Ning Cheng did not expect this guy to have such a bad attitude even when he asked a question, so he could only prepare to continue down to the fifth floor to ask. The sixth floor was much larger than the seventh floor, and occasionally one could see people entering and leaving the cultivation room, unlike the seventh floor, where one could not see anyone entering or leaving at all.
“Wait a moment.” At the entrance of the staircase, Ning Cheng was called to stop by someone
“You called me?” Ning Cheng turned around and saw a boy who was a few years older than him and looked like he had just come out of the cultivation room. This boy’s complexion was much darker than Ning Cheng’s and had a smile on his lips, obviously without any malice.
Ning Cheng knew that any of these cultivation students had a much higher status than him, a handyman. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he had no intention of questioning such people at all, nor did he intend to talk much to these students. In the Cang Qin Kingdom, most of the students who could enter this academy came from an unusual background, and no matter which one, Ning Cheng could not afford to mess with them.
“I heard your words just now, you should be cleaning the cultivation room, right?” The boy said directly.
Ning Cheng hurriedly replied, “Yes, it’s my first day here and I don’t know where the eating place is, so I came to ask about it.”
“Not only do you not know the place to eat, it seems that you don’t know the rules here either. Remember from now on, this grand staircase handyman is not allowed to go, once you are met by some of the trainees or law enforcers, you will have to retreat in layers of skin even if you don’t die.”
Hearing the boy’s words, Ning Cheng was greatly shocked, he had just come down from the seventh floor and had taken the grand staircase. And Ji Luofei hadn’t told him that he couldn’t take the Grand Staircase, right? If there was really such a rule and this boy had not reminded him of it, he was afraid that he would really be in bad luck.
“Thanks to my friend for telling me, otherwise I would have been in danger.” Ning Cheng said gratefully.
The boy laughed, “It’s nothing, I also cleaned the cultivation room before, I did it for seven years before this cultivated to the second level of Qi gathering, then I was seen by the academy and became an official disciple of the academy, now I’m at the fourth level of Qi gathering. You should work hard, you might be able to be like me in the future. Remember, in the future, you can only go through the side door when you enter or leave the cultivation tower.”
After saying that, the boy pointed to a small door that was extremely hidden, “That’s the side door, there’s one on every level, after you enter, you can go straight to the back of the cultivation tower. There is a place to eat at the back of the cultivation tower, you earn your own money for eating, don’t go to Mu Lao or you’re dead, good luck.”
After the boy finished, he did not say his name and went down the stairs by himself.
Ning Cheng knew that the other party did not intend to know him. However, by pointing this out, this boy had saved his life, and Ning Cheng was extremely grateful to this boy in his heart.
Seeing that there seemed to be footsteps coming from the grand staircase again, Ning Cheng hurriedly walked to the small door at the corner and opened it and flashed in.
Behind the small door was incomparably dark and there was only a narrow stairway, which looked like a life-saving pa*sage in a tall building on Earth.
After walking all the way down the stairway, Ning Cheng came out and realised that he was already behind the Cultivation Tower. Behind the Cultivation Tower was the same as the interior of the academy, only that the number of people coming was very sparse and there was only a long, thin, curved pathway. On both sides of the path were some gigantic trees, and in the middle of the gaps in the shadows of the trees, one could still see the many students of the academy coming and going. There were also some students who deliberately dug into the path and hurried along it to pa*s.
Ning Cheng also followed this pathway and after walking for about half a quarter of an hour, he saw a narrow door with a stone hut beside it. There was a middle-aged man inside the stone house, but this man did not care about the students who came in and out of this small door, it looked like he was just a gatekeeper.
After Ning Cheng walked out of this small door, he was immediately stunned by the bustle in front of him, it was simply a vegetable market with everything, a hustle and bustle.
There were all kinds of shops, snack shops and ground stalls. It was just that they were all of a very low grade, nowhere near as good as the big streets in the centre of Cangler City. This place was so busy, and there were so many people, Ning Cheng even suspected that Ji Luofei didn’t know about this place at all, or at least he had no memories of it before.
A huge signboard was erected in the most conspicuous place, and on it were arrows to various establishments.
The first one was actually not a merchant building, nor was it a magic weapon and elixir shop, but a fighting pot. This was the first time Ning Cheng had heard of the name Dou Pot, and a strong curiosity rose up in his heart. He simply followed the direction of the arrow pointing to the Dou Cauldron and after ten minutes, a huge circular building appeared in front of him.
Ning Cheng stopped, he saw two people stopping at the entrance of the circular building, obviously charging a fee. He still had some silver coins on him, this was his living expenses for the future, let him use it on this unknown fighting pot, Ning Cheng did not want to waste it like this.
Just when Ning Cheng wanted to turn around and leave, a few people walked out from a door next to that circular building, and the chatter of these people attracted him.
“Watching that barbarian fight is really not interesting at all, losing today’s silver coins is a bit unpleasant, not seeing something exciting and losing money.”
“The last fight between Ugly Lady Ji and Gu Fei was only exciting, I didn’t expect Gu Fei to be no match for Ugly Lady Ji.”
“Ugly-looking Ji Luofei knows the importance of cultivation. After defeating Gu Fei, a Qi gathering stone will be in hand. A Qi Gathering Stone, it’s hot to think about. However, she seemed to be badly injured, and once Gu Fei’s brother Gu Yiming returned, she would probably have to spit out what she had eaten. Even if Gu Yiming doesn’t come back, Gu Fei won’t be able to swallow this.”
“Ugly girl is not necessarily so, she is just disfigured, otherwise who can you find inside the academy that has a better body than her? Even Jane Su-jie is not as good as ……”
“Forbid your voice, you don’t want to live anymore, you dare to talk about senior sister Jane.”
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As several people faded away, Ning Cheng’s fists in his hands were already clenched up with veins. Ning Cheng did not go inside the fighting pot, but he could already imagine that it should be a bloody and incomparable fighting arena inside, equal to underground black boxing. He could not have imagined that the one Qi gathering stone of Ji Luofei had been painstakingly obtained from this place, and had left serious after-effects.
That was Gu Fei’s brother Gu Yiming, and from what these guys said Gu Fei himself was unwilling to let go of Ji Luofei.
Ning Cheng was not in the mood to continue wandering around and casually sold some dry food and hurried back to the seventh level of the Cultivation Tower. He wanted to speed up his cultivation and cultivate to the fourth Qi gathering layer as soon as possible. In this place, strength meant dignity.
There were fewer students coming to cultivate on the seventh floor of the Cultivation Tower, so after Ning Cheng cleaned up the few cultivation rooms, he directly shut himself up in the small stone room and started cultivating.
For students who cultivated in the cultivation rooms, once the cultivation room room was closed, the aura inside would increase exponentially. Ning Cheng did not have this kind of treatment; what was originally true of his small stone hut remained true after it was closed.
When Ning Cheng began to gather Qi, a new direction of the flow of True Qi once again appeared in his mind. With the Hidden Truth Technique in front of him, this time Ning Cheng did not hesitate half a second and directly discarded the cultivation techniques on the Ning Family’s thin scrolls and followed the cultivation method that appeared in his mind.
The outer world was thin with spiritual energy, which had no half effect on Ning Cheng at all, and as he began to cultivate, the spiritual source in his dantian was just like before, providing a spiritual source that was even purer and thicker than spiritual energy, allowing Ning Cheng to continuously wash and open up all the meridians in his body.
With the experience he had had earlier, Ning Cheng did not panic at this point, and he found that using the cultivation method that appeared in his consciousness was more effective than the Ning Family’s cultivation thin scrolls. Both the speed of true qi flowing along the meridians and the rest was more than ten times smoother.
When Ning Cheng came to his senses again, he was already at the second level of Qi gathering and a large amount of dirt was once again seeping out of his body.
Feeling the flow of true qi flowing even more powerfully than that of the Qi gathering layer, it let Ning Cheng know that he had advanced to the Qi gathering layer two without any doubt. After calculating the time, he had actually cultivated for two days and two nights in a row.
Apart from his stomach being hungry, there was only that feeling of True Qi fluctuating like a drum. Ning Cheng did not dare to continue cultivating, counting that he had already committed a crime and had not gone to clean the cultivation room for two days.
Luckily, he also knew that there were very few people cultivating on the seventh floor, and that Mu Lao wouldn’t really come to bother him. Ning Cheng did not immediately go out to clean up the cultivation room, instead he continued to cultivate a new spell, the Dust Removal Technique. In the future, he should use the Dust Removal Technique to remove the dirt from his body after each cultivation session, instead of going downstairs to find water to clean it.
It was in the early hours of the third day that Ning Cheng used the Dust Removal Technique to clean himself up and then went to clean the cultivation room.
The cultivation room on the seventh floor was just as he had thought, there were not many people coming to cultivate. Even if he hadn’t come to clean it for three days, there were still several clean cultivation rooms that were empty.
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For the next few days, Ning Cheng kept hiding on the seventh floor to cultivate, while also using the opportunity to clean the cultivation room to go to the cultivation room to cultivate various spells. The only regret was that there was no aura support for him to cultivate spells in the middle of the cultivation room.
Time pa*sed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, ten days had pa*sed, during which time Ji Luofei had not come up to look for Ning Cheng once. Ning Cheng also rarely went out, his entire mind was focused on cultivation.
But as Ning Cheng advanced to the third Qi gathering layer, he became a little alarmed. After he cultivated to the third level of Qi gathering, he could no longer sense the kind of spiritual source support in his body. Ning Cheng knew very well that without the support of that mysterious spirit source in his body, he would not be able to cultivate from the third Qi gathering layer to the fourth Qi gathering layer even if he cultivated for the rest of his life.
In the days that followed, Ning Cheng repeatedly cultivated, but could no longer have that kind of situation where his body provided a pure and thick spirit energy support. His cultivation level stagnated, but on the contrary, he had successfully cultivated several simple spells. When he had just advanced to the third level of Qi gathering, he had even advanced his Fireball Technique and into the Fire Blade Technique under the guidance of the gongfu modifications.
Even so, it still made Ning Cheng’s heart anxious, without the support of the mysterious spirit source, he would only be able to stay at the third Qi gathering level for the rest of his life.
Ning Cheng decided to go out and look for Ji Luofei, his cultivation had not progressed and he did not want to remain inside this stone house. He had just packed up and had not even opened the door when he heard a “boom” and the door of his small stone hut was kicked open by someone.