“Now that the academy is selecting students, we have a chance to escape from the Cang Qin Kingdom, if we are any slower, I guess the academy will know that I killed Ham Yuan Kui and Yong Li Man ……,” Ji Luofei said in a low voice that only Ning Cheng could hear, whispering urgently in Ning Cheng’s ear.
Killed Xian Yuankui and Yong Liman? Ning Cheng was shocked in his heart, but instantly understood when he thought of these two names. He did not know if there was another reason for Ji Luofei to kill these two people, but he was sure that Ji Luofei had something to do with him for killing these two people.
When he had come to the Cang Qin Kingdom, he had almost died at the hands of Xian Yuan Kui when he first went shopping. When Ji Luofei had killed Xian Yuankui, she definitely had the intention of helping him to take revenge in it. As for Yong Li Man, although Ning Cheng did not know her, he knew that this surname was definitely involved with the royal family of the Cang Qin Kingdom.
Even if the news that Ji Luofei had killed Xian Yuankui got out, she would still be dead. The fact that Ji Luofei came back to him even though she knew that being caught was a death sentence was obviously because she was afraid that after she left on her own, the Cang Qin Kingdom and the Xian family would vent their anger on him.
“Thank you, Concubine Luo.” After Ning Cheng understood this, he immediately clasped Ji Luofei’s hand and said gratefully. He could not talk about liking Concubine Ji, Concubine Ji had helped him kill Xian Yuankui and even risked her life to come back and warn him to escape, just this friendship, Ning Cheng was grateful for it. He did not say thank you for the reason that he believed that Ji Luofei would understand what he meant.
Ji Luofei did not feel anything when she grabbed Ning Cheng’s hand before, even when she was carrying Ning Cheng home on her back. It was not unusual for her to see Ning Cheng come back from the dead on her back. Whether Ning Cheng was dead or alive, she would take Ning Cheng away from the door of the prison. To her, this was just repaying a favour, not Ning Cheng’s favour, but Grandpa Ning’s favour.
Previously, when she had sent Ning Cheng to the Cultivation Tower, it was only part of repaying her kindness, even though she was about to leave the Cang Qin Kingdom, she was merely worried about Ning Cheng, and had no other emotions in it. But now these five words spoken by Ning Cheng from the bottom of his heart caused Ji Luofei’s heart to tremble slightly, and she deeply felt Ning Cheng’s gratitude.
Ning Cheng had changed, the previous Ning Cheng, even if she had given him her life, he would only feel that this was what he should do, and would definitely not be able to say such five words, while the current Ning Cheng had completely overturned the original image of Ning Cheng in her heart. At this moment, being grabbed by Ning Cheng’s hand, she even felt her face burning a little.
While Ji Luofei’s heart was still trembling, Ning Cheng was much calmer than her and in turn took Ji Luofei’s hand and said, “Don’t be nervous, follow me and just listen to me.”
As she watched Ning Cheng move towards the outside of the crowd as if nothing was wrong, Ji Luofei’s eyes turned red and she followed behind Ning Cheng extremely obediently.
Don’t be nervous, just follow me and listen to me. A simple sentence, but it made Ji Luofei feel a sense of reliance. Her cultivation level was obviously higher than Ning Cheng’s, yet she could feel Ning Cheng’s protection.
When the Ji family was destroyed, she was still young and was adopted by the Ning family, and to put it nicely, she was the descendant of a deceased member of the Ning family. To put it bluntly, she was a child bride without any status, which was no different from even a servant. Although Grandpa Ning did not look outside of her, the rest of the Ning family did not treat her as any kind of Ning family daughter-in-law, but at most as a small servant.
Even Ning Cheng only treated her as a maidservant, barely even worse than a maidservant. Every time Ning Cheng saw her, she had a disgusted look on her face.
As the head of the Ning family, it was impossible for Ning Hongchang to be able to take care of Ji Luofei at all times.
For as long as she could remember, everything was on her own and there was no one she could rely on. There were even times when there was no food to eat, and she had to listen to other servants’ orders in the Ning House. It wasn’t until she was a little older and was sent to the Cang Qin Two Star Academy by Grandpa Ning that this slowly changed the days of starvation.
Ning Cheng was obviously still a year younger than her, but Ning Cheng’s simple words made her feel that Ning Cheng was taller than ever at this time and was already her dependant. Only those who had never had a person to rely on would understand the preciousness of these words. Ning Cheng’s image seemed to turn around from her heart at this very moment.
Ning Cheng certainly did not think about it that much, although he knew that Ji Luofei was more familiar than him at Cang Qin Academy, he knew very well that when it came to escape skills and the ability to handle things in some critical moments, Ji Luofei was far inferior to him.
Ji Luofei followed Ning Cheng around the crowd and had already reached the edge, when she saw Ning Cheng burrow into a row of giant trees, Ji Luofei immediately thought that Ning Cheng was going to go out through the small door leading to the fighting pot arena. She was about to remind Ning Cheng that today was the day when the Meteor Five Star Academy was selecting its students, and that such small doors leading to the Brawling Pot Field must have been sealed off, so she might as well just go through the main gate. Just at this moment, a group of seven or eight guards hurriedly trotted out and appeared abruptly in front of the two of them.
When this group of guards saw that Ning Cheng and Ji Luofei’s direction seemed to be the small gate, they immediately stopped and even had the tendency to come over.
Ji Luofei’s heart sank, she guessed that she guessed that her matter had been exposed and that was why the sergeant guards had come over. She made up her mind that even if she died, she would let Ning Cheng escape.
Without waiting for Ji Luofei to speak, Ning Cheng suddenly said in a low voice once again, “What is the name of the Vice President of the Academy?”
“Yong Chang Yan.” Ji Luofei subconsciously replied.
Ning Cheng suddenly raised his voice slightly and said, “It’s a pity that I was picked to run an errand, sigh, it’s only because we are too close to the ring ……”
After Ning Cheng said it was a pity, he instead revealed an expression of surprise, while speeding up to run towards the group of escorting soldiers.
When this group of guards saw that Ning Cheng and Ji Luofei were actually heading out at this time, they had already stopped in their tracks, they had planned to go over and ask Ning Cheng and Ji Luofei, but at this moment, when they saw Ning Cheng and Ji Luofei running towards them instead, they stood still and did not move.
“A few sergeant brothers wait ……” Ning Cheng called out loudly even though the few people in front of him had clearly stopped.
“What do you want?” The escort leader at the head of the group was a cultivator at the third level of Qi gathering, and when he saw Ning Cheng telling him to wait, he instead forgot to ask where Ning Cheng was going before.
Ning Cheng took out a dark wooden medal and shoved it at the head guard and said, “It’s good to see you all, you’ve been a great help to me. I am Elder Mu’s disciple, and Dean Yong asked my master to send someone to gather a group of guards to wait for orders at the entrance of the Cultivation Tower, but my master told us both to go there. But now is a crucial time for the Meteorite Academy to select its disciples, being in the middle of the challenge, I really don’t want to leave ah, I didn’t expect you guys to come over just in time. You guys hurry up and come with me to the entrance of the Cultivation Tower, wait, I’ll take Dean Yong’s bull to you, the bull will be given to Dean Yong directly at that time ……”
“That won’t do, we are going to the West Feng Sect and the South Wind Sect, there is no way we can help you.” That head guard checked the wooden sign in his hand and immediately interrupted Ning Cheng’s words and said with a straight face.
After saying that, he shoved the wooden medal to Ning Cheng again. This wooden medal had the three words Cultivation Tower engraved on it, yet he could tell that this wooden medal was genuine. After returning the wooden plaque to Ning Cheng, this chief guard even led several soldiers to speed up the pace again, simply ignoring Ning Cheng’s stillness in the air holding his hand oracle in action.
Ning Cheng hurriedly followed behind and anxiously shouted, “But I have the dean’s bull, isn’t it the same to carry out orders wherever I go? How about you guys go ahead and wait at the entrance of the cultivation tower ……”
The words came out of his mouth, but Ning Cheng’s heart was relieved, he was afraid that this guy would recognize that this was just a wooden sign for cleaning the Cultivation Tower.
“You have a handbill, we also have a handbill. If they were all as scattered and casual as you academy students, Cang Qin Guo’s escort team would simply find a few random people. I think you should hurry up and go on your own, don’t think about being clever.” This captain said disdainfully as he walked away. He despised guys like Ning Cheng who didn’t have the slightest concept of military discipline.
While the two were conversing, the entrance to that busy vegetable market had already arrived. Just as Ji Luofei had expected, this small door was also guarded by two guards, but not the middle-aged guard from before.
Seeing the two guards guarding this small door, Ning Cheng said with some displeasure on his face, “Open the door, I want to go out.”
These two guards had already heard Ning Cheng when he was talking to that captain from before, and they even knew what Ning Cheng was going to do. Seeing such an unhappy expression on Ning Cheng’s face, the two guards knew that Ning Cheng wanted to go and watch the challenge, and now that he was being sent away, it would be strange if he could be happy in his heart.
One of the guards was about to speak, but Ning Cheng suddenly cut off the guard who wanted to speak with a big smile on his face, “This sergeant brother, aren’t you on guard here? Guarding two people is the same as one, why don’t one of you stay here and the other do me a favor and go on a trip to ……”
“Sorry, we have orders to stand guard here and can’t leave.” The other guard said dryly.
Ning Cheng’s face was once again gloomy, but again this time it was only gloomy for a moment before he said in a pleasant manner again, “You guys are here guarding this door, surely you don’t allow anyone to enter or leave, right?”
“Yes.” The guard who had spoken replied dryly.
“Then surely you will not open the door even if we ask you to, will you? For example, just now I asked you guys to open the door, right?” Ning Cheng continued to ask, that expression was like a big bad wolf guiding and guiding a little sheep.
The guard who spoke just wanted to say yes, but then he saw Ning Cheng’s impish smile and his heart thudded. This student must not have wanted to go on the errand, so he was going to put the blame on their unwillingness to open the door, there was actually a student with such audacity.
However, the students of Cang Qin Academy were all from unusual backgrounds, so it was not strange for this guard to have such a bold student.
“Very well, you have done the right thing. Senior sister, let’s go back first.” After saying this, Ning Cheng pulled Ji Luofei and was about to turn back.
“Wait, you give me the token to look at.” After this guard understood Ning Cheng’s insidiousness, he hurriedly called out to Ning Cheng who you were about to turn back. This was just a step down for him, he knew that Ning Cheng had the token, the head guard had already seen it just now.
Ning Cheng didn’t even move his hand, “Who is the token to show you? Just now I said for you to open the door and you are unwilling to do so. This is your duty and I don’t blame you, why do you want to see my token? If I met a soldier who had to look at my token once, then I would just hang the token on my chest. Let’s go, Sister.”