Some of the cultivators who had left the Great Cabin Hall had come running back at this point, each carefully sitting in a corner, and although the Great Cabin Hall in the bottom cabin was large, none of them dared to speak.
Ning Cheng and Xin Xinyu sat in a corner of the cabin, and even though Xin Xinyu admired Ning Cheng, at this time, he did not dare to make a sound. Ning Cheng’s divine sense landed on his ring, completely removing the few prohibitions he had later put on it.
Half a column of incense later, a middle-aged beautiful woman appeared at the entrance of the cabin hall. This middle-aged beauty swept her gaze at the cultivators in the cabin hall before she slowly walked in.
Even though this beautiful woman’s divine sense had not yet landed on him, Ning Cheng was already certain that this beautiful woman was at least of Heavenly Realm cultivation.
The beautiful woman’s divine sense swept past each and every cultivator, and Ning Cheng noticed that when the beautiful woman’s divine sense swept past, each and every one of these cultivators had pale faces, and some cultivators with weak willpower were sweating coldly.
Ning Cheng knew how powerful a Celestial Realm cultivator was, before his divine sense had almost been suppressed to the ground by the powerful aura just by catching the killing intent of Tang Jiu’s slash.
His divine sense soon landed on Ning Cheng, who then felt his clothes being stripped away layer by layer, and at this moment he barely had a semblance of ** to speak of. It was a good thing that this woman still knew some shame and did not do anything even more excessive.
Immediately afterwards, Ning Cheng felt his ring being completely penetrated, this ring was merely a very ordinary ring. Inside the ring, Ning Cheng had put some refining materials, and a few ordinary magic treasures, and also a short spear with a lower grade dao weapon.
It was only when Ning Cheng’s face became as pale as it was that this beautiful woman’s divine sense moved away from him.
An incense stick later, this beautiful woman’s gaze once again landed on Ning Cheng. “What is your name? Where are you from?”
Ning Cheng slowly took in a breath. Forcing himself to calm down. Standing up, he said respectfully, “My junior, Cheng Nianqiong, comes from the Man Lun Star Continent.”
He was apprehensive in his heart, not knowing why he had been called out alone. It was a bit comical for him to call a beautiful woman senior with white hair.
“Why don’t you have a star wheel?” The beautiful woman asked in a still light tone.
Ning Cheng said with trepidation, “The junior has always been a casual cultivator, and because his qualifications were also average, he did not cultivate the Star Wheel when he advanced to Nian Xing. I knew that there was something wrong with the cultivation technique I was using. Because I have been unable to find a good master, my junior has taken out all of his savings this time and is going to try his luck in the Great Star of the Middle Heaven.”
The beautiful woman did not dismiss Ning Cheng’s words and sized him up once more before she said, “You come with me.”
“Yes.” Ning Cheng knew that at this time, he didn’t have any choice at all.
The beautiful woman led Ning Cheng to a class luxury cabin on the top floor of the merchant ship, she saw that Ning Cheng was a little nervous and casually said. “You don’t need to be nervous, I’m just asking you a few questions.”
“Senior, please ask. Junior knows everything.” Ning Cheng was even more terrified.
“What is your current cultivation level? Why did you say that you have poor qualifications?” The beautiful woman did not let Ning Cheng sit down, but she herself sat down.
Ning Cheng did not dare to hesitate a little and quickly replied, “My junior does not have a master, and I always feel that I am not cultivating correctly, some time ago, I thought I had advanced to Shattered Star. But compared to other Shattered Star cultivators, I seem to be close to something again.”
Ning Cheng did not dare to say that he was a Gathering Star, his words were ambiguous and he could not even feel his own cultivation level. Even if this beautiful woman could see his cultivation level, so what? He would just say that he didn’t have a master to teach him and that he couldn’t figure it out himself.
“What would you think if I said that you had just lied to me and that you were in fact one of the best qualified cultivators I had ever seen?” The beautiful woman spoke in a careless tone, and poured herself a cup of spiritual tea as she spoke.
“Ah ……” Ning Cheng looked at the beautiful woman in front of him blankly, as if he didn’t understand the other party’s meaning at all. Only he knew in his own heart that his bewilderment was a pretence. At this moment, he was already a little anxious in his heart. No wonder this woman was calling him up, so she thought she was lying to her.
The beautiful woman took a sip of her spirit tea before she said, “If I am not mistaken, you look old and gray-haired, but your actual age is terribly young. So young that I don’t even dare to think about it, and if you’re not a body snatcher, then you have amazing and incomparable qualifications. But I just looked at you, and your soul is immensely fused, so there is absolutely no way that you are a body snatcher.”
After the beautiful woman finished speaking, she even stared at Ning Cheng with unblinking eyes.
During this moment, countless thoughts turned through Ning Cheng’s mind, but he quickly found the words he should say, “Senior, my junior is indeed not old. This time, the white hair is also due to the fact that he accidentally went to the Sea of Twilight, and this is how he got it.”
“Oh, if that’s the case, then why did you still tell me that you have average qualifications?” The beautiful woman’s tone was calm, but that harsh and incomparable killing intent had already seeped into Ning Cheng’s heart and soul, and an ordinary cultivator would have been unable to withstand it long ago. Luckily, Ning Cheng was not an ordinary cultivator, he was the possessor of the Starry Sky Sea of Consciousness, not only was his Yuan Shen powerful, his soul was even tougher than ever.
“I beg senior’s forgiveness.” Ning Cheng hurriedly bowed and saluted again. He was helpless in his heart, strength ah strength, in this kind of place, he was really not even as good as a mole.
The beautiful woman snorted coldly, “If you cannot speak reason, then there is no need to speak of forgiveness. Killing you, a tiny star-gazing cultivator, is like crushing a mole to me.”
Ning Cheng shivered, could he not hear the meaning of this beautiful woman. If the other party wanted to kill him, how could he be compared to a mole?
Ning Cheng knew very well that he had no ability to resist in the face of a Heavenly Plane Realm powerhouse. Solely, he sighed and said, “Senior, junior comes from a very low ranked planet. In that low ranked planet, junior did have a master. My master told me that my qualifications were rare in a billion years, and told me to never let others know about my qualifications, or else I might be taken over.
I have always followed my master’s teachings, and after entering the starry sky, I did not even dare to enter the clan, and as a result, I have not cultivated the Star Wheel by myself even now. This time, my junior has also put his life on the line and is prepared to go to the Great Starry Sky of the Middle Heavens to look for a clan. I’ve heard that there are many geniuses with powerful qualifications in the Middle Heaven Great Starry Sky, and although my junior’s qualifications are good, they shouldn’t be too special.”
“Just this reason?” The beautiful woman hadn’t expected Ning Cheng to be afraid of taking over the body, which was why she didn’t dare to search for a master to figure out for herself. Cultivating up to this point and not going off the rails, count this kid lucky.
“Junior does not dare to hide from senior, this is indeed the reason.” Ning Cheng simply let his throbbing mood calm down.
“So what aren’t you afraid of again now that I am?”
“Senior’s qualifications are many times better than junior’s, besides junior lost his lifespan in the Sea of Twilight and became so old, even if someone were to take over the body, they wouldn’t look at junior.”
The beautiful woman shook her head speechlessly, “Your qualifications are indeed good, but they are nothing in the Great Midheaven Star, so you don’t need to be so cautious, go down.”
Sensing Ning Cheng’s kind of broken heart, the beauty woman waved her hand at Ning Cheng. Earlier, she always felt that something was wrong with Ning Cheng, as to what was wrong, she could not say, but now, after hearing Ning Cheng’s explanation, she was relieved instead. A genius from a low level planet who had not seen the world and thought that his qualifications would be missed by others, but did not know that although his qualifications were good, he was far from being considered a genius in the Great Midheaven Starry Sky.
Ning Cheng breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and carefully excused himself. He decided that when he returned, he would never come out again. Poor cultivation was nothing, and if he didn’t still have a Xuanhuang Pearl that no one could see, he didn’t know how many times he would have died.
As he descended to the third level, a lively clamour came from the area, and Ning Cheng immediately swept into the bustling cabin streets. Numerous cultivators were bringing materials they had obtained to exchange and sell on this level.
The words ‘Drifting Starland Auction’ appeared in huge letters in front of Ning Cheng’s eyes, with a huge signboard below it, with a long list of names of various treasures. Even though Ning Cheng did not want to go to the auction, he passed by and his divine sense still swept through it.
When Ning Cheng’s divine sense landed on the signboard, his steps slowed down, and he surprisingly saw the Sky Treasure Silk. This auction had Sky Treasure Silk for sale, and he was in need of this kind of thing right now.
Ning Cheng was so surprised in his heart that he immediately had to turn around and go in. However, he only stalled for a little bit before stopping his turning and continuing to walk down to the second level.
How could there be such a coincidence under the sky? His Sky Cloud Twin Wings were in need of Sky Treasure Silk, and he casually passed by and saw it being auctioned off.
There were definitely not a few people who saw that he had the Sky Cloud Twin Wings, and this Sky Treasure Silk was probably being auctioned off on every ship, so once he went to buy such a thing, there was a chance that he would fall for it. Taking out the Sky Treasure Silk might be aimed at the cultivator with the Sky Cloud Twin Wings.
Ning Cheng did not go back to the hitting cabin hall, but returned to the small miscellaneous room outside the bilge wine cellar. He did not go to tell Steward Lu, if Steward Lu came, he could also say that he had been inspected.
Once he returned to the small miscellaneous room, Ning Cheng continued to use the formation to close off his position. Just as Ning Cheng had thought, Steward Lu did not come over. He didn’t even go to the large cabin to ask where Ning Cheng had gone, as far as he was concerned, whether Ning Cheng was dead or alive had nothing to do with him.
Because he had just passed by a floating star land, the streets were now bustling with auctions on all the merchant ships. Only Ning Cheng was hiding in his own little miscellaneous room, continuing to close up and solidify his cultivation.
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Time flew away during Ning Cheng’s seclusion, midway through the journey Ning Cheng felt that the merchant ships had stopped a few more times, his divine sense had swept out, as if he had met some kind of starry sky beast herd. However, that Steward Lu did not come over to look for him, and Ning Cheng did not come out either.
Another six years passed, and still no one came to Ning Cheng’s little miscellaneous room, while his cultivation level was already at the late stage of Star Gathering. When he had obtained so many Yongwang Pills in the Time Desolate Domain, he had only used less than ten thousand of them. Even Ning Cheng himself had to sigh, his cultivation consumption was just a little too frightening.
Ning Cheng did not intend to continue his seclusion, his divine sense swept out and found that the large cabin hall was buzzing with activity as many cultivators flocked to the bottom deck. Ning Cheng’s heart moved, he also hurriedly packed up all his things and poured out after the other cultivators, he guessed that it should be the arrival of the Great Midheaven Star.