Ning Cheng never believed that his luck was really that good. Before he could think clearly about what was going on, an explosive sound rang out above his head, followed by a large thunderbolt falling down.
This large thunderbolt fell not far in front of Ning Cheng, and the yellow sand where the thunderbolt fell instantly turned into nothingness, and a huge whirlpool was created out of thin air. The surrounding yellow sand fell into this vortex at this moment, and the vortex grew larger and larger. The terrifying suction force was so great that even Ning Cheng could feel it.
Ning Cheng understood in this instant that those sand and stone demon beasts were fleeing because they knew that this lightning light was coming over, once these lightning lights fell on those demon beasts, there was no need to ask, one would know that those demon beasts would be turned into nothingness.
At this moment, Ning Cheng would remain where he was, he rushed out at the first opportunity and fled in the direction of those sand demon beasts.
Just as Ning Cheng left, another large thunderbolt of lightning fell on the spot where he was standing, and this large thunderbolt instantly turned the place where he was standing into pieces. The swirling vortex in the sand directly connected with the newly pulverised area, becoming bigger and bigger.
With this kind of powerful force, even if he was at the Yuan Building Realm, even if he was at the Yuan Building Realm, he could only wait for death if he was struck by this lightning.
Ning Cheng mobilised almost all of his speed and brought up a yellow line of sand to rush forward.
The third thunderbolt fell, which was still a few feet away from Ning Cheng, but the aftermath of the thunderbolt still blasted Ning Cheng’s clothes, which had not been changed for a long time, into hanging noodles.
As the third thunderbolt fell, the thunderbolts behind it became more and more dense and seemed to get closer and closer.
Ning Cheng, who was running all the way, finally understood the pattern of these lightning lights, which were huge in size, but all went down in a line. When Ning Cheng fled again, he no longer followed a straight line, but consciously fled diagonally.
“Boom boom” sounded continuously behind Ning Cheng, and sand pits kept sinking down in the places that Ning Cheng fled all the way through. Luckily for Ning Cheng, he had experience with these sand pits and although they appeared abruptly, they were unable to bring him in. What really made him afraid was the terrifyingly large thunderbolt behind him.
It was only after a whole half day that Ning Cheng felt the sound of the explosive thunder behind him getting smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared along another direction.
Ning Cheng stopped and kept gasping for air and said to himself, “So this is how the Falling Thunder Desert came to be, the most terrifying thing here is actually this kind of falling thunder.”
Ning Cheng had just let out a sigh of relief when an extremely loud whistle whistled, followed by a white light rushing out from the distant horizon.
Someone? Ning Cheng quickly ascertained that the whistle and the whistling sound were both man-made. At this moment, he had already lost his way in the Falling Thunder Desert, and when he saw someone, he would not miss it, so he hurriedly hurried towards the place where the white light was emitted.
Half an hour later, Ning Cheng appeared on the outskirts of this place, and at the same time, he was sure that there was really someone here.
Not only were there people, there was also a yurt-like building. Inside these yurts, there was also a large area of greenery and even a large lake that was incredibly clear.
Several soldiers were guarding around this makeshift construction yurt, and in Ning Cheng’s opinion, the cultivation level of these guards was extremely poor, the tallest one was only an ordinary martial artist and did not have any true qi fluctuations on his body. At best, there was only some pugnacious killing aura.
This place was so dangerous, how did these people get here? Ning Cheng’s heart grew more and more astonished. In this place, even a poor cultivation level would be swallowed up by the desert at any time and anywhere, yet he had found guards with no cultivation level. Ning Cheng rubbed his eyes, he almost thought that he had seen wrong.
Deciding to go over and take a look, Ning took off the broken clothes he was wearing and cleaned them with the Dust Removal Duel in the shortest time possible, before changing into a clean set of clothes and then putting his spear on his back. Only then did he slowly walk towards this yurt-like area, while he concealed his cultivation at the seventh level of Qi gathering.
These people had little or no cultivation, and he did not want to make himself appear too abrupt.
Ning Cheng had just approached the yurt-like area when two of the guarding soldiers had already seen Ning Cheng and immediately walked over quickly.
“Excuse me, two friends, I’m lost here, I’m thirsty and hungry, and would like to borrow a place to rest for a while.” Ning Cheng did not wait for the two soldiers to speak, and went forward first to greet them with a polite fist.
The two soldiers looked Ning Cheng up and down. Ning Cheng did not look like a thirsty and hungry person. On the contrary, he looked more like a neighbour who was visiting the door.
One of the soldiers gave a wink to the other one, and when the other one saw the wink, he quickly turned around and left.
Only after the other man left did the soldier say to Ning Cheng, “Please stay here, this is where our King’s carriage is stationed, you have to be reported in order to enter.”
Once Ning Cheng took a look at the soldier’s expression, he knew that things did not seem to be as simple as the other party had said. He said carelessly, “Oh, in that case, then I will change to another place before resting.”
After saying that, Ning Cheng turned around and was about to leave.
When this soldier saw Ning Cheng about to leave, he quickly stopped in front of him again, “Friend, please stop, you can’t leave here yet until we know where you came from.”
Ning Cheng raised his eye brows, “What, does this place belong to you? I’m pa*sing through here, even if you don’t give me water to drink, you still want to rob me?”
The soldier who stopped Ning Cheng was just about to speak when he heard a thick voice ring out, “The king said, since you are here, come in.”
Ning Cheng understood in his heart when he heard this voice that this speaker’s cultivation level was at least at the third level of Condensing Truth, indicating that it was not a simple matter for this yurt to appear here.
“Yes.” After this soldier answered respectfully, he turned to Ning Cheng again and said politely, “Friend, please follow me in.”
“Lead the way.” Ning Cheng had not intended to go, he wanted to ask about the route. If he did not ask for the correct route, he would most likely fall in the Falling Thunder Desert.
These people dared to set up so many makeshift yurts here and knew that there was a desert oasis here, the possibility of having the correct route was over ninety percent. How could Ning Cheng let go of such an opportunity?
Entering the area of these yurts, Ning Cheng then realised that these yurts were arranged in a unique orientation, forming a defensive formation that exactly enclosed the oasis in the middle. And next to the oasis, there was a particularly large yurt.
The soldier guided Ning Cheng to the entrance of the largest yurt and said to Ning Cheng, “The Lord has summoned you, go in.”
Ning Cheng’s divine sense swept a few metres to his left and right and found nothing unusual, before he slowly stepped inside.
This yurt was so large that Ning Cheng felt as if he had entered a large auditorium, with a square area of at least hundreds of square feet.
At the top was a young girl with long hair and bare feet, this young girl seemed extremely soft and beautiful, the only thing that made people uncomfortable was that her eyes were slightly triangular, which did not match her soft and beautiful face.
It seemed to Ning Cheng that there were no true essence fluctuations on her body, so she should have never cultivated before. But this young girl gave Ning Cheng a bizarre feeling on the contrary.
On either side of the young girl stood a man and a woman, the woman’s face was rugged and extremely tough, and Ning Cheng could see her cultivation level at first glance, the ninth level of Qi gathering was complete. On the other side was a man with tender skin, like a little white face, but his cultivation level was already at the third level of True Condensation. Further down, the left and right rows were each occupied by four guards, all with cultivation levels basically at the ninth level of Qi gathering.
On top of that, there were three cultivators, two men and one woman, hanging by ropes at the corners of the hall. To Ning Cheng’s surprise, these three cultivators were all of Condensed True cultivation level, but the three of them were hung up without the ability to resist, dropping their heads together, and the flow of true essence in their bodies appeared to be stagnant. Several soldiers stood around these three with leather whips in their hands, and it was clear from the wounds on these three that they had been beaten by these soldiers.
The worst was the female cultivator, already at the second level of condensation, whose fair skin was revealed beneath her broken clothes. But this fair skin was also scarred, and this whiteness could only be vaguely seen through these wounds.
These three people obviously still had a breath of air left in them, and when they heard the sound of Ning Cheng entering, they raised their heads together and looked at Ning Cheng in confusion.
An extremely odd smell came from them, and Ning Cheng perceived that this smell was strange, just like the smell he had smelled when he had fought with the hordes of sand demon beasts before. This smell made him extremely uncomfortable, but fortunately, with his true essence running, the smell quickly dissipated into thin air.
“Lord, this is the man who broke into the forbidden area of the king’s carriage.” The soldier who had hurriedly run back earlier saw Ning Cheng enter and hurriedly went up to kneel down and said.
The woman referred to as the Lord waved her hand, “Understood, you may go out.”
Only after the soldier went out did this young girl look up and down at Ning Cheng who was not half nervous, Ning Cheng’s clothes were immaculately clean and he was carrying a wrapped up spear behind him, it was as if he had taken a stroll to this place, and he did not feel half at ease or uncomfortable standing there. This young girl frowned for a moment and asked in a slow voice, “Who are you? Why are you intruding on my Northern Conqueror’s quarters?”
The Northern Convoys? Ning Cheng had never known what the Northern Conquering was, he had come over because he wanted to ask about the correct route to the Hualu Continent, and hearing this, he hastily clasped his fist politely and said, “My name is Ning Xiaocheng, I was just pa*sing by, just pa*sing by, using the intrusion was really a misunderstanding.”
The formidable woman of the ninth Qi gathering layer standing next to the young girl suddenly shouted angrily at Ning Cheng, “b*****d, don’t kneel down and talk to me in front of the king.”
Ning Cheng’s face sank, he had come to ask questions, not to beg for mercy. The word begging for mercy did not yet exist in his Ning Cheng’s dictionary.
Ning Cheng suddenly took several slow steps forward, and just when all the people thought that he was about to speak, Ning Cheng suddenly took a swift step forward, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived in front of that brawny woman, and raised his hand and slapped her twice.
“Slap ……” Two crisp sounds rang out, and by the time the crowd saw Ning Cheng fall back again, the pugnacious woman who had scolded Ning Cheng already had two more purple-red slap marks on her face.