The Gate Of Good Fortune c1-905

by Demon Translations

  Although they had only advanced a few dozen feet, this walk felt as if they had already trudged tens of thousands of feet. Every step forward was proving more difficult than the previous.

  Ning Cheng could not help but think that if he were just a single person, then even if he managed to pass through this place, he would have to pay the price for it. Chao Hei’s attainments in Body-Forging were lower when compared to his own; as such, it was reasonable for him to be unable to pass through. Besides, even if Chao Hei were able to pass through, he would not have been able to break through the Fiery Wind Grand Array in the front.

  After trudging forward for another two hours, the people were finally able to see the front of the Fiery Wind Grand Array. Sure enough, it was just as Chao Hei had spoken, on the edges of the Fiery Wind Array, there were four or five fiery red Spiritual Grasses. Although Ning Cheng had never read about or seen the True Polar Bamboo Sprout, he guessed that these grasses were definitely the True Polar Bamboo Sprout.

  “It really is the True Polar Bamboo Sprout….” Yu Zheng spoke out in a pleasantly surprised voice. However, he was not able to complete his sentence, when lava stones, one after another, started falling down without any warning.

  The resulting bombardment resulted in an enormous spike in pressure over the Defensive Magical Weapons of the five people. Causing the small pocket formed by linking the Defensive Magical Weapons to crack apart and disintegrate.

  “Everybody run towards the Fiery Wind Array, there is no Lava Hail there…..” As he spoke, Chao Hei immediately stepped forward and started running. Ban Miaolei was not experiencing this for the first time, as such was able to reach the safety zone with her maximum speed.

  Yu Zheng was the third person to rush up, while Gongye Yingxiu deliberately stayed back to intentionally block Ning Cheng, while simultaneously concentrating his True Essence towards his hind legs. He guessed that Ning Cheng, at most only possessed a Rank 3 Spiritual Body, as such once he loses the collaboration from the other people, these cascading lava stones would be enough to finish him. This was anyways a life and death situation for any of them. Besides, how could anyone prove that he had deliberately used to his hind legs to plot against Ning Cheng?

  With Ning Cheng dead, he could then use the excuse of retrieving Ning Cheng’s corpse, and then he would naturally obtain Ning Cheng’s things. Even if Ning Cheng did not die, in that case, he would definitely cause Ning Cheng to lose a lot of respect.

  Ning Cheng already was aware that Gongye Yingxiu had deliberately held back to let Yu Zheng pass. So when he actually fell behind, how was it impossible for Ning Cheng to realise as to what scheme Gongye Yingxiu was planning?

  Ning Cheng knew that even if he deliberately chose to stay at the end, this cascade of Lava Hail would still not be enough to claim his small life. After all, he had already reached the level of Imperial Body in Body-Forging, as such even though this Lava Mist was formidable, it would at most only be able to incinerate his clothes.

  However, Ning Cheng was never a person who would not strike back at people who wanted him dead. When he saw Gongye Yingxiu deliberately lagging behind, he immediately perceived what Gongye Yingxiu wanted to do. Ning Cheng did not wait for Gongye Yingxiu to begin first, as he covertly threw out several Array Flags.

  It was a straightforward Entangling Array Formation, which Ning Cheng had arranged in a brief period, while he simultaneously wielded the Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds. At this moment, Gongye Yingxiu’s hind legs, charged up with True Essence, swept past the place where Ning Cheng had just been a moment ago.

  The Chao Hei couple and Yu Zheng were anxiously rushing towards the safety zone, as such were not able to notice Ning Cheng bringing out the Array Flags, let alone when he used the Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds. Nor did they see Gongye Yingxiu sneak attacking Ning Cheng with his hind legs.

  Gongye Yingxiu immediately discovered that his leg had swept by an empty space, but at the same time perceived that the surrounding area had turned quite viscous. At this moment Gongye Yingxiu no longer was in a position to bother about Ning Cheng, he quickly worked to free himself from the vicious Spacial Bondage.

  “Bang” With a muffled explosion, Gongye Yingxiu’s personal defensive shield finally wholly cracked apart.

  A piece of Lava Hail fell down on him, causing Gongye Yingxiu’s body to almost instantly turn into the same fiery red colour as the Lava Hail, causing him to resemble a pig being roasted. If not for his Body-Forging Cultivation already close to a Rank 4 Imperial Body, Gongye Yingxiu would have died at this moment without a doubt.

  “Pu tong” Gongye Yingxiu was indeed in a challenging situation, as such he could not attend towards anything else. Therefore, he immediately used all his strength to jump towards the safety zone in front of the Fiery Wind Array.

  “Brother Gongye, are you alright?” Yu Zheng quickly asked. He had never thought that the last person to arrive would not be Ning Cheng, but rather Gongye Yingxiu. Moreover, Ning Cheng was actually wholly unharmed standing on one side. Furthermore, since Ning Cheng managed to arrive before, he also ended up with the opportunity to collect a strand of the True Polar Bamboo Sprout.

  Because Yu Zheng had already collected a True Polar Bamboo Sprout, Chao Hei chose not to begin. While Ban Miaolei picked up all the remaining four strains of the True Polar Bamboo Sprouts.

  Chao Hei was well aware that Ning Cheng had deliberately let his Dao Companion pick up the rest; as such, he shot a grateful look towards Ning Cheng. Then he immediately saw Gongye Yingxiu, who looked like a naked roasted pig.

  Ban Miaolei on seeing Gongye Yingxiu’s ugly naked appearance, could not help but turn her face around to hide her chuckle.

  Gongye Yingxiu already knew that he had utterly lost his face. Immediately taking out a pair of clothes and wearing it, he then pointed at Ning Cheng in an accusing manner and shouted, “Surnamed Ning, you actually dare to plot against me.”

  Ning Cheng also spoke up with disdain, “You truly are the pride of pigs, I came here first before you, so tell me, in the end, who is plotting against whom.” Only then did Gongye Yingxiu understand the meaning behind the words ‘Who is plotting against whom.’

  Chapter 0352 – Uncle Yu

  Translated By – DemonKiller

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  Chao Hei held a sense of gratitude towards Ning Cheng. Moreover, Gongye Yingxiu had also unexpectedly lost his face and even shamed himself publically in front of his Dao Companion, causing him to feel very dissatisfied towards Gongye Yingxiu. He gave a frown before speaking, “Since everyone is all right, we should get ready to collaborate once again to break open this Fiery Wind Grand Array. Just the outside of the Fiery Wind Grand Array has these many True Polar Bamboo Sprouts, so there would definitely be more inside.”

  Gongye Yingxiu was also not a fool, as soon as he heard Chao Hei’s words; he knew that this Taoist in front of him had already formulated his own opinions on him. As such, he could only choose to suppress his anger towards Ning Cheng. Moreover, dealing with Ning Cheng was also not an urgent matter right now.

  Ning Cheng spoke up, “This Fiery Wind Grand Array is already broken. We can directly go in.”

  As Ning Cheng spoke, he had already made his way into the Grand Array, and soon disappeared from view.

  Seeing Ning Cheng entering the Grand Array, while also not receiving any backlash from it, Chao Hei and Yu Zheng immediately sobered up, as they also quickly rushed into the Grand Array.

  This Fiery Wind Grand Array indeed had turned out to be broken, causing the two of them to feel overjoyed at the same time. They had already guessed it out that Gongye Yingxiu must have been the one who had initially plotted against Ning Cheng. Moreover, Ning Cheng was able to realise at a glance that this Fiery Wind Grand Array was broken; as such, he was not just a low-levelled Ar
ray Formation Master. Trying to plot against an Array Formation Master was definitely equivalent to courting death.

  However, at this moment, they just could not attend to these matters, as the most important thing to them was the stuff inside the Fiery Wind Grand Array.

  After Ning Cheng entered the Fiery Wind Grand Array, he immediately arrived at a place incomparably rich in Spiritual Qi. Moreover, there were also almost a hundred strains of True Polar Bamboo Sprouts spread out in front of him, causing ecstasy to erupt in Ning Cheng’s heart. In an extremely short moment, he had directly swept away about 60% of the nearly hundred True Polar Bamboo Sprouts in front of him.

  He did not wholly take away everything, especially since Yu Zheng and Chao Hei were also behind him. Since they had chosen to cooperate with him, then he could not keep everything to himself.

  Ning Cheng passed through the region of the True Polar Bamboo Sprouts with his fastest speed and arrived in front of a flat stone platform. What surprised Ning Cheng was that there was a mummified corpse sitting above the flat stone. In front of the mummified body, there was a jade strip and an Array Disc neatly placed.

  Ning Cheng took a step forward and grabbed the jade strip. He did not look at the jade strip, but instead first put away the ring from the mummified corpse’s hand.

  At this moment, Chao Hei’s company of four also quickly rushed in. The four people then simultaneously laid their eyes on the mummified corpse.

  “Brother Chao, this person must have been the one who had left behind the High-Grade True Artefact fragment, so there should definitely be a lot of good things in his ring.” Gongye Yingxiu saw that the mummified hand was without a ring and immediately spoke out.

  Everyone was aware that he was trying to add inflammatory details, to goad Chao Hei into killing Ning Cheng.

  The few people who came with Chao Hei were also regretting the fact that they did not know that the Fiery Wind Grand Array was already an Array Formation that was broken open. By logic, they should have been the first to reach the place, but they had never expected that Ning Cheng, who had the lowest cultivation among them, would be the one to make the first grab.

  At this moment, Ning Cheng’s Spiritual Consciousness fell onto the jade strip, “Mou Family’s Yu Xin….”

  Ning Cheng on seeing these four words immediately felt surprised. Yu Xin? Wasn’t this name of Qionghua’s Uncle Yu? Didn’t he already leave the Sifting Orchid Star to look for Qionghua’s parents? If so, then why was he here?

  The next moment, a layer of cold sweat covered Ning Cheng’s forehead, didn’t it mean that it was all a plot by some people against Shi Qionghua?

  “Brother Ning, what is on the jade strip?” Yu Zheng volunteered to ask.

  Ning Cheng spoke with a sinking sound, “This fallen senior is an old family servant of my wife. I did not expect that he had fallen in this place.”

  “Is your wife also in the Sifting Orchid Star?” Yu Zheng asked in amazement.

  Ning Cheng nodded and spoke, “Yes, my wife was with me before in the Sifting Orchid Star, but she left the Sifting Orchid Star later.”

  Gongye Yingxiu gave a cold humph and spoke, “What a true coincidence. The one who died was definitely a great power, and you claim that he was your relative’s servant.”

  He was indeed not feeling well, primarily because even though he was finally able to enter the Grand Array, but he was only able to obtain three strands of the True Polar Bamboo Sprouts.

  Ning Cheng put away the jade strip but did not even glance at Gongye Yingxiu; he did not feel the need to explain himself to this person.

  “Everyone had come in together, there are also not many True Polar Bamboo Sprouts in here, but there is definitely a former great power here, don’t you think that we should definitely take out the things obtained from this great power to distribute it amongst ourselves? Letting a single person keep it, wouldn’t it be too much?” Gongye Yingxiu disgruntledly spoke out as he stared daggers at Ning Cheng.

  This time the Chao Hei trio chose not to speak, although everyone had agreed previously to share some part of the things every one obtained if they worked in tandem with each other. However, because Ning Cheng had arrived first, he alone ended up getting the ring of that deceased powerhouse, which was indeed something that caused an imbalance.

  Ning Cheng did not continue to read the jade strip, after putting away the jade strip, he then casually spoke up, “So, does that mean that you all want to go back on your own words from before? Brother Chao, Brother Yu, Senior Apprentice Sister Ban, are these also your thoughts?”

  If these few people decided to gang up on him at the same time, then Ning Cheng had already decided to leave this place first by himself. He possessed the Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds and had already deduced the path to the exit. As to the area covered by the Fiery Wind Lava Mist, he believed that he would definitely be able to cross it by himself.

  However, Ning Cheng also believed that these people would not dare to turn on him. This place was definitely the mouth of an unpredictable yet explosive volcano, as such why would anyone dare to fight in this kind of situation? Even he did not have the confidence to start a fight in this sort of place.

  Chao Hei took a long sigh and then spoke out slowly, “I have been living on the Sifting Orchid Star for nearly 20 years, and was able to make a lot of friends. If I Chao Hei has spoken about something, then I will definitely honour it to the letter. Moreover, we all had reached an agreement with the allocation plan previously; as such, I will definitely not overturn it. Regardless of whatever Brother Ning obtained, or how he was able to obtain it, it was an opportunity that he was able to grasp, I do not have any opinions on this.”

  Yu Zheng also gave a smile and spoke, “It looks like my thoughts are also similar to Brother Chao’s thoughts.”

  Ban Miaolei did not need to reply, as her intentions were the same as Chao Hei’s words. Previously, Ning Cheng had the complete advantage in picking out all the True Polar Bamboo Sprouts, yet he did not do such a thing; as such, there was definitely more than a strand of a favourable impression of Ning Cheng in her heart. Moreover, they were also not fools, who among them did not know that there were definitely a large number of True Polar Bamboo Sprouts inside the Fiery Wind Grand Array. With Ning Cheng’s present cultivation, all he would have needed was just a single wave of his hand, and the hundreds of strains of True Polar Bamboo Sprouts would be his, but Ning Cheng had not done this.

  Gongye Yingxiu on seeing that nobody wanted to follow him in dealing with Ning Cheng also chose not to continue with the loquacity. He believed that he would definitely be able to sniff out Ning Cheng’s dwellings; as such eventually, he would kill Ning Cheng. After he murdered Ning Cheng, everything would then belong to him, and he would not need to share it with others.

  “This harvest was not that bad, and cooperating with everyone also felt very good. Concerning exiting from this place, I think that it would result in a significantly reduced effort. As such, we do not need to continue to collaborate with each other in going back unless necessary.” Chao Hei spoke and then looked at Ning Cheng.

  After all, Ning Cheng’s cultivation was the lowest. If Ning Cheng needed any help, then he would also not mind helping Ning Cheng.

  Ning Cheng then actually took out six strains of the True Polar Bamboo Shoot by his own and handed it to Chao Hei and spoke, “Brother Chao, this time I really have to thank you, without your words, I would not have found Uncle Yu’s remains. Though I was not able to obtain many strains of the True Polar Bamboo Sprouts, please accept these according to the previous agreement.”

  Seeing Ning Cheng take out six strains of True Polar Bamboo Sprouts at once, everyone realised that Ning Cheng was the one who had actually ended up obtaining most of the True Polar Bamboo Sprouts during this time’s collaboration,

  “Good, then I will also not be polite about it.” Chao Hei collected the True Polar Bamboo Sprouts given to him by Ning Cheng; in any case, it was some
thing that they had agreed to beforehand.

  Once Chao Hei and the others took their exit, Ning Cheng then took out a pile of spirit stones, and then quickly moulded them into a simple spirit stone coffin, before placing the remains of Uncle Yu into the spirit stone coffin. At the same time, he also took away the simple-looking Transmission Array Disc on the side of Uncle Yu.

  When Ning Cheng came out, he found that Chao Hei and the others had not yet entered the Lava Mist.

  “Brother Ning, we are going to the Moon Creek Pond, and wanted to ask if Brother Ning wanted to accompany us there.” Yu Zheng volunteered to speak.

  Ning Cheng had not inquired about the Moon Creek Pond, or what kind of items did it contain, and quietly spoke up, “My cultivation is a bit low, and am actually planning on going into seclusion for a while. Therefore, I will not be going to the Moon Creek Pond, but I do wish you all good luck.”

  Ning Cheng urgently wanted to go back and figure out why Uncle Yu stayed back here, he absolutely did not have any thoughts about going out and searching for treasures.

  Hearing that Ning Cheng was not coming with them, Chao Hei and the others also chose not to persuade him of any more words. Only Gongye Yingxiu held uncertainty in his eyes, he was hoping that Ning Cheng would decide to come together with them, but since the person himself was not willing to do so, then it would not bode well for him to insist on it.

  “This is my Messaging Communications Pearl.” Chao Hei volunteered to leave behind a Messaging Communications Pearl with Ning Cheng.

  Ning Cheng did not have any acquaintances in the Sifting Orchid Star, so once Chao Hei and Yu Zheng both left behind a Messaging Communication Pearl with him, he then immediately rushed into the Lava Mist first.

  “It looks like he already achieved Rank 4 Imperial Body in regards to Body-Forging.” Ban Miaolei finally spoke up as she looked at Ning Cheng wrapped in a dark shadow as he disappeared into the Lava Mist.