Ning Cheng had previously thought that it was an individual powerful road thief who had intercepted him, and through his conversation with Tong Hua, he knew that there were very many road thieves here. It was also because of this that some powerful people would always take some guards with them when they went out.
When Ning Cheng’s divine sense swept out, he realised that this was not some individual road bandit, this was a complete siege by an army of road bandits.
There were tens of thousands of guys dressed in uniform, forcing the huge ship to a halt. Although there were tens of thousands of guards and ship passengers on board, they were fighting individually and were no match for this army of road pirates.
As the army of road pirates forced their way over in the form of a trapping and killing formation, groups of guards and boat passengers were killed, while some other boat passengers, seeing the bad situation, turned around and began to flee in disarray.
Although the army of road pirates was strong, it could not block off this area of space. In addition, the army of pirates seemed to be very purposeful, allowing those who were not important to escape. In a short time, apart from a few boat passengers who were being guarded by a large number of guards and could not escape, most of them had already left.
Among them were Rui Si and Tang Hua, as well as the head of the huge ship, who was trapped by the pirates and could not escape.
It was obvious that the pirates knew that these people were the ones who had the oil on their backs.
When Ning Cheng saw that the number of guards around Tong Hua was getting smaller and smaller, while Huang Fu Xiu, who was the strongest, was guarding Ruisi, he could not help but sigh in his heart that the guards in this place were really keeping their word. Huangfu Xiu had previously been Tong Hua’s guard, but now that he had transferred to Ruisi, he didn’t care about Tong Hua’s peace of mind half as much. On top of that, these guards actually didn’t flee.
The reason why Ning Cheng was puzzled as to why the guards here did not flee was because he did not understand the guard system here. Strictly speaking, he wasn’t considered an escort. This was because true guards had to go and register, for example, after he became Rui Si’s guard, he had to go to the Moron King Domain or the War Song Emperor Domain to register as a Rui Si guard.
Once you become a guard, you must also die whenever the person you are escorting falls. Every escort has a mark on them, and even if you flee as far as you can, you will still be hunted down and killed to death. Throughout the Bright Sky, there is such a group of assassins who specialise in hunting down and killing escorts.
Taking a step back, even if the mark is removed from your body, you can only live your life in anonymity replacing your head face. Otherwise, anywhere you go, you are an existence that is shouted at and killed.
Because Ruis had forgotten about Ning Cheng, she had never brought him to register his escort status. Later on, he was in a hurry to go to the Sacred Domain and had never done this either.
It was also fortunate that Ruis had not done it, if Ruis had dared to take Ning Cheng to do the guard seal, Ning Cheng would definitely not have taken this boat. He would definitely have refused to do the escort seal without hesitation and then searched for the Sacred Domain to go alone.
Once Ning Cheng refused, there would definitely be a big battle. No escort would dare to refuse to do the escort seal, and one could imagine that in that great battle, Ning Cheng would go on a killing spree.
The cloaked Tong Hua saw Ning Cheng coming out with the chasing ox and moved anxiously towards Ning Cheng. As more and more people fled and more people trapped her, she moved slower and slower.
Seeing that Rui Si was about to be swamped by the many armies of road robbers, Ning Cheng could only sigh and walk over.
Originally, Ning Cheng had not moved and no one had come to pay attention to him, but as soon as Ning Cheng moved, hundreds of Road Pirate hordes immediately surged over.
Ning Cheng naturally did not hold back and the Time Wheel swept out directly.
A vague wheel of light was like years passing by, taking away all traces of it.
“Brush ……” Before the vaguely faint time wheel, apart from a faint layer of blood mist aura, there was only a spacious gap, as if the place had been washed by a flood, there was no more obstruction.
Ning Cheng was infinitely close to Yuk Dao, facing this kind of army of starry sky cultivators led by only a few Shaping Dao and Yuk Dao, it was too easy for him to fight.
The cultivation level of the army of cultivators here was not even Shaping Dao, and they relied on the trapping and killing formation attacks. These trapping and killing formation attacks were unbeatable against a Dao-shaping realm like Tang Hua. However, in front of Ning Cheng, it was full of loopholes. Each of his Time Wheels would strike at the weak point of this trapping formation attack.
With Ning Cheng’s muddy cultivation, dozens of Time Wheels went out, and in front of him was already an open field. The army of tens of thousands of Road Pirates had already fallen by over a thousand under his casual strikes. All this, apart from the fact that Ning Cheng’s Time Wheel was too strong, what was more important was that Ning Cheng was proficient in the Dao of Formation.
A powerful aura of age filled over and all the people were stunned by Ning Cheng’s strike. That Road Thief Head finally understood that he had kicked iron this time. A few random Time Wheels had taken out so many of his people, if he continued, his army of Road Pirates would be completely wiped out.
“Withdraw ……” In fact, there was no need for the road bandit leader to speak at all, the numerous road bandit armies had already started to collapse.
What the road pirates relied on was just the formation, once the formation was broken, even if Ning Cheng did not make a move, these road pirates would not be able to crush the people on the boat, at most it would be a two-way defeat.
It was like a dream, the army of road pirates who were facing the threat of death just a moment ago, retreated in a short time, leaving only a mess behind.
Tong Hua finally reacted and hurriedly walked up to Ning Cheng and bowed, “Thanks to Brother Ning for helping out this time, I didn’t expect to meet the army of road pirates.”
She had indeed not expected it, armies of road pirates rarely appeared, appearing for heavy treasures or piles of resources. It was evident that someone on this boat was carrying heavy treasures and had been inquired about by the army of road pirates.
Ning Cheng smiled, “It’s just a hand up, besides we are all on the same boat.”
“Thank you for your friend’s kindness in saving me, I am the deacon here, Cheng Yong. My friend’s cultivation is astounding, I was much neglected by Cheng Yong before, please ……” Another man came up to Ning Cheng to thank him.
Ning Cheng stopped his words, “As I said, we are all in the same boat, so there is no need to say polite and.”
Ning Cheng himself knew very well in his heart that if it wasn’t for this army of Road Pirates, but for a group of rabble to besiege him, his Time Wheel really wouldn’t have had this effect. It was because the attacking formation of this army of Road Pirates was all broken in his eyes that he could so easily.
At this moment, several more boat passengers with numerous guards came up to thank Ning Cheng, and among them was an obese man in scarlet daoist robes that made Ning Cheng pay extra attention. This man was sandwiched in the middle of the crowd, not even the slightest bit inconspicuous. Moreover, he had also been injured during the siege by the army of road pirates just now, and a large portion of his guards had been killed or injured.
Yet Ning Cheng felt that this man was the one who looked the most relaxed among the many survivors.
If one were to look at his face alone, this fat man with his tiny eyes and slightly crowded features was clearly not a person with an open heart. It was not normal for someone who was not open-minded to look so open-minded.
This guy was most likely the target of these road robbers’ attacks, and perhaps he was carrying treasures that made the road robbers want them.
“Ning Cheng, why don’t you come to my side?” Rui Si also walked over, her eyes somewhat complicated as she looked at Ning Cheng. In her heart, she was extremely regretful that she had actually exchanged Ning Cheng for Huangfu Xiu. Huangfu Xiu was not bad, but compared to Ning Cheng, it was like the difference between a straw chicken and a phoenix.
After saying this, Rui Si looked towards Tang Hua. She thought that the greatest resistance to letting Ning Cheng come to her side should be Tong Hua, and she was prepared to wait for Tong Hua to speak and find a way to make Tong Hua agree.
Ning Cheng instantly frowned, this woman really thought that she was someone.
Seeing Ning Cheng frowning, Tong Hua suddenly said, “Sister Rui Si, I only now know that Brother Ning is not a guard, you have hidden it from me so hard, making me suffer a loss for nothing. All guards have to go and do registration and then put on the guard seal, Brother Ning hasn’t gone and registered.”
This was obtained after she had gone to investigate after making a deal with Ning Cheng.
When Ning Cheng heard this, he instantly understood. Tang Hua was speaking for him, he had not registered and was not yet considered an escort. He hadn’t thought before that a guard would have to register and then do the guard seal. If he had known that there was such a thing, he would never have registered or made any seal.
“It’s nothing, Ning Cheng, we’ll be arriving at the War Song Imperial Domain soon, so let’s go and register at the War Song Imperial Domain.” Ruis said as she looked at Ning Cheng with some charming intent.
Ning Cheng was really speechless, this woman was nuts, right?
“It’s fine to go all the way to the Sacred Domain, to register as an escort, I’m not half interested.” Ning Cheng refused Rui Si without hesitation, without any half-hearted euphemism.
“……” Rui Si looked at Ning Cheng in surprise, even if that divine ability Ning Cheng had just used was very strong, after all, Ning Cheng’s strength was nothing to some strong people. What made such a casual cultivator from the Mortal Domain dare to reject her words?
Just then, another flying magic treasure came over. The crowd was immediately on alert, after all, they had almost been robbed by an army of road pirates just now.
But Rui Si said joyfully, “Don’t worry everyone, it’s my father who has sent someone to pick me up.”
Ning Cheng knew that Rui Si’s true identity was the daughter of Jiang Gong of the War Song Imperial Domain, and Jiang Gong was the Imperial Monarch of the War Song Imperial Domain, so he had sent someone to fetch Rui Si, so he should have heard the news of the Road Bandit army moving out.
Sure enough, after that flying magic treasure landed, several strong men came to Ruisi’s side and greeted her up.
“Sister Tong Hua, let’s go up together.” Ruis invited to Tong Hua, who was standing to the side.
Ning Cheng knew very well what Rui Si meant, he was now with Tang Hua, and as long as Tang Hua went up, he would definitely go up. However, Ning Cheng did not intend to go up, even if Tong Hua went up, he would not go up either.
The people who had come to pick up Ruisi were all powerful people, Ning Cheng was not afraid of them, but he would not be foolish enough to go and ride on the other party’s flying magic treasure.
Tong Hua smiled faintly and looked at Ning Cheng and asked, “Brother Ning, what do you mean?”
Ning Cheng said calmly, “I won’t be going up, we can just meet at the Sacred Domain when the time comes.”
Ning Cheng was prepared to ask Tang Hua for the directional map to the Sacred Domain, if Tang Hua did not give it to him, then this cooperation would be called off and he would go to the Sacred Domain himself and think of another way.
Tong Hua gave a hmph and said to Ruis, “This attack by the Road Pirate army is most likely caused by me, so I won’t be going up there. Sister Ruis, I’ll meet you at the Sanctuary.”