When Ning Cheng thought about how he had passed through so many statues before, some fear rose in his heart. $. These statues could make a move, if he happened to be standing next to a statue and that statue made a move on him, how could he dodge it?
Knowing that these statues were capable of making a sneak attack, Ning Cheng tried to avoid getting close to the statues as much as possible when he was moving. He was not interested in figuring out what was going on, his cultivation level was already average, and he would be thanking the heavens if he could defend himself when he entered this place.
“Fellow Daoist Ning ……” Just as Ning Cheng wanted to leave this land of statues, a faint call came from him.
Ning Cheng was very familiar with this voice and he immediately turned back, and then he saw a statue that was different from the surrounding area. When he looked at this statue clearly, he was shocked in some disbelief and said, “Brother Song?”
This statue was surprisingly Song Chengbo, and somewhat different from the other statues, the skin on Song Chengbo’s hands and merely flushed with a burst of grey, and did not completely turn into the grey-black colour of the statue. Moreover, the skin on Song Chengbo’s face still had some blood on it, which completely distinguished it from the other clay statues.
“Brother Song, what’s going on with you?” Although Ning Cheng was asking Song Chengbo, he had already vaguely guessed some of the reasons in his heart.
Song Chengbo’s voice became weaker and weaker, “I don’t have time, do me a favour ……”
“Wait ……” Ning Cheng knew that Song Chengbo was explaining the aftermath, he called out to Song Chengbo, “Can I save you in your condition?”
“I have two Spirit Transformation Vines inside my ring that can dissolve the assimilation of the aura in my body……” Song Chengbo did not continue to explain, but revealed an earnest gaze and said, “I am too late. This Spirit Transformation Vine is for you. Carry a message for me ……”
Song Chengbo said this. Because he was too weak, he really could not go on, and even his eyes were closed. And at this time the colour of his hands became darker and darker, and even his face became more gray. As for the rosy colour on his face, it had completely disappeared by now.
Ning Cheng raised his hand and took Song Chengbo’s ring in his hand, and his divine sense stab quickly broke through Song Chengbo’s ring ban. Song Chengbo’s cultivation level was higher than Ning Cheng’s, but his formation and divine sense were not necessarily stronger than Ning Cheng’s. Ning Cheng easily broke the ban on his ring and opened Song Chengbo’s ring.
Ning Cheng knew why Song Chengbo did not allow himself to use the Spirit Transformation Vine to save him. It was because he a worried that he would not do so. When faced with a Heavenly Realm powerhouse dying, others would only think of occupying the ring of this Heavenly Realm powerhouse, who would go and save him? Secondly, he also knew that he could not open the ring of a Heavenly Realm powerhouse. How could one open the ring without even having divine sense in it? Even if one had divine sense, a Heavenly Plane Realm powerhouse’s ring was not something that a Heavenly Fate Realm cultivator could open in a short time.
But obviously he did not know Ning Cheng at all, he did not know that Ning Cheng could easily open his ring, and he also did not know that Ning Cheng would save him.
Even if he had never seen the Spirit Transformation Vine before, as a rank six Star River Dan King, Ning Cheng easily found the Spirit Transformation Vine in Song Chengbo’s ring.
The Spirit Transformation Vine was indeed two stalks. Ning Cheng took out one Spirit Transformation Vine and raised his hand to melt it into several drops of spirit liquid. It was sent into Song Chengbo’s mouth across the air.
In just a few breaths, Ning Cheng was shocked to see Song Chengbo’s already sculpted body slowly soften up. The grey colour on his face gradually faded away and the blood colour appeared on his face once again. That grey receded from his face downwards and soon extended to his hands. The grey on his hands also rapidly diminished, as if the ice had melted.
Song Chengbo opened his eyes, a hint of surprise and gratitude flashed across his eyes, obviously he knew that Ning Cheng had fed him the spirit liquid of the Spirit Transformation Vine to take. Words of gratitude were not for this time, as he hurriedly closed his eyes while performing the Circumlocution.
With Song Chengbo’s active cooperation, the grey colour of his body receded even faster. An incense stick later, Song Chengbo reopened his eyes, while letting out a long breath and standing up.
The recovered Song Chengbo bowed to Ning Cheng and said, “Brother Ning, thank you for saving my life, without you, I, Song Chengbo, would have been finished.”
Ning Cheng smiled and returned Song Chengbo’s ring to him once again and said, “Brother Song, we are friends, so it would be out of place to say thank you. Just what is this all about? You were actually almost assimilated into a sculpture? And why did you put it in the ring if you had the Spirit Transformation Vine?”
Ning Cheng did have some trouble figuring out, since Song Chengbo could not use his divine sense, wouldn’t it be useless to put the Spirit Transformation Vine in the ring?
Song Chengbo sighed, “Brother Ning, we will talk about this later. My greatest luck, Song Chengbo, is that I have met an open and honest friend like Brother Ning. I won’t say anything else, in the future, if Brother Ning has any drives, just give me an order, I definitely won’t say a word.”
Not only did Ning Cheng not covet his ring, but he had saved him instead, which could be said to be more gracious than heaven in this cruel place. What’s more, it was he himself who intended to leave the ring to Ning Cheng, it was just that his last words had not come in time to say them.
Ning Cheng waved his hand, “Brother Song is out of place, tell us about the sculptures here, are all these sculptures turned into cultivators?”
Song Chengbo nodded gravely, “That’s right, these sculptures were all transformed by the cultivators who came here. But most of them are sculptures of death, like a cultivator like me. If Brother Ning doesn’t save me, I will be completely transformed into a sculpture statue and will not wake up again. Those statues that can still attack people are all strong individuals with supreme cultivation, and these strong individuals may have been sculpted for countless years and still be able to attack an approaching opponent.”
Ning Cheng sucked in a cold breath, even with Song Chengbo’s cultivation level at the Heavenly Position Realm, he had turned into a statue and gone up in smoke. Those statues after countless years of experience could still attack people with their hands, what kind of cultivation level should this be? Were they all strong above Eternity?
“No wonder Brother Ning can barge through the void alone and can still use his divine sense outside of the Fallen Star Temple, at least I’ve never seen that before. This Temple of Fallen Stars is actually also called the Temple of Falling Stars, and this place is merely the outer edge of the Temple of Fallen Stars. To the uninitiated cultivators, the most dangerous thing here might be the spatial wind blades, in fact the most dangerous thing here are those clay statues. If Brother Ning hadn’t stepped in, I would have been finished.”
Song Chengbo was still grateful to Ning Cheng, if Ning Cheng was his teammate and saved him like that, there was still a slight possibility, while Ning Cheng was merely a passerby he had only just met.
Ning Cheng smiled, “Such a trivial matter, Brother Song need not put it to heart. Is it true that whoever those statues attacked, then whoever might assimilate into a statue?”
“Yes, but it’s not that you will sculpt if you are attacked, but if you are attacked and made to see blood, you will definitely sculpt. Once you are attacked by a sculpted statue, you must take out the Spirit Transformation Vine at the first opportunity to take it, otherwise you will not be saved. I originally had a total of four spirit-transforming vines, and I put two of them outside, but they were assassinated by a villain …… Alas, let’s not talk about that.” Song Chengbo replied still a little afraid.
Ning Cheng guessed that something had happened between him and his teammates, to which Ning Cheng did not ask. He was about to ask about the situation inside the Fallen Star Temple when Song Chengbo took the initiative to say, “The Statue Shattering Beach is only the outermost edge of the Fallen Star Temple, there is also the Wooden Forest after going in further. The last time I obtained a Mahabharata Heavenly Fruit, it was at the outer edge of the Wooden Forest. Brother Ning, you must not go into the Wooden Forest. Even if you have divine sense, you can just roam around the periphery, going in is certain to kill you.”
Puzzled, Ning Cheng asked, “Brother Song, isn’t that Wood Transformation Forest just like this Statue Shattering Beach, where one’s entire body will be wooded as soon as one gets entangled in the wood attribute stuff inside?”
Song Chengbo’s face was even more grave, “That’s right, and that Wooden Forest is different from the Statue Shattering Beach. The statues here are not very dense, and there are even fewer statues that actively attack. But in the wooded forest, there is vegetation everywhere, and if you are not careful, you will be swept up and never be able to get away again. As long as you can’t get away, in a dozen or so breaths you will be turned into a log, and the Spirit Transformation Vine is ineffective against wood transformation. You’ll be able to meet the Mahabharata Heavenly Fruit sooner or later if you roam the outskirts of the Wood Transformation Forest.”
“Thanks to Brother Pine for reminding me, otherwise I might have really fallen for it.” Ning Cheng was overcome with emotion, saving others was saving oneself, there was really some truth to this statement. Otherwise, if he had barged headlong into the Wood Transformation Forest, where would he still be alive?
Song Chengbo returned the Spirit Transformation Vine that Ning Cheng had given him to Ning Cheng and said, “Brother Ning, I am going out, this Spirit Transformation Vine is also something that I found outside the Wood Transformation Forest in the first place, you can take it or you can still use it.”
“Brother Song is not going to continue to go in?” Ning Cheng asked.
Song Chengbo shook his head, “I’m not going in, the thing I’m looking for has already been taken by someone else, there’s no point in me going in again.”
Ning Cheng did not continue to say more, if Song Chengbo did not go in, then he would go in alone and take a look.
“Brother Ning, before I leave, I have some experience to tell you.” Song Chengbo took the initiative to say to Ning Cheng, “Firstly, you should not think that the statues here are only useful for sneaking up on cultivators and making people muddied, in fact, some of the statues here are very valuable. This is because the statue may have been a divine power in his lifetime, and his muddied statue contains powerful divine laws which can be sensed by others. There are also statues that on the surface look like all his stuff is gone; in fact, much of it is hidden by them in their bodies.”
“Thanks to Brother Song for reminding me.” Ning Cheng knew that in this, there were some knowledge that could not be bought.
Song Chengbo pointed to the distance, “The Second Wooded Forest is the nearest jungle of trees to the Fallen Star Temple, once you pass through the Wooded Forest, it is possible to enter the Fallen Star Temple. I heard that inside the Temple of Fallen Stars, there are countless starry sky wondrous treasures. However, your cultivation level is still a little too low right now, so I suggest you don’t hit the Fallen Star Temple for now.
“Take care of yourself, I’m leaving. By the way, when you go out, you don’t need to care about the direction, just keep going along the way you came and you will eventually be able to walk out of those two giant pillars again. I’m going to settle the score with that villain, and if I don’t die, we can meet again in Eternal Night City.” After Song Chengbo finished speaking, he gave Ning Cheng a fist hug and quickly retreated.