Ning Cheng, who was cultivating in the Small Spiritual Domain, was completely unaware of all this, as he had already entered the process of absorbing the Small Spiritual Domain’s spiritual energy in a frenzy once again.
The golden pellet on the dan lake flew, and as it gradually grew larger, the faint layer of gold on it became even clearer.
Perhaps only Ning Cheng with such powerful meridians and gong methods could absorb spirit energy in such a frantic form, if it were another cultivator, even if he could absorb spirit energy like this, he would be bursting at the seams. Not to mention transforming this spiritual qi into one’s own cultivation and growing the Golden Dan.
Ning Cheng, on the other hand, was unaffected, it seemed that he could consume any amount of spiritual qi that came through and then convert it into his true essence.
There was hardly any ripple from XuanDan 1st level to XuanDan 2nd level, as Ning Cheng immersed himself in this madness of cultivation, time was already passing by unknowingly.
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“Senior sister Ke Xin, congratulations on your promotion to Yuan Soul and also becoming a core disciple. I really didn’t expect that you would go from a Xuan Liquid ninth layer cultivator to a Yuan Soul first layer in only seven months. I guess I’ll soon be left behind by you.” At the top of a peak that plunged into the clouds, Han Hanrui said to Liang Kexin with joy.
This peak was Liang Kexin’s new cave residence after she had advanced to Yuan Soul and become a core disciple.
Liang Kexin was also full of joy, and after listening to Myxie Hanrui’s congratulations, she shook her head and said, “Sister Hanrui, I know my own affairs, don’t look at the fact that it only took me seven months to go from the ninth level of Xuan Liquid to the first level of Yuan Soul. But this has already consumed many years of my accumulation, and I now have to spend much more time than this to go from the first level of the Yuan Soul to the second level of the Yuan Soul. And Senior Sister is already at the third level of the Yuan Soul, I won’t be able to catch up for sure.”
Liang Kexin knew very well that instead of saying that she had cultivated to the Yuan Soul realm, it would be better to say that she had recovered to the Yuan Soul realm. All these years of preparation, plus the mirage stones and Spirit Cleansing True Dew given by Ning Cheng, and the two months of cultivation in the Little Spirit Domain were all just for her to recover her cultivation. After this accumulation was consumed, her cultivation later on would be the same as everyone else’s, slowly going through the process of accumulating again.
“Senior Brother Ning is in seclusion in the Little Spirit Domain and has not come out even now, so I wonder how his cultivation is now?” Mushroom Hanrui thought of how Ning Cheng and Liang Kexin had entered the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect together, Mushroom Hanrui was already at the first level of the Yuan Soul, so I guess Ning Cheng wasn’t very far away from each other.
Liang Kexin smiled, “Senior brother Ning has nearly twenty months of cultivation time, so I guess he still has a long way to go before he comes out. Senior Sister Hanrui, I want to go to the sect to take on some missions, what about you?”
Mythical Hanrui hurriedly said, “That’s exactly what I wanted to talk to you about, the Heaven Continent Clan Competition has begun. Our Lok Hong Sword Sect is also going to participate, many disciples have already gone over, the disciples participating in the competition this time are all sect elites, I want to go over and have a look, if you go, we will go over together.”
“Running for the big competition of the ten sects?” Liang Kexin was obviously not ignorant of everything, she immediately understood when she heard about the Heaven Continent Sect Grand Competition.
Mushroom Hanrui nodded, “Yes, ever since the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect was pushed out of the top ten sects many years ago, it could only exist as a quasi-first-class sect, never being able to squeeze into the top ten sects again. This time, my Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect has produced many outstanding disciples, so perhaps we can compete for once. This time is when even the Patriarch has passed, and many of those within the sect have gone.”
“Did you not participate, Senior Sister Han Rui?” Liang Kexin asked in a hurry.
Mythical Hanrui said with a bitter smile, “I am only at the third level of cultivation of the Yuan Soul, and my strength is also very average in the sect, so how can I represent the sect in such a competition? We will definitely benefit greatly from going this time to see how others understand spells. Besides, the Heavenly Continent Clan Competition is always a lively event, with all sorts of auctions and heavenly materials and treasures all in one place. Maybe we can even buy some good things.”
“Of course I want to go there, where is the clan grand competition this time?” Liang Kexin said in a hurry.
“At the Heavenly Dao Sect’s Heavenly Dao Square, there is a big airship that goes directly to the Heavenly Dao Square at Lok Hong Square. It won’t take us more than a few days to go there ourselves by flying magic treasure.” Mushroom Hanrui replied.
Liang Kexin immediately said, “Of course I want to go, it’s a pity that Senior Brother Ning hasn’t come out from his seclusion, otherwise with his nature, he would have gone there in the first place.”
“Do you know Senior Brother Ning well?” Mushroom Hanrui suddenly asked.
Liang Kexin smiled bitterly and said, “Actually, I really don’t know him very well, I’ve already told you about the process of getting to know him, just a trade acquaintance. He is very emotional and won’t let his friends suffer, I feel that he is trustworthy.”
“Do you think someone like Ning Cheng would already have a daoist couple?” Mushroom Hanrui suddenly asked an irrelevant question.
Liang Kexin froze, she had never thought about this before, she only considered Ning Cheng as a friend, she hadn’t really thought about whether or not Ning Cheng had a daoist couple. Now that Mushroom Hanrui had asked this, after she froze for a moment, she immediately followed up with a puzzled question, “Senior Sister Hanrui, you don’t have a crush on Ning Cheng and want to become a dao couple with him, do you?”
Mythical Hanrui’s face flushed and she hurriedly explained, “What are you thinking of? I’m asking this because when Senior Brother Ning was in seclusion, a clan came to the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect to propose marriage to him.”
“Senior Brother Ning is only at XuanDan cultivation level, who would purposely propose a marriage in the form of a clan? Even if they were to propose, they wouldn’t go through the clan, right?” Liang Kexin also had a look of disbelief on her face.
Mushroom Hanrui’s face returned to normal as she also said incomprehensibly, “Yes, both the Zhangyi Dao Sect and the Pixie Palace are among the top ten sects in the Heaven Continent. Even if Senior Brother Ning had performed well in the Ancient Cave before, it wouldn’t be so bad that these two sects would marry off true disciples, right?”
There was another sentence she had not said, not to mention these two sects, even an ordinary core disciple of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect would unlikely choose Ning Cheng, let alone a true disciple.
“The Chopping Emotion Dao Sect and the Drifting Snow Palace?” Liang Kexin repeated in shock, and then it dawned on her, “I see, these two sects must have seen something on Senior Brother Ning, how shameless.”
Mushroom Hanrui shook her head, “Not necessarily, even if there were more things on Ning Cheng’s body, it would only be mirage stones and Spirit Cleansing True Dew, with the strength of these two sects, they could have come and bought them. There’s no need for a marriage alliance at all, there might be another reason here.”
Liang Kexin suddenly giggled, “Forget it, Senior Brother Ning will have his own decision on these matters when he comes out. Besides, the true disciples of the Chopping Emotion Dao Sect and the Drifting Snow Palace are not bad, so they are barely worthy of Senior Brother Ning.”
At Liang Kexin’s words, even Mushroom Hanrui, who had never laughed aloud, couldn’t help but laugh out loud. A true female disciple of the Zhangyi Dao Sect and the Pixue Palace was more than barely worthy of Ning Cheng?
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After Ning Cheng, who was still in the Small Spiritual Domain, had pushed his true essence to break through the barrier of the seventh level of Xuan Dan, a ball of fire suddenly emerged from the frantically spinning Golden Dan in his Dan Lake, and a horrible painful sensation frantically surged into Ning Cheng’s consciousness.
“Poof ……” A ball of sizzling blood was directly spurted out by Ning Cheng, who felt so weak at this moment that he had lost even his power to bind chickens. And he was completely incapable of extinguishing the flames on the golden pellet, it was as if the pellet was out of his control.
Not good, this was the Little Spirit Domain absorbing too much spirit energy and Yang Qi burning his body. Luckily, Ning Cheng had also heard several senior brothers and sisters talk about it, and he knew that Yang Qi burning the body was from the inside out. At the end of the day, the lighter one would lose all their cultivation, and the heavier one would even lose their physical body.
At this point in time, how could Ning Cheng dare to continue to absorb the spiritual qi here for cultivation, he did not even dare to mobilise the Xuanhuang Origin. To put it bluntly, the Xuanhuang Origin was also a kind of pure Yang Qi, so if he mobilised it, it would be pouring oil on a volcano.
Seeing that the fine fire on his Golden Elixir was about to completely cover his Golden Elixir, Ning Cheng was at his wits’ end. He could only barely drive the Star River to absorb these flames, he did not know if the Star River could absorb these flames, but he had no better way.
To Ning Cheng’s immense astonishment, immediately after the Star River was mobilised by him, a power swept over and devoured the flames on Ning Cheng’s Golden Dan.
The brightness of the Golden Pill dimmed a little, and Ning Cheng’s cultivation level, which had just advanced to the seventh level of the Xuan Dan, once again fell to the sixth level of the Golden Pill. Although his cultivation level fell instead of rising, Ning Cheng was relieved, so how could he dare to continue cultivating in here?
After feeling his true essence power slowly recovering, Ning Cheng was secretly afraid in his heart. He knew that there were restrictions on cultivation in the Small Spirit Domain, and once Yang Qi burned his body, it would be difficult to return to Heaven.
However, from what he had heard about Yang Qi burning bodies, it mostly happened to cultivators who were at the Perfection of Yuan Soul, or even above the God Shaping Realm. It rarely happened to Yuan-Soul cultivators, so why did Yang Qi burn his body when he was only at the seventh level of XuanDan?
He had only been cultivating for a little over seven months, not even eight months. Originally, he had planned to cultivate to XuanDan perfection and go out, but now it seemed that this was simply not possible. If he still wanted to continue cultivating here, then he had to find a way to curb this Yang Qi burning body thing from happening.
This time, it was good that he still had the Star River Seed, otherwise, how would he extinguish this spontaneous burning of the Golden Elixir?
“There’s always no such thing as perfection.” Ning Cheng stood up and muttered to himself helplessly, “Good thing I still have the Star River.”
“Huh ……” When Ning Cheng spoke of the Star River, he discovered that the Star River Seed in his Violet Mansion, because it had absorbed a trace of the Golden Elixir Flame, had actually come out with an additional pale golden trace, as if it was about to break out of its shell.
Suddenly a crazy thought emerged from Ning Cheng’s heart, could he continue to cultivate and then let the Golden Dan burn again, and then let the Star River absorb the flames on the Golden Dan?
Insane? Ning Cheng immediately slapped his thought to death. Even if this method could allow his Xinghe to break the shell, but his Golden Dan would definitely be finished, and besides that kind of inhuman pain would it be unbearable?
He could not continue to cultivate in the Little Spirit Domain, Ning Cheng sighed, it was a pity that he still had almost a year to go.
Forget it, there was a degree to everything. Besides, even if the Yang Qi burning incident did not happen, he would have to leave the Little Spirit Domain soon.
To advance to Yuan Soul, he would have to face the Yuan Soul Lightning Tribulation, and Ning Cheng also knew that if he wanted to advance to Yuan Soul with his qualifications, he would never be able to do so without a Soul Condensation Pill. He would have to search for the Soul Condensation Pill, as well as prepare for the lightning tribulation.