An hour later, when Ning Cheng looked back, Nian Yan had long since disappeared. As soon as he pulled Xixi beside him, the two of them also walked out of the Dan Dao Gate.
At this moment, the third round of the Dan Competition had already started and the Dan Dao Gate’s Spiritual Dao Formation had also opened, so more people were either paying attention to the third round of the Dan Competition or were in the Spiritual Dao Formation to understand the Dao Rhythm.
There were many people who were concerned about Ning Cheng, but no one went to look for him at this time. Ning Cheng had left in the middle of the competition, so he must have had something to do. Wouldn’t going to someone at this time make a bad impression on them? Ning Cheng had entered the top ten of this Five Realms Dan Competition, and would definitely come back after the Dan Competition was over.
Naturally, XiXi would not have any objection to Ning Cheng’s decision, and when Ning Cheng said to leave, she would leave immediately.
After Ning Cheng left the Taiyi Dan Dao City, he sacrificed an ordinary airship. The airship had only been flying for an hour or so when Ning Cheng saw Nian Yan waiting in front of him. He hurriedly stopped and was somewhat puzzled in his heart, didn’t Nian Yan say that she was waiting for him at the Shallow Cloud Villa? Why was she waiting for him outside Taiyi Dandao City?
Nian Yan nodded to Ning Cheng, and after putting away his own flying magic treasure, he brought his housekeeper Liangcai to Ning Cheng’s airship.
“This should be Yin Xi of the Shallow Cloud Villa, right?” Nian Yan greeted Xi Xi, who was beside Ning Cheng, as well.
Xixi hurriedly bowed and saluted, “Yes, junior is none other than Yin Xie of the Ashy Cloud Villa. Thank you for taking care of the Ashy Cloud Villa, senior.”
“Master Dan Ning, do you still have a Danby jade token on you?” After greeting with Xi Xi, Nian Yan immediately asked Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng nodded and took out the Dan Ratio jade token and handed it to Nian Yan.
Nian Yan took the jade token and looked at it for a while before saying, “This Danby jade token has your imprint, I suggest that you better seal it up or put it away in a place where you cannot sense it.”
“Will there be a seal on me then?” Ning Cheng asked in a hurry.
Nian Yan smiled faintly, “That would not be the case. The Five Realms Dan Competition is a very fair and impartial competition, there is no conspiracy. I have seen the Five Realms Dan Competition a few times, so if I hadn’t guessed. This time, the third question should not have been asked by Mu Zuo Yi. If it was Mu Zuo Yi’s, you wouldn’t have come here so easily. We’ll talk about this later. You should deal with this jade token first, and then I will take you to a safe place.”
“You wait for a moment.” After Ning Cheng finished speaking, he directly left the airship and disappeared after a few flashes of his body. His Sky Cloud Twin Wings had unparalleled speed over short distances.
In just under an incense stick, Ning Cheng landed on top of the airship once again.
Nian Yan smiled and said, “Did Dan Master Ning leave that jade token at the Rest Inn?”
Ning Cheng nodded, “Yes, I did indeed leave that jade token at the Rest Inn.”
No matter if the jade token was forbidden. Or throwing it in the Xuanhuang Pearl, it all meant that he had done it intentionally. Now that he had dropped the jade token in the Rest Inn, even if others guessed that he had done it intentionally, it would not mean anything.
Nian Yan did not say anything, but threw out a few formation flags and said, “You put away the airship, now I will take you to a place.”
Ning Cheng directly put away his airship, and Nian Yan took out a talisman and sacrificed it. Two breaths later, the talisman erupted with a spatial collapse like light. The few formation flags that Nian Yan had thrown out earlier instantly turned into dust, and the four people wrapped in the spatial collapse of the talisman disappeared.
After setting his feet on the ground. Only then did Ning Cheng realise that he was in a verdant bamboo garden. Not far in front of him, there were a few simple bamboo houses. From the outside, the bamboo houses were not blocked by prohibitions. This place was extremely dense with divine spiritual energy. It was definitely a holy land for cultivation. Ning Cheng was certain that this was not the Shallow Cloud Villa.
“Liangcai you take sister Xixi to rest for a while in the bamboo house next to it, I have some things to say to Master Dan Ning.” After Nian Yan finished speaking, she smiled at Ning Cheng and walked towards one of the bamboo sheds first.
Ning Cheng gave a reassuring look to Xixi before following Nian Yan towards the bamboo house.
Upon entering the bamboo house, an aura of returning to nature came over Ning Cheng, giving him a feeling of relaxation. This was clearly within the bamboo house, but Ning Cheng could not feel the bamboo walls surrounding the bamboo house. It was as if he was in the middle of boundless nature.
Ning Cheng knew that this should have something to do with the formation, but it was just that he did not feel half a trace of the formation.
“Senior Sister Nian Yan’s formation dao is so strong. It is far superior to me, I am really a frog at the bottom of the well.” Ning Cheng said with an exclamatory cupped fist. This level of formation dao was beyond his reach. It was a fusion of one’s own Dao rhyme and the rules of the surrounding heaven and earth, which was then incorporated into the formation dao to put one in the realm of reality.
Nian Yan smiled and gestured for Ning Cheng to sit down before pouring a cup of tea for Ning Cheng, “Please have some tea, Dan Master Ning.”
The entire action was in one piece, blending in with the natural aura around it without a trace.
Ning Cheng took the spiritual tea and took a sip before he cupped his fist and said, “Thank you, Senior Sister Nian Yan for reminding me, otherwise I would still be refining the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill on the Dan Dao Sect’s Dan Platform. Senior Sister Nian Yan should not call me Dan Master Ning, just call me Ning Cheng directly.”
Nian Yan hmmed and asked, “Senior Sister Ning Cheng, I sense an aura of transcending the Heavenly Dao in you, so in the future your achievements will definitely far surpass mine.”
Ning Cheng did not say anything, he understood that Nian Yan should have guessed that he possessed the topmost treasure. Otherwise, he would not have told him to withdraw from the competition. At the same time, Ning Cheng was a little worried in his heart, would others be able to sense the same aura in him as Nian Yan did?
Seemingly knowing Ning Cheng’s worries, Nian Yan said, “Senior Brother Ning doesn’t need to worry, I am afraid that it would be hard to find a second person in the Taiyi Realm who can sense this kind of aura on you, apart from me. It has nothing to do with cultivation, it only has to do with oneself.”
Only after hearing these words did Ning Cheng put his heart down slightly. If Nian Yan spoke like this, he should not be harming him.
“Senior Brother Ning, if I didn’t remind you, do you think you would be able to win first place in this Dan Competition?” Nian Yan suddenly asked.
Ning Cheng hesitated for a moment and answered honestly, “If Senior Sister doesn’t stop me, I should be able to refine the Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill and have a high chance of winning first place.”
Nian Yan sighed, “Indeed, Senior Sister Ning, what I have to tell you is that the true number one in this Five Realms Dan Competition may not necessarily be you.”
Ning Cheng asked in confusion, “I’ve seen all ten people on the stage, even You Kuzhi isn’t necessarily much better than me.”
Nian Yan smiled faintly, “You Kuzhi is not as good as you, that’s for sure, if he didn’t use the Five Elements Chaos Qi, he wouldn’t be able to refine that Heaven and Earth Blossom Pill. That truly strong man didn’t make it into the top ten, or rather he didn’t stand up and say that the pills he made could make it into the top ten.”
Ning Cheng was instantly moved, “Senior Sister Nian Yan, who is that person?”
There was one more thing Ning Cheng did not ask, there was a transparent ban around every dan master on the Dan Competition Altar, although others were allowed to look, they were not allowed to use their divine sense to sweep, how did Nian Yan know that someone was stronger?
“I paid attention, his name is Zhu Shen Yi and he comes from the Tai Shi Realm. If I’m not mistaken, he should be a Mixed Origin Dan Saint.”
After Nian Yan finished speaking, without waiting for Ning Cheng to continue asking, she took the initiative to explain, “The reason I know this is because I have practiced Dao Pupils ……”
Ning Cheng’s heart shook wildly, the Dao Pupil he naturally knew well, it was the eye that ignored everything below the Dao Pupil Rule Dao Rhyme ban and could see the rules of heaven and earth.
The Dao pupil was so powerful, yet very few people were able to practice it. The reason why the Dao pupil was so difficult to practise was that, in addition to the extremely harsh conditions, there were countless heavenly treasures. A more important point is that there is no gong method for cultivating the Dao pupil. If your own eyes are compatible with cultivating the Dao pupil, then you yourself must first create a Dao pupil gong method that matches your own.
Even if Ning Cheng possessed the Xuanhuang Pearl and possessed the Xuanhuang Wufang, he still had no way to cultivate the Dao Pupil. One was that he did not meet the conditions, and secondly he could not create the Dao Pupil Technique himself.
Even if all of the above conditions were met, to cultivate the Dao Pupil would still require a lot of time and energy. Generally speaking, who would be willing to devote their time to cultivating the Dao pupil? So even if a very small number of people cultivated the Dao pupil, they could only cast it under the lowest level of the Heaven and Earth rules.
Like Nian Yan, who could see everything clearly in the ban of the Five Realms Danby, it was clear how powerful it was.
“On top of that, I’m a Mixed Element Dan Saint ……”
Hearing these words, Ning Cheng completely lost all thought of comparison, this woman was much more of a genius than him. Having Dao pupils and being a Mixed Element Dan Saint, no wonder she could see many things clearly.
Ning Cheng was speechless, it was never him who struck others in cultivation and the rest, today he was finally struck by this Nian Yan. A Mixed Yuan Saint Emperor, a Mixed Yuan Dan Saint, a Daoist formation master much stronger than him, and a Dao pupil practitioner ……
Ning Cheng suddenly thought of the other party using a talisman to teleport here, and immediately wanted to ask if the other party was still a top tier talisman master?
Nian Yan did not care about how Ning Cheng was struck and still said to himself, “Zhu Shen Yi’s Blossoming Flower Half-Existence was not cultivated very well, but he managed to incorporate nine attribute rule dao rhythms when he refined the Heaven and Earth Blossoming Flower Pill. When he was about to succeed, he failed to condense the dan. According to my Dan Dao experience, he failed on purpose. As for the reason, I don’t know.”
Ning Cheng sucked in a cold breath, the main reason he was able to refine a Heaven and Earth Blossom Dan that had condensed nine attribute rule dao rhymes was that his Return to One Dao had been integrated into his Dan Dao. Ning Cheng knew very well in his heart what kind of Dao of Return to One his Dao was. And who was this Zhu Shen Yi? So powerful? He and Lu Dong Ce were considered good friends, and if Lu Dong Ce knew that there was such a strong person as Zhu Shen Yi in the Tai Shi Realm, he would definitely tell him.
“So, that Zhu Shen Yi will have to bring out all his abilities to participate in this Five Realms Dan Competition, it will be difficult for you to defeat him, not because your Dan Dao is inferior to his, but because your cultivation level is a little weaker than his.” Nian Yan said in a very direct and dry manner.
Seeing Ning Cheng’s silence, she still continued, “I saw the technique you used when cultivating the Blossoms and Halfs, the technique you used belonged to the top of the line ah, even the technique I created was not as good as Duo Yi. Later on, I saw the dustless branch, so I guessed ……”
Ning Cheng thought to himself that this Nian Yan was so confident, he didn’t wait for Nian Yan to put words into his mouth before he cupped his fist and said, “Thank you for reminding me, Senior Sister Nian Yan, Ning Cheng is grateful.”