Immersed in this pleasurable feeling, Ning Cheng did not even know just how many steps he had crossed. When he stopped, a pool that was only less than one foot square appeared in front of him.
It was like a hot spring, and there was still water vapour curling up from the pool. The aura of divine essence was extremely rich, pure, fresh and with a hint of dao rhythm that made it easier for people to perceive.
In the middle of the pool, there is a lotus-like seating platform, which is suspended above the pool and holds the essence of the pool.
This was the First Divine Spring of the Extra-terrestrial Divine Spring? Ning Cheng looked at this pool with surprise, he could feel the endless and vast divine essence in this pool.
What a great place, Ning Cheng marvelled in his heart. He did not immediately rush onto the lotus platform to cultivate, and his divine sense swept out once again.
Around his divine sense, it was like a void. There were no obstacles and no end to it. The only feeling that he had was that the place he was in was a spring pool in the void. There was not the slightest trace of where this spring pool came from, or where it was located.
Despite not sensing any danger, Ning Cheng began to set up a protective formation around the divine spring. Once he fell into deep seclusion and cultivation, this defence was a must.
A day later, Ning Cheng then landed on the lotus platform in the middle of this Extra-dimensional First Divine Spring. He had just landed on it, and before he even started cultivating, he had the illusion that his cultivation level was rising.
Ning Cheng took a deep breath to calm himself down and began to operate Xuan Huang Wu Xiang on this lotus flower platform.
The rich divine Spring aura and pure divine Spirit Qi formed a spiral shaped vortex above the spring pool, a vortex that completely enveloped Ning Cheng.
In just less than half a pillar of time, Ning Cheng had completely entered into a state of cultivation. At this moment, apart from the additional ripples in the spring pool, there was no other movement. If someone was watching from the side, they could directly feel Ning Cheng’s cultivation level rising.
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Time passed, and the days and months passed by.
In the blink of an eye, more than a year had passed since the Great Tai Su Competition, and the Tai Su Domain had long since returned to its usual appearance. The owner of the Star Treading House, who had initially clashed with the Savage Dragon Clan’s Dragon Emperor, Savage Huishan, in the Tiansu Square, had not appeared since he had obtained ten bottles of mysterious pills. However, the Star Treading House was still the number one rest house in the Tiansu Holy City, and the Dragon Emperor of the Barbarian Dragon Clan did not continue to look for trouble with the Star Treading House.
Barbarian Huishan likewise did not return to the Tai Su Sea, but continued to stay in Tai Su Market.
It was only when Savage Huishan had recently captured the Lifeless Poisoner Ouyan Poison and left the Tai Su Market that some whispers spread out. The mission to capture the Lifeless Poison Hand and the Heartless Monk in the first place turned out to have been issued by the Tai Su Sea Barbarian Dragon Clan. The reason for issuing this quest was because the Lifeless Poison Hand and Heartless Monk had stolen a Dao Fruit Tree from the Tai Su Sea Barbarian Dragon Clan.
And while this Dao Fruit Tree was purchased away by a casual cultivator named Ning Cheng, Ning Cheng was assassinated by Lifeless Poison Hand and Heartless Monk while he was in seclusion in the Tai Su Market Cave. In order to retrieve this Dao Fruits Tree, the Savage Dragon Saint Emperor issued this quest, which was actually to find out where the Dao Fruits Tree was left behind after Ning Cheng’s fall.
The rumour had once again changed somewhat after the lifeless poisoner’s fate had fallen in the Tai Su Sea, and that was that Ning Cheng had not died. When the Heartless Monk and the Lifeless Poisoner had joined forces to sneakily attack Ning Cheng’s cave, it was not only for the Dao Fruit Tree, but also for a treasure that was better than the Dao Fruit Tree.
It was just that the loose cultivator called Ning Cheng was very cunning and escaped the two men’s pursuit with the help of the Golden Cicada.
When these rumours reached the ears of Barbarian Huishan, he was so angry that he almost killed all the people in Tai Su Market.
He had captured Ning Cheng for the Five-coloured Star Splitting Arrow, a matter that only a few people had known about, but now it had surprisingly spread to the whole world. He guessed that this rumour should not have been sent out by the Barbarian Dragon Clan, but by the Heartless Monk.
The Heartless Monk had wanted to remove himself from the matter after he knew that the Lifeless Poisoner had been captured and even perished. The best way to do so, then, was naturally to put everything on Ning Cheng.
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At the Tai Su Hui Mission Trading Hall, a woman dressed in green with her long hair pulled back into a starry sky female cultivator’s bun walked in. She walked straight to the mission window for the demonic beast inner elixir, took out a jade box and a silver mission token and handed it in, saying in an extremely simple tone, “Hand in the mission, Cold Ice Silver Rhino Inner Elixir.”
“Okay, please wait a moment.” The female cultivator at the mission window said in a soft voice with a smile on her face.
The green-clothed female cultivator nodded and did not speak again, seemingly anything, she appeared calm and unruffled. But the conversation of a few loose cultivators not far away caused her face to become a little agitated.
“A treasure that can be looked at by the Dragon Emperor should be a supreme wonder treasure, right? Why else would the Dragon Emperor be checking out that loose cultivator called Ning Cheng?”
“Not necessarily, it’s likely that the Dragon Emperor is here for the Dao Fruit Tree. Ning Cheng is a casual cultivator who dares to buy the Heartless Monk’s Dao Fruit Tree, he has some guts too.”
“What’s wrong with a casual cultivator? The fact that Ning Cheng was able to perform a Golden Cicada Escape and walk away unharmed under the joint sneak attack of the Lifeless Poison Hand and the Heartless Monk shows that he is not an ordinary casual cultivator.”
“You’re talking nonsense, an ordinary casual cultivator can afford to buy a Dao fruit tree? Can afford to purchase the Divine Sense Technique? Can find that much rule loam?”
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The female cultivator at the mission window handed back the silver medal of the green-clothed female cultivator again and said, “It has been handed in for you, the total is three thousand two hundred points, check it.”
“Thank you.” The green-clothed female cultivator grabbed the silver medal, hurriedly said a word of thanks before turning around and leaving. It seemed that she didn’t care at all about the points she had worked so hard for over a month to earn.
“A few senior brothers are here to give you a hand.” The green-clothed female cultivator walked up to these few cultivators who were discussing and clasped her fist, “Did I just hear you guys say that the Lifeless Poisoner was held by the Dragon Emperor?”
The few cultivators who were discussing stopped at once, they were discussing casually, and usually no one they didn’t know would interrupt. Now that someone was asking about it, and it involved the Dragon Emperor, they became cautious.
However, when several people saw that the green-clothed female cultivator had an extremely pretty face and a warm smile on her face, and that her cultivation level was not yet eternal, their guard was lowered.
A long-haired male cultivator nodded and said, “That’s right, the Lifeless Poisoner was indeed captured by the Dragon Emperor. The Dragon Emperor is doing a good deed for us, the casual cultivators. You should have just returned from the Tai Su Ruins, this matter has long since spread.”
Although he was replying to the green-clothed female cultivator’s words, he still subconsciously patted the Dragon Emperor on the back, and even said that they weren’t the only ones discussing this matter.
The green-clothed female cultivator said with chagrin, “Alas, I was planning to search for the whereabouts of the Lifeless Poison Hand and earn some points to use.”
Another thin male cultivator laughed, “This junior sister, your cultivation level is a bit too low. I suggest that you should not think about earning points like this, why not team up with us to do a mission in the Tai Su Market.”
“Haha ……” The other few cultivators all laughed loudly.
The green-clothed female cultivator didn’t care and continued to ask, “That Ning Cheng heard that he was a casual cultivator, he’s not simple either, he was able to escape from the assassination of the Lifeless Poison Hand and the Heartless Monk.”
“Simple enough to dare to buy the Heartless Monk’s Dao Fruit Tree? To be able to go untraced despite the Dragon Emperor’s search?”
The green-clothed female cultivator was slightly relieved in her heart, but her mouth said, “If it were me, I would have fled deep into the Tai Su Ruins.”
The thin male cultivator said unconcernedly, “That’s not necessarily true, if you’re remembered by the Dragon Emperor, you won’t be able to survive at the edge of the Tai Su Ruins. If one goes to the depths of the Tai Su Ruins, a casual cultivator would be looking for death. I heard that the Dragon Emperor had visited Tiansu Holy City during the Great Tai Su Competition a year ago, I wonder if it was because that Ning Cheng was in Tiansu Holy City.”
The long-haired male cultivator shook his head, “I know about that incident too, how could the Dragon Emperor make a special trip for a casual cultivator? I heard that he went to investigate a Dan Emperor called JI He, and that Dan Emperor had something to do with the fall of the Ninth Prince. By the way, speaking of which, that Dan Emperor is also a casual cultivator.”
“So that’s how it is, thank you a few senior brothers, my younger sister will take my leave.” The green-clothed female cultivator thanked them before she excused herself and left.
This green-clothed female cultivator was Yan Ji, originally, after she had learned the news of Ning Cheng’s fall, she had been frantically doing quests in the Tai Su Market to earn points and then exchange them for cultivation resources to cultivate. It was just that even if her qualifications were high, she could not cultivate fast enough while doing missions for points. A year had passed and her cultivation level hadn’t improved much.
Now that Yan Ji had steeply heard that Ning Cheng had not fallen, but had possibly gone to the Tai Su Domain, she immediately gave up on her original plan and prepared to go inside the Tai Su Domain to find out.
With her qualifications, she thought that if she wanted to find a sect to join and then enter the Tai Su Domain, she should not have any problems.
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The ripples in the divine Spring Pond beneath Ning Cheng calmed down, and the vortex surrounding Ning Cheng dissipated into thin air. Ning Cheng opened his eyes and his heart was full of joy.
After advancing to Eternal, his cultivation speed had plummeted. This time when he came to the Extra-terrestrial Divine Spring, he once again found that feeling of wildly rising cultivation. Even if his need for divine essence was a bottomless pit, there was enough divine essence here to fill that bottomless pit. While he was cultivating, every sweat pore on his body was absorbing the divine essence aura around him.
Ning Cheng was not in a hurry to transform his divine essence, but to raise his cultivation level first. With such a terrifying cultivation speed here, he decided to cultivate to Eternal Perfection before he started transforming his divine essence.
Ning Cheng was not disappointed, the cultivation speed here even exceeded his expectations. In just a year’s time, he had advanced from mid Eternity to late Eternity. The sea of consciousness had also increased greatly, and this was even without him using the Empty City Transmigration Consciousness Pill.
After taking a look at the spring pool which had not changed much, Ning Cheng decided to use the combination of the Sense Transmutation Pill next. With his cultivation level progressing, his divine sense also had to have a wide range of progress before he could do so.
When he swallowed the Empty City Sense Transmutation Pill and started cultivating again, he was pleasantly surprised to find that his sea of consciousness was expanding similarly as his cultivation level increased. Previously, when his cultivation level had increased, his sea of consciousness would also increase, definitely not so obviously and directly. This time, when he cultivated with the Empty City Consciousness Transmutation Pill, his cultivation level and divine consciousness increased almost simultaneously.