Chapter Eighty-four This Shrewish Woman

  Ji Luofei didn't say anything, and Ning Cheng also stopped asking her questions. He was thinking about Ji Luofei's words. Ji Luofei said that since her grandfather passed away, no one had been as good to her as he had been. But the more he thought about it, the more he realized that he hadn't actually treated her particularly well either.

  If there's one thing that might have moved Ji Luo Fei, it was when they were stopped by two Qi-refining stage cultivators behind the Cang Qin Academy. He told Ji Luo Fei to go first. If that was the case, then it would be truly shameful. At the time, it was clear that if neither of them left, they would both be dead ends. He let Ji Luo Fei go first, just holding onto a glimmer of hope, but in the end, even if Ji Luo Fei had gone first, he still wouldn't have been able to hold off those two Qi-refining stage cultivators for half a minute.

  "Luo Fei, if you're referring to that day when we escaped, actually, regardless of whether I could have done it or not, I reckon in the end your aunt wouldn't have come and we would've been doomed either way. My strength was indeed no match for those two people, let alone letting you escape, especially since you didn't want to leave anyway." Ning Cheng said after thinking clearly.

  "Star-shaped Poplar Tree......" Before Ji Luo Fei could respond, Ning Cheng had already stopped in surprise.

  This star-shaped poplar tree is the sixth desert mark on the map he gave to Tai Shu Shi. Following the direction of the largest angle of this poplar tree, you will find the correct direction. Moreover, walking straight from here for about three days, you will see a small oasis in the desert.

  "We'll just rest here for a bit." Ning Cheng said as he put down Ji Luo Fei.

  Found a new marker on the route map, Ning Cheng finally breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that as long as he followed this correct route, the danger would be minimized.

  In a short time, Ning Cheng had already set up a simple tent. "Luo Fei, go inside the tent and rest for a while, I'll take a look around and rest too..."

  Ji Luo Fei was just exhausted and didn't suffer any serious injuries.

  Ji Luo Fei stared at Ning Cheng for a while, until Ning Cheng touched his own face with his hand. Then she said something inexplicable: "I won't leave."

  Watching Ji Luo Fei enter the tent, Ning Cheng couldn't help but shake his head and clean himself up, changing into a new set of clothes. Then he began to arrange an array around the tent. By the time Ning Cheng finished arranging the array, Ji Luo Fei had already come out of the tent.

  Her face still had several extremely ugly scars as before, but Ning Cheng felt a completely different Ji Luo Fei.

  The clothes were still the same set of clothes, but they had been washed with clean water by her. Her hair was also rearranged into a beautiful bun, Ning Cheng only knew that this bun looked good, but didn't know what kind of bun it was.

  The already broken skirt was also tied into a knot by her, matching her slender waist, making her look even more pure and beautiful.

  It's clear that Ji Lu Fei has made an effort to dress herself up under limited conditions. In Ning Cheng's memories, past and present, Ji Lu Fei seemed to have never intentionally dressed herself up before. Unexpectedly, she now looks so good that it gives Ning Cheng a hard-to-express liking for her.

  The most noticeable change wasn't her clothes or hairstyle, but the whole person seemed different from before, and it was hard to pinpoint exactly what had changed. If one had to describe it, it would be like she used to be a stagnant pool of water, but now she's a flowing bay of clear spring water.

  "Luó Fēi, you should have dressed up like this a long time ago. I think it looks great on you." Níng Chéng gave her a heartfelt compliment.

  Ji Luo Fei seemed to have secretly let out a sigh of relief, her face slightly red as she said in a low voice, "Ning Cheng, you come in too."

  "Alright, I also have some things to ask you." Ning Cheng hastily followed Ji Luo Fei into the tent.

  "My package is also lost, I don't have any other clothes." It seemed like she was explaining why she was still wearing this suit of clothes, and Ji Luo added another sentence after entering the tent.

  "Your aunt is a Yuanjing cultivator, why didn't she give you a storage bag? Even if there's no storage bag, shouldn't you have a spatial pouch?" Ning Cheng furrowed his brow and said.

  "Everything Auntie gave me, I've left for Auntie," said Ji Luofei in a calm tone.

  "Why? Didn't your aunt know you were coming to Luoshida Desert?" Ning Cheng asked abruptly.

  Ji Lu Fei fell silent and did not answer Ning Cheng's question.

  Ning Cheng immediately understood what was going on. Ji Luofei must have had some unpleasantness with her aunt, and it's better not to ask about such things.

  Ning Cheng was originally considering whether to tell Ji Luo Fei about Xiong Qi Hua's matter, but now that he saw Ji Luo Fei and his aunt were already unhappy, he immediately decided not to mention it, so as not to hurt Ji Luo Fei's heart again.

  "Sit down." Ning Cheng took out two chairs and placed them on the ground.

  After Ji Luo Fei sat down, the two of them fell into silence once again.

  Ji Luofei was not good at speaking and didn't know what to say. Ning Cheng wanted to ask Ji Luofei why she left Huazhou, but thinking that he had asked a few times before and Ji Luofei hadn't responded, it was probably some painful matter, and he also didn't know how to bring it up.

  "Ning Cheng, how did your cultivation become so high?" Ji Luo Fei finally broke the silence.

  Ning City did not hide, and told how he escaped from Cang Le City, and how he met An Yi, and then went to Mang Guo City. He said some things that happened in between, and then found another Ling Mei Spring in the Da An Forest, his cultivation also improved a lot because of this.

  Apart from the Xuan Huang Pearl and Ji Luo Fei's mother's affairs, Ning Cheng had already told her everything else. He believed that Ji Luo Fei wouldn't casually reveal his secrets, and many things, An Yi also knew. In Ning Cheng's heart, Ji Luo Fei was a bit closer than An Yi, so he didn't need to hide anything from Ji Luo Fei.

  After all, Ji Lu Fei and I are still in a fiancé-fiancée relationship, at least until now we haven't broken up.

  Ji Luo Fei was visibly shaken by the thrilling experience in Ning City, her hand clenching and unclenching. It wasn't until Ning City mentioned coming out of the Blue Yi Zhen ruins and then meeting her again that she finally relaxed. When she heard that Ning City had obtained hundreds of spiritual stones, her heart even skipped a beat. Even in Huazhou, the most spiritual stones her aunt had given her were only a dozen or so. And those spiritual stones, she had all returned to her aunt.

  Later, when she heard that Ning Cheng had obtained tens of thousands of spiritual stones at once, she was almost numb.

  Ning Cheng finished speaking and had already thought of the jade seal he had obtained, but he didn't plan to take it out now. This wasn't a safe place, if the jade seal leaked any aura, he would be asking for trouble.

  Ning Cheng took out a storage bag. The storage bag originally had 1,000 spirit stones in it. Ning Cheng also put a flying sword and several sets of his clothes into the storage bag.

  "Luò Fēi, this is for you. The clothes are only mine, after we arrive at Huà Zhōu, you can buy some more clothes that you need." Níng Chéng handed the storage bag to Jì Luò Fēi, worried that Jì Luò Fēi wouldn't even want her aunt's storage bag, let alone his.

  "Hmm." Contrary to Ning Cheng's expectations, Ji Luo Fei took the storage bag without any hesitation and tied it around her waist, not even saying a word of thanks.

  Ning Cheng let out a sigh of relief; he still had several storage bags like this one. Ji Luo Fei's cultivation was poor, and apart from the lack of resources for cultivation, there must be other reasons related to her techniques.

  "Luó Fēi, do you know what your spiritual root is?" Ning City still had a water-based Xuan-level technique and an earth-based Xuan-level technique. If Ji Luó Fēi's spiritual root wasn't water or earth-based, then he could only help her take a look himself.

  "I am a dual-spirited root of water and fire, with my main spiritual root leaning towards the water system." Ji Luofei remembered Ning Cheng's spiritual root as soon as he asked about it. Ning Cheng's spiritual root was so poor that even if he had obtained those opportunities, he wouldn't have cultivated to this point so quickly.

  Ning Cheng clapped his hands and laughed, "Great, I just so happen to have a Xuan-grade water-element cultivation technique here. From now on, don't cultivate your original technique anymore, just cultivate the water-element technique."

  After finishing speaking, Ning City took out another jade slip and handed it to Ji Luo Fei, "If you can't understand the jade slip for now, don't worry, I'll teach you slowly in the beginning, and later on, you'll get used to it."

  "Hmm." Ji Luofei was similar to Ning Cheng before, she didn't quite understand the preciousness of a Xuan level cultivation technique, only knowing that it should be much better than what she had cultivated previously.

  "Luó Fēi, there are a thousand low-grade spirit stones in your storage bag. From now on, you can use them to cultivate. With your talent, you'll definitely be able to condense your true energy soon..."

  When Ning Cheng said that his storage bag already had a thousand spirit stones, Ji Luo Fei was shocked to stand up. Only the most core students of Meteorite Academy and some cultivators above the Condensing Reality stage have hundreds or thousands of spirit stones in their possession. As for someone like her with a dual-spirit root, although she also received some treatment at Meteorite Academy, it was far inferior compared to others. Moreover, she still needed to work hard to complete tasks to obtain them, and since she had just arrived at Meteorite Academy not long ago, she hadn't even had the chance to do any tasks yet.

  "Ning Cheng, my qualifications are better than yours, you can keep the spiritual stone for yourself." Ji Luo Fei hastily offered to let Ning Cheng keep the spiritual stone. Completely unaware that the water-elemental Xuan-level cultivation method was countless times more precious than a thousand spiritual stones.

  Ning Cheng patted his storage bag, "I still have several thousand spirit stones, you don't need to worry. Now tell me why you came alone to the Luoshita Desert."

  Ji Luo Fei calmed down, and Ning Cheng knew that she would answer him at this time.

  Ji Luo Fei lowered her head, her tone somewhat despondent as she said, "My aunt insisted that I marry into the Water family, one of the seven major families in Huazhou. I disagreed. I wanted to return to Cang Qin country and see you, so I entered the Luolei Desert alone..."

  "This damned woman..." Ning Cheng's voice rose in anger.