“What’s a trifling b*tch?” When Ji Luofei heard Ning Cheng call her aunt a trifling b*tch, she did not understand for a moment and inquired.
Ning Cheng laughed and hurriedly changed the subject, “Without talking about your aunt, I heard that a six-star academy was going to be established in the Huazhou Continent, was it a grand competition between five five-star academies? Do you know about this?”
Ji Luofei nodded, “Yes, there is indeed such a thing, this grand competition will not only compare the overall strength of the five five-star colleges in Huazhou, but also the potential strength of the five five-star colleges. What really determines the result is the potential strength. This potential strength, is when each five-star academy selects some of its condensed true disciples to compete in an all-round competition.”
“Then will the ones with good results be chosen to go to the Intermediate Continent?” Ning Cheng hurriedly asked again, this was what he wanted to ask. He had an entry jade token from the Qing Yun Five Star Academy, and if he could join the Five Star Academy, he believed that even if he faced the late stage of True Condensation, he would still have a fighting chance. Wasn’t the competition just about strength, in case he was good enough to get a ranking in the Five Star Academy’s Grand Competition and be sent to the Intermediate Continent, that would be a blessing.
Ning Cheng had long since learned that if he wanted to cultivate to a higher realm, staying in a lower continent simply wouldn’t work, and only when he reached an intermediate continent or a higher continent would he have the best chance of finding a higher realm.
“I’m not really sure about that anymore, I haven’t stayed at the Meteor Academy for very long and have spent most of my time in the rest of the world and in the Falling Thunder Desert. I’ve only heard that the rewards for the first few places are very generous, other than that I ……”
Ji Luofei’s words were interrupted by Ning Cheng, “Luofei, you are only at the fifth Qi gathering level, how could you have walked in the Falling Thunder Desert for so long? And come here?”
A hint of gloom appeared in Ji Luofei’s eyes, “I met a good family at the edge of the Falling Thunder Desert, they were also forced by their enemies to go to Waki Continent. I then followed them all the way, they seemed to have safer routes and we walked in the desert for a month or two without meeting any great danger. But three days ago we met a tornado of sand ……”
When Ning Cheng heard this, he immediately knew that it was not good. The reason why he had deviated from his direction in the first place was because he had met a yellow dragon that was swept up by sand and stones. At the same time, he sighed in his heart, this kind of family migration was everywhere. Once you had offended a powerful opponent, if there was no way to hide in time, you could only cross the dangerous land and go to another continent. Wasn’t this how the Ning family back then and the Ji family back then all came to be?
“That tornado of sand was extremely terrifying, and we all got separated, and I followed a few people who also deviated from the original direction. Later, we met a few robbing cultivators, the same four you killed earlier. After they stopped a few of us, we scattered and fled.
Probably because I was disfigured and my cultivation level was low, they didn’t have enough men to let me escape. I ran frantically in the same direction all the way, I always felt that this was the direction I should go. Later, I did meet you ……,” Ji Luofei’s tone was downcast, clearly worried about that good family.
Ning Cheng did not know how he should go about comforting Ji Luofei, so he had to digress once again and ask, “Luofei, I want to ask you about someone, is there a person named Meng Yu Jing at Meteorite Academy?”
Ning Cheng did not hold much hope that Ji Luofei knew Meng Yujing. There were so many people in Meteor Star Academy, and it was normal for Ji Luofei not to know Meng Yujing as she had not been there for long.
Ji Luofei looked at Ning Cheng in confusion and replied, “How do you know her? Meng Yu Jing was the academy flower of Meteorite Academy, and she was also one of the ten core disciples. She has a seventh level Condensed True cultivation and is a disciple of one of the three Xuan Dan Deans of the Academy. I’ve seen her once from afar.”
“Didn’t I tell you before that I met Kou Hong in the Da’an Forest, and he asked me to bring something to Meng Yu Jing, who I actually don’t know.” Ning Cheng explained.
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The two spoke so much together for the first time, and for the first time, Ning Cheng understood something of Ji Luofei’s heart, a woman who was truly kind and knew how to repay her kindness.
Ning Cheng and Ji Luofei rested here for a day before packing their things and leaving. Ji Luofei had found Ning Cheng and was obviously following him to return to the Continent of Transformation. As for the matter of her parents, she decided to wait until her cultivation level was high and then go to the Great An Forest to look for them.
All along the way, Ning Cheng was constantly teaching Ji Luofei to cultivate new techniques. Ji Luofei was already at the fifth level of Qi gathering, and all she had to compensate for cultivating was her divine thoughts. Together with Ning Cheng’s many spirit stones, and instructions that were not hidden at all, Ji Luofei progressed quickly.
Three days later, when Ning Cheng and Ji Luofei arrived at that oasis, Ji Luofei could already release some divine thoughts.
Ning Cheng remembered that originally on the route map this oasis was a small lake, and around the small lake was a circle of date palm trees and red willows. However, when Ning Cheng actually arrived here, he found that the date palm trees and red willows had long since disappeared. The small lake was also only a huge bath tub-like sand pit.
“What’s wrong?” When Ji Luofei saw that Ning Cheng stood still and did not move forward, she asked in confusion.
Ning Cheng pointed at the sand pit in front of him and said, “I remember that on the map I got, this oasis has existed for countless years and has never dried up, so how come it dried up when I came here?”
Before Ji Luofei could answer, a dense aura radiated out from beneath this huge sand pit.
“Spiritual Qi ……” Ji Luofei noticed the dense spiritual Qi at the same time and looked at Ning Cheng with a surprised expression.
Ning Cheng stared at this increasingly dense Spiritual Qi sand pit and was already ready to enter the sand pit to take a look. With such a dense spiritual qi here, there must be something good inside the sand pit.
“There seems to be very few people walking along this route, otherwise if there were good things here, they might have been gotten away long ago.” Of course, Ji Luofei understood that there should be something good at the bottom of this thick spirit qi pit.
Hearing these words from Ji Luofei instead, Ning Cheng stopped in his tracks and asked, “Luofei, you said that the family that brought you into the Falling Thunder Desert also had a map of the route through the Falling Thunder Desert?”
Ji Luofei gave a hmph, “Yes, we have been walking for a month or two without meeting any danger, they should have a route map. It doesn’t seem to be the path we’re taking now.”
Ning Cheng frowned, although the Falling Thunder Desert was incredibly dangerous, there was no telling how many low level cultivators had pa*sed through it over the countless years. The route map that these low-level cultivators had walked out of was obviously not one either. The same, equally safe route must have been taken by someone. An oasis here is definitely known to someone.
If someone else knew, why was there such a dense aura when he pa*sed through here after waiting for so many years? Could it be that good things were just waiting for him to come and get them?
There were too many mysterious things in the desert, and it was better to forget about them when one was not strong enough. Just like the mysterious Northern Conquering Tribe, Ning Cheng still did not know exactly where that tribe was located.
“Luo Fei, let’s go.” Ning Cheng gave up the thought of continuing to jump into the sand pit in search of treasures and brought Ji Luofei around this sand pit and was about to leave.
At that moment, the area around that sand pit suddenly collapsed down extensively, including the area where Ning Cheng was standing, and two incomparably black, dried out palms grabbed towards the back of Ning Cheng and Ji Luofei’s hearts.
Ning Cheng knew at the first moment that something was wrong, and almost at the same time as these two black, dried up palms came over, he grabbed Ji Luofei by his side and threw her out towards the sandpit, while shouting, “Luofei, run.”
After saying that, his long spear spell had already blasted out. This shot was blasted out with almost all his might, without any half-hearted reservation.
“Boom,” the lance blasted at the palm of that pitch-black dried palm, and the pitch-black palm stalled as Ning Cheng spurted out a mouthful of blood and flew backwards with the force.
Just as Ning Cheng flew out, the shriveled palm that was originally grabbing at Ji Luofei also grabbed over, and the powerful force pulled Ning Cheng to lunge at the shriveled palm of his own accord.
Ning Cheng did not know that once he landed in this palm, there would be no physiology. Without half a thought, he directly threw all of his low-level magic weapons, except for his spear, at the palm. Then, following the example of that seventh level True Condensation cultivator, he summoned up all his true essence, while burning his own essence blood like crazy.
“Boom boom boom ……” Several explosions rang out in quick succession as the dark and dried palm was exploded back by the self-explosion of several of Ning Cheng’s low grade magic weapons.
Ning Cheng spurted out several mouthfuls of blood one after another in the void, and even though he had temporarily escaped from this palm, he still landed towards this huge sand pit. In order to self-explode his magic weapon, he no longer had half the strength to return to the outside of the sand pit at this point.
The moment Ji Luofei was thrown away by Ning Cheng, she knew that something was wrong. She saw a huge sand pit appear and a black, dried up palm grabbed Ning Cheng, who was about to fall into the sand pit above the palm. She almost didn’t even think about it and pounced on Ning Cheng.
She had sworn in her heart that she would never let what happened back then happen again. If Ning Cheng fell into the sand pit, she must save him from it, and if she could not save Ning Cheng from it, then she might as well fall into the sand pit with Ning Cheng.
At this moment, there were no other thoughts in her consciousness.
The tremendous impact force of the magic weapon explosion blasted Ning Cheng out as high as he could, but Ning Cheng soon fell down again. At this moment, Ji Luofei had just arrived at the entrance of the cave, and she immediately waved out a long belt. The long belt rolled up Ning Cheng and was brought by her hand, surprisingly pulling Ning Cheng out of the sand pit.
Ji Luofei held back her inner excitement and reached out to hug Ning Cheng tightly to flee away as fast as she could. She was glad that the long belt that Ning Cheng had carried her with was collected on her body, and she was glad that she had rushed over without hesitation, even if there was even half a moment of hesitation, she would only be able to watch Ning Cheng fall into the sand pit even if she came to the hole in the sand pit.
Just as Ji Luofei led Ning Cheng away, the black dried up giant hand in the sand pit once again reached out, but when she realised that there was no longer anyone around, the black dried up palm slowly retracted into the sand pit again.
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It was only after most of an hour that Ji Luofei caught her breath and set Ning Cheng down. Then she carried Ning Cheng on her back, secured it with the long strap in her hand, and then grabbed Ning Cheng’s spear in her own hand.
“Luo Fei, thank you. If it wasn’t for you, I would be dead this time.” Ning Cheng lay on Ji Luofei’s back and said with his heart pounding.
“You lied to me.” Ji Luofei suddenly said inexplicably.
“Ah ……,” Ning Cheng said with a startled ah, not knowing what Ji Luofei meant.
“You said that you knew that day that the outcome would be the same before you told me to go first and you to break off.” Ji Luofei pursed her lips, “But why are you still like this today?”
Ning Cheng opened his mouth, could he think so much at that time? He subconsciously said, “Two people going one is better than one not getting away, no, you came back and saved me.”
“No, you threw me towards that black hand at that time, and then you could have used your strength to escape.” There were even some sobs in Ji Luofei’s voice. Ning Cheng did not do that, instead, he grabbed her and threw her away, in which case, Ning Cheng fell towards the sand pit even faster.
Why do you have to be so nice to me?