Although Xu Anzhen’s formation level was not very different from Ning Cheng’s, if we were to compare the means of breaking formations and prohibitions, Ning Cheng was considerably stronger than Xu Anzhen.
Ning Cheng waved his Heavenly Cloud Twin Wings and entered the dark hall, bypassing these level six triggering prohibitions and going straight to the depths of the hall.
The two Xuan Dan Sect Children, who had no idea that Ning Cheng had already entered the Great Hall, were much less resourceful than the Xuan Dan Realm female cultivator from before.
Through the empty main hall was a Spiritual Herb Garden that was as dimly lit.
Ning Cheng was barely a level five XuanDan master at least, and knew that apart from some special spirit herbs, most of them needed light. To seed spirit herbs inside such a dimly lit courtyard, coupled with the fact that his own dwelling place was so incomparably gloomy, Ning Cheng could only say that Xu Anzhen himself was a gloomy person.
The Spiritual Herb Garden was locked by a forbidden system, even though the forbidden system here was completely breakable by Ning Cheng, Ning Cheng did not dare to do so. This was Xu Anzhen’s lair, and in case he accidentally alerted Xu Anzhen, it would be even more difficult for him to search for Shi Qiong Hua’s Yuan Shen again.
Whether the Heavenly Resurrection Flower was in this Spiritual Herb Garden or not, he would wait until he had freed Shi Qiong Hua’s Yuan Shen.
Ning Cheng’s divine sense carefully explored the area several times and finally found that there were only some simple triggering restrictions here, and then he put his mind at ease. He walked through this dimly lit spiritual grass garden and arrived outside an extremely ordinary cave.
The cave was tightly closed, surrounded by prohibitions, and the spiritual energy was incomparably dense. Ning Cheng guessed that this was where Xu Anzhen usually went for retreat.
Apart from this extremely ordinary cave, there were no other entrances around, and it seemed that he had reached the last place on the Chopping Emotion Peak. The Chopping Emotion Peak was really too simple to be true, which made Ning Cheng a little worried.
If he still could not find Shi Qiong Hua’s Yuan Shen in Xu An Zhen’s cave, then he would have come in vain this time.
Xu Anzhen’s cave looked very ordinary and the forbidden system on it could be broken by Ning Cheng in the shortest possible time. Ning Cheng was afraid that Xu Anzhen would use some kind of trick on the forbidden system, so he hid outside the cave and spent two whole days before he opened the cave’s forbidden system without a sound and entered the cave.
Only then did Ning Cheng truly arrive at Xu Anzhen’s place of cultivation, which looked simpler than the outside of her cave. Ning Cheng had not expected Xu Anzhen’s cave to be so simple, except for a grand and imposing hall before entering, but after entering, there was only this small cultivation room.
Ning Cheng’s divine sense swept through it repeatedly, convinced that there was no hidden entrance around and that there was really only one room here.
There was a futon in the middle of the room, and it was impossible to tell what kind of material it was made of. Other than that, there was not even a single chair. Let alone a boudoir, a bed, or anything like that.
Ning Cheng didn’t find it too strange, although Shi Qiong Hua said that Xu An Zhen didn’t look old, in his opinion this Xu An Zhen was even Xu Ying Die’s ancestral milk, so she was definitely an old woman. An old woman, of course, would not make her room look gorgeous. Besides, he had also heard that Xu Anzhen was even crippled in the flesh and did not need a bed.
There was nothing inside the room, and Ning Cheng still did not give up. If Xu Anzhen had suppressed Shi Qiong Hua’s Yuan Shen, it would definitely be near where Xu Anzhen usually cultivated. Xu Anzhen would definitely not have placed Shi Qiong Hua’s Yuan Shen in a place slightly far away, this was not logical.
Before Ning Cheng entered this place, he had already used his divine sense to check around, and there was absolutely no place outside Xu Anzhen’s cave to suppress his spirit.
It did not take Ning Cheng long to find a hidden entrance to the formation under the futon in the middle of the room.
After cautiously moving away from the futon, Ning Cheng threw out several formation flags, and a black entrance appeared in front of him.
A cold and gloomy aura radiated from this hole, and Ning Cheng wanted to use his divine sense to observe how deep this hole was, but found that his divine sense was unexpectedly blocked. Below this was a shielding ban, as well as a ban on airspace. In this black hole, his divine sense could only circle around his body and could not extend further.
A dark cave with no steps, no end, no flying with magic treasures, no greater outward release of divine sense, even a Cultivator of the Transformation Cauldron could not enter this. If one is not afraid of death, then one can jump down and simply be dropped to death.
Ning Cheng was not a Transformation Cultivator, but he had something more powerful than a Transformation Cultivator, and that was his Heavenly Cloud Twin Wings.
The moment he saw this dark cave, Ning Cheng was certain that Shi Qiong Hua’s original soul must have been suppressed down here. Without hesitation, Ning Cheng jumped down, while waving his Heavenly Cloud Twin Wings.
An insidiously cold aura assaulted Ning Cheng as he rapidly descended. He felt that he had descended nearly a thousand feet or so before he landed on the ground.
The Chopping Emotion Peak was only a few hundred feet high, so he could see that this place was already at the bottom of the Chopping Emotion Peak and still had to go down, it was really a good hidden place to go.
If someone who didn’t know anything about formations came here, there was only one way to go, to find death. Or rather, if Xu Anzhen was still here, even if he knew more about formations he would not be able to enter this place, even if he did, he would still be dead.
At this moment, Ning Cheng could already see clearly that the place he was at was a huge white ice stone. In the middle of the ice stone, there was an altar that was one foot square. Around the altar were nine dark red pillars, which were slightly tilted and enveloped the altar as if it was pressed down.
In the middle of the altar are nine barrel lamps, each of which has a crystal ball slowly rotating on it. Ice-cold aura constantly invaded the bottom of the bronze lamps before being transmitted to the crystal ball through them.
Ning Cheng’s divine sense immediately found a familiar aura, Shi Qiong Hua’s aura was surrounding the crystal ball of one of the bronze lamps.
Sure enough, they were suppressed here, and they were not suppressing Shi Qiong Hua alone, Xu Anzhen, this old pious woman was really not a thing. Although Ning Cheng did not know how Xu Anzhen was going to use these crystal balls, he knew that once she used them, then Shi Qiong Hua would have absolutely no ability to resist, no wonder Shi Qiong Hua wanted to go to the Heavenly Road.
Faced with this kind of suppression, could one escape after going to the Heavenly Road? Ning Cheng was very skeptical.
Ning Cheng’s divine sense swept past one crystal ball after another, and he did not immediately strike out to take them away.
What Ning Cheng did not expect was that he once again found a familiar aura, the aura of Yin Kongchan’s Yuan Shen was actually here as well. No wonder Yin Kongchan was looking for the Nine Yin Marrow of the Earth’s Heart, her original spirit had also been suppressed inside the Zhangyi Peak.
Ten or so breaths later, Ning Cheng’s face turned ugly. If he wanted to take away the Yuan Shen crystal ball here without Xu Anzhen knowing about it, that was absolutely impossible, at least not with his current skills.
As he was going to be discovered anyway, Ning Cheng simply took out a huge sign and wrote a few words and inserted it on the side. Then no longer bothering to carefully crack the formation, he instead forcefully sacrificed his Tai Void True Devil Axe and blasted at the nine tilted pillars.
“Boom boom boom ……” With a burst of explosive sounds, Ning Cheng grabbed the nine bronze lamps with crystal balls and put them away in his ring, and rushed out in a flash.
Having gotten the item, he now had to escape as fast as he could before he could. Ning Cheng, who no longer had any worries, rushed out of Xu Anzhen’s cave in just an instant and once again arrived at the gloomy Spiritual Herb Garden.
This time, Ning Cheng didn’t take his time to break the formation, he brought out his Tai Xu True Devil Axe and blasted down at the Spiritual Herb Garden’s ban.
With a “click”, the forbidden system instantly shattered, it was not a defensive forbidden system, it was not even half effective, Ning Cheng did not have to bother to break through it.
Ning Cheng didn’t have time to observe the spiritual grasses inside, he pulled them all out and threw them into his ring as if he was cutting wheat.
Without waiting for Ning Cheng to rush out of the palace ‘Fallen Love Nothing’, an incomparably powerful spatial fluctuation had already been sensed by Ning Cheng.
At this moment, Ning Cheng had stabbed the sky of the Chopped Emotion Dao Sect.
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Before the Tai An City Auction had even started, all the major sects in the Heaven Continent had already gathered here, and the Chopped Emotion Daoist Sect had even occupied the nearest resting inn to the Xuan Guang Auction Hall early on.
At this moment, Xu Anzhen was in a spacious room with many Elders of the Zhangyi Dao Sect. A cultivator from the Yuan Building Realm was trembling in front of Xu Anzhen, recounting every word that the second-rate ancestor of the Red Star Sword Sect had said in the Xilu Spiritual Tea House that day.
Xu Anzhen, who was frowning and listening, suddenly turned pale, and the black robe on her body was windless.
“Ancestral milk ……” Xu Yingdie merely said screaming two words, before she could say anything else, she was interrupted by Xu Anzhen, “Go back to the clan immediately, we’ve been caught in a tiger diversion scheme.”
“Tai Shang, how about we leave a few people here people, some of them go back ……”
A Huading elder also did not finish his words, but was still interrupted by Xu Anzhen, “Go, go back immediately all of them, not a single one will be left behind.”
If it was something else then forget it, even if the Earth Heart Nine Yin Marrow was not obtained, she, Xu Anzhen, still had a chance to recover. But surprisingly, someone had sneaked into Chopping Eros Peak, blasted through her Nine Revolutions Soul Suppression Formation, not only shattered the nine Soul Suppression Pillars, took away the nine wisps of soul genitals that she had selected for countless years, but also stole her Heavenly Restera Flower.
Compared to the Nine Yin Marrow of the Earth’s Heart, these things of hers were undoubtedly a hundred times more precious.
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“The auction hasn’t even started yet, and the Chopped Emotion Daoist Sect has actually left?”
“Xu Anzhen took all the elders of the Zhangyi Dao Sect and left Taian City ……”
Xu Anzhen had just left Tai An City on his first foot, and the next moment all the major sects got the news.
The airships of the Zhangyi Dao Sect were intercepted hundreds of miles outside Tai’an City, and the ones who bore the brunt of the news were the Piu Xue Palace’s Cultivators of the Transformation Tripod. Apart from that, experts from the Heavenly Dao Sect, the Red Sun Weapon Sect, the Yin Yang Dao, the Red Star Sword Sect, the Star Luo House, the Thousand Zen Courtyard, the War Demon Hall and other sects all came over. Of the ten great sects, apart from the Big Easy Island and the newly promoted Lok Hong Sword Sect, all the rest had arrived.
“What do you want?” The patriarch of the Zhangyi Dao Sect had an ugly look on his face.
Xu Anzhen, who was sitting on a black lotus flower, looked even more ugly, knowing that she had not only fallen for the tiger-transferring trick, she had also been shaded. If she had recovered her cultivation, these people would be nothing but ants in her eyes, but unfortunately, her cultivation was still far from recovered.