“Brother Mu, haven’t these ghost vines already entered the Heavenly Continent? Could it be that this is not the range of the Heavenly Continent?” Ning Cheng asked, puzzled.
Mu Zi Ming shook his head and said, “No, if I’m not wrong, this is the Boundary Abyss of the Yixing Continent, this Boundary Abyss is either connected to the void, and it’s hard for the Unmercurial Ghost Vines to be discovered growing in such a place. I also don’t know how that Jia XIII found out that there is a Wu Hei Ghost Vine here.”
Ning Cheng also frowned, if these Crowded Ghost Vines shrank in the green cave wall and did not come out, there was nothing he could do. This green cave wall was incredibly hard, and even if he broke it, he would not be able to find the Crowded Ghost Vines inside.
“If I really can’t, I’ll go all the way in with fire and find the King of the Crowded Ghost Vine and burn it.” Ning Cheng had lived in the Yixing Continent for so many years and had many friends, and he likewise did not want to let the Crowded Ghost Vine King sweep across the Yixing Continent.
Mu Zi Ming and Xiao Pengsheng shook their heads at the same time, “Your flames can only burn back the Wudian Ghost Vine, this Wudian Ghost Vine King should still be relatively weak, which is why it did not continue to entangle and gave you a step. If you’re determined to deal with the Unmercurial Ghost Vine King, it’s still hard to predict who will die in the end.”
“If I hadn’t taken the initiative, the suction in that cave wouldn’t have disappeared, and we would still be trapped here. It’s just a slightly better situation, once we wait for the Crowded Ghost Vine King to grow stronger, we’ll still be dead.” Ning Cheng thought about it and still decided to throw his weight around and take out the Crowded Ghost Vine.
The Green Cave was incomparably cold, and considering that Mu Zi Ming and Xiao Pengsheng were too weak, Ning Cheng set up a level eight defensive formation, allowing the two to recover in the formation while he continued to enter the Green Cave in search of the Crowded Ghost Vine King. Even if these vine branches were to strike at the two Mu Zi Ming again after he left, the two would be able to hold on for two or three days with the level eight defence formation.
Perhaps it was because the Crowded Ghost Vine was afraid of the star river around Ning Cheng, after Ning Cheng entered the depths of the Green Cave, there were no vine branches that wrapped around him. The entire Green Cave was filled with nothing but the sound of his footsteps, only the green and dark spectral light, and the icy, bone-chilling aura.
The Green Cave was like a bottomless pit, and when Ning Cheng’s divine sense swept in, all he could see was a green and eerie patch. It was as if something was blocking his divine sense, preventing him from seeing deeper.
Only after an hour did Ning Cheng realise that for decades, they had been trapped on the very outside of this Green Cave, and that this was actually so deep inside.
After another half an hour, Ning Cheng stopped. Two side-by-side cave entrances appeared in front of him. He did not know whether he should enter the cave entrance on the left or the one on the right.
At this moment, Ning Cheng already felt that something was wrong, if this Crowded Ghost Vine King was in such depths, then how could Jia XIII use the Nine Coloured Mirage Tree to recover the Crowded Ghost Vine? He didn’t have any flames, so I was afraid that he wouldn’t even be able to enter.
Thinking of this, Ning Cheng did not move on, he took out a Nine Coloured Mirage Stone and began to refine the formation flag.
An incense stick later, Ning Cheng began to set up the formation flag made from the nine-coloured mirage stone. As a top level eight formation master and using a formation flag refined from a nine-coloured mirage stone, in a short time, Ning Cheng had set up an illusion formation.
Even Ning Cheng himself did not know what his next step would be after setting up the illusion formation. He only knew that since Jia XIII wanted to use the Nine-Coloured Mirage Tree to recover the Crowded Ghost Vine King, it meant that this Ghost Vine King should have some resistance to the illusion scenery.
To Ning Cheng’s surprise, just as he finished setting up his illusion formation, the two cave openings in front of him rose up if anything, and then a third cave opening appeared in the middle. After a few more moments, the left and right holes disappeared completely.
This Crowded Ghost Vine was really related to the mirage scene, so Ning Cheng grabbed the formation flag and immediately rushed into the hole that had just appeared. As soon as he entered, endless vine branches flew and slapped over, bringing forth a roaring sound.
Ning Cheng was not shocked but delighted, he knew that he had not gone to the wrong place, this was the place where the real Wu Xia Ghost Vine King was located.
The river of stars spread out from Ning Cheng’s surroundings like exploding fireworks, and amidst the crackling sounds, Ning Cheng once again smelt a burnt stench.
It was probably because Ning Cheng was about to get close to the Unmercurial Ghost Vine King, and these vine branches pounced on Ning Cheng knowing that they were going to be burnt, not caring about the flames that were raging around them.
When it came to the back, these vine branches even bombarded towards Ning Cheng in a frenzy, and Ning Cheng’s star river could not even burn in time. These Ghost Vine branches had only one purpose, and that was to block Ning Cheng and prevent him from getting close to the Crowded Ghost Vine King.
Perhaps the Crow’s Nest Ghost Vine King was truly angry, Ning Cheng was trying to destroy its roots.
The Wu Hei Ghost Vine King was furious, and Ning Cheng was equally furious. After being sealed by this Ghost Vine for decades, he had not yet become powerful, but the Ghost Vine had become powerful first.
After being trapped for decades, Ning Cheng had not even used the remaining bit of raw essence shoot marrow, but at this moment, Ning Cheng did not hesitate to take out a little bit of raw essence shoot marrow and pour it into his mouth. While his true essence rapidly recovered, Ning Cheng similarly frantically urged the Star River.
With Ning Cheng’s urging and the help of his true essence, the Star River’s flames instantly skyrocketed.
An even thicker scorching stench erupted, and there was no telling how many vine branches pressed towards Ning Cheng, and there was no telling how many vine branches were burned away by Ning Cheng. At this time, Ning Cheng didn’t think about anything, he just desperately pushed the Star River Flame. Similarly, those vine branches also madly pounced on Ning Cheng.
The originally icy cold green cave, because of Ning Cheng’s desperate exertion of the Star River Flame, the icy cold around this area turned into nothingness and the icy cold space became hot.
That feeling of being in control of space once again surged to the forefront of his mind, Ning Cheng even grasped every single vine branch around him, and these swarming vine branches seemed to be charging through his space.
This was definitely similar to the kind of domain of whatever the three Mu Zi Ming had said before, and the kind of feeling he had when he had fought against Rong Jin back then. But the opposite of last time was that last time he had fallen into Rong Jin’s domain, while this time the Crowded Ghost Vine had fallen into his domain space.
Ning Cheng closed his eyes instead, and the sight of the star river burning vine branches in a frenzy appeared clearly in his consciousness. And as these vine branches were endless, Ning Cheng breathed out and instead gathered his anxious and angry mood. He was prepared for a long battle, he did not believe that these vine branches could not be burnt up.
Once Ning Cheng’s anxious and angry mood was gathered, the situation of the vine branches around him became even clearer. He saw a round altar, and in the middle of this round altar, there was a green, shiny green vine growing there. The countless vine branches that rushed towards him were all spreading out from this green vine.
This was definitely the Ghost Vine King, and Ning Cheng’s heart grew stronger and stronger with killing intent. Even if there were more vine branches blasting towards him, as long as he finished off the Ghost Vine King, everything would disappear.
The glowing green vine in the middle of the circular altar seemed to have sensed Ning Cheng’s killing intent, and the vine suddenly surged, its entire body growing dozens of times thicker, turning into a terrifyingly huge vine branch that blasted at Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng’s heart trembled and he could not withdraw his divine sense in time, without even thinking about it, he blasted out the Exhausting Fire Avatar at the first opportunity.
With this incomparably thick green vine blasting down, Xinghe absolutely could not burn this green vine in the first place. Once Xinghe was unable to tackle this immensely huge Ghost Vine King and he was impaled into his body by this Ghost Vine King, it would be the end. This incomparably thick Ghost Vine King, Ning Cheng estimated that this bit of his flesh and blood would not be enough for it to devour.
A kind of spatial collapse came from the endless fire around him, which instantly disappeared, and a vine branch lost the burning of the Star River Flame and seemed to be at a loss for a while.
Even the thick Ghost Vine King that was blasting at Ning Cheng stalled for a moment, but after a moment, the endless vine branches turned around and even accelerated their speed to blast at Ning Cheng.
Several of the vine branches tore Ning Cheng’s clothes in an instant, and one of the vine branches even landed on Ning Cheng’s body. At this moment, the space around him completely disappeared, and even the Ghost Vine King was once again stagnant in this disappearing space.
“Boom ……” Raging rips exploded all around, everything in the centre of the explosion was disappearing, everything was turning into nothingness.
The terrifying flames took away all this vanishing and nothingness cleanly.
As fast as these flames came, they went even faster. After the roar disappeared, all the vine branches around disappeared, as did the circular altar and the green Ghost Vine King, with only a fist-sized green object suspended in the air. The Exhausting Fire Avatar just now had extinguished everything around it, but not this fist-sized green object.
While Ning Cheng was shocked in his heart that the Exhausting Fire Avatar was countless times more powerful than before, he also raised his hand and grabbed this fist sized green orb.
A powerful wood attribute aura came from the bead, and Ning Cheng understood what it was in an instant, it was definitely the Essence of Wood.
As an Earth Dan Master who was about to advance to the eighth level, he had heard about the Essence of Wood for a long time. However, he had never seen a Wood Essence before, let alone such a large mass of it. There was a difference between Essence and Origin, compared to Origin, Essence was nothing, but Essence had a direct effect on the cultivator.
Ning Cheng hurriedly took out a jade box and filled it with the Wood Essence in his hand, and was overjoyed in his heart, after all, he had not come here for nothing.
After the Star River had advanced, the power of the Exhausting Fire Avatar was also a little too great, and Ning Cheng estimated that the Ooze Ghost Vine King should have been turned into nothingness under the Exhausting Fire Avatar as well.
As soon as Ning Cheng’s thought had risen, a roaring sound came from the surrounding green cave stone walls, which began to collapse. As these green cave stone walls collapsed, it seemed that he was really in a kind of void space.
Ning Cheng was in a great hurry and his divine sense swept out to find a way out. He did not find a way out, but found a small section of grey and black vine branches.
The Wu Xia Ghost Vine King had not been destroyed? Ning Cheng’s heart was shocked, and without thinking about leaving, he stepped forward and grabbed that small section of grey-black vine in his hand.
As soon as this small section of vine branch reached Ning Cheng’s hand, Ning Cheng knew that it was left behind by the Wu Hei Ghost Vine King. It should have not been partially extinguished by the Exhausting Fire Avatar, this thing could not even be extinguished by the Exhausting Fire Avatar, so it was definitely not something simple.
As Ning Cheng swiftly retreated, he took out a jade box and filled it with this small section of the vine branch again.