After praising Ning Cheng, Empty Peng Peng suddenly changed his tone and turned even more serious, “Ning Cheng, do you want to go even further in your cultivation path, such as advancing to Xuan Dan or even above Xuan Dan.”
Ning Cheng affirmed, “Of course I want to go farther, it’s just that my qualifications ……”
Empty Peng Peng stood up and looked at the far side of the Yixing Sea and said, “How far your heart is, how far you may go. You can see that the Sea of Eosin is boundless, and in fact there are people who have been able to cross the Sea of Eosin. Throughout history there have been too many amazingly talented and powerful people, were they all very well qualified? No, at least some of them were not. Do you know the patriarch of the No-Nan Clan, Multiplying Yi Shui? He is a three-lineage miscellaneous spirit root, but he is a great power at the ninth level of the Transformation Tripod today.”
Speaking here, Empty Peng Peng withdrew his gaze to stare at Ning Cheng and said, “Don’t ask me how a three miscellaneous spirit root can cultivate to the ninth level of the Tripod Transformation, I don’t have a definite answer. But I can tell you that even if one has all miscellaneous spirit roots, as long as they have the chance, they can still ask for the peak. All opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared and ambitious, not for those who dare not even think about them. It’s up to you, whether you dare to think about it or not.”
Ning Cheng certainly did not think that he could not go further, his words were just a deliberate nod to his poor spiritual roots. At this moment, after hearing Empty Peng Peng’s words, he thought of that purple-skirted woman from the Numinous Sect and couldn’t help but ask, “General Empty, I’ve heard people say that the Numinous Sect requires the best qualifications for all of its disciples to be recruited, and won’t take anyone with slightly poorer qualifications. Since Multiplying Yi Shui himself is not even well qualified, why would he ask for disciples like this?”
Ning Cheng did not have any good feelings towards the Numinous Sect, and he did not have any respect at all for Multiplying Yishui when he called him by his first name.
Empty Pengpeng heard that Ning Cheng had no half respect for the Numinous Sect and said with a smile, “Your qualifications are poor, no wonder you don’t like the Numinous Sect. It was precisely because of his own poor qualifications that the Nayana Patriarch knew how difficult it was to go further with poor qualifications and how amazing the cultivation resources and perseverance required were. Not everyone with poor qualifications had strong perseverance and incomparably deep fortune. As the head of a sect. There is no excuse for him to choose someone with good qualifications to join the Numinous Sect.”
Ning Cheng thought deeply of what Empty Peng Peng said, if everyone in a sect consumed resources like he did in cultivation. Then the sect should not exist any longer. The consumption alone could bring down the sect.
“General Hollow, is there a quota limit for entering the Rule Road to comprehend?” Ning Cheng guessed that Empty Peng Peng must not have mentioned the Heavenly Road to him for no reason.
Empty Pengpeng said with great satisfaction, “It is easy to talk to smart people, the Rule Road is because there is a quota limit, and this is why the cultivator armies of the Yixing Sea and the Nine Continents are fighting. The Rule Road can be entered once every ten years, and only a thousand people can enter each time. There was no way for casual cultivators to enter, and to enter the Rule Road to sense the path of cultivation, one had to join a clan. Or join a cultivator army. Some Yuan-building cultivators joined the Cultivator Army for the same purpose of entering the Rule Road. As a six-star ruling general, I am able to recommend one person to enter.”
Ning Cheng came to some understanding in his heart and asked again, “General Kong wants to recommend me to enter the Rule Road?”
“That’s right. I saw that you are only at Yuan Building cultivation and you can kill Xuan Liquid cultivators. I don’t have to ask what strange encounters you have had, but I also know that you are not simple. From our conversation just now, I can also see that your comprehension ability is indeed good. If you are willing, I do want to recommend you to enter the Rule Path. Your ability is also worthy of me doing so, but ……”
There was a pause in Empty Pumbaa’s words. “After entering the Rule Road, the chances of coming out are very low, not even 30%, and many cultivators who enter the Rule Road only have the chance to come out hundreds of years later, and some simply stay inside forever. Although I hope you can enter the Rule Road on my behalf, I’m not forcing it if you’re willing or not. As I said before. How far your heart goes, how far you may go. If you don’t want to be strong through this method, then forget I said it.”
Ning Cheng bowed and said, “I am willing to enter the Rule Road, and since thirty percent of the cultivators can survive. Then I must be among those who are alive. It’s just that I have three things that I want to ask General Empty.”
Hearing that Ning Cheng was willing to enter the Rule Road, Empty Peng Peng said with a smile on his face, “Just tell me, I have decided to give you a military position as a five-star young capital, there are only four five-star general officers under me in total. As long as you can come out in the Rule Road, you will understand how right your decision is.”
“Many thanks to the General for his love.” Ning Cheng hurriedly thanked him, he would not be polite enough to say that he did not want this position as the young capital. With his battle merits, upgrading from two to five stars wasn’t too outrageous. But he didn’t care about this five-star Young Capital either, he simply had no intention of staying in the Cultivator Army for a long time.
After thanking him, Ning Cheng still had to say what he needed to say, “The first thing is that the General has asked me to rule the road, there must be something that I need to do, please just ask the General, as long as it is possible to do it, Ning Cheng will definitely do his best.”
Empty Peng Peng grew more and more appreciative of Ning Cheng’s insight and intelligence, “That’s right, if you can come out in the Rule Road, as a referral, I can get a Void God Pill for a fee. I’ve been in the late Yuan Soul stage for many years now, and without the Void God Pill it would be absolutely impossible to impact the God Shaping Realm. That’s one thing, the main thing I hope is that you can find the Spirit Cleansing True Dew inside the Rule Road. I don’t want much either, just three drops will do.”
“What is this stuff? How come I’ve never heard of this kind of spiritual medicine?” Ning Cheng asked, puzzled.
He had read the basic jade sketches of alchemy and the basic jade sketches of various spirit herbs, so it could be said that there were really not many spirit herbs or spirit pills that he did not know about, but now he did not know about the Spirit Cleansing True Dew.
“Spirit Cleansing True Dew is not strictly speaking considered a spirit herb, and again belongs to a spirit medicine. This is because it is simply something that is not graded, and its only function is to allow cultivators to sense the laws of the Dao, allowing them to cultivate more rounded and with greater potential. It is the same as a cultivator entering the path of rules, except that the Spirit Cleansing True Dew is not only applicable to cultivators below the Yuan Soul, it is useful to all cultivators.”
Empty Pengpeng looked at Ning Cheng with some eagerness and said, “I have never entered the Rule Path, and I am always a little uncertain about the direction of my Dao in the process of cultivation. If I have the Spirit Cleansing True Dew, my path will definitely not just be at the Yuan Soul Realm. The Spirit Cleansing Dew is incredibly precious, and it is only found inside the Rule Road. The Rule Road is about to open, and I have been unable to find anyone suitable to enter it, and you are the most suitable. If you are willing, I would like to ask you to help me find three drops of the Spirit Cleansing True Dew. This is what is most important to me, even more important than the Void God Pill.”
Ning Cheng understood and put his heart down instead. He was afraid that Empty Peng Peng would ask for nothing, and if he said that he purely admired him, he would treat him so well, which made him a little worried.
“Please rest a*sured, General, as long as I can get the Spirit Cleansing True Dew inside the Rule Road, I will definitely be able to bring it out to General Kong.” After understanding the other party’s meaning, Ning Cheng immediately took a stand.
Empty Peng Peng laughed and said, “Good, I believe you. Tell me, what are the other two requests?”
This was tantamount to a form of cooperation, so Ning Cheng was no longer polite, “I have some gaps with a Yuan-Soul cultivator surnamed Kang from the Huntian Seven Star Academy, I’m afraid that when I go to Rule Road, this guy will find me in trouble. Also I have some conflicts with the Red Sky Seven Star Academy, I killed a few disciples of the Red Sky Academy in the Angry Axe Valley.”
Empty Peng Peng slapped his head in distress, “You’re really capable of causing trouble, you’ve messed with two Seven Star Academies at once. But it doesn’t matter, my Nine Continents Cultivator Army doesn’t fear any of his academies, not to mention that you’re still a five-star young capital of the Nine Continents Cultivator Army. As long as you don’t get intercepted by them alone, you don’t have to pay any attention to these guys, they won’t dare to do anything to you.”
“Thank you, General, the last thing is that I have to make a trip to the Continent of Transformation, if the Rule Road is about to open anytime soon, I might not be able to attend.” Ning Cheng said matter-of-factly, it was absolutely impossible for him to give up going to the Continent of Transformation.
Empty Peng Peng pondered for a moment and said, “Don’t worry about going there, the Rule Road will not open for another year. You have a top-grade black silver warship, it will only take you twenty days at most to get there. I’ll give you another downwind talisman later, which can drive this warship even faster to the Huazhou Continent, it will only take less than ten days at most to get there.”
Ning Cheng was overjoyed, he couldn’t wait to fly to the Hualian Continent immediately, now it would only take less than ten days, to him, this was simply the best news he had heard recently.
Empty Peng Peng took out a talisman and handed it to Ning Cheng, then he took out a new uniform, after he engraved Zhuo Yi’s name on the shoulder patch of the uniform, he handed it to Ning Cheng and said, “This is your new uniform, you change into it. You are still called Zhuo Yi for the time being, otherwise, your name will not be in the general officer’s communication beads to avoid causing misunderstandings.”
Ning Cheng took off Zhuo Yi’s original uniform and put it away in a wooden box into his storage bag, and changed into his new uniform in front of Empty Peng Peng. The shoulder epaulets of the new uniform had been changed to cyan ones and had five stars engraved on them.
Seeing Ning Cheng put away his old original uniform, Empty Peng Peng nodded in satisfaction, “After you finish with the matter of Huazhou, you must rush to Pu Buhai Island as soon as possible, I will wait for you at Pu Buhai Island.”
Ning Cheng asked in confusion, “This time, the cultivators from the Yixing Sea sneaked in, could it be that Pu Buhai Island is still in our hands?”
Empty Peng Peng said disdainfully, “Just these Yixing Sea monkeys, not to mention that they can’t take Pu Bu Sea Island, even if they did, it would have to be returned to our Nine Continents Cultivator Army in the end. You don’t need to worry about that, just come here. I see that you are very rich, so I won’t give you any spirit stones or anything else. You hurry up and go, I need to clean up the battlefield here.”
Ning Cheng blushed slightly, he didn’t know if Empty Peng Peng had seen the spirit stones he had left on the warship and thought so, or if he knew he had a storage ring that he hadn’t taken out and used.