The only one with a hostile gaze was Duan Gantai. He had previously seen Ning Cheng greeting Su Baijiao before, and now Ning Cheng had even given such a significant gift. This made feel extremely uncomfortable. However, since Ning Cheng didn’t give any medicinal pills, he also couldn’t find any excuses to deal with him.
“Congratulations to Ning Cheng. Please take a seat in the inner residence….”
Ning Cheng felt a little relieved after hearing those words from the female cultivator. He had added a middle-grade Dao Artefact and a Celestial River-class Battleship on the last moment, afraid that the Flame Wind Crow’s tail feather might not be sufficient as a wedding gift for Duan Gantai. When it came to any information about the Purple Yin Spirit Spring, why would he care about a middle-grade Dao Artefact and an ordinary Celestial River-class Battleship?
Although other cultivators considered middle-grade Dao Artefacts as precious items, for him, he could make them a dime a dozen as long as he had the required materials. Even when it came to the Starry Sky Grade 9 Flame Wind Crow’s tail feathers, he had at least twenty to thirty of them in his storage ring.
Ning Cheng followed another female cultivator inside and walked into a hall that seemed to be made out of wood. Although the room did not look luxurious from the outside, as soon as Ning Cheng walked in, he immediately felt the difference. This difference was in the form of a gurgling vitality that oozed into the hall. Ning Cheng felt sure that although this hall looked like it was made out of pure wood, it definitely was a treasure. Since the Su Clan could construct such a room with this kind of vitality-oozing timber, then it definitely indicated that the Su Clan had a lot of money.
The hall had a few dozen cultivators sitting inside, and Ning Cheng saw several Heaven Seated Powerhouses among the crowd. Seeing no powerhouses in the Life and Death or the Eternal Realm, Ning Cheng finally felt a little relieved. He naturally didn’t think that the Su Clan did not have any experts in the Life and Death or the Eternal Realm as guests. Most likely, these experts would have sent someone else to give their gifts, while the Su Clan hosted them separately.
The female cultivator leading Ning Cheng took him to one of the seats. But instead of sitting in the chair she indicated, Ning Cheng nodded to her and took the initiative to sit next to Gongye Zhuo. The female cultivator, the one who led the way, on seeing Ning Cheng finding his own seat did not say anything. She just offered some Spiritual Tea before voluntarily withdrawing.
The guests sitting in this hall most likely were the VIPs of the Su Clan. Apart from the seven or eight Heaven Seated Cultivators and some of the other cultivators with certain statuses, the rest were like Ning Cheng, who had come in through the gift-giving ceremony.
The cultivators in the Heaven Seated Realm naturally sat at the front and chatted amongst themselves. As for Ning Cheng and the others, who had not yet stepped into the Heaven Seated Realm, they only chatted amongst themselves through quiet voices.
Gongye Zhuo could see that Ning Cheng had deliberately come to sit down beside him; so, he just gave a nod to Ning Cheng in acknowledgement. Ning Cheng then cupped his fists towards Gongye Zhuo and spoke, “Rogue Cultivator Ning Cheng greets Brother Gongye.”
Ning Cheng’s courtesy immediately gained Gongye Zhuo’s favour, and he also returned the greetings, “I dare not, it’s a great honour for this Gongye Zhuo to get to know Brother Ning.”
Ning Cheng certainly understood why Gongye Zhuo returned such polite greetings. However, he did not care about it. Instead, he whispered, “Brother Gongye, I just saw you come up with Purple Yin Spring Water. What is that, if I may ask? It seems that others know about it, yet I’m the only one who seems ignorant about it.”
Gongye Zhuo on seeing Ning Cheng’s sincere attitude, also spoke up in a frank manner, “Looks like Brother Ning has been gaining experience on the outside for a long time and has only recently returned to the Eternal Night Domain. A hundred years ago, two powerful Dao Confirming Cultivators fought with each other right outside the Eternal Night Domain. Of the two, one was a man and the other a woman, each of them with amazing cultivation. I’m afraid that even those Eternal Starry Sky Emperors would not dare to treat these two powerhouses on the same level as them. Back then, outside the Eternal Night Domain, the female cultivator had asked the man to surrender the Purple Yin Spirit Spring Bead. However, the man refused, resulting in the two people fighting it out outside the Eternal Night Domain.”
At this point, Gongye Zhuo’s tone turned even lower, “You know what? It turns out there are two broken planets somewhere outside but in the range of the Eternal Night Domain, but the two broken planets have their two array formations within the Eternal Night Domain. Between those two broken planets, people say that one would find a beautiful spiritual spring pool. But this starry sky spiritual spring pool is not something used purely for cultivation; instead, it’s used for setting up Eternal Night Domain’s imposing aura and spirituality.”
“When those two powerhouses battled it out, even though far away from the Eternal Night Domain, the two broken planets’ array entrances turned to dust from the shockwaves. If not for that, the Eternal Night Domain would be much more powerful than it is now. Fortunately, the two cultivators realised in time that there were many cultivators still living in the Eternal Night Domain. Therefore, after destroying the two broken planet’s array formations in the Eternal Night Domain, they immediately departed.”
When Ning Cheng heard of the Purple Yin Spirit Spring Bead, he grew more suspicious of the relationship between this Purple Yin Spirit Spring Bead and Purple Yin Spirit Spring. Because of this, he asked with even more anxiousness, “Brother Gongye, can I act out of line, and ask about where you obtained the Purple Yin Spirit Water?”
Gongye Zhu, who also seemed quite interested in talking, replied, “The Purple Yin Spirit Water is related to those two powerful cultivators who ended up in a fight outside. That senior with the powerful cultivation, the female cultivator, seemed to be called as Ji Xi. At that time, that man had taken out a bead and spoke with a sneer, ‘If you have the ability, then take it from me.’ Unexpectedly, the man held and shown so much pride that the female cultivator called Ji Xi directly attacked him without another word. In the end, the Purple Yin Spirit Spring Bead fell into the starry sky spiritual spring pool outside the Eternal Night Domain.”
“But the female cultivator was so fast that she managed to grab the Purple Yin Spirit Spring Bead from inside the spring and fled quickly. That man then became so angry that he immediately gave chase. From then on, no one heard any news about those two characters. The Purple Yin Spring Water is the water from the spiritual spring pool that soaked the Purple Yin Spirit Spring Bead.”
“So much?” Ning Cheng’s spoke up in a little louder voice in surprise, which immediately attracted a lot of attention. However, Ning Cheng’s didn’t care much about it at this time.
Gongye Zhuo continued with an even lower voice, “That’s right, that starry sky spiritual spring pool became even more special because of the Purple Yin Spirit Spring Bead that fell into it. The water from the Spiritual Spring Pool could help people gain a deeper understanding of their spirit techniques, and could even help Body Forging Cultivators to strengthen their meridians. Thus, this spring water naturally is a very precious commodity. However, I only managed to obtain ten drops accidentally. So today, I took the opportunity to give it away as a gift to Fairy Baijiao.”
Ning Cheng took in a breath of cold air. No wonder everyone here knows about the Purple Yin Spirit Water. Ning Cheng truly had never expected that he would hear about the Purple Yin Spirit Water in this place.
Back then, when the Purple Yin Spirit Spring Bead only dipped into the spring water, it ended up creating such a substantial effect.
Didn’t this mean that the Purple Yin Spirit Spring Bead was just too powerful?
Nevertheless, Ning Cheng felt sure that even if the Purple Yin Spirit Spring bead was not the Purple Yin Spirit Spring he was looking for
, the Purple Yin Spirit Spring Bead was definitely the one that he was searching. Not only was the name similar, but it was even a bead. Moreover, both of them also seemed to have the same function. Strengthening one’s spirit techniques and reshaping the meridians.
However, the Purple Yin Spring Water cannot help much in reshaping the meridians, because the Purple Yin Spring Water had only formed in an instantaneous moment when the Purple Yin Spirit Spring Bead had only dipped into it.
In any case, where would he find Ji Xi? Besides, even if he found Ji Xi, how could he retrieve the Purple Yin Spirit Spring Bead from her? Ji Xi and that other male cultivator fought outside the Eternal Night Domain, and their fight even destroyed the array entrances within the Eternal Night Domain. Moreover, no Eternal-level Starry Sky Emperors came out to stop them, which indicated that their cultivations were far stronger than even Eternal-level Starry Sky Emperors.
Even facing an Eternal-level Holy Emperor, he would have no choice but to escape with all his might. If he encountered Ji Xi, who was a cultivator much stronger than Eternal-level Starry Sky Emperors, he most likely wouldn’t even have the chance to escape.
Ning Cheng’s eyes darkened at the thought. To put it more bluntly, his strength was simply too bad.
Chapter 0656 – The Ice Immortal Ridge Changes Again
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While Ning Cheng worried about the Purple Yin Spirit Spring in the Eternal Night Domain, Ji Luofei finally reached the periphery of the Ice Immortal Ridge.
Ji Luofei only knew about the place called Ice Immortal Ridge, but she had never come here before. She only knew that this place remained frozen throughout the year, and no one could peer into the situation inside.
As Ji Luofei stood outside the Ice Immortal Ridge at this moment, she saw a three-foot-wide and ten-feet-tall crack. However, when her Spiritual Consciousness tried to sweep inside, she couldn’t see anything at all. The ice inside seemed to freeze her Spiritual Consciousness solid.
Did this crack lead to the heart of the Ice Immortal Ridge?
Ji Luofei looked at the crack in ice in front of her, which looked like the mouth of death, and subconsciously shuddered. She didn’t know if going in was the correct choice or not.
In addition to the terrible cold coming from the depths, this crack also gave off a strong feeling of many good things just beyond it.
While Ji Luofei still kept hesitating, a few Daoist shadows quickly passed by from her side and rushed into the Ice Immortal Ridge’s crack.
Ji Luofei suddenly felt ashamed for hesitating after seeing others weaker than her rushing inside without pausing. She had made up her mind to go inside and even prepared herself mentally to stay inside the Ice Immortal Cave for a period before coming here. But she finally wavered when she stood at the entrance of the Ice Immortal Ridge, yet she also felt inappropriate not to go inside due to fear.
At this moment, Ning Cheng’s voice and smiling face once again appeared in Ji Luofei’s mind. Seeing that, a steady and calm expression suddenly appeared over her face and with a flash of her body, she disappeared into the crack of this icy mountain.
After entering, Ji Luofei immediately felt horrifying layers of cold wrap around her, which forced her to crazily burn through her Celestial Essence while moving deeper inside.
This crack within the Ice Immortal Ridge seemed endless, and even though Ji Luofei rushed inside with all her might, she only encountered an occasional fork down the path. Some of these forks led to walls of impenetrable ice while some led to icy lakes. It was just that everything inside was utterly frozen. A snowy white colour seemed to cover everything the eyes could see.
To Ji Luofei’s surprise, no matter for how long she kept moving, no matter how fast she ran, apart from the occasional fork, she seemed like the only living being in this place.
Ji Luofei kept flying for several days, but she did not encounter any cultivation resource, nor any secret places. Two more days later, she felt her Celestial Essence started to go out of control. It felt as if something within her body had begun to turn into a flame that wanted to consume her from the inside out.
This feeling of burning came from her body’s meridians. It felt like she would end up burned to ashes because of this flame the next moment.
At this moment, Ji Luofei’s cultivation, including her Celestial Essence and Spiritual Consciousness, felt like they had transformed into buckets of oil that then fed the flame within her body. It seems that the higher her cultivation, the more oil she produced.
“Poof…..” As the terrifying fire swept through Ji Luofei’s Zifu, her Zifu instantly cracked. The impact was so massive that she could not help but spit out a mouthful of hot blood. The hot blood immediately stained the surrounding ice. Even though the blood contained a high temperature, it still could not melt the surface of the ice.
Undoubtedly, the flame burning within her body was difficult to endure. But Ji Luofei still thought of Ning Cheng, remembering the tenderness and gentle feeling she felt when she and Ning Cheng were together. However, this made the flame in her body burn more fiercely, causing the temperature of her body to rise exponentially.
After spitting out another mouthful of blood, Ji Luofei’s eyes flashed with despair. She finally understood what was happening to her.
She was succumbing to the devilish flames. One had to know that although she had advanced from the Celestial Novice Realm to the Celestial Bridge Realm in just five years, it was done by forcibly absorbing large amounts of Celestial Essence Gas. But from the looks of it, despite her talents and qualifications, her foundation finally could not keep up with such a huge increase.
If it hadn’t been for the past few days of rushing through the Ice Immortal Ridge, which had forced her to stimulate her Celestial Essence to its limits, the devilish flames that had ignited within her body might not have arrived this quickly. However, it would have definitely erupted sometime in the future.
Ji Luofei gave out a heartfelt sigh. She wanted to improve her cultivation as soon as possible, and for that had absorbed a large quantity of Perpetual Moon Pills and even swallowed other medicinal pills without abandon. She had utterly forgotten the fundamental principle of advancing too quickly. If it were someone else with the same cultivation resources, it would have taken fifty to even five hundred years for others to consume it all. Yet she had forced herself to absorb it all within five years.
Although her cultivation method was formidable and could easily absorb these resources, her body couldn’t assimilate it thoroughly and was now crumbling apart.
“Dear, it looks like I’ll be leaving first….” As Ji Luofei spoke this sentence in despair, she looked back at the endless icy path behind her. She knew that there was a fork in the icy road behind that led into an icy lake.
Although this icy lake was inside the Ice Immortal Ridge, it had not frozen. However, the glacial lake had a bone-chilling mist that covered it, which was several times colder than the surrounding ice.
For Ji Luofei, rather than being burned to death by the devilish flames raging in her body, she would rather take the initiative to jump into the icy lake, which gave out a dense aura of death. She could feel the death aura because the glacial lake was just too cold and this chilling temperature induced the deathly aura.
Ji Luofei had just fallen into the lake, which could quickly freeze even a Body Refining Cultivator to nothingness when the chill immediately infiltrated Ji Luofei’s body. When this icy chill encountered the burning Celestial Essence flame within her body, it mysteriously gave off a very comfortable feeling to Ji Luofei.
As the devil flame and the icy chill continued to erode and fuse, the devilish flames within Ji Luofei’s body gradually weakened. However, the fusion of this ice and fire also reduced her cultivation. Her cultivation gradually
but quickly lowered from the Celestial Bridge Realm to the Celestial Gatherer Realm as she sank to the bottom of the frozen lake. However, the decline in her cultivation still didn’t stop there and continued to grow weaker and weaker.
When Ji Luofei felt the chill, her heart sank once again after experiencing a moment of life. Although the icy cold had helped in counteracting the devil flames that had ignited within her due to her heart devil, it had also caused her cultivation to decline. Moreover, without the heart devil flames, she would not be able to resist the cold for long.
Maybe in a moment or three, instead of being burned to ashes by the devilish flames, the cold within this icy lake might just turn her into dust.
“Bang…..” At this moment, Ji Luofei felt her feet hitting the bottom of the lake.
An iron gate appeared within the range of her Spiritual Consciousness. Ji Luofei, who was frozen purple all over, immediately struggled to rush towards the door and gave it a hard push. Contrary to her expectations, the iron door opened without any restrictions or obstructions.
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After Ji Luofei pushed open the door, the Ice Immortal Ridge experienced another change. The Ice Immortal Ridge that had cracked open slowly started to close up. Many cultivators who wanted to enter the Ice Immortal Ridge quickly withdrew on seeing this and watched the crack slowly close.
As for those cultivators inside the Ice Immortal Ridge, they saw the left and right ice walls starting to move towards each other, causing the space in between to grow smaller with each passing moment.
At this point, all the cultivators inside the Ice Immortal Ridge started to panic and quickly wanted to get out of this place. However, even if they pushed their speed to the limits, they still could not move faster than the speed with which the two ice walls closed in on each other.
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