Rui Baishan, the patriarch of the Fallen Rainbow Sword Sect, nodded before turning his gaze to the rest of the group and saying, “If Ning Cheng really has such great strength, we made a great mistake by not allowing him to compete ……”
“Sovereign, although our Fallen Rainbow Sword Sect did not do well in the Xuan Dan Realm preliminary competition, two of us made it into the top 100 in the preliminary competition. According to the rules of the competition, Ning Cheng is allowed to take the place of one of these two in the competition.” A Huiding Tripod Elder immediately said.
“But this would be like taking away the future of the disciples who had difficulty in getting a place in the finals, which is unfair to them. Moreover, Ning Cheng himself is probably not very willing to participate in this kind of competition, if he was willing to participate, he would have signed up long ago.” Vice Patriarch Tantai Fei said.
A middle-aged woman sitting beside Tantai Fei hummed and said, “Ning Cheng has caused so much trouble for my Rainbow Fall Sword Sect, allowing him to represent the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect in the Xuan Dan Realm Competition is already considered extraordinarily generous, what’s not to like?”
Elder Bei had been silent, but now that he heard the woman’s words, he immediately retorted with some displeasure, “Speaking of which, Ning Cheng has also helped my Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, where did he bring trouble here? Besides, in my Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect disciples all participate voluntarily. Moreover, I also agree with what Senior Brother Tantai said just now, even if Ning Cheng is willing to participate, it would still be unfair to the remaining two disciples who had a hard time breaking into the final.”
Ruibai Shan waved his hand, stopping the female cultivator from continuing to speak, then said, “There is some truth in what Senior Sovereign Tantai said and what Elder Bei said, even though my Rainbow Fall Sword Sect still won’t make it to the top ten sects this time, as a sword sect, one has to have sword spirit in them, and one cannot force disciples to do things that they are not willing to do… …”
“Patriarch, the elders are above, disciple Ham Cai Xue is willing to withdraw from the finals and give up his spot to senior brother Ning Cheng.” At this moment, a XuanDan female cultivator sitting at the bottom of the table took the initiative to walk out and bowed.
The male cultivator who was tangled up beside her saw this female cultivator walk out and hurriedly walked out as well and said. “Disciple Liang Shi is also willing to give up his place to Senior Brother Ning Cheng ……”
Ruibai Shan nodded and said, Ran Xian Caixue was ranked eighty-first overall and Liang Shi was ranked ninety-second overall. Since Xian Caixue had come forward first, let’s give up Xian Caixue’s spot to Ning Cheng. If Ning Cheng could really break into the top ten in the Xuan Dan Realm, it would indeed be a great joy for my Rainbow Fall Sword Sect. The clan will give a certain amount of compensation to Xian Caixue for giving up the spot. We will ask Ning Cheng when he returns, and if Ning Cheng is not willing to go and compete. Then there is no need to force it.”
“Many thanks to the Patriarch, and many thanks to the Elders.” Xian Caixue hurriedly thanked again and retreated. She couldn’t let go of this spot either, but Xian Caixue knew that with her strength, she definitely wouldn’t be able to make it into the top fifty, let alone the top ten. Many of the cultivators who had broken through the preliminary rounds had simply not brought their full strength to the table.
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“My matter is somewhat private. May I speak to you alone?” Xu Yingdie looked at Ning Cheng, without any intention of avoiding Yin Kongchan.
Yin Kongchan also immediately said, “My matters are also very private, so I have to speak to you alone as well.”
Ning Cheng sneered and said, “There is nothing private here with me, even if you want to sleep with me right away, you need to say it now. If you don’t want to say it. Then be my guest, and don’t send any elders to our Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect to annoy people in the future.”
Seeing that Ning Cheng’s tone was resolute and there was no room for manoeuvre, Xu Yingdie could only say, “In that case, then I will say it directly. I am not lying to you in that I want to form a dao couple with you, it is that I really want to form a dao couple with you. Don’t worry, even if I can succeed in cutting off my love in you. After that I will not have any involvement with a second man.”
Ning Cheng did not fluctuate half a bit because of Xu Yingdie’s words and still said calmly, “Show me the reason.”
“You can think of it as love at first sight, the moment I saw you talking to the Ancient Cave Yuan Shen in that ice house, I think you have already left an extremely deep impression on my heart, and you are the one who can make me fall in love. Only when you have left an impression on me can I enter into love with you. I am not able to enter into love with just anyone in the Chopped Love Daoist Sect. Of course I have another reason ……”
Ning Cheng sneered and said, “After all is said and done, this is all about what you want, what you want because of what? What good does that do to me? Besides. Is your entry of love important to me? Xu Yingdie, you are indeed pretty, but if you think that just because you are pretty, you can make me do such boring things with you, forgive me.”
Xu Yingdie’s face didn’t change in the slightest, still saying, “If I can’t cut the love, I’ll stay with you for the rest of my life.”
Ning Cheng shook his head, “Is that rare?”
After saying that, Ning Cheng turned his gaze towards Yin Kongchan, “It’s your turn.”
“Wait.” Xu Yingdie said once again, “I have another reason, because I guess that you have the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree on you, the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree is very important to me and I want to ask you for a branch.”
Ning Cheng’s face sank, he did not question Xu Yingdie, in his mind he was wondering how Xu Yingdie knew that he had the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree on him. Or maybe this was what Xu Yingdie was really after, what with all the good impressions and letting in love being a lie to the devil.
Xu Yingdie seemed to know what Ning Cheng was thinking and took the initiative to say, “The Mirage Ship Island has reappeared, and from the information I got, the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree was also dug up on the Mirage Ship Island. The Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree is countless times more precious than mirage stones, and it is simply not something that can be dug up by true essence power. The stronger the true essence power, the stronger the mirage tree. Theoretically speaking, even a Cultivator of the Transformation Tripod would not be able to dig up the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree on Mirage Ship Island. I don’t know if my guess is right, I reckon there is a high possibility that the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree is in your possession.”
Ning Cheng’s face changed when he heard this, the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree had been left in his small world and had long since withered. He thought that it was simply worthless, but from Xu Yingdie’s tone, the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree was actually so valuable? Wouldn’t this mean that ……
“You have the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree?” Yin Kongchan also stood up in shock, she finally understood why Xu Yingdie must enter love from Ning Cheng. Even if she could not cut love, or even if she and Ning Cheng did become a Daoist couple, Ning Cheng had the Nine Colored Mirage Tree, she would not lose out on this deal. The Love-Cutting Daoist Sect was really good at calculating.
In comparison, Pixue Palace did not have such calculations at all, and her coming to Ning Cheng to become a couple was entirely her own private act, again not really falling for Ning Cheng.
“If no one knew about this matter, I might not say it today. Ning Cheng you should know that the matter of the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree is known to all of me in the Chopping Emotion Dao Sect, and I believe that the number of people who know about it will not be less than twenty at least. If you appear in Heaven’s Path Square, when the sect’s Grand Competition ends in a month or so, there will be countless people who will want to put you to death.” Xu Yingdie remained calm and said.
Ning Cheng fell silent, he did not admit that he had the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree, nor did he not admit it. But he knew that it no longer had anything to do with admitting it or not, he was in big trouble. If the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree was really as precious as Xu Yingdie said, countless times more precious than mirage stones, then his previous attempt to reduce his troubles by selling the Spirit Cleansing True Dew was a complete joke.
He knew that Xu Yingdie was at least right in one thing she said, and that was that the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree was something that true essence power could not dig up. He had used his wish power to dig up the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree, but the tree was already dead, right? Moreover, from the look on Yin Kongchan’s face, Ning Cheng guessed that the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree was not simple.
Even Yin Kongchan, who had never had the same expression on her face since she had met him, was now surprised by the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree, so it was clear that the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree was truly remarkable.
Yin Kongchan’s face had regained its previous calmness as she said with a sigh, “There is only one Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree in a realm, and it is only found in star realms where mirage islands appear. Ning Cheng, if the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree is really in your possession, you will really be in a lot of trouble. No one is willing to let go of the mirage tree, even if you have more wealth, it would all be illusory in front of the mirage tree.”
When Ning Cheng heard this, he smiled faintly instead, “I’ve been to Mirage Ship Island as well, and I’ve seen the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree, there’s definitely more than one. Not only is there more than one, there are quite a few, so how could they be so precious? Have the two of you teamed up to fool me?”
When Xu Yingdie heard these words from Ning Cheng, she knew that the information from the Zhangyi Dao Sect was not wrong, since Ning Cheng had been to Mirage Ship Island, then there was a high possibility that there was really a Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree. With eyes like clear water, she looked at Ning Cheng and said, “You are wrong, there is only one Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree. The rest of the nine coloured mirage trees you saw were all illusory, only one was real. Do you know what it means to be a mirage? It is an illusion that is not at all what you see with your naked eyes. What you see or even get is not real, and that is a mirage.”
Ning Cheng laughed coldly, “Even if I dug up a nine-coloured mirage tree, I wouldn’t necessarily have the kind of good luck you’re talking about, right? I happened to dig up that one real mirage tree?”
“Because no matter which nine-coloured mirage tree you dig up, as long as it is dug up by you, that one is the real one. The rest of the mirage trees will turn into eight-coloured mirage trees within a year. And the next time the mirage island appears, there will be at most eight-coloured mirage stones on the island. And the next time, then there will only be seven-coloured mirage stones, and so on, until the mirage island never appears in this realm again.” Xu Yingdie’s gaze was as clear and transparent as a black and white landscape painting, so that no one would suspect that her words were false.
“Moreover, any more nine colored mirage stones you obtain on Mirage Ship Island will only become nine in the end, no more and no less ……” Xu Yingdie kept staring at Ning Cheng as she spoke, as if she wanted to see a flower on Ning Cheng’s face.
Ning Cheng was startled and hurriedly took out a bunch of jade boxes and opened them directly. Since the Mirage Tree was already known by these two women and everyone else knew about it, what else was there to hide about a few mirage stones? Compared to the danger of the mirage tree, these few mirage stones were nothing.
Ning Cheng had a total of eighteen nine-coloured mirage stones, and after giving one to Liang Kexin, he still had seventeen nine-coloured mirage stones. Now the seventeen jade boxes were opened by him one by one. When Ning Cheng discovered that out of the seventeen jade boxes, there were only eight nine-coloured mirage stones and the rest of the jade boxes were empty, he was stunned.