At the entrance stood two cultivators, a man and a woman. Ning Cheng was already at the third level of Qi gathering and could tell at a glance that the male cultivator was at the fourth level of Qi gathering and the female cultivator at the third level of Qi gathering. The male cultivator was tall and not bad looking, only his slender eyes made his tall stature a little redundant.
“You are the handyman who cleans the cultivation room here?” The woman saw that Ning Cheng was only at a mere Qi gathering layer, and disdain flashed in the corner of her eyes.
Ning Cheng was about to leave this place, that Mu Lao could do whatever he liked, it had nothing to do with him. But unexpectedly, the door was kicked in when he was on his way out.
“What gives you two the right to kick my door?” Ning Cheng didn’t even answer the female cultivator’s question and asked directly.
When the man with slender eyes saw that Ning Cheng even dared to ask them back, he immediately stepped forward, “What, are you still upset that I kicked your door, today I will not only kick your door, but also punch you in the face, what can you do ……”
The man hadn’t finished speaking, and his palm was already raised.
“What a great prestige.” An icy cold voice came from the man with the slender eyes, and the man’s hand stayed hard in the air.
Ning Cheng had seen that the male cultivator was about to make a move and was already ready to strike, but he did not expect someone to take the initiative to speak. At this moment, he also saw the person who had spoken, a woman who had just come out of the cultivation room. Not only did this woman speak coldly, her face was just as expressionless.
If one were to look at her looks alone, she was no worse than Jane Su-jie. What amazed Ning Cheng was not her looks, but her cultivation level, which was already at the sixth Qi gathering level.
“Senior Sister Zhuang.” The slender-eyed male cultivator had already recognized the woman who had spoken and hurriedly called out with a fist, while the female cultivator at the third Qi gathering level next to him also hurriedly came forward to ask for a salute.
The woman called Senior Sister Zhuang snorted coldly and turned around to leave, but the moment she turned around, she saw Ning Cheng. She then once again stopped her steps to leave and instead walked over and frowned a little and said, “You’re Ning Cheng? Ji Luofei’s fiancé?”
Ning Cheng clasped his fist without being condescending and said, “I am none other than Ning Cheng, meet Senior Sister Zhuang.”
Seeing that Senior Sister Zhuang actually knew Ning Cheng, the slender-eyed male cultivator hurriedly said once again, “Senior Sister Zhuang, I left one of my Yingui in the Cultivation Room, I didn’t leave for long and came back to look for it, but I couldn’t find it. The ones who can enter the cultivation room on the seventh floor are other than this handyman ……”
Before this slender-eyed male cultivator could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by Senior Sister Zhuang, “Lu Pengyun, you know Ning Cheng’s identity, right? The Meteor Five Star Academy is about to come to the Cang Qin Two Star Academy to recruit ten disciples, and the selection is about to begin, so Gu Yiming will definitely be back. Gu Fei thought that Ji Luofei was a good bully, but he didn’t want to be injured by Ji Luofei instead. When Gu Yiming returns, Ji Luofei will definitely not be able to escape, so you came here to try to teach Ning Cheng a lesson before taking him away to humiliate Ji Luofei.”
The male cultivator called Lu Pengyun’s face changed green and white for a while, then he simply said, “Senior Sister Zhuang, you and Senior Brother Gu are both people I respect. Senior Brother Gu has already returned, and since Gu Fei was seriously injured by Ji Luofei, Senior Brother Gu will definitely not let this matter go.”
“So you want to tell me not to meddle in the matter and let you take Ning Cheng away?” Senior Sister Zhuang said in a faint voice.
The male cultivator clasped his fist and stopped speaking, clearly Senior Sister Zhuang was saying what was in their hearts.
“Get lost, don’t let me see you in the Daan Forest and Mango Sea, or I will kill you.” These two words from Senior Sister Zhuang were incomparably cold, and the two cultivators, a man and a woman, turned pale when they heard them. They did not seem to have expected Senior Sister Zhuang to not even give face to Gu Yiming.
However, the two did not dare to continue nagging, and hurriedly turned around and quickly went down the stairs in a grey manner.
“You take care of yourself.” After Senior Sister Zhuang saw these two go down, she stared at Ning Cheng again and said without expression.
Ning Cheng was really a little depressed in his heart, he was already a little twisted in his heart from being saved by two women in a row. Now whether it was Jane Su-jie or this Senior Sister Zhuang, it was the four words “Be good to yourself”.
Seeing Senior Sister Zhuang turn to leave, Ning Cheng hurriedly called out and said, “Thank you for helping Senior Sister Zhuang, I still want to ask Senior Sister, what is going on with Luo Fei and that Gu Fei?”
Senior Sister Zhuang turned around and stared at Ning Cheng and said in reply, “You are not good enough for Gui Luofei.”
After saying that, she surprisingly stopped paying attention to Ning Cheng and turned around to leave.
When Ning Cheng thought of the fact that Concubine Ji had not come up to him for ten days, he became a little worried in his heart and similarly sped up, chasing after him a few steps and asking earnestly, “Senior Sister Zhuang, please tell me how Concubine Luo was injured by Gu Fei, Ning Cheng would be grateful.”
Senior Sister Zhuang stopped and swept a glance at Ning Cheng before saying, “Ji Luofei won a Qi gathering stone after ten consecutive battles in the pot fighting arena. Gu Fei saw that after Ji Luofei’s ten battles, her true qi was unsustainable and she had no friends to accompany her, so she took the initiative to challenge Ji Luofei and bet on a qi gathering stone. Ji Luofei had to fight an additional match under the threat of the fighting pot arena. As a result, she was seriously injured by Gu Fei due to a lack of true qi. But Gu Fei also underestimated Ji Luofei and was injured even more severely ……”
She paused for a moment, then looked at Ning Cheng again, “If I didn’t guess, that Qi gathering stone of Ji Luofei should have been given to you to use, so you could advance to the Qi gathering layer.”
Ning Cheng did not refute this statement, Ji Luofei’s Qi Gathering Stone had indeed been given to him, but he had not used it yet and had kept it by his side. His advancement to the Qi gathering layer had nothing to do with Ji Luofei’s Qi gathering stone.
“Senior Sister Zhuang, you said that Gu Yiming was Gu Fei’s brother and that he was going to seek revenge on Concubine Luo when he returned?” Ning Cheng inquired once again.
Still not directly answering Ning Cheng’s words, Senior Sister Zhuang said to herself, “After defeating Gu Fei, Gu Luofei won a Qi Gathering Stone again, yet she did not kill Gu Fei. Because she was already seriously injured and had no one to accompany her, one of the deacons of the Fighting Pot Arena forcibly asked Ji Luofei to leave one of the two Qi Gathering Stones behind.”
“Why?” Ning Cheng did not even notice that his voice had become loud all of a sudden.
Senior Sister Zhuang said in a slow voice, “Because after Ji Luofei had finished her ten fights, it had already ended. Gu Fei’s challenge to her belonged to an accidental fight, and the deacon of that fighting pot arena demanded a venue fee.”
“The venue fee for a fight is a Qi gathering stone? And it was the Fighting Pot Arena that forced Luo Fei to ask for an additional match?” Ning Cheng felt the flames burning in his heart, this was simply too much bullying. He could even imagine Ji Luofei’s helplessness back then.
Senior Sister Zhuang said in an even flatter tone, “When Gu Yiming returns, he will definitely find an excuse to kill Ji Luofei, so if you want to live, it won’t do you any harm to leave here early.”
This time, after Senior Sister Zhuang finished speaking, her footsteps quickened and she quickly disappeared at the stairway.
Ning Cheng calmed down his inner anger and did not go out through the side door this time. He was about to leave Cang Qin Two Star Academy, so he wouldn’t care even if he had offended anyone.
When Ning Cheng first followed Ji Luofei to the third floor of the Cultivation Tower, there were many people on the third floor, but when Ning Cheng walked to the third floor again today, he found that there were only a few people. Moreover, these few people were also in a hurry to get down the stairs.
“What are you doing down here if you’re not staying on the seventh floor to clean the cultivation room?” Ning Cheng was just about to go down from the third floor when Elder Mu’s voice suddenly appeared in Ning Cheng’s ears. Ning Cheng was startled, he had clearly seen that the door to Mu Lao’s stone room was closed just now, how come it had opened in the blink of an eye?
Ning Cheng instantly reacted and hurriedly stood and bowed as he replied, “I want to go and see what all the fuss is about.”
He had no idea what had happened, but everyone from the Cultivation Tower had gone out, and now only those who had gone out had not come in, so in Ning Cheng’s opinion, he thought that something must have happened.
“You’re not too bold.” After Old Mu said in a cold voice, he surprisingly did not say anything more, instead he returned to his own stone room while the door of the stone room was closed.
Ning Cheng, however, was scared into a cold sweat, he did not know what Elder Mu meant when he said that he was not too timid. Was it because he had gone AWOL, or was it because he had taken the Grand Staircase? Whichever it was, Elder Mu only said that and actually did not reprimand him further, which made Ning Cheng feel even more bizarre while being frightened.
Luckily, Ning Cheng immediately thought that he would not remain here, and his heart settled a little. When he went out, he would find Ji Luofei and then leave the place.
Walking out of the Cultivation Tower, Ning Cheng then realised that there was really something lively to see. Many students from Cang Qin Academy were all flocking to the same place, and Ning Cheng pulled a boy who was also only at the Qi gathering layer and asked, “Excuse me, what place are so many people going to?”
This Qi gathering layer boy looked at Ning Cheng suspiciously and asked, “You’re not from Cang Qin Academy?”
“Of course I am, it’s just that I just came out of seclusion, so I’m not very clear about it.” Ning Cheng said in a straightforward manner.
The Qi gathering layer boy looked at Ning Cheng with some disbelief, it would be strange for him to believe a Qi gathering layer guy who said he was in seclusion. However, he still replied, “The Five Star Academy of the Meteoric Star of the Chemical Continent has come to our academy to select ten disciples, today is the start of the selection round, can it not be lively?”
“Won’t the competition be fierce then?” Ning Cheng knew about this matter, when he and Ji Luofei had entered the Cang Qin Two Star Academy, he had heard the radio broadcast about it, and not long ago Senior Sister Zhuang had also mentioned it.
“Is it more than fierce? Our Cang Qin Two Star Academy is full of talents, and there are countless talented disciples, and only ten are selected by the Meteoric Five Star Academy in the Hua Continent, do you think it is intense? Senior Brother Qiu Yingguang, Senior Sister Jane Sujie, Senior Brother Hou Chuan, Senior Sister Zhuang Tianya …… This is more than ten just to mention.” Hearing this, another student from the next Qi gathering layer immediately interjected.
Ning Cheng shook his head and sighed as if he was also a student of the academy and said, “Alas, it would have been nice if the Meteorite Five Star Academy could have enrolled a few more in our academy.”
The student who had been pulled by Ning Cheng before looked at Ning Cheng with an incredulous expression and said, “Don’t you know how these ten places came about? In the past, even if students from our Cang Qin Two Star Academy wanted to go to the Meteorite Five Star Academy, they would go there on their own, and only one or two would be picked. This time, the reason why the Meteorite Five Star Academy took the initiative to come and pick them is because our number one expert in the Ping Continent, Senior Lian Hao Yan, has made a great achievement for the war in the three continents, and this is why they are treated this way.”
“That’s certainly true, Senior Lian Haoyan has a heavenly cultivation and I heard that he is already at the Xuan Dan realm. The first thing he did after he made his merit was to request that the meteoric five-star academy on the Hua Continent be able to recruit ten students at all the two-star or higher academies on the Ping Continent. Otherwise, it would indeed be unlikely for my Cang Qin Academy to want ten places, let alone for a teacher from the Meteoric Star Five Star Academy to come and pick someone personally.” The later student, who was at the first level of Qi gathering, heard this and then spoke out in agreement.