“We went to that teleportation array, only that at that time, after we removed some of the devices of that teleportation array, we could no longer put it on. Even if we forced it on, we couldn’t activate that teleportation formation.” Nalan Ruxue said in a downcast tone.
Ning Cheng secretly shook his head, the level of that teleportation array was ridiculously high, without that heaven defying array pattern, even he would not be able to make the Spiny Tooth Lake’s teleportation array start in one direction. In fact, after he had used that formation pattern, the one-way activation of the teleportation formation was not perfect either. This was him being forcibly transported over, if it were another person, he might have been torn apart during the spatial transition.
Now that Yan Ji had removed the device of the teleportation array, not to mention that Yan Ji and Nalan Ruxue could not fit it, with his level of formation, he could not fit it now either. This dismantling would be tantamount to destroying the chain of spatial laws built up by the teleportation formation. If one’s formation level was not strong enough, one would definitely not be able to install it.
Unless the part that Yan Ji removed was somewhere that had nothing to do with the spatial law chain, which was obviously impossible. If the part that Yan Ji had removed had nothing to do with the Spatial Law Chain, then she and Nalan Ruxue would have been teleported away long ago.
“When we were unable to restore the teleportation formation, Senior Sister Yan Ji knew that our formation dao level was too poor. We desperately tried to learn the Dao of Formation, but how can the Dao of Formation be so easy to learn? And advanced teleportation formations also involve the laws of space. In order to learn more advanced laws, Senior Sister Yan Ji went to the Tai Su Market, where I heard that there were countless divine laws and treasures, and that it was the best place to cultivate.” Nalan Ruxue said with a sigh.
“Why didn’t you go?” When Ning Cheng heard Yan Ji’s reason for going to the Tai Su Ruins, he knew that this was her character. Yan Ji was the kind of person who was incredibly stubborn and liked to rely on herself to fight for everything.
Nalan Ru Xue lowered her head, “It takes nearly 100,000 divine crystals to go to the Tai Su Ruins, and the two of us, Yan Ji and I, have only barely saved up 200,000 divine crystals after adventuring around here for so many years. It was still a chance that we came across a divine spirit grass of extremely high price, the Shura Heavenly Ginseng ……”
Ning Cheng understood that it turned out that Yan Ji’s travel expenses to the Tai Su Market had been put together by her and Nalan Ruxue in partnership. He asked, slightly puzzled, “I saw someone waiting for an airship to Tai Su Market in the square at the entrance of Bian Su City earlier, it seems that only about ten thousand divine crystals would be enough.”
Nalan Ruxue shook her head and said, “That airship didn’t go directly to the Tai Su Market, but to the location of a cluster of teleportation formations. The cultivators who get off the airship have to use that teleportation formation to teleport to Tai Su Market again, or to teleport to somewhere else. The price to Tai Su Market is around eighty thousand upper grade divine crystals, so if they don’t have that many divine crystals, they can only be blocked from entering or leaving that place.”
After a pause Nalan Ruxue continued, “My cultivation level is slightly lower, not yet at the Heavenly Level, so it’s slightly safer to stay here. In the past, I teamed up with some people to look for some resources near Bian Su Divine Sea City, only that the speed of coming to divine crystals was too slow.
Half a month ago when my teammates and I were hunting for sea demons, the three senior brothers Tao passed by and helped us out once. After returning to Bian Su Divine Sea City, Senior Brother Tao Xing and the others invited me to join their squad, and I agreed considering that they were farther out to sea and had a larger share. We were supposed to go out to sea in a few days, and we just happened to meet you.”
When Ning Cheng heard Nalan Ruxue’s words, he knew that Nalan Ruxue had really changed a lot. If it was before, even if someone had helped her, the most she would do was to give a word of thanks and would definitely not agree to team up with someone else.
Seeing Ning Cheng’s brow frowning slightly and not saying anything for a long time, Nalan Ruxue called out somewhat uneasily, “Senior Brother Ning ……”
“Hmm.” Ning Cheng thought for a moment or asked, “Nalan, you are only at the Heavenly Fate Realm cultivation level, why do you want to team up with three strong people from the Heavenly Position Realm?”
Hearing Ning Cheng call Nalan, Nalan Ruxue’s heart was a little gloomy, but after hearing Ning Cheng’s words, she hurriedly raised her head and asked suspiciously, “Senior Brother Tao Xing and the three of them are all at Heavenly Fate Realm cultivation, why did you say that they are at Heavenly Rank Realm?”
All of them were at the Heavenly Fate Realm? Ning Cheng froze for a little bit before he understood. He was an Eternal Realm powerhouse, so the cultivation levels of the three Tao Xing’s were naturally no secret in his eyes. However, Nalan Ru Xue was only at the Heavenly Fate Realm cultivation level, and it was very simple for three Heavenly Plane Realms whose cultivation levels were far higher than his to try to hide their cultivation levels in front of her.
It was as if Tao Xing’s three people could not see his cultivation at all, it was a truth.
Ning Cheng said with a straight face, “I am not wrong, Tao Xing, You Cheng and Li Si Yan are all at the Heavenly Realm cultivation level. Any one of them can instantly kill you.”
Nalan Ru Xue’s face changed greatly for a while before she bowed to Ning Cheng and said, “Thank you, Senior Brother Ning, I understand what is going on.”
Why would three other Heavenly Realm cultivators want her, a Heavenly Destiny Realm cultivator, to form a team? The purpose of teaming up to go to the sea was to search for treasure, and when there was treasure to search for, there was danger, and the stronger the teammate was, the better. Nalan Ruxue was only a Heavenly Fate Realm cultivator, what could she help if she teamed up with a Heavenly Realm cultivator? Since she couldn’t help her teammates, there must be another reason why they still wanted her to team up.
“Nalan ……” Ning Cheng saw that Nalan Ruxue’s face looked a little forlorn and wanted to comfort her.
However, Nalan Ruxue suddenly interrupted Ning Cheng, “Senior Brother Ning, Nalan sounds so awkward, you can also call me Ruxue. I was born in a big clan since I was young, and with the fact that I thought I had good qualifications, I have developed some bad and arrogant character. Having been out on my own all these years, I have long since understood the truth of it. Senior Brother Ning looks down on me, and I know that ……”
“Senior sister Ru Xue, are the parts for that transmission array with you?” Ning Cheng heard that the more Nalan said the more aggrieved he seemed to be and hurriedly interrupted the conversation to digress. He really didn’t look down on Nalan Ruxue, he just didn’t want to be friends with someone like Nalan.
Back then, if he hadn’t happened to have a talisman, he would have been nullified by Nalan Ruxue’s master. Even when he was caught in the path of rules, Nalan Ruxue was still using him behind his back. This kind of thing, even if Ning Cheng no longer cared about it, he did not want to have too much involvement with someone like Nalan Ru Xue.
If it wasn’t for the fact that at this time, Nalan Ruxue was very different from before, Ning Cheng wouldn’t want to talk to her too much even if he wanted to know where Yan Ji had gone.
“In.” Nalan Ruxue hurriedly took out a storage bag and handed it to Ning Cheng, “There is also a directional jade slip inside that leads to the place where the teleportation array was set up.”
Ning Cheng’s divine sense landed on the storage bag, he was an Array Dao Master, and after a sweep of his divine sense on these teleportation array attachments, he understood that these were indeed the main components. After experiencing the Teleportation Formation at the Spiny Tooth Lake, Ning Cheng knew that without the help of that kind of advanced formation pattern, even he would not be able to restore these back now.
Seeing that Ning Cheng wanted to return the items to himself, Nalan Ru Xue hurriedly said, “Senior Brother Ning, these items will be placed on you, I am not very proficient in formations.”
“Fine.” Ning Cheng did not push back, with these things, it would be easier for him to go back in the future. Just because he couldn’t put these transmission array components on now, didn’t mean he couldn’t put them on in the future.
It seemed that Ning Cheng had put away the parts of the teleportation array, and Nalan Ru Xue’s mood improved a little, “Senior Brother Ning, in three days’ time Tao Xing and the others are going to look for us to go to Red Branch Island together, so why don’t we think of a way not to go with them?”
“Is there really a Wood Origin Crystal on Red Branch Island?” Ning Cheng asked rhetorically.
Nalan Ruxue nodded, “Many people know about this matter, in fact very few cultivators can actually find Wood Origin Crystals on Red Branch Island.”
“Then go, why not.” Ning Cheng said with certainty, as long as there were Wood Origin Crystals, he would naturally go there. The three Heavenly Realm cultivators were mere ants in his eyes.
“Ah ……” Nalan Ru Xue looked at Ning Cheng in confusion, knowing that Tao Xing and the three were Heavenly Realm powerhouses, he still wanted to team up with them to go over there? Could it be that Ning Cheng had also advanced to the Heavenly Realm? But this was very possible, Ning Cheng’s natural talent was not weaker than Yan Ji’s at all, even Yan Ji had advanced to the Heavenly Realm, why couldn’t Ning Cheng advance to the Heavenly Realm?
Ning Cheng did not explain the reason, instead he asked, “Senior sister Ru Xue, I know that the Tai Su Realm is a higher realm than our Four Great Star Realms. Do you know what it is to reach the highest level of cultivation here?”
After asking, Ning Cheng even looked at Nalan Ruxue slightly nervously. After meeting that red-haired powerhouse in the Tai Su Sea, he knew that his strength was not worth mentioning here.
Nalan Ruxue said cautiously, “Before, I thought that cultivating to the Eternal Realm of Perfection was the highest realm. After coming here, I realised that the Eternal Realm Perfection has not yet opened the door to true cultivation.”
Ning Cheng had been prepared for this, but after hearing this, he was still slightly lost in his heart. He had cultivated until now and hadn’t even opened the gate.
Nalan Ruxue took a breath, “I heard that in the Tai Su Realm only cultivators who had begun to prove their dao could barely be called strong.”
“Dao proof? Is it talking about Dao-shaping powerhouses?” Ning Cheng asked in a deep voice.
Nalan Ruxue shook her head, “No, Shaping the Dao is only the Dao of Enrichment just moving its feet, it is rumored here that there are three steps to the Dao of Enrichment.”
“Which three steps?” Ning Cheng even asked out with some urgency.
Instead, Nalan Ru Xue felt that Ning Cheng was real, no longer a figure that she could not even see. Wasn’t she just as eager to know when she first learned that there were three steps to the Dao of enlightenment?
“The first step to Dao enlightenment is to shape the Dao, nurture the Dao, and transform the Dao ……”
Without waiting for Nalan Ru Xue to finish her sentence, Ning Cheng once again spoke out to interrupt, “So Dao Shaping is only an initial realm in the first step of Dao Enlightenment?”
Nalan Ruxue gave a hmph, “Yes, there was once a Dao Nurturing powerhouse that came to Bian Su Divine Sea City, and I took a glance at it from afar.”
“What about the second step?” Ning Cheng’s heart actually grew hotter and hotter when he heard about the three steps of the Dao of Evidence. He had the Xuanhuang Pearl, and one day, he would reach the peak of the third step.
“I heard that you can only step into the second step after you have transformed into a Yuan Yuan, and the second step of Dao enlightenment is Dao Yuan, Mixed Yuan, and Harmonious Dao ……”
When Ning Cheng heard this, he suddenly recalled what he had heard in that shop earlier, saying that a Dao Harmonization powerhouse had also been to the Tai Su Ruins. Surprisingly, even a Dao Harmonization strongman was only in the second step, so how strong should the third step be?
Seeing Ning Cheng’s eager gaze, Nalan Ru Xue’s heart trembled, and she soon came to her senses that Ning Cheng’s gaze was not eager for her, but for the Third Step of Dao Certification.