Even Rong Jin’s connotation could not stand it anymore, “Ning Cheng, do you think that I can’t help you because fighting is not allowed in the Heavenly Dao Square? There is still a Dou Sheng Clan in the Heavenly Dao Square, I, Rong Jin of the Yin Yang Dao Sect, formally challenge you today, the Dou Sheng Clan will not stop until you die, let’s see if I can kill you?”
Challenging a person whose cultivation level was inferior to his own, Rong Jin admitted in his heart that he had been stimulated by Ning Cheng. As the head of a clan, this Ning Cheng did not have any half-hearted effort to nurture his qi, and since he came from an uneducated scattered cultivator, there was no need for him, Rong Jin, to give face.
As soon as Rong Jin’s words were spoken, they immediately caused a commotion among the surrounding cultivators. A duel in the Dou Sheng Sect was no small matter. Only cultivators above the Hua Ding of the Dou Sheng Sect were qualified to go to the duel, but of course if you were not a Hua Ding, you were the head of a sect above the Seven Star Sect, you were also qualified to go to the duel. Ning Cheng wasn’t a cultivator of the Huiding Tripod, and he happened to be the head of a sect, attaching himself to this duel condition.
If Rong Jin challenged, it was fine if you didn’t go, then you had to kneel down to Rong Jin and beg for forgiveness, agreeing to any of Rong Jin’s conditions. In other words, you beg for forgiveness, and if someone tells you to drill through your crotch, you have to do it too.
Ever since the emergence of the Dou Sheng Clan, it was rare for a sect leader to go up to challenge, and even for a cultivator who had transformed into a tripod, it was extremely rare for him to do so. Only when there was a great feud between life and death would someone raise the Dou Sheng Sect challenge.
Ning Cheng was certainly not mindlessly telling Rong Jin to get lost, he still had this point of connotation. His intention had been to anger Rong Jin, then when he left the Heavenly Dao Square, Rong Jin would follow him and kill this guy. However, he did not expect Rong Jin to offer a challenge, and he really had not heard of the Dou Sheng Sect.
Seeing Ning Cheng look at himself, Tan Yun immediately understood that Ning Cheng did not know about the Dou Sheng Clan. Because of her sister, Tan Yushan’s matter, Tan Gyun had investigated Ning Cheng’s origins. She knew that Ning Cheng had come from the Le Continent and had not been here in the Heaven Continent for long, so it was normal for such a cultivator not to know about the Dou Sheng Clan.
Thinking of this, she took the initiative to explain, “The Dou Sheng Sect is a place where challenges are made between Cultivators or Sovereigns of the Transformation Tripod, and cultivators who go in do not die. If you don’t agree to Elder Rong’s challenge, you can take the initiative to admit defeat. To admit defeat, you must beg for forgiveness, and to beg for forgiveness, you must obey any of Elder Rong Jin’s conditions.”
Ning Cheng understood, his divine sense had already swept to the place where the three words of the Dou Sheng Sect were engraved, on the western most side of the Heavenly Dao Square.
“Rong Jin, although your qualifications are still so far behind compared to mine. Since you seek death, I will grant you that. However, this clan has important matters on its mind right now, so in three months’ time, the duel will take place at the Dou Sheng Gate.” Ning Cheng did not hesitate to agree to Rong Jin’s challenge.
He was about to kill Rong Jin, and now that Rong Jin had taken the initiative to challenge him, how could he not accept it. But the time had to be put in three months, and during these three months, he had to set his mind and heart on finding the spirit veins. If he could find a spirit vein, he might even be able to advance to the middle stage of the Sea-clearing Realm and fight Rong Jin. If he couldn’t find one, he could forget about it.
Rong Jin’s face regained its calmness, “It’s just a vain attempt to show off your tongue, a cultivator at the early stage of the Sea Breaking Realm dares to become the head of one of the ten sects, that’s a certain sect that has no one.”
After saying that, Rong Jin did not even wait for Ning Cheng to reply, turned around and disappeared from the Heavenly Dao Plaza in an instant.
Ning Cheng mocked Rong Jin for not being a sect master and being less qualified compared to him, Rong Jin mocked Ning Cheng for being too poor in cultivation, only at the Sea Pioneer Realm.
No matter how Ning Cheng and Rong Jin ridiculed each other, the news that Ning Cheng and Rong Jin, the Patriarchs of the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect, would be dueling at the Heavenly Dao Square Dou Sheng Gate in three months’ time instantly spread out.
It was difficult for others not to know about such explosive news, as Ning Cheng, a rising star, had killed Tang Guangxi, who was at the third level of the Transformation Tripod, and his reputation had spread far and wide. Rong Jin was even an old ruthless man, one of the strongest in the Yin Yang Dao, far from being comparable to Tang Guangxi, and his cultivation level was even several levels beyond Ning Cheng’s.
What’s more, this life and death battle was not just between Ning Cheng and Rong Jin, but also between the Yin Yang Dao Sect and the Lok Hong Sword Sect.
Many people began to look forward to this exciting duel in three months’ time, after countless years of silence, the Dou Sheng Sect was once again going to open up because of this restless, and feisty, Patriarch Ning.
Ning Cheng said to Tangyun who was waiting on the side, “Wait for a moment, I’ll ask a few things.”
Temperance was in no hurry as he said, “Be my guest, Sovereign Ning, I am in no hurry.”
Ning Cheng looked at Zhuang Jingyi and asked, “Are there many cultivators from Le Continent? By the way, do you know where Yan Ji is?”
Just now, Ning Cheng’s divine sense had swept through the entire Heavenly Dao Square and had not seen Yan Ji either. Not to mention Yan Ji, he had not seen any of the rest of the familiar people that Zhang Qian had mentioned.
Zhuang Jingyi hurriedly bowed and said, “Back to Sovereign, there are quite a few cultivators from Le Continent, most of them have already joined the major sects, only a few are still looking for opportunities in the Heavenly Dao Square like me. Senior Sister Yan Ji has now joined the Drifting Snow Palace and left the Heavenly Dao Square three days ago following the people from the Drifting Snow Palace.”
Ning Cheng was greatly disappointed in his heart, he had wanted to find Yan Ji and ask him to join the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect and live together in the Rainbow Fallen Sword Peak. Unexpectedly, he had come a few days late and Yan Ji had joined the Pixie Palace. Although he and the Drifting Snow Palace did not talk about any beams, they did not have any good feelings either. When Yan Ji became a disciple of the Piu Xue Palace, Ning Cheng also dismissed the idea of going to see Yan Ji again.
What Ning Cheng did not know was that Yan Ji had already inquired about him. After learning that he had been forced to flee by several large sects, he had then disappeared into thin air. And after the Fallen Rainbow Sword Sect’s Patriarch did not say anything, she dismissed the idea of joining the Fallen Rainbow Sword Sect and joined the Drifting Snow Palace under Yin Kongchan’s persuasion.
“In that case, you should go back to the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect first, and if there are any other Leizhou disciples here who have not found a sect, they can all join the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect as long as they are willing.”
Ning Cheng said as he took out a jade token and handed it to Zhuang Jingyi, “Once you arrive at the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect, just take out this jade token.”
The Rainbow Fall Sword Sect had very few disciples now, so this was Ning Cheng’s way of recruiting some disciples. Plus, if cultivators who came over from Le Continent could not find a sect, they could only become a scattered cultivator in the Heaven Continent, and the fate of scattered cultivators in the Heaven Continent could be imagined. Ning Cheng was also helping out where he could, as for how much attendance he would have when he reached the sect, it was entirely up to him.
“Many thanks, Sovereign.” Zhuang Jingyi took the jade token with surprise, thinking in his heart that he was really from the same place, Sovereign Ning had spared no effort to help them.
“By the way, do you know about the Returning Bell in Returning Yuan City?” Ning Cheng asked again, he hadn’t seen the Returning Bell in the Heavenly Dao Square as well.
Zhuang Jingyi had heard Ning Cheng say not long ago that he had fought with Gui Yuan City and knew that Ning Cheng and Gui Zhong must have had a conflict, now that Ning Cheng asked, he hurriedly replied, “I heard that he had gone to the Heavenly Path, and then there was no news.”
“I know, you go back to the clan. Something has happened to the clan, you don’t need to care much, just cultivate well.” Ning Cheng admonished.
“Yes.” Zhuang Jingyi hurriedly answered, he was a casual cultivator from Le Continent, he had no friends here, and he was not at all aware of what had happened in the Lok Hong Sword Sect a few days ago.
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Star Ba Rest House, this was the second time Ning Cheng came here.
The first time he and Yin Kongchan and Xu Yingdie had finalized the cooperation here, and because of that cooperation, he had obtained the Nine Yin Marrow of the Earth’s Heart, the Underworld Soul Flower, and also the Nirvana Gun, which he had also obtained from that cooperation. Of course, it was also because of that collaboration that he almost lost his life at Xu Yingdie’s hands.
“What does Senior Sister Temperance want from me?” Ning Cheng took the initiative to ask after bringing Fain Gyun into the Starbuck Resting House. One should never treat Temperance the same way as one treated Rong Jin, who was definitely an enemy. Temperance represented the Great Yi Island, and was now an invisible partner of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, and could completely develop into a true cooperative relationship.
The Lok Hong Sword Sect was now very weak, and he would not try to befriend those who were already rivals, but he could not push out partners who could be brought in.
Temperance said in a calm tone, “Sovereign Ning is really not afraid of trouble, he has just killed Tang Guangxi of the Red Star Sword Sect and now he is challenging Rong Jin of the Yin Yang Dao Sect.”
It was clearly Rong Jin who had challenged Ning Cheng, but Temperance was inclined to say that Ning Cheng had challenged Rong Jin. In fact, Ning Cheng knew that she was not wrong, it was indeed he who had taken the initiative to challenge him. He did not defy Rong Jin in public and tell his opponent to get lost. With Rong Jin’s Qi raising skills, he would definitely not have taken the initiative to challenge him.
“I’ve helped you out by killing Tang Guangxi, I think we’re friends not enemies.” Ning Cheng did not like such a roundabout way of speaking from Tangyun.
Temperance understood that Ning Cheng was into being straightforward, so she stood up and gave Ning Cheng a salute before saying, “If it wasn’t for you, I might still treat the beast as a relative until today. I’ve never had the chance to thank you, so this time I’m thanking you specifically.”
Ning Cheng hurriedly waved his hand and said, “Sit down and talk, Senior Sister Temperance, I have just said that my Rainbow Fall Sword Sect and Big Easy Island are friends. It’s just a pity that my cultivation level was really too low back then and I was not able to save your sister. I wonder how that Jiang Jun of the Red Star Sword Sect is doing now?”
Temperance sighed secretly, she knew that what Ning Cheng said was true. Even if Ning Cheng was powerful, he would still not be able to go and kill a cultivator at the eighth level of Xuan Dan who was a complete Yuan Soul.
“Jiang Jun is a true disciple of the Red Star Sword Sect, and if I hadn’t guessed, I’m afraid that he is in the middle or even late stage of the God Shaping Realm at this point.” Temperance’s tone calmed down, her enmity with Jiang Jun was as deep as the sea, and there was a powerful hatred in this calm tone.
Ning Cheng could only secretly sigh, although Big Easy Island was also one of the ten sects, its strength was much less than that of the Red Star Sword Sect. It was normal for her to be helpless as Jiang Jun shrank into the sect’s closed-door cultivation.
“Apart from thanking you, I also want to join forces with you on a matter this time.” Temperance raised her hand as she spoke and struck out several soundproofing prohibitions.
“Please speak.” Ning Cheng nodded, he knew that Temperance was definitely looking for him to collaborate on something, as for why he wanted to collaborate with him, he wasn’t quite sure.
“Patriarch Ning should know that this time the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect was backstabbed, in which someone appeared with a spirit vein and transferred the four supreme elders of the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect, right?” After Temperance struck the soundproofing ban, he still spoke in a cautious tone.