“Humph, it seems that there is still a little brotherhood around.” Princess Man gave a cold humph then with a roar, drove the beast convoy into the distance before disappearing without a trace.
Xu Yingdei on seeing Ning Cheng’s shoulder dyed with blood, unexpectedly forgot her own bleeding shoulder, as she panicked and stepped forward to help Ning Cheng wrap the wound.
“I’m fine, just be careful with your own wounds.” Ning Cheng endured the pain and just spoke a single sentence, but then he suddenly felt his Zifu loosening up, the next moment just like a prisoner coming out of a long imprisonment, the Mysterious Yellow Origin once again began to flow.
Was his injury a blessing in disguise?
Ning Cheng was pleasantly surprised in his heart, at this moment it did not matter to him if he was taken inside the city or was left outside the gate, as he immediately sat down and started guiding the Mysterious Yellow Origin Aura, in order to break open his sealed Core Lake. Once he broke open his Core Lake, then he would be able to circulate this true essence though his meridians. At that moment, not to mention a princess, even if he were to face the entire army of the Ya Lun City, he would be able to exterminate all of them with just a simple wave of his hand.
Xu Yingdei simply ignored her own injury, while Yin Kongchan and another person came forward to help Ning Cheng tend to his wounds. With Yin Kongchan’s help, they were finally able to seal up the wounds.
Ning Cheng attacked the seal on his Core Lake for a long time, however the Mysterious Yellow Aura was not able to directly break the shackles on his Core Lake or his imprisoned Zifu as he had imagined. However, Ning Cheng did not feel dejected about it in his heart; at least he now had something to work on. Now that he finally was able to once again sense the Mysterious Yellow Origin Aura, so there would definitely come a day when he would be able to recover his cultivation.
He had cultivated the Embracing Yang God Tactic for nearly two months; however, he was unable to show anything for it. But he had not thought that he stabbing himself twice would have such an immediate effect. It looks like the Mysterious Yellow Aura would only break out when the situation turned critical for him.
Seeing Ning Cheng finally stand up, Ma Ang quickly came over and spoke, “Elder Brother Ning, this time it was truly my fault to have not mentioned about this, I should have warned you to not look up. However, your luck really is good, if you were replaced by any other ordinary person, they would have already died with their eyes dug out. Princess Man is seldom this magnanimous, it can be said that you truly have a good wife.”
Finished speaking, Ma Ang also gave Xu Yingdei a look full of respect. In his view, both Xu Yingdei and Yin Kongchan were Ning Cheng’s women; however, Xu Yingdei cared about her husband a lot more than Yin Kongchan.
“It’s not your fault Elder Brother Ma; it was me who did not know about the rules. I will have to recuperate for a while, so I will have to ask Elder Brother Ma to help us procure a few civilian identities, and also a place to reside.” Ning Cheng quickly replied.
Since he was now able to sense the Mysterious Yellow Origin move, so for Ning Cheng it was the most important priority currently. He had to find a quiet place to restore his cultivation. Only after he could restore his cultivation, would he have the right to speak in this place and also leave this damned place.
At this time, Ma Ang thumped his chest and spoke, “Elder Brother Ning, you can rest assured that I will personally deliver your residence and identity permits or I will die trying. I will definitely help you in procure them in the shortest possible time. So for a few day I’ll have to trouble you to live in an inn till I get back.”
Accepting the Ma Ang’s oath, Ning Cheng calmed his heart down, before he arrived in front of Xu Yingdei and spoke, “Thank you very much for this time. Do you need any help with your injuries?”
Xu Yingdei simply gave a soft smile and spoke, “I’m fine. You are hurt even heavier than me, so you need to pay more attention to your body.”
After saying that, Xu Yingdei even came forward and used her injured arm to carefully support Ning Cheng. Ning Cheng, for the first time, did not avoid Xu Yingdei’s touch, as he could feel that at this moment Xu Yingdei’s concern and care was not even half a bit false.
Yin Kongchan on seeing Xu Yingdei coming forward to help Ning Cheng bowed her head. No one knew what she was thinking.
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No matter how much Ma Ang earned from the Aquatic Essence Tendons it was secondary, but Ma Ang at least delivered on his promise. On the sixth day that the Ning Cheng trio spent in the inn, he finally was able to procure a good residential status for them, while at the same time also found a small courtyard in a remote place in the Ya Lun City.
With his own residence, Ning Cheng immediately went into closed door seclusion, readying himself to strike with the Mysterious Yellow Origin. First, he had to break open his sealed Zifu then unlock the seal on his true essence.
He also had a few Fresh Water Pills and Hunger Suppressing Pills remaining with him, so other than coming out to wash himself, he spent most of the time pounding his sealed Zifu. Ning Cheng even stopped cultivating the Embracing Yang God Tactic, mainly because cultivating the Embracing Yang God Tactic not only did not work for him, but at the same time, he often felt the need of a woman after trying to cultivate it. Although Ning Cheng hasn’t suspected the cultivation method, but now that his Mysterious Yellow Origin was loosening up, he would not go and continue wasting his time on cultivating the Embracing Yang God Tactic.
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A month’s time passed by in a fleeting instant, Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdei seemed to be aware that Ning Cheng was cultivating the cultivation method, so they rarely came to disturb him. On this day, Ning Cheng’s Zifu unexpectedly began loosening up. When Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness finally was able to stretch out a metre, Ning Cheng almost let out an ecstatic shout.
As long as his spiritual consciousness was able to stretch out a few more meters, he would then be able to take out the contents of his ring. With his spiritual consciousness loosened up, unlocking the seal on his true essence would only require half the effort.
A few days later, Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness was finally able to stretch out to three meters, the situation this time was really good, when Yin Kongchan suddenly rushed in with anxiety written all over her face.
“What’s the matter?” Ning Cheng on seeing Yin Kongchan’s anxious expression knew that there was something wrong.
Yin Kongchan anxiously spoke out, “Xu Yingdei was wounded in the market, and is also being detained. They said that they would be taking Xu Yingdei to the Legal Tribunal Office. If she goes to the Legal Tribunal Office, then Xu Yingdei would certainly not be able to come out.”
Ning Cheng suddenly stood up and spoke, “What the hell is going on? Quickly lead the way.”
Although Ning Cheng had been in seclusion and was attacking his sealed Zifu and Core Lake, but he was very clear on what kind of a place was this Ya Lun City. The laws in this place was to the point of being appalling, even if Xu Yingdei and Yin Kongchan were women with ordinary beauty, there would still be a few people who would try to covet them. However, the streets were very orderly and Xu Yingdei was also not a troublemaker, so how could she be taken to the Legal Tribunal Office?
Chapter 0316 – I Know How To Obey The Law
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The makeshift market and Ning Cheng’s residence was not too far apart, so Ning Cheng could only make do with the simplified version of what had transpired from the mouth of Yin Kongchan as they rushed through the streets. Although he helped Ma Ang harvest a lot of Aquatic Essence Tendons, but other than Ma Ang helping them get a few residence permits and identities along with a small courtyard for a residence, he only hande
d them just 50 silver coins. This showed the astuteness and also the shrewdness of a businessperson, since Ning Cheng also did not ask him how much he had earned, so he only gave them a random number.
Ning Cheng had immediately gone into seclusion in his residence to break open his sealed Zifu, and simply had forgone control over the rest of the things. In order to live in this place, where everyone had to spend money, not just for clothes or other things, but also for eating food and drinking water. One even had to pay a living tax to reside in their own residence.
It was clear that fifty silver coins was simply not enough, so Xu Yingdei and Yin Kongchan could only go to the makeshift market to find some odd jobs. Both of them were quite skilled, so they rented a stall in the makeshift market to sell embroidery, and were barely able to maintain it.
But then problems started cropping up, there were already a few embroidery stalls in the makeshift market; however, Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdei also had good skills when it came to embroidery, which inadvertently caused them to squeeze out other embroidery stalls out of business, as such the business for others was growing worse.
Even in the face of harsh laws, as long as others touched the bottom line of their vital interests, there would always be someone who would think of a way to strike back. Not to mention that Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdei were already strikingly beautiful, so it led to them being coveted by a few people.
After a month of smooth sailings, trouble finally came knocking at their doors. The embroidery that Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdei sold was also being gradually being returned, the reason being given was that they were using inferior cotton materials, so after being washed a few times, the dyes turned white while the embroidery also started to come undone. This kind of thing not only made the material to easily tear apart, but it also turned into a complete mess once colours started dissolving into the water.
In the Ya Lun City’s makeshift market, the rules were strictly defined. Once the goods being sold turned out to be shoddy, they would then have to face the severest of punishments from the Legal Tribunal Office. Being driven out of the Ya Lun City was already the lightest punishment, while a more serious punishment being buried alive in the ground. Even enslavement was not out of the question.
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Ning Cheng followed Yin Kongchan and entered the makeshift market. This was the first time that he had entered this place after entering the Ya Lun City.
However, at this moment he had no intention to look at the makeshift market in order to look at the things being sold as his sight ended up on Xu Yingdei. At this moment, Xu Yingdei had a headful of scattered hair, while her body and face had obvious bloodstains on them. Two men held red sticks their hands and were standing on each side with Xu Yingdei pinched in between them.
Ning Cheng as if not thinking of anything, or even speaking out any nonsense, pulled out his tri edge thorn and rushed up. He had been cultivating the Embracing Yang God Tactic for a long time, coupled with the recent loosening of his Sea of Consciousness; he could release a part of his spiritual consciousness, allowing him to move his hands in an extremely fast manner.
“Poof poof…..” Two flashes of blood erupted. The two men, who held Xu Yingdei in between them with the aid of the red sticks, fell to their knees. Their knee caps were sliced apart by Ning Cheng’s tri edged thorn.
Xu Yingdei broke free of her restraints and rushed over into Ning Cheng’s bosom, while sobbing quietly. She had always been a noble disciple of a grand academy, when had she ever suffered this kind of grievance?
As Xu Yingdei’s soft body fluttered into Ning Cheng’s arms, Ning Cheng unexpectedly experienced a kind of tranquil feeling. For the first time, his heartstrings were being tugged because of Xu Yingdei.
Ning Cheng felt the trembling Xu Yingdei in his arms. He gave a soft comforting pat to Xu Yingdei and spoke in a gentle manner, “Don’t be afraid, no one will dare to take you away.”
Xu Yingdei’s soft voice resounded in Ning Cheng’s ears, “I’m not afraid, I’m very happy…”
At this point, the onlookers in the makeshift market were completely shocked to see Ning Cheng; however, no one dared to speak up at the moment. In the makeshift market, they had never experienced this kind of a ruthless hand, was this man not afraid of death by hanging?
“You dare to seriously injure people in the makeshift market…..” A fat man pointed towards Ning Cheng in fear, while at the same time roared out his words.
Ning Cheng pulled on Xu Yingdei’s hand, before walking up to the fat man and speaking in cold voice, “So tell me, who were these two men that I injured? What crime did my companion commit? Why was she being beaten by the two?”
The fat man seemed to have woken up from the most frightening time that he had encountered in his life, before he pointed at Ning Cheng and spoke, “The two of them are interfering with the makeshift market, selling fake goods, so they deserve being enslaved and then beheaded for their crimes.”
As the fat man spoke, he then pointed to the two men whose knees Ning Cheng had just sliced apart, and spoke, “They had just bought a fake and came back to return it yet you dared to seriously hurt the two people. Just how huge is your dog shit courage, you are going to face the gallows, the gallows…”
The fat man’s words had not yet finished, when Ning Cheng suddenly came forward and slapped him a few times, while at the same time once again brought out his tri edged thorn.
Sounds of bones being shattered once again resounded out as the fat man directly fell onto the ground after Ning Cheng crushed his knee caps.
Ning Cheng then raised his tri edged thorn once again before crouching down and speaking to the fat man, “I’m not only going to hurt you, but I’m also going to kill some of you. Do you believe it?”
“You, you……” At this moment, the fat man was not able to utter any words due to fear. He had never imagined that a person could be so brazen in the makeshift market.
Ning Cheng held the tri edged thorn as he got up and walked towards the two men that he had seriously injured before. At this moment, the two men were too frightened to be even able to speak anything.
“Stop…..” A voice arrived followed by a group of people wearing military robes, at the front of them was a man wearing an official’s hat, showing that he obviously was the leader of this group of people.
“Ning Cheng, what shall we do now? That man is from the Legal Tribunal Office.” Yin Kongchan came to Ning Cheng’s side, and whispered a few words in a calm tone, without showing much of her previous anxiousness.
The man wearing the official’s hat seeing that much blood, along with the three men sprawled on the ground, immediately flew into a rage and shouted, “Who dares to be so bold, to even shed blood inside the makeshift market, did you think this place was lawless?”
The fat man on seeing the person with the official’s hat come over, immediately squealed like a pig, “Lord Sen, if you had not come then we would have been killed by this lawless brute. Lord we are just small people who respect justice and abide by the rules aah……”
There were obviously a few people here in cohorts with the fat man, so once the fat man’s words came out, it immediately incited the crowd to shout in his support, demanding a severe punishment to the murderer, but at the same time portraying the makeshift market to be as bright as the sun and moon.
[TL Note – ‘As bright as sun and moon’ here means that this place was being treated as a Holy Place.]
The man in the officer’s hat showed a trace of killing intent as he stared at Ning Cheng and spoke, “You sure have a lot of guts, take him to the Legal Tribunal Office, he would then be sent to the slave market after the trial. As for the two women, take them back there too, they will be first imprisoned in jail……”
A few people dressed in the military uniform started walking towards Ning Cheng; however, Ning Cheng spoke up in a calm yet loud voice at this moment “You better stop.”
The several soldiers wanted to catch
Ning Cheng, and thought that Ning Cheng was frightened.
Ning Cheng calmly strapped his tri edged thorn to his calf, before he took a few steps forward. The man in the official’s hat, the one surnamed Sen, seeing Ning Cheng coming forward, hurriedly took a few steps back. He wanted to order the people following him to go up and tie Ning Cheng up. Ning Cheng suddenly stared at him with a cold smile, “Lord, although my courage is not small, however your courage is even greater than mine own aah. Since you want to catch me, then I’m afraid that the one who would be going to the slave market would not be me but you, right?”
“What are you talking about, I am an official from the Legal Tribunal Office, and is my duty to punish a criminal like you for creating such destruction in the market……”
The man surnamed Sen had not finished, when he was interrupted by Ning Cheng. “Lord Se. There are many people watching, what sort of law are you going to use to arrest a meritorious person like me? What means do you want to use to trample the sacred laws of the Ya Lun City? You see, I am a person who always abides by the law.”
Ning Cheng speaking until here raised his hands and cupped his fists in the direction of the City Master’s Mansion.
“You….” The man was so angry with Ning Cheng that he could hardly speak, but he still reeled in his anger after a while, before giving a sneer and spoke, “You wrecked destruction within the makeshift market, openly threatened to kill people in the makeshift market, how can someone like you be addressed as a man of merits? If I haven’t come here, I’m afraid that you would have already claimed a few lives, right? In accordance to the Line 5 of the Article 971 of the Ya Lun City’s laws, you were not only conspiring to commit murder in the makeshift market. But you even destroyed the property of the market, which is enough to consign you to slavery. If you want to still rebel, then you would be killed directly. Hehe, looks like you want me to kill you directly!”
Ning Cheng spoke out with disdain, “Lord Sen, these three people posed as officials from the Legal Tribunal Office, beaten my companion, and even bullied us openly in the marketplace. So for me to kill them is indeed a meritorious service to the city. According to the Line 2 of the Article 618 of Yan Lun City’s laws, anyone trying to pose as officials inside the Yan Lun City can be killed by anyone to earn merits. Lord Sen, do you intend to help these criminals who pretended to be Yan Lun City’s officials?”
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