Ning Cheng spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, but in fact the injury was not very serious. If it was before his body refinement, those few true essence awnings could have split him into several pieces. And now he had long recovered from his injuries after swallowing a few pills after he had withstood the attacks of a few Cultivators of Transformation.
Having obtained the spirit veins, Ning Cheng did not immediately go to the Heavenly Dao Square, he had made an appointment with Temperance to meet in three months. During these three months, he needed to close down and cultivate. To him, the best place for seclusion was, of course, the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect.
Without the teleportation talisman, even if Ning Cheng returned to the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect from Gai Zero Mountain, it would still take two days. Ning Cheng simply did not return to the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, and after finding out that Wu Mao did not continue to chase him, he simply found a quiet place on Gai Zero Mountain and entered the Small World to cultivate.
Using the Spirit Veins to cultivate, Ning Cheng immediately felt the benefits of it. The cultivation effect of the spirit veins was far less than the crystals Meng Jingxiu had given him, but it was unknown how many times better than his spirit stones.
At least there was no lack of absorption of spirit energy, and after experiencing the slowness of absorbing spirit stone spirit energy to cultivate for over a year, Ning Cheng once again felt the pleasure of cultivation.
The spiritual qi in the spiritual veins was easier to combine with oneself and transform into true essence cultivation. In just two months’ time, Ning Cheng had broken through the third level of the Sea Breaking Realm to the fourth level of the Sea Breaking Realm.
As his cultivation level increased, the speed at which he ran his gong methods to absorb spirit energy became increasingly swift and huge. And the Spirit Veins provided just such a huge supply and demand, far from the mere Spirit Stones of Spirit Qi that could be compared.
The third and fourth levels of the Sea Repelling Realm are only one level apart, but in fact there is a world of difference in strength and weakness. One is at the early stage and the other is at the middle stage, and the difference between them cannot be clearly explained in a few words.
It turned out that Ning Cheng had to almost fight to the death when he cast the Exhausting Fire divine Ability. After casting this divine ability, his true essence and divine sense would be in a dry spell. And now Ning Cheng believed that even after he had cast the Exhausting Fire divine Ability, he still had some ability to escape.
This was definitely different, one could only pray that his opponent was *depleted* after casting this divine ability. One, however, still had the ability to continue attacking or choose to flee. It was only at this point that Ning Cheng had incorporated the Exhausting Fire divine Ability into his true means of saving his life.
As three months approached, Ning Cheng had completely solidified his cultivation level at the middle stage of the Sea Breaking Realm, and the huge Spirit Vein had automatically shrunk by a large margin.
Ning Cheng did not feel much guilt about this, it was not that he did not first cleave off a third of the Spirit Vein for Temperance. Rather, it was because the more the spirit veins were truncated, the worse the cultivation effect would be.
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Heavenly Dao Plaza.
Despite the fact that disciple recruitment in the Yixing Continent had ended, the Heavenly Dao Plaza had always been very lively, and it had been even more lively in the past few days.
All knew that Ning Cheng, the new Patriarch of the Lok Hong Sword Sect, was about to have a duel with Rong Jin of the Yin Yang Dao at the Heavenly Dao Square Dou Sheng Gate.
This was a duel of life and death, and although this duel could not be compared to the dao lord duels in the Heavenly Continent, it was still considered a summit duel. After all, one of them was a seventh layer cultivator of the Yin Yang Dao, while the other was a famous upstart, even the patriarch of the Lok Hong Sword Sect, Ning Cheng.
Even though the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect had not invited the major sects to hold a ceremony for Ning Cheng to assume the position of Patriarch, Ning Cheng was indeed the acknowledged Patriarch of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect now.
So this duel also had a bearing on the faces of the two great sects, the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect and the Yin Yang Dao Sect. Whoever lost, this sect would not just be a matter of losing an Elder of the Cauldron Transformation or losing a sect master, but a matter of losing face to the extreme.
Ning Cheng had just arrived at the Heavenly Dao Sect Square when his divine sense swept up a group of disciples from the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, Han Han Rui, Fu Shengnan, Que Hong Shui, Lou Ziyan, Liang Shi, Zhang Qian and others were all there. When Ning Cheng had returned to the sect earlier, only Zhang Qian was alone, he did not see any of the rest of the disciples.
Now that these people had all returned, they must have known that the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect had been taken back by him and a few of the supreme elders, which was why they had returned to the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect again.
Although Ning Cheng knew that there was nothing they could do about it, in Ning Cheng’s heart, Zhang Qian, who had remained in the sect, still had a higher status.
Ning Cheng was about to go over and take a look when he found another group of people stopping the disciples of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect. The number of people stopping the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect was much more than the disciples of the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect, and one of them Ning Cheng also knew, it was Shen Buqun.
Shen Buqun was a true disciple of the Yin Yang Dao and had met Ning Cheng in the sect competition back then. However, this fellow did not make a move, saying that he needed to go down to rest after seven consecutive bouts, and as a result, he did not come back up after this rest. Back then, this fellow was still at the ninth level of Xuan Dan, but now he was already at the Perfection of Yuan Soul realm.
Compared to Ning Cheng’s divine progress, his progress was not good. Ning Cheng, however, knew his own business, he had the Xuanhuang Pearl, it was normal for him to cultivate several times faster than others, so it was evident that this Shen Buqun was not simple either.
He was about to have a duel with Rong Jin of the Yin Yang Dao, and it was normal for the disciples of the Yin Yang Dao to find trouble with the disciples of the Lok Hong Sword Sect.
“What, want to fight in the Heavenly Dao Square? Then let’s have a match to try.”
Que Hong Shui, as one of the two daughters of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, naturally could not back down when someone from the Yin Yang Dao came to his door.
Just take a look at Zhang Qian and you would know what kind of person the Patriarch liked, Zhang Qian’s status in the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect was not low now. The main reason is of course very simple, when the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect was under siege by another sect, he chose to flee and Zhang Qian stayed behind.
Now that the Patriarch was about to have a battle with the Yin Yang Dao’s Cultivator of Transformation in the Heavenly Dao Square, how could he weaken the name of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect in front of the disciples of the Yin Yang Dao?
Shen Buqun said disdainfully, “You are a God Shaping Realm cultivator, how dare you have the nerve to seek out a Yuan Soul Realm cultivator like me to make a move, do you want to be shameless?”
Lou Ziyan couldn’t help but say on the side, “It’s indeed shameless, a high cultivation level challenging a low cultivation level, and I heard that it was even a cultivator of the Transformation Cauldron challenging a cultivator of the Sea Pioneer Realm.”
The disciples of Yin Yang Dao were immediately furious upon hearing this, Lou Ziyan was obviously mocking Elder Rong Jin of Yin Yang Dao for challenging Ning Cheng of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect.
Several disciples sacrificed their magic treasures, and it looked like a group fight was about to take place. It was true that fighting was strictly forbidden in the Heavenly Dao Square, but once the hatred between two sects was amplified, it would be difficult to settle such a group fight.
“Scram.” A cold snort came out, and more than ten disciples of the Yin Yang Dao instantly turned red in the face as they backed away. Just that one shout almost made more than ten Yin Yang Dao disciples vomit blood.
If Ning Cheng had been willing, these ten or so disciples would have spurted out a mouthful of blood long ago.
“What a great authority, the head of a sect actually clashing with some low ranking disciples, I have seen how bullish the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect is, it turns out that it can only be bullish to these low ranking disciples.”
As soon as he heard this voice, Ning Cheng knew that this was JI Xiu of the Yin Yang Dao, with a cultivation level of the fourth level of the Transformation Tripod.
“You too, get lost, or else I will challenge you immediately. Whoever dares to lay a hand on a disciple of my Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect in the future, I, Ning Cheng, will kill them.” Ning Cheng’s aura suddenly rose, and out of thin air, a wall of true essence Qi rolled up.
JI Xiu was so angry that his face turned blue, but he did not dare not roll. He estimated that he was afraid that he was not yet Ning Cheng’s opponent. Ning Cheng had killed Tang Guangxi, and he had seen it with his own eyes. If he wanted to finish off Ning Cheng, he would have to advance to at least the seventh level of the Transformation Tripod.
“Hmph, dying ears. I, JI Xiu, am at least a Tripod Transformation Elder of the Yin Yang Dao, so how would I bother with a dead man? It is a pity that once Patriarch Rui of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect is gone, he will have to keep changing his patriarch.”
After JI Xiu had tried to show off his tongue, he could only lead a group of Yin Yang Dao disciples to leave in disgrace.
He believed that Ning Cheng would definitely not be able to escape from Senior Brother Rong Jin, and deep down, he did think that Ning Cheng would surely die.
Ning Cheng watched as JI Xiu led the Yin Yang Dao disciples away and did not continue to sneer. The Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect was in a state of decline, if he, the sect master, did not be stronger, the disciples of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect should not go out and mix in the future.
The disciples of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect listened with fervour, although the new patriarch’s cultivation level was not that of a pearl, his words were overbearing. The new patriarch’s words were so powerful that he scared away one of the Yin Yang Dao’s Elders.
When Ning Cheng had joined the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, they were still standing in front of Ning Cheng, picking out their younger brothers to follow. Now they were only at the God Shaping Realm cultivation level, while Ning Cheng was now their sect master.
The world was ever-changing and no one knew what would happen tomorrow.
“Greetings Sovereign ……,” several disciples of the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect came over to salute Ning Cheng with joy. Even Fu Shengnan, who had a grudge against Ning Cheng, had to come over and salute, and as for what was going on in her mind, no one knew.
Fu Shengnan had backstabbed Ning Cheng, and if Ning Cheng was not the head of the clan now, he would really want to abolish this woman. It was just that he was now the lord of a sect and a friend of Fu Xiaomei. If he didn’t have this kind of stamina, it would be futile to make people laugh. Although he did not know why Fu Shengnan had come here, he could only pretend that he did not see it.
Que Hong Shui said in shame, “The clan has undergone a great change, so a few of us could only flee, please ask the clan master to reprimand us.”
Ning Cheng did not expect that Que Hong Shui would still be able to speak about this matter openly and honestly, and in his heart he had some good feelings towards his honesty, “This matter cannot be blamed on you, some other sects are hiding outside the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, and your cultivation at the God Shaping Realm, if you did not leave, I am afraid that your life would be in danger. It’s good to be able to come back, work hard in the future to cultivate and contribute something to the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect.”
“Yes, Sovereign.” This time it was several disciples of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect who bowed in reply at the same time.
Ning Cheng knew that they had come here to cheer for themselves, so he did not ask too many questions, but only looked at Han Han Rui and said with a smile, “Senior Sister Han Rui, has Senior Sister Ke Xin returned? Did she come with you?”
Ning Cheng had a bad feeling in his heart as his face changed slightly, and he said to the rest of them, “You guys go to the Dou Sheng Sect first to cheer me on, Senior Sister Han Rui and I are going to have some business and will be here soon.”
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“Say, what has happened to Liang Kexin?” Ning Cheng asked immediately after bringing Mythical Hanrui into a rest house.
Myxie Hanrui hurriedly replied, “Sovereign ……”
“Senior Sister Hanrui, it’s better to call me Senior Brother Ning, I won’t be the patriarch for long.” Ning Cheng knew that it was impossible for him to stay as the Patriarch of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, and he had no choice but to take over as the Patriarch.
“Yes, Senior Brother, Senior Sister Ke Xin has been taken to Mirage Island ……”
Before Mushroom Hanrui finished his words, Ning Cheng knew that it must have something to do with the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree.