There seemed to be a specific distance kept between the four of them, and what puzzled Ning Cheng was that these four’s divine sense rarely paid attention to their surroundings.
Ning Cheng quickly understood what was going on, the three of them, Sang Xiezhu, were all using their divine sense to help out Wu Mao, although these three were not formation masters, Wu Mao needed the assistance of their divine sense. Relying on Wu Mao’s divine sense alone, he was still unable to pounce on the location of the spirit veins.
Knowing that the remaining three also had to use their divine sense to assist Wu Mao, Ning Cheng was slightly more daring. Not only did he use his divine sense to follow the four of them, he also used his divine sense from time to time to observe Wu Mao’s gestures and the formation flags he threw.
As time passed, Ning Cheng’s admiration for Wu Mao grew. This guy was far superior to him in both his means of arranging formation flags and his understanding of spirit-seeking formations. Moreover, the compass in Wu Mao’s hand was also not simple, and together with his formation, it could pounce on the main direction of the concealed spirit veins.
Ning Cheng was so engrossed in Wu Mao’s formation techniques that he actually forgot about it. This kind of Spirit Searching Formation was simply more complex and vast than the Mountain Protecting Formation.
At this very moment, Temperance suddenly grabbed him, Ning Cheng was startled in his heart and immediately stopped. Luckily, he reacted quickly and knew that Temperance did not have any killing intent, so he did not make a move.
Temperance did not dare to transmit a voice, nor did he have any words, but only gestured to Ning Cheng with anxious eyes.
Ning Cheng had already read from Temperance’s eyes what she meant, which was that she was following too close. However, Ning Cheng felt a pounding heart, which was definitely not the result of stalking too close.
Ning Cheng did not continue to follow, and the four people setting up the formation in front of him were getting further and further away from Ning Cheng. It was only after a full hour had passed that Ning Cheng signalled for Temperance to carefully follow him away from his original position.
“Phew ……” Ning Cheng slowly breathed out and said in a small voice, “Thank you so much for earlier.”
He was so engrossed in Wu Mao’s formation technique that he had forgotten what he had come for, and only after Tangyun’s gesture did he come to his senses. He was in the middle of his formation, and even if he were to follow him, he would be discovered if he continued. And he felt his heart jumping because Gou Mao had added a concealing touch formation to his spirit-seeking formation.
If he continued to stay behind and observe Wu Mao set up his formation, he would be discovered by Wu Mao the first time he waited for his touch formation to be completed.
“It’s alright, I just feel like we’re following too close.” Temperance did not see out the touch formation.
“You’re lucky, it’s not the issue of being too close, but this fellow Wu Mao is shameless and has also set up a touch formation in the spirit-seeking formation. Once his touch formation closes in, we will definitely be discovered.
Temperance’s face turned pale for a moment before he said afterwards, “Luckily I got you to help me, otherwise I wouldn’t know how I died.”
“Don’t worry, since his touch formation was detected by me, trying to get me to fall for it would be absolutely impossible.” Ning Cheng laughed coldly.
It was true that Wu Mao’s formation level was much higher than his, but he had his advantages, he did not need to set up a formation, instead, he could just avoid Wu Mao’s formation and continue to follow it.
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“Senior sister Yan Ji, if you had cultivated at my Piu Xue Palace from the beginning, I reckon you would have been one of the youngest cultivators of the Cultivation of the Cauldron in the Heaven Continent by now, your qualifications are truly astonishing.” After looking at the speed and efficiency of Yan Ji’s absorption and transformation of spirit energy, Yin Kongchan took Yan Ji’s hand and said with great emotion.
Yan Ji hastily replied, “Senior Sister Yin is overly complimentary, my qualifications have only improved due to some chance, and although my cultivation speed was not slow before, it was far from excellent.”
Yin Kongchan nodded, “No matter what the cause was, this is your capital. What’s more, you are so beautiful, in a few more years, you will definitely be famous throughout the entire Heaven Continent. Senior sister Ji, I suggest that when you choose your master, you choose the Seventh Palace Master. The Seventh Palace Master will definitely reap great rewards this time out, and we as disciples can follow along and get some glory.”
Yan Ji blushed, “Senior Sister Yin has over-complimented me, my crude appearance is far worse than Senior Sister Yin’s. As for the Master, how am I qualified to pick ……”
Yan Ji’s mind was clearly not on what she was about to say, and her face squirmed a little as she spoke, as if she was embarrassed to say something.
“Senior sister Ji, do you have anything to say? We will all be fellow senior sisters in the future, so just say what you have to say directly.” Yin Kongchan did not like to talk much to outsiders, and she had an innate good feeling towards Yan Ji.
Yan Ji finally mustered up enough courage to say, “Senior Sister Yin, I would, like to ask you about a person ……”
Yin Kongchan was a woman herself, once she saw Yan Ji’s squirming face and felt Yan Ji’s suddenly accelerated heartbeat, she immediately knew what was going on and said with a faint smile, “I wonder who it is, to make Senior Sister Ji fall in love, this guy is really lucky.”
Yan Ji also knew that she was not hiding her heart, so she said, “Senior Sister Yin, I heard people say that you are familiar with Ning Cheng, I would like to inquire, where has Ning Cheng gone now ……”
“It’s him?” When Yin Kongchan heard the word Ning Cheng, she suddenly felt a little dazed. A well-defined face appeared in front of her, and what she couldn’t forget the most was that pair of eyes. That pair of eyes stared at you as if they wanted to look into your heart, so much so that you would overlook his slightly slanted sword brows and straight nose.
If we talk about handsomeness, she had seen many young men who were more handsome and handsome than Ning Cheng. But Ning Cheng could leave an everlasting impression on her heart, not because of anything else, but because of his eyes. His eyes were like a window to the whole sky and could see everything. From his eyes you seemed to see many things, and yet you seemed to see nothing at all.
Or maybe his eyes were not the windows of the whole sky, but of him alone. She felt this way only because she did not dare to look into his eyes, yes, just did not dare to look, as if the slightest thought in her heart would be seen by him.
“Senior Sister Yin ……” Yan Ji called out again in confusion, she had only asked where Ning Cheng was going, if she knew, she would tell her, it didn’t matter if she didn’t know. Senior Sister Yin seemed to be acting a little strange, could it be that Senior Sister Yin was thinking the same as her? This should not be possible, right?
“Oh, yes, I know Ning Cheng. He was assassinated by Xu Yingdie of the Zhangyi Dao Sect, and then moved away from the Yixing Continent.” Yin Kongchan did not yet know about Ning Cheng’s return to great power, she knew that Ning Cheng had gone to Roland Star, but she did not quite want to tell Yan Ji about it. Telling Yan Ji would not help Yan Ji in the slightest, the Roland Star was a little too dangerous. It was too easy to go, but too difficult to return.
“Xu Yingdie?” Yan Ji repeated, she had been in the Celestial Continent for quite some time, but she did not know that Ning Cheng was in the Celestial Continent, so she had never inquired about these matters. In addition, she and a group of cultivators who had come over from Le Continent knew that the Heavenly Continent was dangerous, and rarely went out to flaunt it, which was why they knew nothing about what Ning Cheng had done.
“Yes, Xu Yingdie is a true disciple of the Emotion-Cutting Dao Sect. This woman used Ning Cheng to cut off his emotions and then assassinated him ……”
“Is there anything wrong with Senior Brother Ning?” Without waiting for Yin Kongchan to finish, Yan Ji panicked and interrupted Yin Kongchan.
Yin Kongchan shook her head, “No, I heard that Xu Yingdie’s master, Shi Qiong Hua, saved Ning Cheng, then she and Ning Cheng formed a dao couple and the two of them moved away from the Yixing Continent.”
“Senior Brother Ning has already gotten married?” Yan Ji suddenly found herself a little weak, she tried to forcefully lift her essence but was never able to do so.
Yin Kongchan sighed and grabbed Yan Ji’s hand, saying in a soft voice, “Senior sister Ji, it’s hard to force things like destiny, if you have it, you have it, if you don’t, you don’t. Ning Cheng is not bad, but in the future, if we can break out of the Yixing Continent, we might find that there are more excellent ……”
Yan Ji tried to calm her voice down, “Senior Sister Yin, you misunderstood my meaning ……”
She was not looking for a man to be her Daoist couple, she was looking for Ning Cheng, Senior Sister Yin would never understand what she meant.
Yin Kongchan sighed and was tempted to say, “I didn’t misunderstand you, but she knew it was bad to say such things.”
“Senior Sister Yin, I want to close up and impact the God Shaping Realm, and when I have advanced to the God Shaping Realm, I will come out to worship my master.” Yan Ji regained his composure as he said these words.
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This was already the eleventh day that Ning Cheng and Tangyun had been following the four Wu Mao, and even though Ning Cheng’s divine sense was strong, he felt a tinge of fatigue. And it was as if Wu Mao in front of them was tireless, still spilling out formation flags.
Ning Cheng’s tracking was different from other people’s tracking, he was proficient in formations and was also a rank seven formation master. He was not only tracking, he could also detect any traces of spirit breath based on Wu Mao’s spirit-seeking formation.
Even the slightest hint of spirit breath appearing in the formation would be caught by Ning Cheng.
This was definitely not the aura of a spirit stone, but just a hint of it, and Ning knew that it must be a spirit vein aura.
He immediately paused, his heart pounding. He hadn’t expected that Wu Mao had such a great ability, and had really found a spirit vein, and not only had he found it, he had done so quickly.
When Temperance saw Ning Cheng stop, he followed suit and stopped.
Ning Cheng didn’t move, the spirit veins were hidden under the ground, through the hint of spirit breath found by this spirit-seeking formation, Wu Mao could definitely follow this little breath into the underground and find the exact location of the spirit veins. At this time, not to mention Gu Mao, even he, the stalker, could find the location of the spirit vein based on this tiny bit of pounced spirit breath.
Ning Cheng had been waiting for Wu Mao to make a move to find the spirit veins, but found that it was as if Wu Mao hadn’t noticed, and was still exploring further and further. The three of them were obviously not proficient in formations, and did not find this hint of spirit breath from the spirit-seeking formation. The three of them followed along as Wu Mao moved forward.
What was going on? Ning Cheng was instantly frozen. This formation was set up by Wu Mao, he had found the spirit vein breath, there was no reason for Wu Mao not to know about this, so why was he doing useless work?