“What’s your name?” Ning Cheng stopped this female cultivator, who bore a slight resemblance to Luo Fei, and asked.
The female cultivator cautiously stared at Ning Cheng and took a few steps back before saying, “Who are you? I’ve never seen you before.”
“My name is Ning Cheng, it’s normal that you haven’t seen me before.” Ning Cheng replied, when he had met Xiong Qihua, this female cultivator had not yet been born yet.
After hearing Ning Cheng’s words, the female cultivator immediately looked at Ning Cheng in shock, her mouth opened wide for a while before she returned to her senses and said, “You are Ning Cheng? That’s right, no wonder I look so familiar. You are my sister Luo Fei’s Daoist couple? Where is my sister?”
When Ning Cheng heard this female cultivator’s words, he understood that Xiong Qihua should have told her many things and even let her see his portrait back then. Now that he had a lot more beards on his face, it was normal for her not to recognise him for a while.
Hearing this female cultivator ask about Luo Fei, Ning Cheng was surprisingly unsure of how he should answer for a moment.
This female cultivator did not even wait for Ning Cheng to answer, as she pulled Ning Cheng and said, “Brother-in-law, come in with me, I have some things to tell you.”
Ning Cheng was amazed at this female cultivator’s powerful ability to get acquainted with herself and this kind of unconventional action. However, he was quickly relieved, surviving in this place, where else would there be anything like princess sickness? It must be that she was a completely different type of person from Nalan Ruxue who had a serious case of princess sickness.
“I forgot to tell you, my name is Zhu Nianfei.” Zhu Nianfei pulled Ning Cheng into a humble rest house next to her, raised her hand and threw out a medium grade spirit stone to the fellow and said, “I want a private room, don’t need to find the spirit stone.”
The fellow took the spirit stone speechlessly and said, “If you have a medium grade spirit stone, it’s a different matter whether you have enough or not, so what the hell am I looking for?
Ning Cheng saw the flash of pain in Zhu Nianfei’s eyes, and did not point it out. His divine sense fell directly into Zhu Nianfei’s storage bag. Inside her pouch were two lower grade spirit stones, as well as some low grade spirit herbs that could not be any lower. Apart from that, there was also a broken medium grade magic weapon. Apart from the broken medium-grade magic weapon, that medium-grade spirit stone, which should be the only thing that was most valuable to her, was now used to treat her guests.
The things in Zhu Nianfei’s storage bag were very mismatched with her cultivation level. With a cultivation level of the first level of True Condensation, it was reasonable to say that she should not be so poor. Ning Cheng thought of when he was at the first level of True Condensation. He was much richer than Zhu Nianfei. Spiritual stones were all counted in the thousands, and they were still top quality spiritual stones.
He entered the box. Zhu Nianfei put the box’s own ban on, and then poured Ning Cheng a cup of tea that came with the box.
The tea that came with the compartment was not even the lowest grade of spirit tea, so Ning Cheng knew that Zhu Nianfei did not have any extra spirit stones to buy spirit tea.
Only after seeing Ning Cheng pick up the cup of tea and take a sip did Zhu Nianfei hurriedly ask, “Brother-in-law, why have you come to this place? Did my sister also come along?”
Ning Cheng gave a slight pause and then said, “Your sister hasn’t come yet, I’m here to help my friend take something back.”
“Brother-in-law. My mother said that you are very uncomplicated, you should be well mixed up, right? I can’t even tell your cultivation level, are you about to build a Yuan? Is my sister’s cultivation level the same as yours? What is your place?” Zhu Nianfei wasn’t a bit of a stranger, and when she talked to Ning Cheng, she was almost like someone from her own family. A bunch of questions were casually thrown out.
About to build a Yuan? Ning Cheng coughed and said to himself, “I’m a strong person in the middle stage of the Life and Death realm. If you can tell my cultivation level, do I still want to get along? Building a Yuan, I don’t know how long ago that was.
“I was also wandering around and was a wanderer for a while. Then I finally found a place to settle down, and Fei Luo should be going back soon as well.”
Zhu Nianfei didn’t think much about Ning Cheng’s words, in her mind, her sister Luo Fei and Ning Cheng should be living together. It was just that her sister had gone out to look for resources, and her brother-in-law had come here to get a little something.
As for her sister going out to look for resources alone, this was simply too normal for her, she herself had come this way. And it was still the way to live. Didn’t one need to cultivate to find resources on their own? As for danger, wasn’t cultivation always dangerous?
“That, I just saw you being slapped by a green-skirted woman, and I saw that you and Concubine Luo had a slight resemblance, so I came over to take a look at ……” Ning Cheng saw that Concubine Zhu was a very straightforward person by her nature.
Zhu Nianfei awkwardly touched her face that still had traces and said, “It’s nothing, it’s not the first time. I owe them spirit stones and have no way to pay them back. It’s only right to be beaten.”
“How many spirit stones do you owe?” Ning Cheng asked, puzzled.
“Over fifty thousand medium-grade spirit stones ……,” Zhu Nianfei said with a sigh.
Ning Cheng looked at Zhu Nianfei in disbelief, “How can you owe so much?”
Over fifty thousand medium grade spirit stones to Ning Cheng, he probably wouldn’t even bother to bend down and pick them up if he dropped them on the ground. To Zhu Nianfei, who could only take out one medium-grade spirit stone, this was simply a huge sum of money that he would never be able to pay back in his lifetime.
“My mother was seriously injured in the Lost Mountain Range and needs a large amount of healing pills. I don’t have any extra spirit stones to buy the pills, so I can only ask to borrow them. My father has to take care of my mother, so these spirit stones can only be paid back by me and my brother.” Zhu Nianfei said helplessly.
Ning Cheng’s divine sense swept over to Zhu Hongwen, who was already at the third level of cultivation in the Yuan Building. As Ji Luofei had said, Xiong Qihua’s injuries were under those low level healing pills. It also needed the help of true essence from time to time, otherwise the meridians would break. He would become a complete invalid. Zhu Hongwen stayed by Xiong Qihua’s side, supposedly to help Xiong Qihua.
“You have a younger brother?” Ning Cheng asked casually.
Zhu Nianfei nodded, “Yes, my brother’s name is Zhu Nianluo, he went into the Lost Mountain Range.”
“Then you called me here and spent a medium-grade spirit stone, so you should be looking for me for something? If there aren’t enough spirit stones, I still have some here.” Ning Cheng asked, guessing that Zhu Nianfei wanted to borrow spirit stones from him.
Zhu Nianfei hesitated for a moment and said, “Yes, I originally had this intention, but now I know that you and sister are also in a difficult situation, so the matter of borrowing spirit stones will be forgotten.”
After Ning Cheng said that he had been a wanderer and had just found a place to settle down, Zhu Nianfei dismissed the idea of asking Ning Cheng to borrow spirit stones. They at least had a place to settle down, Ning Cheng had only just found a place to settle down, which was even worse than them.
This was not the Heaven Continent, and she did not know Ning Cheng’s prestige, and thought for sure that Ning Cheng was having a hard time just like them. Nor did she know that the place Ning Cheng said to settle down was a star river in the starry sky, and not a humble cave in a workshop like the one she was talking about.
Without waiting for Ning Cheng to speak, Zhu Nianfei continued, “I came here to explain one more thing to you, my mother told me when she was injured that if I could see you one day, I would definitely apologise to you. The reason why my mother deceived my sister back then was because she really didn’t want to be separated from my sister.”
After saying this, Zhu Nianfei stood up and bowed to Ning Cheng before sitting down again and saying, “Brother-in-law should know that my mother’s name is Xiong Qihua. In fact, before my mother married my sister’s father, she was in a relationship with my father as a lover. It was just that the Ji family was too powerful, and my grandfather did not allow my mother to be with a grassroots like my father, so he took the decision to marry my mother to the Ji family. My father didn’t feel comfortable with my mother, so he followed her to the Ji family and worked as a domestic servant.”
Ning Cheng frowned slightly, he disliked people like Xiong Qihua. Along with that, he didn’t like Zhu Hongwen very much either.
Zhu Nianfei did not pay attention to Ning Cheng’s demeanour and continued, “Even though my father was my mother’s household servant, he never overstepped his bounds. It was only when the Ji family fell into decline and moved the family to Pingzhou. In the Da’an Forest, the entire Ji family was almost wiped out, and my father desperately tried to protect my mother to escape. It was only when my mother found out that Ji Xuanzhang had fallen that she and my father lived in seclusion in the Daan Forest. What happened afterwards, my mother said you know all about it.
Whether you and my sister look up to my mother or not, I have brought these words with me. Thank you for listening to my long-windedness, I’m going to leave now.”
“Boom ……” Zhu Nianfei had just stood up when the box’s ban was blasted open. The fellow from before stood at the entrance of the compartment, and behind that fellow there were two other people, one of whom was the green-skirted woman who had slapped Zhu Nianfei earlier, and a middle-aged man with brown hair.
Ning Cheng had seen these three people coming up long ago, and he did not say anything. Zhu Nianfei owed someone spirit stones, so he guessed that he had come to collect the debt. Later on, he would help to pay back just how much he owed.
“It’s time for you to make up the spirit stones, the time for one medium-grade spirit stone has long passed.” The fellow was the first to point at Zhu Nianfei and chortled.
The trepidation on Zhu Nianfei’s face flickered away and she quickly regained a very calm look and said, “I’ve calculated the time, it should be just about time.”
The fellow sneered, “That’s your just arrived, we only need to exceed the time by one breath here, it will be calculated according to the second spirit stone.”
“You ……” Zhu Nian Fei was almost too angry to speak when she heard such unreasonable words. However, her patience was really peerless, and she instantly adjusted her anger and said in a soft tone, “I am really sorry, I didn’t know there was this rule, please allow me to go back and think of something.”
The mate still wanted to speak, the green-skirted woman walked straight to the front and said with a sneer, “Zhu Nianfei, do you think we are very easy to bully with the help of Lost? You have spirit stones to come to the interest building box, but you say you don’t have spirit stones to return to us?”
“Sister Xia Xuan, I indeed do not have spirit stones. My brother-in-law came over today, so I took out the only medium-grade spirit stone to invite my brother-in-law to come to the Rest House to sit and have a few words. Please give Sister Xia Xuan a few more days of grace, and I will definitely raise some spirit stones to pay it back.” Zhu Nianfei said earnestly, if Ning Cheng did not know that the green-skirted woman had slapped Zhu Nianfei, he would have even thought that Zhu Nianfei was on good terms with this green-skirted woman, and called her so cordially.
“A few days’ grace? How many days have we been lenient with you? There are places that let you earn spirit stones, why don’t you go?” The green-skirted woman said with disdain.
Zhu Nianfei said even more earnestly, “Sister Xia Xuan, I won’t go to the Double Cultivation House even if I die. Please don’t worry, Sister Xia Xuan, I will definitely be able to raise the spirit stones to pay back some of them.”
“b*tch, just looking for excuses to delay ……” The green-skirted woman raised her palm and slapped Zhu Nianfei once again.