As Nan Yuefang and Yang Honghou quickly sent Ning Cheng away, the Dueling Grand Square of Pu Buhai Island was still in an unbelievable hubbub. All the people were talking about this battle between Ning Cheng and Wei Peng. It was unbelievable that a Zhuyuan cultivator had killed Wei Peng, the number one young marquis of Pu Buhai Island, on the dueling stage.
“The commotion caused by these two fighting is too big, I’ve seen the killing aura of that ancient halberd of Wei Peng, but what’s with that terrifying explosion?”
“It should be the thick true essence of the two people, causing a stirring of true essence, or else it was the explosion of the talisman.”
“Hmph, ignorant, that was a formation self-detonation.”
“How can there be a formation in a dueling tournament stage?”
“Not only was there a formation, but that Ning Shaodu also had a spell that resembled instantaneous movement. Before the formation self-detonated, he abruptly left the centre of the formation self-detonation, what else is this if not instantaneous movement?”
“A Yuan Establishment cultivator teleporting? That’s impossible, right?”
“Although this Ning Shaodu has won, he will be miserable when General Ni Tuan returns.”
“What do you know? Is General Air’s temper very good? That Ning Shao Du is a young Du promoted by General Air Commander himself, there is no such thing as who is afraid of whom.”
“It would be wonderful if the two Tuan-Generals dueled.”
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While Ning Cheng left, the chatter in the dueling square grew stronger. After Ning Cheng’s concealment killing formation was activated, there were still people who saw it.
Under the escort of Yang Hong Hou and Nan Yue Fang, Ning Cheng had returned to the Shao Du Mansion.
“Shao Du, thank you so much for this time.” Only then did Nan Yuefang have the chance to say thank you in front of Ning Cheng. The things she had done down ended up with Ning Cheng going to help her clean up the mess, causing Ning Cheng to be seriously injured as well. It was a good thing that this Ning Shao Du’s skills were really extraordinary, otherwise, Ning Cheng would have been killed by her.
Ning Cheng helplessly waved his hand and said, “I’m seriously injured, I have to close down now to heal my wounds. I will be out of seclusion in a month, when General Kong returns, you guys will tell us the actual situation.”
“Yes. Shao Du don’t worry, you have already won, General Kong will only support you. That Wei Peng is the man of Ni Gang, the war standing battalion commander, but our General Kong will not be afraid of him is all.” Yang Hong Hou said loudly and affirmatively.
Before the duel, he was in a state of flux. After the duel, he was relieved. Just as Ning Cheng had killed Wei Peng, if it was Wei Peng who had killed Ning Cheng, General Kong would not have been able to stop Ni Gang.
When Ning Cheng began to close down, Yang Hong Hou and Nan Yue Fang did not leave, but stayed at the Shaodu Mansion to protect the Dharma.
Ning Cheng’s injuries were not light, if it were any other cultivator, his roots would have been destroyed long ago. But he was different, his meridians and purple mansion had been reshaped by the Xuanhuang Origin, as long as they had not completely shattered and collapsed. The Xuanhuang Origin in the Xuanhuang Pearl would always nourish and repair his meridians and consciousness sea.
A month’s time hurried by, and Ning Cheng was relieved when his injuries had completely recovered. He reckoned that Empty Peng Peng should have returned, and instead of going out immediately, he took out Wei Peng’s ring.
The space in Wei Peng’s ring was immense. Inside it were piles of all sorts of demon beast materials, spirit stones and spirit herbs, as well as a bunch of nice magic weapons and a few spirit weapons, and the black and silver warship was parked in one corner.
This guy really did have a life to rob, but no life to enjoy.
Ning Cheng grabbed a pile of jade slips from inside his ring, for other things, he had quite a few and was not uncommon. Rather, it was Wei Peng’s ancient halberd that was truly terrifying. If he did not set up a chain killing formation beforehand, he would definitely not be able to defeat Wei Peng’s kind of ancient halberd of battle spirit.
It was impossible for him to set up a chain killing formation before every battle, so he would have to see if Wei Peng had such a battle soul halberd technique. If he really didn’t, he would find a way to create an axe technique similar to the Battle Soul Halberd Technique himself.
Ning Cheng did not find a Battle Soul Halberd Technique, but he did find something he needed as well, a Halberd Formation.
Wei Peng’s ancient halberd was an ancient magic treasure. Although it was only a spiritual weapon, it could be split and reorganised. When the ancient halberd split apart, it could form dozens of small halberds, and these small halberds could form all sorts of formations that would bind the opponent and easily kill them.
Ning Cheng saw this place. He even broke out in a cold sweat.
He finally understood why Wei Peng’s ancient halberd had split into so many small halberds, it turned out that this ancient halberd could perform formation attacks.
It was a pity that Wei Peng did not know about formations and could not cultivate this halberd formation. He could only simply split the small halberds to trap Ning Cheng, there was absolutely no chapter to speak of, let alone set up a formation.
Even the small halberd without forming a formation was so powerful, once it formed a formation, wouldn’t it be several times more powerful than his Thirty-Six Spears of Xuan Bing?
Wei Peng did not know about formations, but he did. His golden axe was only a top-grade magic weapon, but in terms of strength, it was no worse than any spirit weapon. It didn’t matter if he couldn’t split the small axes, he could ask someone to refine some small axes separately and create his axe formation to trap his opponent.
This kind of axe formation definitely required strong divine sense support, and Ning Cheng somewhat missed that Raging Axe Lotus Pond. If he were to cultivate his divine sense for a year in the Raging Axe Lotus Pond, his divine sense would definitely be upgraded by a few notches.
Ning Cheng put away the jade slip, sorted himself out and walked out of his retreat, he estimated that the time to go to Rule Road should have arrived.
“Shao Du, you’re already fine?” Yang Hong Hou, who was guarding outside, saw Ning Cheng come out and immediately called out in joy.
“I’m fine.” Ning Cheng replied before looking at Nan Yuefang, who had not spoken but whose eyes were much lighter, and asked, “Young Marquis Nan, you and Yang Hong Hou have been waiting here?”
Nan Yuefang gave a hint and said, “Ensign Yang and I, we took turns to be on guard here. General Empty came back and said that you would come out in the next few days, so we both stayed here.”
“Yes, General Empty asked you to come to his place when you come out.” Yang Hong Hou said hurriedly from the side.
Ning Cheng came to the open area of the Young Capital Mansion, waved out the Black Silver Warship and said to Nan Yuefang, “Young Marquis Nan, I’ve got this Black Silver Warship back, so you can take it again.”
“Many thanks to Shao Du.” Nan Yuefang had the heart to refuse, but this black and silver warship was just too attractive to her. Moreover, she also knew that it was a waste to put the black and silver warship in the hands of this Ning Shao Du.
Seeing Nan Yuefang put away the black silver warship, Ning Cheng took out his own Shao Du seal and handed it to Yang Hong Hou, saying, “Go and do the formalities for your promotion to three-star first lieutenant yourself, I’ll go to General Kong’s residence.”
If she had just met Ning Cheng and saw Ning Cheng casually taking out his own Shao Du Seal and handing it to Yang Hong Hou, Nan Yue Fang would have cursed Ning Cheng for being such a Shao Du idiot. But now she was completely clear about what kind of person Ning Cheng the Shao Du was, people simply did not want to stay here often, this Shao Du was really not attractive to him.
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Ning Cheng had just arrived at Empty Peng Peng’s general’s residence when he heard Empty Peng Peng’s loud laugh coming from him, “Ning Cheng you are here, hurry up and come in.”
Two pretty maidservants had long since come out and brought Ning Cheng into the living room of Empty Peng Peng’s ruling general’s residence.
Empty Pengpeng sat at the top of the living room, and two cups of spirit tea had been poured on the table in front of him. The rich fragrance of the spirit tea came out, and Ning Cheng felt his spirits lift when he smelled this scent.
“Quickly sit down and have a cup of spirit tea, I only got this spirit tea back, it’s very good.” Empty Peng Peng said with immense enthusiasm.
Before Ning Cheng sat down, he said in mock trepidation, “General Empty, this time you are not on the island, I have caused you a little trouble.”
“Haha, what kind of trouble is that. If that Ni Gang dares to talk sh*t to me, I’ll spit a mouthful of spit over. Don’t worry, he can’t even move a hair on your head. If you ask me, you’ve even helped him a little. Otherwise, he might have wasted a spot by letting that rice bucket Wei Peng into the rule path.” Once again, Empty Peng Peng laughed loudly, and with a single sentence, the matter of Wei Peng was revealed.
Ning Cheng put his heart down, sat down and picked up the spirit tea and took a sip, a cool breath instantly moistened his whole body, he couldn’t help but say, “Good tea.”
“This is the only tea I have, otherwise I could give some to you. And what I brought over here isn’t even good, it’s just tea dregs that people don’t want. Even I can’t drink this kind of complete spirit tea.” Empty Peng Peng also said with some regret.
Ning Cheng was immediately moved and asked, “What kind of tea is this that is so precious?”
“This tea has a name called One Mist, because a cup of this spirit tea in its entirety will cause a cultivator to have an epiphany. The enlightenment of something one has never understood, that’s why this One Mist tea is also called One Mist.” Empty Peng Peng said regretfully, clearly regretting that he could not get his hands on this complete spirit tea.
“Enough about that, if you don’t come out today, I’m going to call you out tomorrow as well. The rule road is about to open, and the day after tomorrow the boat from Pu Buhai Island is going to Lezhou, so we’ll go there together too.” Empty Peng Peng said as he put the matter of the spirit tea aside.
Ning Cheng hurriedly said, “Please don’t worry General, in the Rule Road Ning Cheng will definitely do his best, as long as there is the Spirit Cleansing True Dew around, I will definitely help General find it.”
Empty Peng Peng sighed and said, “There is definitely a Spirit Cleansing True Dew, but not everyone who comes out of the Rule Road can obtain this heaven and earth treasure. Just put your heart into it, it doesn’t matter if you really can’t find it, it’s already great luck to come out of the Rule Road. I don’t have anything to give you either, here is a Broken Dan Pearl, which was coalesced when I advanced to Yuan-Soul, it is equivalent to a full strength strike from a Yuan-Soul first level cultivator, leave it to you to have a chance to save your life as well.”
Ning Cheng was immediately moved, he knew this Shattered Dan Pearl very well, it had been condensed by a XuanDan cultivator when he advanced to YuanSoul. When a XuanDan cultivator advanced to YuanSoul, he had to shatter his dan to form a fledgling YuanShen, and the violent true essence from the shattered dan could form a shattered dan bead.
“Many thanks to General Kong.” Ning Cheng gratefully accepted the broken dan bead and bowed in thanks once again. One more Shattered Dan Bead, to him, was one more little life. Not only were there Xuan Liquid cultivators inside that rule path, there were also Xuan Dan cultivators. In case he was stopped by a XuanDan cultivator, the Dan-shattering pearl was the best means for a Zhuyuan cultivator to save his life.
Empty Peng Peng stood up and patted Ning Cheng’s shoulder, “The fact that you were able to kill Wei Peng means that I didn’t choose wrong. You go back and prepare, we will board the ship together the day after tomorrow.”