When Ning Cheng saw that the remaining nine dan masters all had puzzled faces, seemingly unable to figure out why Kong Lianbo had come up with this topic, he was suddenly overcome with emotion in his heart.
Looking at these dan masters, he knew that all these dan masters who had made it to the top ten knew that the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill could not be refined where the rules were incomplete, while he had to ask Si Chuan Qiu Tian. Si Chuan Qiu Tian, however, had barely reached this conclusion by failing fifty-one consecutive Qianyuan Heavenly Pills.
That was the difference, if he hadn’t been given the opportunity to look at the grass and trees in the universe, would he have made it this far with the first place?
“I will now deliver the divine spirit herbs for refining the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill to all the dan masters, so you will first take stock of the divine spirit herbs for the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill. Later on, the area around the Danby Altar will be locked by a spatial magic treasure. All dan masters on the Dan Bi Altar will not be able to feel the Heaven and Earth rule breath.” After Kong Lianbo finished speaking, with a wave of his hand, a pile of Divine Spirit Grasses was transported directly to the ten Dan Masters.
Ning Cheng reckoned that he would lose this round miserably, and he looked helplessly at Si Chuan Qiu Tian, who gave him a nod as a sign of encouragement. Ning Cheng turned his gaze towards Xi Xi again, if he could not get first place, his status would not be as high as he thought and it would be much harder to help Xi Xi.
When Xixi saw Ning Cheng’s gaze over, she made an encouraging gesture as well.
Ning Cheng nodded and his gaze inadvertently landed on Nian Yan, who suddenly shook her head at Ning Cheng before closing her eyes and turning her head away.
Ning Cheng withdrew his gaze and looked at the pile of divine Spirit Grasses in front of him, saying to himself, what did Nian Yan mean by this? Was it to tell him not to worry? Ning Cheng didn’t think much about it, he reckoned that his first place was somewhat up in the air.
Looking at the pile of divine Spirit Grasses in front of him, Ning Cheng picked up the Qian Yuan Dao Fruit among them. In his mind, he thought about how he should refine this furnace Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill. Even if it failed. Get a bit of process points too.
As he picked up the Qian Yuan fruit. It seemed that nothing could fall on this branch, which was born to be untouchable by dust.
“This is a dust-free branch?” Ning Cheng put down the Qian Yuan Fruit in shock and picked up the Dustless Branch.
If he hadn’t looked at the Yu Zhi grass and trees, he wouldn’t have known what a Dustless Branch was. But now, Ning Cheng knew the Dustless Branch all too well.
Among this pile of divine Spirit Grasses, the most precious one was not the Qian Yuan Fruit, nor was it the Tai Yin Saint Fruit. Rather, it was this Dustless Branch.
Back when he and Lu Dong Ce were fighting for pills, Kong Lian Bo had brought out a divine spirit herb called the Sakka Flower. The Sakyamuni Flower was precious because it was an attributeless divine spirit grass.
The Dustless Branch was somewhat similar to the Sakya Flower, yet it was many times more precious than the Sakya Flower. This is because not only does the dustless branch have no attributes, it also contains no rules. This is not the main thing, the main thing is that if one obtains this spiritual object, one can re-nurture the Dustless Branch with one’s own dao rhythm breath, giving the Dustless Branch the attribute rule dao rhythm that one needs.
The recipe for the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill originally did not have a Dustless Branch, and was the addition of the Dustless Branch to the recipe for the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill in the Dan Bi intended to allow the dan masters to cultivate the Heaven and Earth rules needed for the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill themselves. And then add these Heaven and Earth rule dao rhythms to the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill?
This must be the case, otherwise. How could the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill be refined?
In that case the first and second rounds of the competition had a purpose, cultivating the Blossoms and Half-Hearts was merely to lay the foundation for the third round of the Dan Competition. If one could not even cultivate the Blossoms and Halfs, it would be a waste of a dustless branch to participate in the third round of the competition.
This is because the cultivation of the Dustless Branch is more complicated than that of the Blossoms, as the Blossoms only need to be nourished with the attribute rule dao rhythm. In contrast, the Dustless Branch is able to cultivate divine spirit grasses that contain different attribute rules according to each person’s Dao rules. This not only requires the cultivator to incorporate his own attribute rules dao rhyme, but also to transform this attribute rules dao rhyme into the attribute rules possessed by the dustless branch.
To put it simply, a dustless branch is like a blank piece of paper on which you can draw the attribute rules of heaven and earth you need according to your cultivation methods. Another feature of the Dustless Branch is that it can store various Heaven and Earth rules dao rhymes for a short period of time.
The third round turned out to be like this, Ning Cheng was slightly relieved. In his heart, he secretly admired the organiser’s boldness in being able to take out so many Dustless Sticks at once.
With his ability to cultivate the attribute rule dao rhyme he needed with the Dustless Branches, it was still somewhat difficult, this was because of his limited cultivation level. But the Dustless Branches gave him a new idea, the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill he had refined, as to why the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill needed a place where the rules of heaven and earth were complete.
The Dao Yuan realm and the Dao Transformation realm were two entirely different things that spanned a level. The Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill was a Dao Pill that allowed the Dao Transformation Saint Emperors to perceive the rules of the Dao Yuan realm, and the requirements for the rules of heaven and earth were naturally very subtle.
He could not use the Dustless Branch to cultivate the Dao rhythm of Heaven and Earth rules needed for the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill, but he could use the Dustless Branch as a medium to use his Returning Path to arrange a small Heaven and Earth rule space in his own dan furnace. As long as this heaven and earth space contained various heaven and earth attribute rules, it would be possible for him to refine the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill.
For others, doing this might be several times more difficult than cultivating a dustless branch that contained the dao rhythms of heaven and earth rules, while this was not the case for him.
His Xuanhuang Pearl was originally the supreme rule world, and having cultivated the Xuanhuang Wufei so far, his control of the rules of heaven and earth was far superior to that of an ordinary Dao-bearing Saint Emperor. It was precisely because of this that he could comprehend the rule-breaking divine ability by virtue of the half of the Aghan Unruffled Fruit.
There was also the fact that his Sea of Consciousness was powerful enough to allow him to do this.
With a refining plan in mind, Ning Cheng’s heart was greatly settled as he once again raised his head and swept the surroundings; these dan masters participating in the third round of the Dan Competition were indeed all somewhat sad. Even if they knew what the Dustless Branch could do, it was not easy to make use of it. Soon Ning Cheng saw Nian Yan, who was far away under the altar, shaking his head slightly at him again.
No, this was not meant to comfort him not to worry. If it was comforting him, it wouldn’t be shaking its head at him twice in a row.
Ning Cheng had great admiration for Nian Yan’s strength and the kind of light-heartedness she had towards cultivation. Even though he had not been in contact with Nian Yan for a long time, Nian Yan had let him come out of a dead end completely with just some voice transmission before. It could be said that Nian Yan’s kind of calmness, her sense and grasp of the Dao, was definitely integrated into the heaven and earth.
Was this Nian Yan’s way of advising him not to participate in the third round? Yes, everyone else could only refine pills by cultivating the Dustless Branch and giving it the Heaven and Earth rules of the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill, while he was able to use the Dustless Branch as a medium to arrange the Heaven and Earth rules space. What does this mean? It meant that his control of the Dao rhythms of the rules of heaven and earth was far superior to that of others. Why was he able to do this? It was because of the Xuanhuang Pearl.
Whether his guess was correct or not, Ning Cheng understood what Nian Yan meant. He did not know how Nian Yan had seen that he was different from the others, but he had to be a little careful. No matter how good the Wood Attribute Extreme Divine Spirit Veins and the Mixed Dao Fruits were, they were not as good as his little life.
“If there is no doubt, I will seal off the Dan Competition Altar and the third round of the Dan Competition will begin, the third round of the competition will last for six months. During that time, the Dan Dao Sect will open the Dao Sense Spiritual Dao Formation, so those who are watching the Dan Competition can watch the Dan Competition while sensing the Dao Dao Rhythm of the Dan Dao Sect.” Kong Lianbo said aloud from the Dan Competition altar.
Kong Lianbo’s words drew a burst of cheers, as many people came here to participate in the Dan Competition with the aim of opening the Spiritual Dao Formation in case the Dan Dao Sect opened it. Six months was not a long time for a cultivator. If they could feel the dao rhythm under the Dan Dao Sect’s Spiritual Dao Formation, it would be something they could only dream of.
The Dan Dao Sect’s Spiritual Dao Formation had countless Dan Dao Dao rhythms coalescing, and once the Spiritual Dao Formation was opened, a cultivator could not only clear his own Dao Dao rhythms and his own divine Dao rhythms in it, but could also sense other rules and divine abilities.
Ning Cheng stood up and cupped his fist and said, “May I ask Master Kong, after losing the third round of the competition, can I come out early?”
Kong Lianbo shook his head, “That won’t work, you must wait until all the dan masters have finished their bouts before you can come out.”
Ning Cheng made an exclamatory expression and said, “I am not going to hide it from Master Kong, I once refined dozens of stoves of the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill in a ruleless space, but without exception, they all failed. Later I also obtained a dustless branch, but it still failed. So I will definitely fail in this third round, and rather than waste the divine Spirit Grass, I would rather admit defeat in advance.”
After saying that, Ning Cheng clasped his fist to Kong Lianbo once again before exiting the Dan Competition Altar.
Kong Lianbo also did not expect Ning Cheng to withdraw from the third round of the Dan Competition, not only did Kong Lianbo not expect it, even the rest of the Dan Masters and those spectators did not expect it either. Even though Si Chen Qiu Tian knew that Ning Cheng had definitely not refined dozens of Qian Yuan Heavenly Pills, he did not say anything and only made an expression of regret.
Mu Zuo Yi who had initiated the Dan Competition frowned slightly, Ning Cheng was someone he was optimistic about, the only regret was that Ning Cheng’s cultivation level was really too low. This third question was indeed a little tough for him, and it was not difficult to understand Ning Cheng’s withdrawal.
Unfortunately, this third question was not from him, it was from his master. At that time, his master had said that if someone was able to refine a Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill that surpassed the eight attribute rule dao rhymes in the second question, then the question of refining a Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill under no rules would be given. If not, then the question would follow the one he had given before.
Now it was true that someone had refined a Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill with nine attribute rules, but the person who had refined the pills would not even participate in the third round of the competition. In fact asking a Nurtured Dao Saint Emperor to cultivate a dustless branch that contained the rules of heaven and earth was a little too strong.
Mu Zuo Yi sighed, withdrawing was fine, this Ning Cheng would have to have a good chat with him then. Seeing Kong Lianbo’s gaze looking over, Mu Zuo Yi nodded and said, “Dan Master Ning Cheng withdraws, the competition continues.”
Seeing that Kong Lianbo did not stop himself from withdrawing from the competition, Ning Cheng was slightly relieved in his heart.
It was better not to participate in a Dan competition with such a strong purpose. Luckily for Nian Yan’s reminder, without Nian Yan’s words, he would have definitely participated in the third round of refining the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill and might have been able to succeed in the end.
Ning Cheng had just sat down when Nian Yan’s voice transmission came to his ears, “I’ll leave first, if you’re free, you can leave in an hour and then go sit at the Shallow Cloud Villa.”
Ning Cheng did not transmit his voice back, he decided to trust Nian Yan. No matter what, Nian Yan did not look like that kind of shady person.