Chapter 2 Uncertain Future

  "The water is ready, I'll help you take a bath." Jing Cheng said as he tidied up some things when Ji Lu Fei came out again.

  Although Ning Cheng had been in a romantic relationship with Tian Muwan for two or three years, the most intimate they had gotten was holding hands. Apart from that, he hadn't taken any further actions. Now, with Ji Luofei offering to help him bathe, Ning Cheng suddenly felt unnatural about it. It wasn't because his thoughts were similar to hers, but rather due to Ji Luofei's appearance.

  "I'll go myself... it's fine..." Ning Cheng hastily said.

  Noticing Ji Luofei's puzzled gaze, Ning Cheng hastily got up from the bed and leaned against the bedside, saying, "You see, I can now move around on my own."

  Although he was tortured in prison for a period of time, Ning Cheng was able to move with difficulty after drinking some water when he returned.

  Seeing Ning Cheng being able to walk into the bathroom unsteadily, Ji Luo Fei became even more puzzled. In her impression, Ning Cheng was someone who would absolutely not refuse others serving him. For Ning Cheng, there was only punishment for those who served poorly, and he would never say something like "I'll do it myself". Could it be that Ning Cheng knew about the family's downfall, so he understood many things now?

  However, these doubts were soon put aside by Ji Luo Fei, who no longer bothered with Ning Cheng's bathing affairs and instead went to cook some rice porridge. Ning Cheng had been cultivating for so many years but was unable to gather his qi, which was not only because he did not want to suffer through cultivation, but also due to his extremely poor innate talent. Now that the Ning family was destroyed and its members were either dead or imprisoned, Ji Luo Fei could already predict Ning Cheng's miserable fate in the future, even if he had not died in prison.

  Although she is nominally Ning City's wife, they have not yet consummated their marriage. Moreover, she has already reached the third layer of Qi gathering. Once she advances to the fourth layer, the Academy will focus on cultivating her. Even if she doesn't give up on Ning City, the Academy won't allow them to be together anymore. As a fourth-layer Qi gatherer, if she continues to be with Ning City, given his current situation, it wouldn't help him but rather hasten his death.

  It wasn't that Ji Luofei had any grudge against Ning Cheng, but rather Ning Cheng had always been extremely cruel to her, never looking at her properly and only scolding or beating her. The reason she saved Ning Cheng and took care of him was because she owed the Ning family a debt.

  In Ji Luo's view, Ning Cheng was unable to cultivate and had fallen so low that if she didn't save him, he would only be waiting for death. She knew she wouldn't continue to marry Ning Cheng, but neither would she marry anyone else. The reason she offered to help Ning Cheng bathe was because she was originally his fiancée, and another reason was that now only she could help Ning Cheng. Since Ning Cheng could act on his own, of course, she wouldn't necessarily have to help.

  What she can do for Ning City now is to help him establish a comfortable living environment before her own promotion to the fourth layer of Qi gathering. With her cultivation qualifications, even if her appearance was ruined, she would eventually leave the Cang Qin country anyway, and Ning City would only be a passerby in her life.

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  After Ning Cheng finished his bath, although he felt a bit dizzy, he was actually better than before. By the time he came out, Ji Luo Fei had already brought up a bowl of cooked rice porridge. After eating some of the porridge, Ning Cheng finally recovered some of his color and energy.

  "These are for you, I'm going to the academy now. You can take action now, and get something to eat yourself." Ji Luofei saw that Ning Cheng had eaten some food and, apart from being a bit weak, was indeed fine, so she took out a packet of silver coins and handed them to Ning Cheng.

  Ning Cheng didn't take the silver coins given by Ji Luo Fei, he knew what she meant. Ji Luo Fei had been cultivating in Cang Qin Second Star Academy and was also a pretty good disciple of the academy. But he remembered that he was also a student of this academy, so he immediately said, "You go to the academy, I will definitely go too."

  Ji Luofei stared at Ning Cheng in surprise, Ning Cheng used to go to the Academy under his grandfather's pressure. Now that the Ning family was gone, he had no more constraints, why would he still want to go to the Academy? Besides, with his qualifications, even if he went to the Academy, he probably wouldn't be able to learn anything anyway?

  Ning Cheng glanced at Ji Luo Fei's expression and knew that his words were a bit hasty. In his heart, he was only thinking that in this place, if one didn't have the strength, they probably wouldn't be able to survive for long. So when Ji Luo Fei said she was going to the Academy, he immediately thought of going together. But he had forgotten that previously, he never wanted to go to the Academy, and he didn't have the qualifications; going to the Academy would be meaningless.

  "Hmm... I'm afraid of grandfather's blame, but then I remembered that grandfather is no longer here..." Ning Cheng said with a tinge of sadness, his heart recalling the ruthless Tian Muwan, and the sorrow didn't need to be pretended, it naturally flowed out.

  Ji Luo Fei heard Ning Cheng say "grandfather", and her eyes also reddened. If it weren't for Ning Cheng's grandfather, there wouldn't be a Ji Luo Fei anymore. Now that Ning Cheng mentioned his grandfather again, Ji Luo Fei was also affected. She stuffed the silver coins in her hand into Ning Cheng's hand, "You need to rest more now, I'll try to find time to come back and see you. When your body gets better, if you still want to go to the academy, I'll take you there again."

  After finishing speaking, Ji Luofei turned around and walked out of the stone house, soon disappearing from sight.

  Ning Cheng looked at the small amount of silver coins in his hand, then glanced at the low and dark stone house, and already understood that Ji Luo Fei's life was not very good.

  In the future, he will live in this place and absolutely cannot rely on Ji Lu Fei. The Ning City at this time is not the same as before, he can feel the hardship of survival here, it's a world where the weak are preyed upon by the strong. Not to mention that without strength, it's hard to survive, or only being able to live under someone else's feet, even with the power that the Ning family once had, they were destroyed overnight.

  He was well aware that once Ji Luo Fei advanced to the fourth layer of Qi gathering, she would leave him. Not to mention that the two were not yet married, even if they were already married. A cultivator at the fourth layer of Qi gathering in Cang Qin country was also a key figure to be nurtured, and it was absolutely not allowed for a useless person like him to follow her around.

  Unless he has also cultivated to the fourth layer of gathering energy, but although he has the Ning family's cultivation method, he doesn't have the talent, and after cultivating for so many years, he still can't gather energy, let alone reach the fourth layer.

  He couldn't cultivate, but he had to find a way to survive. Ning Cheng secretly made up his mind and sighed. Unfortunately, he couldn't cultivate. If he could cultivate, on this planet or one day when he could cultivate to the Yuanyuan realm, then he would think of a way to return to Earth.

  Ning City couldn't cultivate, but that didn't mean he didn't know some of the cultivation realms. He knew there were nine major realms and eighty-one minor ones. However, the highest realm he could understand was the Building Yuan Realm. In his memories, the Qing Qin country had once had a high-ranking expert in the Building Yuan Realm.

  Ning Cheng only knew of the three layers of Qi Refining Realm, which were Gathering Qi Realm, Condensing True Realm and Building Yuan Realm. The Gathering Qi Realm was where one gathered true energy in their meridians, and it was divided into nine layers based on how much true energy one could gather. Ji Luo Fei was currently at the third layer of Gathering Qi Realm. The fourth layer of Gathering Qi Realm and the third layer were a watershed. Although there were many students at the third layer of Gathering Qi Realm in Cang Qin Academy, the number of students who reached the fourth layer dropped drastically.

  When the cultivator's true energy reaches a certain level, they will advance to the Condensing True Realm. At this time, the true energy begins to transform into true yuan. The Condensing True Realm also has nine layers, and the thicker the true yuan is, the more refined the cultivation will be. The principal and vice-principal of the Cangqin Academy are both cultivators in the Condensing True Realm, with unparalleled strength in the Cangqin country.

  As for the construction of the yuan boundary, the Qing dynasty is gone now.

  Ning Cheng came from Earth, where he had heard all sorts of cultivation legends. Moreover, there were still people on Earth who could cultivate internal energy, so the fact that the Yi Xing mainland could also cultivate wasn't something Ning Cheng found surprising. Of course, this was also because he hadn't yet understood that cultivating to a later stage would surpass his imagination.

  Ning Cheng knew that his qualifications were extremely poor and he couldn't cultivate. Moreover, with his current physical condition, even if he could recall some of the Ning family's cultivation methods, he didn't have the intention to cultivate. To survive here, the first element was to nurse his body back to health.

  Ji Luo Fei returned to the academy and there was no news of her again. Ning Cheng had never gone out either, he was either resting in his stone house or training his body in the front yard of the stone house.

  A few days later, Ning City still looked a bit weak, but he had slowly recovered his energy. At least, the feeling of weakness was gone. Ning City felt that he could go out and take a look. At the very least, he wanted to understand the environment of this capital city of Cang Qin Country, and in the future, he would have to survive here, what could he do?

  (12:00 and 19:00 updates are tomorrow's plan, not today. This chapter thanks for the many recommendations and rewards today, as well as the increase in collection speed. After the new chapter is updated, I still need to ask for recommendation votes and collections for the new book, thank you!)

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