Chapter Eighty-Five You Deceived Me

  "What is a three-eight woman?" Ji Luo Fei heard Ning Cheng scold her aunt as a three-eight woman, and she didn't understand for a moment, so she asked.

  Ning Cheng smiled and quickly changed the subject, "Don't mention your aunt's affairs, I heard that Huazhou is going to establish a six-star academy, is it a big competition between the five five-star academies? Do you know anything about this?"

  Ji Luo Fei nodded, "Yes, indeed there is such a thing. This time the Grand Competition will not only compare the overall strength of the five-star colleges on the continent, but also compare the potential strength of the five-star colleges. The true deciding factor for the results is actually the potential strength. This potential strength is determined by each of the five-star colleges selecting a portion of their elite disciples to participate in an all-around competition."

  "Will those with good grades be selected to go to the intermediate continent?" Ning Cheng hurriedly asked again, this was what he really wanted to ask. He had a Qingyun Five Star Academy admission jade card, and if he could join the Five Star Academy, he believed that even if he faced a Condensed True Cultivator in the later stages, he would still have the power to fight one battle. Isn't competition just about comparing strength? What if his strength was not bad, and he could get a ranking in the big competition of the Five Star Academy, and be sent to the intermediate continent, that would be a stroke of luck.

  Ning Cheng had long understood that if he wanted to cultivate to a higher realm, staying in the lower planes was not enough. Only by going to the middle or high planes would he have the opportunity to seek even higher realms.

  "This I'm not very clear about, I didn't stay at Meteorite Academy for a long time, most of the time was spent in other places and the Falling Thunder Desert. I only heard that the rewards for the top few are extremely generous, as for the rest..."

  "Luó Fēi, you only have a fifth-level aura gathering, how can you possibly walk for so long in the Luò Léi Desert and still arrive here?" Ning City interrupted.

  A hint of melancholy appeared in Ji Luo Fei's eyes, "I met a kind family at the edge of Luole Sand Dunes, they were also being forced by their enemies to go to Yuan Zhou. I followed them all along, it seemed like they had a relatively safe route, we walked through the desert for one or two months without encountering any major dangers. But three days ago, we encountered a sand dragon..."

  Ning Cheng heard this and immediately knew it was not good. He had deviated from his original position because he had encountered a yellow dragon that had risen with the sand and rocks. At the same time, he sighed in his heart, for families like his were always on the move. Once they offended a powerful enemy, if they couldn't find a way to hide in time, they could only cross through treacherous terrain to another continent. Hadn't the Ning family and the Ji family of old come from such circumstances?

  "That tornado was extremely frightening, and we all got separated. I followed a few people and also strayed from the original direction. Later, we encountered several bandit monks, those four you killed earlier. They blocked our way, so we scattered and ran away."

  "Maybe it's because I'm disfigured and my cultivation is low, they didn't have enough manpower, so they actually let me escape. I ran wildly in the same direction all along, I always felt that this direction was where I should go. Later, I indeed met you..." Ji Luofei's tone was very downcast, clearly worried about that good family.

  Ning Cheng didn't know how to comfort Ji Luo Fei, so he changed the subject again and asked, "Luo Fei, I want to ask you something. Is there a person named Meng Yu Jing in Xing Chen Academy?"

  Ji Luo Fei didn't have much hope of recognizing Meng Yu Jing in Ning City. With so many people at Meteorite Academy, and Ji Luo Fei not having been there for long, it was normal that she wouldn't know Meng Yu Jing.

  Ji Luo Fei looked at Ning Cheng with a puzzled expression and asked, "How do you know her? Meng Yu Jing is the campus belle of Xing Chen Academy, and also one of the top ten core disciples. She has cultivated to the seventh layer of Condensing True Qi, and is also a disciple of one of the three great Dan Furnace Masters of the academy. I've only seen her from afar once."

  "I didn't tell you before that I met Kou Hong in the Da'an Forest, and he asked me to bring something to Meng Yu Jing. Actually, I don't know Meng Yu Jing," Ning Cheng explained.

  ……

  The two of them had never spoken so much before, and Ning Cheng learned for the first time that Ji Luo Fei was a truly kind-hearted and grateful woman.

  Ning Cheng and Ji Luo Fei rested here for a day before packing up their things and leaving. Ji Luo Fei had found Ning Cheng, apparently following him back to Huazhou. As for her parents' matter, she decided to wait until her cultivation was higher before going to search for them in the Great Ancestor Forest.

  All the way, Ning City has been constantly teaching Ji Luo Fei to cultivate new techniques. Ji Luo Fei is already at the fifth layer of gathering energy, and what she needs to make up for is only her spiritual awareness. With Ning City's many spirit stones and unreserved guidance, Ji Luo Fei made rapid progress.

  Three days later, when Ning City and Ji Luo Fei arrived at that oasis, Ji Luo Fei was already able to release some divine thoughts.

  Ning Cheng remembered that the oasis on the original route map was a small lake, and the edge of the small lake was surrounded by a circle of saxaul trees and red willows. However, when Ning Cheng really arrived here, he found that the saxaul trees and red willows had long since disappeared. The small lake only had a huge sandbox-like sand pit.

  "What's wrong?" Ji Luofei saw Ning Cheng stop and didn't move forward, asking in puzzlement.

  Ning Cheng pointed at the sand pit in front of him and said, "I remember that on the map I got, this oasis has existed for countless years and never dried up. How did it dry up when I came?"

  Ji Luo Fei hadn't had time to respond when a thick and dense spiritual energy emanated from beneath the massive sand pit.

  "Ling Qi......" Ji Luo Fei simultaneously discovered this dense Ling Qi, her face filled with surprise as she stared at Ning Cheng.

  Ning Cheng stared at the increasingly dense spiritual energy sand pit, and was already prepared to enter the sand pit to take a look. With such a rich spiritual energy here, there must be something good inside the sand pit.

  "This route seems to have few people walking on it, otherwise there should be good things here, and they might have been taken away by someone." Ji Luofei naturally understood that the bottom of this dense spiritual energy pit should have some good things.

  Ning Cheng stopped in his tracks and asked, "Lu Fei, you said that the family who brought you into the Thunderfall Desert also had a map of the route through the Thunderfall Desert?"

  Ji Luo Fei nodded, "Yes, we've been walking for a month or two and haven't encountered any danger. They should have a map. It seems it's not the road we're on now."

  Ning Cheng furrowed his brow. Although the Thunderfall Desert was extremely dangerous, countless low-level cultivators had traversed it over the years. The route maps left behind by these low-level cultivators were clearly not just one. Similarly, there must be someone who has walked out of this safe route. This oasis is definitely known to someone.

  Since others already knew about it, why did he wait for so many years? When he passed by here, there was still such a strong spiritual energy. Was the good stuff waiting for him to take it?

  There are too many mysterious things in the desert, and it's not worth it if you're not strong enough. Just like that mysterious Beijue tribe, Ning City still doesn't know where that tribe is located to this day.

  "Luò Fēi, let's go." Ning City gave up the idea of continuing to jump into the sand pit to search for treasure, and took Ji Luò Fēi around this sand pit, ready to leave.

  At this moment, the sand pit around suddenly collapsed on a large scale, including where Ning Cheng was standing also began to collapse. Two extremely dark and withered palms reached out from behind Ning Cheng and Ji Luo Fei's back.

  Ning Cheng knew something was wrong right away, and almost at the same time that those two dark, withered palms grabbed him, he grabbed Ji Luo Fei beside him and threw her out of the sand pit, shouting "Luo Fei, hurry up and leave!"

  After he finished speaking, his long spear technique had already been launched. This one shot was almost full force, without any reservation.

  The long spear "Boom" hit the center of that dark and withered palm, the dark palm hesitated for a moment, Ning City spat out a mouthful of blood, and borrowed strength to fly backwards.

  Just as Ning Cheng was about to fly out, the withered hand that was originally reaching for Ji Luo Fei also grabbed over, and its powerful strength pulled Ning Cheng towards it, causing him to pounce into the dark, withered palm.

  Ning City still didn't know that once he fell into his hands, there would be no escape. At this moment, he had no thoughts at all and directly threw all the low-grade magic tools except for the long gun towards the palm. Then, following the method of the Seventh Layer Cultivator of the Congenital Realm, he mobilized all his true yuan and frantically burned his own essence blood.

  "Boom boom boom..." Several explosions rang out in succession, and the dark withered palm was blown back by several low-grade magic artifacts of Ning City.

  Ning Cheng continuously spat out several mouthfuls of blood in mid-air, and although he temporarily escaped the palm, he still fell into this massive sand pit. In order to self-destruct his magic tool, at this moment, he no longer had any energy left to return to the outside of the sand pit.

  Ji Luo Fei knew something was wrong the moment Ning Cheng was thrown away. She saw a huge sand pit appear, and a black withered palm reached out towards Ning Cheng, who was about to fall into the palm of that sand pit. Without thinking, she rushed towards Ning Cheng.

  She had made a vow in her heart, never to let what happened before happen again. Ning Cheng fell into the quicksand, she must rescue him out of it, if she couldn't rescue Ning Cheng, then she might as well fall into the quicksand with him.

  At this moment, there was no other thought in her mind.

  The tremendous impact of the explosion sent Ning City flying high, but he quickly fell back down. At this time, Ji Lu Fei had just arrived at the entrance of the cave and immediately swung out a long strip of cloth. The long strip wrapped around Ning City and with one pull from her hand, she actually pulled Ning City out of the sand pit.

  Ji Luofei suppressed the excitement in her heart, stretched out her hand to tightly hug Ning Cheng and quickly escaped from the scene. She was grateful that the long strip on Ning Cheng's back had been taken by her, she was grateful that she didn't hesitate and rushed over, or else even if she only hesitated for a moment, even if she arrived at the entrance of the sand pit, she could only watch as Ning Cheng fell into the sand pit.

  Ji Luo Fei took Ning Cheng and just left, the black withered giant hand in the sand pit stretched out again. However, when it found that there was no one around, the black withered palm slowly withdrew into the sand pit once more.

  ……

  After more than half a time, Ji Luofei finally caught her breath and put Ning Cheng down. Then she carried Ning Cheng on her back, securing him with the long ribbon in her hand, and grasped Ning Cheng's long spear in her own hand.

  "Luó Fēi, thank you. If it wasn't for you, I would have definitely died this time." Ning Chéng said with a lingering fear as he lay on Ji Luó Fēi's back.

  "You deceived me." Ji Luo suddenly said inexplicably.

  "Ah......" Ning Cheng was startled and didn't understand what Ji Luo Fei meant.

  "You said that day you knew the outcome would be the same, so you told me to leave first, and then you cut off. " Ji Luofei pursed her lips, "But why are you still like this today?"

  Ning Cheng opened his mouth, how could he think so much at that time? He subconsciously said, "Two people walking together is better than one person not being able to walk away. Look, you came back and saved me."

  "No, you threw me towards that black hand at the time, and then you could have escaped by borrowing strength." Ji Luo's voice was even accompanied by some sobbing sounds. Ning Cheng did not do so, but instead threw her away, which made Ning Cheng fall into the sand pit even faster.

  Why are you so good to me?