essence Seven Bridges?”
Ning Cheng looked at the two people in front of him in confusion and asked, “Why do you want to ask?”
The male cultivator explained, “The Grand Essence Seven Bridges collapsed. Almost everyone who received the news rushed to the Grand Essence Seven Bridges to look for opportunities. But since this dao friend is moving in the opposite direction of the Grand Essence Bridge, I wanted to ask if dao friend went to the Grand Essence Seven Bridges and then left?”
Ning Cheng immediately understood from this conversation that these two people must have just heard about the Grand Essence Seven Bridges collapse. They immediately wanted to go to the Grand Essence Seven Bridges. But with their speed, it would still take then about two days to reach it from here. If they went to the Grand Essence Bridge and didn’t find anything, wouldn’t they have made the trip in vain?
“Grand Essence Seven Bridges collapsed?” Ning Cheng asked with a surprised look, “When did this happen?”
The two cultivators, a man and a woman, saw Ning Cheng’s expression and understood that Ning Cheng had no idea about the collapse, and felt a little disappointed. But the male cultivator still kept a polite tone and explained whatever they heard to Ning Cheng.
After listening to the male cultivator, Ning Cheng frowned slightly. “Even if I went all out, it would still take me several days to get to the Grand Essence Seven Bridges. Since you said that the Grand Essence Seven Bridges collapsed two days ago, I’m afraid that even if there was anything good in there, I can’t get it now.”
The male cultivator also very much agreed to Ning Cheng’s words, “I think so too. That’s why I couldn’t make up my mind.”
After speaking, he turned to the female cultivator next to him and said, “Yu Ling, let’s not join in on the fun. Let’s head to the Broken Land to find Law Soil. With some luck, we might just find one or two clumps.”
Ning Cheng quickly asked when he heard this, “May I ask what is this Law Soil?”
The male cultivator looked at Ning Cheng with a confused look and only spoke after a while, “This dao friend, you’re in the Grand Essence Ruins, how could you not know about Law Soil?”
Ning Cheng gave an immediate reply, “I just arrived at the Grand Essence Ruins, but went straight to Grand Essence Ruins’ Defying Ice Mound on arrival. I’m not too clear about the Grand Essence Ruins, so I request some advice on it.”
The male cultivator didn’t doubt Ning Cheng’s words. Many first-time cultivators rarely had complete knowledge of the Grand Essence Ruins before coming here. Therefore, he took out a jade strip and handed it to Ning Cheng, “This contains an introduction to the Broken Land. This dao friend can keep it with you. We’ll be taking our leave first.”
He didn’t seem willing to join forces with some as ignorant as Ning Cheng. Therefore, after passing the jade strip to Ning Cheng, he immediately said goodbye and left.
Ning Cheng didn’t care about it either, and let his spiritual consciousness scan through the jade strip.
After a few moments, Ning Cheng got a good idea about ‘Law Soil’.
Broken Ground was a special place within the Grand Essence Ruins, and just like its name, was mostly broken and in ruins. The war from back then destroyed most of the heaven and earth laws in that place. However, this place was also somewhat different from other areas in the ruin. Nobody knew why, but countless years after the war, Law Soil started to condense in this place, a place with destroyed heaven and earth laws.
The most significant use of Law Soil was to cultivate Dao Raising Fruits.
The universe contained numerous, almost infinite, kinds of Dao Fruits holding law-related dao charm from all kinds of heaven and earth laws. Moreover, different Dao Fruits had different law-related dao charms. Some even contained wisps of Grand Dao Laws, while a few also contained law-related spiritual techniques. One could even go so far as to say that no two Dao Fruits were alike, even if they came from the same source or even the same tree.
Because of this, Dao Fruits could help people sense the different dao charms contained within it to step into the Dao Confirming Realm successfully. Moreover, if refined into a Dao Pill, you would have an even higher chance of entering the Dao Confirming Realm.
But how many cultivators did the vast universe have? Even the word ‘countless’ might not give justification to that question. Therefore, no matter how hard it was to enter the Dao Sculpting Realm, there were still plenty of cultivators in the universe who had reached that level. What’s more, for every step after Dao Sculpting, and even understandings related to the spirit techniques’ laws, needed some kind of help from Dao Fruits. Therefore, without relying on Dao Fruits, and just depending on one’s understanding, the chances of successfully stepping into the Dao Confirming’s three steps or moving forward remained slim to none.
Many cultivators needed Dao Fruits, but even though the universe had all sorts of Dao Fruits, it remains a limited commodity. It necessitated some experts in the Dao of Pills to start cultivating Dao Raising Fruits.
Dao Fruits usually contained all kinds of law-related dao charm, and some of the top-grade Dao Fruits even had strands of heaven and earth laws. Therefore, how could one cultivate them using ordinary means? It wasn’t just a matter of supplying it with adequate Starry Sky Spiritual Qi or even Spirit Qi[1].
The most important thing required to cultivate the Dao Raising Fruits was to infuse various law-related dao charm auras into the Dao Fruit Tree and then transfer it to the Dao Fruits. But even a cultivator proficient in laws couldn’t share their understanding of the law with Dao Fruits. Plus, the wild Dao Fruit Trees found between heaven and earth were even scarcer than the Dao Fruits raised by cultivators.
Moreover, even though Dao Fruit Trees capable of producing Dao Fruits were scarce, it was almost impossible to transplant them.
Every Dao Fruit Tree was already a rare treasure in itself. But the only reason any Dao Fruit Tree could grow and condense Dao Fruits is the area where it grew. Moreover, the laws permeating the site also needed to be highly compatible with it for its growth. It meant that once someone transplanted it, and the new area wasn’t a top-grade spiritual treasure land, then even if this Dao Fruit Tree didn’t die, it wouldn’t bear a single Dao Fruit.
Therefore, Law Soil became particularly handy and essential in such situations. Law Soil could allow Dao Fruit Trees to grow, and could also help it condense a trace of law-related dao charm aura during the growth process. Therefore, if you transplanted the Dao Fruit Tree into it, as long as you had enough Law Soil, the Dao Fruit Tree could continue to grow and bear Dao Fruits.
The Grand Essence Quest Hall also had many tasks related to the collection of Law Soils, but there were only a few places in Grand Essence Ruins that could condense it. That’s why jobs associated with Law Soil always had very high points. Even a little fingernail-sized clump meant a hundred thousand points. Therefore, the more Law Soil you can gather, the more points you can earn. If you get a lump of Law Soil as big as a fist, you might even rake in several hundred thousand points.
That’s because the larger the volume of Law Soil, the more complete the law aura contained within it, and the easier it would become for the Dao Fruit Tree to absorb it. Moreover, it was just one of its primary purposes. Law Soil’s tasks were also among the few jobs that can rake in both points and spirit crystals. More
specifically, whatever points you get in exchange for the Law Soil, you would also receive the same number of high-rank spirit crystals.
It was this point that attached a high-value to the Law Soil in the eyes of the cultivators. Moreover, finding Law Soil didn’t involve much danger as long as you didn’t offend anyone. So much so that many low-level cultivators would head to the Broken Land to search for Law Soil.
But precisely because so many cultivators went looking for Law Soil, it resulted in a widespread scarcity for this item. No matter how much Law Soil would form in an area, the cultivators looking for it would wipe it clean.
After Ning Cheng learned about this Broken Land, he decided to go to this place to search for Law Soil. In the four grand starry skies, very few cultivators in the Eternal Realm could threaten him. But in this place, an Eternal cultivator was nothing more than an ant.
In any case, those who haven’t converted their celestial essence into spirit essence couldn’t threaten him. But if he met an Eternal cultivator who had already transformed their celestial essence into spirit essence, could he still take them head-on? What’s more, what about Dao Sculpting cultivators?
Ning Cheng hadn’t come in contact with any Dao Sculpting cultivators yet. Although Chuan Xinlou said that he had successfully reached the Dao Confirming Realm, it was his own words as even he had no idea about the Dao Sculpting Realm. Whether Hong Lun and that naked black-skinned man were Dao Sculpting cultivators or not, Ning Cheng had no idea.
Now that he obtained five of the Grand Essence Seven Bridges’ spirit techniques, the most important thing for him was to improve his cultivation. It wasn’t too realistic to reach the late-stage Eternal Realm in just a short period. But he could at least try converting his celestial essence into spirit essence. Once his Essence Qi transformed, his strength would take another step forward.
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