Ning Cheng felt a little perplexed. Lie Junfeng and Bei Xialan should have already left to sowhere as far away from this place as possible. It was already a stroke of luck that they t him today. If it were Rui Baishan, he would have killed them on the spot.
Ning Cheng, however, ignored the two. He looked at the dark-faced young man with a smile and said, “Were you the one who said sothing about Purple Light Treasure Essence?”
He already knew that this dark-faced youth had ntioned Purple Light Treasure Essence, but he still asked out of courtesy.
The dark-faced youth was only at the late-stage Celestial Gathering Realm. Therefore, his face imdiately turned a little red with excitent after noticing Ning Cheng talk to him. He quickly replied, “Yes, yes, senior. I have a jade strip here. There’s an area in the Devouring Bone Sea marked with the words ‘Purple Light Treasure Essence’ on it. However, I don’t know what it is.....”
While speaking, the dark-faced youth handed over a jade strip to Ning Cheng with a very respectful attitude.
Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness casually swept over the jade strip and understood that this youth hadn’t lied. This jade strip had the marks of ti over it; moreover, he could tell that the person who marked this jade strip had decent cultivation. Which ant that it definitely had so truth to it.
“Thank you.” Ning Cheng put away the jade strip, took out a jade bottle, and handed it to the dark-faced youth.
“Many thanks, senior.” The youth imdiately bowed and put away the jade bottle. However, he felt slightly disappointed. As long as he accumulated resources for so ti, he could have managed to afford the contents in the jade bottle. It only contained Grade 3 Celestial Pills, with the only one function of healing injuries. As such, it wasn’t too valuable.
The people nearby also felt a little disappointed. They all thought that a senior like Ning Cheng would co up with so good things. None of them expected him to take out only a few healing pills.
Despite the slight disappointnt, the dark-faced youth still felt very grateful. After all, even a few healing pills were a small fortune around these parts. Just after bowing and stepping back, Ning Cheng’s voice rang in his ears, “Among those pills, there is also a Harmonising Celestial Pill. Whether you can advance to the Celestial Bridge Realm or not, it would depend on your own fortune.”
The dark-faced youth trembled slightly before returning to normal. Forcibly resisting the surprise and excitent creeping up, the dark-faced young man quickly walked out of the rchant house.
He never imagined that he would obtain a Harmonising Celestial Pill. This pill could help a Celestial Gatherer cultivator advance to the Celestial Bridge Realm. Moreover, such pills were not sothing one could buy with celestial coins around these parts. Besides, even if soone sold it, he couldn’t afford it. Devouring Bone Sea was a gathering place of many Celestial Gathering rogue cultivators. And which one of them hadn’t co here looking for opportunities to advance to the Celestial Bridge Realm?
At this mont, he felt truly grateful towards Ning Cheng. He understood that Ning Cheng had protected him. If Ning Cheng had spoken about the Harmonising Celestial Pill openly, he most likely would not have survived to see the light of next day.
After obtaining news of Purple Light Treasure Essence, Ning Cheng decided to walk out towards the sea. Although he did see Lie Junfeng and Bei Xialan standing at the door, he didn’t speak. Instead, he ignored them and stepped out.
“Sect Master.....” Just when Ning Cheng stepped out of the rchant house, Lie Junfeng hurriedly called out after him.
Ning Cheng, however, didn’t stop and kept walking. He did speak a few cold words, “What? You’re no longer a disciple of Rainbow Fall Sword Sect, so don’t call Sect Master.”
Lie Junfeng quickly stepped forward, “Senior, the reason we ca to Devouring Bone Sea was due to a Positional Diagram Ball we obtained. Xialan and I no longer have any chance to explore this place, so we wanted to give this Positional Diagram Ball to you.”
Lie Junfeng no longer dared to call Ning Cheng as ‘Sect Master’ anymore. Instead, he changed his form of address to ‘senior’.
Ning Cheng received the Positional Diagram Ball from Lie Junfeng’s hands with a perplexed look. However, the mont his spiritual consciousness swept inside it, Ning Cheng’s expression changed slightly. It was actually a starry sky map.
This starry sky map looked similar to the Starry Sky Positional Diagram on his Starry Sky Wheel. In fact, it had much more detail. As Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness swept through it, it looked as if he was looking at a miniature version of the starry sky.
Ning Cheng quickly found the location of the Devouring Bone Sea on the miniature version of the planet. However, it did not have ‘Devouring Bone Star’ marked over it; instead, it rely indicated it as an uninhabited star. Inside this star, he saw a sea along with an area marked out inside the sea with two words, ‘One Piece[1]’.
According to this Starry Sky Positional Diagram, this unmanned star obviously was the Devouring Bone Star, and the sea was the Devouring Bone Sea. As long as one’s spiritual consciousness could communicate with this Starry Sky Positional Diagram Ball, they could easily find the location marked in the sea.
Lie Junfeng and Bei Xialan would have found it impossible to find this place through this star chart, especially with such low cultivations.
Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness finally left the Starry Sky Positional Diagram Ball in his hand and nodded, “This thing is useful to . Besides, you wouldn’t be able to reach this place with your cultivations. I won’t take your things for nothing...”
While talking, Ning Cheng raised his hand and took out two dicinal pills.
As if possessing a will of their own, these two pills shot into Lie Junfeng and Bei Xialan’s mouths. A mont later, Lie Junfeng and Bei Xialan felt their shattered ridians starting to reconnect. Even their already dissipated celestial essence had started recovering.
The two instantly realised that this was the effect of a top-grade healing pill. If not for this dicinal pill, even reaching the peak of Heaven’s Mandate Realm, they would have never obtained such a miraculous dicinal pill.
In just a dozen breaths, the pill restored Lie Junfeng and Bei Xialan’s cultivation completely. At the sa ti, the ridians previously broken by Bright South Celestial River King finished reconnecting.
“Many thanks for the help.” Lie Junfeng fell to his knees and trembled with excitent. In all honesty, the mont Bright South Celestial River King walked in their lives, they both knew that the end was near for them. The two never expected to get a new lease at life.
Ning Cheng calmly spoke up, “Don’t thank for this. I have nothing to do with you. It was rely an exchange of interests. With your temperant, if not for the exchange of interests, I wouldn’t have done anything to save you.”
Lie Junfeng pursed his lips and spoke up with a hoarse tone, “I know that my ancestors already look down on , and I indeed did so questionable things. But when Xialan and I fell in love in Rainbow Fall Sword Sect, Shen Wenyao had already forced Xialan into a marriage with him without her consent. Even Rui Baishan fully supported Shen Wenyao, so Xialan and I made plans to retaliate and then escape from the sect.”
Ning Cheng just waved his hand; the next mont, his body flickered and disappeared into the depths of the Devouring Bone Sea. He hated people like Lie Junfeng. To get revenge, Lie Junfeng used his woman to go undercover and then colluded with the enemy to attack his sect. For revenge, he put a green hat to cover up his oily black hair.
Seeing Ning Cheng just leave after restoring their cultivation, Lie Junfeng’s face looked a little gloomy. He only achieved half his purpose. He initially thought that Ning Cheng would protect them and even offer so benefits, but nothing of that sort happened.
“Junfeng, being able to recover our cultivation is already a blessing. Otherwise, we couldn’t leave Devouring Bone Star. We would have to stay here until our deaths.” After so many years of working with Lie Junfeng, Bei Xialan naturally understood Lie Junfeng’s thoughts.
Lie Junfeng’s expressions changed a few tis before he finally gave a sigh and said, “Let’s leave, Xialan. One day, I will also stand at the top of the starry skies and let those who looked down on and bullied , to look at Lie Junfeng as a powerhouse.”
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After entering the Devouring Bone Sea, Ning Cheng encountered so whirlpools from ti to ti. These whirlpools had a strong rotational pull, and if one wasn’t careful, it could quickly suck soone into the sea.
No wonder people rarely ca to the depths of the Devouring Bone Sea. If one did not have sufficient cultivation and tried to explore this area with just ordinary cultivation, one would find it almost impossible to survive. Especially if one encountered one of these whirlpools.
Even with Ning Cheng’s speed, it took him nearly two days to reach the location marked in the jade strip given to him by that dark-faced youth.
Only after reaching this place, did Ning Cheng finally understand why Purple Light Treasure Essence would form in this place? This was actually a volcanic island in the middle of the sea. Moreover, before Ning Cheng could even approach the edge of the island, he could clearly feel the waves of terrifying heat emanating from it.
The water at the edge of the island kept raging as the horrifying temperature of the island kept it in a superheated state. It also ford a vague layer of steam that covered the entire volcanic island. If it weren’t for the vast size of the Devouring Bone Sea, the heat from the edge of this volcanic island would have evaporated everything around it. Maybe even dry out the Devouring Bone Sea.
Ning Cheng finally stepped foot on this volcanic island and blocked out the horrifying temperature with his domain. But even then, Ning Cheng felt slightly uncomfortable. Facing such horrifying temperatures, even Eternal-level experts would find it impossible to step onto the island. Not unless they had so reliable heat-resistant defensive weapons or a powerful physique.
Ning Cheng didn’t dare to bring out his Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds. Amidst this horrifying heat, his Twin Wings of Heavenly Clouds wouldn’t last for long unless it had already undergone nirvana.
Ning Cheng carefully moved step-by-step towards the heart of the volcanic island and could feel the temperature rising gradually. The rising temperature even affected Ning Cheng’s domain, and it felt as if it would crack apart at any ti.
Even so, Ning Cheng had no plans to take out the Everlasting Blue Thunder Fort. Instead, he decided to operate his body-forging cultivation thod. He found that the horrifying temperatures of this place had an incredible effect in forging his body.
“Bang.....” A light explosion rang out, and just when Ning Cheng had almost reached the centre of this volcanic island, his robes suddenly disintegrated into nothingness.
Dazzling purple light containing terrifying heat shined down and slamd into Ning Cheng’s body. The tearing heat, however, accelerated Ning Cheng’s body-forging cultivation thod, which continuously refined and transford the energy within it to improve his corporeal body’s strength.
Ning Cheng started ambling, and soti later, his bones began to crack apart and co together, forcing him to stop imdiately. He had initially co here looking for Purple Light Treasure Essence. Instead, his forged body advanced to the middle-stage of Starry Sky Body before reaching the depths of the volcanic island.
Feeling the power coursing through his corporeal body, Ning Cheng’s eyes flashed with joy and felt delighted in his heart. This was definitely not an ordinary fla. No matter how powerful his body-forging cultivation thod, ordinary flas would not have helped him in advancing so fast. But getting the chance to ponder the reason, a purple crystal in front of him attracted Ning Cheng’s gaze. It was a piece of Purple Light Treasure Essence.
Seeing that piece, Ning Cheng understood that Wu Hong had not obtained that Purple Light Treasure Essence from this place. If Wu Hong could co here, he wouldn’t have found just a piece of Purple Light Treasure Essence. Ning Cheng hadn’t even started searching for it actively, yet he already obtained a Purple Light Treasure Essence. This showed how much Purple Light Treasure Essence was in this place.
Ning Cheng raised his hand, grabbed that piece of Purple Light Treasure Essence, and put it into a jade box. Just as he was about to start moving around, an inexplicable feeling of vigilance appeared in his heart. Was there soone around?
Ning Cheng quickly took out a robe and put it over his body. At the sa ti, he used his domain and forged body to block out the horrifying heat around him.
[1] The actual word used here is ‘Baoyi’, which translates to ‘Treasure One’. But it felt odd given the style and the context later, so I decided to translate this word as ‘One Piece’.
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