But all of this had nothing to do with Ning Cheng, he even closed his eyes and sat down. Although the projection of the two confronting cultivators had disappeared, Ning Cheng wanted to re-experience the effects from the Sunset’s Twilight and did not open his eyes. He could feel the spirit technique’s Dao Trace rapidly disappear.
If he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, he would have never known about a spirit technique’s Dao Trace. He also wouldn’t realise that a spirit technique could be implemented in such a unique way. The techniques that he had comprehended previously: Traceless, Nothingness Flame-patterned Spear, the three variations of the Angry Axe, they looked utterly trivial and ridiculous, even laughable, in front of this spirit technique’s Dao Trace.
The real strength of a spirit technique did not come through how one executed it. Instead, it originated from one’s Dao laws….
What were Dao laws? Although his Sunset’s Twilight approached the level of Dao Laws, it was still not a spirit technique derived from real Dao Laws. Just as Song Chengbo said, maybe only when he found his own Dao, would he then be able to understand more about Dao Laws.
Suddenly, Ning Cheng stood up and stabbed out again with the Nirvana Spear in his hand. The space in front of his Nirvana Spear quickly transformed into a whirlpool, which seemed to tie everything in the area together. Even if the target were a few tens of feet away from Ning Cheng, as long as he stabbed the spear into this whirlpool, the spear tip would instantly appear on target in a flash.
What Flame-patterned Spear, what Angry Axe’s Three Forms, what Traceless…..
Those were just illusory parlour tricks. In front of this one spear, those techniques were all merely illusions. By this time, Ning Cheng also gained some clarity about the scene he witnessed in the Everlasting Blue Thunder City.
As long as his intent fused with the spear, he could freely use the power of Traceless, Angry Axe’s Three Types, Nothingness Flame-patterned Spear or even the power of Sunset’s Twilight. Although it wasn’t his intention to do that, this skill invoked such an advantage upon casting.
This was similar to the spirit techniques of those powerhouses; although it looked like a random blow, this move combined one’s powerful cultivation with the different abilities of one’s spirit techniques. If he grew strong, it would also improve; even if he remained weak, it would still be his most reliable support.
“Boom….” Indescribable enlightenment bloomed within his mind. It was clear that he had already reached the peak of Heaven’s Mandate Realm. Yet, at this moment, Ning Cheng still felt his strength rising rapidly. It had nothing to do with cultivation. This surge in power was due to an epiphany. Moreover, this epiphany brought in significant benefits comparable to years of hard work.
When Ning Cheng opened his eyes once again, one would be able to see his eyes flash with joy and delight. At this moment, he finally touched the cultivation barrier in Heaven’s Mandate Realm. Perhaps with the right opportunity, he could successfully break out from Heaven’s Mandate Realm and become a real powerhouse.
As for the blood river in front of him, it had already calmed down, but the black hole down the blood river seemed to have grown slightly larger as if it wanted to devour the river entirely.
Ning Cheng felt shocked on sensing this black hole. He had a hunch that this black hole was an entrance to another interface, or perhaps another positional plane. The two cultivators fighting had most likely entered the black hole and gone to another world or positional plane.
Would it not mean that he could also rush into that black hole, enter the Mysterious Yellow Bead, and then enter another positional plane? Ning Cheng kept looking at the black hole in the distance and hesitated for a long time. However, thinking back to the two cultivators in mid-confrontation, it made him feel even more uneasy.
The aura from just the projection of that female cultivator could completely suppress him. Yet the same aura had also allowed him to achieve deeper integration with his spirit techniques while helping him gain a more thorough understanding of Returning to One. It had even allowed him to catch the edge of the Heaven Seated Realm. However, if he really encountered this powerhouse, he might not even have a chance to escape even after advancing. This powerhouse was definitely much stronger than the pale-faced Eternal Realm expert that had chased him into the Ancient Desolace Abandoned Land before.
If he had to go inside, he would have to wait until advancing to the Heaven seated Realm. Besides, when he saw Qionghua over that nine-petal lotus platform of that female cultivator, it made him even more worried about Qionghua. Therefore, he decided that once he advanced to the Heaven Seated Realm, he would find a way to return to the Ancient Desolace Abandoned Land.
It doesn’t matter if he did not obtain any Purple Yin Spirit Spring, but he could at least bring Qionghua and Luofei to the Eternal Night Domain. Even Eternal-level experts would not be able to chase him to this place. Plus, once he advanced to the Heaven Seated Realm, he would not have to fear those in the Eternal Realm, at least not without giving it a try.
At this point, Ning Cheng retreated from behind the statue. When he once again returned to the front of the statue, the blood river disappeared from both his view and even from the range of his Spiritual Consciousness. Not only did the blood river vanish, but even the black hole devouring the blood river had also gone.
Ning Cheng took in a deep breath. Instead of going back to check what had happened, he simply gazed at the statue that looked like An Yi. Although the statue had the exact same appearance as An Yi, he still did not know how it got here. Despite that, Ning Cheng could feel An Yi’s exhaustion coming from it. It seemed that something was suppressing her, causing her to feel indescribably tired.
After seeing that tired look of An Yi, Ning Cheng decided to take the statue away with him. This place was at the edge of the blood river; therefore, there was a good chance that this statue might disappear into the blood river sometime in the future.
Although he could instinctively tell that this statue was not precisely of the An Yi he knew, it still had aural trace that felt identical to An Yi. He had lived for some time with An Yi, making him very familiar with An Yi’s aura. Back then, An Yi was still a little girl who knew nothing about the world. Therefore, whether this statue really was of An Yi or not, those tired eyes really stabbed into his heart.
At the foot of An Yi’s statue was a simple praying mat. Ning Cheng carefully put down some array flags and covered the area around the statue. Then, with the help of the array formation, started moving the statue and the praying mat under statue into the True Spirit World.
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Graceful Star Mainland’s Feng Continent. The second-largest continent after the Le Continent on the mainland, except for the Tian Continent across the Graceful Star Ocean.
Celestial Moon Pill Sect was an 8-star Academy in the Feng Continent. However, as a Pill Sect, its status in the nine continents was no worse than those 9-star Academies.
Every disciple of the Celestial Moon Pill Sect was hailed throughout the mainland as a first-class expert. Moreover, if one became a core disciple, he or she would instantly turn into a celebrity that everyone else would faun head over heels.
However, one of the core disciples did not enjoy such treatment. No one ever fawned over this core disciple, at least not anymore. People had even turned this disciple into an object of ridicule for others. The truth was that if it weren’t for this core disciple’s master, who was a powerhouse that could refine Level 7 Medicinal Pills, this female disciple would have turned into something akin to a maidservant a long time ago, or maybe even worse.
As for a reason, despite her being the core disciple of the Celestial Moon Pill Sect, her cultivation couldn’t move even a single step forward after reaching the Profound Core Realm. For decades, despite wasting a lot of cultivation resources, this disciple’s cultivation showed no progress at all. If it weren’t for her master’s strength and influence, how could a female cultivator like he
r find the right to speak for herself?
But now, this female cultivator’s only backing had disappeared. Her all-powerful master had suddenly died five months ago, leaving no words behind.
For five months, this female cultivator stayed in front of her master’s coffin, without even taking a step away from this place. She had no idea about her future, nor did she knew about how to cope with the miserable future ahead of her. But she knew that as long as she left her master’s cave, she would never be able to speak a word for herself ever again.
She also knew that even if she did not leave her master’s cave, the academy would take back the cave in a year after her master’s death. At that point, she would have no choice but to leave this place.
“Junior Apprentice Sister An Yi, Uncle Master has already passed away. It would not be good for you to remain cooped up in the cave all by yourself. Let’s go out for a walk together…..” A crisp female voice came from the outside, causing An Yi to suddenly wake up from her daze.
However, she did not answer the call. She knew very well that she had no friends in this place, and no one would really be kind enough to ask her to come out just to relax. She only had a single friend in her life till now, and that was Big Brother Ning. However, Big Brother Ning can’t come here. Elder Brother Ning Cheng had once told her that everyone had a choice of hurting or not hurting others. But if one wanted to live, then one had to guard against people trying to hurt you. She had always kept this sentence close to her heart ever since.
Chapter 0669 – Ripping The Void And Leaving
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After calling out a few more times and not receiving any answer from An Yi, the owner of the voice gave out a sigh and walked away. An Yi looked at her master’s coffin with sadness. She was fortunate to have two kind masters in life who had not only taken her in under their care but also fiercely guarded her. But fate truly liked to play with people. Her first master perished as her longevity eventually ran out, while her second master had also passed away suddenly.
At this moment, the yellow jade on her chest suddenly started giving off a faint light, which quickly enveloped An Yi.
At this moment, An Yi felt as if she had broken free from her shackles, which made her entire body relaxed. It was as if someone had suddenly taken away the weight burdening her shoulders over countless years.
A kind of unspeakable warmth and relaxation spread throughout her body, to the point that it felt as if her body would simply float off the ground. She clearly saw Ning Cheng standing in front of her and understood that Ning Cheng must have been the one who helped her by removing that burden. Ning Cheng was the one who had restored her freedom.
“Big Brother Ning, is that really you?” Tears dropped down from An Yi’s eyes. The moment she saw Ning Cheng, her heart started to soar. She wanted to reach out and touch Ning Cheng. But although the distance looked so close, she knew that she would never be able to reach him.
Only Big Brother Ning remained true to her. Even when exiled to the other end of the world, only Big Brother Ning would not care about the dangers behind him to help her.
If she had to do it all over again, she would rather die than follow someone else to the Clear Heart Academy. Even if she had to fight Ning Cheng for it, she would adamantly follow no one but Big Brother Ning. Because after that time, she never saw her Big Brother Ning again, nor did she hear anything about him.
“An Yi, are you doing alright?” An Yi heard Ning Cheng’s sadness-filled words and could no longer contain her tears, and they burst forth like a dam breaking down. Big Brother Ning still thought about her.
She cried out, “Big Brother Ning, I’m here, I’m here…..”
But the sound only looped around her master’s cave. However, the figure of Big Brother Ning quickly disappeared without a trace.
This was not a hallucination, it’s definitely not…..
An Yi immediately wanted to stand up and rush out to look for Ning Cheng. But at this moment, the yellow jade over her chest shone even more brightly. A warmth-filled aura started to pour into her chest, and a lot of information began to appear in her mind without any apparent reason. It even caused her to operate her Heavenly Cycle unconsciously. But her cultivation method mysteriously changed from the one she had used until now.
The shackles that had held her cultivation back for many years melted away in just an instant.
Late-stage Profound Core, Soul Essence, Soul Sculpting, Sea Opening, Crucible Transformation, Plundering Life…..
She even realised her Domain, and her Domain reached full-circle in just an instant. She saw a whole new starry sky world as her cultivation quickly broke through the Domain Realm and reached early-stage Celestial Novice within the Celestial Scryer Realm.
As her cultivation had advanced to the Celestial Novice Realm in just the twinkling of an eye, it encountered an intense pressure bearing down from the laws of the heaven and earth of this world, which made it so that she could not breathe. It seemed that this pressure wanted to erase her completely. However, at this time, the yellow jade on her chest rose up by itself and manifested a ripple-like shield that completely covered her up and isolated her from the pressure. The laws simply couldn’t penetrate through the shield, and her cultivation continued to soar. It felt that as long as she didn’t stop cultivating consciously, her cultivation ascent would also not stop.
Celestial Shatterer, Celestial Gatherer…. Celestial Bridge, Undead, Heaven’s Mandate…..
More and more information kept appearing in her mind, mixed with information about various spirit techniques. She also understood, through that information, that she had committed a grave mistake in the past, which resulted in someone punishing her for it by forcing her to guard the blood river between positional planes. Moreover, as a part of the punishment, someone had put shackles over her cultivation, making it so that she could not cultivate past a certain level at all…..
At this moment, as her cultivation continued to soar crazily, she understood that this had happened because someone had taken ‘her’ away from guarding that gap. As the vast amount of chaotic information poured in, the yellow jade over her chest also gave off an increasingly bright and mysterious aura. It felt as if nothing in the world would be able to stop the rise of her cultivation.
Heaven Seated, Life and Death, Eternal…..
When she broke through to the Eternal Realm, she saw another entirely new world. And only at this moment did the yellow jade over her chest finally settle down. In addition to some faint ripples that originated from the shield, she had regained her original appearance.
An Yi finally stood up with a calm face. But she knew it clear as day that at this moment the entire Graceful Star Mainland would crumble to dust with just a stamp from her feet.
“Thank you, Big Brother Ning. I know, it must have been you…..” An Yi looked up into the sky at some faraway point and spoke up with a soft voice. Besides Big Brother Ning, who would save her? Even if others saw her, they would only see her as a guardian statue of the blood river. None of them would even bother taking a second look.
She turned around and knelt down again in front of her master’s coffin, and after three respect-filled kowtows, she slowly stood up.
Just then, a voice once again came from the outside, “An Yi, it’s time to take your master away from here. It’s already been one year since you kept watch over your master’s coffin.”
“Half a year passed by in the blink of an eye.” An Yi thought to herself as she looked back at her master’s cave one last time before stepping out.
A middle-aged man, on seeing An Yi coming out, immediately smiled and spoke up, “An Yi, it’s time to pass this cave on to someone else. You kept a watch over your master’s coffin for a year, which shows your pious heart. Let me
share something with you, this is Senior Apprentice Brother Guan Han of our Celestial Moon Pill Sect. It’s only been 20 years since he started cultivating and he has already reached the late-stage of Soul Essence Realm. In the past, the Guan Clan had asked your master for your hand in marriage. Therefore, you will be marrying into the Guan Clan.”
The middle-aged man didn’t even bother to ask for An Yi’s opinion. Moreover, he looked a lot older than Guan Han, yet he still addressed Guan Han as Senior Apprentice Brother without any qualms.
An Yi shook her head faintly and looked back at her master’s cave, but didn’t speak for a long time.
The middle-aged man’s expressions turned sour at this, “An Yi, it’s already a heaven-sent blessing that Senior Apprentice Brother Guan took a fancy to you. Did you not know that if it weren’t for Senior Apprentice Guan, you wouldn’t have managed to keep a watch over your master’s coffin for a year?”
An Yi still didn’t look at him and instead, spoke in a calm tone, “This is my master’s resting place from now on. No one should ever come to disturb it.”
While speaking, An Yi raised her hand and made some mysterious gestures one after another. It was clearly a cave in a mountain, but it quickly turned into a cemetery. Then An Yi raised her hand and grabbed the air randomly a few times, each grabbing motion involved grabbing a few verdant peaks.
An Yi then placed these huge peaks around her master’s graveyard, forming a massive defensive array.
Seeing several massive mountain peaks flying through the sky above the Celestial Moon Pill Sect, it immediately alarmed all the elders and ancestors within the sect. They quickly came out, and when they saw An Yi grabbing the peaks out of the air, they almost turned into wooden chickens. Many years ago, An Yi definitely was a genius disciple in the Celestial Moon Pill Sect. But ever since An Yi reached the Profound Core Realm, her cultivation progress stopped there. After that, everybody stopped paying attention to An Yi except An Yi’s master.
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