Chapter Eighty-two The Only Kin

  After a stick of incense, Ning Cheng finally recovered most of his true yuan with the help of Ling Shi.

  The red flying sword had fallen into the blood pool, and Ning City didn't plan on retrieving it back. He simply raised his hand to recall the Seven Day Ice Needle. As for the grey-robed person's item, he didn't know where it was hidden, as there wasn't a storage bag or any other storage device on him.

  Ning Cheng didn't care about what was on the grey-robed man's body. A person who cultivated through blood, even if he had something, it wasn't something Ning Cheng wanted.

  It wasn't until then that he had a chance to take in his surroundings.

  The place where he was located had an area of hundreds of square meters, surrounded by a mysterious array, making it hazy and indistinct. In the center of this area was a huge blood pool, which was also obscured by the bloody mist above, making it impossible to see clearly. As soon as his divine sense scanned past, it was immediately blocked by the array.

  Ning Cheng carefully looked around several times, confirming that this place had no other exit except for the blood pool. The entrance was already sealed by the gray-clothed man, unless he also had a talisman like Pei Guanghe's to leave this place.

  The only one who has a glimmer of hope is the Blood Pool, otherwise he can only attack the surrounding formations alone. Not to mention that Ning City couldn't understand these surrounding formations at all, even if he did, he wouldn't dare to attack alone.

  As for the Blood Pool, Ning City didn't want to go in anymore. The blood pool was emitting waves of bloody bubbles, and several Cong True cultivators fell into it without making a sound. Just looking at it made one's scalp feel numb.

  Ning Cheng tried it out on the blood pool above, and after making sure there was no suction, he flew down to the platform where the gray-robed man sat in the middle of the blood pool.

  With a wave of his hand, the bone fragments on the platform had been thrown into the blood pool by Ning Cheng.

  Ning Cheng tapped his long spear on the platform, and a series of mournful sounds came from inside.

  Is this empty? Ning Cheng's heart immediately became excited, he didn't care about the gray-robed man's things, but the gray-robed man had been staying in here for who knows how long. This relic was real, maybe all the things in the relic were collected by the gray-robed man and stored inside.

  Ning Cheng didn't spend much time before he figured out the formation drawn on this platform. It was a simple enclosed formation, Ning Cheng just threw out a few formation flags and with a lift of his hand, he lifted off a cover from this platform.

  A narrow and long staircase appeared under Ning City's feet, Ning City's divine sense swept in, only after confirming that there was no problem did he walk into the stairs, while covering the lid on the outside again.

  The stairs didn't know where they led, deep and long. Ning Cheng walked for nearly half a time, only to see that there were no more stairs in front of him, but instead, a small path made of sand and stone appeared. Around the path, some luminous stones floated sparsely.

  Ning Cheng walked along this small path for almost an hour before seeing a stone house without a door.

  After confirming that the stone house was not dangerous, Ning City entered the stone house. In the middle of the stone house sat a white and eerie skeleton. This skeleton had been there for many years, but it still emitted a strong sense of oppression, even stronger than the withered bones that the gray-clothed man had pulled out of the blood pool earlier.

  On both sides of the stone house, except for a stone table, there was only one stone rack. There was nothing on either the table or the stone rack. It can be seen that everything here has been taken away by people who came before.

  Ning Cheng approached the skeleton, somewhat skeptical that this was indeed the legendary Bei Hai Jing cultivator. On the ground in front of the skeleton, Ning Cheng saw a line of small words: To enter my door, knock forty-nine times.

  Don't say that Ning Cheng didn't get anything, even if he did get something, he wouldn't bow his head forty-nine times to a strange skeleton for no reason.

  Ning Cheng walked up to the foot of the wall and drew out the long spear in his hand, taking aim at the spot where the skeleton had written its message before thrusting it forward with a loud crash.

  Boom

  The long spear slammed into the ground, splashing countless gravel, and the skeleton suddenly shattered simultaneously, shooting out dense white bone arrows. Ning Cheng was startled, and immediately a fist axe blasted out, those white bone arrows seemed to be old and were blown open by Ning Cheng's fist axe, falling in front of Ning Cheng, but surprisingly didn't hurt him.

  Ning Cheng let out a breath and looked at the skeleton, which had already shattered and fallen to the ground. The ground that was blasted open by his long spear, as well as the place where the skeleton fell, were both empty. Ning Cheng wasn't too disappointed, he had known when he came in that the things here had been taken away by someone who came before him.

  Just then, a saloon fell down, and the roof of this stone house cracked open with a huge gap, and the yellow sand outside the roof came pouring in.

  Ning Cheng was overjoyed, if there was yellow sand falling here, it meant that the place above was Luolei Desert. As long as he followed the flow of yellow sand upwards, he would eventually reach the top of the desert.

  A shrill cry came from the distant corridor, and Ning Cheng immediately recognized that the cry was made by the girl Wang Shangxiu. It was unclear whether this woman had entered the corridor or if the cry had come from somewhere else. If she had entered the corridor, it would mean that the array sealing off the Blood Pool had already been opened.

  But Ning City no longer wanted to retreat, this relic must have been searched for countless times, and the faint winds he felt when he came in didn't feel right. The relic was so eerie that he had lost the idea of continuing to explore, it's better to go up from the yellow sand below now.

  As Ning City crossed the ground that had been blasted out by his long spear, he suddenly felt something was off. He was a second-level array master, and on one of the broken stones, an obscure array pattern was drawn, which he immediately recognized. He quickly picked up the stone, and with a burst of strength, a delicate jade seal appeared in his hand. The jade seal had four words engraved on it: Blue Brave True Country.

  "Whoa......" The falling yellow sand grew thicker and thicker, Ning Cheng could no longer care about anything else, he tossed the jade seal into his storage bag, grabbed his long spear and instantly charged into the yellow sand.

  Under the reversal of true yuan, Ning City rose against the current in the yellow sand.

  One watch, two watches...

  Half a day has passed, and Ning Cheng is still going upstream in the yellow sand. Ning Cheng seems to be at the lowest point of the sandy rocks, and it's still far from emerging.

  Fortunately, Ning City was already a Condensing True Cultivator and could breathe internally, otherwise he would have suffocated to death. Half a day later, he stopped and began to rest and recover his true yuan.

  Half a day later, Ning City felt the gun tip contact loosen, and the pressure on his head also loosened. A wave of yellow sandy wind rolled over, and Ning City let out a long sigh, he had finally returned to the surface of the desert again.

  Ning City didn't stay here for half a breath, he immediately found a direction and quickly left the original place. He wanted to leave this area first, then find a safe place to clean up and recover his true yuan.

  An hour later, Ning City found a withered poplar forest on the outskirts. He decided to rest here.

  Before determining where to rest here, Ning Cheng's divine sense swept outwards, and at this moment his divine thoughts could already survey the surroundings of dozens of miles in range.

  A disheveled nun vaguely appeared in Ning City's divine sense, this nun stumbled and staggered, apparently exhausted. It was a female cultivator, judging from her appearance, she seemed to be fleeing through the desert.

  Luo Fei? Ning Cheng almost instantly recognized this female cultivator, who was actually Ji Luo Fei.

  Ji Luo Fei wasn't at Meteorite Academy in Huazhou? How could she possibly appear in Luolei Desert?

  Ning Cheng didn't even think about it and immediately rushed over. In just a dozen or so breaths, Ning Cheng had already arrived in front of Ji Luo Fei.

  Ji Luo Fei saw a figure rushing towards her and almost subconsciously raised the flying sword in her hand to slash at Ning Cheng.

  With a simple flick of his wrist, Ji Luofei's flying sword deviated from its course. Before Ji Luofei could make her next move, Ning Cheng had already grasped her wrist, "Luofei, what's going on? I'm Ning Cheng."

  "Is he dead?" Ji Luofei's gaze swept across Ning Cheng's face, her frantic eyes immediately calming down, and she fainted into Ning Cheng's arms. Ning Cheng took out the Lingyuan Spring water and fed some to Ji Luofei. His storage bag still had some medicinal pills, which were his spoils of war, but he didn't know if they could be used, so he didn't take them out.

  Ji Luo Fei just fainted, she should wake up after resting for a while.

  Ning Cheng found a strap and carried Ji Luo Fei on his back. He decided to change places and wait until Ji Luo Fei fully recovered before doing anything else.

  Ji Luo Fei was clearly in a hurry when she ran into the desert alone from Meteorite Academy, something must have happened. If she hadn't met herself on time, any ordinary desert whirlpool could have swallowed her up.

  Ningcheng changed direction again and accelerated at the same time.

  The heat emanating from the True Yuan's agitation woke up Ji Luo Fei. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw that she was on a male cultivator's back and immediately wanted to pull out her flying sword from her waist to slash down. However, she soon discovered that her flying sword was not on her body, and at the same time, she remembered the familiar face she had seen before she fainted.

  "Ning Cheng..." Ji Luo Fei's hand trembled as she reached out to stroke the back of Ning Cheng's neck, her voice also trembling uncontrollably. "Have we all finally died?"

  Ning Cheng's skin was being gently stroked by Ji Luo Fei's soft palm, making him feel a bit itchy. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Ji Luo Fei continue in a trembling voice, "I'm sorry, Ning Cheng. You asked me to help you take revenge, but I won't be able to... You're my only family now, and if I die with you, I'll be happy..."

  The words Ning Cheng said beside Ji Luo's ear echoed again.

  "Don't worry, follow me, just listen to me."

  "Luó Fēi, you know my abilities, just remember to avenge me after you leave..."

  She had never been treated so well in her life, even though Ning Cheng had bullied her for over a decade. Just because he was good to her for one day, she couldn't forget it. Ning Cheng was the only person who would use his own life to save hers. When she didn't want to leave Ning Cheng, she no longer had a choice. Unfortunately, before she died, she didn't fulfill Ning Cheng's wish and avenge him.

  Ning Cheng suddenly felt a sourness on the tip of his nose, he really hadn't done anything to Ji Luo Fei, and before coming out of prison, he had even bullied Ji Luo Fei for many years. This woman still treated him as her only relative, compared to what Ji Luo Fei had done, Ning Cheng suddenly felt very ashamed.

  On the surface, Ji Luo Fei didn't seem to care about him, but in secret, she went to the Dou Pot Arena and risked her life to win that one Aggregating Spirit Stone, all just so he could cultivate.

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