“XiXi is my friend, sort of an early acquaintance, and not really brought from the Five Realms Void City.” Even though he knew full well that Liu Fangzhen knew Xixi’s identity, Ning Cheng still flatly denied it.
After hearing Ning Cheng’s words, Liu Fangzhen instead asked, “Does Dan Master Ning know about the Cross-Dao Pond of the Lucid Dao Court?”
The Cross-Dao Pond? Ning Cheng had never really heard of it.
Si Chen Qiu Tian, who had not spoken, had long sensed that the atmosphere was a little off, and since Ning Cheng did not understand the Dao Crossing Pond at this time, he added on the side, “The Dao Crossing Pond is the number one treasure of the Liu Jun Dao Court, and it allows a first-step Dao-evidence Saint Emperor to perceive the second-step Dao Rhythm Rules. However, not all of them can go to the Cross-Dao Pond, only a very small number of genius Saint Emperors have the opportunity to go to the Cross-Dao Pond to sense the second step Dao Yuan opportunity.
On the other side, Liu Fang Zhen added with a smile, “Lord Si Chen is right, the Cross-Dao Pond is indeed the number one treasure of my Liu Dao Court. Even Council Master Kong is very positive about Dan Master Ning, and when I came to Dan Dao City, I asked the Daoist Monarch about it. If Master Ning Dan is willing, the Cross-Dao Pond of my Liuzhou Dao Court is open for Master Ning at any time.”
Ning Cheng said calmly, “No merit, the Dao Crossing Pond of the Lucid Dao Court is a Tai Yi Realm treasure, I, a Dan Master from the Tai Su Realm, would not dare to make a fuss.”
Liu Fang Zhen’s face straightened, “How can Dan Master Ning be unmerited? Our Daoist Monarch has some matters that he would like to ask Xixi. For Master Ning to find Xi Xi and bring her to the Taiyi Realm is a great feat in itself.”
“Oh, then thank you, Brother Liu. It is true that I found Xixi and brought her to the Taiyi Realm, so I didn’t expect it to be a great merit.” A smile appeared on Ning Cheng’s face. Clasping his fist, he said.
Hearing Ning Cheng’s words Liu Fangzhen was instantly overjoyed. He stood up. “Dan Master Ning can apply to cultivate at the Cross-Dao Pond of my Lucid Dao Court anytime, I won’t disturb Dan Master Ning because I have something to do, please ask Dan Master Ning to call Xi Xi out to go with me.”
Ning Cheng’s face sank, “City Master Liu, Xi Xi is in the middle of her closed-door cultivation, so she won’t be leaving with you.”
Liu Fang Zhen’s eyes turned cold, “So Master Ning Dan was just amusing me?”
Ning Cheng still said in an unhurried manner, “I wouldn’t dare to say that I’m amusing you. I didn’t say that I would let Xixi go with you just now. If City Master Liu says that me finding Xixi and bringing her to the Taiyi Realm doesn’t count as merit, I don’t have a problem with that either. Good riddance, Lord Liu City.”
After saying that, Ning Cheng did not even wait for Liu Fangzhen to slyly argue and directly stood up to see him off.”
“Very well.” Liu Fang Zhen once again regained his composure and turned around to walk out of Ning Cheng’s room.
Si Chen Qiu Tian did not ask Ning Cheng why he had fallen out with Liu Fang Zhen, he only said to Ning Cheng, “There are still a few days left before the Five Realms Dan Competition, so you should be more careful with everything. I have gained a lot in the past few days, and I still have to go and deduce the dan recipe. I won’t talk to you much anymore.”
“Thank you, Guild Master Si Chen, but Guild Master will leave later. Let’s refine a potion first.” Ning Cheng had long since felt the return of Si Chuan Qiu Tian’s Daoist confidence, and as long as he refined one more burger of the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill, Si Chuan Qiu Tian would go even further.
As he spoke, Ning Cheng had already taken out the ingredients for a furnace of the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill.
Si Chuan Qiu Tian had long wanted to refine such a furnace of pills, but it was just that there were cracks in his Dao confidence at first and he began to break the pot, using up some of the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill materials.
Now that Ning Cheng had come up with a furnace of Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill ingredients, as long as he successfully refined this furnace of pills, then his Dao heart would go one step further.
Si Chen Qiu Tian nodded to Ning Cheng and did not say words of thanks. Ning Cheng had helped him enough, if it wasn’t for Ning Cheng, he himself wouldn’t know what he was like now.
Seeing Si Chuan Qiu Tian sorting out the materials for the alchemy, Ning Cheng directly put the ban on the room and sat on the side and stopped talking, instead concentrating on watching Si Chuan Qiu Tian alchemy.
Si Chuan Qiu Tian did a very careful job, hundreds of materials were taken out one by one, organised into categories and put aside. His Dan Dao level was very strong, it was just that his ability to refine pills was far less than Ning Cheng’s.
Only after doing this did Si Chuan Qiu Tian then offer up his dan furnace and dan fire.
It was another divine flame, and even if Ning Cheng did not know this flame, he knew that Si Chuan Qiu Tian’s flame was very powerful.
A divine spirit herb was sent into the dan furnace by Si Chuan Qiu Tian, and another two hours passed before both the Qian Yuan Fruit and the Tai Yin Saint Fruit were also sent into the dan furnace by Si Chuan Qiu Tian.
Compared to Ning Cheng’s speed in refining pills, Si Chuan Qiu Tian was obviously too slow.
As the Dao rhythm rolled in the furnace, Si Chuan Qiu Tian’s entire mind and soul fell into the furnace. Ning Cheng, who was on the other side, could only see Si Chuan Qiu Tian’s dan skills flowing continuously above the dan furnace, step after step, without stopping for half a second.
After a day had passed, only then did Si Chen Qiu Tian throw out some of the divine Spirit Grass impurities. If it was Ning Cheng’s turn to refine this furnace of the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill, he would have finished refining it long ago.
However, Ning Cheng knew that there were many refining techniques, and his kind of refining was based on his perception of the Dao of Dan, combined with the Dao rhythm of heaven and earth to form a pill. The requirements for this kind of pill refining were very strict, not only did it require a powerful pill furnace and pill fire, but it also depended on the pill maker’s perception of the pill dao.
There was no difference in essence between Si Chuan Qiu Tian’s alchemy technique and Ning Cheng’s, the reason why it was slow was because of the different perceptions of the Dao of Dan.
There was another kind of refining technique, where it was not impossible to refine a Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill for several years. This way of refining pills is called boiling. Not many people use this technique anymore. Especially in the case of the Dan Dao Competition, who has the time to watch you boil your pills?
When the next day passed, Ning Cheng smelled the fragrance of the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill in the dan furnace. Ning Cheng had refined the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill, and as soon as he smelt this kind of pellet fragrance, he knew that Si Chen Qiu Tian’s success was imminent.
Even if it was Si Chuan Qiu Tian, his heart was equally excited at this moment. He did not expect that what he had guessed back then was true, that it was really the incomplete Heaven and Earth rules of the Tai Su Realm that had caused the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill to fail to become a pellet.
As soon as the third day began, Si Chuan Qiu Tian sped up his technique, and the rhythm of the pills in the furnace tumbled endlessly. Twelve white to grey pills then landed in the jade vase to one side.
The Extraordinary Qianyuan Heavenly Pill was milky white, while the Qianyuan Heavenly Pill Si Chuan Qiu Tian had refined had a hint of grey, so it was obviously not Extraordinary. Although there was not a single Extraordinary Pill, there were five Superior Pills, four Medium Pills and only three Inferior Pills among them.
It could be said that Si Chuan Qiu Tian’s potion was a great success.
“Congratulations, Guild Master, for successfully refining a Furnace of the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill.” Ning Cheng was the first to stand up and clasp his fist in congratulations.
Si Chen Qiu Tian excitedly took out a pill and placed it in his hand for a while before placing the jade bottle in Ning Cheng’s hand and saying, “Thank you, Ning Cheng, I’ll leave one as a souvenir.”
Ning Cheng knew that Si Chen Qiu Tian did not lack these few Qian Yuan Heavenly Pills, and what’s more, the pills were not his. So without being polite, he put the pills away and said, “Guild Master, even without me, one day Guild Master will succeed in refining the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill here.”
Si Chen Qiu Tian shook his head, “No, if I hadn’t known you, even if I took out such a divine spirit herb now, I wouldn’t be able to refine the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill.”
Ning Cheng understood what Si Chuan Qiu Tian meant, because Si Chuan Qiu Tian’s Dao Dao heart was missing, if he hadn’t helped Si Chuan Qiu Tian find his Dao confidence. Even in the Taiyi Realm, Si Chuan Qiu Tian might not be able to refine such a potion.
The success of refining this potion marked the complete disappearance of the Dan Demon in Si Chuan Qiu Tian’s heart. The shadow of his initial failure in refining fifty-one consecutive burns of the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill had finally faded and dispersed.
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While Si Chuan Qiu Tian regained his Dao of Dao, Ning Cheng did not remain idle either, deducing the Dao of Dao every moment of the day.
Ten days passed in a flash.
Liu Fang Zhen had never bothered Ning Cheng since he had been ridiculed away by him.
On the day the Dan Competition began, Ning Cheng walked out of his room in high spirits.
Si Chuan Qiu Tian and the others were waiting outside, and when he saw Ning Cheng come out, Si Chuan Qiu Tian smiled faintly and said, “Let’s go, we will also go to the Dan Dao Sect.”
Ning Cheng nodded his head to Xi Xi, signalling her to stay close to the Frustrated Protector before asking, “Sect Master Si Chen, why are we missing someone here?”
When Ning Cheng came here, he did not see Dou stiff stones.
Sizhen Qiu Tian was in a very different mood than when he came, after hearing Ning Cheng’s words, he smiled, “Don’t care, he got separated as soon as he came here, he probably couldn’t participate in the Dan Competition.”
A Dao Transformation Saint Emperor would wander off, Ning Cheng would naturally not believe it. He also knew why Dou Stiffy had walked away, if it turned out that Dou Stiffy was still hitting on him, then after he had pointed out that Dou Stiffy had taken his body, Dou Stiffy was afraid that he would not dare to hit on him.
Later on, he became close friends with Si Chen Qiu Tian and Lu Dong Ce, and he even had a good relationship with Kong Lian Bo. If Dou Stiffstone still thought he had a chance, then he was an idiot. The only thing Dou stiff stone can do is to stay away and come back in the future when he has the strength to retrieve the scene.
Ning Cheng wouldn’t care if Dou stiff-headed stone left, he didn’t even fear Dou stiff-headed stone now, and he wouldn’t even fear this zombie in the future.
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The Dan Dao Gate is not a gate, but a square.
This time, anyone was welcome to come and watch the Five Realms Dan Competition, and when Ning Cheng and the others arrived at the Dan Dao Gate, millions of people had gathered here.
The Dan Dao Gate did not have any prohibitions that shielded divine sense, and even more people could clearly see how each and every person in the Five Realms Dan Competition played.
At the very top of the Dan Dao Gate, there was a tall and large giant altar, which Ning Cheng reckoned was for Dan masters to participate in the competition.
At the back of this huge altar, which was slightly higher, there were rows of seats, which should be for some of the Dan Competition judges to sit on.
Ning Cheng and the others, as Dan masters participating in the Dan Competition, naturally had a special place to sit. It was just that compared to the rest of the great realms, the Tai Su Realm had the least number of people, and together with Xi Xi, whom Ning Cheng had brought with him, there were only eight people.
Just as Si Chen Qiu Tian led Ning Cheng and the others to sit down, a bright figure landed on top of the huge altar in front of them.
When Ning Cheng saw this person, he was all a little puzzled in his heart, because the person standing on the stage was merely a teenager. On the surface, it even looked younger than his age. But then Ning Cheng’s heart just chilled for a moment, apart from the Kang Ancestor that he had saved back then, and the old man from the Du Xuan Ancient Clan, he could not even see through this teenager’s cultivation level. The only feeling he had was that this teenager was surrounded by boundless Dao rhythms, a vastness that knew no bounds.