The column of water sprayed for at most ten breaths of time before it fell into the lake once again. The whole lake also became the same as before, and if it wasn’t for the fact that there were still some ripples rippling on the surface of the lake, Ning Cheng might have thought that he had seen it wrong.
At the same time, Ning Cheng clearly felt that the column of water that spurted out carried a dense spiritual energy, much more abundant than even the surrounding spiritual energy.
Ning Cheng did not dare to be reckless once he knew that this might be the Daan Forest, whatever was at the bottom of this lake was not something that he could move at his current cultivation level. If his cultivation level was higher, he might even go to the bottom of the lake to see what was going on, right now he did not want to move here.
Backing away from the lake, Ning Cheng found a giant tree that was almost fifteen metres in diameter, and he planned to cultivate in the heart of this giant tree for the time being. Trees with a diameter of more than ten metres were not many on Earth, but they were everywhere here. The one Ning Cheng found wasn’t even the thickest, just because hiding inside this tree to cultivate, he could directly see the movements in the lake.
Ning Cheng thought he was going to make a tree nest for himself with his hands, and only after he got to the top of the tree did he realise that there had long been a huge cave in the heart of the tree. There was some fishy smell inside the cave, and it was unknown which kind of demonic beast had left it behind. From the look of the inside of this tree cave, it should have been many years since a demonic beast had entered.
Ning Cheng cleaned the tree cave and arranged a concealment formation and a defence formation above the top of the tree. He did not dare to set up the formation at the lake, his formation level was really too poor, although he could barely understand the level two formations, but with his level of refining formation flags, he could only set up some level one formations at most.
Sitting in the tree cave, Ning Cheng set up another level one formation to conceal his aura, and only then did he put his mind at ease. The arrangement of some array formations made Ning Cheng understand that no matter where he was, the more he knew, the better it would be for him. If he did not know any formations, he would only be able to do the same as before, and would have to be completely pa*sive and pray that others would not find his way here.
Now that he had set up the formation, even if a demonic beast attacked him, he would know about it before that happened.
Although sitting in the middle of the tree cave, all the changes in the lake were in Ning Cheng’s eyes, which allowed him to both cultivate at ease and check the changes in this lake at any time.
Over two hundred spirit stones were taken out by Ning Cheng, he intended to raise his cultivation level to the late Qi gathering stage.
As Ning Cheng cultivated, he once again forgot about everything as one of the spirit stones was turned into powder by him, the spirit energy in the spirit stones along with the Xuanhuang Qi continuously washing over his body. Ning Cheng could even vaguely feel that while his cultivation was rising, his Spiritual Root Qualification was also rising.
Even with the spiritual qi replenishment, Ning Cheng still needed to eat something from time to time. He had not yet been able to cultivate to the point where he could rely solely on his spiritual qi to break away from the grain.
Time pa*sed day by day, and when the true qi in his body had once again gathered to a certain level, a subtle soft sound resounded within his body, followed by a powerful true qi rushing through the meridians of his entire body. Some impurities within his body were eliminated from his skin, and the powerful flow of true qi transferred Ning Cheng to know that he had advanced to the fifth level of Qi gathering.
Ning Cheng breathed out and opened his eyes only to find that the spirit stones he had taken out had all been used up.
“Awesome.” Ning Cheng muttered to himself, he had used more than two hundred spirit stones just to go from Qi gathering fourth level to Qi gathering fifth level, or maybe only a bottom of the pile qualification like him would do that.
Not only that, this time, it took him a month to advance from the fourth Qi gathering layer to the fifth Qi gathering layer. If things continued like this, then the remaining spirit stones would definitely not be able to support his cultivation to the seventh Qi gathering layer.
Ning Cheng took out the two spell jade slips that Fang Yijian had given him, as he had advanced from Qi gathering level four to Qi gathering level five, his divine thoughts were once again more than twice as strong, so he thought that he should be able to see the contents of the jade slips. He didn’t have many spirit stones left, so he might as well specialise in spells.
This time, Ning Cheng’s divine thoughts did not disappoint him, as his divine thoughts swept onto the first spell jade slip and he clearly saw the contents of the jade slip, the Thirty Six Spears of Xuan Bing.
When he understood the content of the jade slip, Ning Cheng almost cursed. This b*****d Fang Yijian knew that he only had a flying sword, yet he had given him a spear technique. Although it was a Xuan grade technique, what use would it be to him? He couldn’t even think of obtaining a gun-type magic weapon, not to mention that this gun technique was not suitable for his spiritual roots.
It was so hard to have a high-level spell, but he could not cultivate it. Despite Ning Cheng’s depression, he still read through these Thirty-six Xuan Bing Spears.
It was fine if he didn’t look at it, but the more he looked at it, the more depressed he became. When the Thirty-six Xuan Bing Spear was cultivated to the end, it could form thirty-six Xuan Bing Spear Arms, and these thirty-six spear arrows could form a Xuan Bing Spear Net or a Xuan Bing Spear Array. Under the envelope of these thirty-six spears, where would an ordinary opponent have a chance to get out of the way? This is a great killing weapon.
The item was good, but he could not cultivate it himself, Ning Cheng sighed and tossed this jade slip aside, taking out another spell jade slip once again. The few words on this spell jade slip made Ning Cheng even more furious, Seven Obsidian Ice Needle. This was also a Xuan level spellbook, yet it was another ice spell.
Ning Cheng knew his branched spiritual roots, he had three branched spiritual roots, fire, wood and earth. Now Ning Cheng had a certain understanding of spirit roots, ice spirit roots belonged to the foreign spirit roots and cultivators with such roots were cultivated with emphasis.
Only Ice Spirit Root cultivators with Ice and Water Spirit Roots could cultivate the techniques that were most useful. Cultivation by cultivators with the rest of the spiritual roots will have to be a big discount in terms of effectiveness.
This Seven Obsidian Ice Needle was even more insidious, but it required an ice needle spell that was thinner than cow hair, and when cultivated to the extreme, this ice needle spell could evade divine sense. This kind of thing sneaks up on people and simply makes them defenceless.
“What a mischievous spell, but I like it.” After Ning Cheng finished talking to himself, he was even more depressed in his heart. What was the use of liking it? Let alone the fact that he was not an ice spirit root, even if he was an ice spirit root and could cultivate the Seven Obsidian Ice Needles, he still did not have an ice needle spell.
Ning Cheng rubbed his head in anguish, he knew that he could radiate his divine thoughts at Qi gathering cultivation level, which was already remarkable, but even if it was remarkable without his own spells, it was still far from being comparable to others.
The spells he has mastered now, apart from wind blades are fireballs. These are all basic spells that have nothing to do with spiritual roots and can be practised by anyone. Other than that was the fire blade spell he had derived, and as for his more powerful sword maneuver, it was only because of his flying sword that he could slice it. If he met an opponent who also had a magic weapon, this sword maneuver of his would not be worth mentioning.
Ning Cheng was a little disappointed as he put away the spell jade slip and came out of the tree cave. He had been cultivating in the tree cave for a month and had long been bored out of his mind.
Standing at the edge of the lake again, Ning Cheng was about to perform a few Clear Water Deeds to cleanse himself when he suddenly saw a several feet high pillar of water rushing out from the centre of the lake again, this time it was exactly the same as the one he had seen a month ago, still carrying a dense spiritual energy. The only difference was that it seemed to be a little higher.
Ten breaths later, the pillar of water fell again and the centre of the lake was once again calm.
Ning Cheng did some calculations and he soon found out that there was exactly one month between the last time the water pillar appeared and today.
With such a regular water pillar and a dense spiritual energy, Ning Cheng wanted to go into the centre of the lake to have a look, but when he thought that he did not have a single spell that he could use, he was a little discouraged.
The Thirty-six Xuan Bing Spears and Seven Obsidian Ice Needles sounded as if they were very powerful, but how could he learn them?
Couldn’t he use a sword without a gun? This jade slip was Xuan Bing Thirty-Six Spears, so he would cultivate himself into Xuan Bing Thirty-Six Swords. Although his spirit root did not have ice spirit roots, he had the Xuanhuang Pearl, who said that he must not be able to cultivate it? Ning Cheng thought of this and once again became excited, he directly took out his flying sword, without a spear he would practise his sword. Perhaps when he finished practicing this Xuan Bing Thirty Six Spear, this spell would have to be renamed Xuan Bing Thirty Six Sword.
Ning Cheng’s comprehension and memory were unmatched, what he was worried about was whether his spiritual roots could cultivate the Thirty Six Spears of Xuan Bing.
When he sacrificed his flying sword and began to cultivate the spell Xuan Bing Thirty Six Spears, he immediately knew that he had thought too much before. The true qi that had been flowing everywhere turned into Xuan Bing true qi without any stagnation under the spell recipe of Xuan Bing Thirty-Six Spears, and these Xuan Bing true qi and the outgoing divine thoughts also combined without any stagnation, turning his flying sword into a bizarre sword mane.
The only thing he needed to worry about was not that his spiritual roots were not ice spiritual roots, but how long could his divine thoughts support him in controlling the Xuan Ice Sword Aura?
With a “pop” sound, Ning Cheng’s flying sword fell to the ground due to the lack of divine thoughts. Instead of being shocked, Ning Cheng laughed loudly and said, “I am really overqualified, I can even master ice spells so easily ……”
Although he was excited and was praising himself, Ning Cheng knew that his ability to cultivate the Thirty Six Spears of Xuan Ice had nothing to do with his qualifications, it must have something to do with the Xuanhuang Pearl. He even suspected that with the help of the Xuanhuang Origin, he had developed another ice spirit root, he just hadn’t tested it, he wasn’t sure. Only when he had the chance in the future, he would go up to the testing spell to try and see if he really had an extra ice branch spirit root.
With the opportunity to cultivate spells, Ning Cheng did not tire of controlling the flying sword and casting his modified Thirty-six Xuan Bing Spears over and over again. At first, he could only cast one sword aura, but with the Thirty-six Xuan Bing Spears being constantly modified in his mind, three days later, he could already cast three Xuan Bing sword auras.
Five days later, Ning Cheng could already cast five Xuan Ice Sword Auras. However, Ning Cheng also knew that with his current cultivation level, five Xuan Ice Sword Auras were his limit. If his flying sword did not shoot out, he could still cast two more sword maces. However, if the flying sword did not shoot out, the power of the sword mantle cast was limited. This showed that divine thoughts were a good thing.
Being able to cultivate the Thirty Six Spears of Xuan Bing, Ning Cheng certainly would not let go of the Seven Obsidian Ice Needles. He did not have a fine needle magic weapon, so he could only use a flying sword instead. Even if he used a flying sword instead of a flying needle, Ning Cheng was still constantly revising the Seven Obsidian Ice Needle spell. On the tenth day, Ning Cheng could already skillfully control the flying sword to sneak attack. It was just that the flying sword was too large and could not function as a sneak attack at all.