“I’ll go ask around.” Ning Cheng patted Jin Liangan’s shoulder and walked towards the issuing office of the sect’s mission hall.
“I’d like to inquire about ……”
Before Ning Cheng could utter a word, he was interrupted by a female cultivator inside, “What number of missions are you receiving? Just give me your identity jade token and mission number directly, no need for any other nonsense.”
Ning Cheng said helplessly, “I want to claim mission number seventeen ……”
The impatient female cultivator’s hand shook when she heard Ning Cheng’s words, she raised her head in some disbelief and repeated, “You said you want to claim mission number seventeen?”
“I asked you to explain and you didn’t, so I had to just claim it.” Ning Cheng said in a somewhat depressed manner.
The female cultivator surprisingly did not flare up this time, but instead frowned a little and said, “Up until now, including our Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, all the disciples who have claimed mission number seventeen at the Yuan-Soul cultivation level, or below the Yuan-Soul cultivation level, none of them have returned, and none of them have any news. Are you sure you still want to collect mission number seventeen?”
Ning Cheng had known this for a long time, and he simply asked, “I would like to inquire, if I return midway through the mission without completing it will I be chastised?”
“No, this mission was supposed to be voluntary.” The female cultivator said without hesitation.
Hearing this affirmative reply, Ning Cheng immediately said, “Good, then I will collect mission number seventeen.”
The big deal was that if he found it dangerous, he would just not go. In case he took a chance and found out something, the reward from the sect would be enough for him to cultivate in the Little Spirit Domain for a year or so.
The female cultivator did not persuade Ning Cheng any further and nodded her head, “There are some changes to the 17th mission this time. There are also disciples from other sects going there. After you arrive there. The elders will tell you what to do. This is the mission jade token and map, as well as the mission description. Take it and good luck.”
Ning Cheng walked out of the mission issuing room and found that Jin Liang’an was discussing something with a few XuanDan cultivators, guessing that he some mission intended to go out together. Ning Cheng greeted Jin Liang’an and immediately left the mission issuing hall.
Without even going back to where he was staying, Ning Cheng headed directly to the great battle between the Great Liang True Kingdom and the Northern Shang True Kingdom. He was still a little worried about the two of them, Liang Kexin.
As for what these two True Kingdoms were having a great war over, the jade slip was very vague. But there was a general idea.
That was that a few years ago in the territory of the Great Liang True Kingdom, at the border with the Northern Shang True Kingdom, an ancient cave abruptly appeared. When the Northern Shang Kingdom first learned of the news, it immediately wanted to occupy the place and explore the sudden appearance of the ancient cave.
But then the Great Liang Kingdom also found out that an ancient cave had appeared in its territory, and of course it would not allow the Northern Shang Kingdom to occupy it. The Northern Kingdom of Commerce then demanded that the Northern Kingdom of Commerce hand over the princess on the pretext that the Northern Kingdom of Commerce had taken her captive, or else it would cede the land in compensation.
Because of this incident, the two countries went through several years of great battles with numerous deaths. In the end the matter still came to light. Some clans have intervened in this matter. At this point, the matter had gotten out of hand and was completely beyond the control of the Great Liang True Kingdom and the Northern Shang True Kingdom.
The ancient cave was exposed. Instead, the war between the two countries came to a temporary halt. This was because the cave was simply too ancient and huge, and only cultivators at or below the Yuan-Soul realm could enter. I had even heard that in the deepest part of the cave, there was a place where the spiritual energy was the most dense, and only cultivators below the Xuan Liquid could enter.
So some Yuan-Soul cultivators who participated in exploring this cave would bring one or two Xuan-Liquid cultivators along. Lest they meet this place and have no way to enter it themselves.
But here’s where things got strange: these sect’s disciples went to the place where the two countries were at war, and after entering this ancient cave, they disappeared one after another instead. In the end, none of them returned, and it was impossible to find out how they disappeared.
At the very beginning, there was still an entrance to this cave. At the back, this ancient cave gradually disappeared. Even if this ancient cave disappeared, cultivators who went to the location of this cave at the Yuan-Soul realm or below would still disappear without warning.
These disciples who had come out to do the task were the elite disciples of the major sects, and the Transformation Cultivators of the major sects immediately sat up. Some of the Transformation Tripod Cultivators also began to come out, but none of these Transformation Tripod Cultivators were able to find out why. The good thing was that although the Transformation Cultivators could not find out the cause, they did not go missing as much as these disciples who were doing the task.
This matter became a mystery by now, and as more and more disciples disappeared, some of the casual cultivators also started to take on sect missions, and still disappeared just the same. In this way, fewer and fewer disciples took up this mission.
In order to find out the truth of this mystery, it is necessary for some cultivators below the Yuan-Soul level to participate in this mission, and only then can the cultivators of the Transformation Cauldron find out some clues based on the missing cultivators.
Ning Cheng put away the jade slip and already guessed clearly in his heart that taking up this mission was taking up a cannon fodder job, or taking up the job of a white rat.
Ning Cheng also knew about himself, he had cultivated in the Little Spirit Domain. In the future, without the Little Spirit Domain, it would be too difficult for him to advance to the next level. For the sake of that one year of cultivation in the Little Spirit Domain, he would have to fight. Besides, he still had an escape magic weapon that no one else knew about, and that was that as a last resort, he could enter the bottom of the Blood River by crushing the talisman given by the skeleton.
Ning Cheng’s flying magic treasure was a medium grade flying spirit weapon, and in order to arrive earlier, Ning Cheng not only activated his flying magic treasure at full speed, but also used the Heavenly Cloud Twin Wings. Even so, it was not until ten days later that he arrived at the location marked on the jade slip map.
The place that met his eyes was an endlessly desolate and decaying landscape, with potholes everywhere and pieces of broken weapons and low-grade magic treasures thrown everywhere. In many places, even the soil was a little dark red, obviously caused by too much blood.
As far as Ning Cheng’s divine sense could reach, apart from a dark grey floor, there was nothing else.
According to the introduction on the jade slip, Ning Cheng knew that this dark grey floor had been temporarily set up by the major sects, and that if he wanted to take this mission, he would have to go to this grey floor first and then listen to the sect elders’ instructions.
Ning Cheng put away his flying magic treasure and had just walked to the entrance of the building when he was stopped by two cultivators, “Which sect is it?”
What a good guy, the two cultivators watching the door were also from the God Shaping Realm.
“My junior is Ning Cheng, an inner disciple of the Fallen Rainbow Sword Sect, and I have come here specifically for this mission this time.” Ning Cheng hastily clasped his fist and replied politely.
The God-shaping cultivator on the left nodded, “The Falling Rainbow Sword Sect is on the third floor, fifth room on the left.”
“Many thanks.” Ning Cheng thanked him once again and quickened his pace to go up to the floor.
“Ugh, a month ago there were hordes of Yuan-Soul cultivators coming to take the mission, what kind of people are they now, even the XuanDan layer is coming to take this mission.” Another God Shaping Realm cultivator shook his head and sighed when he saw Ning Cheng walking away.
The Shaping God cultivator who pointed Ning Cheng’s way, however, said in disbelief, “At least three people came today, not even a single one was seen coming to do the mission even after several days had passed ahead. I reckon this place will be torn down soon, with so many disciples disappearing, there’s still no clue by now.”
“It’s out of our hands ……”
Although Ning Cheng had gone upstairs, he could still hear the voices of two God Shaping Realm cultivators discussing behind him.
“Come in.” Ning Cheng had just walked to the door of the fifth room on the left side of the third floor when a voice came to his ears.
What a powerful cultivation, this voice was as if it was spoken from across the room, without any half-hearted distortion of the voice transmission. Ning Cheng did not dare to hesitate and hurriedly pushed the door open and walked in.
Five male and female cultivators were sitting inside the room, and there were two young cultivators standing in the middle of the room.
The aura of these five male and female cultivators did not spill out, yet they gave Ning Cheng a powerful and oppressive feeling. Ning Cheng could not even tell what the cultivation levels of these five people were, and he immediately understood that these five people must be Cultivators of the Transformation Tripod.
“Ning Cheng, an inner disciple of the Fallen Rainbow Sword Sect, has met the five seniors.” Knowing that he was facing five Transformation Tripod Cultivators, Ning Cheng did not dare to be slow and hurriedly bowed in greeting.
“Hmm, not bad, although his cultivation level is a bit lower, he is calm and steady.” An old man saw Ning Cheng’s unhurried appearance and nodded his head.
A middle-aged Confucian scholar sitting on the right also nodded to Ning Cheng in satisfaction and said, “Ning Cheng, I think you should know the dangers of this mission, even if you give up now, it would be justifiable. Up until now, none of the disciples who have participated in this mission have been able to return, and the favourable news we have received is also extremely small. This mission will soon be cancelled and replaced with another way to track it down.”
After listening to this middle-aged Confucian, Ning Cheng immediately came up with a few meanings, firstly this mission was dangerous and by letting the disciples go on it, they were only letting the cannon fodder go on a trail. Secondly because the cannon fodder had received too little favourable information, this mission would not be carried out in this way anytime soon. Thirdly the other side wanted to persuade him to give up this mission.
The fact that a Huading cultivator still cared about the life and death of an inner disciple showed that this Huading elder was still a good person.
Ning Cheng once again clasped his fist and said, “Thank you, senior, for your clear words, my Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect has true heirs and core disciples who are involved in this mission, I am just an inner disciple. Participating in the sect’s mission and contributing to the sect while improving my own cultivation is a matter of duty.”
A beautiful woman giggled and said, “Elder Bei, this kid from your Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect is very good at talking, one way or another.”
It was only when Ning Cheng heard this that he understood that the five Heaven Transformation Cultivators here were not all from the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, there were also people from the rest of the sects.
The middle-aged Confucian laughed, “Senior sister He has over-appreciated you, this disciple of your Star Luo House and the girl doll of the Zhangyi Dao Sect are much better than Ning Cheng.”
The Rainbow Fall Sword Sect continued directly to Ning Cheng after he finished speaking, “Ning Cheng, this time you go with Xing Luo House’s Xing Hai and Zhan Emotion Dao Sect’s Bu Mei to check out the situation. Remember that as long as you can find out some traces and come back, you will be taking credit. Here is a jade talisman, once you find out that something is not right, immediately crush the jade talisman and immediately be can be teleported away.”
“Yes, junior understands.” Ning Cheng hurriedly replied and stepped forward to take the jade talisman over.