That male cultivator was very decisive, and after killing the female cultivator, he not only took away all of her things, but even dissolved her corpse, before quickly leaving.
What a poisonous fellow, Ning Cheng said in his heart. This female cultivator called Tan Yushan was obviously the daoist couple of that male cultivator, and this male cultivator did not see half a hand when he killed. It was a pity that his cultivation level was a little too poor, if he was now a Xuan Dan Perfection, he absolutely could not resist and would go up and do it.
After the male cultivator left, Ning Cheng did not leave, he continued his search underground. Another day passed, and when Ning Cheng’s patience was almost worn out, an extremely small jade box appeared in his divine sense.
Ning Cheng first arrived next to this jade box and swept his divine sense up. He was sure that the jade box did not have any divine sense markings or any prohibitions, before he grabbed it in his hand.
Such a jade box had been placed here abruptly, it was definitely put there by that old gas. This guy also knows how to be afraid, but this old gas is too petty, right? How many things could be put in such a small jade box?
Ning Cheng opened the jade box in his hand, and without waiting for his divine sense to touch the jade box, a dense to the extreme spiritual qi caused Ning Cheng’s cultivation to immediately loosen up. It seemed that if he sat down and cultivated, he would soon be able to rush to the seventh level of Xuan Dan.
Without even thinking about it, Ning Cheng closed this jade box again. What the hell was this thing? How come there was such a dense spiritual qi, and it was very different from the spiritual qi of the Small Spiritual Domain, and was even dozens of notches higher. Not only was there no side effects, there was also a feeling of refreshment, and even the senses became a little deeper.
What the old gas had left behind was definitely something good, and Ning Cheng then began to set up the concealment formation. After setting up the concealment formation, Ning Cheng entered his little world as fast as he could.
When he arrived at his little world, Ning Cheng took out the jade box again and opened it, and the rich spiritual qi spread out, even the spiritual grass in the little world became greener.
The grey toot that was sleeping in the middle of a patch of spiritual grass rose up with a jolt and ran towards Ning Cheng with its tail wagging.
There was only a small piece of broken crystal in the jade box, and this broken crystal was crystal clear. It was incredibly comfortable to look at.
“What kind of crystal stone is this? How could it have such a dense spiritual energy?” Ning Cheng muttered to himself in shock, as he quickly recalled that when he was cultivating outside the Scorched and Immortal Mansion, the aura seemed to contain this kind of aura as well. It was just that the aura of this crystal stone was now countless times denser than that aura of spiritual qi outside the Scorched Harmony Immortal Mansion back then.
Good stuff, Ning Cheng felt his cultivation loosen up, and he was certain that this small piece of stuff was a supreme treasure.
It was a pity that the old gas was too stingy to send him hundreds of such things over. Where else would he need to worry about resources for cultivation?
This thought only flashed in Ning Cheng’s heart for a moment before he cast it aside. The next moment Ning Cheng had already sat down and began to absorb this small piece of broken crystal in his hand to cultivate.
The endless spiritual qi in the crystal stone was all absorbed by Ning Cheng and then repeatedly quenched by the Golden Dan. In just half a pillar of time, Ning Cheng’s Golden Dan had once again returned to its pre-spontaneous combustion state. A faint golden colour swirled above the Dan Lake, and Ning Cheng didn’t even have to make an effort. His cultivation level shot up to the seventh level of Xuan Dan for the second time.
This time, after rushing to the seventh level of XuanDan, Ning Cheng did not feel half of the Yang Qi burning his body apart from feeling his strength drifting up.
It was really good, Ning Cheng did not stop as he continued to absorb the spiritual qi from the crystals to cultivate. After an unknown amount of time, Ning Cheng once again felt his whole body shake as the gap between the seventh and eighth XuanDan levels was broken open without any hindrance. The thick and powerful true essence power rushed back and forth through the meridians for several times. The Sea of Knowledge also expanded once again, letting Ning Cheng know that his cultivation level had been raised once again.
How could there be such a terrifying crystal stone under the sky? Ning Cheng looked at the small piece of broken crystal stone in his hand in shock, and what shocked him in his heart was not that his cultivation had increased wildly, but that the crystal stone was too heavenly.
Ning Cheng himself knew that his cultivation was a bottomless pit of resources, even if millions of spirit stones were absorbed by him for a few months, his cultivation increase would still be limited. And now such a small broken crystal stone had not even changed the colour of the crystal by much after his cultivation level had gone from the sixth to the eighth level of Xuan Dan. How terrifying was the spiritual energy contained in this small piece of crystal stone?
Even if his XuanDan sixth level to XuanDan seventh level was considered a recovery, that XuanDan seventh level to XuanDan eighth level was a real advancement.
This was not all, he could even feel that when he absorbed the crystals to break through the cultivation gap, he did not have to use any effort at all, the gap was automatically broken open as if it was water. Not only was the spiritual energy on the crystal absorbed, it was transformed quickly. There was no discomfort whatsoever.
Ning Cheng marvelled for half a day and did not continue cultivating, it was not that he did not want to cultivate, but he could not let go of this small piece of broken crystal stone.
His cultivation was different from others. The later he got, the more cultivation resources he would need. In the future, in case there was a cultivation gap that he couldn’t break through, he could use this small piece of crystalline stone remnant. What if he used it up now at the Xuan Dan stage, what would he do in the future?
It would be good if he could still meet Old Gas, and if he met Old Gas again, he would definitely have to snub some of these crystals from Old Gas over. However, Ning Cheng could also guess that there weren’t many of such things as Old Gas, and if there were more, there was no way he would only give a fragment.
After calculating that he had delayed another half a month here, Ning Cheng hurriedly and carefully used the jade box to put the crystals away, exited the small world and quickly rushed out of the ground.
With this crystal stone, it was evident that he had to prepare himself more and more for the condensation of his Yuan Soul. The Heavenly Dao Plaza had to be visited, and he had to go there at the most lively time.
With his current cultivation at the eighth level of XuanDan, even if he met a cultivator at the ninth level of YuanShen, he wouldn’t have any problems if he wanted to leave, but his only worry was that he was afraid of meeting that sick man at the Heavenly Dao Square. People from all the major sects were present in the Heavenly Dao Square, and the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect also had many Elders who had transformed into priests present, so I thought that even if he saw that sick man, the other party would not dare to do anything to him.
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The Heavenly Dao Sect has always been famous in the Heavenly Continent, in the early years it used to be the number one sect in the Heavenly Continent, and its strength was even more powerful than the whole Heavenly Continent.
It was only since the emergence of a love triangle thousands of years ago that the Heavenly Dao Sect fell into decline. Back then, the most talented disciple of the Heavenly Way Sect, Yan Fenghua, fell in love with two other female disciples, Sang Yan and Xu Binglan, because Yan Fenghua had difficulty in choosing between Sang Yan and Xu Binglan, and Sang Yan and Xu Binglan were unwilling to share a husband, which eventually caused a duel between Sang Yan and Xu Binglan.
This was the peak period of the Heaven’s Path Sect, and Sang Yan and Xu Binglan were equally talented disciples of the Sect. The fight between the two disciples displeased both of their masters, and the two female disciples’ masters ended up fighting at the drop of a hat.
In any sect there are forces that exist, and with Sang Yan and Xu Binglan’s master each having the support of elders, the matter got out of hand when the elders supported by both sides helped out and ended up causing a major melee.
Yan Fenghua belonged to the Patriarch’s side, and whichever side he helped, it was a crooked-ass affair. As a result, this hesitation on the part of the Patriarch hurt the sect immeasurably. Both Sang Yan and Xu Binglan’s master died in battle, and although the battle eventually subsided, Sang Yan and Xu Binglan were so physically and mentally scarred that they both left the Heavenly Way Sect, and the masters within the sect fell apart.
After leaving the Heavenly Dao Sect, Sang Yan founded the Drifting Snow Palace. Xu Binglan, on the other hand, left the Heavenly Dao Sect and founded the Zhangshui Daoist Sect, and made a decree that all men in the world were heartless, and that if you entered the Zhangshui Daoist Sect, you had to cut off your love, otherwise you would not be allowed to enter.
Nowadays, the Zhanghu Daoist Sect and the Drifting Snow Palace are also among the Ten Great Sects, and in terms of the sect’s fame, they are not weaker than the Heavenly Dao Sect at all.
Even though the Heavenly Dao Sect has now fallen into decline, the entire sect’s grandeur is still not comparable to the rest of the sects.
Ning Cheng was also secretly amazed when he arrived at the Heavenly Dao Plaza, a plaza that was even made to look similar to a city. Among all the plazas, Heaven’s Path Square was probably the most functional. As long as you could think of shops, you could find them here.
Just entering the Heaven’s Path Square one would not even know what direction the sect’s grand competition was in, this place was not so much a square as it was a combination of countless various kinds of workshops. Ning Cheng even saw an underground fighting pot arena, looking at the word fighting pot, Ning Cheng recalled the time when he had just arrived in the Cang Qin Kingdom, when Ji Luofei had gone to the fighting pot arena to fight for her life in order to give him a Qi gathering stone.
He still remembered telling Ji Luofei that he would exterminate that fighting pot arena in the future. Little did he know that several years later, he would appear in the Heavenly Continent, countless miles away from the Ping Continent, and he did not know when he would be able to return.
Retracting his thoughts, Ning Cheng crossed into the bustling Heavenly Dao Street. He was not interested in the sect competition, what he was interested in was whether he could find the ‘Soul Condensation Pill’ in this place, even if it appeared at the auction.
Ning Cheng walked into a not-so-small Dan building, and even though the inside of this Dan building was even bigger than it looked on the outside, it was still overcrowded. It was evident how many cultivators had come to the Heavenly Dao Plaza for this Heavenly Continent Sect Competition.
“May I ask if there is a ‘Pure Lotus Pill’ for sale?” A slightly hoarse voice asked beside Ning Cheng.
Hearing this question, Ning Cheng immediately recalled the Blood River Red Lotus. The ‘Pure Lotus Pill’ was refined by the Blood River Red Lotus, a pill that could not only purify the impurities in a cultivator’s body, but also had the effect of removing the poison of the pills. In addition to that, there was also a property that allowed XuanDan cultivators to break through bottlenecks, and it even had an effect on cultivators at the early YuanShen stage.
It was just that very few people used the ‘Pure Lotus Pill’ to break through the bottleneck, because the Blood River Red Lotus was too precious. Ning Cheng saw that the cultivator who asked about the ‘Pure Lotus Pill’ was already at the early Yuan-Soul cultivation level, so obviously he was not asking about the ‘Pure Lotus Pill’ to break through the bottleneck, but definitely to purify the Dan Poison in his body.
The fellow replied enthusiastically, “A rare elixir like the ‘Pure Lotus Pill’ can only be obtained by going to the Heavenly Dao Exchange Hall, there are very few elixirs of this kind for sale in general. The Heavenly Dao Exchange Hall has cultivators from all over the world, and everyone brings their precious treasures to exchange with each other. But to enter you must have at least one or two treasures that you can hold, otherwise you must have 50 million spirit stones to get in.”
“I understand, many thanks.” The hoarse-voiced Yuan-Soul cultivator casually thanked him and immediately turned to leave.
When Ning Cheng saw this Yuan-Soul cultivator leave, he hurriedly followed him. This kind of cultivator exchange hall was exactly where he wanted to go.