“Well?” When Tong Hua saw that Ning Cheng had finished answering, he hurriedly inquired.
Ning Cheng hesitated for a moment before saying, “Not very sure, I haven’t seen this kind of thing before, but even if I can’t get all of them right, I should have no problem getting some of them right.”
“Ah ……” Tong Hua gave an ah, somewhat puzzled.
By now the time was up and all the jade talismans were sent into it. A few breaths later, the results of the second level of identification were shown.
Almost as soon as the list came out, Ning Cheng swept up his and Tong Hua’s names, ranking fifth.
“We’re still fifth ……” Tong Hua was not as calm as Ning Cheng and shouted out in surprise. Fifth meant that they were bound to be in the top ten. In fact, there were only six sets of names on the list this time, which meant that Ning Cheng and Tong Hua had entered the top six straight away.
The rankings came out and a white jade passage appeared again in front of them, and there was still a large door at the end of the passage.
Ning Cheng did not hesitate to lead the way through, thirteen refiners participated in the second round of selection and only six of them could finally enter the third gate. As for how the seventh to tenth places would be selected, Ning Cheng did not care at all.
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Even though the divine sense of the people in the Great Hall of the Light Vault could not sweep into the Void Gate, they clearly saw that Ning Cheng had obtained the fifth place. Fifth in both rounds, that meant that Tong would definitely make it into the top six.
“Brother Shi, I didn’t expect you to have left such a hand, where did you find this person from?” A square-faced man walked up to Tong Shi and asked with some envy.
Not only this square-faced man, but also several other people beside him looked at Tong Shi with envy. On the surface, Tong Shi did not seem to care much about the materials for the Light Treasury and casually gave this opportunity to her granddaughter, Tong Hua. It was not expected that Tong Shi had planned ahead and had easily won the top six.
If it was said that Tang Shi did not know Ning Cheng at all before and that Ning Cheng was found by his granddaughter, Tang Hua, occasionally, it was estimated that no one in this great hall would believe this matter.
How could there be such a coincidence under the heavens? It must be that Tang Shi had already known about Ning Cheng’s level of weaponry dao, which was why he was willing to give the opportunity to Tang Hua.
You Wash’s face was somewhat gloomy, although the You family had entered the top six as well, he had an additional resentment towards Tong Shi in his heart.
He was thinking the same as the others, that Tang Shi must have known Ning Cheng a long time ago. Otherwise, it was impossible for a random Hedao Saint Emperor to have such profound attainments in the Dao of Weapons.
The way Tang Shi acted like he was unfamiliar with Ning Cheng before was purely a desire to catch him. Since Tang Shi had known Ning Cheng for a long time, then the matter of Ning Cheng killing his granddaughter You Daodi would not have been unknown to Tang Shi.
Tong Shi opened his mouth, intending to explain, but he didn’t even know how to explain himself. If he had been in the same position as someone else, he would have been just as suspicious.
Ju Ju looked at Tang Shi with a meaningful smile and said, “Brother Tang has a good eye, to have picked a powerful Weapon Daoist like Ning Cheng, congratulations to Brother Tang for obtaining a top treasure.”
Tong Shi’s heart thumped, he did not think that Ju Ju was congratulating him with good intentions. Even if Tang Hua and Ning Cheng had made it to the top six, whether they would be able to obtain the top treasures was still another matter.
How could he not understand what Ju Ju meant, which was that he might have had something to do with Nong Xiyi’s disappearance? Because Ning Cheng’s origins were unknown, he had a great relationship with the Tong family. If Nong Xiyi’s disappearance was the work of the Tong Family in conjunction with Ning Cheng, then the Dark Origin Pearl was in the Tong Family. The top treasure that Ju Ju’s mouth was talking about was the Dark Origin Pearl.
Moreover, it was easy to explain why Ning Cheng had joined hands with Tong Shi to take Nong Xiyi away and seize the Dark Origin Pearl. Since Ning Cheng was the Weaponry Master invited by the Tong Family, why didn’t he live in the Tong Family instead?
More importantly, why did Ning Cheng happen to disappear when Nong Ximu’s cave was destroyed and Nong Xifei was taken away? And Ning Cheng’s beast pet was at the Rest Inn?
Apart from this meaning, Ju Ju’s words had another layer of meaning, that was to pull hatred. Ning Cheng dared to destroy the Lai Fu Dao Sect, and without the Tong Family behind him, no one would probably believe it.
Even if Ju Guan did not pull hatred, You Shuai already had some lumps in his heart towards Tong Shi, and with the addition of this fire from Ju Guan, You Shuai’s face was even more gloomy. He had already thought that Ning Cheng dared to make a move against his granddaughter, You Duo Dai, because of Tong Shi’s support.
Tong Shi could only clasp his fist helplessly and politely, but in his heart he did not know how to explain. If he wanted to remove the relationship between the Tang Family and Ning Cheng, there was really no other way than to take the initiative to deal with Ning Cheng.
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“Daoist Ning is friendly and capable, if I’m not wrong, Daoist Ning should not know the Soul Crystal, but judged it based on his own experience, right?” A black-bearded old man asked Ning Cheng with a fist clasp as he purposely took a few quick steps and was side by side with Ning Cheng.
“Tong Hua has met Master Seed Mirror.” Seeing this black-bearded old man, Tong Hua hurriedly clasped his fist and saluted.
It turned out that this was Master Seed Mirror, Ning Cheng also had great admiration for this black-bearded old man, who had ranked first in the successive annual rounds of material identification competitions.
“What Daoist Seed Mirror said is true, I have indeed never seen such a thing, I just felt that this was a Soul Crystal with my divine sense, and I didn’t expect to be mistaken somehow.” Ning Cheng said modestly.
“Not bad, please allow Seed Mirror one more word of nonsense. In fact, the Dao of Weapons is also a kind of Dao, if there are marks in your heart, I am afraid that it will be difficult to go far.” After saying this, Seed Mirror quickened his steps and was the first to cross into the third door.
Ning Cheng laughed coldly in his heart, he still had some good feelings towards Seed Mirror before. I didn’t expect that this guy would really use any means for the sake of being first.
What Seed Mirror meant was that he had killed Nong Xiyiwei in order to take the Dark Origin Pearl, meaning that he was not worthy of becoming a Weapon Dao Master.
Ning Cheng would never believe that Seed Mirror was so noble, this fellow was messing with his mind, this fellow should have wanted to take the first place. I really didn’t know why Seed Mirror was treating him as the first opponent, according to reason, he was fifth in both rounds, he shouldn’t be looked at by Seed Mirror.
In fact, Ning Cheng’s guess was really good, the person Seed Mirror was most worried about happened to be Ning Cheng.
If Ning Cheng had known the Soul Crystal in the second round, he would have won the fifth place. The key was that Ning Cheng did not know the Soul Crystal so far, and with his own judgement, he still managed to obtain the fifth place. It meant that Ning Cheng was his strong opponent for the first place.
He, Seed Mirror, had given too much for this first place. Because he wanted one of the treasures in the Light Vault, only the first would have the chance to be the first to go in and pick it out.
If he wasn’t the first to go in, then there was a good chance that something like that he had his eye on would be picked out by someone else. After all, none of those who could come here were weak in the Dao of Weapons.
At this moment, all twelve people had already walked into the third gate, and in front of them, as well, was a rectangular jade table. A jade box was placed in the centre of the jade table, but this one was a little larger than both of the previous jade boxes.
When the six jade talismans were taken away, the jade box slowly opened.
All eyes were fixed on this jade box, as long as they recognised the contents of this jade box, there was a good chance that they would advance to the top three.
The jade box opened and a drop of pitch-black water was suspended in the middle of the jade box.
A drop of black water?
Apart from Ning Cheng, the other five people’s eyes widened. Even Master Seed Mirror frowned, as he, too, had not seen what this drop of black water actually was.
Although Ning Cheng recognised what it was, he was equally puzzled and even disbelieving in his heart.
Because this kind of thing was too precious, his Xuanhuang Pearl had once generated this kind of thing when his five elements were gathered in full. That was right, this was none other than the Five Elements Divine Water, which ranked first in the Ten Waters of the Innate Heaven.
But Ning Cheng’s Five Elements Divine Water was completely different from this Five Elements Divine Water, where was the pitch-black Five Elements Divine Water? The Five Elemental Divine Water that he had obtained by perfecting the Xuanhuang Pearl was all coloured and crystal clear.
Ning Cheng’s gaze and divine sense landed on this pitch-black water bead, and he had a partial feeling that this was definitely Five Elemental Divine Water.
Tong Hua did not even ask Ning Cheng this time, she reckoned that Ning Cheng did not know what it was either. This was because this time Master Seed Mirror was all frowning and hesitant to inscribe words in the jade talisman. It was certain that this kind of thing had not been seen by Master Seed Mirror either.
After pondering for a moment, Ning Cheng still inscribed the Five Elements Divine Water message in the jade talisman. He guessed that this Five Elements Divine Water should have had some mutations, so it was better to answer honestly when he was not sure.
Originally, Ning Cheng was very slow in answering the questions, this time Ning Cheng was the first to finish answering and sent the jade talisman into the hole above the jade box.
“Brother Ning, you answered it?” Tong Hua looked at Ning Cheng with surprise and asked, she believed that if Ning Cheng could not answer, he would definitely not have carved the jade talisman so quickly.
Ning Cheng nodded, “I casually muddled it, I don’t know as to whether it’s right or not.”
After saying these words, Ning Cheng’s heart moved, he knew that he should not have been so fast just now. He should have thought long and hard before carving this jade talisman. However, since he had already done so, he was not afraid of it. Even if someone recognised it as the Five Elements Divine Water and guessed that he most likely had the Five Elements Creation Treasure on him, it would not threaten him.
Ning Cheng’s words made the rest of the refiners participating in the selection even more anxious, and Master Seed Mirror’s face was as gloomy as that of a drop of black water. Seeing that half a pillar of incense time was almost up, the crowd all seized the time to carve jade talismans. As for the content of the jade talisman, I am afraid only the person who carved it would know.
As he watched the round hole close up, Ning Cheng sighed a little in his heart. If only the first place winner was selected to go to the fourth gate this time, it would most likely be him.
Ning Cheng knew that he would definitely not be the only one who would go to the fourth gate to continue the identification, the yearly wheel in front of him had already explained the situation.
Sure enough, after all the people had sent the jade talismans into the round cave, the results of the third round of identification came out.
Ning Cheng and Tong Hua were clearly in first place, second was not Master Seed Mirror, but Master Luo Sa, and Seed Mirror was in third place.
There were only three rankings on the list, which meant that the only three people who entered the fourth door of the Light Vault were Ning Cheng, Master Seed Mirror and Master Luo Sa.
Ning Cheng glanced at Master Losar, who had yellow hair, and when he had finished fifth in the first round, Losar had sized him up.
“Brother Ning, Master Losar is helping the Holy Lord of the Light Sanctuary to participate in the Light Vault Entry Qualification Selection.” When Tong Hua saw Ning Cheng sizing up Grandmaster Losar, she held back her inner excitement and whispered a voice transmission to Ning Cheng.
Before she had participated in the selection, she had never thought that she and Ning Cheng would actually be able to rush into the top three.