Chapter 38: A Stroke of Good Fortune

  Although Ye Dao Ren's hair was disheveled, the excitement in his eyes couldn't be contained. He rushed out from beside Ning Cheng like a madman, completely ignoring Ning Cheng and An Yi hiding on one side.

  A thick aura of spiritual energy emanated from the cloth bundle behind him, a familiar aura to Ning City - it was the aura of a Spirit Stone. Ning City had been waiting for Ye Dao for some time, and as soon as he emerged, he almost immediately brought An Yi along with him.

  At this time, Ning City could no longer afford to neglect the loss of his true energy, and his divine sense directly fell on Ye Dao's body. Before this, Ning City really hadn't taken Ye Dao seriously. But when his divine sense swept over Ye Dao's body, his heart immediately tightened.

  The person in front of him was not a Qi Gathering Three Layers, but clearly a Qi Gathering Seven Layers. This guy didn't know where he came from, and yet he had such a powerful concealment technique that Ning City hadn't even detected that he was a Qi Gathering Seven Layers before.

  The seven-layered Qi gathering is already in its later stages, this guy's concealment is really too deep.

  After knowing that Ye Dao Ren had gathered the seven layers of Qi, Ning Cheng was no longer as calm as before. He was certain that once Ye Dao Ren walked out of this fog, he would be discovered immediately. At this moment, Ye Dao Ren did not notice him because one reason was that Ye Dao Ren could not release his divine sense externally, and another reason was that Ye Dao Ren had never thought that there was someone specially waiting for him here.

  Can't let this guy lead the way, Ning Cheng took out the Flying Sword artifact without hesitation, suddenly accelerated his speed and stepped forward, the flying sword in his hand brought up a sword light that swept out.

  Lan Sha Island, he had been there dozens of times, and he was very clear that although it looked terrifying, as long as one mastered the formation method and grasped the way to avoid being stared at by evil spirits, everything would be fine. Of course, on the premise that you don't enter the red wall courtyard, nor go behind the red wall courtyard.

  However, Ye Dao Ren was extremely cautious on this island, and his cultivation far surpassed Ning Cheng's. As soon as Ning Cheng's flying sword's edge swept out, he sensed it and twisted his body at the same time.

  A flash of blood light... and Ye Dao Ren somehow dodged the fate of being beheaded by Ning Cheng. Ning Cheng's flying sword split his waist in half, but didn't take his life, only leaving him severely injured.

  An Yi and Ning Cheng have been together for so long, and they've also protected Ning Cheng on the sea for several days. Compared to when they first came out, they're much more seasoned now. Almost as soon as Ning Cheng made his move, she had already sent out three Wind Blades, while simultaneously undoing the fine thread tied around her wrist by Ning Cheng.

  Ye Dao Ren narrowly escaped Ning Cheng's deadly sword, but was hit by An Yi's several gusts of wind blades. However, these gusts of wind blades only added to Ye Dao Ren's injuries and did not take his life.

  Ye Dao Ren stumbled a few steps before stopping, and it was only then that Ning Cheng realized they had walked out of the fog and onto a winding small path. As for whether this path was the same one they took on the way here, Ning Cheng didn't pay much attention to it. He guessed that since Ye Dao Ren was walking from here, then this path must be the exit.

  "It's you..." The strong man forcibly suppressed his injuries and turned around to see Ning Cheng holding the flying sword.

  Ning Cheng didn't respond, the flying sword in his hand brought up another sword aura, and several fire blades flew out at the same time. Strike while the iron is hot, Ye Dao had already gathered seven layers of energy, once he waited for this guy to catch his breath, it would be unbearable for him and An Yi.

  Ye Dao's face turned pale, he understood that Ning Cheng was determined to kill him without a doubt, and there was no point in saying anything. Almost at the same time, he drew out a curved knife and swept it horizontally towards Ning Cheng's incoming sword tip.

  He was not reconciled, as for Ning Cheng wanting to kill him, he naturally understood. Earlier on that beast cart, if Ning Cheng dared to disagree with his team proposal, he would immediately use the excuse of secrecy to take action and kill Ning Cheng.

  He was not reconciled to the fact that before coming to Lanship Island, he had just been promoted to the seventh layer of Qi gathering. This time, he got a large number of extremely precious spiritual stones, and promotion to the realm of condensing reality was only a matter of time for him. However, at this critical moment, he was ambushed by Ning City.

  He didn't understand how Ning City could be safe on Lonesome Island, where there were illusion arrays and real evil spirits, as well as some fierce and sinister soul soldiers. Without knowing the specific situation of the array method route here, even if a Yuan repair master came, it's not necessarily possible to deal with it. Even if Ning City knew the route map here, how could he hide here for many days to ambush him without being discovered by the evil spirits?

  "With a 'ding' sound, the sword edge splashed in all directions. Ning Cheng took several steps back, but he didn't stop for even half a moment. The flying sword in his hand transformed into another sword edge once again."

  "You're also a law enforcement officer..." At this time, Ye Dao finally came to his senses and realized that Ning Cheng was using a pretty good law enforcement artifact.

  Although he was seriously injured before, he didn't panic. He had a cultivation base of seven layers of Qi gathering, and even if he was seriously injured, he could still use the artifact in his hand to kill Ning City and An Yi. Now that Ning City also had an artifact, and it was even better than his own, there was some panic in Ye Dao's eyes. Because he also felt that Ning City's cultivation seemed to be more than just four layers of Qi gathering.

  At this time, Anyi's several wind blades flew over again, and Yedao people had to dodge Anyi's wind blades, while Ningcheng's sword edge fell once more.

  The cultivator wanted to strike out with the curved knife in his hand again, but just as he gathered his true energy, a severe pain suddenly appeared at his waist. The wound that had not stopped bleeding earlier burst out another blood mist. The speed of the curved knife immediately slowed down by one beat, and at this moment, Ning Cheng's sword edge had already fallen.

  The flying sword sliced through Ye Dao Ren from his shoulder to his waist, cutting him in half diagonally. Ye Dao Ren fell to the ground with great unwillingness.

  Ning Cheng took a deep breath and rushed forward, picking up the package behind Ye Dao's back and throwing it into his storage bag. Another fireball turned Ye Dao to ashes, and then he said to An Yi, "An Yi, let's hurry up and leave, I think people from Mang Guo City will be here soon."

  The two of them ran along the winding path, and in less than half a time, they saw the reefs by the sea again. This was not where the two had entered Lanzhou Island before, but on the other side.

  A not very large wooden boat was moored at the edge of the island, and Ning Cheng's heart skipped a beat as he realized that this boat must be left behind by the Daoist practitioners. At the bow of the boat, there was also a pile of sea beast materials, which were probably also left behind by the Daoist practitioners. Ning Cheng couldn't understand why the Daoist practitioners, who were at least in the later stages of Qi gathering, would put such ordinary sea beast materials in their eyes?

  These marine materials, Ning City did not discard them, but pushed the materials to one side, then quickly set sail and left Lanzhou Island.

  Half a column of fragrance later, Ning Cheng and An Yi were in control of the wooden boat, which had long since left Lanzhou Island behind.

  Until then, An Yi let out a sigh and said, "Ning brother, I was feeling oppressed on that island, always having an extremely bad feeling."

  Ning Cheng nodded, "I'm the same as you, I've always felt that this island is definitely not so simple. In the future when we reach a higher level of cultivation, we can come back and take another look. An Yi, your jade pendant should also be a pretty good treasure, you should be careful to keep it safe and don't let others discover it easily."

  An nodded and said, "I know."

  Back in the sea, Ning Cheng's first action was to take out the cloth package from his storage bag. He wanted to see what spoils of war he had obtained.

  Opening the cloth bag, a piece of white sparkling spirit stone made Ning City extremely delighted. This small pile of spirit stones had at least four to five hundred pieces. Moreover, they were exactly the same as the ones he obtained previously, except that some of them were missing edges and corners. However, this did not affect his cultivation at all.

  "An Yi, we've struck it rich! This is truly a windfall!" Ning Cheng's face was beaming with joy. What he lacked the most was spirit stones, and here there were nearly five hundred of them. If one hundred spirit stones could advance him one level, perhaps he could even cultivate to the point of achieving the complete Qi Condensation stage. Ning Cheng also knew that advancing one level for every one hundred spirit stones was just a beautiful wish in his heart. Even if he hadn't cultivated to the later stages, he could still guess that the amount of spirit stones required for cultivation would only increase.

  Ning Cheng was about to distribute the spiritual stones when An Yi stopped him, saying, "Brother Ning, I still haven't used up the spiritual stones you gave me last time. Moreover, your cultivation requires even more spiritual stones, so let me use them up first and then ask you for some later."

  Ning Cheng thought about it and felt that anyway, An Yi had always been following him, so it didn't matter who she was with.

  After picking up all the Ling Stones, Ning City found a jade box at the bottom of the cloth bag. As soon as the jade box was opened, a familiar fragrance wafted out.

  "Golden cicada fruit......" Ning Cheng and An Yi exclaimed in unison.

  In Ning Cheng's hand-held jade box, a green fruit lay inside, this fruit had two wing-shaped protrusions, only those wing-shaped protrusions had a hint of gold trim. No wonder it was called the Golden Cicada Fruit, Ning Cheng quickly covered the jade box.

  "That industry road person is indeed mouthless, that bastard said something about many golden cicadas, now I see this one." Ning City put away the golden cicada and felt relieved in his heart for not being deceived by that guy.

  This time out to sea, although it was a hasty departure, Ning Cheng's heart was very satisfied. At least his gains were not bad. The only regret was that he couldn't save Feng Feizhang, whom he had some good feelings for. He knew that with his current abilities, being able to escape from Lansa Island was already lucky, and wanting to save Feng Feizhang again would be a stretch for his strength.

  After the excitement, Ning Cheng and An Yi soon became entangled, they got lost. In this endless ocean, the two simply didn't know which direction to go. The Manguo Sea was always a gloomy sky all year round, with no directional signs.

  It had been several days and Ning Cheng was getting anxious. Not only did he fail to find the edge of the Mysterious Yellow Sea, but he also didn't find a single small island.

  "Brother Ning, a ship is coming." An Yi's heart wasn't as anxious as Ning Cheng's, but instead she saw a sea vessel before Ning Cheng did, and that vessel was heading in their direction.

  (Chapter 2 is up, and I'd like to ask for a recommendation vote. Goodnight, friends!)