“Boom,” a black shadow landed in the muddy field with the swirling vortex in the air, and the mud tumbled.
Only after a long time did a man covered in black mud limp up from the mud field. The mud man wiped away the black mud from his face and was none other than Ning Cheng who had been swept away by the spacetime vortex in the void earlier.
Ning Cheng looked around in confusion for a moment before looking down at his broken leg. After just two breaths, Ning Cheng’s heart sank.
He could not feel any Dao rhythm aura or divine essence power, no, not to mention Dao rhythm aura and divine essence power, even his divine sense and true essence he could not feel. At this moment, there was not a single bit of cultivation on him, at this moment he was an ordinary person who could not be more ordinary.
What happened?
In a panic, Ning Cheng hurriedly limped over to the stream by the mud field and washed all the mud off his face. The young face he had when he was still studying in Jiangzhou was revealed, and his hair was not the grey it had been after being decapitated by the axe intent of the Indestructible Axe before, but had turned completely black.
He stretched out his hand and tried to offer a fireball spell, but he could no longer transfer any true essence or divine sense. The Star River Flame in his sea of consciousness, as well as the Indestructible Green Thunder City, he could not even feel.
Ning Cheng sat down and wanted to try to run his gong techniques and absorb spiritual qi for cultivation. But it was of no use, he could not cultivate.
It was only after a full hour or two that Ning Cheng stood up in dismay, he did not understand what was happening to him.
The axe pattern killing intent of the Indestructible Axe had indeed been removed by the Returning Head Bodhi Seed, while his Dao Dao Rhythm and all his cultivation had also been removed at the same time. At this moment, he returned to his most ordinary time.
The Yuan Shen that Ji Fengyu had left behind with that trace of intent to form had once said that his Dao heart was scarred and that the Returning Head Bodhi Seed would allow him to sense the third step. He used the Returning Head Bodhi Seed, and although he did not feel the third step, he did feel the aura of Dao Harmony.
He sensed the late stage of mixed origin, the peak of mixed origin, and even sensed that he had merged with the Dao. Even though those were illusory, he did feel it.
Could it be that the function of the Returning Head Bodhi Seed was to allow him to feel the illusory merging dao as well? No, the Echoing Bodhi Seed must be a heaven-defying treasure, otherwise how could it have allowed him to cut away the indestructible axe killing intent and even sent him to such an ordinary place? I am afraid that the Yuan Shen of the Eternal Hope Abyss did not realise the true preciousness of the Returning Head Bodhi Seed either.
Since the Returning Head Bodhi Seed had sent him to this place, it must have been meaningful. Otherwise there would be no need to call it the Returning Head Bodhi Seed, it could simply be called something like the Transporting Talisman.
Ning Cheng didn’t dwell on the fact that he had become an ordinary person, he was bound to die and had picked up a small life under the Returning Head Bodhi Seed, so what else was there to dwell on?
Although he was unable to cultivate, his realm was completely empty and he could not feel the spiritual energy and the rules of heaven and earth here. Ning Cheng also had a vague hunch that the place he had come to was an interface that could not be more ordinary, an interface that was even as low as Earth, with no cultivation and only low-level technology.
After cleaning himself thoroughly, Ning Cheng found a tree branch and limped away from this place where he had landed. No matter what, he had to find out where he was first.
The area around the mud field was empty and even looked a little desolate. It was reasonable to say that next to the mud field, there were villages, but in fact Ning Cheng walked for another hour and not only did he not see a village, he did not even see a single person.
Seeing that the sun was about to set, Ning Cheng decided to find a place to settle down first. With his current strength as an ordinary person, it was not a good thing to walk in such an unfamiliar place.
Just at this time, the breeze brought a noisy sound. Ning Cheng thought he had heard it wrong and deliberately stopped to listen carefully, but it was still a noisy sound.
Ning Cheng sprinted over in the direction where the noisy sound came from, and after going over a small hill, he finally got a clear view.
In front of him was a huge basin, and in the centre of this basin were almost ten thousand people gathered. The sun had not yet set and countless torches had already been lit in the centre of the basin.
In the middle of the crowd was a black pillar to which a young girl with long hair was tied. Even though they were quite far apart and could not see the young girl’s face, Ning Cheng could tell from the young girl’s figure and vague face shape that this should be a very beautiful young girl.
The young girl was very flamboyantly dressed and wore various jewellery on her head.
Ning Cheng frowned slightly, why was she tied up? Immediately afterwards, his eyes saw the dry firewood underneath the pillar. In that instant Ning Cheng understood, and before he could think why, a man with a torch threw the torch into the dry firewood.
The flames scuffed up and rolled up, completely wrapping the woman in it. As the flames rolled up, the people around them began to cheer and sing.
Ning Cheng clenched his fists and had a sulky feeling in his heart. He did not know what mistake the young girl had made to be burned alive and then there were countless people cheering and chanting.
A man in a grey robe stepped up to the high platform behind the flames at that moment, and in a shrill voice chanted, “The great emperor of the blessed life goes up again, we offer our emperor with the purest blood and soul of Tia, may our fate be with the emperor, may our souls forever prostrate themselves reverently at the emperor’s feet… …”
All the people in the basin fell to their knees in this chant, all the while repeating this shrill voice under their breath. (The question of language is not explained in the book. The language of any planet is different, and any language is also a rule; control the rule and you control everything.)
Ning Cheng was furious and clenched his fist even more, he thought that the young girl had made some mistake, this was simply the same as the pure body suppression in the underground abyss of the Taiyi Realm, using the blood and soul of a young girl to sacrifice to an emperor.
Ning Cheng knew this kind of thing all too well, even though he couldn’t see it, he knew that countless wish powers were gathered in one place in this sacrifice.
At this moment, if Ning Cheng’s cultivation was still there, he would even hate to roll down a flame and turn all the people in this basin into flying ashes.
There was no one more keen on wish power collection than the Blue Cheng Wishing Race, a race that also provided powerful wish power support for the kings of the Wishing Race through this prayer wish power.
This Blessing Emperor, I wonder if he was a Yuan Shen that had escaped from the Blue Cheng Wishing Race. Ning Cheng was clear that the technique cultivated by the Blue Cheng Wishing Race was remarkable, a branch of the Fate divine Aptitude, the Fate of Destiny. The Fate Blessing Emperor, most likely, was also a member of the Blue Cheng Wishing Clan.
As the ritual was still going on, Ning Cheng quietly felt his way down the hill and blended into the crowd.
Tens of thousands of people were here for the ritual, and with one more Ning Cheng, no one cared at all. Only after a few hours had passed, when the sky was already slightly lightened, did the ritual end.
The crowd slowly began to disperse, and Ning Cheng, who had long been waiting impatiently, followed the crowd.
Originally, Ning Cheng had planned to find the barbaric place where these people lived, and then wait for the opportunity to find someone on the outskirts to ask where exactly this place was.
But when Ning Cheng saw a tall giant city, he realised that he had guessed wrong. On top of the huge city was written ‘General Sand City’, with tall gates and several guards guarding the city entrance. By now the sky was fully lit up and countless people were entering and leaving the city gates. Where was this a savage village? This was a prosperous city.
Ning Cheng followed these believers who had returned from the rituals for the Blessed Emperor to the city gates, and then Ning Cheng noticed that the people who were entering and exiting gave way and took the initiative to let these believers who had returned from the rituals enter the city first.
Even the two guards bowed their heads and showed a respectful look.
Ning Cheng had been through all the vicissitudes and had experienced too many things in the vastness of the universe. Such a scene had already made him understand that there were not just followers of the Blessed Destiny Emperor in Shogun Sand City. But these believers were a great power in Shifting Sands City, a power that even the City Lord feared was scornful. Otherwise, this scene would not have appeared before him.
Ning Cheng followed after these believers and entered the Shifting Sands City without any fear or danger.
Although Ning Cheng had lost all his cultivation, his sixth intuition was still there. With his powerful intuition, as soon as he entered the Shifting Sands City, he felt several gazes with hatred sweep past him.
Ning Cheng’s heart was clear, it looked like these followers of the Blessed Destiny Emperor were not welcome here.
The streets of Will Sand City were spacious, with merchant buildings and shops lining both sides of the street. It was still early in the morning and the streets had already been crowded with all sorts of merchants.
When these people saw the believers approaching, they hurriedly gave way to the side of the street, giving the spacious street to the believers to go first.
Ning Cheng in the crowd of believers hurriedly took the opportunity to turn out of the line of believers and dodged into the crowd on the side of the street.
Ning Cheng had just breathed a sigh of relief when a pitch-black hand grabbed his arm, “Good, you’ve got a lot of nerve, how dare you impersonate a believer of the Emperor of Fate. As soon as I squeal, you will immediately be split into five horses and chopped into meat paste, and finally ……”
“And finally fed to the dogs right?” Ning Cheng said calmly, the one who grabbed him was a skinny teenager who was dressed in rags and was even more down and out than him. His hands were pitch black and he didn’t know how long it had been since he had washed them.
The skinny teenager looked at Ning Cheng in shock and subconsciously let go of his hand, asking in a surprised soft voice, “Aren’t you afraid?”
Ning Cheng smiled heatedly, “I’m afraid, but I’m sure I’d give you ten thousand guts not to squeal, don’t believe me, go out and squeal and see.”
After saying that, Ning Cheng dodged and stepped aside. With his experience and readings, dealing with such a little caller was really too much of a victory.
The little caller awkwardly put down his hand, rubbed it and said, “Big brother, you are really wise and wise, I will follow you in the future ……”
Ning Cheng raised his hand to stop the little caller’s words, “Don’t play this, I don’t have a single coin on me, so if you want to follow me to mix food and drink, forget it. I’m starving myself right now, I’m looking for someone to treat me to a meal.”
Little caller smiled heatedly, “Big brother, my little brother really admires you for daring to mix in with the followers of the Zhu Fei emperor, without further ado, my little brother will take you to eat delicious food.”
Ning Cheng looked at Little Caller with suspicion, “You’re taking me to eat delicious food? You don’t have half a copper coin on you combined, do you?”
“Let’s go to the Yu family. The Yu family is having a big celebration these days, and the feast is all set up on the street. I don’t dare to go alone, but you are brave, you must have a way to get in. I’m telling you, the most beautiful woman in the city is Miss Qing of the Yu family ……,” said the little caller with a longing look on his face. It is not clear whether he is longing for good food or to see Miss Qing.