Ruan Mingshu had not expected that when Ning Cheng returned again, he would not be alone, but would bring three people back with him. Shi Yulan wanted to follow Ning Cheng and the three of them together, and Ning Cheng had no way to drive them away. What was more, he knew that Jing Wuming still had some fantasies in his heart, so he simply pretended not to know anything.
“Senior sister Ningshu, these three are my friends, Jing Wuming, Lan Ya and Shi Yulan respectively. Since it is hard to find a place to stay in Whirling Jade City, I would also like to ask you a favour to find two more rooms. If it’s really hard to find, then we’ll think of something else.” Ning Cheng knew that the Ruan Family needed his help, and his friendship with the Ruan Family had similarly ended after the selection round.
If he could use the Ruan Family’s help at this time, he didn’t mean to miss out. He did not want to stay here before because he wanted to look for Lan Ya and Jing Wu Ming, but now that he had found them, he did not want to spend any more energy looking for a place.
Both Lan Ya and Jing Wuming had not expected Ning Cheng to live with a female cultivator, and a very beautiful one at that. In their opinion, Ning Cheng and this female cultivator were both living in a double room, so their relationship must be extraordinary.
Ruan Mingshu’s astonishment was only momentary, and she immediately came back to her senses and said, “Of course you can, but the rooms at the Rest Inn are indeed very tight right now. I can get another double room. Senior Brother Ning, you will stay with me, and the three of them will stay in one of the double rooms next door.”
After Ruan Mingshu finished speaking without waiting for Ning Cheng to speak, she continued, “Originally, I could have stayed in a double room with Lan Ya and Shi Yu Lan, but I just have some things to discuss with Senior Brother Ning in the evening, so I can only arrange it this way.”
Lan Ya naturally would not have a problem, and Shi Yulan, who was staying in the same room as Lan Ya, did not refute it. Jing Wuming could not figure out the relationship between Ning Cheng and Ruan Mingshu, and he would even less ask Ning Cheng and Ruan Mingshu to stay separately. Not to mention that he was living in a double room with Shi Yulan, and he was imagining that Shi Yulan would take the initiative to explain to him.
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“Senior Brother Ning, please come in.” After Ning Cheng sent Jing Wuming to the next room, he had just walked to the door of Ruan Mingshu’s room when Ruan Mingshu took the initiative to open the ban and said.
Ning Cheng took out two cards and handed them to Ruan Mingshu and said, “Thank you, Senior Sister Mingshu, I haven’t used these two cards, so I’ll return them to you. Also, thank you for your help today, otherwise the few of us would have no place to stay. As for that array plate, I’ll return it to you in a couple of days.”
Ruan Mingshu took the card and wrapped it into her lotus cloth bag again and put it away, then smiled and said, “We were already working together, so these favours are deserved. There’s no need to rush about the array plate.”
After saying that, Ruan Mingshu asked, seemingly unintentionally, “By the way, that woman who has been standing beside you called Shi Yulan is pretty.”
“She is indeed good looking, if there is nothing else, I am going to go back to rest.” Ning Cheng did not want to talk more with Ruan Nameshu, not to mention that he had met Miao Pu today.
Before he had met Miao Pu, Ning Cheng still had some confidence in taking out Miao Pu. After meeting Miao Pu, Ning Cheng’s confidence was somewhat shaken.
Miao Pu’s cultivation level was more than just Star Bridge, he should be at the Immortal Realm. Relying on a level four formation disk, together with him, Jing Wuming and Lan Ya, I was afraid that it would be somewhat difficult to finish off Miao Pu. It was fine if that formation was set up by Ning Cheng himself, but not only was the formation not set up by him, it was also just a formation disk, making Ning Cheng’s chances even slimmer.
“Alright then, you go back and rest first, I will come to you if there is something.” Ruan Mingshu said in a soft voice, not saying that she had something to find Ning Cheng as she had said before.
Ning Cheng did not want to think much about these things, he did not know the Ruan family at all, and as his secret was hidden very deeply, he believed that the Ruan family would not find out easily. Besides, if the Ruan Family had discovered his secret, they would have made their move in Reina City, there was no way they would have waited until now.
Ning Cheng had just returned to his room, and before he even had the chance to put the ban on, he heard Shi Yulan’s voice, “Senior Brother Ning, may I come in for a moment please.”
Shi Yulan was Jing Wuming’s former daoist partner, and coming to him alone at this time caused Ning Cheng to frown slightly. However, he still said, “Come in, I hope in my heart that the person you go to is Wuming, and not me.”
Shi Yulan quickly entered Ning Cheng’s room and took the initiative to put a ban on it.
“Have a seat, what are you looking for me?” Ning Cheng pointed to the chair and said.
Shi Yulan first bowed to Ning Cheng before saying, “Many thanks to Senior Brother Ning for saving my life twice.”
Ning Cheng smiled faintly, “I have only saved you twice, it is nothing.”
Shi Yulan secretly sighed, how could she not hear the implication beyond Ning Cheng’s words? That was that Jing Wuming didn’t know how many times he had saved her, but he hadn’t seen her thank him.
She did not continue with her words of thanks and took the initiative to sit down and say to herself, “My father’s name is Shi Fangsheng and my mother’s name is Yu Moran. My father is a demon cultivator, but my mother is a soft and quiet woman from a famous family. My father met my mother during a secret competition in the Le Continent and they fell in love at first sight. However, my grandfather was disgusted that my father was a devil cultivator and took the initiative to betroth my mother to Tan Xun of the Tan family in Lezhou.”
Shi Yulan’s voice seemed to come from the distant sky, eerily inscrutable.
“The Tan Family is one of the great families in Le Continent, and the Kun Yun Sect, the number one sect in Le Continent, was even built by the ancestors of the Tan Family. Every head of the clan is a member of the Tan family, and its power in Le Continent is immense. When Tan Xun saw my mother, he couldn’t bring himself to do so. But my mother already had my father, and she refused Tan Xun.
Faced with the Tan family and the Kun Yun clan, this matter was no longer something that my father and mother could decide. The Tan family wanted to marry my mother by force, and my father fought to escape with my mother. But my father was alone and was eventually killed by the Tan family. My mother escaped alone, and by then she was more than three months pregnant with me.”
Shi Yulan seemed to recall the kind of hardship she had experienced with her mother, tears flowed from her eyes and her tone took on a little more life.
“When the Tan family failed to capture my mother, they took out their anger on my father and my grandfather’s family. They decimated my grandfather’s family, not even sparing a child of a few years old. Then they scorched my father’s spirit for forty-nine days, leaving him to die in inhuman torment.
When my mother learned of my father’s passing, she was devastated and her spirits grew worse every day. Finally, when I was seven years old, my mother also left me. Growing up in hatred, I vowed to destroy the Kunyun clan and kill Tan Xun, a wretch. But my power was too thin and I was still a demon practitioner, so I was not capable of destroying the Kunyun Sect. At that time, I met Jing Hao.
Perhaps Jing Hao himself did not know that although he was Tan Xun’s disciple, he was actually Tan Xun’s illegitimate son. In addition, his qualifications were very good and Tan Xun was the patriarch of the Kun Yun Sect, so he naturally doted on him.”
Ning Cheng took the initiative to help Shi Yulan pour a cup of spiritual tea, and he vaguely understood it somewhat. What had happened to Shi Yulan was a little too miserable. If he were in his place, his means of revenge would not be much worse than Shi Yulan’s.
As expected, Shi Yulan continued ruefully, “In order to destroy the Kun Yun Clan and the Tan Family, after I met Jing Hao, I deliberately killed several true disciples of the major sects in succession, a few of them were even descendants of the sect elders, just because others coveted my looks. This incident finally aroused public anger and Jing Hao fled to the Kun Yun Sect with me. In order to let others know that I was in the Kun Yun Clan, I leaked the news.”
Ning Cheng sighed in his heart, when Jing Wuming had told him about this matter, he was still wondering in his heart who had leaked the news. The matter of him bringing Shi Yu Lan into the Kun Yun Clan was incomparably secretive and no one else knew about it, but it happened that as soon as they entered the Kun Yun Clan, someone had learned about it. It turned out that the one who leaked the news was Shi Yulan. It was just that this Shi Yulan was also ruthless and unscrupulous, killing a few unrelated people to stir up hatred. If it were him taking revenge, he would never use such methods.
Shi Yulan smiled bitterly, “My aim was achieved, I lent Jing Hao’s hand to exterminate the Kun Yun Clan, the Tan family and Tan Xun. I have taken my revenge, but I can’t live up to Jing Hao. He was innocent, he took me to escape into the stars, saved me many times, and gave me all the resources he got to cultivate. One more moment I spent with him was one more moment of torment.
Every time he went out in search of cultivation resources, I hid at home to cultivate; in fact, I was afraid to be with him. Sometimes I thought that one day when Jing Hao had fallen, I would kill myself and this public case would be closed. But at the end of the day, I owed him more and more, and people are not grass, so I was even more tormented in my heart.”
Ning Cheng remained silent, he did not know how he should go about comforting both sides in this matter.
“I took away the True Spirit World, I was reluctant to venture out to find resources just to let Jing Hao know that I was a selfish person and let him leave me. But Inho he was so stupid, he never said a heavy word about me. With Jing Hao, I lived a torturous life.
Until one day, King Shangmu Xinghe saw me and he said to me, “I am born with charming bones, and if I stay with Jing Hao, sooner or later I will harm him. He could take me away and give me my freedom without hurting Jing Hao at the same time. I cannot bear this torment, and even if King Shangmu Xinghe does not appear, I will find a chance to leave Jing Hao.”
“But you shouldn’t take away Nameless’ True Spirit World, do you know what the True Spirit World means? Countless lives.” Ning Cheng still spoke up for Jing Hao.
Shi Yulan mocked himself miserably, “That True Spirit World is not his Tan Family’s, but my Shi Family’s. It was also something that my father obtained, only that my father was killed by the Kun Yun Clan before he had the chance to refine it. Unfortunately, I was not able to keep the True Spirit World either, and now this True Spirit World is in the hands of Shangmu Xinghe King. I took the True Spirit World, not because it was precious, but because it was the only thing my father had left behind.”
“Then why did you appear in the slave auction market?” Ning Cheng suddenly thought about whether the murder of Shi Yulan’s parents had anything to do with the True Spirit World.
“It’s still because of the True Spirit World, I thought that the Shangmu Star River King really took a fancy to my looks. But I was wrong, I was a little too confident. Shangmu Xinghe King may have taken a fancy to my looks, but his real aim is definitely the True Spirit World.” Shi Yulan clenched her fist, that kind of resentment and indignation that Ning Cheng could clearly feel.