Moreover, the things in Zhu Nianfei’s storage bag didn’t match her cultivation. Being at True Condensation 1st Level, she should’ve had more wealth. Seeing this, Ning Cheng immediately thought back to his past when he was also a True Condensation cultivator. He observed that even back then, he was many times richer than the current Zhu Nianfei. Back then, he used to have at least a few tens of thousands of spiritual stones, and most of them high-ranked spiritual stones.
Entering the booth, Zhu Nianfei activated the restrictions and then poured Ning Cheng a cup of tea.
The tea served within the booth wasn’t even a spiritual tea of the lowest level. But Ning Cheng knew that Zhu Nianfei didn’t have any spiritual stones to buy spiritual tea.
Seeing Ning Cheng calmly take a sip out of the teacup, Zhu Nianfei quickly asked, “Brother-in-law, how did you come to this place? Did my big sister also come with you?”
Ning Cheng showed a slight pause before replying, “Your big sister isn’t here yet. I just came here to help my friend get something back.”
“Brother-in-law, my mother said that you’re not someone simple. You should be doing well, right? I can’t see your cultivation level, so you must almost be at the Essence Building Realm, right? Is my big sister’s cultivation also the same as you? Where do you guys live?” Zhu Nianfei behaved as if she wasn’t talking to a stranger, and continued to chat with Ning Cheng like a close relative. In fact, she treated Ning Cheng as her own family and threw out a bunch of questions.
Almost Essence Building Realm?
Ning Cheng coughed and internally said to himself, “
I’m at the middle-level of Life and Death Realm. If you could actually see my cultivation, would you have even dared to talk to me? Essence Building Realm, huh, even I forgot how long ago it was.
”
“I just wander around. I’ve been wandering around for a long time now. But I did find a place to settle down, and Luofei should be returning soon too.”
Zhu Nianfei didn’t overthink about Ning Cheng’s words. In her mind, Ning Cheng and her big sister Luofei already lived together. She reasoned out that her big sister had gone out looking for resources and that her brother-in-law came here to get something.
As for her big sister going out alone to search for resources, it was something regular for her. This was how she was raised here and still lived to this day. Besides, wasn’t it normal for people to find their own cultivation resources? As for dangers, wasn’t cultivation already a risky ordeal?
“Well, I just saw a green-robed woman slapping you, and I saw how you looked quite similar to Luofei, so I came here to look….” Ning Cheng, from the few words exchanged, understood that Zhu Nianfei had a temperamental personality but was a straightforward person.
Zhu Nianfei touched her face out of embarrassment before speaking, “It’s nothing. It’s not the first time this happened. I owe them some spiritual stones. But since I have no way of paying them back, it’s what I deserve.”
“How many spiritual stones do you owe them?” Ning Cheng asked in doubt.
“More than 50,000 middle-rank spiritual stones….” Zhu Nianfei spoke with a sigh.
Ning Cheng looked at Zhu Nianfei in disbelief, “How did you come to owe them this much?”
For Ning Cheng, he might not even make an effort to bend down and pick 50,000 middle-rank spiritual stones even if they were just lying there. However, for Zhu Nianfei, who just used up her only middle-rank spiritual stone, this was a sum she wouldn’t be able to pay back in her lifetime.
“My mother got seriously injured in the Lost Mountains and needs a lot of healing pills. But we didn’t have any spiritual stones to buy those healing pills, so I had no choice but to borrow some from others. My father takes care of my mother and can’t leave her side, so only my brother and I can return those spiritual stones.” Zhu Nianfei spoke out in helplessness.
Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness had already located Zhu Hongwen, who had reached the Essence Building 3rd Level. Just as Zhu Nianfei said, Xiong Qihua’s injuries needed something higher than low-level healing pills. Moreover, she also required true essence infusions from time to time, or her meridians would collapse on itself, turning her into a cripple. Since Zhu Hongwen stayed beside Xiong Qihua, he should be the one giving her those infusions.
“You said you also have a brother?” Ning Cheng asked out of mild curiosity.
Zhu Nianfei nodded, “Yes. My brother’s name is Zhu Nianluo. He’s currently in the Lost Mountains.”
“Since you called me here and even spent a middle-rank spiritual stone, you probably need something from me, right? If you don’t have enough spiritual stones, I can give you some.” Ning Cheng asked, guessing that Zhu Nianfei wanted to borrow some spiritual stones from him.
Zhu Nianfei hesitated for a bit before speaking up. “Yes, I initially had this plan. But now that I know that you and my big sister are also in a difficult spot, I’ll just go borrow spiritual stones from others.”
Ning Cheng mentioned that he had always been a wanderer and had only recently found a place to settle down. Hearing that, Zhu Nianfei had immediately dispelled the idea of asking Ning Cheng for some spiritual stones. They still had at least a place to live, while Ning Cheng had only recently found a place to settle down, which in her mind was even worse than their situation.
This wasn’t the Tian Continent, so she didn’t know Ning Cheng’s prestige and assumed that Ning Cheng, just like them, was having a hard time. She didn’t know that Ning Cheng spoke about a celestial river in a starry sky, not a humble cave in a makeshift market like them.
Without waiting for Ning Cheng to speak, Zhu Nianfei continued. “Besides, I also have one other thing to speak with you here. My mother had told me that if she still hadn’t recovered, and that if I met you one day, I must apologise to you on her behalf. My mother had deceived my big sister because she really didn’t want to be separated from my big sister.”
After saying that, Zhu Nianfei stood up and bowed to Ning Cheng before sitting down again. “Brother-in-law should already know that my mother’s name is Xiong Qihua. But you might not have known that my mother was already in a relationship with my father
before
she married my big sister’s father. It’s just that the Ji family had too much power. Moreover, my grandfather didn’t want my mother and my father to come together due to his grassroots’ origin. However, my father always worried about my mother. So, he decided to also go to the Ji family’s house and became a servant.”
Ning Cheng frowned slightly. He anyway did not have a favourable impression of Xiong Qihua. Even if he put that aside, he did not like Zhu Hongwen very much.
Zhu Nianfei didn’t pay attention to Ning Cheng’s expression and continued, “Although my father took up the position of my mother’s servant, he never overstepped it. Not even when the Ji family fell and decided to move to the Ping Continent. But in Daan Forest, the Ji family almost disappeared. My father desperately tried to protect my mother and escape. It was not until my mother knew for sure that Ji Xuanzhang had fallen, did she and my father permanently retire to the Daan Forest. As for the rest of the things, my mother said you already know.”
“Regardless of whether you and my big sister came here to look for my mother or for something else, I brought my mother’s words to you. Thank you for listening to me. I’ll be taking my leave now.”
“Boom….” Just when Zhu Nianfei stood up, the restrictions on the booth blew open. The previous store assistant stood at the door along with two more people right behind him. One of them was the green-robed woman who had slapped Zhu Nianfei before and a middle-aged brown-haired man.
Ning Cheng had already seen these three coming towards them but did not speak up. Since Zhu Nianfei owed them spiritual stones, he already guessed that they had come to collect their debts. Regardless of how much she owed, he decided to help her pay it back.
“It’s time for you to cough up those spiritual stone
s. The time rented for a middle-rank spiritual stone has already passed.” The store assistant first pointed at Zhu Nianfei and yelled.
Zhu Nianfei’s eyes flashed with panic before she quickly recovered. She then calmly spoke up, “I have already calculated the time, it should be just right.”
The store assistant sneered, “It’s from when you arrived. As long as you went over by even one breath, our rest stop’s policy is to chalk it up to a second spiritual stone.”
“You….” Zhu Nianfei almost couldn’t speak out of anger when she heard those words. However, she really had unparalleled endurance. She instantly reigned in her rage and spoke up with a calm voice, “I’m really sorry. I didn’t know about this rule. Please allow me to go back and find a way to pay you back.”
The store assistant still wanted to talk, but the green-robed woman immediately stepped to the front. She then sneered and spoke, “Zhu Nianfei, did you think you could jerk us around using such filthy tactics? You used a spiritual stone for this rest stop, yet didn’t you say that you don’t have any spiritual stones to return to us?”
“Sister Xia Xuan, I really don’t have any spiritual stones. My brother-in-law came over today, so I took out the only middle-rank spiritual stone I had and invited my brother-in-law to the rest stop for a few words. Sister Xia Xuan, just give me a few more days, I will definitely raise some spiritual stones to pay you back.” Zhu Nianfei sincerely spoke up. If Ning Cheng hadn’t seen the green-robed woman slapping Zhu Nianfei and heard her words, he would have definitely thought that Zhu Nianfei and this green-robbed woman were friends.
“Give you a few days? How many days have we already given you? I’ve already told you of a place where you can make spiritual stones. Why don’t you go there?” The green-robed woman gave a disdainful reply.
Zhu Nianfei still spoke earnestly, “Sister Xia Xuan, even if I die, I won’t go to the Duan Cultivation Mansion. But please rest assured, Sister Xia Xuan, I will definitely be able to raise a portion of the spiritual stones.”
“Bitch, don’t try to find excuses to drag things out……” The green-robed woman raised her hand to slap Zhu Nianfei once again.
Chapter 0766 – Shiluo Xin
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But before the green-robed cultivator could slap Zhu Nianfei’s face, everyone heard a resounding ‘slap’. The green-robed woman then went flying with a trail of blood spewing out of her mouth, crashing into a booth opposite to them. In fact, she smashed into it with so much force that it destroyed the restrictions covering it.
A man and a woman sitting within the booth immediately stood up in anger. But when they saw the green-robed woman and the middle-aged man with brown hair, they didn’t dare to speak up and quickly rushed out.
The green-robed woman slowly managed to crawl out of the debris and stand up after spitting out several teeth and a mouthful of blood. She looked around in horror, and everyone could see a purple hand-print on her face.
“What’s going on?” The brown-haired man also looked around in surprise and asked.
The green-robed woman shook her head in confusion, “I don’t know. Someone suddenly slapped me, but I don’t know who did it.”
In their view, no one here had made any movements.
“You don’t need to look around. I slapped you just now. How much spiritual stones does Zhu Nianfei owe you?” Ning Cheng casually took a step forward and asked.
At this time, the green-robed woman and the brown-haired middle-aged man finally recalled that a Ning Cheng was sitting with their target. When they heard that it was Ning Cheng who slapped her, they both immediately started to panic. Moreover, they couldn’t see Ning Cheng’s cultivation at all.
Without any visible movement, he had slapped a late-stage True Condensation Cultivator across the room with just true essence. This act went beyond the realm of essence spirit[1].
Against essence spirit cultivators[2], even if they brought in many experts, it still wouldn’t be enough.
“Replying to senior, it’s five…. No 30,000 middle-rank spiritual stones….” The middle-aged brown-haired man was the first to reach and quickly replied.
50,000 middle-grade spiritual stones, it included the interest. But with such an expert like Ning Cheng here, who was also Zhu Nianfei’s brother-in-law, how could they even dare to add it for Zhu Nianfei?
Ning Cheng wanted to take out 50,000 middle-rank spiritual stones. But just as he was about to move, his hand suddenly stopped in mid-air. He remembered that he didn’t have even a single middle-rank spiritual stone. In fact, the worst ‘currency’ on him was high-ranked spiritual stones, followed by top-ranked spiritual stones, starry sky crystals, Perpetual Moon Pills, etc.
Realising Ning Cheng’s power, that forced Xia Xuan to completely shut up and not even dare talk about the principal’s interest, Zhu Nianfei felt pleasantly surprised.
“Brother-in-law, you don’t need to help me, I have a way to return it to them.” Zhu Nianfei, who felt surprised, also noticed the pause in Ning Cheng’s hand. She immediately guessed that Ning Cheng might not have enough spiritual stones.
“No need.” Ning Cheng finished waving his hand, and 3,000 high-ranked spiritual stones appeared out of thin air, suspended right in front of the green-robed woman.
“Take your spiritual stones and get lost. Leave as far away as you can.” Ning Cheng finished with ridicule.
“Yes, yes….” Ning Cheng had returned the spiritual stones. But even if Ning Cheng did not return the spiritual stones, the two people wouldn’t have said even half a word in displeasure.
“Senior…. They had forced me. My rest stop would never charge for just a little extra time….” The stone assistant stood in shock as he saw the green-robed female cultivator and the brown-haired man leave in a panic. Fortunately, he had a good head over his shoulders and quickly tried to explain things to Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng didn’t care about this store assistant. He just took out a storage bag and handed it to Zhu Nianfei. He also left a few words, “There is a jade box inside. Give the medicinal pill inside to your mother. She should recover soon with it, so I’ll be leaving.”
Ning Cheng had already taken a look. As long as Ji Luofei’s mother recovered from her injuries, they wouldn’t need to worry too much. In any case, two Essence Building cultivators had enough strength to deter most of the people in this place.
By the time Zhu Nianfei took the storage bag, Ning Cheng had already left.
Seeing Ning Cheng disappear, the store assistant also quickly left without any word. Even if he felt emboldened, he would never dare to pick a fight with Zhu Nianfei in his life.
Zhu Nianfei stood in a daze for a long time before finally reacting. Recalling Ning Cheng’s words that the storage bag contained a medicinal pill that could heal her mother, her spiritual consciousness immediately swept in.
The first thing she saw was not a jade box with the medicinal pill but a ring.
A storage bag for a ring?
Zhu Nianfei quickly understood Ning Cheng’s intent. She lived mostly by herself in such a place. As such, the experiences had already polished her mind and reactions on a fundamental level.
She immediately left to find a secluded place. Then, grabbing the ring in her hand, she let her spiritual consciousness sweep inside.
Looking at the tens of millions of high-ranked spiritual stones, heaps of bottles containing medicinal pills, along with the numerous piles of Spiritual and True Artefacts almost made her scream.
Just as Ning Cheng guessed, although Zhu Nianfei felt immense shock, she managed to quickly contain her excitement. She put away everything and walked out without haste looking completely normal.
However, no matter how calm she looked on the surface, she couldn’t calm her violently beating heart.
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br /> What kind of treasures did Ning Cheng obtain that he took out so many things for her? Even a medium-sized sect wouldn’t be able to come up with this much treasure, right?
Ning Cheng didn’t seem to have a very affectionate attitude towards her, yet he still gave her so many things. From this, she understood that her brother-in-law had countless times more wealth than what she had imagined.
……
What Ning Cheng gave to Zhu Nianfei might have been a heavenly fortune for Zhu Nianfei. But for Ning Cheng, it was just giving away things that were useless to him and occupied unnecessary space.
As for taking Zhu Nianfei’s family away, Ning Cheng never even thought of it. He only helped Xiong Qihua and Zhu Nianfei because of Luofei. Moreover, he would never bring people like Zhu Hongwen to meet Luofei.
At this point, Ning Cheng had already reached the deepest part of Lost Mountains. Although the edge of this Lost Mountains no longer felt dangerous, when Ning Cheng arrived here, he still felt a strong suction force.
If Ning Cheng was still in the Crucible Transformation Realm or even the Domain Realm, he would have found it impossible to resist this suction force. But now, to Ning Cheng, this suction force was like a vacuum cleaner on his palm. It didn’t affect him at all.
At the centre of this Lost Mountains was a huge circular pit with a person sitting at the edge. Ning Cheng had come here because he knew this person. A red-robed woman. When Ruolan had asked her name, she had replied with ‘Shiluo Xin’[3]. But then she said that she didn’t know who she was.
“You?” As soon as Ning Cheng arrived at the side of the put, the red-robed woman immediately recognised him.
Ning Cheng nodded, “Yes, it’s me. Is this your place?”
He had speculated long ago that this red-robed woman was not as simple as she appeared. But now Ning Cheng felt even more shocked on seeing her once again. He was already at the middle-level of Life and Death Realm, yet he still couldn’t see the cultivation of this red-robed woman.
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