“Sovereign Ning ……” When she saw Ning Cheng enter, Nalan Ruxue, who was sitting quietly in the parlour waiting, stood up.
Rei’e, who was accompanying Ning Cheng on the side, saw Ning Cheng enter and immediately left the parlour. She had heard Meng Jingxiu talk about Ning Cheng and Nalan Ruxue’s affairs. Speaking of which, it was the second time that Nalan Ruxue had come to the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, the first time she had come to visit Meng Jingxiu.
“What do you want to see me about?” Ning Cheng said after gesturing for Nalan Ru Xue to sit down.
If it was Yan Ji who had come over, perhaps he would still be somewhat surprised. Even if it wasn’t Yan Ji, and if it was replaced by Ride One Xiao coming, he would be happier than seeing this woman.
But when Nalan Ruxue came here, he really wasn’t half surprised. In terms of looks, Nalan Ruxue was no worse than Yan Ji, and no worse than Lou Ziyan, the number one beauty of the Lok Hong Sword Sect. But Nalan Ru Xue’s character was just too bad, and Ning Cheng hated this kind of woman.
However, Nalan Ruxue’s qualifications were truly remarkable, she had not been on the Celestial Continent for long and was already at the fifth level of cultivation at the Sea Breaking Realm. In terms of cultivation level, she was even a little bit higher than him.
“I joined the War Demon Hall, and after I came out of seclusion, I learned that you had gotten married, so I specially came over to congratulate you.” Nalan Ru Xue seemed to know that Ning Cheng did not have a very good impression of her, and spoke in a somewhat cautious tone.
Ning Cheng did not take it to heart that Nalan Ruxue had come to congratulate him. Even if Nalan Ruxue congratulated him again, he and Nalan Ruxue would not become friends. What surprised him was that Nalan Ruxue had joined the War Demon Hall, which was the second-ranked sect among the Ten Great Sects of the Heaven Continent, second only to the Thousand Zen Academy, and stronger than even the Heavenly Dao Sect.
The War Demon Hall was a demon cultivation sect to be exact. Although the Heaven Continent didn’t care at all about demon and Dao cultivation, in the Le Continent, demon cultivators were fought by everyone. In the beginning, just because he used a Taixu True Devil Axe and had devilish Qi spilling out, he was wanted and shouted at. Nalan Ruxue was from the Le Continent. It was only logical that she should hate devil cultivators, so how could she join a devil cultivator clan?
The No Numinous Sect of the Le Continent was most averse to devil cultivators. Now that the No. 1 disciple of the No Numinous Sect had entered and joined the War Demon Hall, this could not but be an irony.
“Hehe. I really didn’t expect you to have joined the War Demon Hall …… Congratulations, congratulations.” Thinking about the fact that the Numinous Sect had wanted him back then, Ning Cheng had wanted to say a sarcastic remark, but when he thought that people had come to congratulate him on his big wedding, he finally swallowed the words that were on his lips. If he said it, it wouldn’t grow a piece of meat.
Nalan Ruxue lowered her head, no one knew why she had joined the War Demon Hall except herself. With her qualifications. She could have joined any sect in the Heavenly Continent, but she had joined the War Demon Hall.
“This is a gift from me to you and Sister Luo Fei.” Nalan Ru Xue handed Ning Cheng a jade box.
Ning Cheng took the jade box and did not open it, only saying a thank you.
Seeing Ning Cheng accept the jade box, Nalan Ru Xue panted and stood up once again, bowing to Ning Cheng and giving a salute, “Sovereign Ning, this time, apart from congratulating you on your big wedding. I have come to apologise to you and to thank you for saving my life. If it wasn’t for you, I am afraid that I would have been swallowed to the dregs by Sikong Kai long ago. In the past, I didn’t know what to do and not only did I not thank you, I even doubted you.”
To Nalan Ruxue, this was perhaps the first time she had solemnly apologised to someone. If it had been her back then, even if she had done wrong, she would at most feel wrong in her heart and somewhat apologetic, but she would definitely not apologise to others.
Perhaps there was the influence of Meng Jingxiu’s words in this, back then she had no idea how much more qualified she was than Meng Jingxiu. Even Ning Cheng’s request for Meng Jingxiu to join the Numinous Sect had been rejected by her. When she saw Meng Jingxiu again in the Heavenly Continent, Meng Jingxiu was already a late stage Cultivator. And she was still only at the early stage of the Sea Pioneer Realm back then.
Just as she had looked down on Ning Cheng back then, she likewise disdained Ning Cheng for joining the Numinous Sect. Now Ning Cheng was the Patriarch of one of the Ten Great Sects of the Heaven Continent. Even the War Demon Hall’s Hall Master had to personally come to congratulate Ning Cheng on his big wedding. Ning Cheng, who was unreachable to her at first, was now an existence that was out of her reach.
There were times when what the eyes saw was not always true. Meng Jingxiu and Ning Cheng, who were once far inferior to her, were now both far beyond her. This made her understand the truth that at all times, don’t see yourself as being so remarkable. When you think of yourself as being so great, or countless years later, you are just as small in the eyes of those you once looked down upon.
She remembered what Meng Jingxiu said to her when she came to see her last time, “Nalan Ruxue, in fact, in my eyes you are just a person who holds a golden key and someone else paved the way for you to go. I’m not ridiculing you, because it’s the truth.
A person who does not know how to be grateful, even if more golden keys are given to you, your achievements will be limited. Back then, Ning Cheng brought me to sneak into a Xuan Liquid cultivator’s cave in order to save you, and I saw with my own eyes how terrifying that Xuan Liquid evil cultivator was. The first moment he saw you, he wanted to tear off your clothes, and as for what he wanted to do, I believe you will understand.
At that time, Ning Cheng was only at the early stage of Yuan Building, and it wasn’t even a Xuan Liquid cultivator under that grave, there was another Hang Jiao Jiao besides Sikong Kai. It could be said that Ning Cheng was saving you with his life, how did you repay Ning Cheng? I am reluctant to say ungrateful words, but that is indeed the case. Honestly, I have never seen someone like Ning Cheng, he really has a kind heart. This is why I am willing to become his best friend and why I am willing to come to the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect.”
Even though Nalan Ru Xue knew that what Meng Jing Xiu said was not all true, at least she was not the kind of cultivator who had the golden key in her mouth and would only hide in your home to cultivate. She did not refute Meng Jingxiu’s words, she was indeed sorry for Ning Cheng, but unfortunately, she was completely unable to tell anyone the words in her heart.
That time when she had left from the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect, she had at least understood one thing. That was that the sect or her master was not always right in all cases, and there were things that she needed to judge for herself. Coming out of Rule Road, she knew full well that Ning Cheng had saved her, but under her master’s preaching, she had not been able to do the same as Yan Ji.
Yan Ji was then more autonomous than her, and after she had decided on Ning Cheng, no one or thing, not even the clan or family, could affect her in the slightest.
Once Yue Ying had said to her that Ning Cheng had told her that sometimes what she saw with her own eyes was not always the truth. This truth had long since been understood by Yue Ying, while she, Nalan Ru Xue, had only come to understand it today.
Ning Cheng was not much touched by Nalan Ruxue’s apology and thanks. Imagine if he had been killed by that Daoist nun master of Nalan Ruxue’s back then, all these years later, would Nalan Ruxue still remember who he was, Ning Cheng? Or had long forgotten to the side.
In the beginning, Nalan Ruxue had not only suspected him, but had also used him at the same time. However, Ning Cheng did not want to bother with such trivial matters.
“I’ve long forgotten those things.” Ning Cheng said in a flat tone.
Not caring about Ning Cheng’s tone, Nalan Ru Xue seemed a little more relaxed after saying these words. Saying that Ning Cheng and her were married, such words were put out by her master, but she did not deliberately try to stop it. Only she herself understood such matters, she was not using Ning Cheng, and she did not need to explain to Ning Cheng.
“After Yue Ying and Yue Yuanhua knew that the Numinous Sect was wanted for you, they were very upset with me and the Numinous Sect and left the sect as well. Where they are now, I don’t know.” Nalan Ruxue continued.
Only then did Ning Cheng remember this pair of genius-qualified siblings, as well as An Yi, and he suddenly felt somewhat apologetic in his heart. When he was in Le Continent, he hadn’t even thought about going over to look for the three of them.
“After these words were said, I feel much better in my heart, I’m leaving.” Nalan Ruxue did not continue to stay and turned around to quickly leave.
Ning Cheng also did not call out to stop Nalan Ruxue, he reckoned that the two should not have much chance to meet in the future. Opening the jade box, there was a Transporting Talisman inside. It was exactly the same as the one he had used when he was forced by Master Nalan Ruxue to escape.
Closing the jade box again and putting it away, Ning Cheng sat in silence for a long time. It was only when Ji Luofei entered that he stood up and said, “Luofei, I am going to give the position of Patriarch to Patriarch Tantai. We are going to the Heavenly Road, and the Rainbow Fall Sword Sect cannot be without a Patriarch.”
In response to Ning Cheng passing on the position of Patriarch to himself, Tantai Fei did not refuse after discussing with the two Supreme Elders. After agreeing, the few decided that after Ning Cheng entered the Heavenly Road, the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect would once again hold a sect master inauguration ceremony.
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From the time Ning Cheng obtained the spirit veins until he returned to the sect again, he had never properly cultivated for a single day. After passing the position of Sect Master to Tantai Fei, Ning Cheng and Ji Luofei began to close the door.
No one knew whether the Heavenly Road was dangerous or not. One thing that was clear to all was that of all the people who had entered the Heavenly Path, at least none of them had been able to return so far.
The spirit veins were taken out of the Small World by Ning Cheng and placed under his cave. There were no rules to speak of in the Small World, so if one wanted to have greater strength, retreating in the Fallen Rainbow Sword Peak would definitely be more powerful than retreating in the Small World.
Ji Luofei did not use the spirit veins to cultivate with Ning Cheng, she just needed spirit stones. All the spirit stones on Ning Cheng’s body added up to billions, so there was no pressure at all for Ji Luofei to cultivate.
Three months later, Ning Cheng advanced to the fifth level of the Sea Pioneer Realm, seven months later, Ning Cheng rushed into the sixth level of the Sea Pioneer Realm, and a year later, when Ning Cheng’s spirit veins were completely depleted, he barely advanced to the seventh level of the Sea Pioneer Realm.
Ning Cheng clearly felt that even if he used his spirit veins to cultivate, his speed of cultivation was getting slower and slower. With a little bit of Spirit Veins, Temperance could cultivate to the level of Cauldron Transformation, and with the extra Spirit Veins, she even took them out for Ning Ruolan and the others to cultivate. On the other hand, he used twice as many spirit veins as Temperance, but he could only cultivate to the seventh level of the Sea Disintegration Realm, only advancing three small levels. Even though there was still a small mass of Wood Essence, Ning Cheng did not bother to use it as well.
In any case, Ning Cheng knew that there was no point for him to continue to stay in the Rainbow Fallen Sword Sect. On that day, after Ning Cheng had refined the Beacon Fire Diagram that he had obtained from the Red Star Sword Sect, he called out to Luo Fei and bid farewell to Tantai Fei, Zhong Li Bottle and the other Cultivators of the Fallen Rainbow Sword Sect who had transformed into Tripods, as well as Nan Yuefang, Ren’e, Yang Hong Hou and the others from the Fallen Rainbow Sword Peak.