Ning Cheng’s face was incomparably pale, and he also looked thin and frail. If his formation level had not also advanced to level eight, he would have been drained of his essence by the vine branches around here.
Even so, he was still holding on with immense difficulty. After twenty years, he had already used up all the array materials he had on him, and he himself was not sure how much longer he could hold on.
Twenty years ago he was at the fourth level of cultivation in the Sea Pioneer Realm, and twenty years later he was still at the fourth level of cultivation in the Sea Pioneer Realm. Apart from the fact that his own divine sense had been strengthened through constant refinement because of being trapped, his cultivation had not grown by half.
He also tried the Exhausting Fire Avatar once during this time, but unfortunately, despite the incomparable power of the Exhausting Fire Avatar, he was unable to use this false spatial collapse to affect the Crow’s Nest Ghost Vine. The Exhausting Fire Avatar did burn up the surrounding vines in an instant, but he could not even reach the entrance of the cave before he was sucked in again.
Luckily, his thirty-six Tai Void True Devil Axes and formation means saved him once more, allowing him to persevere until today.
If one did not cultivate, how many twenty years would one have in life? If one were not a cultivator, not to mention twenty long years of dueling with these vine branches every day in a boring way. Even if one were to be locked up in one place for twenty years, one would have gone mad.
Ning Cheng was in a difficult situation, compared to Xiao Pensheng, Mu Ziming and Jia XIII, he didn’t know how many times better he was.
Xiao Pensheng and Mu Ziming had been entangled in vine branches more than ten years ago, and even though their cultivation levels were all above the level of a Transformation Tripod, their scenario was rather inferior to Ning Cheng’s. If it wasn’t for their really strong cultivation levels, the three would have been sucked into bones by the Ooze Ghost Vine long ago.
Even so, at this moment, all three of them looked like skin and bones.
“Jia XIII, it’s all one death anyway, so if you give Ning Cheng the method of using the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree to recover the Crowded Ghost Vine King, perhaps Ning Cheng can still save our lives.” The skinned and bony Xiao Pensheng could not hold back any longer, he knew that there was absolutely no way he could last another twenty years.
Jia XIII opened and closed his mouth as if it was a skeleton and hummed, “You also said that it was all a death anyway, why should I let this cunning thing control my life and death?”
Ning Cheng had the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree, once Ning Cheng could use the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree to influence the Crowded Ghost Vine, then his life and death would indeed be at the whim of Ning Cheng.
While his mouth was incomparably indignant towards Ning Cheng, what he actually hated the most in his heart were the two fellows, Xiao Pengsheng and Mu Ziming.
If it wasn’t for these two fellows, it would have been completely unnecessary for him to enter here before restraining Ning Cheng, he could have restrained Ning Cheng first and brought him here to sacrifice the vine. It was because of the appearance of these two meddlesome fellows that he had no choice but to bring the two Xiao Pensheng into the Green Cave.
Originally, he wanted to catch Ning Cheng the moment he was drawn into the Green Cave, but he did not expect Ning Cheng to have such a stunning gun intent, and he also had the Heavenly Cloud Twin Wings. This caused his calculations to fall flat for a moment, and instead of recovering the Unmercurial Ghost Vine King, he had become food for the Unmercurial Ghost Vine.
In fact, there was no need for Jia XIII to say that Ning Cheng had thought of all the ways to use the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree to recover the Crowded Ghost Vine King here.
Unfortunately, while he had to refine formation flags to set up formations to block these vine branches, he also had to improve his own formation level. If it wasn’t for his incomparable Xuanhuang Wufang Technique, he wouldn’t have had the time to think about the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree to recover the Wu Hei Ghost Vine King. If using the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree to retrieve the Wu Hei Ghost Vine King was so simple to think of, then of the four people here, Jia XIII would not be the only one who knew about it.
“Ning Cheng, you once cast a fire-based spell technique that seemed to cause the surrounding space to collapse, and then the flames burned the surrounding area completely empty. Do you have a strange kind of fire?” Mu Zi Ming did not persuade Jia XIII, he knew more about people like Jia XIII than Xiao Pengsheng. This man was definitely a ruthless person, ruthless to others and equally ruthless to himself. It was absolutely impossible to get him to hand over the way to use the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree to recover the Crowded Ghost Vine King.
Ning Cheng sighed and said, “Yes, I do have a fire seed, and this fire seed has also split and sprouted to become a true flame. Unfortunately, it was just in its infancy and its rank was too low. Even that spell technique I once performed was only possible with the support of my true essence and divine sense. Now my true essence is very tired and I am unable to perform this spell technique again.”
“I am not asking you to continue to cast this spell technique, but to directly use fire to incinerate these Crowded Ghost Vines. This kind of ghost vine is definitely afraid of strange flames, once you can burn them with this kind of flame, maybe we can all get out of it.” Mu Zi Ming’s tone was slightly trembling, he was just guessing, he did not expect Ning Cheng to really have this kind of strange fire.
If he wasn’t in a place like this, he would never have asked Ning Cheng about the matter of the Strange Fire. Possessing such a thing was a great secret of a cultivator, and inquiring about such things was definitely a taboo. Now that everyone was trapped here, if they didn’t think of a way out, there was only one way to die.
Ning Cheng smiled bitterly, “Senior Mu, it’s good that I have this flame. As I said earlier, my flame level is too low and there is no way to burn these ghost vines. If I could burn them, I would have done it a long time ago.”
“What kind of fire is yours?” Mu Zi Ming did not sound much disappointed, but instead grew more and more expectant. He was deadly bound by countless vines to the cave wall of the Green Cave, and he was struggling a little to speak. His excited tone could still be shown through this strain.
“It’s called Star River, and I don’t know what kind of flame it is.” Ning Cheng did not hide it and answered honestly.
“Star River?” Mu Zi Ming repeated with a frown, he had never heard of such a flame, was he just ignorant?
Xiao Pengsheng on the other side suddenly said, “Brother Mu, I heard that you have an Extreme Qian Violet Flame Heart, could it be true?”
Mu Zi Ming also let out a sigh, “That’s right, I did obtain an Extreme Violet Flame Heart. Back then, I almost fell in the Extreme Violet Flame Realm, and after all the hardships I went through, I finally did not make a trip in vain and obtained this Extreme Violet Flame Heart. Originally, I was thinking of finding a good flame in the future to make this Extreme Violet Flame Heart work. Regrettably, the famous flames in heaven and earth are like phoenixes in my Yixing Continent, they are simply unattainable.”
Ning Cheng’s heart twitched, he did not know very much about the various kinds of exotic fires between heaven and earth. However, he had heard a lot about the Extreme Violet Flame Heart, and it could be said that of all the materials he had, even the Taixu True Devil Gold was not as good as this Extreme Violet Flame Heart. Apart from the material for the Nirvana Gun, the only thing he could compare to the Extreme Violet Flame Heart was the Sky Cloud Twin Wings.
The Extreme Qian Violet Inferno Heart was a top-notch treasure that could allow flames to advance, so could it be that Mu Zi Ming wanted to give it to him to allow Xinghe to advance?
Sure enough, just as Ning Cheng thought of this, Mu Zi Ming said, “Ning Cheng, I have an Extreme Qian Violet Inflammation Heart here that can allow the strange flames of heaven and earth to upgrade. It’s just that the worse the grade of the flame, the longer it will take, even for better flames, it will take more than a hundred years. For worse flames, it will even take hundreds of years.
I won’t be able to last that long, but I have a soul nurturing wood so that I can fall early and then have a remnant of my Yuan Shen in the soul nurturing wood. I only have one request, that is, Ning Cheng if you get out of this trap, bring this trace of my Yuan Shen to my son, Mu Qian.”
Ning Cheng said joyfully, “Senior, don’t worry, my flame is different from ordinary flames, it might not take more than a few years for me to advance. So senior doesn’t need to be in such a hurry, you can let me try it out first.”
The reason why Ning Cheng had so much confidence was because he knew where his flame came from, it was a flame from the Immortal Mansion, how could it be comparable to ordinary flames of heaven and earth?
Mu Zi Ming smiled reluctantly, “I can still hold out for another one or two decades ……”
After saying that, Mu Zi Ming had thrown out a jade box. He still had one more thing to say, for him, holding on for one day was one more day of torment.
Jia XIII looked at the jade box on the ground as his skeleton eyes rolled around. What made him helpless was that only Ning Cheng now had the means to pick up the jade box on the ground through his divine sense.
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If one were to say which sect had flourished the most in recent years in the Heaven Continent, it would undoubtedly be the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, which did not have a sect leader.
Fifteen years ago, a Transformation Cultivator named Meng Jingxiu joined the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, and since then there had been an endless stream of Transformation Cultivators in the sect. In particular, in the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect’s Rainbow Fall Sword Peak, in the short span of thirty to forty years since Ning Cheng had left, five more Heaven Transformation Cultivators had emerged, Ning Ruolan, Ji Luofei, Tai Shu Pinghao, Zhang Qian and Liang Kexin.
There was even the youngest cultivator to become a Tripod in the Heaven Continent, Tai Shu Ping Hao.
Even the slightly less qualified ones like Yang Hong Hou, Nan Yue Fang, Zhuang Jing Yi and Ren E, who were of average qualifications, were all at least above the cultivation level of the Yuan Soul.
In contrast, the core and true disciples of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, such as Que Hong Shui, Lou Ziyan, Mushroom Han Rui, Hu Hong, Liang Shi and Xian Cai Xue, have almost all become Cultivators of the Cauldron.
Even cultivators who did not know about the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect understood what the reason was. The Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect’s Supreme Elder, Rui Bai Shan, had opened up the Small Spiritual Domain, and all cultivators below the Elemental Soul realm enjoyed the opportunity to go to the Small Spiritual Domain to cultivate. Even if it was points in exchange for cultivation time, it was far less difficult than it was back then.
Of course this is not the main thing that mouths, the most important thing is that there is also a sense tower at the Fallen Rainbow Sword Peak.
This tower was built by the new Elder of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Peak, Meng Jingxiu. As long as one had certain qualifications, not only was one’s cultivation speed in this tower incredibly fast, but there were no bottlenecks. All those who entered the Tower of Perception said that in the Tower of Perception, they felt a new kind of spiritual energy, which was several times better than cultivating with spirit stones, and could automatically comprehend things that their masters could not normally teach them.
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The council chamber of the Fallen Rainbow Sword Peak was filled with people. Unlike more than ten years ago, half of the people here were now experts of the Transformation Tripod. Apart from the disciples of the Fallen Rainbow Sword Peak, even Que Hong Shui, Lou Zi Yan, Mythical Han Rui, Hu Hong, Liang Shi and others were present. It was because the matter under discussion this time was not a trivial one.
For Que Hong Shui and the other true disciples, their achievement of becoming a pearl in just a few decades was completely inseparable from the Perception Tower of the Rainbow Fallen Sword Peak. Without the Tower of Perception, it would have been impossible for so many of them to have become Tripods even if several more decades had been added. As they drank the water, they had to help out when the Rainbow Fallen Sword Peak was in trouble.