With his cultivation restored, Ning Cheng’s strength at the eighth level of Xuan Dan was almost equivalent to that of a late Yuan Soul. The journey that had taken half a month to complete at the beginning had now arrived in just under half a pillar of time.
There were many more messy footsteps by the white-clothed ghost lake, and even a broken beast cart. At a glance, Ning Cheng knew that after he had left, many more people had come here.
It was evident that many people knew about Ma Ang’s fortune at the White-Clothed Ghost Lake. Ning Cheng’s divine sense swept down and the lake was still littered with algae yuan tendrils, but he did not find anything unusual.
The moon was not bright at the moment, and Ning Cheng did not find any walking white-clothed men at the lake either.
Ning Cheng leapt into the lake and the water automatically parted on both sides. This lake was not very deep, so with Ning Cheng’s current cultivation level, it was not impossible to separate a path directly in the centre of the lake.
There were many corpses at the bottom of the lake, some of which had obviously just died recently.
Ning Cheng came to the place where he had found the rusty spear, and at this moment, his divine sense could see clearly, but he still did not find anything unusual.
Just as Ning Cheng wanted to leave, a frightening scene suddenly appeared in his divine sense, a huge green eye appeared at the bottom of the lake. Ning Cheng repeatedly checked it with his divine sense and was sure that it was an eye. And there was only one, and this eye was lying at the bottom of the lake staring at him, with a pitch-black dagger sticking out above it. The sight of a dagger nailing an eye to the bottom of the lake was simply too frightening.
It was as if a portrait with only one eye had been painted flat on the bottom of the lake, and then a dagger was stuck on top of this portrait. But Ning Cheng knew that this was definitely not a portrait.
Ning Cheng stared at this eye for just a moment before he felt a pang of dizziness. When he looked again, this eye had actually disappeared. A voice appeared in his mind and hurriedly pulled that dagger away, but the Xuanhuang Pearl in his Violet Mansion quickly washed away such distracting thoughts.
He was a cultivator at the eighth level of XuanDan who was actually dizzy? This was definitely not an ordinary place. Ning Cheng, who had originally wanted to pull away that dagger, changed his mind.
In the next moment, Ning Cheng rushed out of this white-clothed ghost lake. Even if that dagger was good, he did not want it. His strength was still a little too low, and this white-clothed ghost lake was a little odd.
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After Ning Cheng returned to his residence, he was still thinking about it, he felt that that eye made him somewhat familiar, he seemed to have seen it somewhere, and even that dizziness was somewhat familiar.
“I get it.” After thinking clearly, Ning Cheng spoke to himself in shock, he finally understood why that eye gave him a familiarity.
A month or so ago, when he had just entered Arun City, he had taken a look at Princess Mann. There was a cyan crystal dot on that Princess Mann’s forehead, and at that time, he was also dizzy after seeing that cyan crystal dot.
Wasn’t that cyan crystal dot shaped somewhat like an eye?
After understanding this, Ning Cheng immediately guessed that Princess Mann and the white-clothed ghost lake were connected. Or perhaps this connection was unknown even to Princess Mann herself, but it would be better for him to mess with her less now.
Fortunately, he had regained his cultivation, otherwise he would have been really tormented in this place.
Ning Cheng shook his head, tossed aside the matter in the white-clothed ghost lake, and reached out to take out the rusty lance. His divine sense swept into this lance, but it was as if mud had entered the sea, with no response.
Ning Cheng began to refine the lance, but after a whole hour, the lance still did not respond. With his current cultivation level, he could not even refine it.
If he could not refine this spear, then there were only two possibilities, firstly, this spear was not a magic treasure at all, but an advanced material that Ning Cheng had never seen before. If it was not a magic treasure, of course it could not be refined. Of course there was another possibility, that this lance was too high and too high grade, Ning Cheng simply had no way to refine it.
Thinking of this, Ning Cheng took out a top grade spirit weapon long knife from his ring and began to scrape away the rust on the lance. When it was dawn, Ning Cheng finally scraped away all the rust stains from the spear in his hand.
A dark iron rod appeared in his hand, and Ning Cheng was almost convinced that the lance in his hand was not some high grade magic treasure, but was really an iron rod made of an unknown material. It was just that the front of the iron rod was shaped like a lance, making him think that it was a lance.
“Let’s just use it as a gun for now.” Ning Cheng was a little disappointed in his heart, what he lacked the most right now was a truly advanced attack magic treasure.
The Taixu True Devil Axe had not yet taken shape, and it was not possible for him to use it as a magic treasure right now.
The Broken Xuan Spear was already cracked and, as a medium-grade spiritual weapon, was likewise insufficient for Ning Cheng to rely on.
Ning Cheng’s divine sense swept out, and when he saw that Xu Yingdie and Yin Kongchan were already sitting outside, he immediately opened the door to his room and walked out, while saying, “Let’s go, we will go to that princess residence now. Or we will not be coming back here in the future.”
Taking Xu Yingdie and Yin Kongchan away was a favour to the two of them. Otherwise, if he went to the princess’s residence alone, it wouldn’t take long for Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdi to appear in that prince’s residence in Yaren City.
“Your divine sense has been restored?” Yin Kongchan looked at Ning Cheng and asked.
Ning Cheng said casually, “Barely able to defend myself, that Clasping Yang Divine Skill is really something good.”
In his heart, he was despising, the bullsh*t Clasping Yang Divine Technique, in the end, he still had to rely on Brother’s Xuanhuang Pearl.
Hearing that Ning Cheng had recovered some of his divine sense, Xu Yingdie immediately stood up in surprise, while letting out a long breath. Even though she did not speak, her expression made it clear what was on her mind.
“Ah ……” Yin Kongchan first gave a surprised ah, and then her face became a little odd, the next moment she bit her own lips and did not speak either.
As soon as Ning Cheng saw this expression on Yin Kongchan’s face, he immediately knew what the reason was. Yin Kongchan’s body was indescribably sensitive, and last night his divine sense had merely swept her. With no cultivation, she was actually able to perceive it with her sixth sense.
Knowing that she had regained some of her divine sense, she must have understood that what happened last night was her own doing.
Ning Cheng coughed, “There’s no need to delay, go now.”
Seeing that Ning Cheng had already walked out, Xu Yingdie and Yin Kongchan looked at each other and both followed.
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Ning Cheng had just arrived at the entrance of Princess Man’s residence when Princess Man had already received the news.
“Take him to the king’s brother, and tell him that the king is looking for him for something.” Princess Mann, who was practising her sword in the garden, said impatiently to the guards who returned.
“Yes.” The guard hurriedly answered, but hesitated not to leave.
“What else is going on?” Princess Mann frowned.
The guard didn’t dare to look up, but still bowed and reported back, “That Ning Cheng didn’t come alone, his women all came with him as well.”
“Huh ……” Princess Man gave a startled eek, did this fellow still know that Brother Wang intended to take his two women? So he had brought his women with him?
“You go and bring him here, and by the way, pass the message to the king’s brother.” Princess Man placed the short sword in her hand on the wooden table next to her and took a seat at the table.
Only after the guards had gone out did she sneer, “Even if you have brought your woman here, so what?”
Ning Cheng took Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie with him and followed the guards to Princess Mann’s garden.
It had to be said that as the princess of Arun City, this garden that she owned was really big. Not only was it large, but the flowers were also tantalizingly fragrant, and there were all sorts of facilities for rest, exercise and pleasure.
“I heard that the princess was looking for me, so I purposely came over.” Ning Cheng walked over to a bench and sat down, looking at Princess Mann as he said nonchalantly.
Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie each sat down on either side of Ning Cheng and did not say much.
Princess Man was enraged by Ning Cheng’s arrogant attitude, her face was red and her hands were bruised. Not only did Ning Cheng not kowtow and ask for peace, but he was also staring directly at her, what a revolt!
“You’ve got some nerve, good, good ……” Princess Man was incoherent with anger.
Ning Cheng did not take Princess Man’s words into consideration at all, as he deliberately stared at that crystal dot on Princess Man’s forehead for half a day. Sure enough, he found the same aura on that crystal dot as the white-clothed ghost lake eyes, except that this crystal dot on Princess Mann’s forehead now had almost zero effect on him. Back then, when he had no cultivation, one look at it made him dizzy, whereas now even if he stared at it, it didn’t matter at all.
At this moment, Ning Cheng was already guessing if Princess Mann was the one with the eye in the White-clothed Ghost Lake who was preparing to take over the body. That eye at the bottom of the white-clothed ghost lake gave Ning Cheng too frightening a feeling, and it made Ning Cheng rise from the bottom of his heart with a sense of scorn.
Ning Cheng decided not to mess with that eye for the time being, but having been stabbed twice by Princess Mann, he was going to get it back.
“I have very little guts, and I still have scars from where I stabbed last time because of your orders.” Ning Cheng said slowly.
Princess Mann suddenly grabbed the short sword on the table and stared coldly at Ning Cheng, “Gouge the eye out yourself.”
After saying that, she then stared at Xu Yingdie icily, “You were the one who pleaded for him last time, weren’t you, cut off your own tongue, then strip yourself naked and have someone take you for a walk down Aaron City Street.”
Princess Man casually threw the short sword at Ning Cheng, by now a dozen guards had already flown over and surrounded Ning Cheng and the three of them.
Only when the short sword landed on the ground, it suddenly ‘clanged’ and then the short sword bounced back like an extremely elastic leather ball and went straight through Princess Mann’s left shoulder. In her panic, Princess Mann hurriedly pulled out her short sword, only it seemed that she did not have a firm grip on it and it fell to the ground again. Then it bounced again, and this time the short sword surprisingly went through her right shoulder once more.
Princess Mann let out a scream and scrambled to pull the shortsword off again. This time her grip was so tight that the short sword did not fall to the ground again, but her hand slashed involuntarily, and once again the short sword passed through her left shoulder, and in a different position than the first time.
“Ghost ……” Princess Mann’s shrill cry could almost be heard throughout the city of Arun, but her hand involuntarily lifted the shortsword and stabbed herself in the eye.
“Boom ……” A dull light blasted out from the crystal point on Princess Mann’s forehead, and the short sword she had stabbed at her eye fell to the ground instantly with the blast of light.