Ning Cheng’s heart was suddenly shocked, how could An Yi be found if she was lost in this place, it was a life of nine deaths.
“Big Brother Ning ……” A frightened voice came, and as soon as Ning Cheng heard it, he knew that it was An Yi’s voice.
At this moment Ning Cheng didn’t even think about whether the voice was real or not, and directly lunged towards the voice. He then saw the terrified An Yi in the vague haze, who was not even two meters away from him.
Ning Cheng rushed to An Yi with one step and raised his hand to grab An Yi’s hand again, “What’s going on, An Yi? I clearly grabbed your hand earlier, how did you get here?”
An Yi’s hand was cold, but after Ning Cheng grabbed her hand, the breath within the Xuanhuang Pearl automatically expelled all those coldness. Only then did Ning Cheng have time to think about why An Yi had suddenly disappeared from his side and was found by him without any incident.
It was reasonable to say that such a bizarre disappearance would not have been so easy for him to find.
After An Yi was grabbed by Ning Cheng, her pale face finally regained some redness, and she subconsciously moved a little closer to Ning Cheng before she said, “When I came down from that curved path just now, I realised that you were no longer with me. Then I saw a huge pitch-black hand claw grabbing at me and I was actually unable to speak. Just as I was about to be grabbed away by that pitch-black claw, a yellow aura suddenly appeared on my chest to block the pitch-black claw before I screamed out.”
“The yellow mane on your chest?” Ning Cheng immediately recalled the plough-yellow jade pendant that An Yi’s master had left to An Yi before he died, and that jade pendant was hanging on An Yi’s chest. Could it be that this jade pendant was the one protecting An Yi?
Whether it was or not, there was something strange about this place.
Ning Cheng took out a thin rope and tied An Yi’s wrists to his, “An Yi, you and I will walk side by side so that I don’t lose sight of you.”
“This is ……,” Ning Cheng had just admonished An Yi when he was once again stunned by the sight before him.
A dark red fence had suddenly appeared in front of him and Anyi, and the fence seemed to be boundless, with no end in sight. As for what was inside the fence, the same could not be seen. At this moment, he and An Yi were on a green stone path in front of the gate of the fence.
The green stone path led to this dark red fence gate, which was hidden. The fragrance of the Golden Cicada Fruit, which had not appeared for a long time, was once again emitted, and this time Ning Cheng felt it very clearly, the fragrance of the Golden Cicada Fruit was wafting out from inside this enclosure.
“Brother Ning, the Golden Cicada Fruit is inside that red wall courtyard, is this big enclosure the place where a senior once lived?” An Yi asked in a small voice in Ning Cheng’s ear.
“That’s not right ……” Ning Cheng’s mind was incredibly clear at the moment, he found that he could see this dark red front courtyard clearly in front of him, and he could also see this path clearly in front of him. However, the surrounding scenery, and the scenery behind him looked blurry.
Ning Cheng forced himself to run his divine thoughts, he had not cultivated the Ru Yi Xuan Mu Skill, but he knew from this cultivation technique that if a Qi gathering cultivator’s divine thoughts were strong enough to be able to release them externally, it would be clearer and more intuitive than using his eyes to see.
At this moment, he forced his divine thoughts to operate, just to see if he could see what was around him. The next moment, the scene within a metre around him appeared in a blur in his consciousness.
This was the outward release of divine thoughts? Ning Cheng had just thought of outward release when the scene within one metre disappeared once again.
“Are we going in?” An Yi asked in a small voice, she suddenly didn’t quite want to go into this dark red enclosure, she always felt that this enclosure was a bit weird.
Ning Cheng waved his hand and once again forced his divine thoughts out, this time the range he viewed seemed to be a little larger, it had reached about one and a half metres. A blurred figure appeared in his divine thoughts, this figure seemed to be staring at him and An Yi, and was lifeless.
Ning Cheng was startled, and without even thinking, he directly slashed over with a fire blade. After a sharp cry, the blurred figure disappeared without a trace in Ning Cheng’s fireball.
Ning Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, although these figures could not be seen with the eyes, once they were detected by the divine thoughts, they could be resolved with just one fireball. This showed that divine thoughts were far more powerful than gaze. At this moment, Ning Cheng had already made up his mind that in future cultivation, he must not neglect his divine thoughts.
“What’s going on? Big Brother Ning?” Even though An Yi did not understand why Ning Cheng suddenly split the fire blade, she still heard that sharp cry very clearly.
Ning Cheng waved his hand and his divine thoughts were cast out once again. Several more faint figures appeared in his divine thoughts, and Ning Cheng felt the aura of life from these figures. He immediately knew that these figures were different from the one just now, this should be someone else who had entered this place. It was just that these people had not seen him yet. Ning Cheng hurriedly took An Yi and once again deviated a few steps and hid behind a piece of dry gra*s.
It was only when those figures came down the curved path and walked onto the green stone path in front of the dark red wall courtyard that Ning Cheng could see clearly. There were a total of eight people who had come, and of these eight people, Ning Cheng surprisingly knew four of them. The Daoist of Industry, Feng Fei Zhang, Miao Xiuming and Tian Fei.
Immediately after these eight people walked onto this green stone path, they saw the dark red wall courtyard, as well as the hidden door.
“That’s right, this is the scent of the golden cicada fruit, it’s really here, and there’s a walled courtyard surrounding it. When there was no scent just now, I thought we had gone to the wrong place.” A squint-eyed third level Qi gathering cultivator called out in surprise as soon as he stepped onto the green stone path.
The Daoist of Industry sneered and said, “Xue Si Nian, don’t blame me for not warning you. It’s normal to disappear in this place even if it’s inexplicable, there’s a Burning True Formation talisman between the eight of us, otherwise you might have disappeared as soon as you came down.”
“Yes, yes, Brother Pu is right, if it wasn’t for Brother Pu’s formation instruction map this time, we wouldn’t have been able to walk here at all. I already know about Brother Pu’s warning.” This squint-eyed cultivator thought that Daoist Ye wanted to reiterate his role, and hurriedly repeated what he had said many times before.
Daoist Ye didn’t bother to remind this fellow of the role of the Burning True Formation talisman; it wasn’t this talisman that would somehow disappear as soon as the path of the formation’s route map. The good thing is that now it has reached before the wall courtyard, even if the formation talisman is lost, the problem should not be too big.
“Brother Xue, I think what Brother Pu is reminding you of is not that his formation route map has worked, but to remind you not to lose that Burning True Formation Talisman.” Feng Fei Zhang had understood what Daoist Ye meant.
Daoist Ye didn’t go on to explain, he just said, “Later, when we enter that walled courtyard don’t rush inside, listen to my instructions, one of the eight of us will occupy a corner and together we will break through the Golden Cicada Fruit’s defensive formation.”
“Of course we will listen to Brother Pu’s command, Brother Pu just say the word.” Miao Xiuming immediately chimed in, making it clear that he insisted on being on Daoist Ye’s side.
Daoist Ye nodded and said, “There are already many people who have obtained the route map of Lan Sha Island, but they all think that only the 15th can enter. They definitely don’t know that the Golden Cicada Fruit ripens on the tenth day of the first month. Unfortunately, they don’t have the Burning True Formation talisman, and even if they knew, they would still suffer death if they came in. Today, the ninth day, is the right time to break the formation, and by the time we take the Golden Cicada Fruit away, they should be here too.”
Ning Cheng cursed in his heart at the shamelessness of Daoist Ye, he had told himself before that it was also the fifteenth day, fortunately he had come to Lan Sha Island first. Moreover, this guy still had some kind of burning true talisman, and he didn’t reveal it at all. It had caused An Yi to almost disappear.
Daoist Karma led the way to the hidden door and carefully pushed it open. The hidden door let out a ‘creak’, not a loud sound, but it was as unpleasant as if it had pierced into the heart.
As he watched the eight people dodge into the hidden gate one by one, Ning Cheng had already dismissed the idea of going in. There were so many bizarre things going on before he even entered the walled courtyard, once he entered, would there be any good things? It wasn’t that he was afraid of things, but because his cultivation level was really too poor, only at the fourth level of Qi gathering. The Golden Cicada Fruit was good, but it was only a scramble if possible, and he didn’t need to fight with his life.
Ning Cheng had no intention of leaving either, the Golden Cicada Fruit was right in front of him and he was not the kind of person to give in to courtesy. Moreover, Ning Cheng vaguely felt that there was something wrong with Daoist Ye, the diagram and the formation talisman that he came in with were provided by Daoist Ye, yet the stuff was shared equally, he believed that Daoist Ye was not that kind of noble fellow either. It was just that now that eight people had gone in together, he couldn’t think of any mishaps that Daoist Ye could come up with in order to get the remaining seven to use for him.
There were two other reasons why Ning Cheng did not leave, one was that he simply did not know how to leave the place, and the other was that he wanted to finish off the Karma Daoist.
Earlier on the beast carriage, the Karma Daoist was about to blackmail him into forming a team, and now if this revenge wasn’t taken, then it wouldn’t be him, Ning Cheng. What’s more, if Daoist Karma came out from inside this walled courtyard, he would definitely get something good.
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Time pa*sed as they waited and waited, and on the first day Ning Cheng and An Yi could only hear a burst of muffled sounds coming from inside the dark red wall courtyard. The muffled sound started out loud and short, but as time went on the gaps in the muffled sound became longer and the sound got smaller.
The next day Ning Cheng and An Yi heard no sound at all. The eight people who had entered the walled courtyard were like mud going into the sea, no sound at all.
Ning Cheng’s heart was becoming more and more bottomless, if he continued to stay here and wait, after a few days maybe many people would ascend to this island. Moreover, he always had a vague feeling that there seemed to be a pair of eyes staring at him and Anyi in this mist.
“Brother Ning, I always felt that someone was calling me to get into that red walled courtyard as well. If you hadn’t caught me, I’m afraid I wouldn’t have been able to resist.” An Yi whispered in Ning Cheng’s ear.
Ning Cheng was just about to speak when the gate of that wall courtyard once again let out a ‘creak’ and the Ye Daoist frantically rushed out from inside. At this moment, the Karma Daoist was cloaked in hair, where was the calm look that he had just entered?