A few hisses of demonic beasts and a sword mane shot up into the sky, causing Ning Cheng, who was still rushing through the Daan Forest, to stop and carefully hide to the side.
This was the scene of a battle between a human and a demonic beast, and Ning Cheng had not expected that there would be other people besides him in the depths of the Da’an Forest. This was already the twelfth day after he had obtained the Remnant Gun, and according to Ning Cheng’s thoughts, as long as the map behind him was correct, he would be out of the Da’an Forest in about a month.
At this time, however, he had stumbled upon someone fighting with a demonic beast inside the Da’an Forest. Ning Cheng certainly did not think that this person fighting with demonic beasts could be compared to the person who had left behind the residual spear in the first place. However, those who could survive here must not be simple either.
Being able to fight demonic beasts here, Ning Cheng didn’t think that the other person was that great, back then he was only in the middle stage of Qi gathering, hadn’t he also survived for a few months at the Clearwater Lake? Inside the Daan Forest, as long as one had a certain amount of strength and did not encroach on the area of the rest of the demonic beasts, one would be able to survive.
A few more sword lights stirred out, and some fluctuations of true essence were sensed by Ning Cheng, who knew that the person fighting the demonic beast was at least a True Condensation cultivator. In no time, the sword lights dissipated and the demonic beast’s cries also disappeared, the battle should be over.
“Qi Hua, what brings you here?” A low man’s voice reached Ning Cheng’s ears.
A clear and melodious voice then replied, “I was a little worried about you and came over to take a look, well ……”
It was a woman, but before the woman could finish her words, she seemed to be gagged, so it should be these two people making out. It turned out to be a pair of lovers living in this place, Ning Cheng shook his head, he did not want to continue to go over to see what these two people were really about.
The man was a True Condensation Cultivator and the woman must also be a True Condensation Cultivator. A man and a woman stayed in the Da’an Forest, whether it was because they were lost or not, Ning Cheng did not want to ask more questions. He was only at the ninth level of Qi gathering, even if he was confident that he was not weaker than an ordinary True Condensation cultivator, but this was close to the Waki Continent, so who knew if the other party was an ordinary True Condensation cultivator? And there were still two of them.
Besides, these two people lived in the Da’an Forest all the time and were definitely experienced in fighting, so there was no need for him to go and join in the fun.
Just as Ning Cheng wanted to leave, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. That Qi Hua’s name was familiar to him, and Ning Cheng was sure that he had heard of these two words.
Ning Cheng stopped the thought of leaving, and after waiting in place for a while longer, he was sure that those two people had gone far away before he carefully lurked over.
He quickly arrived at the scene of the fight, which still had some bloodstains and claw marks, and several traces of sword strokes were also clearly visible. Based on the scene of the fight, it should have been a Condensed True cultivator fighting a low-level demonic beast. As a result, the demonic beast had been killed and taken away.
After examining the traces nearby, Ning Cheng found the direction those two had left and followed them with extreme caution.
An incense stick later, Ning Cheng found that the traces he had followed had disappeared very abruptly, and it seemed that it was just ordinary woods in front of him.
Ning Cheng took a closer look at the surroundings and soon realised that this was a formation, it should be a near level three concealment formation. Ning Cheng was a level two formation master, and after studying this formation for just a moment, he understood what was going on.
In just less than ten breaths, Ning Cheng pa*sed through the formation and entered the large green and turquoise area, which almost made Ning Cheng think that he had arrived in a paradise.
Several beautiful looking wooden houses were built in the middle of the greenery, and in front of the greenery there was a bamboo forest, and in the bamboo forest there was a path, and at the end of the path was a large lake, and a dozen wild immortal cranes were still swimming around in the lake.
Where is this in the Daan Forest? This was clearly an out-of-this-world paradise. It was heaven and hell compared to the tree cave where he had lived at first.
A woman wearing a long green dress walked out of the wooden hut, she was carrying a bamboo basket in her hand, which also had some green wild vegetables inside. Ning Cheng hurriedly took a few quick steps and hid at the edge of the bamboo forest. From a distance, this woman’s cultivation level should be around the third level of True Condensation.
Ning Cheng could originally only see the side figure of this woman, and it was only when this green-skirted woman walked through the bamboo forest and arrived at the large lake that Ning Cheng got a clear look at her appearance.
In just an instant, Ning Cheng knew where he had heard the word Qi Hua before. The woman in front of him had eyes that were seven percent similar to his former fiancée, Ji Luofei, and not only that, but her face was also somewhat similar, only that Ji Luofei had been disfigured. Ning Cheng believed that if Ji Luofei had not been disfigured, they might have resembled each other even more.
The name Qi Hua was still something he had heard from Ji Luofei’s mouth, he remembered that Ji Luofei said that her father’s name was Ji Xuanzhang and her mother’s name was Xiong Qi Hua.
Ning Cheng was almost certain that this woman was Xiong Qihua, which was also Ji Luofei’s mother. Could it be that the man who had killed the demonic beast earlier was Ji Luofei’s father, Ji Xuanzhang? However, Ning Cheng’s intuition told him that that man was not Ji Xuanzhang.
Ning Cheng was shocked by his own thoughts, if that man was not Ji Xuanzhang, wouldn’t Xiong Qihua have stolen someone behind Ji Luofei’s father’s back? And he had even stayed in the Daan Forest.
He was aware that Ji Luofei’s parents had disappeared in the Da’an Forest and then her grandfather had brought her to the Cang Qin Kingdom. If this woman was Xiong Qihua, that meant that Ji Luofei’s mother hadn’t died at all. If she wasn’t dead, why didn’t she leave here and go to the Cang Qin Kingdom to look for her daughter?
After arriving at the lake, the green-skirted woman took out the green wild vegetables from her bamboo basket and threw them into the lake. Those immortal cranes floating in the lake swam over and began to snatch the wild vegetables.
“Qihua, there aren’t many wild crane vegetables left, wait for me to get a patch out and we’ll plant some more.” The man in the wooden hut came out and said from afar before he could approach the green-skirted woman.
It was just that his voice was low, making Ning Cheng sound extremely uncomfortable. However, when Ning Cheng saw the man’s looks, he was secretly admiring it in his heart. He was confident that he was not ugly, and was even somewhat handsome. However, when compared to this man, he found that he was really average looking. Ning Cheng had never seen anyone as handsome as this man in front of him, with a straight nose and bright eyes topped by eyebrows that were a little more beautiful than a woman’s. If it wasn’t for his voice, he would have been able to look at himself. If it wasn’t for his unpleasant voice, this man would simply be perfect.
The green-skirted woman called Qi Hua stood up with a faint smile, “Hong Wen, thank you.”
Sure enough, it was not Ji Luofei’s father, Ning Cheng said secretly in his heart. He knew that Ji Luofei’s father was called Ji Xuanzhang, definitely not some Hongwen.
“Qi Hua, you stayed in this Da’an Forest for me, what is this little thing that I, Zhu Hongwen, do for you. As long as I can make you happy in return, even if it costs me my little life, I won’t frown.” The handsome man called Zhu Hongwen said without hesitation.
The green-skirted woman hurriedly reached out to stop Zhu Hongwen’s words, and her hand had just reached out when she was wrapped into Zhu Hongwen’s arms.
Seeing that Zhu Hongwen’s hand was about to reach inside the green-skirted woman’s bodice, the green-skirted woman suddenly gasped and said, “Not here, it’s still daytime ……”
Zhu Hongwen kissed the green-skirted woman’s forehead and said softly, “It’s just the two of us here, even if we do something, we won’t ……”
“Who is it?” Zhu Hongwen suddenly let go of the green-skirted woman, while a flying sword appeared in his hand, then stared closely at the direction where Ning Cheng was.
Ning Cheng slowly stood up and secretly screamed in his heart that he was unlucky. Seeing his mother-in-law** was just as bad, but when he was trying to leave, he was even found out, what was this if not bad luck.
He did not want to stay here when he was sure that the woman in front of him was Xiong Qihua. In the future, if he could go to the Meteorite Academy and see Ji Luofei, he would tell Ji Luofei that her mother was in the Da’an Forest. Whether or not Ji Luofei’s mother was a red-headed woman, this was all a matter for the Ji family and had nothing to do with him in any way.
Although he had been discovered, Ning Cheng was not much afraid. The one called Zhu Hongwen was only a fourth level of True Condensation, he believed that even if he could not defeat the other party, he could still walk away.
“How did you get in?” When the green-skirted woman saw that someone had really come in, her face turned card white with a brush. Even her body began to tremble.
“Qi Hua, don’t be afraid, it’s just a Qi gathering brat, I’ll go and kill him.” Zhu Hongwen comforted the green-skirted woman and directly flew up to block Ning Cheng’s way out.
At this moment, he did not even talk nonsense to Ning Cheng, his body was overflowing with killing energy, and the flying sword in his hand was already attacking Ning Cheng with the powerful killing intent he emitted.
The sword aura stirred up several feet long and was far more powerful than when he had fought against that second level demonic beast before.
However, in Ning Cheng’s opinion, most of these sword mangles were flashy but not real, just like his previous sword mangles, which looked good but could only scare those who did not understand.
At the same time as the sword mangles came over, the remnant spear behind Ning Cheng’s back had already landed in his hand, and he also blasted out with a single shot.
The killing qi brought up by the residual spear instantly blasted Zhu Hongwen’s sword mane killing qi into pieces, and a breaking sound came directly in front of Zhu Hongwen after tearing apart the sword mane killing qi.
“Gun intent?” Zhu Hongwen’s soul straightened out, where did he expect a Qi gathering cultivator to be so terrifying, to have comprehended a hint of gun intent, was this cultivating gun techniques from his origins? Where else would a Qi gathering cultivator get the gun intent?
It turned out that this was not killing qi, it was gun intent, only then did Ning Cheng realise that the two killing qi he had comprehended were two types of killing intent. However, his hand was not slowing down at all, and his spear was about to hit Zhu Hongwen’s chest.
Zhu Hongwen’s chest suddenly dented and the flying sword in his hand appeared as if it had grown eyes on Ning Cheng’s spearhead.
“Ding” After a crisp sound that shook his heart, Ning Cheng and Zhu Hongwen simultaneously took several steps backwards.