Valen said with a clasp of his fist, “Brother Cheng, you are proficient in formations, we all listen to you now. We will do whatever you say.”
As soon as Valen spoke, Yu Wanxue and the others came up and said that they would listen to Ning Cheng. They heard the sounds outside getting louder and louder, and even if the cultivators outside did not know the formation, they should break the formation soon according to this kind of attack. The few people from Valen were obviously worried that before they could break the formation in front of them, the cultivators outside had already attacked in.
Ning Cheng didn’t say any nonsense and said directly, “In that case, then I will not be polite. Everyone, look at the position where I drop my formation flags, once I drop them, I will immediately focus on attacking.”
This formation, despite being somewhat dilapidated, Ning Cheng knew that it would be impossible for him to blast it open in a short period of time. If he wanted to enter this formation gate in the shortest possible time, then he would have to do it the hard way.
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As Ning Cheng dropped one of his formation flags, all five people’s magic treasures focused their attacks on the same spot. If Ning Cheng was alone, it would take at least half a day to blast a gap in this formation to get in. Now with five people attacking at the same time, in just over an hour, a gap was blasted open.
Ning Cheng was the first to dodge in, while calling out, “Hurry up and enter, this formation can automatically recover, it will soon recover ……”
There was no need for Ning Cheng to greet him at all, as several other people had long since dodged and entered.
As soon as Ning Cheng passed through this formation door, he felt a dense aura of star energy, the star energy around him was not much worse than if he had used the Eternal Hope Pill to cultivate. The only difference was that the Star Yuan Qi here was not as pure as using the Yongwang Dan.
In front of him was still a black stone path, and on both sides of the green stone path were many houses. Ning Cheng’s divine sense swept into a few random houses and basically, they all had something.
It was either the tail feathers of a Wind and Fire Crow, some Daoist magic treasures, and some fire attribute materials. There were even a few houses with red crow fire.
A few of Valen’s people also drew in a cold breath, there were just too many good things in here. But several people looked towards Ning Cheng, after all, without Ning Cheng they would not be able to enter at all.
Ning Cheng secretly nodded his head in his heart, if these few people had simply grabbed them regardless once they arrived, he would not hesitate to grab the most. With his divine sense and means, he could choose the best thing in the shortest amount of time.
But these few people, despite the eagerness and searing heat in their eyes. Still, they did not rush to seek his opinion as an Immortal Realm cultivator.
“Brother Cheng, you are the one who brought everyone in here, I still say the same thing. We’ll do whatever you say.” It was still Valen who was the first to speak, not disregarding Ning Cheng’s feelings in the slightest just because his cultivation level was inferior.
Ning Cheng nodded, “The formation gate on the left is definitely a fake. Those cultivators on the left are talking a good game, once they don’t get something when they go in, they will inevitably come over here to grab it the first time. So let’s grab what’s here as fast as we can. Let’s all move individually, whoever gets it is the one who gets it.”
“Good.” Several people were satisfied with Ning Cheng’s words and felt that this cultivator who was temporarily cooperating with them was very generous.
The few people from Valen quickly selected their targets and rushed over, quickly entering the rooms they had chosen long ago. Ning Cheng did not enter these rooms, but directly disappeared into the far side of the Black Stone Road.
There were divine sense prohibitions in here as well, and Valen and the others’ divine sense could only sweep less than a thousand metres at most. Ning Cheng’s divine sense, on the other hand, directly saw the end of this black stone dao. At the end of this black dao, there was likewise a large door.
The folding gate was much thicker and heavier than those room gates next to it, and an ancient and vicissitudes aura was emanating from the gate. Ning Cheng was sure that inside this gate was the real good stuff.
If Valen and the others wanted to take things for themselves, Ning Cheng would not hesitate to sweep away most of the rooms in front of him, while he would not give up the things in the hall at the end to others. Now that Valen and the others were all very righteous, Ning Cheng simply gave up the outside room to the four of them, and he himself went to the innermost gate.
Standing at the entrance of the gate, Ning Cheng immediately knew that this gate was not something that he could open with his abilities. Unless he had the ability to destroy the planet. Even if he had the ability to destroy the planet, he might not be able to get the contents inside the gate intact.
This gate’s protective formation was beyond the realm of strong breakage. Moreover, the protective formation had not been destroyed in the slightest. Not only that, the material of the gate was also made of something that Ning Cheng could not even recognise as being refined.
However, at the corners of this gate, there was a place where jade plates were inlaid. It must be this place that was the key to truly opening this gate.
Ning Cheng raised his hand and took out the stone platform that he had collected earlier. With a shake of his hand, the stone platform split into pieces, and a jade slip and a jade token fell into Ning Cheng’s hand.
Ning Cheng’s divine sense swept into the jade slip, which seemed to contain a method for Flame Nirvana. Ning Cheng did not care and threw the jade slip into his ring while setting the jade token in the recess of the main door.
Originally, Ning Cheng was not sure if this jade token was the thing that opened this gate. After he inlaid the jade token in, the gate made a creaking sound, followed by a gap slowly opening, and Ning Cheng knew he had done it right.
This was indeed the jade token that opened this gate, Ning Cheng raised his hand and grabbed the fallen jade token, and dodged into the gate. This gate slowly closed once again after Ning Cheng entered.
What caught his eye was a hall, with a huge dan pond in the middle of the hall. Ning Cheng was all too familiar with this kind of Dan Pond, he had seen such a Dan Pond back in the Time Desolate Domain. Back then, the Dan Pond was full of Eternal Hope Pills, and he alone had obtained almost half of them. However, this Dan Pond was more than a few times larger than the Dan Pond in the Time Desolate Domain.
Unfortunately, the Dan Pond was dry and there wasn’t a single Dan in it.
Around the Dan Pond was an altar, and it was only when Ning Cheng walked up to the altar that he could see clearly that there was a line on the altar, “Whoever wishes to gain my mantle must be a disciple of the Demon Sect. If you are recognized, you will receive the mantle. Otherwise, all will perish.”
Ning Cheng was speechless, it was only an inheritance, and he had to sacrifice the blood of a demon cultivator. He had to call out Chasing Ox and pointed to the altar and said, “Chasing Ox, here is your chance, Daoist Crow wants you to put a drop of blood before you can get the treasure.”
“Master, leave this to me, I, Old Ox, am the best at it.” Chasing Ox had already forced out a drop of blood to fall on the altar as he spoke.
Ning Cheng believed that Chasing Ox’s blood would definitely be attached to the request, if Chasing Wind and Sky Qi’s blood didn’t work, then Old Crow’s request was too high.
Sure enough, after just a few breaths, a red aura emanated from around the altar, and then a shadow appeared in front of Chasing Bull and Ning Cheng.
The shadow stared at Ning Cheng and said coldly, “You, a human cultivator, dare to covet something of my Crow Daoist.”
Ning Cheng clasped his fist without being condescending and said, “As a starry sky cultivator, or as a Dao-accredited cultivator, you are still torn between human cultivators and demon cultivators, I really wonder how you have acceded to the Dao. All beings are equal, when the heavens were opened up, who knew about human and demon? It is sad.”
The Void Shadow was silent for a long time surprisingly ignoring the matter of Ning Cheng being a human cultivator, but instead said in a gruff voice, “Inherit my mantle, you must help me retrieve this. Then retrieve the Fire Origin Pearl, and all the things in the ten-mile radius of the Fire Origin Pearl, for me.”
Ning Cheng and Chasing Ox both knew what the Crow Daoist was talking about, and Ning Cheng naturally would not agree. Instead, Chasing Ox hurriedly said, “As long as the stuff is obtained by my Old Ox, I will definitely bring it back to you.”
How could the Void Shadow not know the tricks of Ning Cheng and Chasing Ox, he sighed and surprisingly did not say anything else, and after just a breath, the Void Shadow dispersed and disappeared.
A ring then appeared on top of the altar, obviously acquiescing to the matter.
“Master, that Crow Daoist was surprisingly rendered speechless by you. He doesn’t even know that all beings are equal, hehehe ……” Chasing Ox hastened to patronise him on the side.
Ning Cheng shook his head, “No, he should know that he can’t help us even now. That’s why he retreated.”
Just now Ning Cheng was talking nonsense, as for all that equality of all beings and stuff, it was all nonsense stuff. If the Crow Daoist was so easily fooled, then he wouldn’t be a Dao-accredited cultivator. He should have been so helpless that he retreated.
Ning Cheng raised his hand and grabbed this ring, and his divine sense swept in. This ring did not have any prohibitions, and Ning Cheng’s divine sense was not blocked in any way.
When Ning Cheng saw what you had, he was completely stunned. One had to admire the wealth of the Crow Daoist, this was just a legacy left behind.
A pile of merit jade slips, followed by a pile of pills sealed by a ban, then magical treasures, and then a pile of tail feathers of top grade Wind and Fire Crows, each of which was something that could not be bought.
The Red Crow Flame was even sealed with three of them, and Ning Cheng casually swept through these three Red Crow Flames and knew that they were far too high quality than the Red Crow Flames he had seen before.
What surprised Ning Cheng the most was the pile of Eternal Hope Pills, before the Dan Pond dried up, Ning Cheng was still a little disappointed in his heart. This pile of Eternal Hope Pills, Ning Cheng had initially estimated that there were at least ten million of them. No wonder there were no Yongwang Dan outside, they had all been received here by this old crow.
Ning Cheng’s expected Everlasting Hope Pills were not seen, which he thought was normal. With the Crow Daoist’s cultivation level, the Eternal Hope Pill might not have a great effect on him, but the Constant Element Pill was effective for him. Something that would be beneficial to himself, he naturally would not leave it to an inherited disciple that he had not even met face to face.
Ning Cheng had just put the ring away when the altar cracked open. In the middle of the cracked altar, there was another row of words, “The greatest enemy in my life is Bai Zi Ting, whoever gains my mantle, this person will be your strongest enemy in the future. You will never be a match for this man until you have attained the Dao, remember that. The jade token that opens this door is my enlightenment.”
When he heard that the jade token was the Dao enlightenment, Ning Cheng immediately swept his divine sense into the jade token. What he could see was nothing more than the material of the jade token.
Ning Cheng pulled the jade token in a daze, how could this dao enlightenment be engraved to the rest of the people? If he wanted to divide it up, there was only one jade token, so who should he give it to?
After sweeping his divine sense through the hall again and making sure that there was nothing, Ning Cheng let Chasing Ox enter the True Spirit World before opening the door again.