While the Wheel of the Year had once again returned to its original form, Ning Cheng had no intention of continuing to cultivate. Having advanced to Dao Yuan, the cultivation resources on his body were almost exhausted, so there was not much point in cultivating any further. It was estimated that he had used nearly two hundred years in the middle of his journey from Dao Transformation to Dao Yuan. Calculated into the time outside, that would be four or five times past.
But he didn’t intend to go out now either, he wanted to see if he could find a branch of the annual cycle. At the same time, he also wanted to try to see if he could walk under the roots of the annual wheel at his own Dao Yuan realm. The annual wheel belonged to someone else, and after going out, he would have to get someone else’s permission to come back in.
Ning Cheng directly stepped into the cross into the fiftieth wheel mark, and soon he passed through the fiftieth wheel mark and entered the fifty-first and fifty-second ……
The aura of the Dao rhyme of the ages was getting thicker and thicker, the passing of the ages was like a knife that scraped the bones, every time Ning Cheng took a step forward, the Dao rhyme around him would be scraped by the ages. As for those bloodstains after bloodstains on his body, they were entirely due to the pain that came out after the Dao rhyme was scraped.
Even after advancing to the Dao Origin realm, Ning Cheng’s Dao heart was like a rock, but he was still somewhat unable to withstand this increasingly terrifying scraping of the Dao Rhythm of the Ages.
At the ninety-ninth whorl mark of the Wheel of the Year, Ning Cheng finally came to a halt. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to go further and step into the hundredth wheel mark, but he really didn’t have the means to move a single inch.
The violent aura of the Age Dao rhyme scraped against Ning Cheng’s body, the kind of tearing pain that Ning Cheng had only experienced when he was experiencing the Sea of Consciousness mutation.
The roots of the Wheel of the Year seemed to be still far away, as if he still had to pass through countless wheel marks before he could reach it, and as if he could reach it by crossing one wheel mark.
Ning Cheng endured that heart-breaking bone scraping torment without withdrawing, not that he was being cheap. Rather, a little green colour appeared not far ahead of him. It was a small green seedling like a bean sprout. This one little green seedling. It was growing right between the ninety-ninth whorl mark and the hundredth whorl mark of the Wheel of the Year, looking delicate and incomparable.
The Wheel of the Year was transparent, and Ning Cheng had seen a touch of green when he entered the Wheel of the Year for the second time. And now he saw a little green sprout, which made him wonder if the green colour he had seen when he had just entered the Wheel of the Year was this one bean sprout seedling.
A green sprout could grow out of the Year Wheel, even if Ning Cheng was stupid, he knew that this one green sprout was definitely not unusual.
He could not get the branch of the Wheel of the Year, but this green sprout that he saw, he definitely did not want to let go.
Even though Ning Cheng was too desperate to obtain this green bud. Even though this green bud was only a few feet away from him. These few feet were like a heavenly rift, making it difficult for him to surmount.
The bone-scraping dao rhythm of the ages was becoming more and more unbearable for him, and perhaps in the next second, he would simply be swept away. But he was really unwilling, seeing that he could not even take what he wanted, how could he be willing to do so?
When he went out, he could also ask Li Feng for a branch. In Ning Cheng’s opinion, it was not very likely that Li Feng would give him the branch of the Yearly Wheel. He had once given a bottle of Qian Yuan Heavenly Pill to Li Feng before he entered the Year Wheel cultivation. In this situation, even Li Feng had not said anything about wanting to help despite asking. How could he guarantee that Li Feng would give him a twig of the Year Wheel?
“Ka-ching,” the bone-scraping yearning blade marks finally scraped through Ning Cheng’s Dao rhythm, penetrating into the skin and flesh and blood. It brought off a bone.
Ning Cheng sucked in a breath and his divine essence ran wild as he began to burn his Dao Rhyme.
At the same moment that his Dao Rhyme began to burn, Ning Cheng sacrificed his Void Cold Light Gun, which slowly stabbed out.
A gun pattern stood out in the Wheel of the Year, and this gun seemed to pierce through the Dao Rhyme of the Ages, yet it was as swift as a sharp arrow.
Time is like an arrow, the years are like a shuttle.
Ning Cheng had finally turned the Ages into substance and blasted away that terrifying flow of the Dao Rhythm of Ages with his Ages Divine Ability.
An aura of burning years emerged from the head of the Void Cold Light Gun, and the Dao Marks of Ages in front of Ning Cheng finally weakened as Ning Cheng took a step forward and raised his hand to cup the small green seedling.
A feeling of extreme weakness came over Ning Cheng, and at this moment, he felt his cultivation level regressing wildly. He could no longer withstand half a breath of time and began to retreat wildly.
“Boom!” The Dao Rhythm of Ages pushed Ning Cheng from the edge of the intersection of the ninety-ninth and one hundredth wheel marks, directly to the forty-ninth level.
The path he had travelled in a little over half a month seemed to have been sent back in a matter of breaths.
Ning Cheng sat paralyzed on the ground, not coming to look at the Void Cold Light Gun, but instead gazing at the green-coloured sapling in his hand.
Vitality, age, renewal, vastness ……
An endless aura of Dao rhythm came from the tiny green sapling, the more Ning Cheng looked at it the more joyful he became, he was sure that this little bean sprout was not simple, his payment was definitely worth it, he had picked up a treasure.
After carefully sending this little green seedling into the Xuanhuang Pearl and planting it, and instructing Chasing Ox to take good care of it, Ning Cheng then began to recover his energy.
For this little green seedling, he had burned his Dao Rhyme, and if it wasn’t for the fact that he was too powerful in his Xuanhuang Wufang and his divine essence was terrifyingly deep after advancing to Dao Yuan. Just by virtue of the fact that he dared to burn Dao Rhyme in the midst of the passage of bone scraping years, his strength would have dropped again from Dao Yuan at the second step of Dao Certification to Dao Transformation.
After spending another year in the forty-ninth circle of the Wheel of the Year, Ning Cheng then stood up and prepared to go out. A year was only a few days outside. Ning Cheng also knew that even if he stayed here for another year, he was afraid that he would not be able to fully recover.
The after-effects of burning Dao Rhymes were simply too great, and it was a good thing that he had a better place to go, and that was the Dragon Washing Pond. After leaving the Du Xuan Ancient Clan, the first place he would go to was the Dragon Washing Pond.
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“Dan Sage Ning, congratulations on your Daoist Dao Yuan enlightenment!” Ning Cheng had just walked out when Li Feng’s enthusiastic congratulatory voice came over. Behind Li Feng, there were no longer three people following, but six or seven. Jin Moltaki, Huo Bing and Shao Mozi were also following beside them.
While Li Feng’s mouth was enthusiastic, his heart was even more shocked. He could not have imagined that Ning Cheng had really succeeded in advancing to Dao Yuan Saint Emperor, and it had only taken him a little over four years, less than five years. Even if Ning Cheng had made it to the twentieth round of the yearly cycle, four years out there would only be less than a hundred years.
This kind of genius cultivation speed had never been seen before, even if he, Li Feng, was guarding the Yearly Wheel. Of course, he did not know that Ning Cheng had cultivated at the forty-ninth wheel mark. Even less did he know that Ning Cheng had also been to the ninety-ninth wheel mark, if he did, as he himself could not go there.
However, Ning Cheng had taken the Yearly Wheel’s Inheritance Sapling in the Yearly Wheel, and he knew it clearly in his heart. The Inheritance Sapling of the Wheel of the Year had appeared during Ning Cheng’s last cultivation, it was just that he did not have the chance to see it. This time when Ning Cheng came to be taken away by him, I was afraid that there was an intentional inheritance from the Wheel of the Year. Even if it was the Year Wheel’s intention to pass it on, he still had to get this inheritance sapling back, preferably without offending Ning Cheng.
The only thing that puzzled him or felt normal was that Ning Cheng’s Dao rhythm was slightly weak and messy. His face was also a little pale, and the aura on his body did not look like that of a true Dao Yuan powerhouse.
He was puzzled because Ning Cheng was not like this even if he had not solidified his cultivation after he had witnessed the Dao Origin. He found it normal because he guessed that Ning Cheng had forcibly attained Dao Yuan, which had caused his foundation to be unstable. It was difficult to say whether Ning Cheng’s choice was right or wrong in this situation, because this kind of root instability was not root destruction, it was something that could take a lot of time to recover from.
Not only Li Feng, but the rest of the Du Xuan Ancient Clan were just as shocked by Ning Cheng’s cultivation speed. This was a trip into the Yearly Wheel and he had advanced to Dao Yuan. Fortunately, the Yearly Wheel was not Ning Cheng’s, if it was Ning Cheng’s, then his cultivation realm would still be necessary?
In fact, even if the Year Wheel was Ning Cheng’s, his cultivation realm would not have been as fast. The main dao rhyme in the Year Wheel was the Dao Rhyme of Ages, and after Ning Cheng had advanced to Dao Yuan, he could only sense divine abilities in the Year Wheel. If he wanted to use the Year Wheel to advance to the Mixed Origin, that was somewhat unrealistic.
The difference between a Mixed Yuan and a Dao Yuan was that a Mixed Yuan had a first decay. A true hybrid Yuan powerhouse must experience the first decay of a celestial being. The dao rhyme rules of the Wheel of the Ages are too powerful and limit the rest of the rules and dao rhymes in heaven and earth. The Mixed Yuan realm is a comprehensive fusion of the Dao rules of heaven and earth.
Ning Cheng hastily saluted politely and said, “I was able to attain Dao Yuan in such a short period of time thanks to the Li Clan Chief for allowing me to cultivate in the Year Wheel.”
Li Feng politely saluted again before inviting, “As Dao Saint Ning has attained Dao Origin, my Du Xuan Ancient Clan has prepared a small amount of wine and would like to celebrate for Dao Saint Ning, I wonder what Dao Saint Ning would like to do?”
After Ning Cheng had attained Dao Yuan, he already had many things to discuss with Li Feng, so at this time, when Li Feng took the initiative to invite him, he naturally would not refuse.
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This time when he invited Ning Cheng, Li Feng still only brought Jin Moltaki, Huo Bing and Shao Mozi, the rest of the people did not come along with him. The wine brewed by the Du Xuan Ancient Clan was not as good as Mo Xiang Yi, and also had a mellow characteristic.
The Du Xuan Ancient Clan wanted to befriend Ning Cheng, and Ning Cheng also wanted to draw the Du Xuan Ancient Clan in, so the atmosphere between the two sides was cordial, and the more they talked, the more congenial they became. The more the two sides talked, the more they got to know each other. Li Feng had long since made up his mind that if Ning Cheng wanted to help him deal with the Barbarian Society Mountain, he would send out a mixed Yuan powerhouse. Not in the name of the Du Xuan Ancient Clan, but in the name of Ning Cheng’s friend. Of course, the person could not be from the Du Xuan Ancient Clan either.
It was just that after a few hours of talking about it, Ning Cheng just did not mention the matter of helping. If Ning Cheng did not mention it, Li Feng naturally would not say much, even if Ning Cheng did not mention it for several days and nights, he would not take the initiative to do so. He was considering how to bring up the topic of the Yearly Wheel Inheritance.
It was at this time that Ning Cheng suddenly pulled on the Heaven and Earth rules of the Tai Su Realm, “If it wasn’t for the broken Heaven and Earth rules of the Tai Su Realm, I believe that no one from the Tai Yi Realm would want to go there either.”
Jin Moltaki said approvingly, “That’s right, the Tai Su Realm and the Tai Yi Realm were originally equal interfaces. The reason why the Taiyi Realm is so attractive is simply because the rules of heaven and earth of Taiyi are complete.”
Ning Cheng agreed then asked, “Clan Chief Li, do you think that an interface with broken rules like the Tai Su Realm can be repaired?”
Li Feng didn’t think much about it and just shook his head, “Repairing the Tai Su Realm interface, difficult difficult difficult!”
Ning Cheng’s heart was pleased when he heard this, as Li Feng merely said it was difficult and did not say that it could not be repaired, he hurriedly asked again, “Why?”
Li Feng said with a straight face, “To repair a top level interface like the Tai Su Realm, the Chaos First Tree will have to be used, and the Tai Su Realm’s earth veins are so badly broken that the World Mountain might also have to be used.”
“Then doesn’t that mean that if you can find the Chaos First Tree and the World Mountain, you can repair the Tai Su Realm?” Ning Cheng asked this with his mouth, but his heart was already cold.
With a name like the Chaos First Tree, it would be strange if it could be found by him.