“Are you alright?” Ning Cheng had just asked when Ji Luofei stumbled a little, and Ning Cheng hurriedly went forward to hold Ji Luofei. Ji Luofei’s body was soft and fragrant, but it carried some faint smell of blood.
Without waiting for Ning Cheng to continue asking, Ji Luofei pushed Ning Cheng away and said, “I am fine, I am going to take a rest first, I will come out and talk to you later.”
After saying that, Ji Luofei took care of herself and entered the room next to her.
Ning Cheng looked at the palm of his hand, and there was a faint trace of blood on top of it.
Ning Cheng instantly understood that Ji Luofei had been injured. Just now, his hand was holding Ji Luofei’s back, so it was evident that Ji Luofei’s injury was on her back.
After looking at Ji Luofei’s room, Ning Cheng hesitated for a moment, but did not walk in. Ji Luofei was at the third level of Qi gathering and her cultivation level was much higher than his, so it was evident that the Cang Qin Two Star Academy was not a safe place either.
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Ji Luofei was attracted out by the scent of the meal, and her clothes had changed. Ning Cheng saw that after she had rested for a while, her face was no longer as pale as it had been before.
“Did you make this?” Ji Luofei asked in surprise as she looked at the four dishes and one soup placed on the small wooden table. In her impression, when did Ning Cheng know how to cook? And the cooking was so eye catching?
Ning Cheng smiled, “Of course I made it, come over and eat.”
Ji Luofei was obviously not a talkative person, although it surprised her that Ning Cheng could cook, she did not ask more questions. It was unknown whether it was because Ning Cheng’s cooking was delicious or she was indeed hungry. After eating a few bowls of rice in a row, she was still a little unfulfilled.
After finishing the meal, Ning Cheng hurriedly got up to clean up the dishes.
“Wait.” Ji Luofei called out to Ning Cheng, “I’ll just clean these up later, you haven’t done these ……”
Before Ji Luofei finished her sentence, she knew that there was something wrong with what she said. Ning Cheng hadn’t made these, how could he possibly cook such delicious meals?
She changed her tone in time and said, “Sit down first, I have something to tell you.”
When Ning Cheng sat down, Ji Luofei took the initiative to take out two ancient and extremely thin leather scrolls and handed them to Ning Cheng and said, “This is what your grandfather left behind, he asked me to give it to you later. Now that you have successfully gathered Qi, you should be able to give them to you.”
Ning Cheng took the two thin scrolls in silence, knowing very well in his heart what was going on. That was because although his predecessor’s grandfather had coddled Ning Cheng, he also knew what kind of goods Ning Cheng was. The leather scrolls must be the Ning family’s heirloom techniques, which was why he had left them to Ji Luofei to hand over on his behalf. And the reason why Ji Luofei gave him the leather scroll was in no way because he had gathered Qi, but because he was already completely different from the previous Ning Cheng.
Seeing Ning Cheng put away the leather scroll, Ji Luofei panted, seemingly grateful for having accomplished something. She once again took out a wooden box and handed it to Ning Cheng and said, “Inside this is a Qi Gathering Stone, take it and cultivate.”
Now that Ning Cheng was no longer a rookie, he knew how precious Qi Gathering Stones were. A Qi Gathering Stone was equivalent to a hundred gold coins, and this was still the superficial pricing, in fact a hundred gold coins could never buy a single Qi Gathering Stone. Even the Ning family did not have a few, now that Ji Luofei took out a Qi gathering stone and gave it to him, he immediately refused, “Luofei, I have already gathered Qi, you are also at the third level of Qi gathering now, it is exactly the time when you need a Qi gathering stone, there is no need to give it to me.”
Ji Luofei forced the wooden box into Ning Cheng’s hand, “Take it if you want to, you also know that I’ve gathered Qi at the third level. With my qualifications, I think I will have to leave Cang Qin Two Star Academy soon, from now on it will be up to you here ……”
Ning Cheng listened to Ji Luofei’s words and no longer refused the wooden box. He put away the wooden box and said with a sigh, “Luo Fei, I didn’t know much about things in the past, so please forgive me if I made you angry. You also know that my qualifications are not good and that you will have to leave the Cang Qin Kingdom in the future, so we may not have the chance to meet again. The good thing is that although we were betrothed at a young age, we have not yet consummated our marriage. After you gather Qi at the fourth level, we will be people of two worlds, let’s forget about that previous engagement, all these years in the Ning family have also been a burden to you ……”
If not for the fact that the Ning House had all been turned into ashes, Ning Cheng would have even returned the marriage contract to Ji Luofei.
Ji Luofei looked at Ning Cheng in a daze, she did not expect Ning Cheng to say such words at all. But she knew very well that what Ning Cheng said was the truth, once she left the Cang Qin Kingdom, she would have no chance to meet with Ning Cheng again.
“My life was saved by Grandpa Ning, without Grandpa Ning, there would have been no me, Ji Luofei, long ago. You may or may not be right, when I leave the Cang Qin Kingdom, we will have no chance to meet again. What’s more, I’m now disfigured, so it’s not very realistic for us to consummate our marriage, but I do know the truth of being married from one to the other. The marriage contract was set by Grandpa Ning and my grandfather, and without their words, I won’t break it. Just take care of yourself in the future when I’m gone, there’s really no way I can follow you around for the rest of my life.”
After Ji Luofei finished speaking, she stood up, picked up a few bowls and plates and walked into the low kitchen. She knew very well that Ning Cheng was right, when she left the Cang Qin Kingdom, she and Ning Cheng would have no chance to meet again. With her qualifications, trying to force herself to stay and take care of Ning Cheng would be to let Ning Cheng die faster. Now that Ning Cheng had already gathered Qi at the first level, no matter what the reason was for Ning Cheng to advance, it gave Ji Luofei some comfort in her heart.
Ning Cheng was incredibly smart, so how could he not understand what Ji Luofei meant? He knew that Ji Luofei was leaving the Cang Qin Kingdom and that there might not be a way to meet her in the future, so he had taken the initiative to break off the marriage contract so that Ji Luofei would not have anything on her mind in the future. After all, Ji Luofei had saved his life, and that was all he could do to help her. Now that Ji Luofei does not agree, he is not willing to say more.
When Ning Cheng returned to his room, the first thing he did was to take out the Qi Gathering Stone, he had the Qi Gathering Stone in his memory, but he had never seen it before. Now that Ji Luofei had taken back the Qi Gathering Stone, the first thing Ning Cheng wanted to know was what kind of stone it was that was so valuable. It took one hundred gold coins to buy a Qi Gathering Stone, and it was not necessarily available, so this was not a low price at all.
The first time the Qi Gathering Stone was taken out by Ning Cheng, Ji Luofei sensed it, she glanced at Ning Cheng’s room and the corner of her mouth showed a slight curve. Although Ning Cheng did not have the same foppy aura that he had before, he still had some childishness. He said that he didn’t want the Qi Gathering Stone, and then took it out the first time.
When Ji Luofei sensed Ning Cheng’s Qi Gathering Stone, Ning Cheng was of course not aware of it, and when he saw that it was just a very ordinary dark yellow stone, he was a little disappointed in his heart. The stone seemed to contain more spiritual energy, but Ning Cheng felt that this spiritual energy was not comparable to what he had sensed when he was cultivating.
Putting the Qi gathering stone away, Ning Cheng took out the two scrolls. One volume was an introduction to the history of the Ning Family, and the other volume was the cultivation techniques of the Ning Family.
After reading the first volume of the book, Ning Cheng had a much more intuitive and detailed view of the world he lived in. The Cang Qin Kingdom was only an extremely small va*sal state in the Ping Continent, and the Ping Continent was likewise only a corner of the Yixing Continent.
There were nine continents in the Yixing Continent, and the Ping Continent was the most deprived of spiritual energy, and most of the countries inhabited were mainly mortal kingdoms, belonging to the lower continents.
The Ning family has only produced one cultivator of the Yuan Building realm in the history of the continent. Therefore, the Ning Family did not know the entire Ee-Star Continent very well, and Ning Cheng could only know from this thin scroll that the main powers in the lower continents of the Ee-Star Continent were true kingdoms, va*sal kingdoms, academies, clans, and some sects in the lower continents.
The Academy and True Kingdoms were the strongest powers that the Ning Family knew about, and there were many va*sal states under each True Kingdom. The va*sal states are also divided into three stars, with three stars being the highest va*sal state. One-star va*sal states are basically mortal kingdoms, with a few ordinary martial cultivators at most.
The Cang Qin Kingdom is only a one-star va*sal state, and if the Cang Qin Kingdom did not have a two-star academy, then the Cang Qin Kingdom would be equivalent to a mortal kingdom.
The academies were different. In the lower continents, the highest ranked academy was only a five-star academy. In the lower continents, a three-star academy is equivalent to a three-star va*sal state. If there was a five-star academy within a true state, then that academy was already riding above the true state.
There was a note on the back of this thin scroll from the Ning Family, which was that legend had it that a nine-star academy existed in the Yixing Continent, only that the Ning Family had not produced any experts, and there was no way to know if this was true.
Closing the scroll, Ning Cheng slowly breathed out. He still did not know how big the Yixing Continent was, but from this scroll he had already guessed that the Yixing Continent was immense. Even the Cang Qin Kingdom was estimated to be only equivalent to a grain of dust in the Yixing Continent.
The Ning Family had produced a Yuan Building Realm cultivator, but the Ning Family was still unable to get out of the lower continents of the Yixing Continent, so he could see how naive his previous thoughts of being able to return to Earth once he reached the Yuan Building Realm were.
The reason why the Ning Family was able to gain a foothold in the Cang Qin Kingdom was because the Ning Family had been working for the king of the Cang Qin Kingdom for generations. Even so, when the Ning Family was finally exterminated in the capital of the country, the king of the Cang Qin Kingdom did not say a single word more.
Even when Ning Cheng came over from Earth, he was extremely upset in his heart. The ruler of the Cang Qin Kingdom was cold by nature, and it was really not worth working for him.
The second thin scroll was the same as what Ning Cheng had thought, it was the Ning Family’s cultivation technique. The first sentence at the beginning was that it was a top-notch Mortal Grade merit method. When Ning Cheng saw this, he was a little disappointed, even if it was top-notch, it was still only a Mortal Grade merit method. The Ninth Level of Qi Gathering was written in great detail on top of the thin scroll, and there were also some notes.
Ning Cheng looked at the front and it was roughly the same as the first layer of the merit method he recalled. He tried to follow the way of Qi movement at the back, and again, a stream of Qi like warm water suddenly rose from his dantian. Ning Cheng was startled and was about to stop his cultivation when a new meridian true qi flow line suddenly appeared in his mind.
This new True Qi flow line was obviously different from the one described in the Ning Family’s gongfu mantra, and Ning Cheng felt that if he followed the method that suddenly appeared in his mind to guide his True Qi cultivation, it would be more effective.