A soft “click” sounded from the flames that enveloped the Violet Heart, which then turned into nothingness and disappeared without a trace.
Ning Cheng looked at the Star River in his hand in surprise, he knew that it had successfully advanced to the next level. When the Star River had first wrapped around the Extreme Violet Flame Heart, it was still pale yellow, but now the Star River had turned red, and since the Star River Flame was originally his, Ning Cheng knew best how much more powerful the flame had become.
“Haha, Senior Mu, I have succeeded.” Ning Cheng laughed loudly, for twenty years he had spent the rest of his energy every day, apart from fighting against the Ghost Vine of the Underworld, to help Star River advance.
Xinghe’s absorption of the Extreme Violet Flame Heart was already several times faster than ordinary flames, and with Ning Cheng’s help, the absorption of the Extreme Violet Flame Heart was even swifter, and he had succeeded in advancing in just twenty years.
“Senior Mu?” Only then did Ning Cheng realize that Mu Zi next year could not even speak. Twenty years ago, he still had some skin and bones, but at this moment, he was completely bone, with some dry skin sinking into his bones, not knowing if he was alive or dead at all.
Ning Cheng looked at Jia XIII and Xiao Pengsheng again, the two of them were not much better. In fact, he himself was just as exhausted and thin, his entire body looked as if a gust of wind could blow it away. It was only because he had the formation to block him from being directly absorbed by the Ghost Vine of the Underworld and had a trust like the Star River that he had forgotten about his situation.
Ning Cheng didn’t have time to think more and the River of Stars in his hand was directly sacrificed. Apart from the Exhausting Fire Avatar, he did not have any fire-based techniques, so he could only directly burn with flames.
A red tongue of fire spurted out as if it was an erupting volcano, and Ning Cheng could feel a burnt stench emanating from his surroundings. The endless and densely packed ghost vines of the Underworld were turned into ashes under the star river. Ning Cheng breathed out and walked out of the formation.
After being trapped for almost forty years, he even felt his feet were a little weak when he suddenly walked out.
The burning speed of the star river was incomparably swift, and in just a dozen breaths of time, the densely packed ghost vines in this green cave had completely burned and shrunk back.
The scorching smell filled the green cave, making people gag. Luckily, Ning Cheng had been trapped here for decades and had long since gotten used to the disgusting smell of the ghost vines.
“Puff ……” Three successive sounds of falling to the ground.
Without the ghost vine wrapping around them, all three of them, Mu Zi Ming, Xiao Pensheng and Jia XIII, fell to the ground.
Ning Cheng hurriedly took out two pills and threw them into the mouths of Mu Zi Ming and Xiao Pensheng. When he felt the breath of the two once again, he was relieved in his heart, fortunately, these two guys had finally managed to come through.
“Be careful ……” Mak Zi Ming and Xiao Pen Sheng called out at the same time.
Right at that moment, an unbelievably harsh killing machine suddenly blasted at Ning Cheng’s back.
Jia XIII was sneaking attack, and Ning Cheng instantly understood. Without even turning his body around, he raised his hand and grabbed an immense square seal, which rapidly became smaller in Ning Cheng’s hand and finally became a palm-sized seal.
“You ……” Jia XIII, who was almost a skeleton, stared at Ning Cheng as if he had seen a ghost, he had never seen anything so terrifying. A cultivator at the fourth level of the Sea Pioneer Realm had easily grabbed the magic treasure he had sacrificed, and had also directly erased the divine communication on his magic treasure, how terrifying was this?
Even Mu Zi Ming and Xiao Pengsheng looked at Ning Cheng in shock, it went without saying that Jia XIII’s strength would have dropped countlessly after being trapped for so many years. But even if Jia XIII’s strength had declined, he was still a cultivator above the level of a Transformation Tripod. What kind of terrifying cultivation level was this for Ning Cheng, a mere cultivator of the Sea Pioneer Realm, to be able to easily grab Jia XIII’s Fang Seal?
Ning Cheng also stared blankly at the square seal in his hand, when Jia XIII had sneaked up on him just now, he had sensed it at first. At the same time, he raised his hand and grabbed this square seal that had sneaked up on him. He was sure that he could deal with this square seal, purely out of his confidence in himself.
After several decades, his cultivation realm had not risen, but his divine sense had skyrocketed. Because he was constantly using formations to deal with the Ghost Vine, coupled with his powerful deduction and self-correction abilities of Xuanhuang Wufang, his use of true essence and divine sense had reached an extreme.
It seemed to Ning Cheng that his true essence had not risen much, but in fact his true essence was being consumed every moment, and the fact that he could still block the ghostly vine that had not weakened half a bit after the consumption showed that once his true essence had recovered, it was just as powerful as before.
Because of the Xuanhuang Origin and the Xuanhuang Invincible Technique, his forty years were even equivalent to someone else’s four hundred and four thousand years.
In forty years Ning Cheng had not cultivated, yet he had vaguely fit into the highest realm of Xuan Huang Wu Xiang cultivation. Not actively cultivating, subconsciously wanting to improve his cultivation every moment, this was the true formless and phase-less realm of Xuan Huang Wu Xiang.
A fear rose in the heart of the reactive Jia XIII, and he hissed madly, jumped up and was about to flee. But the next moment, he felt that the space around him was not his anymore. He took a few steps out, but he was still in place.
“Domain?” Mu Ziming and Xiao Pensheng even screamed out in shock, Ning Cheng could make an expert like Jia XIII unable to leave without moving, what was this if not control of the space around him? This kind of control, in the cultivation world was its own domain.
“Domain ……” After Jia XIII said one word in a low voice, he directly collapsed to the ground.
He had already been close to death and had inspired his life to sneak attack Ning Cheng, only to run out of oil. When he finally escaped, he also saw a scene that he didn’t even dare to think about, a Sea Pioneer Realm cultivator could stretch out his domain, the world was going crazy.
Or rather, he was scared to death by Ning Cheng’s terribleness.
“He died, can’t believe you have a domain, maybe he was scared to death.” After Xiao Pensheng swallowed one of Ning Cheng’s pills, he himself took out a few more pills and swallowed them, his essence had recovered a lot. Although he still looked like a skeleton, he was slowly regaining his essence and blood.
Mu Ziming was in the same situation as Xiao Pensheng, his cultivation level was a little higher than Xiao Pensheng’s, after hearing Xiao Pensheng’s words, he shook his head, “No, the situation that Sovereign Ning had just controlled the surrounding space looked like a domain, but it was actually not yet a domain. It’s just a control of the surroundings, it can’t be used yet, it’s still a hundred thousand miles away from a domain.”
In his heart, Mu Zi Ming knew very well that even if Ning Cheng had not comprehended the domain, it was only a matter of time before he comprehended the domain in this scenario. If he hadn’t guessed wrongly, the reason why Ning Cheng had this kind of comprehension was definitely related to that battle with Rong Jin. This kind of talent shook Mu Zi Ming.
Or perhaps with a correct guidance, he could comprehend the domain. Also trapped for forty years, the three of them were dying and Ning Cheng, who had the worst cultivation, was not only fine, but was blessed by the disaster.
It was precisely for this reason that he did not continue to call Ning Cheng by his old name and directly changed his name to Sovereign Ning.
Ning Cheng had no contact with the domain, and hearing this, he hastily cupped his fist and said, “Please also ask Senior Mu for guidance.”
Mu Zi Ming waved his hand, “Don’t call me senior, if it comes to true strength, neither Xiao Pengsheng nor I are as good as you. If you look up to me, just call me Brother Mu from now on.”
“Right, from now on we will be on equal footing.” Xiao Pengsheng had been saved by Ning Cheng, and with Ning Cheng’s strength being so amazing, he had long since risen to the idea of befriending him. He had also heard that Ning Cheng had a good relationship with Li Lingfan of the Heavenly Dao Sect, and this was one thing that could completely draw a relationship.
“Then I will not be polite, I would also like to ask Brother Mu to enlighten me on what a domain is.” Ning Cheng sensed that he was much stronger than when he first entered after his own true essence and divine sense had recovered rapidly, so he was no longer polite.
Mu Zi Ming sighed and said, “Actually, not to mention me, even in the entire Yixing Continent, it is estimated that not many people have comprehended the domain. If Xu Anzhen hadn’t been injured before, she might still have been able to comprehend some of it, but after she was injured, even if she recovered her strength, she wouldn’t be able to comprehend the domain. I can’t give you an explanation for the domain either, if you must know what a domain is, you can only enter the Heavenly Path.”
“I’ve decided, after I go out this time and arrange for the clan, I’ll enter the Heavenly Road.” Xiao Pensheng said without hesitation.
Mu Zi Ming nodded, “That’s right, I will also enter the Heavenly Road this time, what does Sovereign Ning have in mind?”
“I will have to wait.” Ning Cheng knew that it was absolutely impossible for the two of them, Ning Ruolan and Ji Luofei, to advance to the Transformation Tripod in these years, so he would have to wait until they entered the Transformation Tripod before entering the Heavenly Path. After they went out this time, he would try to find a way to find cultivation resources to help them.
Ning Cheng was still a little disappointed that even Mu Zi Ming did not know about the domain, he was able to control the space around him, vaguely because he had comprehended it from Rong Jin.
Raising his hand and picking up Jia XIII’s ring on the ground, Ning Cheng once again said, “After I have burned all the Ghost Vines here, we will find a way to leave this place.”
“Sovereign Ning, these Spectral Ghost Vines cannot be burnt to completion, you can see that the Spectral Ghost Vines within this Green Cave have been burnt to completion, in reality these vine branches are just afraid of your flames shrinking and going back.” Xiao Pensheng explained.
Without waiting for Ning Cheng to speak, Mu Zi Ming looked at the red star river hovering in front of Ning Cheng in confusion and asked, “Sovereign Ning, I have seen quite a few flames, but I have never seen this kind of flame of yours. According to me, this flame of yours is not of a high grade, how can it burn the ghost vines of the Underworld here?”
There was one more thing that Mu Zi Ming had not said, and that was that if Ning Cheng’s flame advanced a few more levels, it would be somewhat difficult to burn these Ghost Vines of the Underworld. At the beginning, he had only taken out the Extreme Violet Violet Inflammation Heart with the idea that just in case, he had not expected that Ning Cheng’s flames would absorb the Extreme Violet Violet Inflammation Heart in just twenty years. If he took out another Extreme Violet Violet Inflammation Heart, he even doubted that Ning Cheng’s flame would advance in less than a year.
The higher the flame’s rank, the faster it would absorb the ore to advance.
“I don’t know much about flames, this flame was given to me by a senior.” Ning Cheng did not say that his flame came from the Immortal Mansion, and he was not making it up when he said that the flame was given to him by someone. If the white-haired old crone hadn’t taken him to find the Immortal Mansion, he wouldn’t have been able to obtain the Star River.
Mu Zi Ming did not continue to pursue the matter about the flames as he looked deep into the Green Cave and said with incomparable worry, “These Crowded Ghost Vines are incomparably terrifying, even if we are able to escape today, it will still be a disaster if these Ghost Vines enter the Heavenly Continent in the future. What’s more, we won’t be able to leave here without exterminating these ghost vines.”