Ning Cheng used his Spiritual Consciousness to carefully open the storage bag and found that there was a not-so-small jade box inside it, which was overspilling with Spiritual Qi. It was so dense that even the jade box was not able to contain. Ning Cheng then quickly opened the storage bag and found three glittering and crystal-clear stones appear in front of him.
This…
Ning Cheng almost screamed out in excitement, he was already too familiar with this kind of object. That old fogey had given him a small broken piece of this same object; it was definitely the same crystal stone and three complete ones at that. He was just too familiar with that fractured crystal stone that had helped him increase his cultivation rapidly, but now he actually obtained three such Crystal Stones, this naturally made him ecstatic.
Ning Cheng quickly stored the jade box. Then, he took out the jade strip from inside the bag and poured his Spiritual Consciousness into it.
“Big Brother Ning, I have already taken the thing from this place. When I came back inside this place to search for it, I had no intention to bind it to me. However, I had not thought that after I came here, this thing would immediately recognise me as its master. It truly is a pity that my cultivation is still limited, and can only obtain six of those crystal stones. Even if I want more, I would have to wait until my cultivation improves before I get the chance to obtain anything else from it. Originally, I wanted to leave everything inside this place to Big Brother Ning; however, I must take revenge for my parent’s blood feud.”
“After my parents were murdered, I went to look for Elder Brother, but Elder Brother had already left. My identity and status were no longer the same as those people from big academies. Therefore, I had no choice but to find my own way here. Thank you for sending me that Magical Weapon to me. Without that Magical Weapon, I would not have been able to come to this place. If my things were not obtained by my Big Brother Ning, in that case, beware of these things, it can bring disaster for the uninformed!”
Ning Cheng put away the jade strip. He felt happy for Meng Jingxiu in his heart, at the same time, also felt slightly sad. He had seen Meng Jingxiu’s mother once before, at that time, Meng Jingxiu’s father was still serving in the Jia Continent’s Cultivator Army. How many years has it been since then? It looks like Meng Jingxiu’s parents somehow met with a mishap. As for what Meng Jingxiu spoke about the ‘big academies’, it should be referring to Nalan Ruxue.
Ning Cheng also knew that even if Meng Jingxiu had the qualifications to talk to Nalan Ruxue, she was not capable of going to the Le Continent. Fortunately, Meng Jingxiu was able to obtain the recognition of the Immortal Mansion. Ning Cheng believed that with her intelligence and qualifications, her cultivation would progress much faster compared to others.
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After leaving the Angry Axe Valley, Ning Cheng did not immediately return to the Ping Continent. He first made his way to the Pu Bu Island in the Yi Xing Ocean. Since Ning Cheng had arrived here, then Ning Cheng had to inquire about the ones responsible for bringing harm to Meng Jingxiu’s parents; moreover, Ning Cheng also wanted to meet Kong Pengpeng. In the past, when he was on the run, Kong Pengpeng had provided him with significant help. What’s more, he was still the Yi Zheng Battalion’s 5-Star Junior Commander.
Ning Cheng chose not to be too aggressive in his arrival, he merely used a regular airship type Spiritual Artefact; however, this airship was stopped at the periphery of the Pu Bu Island.
Ning Cheng did not know if his status as a 5-Star Junior Commander would still be valid after leaving the Yi Zheng Battalion for these many years. Therefore, when enquired by the cultivator army personnel, he directly took out his 5-Star Junior Commander Shoulder Card and spoke, “I am Yi Zheng Battalion’s Five Star Junior Commander Ning Cheng….”
“Yi Zheng Battalion?” The two cultivators who stopped Ning Cheng were somewhat surprised.
“What’s the problem? I was delayed for a few years inside the Law’s Way and have just returned from the inside the Law’s Way.” Ning Cheng explained.
The two cultivators blocking Ning Cheng’s path, after verifying that the shoulder card was indeed genuine, showed a sympathetic look, before allowing Ning Cheng to enter the Pu Bu Island.
Ning Cheng then first arrived at his Junior Commander’s Mansion, but could not see his most familiar subordinate, Yang Honghou. Not only that, even the black silver warship that he had gifted to Nan Yuefang was missing. There were only a few guards that he did not know standing at the gates of his Junior Commander’s Mansion.
After Ning Cheng’s Spiritual Consciousness swept into the Junior Commander’s Mansion, he found that the Array Formations and Restrictions that he arranged in the past had all disappeared. Not only were they gone, but there were new Restrictions that took their place.
Ning Cheng was not angry because of this; after all, Kong Pengpeng was the one who initially loaned this Junior Commander’s Mansion to him. Once Kong Pengpeng came to know that he had to escape, it was only reasonable for him to collect the Junior Commander’s Mansion and give it to someone else. In any case, Ning Cheng was not going to stay in this place. He had only come to this place to have a look, even if there were no Junior Commander’s Mansion in this place, it would not matter much to him.
Since the Junior Commander’s Mansion was no longer his, Ning Cheng also did not choose to enter the Junior Commander’s Mansion. He directly went to Kong Pengpeng’s Mansion. However, what made Ning Cheng even more puzzled was that Kong Pengpeng’s Mansion was sealed shut. Moreover, from what he observed from the traces, it was not long since it was sealed.
Ning Cheng was starting to have a bad premonition, it looks like Kong Pengpeng seemed to have involved himself in some significant matter; otherwise, with Kong Pengpeng’s status, it would have never come to this.
“Are you Junior Commander Ning?” A somewhat astonished yet unsure voice sounded out from behind him.
Ning Cheng turned around and saw a soldier, an early stage True Condensation Cultivator. Ning Cheng quickly replied, “That’s right, I’m the 5-Star Junior Commander Ning Cheng, from the Yi Zheng Battalion.”
Chapter 0395 – Furiously Attacking The Pu Bu Island
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The cultivator soldier on hearing that it was indeed Ning Cheng, quickly spoke, “Lord Junior Commander, please come with me.”
Just a cultivator soldier with True Condensation Cultivation, someone that Ning Cheng did not need to pay much attention. Not to mention him, even if there were Crucible Transformation Experts on the Pu Bu Island, he would not fear them.
“I am called Che Yangbo, and was originally from the Yi Zheng Battalion, under Nan Yuefang, for some time. After Nan Yuefang was put on death row, I left the barracks and now work as a small businessman….” As the cultivator soldier walked, he whispered to him in a quiet voice.
Ning Cheng suddenly stopped, “Nan Yuefang on death row? Why? What about Yang Honghou?” Ning Cheng’s expression turned somewhat cold, he was one of the four Junior Commanders of the Yi Zheng Battalion, even if he left, his own Junior Commander Battalion would be absorbed into the other three Junior Commander’s Battalions, so why would they put a Senior Marquise like Nan Yuefang on death row?
“Yang Honghou was also put on death row, but I guess he should already be dead by now.” Che Yangbo carefully spoke.
Ning Cheng was really feeling worse and worse in his heart, Yang Honghou and Nan Yuefang were both from his Junior Commander’s Battalion, even if Nan Yuefang got herself involved in some matter, how was that even Yang Honghou ended up dragged into in her case?
Slowly taking in a deep breath, Ning Cheng calmed down his mood. From the day he started cultivating until now, he had already thoroughly offended a super-faction like the Severing Emotions Dao S
ect, so a mere Pu Bu Island of the Cultivator Army was not something that would pose too much trouble for him. If this matter were something related to him, then he would also not mind turning the entire Pu Bu Island upside down.
“How did you know that I was coming here?” Ning Cheng asked in a sinking sound.
At this point, they had arrived outside of a small wooden building. After Che Yangbo led Ning Cheng into the wooden structure, he carefully closed the door before speaking, “One of the two guards who inspected you is a friend of mine, I had requested him before that once Junior Commander Ning comes back, he should immediately inform me. Moreover, just before Nan Yuefang and Yang Honghou were about to be arrested, Nan Yuefang came looking for me. At that time, Yang Honghou was also with her. She told me that Junior Commander Ning would definitely return.”
Ning Cheng nodded, “You better speak up, what happened that led to all this? Even Kong Pengpeng’s mansion is completely sealed up.”
Che Yangbo did not speak; instead, he took out a jade strip and handed it to Ning Cheng before speaking, “Lord Junior Commander, this was left behind with me by Nan Yuefang. She instructed me to give this to you if you returned before she perished. If you did not return by then, then I was supposed to destroy this when I left the Pu Bu Island.”
Ning Cheng received the jade strip and poured his Spiritual Consciousness into it, but soon his complexion turned ugly. Looks like this matter was indeed because of him.
This problem was caused because he killed a Profound Congealing Cultivator named Shen Tuyun from the Yi Xing Ocean, and had taken away this person’s Black Silver Warship. This Shen Tuyun’s background was also not small, as he was one of the principal personages from the Mu Imperial Palace. Initially, the cultivators from the Yi Xing Ocean and the Nine Continent’s Cultivator Army were at war with each other, so this kind of matter was utterly trivial.
However, with the Tian Continent’s Heaven’s Way opening again, the Nine Continents pooled all their resources into constructing a Transmission Array to reach the Tian Continent, which caused the cultivators stranded and living in the Yi Xing Ocean to also feel tempted to join in.
Theoretically speaking, something like bringing forward past grudges, especially since the two sides had temporarily made peace with each other, would never happen. However, the people who came from the Yi Xing Ocean insistently brought the matter of Ning Cheng killing Shen Tuyun to light. So they used all sorts of excuses to enlarge it out of proportion; moreover, the Le Continent’s Cultivator Army choose to turn a blind eye towards their actions, they also did not care to even ask about it.
Seeing this, the people from the Yi Xing Ocean became even more unbridled and unscrupulous. Ning Cheng had obtained the Black Silver Warship when the two sides were still bitter enemies with each other. However, now that the two parties had made a temporary truce with each other, they used the excuse of Nan Yuefang wantonly killing the cultivators from the Yi Xing Ocean to not only take back the Black Silver Warship but also persecute them.
Nan Yuefang knew that it was going to be hard to escape from this predicament, so she imprinted everything she learned into the jade strip. Instead of holding onto her thought, she asked her own subordinates to deliver the jade strip. That was because other than Ning Cheng, she did not know any person who would be able to help them.
Ning Cheng finally puts down the jade strip, while killing intent started to bubble in his heart. No matter what reason, whether it was the Le Continent’s Cultivator Army or not, there was undoubtedly a huge problem here. The Yi Xing Ocean’s Cultivator Army was definitely not stronger than the Nine Continent’s Cultivator Army, so even if they reached a temporary truce, this kind of matter was just impossible for the Nine Continent’s Cultivator Army to not manage unless there was someone on the inside meddling.
Feeling Ning Cheng’s ice-cold killing intent, Che Yangbo unconsciously shuddered.
“What’s the matter with General Kong Pengpeng?” Nan Yuefang’s jade strip did not say anything about Kong Pengpeng, but Ning Cheng had already realised that Kong Pengpeng had definitely been decommissioned.
Che Yangbo quickly spoke up, “This matter had already proliferated to entire Pu Bu Island. It was also because of this matter that General Kong Pengpeng became very angry. General Kong had even stood up and vocally shouted out against prosecuting Nan Yuefang and Yang Honghou. However, no one chose to side with him; but as a result, General Kong was attacked by the collaboration of Lao Yu, the commander of the Yi Hai Battalion and Ni Gang, the commander of the Zhang Battalion, on the pretext that Kong Pengpeng was shielding criminals.”
“Is General Kong Pengpeng also put on death row?” Ning Cheng asked.
“No.” Che Yangbo quickly replied, “General Kong seemed to have known that some people already wanted to deal with him, so he immediately moved to escape from the Pu Bu Island. As a result, Generals Lao Yu and Ni Gang along with Kang Cheng from the Jia Continent’s Celestial Globe 7 Star Academy collaborated with each other to try and catch him, but he managed to finally slip and disappear.”
“How do you know all this?” Ning Cheng asked.
Che Yangbo spoke with some anger, “At that time, the battle was taking place right outside of the Pu Bu Island; not to mention me, everyone in the Cultivator Army stationed in the Pu Bu Island was able to witness the exchange. However, at that time, no one dared to stop the fight because General Yu Hong, the commander of the entire Pu Bu Island at that time, was absent.”
Ning Cheng fully understood what had transpired. He already knew about Lao Yu, and he knew that he had some connections with the Celestial Globe 7 Star Academy. When Ning Cheng was still in the Pu Bu Island in the past, Ning Cheng had some conflicts with Lao Yu. That was because his nephew Lao Sheng and he shared an enmity with each other. It looks like, under Yong Guyun’s provocations, it ended up enlarging the feud between them.
As for Ni Gang, Ning Cheng had ended up killing Wei Peng, one of the most trusted subordinates under his command in the Life and Death Battle Ring. Causing Ni Gang to form an enmity with both Kong Pengpeng and Ning Cheng.
As for Kang Cheng, when he had hosted the Five Star Academies Great Meet in the Hua Continent in the past, he had almost ended up caught by this person. However, he managed to escape into the Angry Axe Valley. This person suspected that Ning Cheng had uncovered some sort of a secret from the leather scroll that he used in the competition; moreover, had even coveted his things, so it was normal for him to come here looking for him.
As he thought of the leather scroll, Ning Cheng’s mind once again flashed with countless images. However, Ning Cheng quickly suppressed these images; he had always felt that this leather scroll was definitely not typical. Only, at that time he did not have the time to deliberate on it. Since this time, Kang Cheng had delivered himself to his door; it would genuinely be impolite for him to not welcome him warmly. If he met this person once again, then he definitely would do everything in his power to get his hands on that leather scroll.
However, since Kong Pengpeng had also helped him a lot in the past, so when the opposite party implicated him, Ning Cheng couldn’t help but feel somewhat guilty in his heart.
“Currently who is in charge of the Pu Bu Island, what’s their cultivation?” When Ning Cheng spoke these words, he already decided to kick up a storm on the Pu Bu Island. Killing one’s enemy in the past, how can one say that it was wrong? Even going so far as to detain his subordinates for an enemy killed by him.
“It is Junior Commander-in-Chief Ji, full-name Ji Mincai. I heard that he has the cultivation of 2nd Level of Sea Opening Realm.” Che Yangbo replied with some worry. He could already feel that Ning Cheng’s tone had turned unfriendly.
He had not seen Ning Cheng before, but he had actually heard about the talks about this Junior Commander Ning. When he was only at the Essence Building Realm, he had not only openly challenged the Profound Congealing Cultivator Wei Peng but had also managed to kill that Wei Peng.
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nbsp; Ning Cheng nodded and spoke, “Why don’t you tell me where the death row prisoners are held?”
Although Ning Cheng had been a Junior Commander in the Pu Bu Island, he was not someone who roamed around. Not to mention about the Death Row Prisons, even if he wanted to find the Commander-in-Chief’s Mansion, he would not even know in which direction was it situated.
“Lord Junior Commander…..” Che Yangbo finally panicked and cried. Ning Cheng’s killing intent was too powerful, how could he not know what this Junior Commander Ning of his wanted to do?
Ning Cheng gave a slight smile, “You don’t have to worry about anything. I always maintain a sense of discretion. You just need to tell me the location. Right, I also have an Essence Building Pill here; you can have it as thanks for all your troubles.”
Che Yangbo was incomparably excited as he received the Essence Building Pill with both his hands. He had not thought that he would have ever gotten his hands on this kind of pill. The only reason why he chose to help Nan Yuefang was that when Nan Yuefang was his superior in the past, she had given him many benefits.
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After the time it took for an incense stick to burn, Ning Cheng finally came to a stop in front of a courtyard wall covered with a significant number of Array Formations and Restrictions. From Che Yangbo, he knew that this was the Pu Bu Island’s Death Row Prison.
“Get out of the way; this is not someplace where you can saunter around…..” Ning Cheng had just arrived outside of this courtyard when a cultivator soldier with a True Condensation Cultivation came out and barred Ning Cheng’s path.
Ning Cheng also did not speak any nonsense; he merely raised his palm, causing this cultivator to instantly lapse into a coma.
This was where the Pu Bu Island detained its criminals; as such, it not only had a considerable number of Array Formations and Restrictions covering it, there were also a large number of soldiers from the Cultivator Army protecting it. Therefore, when Ning Cheng caused a cultivator in the True Condensation Realm to lose consciousness with just the lifting of a palm, the other people immediately understood that someone wanted to break into the prison to free the prisoners.
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