Chapter Seventy-Three: Condensing Reality in a Small Town

  Ning Cheng quickly gathered everything he could, even simply refining the flying sword and storing it in his storage bag before swiftly leaving.

  Ning Cheng and Tai Shu had originally agreed to meet within three days, but he was worried that Xun Shou would ask for help. If the opponent was too strong, Ning Cheng even planned to escape to Da'an Forest. Now that Xun Shou has been killed by him and no distress signal has been sent out, Ning Cheng can put his mind at ease. He and Tai Shu have not been separated for a long time, so they should be able to catch up soon.

  However, two hours later, Ning City stopped and felt that something was wrong. He had clearly followed the trail of Tai Shu Shi to come here, but after arriving, he found that there were no more trails.

  Ning Cheng searched again in the place where Tai Shu Shi lost his trail, but still couldn't find any clues.

  Half a day later, Ning Cheng left this place and decided to wait at the edge of the Luolei Desert. He gave Taishu Shi the map of the land, and Taishu Shi had to go through the desert to Huazhou, so he must pass through the entrance marked on the map.

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  From Yuanzhou to Huazhou, you must go through Luolei Desert, whether you fly over or walk over.

  Outside of Thunder Desert, there are three small towns: Thunder Town, Moon Sand Town and Flowing Firefly Town.

  Among the three towns, the largest and most bustling one is Leiyin Town. Every year, countless cultivators enter the Leiyin Desert from Leiyin Town. Apart from a tiny minority who want to search for some treasures in the Leiyin Desert, most people are trying to pass through the Leiyin Desert to reach Huazhou.

  In fact, very few people can pass through the Thunder Desert and enter the Land of Transformation. The vast majority of people fall in the Thunder Desert, which is why it has been called the Bone-Burying Desert for a long time. Inside, there are indeed white bones everywhere, with too many cultivators having fallen.

  Even so, people entering the Thunder Desert have never stopped, wave after wave.

  Ning Cheng obtained a simplified map from Kou Hong, not entering from Luolei Town, but from Yu Sha Town. Yu Sha Town is relatively remote, with fewer desert resources around it, and it's far less prosperous than Luolei Town.

  Ning Cheng rushed along the road, and a month later, he appeared outside of Yue Sha Town. In this one month, he didn't even take out the storage bag left by Hei Yiwu to check it. The main reason was that he wanted to hurry to Yue Sha Town as soon as possible. Once there, not only could he wait for Tai Shu Shi, but if anything went wrong, he could also escape into the Luolei Desert at the first opportunity.

  Some weary adventurers returned from outside and entered the Moon Sand Town with Ning City, treading on the residual glow of sunset.

  Compared to the prosperity of Luolei Town, Yuexia Town seems a bit desolate. Ning Cheng will definitely arrive with his speed, and Tai Shu Shi will not arrive before him. He decided to wait for Tai Shu Shi in Yuexia Town, and also refine the two magical instruments in his hand while preparing to advance to Condensing Reality.

  Whether it was the moldy copper coin or the mid-grade flying sword, Ning City was very much looking forward to it. Relatively speaking, he didn't care about that red flying sword.

  The inns and travelers coming and going in Yue Sha Town are also sparse.

  Ning Cheng found an unassuming inn in a secluded part of the town and checked in. A cultivator like Ning Cheng, who was not eye-catching, could be found everywhere in Moonsand Town. These cultivators would generally go out for several months at a time, and after returning, they would choose to seclude themselves. When their cultivation resources were exhausted, they would leave Moonsand Town again. This cycle repeated itself until the day of their downfall.

  In the Thunder Desert, searching for cultivation resources is a rare feat that few can achieve without falling. Although this is known, such a life remains the choice of many scattered cultivators, or perhaps they simply have no other choice.

  Ning City found this inn called Yuehe Inn, which is in Yuesha Town. The Yuehe Inn is also a small and inconspicuous place. Those who live in such places are mostly scattered cultivators who are even more down on their luck.

  Ning Cheng didn't care, after entering the resting room, he immediately put up a "Do Not Disturb" sign and set up various formations inside the room, including the Hiding Spirit Formation and the Defensive Formation...

  The formation was set up, and Ning City's first move was to bring out that moldy copper coin. This copper coin rolled away his long spear, leaving Ning City extremely surprised. If he hadn't had the Seven Day Ice Needle and Inner Armor, he might have been killed by Xun Shun.

  The main reason is that he lacks experience in dealing with enemies, but this rusty copper coin is undoubtedly powerful.

  The refinement of the copper coin was extremely difficult, and Ning Cheng spent ten days on it, only to refine one layer of the seal. At the same time, he also understood why Xun Shuang had such a hard time deploying the copper coin as his magic weapon. Xun Shuang could at most only refine two layers of the seal, plus his own cultivation was limited, so it was extremely difficult for him to deploy it.

  This copper coin is called Wu Xing Luo Bao Copper Coin.

  No wonder his long spear was taken away by this copper coin, it turned out to be a treasure that specializes in falling laws. This treasure is simply too against the sky. Unfortunately, this copper coin has a fatal flaw, which is that it can only fall under the five-line law treasure. The seven-day ice needle is a tail needle that is not within the five lines at all, so this copper coin cannot be dropped.

  In any case, this is definitely a treasure and still a good one. As for the later seals, Ning City did not continue to refine them, he planned to wait until he was free to refine the later seals.

  Compared to the Five Elements Falling Treasure Copper Coin, the middle-grade flying ship magic tool is much simpler to refine. Ning City only spent half a day and has already refined this middle-grade flying ship magic tool, and at the same time, made this magic tool his own.

  The red flying sword was simply refined by Ning Cheng and then thrown into his storage bag. He didn't like flying sword artifacts.

  Ning Cheng finally took out the storage bag of the black-clothed man. At Yishui Courtyard, Xun Shuang's generosity was evident when he handed over his own storage bag, so Ning Cheng had high expectations for this one.

  Ning Cheng didn't spend much time refining this storage bag. As soon as his divine consciousness swept into the storage bag, he immediately felt a little disappointed.

  Following the usual practice of Hua Ling Shi, Ning Cheng thought that there were at least 300,000 to 400,000 spirit stones in his storage bag. In fact, this storage bag only had around 100,000 low-grade spirit stones. This was still because the other party hadn't bought Lian Er and Liu Huanyu; otherwise, there would have been no more than 20,000 spirit stones inside.

  In the storage bag, there were several bottles of Dan medicine and a few jade slips. Ning Cheng casually took out a jade slip, scanned it with his divine sense, and indeed, it was just as he had guessed - these jade slips recorded how to cultivate using female cultivators. From this, it can be seen that Xun Shuang's master is not a good thing either.

  He swept the remaining jade slips, all of which were of the same type. Ning Cheng directly conjured a flame to burn them to ashes; he was from Earth and couldn't accept that such a cultivation method existed in the world.

  He obtained ten thousand spirit stones, adding to the one or two thousand he already had on him. Ning Cheng decided to make a breakthrough to the Congealing True Realm. Once he reached the Congealing True Realm, Tai Shixiong should also arrive at Moon Stone Town.

  One by one, the Ling Stones were crushed into powder by Ning Cheng, and the scattered spiritual energy was blocked by his array. Although some of the spiritual energy could not be stopped, the guests in the inn were all cultivating with spiritual energy circulating within them, so no one found it strange.

  A month later, Ning Cheng went out to purchase some food again and returned to his room. At this time, he had already reached the ninth layer of Gathering Qi and was preparing to advance to Condensing Reality.

  After taking the Cong Zhen Dan, the true energy inside his body immediately became restless. Ning Cheng knew that advancing to Cong Zhen was the process of converting true energy into true yuan, so he wasn't flustered in his heart and slowly converted his own true energy by operating the Turning Skill Formula.

  He has been cultivating the complete gong method, and when the true energy is gathered in the nine layers of Qi, it has already begun to transform into true yuan. Now, with the help of the Condensing True Dan, he begins to transform, and there isn't much difficulty.

  Time passed in Ning City's closed-door meditation, and the pile of spiritual stones beside him was dwindling. It was unknown how much time had passed when Ning City converted all the true energy in his meridians into true yuan, his entire body's meridians emitted a series of crackling sounds. As if at this moment, all the meridians expanded by more than double.

  He let out a long breath and suddenly stood up straight.

  "This is the Cong True Realm?" Ning City had just advanced to the Cong True Realm and felt a flow of true yuan several times stronger than the ninth layer of Qi accumulation, and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

  Before he didn't advance to the Condensing Reality Realm, and always thought that the Condensing Reality Realm was nothing more than that. After all, he could kill a Condensing Reality Realm cultivator with just his Gathering Qi Realm, but when he truly advanced to the Condensing Reality Realm, only then did he understand that the true difference between the Condensing Reality Realm and the Gathering Qi Realm was really too great.

  He was able to kill the Condensing Reality realm because he had never encountered a true master of the Condensing Reality realm. If there were someone like him in the Condensing Reality realm, how could they possibly fight against the Gathering Qi realm? The power of the True Origin is simply not something that True Qi can compare to.

  It's been almost two months since I arrived in Yuexia Town, and there is still no news of Taishan. Ningcheng decided not to wait any longer, he wanted to enter the Luolei Desert alone to find Huazhou.

  Ning Cheng washed himself and walked out of the inn, preparing to leave some marks outside Moon Sand Town. When Tai Shu arrived at Moon Sand Town later, he would know that Ning Cheng had been there before.

  Ning Cheng had just left the town when he saw a crowd of people gathered at the entrance of the town, still engaged in heated discussions.

  Ning Cheng curiously squeezed in, but found that under the huge town sign outside the small town was posted a notice.

  A huge portrait on the poster, exactly like him, with a long gun on his back. The content of the poster was written very clearly, and anyone who received news about the person in the portrait should report immediately. Those who reported would receive 10,000 spirit stones as a reward, and if they could capture the person in the portrait, they would receive 100,000 spirit stones, regardless of life or death.

  It was actually a wanted poster for his own capture. Ning Cheng sneered inwardly. In this place, Yue Sha Town, they also thought of capturing him? Don't dream about it.

  "Huh, it's him, he's the one on the wanted poster." At this time, someone had already discovered Ning Cheng and immediately let out a shout of surprise.

  With this shout, the people around discovered that the wanted man was right in front of them.

  Some monks even took out their own magic weapons, but they didn't dare to rush up and capture Ning Cheng. The aura on Ning Cheng's body made it clear that none of them were a match for him, and if they forced themselves to go up, they would only be seeking death. Spirit stones are good, but one also needs to have a life to enjoy them.

  Ning Cheng drew out a flying sword and stepped onto it. However, instead of leaving immediately, he loudly declared, "You go tell that guy who issued the wanted notice that Xun Shun was killed by me. In a few years, I'll be back. But when I come back, it's to kill him."

  After finishing speaking, Ning City disappeared into thin air under the gaze of everyone, with a sword light flashing by, and no one dared to chase after him.