The black-robed man cried secretly. If he could go back a few years, he would not be as afraid as Ning Cheng as he was now.
“Your Grey Toottoot is no longer with . Soone took it away.” The black-robed man spoke up with anxiety. When Ning Cheng had brought out the Ti Wheel and used a powerful domain to suppress him, he quickly understood that he wasn’t Ning Cheng’s opponent. Moreover, with Ning Cheng consciously powering the domain, he couldn’t even move anymore.
Hearing that soone had taken away Grey Toottoot, Ning Cheng’s killing intent almost exploded. With his domain filling up with murderous intent, even the suppressed black-robed skeletal man suffered so severe injuries.
The black-robed man’s cultivation had already fallen significantly. Therefore, with Ning Cheng’s powerful killing intent suppressing him, he could barely even breathe now.
“Don’t do it. If you kill , you will never find your companion beast.” The black-robed man knew that this was the only lifeline available to him.
Ning Cheng took in a deep breath before forcibly suppressing his killing intent. He then asked with a cold voice, “Who took Grey Toottoot? What is this place? Is it the underworld?”
Ning Cheng didn’t think that this black-robed man had lied to him. But he had also personally sealed the Ancient Shadow Temple before coming out the last ti. Who else could co to this place?
Feeling that Ning Cheng had restrained his killing intent, the black-robed man secretly breathed in a sigh of relief. But he still spoke up with a worried tone, “I can tell you whatever you want, but you will have to promise to spare this once.”
Ning Cheng sneered, “You don’t have the qualifications to bargain with . If you don’t want to destroy you right now, you better speak up. Your life and death depend on my mood, after all.”
When the black-robed man heard Ning Cheng’s words, his voice also beca stern, “Then kill now. I’d rather die than tell you about it.”
“Since you’re so eager to look for death, then let fulfil it. I can always search your soul later before destroying your spirit soul.” Ning Cheng finished in a cold voice. Even the Celestial Rainbow Purgatory Spear in his hand brought up a substantial spear intent.
The black-robed man almost felt his soul leave his body when he heard Ning Cheng talk about soul searching and destroying his spirit soul. He quickly spoke up, “If you at least let enter the reincarnation cycle, I can speak.”
Ning Cheng knew that he couldn’t search the soul of a cultivator at the level of the black-robed man. But since the black-robed man said that he would talk as long as Ning Cheng allowed it to enter the reincarnation cycle, Ning Cheng gave it so thought. He then spoke up after so ti, “Okay, I’ll agree to it. I will not destroy your spirit soul and allow you to enter the reincarnation cycle.”
The black-robed man now fully understood Ning Cheng’s fierceness and determination. Unfortunately, his cultivation couldn’t compete with Ning Cheng right now. Therefore, he had to give in, “This is not the real underworld. Soone had built this place to cultivate a spirit technique. That person built the first bridge with the hopes of simulating the underworld in this place. That person spent a lot of energy, but could barely even complete the First Bridge of Coping, let alone begin with the second bridge.”
“Second bridge, you an there are other bridges? What kind of spirit technique is this?” Ning Cheng felt a little curious. This place looked quite big, which ant that it would have used up a lot of energy to set it up. But apparently, soone had used it to simulate the underworld for the sake of cultivating a spirit technique.
The black-robed man replied, “The person who built this place is called Zhong Wuchang, and the spirit technique he wanted to cultivate is called Seven Bridges. The seven bridges consist of the First Bridge of Coping, Second Bridge of Looking Howards, Third Bridge of Forgetting River, Fourth Bridge of Yellow River, Fifth Bridge of Afterlife, Sixth Bridge of Other Shore, and Seventh Bridge of Reincarnation. It is a peerless spirit technique. I have stayed here for thousands of years to cultivate. Yet, I couldn’t even understand the First Bridge of Coping, let alone the complete Seven Bridges Spirit Technique.”
Ning Cheng felt a little shocked. He had already experienced the dangers of the first bridge of this spirit technique. Once soone successfully cultivated the entire spirit technique, just what level of power would it unleash? How many living creatures did Zhong Wuchang kill to build the First Bridge of Coping? If he had to face the complete Seven Bridges Spirit Technique, could he survive for even a mont?
The black-robed man didn’t know about Ning Cheng’s thoughts and continued, “Zhong Wuchang built the First Bridge of Coping here. But after countless years of cultivation, he understood that he couldn’t cultivate the true Seven Bridges Spirit Technique in this place. So he decided to leave everything behind and left this place. Many years later, a solidified Yin Spirit managed to gain spiritual wisdom after obtaining these things and ended up becoming a ghost cultivator.”
“The Ancient Shadow Temple originally was a place to absorb yin spirits. Moreover, the fall of countless cultivators in this place also produced many yin spirits, which the Ancient Shadow Temple sucked away. However, they all ended up as food for the growth of that ghost cultivator. Moreover, that ghost cultivator had seen Zhong Wuchang cultivating the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique, and also started cultivating the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique in this place. Although that ghost cultivator only managed to scrape the surface of it, it still managed to cultivate sothing similar.”
“Then, how did you appear here? Where did that ghost cultivator go?” Learning that soone had taken away Grey Toottoot, Ning Cheng couldn’t help but feel sowhat disappointed, which ca out in his tone.
The black-robed man quickly replied, “I accidentally found the Ancient Shadow Temple while roaming and ended up in this place. However, that ghost cultivator captured and ordered to help him collect the yin spirits who had not crossed the Bridge of Coping. The Yin Qi within this place is just too overbearing. Therefore, after staying in this place for a long ti, my cultivation not only didn’t improve; it even started to fall. Because of this, I could only modify my cultivation thod to start using yin spirits for cultivation. Fortunately, the yin spirits that ca here were of a low-grade, sothing the ghost cultivator didn’t need at that point. Moreover, I also knew that as long as I could get my hands on so high-grade yin spirits, my cultivation would gradually rise.”
When the black-robed man spoke of this, he seed to rember the ti when the ghost cultivator controlled his actions. “In the end, I’m only here to help that ghost cultivator grab various yin spirits, stuck in an endless, thankless loop. I could only cultivate for a while in between collections. Fortunately, I have good qualifications, so my cultivation improved ever so slowly. Later, that ghost cultivator felt that the level of yin spirits here was too low. So he ordered to attract cultivators with high cultivations to enter this place. For that, he even forced to take out those five treasures......”
Ning Cheng understood sothing after hearing all this, and imdiately asked, “You an you put those five treasures in the five-sided hall?”
The black-robed man nodded, “Yes, that ghost cultivator forced to put them up. Only that ghost cultivator knew the thod to control the array formations within the five-sided hall and the regional gates. But although I put those things up, I couldn’t get them back even if I wanted to. However, those few things indeed attracted a lot of top-grade cultivators for that ghost. Once the ghost cultivator swallowed the essence spirits of those people, he would order to put those things up once again.”
“It went on till one day I found a Soul Subduing Card on one of the yin spirits. When that ghost cultivator started to absorb those yin spirits for cultivation, I suddenly took my shot. I managed to suppress the ghost cultivator with the Soul Subduing Card. But my cultivation couldn’t compare with the ghost cultivator. Therefore, despite managing to suppress him, the two of us remained in a stalemate. Moreover, the control of all the array formations within the Ancient Shadow Temple remained with the ghost cultivator.”
“Then, how did Grey Toottoot get to this place?” Ning Cheng asked again.
The black-robed man replied, “It was because of a Heavenly Cloud Zoysia that had manifested so spiritual wisdom. Grey Toottoot found the Heavenly Cloud Zoysia, but that Heavenly Cloud Zoysia escaped into the Ancient Shadow Temple. Grey Toottoot chased after it. Because it’s not easy to find a beast like Grey Toottoot, I brought it into this place. Speaking of that, that ghost cultivator also helped. If it wasn’t for him opening the array formations, I couldn’t have brought Grey Toottoot inside even if I wanted.”
“After knowing that Grey Toottoot had a trace of All-devourer’s blood, I’ve been trying to force that trace of blood out of it by all ans I knew. However, I never succeeded even once.”
Ning Cheng’s heart filled up with even more killing desire. No wonder that ghost soldier had kept a tight grip on Grey Toottoot while over the Bridge of Coping. It wanted to force out Grey Toottoot’s blood.
“Then a few years ago, your group entered the Ancient Shadow Temple. You even ca to the Yellow Spring Pool. But because the ghost cultivator didn’t want to cooperate with , he deliberately let those who entered the Life and Death doors to break the barriers around this place. I wanted to prevent those people from escaping, but it proved quite expensive for . Plus, since you took away my most important treasure, the asureless Gourd, I had no choice but to chase after you.”
With that, the black-robed man’s eye filled up with regret.
“As a result of your actions, the ghost cultivator broke free, isn’t it?” Ning Cheng asked in a cold voice. He finally understood why Chuan Xinlou and the others could get out after being trapped in this place. From the looks of it, soone had been aiding them from the shadows. It also ant that people like Striking Order might have already fallen.
The black-robed man sighed, “Yes, that ghost cultivator took the opportunity to break away from the Soul Subduing Card. We battled it out, but he severely injured and then snatched away Grey Toottoot. He had a Breaking Boundary Talisman on him, which ant that I couldn’t chase after him.”
Ning Cheng estimated that this black-robed man hadn’t lied as this fellow’s strength had truly fallen by a lot.
“You know about the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique, you also know about Zhong Wuchang, did that ghost cultivator tell you about all of it?” Ning Cheng stared at the black-robed man.
“Yes, these were all things he had told in the past.” The black-robed man could feel the strong killing desire building up in Ning Cheng. He knew that Ning Cheng wouldn’t spare him today; therefore, he didn’t even bother to ask for rcy. He could only hope that Ning Cheng would keep his promise and allow him to enter the reincarnation cycle.
“What’s the na of that ghost cultivator?”
“His na is Ling Zhi.”
“Zhong Wuchang built a mystic realm right outside the Ancient Shadow Temple. Was it for cultivators to explore it as a trial and then use the opportunity to extract their soul?”
“Yes, but later he felt that the cultivators who ca in for the trials were too low-levelled, which was why he sealed the Ancient Shadow Temple and left.”
After hearing those words, the accumulating spear intent in the Celestial Rainbow Purgatory Spear that had already locked on to the black-robed man, burst out abruptly. An instant later, the black-robed man exploded into pieces. Ning Cheng kept his promise and allowed the black-robed man to enter the reincarnation cycle by sparing a wisp of his soul.
Even though he had never seen or t that Zhong Wuchang, Ning Cheng understood that he was a truly ruthless person. For the sake of cultivating a spirit technique, he created a mystic realm to lure people inside to their death. At the sa ti, he also made the Hell’s Gate, the Yellow Spring Pool, the Life and Death gates, the Bridge of Coping....
One could only imagine how many people had fallen here based on the thick Yin Qi. Otherwise, even with high attainnts in array formation, Zhong Wuchang couldn’t have arranged sothing like those violent gloomy winds. A phenonon that could easily tear apart Eternal cultivators.
No wonder the Covered Snow City had snow covering it all year round. A place with such high concentrations of Yin Qi, it would have been quite strange if this place didn’t have even a bit of snow.
After killing the black-robed cultivator, Ning Cheng began to destroy everything in the Ancient Shadow Temple. Ning Cheng couldn’t arrange such high-level array formations, but he had no problems or qualms in crushing them. The most potent aspect of the Ti Wheel was ‘nihilation’. With Ning Cheng’s Ti Wheels blasting out one after another, the fake First Bridge of Coping, the Yellow Spring Pool, the Life and Death gates, the pitch-black public square, and even the five-sided great hall quickly reduced to dust.
After Ning Cheng razed all the array formations and the other areas to dust, the Yin Qi trapped in this place started to dissipate. As long as no one touched it for a few more years, the Yin Qi in this place would dissipate naturally.
After doing this, Ning Cheng sealed the entrance to the real Ancient Shadow Temple. As for the trial grounds outside the Ancient Shadow Temple, Ning Cheng didn’t do anything to it.
After leaving the Ancient Shadow temple again, Ning Cheng finally felt so relief. Although he couldn’t find Grey Toottoot inside, he had at least removed the lingering threat of the Ancient Shadow Temple.
That Zhong Wuchang truly was a lunatic. For the sake of cultivating a spirit technique, he built such a ridiculous place in this location.
As for the Seven Bridges Spirit Technique, it truly sounded frightening. Unfortunately, he had no idea about it. Just when this last thought crossed his mind, Ning Cheng suddenly stopped.
Seven Bridges Spirit Technique? He had obtained a wordless book from the Formless Sect’s stone stele, which also contained seven pages. During the past few years, he had managed to refine the book a little during his cultivation sessions in the Mysterious Yellow Sect. However, he only ca to know the na of the book, the Seven Bridges Realm Book. However, he couldn’t refine it any further. Was there a connection between these two Seven Bridges?
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