Chapter 48: A Pair of Pearl Flowers

  "Stop, don't joke around. I can't even leave Da'an Forest now, how can I go to Huazhou? Sorry, you should just focus on recovering from your injuries and go yourself." Ning Cheng refused without hesitation. He was very clear about where Huazhou was. Not to mention he hadn't left Da'an Forest yet, even if he had, he wouldn't be able to go to Huazhou.

  The young man's eyes flashed with anxiety as he heard Ning Cheng's words, and his tone also became urgent. "My meridians are all severed, my purple mansion is shattered, and I have no chance of survival. I have a map..."

  The young man's voice became intermittent as he spoke of the map, and a thread of blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth again.

  Ning Cheng's spirit lifted greatly, "You really have a map of the exit from the Great Ancestor Forest?"

  The young man apparently had no strength to explain anything to Ning City, and only trembled as he took out a leather scroll from his clothes and said, "This is a map, inside there is a Qingyun Wuxing Academy's Qingyun Order, with this order you can enter the Qingyun Academy. I'm giving this to you, please make sure to deliver the package to my fiancée Meng Yuqin..."

  After saying this, the young man was really unable to support himself, and his slightly raised head fell to the ground. Ning Cheng heard that there was indeed a map, and immediately stepped forward to grab the animal skin scroll, saying, "If I have the chance to go to Huazhou, I will definitely help you with this."

  It seemed like he had heard Ning Cheng's promise, and with that, the young man let out a breath, thoroughly dying.

  Ning Cheng's heart was also somewhat melancholy, in this place, life was like a soap bubble, easily broken. Wasn't this young man named Kou Hong his own reflection? If one day he died like this, who would he be thinking of at that moment?

  Ning Ruo Lan's lovely and cute face appeared in front of him, Ning Cheng sighed, he might not have the chance to see his sister for this lifetime.

  Ning Cheng suddenly felt a pang of sadness, he didn't go to check the skin roll and package that the young man gave him, but instead picked up the young man and quickly left the territory of the needle bear.

  Seeing Ning City leave, this porcupine finally let out a breath of relief and turned back to return to its own nest.

  ……

  Ning City returned to the lakeside of Clear Water Lake, buried this young man by the lake, and simply refined a tombstone. On the tombstone, he wrote a few words: Kou Hong's Tomb.

  Ning Cheng erected a tombstone for Kou Hong, one reason was that Ning Cheng felt sentimental about his own future, and the other reason was to thank Kou Hong for leaving him a map.

  Kou Hong didn't open the package to take a look, but his divine sense had already scanned it briefly. It seemed to be a black wooden box, apart from that, there was also a letter and a storage bag. The letter was probably written by Kou Hong for his fiancée Meng Yu Jing, only he didn't know why Kou Hong didn't put everything in the storage bag.

  It seems that Kou Hong also had no choice but to hand these things over to a stranger.

  He put the package into his storage bag, and Ning Cheng took out a leather scroll map. When he opened the map, he indeed saw a green token. The token was made of unknown material, and its age seemed to be very long. On the token were engraved two words 'Qing Yun', presumably this token was the admission certificate for Qing Yun Five Star Academy.

  Ning Cheng was not very interested in entering the Academy, mainly because his spiritual roots were changing all the time, and he didn't dare to enter the Academy for repeated testing of his spiritual roots.

  When Ning City opened the scroll map, he immediately knew he could go out. This map was simply perfect for him, with a very detailed route marked out, and even the territories of several levels of demon beasts were annotated next to it. The highest level of demon beast annotated around the route on the map was only a second-level demon beast, which didn't pose much threat to Ning City at present.

  Not only that, but the map also marked a large number of reference objects. Through this map, Ning City knew that the area he was in belonged to the lower-level region of Da'an Forest's demon beasts. There were several places where even fifth-grade demon beasts appeared.

  This is not all of the map, there is also a walking route from Yuanzhou to Huazhou on the map. Yuanzhou and Huazhou are separated by an endless desert, this map also has a suggested route, but there is no reference object, you need a directional array disk.

  The direction of the array disk Ning City does not exist, this is not important to him, he doesn't want to go to Huazhou yet.

  Looking at the map in his hand, although he was in the Da'an Forest, it was far from being deep within the Da'an Forest. From this place to Pingzhou wasn't very far, on the contrary, if he were to go to Yuanzhou, the journey would be tens of times longer than going to Pingzhou.

  In Ning City's mind, he actually didn't want to return to Pingzhou. He wanted to go take a look at Yuanzhou. After all, Yuanzhou was closer to Huazhou and also closer to Zhongji Zhou.

  After repeated consideration, Ning Cheng decided to go to Nan Yuan City in Pingzhou first. Nan Yuan City was the capital of Ming Yi Zhen Guo and also where the Ming Xin San Xing Academy was located. The reason why Ning Cheng still wanted to take a risk and go to this place was that he wasn't quite at ease with An Yi. Although those people treated An Yi like a princess, it was because An Yi said she was a pure wood spirit root. But what if An Yi's test results showed that she wasn't a pure spirit root?

  After he came here, the time spent with Any was the longest. Moreover, Any had a lifesaving grace for him, and in his heart, he had long regarded Any as the most intimate person here. If Any didn't have anyone to take care of her, she would be left alone in Nan yuan city, and the outcome would be absolutely tragic.

  Of course, his cultivation is still too low, which is also a reason. Ning Cheng wanted to go to Nan Yuan City to see if there was a way to exchange the Golden Cicada Fruit for the Condensed True Pill. If he could advance to the Condensed True Realm and then pass through the Great Ancestor Forest, it would be even more secure.

  ……

  With the map, Ning City was extremely familiar with this area. In just two days, Ning City had already walked out of the Da'an Forest.

  At this time, Ning Cheng was no longer the inexperienced youth who had just escaped from Cang Le City. He hadn't shaved his whiskers. The hardships he experienced from leaving Cang Qin Country to arriving at Da An Forest made Ning Cheng look nothing like a youth; or rather, he looked more like an adventurer who had gone through many trials and tribulations.

  Outside the Da'an Forest, there is a continuous mountain range. Ning Cheng does not fly with his sword during the day, and instead hides his cultivation in the fourth layer of Qi gathering. Even if he flies with his sword, it's at night.

  An Yi was fine in Nan Yuan City, but Nan Yuan City was also where Lan Yueyue was. He had a great feud with Lan Yueyue and his current cultivation wasn't enough to be her opponent. That's why he didn't shave off his beard, it made him look older. This time going to Nan Yuan City, he absolutely couldn't let acquaintances see him.

  Another day later, Ning City met a group of adventurers on the edge of Da'an Forest and bought a map to Mingyue Zhen Guo from these adventurers.

  Ning Cheng's true energy was limited, and a night of intermittent sword flight had already left him exhausted. The daytime was just right for recovering his true energy by hurrying along the road.

  After walking and stopping for half a month, Ning City had already arrived outside Nan Yuan City.

  Ning Cheng's appearance was that of an adventurer, with his long-term battles against the demonic beasts in the Great Wilderness and his whiskers making him look like a true adventurer.

  Compared to Cang Le City and Mango City, Nan Yuan City is even more grandiose. Ning Cheng couldn't see the length of Nan Yuan City's city walls at all, and the huge city gate emitted an extremely ancient atmosphere. Every place showed the long history of Nan Yuan City.

  This is still an ordinary true national capital, Ning City thought to himself, if it were the place where the Nine Stars Academy was located, I wonder how grand and magnificent it would be.

  The massive city gate had a constant flow of people entering and exiting, with two teams of city guards standing watch on either side, indicating that this was a place under governance. On the outer wall of the city gate, a very eye-catching notice was posted. Ning Cheng glanced at it from afar, and it seemed to be about the recruitment of Ming Xin San Xing Academy. There weren't many people gathered in front of the notice, clearly it had been posted for quite some time.

  Ning Cheng really wanted to take a look at the contents of the notice, but he still restrained his curiosity. If he went to see the contents of the notice at this time, he would definitely be seen as a newcomer here.

  He just glanced at the notice and followed many people into Nanyuan City. When he passed through the city gate, he was not questioned by the city guards.

  There were more people in Nanjing than Ning had imagined, and the crowds were almost everywhere. Compared to Canglang City, Nanjing was still relatively orderly, at least no one dared to ride a unicorn and gallop wildly on the main street.

  The stalls, shops, restaurants and inns on both sides of the street were packed with people, just like a grand meeting place, bustling and extraordinary.

  Ning City felt that the streets were mostly populated by ordinary people, although there were also some cultivators, but their cultivation was not very high. He relaxed a bit, thinking that someone like Lan Yue who thought highly of himself would not come to this kind of street and rub shoulders with ordinary mortals.

  "What a beautiful pearl flower..." A crisp voice caught Ning Cheng's attention, and he turned to see a young girl wearing ordinary coarse linen clothes standing in front of a stall, holding a pearl flower in her hand and marveling at it.

  When Ning Cheng's gaze fell on the pearl flower in her hand, he was suddenly shocked. He immediately took a step forward and picked up another identical pearl flower from the stall.

  "How much is this?" Ning Cheng asked the stall owner, holding up a pearl flower and staring at the other pearl flower in the girl's hand.

  These pearl flowers originally appeared in pairs, and the girl in the cloth skirt was holding one. Ning Cheng could only get one, so he naturally wanted to buy the entire pair of pearl flowers. Later, if the girl didn't want it, he would buy them all. If the girl wanted them, he would ask the girl for help and have her give the pearl flowers to him.

  Ning Cheng was so excited because this pair of pearl flowers not only had the same color as the ones he left for his sister Yu Lan, but also had exactly the same shape, all in snowflake shapes. If you don't consider the material factor, this pair of pearl flowers and the one he bought on Earth are completely indistinguishable.

  At first, the pair of pearl flowers he bought was lost by Tian Mowan, and only one was left in Ning Ruolan's hand. Today, he can see a pair of identical pearl flowers again, isn't it fate?

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