Ning Cheng had already checked that the first level was merely astral element resistance and simple calculations. This calculation was too simple for him, he used the patterns on the floor of the Great Hall and then used the permutations to work out the correct landing direction, when he landed, there would be a strong star yuan resistance, this star yuan resistance was not a problem for an ordinary Nian Xing cultivator, and it would pose even less of a threat to him.
After reaching the wall of the Great Hall, there is another alignment calculation, and the numbers calculated will be inscribed on the wall, and the first door of the Great Hall will open to enter the second level.
This first gate was so easy that Ning Cheng estimated that there should be very few people who could not pass it, so he did not help.
Many cultivators were teleported out of the first level of the Ninth Order Arcane Formation and landed on top of Leland Square once again.
Ning Cheng had easily stood on top of the second level, which was a barren canyon. Ning Cheng had just entered when a powerful thrust pushed him over, a thrust that would cause him to fall backwards if he wasn’t slightly inattentive. As soon as he fell backwards, he would immediately be transported to Leland Square.
Apart from the thrust, there was also a stone monument at his feet, which was also covered with some complicated patterns. With the experience from the first level, Ning Cheng knew that this was the stone tablet that pushed the correct way to walk the second section of the path.
With such a powerful push, it was indeed a little difficult to use one’s divine sense to deduce the correct route to walk while doing so. This could only be done by using a powerful divine sense to evolve step by step and then calculate the correct walking route. Normally, as long as one gives time, such walking routes can be calculated by Nian Xing cultivators.
But the longer you stay in place, that is, the longer you are here to calculate, the greater the thrust will be. This gradual incremental thrust eliminates any way for a cultivator to use a time loophole to calculate the correct route.
After Ning Cheng had calculated the correct route, he did not move and was still waiting for Jing Wuming, Lan Ya and Shi Yu Lan.
Ning Cheng waited for a full hour. Only then did the three appear one after another in his divine sense, each appearing in another canyon.
The thrust where Ning Cheng was was getting stronger and stronger, and he did not let the three people deduce the correct route on their own this time. He simply projected out the correct route of where the three were completely. Using his divine sense, he transmitted it to the three.
With surprise, the three of them, Jing Wuming, even reached the third level before Ning Cheng.
The third level only had six steps. Each step had a thrust pressing in, and each time they went up a step the thrust would be one level stronger.
However, Ning Cheng soon discovered that his divine sense could block part of the thrust, making it much easier for him to walk on the steps. Walking on such steps was not only a test of astral energy, but also a test of divine sense. The stronger the divine sense was, the less the thrust would be.
If Ning Cheng had passed these six steps alone, he would not have felt much of a strain. It was just that his divine sense clearly felt that Jing Wuming and Shi Yulan could not hold on. It was Lan Ya who was also struggling a little. To secure a place in the Man Lun Starry Sky, this third level was something that had to be passed.
Ning Cheng’s divine sense immediately spread out to help the three resist some of the pressure. At this moment, his pressure had increased even more by several times, and if it wasn’t for the powerful Starry Sky Sea of Consciousness, he wouldn’t have been able to hold on at all.
Ning Cheng walked very slowly on the steps, even if his divine sense was strong, with helping Jing Wuming’s three people at the same time, each step he took was incomparably strenuous.
As the four of them passed the sixth step at the same time and entered the fourth level, Ning Cheng felt a pain in his sea of consciousness. By the time he recovered. His divine sense could no longer penetrate out, and at this moment, he could only see the situation in front of him.
Ning Cheng knew that Shi Yu Lan’s three people must have been teleported out. Alone, he should not have much of a problem passing through the fourth level. However, he was only a Nian Xing cultivator, so if he showed too much, he would definitely attract attention. Thinking of this, Ning Cheng took a step back under this push.
The next moment, Ning Cheng felt a lightness around his body and was transported out.
“Ning Cheng ……” Lan Ya was the first to arrive in front of Ning Cheng, and she saw that Ning Cheng’s face was somewhat pale. Immediately, she knew what was going on.
“Are you alright.” Jing Wuming also walked over eagerly, if it wasn’t for Ning Cheng’s help. It would have been difficult for them to pass the second level, not to mention entering the fourth level.
“How is our ranking?” Ning Cheng asked in his first sentence.
Shi Yulan’s voice came out. “It’s all in the top hundred.”
Ning Cheng was shocked in his heart, would this be a little too much? Four people in the top fifty at the same time? Seeing Jing Wuming wanting to speak, he hurriedly said, “Let’s go back and talk about the others, let’s take a look at the others’ competition.”
Jing Wuming came to his senses and hurriedly stopped talking. Like Lan Ya and Shi Yu Lan, he was shocked at the power of Ning Cheng’s divine sense, but knew that this was not the place to talk.
Ning Cheng looked at the rankings on the formation screen, and his heart went from being nervous, to slowly calming down. In a short period of time, several people’s rankings had dropped from the top hundred to a few hundred, and the rankings were still dropping. Ning Cheng knew that this was due to the fact that his clearance time was too short, and also, there were really not many people who could compare to his kind of calculation ability.
People were constantly being transported to the square, and Ning Cheng’s four rankings kept dropping.
“Huh, your ranking is actually so high?” Ruan Mingshu, who had been teleported out, came to Ning Cheng’s side and said in astonishment. She was then even more shocked to see that the rankings of Ning Cheng’s four were not very far apart and none of them were low. Even though the rankings of the four were not as high as hers, this was very outrageous.
Ruan Mingshu did not continue to ask, she was sure that this matter was not simple, and she vaguely felt that this matter should have something to do with Ning Cheng. If this was really the case, was this a good thing, or a bad thing?
This was the quickest selection method Ning Cheng had ever seen, over a million people were selected within a day, while the top 10,000 were selected.
The first ranked cultivator among them was already approaching the seventh level, and the ten thousandth ranked cultivator had only just reached the second step of the third level. Ning Cheng’s four rankings ended up staying at around three thousand, with Ruan Mingshu’s ranking at over five hundred.
Ning Cheng was relieved, ranking three thousand and ranking in the top one hundred, these were completely different concepts. Out of over one million people, you ranked in the top one hundred, it was impossible to not be noticed if you wanted to.
The Leland Star River King was very happy, for a Star Peeping Realm cultivator to be able to approach the seventh level in the Ninth Order Arcana Formation was a very remarkable thing.
He stood up and said, “I will now present the rewards for the top ten in our Leland Star River Competition, first place Hierophant ……”
There were prizes for the top thousand in the Liran Star River, but only the top ten were able to get a prize from the King of the Liran Star River himself.
Ning Cheng also paid special attention to Helian Peng Bo, this cultivator looked very young, with a medium build and a slightly yellow face. But it was this fellow who had almost entered the seventh level, this achievement was definitely a strong and incomparable one, no wonder the Liran Star River King was happy.
The awarding of prizes took even longer than the selection round, and the five hundred or so Nguyen Namshu were rewarded all the same.
Only after the awards were given out did the Liran Star River King then say, “In three days, the first ten thousand will gather at Liran Square and we will head to the Manlun Starry Sky, this time I will personally lead the team.”
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“Now you guys can go and buy some things you need.” Ning Cheng said to the three Lan Ya, even if that Star Lord Miao Pu had the guts, he wouldn’t dare to touch Lan Ya now.
These 10,000 participants chosen by the Leland Star River were personally ordered by the Leland Star River King, if anyone dared to touch these 10,000 participants, they would be looking for death.
Shi Yulan and Lan Ya knew that there were many things that they would probably not tell Ning Cheng even if they asked him, so they simply did not ask anything and said goodbye to Ning Cheng, going to buy the things they needed. Although they had also signed up for the selection competition, before this, they had not thought that they would really be selected. Now that they had been chosen, they were still very excited in their hearts.
Jing Wuming patted Ning Cheng’s shoulder and was about to leave when he saw Ning Cheng’s face change and he immediately stopped. He did not ask Ning Cheng what was wrong, nor did he continue to leave.
A moment later, Ning Cheng transmitted a voice to him and said, “That Whirling Jade Consort of the Leland Star River King transmitted a voice to me and asked me to meet her at the Whirling Jade Mountain tonight? What is this all about?”
Hearing Ning Cheng’s words, Jing Wuming’s face immediately changed as well. This was no small matter, no matter what the reason was for the Whirling Jade Consort to invite Ning Cheng, this was not a good thing. Once the Leland Star River King found out, then Ning Cheng would be finished.
“Going or not?” Jing Wuming looked at Ning Cheng and asked with a careful voice transmission.
Ning Cheng calmed down as he tried to think of why Consort Whirling Jade had transmitted a voice to him, it was completely illogical. He didn’t know Consort Whirling Jade at all, and one was at the level of Star River King, and he was still only just a Nian Xing.
“I have to go, if I don’t go, let alone if we go to the Man Lun Star to participate in the selection tournament, even if I walk out of the Whirling Jade City alive, I won’t be able to do it.” Ning Cheng took a breath and slowly transmitted his voice to Jing Wuming.
Jing Wuming’s heart was also rushing to think of a solution, but after thinking around, he had no better ideas, so he could only say, “I will accompany you.”
Seeing Ning Cheng hesitate a little, Jing Wuming said even more firmly, “Two brothers in one world, just die, what is there to hesitate about, go.”
Ning Cheng nodded, “Good, then we will go together.”
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Whirling Jade Mountain was one of the three mountains within Whirling Jade City, and Whirling Jade City was dusty, not to mention leaving a high mountain in a prosperous place.
The Whirling Jade Mountain, however, ignores such rules, for it is where the Whirling Jade Consort resides.
Ning Cheng and Jing Wuming both walked all the way to the Whirling Jade Palace at the top of Whirling Jade Mountain without anyone stopping them, so it was clear that the people here had long since received orders from the Whirling Jade Consort.
The higher up Ning Cheng went, the more he felt the dense starry sky Yuan Qi, the starry sky Yuan Qi in this place was not only dense, but also soft, without that kind of deliberate traces.
It was truly a good place, Ning Cheng and Jing Wuming sighed in their hearts.
“Ning Cheng, you are a small Nian Xing cultivator, how dare you be so bold.” A clear and melodious female voice reached Ning Cheng’s ears.