As soon as Ning Cheng’s words were spoken, the handsome man beside Ruan Mingshu’s face changed slightly, and then he looked at Ruan Mingshu in confusion.
Ruan Mingshu was also slightly stunned, seemingly not expecting Ning Cheng to ask such a question, and for a moment she could not find the right words to answer Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng was not in a hurry and was still waiting at the side with a smile on his face. He was not trying to disgust Ruan Mingshu, but to tell Ruan Mingshu. Cooperation is cooperation, don’t use any beauty ploy and any gentle ploy to pretend. You were so gentle at Xuan Yu Cheng, making it seem like you were a couple, but you didn’t call me to join you when you escaped?
If we are cooperating, then let’s talk about cooperation directly, don’t use other means to fool me, I am not a fool either.
“I’ll go around Tianji City first, Senior Sister Ningshu just give me a message if you have something.” Seeing that Ruan Nameshu was about to open her mouth, Ning Cheng simply stopped in front and said so. He was just reminding Ruan Nameshu not to treat him like a fool, he did not care how Ruan Nameshu replied.
“Wait, Senior Brother Ning, I have some things to talk to you about. If you’re willing, we’ll still stay in the same room.” Ruan Mingshu called out to Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng looked at Ruan Mingshu in surprise, he thought that Ruan Mingshu would just step down, but he did not expect Ruan Mingshu to say something like this.
The handsome male cultivator who was beside Ruan Mingshu, his original somewhat stiff expression suddenly disappeared, instead he smiled easily, “Mingshu, I will leave first.”
Watching the handsome male cultivator walk out of the resting inn, Ruan Nameshu stared into Ning Cheng’s eyes, “Senior Brother Ning, if you are satisfied now, please follow me to my room.”
Ning Cheng felt a little strange in his heart, but he did not care and followed Ruan Mingshu to her room, and discovered that the room Ruan Mingshu was staying in this time was not a double room, but a single room.
“Senior Brother Ning, I know you must be blaming me for not telling you when I left. The truth is. If I had delayed just a little bit back then, I wouldn’t have been able to get away on my own. You should also be well aware of how terrifying the tide of Star Devouring Rats is. Even if I could have taken you away, I wouldn’t have been able to get to the first floor. And I also know that you definitely won’t come with me.” Ruan Mingshu spoke in a calm tone, as if she had not been angry at all at Ning Cheng’s words just now.
Without waiting for Ning Cheng to answer, she continued, “You are very good to your friends, and although I don’t know you very well, I have spent some time with you. Knowing that you wouldn’t leave those few friends of yours to go with me, I simply left on my own. What’s more. Even if you were willing to go with me, I wouldn’t be able to take you with me.”
Ning Cheng had not come here to ask Ruan Mingshu to explain, and such a sincere and soft explanation from Ruan Mingshu made Ning Cheng not know what to say instead.
“The person who left just now is called Zhaoyin Xiang ……,” Ruan Ningshu once again took the initiative to say.
Ning Cheng drifted off, “So it was him, I see. Ruan Zhuang wanted me to help keep an eye on him a bit, it seems to be talking about this person.”
Ruan Mingshu smiled faintly, “My father thought I liked him and that’s why he said that to you. Actually, it’s that he likes me a lot and I don’t have anything against him. That’s just how it is. Also, this time when we go to the Time Desolate Domain, Senior Brother Yan Xiang is going to be with us.”
“Who else is going to be with us. I don’t really care. I just got here, you need to tell me when to enter the Time Desolate Domain and how to get in?” Ning Cheng did not want to ask about these messy relationships.
Ruan Mingshu took out a jade slip and handed it to Ning Cheng and said, “This is a jade slip of a map of the middle part of the Time Desolate Domain, our Leland Star River’s warship was attacked by a tide of Star Devouring Rats, and the Star River King was suddenly far away for some unknown reason. Therefore, the participants of our Leland Star River, as long as they have a jade tablet for participation. When the Time Desolate Domain opens, they can all enter on their own.”
Ning Cheng heard that the Leland Star River King had gone. In his heart, he was startled. The Leland Star River King must have walked away because of the Whirling Jade Concubine, and might have gone after the Whirling Jade Concubine. What could be done about this? If Xuan Yu was caught up by the Leland Star River King, regardless of whether Xuan Yu died or not, Jing Wuming was dead. Unfortunately, he could only be anxious, with his cultivation level, he could not help half as much.
“There are twelve star rivers in the Man Lun Starry Sky, which is considered one of the smaller starry spaces among all of them. There are over 300,000 cultivators entering the Time Desolate Domain this time, and there are definitely not a few who know about the Yongwang Lake, so our chances aren’t very good.” After Ruan Mingshu explained, she quietly waited for Ning Cheng to ask.
Only then did Ning Cheng realise that the Yongwang Lake was not a secret of the Ruan Family, but an open secret, so what was this cooperation?
“Twelve star rivers should only be attended by 120,000 people, how come there are 300,000 people? Also my cultivation level is too poor, if only the three of us team up to go to the Yongwang Lake, I guess we will lose even the scraps of bones before we find it.” Ning Cheng’s tone revealed some disappointment.
Ruan Mingshu did not care about Ning Cheng’s tone and still said calmly, “Leland Star River is as weak as any star river in the Man Lun Starry Sky, with only ten thousand participants, while other star rivers have far more participants than Leland Starry River. In addition, it is true that there are many people who know about Yongwang Lake, but not many people really know the direction of Yongwang Lake. So although our chances are small, compared to others, there are still more chances.”
“Good. Just send me a message when the Time Desolate Domain opens.” Ning Cheng stood up after he finished speaking.
Ruan Mingshu did not move as she said indifferently, “You don’t live here?”
“You only have one room here, so instead of you opening another room, it would be better for me to find a room myself.”
“A room, you can sleep here too.”
Ruan Mingshu’s words surprised Ning Cheng beyond belief, although Ruan Mingshu had used some tactics on him, he had always thought that this woman was still considered to be relatively conservative. What did she mean by this?
Ning Cheng now found that Ruan Mingshu’s expression was very serious, without any half-meaning of mockery or ridicule in it. He frowned for a moment and then said, “I’ll sleep here, what about you?”
Ruan Mingshu looked at the bed and said with a slight smile, “This bed is huge.”
Seeing that Ruan Mingshu was really serious, Ning Cheng had no choice but to say, “Thank you, I still like to stay in a room by myself, just give me a message if there is something.”
No matter whether Ruan Mingshu was really serious or not, Ning Cheng did not want to be hypocritical with her like this.
Seeing Ning Cheng’s back leaving, Ruan Mingshu sighed and didn’t continue to say anything, she just took out a pot of wine and poured herself a cup.
Ruan Mingshu did not have to sit for long before the handsome male cultivator who had left earlier reappeared outside her room, the very same Zhaoyan Xiang that Ruan Mingshu had told Ning Cheng about. Ruan Mingshu frowned slightly, put the wine away, walked over to the door and opened the ban, looked at Zhaoyan Xiang who was standing at the door, and did not ask him to come in and sit down.
“Who is he?” Zhaoyan Xiang did not enter the room either, and simply asked three words.
“It’s the one who entered the Time Desolate Domain with us and is working with my Ruan family.” Ruan Mingshu did not hide it.
Zhaoyan Xiang sighed in slight relief, “Senior sister Ningshu, you are too kind. What face do you have to give to such a person? If he wants to sow discord between us, you can just say no, why do you need to make him step down with false words.”
Ruan Mingshu said in a flat tone, “I didn’t make false statements, I was planning to keep him inside my room.”
“Ningshu, you ……” Zhaoyan Xiang’s face changed again.
Ruan Ningshu did not explain anything, Zhaoyan Xiang clenched his fist and said, “Why? You like him? What about me? Besides even if you like him, with your character, you wouldn’t keep him to live with you, right?”
Ruan Mingshu looked softly at Zhaoyan Xiang and said, “Brother Yan Xiang, if I must say that I like you, I like you more. Senior Brother Ning is a good man, I owe him that.”
“You owe him and you have to leave him here to stay? What kind of logic is that? Besides what do you owe him?” Zhaoyan Xiang finally couldn’t control his emotions.
“I don’t owe him now, but soon I will. Perhaps, you will owe him too.” Ruan Mingshu shook her head as she finished speaking and once again beat the ban up, slowly walking back to her room. She had her own principles of acting, Ning Cheng had nothing to do with her, and through spending time together, she knew that Ning Cheng was not that sinister. She was asking for other people’s lives, so what was there in being gentle with them and agreeing to these requests?
Returning to her room, Ruan Mingshu once again took out her wine jug, this time she did not take out a wine cup, she directly drank a few gulps from the jug to her mouth before muttering, “Perhaps I am not fit to fight for anything in the starry sky.”
Her father, her friends all thought it was right to send a stranger to his death, but inside she just felt sorry. This apology had affected her cultivation if she couldn’t make up for it.
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Regardless of what Ruan Mingshu meant, Ning Cheng did not continue to wander around Tianji City. Tianji City was now filled with countless cultivators from the entire starry sky, and this point of his cultivation would not be enough in case he offended someone.
In his dwelling, apart from communicating with Bee King Yixing, Ning Cheng was constantly fumbling with his divine sense, he wanted to use it to construct a complete set of attacks.
It was just that he really didn’t know much about cultivation theory, and every time he got stuck in a key place, there was no way to explain it.
On the contrary, the Bee King Yixing grew very quickly, and almost all of the pills Ning Cheng used to refine were eaten up by it. Even the starry sky crystals, this fellow had started eating them.
Time passed quickly, it had been half a month since Ning Cheng arrived at Tianji City, and he had yet to receive a message from Ruan Mingshu.
This day, Ning Cheng was tempering his divine sense inside his room at the Rest Inn when he heard a sharp whistle and spatial fluctuations.
Ning Cheng had not entered the starry sky for a day or two, and he still knew a lot about the big cities in these starry skies. No fighting, no trouble. But this kind of shrill whistling and spatial fluctuations was clearly a large-scale fight and disturbance. If it wasn’t for the strong star yuan fluctuations, his room wouldn’t have been able to hear anything at all.
Ning Cheng immediately opened the ban and he was about to go out to take a look when the fellow from the Rest Inn hurriedly came up and stopped him, “Friend, two Xinghe cultivators outside are causing a disturbance and it’s a big mess now, you must not go out at this time, lest you get into trouble.”
“Dare to cause trouble in Tianji City?” Ning Cheng asked, wasn’t Tianji City the number one city in Man Lun Star 6? How could it cause trouble? But the truth was that tens of thousands of cultivators had fought in the spacious streets, patches of cultivators had been blasted to death and rows of buildings had been blown up.
The mate sneered, “You’ll soon find out.”