Chapter 0765: Past Events
“What’s your na?” Ning Cheng asked the female cultivator who looked sowhat similar to Luofei.
The female cultivator cautiously stared at Ning Cheng and took a few steps back unconsciously before saying, “Who are you? I’ve never seen you before.”
“My na is Ning Cheng. And yes, you haven’t seen before.” Ning Cheng replied. Back when he saw Xiong Qihua, this female cultivator had not been born yet.
After hearing Ning Cheng’s words, the female cultivator imdiately looked at Ning Cheng in shock. Her mouth remained open for a long ti before she finally managed to speak up, “Are you really Ning Cheng? No wonder you feel so familiar. Are you sister Luofei’s Dao Companion? Where is my big sister?”
Hearing the words of this female cultivator, Ning Cheng imdiately understood that Xiong Qihua must have told her many of the past matters. She must have also shown her his original portrait. But since he currently had a substantial beard covering his face, it was normal for her to not recognise him imdiately.
However, when he heard this female cultivator asking about Luofei, Ning Cheng didn’t know how to answer.
Fortunately, this female cultivator didn’t even wait for Ning Cheng to answer. She imdiately pulled Ning Cheng aside and said, “Brother-in-law, co with . I have to tell you a few things.”
Ning Cheng felt surprised at this lady’s ability to improvise on the spot. He also marvelled a bit at her unrestrained actions. But he quickly understood how she got such skills. Surviving in this place, why would soone foster a princess disease or sothing similar? Arguably, she wasn’t Nalan Ruxue, who had a severe case of princess disease. In any case, both were totally different types of people.
“Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My na is Zhu Nianfei.” Zhu Nianfei pulled Ning Cheng into a humble rest stop next to him. She raised a hand and threw out a middle-rank spiritual stone to the store assistant and said, “I want a booth. You can keep the change.”
The store assistance speechlessly took the spiritual stone and murmured to himself. “You just gave a middle-rank spiritual stone. Just enough for two people. What the hell would I get out of this?
Ning Cheng, however, noticed the flash of pain in Zhu Nianfei’s eyes. To not ask directly, his spiritual consciousness fell into Zhu Nianfei’s storage bag. Inside her storage bag, he only found two low-level spiritual stones along with so low-level spiritual grasses. The contents couldn’t be any more depressing. Also, the storage bag only contained a broken middle-rank Ordinary Artefact. Apart from that broken middle-rank Ordinary Artefact, that piece of middle-rank spiritual stone should have been the most valuable thing to her. Yet, she used it to cater to a guest.
Moreover, the things in Zhu Nianfei’s storage bag didn’t match her cultivation. Being at True Condensation 1st Level, she should’ve had more wealth. Seeing this, Ning Cheng imdiately thought back to his past when he was also a True Condensation cultivator. He observed that even back then, he was many tis richer than the current Zhu Nianfei. Back then, he used to have at least a few tens of thousands of spiritual stones, and most of them high-ranked spiritual stones.
Entering the booth, Zhu Nianfei activated the restrictions and then poured Ning Cheng a cup of tea.
The tea served within the booth wasn’t even a spiritual tea of the lowest level. But Ning Cheng knew that Zhu Nianfei didn’t have any spiritual stones to buy spiritual tea.
Seeing Ning Cheng calmly take a sip out of the teacup, Zhu Nianfei quickly asked, “Brother-in-law, how did you co to this place? Did my big sister also co with you?”
Ning Cheng showed a slight pause before replying, “Your big sister isn’t here yet. I just ca here to help my friend get sothing back.”
“Brother-in-law, my mother said that you’re not soone simple. You should be doing well, right? I can’t see your cultivation level, so you must almost be at the Essence Building Realm, right? Is my big sister’s cultivation also the sa as you? Where do you guys live?” Zhu Nianfei behaved as if she wasn’t talking to a stranger, and continued to chat with Ning Cheng like a close relative. In fact, she treated Ning Cheng as her own family and threw out a bunch of questions.
Almost Essence Building Realm? Ning Cheng coughed and internally said to himself, “I’m at the middle-level of Life and Death Realm. If you could actually see my cultivation, would you have even dared to talk to ? Essence Building Realm, huh, even I forgot how long ago it was.”
“I just wander around. I’ve been wandering around for a long ti now. But I did find a place to settle down, and Luofei should be returning soon too.”
Zhu Nianfei didn’t overthink about Ning Cheng’s words. In her mind, Ning Cheng and her big sister Luofei already lived together. She reasoned out that her big sister had gone out looking for resources and that her brother-in-law ca here to get sothing.
As for her big sister going out alone to search for resources, it was sothing regular for her. This was how she was raised here and still lived to this day. Besides, wasn’t it normal for people to find their own cultivation resources? As for dangers, wasn’t cultivation already a risky ordeal?
“Well, I just saw a green-robed woman slapping you, and I saw how you looked quite similar to Luofei, so I ca here to look....” Ning Cheng, from the few words exchanged, understood that Zhu Nianfei had a temperantal personality but was a straightforward person.
Zhu Nianfei touched her face out of embarrassnt before speaking, “It’s nothing. It’s not the first ti this happened. I owe them so spiritual stones. But since I have no way of paying them back, it’s what I deserve.”
“How many spiritual stones do you owe them?” Ning Cheng asked in doubt.
“More than 50,000 middle-rank spiritual stones....” Zhu Nianfei spoke with a sigh.
Ning Cheng looked at Zhu Nianfei in disbelief, “How did you co to owe them this much?”
For Ning Cheng, he might not even make an effort to bend down and pick 50,000 middle-rank spiritual stones even if they were just lying there. However, for Zhu Nianfei, who just used up her only middle-rank spiritual stone, this was a sum she wouldn’t be able to pay back in her lifeti.
“My mother got seriously injured in the Lost Mountains and needs a lot of healing pills. But we didn’t have any spiritual stones to buy those healing pills, so I had no choice but to borrow so from others. My father takes care of my mother and can’t leave her side, so only my brother and I can return those spiritual stones.” Zhu Nianfei spoke out in helplessness.
Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness had already located Zhu Hongwen, who had reached the Essence Building 3rd Level. Just as Zhu Nianfei said, Xiong Qihua’s injuries needed sothing higher than low-level healing pills. Moreover, she also required true essence infusions from ti to ti, or her ridians would collapse on itself, turning her into a cripple. Since Zhu Hongwen stayed beside Xiong Qihua, he should be the one giving her those infusions.
“You said you also have a brother?” Ning Cheng asked out of mild curiosity.
Zhu Nianfei nodded, “Yes. My brother’s na is Zhu Nianluo. He’s currently in the Lost Mountains.”
“Since you called here and even spent a middle-rank spiritual stone, you probably need sothing from , right? If you don’t have enough spiritual stones, I can give you so.” Ning Cheng asked, guessing that Zhu Nianfei wanted to borrow so spiritual stones from him.
Zhu Nianfei hesitated for a bit before speaking up. “Yes, I initially had this plan. But now that I know that you and my big sister are also in a difficult spot, I’ll just go borrow spiritual stones from others.”
Ning Cheng ntioned that he had always been a wanderer and had only recently found a place to settle down. Hearing that, Zhu Nianfei had imdiately dispelled the idea of asking Ning Cheng for so spiritual stones. They still had at least a place to live, while Ning Cheng had only recently found a place to settle down, which in her mind was even worse than their situation.
This wasn’t the Tian Continent, so she didn’t know Ning Cheng’s prestige and assud that Ning Cheng, just like them, was having a hard ti. She didn’t know that Ning Cheng spoke about a celestial river in a starry sky, not a humble cave in a makeshift market like them.
Without waiting for Ning Cheng to speak, Zhu Nianfei continued. “Besides, I also have one other thing to speak with you here. My mother had told that if she still hadn’t recovered, and that if I t you one day, I must apologise to you on her behalf. My mother had deceived my big sister because she really didn’t want to be separated from my big sister.”
After saying that, Zhu Nianfei stood up and bowed to Ning Cheng before sitting down again. “Brother-in-law should already know that my mother’s na is Xiong Qihua. But you might not have known that my mother was already in a relationship with my father before she married my big sister’s father. It’s just that the Ji family had too much power. Moreover, my grandfather didn’t want my mother and my father to co together due to his grassroots’ origin. However, my father always worried about my mother. So, he decided to also go to the Ji family’s house and beca a servant.”
Ning Cheng frowned slightly. He anyway did not have a favourable impression of Xiong Qihua. Even if he put that aside, he did not like Zhu Hongwen very much.
Zhu Nianfei didn’t pay attention to Ning Cheng’s expression and continued, “Although my father took up the position of my mother’s servant, he never overstepped it. Not even when the Ji family fell and decided to move to the Ping Continent. But in Daan Forest, the Ji family almost disappeared. My father desperately tried to protect my mother and escape. It was not until my mother knew for sure that Ji Xuanzhang had fallen, did she and my father permanently retire to the Daan Forest. As for the rest of the things, my mother said you already know.”
“Regardless of whether you and my big sister ca here to look for my mother or for sothing else, I brought my mother’s words to you. Thank you for listening to . I’ll be taking my leave now.”
“Boom....” Just when Zhu Nianfei stood up, the restrictions on the booth blew open. The previous store assistant stood at the door along with two more people right behind him. One of them was the green-robed woman who had slapped Zhu Nianfei before and a middle-aged brown-haired man.
Ning Cheng had already seen these three coming towards them but did not speak up. Since Zhu Nianfei owed them spiritual stones, he already guessed that they had co to collect their debts. Regardless of how much she owed, he decided to help her pay it back.
“It’s ti for you to cough up those spiritual stones. The ti rented for a middle-rank spiritual stone has already passed.” The store assistant first pointed at Zhu Nianfei and yelled.
Zhu Nianfei’s eyes flashed with panic before she quickly recovered. She then calmly spoke up, “I have already calculated the ti, it should be just right.”
The store assistant sneered, “It’s from when you arrived. As long as you went over by even one breath, our rest stop’s policy is to chalk it up to a second spiritual stone.”
“You....” Zhu Nianfei almost couldn’t speak out of anger when she heard those words. However, she really had unparalleled endurance. She instantly reigned in her rage and spoke up with a calm voice, “I’m really sorry. I didn’t know about this rule. Please allow to go back and find a way to pay you back.”
The store assistant still wanted to talk, but the green-robed woman imdiately stepped to the front. She then sneered and spoke, “Zhu Nianfei, did you think you could jerk us around using such filthy tactics? You used a spiritual stone for this rest stop, yet didn’t you say that you don’t have any spiritual stones to return to us?”
“Sister Xia Xuan, I really don’t have any spiritual stones. My brother-in-law ca over today, so I took out the only middle-rank spiritual stone I had and invited my brother-in-law to the rest stop for a few words. Sister Xia Xuan, just give a few more days, I will definitely raise so spiritual stones to pay you back.” Zhu Nianfei sincerely spoke up. If Ning Cheng hadn’t seen the green-robed woman slapping Zhu Nianfei and heard her words, he would have definitely thought that Zhu Nianfei and this green-robbed woman were friends.
“Give you a few days? How many days have we already given you? I’ve already told you of a place where you can make spiritual stones. Why don’t you go there?” The green-robed woman gave a disdainful reply.
Zhu Nianfei still spoke earnestly, “Sister Xia Xuan, even if I die, I won’t go to the Duan Cultivation Mansion. But please rest assured, Sister Xia Xuan, I will definitely be able to raise a portion of the spiritual stones.”
“Bitch, don’t try to find excuses to drag things out......” The green-robed woman raised her hand to slap Zhu Nianfei once again.
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