“The water is ready, let me help you to take a bath.” By the time Ning Cheng had sorted some things out to about the same point, Ji Luofei had already walked out again and said.
Although Ning Cheng had been in love with Tian Muwan for two or three years, it was at most limited to just holding hands. Other than that, he hadn’t done anything further than that. Now that Ji Luofei wanted to help him take a bath, Ning Cheng instantly felt unnatural. He was sure that the previous Ning Cheng had not let Ji Luofei take a bath either, not because he thought the same as he did, but because of Ji Luofei’s looks.
“I’ll just do it myself ……,” Ning Cheng said in a hurry.
Sensing Ji Luofei’s puzzled gaze, Ning Cheng hurriedly climbed up from the couch and reluctantly held onto the edge of the bed and said, “Look, I can already walk around by myself now.”
Although he had been tortured in the prison for some time, after returning and drinking a little water, Ning Cheng could barely move around.
Seeing that Ning Cheng could really stagger into the bath, Ji Luofei became more and more puzzled. In her impression, Ning Cheng would never refuse to be served. To Ning Cheng, he would only give a beating if he didn’t serve well, and would never say that he could just do it himself. Could it be that Ning Cheng knew that his family was broken, so he understood many things better than before?
However, these doubts were quickly put aside by Ji Luofei, and she no longer bothered about Ning Cheng’s own bath, and went to cook some rice porridge on her own. Ning Cheng had been unable to gather Qi after cultivating for so many years, and this was certainly because he was unwilling to suffer and cultivate, and it was equally related to his extremely poor qualifications. Now that the Ning family was in ruins, even if Ning Cheng did not die in prison, Ji Luofei could still anticipate his miserable fate in the future.
Although she was Ning Cheng’s nominal wife, she had not consummated her marriage, and she was already at the third Qi gathering level; once she advanced to the fourth Qi gathering level, she would be given priority training by the academy. Even if she did not give up on Ning Cheng, the academy would not allow her to be with Ning Cheng anymore. As a Qi gathering fourth level cultivator, if she continued to be with Ning Cheng, with Ning Cheng’s current situation, it would not be helping Ning Cheng, but making Ning Cheng die a little faster.
Ji Luofei did not have any resistance to not being with Ning Cheng. Ning Cheng had already treated her very badly, either beating or scolding her, and had never looked at her with a straight face. The reason why she saved Ning Cheng back and took care of him with all her heart was because she owed it to the Ning Family.
In Ji Luofei’s view, Ning Cheng was unable to cultivate and was so down and out, if she did not save him, Ning Cheng could only wait for death. She knew that she would not remain married to Ning Cheng, but she would not marry someone else either. The reason why she offered to help Ning Cheng take a bath was because she was originally Ning Cheng’s fiancée, and also because she was the only one who could help Ning Cheng now. Since Ning Cheng could act on his own, then of course she would not necessarily have to help.
What she could do for Ning Cheng now was to help him establish a comfortable living environment before she herself advanced to the fourth level of Qi gathering. With her cultivation qualifications, even if her appearance was ruined, she would eventually have to leave the Cang Qin Kingdom in the future, and Ning Cheng would only be a pa*sing guest in her life after all.
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After Ning Cheng finished his bath, despite feeling a little deflated, he was instead better than before. By the time he came out, Ji Luofei had already brought up the cooked rice porridge. After eating some rice porridge, Ning Cheng had finally regained some of his breath and strength.
“These are for you, I am going to the academy. You can move now, get your own food.” When Ji Luofei saw that after Ning Cheng had eaten some food, apart from being a little weak, there was really no more serious trouble, she took out a packet of silver coins and handed it to Ning Cheng and said.
Ning Cheng did not accept the silver coins given by Ji Luofei, he knew what Ji Luofei meant. Ji Luofei had been cultivating at the Cang Qin Two Star Academy and was still a good disciple of the academy. But he remembered that he was also a student of this academy and immediately said, “If you’re going to the academy, of course I’m going too.”
Ji Luofei immediately stared at Ning Cheng with some surprise, Ning Cheng had never gone to the academy before under the oppression of his grandfather. Now that the Ning Family was equal to death and he was free from restraint, how could he still think of going to the academy? Besides, with his qualifications, even if he went to the academy, he shouldn’t be able to learn anything, right?
Once Ning Cheng took a look at Ji Luofei’s expression, he knew that he had spoken a little hastily. In his heart, he was just thinking that in this place, if he didn’t have the strength, he probably wouldn’t be able to survive for long. So when Ji Luofei said to go to the academy, he immediately wanted to go along. But he forgot that he had never wanted to go to the academy before, and since he had no qualifications, there was no point in going to the academy.
“Uh …… I’m afraid that grandpa will blame me, just now I remembered that grandpa is no longer around ……” Ning Cheng said sadly, remembering the desperate Tian Muwan in his heart, that sadness didn’t need to be faked. It naturally came out.
The first time I heard Ning Cheng talk about his grandfather, my eyes were red, if it wasn’t for Ning Cheng’s grandfather, there would have been no more Ji Luofei. Now that Ning Cheng was talking about his grandfather again, Ji Luofei was also infected. She stuffed the silver coin in her hand into Ning Cheng’s hand, “You need to recuperate your body more now, I will try to find time to come back and see you, when you are better, if you still want to go to the academy, I will bring you there again.”
After saying that, Ji Luofei turned around and left the stone house, and soon disappeared.
Ning Cheng looked at the not so many silver coins in his hand, and then looked at the low, dark stone house, and already understood that Ji Luofei was not doing very well.
In the future, he would have to live in this place, and he absolutely could not rely on Ji Luofei. At this moment, Ning Cheng was not the muddy Ning Cheng from before, he could feel the hardships of survival here, this was a world where the weak were strong. Not to mention that it was difficult to survive without strength, or that one could only survive at the feet of others, even if one was as strong as the Ning family once was, they were simply wiped out overnight.
He knew very well that once Ji Luofei had advanced to the fourth level of Qi gathering, she would leave him. Never mind that the two had not married, even if they had. A cultivator at the fourth level of Qi gathering was also a key cultivated existence in the Cang Qin Kingdom, and would definitely not allow him to be followed around by an invalid.
Unless he also cultivated to the fourth level of Qi gathering, and although he had the Ning family’s cultivation technique, he had no qualifications and had not been able to gather Qi even after so many years of cultivation, let alone reach the fourth level of Qi gathering.
If he couldn’t cultivate, he still had to find a way to survive, Ning Cheng secretly made up his mind while sighing. It was a pity that he could not cultivate, if he could cultivate, in this planetary realm, or one day he could cultivate to the Yuan Building Realm and then find a way to return to Earth.
Just because Ning Cheng could not cultivate did not mean that he did not know some of the realms of cultivation, he knew that there were nine major realms of cultivation and eighty-one minor realms. But the highest realm he could understand was only the Origin Building Realm, and in the memories he had obtained, there was once an Origin Building Realm expert in the Cang Qin Kingdom.
The only cultivator realms Ning Cheng understood were the first three levels, the Qi Gathering Realm, the True Condensation Realm and the Yuan Building Realm. The Qi Gathering Realm was the gathering of true qi in the meridians, and was divided into nine levels depending on how much true qi could be gathered. Ji Luofei is now at the third level of Qi gathering, and the fourth level of Qi gathering and the third level of Qi gathering is a watershed. Don’t look at the fact that there are many Qi gathering third levels at Cang Qin Two Star College, but the number of Qi gathering fourth levels has decreased drastically.
When a cultivator’s True Qi reaches a certain level, he advances to the Realm of Condensation, at which time True Qi begins to transform into True Essence. There are likewise nine levels of the True Essence Condensation Realm, and the thicker the True Essence, the more exquisite the cultivation. The president and vice-president of the Cang Qin Two Star Academy were both cultivators of the True Condensation Realm, and their strength was immensely powerful in the Cang Qin Kingdom.
As for the Yuan Building Realm, there were none in the Cang Qin Kingdom now.
Ning Cheng came from Earth and had heard of various cultivation legends. Moreover, there were people on Earth who could cultivate Inner Qi now, so it did not surprise Ning Cheng that it was possible to cultivate on the Yixing Continent. Of course, this was also because he had not yet understood that cultivation would go beyond his imagination at the back.
Ning Cheng knew that he had extremely poor qualifications and could not cultivate. Coupled with the fact that his body was not well now, even if he could recall some of the Ning Family’s cultivation techniques, he did not think about cultivating them. To survive here, the first element was to nurture his body well.
After Ji Luofei returned to the academy, there was no more news from her. Ning Cheng had never gone out either, and apart from resting in his stone house, he was exercising his body in the front yard of the stone house.
A few days later, although Ning Cheng still looked a little thin, he had slowly recovered his vitality. At least, there was no longer a feeling of weakness. Ning Cheng felt that he could go out and have a look around. At the very least, he had to understand the environment of this capital city of the Cang Qin Kingdom, what could he do to survive here in the future?