Ning Cheng had taken this Serene Water Nine Pattern Loop from Wu Yuankong and had also experienced its power. Therefore, he felt it appropriate to leave it with Ruolan. As for the Origin Dragon Soul, after Ning Cheng obtained it, Ning Cheng hadn’t refined it even once. Since he didn’t need such a powerful assistant right now, he decided to give it to Ruolan.
Ning Ruoqing’s cultivation exceeded him. Therefore, most of what Ning Cheng left for Ning Ruoqing were some star veins, space crystals, time stones and other law-related materials.
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After Ning Ruolan and others once again went into secluded cultivation, Ning Cheng and Cang Caihe began to re-strengthen the defensive array around Stately River Star. Advancing to the rank of Array Dao Master, plus with the materials with him, Ning Cheng would naturally go all out to upgrade the defensive array of Stately River Star before leaving.
Two months later, Ning Cheng left the Stately River Star once again.
Before leaving, however, Ning Cheng also gave a part of his cultivation resources to Cang Caihe, and at the same time, repaired Sifting Orchid in Stately River Star. Sifting Orchid had returned to its original five-star battle disc’s appearance in just one day. Moreover, since Ning Cheng fixed it himself, he now knew everything about it.
With Ning Cheng’s current cultivation, he didn’t need Sifting Orchid for travel. As such, Ning Cheng only repaired it out of nostalgia. Plus, Sifting Orchid had saved his life on many occasions.
As for the unfinished top-grade Starry Sky Battleship, Ning Cheng had no time for it right now and left it untouched within the True Spirit World.
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Ning Cheng was awakened by the seawater lapping over his face and drank a few mouthfuls of the salty seawater unconsciously before coughing it out. He had never thought that he would pass out during teleportation with his current cultivation. However, he did pass out.
The moment when the teleportation array below Thorn Tooth Lake had activated, it had thrown him into a void that underwent countless spacial transformations with every breath. Under the effects of such insane spacial conversions, even Ning Cheng couldn’t hold on. Moreover, if not for being a body-forging cultivator with a late-stage Starry Sky Body, he would have turned into dust while passing through those terrifying spacial transformations.
After waking up, Ning Cheng quickly spat out the seawater still in his mouth and couldn’t help but feel a little afraid. Such a thing had happened most likely because he failed to understand the complexities of that array formation. A real expert in the Dao of Arrays wouldn’t let the teleporting person pass out mid-way through the spacial transformations.
From this, Ning Cheng understood that even with the help of that array pattern, he hadn’t completed the full layout of the teleportation array.
But those weren’t the issues Ning Cheng had to consider right now. As his spiritual consciousness swept out, he found him floating in a sea with nothing else but seawater all around him. Regardless of the direction, he only saw a boundless ocean, and even his spiritual consciousness couldn’t sweep to the edge.
But what shocked Ning Cheng, even more, was that this area didn’t even contain a scrap of Starry Sky Spirit Qi.
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, rather, there seemed to be a light but different aura permeating the world, which appeared to be of a higher grade than the Starry Sky Spirit Qi. However, this kind of aura couldn’t help him in cultivation. It was like the Spiritual Qi present on Earth. The level of Spiritual Qi was almost equivalent to nothing and wasn’t very helpful to cultivation.
Ning Cheng then immediately looked at his body. Because of the incorrect activation of the teleportation array, his body looked full of void scratches. But what made Ning Cheng a little happy was that he didn’t lose his cultivation.
But just when Ning Cheng decided to rush out of the seawater, a terrifying scream came from somewhere in the sky above him.
Following that, white shadow smashed onto the surface of the sea hundreds of miles away from Ning Cheng. The loud ‘Boom’ almost ruptured Ning Cheng’s eardrums. Fortunately, Ning Cheng had quickly stretched out his domain to protect himself. He understood that this loud boom was a remnant of energy fluctuations from a battle.
A moment later, a terrifyingly huge wave parted the sea, as if someone had forcibly torn the sea with two hands. The power contained within it was so high that the surface of the sea couldn’t recover for a long while.
This scene left a truly long-lasting impression in Ning Cheng’s mind. The two waves, tens of thousands of feet high, looked like a recently opened ravine. But then a moment later, Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness spotted a red-haired figure quickly passing over this chasm.
The next moment, one of the huge waves swept over Ning Cheng and shattered Ning Cheng’s domain in an instant.
“Bang…..” The violent wave then blasted onto Ning Cheng’s body. Ning Cheng, who still had a lot of scars covering his body, got tossed into the air just like some of the nearby fishes and flew out like a broken kite.
Ning Cheng spurt out mouthful after mouthful of blood and couldn’t even resist at all.
As the waves finally started to calm down, Ning Cheng’s body followed the waves and fell into the seawater once again. Fortunately, he didn’t have to face another one of those terrifying waves. Ning Cheng wiped off the blood from the corner of his mouth but didn’t rush out of the sea and stayed still amongst the scattered debris and dead fish around him.
Eventually, the seawater returned to the original state once again, and it felt as if the previous incident had never happened. Ning Cheng clenched his fists. Although he was only at the early-stage Eternal Realm, he was fully capable of sweeping through the starry skies’ positional plane. However, in this place, just the aftermath of someone’s fight had almost killed him.
Small, he was still too tiny. What the hell was this place where the Starry Sky Essence Qi was so thin, yet cultivation so perverted?
Just that red-haired figure’s passage had created such a formidable threat to him.
“Gu-Gu” Ning Cheng’s stomach gurgled, and immediately a feeling of hunger washed over him.
Even if Ning Cheng remained still in the seawater, he felt taken aback by this sensation.
How could he feel hungry?
After reaching the Essence Building Realm, the feeling of hunger had disappeared from his body. Rather, it got supplemented with Starry Sky Spirit Qi. He rarely ate any food and only did so on special occasions or to taste some rare delicacy.
But now he felt hungry in this place.
What the hell was going on?
Ning Cheng quickly took out an airship-type dao artefact he had refined previously and threw it onto the surface of the sea before finally flying out and landing on it. After cleaning himself up, Ning Cheng immediately focussed on healing his injuries. But the recovery speed of his wounds in this place wasn’t as fast as it was in the four grand starry skies.
Not just that, when he absorbed Permanent Essence Pills, he felt a little less hungry, but his cultivation remained unchanged.
Ning Cheng felt a bit confused because of it. However, after some time, he vaguely realised that this should be because of the laws of heaven and earth here. From the looks of it, the worldly laws in this place were much more robust than those in four grand starry skies’ positional plane. Which also meant that cultivating with Permanent Essence Pills would produce a much weaker result.
Perhaps cultivating in this place needed a higher-grade Essence Qi source. Ning Cheng immediately thought of the crystal given to him by Yi Jiufeng before she left. He quickly took out that crystal and tried to absorb it. In just a few breaths, the crystal turned into ash in Ning Cheng’s hands.
Ning Cheng sighed and threw away the ash in his hand. He finally understood what was going on. After absorbing the crystal, Ning Cheng did feel a lot less hungry, and his cultivation also improved by a slight bit. Moreover, he even felt his
celestial essence starting to change. It felt as if it was transforming into another type of Essence Qi, one stronger than celestial essence.
“No wonder that red-haired fellow was so powerful. He wasn’t using even a bit of celestial essence, but a higher-grade power.” Ning Cheng murmured to himself.
Chapter 0843 – Boundary Essence Spirit Sea City
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As Ning Cheng sat quietly wondering what to do, a shadow appeared below Ning Cheng. Ning Cheng sensed danger, but the space around him immediately solidified under a powerful force. He could break through these shackles, but it would take him some time.
Without even thinking, Ning Cheng activated the Everlasting Blue Thunder Fort.
“Boom…..” A powerful force came crashing down and slammed onto the Everlasting Blue Thunder Fort.
Bombarded with such a force, the Everlasting Blue Thunder Fort erupted with bursts of clicking-like noises. A moment later, thunder rays splashed over the sea. But the powerful force formed a huge depression in the seawater around Ning Cheng. The explosive power also swept away Ning Cheng, forcing him to spit out another mouthful of blood.
Fortunately, he had managed to bring out the Everlasting Blue Thunder City in time. Otherwise, even with a Starry Sky Body, he couldn’t have survived it.
As soon as the restraints around him eased a little, Ning Cheng saw a bloody mouth opening up right underneath him. Ning Cheng didn’t even see what kind of demonic beast it was before pushing the Twin Wings of Heavenly Clouds to its limits.
Ning Cheng understood that he couldn’t fight against this demonic beast. Facing such a powerful demonic beast, he had no other option but to escape with all his might.
The Twin Wings of the Heaven Clouds brought up a weak shimmering light before instantly moving Ning Cheng away from that spot. The moment Ning Cheng seemingly teleported away; the huge mouth closed on his afterimage.
Ning Cheng, who still was in the air, saw this scene and hurriedly brought out the Starry Sky Wheel and left.
The sea demon that attacked Ning Cheng didn’t seem to possess any flight abilities. Therefore, after seeing Ning Cheng escape, it didn’t try to pursue him.
However, Ning Cheng broke out into cold sweats out of fear. He had initially thought that this area was a safe zone with only a few powerhouses. He never expected that a demonic beast would almost end his life.
Thinking back to how he had remained unconscious in the seawater for an unknown amount of time, he felt even more afraid. If he hadn’t regained consciousness and got attacked by that demonic beast, he couldn’t have escaped death. From the looks of it, he couldn’t stay in this place and heal. Even if he wanted to heal, he first needed to find a safer place.
At this point, Ning Cheng had no sense of direction at all and randomly picked one for the Starry Sky Wheel. Fortunately, the Starry Sky Wheel still possessed domineering speed. Therefore, even though this sea contained some powerful sea demons, these sea demons couldn’t keep up with Starry Sky Wheel’s pace.
Controlling the Starry Sky Wheel for a few days, Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness finally picked up a few flight-type weapons in the distance. Ning Cheng immediately stopped and replaced the Starry Sky Wheel with an ordinary high-rank flight-type dao artefact.
Amongst the four grand starry skies, Ning Cheng didn’t have any fear of other people knowing about the Starry Sky Wheel. But in this place, once someone recognised a treasure like the Starry Sky Wheel, it would no longer belong to him.
Ning Cheng motioned a flight-type weapon to stop. But what made him puzzled was that the cultivator controlling the flight-type weapon only had a Life and Death cultivation.
The Life and Death cultivator couldn’t see Ning Cheng’s cultivation. But because he still wanted to live here, he tried not to offend people as much as possible. Moreover, Ning Cheng, standing on his flight-type weapon, didn’t show any malice towards him. Therefore, seeing Ning Cheng making a gesture to stop, he decided to comply instead of being chased and then forced to stop by Ning Cheng.
“What troubles this dao friend?” The Life and Death cultivator asked with cupped fists and a relatively respectful and polite tone before Ning Cheng could speak.
Ning Cheng also returned the gesture, “I encountered a beast tide sometime back and ended up losing my map of this sea area. I wonder if this friend could carve a jade strip for me?”
Even if he wanted to ask a few questions, Ning Cheng knew that he had to remain careful with his words. He could see that this cultivator also seemed to use celestial essence, and it hadn’t transformed into a more potent force. But even so, he still didn’t want anyone to know that he was not from this place.
“Naturally.” The Life and Death cultivator didn’t hesitate to take out a jade strip before throwing it to Ning Cheng. Then, controlling his flight-type weapon, he left immediately. He didn’t ask any payment from Ning Cheng, which made Ning Cheng breathe a sigh of relief. If the other party wanted some compensation for it, Ning Cheng only had Permanent Essence Pills, which he didn’t know would work here or not.
Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness swept into the jade strip and after a few breaths, Ning Cheng then put it away.
He now understood that this place was somewhere at the extreme edge of the Grand Essence Sea. From this, Ning Cheng also understood that people considered this place as the least valuable corner of the Grand Essence Sea. Moreover, not too far from his current location, Ning Cheng also came to know about a sea city, called the Boundary Essence Spirit Sea City.
The jade strip only contained some simple instructions without any introductions or anything. It just pointed out the critical directional pointers to the Boundary Essence Spirit Sea City.
But with this jade strip, Ning Cheng also confirmed that this place was within the Grand Essence Realm. That silver-haired lady had mentioned that the Grand Essence Sea was within the Grand Essence Realm.
Moreover, the father of that Ninth Prince, whose corporeal body Ning Cheng had destroyed previously, seemed to be a powerhouse of this Grand Essence Sea.
Ning Cheng thought back to the terrifying sea demon he had encountered a few days ago in the Grand Essence Sea and started to feel a strong sense of crisis in his heart. Those sea demons, most likely, were the lowest-level existences in this place, yet just one of them had almost wiped the floor with him. Since that Ninth Prince’s old man could dominate the entire Grand Essence Sea, just what level of strength had he reached?
But Ning Cheng quickly put these thoughts aside. Let alone whether that Ninth Prince Man Jiuren could return to the Grand Essence Realm or not. Even if he could return, he had to first recreate his body before even thinking of taking revenge. The only thing that Ning Cheng felt slightly worried about was if Man Jiuren’s old man would help him get revenge. If Man Jiuren’s father went to Culmination Grand Starry Sky, it wouldn’t be a good thing.
He also understood that if Man Jiuren’s father did go to Culmination Grand Starry Sky, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.
With too many threats looming over him, Ning Cheng quickly put all his thoughts aside and controlled the flight-type weapon towards the Boundary Essence Spirit Sea City.
Understanding that this place was just the edge of the Grand Essence Realm, Ning Cheng felt even more shocked at the teleportation array under the Thorn Tooth Lake. Reaching this place, he finally understood that it was a teleportation array capable of breaking through positional planes. Therefore, Ning Cheng no longer felt upset that he couldn’t fully complete it with his strength. That teleportation array was almost equivalent to an Opening Heaven Talisman’s child talisman.
However, Ning Cheng also felt a little regret at this time. He hadn’t even thought of investigating where Liang Yi had obtained that array pattern. That single a
rray pattern had allowed him to activate the teleportation array. It meant that the array pattern wasn’t any lower in value than the Opening Heaven Talisman’s child talisman.
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A few days later, Ning Cheng stood outside a mottled but sprawling city. He also saw several mottled characters floating above the entrance, Boundary Essence Spirit Sea City.
But beyond that, this city looked too ordinary. Not to mention that it couldn’t compare to a city like Eternal Heaven Starry Sky City. It couldn’t even compare to Ocean Gambling City Ning Cheng had entered after stepping into the starry skies.
But as soon as Ning Cheng walked to the gate of the city, he felt an aura more intense than the one he felt at sea. From this, he also understood that the Boundary Essence Spirit Sea City had richer cultivation source.
As cultivators continuously streamed in and out of the city gates, Ning Cheng carefully looked at everyone’s cultivation in secret. After observing for a while, he noticed no one below the Celestial Scryer Realm. But at the same time, Ning Cheng also saw many cultivators in the Eternal Realm in this place.
Fortunately, he only saw a few cultivators on the same level as Hong Lun and Ninth Prince, which made Ning Cheng a little relieved. At least in this place, he was still near the top when it came to strength. As for that red-haired expert he saw in the Grand Essence Sea a few days ago, it must have been an accidental encounter.
Looking at these cultivators entering and leaving through the city gate, Ning Cheng also observed that they would usually take out a jade card. However, a few cultivators also took out high-grade starry sky crystals to enter through the city gate. As for Permanent Essence Pills, Ning Cheng didn’t see anyone taking them out.
Ning Cheng took out a hundred high-rank starry sky crystals and handed them to the guard before following the crowd into the city.
The Boundary Essence Spirit Sea City truly had a more decadent aura. But it still wasn’t nearly enough to sustain cultivation.
But Ning Cheng also noticed a few differences from other cities. After entering the city gate, he didn’t see the main street, but a huge public square.
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