“Big Brother Ning, how was it?” As soon as Ning Cheng returned, Xi Xi couldn’t help but ask.
Ning Cheng said, “You don’t need to worry, the place where Xi’er lives has not changed. The woman who lives in there is someone similar to your sister Xi’er, with a heart free of dust and a clear dao heart. The reason she lives here is because Liu Fangzhen wanted to use her as a sacrifice to suppress the underground demons as well. It’s just that Liu Fang Zhen didn’t expect that this woman was so highly qualified that she had advanced to the Mixed Element realm in just under ten thousand years. Moreover, she was extremely strong, so he didn’t dare to touch her instead.”
After hearing Ning Cheng’s explanation, Xi Xi was finally relieved, “Then, Brother Ning, where are we going now?”
“How long will it take to go to the Underground Abyss?”
“At our speed, I’m afraid it will take a few months. Because there are two teleportation arrays that are far apart, the flight time is also longer.”
After learning that the Underground Abyss was far away, Ning Cheng said dryly, “Let’s go back to Taiyi Dan Dao City first, and then find a way to go to the Underground Abyss after we finish participating in the Five Realms Dan Competition.”
Ning Cheng had no choice, whether it was Si Chen Qiu Tian or himself, it was a bit of a pity to miss the Five Realms Dan Competition. Not to mention that if he delayed the Five Realms Dan Competition, he would definitely be searched around by the Dan Guild. Once the Dan Guild looked for him, then he would be able to teleport to any random place and risk exposing his trail, even if he disguised himself. His trip to the Underground Abyss with Xi Xi was a covert operation, and he must never be exposed before that.
XiXi also knew that Ning Cheng was telling the truth, even if she didn’t want for a moment for sister Xi’er to suffer in the Underground Abyss, she could only do so.
Two hours later, Ning Cheng suddenly stopped the rapidly flying Starry Sky Wheel. Xi’er was looking at Ning Cheng in disbelief when she did. A black shadow of a spaceship suddenly appeared in front of the starship wheel.
The airship came to a halt. At the bow of the airship appeared a sturdy late stage Yudao male cultivator.
“Road pirate?” Xi Xi uttered in surprise, it wasn’t that she hadn’t seen road pirates before, but road pirates were basically in remote and uninhabited places, it was absolutely impossible for them to appear in the territory of the Daoist Court of Liu.
“It’s not a road thief, he came to kill me and take you away.” Ning Cheng said in a faint voice, he didn’t even put away his Starry Sky Wheel.
At this moment, the place he was in was a trapped killing formation, and he was an early stage of Dao cultivation. The opponent was at the late stage of Dao cultivation and had a trapped killing formation, no matter who looked at it, Ning Cheng was bound to die.
In Ning Cheng’s opinion, it was not him who was bound to die, but this late stage of Dao cultivation that was stopping him. With his level of formation dao, even a mere trap and kill formation wanted to stop him, this fellow simply did not know whether to die or not.
After hearing Ning Cheng’s words, Xi Xi was slightly surprised, how did Ning Cheng know what the other party was up to? However, she quickly reacted. When she looked at this late stage of the Yuk Dao who was blocking the way, there was more than a little sadness in her eyes.
Two days ago. The other party was still talking about how he wanted to help her, and in the blink of an eye, he had disguised himself as a stranger and wanted to take her away. Xi Xi was at least a casual cultivator who had been out and about for years, so at this moment, could she not know that this Yudao Saint Emperor who was blocking the road in front of her was Yuan Yi?
Thinking about what Ning Cheng had asked her earlier, Yuan Ji had only one purpose for stopping here, to capture her and take her away. The reason for capturing her was simple: her identity was known to Far Self. Yuan Ji himself should not know that much, he must also be helping someone. As for the person behind Yuan Ji wanting to find her, it must be to force the whereabouts of Pan Qian.
Sure enough, after seeing the Starry Sky Wheel come to a halt, Far Self made his move. A huge black censer smashed down in the void, this black censer directly ignored Ning Cheng’s domain, at this moment the entire world below the black censer was all under Yuan己’s control.
The snorting sound of tearing in the air came out, devouring the soul, and a harsh squeeze gathered from the surroundings of the space enveloped by the black cauldron towards the centre. An icy cold lingering strip with a deathly aura stabbed down from the centre of the squeezed space of the Black Cauldron, and Ning Cheng was right in the centre of this cold lingering killing oppression.
There was a hint of disdain in Farhex’s eyes, he had indeed arranged the trapping and killing formation, but it was something that could not be used at all. In his opinion, after his Black Cauldron Chilling Ling Avatar was sacrificed, Ning Cheng could only wait for death. If Ning Cheng was stronger, there was still a possibility that he could break free of this divine ability, but now it seemed obvious that it was impossible for Ning Cheng to break free of this divine ability.
It was not that he could not break free from this divine ability, but this divine ability was really not half as threatening in his eyes.
The moment the cold ling fell, the lance in Ning Cheng’s hand suddenly curled. An icy cold lance pattern that was also nurtured with the Dao rhythm of space stirred out, and the space around it that was suppressed by the Black Cauldron loosened up at this moment, followed by a clicking sound.
Even Xi Xi, who was still watching the battle from the Starry Sky Wheel, could feel the pressure around her ease, and the oppressive feeling brought about by the Black Cauldron dissipated.
The moment the space controlled by the Black Cauldron was cracked by Ning Cheng’s Void Cold Light Gun’s gun ripple, Yuan Ji felt it, and a look of shock flashed in his eyes, and without waiting for him to react, the silent gun ripple blasted into the very centre of the Black Cauldron’s cold ling.
“Boom!” The icy cold ling arrow that carried the aura of death was directly blasted into pieces by the cold light gun, a tearing cold intent scattered out, in just a few breaths of time, the death aura on that icy cold ling arrow dissipated without a trace.
Not good, this person was too powerful, he was definitely no match for himself. Farhex immediately understood that he and Ning Cheng were too far apart, even with the trapping and killing formation, he was still no match for Ning Cheng.
At this moment, he had long since stopped thinking about how to kill Ning Cheng, instead he raised his hand and sacrificed several formation flags, while a talisman appeared in his hand.
Ning Cheng would not let Far Self unleash the talisman and walk away, a late stage Yudao was no threat to him, even if this late stage Yudao had set up a trap and kill formation, he would not be able to walk away.
Ning Cheng’s figure was like a distorted space, disappearing gracefully as the endless Dao Trapping Rhymes came blasting in. The trapping dao rhymes bombarded the Starry Sky Wheel, causing only a shaking of the Wheel’s defensive prohibitions.
From the time that Yuan Hei had launched the formation banner to activate the formation, and then took out the Transporting Talisman, to the time that Ning Cheng passed through the trapping and killing formation with ease was just less than a breath.
One breath later, Far Self’s evasion talisman was bound by Ning Cheng’s gun pattern dao rhyme. An endless and oppressive aura blasted over, and a hint of despair flashed across Yuan Ji’s heart. He had never expected Ning Cheng to be so strong, being of the same Dao of Nurture, he was a little higher in cultivation than Ning Cheng, but he had no way to resist in front of Ning Cheng.
“Poof” The cold light spear nailed the talisman, nailing Yuan Ji to the void as it passed through the talisman.
“Let me go, I can tell you who is trying to capture Xixi ……” Far Ji’s eyes showed a deadly grey as he looked at Ning Cheng with some desperation and shouted.
Ning Cheng lifted his Void Cold Light Gun and picked Yuan Ji up, looking at him and said in a light voice, “Are you trying to say that the person who told you to capture Xixi is Liu Fang Zhen of Wuting Sacred Dao City?”
How did the other party know who had asked him to find Xixi?
“You have three breaths of time, tell us why did Liu Fangzhen want to find Xi Xi?” Ning Cheng guessed that Yuan Ji also did not know why Liu Fang Zhen wanted to find Xi Xi, he still asked with a just in case mind.
After hearing Ning Cheng’s words, Yuan Ji hurriedly called out, “Xixi, for the sake of our teaming up in the past ……”
“One breath!” Ning Cheng interrupted his words.
“I don’t know, you should be able to guess that Liu Fang Zhen couldn’t possibly tell me the reason.” When Farhex saw that Xixi had not come over, he knew that he could not get Xixi to save him.
“Two breaths ……” Ning Cheng simply ignored Yuan Ji’s words.
Far Ji’s face showed ashen, and he knew that it was useless to say anything else.
As Ning Cheng’s three breaths of time arrived, the cold light gun directly tore apart Far Jie’s Yuan Shen, and Far Jie’s ring was directly collected by Ning Cheng.
“Let’s go, Yuan己 indeed doesn’t know why Liu Fangzhen is looking for you, I reckon it should be for the matter of Pan Qian.” Ning Cheng landed on the Starry Sky Wheel and said to Xi Xi.
Xi Xi’s eyes were full of loss, she didn’t have many friends in the Taiyi Realm originally, and the few that Yuan Ji had teamed up with her were considered friends. And now, the fact that she was heartless made her sad.
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The five major courts in the Taiyi Realm almost dominate 80% of the territory, and the very few unowned territories are either some long-negotiated public places or some treacherous and incomparable environments.
There are also places that do not belong to the Five Great Dao Courts and the Three Great Dao Sects. Taiyi Dan Dao City is one such Holy Dao Dan City that is outside of the major powers.
The Taiyi Dan Dao City nominally belongs to the Dan Association, but in fact this place is merely the residence of the Dan Association. The city lord of the Dan Dao City is not necessarily a member of the Dan Association either, but rather a competitor. The person competing for the city lord can be a casual practitioner, a Dan master, or even a figure from one of the Five Great Dao Courts or the Three Great Dao Sects.
Regardless of their origins, one thing is certain, and that is that this City Lord must be fair and just. If any bullying or bias situation arises, the Dan Club will immediately take out this City Lord and will never be lenient.
Because of this, the Taiyi Dan Dao City could be said to be the most fair and peaceful Sacred Dao City in the entire Taiyi Realm, which was somewhat similar to Ning Cheng’s Over Snow City back in the Jiangzhou Star.
Ning Cheng felt this situation as soon as he arrived at Taiyi Dandao City, and it was probably because of this environment that Taiyi Dandao City was bustling with activity. Ever since Ning Cheng had entered the Taiyi Realm, Taiyi Dan Dao City was the most lively Sacred Dao City that he had ever seen.
“May I ask if you are Dan Master Ning?” Ning Cheng and Xi Xi walked into the Taiyi Dan Dao City and were about to find a place to stay when a brittle voice called out to Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng stopped and looked at the pretty young girl who called out to him in front of him and asked suspiciously, “That’s right, I am Ning Cheng, you are looking for me?”
He did not know this young girl at all, if it was Si Chuan Qiu Tian, Lu Dong Ce and Kong Lian Bo who were looking for him, they must have directly summoned him instead of having a stranger come to him.
The young girl bowed and saluted, “It’s not me looking for you, it’s our City Master who wants to find you. If Master Ning Dan is free, please follow me.”
“Your City Master? The City Master of Taiyi Dan Dao City?” Ning Cheng said in his heart that he had just entered the Taiyi Dan Dao City and this City Master had come to look for him? His face was too big. Even if he had won against Lu Dong Ce, I was afraid that he would not have such a big face.
“No, it’s Lord Liu City.” The young girl hurriedly explained to.
Ning Cheng asked offhandedly, “Is it the City Lord of Wuting Sacred Dao City, Liu Fang Zhen?”