After the Starry Sky Wheel had flown for an hour, Ning Cheng had already determined that the place he was in was not a void gap between interfaces. He should be in between the stars, and as to whether he was still in the original interface Ning Cheng was not sure.
However, Ning Cheng did not continue flying and stopped the Starry Sky Wheel instead.
After experiencing these things, he was even more aware of his inadequacies in his heart, and he had to raise his cultivation level again.
Right now, he had some cultivation resources on him, but unfortunately, he did not have the means to set up the kind of Time Grand Formation that Cang Wei had mentioned. Otherwise, how good it would be to set up a Time Grand Formation and cultivate for ten years inside the Time Grand Formation, while outside it would only be equivalent to one year passing. Even if he was now a rank seven Imperial Formation Master, he was still a hundred thousand miles away from setting up a time formation.
Luckily, he still had the Xuanhuang Pearl, and cultivating in the Xuanhuang Pearl was much faster than cultivating outside.
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Half a month later, Ning Cheng set up several shielding formations deep in a remnant star in the void and entered the Xuanhuang Pearl to begin his cultivation.
Ning Cheng knew very well that even if he set up more shielding formations, if a great power approached him at a certain distance, he would still be discovered. He was also helpless, who had let his Xuanhuang Pearl still lack the Wood Origin Pearl. He couldn’t care less about that now, time was too important to him. Moreover, with his current cultivation level, even if he was discovered by the Eternal Realm, he could still walk away from it with ease.
It was true that he, a middle Heavenly Realm, was not worth mentioning to some great powers. But he, Ning Cheng, was no longer the cricket that was not even at the Heavenly Places, even if the Eternal Realm’s Starry Sky Emperor wanted what he had, he would have to give his life in exchange.
After setting up the formation, Ning Cheng did not immediately start cultivating. He began to sort out the things he had in his hands. He had two rings of Eternal Realm Starry Sky Emperors. One was one that he had picked up at the Shui Clan. The other one belonged to the Xiang Yi Chamber of Commerce, Zhu Zhenfeng.
The ring of the Eternal Realm cultivator picked up by the Shui Family had quite a lot of things, apart from a bunch of good refining materials and spirit herbs for alchemy, there were also two extremely high quality starry sky warships. For a cultivator of this level, there were not many purple coins instead, the most that could be found were a bunch of Eternal Hope Pills and Constant Element Pills. In this ring, Ning Cheng had obtained millions of Yongwang Dan and over a million Heng Yuan Dan.
This level of wealth could only be considered average for an Eternal Realm cultivator, but for Ning Cheng. Yet, it was a great harvest.
However, these things were simply not enough compared to the ring of Zhu Zhenfeng of the Aioi Chamber of Commerce. Not only were the refining materials in Zhu Zhenfeng’s ring ten times more, but they were also of a much higher grade.
These were not what Ning Cheng valued the most, what Ning Cheng valued the most was that the Heng Yuan Pills in Zhu Zhenfeng’s ring were nearly ten million, and the Yong Wang Pills were even as much as one hundred million. Even though Ning Cheng had given two pots of Mo Xiang Yi to Bao Xi, there were still more than ten pots of Mo Xiang Yi wine inside.
Ning Cheng did not know whether the Acacia Wine in Zhu Zhenfeng’s ring was real or not, and he did not care. Even if all the Acacia Wine in Zhu Zhenfeng’s ring was fake, he still had a barrel of real wine.
What surprised Ning Cheng even more was that. He had found a fist-sized Extreme Star Core. The Extreme Star Core, also known as Star Core Inferno, was the core of a fire attribute planet. Not every fire-attribute planet had a Pole Star Core. But to obtain the Extreme Star Core, one had to destroy and refine a fire-attribute planet, which was a good thing that could allow a Nirvana Grade 3 flame to advance to a Starry Sky Grade 4 flame. Unfortunately, his Star River Flame was not yet in Nirvana and its rank was too low to use at the moment.
Putting the Polar Star Core away, Ning Cheng had no more worries and entered the Xuanhuang Pearl to begin his closed-door cultivation.
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Over Snow City.
This is a city on the planet Kun Zhuo Xinghe Muia.
Muia Star was the main star of the Kun Zhuo Star River, and back then Ning Cheng had come to Muia Star in order to search for his sister Ruo Lan. However, the city that Ning Cheng went to was Kun Cheng, the first city of Muia Star, and he also stayed in Kun Cheng for a few months.
Compared to Kun City, Over Snow City was not really a big city in Muia Star, it could only be considered a small city in the middle of nowhere. It was also located at the edge of Muia Star. This city is covered in snow all year round, hence the name Snow City.
In the eastern part of the city, there is a very famous bridge called the East Gate Bridge. The East Gate Bridge spans over a river that runs the length of the city, dividing it into two halves: the east and the west.
The eastern side, where starry sky Yuan Qi is scarce, is where general cultivators and casual cultivators live, while the western side, where starry sky Yuan Qi is dense, is where some sect forces, or wealthier cultivators, live in Over-Snow City.
Don’t look at the lack of starry sky Yuan Qi on the east side, but it is still an inch of gold in Over Snow City.
In the eastern city, a few kilometres from the bridge at the eastern gate, there was a relatively small restaurant, which was called the City Ruo Lan Restaurant.
It is called the City Ruo Lan Restaurant, but in fact there are only three people in the restaurant: the restaurant’s owner, Helian Ming Zhi, his granddaughter, Helian Dai, and a helper, Ning Ruo Lan.
Despite the small size of the restaurant, many casual practitioners are willing to come here to drink. The main reason was that the wine in this restaurant was inexpensive and good value, and a hundred blue coins could buy a very good pot of wine.
Apparently, the name of this restaurant was given by Ning Cheng’s sister, Ning Ruolan. The reason why Ning Ruo Lan had given this name was also because she was afraid that in case Ning Cheng found his way here.
According to her thoughts, she wanted to get a shop in Kuncheng, but unfortunately, the prices in Kuncheng were too high and she simply could not afford to pay the price.
She then tried to get a shop in a city near Kuncheng, but she could not afford to pay the price. In the end, she had to come to Over Snow City. It was a good thing that although Snow City was remote, it was still on the planet Muia.
She was not the only one who came to Kuncheng with Ning Ruolan, there were also Rui Baishan, Lou Ziyan, Que Hongshui, Tai Shu Pinghao, Meng Jingxiu, Xian Caixue and others. Because Ning Ruo Lan insisted on staying at Muasin to wait for her brother Ning Cheng, she was convinced that he would find Muasin to come.
In the beginning, the crowd was also willing to wait with Ning Ruo Lan. But then Rui Bai Shan disappeared and the rest of them felt that there was no future in continuing to stay here. By the time Ning Ruo Lan arrived at Over Snow City, everyone began to separate and go their separate ways.
Ning Ruo Lan was left alone in Over Snow City, but later befriended Helian Dai and followed her to her family’s tiny restaurant. Because Ning Ruo Lan was good at running the business, she soon helped double the profits of the restaurant and won the trust of Helian Dai and her grandfather Helian Ming Zhi.
In the end, the restaurant, which had no name, was named the City Ruo Lan Restaurant by Ning Ruo Lan, and mainly operated for the not-so-rich casual cultivators.
But today, the City Ruo Lan Restaurant, which opens on time every day, was tightly closed.
Inside the restaurant, a man with a sickly face had a sad look on his face.
“These people are so shameless, we’ve had this restaurant here for over a hundred years, and now that a secret realm is out in the eastern city of Over Snow City, everyone is coming. Let’s just not move and see what they can do to our City Ruo Lan Tavern?” A green-skirted woman sitting on the right was full of anger.
The man with a sickly face knew that his granddaughter was speaking in anger, he sighed and turned his gaze to the yellow-skirted woman on his left and asked, “Ruo Lan, what do you think?”
The clear woman in the yellow dress on the left was none other than Ning Ruo Lan who had been brought to the Yixing Continent by Ning Cheng, she had stayed in Over Snow City for many years just to wait for her brother to find her. She also knew that with her current cultivation level of only Nian Xing, it would be absolutely impossible for her to search for her brother Ning Cheng in the vast universe.
This was not Earth, but an endless starry universe.
Ning Ruolan hesitated for a moment and said, “Grandpa Helian, Senior Sister Dai, we have to go. If we continue to stay here, I’m afraid that the three of us won’t even know how we’ll die.”
The sickly man nodded and said to the green-skirted female cultivator, “Di, Ruo Lan is right, we must leave. You and Ruo Lan are both only at Nian Xing cultivation, and I am only at Guxing Xing. Besides, I’m still injured. Anyone else can eat us up if they come with a Juxing cultivator, let alone someone from the Ji family. Not only will we not be able to protect our restaurant if we stay here, we will also be in danger of losing our lives.”
“But, but ……” Helian Dai said several buts one after another with a resigned look on her face, but she couldn’t find the words to argue. She knew that sister Ruo Lan and grandfather were right, they had to go.
Ning Ruo Lan knew of Helian Dai’s reluctance, and she sighed, “This time, the Secret Realm of the Phantom Shadow Sanctuary suddenly appeared, and it’s not far from Over Snow City. I suspect there will definitely be many people coming here, and by then the land outside of Over Snow City will be just as precious. If we give up the restaurant now and go and occupy a piece of land outside of Over Snow City sooner, we can do business just the same in the future.”
Helian Mingqi nodded, “Let’s do as Ruo Lan said, when the Phantom Shadow Sanctuary appears, it will definitely attract many cultivators to Over Snow City, and maybe our business will be better.”
Although the three knew that this was self-congratulatory, they had to go ahead with it. Rather than waiting for others to snatch away the City Ruo Lan Restaurant, it would be better to let it go earlier.
“Boom ……” Just as Helian Mingqi’s words fell, the guys of the tavern were blown away.
A red-clothed woman stood at the front door, followed by three male cultivators behind her. The red-clothed woman’s gaze swept past the three Ning Ruo Lan and said in an icy tone, “I brought word yesterday, and today I can’t believe you still don’t roll, do the few of you want me to personally ask to roll, or are your ears deaf?”
Seeing Helian Dai suddenly stand up, Ning Ruo Lan hurriedly grabbed the front and said, “This senior sister don’t be angry, we are planning to move out, just discussing where to go.”
She knew that Helian Dai would not speak, in case Helian Dai angered the people in front of her, none of the three of them would survive today. The power of the people coming in front of her was clear to her.
“Get lost ……” The woman in red didn’t even allow Ning Ruo Lan to discern, and slapped her across the face.
Ning Ruo Lan was only at Nian Xing cultivation, this red-clothed woman cultivator was at the completion of Xing gathering, how could she avoid it? She was directly blown against the wall of the restaurant by the red-clothed woman, and several altars of wine were shattered and flowed to the ground with a crash.
Seeing Ning Ruo Lan stand up in anger, Helian Ming Zhi hurriedly stood in front of Ning Ruo Lan, blocking her path while calling out, “Xiao Dai, hurry up and help sister Ruo Lan, we’ll leave now.”
Even if Helian Dai was stupid, she knew that if she stayed here, it would be a dead end. Following Helian Mingqi, the three of them hurriedly went out through the side door, not even taking the same things inside the tavern.