Ning Cheng was also considered to be experienced in combat, he knew that his cultivation level was inferior to Zhu Hongwen’s, the longer the battle between the two dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be for him. He was now able to fight Zhu Hongwen on equal footing, and that was because his divine thoughts were a little more powerful than Zhu Hongwen’s.
Therefore, after being forced back by Zhu Hongwen’s true essence, Ning Cheng did not even hesitate and pounced again, while the spear in his hand had already transformed into twelve icy cold spear maces.
These twelve to ice-cold spear maces instantly formed a spear net, and the air around seemed to slow down in this icy cold, and the powerful ice-cold spear intent cooled Zhu Hongwen’s battle intent straight down.
Zhu Hongwen’s heart trembled, this was a Xuan-grade gun technique, and it was a Xuan-grade ice-based gun technique with gun intent. For someone to be able to perform an ice based spear technique to this extent, this person had a branch ice spirit root, if not a primary ice spirit root. He no longer understood whether Ning Cheng was a Qi Gathering cultivator or a True Condensation cultivator, and in the face of such a powerful gun technique from Ning Cheng, he could not block it at all without a defensive magic treasure, other than dodging.
Once he dodged, this powerful net of gun arrows would definitely follow him like a shadow, and even if he eventually escaped, he would still be seriously injured. This was because giving up resistance before this powerful Xuan Bing gun intent would only slow him down even more.
These thoughts flashed through Zhu Hongwen’s mind like lightning, and he made a timely judgement as the flying sword in his hand similarly transformed into a curtain of swords. He could not retreat, for if he did, he would not only be defeated, he might even be decapitated.
The sword curtain and the Xuan ice spear shadow blasted together, and there was a continuous sound of “ooh ……”.
There were also some clattering sounds among the whining sounds, as if the ice surface was being broken.
“Pffffffff ……” The Xuan ice gun mane blasted through the sword curtain directly, and several gun manes pa*sed through the sword curtain and blasted at Zhu Hongwen’s body, bringing up four or five arrows of blood. Zhu Hongwen was also blown away by Ning Cheng at the same time, but he was relieved instead, he had finally saved a life.
Ning Cheng was secretly amazed in his heart, this Zhu Hongwen did not seem to have the same level of cultivation as that Miao Lihu of Mango City, instead he was much stronger than Miao Lihu. The Thirty Six Xuan Bing Spear was already his most powerful spear technique, if the Thirty Six Xuan Bing Spear could not kill Zhu Hongwen, then he could only use the Seven Yao Ice Needle.
Ning Cheng did not dare to use the Seven Obsidian Ice Needles yet, as there was still a woman at the third level of True Condensation over there. The Seven Obsidian Ice Needles had the best sneak attack effect, but when it was known, the effect would be discounted. After all, his Seven Obsidian Ice Needles spell was far inferior to the Thirty-Six Xuan Ice Spears, and the Seven Obsidian Ice Needles relied entirely on divine thoughts.
When Zhu Hongwen was seriously injured, the spear in Ning Cheng’s hand did not even linger for a moment, as the spear aura converged and turned into a line of spears and continued to blast at Zhu Hongwen’s brow. This shot gathered killing intent, and even the surrounding bamboo was stirred by this killing intent and fell to the sides.
Ning Cheng was all too aware of the need to strike while the iron was hot.
Under Ning Cheng’s terrifying gun intent, the green-skirted woman with the white face had already reacted. She immediately flew up and at the same time, a circular shield appeared in her hand. She had never imagined that Ning Cheng, a Qi gathering cultivator, would be so strong to this extent. For a Qi gathering cultivator to kill a cultivator at the fourth level of Condensation, she had never even heard of it before.
“Ka ……”
Ning Cheng’s gun mane, which did not hide any of his killing intent, blasted against the green-skirted woman’s round shield, making a general sound like an explosion.
The powerful true essence power reverberated back, and Ning Cheng’s spear mane with powerful killing intent was completely scattered by the round shield, and soon disappeared into thin air.
Ning Cheng once again took several steps backwards, shocked in his heart. He had likewise not expected that this woman’s cultivation level was one level lower than Zhu Hongwen’s, while her strike was instead one level more powerful than Zhu Hongwen’s. Ning Cheng’s heart sank as he had slowly retreated towards the edge of the formation. It was pointless for him to continue fighting, if he was stopped by these two people with their full strength, he really might not be able to walk away.
It was as if the woman knew that Ning Cheng was going to leave, and the first time she had already blocked Ning Cheng’s path, while five flying swords began to surround her.
“Hong Wen, help me kill him.” The green-skirted woman was completely devoid of the kind of serenity she had before, at this moment, she only had calmness and killing intent in her eyes.
Zhu Hongwen didn’t even need to be reminded by this woman, he had already forcibly stopped his injuries and was staring at Ning Cheng like a hungry wolf, looking at the madness in his eyes, Ning Cheng knew that this man was ready to fight for his life.
For someone who could control five flying swords, his divine thoughts were definitely stronger than his, so where would Ning Cheng have the idea to continue to dwell on it. The spear in his hand was raised and he said sarcastically, “Xiong Qihua, you are stealing a man behind your husband’s back and hiding here, so you must be very free and happy, right? Poor Ji Xuanzhang is blind to have married a woman like you. Maybe he has already been killed by you and your adulterous husband. For Ji Luofei’s sake, I won’t bother with you today, someone will seek revenge on you.”
When the green-skirted woman heard Ning Cheng’s words, she immediately froze like a wooden chicken, her face once again as if it was a white sheet of paper, even the five flying swords that were spinning around her fell down helplessly. There was only one thing in her heart, how did this person know who she was and how did he know what she had done? What the hell was going on?
No wonder she didn’t understand, she had been living here for over ten years. And Ning Cheng seemed to be less than twenty, how could he possibly know about her family’s affairs?
What made her even more alarmed was that Ning Cheng said it was for the sake of Ji Luofei, so obviously this person was not very close to Ji Luofei.
While Green Dress was still baffled and panicked, Ning Cheng had already brought up a streak of shadow and rushed past her, and was far away in an instant.
In fact, when the green-skirted woman was in a daze just now, Ning Cheng had the opportunity to kill her. Ning Cheng had really spared Xiong Qihua’s life for the sake of Ji Luofei.
Although Zhu Hongwen was also shocked by Ning Cheng’s words, he was already seriously injured and could only watch Ning Cheng go far away, not having the ability to stop Ning Cheng in half.
“Who is he, and how does he know about me? How does he know about Concubine Luo? Is Fei Luo okay now?” Xiong Qihua was still mumbling, his face becoming increasingly pale and frightening.
Zhu Hongwen stood to the side and said in a soft comforting voice, “From this mouth, surely Consort Luo is doing well, Qihua, you don’t need to worry about it ……”
Xiong Qihua acted as if he hadn’t heard Zhu Hongwen’s words, and after muttering to himself for a while, he suddenly raised his head and said, “I want to go out, I want to go see Concubine Luo.”
After saying that she also said to herself, “If this person goes and talks to Fei Luo about me, about me ……”
Zhu Hongwen sighed, he knew what Xiong Qihua had in mind. If her daughter thought her mother had killed her father and was hiding in the Daan Forest with her adulterer, what would her daughter do? Would she recognise her as her mother? Probably she would immediately draw her sword against her, right?
“I have a way to make Luo Fei not believe his words.” Zhu Hongwen said in a low voice.
“What solution?” Xiong Qihua looked at Zhu Hongwen with wide eyes, speaking in a slightly urgent tone, and his pale face even had a hint of redness on it.
“If you see Consort Luo, whether or not Consort Luo already knows about this, you need to take the first step to tell her that this person has taken advantage of someone’s danger to you ……”
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After Ning Cheng rushed out of the formation, he found that those two people did not catch up and slowed down his pace. In the Daan Forest, he was not afraid of Xiong Qihua and Zhu Hongwen joining forces at all. He believed that the two did not dare to chase after them either, and once he had triggered the high-level demonic beasts, he could just walk away and these two would still be here permanently.
After leaving this area, Ning Cheng quickened his pace. He decided to go to the Waki Continent to search and see if he could find a True Condensation Pill to advance to the True Condensation Realm. When a True Condensation Realm cultivator could use his divine sense as freely as he could, Ning Cheng reckoned that even if he had two ice spells together, he wouldn’t necessarily be able to beat them. Xiong Qihua was such a True Condensation cultivator. (Previously, I had been misspelling True Condensation Pill as Qi Gathering Pill, apologies again.)
Even if a Qi gathering practitioner is powerful, there are still some essential differences between him and a True Condensation practitioner. The strength of a True Condensation practitioner is true essence, while that of a Qi gathering practitioner is true qi, and this strength is obvious.
Ning Cheng knew that the real watershed in cultivation was not the Qi gathering and True Condensation realms, but the Yuan building realm. It was only after reaching the Yuan Building Realm that one could truly forge the foundation and become a cultivator.
Ning Cheng sped up his speed while practising his Thirty-six Xuan Bing Spears all the way. If he could not raise his cultivation in the short term, he had to use means to make up for it.
What was originally a month’s journey had taken Ning Cheng less than a month to complete. When Ning Cheng looked up and once again saw a blue sky and an empty wilderness, he let out a long breath. More than two months of trekking through the forest had come to an end, and this should be the land of the Waki Continent.
Even though this was still the edge of the Da’an Forest, the edge of the Waki Continent, Ning Cheng could already feel that the spiritual energy here was much better than that of the Ping Continent.
Ning Cheng tidied up his things and carefully wrapped the remnants of his spear on his back and carried it again before he prepared to launch his flying sword and leave the edge of the Da’an Forest.
A grey figure scurried out more than two hundred metres away from Ning Cheng, closely followed by a wolf demon that Ning Cheng had killed too many times. After rushing out of the edge of the Da’an Forest, the wolf demon seemed to feel that the outside was dangerous for it and gave up chasing after the grey figure, turning around and entering the Da’an Forest again.
This was a young boy wearing a grey cultivator’s uniform, he seemed to know that the wolf demon would not continue to chase him, and after rushing out of the Da’an Forest, he did not continue to run away, but walked towards Ning Cheng’s side.
Seeing this, Ning Cheng did not continue to sacrifice his flying sword either, as he also wanted to ask for directions.
The youngster who came over looked to be about his age and was also at the ninth level of Qi gathering cultivation. It was just that he had a beard on his face, which made him look a bit old and mature. This young man’s face was white and beardless, and his body carried a faint smell of blood. A distinct scar on his face accentuated his fierceness as if it were not there.
Ning Cheng had spent almost a year in the Da’an Forest, and this faint blood murderous aura was felt by him as soon as he came into contact with it. He was certain that this youngster had definitely not spent a short time in the Da’an Forest and was a murderous and decisive person.
“My name is Tai Shu Shi, I have been seeking a living in this area of the Da’an Forest, my friend is somewhat familiar, could it be that you have only just arrived?” This grey-clothed teenager looked extremely sociable, and came over and took the initiative to greet him with a smile on his face.