Seeing Pan Qian’s gaze sweep over, Yu Yuechen’s face turned pale. He had indeed planned to use Man Jiuren to fight against this sealed giant and then reap the benefits like a fisherman. But what he truly wanted was what Man Jiuren left in the Nine Emperor Peak. However, he never expected that someone would rescue the giant, turning all of his planning and wishful thinking into dust.
Therefore, the moment Pan Qian took action, he planned to use a Breaking Boundary Talisman to escape. It’s just that Pan Qian’s strength had exceeded all of his expectations. Under Pan Qian’s spacial suppression, his Breaking Boundary Talisman couldn’t even activate.
Shen Mengyan suddenly fell to her knees, “Senior Pan, please let him go.”
“Why are you still pleading for him?” Pan Qian asked in confusion.
Shen Mengyan looked at Ning Cheng, and Ning Cheng instantly understood what she meant. Shen Mengyan didn’t want to plead for Yu Yuechen, but she also couldn’t watch Yu Yuechen die in front of her. If it happened, maybe she would always feel guilty about it in her heart. This guilt didn’t have anything to do with Yu Yuechen, but for the dead Yu Qing, who cherished her father throughout her life.
Seeing Ning Cheng not speaking, Pan Qian sighed. Instead, he raised his hand and opened a crack in space before grabbing Yu Yuechen and throwing him inside. “For the sake of my Brother Ning Cheng, I’ll spare your dog life this one time.”
After throwing Yu Yuecheng away, Pan Qian looked at Yi Mingyuan and the man in green robes. They also couldn’t move under his suppression. He grabbed them and threw them into the space crack as well.
Ning Cheng secretly sighed at Pan Qian’s kind heart. If it were him, he would have at least killed these two fellows.
Only after resolving the annoying pests did Pan Qian turn to Ning Cheng and once again started talking. “The five realms are also called Good Fortune’s Five Grand Realms. They got this name because of the existence of Gates of Good Fortune. Unfortunately, a war erupted between the top powerhouses of these five realms. As a result, the Grand Beginning, the Grand Origination, the Grand Essence and the Grand Pinnacle Realms of the five great realms collapsed and split into many smaller parts. Only the Grand Change Realm remained unharmed.”
“Pan Qian, does it mean that the Gates of Good Fortune in the other four realms have also shattered? In other words, if you want to reach ‘Good Fortune’, you can only go through the gate in the Grand Change Realm?” Ning Cheng was no stranger to the word ‘Good Fortune’. His Mysterious Yellow Bead was one of the Good Fortune Treasures. Moreover, he understood that Cang Wei was also searching for the Gate of Good Fortune.
Pan Qian shook his head, “You didn’t understand what I meant. I’m talking about the Gate of Good Fortune; it’s not a gate that exists or something with form. However, only in those five realms can you have the opportunity to perceive the Gate of Good Fortune. And only when you perceive the Gate of Good Fortune can you touch this gate and then push the door open to enter. However, except for the Grand Change Realm, the laws in the other grand realms remain incomplete and broken due to the power clash from the war. So even if you push yourself to the extreme, you wouldn’t come anywhere close to even touching that door.”
Ning Cheng clenched his fists. He must go to the Grand Change Realm. He felt sure that Cang Wei had already gone to one of those realms; most likely, he was in one of those five grand realms.
Seeing Ning Cheng somewhat thoughtful, Pan Qian said, “Ning Cheng, don’t overthink about it. Since ancient times, the Gate of Good Fortune has always remained a legend. Moreover, this legend has been around for a long time, and many people already know about it. However, no one could even sense this gate, let alone open the Gate of Good Fortune and enter it. In the future, if you have the opportunity, don’t stay in this low-level interface. The laws here barely qualify as incomplete. You should come to the five great planar interfaces. If one day I can find my back to Grand Change Realm, I’ll come to pick you up.”
Ning Cheng gave an affirmative nod, before asking another question, “Pan Qian, can you tell me what kind of place are the five grand realms?”
Pan Qian remained silent for a long time before speaking, “I’ve only been at Xi’er’s side most of my life and rarely ever went out. However, I know that the Grand Change Realm is too vast even for me. It’s filled with spiritual qi and dao charms everywhere. You’d even find spirit treasures everywhere; it’s a beautiful paradise……”
These were all things that Xi’er had told him. In truth, he didn’t even know the direction of the Grand Change Realm. Having said this, Pan Qian thought for a long while before continuing, “Xi’er once also told me that there is a saying in the five grand realms ‘four exists one doesn’t’. I heard that it represents the four most powerful spirit techniques of these planar interfaces: Grand Beginning’s Spirit Trace, Grand Origination’s Spirit Light, Grand Essence’s Spirit Thunder, Grand Pinnacle’s Yin-Yang, and Grand Change’s Formless.”
Almost everything that Pan Qian knew, he told it to Ning Cheng. But all of his knowledge came from Xi’er.
Ning Cheng had never heard of these spirit techniques, but Ning Cheng understood that Pan Qian only knew about the names. Therefore, instead of asking more questions about the Good Fortune’s five grand realms, Ning Cheng changed the topic. “Elder Brother Pan Qian, the Mysterious Yellow Starland’s life force is almost finished. You can come to my Mysterious Yellow Celestial River if you want.”
Pan Qian shook his head, “I want to go back. I want to look for the Grand Change Realm. I promised Xi’er that I’d go back.”
Pan Qian had mentioned Xi’er several times; from this, Ning Cheng guessed that this Xi’er must have a very high status in Pan Qian’s heart. Therefore, he didn’t ask anything else, “Then, if I can come to the Grand Change Realm in the future, I will come to look for you.”
“Okay, that’s it then, I’ll be taking my leave now.” Pan Qian said to Ning Cheng and Shen Mengyan and prepared to tear open the void and leave.
Shen Mengyan suddenly spoke up at this moment, “Senior Pan Qian, I would like to implore you to take me with you.”
Pan Qian looked at Shen Mengyan in doubt, “You want to follow me?”
After saying those words, he subconsciously looked at Ning Cheng again. He could see that Shen Mengyan was quite a beautiful woman. That Yu Yuechen wasn’t worthy of Shen Mengyan at all. He felt that only his brother Ning Cheng was worthy of Shen Mengyan. With Yu Yuechen now gone, it was only natural for Ning Cheng and Shen Mengyan to get together.
Shen Mengyan spoke up with conviction, “Yes, please help me with this wish, senior.”
Ning Cheng didn’t speak; however, he understood Shen Mengyan’s thoughts. Shen Mengyan didn’t want people to gossip. Since even her former husband could come up with such a conjecture, it would be weird if other people also didn’t think like it when seeing her together with him. Besides, Shen Mengyan no longer had any connection to this place anymore. Meaning that it was only natural that she wouldn’t want to stay in this place that only invoked sad memories.
In this place, her daughter had perished, her husband had betrayed her, and someone even schemed and killed her Senior Apprentice Sister.
With her only living goal in life shattered to dust, what reason did she have for staying here?
Seeing that Ning Cheng didn’t have any objection to it, Pan Qian nodded, “Okay, I will take you with me. My path, however, is fraught with danger. If you aren’t afraid of some hardship, you can walk beside me. Also, don’t call me senior from now on, just call me Elder Brother Pan Qian.”
“Yes, Elder Brother Pan Qian.” After Shen Mengyan called this sentence, her entire being felt strange. It felt as if she no longer was the Shen Mengyan from the past.
“Okay.” Pan Qian then spoke to Ning Cheng, “Brother Ning, take care of yourself after I leave.”
Ning Cheng was about to reply when Shen Mengyan also spoke up, “Junior Apprentice Brother Ning, thank y
ou for your continued care. This Mengyan bids goodbye; if fate wills it, we’ll see each other in the future.”
Hearing Shen Mengyan call out to him as Junior Apprentice Brother Ning, Ning Cheng felt taken aback for a moment. He even swallowed the words ‘Aunt Yan’ that came to his lips. He knew that from this point on, Shen Mengyan had decided to no longer look back at her past and to forget it entirely.
Ning Cheng sighed. One could consider this as Shen Mengyan’s rebirth, just like going through a cycle of reincarnation. Although she hasn’t physically experienced a reincarnation cycle, her consciousness has already completed a similar process.
“Elder Brother Pan Qian, Senior Apprentice Sister Mengyan, take care of yourself along the way.” Ning Cheng bowed to both of them.
Pan Qian raised his hand to tear open the void once again, then he took Shen Mengyan and with just a step, stepped into the vast nothingness. After a moment, the torn space healed as if nothing had happened.
Standing alone in the withered Thousand Mound Forest, Ning Cheng stared blankly at the boundless sky above him. A vague feeling arose in his heart that he found hard to describe.
Chapter 0813 – Grand Essence Sea
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Ning Cheng returned to Sacred Light City alone and found that it still looked magnificent. Standing outside the Sacred Light City, he couldn’t feel any restrictions or array formations. But after Ning Cheng entered the Sacred Light City, he immediately felt many layers of Entrapment Formations.
He secretly felt glad about not meeting Man Jiuren inside Sacred Light City. Otherwise, even if the Five-coloured Star Splitter Arrow injured the Ninth Prince, Shen Mengyan couldn’t have escaped from the Sacred Light City. Not to mention Shen Mengyan, the layers of restrictions had enough power to restrain Chuan Xinlou and the others. As for arranging a one-way teleportation array within Sacred Light City, it would be an impossible task.
Although magnificent, the Sacred Light City felt like a dead city in general. The only thing that made it different from the destroyed Moyi City were the intact buildings. Moreover, the layouts of the buildings within Sacred Light City didn’t have any streets at all. However, all of them had altars within them.
Ning Cheng understood that Man Jiuren had deliberately built them and placed them in such an arrangement to refine the Mysterious Yellow Starland. As for why Man Jiuren wanted to refine the Mysterious Yellow Starland or turn it into a dead place, Ning Cheng simply couldn’t figure it out.
Even after entering Sacred Light City, Ning Cheng didn’t see anyone living here. Presumably, those living here had already left or died.
After destroying all the Entrapment Formations along the way, Ning Cheng soon reached the heart of Sacred Light City, the Nine Emperor Peak. It should be the central point from where Man Jiuren wanted to refine the entire Mysterious Yellow Starland.
Ning Cheng understood that refining a starland would require massive effort not to mention the insane amount of resources, but he never touched this subject before. But regardless of if he could do it or not, Ning Cheng decided to explore this Nine Emperor Peak to understand it.
Seeing the restrictions around the Nine Emperor Peak growing denser the closer he moved towards it, Ning Cheng understood that no person was allowed to come here. Therefore, he kept dropping array flags on the way to the Nine Emperor Peak for stabilisation and also for a path of retreat in case something unexpected happened.
The Nine Emperor Peak was the highest point in Sacred Light City, so Ning Cheng remained careful all along the way. Therefore, while dropping array flags all along the path, he eventually made it to the top of Nine Emperor Peak in an incense stick worth of time.
But reaching the top of the Nine Emperor Peak, Ning Cheng saw a woman.
Everyone had either died or left, yet there was still a woman locked here. But what puzzled Ning Cheng, even more, was that he knew this woman. It was the silver-haired dignified-looking woman who had come to Moyi City at Man Jiuren’s side back then. However, at this moment, she was chained to the altar at the top of Nine Emperor Peak, which looked very strange.
The silver-haired woman saw Ning Cheng and felt puzzled but did not speak.
Ning Cheng recalled that this woman besieged Yi Jiufeng together with Yu Yuechen and that other seductive woman. It stood to reason that she was someone close to that Ninth Prince Man Jiuren.
How did she end up locked here?
There was an empty area in the middle of the altar in front of the woman. From the looks of it, someone took something from here not too long ago.
Ning Cheng walked over and looked at the altar carefully, and felt increasingly sure that this empty spot contained something not too long ago.
“Who took the thing from here?” Ning Cheng asked, looking back at the silver-haired woman.
The silver-haired woman didn’t answer Ning Cheng’s words, but instead asked, “Have you finally taken refuge under Man Jiuren?”
“That Man Jiuren doesn’t have enough face to take me under him. But it’s not what I asked, did I?” Ning Cheng sneered.
The silver-haired woman turned her gaze on Ning Cheng and said, “Yes, there used to be a Life Force Plate here, but it was taken away by Ku Sheng.”
“Who’s Ku Sheng? What is this Life Force Plate?” Ning Cheng asked.
The silver-haired woman replied, “You’ve already seen that very thin almost-bones cultivator. He came here and took the Life Force Plate on the orders of that Ninth Prince. The Life Force Plate is a top-grade treasure that can absorb the life force of any living creature or even a star.”
Ning Cheng felt shocked when he heard this. He finally understood why the Mysterious Yellow Starland’s life force had diminished to the extent that it had almost disappeared. It was the work of this Life Force Plate. He never expected that there would exist such a heaven-defying thing that could absorb all types of life forces.
Just how powerful was this item?
It looks like Man Jiuren was only putting on an act to refine the Mysterious Yellow Starland. But in fact, he wanted to extract every scrap of life force from this place. From this, he also understood another thing. That is, everyone native to Mysterious Yellow Starland should have already fallen by now if they hadn’t already escaped. With the life force almost completely absorbed, it would be a strange matter if there was anything left alive in this place.
This Man Jiuren truly was a cruel and vicious person to the end.
“Since Ku Sheng took the Life Force Plate, why didn’t he kill you?” Ning Cheng looked at the silver-haired woman with some suspicion.
After hearing Ning Cheng’s words, the silver-haired woman stayed silent for a while. Then, as if understanding something, she suddenly trembled and spoke up, “Are you implying that you killed Man Jiuren and that Ku Shen came here to steal the Life Force Plate?”
If Ku Sheng didn’t come to steal the Life Force Plate, and it truly was an order from Man Jiuren, why did he spare her?
Only if Man Jiuren died, or if Ku Sheng betrayed the Ninth Prince, could Ku Sheng walk away after with the Life Force Plate without killing her.
It looks like this silver-haired woman still didn’t know that Pan Qian had slapped Man Jiuren into a meat paste.
The silver-haired woman didn’t wait for Ning Cheng to speak up. She understood the general situation and quickly said, “Please help me; I can also pay you for your services. Man Jiuren had captured me. He wanted my essence blood. After all, Man Jiuren is our common enemy.”
“It’s not difficult to save you, and I believe what you said. But you haven’t told me why Ku Sheng didn’t kill you? Why would he let other people know that he took the Life Force Plate?” Ning Cheng asked with a calm tone.
The silver-haired woman dragged the chains binding her and stood up loo
king at Ning Cheng. “That’s because he doesn’t dare to kill me. As long as he killed me, he would die. Not to mention him, even Man Jiuren wouldn’t dare to kill me. Besides, let’s talk about the Life Force Plate, even if he took it away, you could track it easily. He can’t hide it even if he wants to hide it.”
This silver-haired woman had Eternal cultivation, but she also had a few shackles on her cultivation. After seeing the situation clearly, Ning Cheng nodded, “I can let you go, but you will have to answer a few questions. First, who is Man Jiuren? Second, what’s his background?”
The silver-haired woman replied without hesitation, “His father is a pretty powerful expert, with more than a hundred sons. Man Jiuren ranks ninth among them. As for his origin, you wouldn’t know about it even if I told you. He comes from a place called Grand Essence Sea.”
Ning Cheng murmured, “Grand Essence Sea? Is it a fragment of Grand Essence Realm? Does a sea dragon king rule it?”
“Huh, you know about the Grand Essence Realm?” The silver-haired woman spoke up in surprise.
Ning Cheng didn’t answer the silver-haired woman’s question. Instead, he grabbed an array flag and threw it out. Then, he brought out the Celestial Rainbow Purgatory Spear and shot it at the chain binding the silver-haired woman.
It was an Entrapment Formation that initially locked the silver-haired woman. As for the chain, it wasn’t worth mentioning compared to the one that bound Pan Qian. With just one shot, Ning Cheng broke the chain.
With Ning Cheng nullifying the Entrapment Formations and breaking the chains, the silver-haired woman instantly regained her freedom. She raised her hand and patted her forehead, following which she spat out a mouthful of dirty blood.
After spitting out that dirty blood, the aura of this silver-haired woman grew stronger. Her body shook slightly, and the broken chains on her body turned into slag before falling to the ground.
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