“Yi! I found four mature Essence Raising Fruits.” The thing Ning Cheng just casually said, he had already put it aside. At present, the thing that he was most attracted at the moment was the stub containing four Essence Raising Fruits in a row. Generally, there would only be a single Essence Raising Fruit on one stub, moreover the branches of the Essence Raising Fruit were also very small, just like a piece of an ordinary thin grass.
The Essence Raising Fruit was one of the main Spiritual Fruits required to refine the Essence Building Pill, moreover previously because Ruimu Danqin had obtained an Essence Raising Fruit, it had almost provoked a fatal disaster for them.
With the discovery of the Essence Raising Fruit, more and more High Ranking Spiritual Grasses began to appear in front of them, Heaven Scented Precious Zoysia, Returning Boat Flower, Declivity Gathering Root, Mist Orchids and other precious Spiritual Grasses were found in abundance by Ning Cheng.
Seeing the Heaven Scented Precious Zoysia, Ning Cheng immediately was reminded of An Yi, who was currently in the Falling Star Academy. Initially she wanted to find the Heaven Scented Precious Zoysia, and even though she worked very hard to try and find it but she was not able to find a single one, but now unexpectedly he was able to obtain more than one here. As for the Returning Boat Flower, after being refined into a pill, it can then easily be used by an Essence Building Cultivator to cultivate. However, the Declivity Gathering Root and the Mist Orchids were something really precious.
Especially the Declivity Gathering Root, although its rank was not as high as the Mist Orchids, but it is one of the Best Quality Spiritual Grasses among the Rank 4 Spiritual Grasses, moreover this Spiritual Grass can be refined into a Declivity Spiritual Pill.
The Declivity Spiritual Pill was a Level 4 True Pill, once a lower level cultivator was possessed by the devil when he cultivates, then using the Declivity Spiritual Pill was the best medicinal pill that could help him/her.
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TL Note
– Here the ‘devil’ refers to mental demons that a cultivator has to face.]
On the Spiritual Grass Hill, Ning Cheng had already filled two Storage Bags, of course, it also included the one that Meng Jing Xiu gave to him. Meng Jing Xiu only kept a very small part of the Spiritual Grasses that were possibly of some use to her, while she handed over the rest to Ning Cheng.
“This really is very good, Junior Apprentice Sister Jing Xiu, let us change hills and continue.” Ning Cheng rubbed his hands in glee, he was looking more and more forward to explore the rest of the Angry Axe Valley.
Meng Jing Xiu gave an ‘en’ sound, but then spoke after a bit of hesitation, “Senior Apprentice Brother Ning, do we go to that place first. Here there are innumerable Spiritual Grasses, but there are only Lower Ranked Spiritual Grasses. Because of the accident that happened in the Angry Axe Valley, I am afraid that we would not be able to go to that place before we end up being transferred out.”
Ning Cheng immediately recovered from the delusion of collecting innumerable Spiritual Grasses, as he thought about what Meng Jing Xiu said, it really was not without reason. Who knew when the Angry Axe Valley would revert to its previous state and transfer them out?
Having some thought till here, he once more cautiously asked, “Junior Apprentice Sister Jing Xiu, what is this place in the Angry Axe Valley that you keep speaking about? Moreover, how do you know about this place?”
Meng Jing Xiu did not have the time to answer, when Ning Cheng immediately sensed a berserk ripple coming from the periphery, this feeling made Ning Cheng feel extreme danger. Without any time to reflect on it, he immediately grabbed Meng Jing Xiu, and explosively increased his speed to the point that he only appeared as a vague blur, as he immediately flew out and escaped from the hill.
Meng Jing Xiu who was immediately grabbed by Ning Cheng, seeing him fleeing with full force, immediately knew that something terrible might have happened, as such she did not dare move about. Sure enough, the next moment a terrible deafening explosion rumbled through at the place the two of them were just standing about.
“Hong….” A terrible explosion resounded behind Ning Cheng’s back, causing the strong impact to directly explode on Ning Cheng’s back, the clothes on Ning Cheng’s back immediately shred to pieces because of the explosion.
It was followed by a “Peng” sound, as Ning Cheng was immediately thrown forcefully because of the strength of the explosion, falling to the ground at a distance, forming a huge pit beneath him, while he still kept Meng Jing Xiu pressed to him to protect her. Meng Jing Xiu’s original injuries were still not fully healed, so because she was still with Ning Cheng, she immediately spouted a mouthful of blood.
Ning Cheng was already at Essence Building 1st Level, so his True Essence was extremely vigorous, so when his clothes were shredded away by the explosion, other than a minute amount of blood that trickled out, there was no other injuries on his body. He immediately held up Meng Jing Xiu and spoke in an apologetical manner, “I don’t know how, but the hill we were at exploded suddenly. I did not pay more attention to it, and ended up hurting you again.”
Meng Jing Xiu finally stood up on her feet, as she wiped off the bloodstains on her mouth and said, “I am fine, if not for you grabbing me and leaving a moment ago, then perhaps I would not have been able to come out.”
All the people looked at Ning Cheng’s hill in astonishment, at this time, that hill had already vanished and could not be seen at all, rather that hill had turned into a huge pit. Moreover, that terrible power of the explosion, even if it was a cultivator in the Essence Building Realm, it was not something that they could withstand. In other words, if they had been collecting Spiritual Grasses in there, then, at this time they would have already died.
Several of the Essence Building Cultivators were just on their way to Ning Cheng to inquire what had happened, when several fierce explosions started to resound all around them.
Two hills that were not far from them suddenly exploded with a tremendous explosive force, as a result the cultivators still inside the hill were not as lucky as Ning Cheng and Meng Jing Xiu. Other than a few cultivators that rushed away while still being on the outside, the rest of the cultivators inside and near the periphery of the hills were not able to escape, and immediately turned into ash because of the intense explosive force that exploded out from the hills.
As a result, the cultivators still seeking Spiritual Grasses, or the cultivators still collaborating to break into the hills, immediately withdrew in bulk. Sure enough, these cultivators had only walked not far away, when more hills began to explode. Finally, because of the continuous explosions, it formed into a towering Imposing Manner, as the huge explosion sounds began to rise up unceasingly.
Some of the cultivators were simply too late in escaping, and were hit by those explosions in droves, as they all finally fell from the sky dead.
“Sure enough, we really were able to escape early….” Ning Cheng spoke with a lingering fear in his voice, if he was even a little bit slow, then maybe he would have been one of the people who fell from the sky dead because of the explosion.
Although he had still not finished speaking, he knew that these explosions were not without a reason, as it was simply impossible for all the hills to continuously explode without any reason while frying those who were still collecting on those Spiritual Grass Hills before they exploded.
Smoke and rubble produced from the explosion had already completely covered this place. Ning Cheng at once swept out with his Spiritual Consciousness in the direction of Situ Yu and the others, but found nothing, and instead actually felt a bit relieved.
“The Angry Axe Valley, it’s the Angry Axe Valley……the real Angry Axe Valley emerged……” An incoherent voice sounded out, this voice immediately drew the attention of everyone to the sight in front of them.
And immediately even more people started calling out incoherently, as they thought that what they saw in front of them was the real Angry Axe Valley.
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Ning Cheng and Meng Jing Xiu also clearly saw a huge ravine appear in front of them, moreover this huge ravine seemed to have been cleaved by an Axe and as such it’s walls were extremely neat and smooth. Moreover, the faint trace of Killing Intent that was leaking out from there, immediately made the bodies of all the people there turn cold.
But at this moment Ning Cheng could indistinctly feel that this Angry Axe Valley and the Angry Axe Valley that he had went and seen before were somewhat different, but as to what was different, he could not put his finger on.
Because the Spiritual Grass Hill had now turned into flat ground because of the explosions, the cultivators who were depressed, once more became excited. Even if those hills turned flat, there was still the real Angry Axe Valley in front of them, this was simply a true great opportunity. As long as they could comprehend even a tiny bit of the Axe Intent in the true Angry Axe Valley, their future would really end up great.
Didn’t that Early Stage Essence Building Cultivator from beforehand comprehend the Axe Intent, and easily and continuously killed the two Essence Building Masters from the Red Heaven Academy? Moreover, one of them was even at Essence Building 7th Level. What did that person rely on? It was the Axe Intent.
“Senior Apprentice Brother Ning, I seem to feel a kind of Killing Intent, my…” Meng Jing Xiu spoke while being pleasantly surprised, the Imposing Manner of her halberd technique “Raging Tides of the River” was already amazing, but she actually felt that she lacked a certain charm to it, this charm was precisely the true Killing Intent. This was the Halberd Intent, if she could comprehend the Halberd Intent here, then her battle proficiency would have more than doubled.
Ning Cheng saw that countless people were swarming towards the Angry Axe Valley, and nodded, “You’d better go in, after a while I will come look for you.”
“Senior Apprentice Brother Ning, don’t you want to go in?” Meng Jing Xiu asked as she looked at Ning Cheng in a puzzled manner.
“I can already feel the Axe Intent from here, moreover I can already feel that I can obtain it.” Ning Cheng quickly replied, before he had felt that this Axe Valley and the Axe Valley that he saw before were somewhat different, but now he could tell that they both were absolutely different. This entire Axe Valley, looking from an overall perspective looked incomparably smooth, but when he observed the surroundings with his Spiritual Consciousness this time, he found that the Axe Traces here had innumerable tiny cracks.
But Ning Cheng could actually feel something from these cracks, he could feel that this vague feeling was a third kind of Axe Intent.
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Author Note
: The previous two kinds of Axe Intent Ning Cheng comprehended are:
[Angry Axe, the 1st Trace] [Angry Axe, Tornado]
Chapter 0147 – Axe Line
Translated By – DemonKiller
Checked By – CurlyAdi
Edited By – MissLucifer
Proofread By – SmartyMouth
All the people swarmed towards this Axe Valley, only Ning Cheng did not go in. He simply sat outside the Axe Valley, and had completely immersed himself in the new type of Axe Intent.
Only a small amount of time passed by, when the hustle and bustle previously all around him had already disappeared. Only Ning Cheng was sitting around the outside the Axe Valley, and was surrounded all around by the Axe Intent from the valley, it was similar to the Killing Intent that was wrapped around the hills. As the trace of Axe Intent was gradually forming in Ning Cheng’s consciousness.
Ning Cheng was just about to clearly form the third type of Axe Intent of the Angry Axe, when the numerous cracked Axe Traces all around the valley continuously interrupted Ning Cheng in his consciousness, he had never seen this kind of coherence. To Ning Cheng, the more he thought about linking up with this Axe Intent, the more difficult he felt it to be.
Ning Cheng did not know how many times in the past few days that he probed the cracks in the Axe Valley with his consciousness, but was still unable to thoroughly link them up, and change it into the true Angry Axe Killing Intent. If he could not link up those cracks, then he knew that he would not be able to comprehend the third type of Axe Intent.
This way was absolutely not good, Ning Cheng thought as he subconsciously tried to forcefully link up these cracked Axe Traces, but just as he tried to gain some understanding, a huge explosion rocked through his Sea of Consciousness, and rendered him defenceless. Ning Cheng directly spouted out a mouthful of blood, as in his mind the somewhat clear Axe Intent once again vanished without a trace.
But Ning Cheng did not open his eyes, he once again used his Spiritual Consciousness to time and time again explore this Axe Valley. Ning Cheng suddenly shuddered, he felt the most profound thing.
This feeling was not something he himself could believe, and he finally opened his eyes, and stubbornly stared at this Axe Valley in front of him for a long while, and then slowly gave out a pained sighed. He once again closed his eyes, and let the Axe Intent that had dissipated to once again gather together.
He finally came to understand what the matter was, this Axe Valley in front of him was false. But the numerous cracks around the Axe Valley were true cracked Axe Traces. In other words, these cracks were true, but the Axe Valley was false.
Such a contradictory thing, there could only be one interpretation, the Axe Valley in front of him simply did not exist, but the cracked Axe Traces were created from a formidable Axe Intent. Moreover, these cracks could be linked up with each other, although he did not know why, but it seems like it was created by a peerless expert who had come here before. He deliberately split these Axe Trace cracks, for forging this special Angry Axe Valley. In fact, here there were already marks of an Axe Line present here previously, before this Axe Valley had appeared. It was precisely the opposite of what many had thought.
Because Ning Cheng comprehended two types of Axe Intents, so just by sensing around for several days, he was able to understand this truth.
To Ning Cheng, as long as he understood this truth, the following matter would be much easier. He once again immersed himself in the middle of these Axe Trace cracks once more, as to the Axe Trace cracks in the middle of that false Axe Valley, he had already abandoned them. A cracked Axe Trace formed out of thin air, in Ning Cheng’s Sea of Consciousness. This original cracked Axe Trace that were destroyed in the Axe Valley, once again started to connect the cracks on the two sides of the Axe Valley.
The cracked traces were gradually becoming clearer, as the Axe Intent was also slowly getting highlighted. This time the Axe Traces stimulated from the cracked traces in Ning Cheng’s Sea of Consciousness were different from the original. However, the third type of Angry Axe that manifested was something that reflected Ning Cheng’s heart.
When these cracked traces were getting more and more complete in Ning Cheng’s consciousness, Ning Cheng’s Third Form of the Angry Axe finally started to take shape.
At this time the final image of a complete Axe Intent finally formed in Ning Cheng’s Sea of Consciousness, as Ning Cheng immediately leapt into the sky without warning, immediately brought out the Golden Great Axe on his back.
As he blasted out a lacerating and twisting Axe Shadow, this twisting Axe Shadow directly encompassed everything in its path into a fist sized ball before directly shattering it into a fine powder, moreover even in the air, the distortion created by the Axe Shadow trace could still be seen clearly. Around this trace, one could even see flashes of tinier cracks. Just like how thunder and lightning drops down, there would always be small arcs of thunder and lightning around the main lightning flash.
“Boom…….”
But when this twisted Axe Shadow exploded on the ground, it had an appearance of a clear and smooth Axe Trace. But on the edge of this Axe Trace there were countless twisted lines, it resembled the ordinary tiny fissures around the Giant Axe Valley in front of him.
Ning Cheng once again took back his axe, as he closed his eyes
to ponder for a long time, as he once again put the Golden Great Axe onto his back, he spoke to himself, “This is my Third Type of Angry Axe, Axe Line.”
In the Angry Axe Valley, not even the shadow of a single person could be seen anymore. All the people in order to comprehend the Axe Intent in the Valley, had already gone deep inside the valley. But outside, there was only a single person who was precisely Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng quickly entered the Valley, he was going to see how far Meng Jing Xiu’s comprehension of the Axe Intent went along, if she had almost comprehended it fully, then they both can then get down to business. If she was not able to comprehend, then he would have to persuade her to leave. Originally this was a false Axe Valley. So there was basically no Axe Intent inside that could actually be comprehended.
Just as Ning Cheng left, suddenly an obscure human figure rose from the earth without attracting any attention. This figure quickly arrived at the place where Ning Cheng left the Axe Trace, bent its body, as it reached down and carefully stroked the Axe Trace for a long time. Then placed its hand on its nose as if he was sniffing it.
He soon got up, with an extremely ugly look on his face, as he muttered to himself, “That person’s progress is simply too frightening, not only did he reach the cultivation of Essence Building Realm, but was also able to comprehend such a formidable Axe Intent in the Angry Axe Valley. I’m afraid that I am not his match……”
He stared at the place where Ning Cheng disappeared in the Axe Valley for a long time, and then turned around and walked away. Although this was the first time that he saw the Angry Axe Valley, but he was the first cultivator who did not go in.
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