Realising this, Ning Cheng felt a glimmer of regret within his heart. Regret about not entering the Mysterious Yellow Bead. Although those Eternal-level Starry Sky Emperors would immediately chase after him once he stepped into the Mysterious Yellow Bead and exposed it, he at least could have seen the light of tomorrow. But because he did not enter the Mysterious Yellow Bead, it had immediately turned into an almost fatal problem.
At this moment, Ning Cheng did not have any control over his body, and the shockwaves from the Immortal Jade Star’s explosions pushed him further and further away.
Fortunately, no one paid any attention to Ning Cheng at this moment. He was not the only cultivator pushed out by the violent shockwaves of the exploding star. Countless cultivators, both dead and barely alive, littered this area within the starry sky.
A familiar figure appeared in Ning Cheng’s vision, and he saw Shi Qionghua standing on a deck at some distance a moment later. Shi Qionghua had apparently not entered the Immortal Jade Star and stood among the low-levelled cultivators on the outer deck as they all watched the cultivators shooting out of the recently collapsed Immortal Jade Star in stunned silence.
“Qionghua, help me…..” The moment Ning Cheng reached near to the edge of the airship, he tried his best to shout out a sentence.
After the Immortal Jade Star collapsed with an explosion, Shi Qionghua stood nervously on the deck watching the distant exploding star. She felt worried about her Sacred Master and Senior Apprentice Sister Jing Yiyi. However, she did not leave the floor to look for them. From the chaotic shockwaves that pushed the cultivators haphazardly, she could only watch in helplessness and try to find any traces of her Senior Apprentice Sister.
At this moment, she suddenly heard a familiar call. The moment she listened to this call, she immediately realised that this voice belonged to Ning Cheng.
When Ning Cheng had rescued her that time by letting her escape first, he had also used the same voice.
She did not even think about it, and immediately rushed towards Ning Cheng, who had already gone far away. Ning Cheng had drifted far away not because he wanted to stray away but because he could not control his body anymore.
Fortunately, by this time, the impact force had dissipated a lot, and Shi Qionghua managed to catch up with Ning Cheng in just a few breaths. She found Ning Cheng covered in blood and unmoving with something clutched within his hands.
Ning Cheng used every ounce of his remaining strength to put the Boundary Breaking Talisman in Shi Qionghua’s hands and said, “Qionghua, I am Ning Cheng. It’s too late to explain. You have to use this Boundary Breaking Talisman to take me away; otherwise, I will die…….”
Mustering the last bit of strength to complete the actions and saying those words, Ning Cheng finally went into a coma. Not to mention that he had somehow managed to survive the collapse of a planet while at its core, even those Eternal-level Heavenly Emperors, who encountered the planetary explosion within the ground, had ashes covering their faces.
The reason Ning Cheng managed to stay alive was all due to luck. He had a lot of defensive-type Dao Artefacts, along with the Everlasting Blue Thunder City. Of course, the most important contributing factor was his formidable Spiritual Consciousness, which helped him control so many layers of defences at the same time.
Together with the Maximal Flame Spiritual Technique, which he had cast out first, he experienced a moment of safety within the Maximal Flame Spirit Technique. Although the technique caused the final collapse of the star, the explosion instantly annihilated his Maximal Flame Spirit Technique. However, the technique also helped him by absorbing and dissipating a significant portion of the explosion’s power.
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“Kid, if this emperor did not extract your spirit……” Zhangkang Tianji had just rushed out of the Immortal Jade Star and had only spoken half a sentence before he stopped as if someone had slapped his face. His Spiritual Consciousness had obviously caught the aura of the cultivator who caused the destruction of the star; however, a moment later, that puny cultivator disappeared.
He was not the only one to stop, but the three other people Chuan Xinlou, Yi Jiufeng, and Qian Jierui also lost Ning Cheng’s trail.
“That should be the fellow who taken away the Earth Origin Bead. I did not expect him to take away the Starry Sky Wheel too. Looks like he really has good fortune on his side. But how could this puny cultivator remain safe and sound amidst the explosion caused by the Immortal Jade Star’s collapse?” Chuan Xinlou frowned and looked back at the still-collapsing Immortal Jade Star.
Zhangkang Tianji clenched his teeth as he spoke, “That bastard escaped in the blink of an eye. That ant must have used a Boundary Breaking Talisman. But this Boundary Breaking Talisman did not even create the slightest trace. How it is this strong? Who exactly refined this talisman?”
“Does it not mean that this fellow also has the Good Fortune Treasure?” Yi Jiufeng gave a cold humph and spoke.
Chuan Xinlou shook his head and spoke up, “I heard that Good Fortune Treasures have a world of its own inside of it. If he really had a Good Fortune Treasure, he would have immediately entered the Good Fortune Treasure to avoid the Immortal Jade Star’s destruction. However, he did not do this. Therefore, it is very likely that this fellow does not have a Good Fortune Treasure on him.”
“Maybe that bastard deliberately did not enter the Good Fortune Treasure, fearing that it would expose his Good Fortune Treasure, which would have immediately drawn our attention. That kid sure has a devious mind, he even made sure to break the Monitoring Array Formation before taking action.” Qian Jierui spoke in a whisper.
Chuan Xinlou still shook his head and spoke, “During the moment the Immortal Jade Star exploded if anyone had a Good Fortune Treasure, they would have immediately entered the Good Fortune Treasure to escape.”
The other three remained silent, apparently agreeing to Chuan Xinlou’s explanation.
After a moment, Zhangkang Tianji suddenly turned to Qian Jierui and Yi Jiufeng and spoke up with anger, “If you two hadn’t fought, how could the Immortal Jade Star collapse this quickly? If the Immortal Jade Star hadn’t collapsed, how could that kid escape? The two of you simply cannot accomplish anything but definitely know how to spoil everything.”
Qian Jierui gave a cold snort but did not feel any resentment towards Zhangkang Tianji. Instead, his imposing aura flared up once again and shrouded Yi Jiufeng, “Yi Jiufeng, the Immortal Jade Star exploded because of your meddlesome activities. You will have to give my Devil Domain an explanation.”
Seeing the two of them on the verge of a fight once again, Zhangkang Tianji and Chuan Xinlou simply ignored them and entered their own respective Void Airships.
After entering the Void Airship, Chuan Xinlou looked at the starry skies in the distance with a sneer at the corner of his mouth. He felt sure that the cultivator who managed to escape had a Good Fortune Treasure. Otherwise, how could he hide the auras of the Earth Origin bead and the Starry Sky Wheel without even refining them?
However, he also had to admit that this puny cultivator had a devious mind. Even amid the explosion, that fellow had not entered the Good Fortune Treasure, which most likely indicated that he did not want to others to sense the aura of the Good Fortune Treasure from overflowing. This idea would have worked on anyone else but not on someone like Chuan Xinlou.
A puny Celestial Scryer Cultivator was not worthy of such a treasure, whether it was the Earth Origin Bead, or the Starry Sky Wheel, or even that Good Fortune Treasure, they all would ultimately be his, Chuan Xinlou’s, one day.
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In any case, the hustle and bustle created by the Immortal Jade Star for several years ended in an anticlimactic manner. Of the three treasures, apart from the Wind Thunder Apricot that Yi Jiufeng took back to the Grand Spirit Heaven Starry Sky, people found that the remaining two treasures were taken away by a nameless junior.
No one managed to uncover the identity of this nameless j
unior, even the ‘Big Four’ Eternal-level Starry Sky Emperor could not be of any help. In addition to that, more than a hundred thousand cultivators died because of the destruction of the Immortal Jade Star. This caused the Celestial Scryer Genius Tryouts to end in a complete failure.
News also spread that the collapse of the Immortal Jade Star was a result of a direct clash between the Devil Domain’s Qian Jierui and Spirit Heaven’s Yi Jiufeng. The two of them did not hold back in the slightest, causing their attacks to land directly on the Immortal Jade Star. As a result, both sides suffered injuries, and no one could do anything about it.
That battle caused the relationship between the Grand Devil Domain Starry Skies and the Grand Spirit Heaven Starr Skies, who already had a bad relationship, to deteriorate even further. Just short of mobilising their starry sky cultivator army, every communication between the two grand starry skies had reached a total freezing point.
As for Zhangkang Tianji, he did not speak any nonsense and directly returned to the Grand Demon Starry Sky with his cultivators. While Chuan Xinlou acted more peacefully. He returned to Grand Culmination Starry Skies’ Eternal Heaven City and announced that he was going into seclusion for an indefinite time. As for the rest of the cultivators, they all headed back to wherever they came from.
Chapter 0613 – Saving Ning Cheng
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The Sword Mountain Path was not a path, nor a mountain, but a castle complex similar to a small town. This place had a collection of various ancient castles that formed a village-like small city.
People said that this place really was once a mountain a long time ago, which produced a master specialising in the Dao of Sword. Legend states that this master used this place to gain enlightenment in the Dao of Sword. As a result, a lot of Sword Cultivators used to come here wanting to understand the Dao of Sword. But despite the best efforts, only a very few cultivators managed to understand anything about the Dao of Sword from this place.
Over an extended period, under the constant grindings from the Sword Aura of the cultivators who came here to understand the Dao of Sword, this mountain finally transformed into an ancient path. With time, the ‘ancient path’ also disappeared, leaving only the original caves of those cultivators who walked the path of swords. As time passed, some rogue cultivators started to gather here and erected castles after castles in this place, turning it into something similar to an ancient fortress.
At this time, outside the Sword Mountain Path, a girl in blue with a veil covering her face carried a comatose male cultivator over her back. Although she had wrapped the cultivator in a loose robe, it still could not conceal the severe injuries riddling this cultivator’s body. As long as one paid some attention to her, one could easily smell the thick stench of blood coming from this comatose cultivator on her back.
This girl in blue was Shi Qionghua. After Ning Cheng gave her the Boundary Breaking Talisman and spoke a few words, he slipped into a coma. Although she initially thought about handing Ning Cheng to the Sacred Master and let Sacred Master save him. She, regardless, still acted according to Ning Cheng’s instructions.
Thankfully, she immediately discarded the thought of handing him to Sacred Master. The Time Stones on her came from Ning Cheng, and since Ning Cheng could give her so many Time Stones, it meant that he also had a significant stock of it. Even someone like Sacred Master desired Time Stones. If she handed Ning Cheng over to the Sacred Master, the Sacred Master would have quickly found out about the Time Stones in Ning Cheng’s possession. At that moment, it would be doubtful if Ning Cheng could even remain alive.
In addition to this, there was another reason why she complied with such a request. That is, Ning Cheng mentioned that he would die if he stayed in this place. If any Starry Sky Emperors in the Eternal Realm wanted to kill Ning Cheng, even someone like Sacred Master would not be able to save Ning Cheng.
Moreover, Ning Cheng had once saved her life by risking his own death. He even sent her the invaluable Time Stones and an ancient copper coin. Even if she had nothing to do with Ning Cheng in her past life, she could never forget such gratitude.
Fortunately, Shi Qionghua managed to escape in time. She had just taken Ning Cheng away with the Boundary Breaking Talisman when the big four Starry Sky Emperors charged out looking for Ning Cheng’s aura.
Chuan Xinlou had guessed that Ning Cheng used some sort of an Escape Talisman to break through the starry sky boundary, but he did not disclose it. He believed that with his ability, he could definitely locate Ning Cheng’s final position. Any kind of Boundary Breaking Talisman would leave behind a trace, and this trace would not dissipate immediately. As long as he could find this trace, he felt confident that he could figure out where Ning Cheng escaped.
It’s just that he did not know that there was another Talisman Refining Cultivator within the starry sky called Fu Lie. Fu Lie’s talismans did not need any refining, and even after activating, it would not leave any trace behind. Maybe Fu Lie’s talisman really left a trail, but someone like Chuan Xinlou could never see through it. One had to know that even though Chuan Xinlou’s cultivation had reached the pinnacle within the Grand Culmination Starry Skies but compared to the real powerhouses, he still could not amount to much.
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Shi Qionghua stood outside the Sword Mountain Path and observed it for a while, before finally choosing to enter this group of castles with Ning Cheng on her back. In fact, she did not notice that someone had already taken note of her arrival. Of the many cultivators coming in and out of the Sword Mountain Path, there were not many among them like Shi Qionghua.
Seeing that no one stopped them, Shi Qionghua felt relieved in her heart. She rarely came out alone, yet this time she went to a completely unknown star with the Boundary Breaking Talisman. This made her feel very uneasy.
Although this castle complex looked very primitive, it still contained everything that one would potentially need. Not only did it have some shops, it even had several rest stops.
Shi Qionghua came to a relatively good-looking rest stop before walking in and asking the shop assistant at the reception, “Do you have a large room? It would be better to have two cultivation chambers within, with high-level shielding restrictions.”
“Of course, our South Sword Rest Stop would not be a bad choice even in the Brilliant Celestial City. The best room we have cost one million green coins a month, and the one just below it for half a million green coins per month……” The shop assistant on seeing business knocking at his door quickly tried to explain things in detail. As for the cultivator with severe injuries over Shi Qionghua’s back, he did not care about it at all. It would have been strange if a cultivator without injuries came to this rest stop for lodging in such a manner.
In the Sword Mountain Path, although a lot of cultivators came and went, these cultivators would generally not choose to live in a place that looked too good. Even if they wanted to stay here, it would only be for a few days. However, Shi Qionghua asked for the largest room, it showed that she was a cultivator with wealth.
Shi Qionghua felt a slight surprise, she simply had no green coins on her. Although she was not a wealthy person per se, she only had purple coins on her to the value of a little above a hundred thousand coins. She did not expect to hear such a low price in this place, especially since even the worst rest stops within the Eternal Heaven Starry Sky City would charge a slightly higher fare even on a per-day basis.
Seeing Shi Qionghua standing there without any reaction, the shop assistant quickly spoke up, “Of course, if you want to live a little cheaper, it is not without…..”
Shi Qionghua immediately interrupted the shop assistant’s words, “No, I’ll take the room for 500,000 green coins a month. I’ll make a reservation for two months for now.”
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sp; After that, Shi Qionghua took out 10,000 purple coins and handed it to the shop assistant.
The shop assistant on seeing the purple coins felt very pleased, “Two friends, please come with me.”
Not many cultivators who came to the Sword Mountain Path paid in purple coins, as they would prefer to keep the purple coins aside for when they went to some of the bigger starry sky cities. Now that Shi Qionghua paid in purple coins, how could it not make him happy?
Fortunately, Shi Qionghua still had some purple coins. If she did not have purple coins, maybe she would have used Perpetual Moon Pills.
As the Sacred Lady of the Everlasting Sacred Shrine, Shi Qionghua often came out accompanied by the Sacred Master, and naturally stayed in good rest stops. However, compared to the other starry sky cities, the South Sword Rest Stop’s room did not have much to speak of except for its considerably ample space.
The starry sky Essence Qi was thin around these parts, and even the array formations were of a general grade, same with the restrictions. Which meant that one had to rely on oneself for privacy.
Shi Qionghua did not care much about it; although she did not have much understanding of restrictions, she could at least arrange a general Shielding Array Formation. As for the thin starry sky Essence Qi around these parts, she did not bother about it too. For her, the most important thing was not cultivation, but to help Ning Cheng recover.
Activating the restrictions within the room, Shi Qionghua immediately placed Ning Cheng on the wooden couch and then carefully untied Ning Cheng’s outer robes.
Previously, she had not removed Ning Cheng’s inner robes but only helped put a loose outer coat around Ning Cheng. Now that Shi Qionghua found a place to settle down temporarily, it finally allowed her to take a closer look at Ning Cheng’s injuries.
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