It was only after an incense stick that Ning Cheng recovered most of his true essence with the help of the spirit stones.
The red flying sword had already fallen into the blood pool, and Ning Cheng had no intention of retrieving it, he just raised his hand to recall the Seven Obsidian Ice Needle. The man in grey’s belongings were hidden somewhere, and there was neither a storage bag nor any other storage device on his body.
Ning Cheng did not care about the things on this man in grey, a guy who relied on blood to cultivate, even if he had something, it was not something he wanted.
It was only at this point that he had the chance to survey the situation around here.
The place where he was was hundreds of square feet in circumference, surrounded by formations that made it appear vaguely hazy. In the middle of this area was this huge pool of blood, and directly above it was reflected by the blood mist of the pool, which could not be seen clearly either. When his divine sense swept over, it was immediately blocked back by the formation.
Ning Cheng looked at it carefully several times and confirmed that there was no other way out of this place apart from the blood pool. The way in had been blocked by the man in grey, unless he also had a talisman like Pei Guanghe’s and used it to leave the place.
The only thing that had any hope of getting out was the blood pool, otherwise he could only attack the surrounding formations alone. Not to mention that Ning Cheng could not understand the formations around here at all, even if he did, he would not dare to attack them alone casually.
As for the blood pool, Ning Cheng did not want to go in even more, as the blood pool was flooded with a burst of blood bubbles, and after a few True Condensation cultivators had fallen in, there was no more movement, so just looking at it made his scalp feel a little numb.
After Ning Cheng tried the top of the blood pool and was sure that there was no suction, he flew and landed on the platform where the man in grey was sitting in the middle of the blood pool.
With a wave of his hand, those bone slags on the platform were already thrown into the blood pool by Ning Cheng.
Ning Cheng knocked on the platform with the lance in his hand, and a simple, simple sound emitted from inside.
It was empty inside? Ning Cheng immediately became a little excited in his heart, he did not care about this grey clothed man’s stuff, but the grey clothed man had been in here for an unknown amount of time. This relic was real, perhaps all the things in the relic had been collected by the man in grey in this relic.
Ning Cheng did not take much time to see out the formation inscribed on this platform. It was a simple closed formation, Ning Cheng just threw out a few formation flags and with a lift of his hand, a lid was lifted from this platform.
A long and narrow ladder appeared at Ning Cheng’s feet, and only after Ning Cheng’s divine thoughts swept in and made sure that there was no problem did he step into the ladder, while putting the cover on the outside again.
The staircase led to nowhere and was deep and long. Ning Cheng walked for a good half an hour before he saw that there were no more steps in front of him, but there was an additional pathway made of sand and stone. Around the pathway, there were some bright light stones suspended sparsely.
Ning Cheng walked along this pathway for almost another hour before he saw a stone house without a door.
Only after confirming that the stone house was free from any danger did Ning Cheng enter the stone house, in the middle of which sat a white skeleton. This skeleton did not know how many years had pa*sed, but it still emitted a powerful pressure, more powerful than the withered bone that the man in grey had lifted up from the blood pool before.
On either side of the stone room, apart from a stone table, there was only a stone shelf. Neither on the table nor on the stone shelf was there anything. It was evident that everything here had already been taken away by the person who came first.
Ning Cheng approached the skeleton, and he had some suspicions that this skeleton was the legendary cultivator of the Sea Pioneer Realm. On the ground in front of the skeleton, Ning Cheng saw a row of small letters, “If you wish to enter my door, withhold your head forty-nine.
Not to mention that Ning Cheng did not get anything, even if he got something, he would not kowtow to a strange skeleton forty-nine for no reason.
Ning Cheng walked to the foot of the wall, sacrificed the long spear in his hand, and aimed it at the place where the skeleton had written in front of him and blasted it over.
“Boom.”
The lance blasted on the ground, splashing countless debris, and the skeleton suddenly shattered at the same time, shooting out dense white bone arrows. Ning Cheng was startled, immediately is a fist axe blast out, that is white bone arrows seems to be a long time ago, by Ning Cheng’s fist axe stirred away, have landed in front of Ning Cheng, surprisingly did not hurt Ning Cheng. The white bone arrows seemed to be of old age, and were stirred up by Ning Cheng’s fist axe, landing in front of him one after another.
Ning Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the bone skeleton, which had already shattered and fallen to the ground. The ground that had been blasted by his spear and the place where the skeleton had fallen to the ground, there was nothing. Ning Cheng was not much disappointed, when he came in, he knew that the things here had been taken away by the person who came first.
Just then, a saloon fell down and a huge opening opened up in the roof of this stone house, and yellow sand fell down from outside the roof.
Ning Cheng was not surprised but delighted, since there was yellow sand falling here, it meant that this was the Falling Thunder Desert up here, he could just follow this yellow sand upstream and he would always reach the top of the desert.
A shrill cry came from the distant pa*sage, and Ning Cheng immediately heard that the cry was from that young girl, Connie Wang. This woman did not know if she had entered the pa*sage or if she was somewhere else making the shout. If she had entered the pa*sage, then it meant that the formation that sealed the Blood Pool had been opened.
But Ning Cheng no longer wanted to retreat, this relic must have been searched for countless times, and those breezes he had felt when he had entered were not right. The inside of the relic was so bizarre that he no longer had the idea to continue exploring, so he might as well go up from this descending yellow sand now.
As Ning Cheng stepped across the patch of ground that had been blasted out by his lance, he suddenly felt that something was not right. He was a level two formation master, and one of the broken stones had a concealment formation carved on it, which he could see right away. He immediately ingested the broken stone, and with a single use of his hand, a delicate jade seal appeared in his hand. Four words were engraved on the jade seal, Lan Yi Zhen Guo.
“Wow ……” As more and more yellow sand fell, Ning Cheng could no longer think about the rest and threw the jade seal into his storage bag, grabbed his spear and instantly rushed into the yellow sand.
With his true essence running, Ning Cheng was swimming upstream in the yellow sand.
One hour, two hours ……
Half a day had pa*sed and Ning Cheng was still swimming against the current in this yellow sand, it was as if Ning Cheng was at the lowest end of the sand and rocks, it was still far away to emerge.
It was a good thing that Ning Cheng was already a True Condensation cultivator and could have breathed internally long ago, otherwise it would have smothered him to death. Half a day later, he stopped and began to rest to recover his true essence.
Another half a day later, Ning Cheng sensed that the place where the tip of the spear touched was loosened, and the next moment the pressure above his head was also loosened. A gust of yellowish wind and sand rolled over and Ning Cheng let out a long breath, he was finally on top of the desert again.
Ning Cheng did not stay here for half a breath, he immediately found a direction and quickly left the original place. He wanted to leave this vicinity first, and then find a safe place to cleanse himself before recovering his true essence.
An hour later, Ning Cheng found the outskirts of a dry poplar and he decided to rest here.
Before settling on this place to rest, Ning Cheng’s divine sense swept out, and at this time, his divine mind could already view a range of ten or so miles around.
A cloaked cultivator blurred into Ning Cheng’s divine Sense, this cultivator was stumbling on her feet, clearly running out of breath. This was also a female cultivator, and looking at her, it seemed that she was running away in the desert.
Consort Luo? Ning Cheng recognised this female cultivator almost instantly, surprisingly, it was Ji Luofei.
Wasn’t Ji Luofei at the Meteorite Academy in the Huaxing Continent? How could she have appeared in the Falling Thunder Desert?
Ning Cheng almost didn’t even think about it and immediately rushed over. In just a dozen breaths, Ning Cheng had already arrived in front of Ji Luofei.
When Ji Luofei saw a figure rushing towards her, she almost subconsciously raised the flying sword in her hand and slashed at Ning Cheng.
With a simple lift of Ning Cheng’s hand, Ji Luofei’s flying sword deflected straight away. Without waiting for Ji Luofei to make her next move, Ning Cheng had already grabbed Ji Luofei’s wrist, “Luofei, what the hell is going on, I am Ning Cheng.”
“Already dead?” Ji Luofei’s gaze swept past Ning Cheng’s face, and her frantic eyes immediately quieted down, and then she fainted into Ning Cheng’s arms. Ning Cheng took out the water from the Spiritual Marrow Spring and fed some to Ji Luofei. He still had some pills in his storage bag, they were all his spoils of war and he didn’t know if they could be used, so he didn’t take them out.
Ji Luofei was just off her feet, she should wake up after resting for a while.
Ning Cheng found a strap and carried Ji Luofei on his back, he decided to change to another place to wait until Ji Luofei had fully recovered.
Ji Luofei was clearly at the Meteorite Academy and now she was running alone into the desert, something must have happened. If she hadn’t met herself in time, just a random desert whirlpool would have swallowed her up.
Ning Cheng once again changed his direction, while speeding up.
Some heat emanated from the drumming of his true essence woke up Ji Luofei. Ji Luofei opened her eyes, and when she saw that she was on the back of a male cultivator, she was immediately about to pull her flying sword from her waist and slash down. But then she realised that she did not have her flying sword on her, and at the same time she remembered the familiar face she had seen before she fell unconscious.
“Ning Cheng ……,” Ji Luofei trembled as she reached out her hand and stroked the back of Ning Cheng’s neck, her tone also trembling, “Are we all finally dead?”
Ning Cheng was slightly tickled by Ji Luofei’s incredibly gentle palm, and just as he wanted to speak, he heard Ji Luofei continue in a trembling voice, “I’m sorry, Ning Cheng. You said for me to help you take revenge, I can’t help you take revenge …… You are the only family I have left, dying with you makes me happy ……”
Ji Luofei’s ears once again surrounded Ning Cheng’s words, the
“Don’t be nervous, come with me, just listen to me.”
“Luo Fei, you know my qualifications, just remember to avenge me later after you leave ……”
She had never had anyone treat her so well in her life, even if Ning Cheng had bullied her for more than ten years and was only nice to her for one day, she still couldn’t forget it. Ning Cheng was the only person who was going to save her with his life, and at a time when she didn’t want to leave Ning Cheng, she had no choice left. It was a pity that before she died, she did not help Ning Cheng to fulfil her wish and take revenge for him.
Ning Cheng suddenly felt a little sour at the tip of his nose, he really hadn’t done anything to Ji Luofei, and had even bullied her for many years before he came out of prison. This woman still treated him as her only family, compared to what Ji Luofei had done, Ning Cheng suddenly felt ashamed.
On the surface, Ji Luofei had not done anything to him, but secretly, she had gone to the pot fighting arena to fight for her life to win that one Qi gathering stone, just so that he could cultivate.