Ning Cheng was not a nosy person, he knew that Zhuang Ya did not seem simple, but he did not even ask Xing Right. His aim was to just get to Pu Buhai Island. What other people were had nothing to do with him.
He followed Xin Right on the beast carriage and soon arrived at the docks of the Yixing Sea. Ning Cheng had been to the Mango Sea, but he had not been to the Great Pier.
Now that he saw Taiwanhai Town’s dock in the Yixing Sea, he suddenly understood the meaning of the phrase, which was to run the dock. This dock was really big, densely packed with all kinds of boats docked at the edge of the dock, and many people were carrying things back and forth.
Some of the monk armies wore uniform clothing and patrolled the edge of the pier. Compared to Mango City, where various forces were rampant, Ning Cheng felt that this Taiwan Sea Town was much more stable.
Xing Right brought Ning Cheng to a large boat and said, “This is our boat, you saw many people moving things to the boat, right? Later on, you go and help too, when that pile of stuff is finished, we are going to sail.”
“So where do I live?” Ning Cheng hurriedly asked.
Xing Right pointed at the group of people who were moving things onto the boat and said, “You can just join them later. Carry your things with them and get on the boat together, there are big rooms on the boat.”
Ning Cheng hurriedly said, “Deacon Xing, I have a cleanliness fetish and don’t really like living in a big bunk with many people. Can you help me get a room? Even if it’s smaller, it doesn’t matter.”
After Ning Cheng said this, he saw Xing You’s frown and immediately knew that things were not going to work out well, so he hurriedly added, “Deacon Xing, I don’t want the ten percent of gold coins that I got first, and I will also take out half of the gold coins after I arrive at Pu Buhai Island. This will be the introduction fee for Deacon Xing to introduce me to work on the ship ……”
Ning Cheng was only a porter crew member, and to ask for a separate room, Xing Right was originally a little uncomfortable. However, after hearing these words from Ning Cheng, he nodded slightly and felt that Ning Cheng was still considered to be a good person.
His impression of Ning Cheng was not bad in the first place, and now Ning Cheng spoke like this. He said directly, “There is a wind chamber at the stern of the ship, although the wind can be blocked, but when the ship is walking on the sea. The sound of the wind cannot be stopped. If you don’t care about the sound being too loud, you can live in that wind cabin instead.”
Ning Cheng hurriedly said, “Many thanks Deacon Xing, I am willing.”
Deacon Xing patted Ning Cheng’s shoulder and said, “It’s not easy to earn some gold coins out at sea, keep the introduction fee you said you would give me for yourself, and when you have saved enough gold coins, go and settle down in a peaceful city in Jia Continent.”
Seeing Deacon Xing leave, Ning Cheng sighed in his heart, even in the most treacherous places. There were still good people.
Ning Cheng began to follow the many porters’ crews and started to carry the goods, which really didn’t weigh much in his hands. His divine sense swept through them, they were all some food and many materials. None of the materials were of a very high grade, presumably some things for refining low grade magic weapons.
No one felt strange about Ning Cheng’s joining, there were people joining here all the time. There were people leaving all the time.
When the pile of goods was about to be finished, Ning Cheng once again saw that Zhuang Ya, only this time she was not alone, but five people together.
Ning Cheng’s gaze swept through and he knew that these five people were all at the ninth level of True Condensation. After these five people boarded the ship, they immediately entered the VIP room at the innermost part of the cabin.
Just as these five people boarded the ship, Xing Right stood at the front of the ship and said loudly. “Hurry up and get on board, the Flying Sea will set sail immediately.”
At this moment, the pile of goods piled up on the pier had already been moved, and Ning Cheng followed the group of porters and also seized the time to board the ship.
Ning Cheng was a little puzzled in his heart, he had enlisted as a crew member, wouldn’t he be allowed to move some things and wait until he arrived at Pu Buhai Island. This was a matter of moving things out again, right?
Xing You deliberately brought Ning Cheng to the wind cabin at the stern of the ship, took out a piece of paper and handed it to Ning Cheng, saying, “You will live here from now on, the rowers on the Flying Sea are on a five-day rotation. You remember the days of your own rotation, five days. You will have to go rowing for one day’s time, it’s all written very clearly on here.”
“And row the boat?” Ning Cheng knew that a thousand gold coins wouldn’t be that easy to earn, but he didn’t expect him to have to row the boat either.
Xing You looked at Ning Cheng with a surprised face and said, “Of course I have to row the boat, otherwise you think a thousand gold coins are so easy? But you don’t have to worry, there is a few months of tailwind this time, the sails are bulging enough, it won’t take much strength to row the boat.”
“I’ve never rowed a boat before, have I?” Ning Cheng said with a bitter face.
Xing Right laughed, “It’s not the kind of rowing you’re thinking of, but many people driving a spinning oar to drive the boat to speed up. The Flying Sea Merchant does not have the strength to hire someone to set up an array to drive this kind of spinning oar with spirit stones right now, it can only be done through human power.”
Only when Ning Cheng heard this did he sort of understand, and he had to say, “I understand.”
Xing Right nodded, “The dining area is in the food cabin, you can stay in this wind cabin first, if you really feel that you cannot adapt to it, you can go and find me. Or just move inside the large pa*sageway cabin.”
“Thank you Deacon Xing, I’ll take care of it.” Ning Cheng hurriedly thanked again.
Only after Xing Right left did Ning Cheng have the time to check out this wind cabin. There were many such wind pods on such ships, and these pods were designed for two purposes, one was to make the structure of the ship more compact, and the other was to reduce the resistance of the wind.
By giving Ning Cheng the wind chamber, Kouryu had also opened a small back door. The wind cabin was normally not allowed to be blocked, and now that Ning Cheng was living in it, it would have to be blocked. The sound of the wind was still bearable, but one couldn’t just sleep in the wind, right?
This wind pod that he was in was in the shape of a diagonal triangle, with an area of only about five square feet, which was enough for Ning Cheng.
This wind cabin had been blocked, and it looked like he wasn’t the first person to live here. The boat had only just started up now, but the sound of the wind that hit the outside of the wind cabin was already clattering, so one could imagine how loud this wind cabin would be once the boat was moving at high speed in the deep sea?
Ning Cheng, however, did not care as he began to set up the formations. The first thing he set up was the sound insulation formation. After the sound insulation formation was set up, the sound of the wind beating outside the wind cabin completely disappeared.
After that, Ning Cheng began to set up the Isolation Formation. There were five True Condensation Cultivators on this ship, so if he wanted to cultivate, he had to isolate the leakage of spiritual energy. As for the Spirit Gathering Formation, he did not set it up, once he set it up, the noise would be too great. Apart from the cut-off formation, Ning Cheng had also arranged a warning formation on the periphery of the wind cabin.
Even though Ning Cheng was sure that no one would find this place, he still felt that he had to be more careful.
He wouldn’t care about all the people on this ship combined, but this place was not a simple place. This was the range of the Yixing Sea Cultivator Army, and once someone learned that he was a Yuan Establishment Cultivator hiding inside an ordinary merchant ship, he would immediately have to be investigated.
Not to mention that the cultivator surnamed Kang was certainly not of low status in the Jiazhou Cultivator Army, even if this was not the case, it would be months before he was investigated, and he was pressed for time, so how could he have time to waste on this?
After setting up his place, the first thing Ning Cheng did was to take out a pile of spirit stones and cultivate while healing his wounds.
With so many spirit stones, and all of them were top grade spirit stones, under Ning Cheng’s cultivation, soon a spirit stone mist formed in this wind cabin. Ning Cheng’s injuries recovered rapidly with the help of the spiritual qi and the Xuanhuang Origin, while his cultivation level was also rising rapidly.
Five days pa*sed in a flash, Ning Cheng had recovered from most of his injuries and his cultivation level was steadily rising. Knowing that today should be his day to row, he collected the formation flags and spirit stones inside the wind cabin and walked out of the wind cabin.
After reaching the rowing position, Ning Cheng realised that apart from being a bit monotonous, rowing was actually a bit more comfortable than carrying things, he only had to sit at a fixed position and crank the handle at a certain interval of time. He looked around and saw that he was not the only one rowing the boat, but all the people were doing the same movements.
This kind of movement was the most boring and unbearable for ordinary people. To Ning Cheng it was really nothing, and he began to use this rowing time to heal his injuries.
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Time pa*sed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, half a month had pa*sed since Ning Cheng had been on this boat, and in these half a month, he had done nothing but cultivate. His injuries had completely recovered and his cultivation level had also reached the peak of the first level of Yuan Building. With the terrifying amount of spirit stones, Ning Cheng’s progress was really too fast.
Another half a month pa*sed and Ning Cheng broke through the barrier of the first level of Yuan Building and advanced to the second level of Yuan Building, his strength soaring once again. He decided to stop cultivating for the time being and started learning how to make pills.
He had three dan furnaces, one that he had obtained from a bet with Gui Yutang, and two that he had obtained from that Yuan Shen ring.
The Dan Furnace he got from the bet with Gui Yutang was so rusty that Ning Cheng could not tell exactly what it was, and he could not even figure out if it was a Dan Furnace. This dan furnace could not be refined, nor could he check it out.
On the contrary, the two Dan Furnaces that he got from that ring made Ning Cheng very happy, one was a medium grade spirit weapon, although Ning Cheng did not know what that Yuan Shen with such a high cultivation level was going to do with a medium grade spirit weapon Dan Furnace inside the ring, it could not be better for him. The other Dan Furnace turned out to be an extremely high grade True Weapon, even Ning Cheng was unable to refine this True Weapon Dan Furnace for a while.
To Ning Cheng’s disappointment, he was not a material for refining pills. Five days had pa*sed and he hadn’t even refined a single Grade 1 Mortal Pill, let alone any True Pills or Xuan Pills. The alchemy basics that the old woman had given him had been read over and over again, and he had even pushed through the details of them a few times.
Ning Cheng was certain that he had completely mastered the theoretical knowledge, but when it came to refining pills, he just lacked that critical kick. He had wasted countless spiritual herbs, but he just couldn’t refine a Grade 1 Mortal Pill.
This day was another day for Ning Cheng to row his boat. Ning Cheng put away the things in the wind cabin, and had just stepped out of the wind cabin when he felt a tremor in the boat, and then the boat shook violently before it started to tilt.
Ning Cheng’s divine sense immediately swept out, after experiencing this for more than a month, he knew that it was still relatively safe to walk in these waters. This was the first time in over a month that this situation had happened.
Ning Cheng quickly saw clearly what was going on, and it turned out to be a few insider spies. The five True Condensation Cultivators who had boarded the boat earlier, three of them were messing around under the water at this moment. The boat was shaking violently like this and was even about to capsize was the work of those three Condensed Truth cultivators.