While Ning Cheng was retreating, a cold hum with a chilling tone came out, and with Ning Cheng’s cultivation level, he felt his heart and soul tremble.
The next moment the Yin wind came in wave after wave, and Ning Cheng’s Yuan Shen kept loosening up, as if it was about to shed its body the next moment. If it wasn’t for the Xuanhuang Origin constantly nourishing Ning Cheng’s body and divine soul, Ning Cheng estimated that he would have been unable to hold on long ago.
Ning Cheng’s only thought right now was to frantically drum up his astral essence to rush towards the top of the Yellow Spring Pond. He had a premonition that if he was a moment late, he might not be able to leave.
An even more powerful cold hum boomed above Ning Cheng’s heart and soul, and a seeping hollow voice rang out behind Ning Cheng, “Taking my stuff and wanting to leave?”
After this voice, the wind and clouds on the Naija Bridge suddenly changed as one tumbling Yin wind after another swept over. Before the nether wind could sweep over Ning Cheng’s Infinite Blue Thunder City, it caused the black water of the Yellow Spring Pond to churn up.
Ning Cheng did not heed it, still frantically burning his Star Energy to charge upwards.
This time, the speed at which Ning Cheng charged upwards was much faster than the speed at which he had dived to the bottom of the Yellow Spring Pond, and after he had rushed out of the Yellow Spring Pond, the black water inside the Yellow Spring Pond was already churning endlessly, and the roaring sound was becoming more and more intense.
Ning Cheng didn’t even look back and rushed straight towards the paper door. He did not rush into the Life Gate, nor did he go to the Death Gate, he felt that there was something wrong with both the Life and Death Gates.
If his Sea of Consciousness hadn’t expanded and advanced, or he would have chosen the Death Gate to rush in. Now that his sea of consciousness had expanded % and his divine sense had soared, he wanted to use his Heavenly Cloud Twin Wings to return to the Great Hall again.
The only way to return to the Great Hall was the safest way.
Ning Cheng had just rushed out of the Yellow Spring Pond when dozens of violent Yin winds rushed out from underneath the Yellow Spring Pond. These Yin winds swept up the black water in the Yellow Spring Pond hundreds of feet high and blasted it towards Ning Cheng’s back.
Luckily, Ning Cheng had seen the opportunity quickly. The Yin winds that rushed out from the bottom of the Yellow Spring Pond had just rolled on the paper door. Ning Cheng had long since rushed to the main square.
The paper door was blasted by this horrifyingly furious wind. It even clattered and stung. Soon these wildly curling Yin winds swept the paper door aside and swept after Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng did not stop at all, as he directly waved his Heavenly Cloud Twin Wings after rushing to the square.
The pitch-black square was swept with nether winds everywhere, but Ning Cheng swung his Heavenly Fortune Twin Wings after his consciousness sea had stormed, and he really broke away from the square and flew up.
“Boom ……” Several Yin winds swept over Ning Cheng’s Wuji Green Thunder City, and the lightning of the Wuji Green Thunder City instantly dimmed. A clicking sound then came. Ning Cheng’s rising form fell swiftly.
Ning Cheng knew very well that he absolutely could not land on this big dark square again, so he simply put away the Infinite Blue Thunder City, and even more desperately waved his Heavenly Fortune Twin Wings.
Without the depletion of the Infinite Blue Thunder City, Ning Cheng’s speed rose once again. A dozen breaths later Ning Cheng could already see the Five Cornered Hall overhead.
Just at this time, another cloudy wind swept in.
Ning Cheng’s Limitless Blue Thunder City had long since been retracted, and this Yin Wind directly tore through Ning Cheng’s domain and blasted at his body.
Ning Cheng was hit by the blast of the Yin Wind and his body shivered. In the next moment, the Yuan Shen was about to leave his body, while his Divine Sense and Star Energy also plummeted. It was rapidly weakening.
Seeing that his Yuan Shen was about to leave his body, he was about to fall again. Horrified, Ning Cheng directly grabbed out a leaf of the Rootless Green Bamboo and chewed it up in his mouth and swallowed it.
The Yuan Shen that was about to be scattered slowly solidified again, and the Xuanhuang Origin Qi flowed even more rapidly. As he felt his divine sense and astral essence strengthen, Ning Cheng swung his Heavenly Cloud wings even more desperately. He had almost fallen down again just now, if he didn’t still have the Rootless Green Bamboo, it would really be unthinkable.
No wonder the few Eternal Realm cultivators before him were unable to escape the sweep of this insidious wind.
“Boom …….” Two more wildly swirling Yin winds blasted towards Ning Cheng, and the moment these two Yin winds were about to roll around Ning Cheng’s ankles, Ning Cheng rushed out and landed on a corner of the Five Cornered Hall.
Without waiting for that Yin wind to roll up, Ning Cheng rushed out of the Five Cornered Great Hall without even looking back.
The insidious wind seemed to be blocked by an invisible force as soon as it reached the entrance of the Five Cornered Hall, but despite this, Ning Cheng did not dare to relax. He kept throwing out formation flags, sealing off layer after layer of this Five Cornered Hall.
Half a day later, Ning Cheng completely sealed the five-cornered hall before he sat down weakly on the ground. Having been swept by that Yin wind, he felt himself getting weaker and weaker.
As for how Grey Dudu had gone to the Naihe Bridge, Ning Cheng could not figure it out even now. There was definitely someone behind the Nai He Bridge, but Ning Cheng thought that person would definitely not be able to come out. If he could come out, then he would not have escaped here so easily.
Since that person could not come out, how did Grey Dudu go to the Nai He Bridge?
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This was already the thirty-ninth day since Ning Cheng had come out of the Hall of Shadows, thirty-nine days had passed and Ning Cheng had finally set up the most powerful blockade formation outside the Hall of Shadows. This formation blockade he had set up according to the requirements of the Great Star Protection Formation, and even for the formation base, Ning Cheng had used top grade dao weapons.
The blockade formation Ning Cheng had set up multiple layers in a row, from the inside to the outside. The fearsome nature of the Phantom Shadow Sacred Hall had left Ning Cheng’s heart palpitating. The Jiangzhou Star was his, and Snow Covered City was even his lair, so he absolutely could not allow this kind of danger to exist.
Right now, he did not want to move the Xuanhuang Sect away, Ning Cheng believed that this blockade formation of his was definitely enough. Even if there was any change in the Phantom Shadow Sanctuary, he would know about it immediately. Under such a powerful blockade formation, even the Piercing Heart Building would not be able to come out easily.
This was because Ning Cheng was incredibly weak when he came out of the Phantom Shadow Sacred Hall. Having spent another month or so continuously setting up formations here, he looked even weaker at this time.
Luckily, this was the Jiangzhou Star, and as long as he walked a little further, he would be able to return to the Snow Covered City to heal his wounds.
Ning Cheng had just walked to the entrance of Over Snow City when he saw Ning Ruolan running out in a hurry.
“Ruo Lan, what’s going on?” Ning Cheng called out in confusion.
“Brother ……” When Ning Ruo Lan saw Ning Cheng, an expression of joy immediately appeared on her face as she flew over and rushed into Ning Cheng’s arms, “Woo… . scared me to death, I thought you wouldn’t come back ……”
Ning Cheng patted Ning Ruo Lan’s shoulder and said comfortingly, “Ruo Lan. What is going on?”
Seeing Ning Ruo Lan. Ning Cheng was still very happy in his heart. Ruo Lan had been in seclusion for some time. Now she was already at the level of broken star cultivation, so it was evident that with the support of his large amount of cultivation resources, Ruo Lan’s cultivation speed was fast.
Only then did Ruo Lan ease up, still fearful, “Rumors outside say that this time, nearly twenty Eternal Realm powerhouses went to the Phantom Shadow Sacred Hall, but as a result, none of them were able to come out, and all of them fell in the Phantom Shadow Sacred Hall. After I heard this news. My heart was anxious beyond belief, and I was thinking of going to look for you ……”
Ning Cheng frowned, even if all the people who went to the Phantom Shadow Sacred Hall did not come out, but how did this news get out? It was reasonable to say that they hadn’t entered the Phantom Shadow Sacred Hall for two months yet, and even if an Eternal Realm powerhouse didn’t show up for two years, there wouldn’t be rumors that he had fallen.
However, Ning Cheng knew that if he hadn’t returned the way he came, the rumour could still be true. Was he the only person to come out of the Phantom Shadow Sacred Hall after entering it or not?
“Brother, it’s good that you’re alright. That means those rumours are false.” Ning Ruolan said in a relaxed tone.
Ning Cheng looked at Ning Ruo Lan cautiously, “Ruo Lan. Remember, if there are such rumours in the future, you must not believe them. Think about it, if I were to fall in the Phantom Shadow Sacred Hall, what use would it be for you to go in?”
Ning Ruo Lan also knew that Ning Cheng was right and nodded, “I know, brother. Are you coming back this time and going out again?”
“Well, I have to go out for some things, your sister-in-law Luo Fei and sister-in-law Qiong Hua have not heard from me yet, as well as I have to make a trip to the Midheaven Stars. Ruo Lan, while I am away, you must work hard on your closed-door cultivation. Put everything else aside, only when you are strong is the hard truth.” Ning Cheng admonished.
Ning Ruolan gave a muffled sound and stopped speaking. She knew that the difference between her strength and her brother’s was getting bigger and bigger, so if she didn’t work hard on her cultivation, she would drag her brother back everywhere in the future.
“By the way, there was a man called Duan Gantai who came to Jiangzhou Star to look for you. Patriarch Cang stopped him outside and didn’t allow him to enter Jiangzhou Star.”
Ning Ruolan had just finished speaking when Cang Caihe had already greeted him, followed by several others behind Cang Caihe.
“Patriarch ……,” Cang Caihe was also overjoyed when he saw Ning Cheng. There were rumours outside that none of the Eternal powerhouses who had entered the Phantom Shadow Holy Hall had come out, and Cang Caihe was somewhat convinced. He was an Eternal Realm powerhouse and had some sense of Eternal Realm cultivators. What’s more, the Hall of Shadows was located in Jiangzhou Star, so how could he not know about it?
Ning Cheng hurriedly said, “It has been hard on Patriarch Cang while I was away.”
“Greetings Senior Ning ……,” The two Heavenly Realm cultivators stepped forward and bowed to Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng nodded, one of these two people was Ou Zhenkong, the one who had been placed under a ban by him. Looking at his appearance, the ban should have been forcibly sealed. If he did not appear yet, Ou Zhenkong would be in danger.
“Senior, this is my clan uncle, Ou Xing Huan. My clan uncle was the one who sent me and Daoist Friend Valen to the Jiangzhou Star …… together,” the excitement in Ou Zhenkong’s heart after seeing Ning Cheng was something that was hard to own.
He had been placed under a ban by Ning Cheng, which he simply could not undo. If Ning Cheng really fell in the Phantom Shadow Holy Hall, he could only resign himself to his fate. The Vice Patriarch of the Xuanhuang Sect, Cang Caihe, was not only the First Dan Emperor, but also a late Eternal stage powerhouse, even without Ning Cheng, his Ou Clan could not afford to mess with him.
“Greetings Sovereign ……,” Valen and Yu Wanxue had long wanted to come up to greet them, only that Ning Cheng had been talking to someone else.
The two of them could be said to have been saved by Ning Cheng, without Ning Cheng, they would have been dead long ago. Even though everyone had been very polite to them since they arrived at Snow Covered City. Before they had met Ning Cheng, they always had some goosebumps in their hearts.
Ning Cheng smiled, “We are all friends, what’s so polite about it. I wonder what you two have planned for the future?”
Valen and Yu Wanxue hurriedly said, “Sovereign, we would like to join the Xuanhuang Sect ……”
Ning Cheng directly took out two jade bottles and handed them to the two and said, “This contains the Yi Tian Dan, you guys go and close up to prepare to advance to the Heavenly Realm, when you advance to the Heavenly Realm, you will be Elders of the Xuanhuang Sect.”
If Valen and Yu Wanxue did not intend to join the Xuanhuang Sect, Ning Cheng would have politely entertained them and then sent them away. Yet, he would definitely not take out the Heavenly Elixir, and his Heavenly Elixir was not something that came from a big flood.
Although they vaguely knew that Ning Cheng might want to cultivate them, after they got the Yi Tian Dan, Valen and Yu Wanxue were still too excited to be by themselves. Even after a lifetime of casual cultivation and countless adventures, they might not be able to get a single Yitian Dan. Astral cultivation was indeed a matter of chance.