After a half-an-incense worth of time passed by, this female cultivator lowered her head with a displeased expression, before she brought out a flying sword and quickly departed.
Ning Cheng gave out a sigh, he did not immediately move to go into the depths of the Severing Emotions Dao Sect, rather he once again returned to foot of the Mountain Protecting Grand Array, before finding a place to arrange a few explosion arrays.
Using explosion arrays to break open the grand array was the last resort measure. As such, Ning Cheng arranged only a few Explosion Arrays, as a form of contingency.
With everything in place, Ning Cheng finally began moving towards the depths of the academy known as the Severing Emotions Dao Sect. With his concealment method, combined with most of the academy experts outside, unless they were specifically looking for him, wanting to find him would be very difficult.
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Since Xu Anzhen was the strongest expert of the Severing Emotions Dao Sect, then this person would definitely be living on the Severing Emotions Peak. As such, Ning Cheng simply did not go anywhere else, directly finding his way to the Severing Emotions Peak.
The Severing Emotions Peak of the Severing Emotions Dao sect was extremely prominent, and was the centre of the entire Severing Emotions Dao Sect. Moreover, it was also the highest peak. The spiritual qi surrounding it was also very rich, and was far beyond that of any other mountain peak.
Now that most of the experts of the Severing Emotions Dao Sect were out, and the Mountain Protecting Grand Array activated, the disciples walking around the academy were very few. As such, Ning Cheng was easily able to reach the periphery of the Severing Emotions Peak.
Severing Emotions Peak was thousands of meters high and hundreds of meters around, shooting straight into the clouds, however the peak was obscured by a huge array.
Ning Cheng already knew that it was impossible to enter the Severing Emotions Peak in the same manner as he snuck in through the Mountain Protecting Grand Array. Not to mention that no one would even come out from the Severing Emotions Peak, even if someone came out, he would not be able to easily mix in.
However, what made Ning Cheng relieved was that that protective array outside the Severing Emotions Peak was only a Rank 7 Array Formation. Ning Cheng himself was a Tier 7 Array Formation Grand Master, although he might not be able to break open a Rank 9 Array Formation, but in the face of a Rank 7 Array Formation, even if this array formation had some form of method to send signals to Xu Anzhen, if he wanted to secretly infiltrate it, he would definitely be able to accomplish it without triggering anything.
Although comparing Xu Anzhen’s cultivation to Ning Cheng, it would be akin to comparing a titan to a baby. However, in regards to the attainments in Array Formation, she might not have a higher standing than Ning Cheng might. Ning Cheng, in order to study array formations, chose to stay at the bottom of the Blood River Mountains for a few years. Although he only stayed there and arduously studied for a few years, but his attainments were truly something that no ordinary cultivator would be able to replicate.
Even if Xu Anzhen’s attainments in the field of array formations was slightly higher compared to Ning Cheng, however when it comes to deciphering array formations, she would definitely not be better than Ning Cheng would. Moreover, it was highly possible that Xu Anzhen’s attainments in the field of array formations might simply not be higher than Ning Cheng’s attainments at all.
After just half a day’s time, Ning Cheng finally was able to sneak into the Severing Emotions Peak without sending out any alerts to Xu Anzhen.
After entering the Severing Emotions Peak, he immediately swept out with his spiritual consciousness. This time, what he feared the most was that Xu Anzhen might have taken away the piece of Shi Qionghua’s soul with her. If Xu Anzhen did not keep Shi Qionghua’s life essence suppressed at the Severing Emotions Peak, then he simply would not be able to do anything about it. With his cultivation at present, wanting to grab things from Xu Anzhen’s body, it would be at least ten thousand times difficult if not a million times.
However, Ning Cheng guessed that the probability of such a thing happening was quite low, especially since life essences can only be kept suppressed in extremely cold places, but at the same time it would also require a variety of array formations to keep it conserved. If you did not have a truly top tier magical weapon, then wanting to bring away a trace of life essence whenever, wherever you want would simply be impossible.
Not to mention that the life essence cannot be carried around personally, even if it could be carried around, it would require a treasure on the same level of at least the Soul Raising Wood or the Underworld Soul Flower. Moreover, these treasures could not be used to suppress it; at best, they could only be used as a kind of seal. Sealing and suppression had an essential difference; a sealed life essence might still dissipate, resulting in loss of consciousness. However, suppression actually meant being allowed to move freely yet not being able to move freely, as every move could be controlled under suppression.
Whether it was to seal the life essence, or to even suppress it, it would require at the very least a Rank 8 Array Formation or equivalent Restrictions. In Ning Cheng’s view, Xu Anzhen’s attainments in array formations were not that high.
A dozen restrictions appeared in the range of Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness, however he did not see any experts, rather he saw more than ten medicine children coming and going past their Restrictions.
With Ning Cheng’s cultivation, his spiritual consciousness was not able to pass through the Restrictions to directly look at what was behind them. However, Ning Cheng could guess that there must be a medicine garden behind each of the restrictions; the Heavenly Cusp Flower was most likely in one of these medicinal gardens.
Ning Cheng carefully broke open one of the Restrictions, only to find that there were only Level 6 and over spiritual grasses present behind it. He quietly drew back through the restrictions over the medicinal garden; however, he did not touch the spiritual grasses. Although these things were just waiting for him to be picked up and taken away, however at this moment he must first find the place where Shi Qionghua’s life essence was being suppressed.
Ning Cheng broke open one restriction after another, only to find one medicinal garden after another containing only advanced level spiritual grasses that appeared in front of Ning Cheng’s eyes. However, even in the face of so many advanced level spiritual grasses, Ning Cheng’s still was disappointed and frustrated; he simply was not able to find the Heavenly Cusp Flower.
However, despite the disappointment, Ning Cheng still carefully kept his body concealed as he passed through the restrictions. He had only entered the Severing Emotions Peak, so there were many places that he had not seen.
Ning Cheng very much wanted to catch a cultivator at the Essence Building Realm to ask around; however, he was forced to reign in his own impulse. Xu Anzhen was absolutely not a careless person, since she had put those medicine children here, so once someone moved those medicine children, then maybe the next moment she would already come to know about it.
Inside the Severing Emotions Peak, even if all the faces here were lower levelled cultivators, Ning Cheng was still extremely cautious as he moved about. Although it was only half an incense stick worth of journey, but it still took him almost an entire day before he finally arrived at the entrance of a huge yet gloomy palace. If he wanted to pass through here, Ning Cheng knew that he couldn’t be even half a bit careless, so if he ended up spending more time here it would not be surprising, however he absolutely could not let other people find out about him.
Outside of this gloomy looking palace were four characters, ‘Falling in Love is Inconsequential’, there were also two Profound Core Cultivators standing outside this gloomy palace’s entrance, as if they were standing here at guard.
The doors of this gloomy looking palace were wide open, and with Ning Cheng’s ability, it could be said that he could very easily enter
the palace. However, Ning Cheng would not easily walk through those doors. He concealed himself outside the door, while he repeatedly used his spiritual consciousness to continuously probe the palace.
Just like sailing ship for ten thousand years, he only had one chance, since he finally came to a seeming end this time, it would not help him to panic.
As another half a day passed by, Ning Cheng couldn’t help but break out in cold sweat in secret. He knew that his caution was not wrong, although the entrance of the palace seemed normal; however, there was an intricately concealed Rank 6 Trigger Restriction over it. Anyone who entered the palace would immediately activate this restriction. Once this restriction was activated, there would not be any visible changes to the palace; however, the person who laid out the restriction would immediately come to know that someone had entered this place.
As to who arranged this Rank 6 Trigger Restriction, Ning Cheng simply did not have to guess, but instinctively knew that it was without a doubt set up by Xu Anzhen.
Chapter 0333 – The Chaotic Severing Emotions Dao Sect
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Although there was a little difference in the levels of Xu Anzhen’s attainments compared to Ning Cheng’s, but when it came to means of deducing and breaking open array formations and restrictions, Ning Cheng was definitely much stronger than Xu Anzhen was.
Ning Cheng wielding his Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds entered the gloomy looking palace’s main hall. Carefully bypassing the Rank 6 Trigger Restriction, he directly entered the depths of the main hall.
As for the two Profound Core Guards, they simply did not realize that Ning Cheng had entered the main hall. Compared to that Profound Core Realm female cultivator from before, these two Profound Core Guards’ intuition was a lot worse.
Passing through the empty main hall, he finally entered a dimly lit spiritual grass garden.
Ning Cheng currently was barely considered as a Tier 5 Profound Pill Master, so he knew that other than a few special spiritual grasses, the growth of most spiritual grasses required sunlight. However, seeing the spiritual grass sprouts in this gloomy looking courtyard, in addition to the residence itself being dimly lit to the point of being completely dark, Ning Cheng could only say that Xu Anzhen was in herself a very gloomy and dark person.
The spiritual grass garden had a restriction lock on it, although Ning Cheng would easily break open the Restriction placed here, however, Ning Cheng did not dare to do such a thing. This place was Xu Anzhen’s nest, if he accidentally alerted Xu Anzhen, then it would only become even more difficult for him to look for Shi Qionghua’s life essence.
Even if the Heavenly Cusp Flower was inside this spiritual grass garden or not, it would have to wait till he was able to release Shi Qionghua’s life essence.
Ning Cheng used his spiritual consciousness to carefully search the place and its surroundings a few times, finally finding that there were only a few simple Trigger Restrictions placed here, allowing him to finally calm down. He carefully made his way bypassing the dimly lit spiritual grass garden, before coming outside of a very common looking immortal cave.
The entrance to the immortal cave was closed and surrounded by many restrictions, however the spiritual qi surrounding it was extremely rich. Ning Cheng guessed that this was where Xu Anzhen usually went into seclusion.
In addition to this very ordinary looking immortal cave, there was nothing else around; it looked like he had finally reached the last and the deepest place of the Severing Emotions Peak. This Severing Emotions Peak although might look simple on the outside however it was truly not simple, which made Ning Cheng somewhat worried.
If he could not find Shi Qionghua’s life essence inside Xu Anzhen’s immortal cave, then the time and effort that he spent to reach here would be nothing but smoke in the air.
Xu Anzhen’s immortal cave looked really normal. The Restrictions placed on it were also broken by Ning Cheng in the shortest possible time. However thinking that Xu Anzhen might have also set up some Restriction that might have been above his means, he still chose to spend two full days outside the immortal cave in concealment, only after confirming that there would be no alarm or traps triggered when going through the Restrictions over the entrance of the immortal cave, did he finally enter the immortal cave.
At this time, Ning Cheng finally came face to face with where Xu Anzhen generally seemed to have cultivated, the inside of her immortal cave was even more simple looking than the outside. Ning Cheng never thought that Xu Anzhen’s immortal cave would be so simple, compared to this, the main hall on the outside could only be described as magnificent. After coming in, the inside could only be described as a small cultivation room.
Ning Cheng repeatedly swept out with his spiritual consciousness, finally convinced that there truly was no other entrances concealed around, and that there was truly just a single room in front of him.
There was only a futon in the middle of the room. Other than that, there was not even a single chair. Let alone a boudoir, a couch bed or anything else common to a woman’s room.
However, Ning Cheng did not find it strange, although Shi Qionghua said that Xu Anzhen did not look old, but in his view, Xu Anzhen was Xu Yingdei’s grandmother, as such was definitely an old lady, irrespective of how she looked. As an old woman, she of course would not decorate her room in a majestic or rich manner. Moreover, he had also heard that Xu Anzhen’s corporeal body was also severely injured; as such she would also have no need of a couch bed.
There was simply nothing inside the room. However, Ning Cheng did not give up. If Xu Anzhen wanted to keep Shi Qionghua’s life essence suppressed, then it would definitely be at a location close to where Xu Anzhen cultivated. Xu Anzhen would never keep Shi Qionghua’s life essence far away from her. This was simply not logical at all.
Since Ning Cheng entered this place, he repeatedly examined every inch of the surroundings with his spiritual consciousness, however outside of Xu Anzhen’s immortal cave, there was absolutely no place, where someone’s life essence could be suppressed.
With his meticulous approach, it did not take Ning Cheng a long time, before he found an entrance with a Concealment Array Formation over it, under the futon in the middle of the room.
Carefully removing the futon, Ning Cheng carefully re-arranged the several array flags, causing the entrance to finally open up revealing a pitch black hole in front of him.
An extremely cold aura leaked out from the hole, Ning Cheng wanted to use his spiritual consciousness to see how deep the hole was, but found that his spiritual consciousness was unexpectedly blocked. Along the way down, he encountered a Shielding Restriction, other than that, he also found a Forbidden Space Restriction alongside it. It looks like, if he went down this pitch black hole, his spiritual consciousness would only spread out until the periphery of his body, and could not be extended any further.
A black hole or a mouth to the unknown, with no steps in sight or even an end, cannot even use a flight type magical weapon, at the same time can’t even extend out their spiritual consciousness, as such even Crucible Transformation Cultivators would not be able to enter this place. If someone was not afraid of death, only then would they think of jumping down, however they might just plunge to their deaths directly.
Ning Cheng was not a Crucible Transformation Cultivator; however for such kinds of places he had something that was far stronger than Crucible Transformation Cultivators, which was his Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds.
Looking at the black hole in front of him for a moment, Ning Cheng finally became sure that Shi Qionghua’s soul essence must be kept suppressed in here. As such, Ning Cheng did not hesitate anymore before jumping down, while simultaneously stimulating the Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds.
A looming col
d aura hit Ning Cheng as he quickly descended. He felt as if he descended by almost a thousand feet, before he finally touched the ground.
The Severing Emotions Peaks was hundreds of meters high, from this it could been that he was already at present in the deepest location of the Severing Emotions Peak; moreover it was also a very well hidden place.
He immediately perceived dense amounts of Restrictions around him, if replaced by a person who did not understand array formations, there would only be a single path for them, and that was death. In other words, if Xu Anzhen were not here, even if he understood only the basics of array formations, he would simply not be able to enter this place, even if he managed to somehow enter, he would only be coming to die.
At this point, Ning Cheng already could clearly make out that the place he was at was a huge white ice stone platform. In the middle of this ice stone platform, there was an altar with a radius of approximately ten feet. This altar was surrounded by dark red pillars, the pillars were slightly tilted towards the inside appearing to be hung over the altar, as if it was supressing something.
In the middle of this altar were nine fluorescent copper lamps, while each of these copper lamps had a slowly rotating crystal ball hovering over it. Ice cold auras continuously invaded the copper lamps from the bottom, before passing through it towards the crystal ball.
Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness immediately found a familiar aura. He could feel Shi Qionghua’s aura coming from one of the suspended crystal balls.
She really was suppressed here, moreover from the looks of it Shi Qionghua was not the only person being suppressed in here. This old witch Xu Anzhen was really not someone good. Although Ning Cheng was not aware as to how Xu Anzhen used these crystal balls, however he could feel that once she used them, then Shi Qionghua would not be able to pose the slightest of resistance. It was no wonder that Shi Qionghua chose to go to the Heaven’s Way.
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