Although Xu Anzhen's attainments in Array Formations were not much different from Ning Cheng's, but when it came to breaking Array Formations and Restrictions, Ning Cheng was actually a lot stronger than Xu Anzhen.
Ning Cheng stimulated the Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds and entered the dark main hall, bypassing the Rank 6 Trigger Restrictions, and directly arrived at the depths of the main hall.
The two Profound Core Doormen, did not know that Ning Cheng had already entered the main hall. Compared to the previous female cultivator in the Profound Core Realm, these two Profound Core Doormen were much less astute.
Passing through the empty main hall, Ning Cheng arrived at a dim Spiritual Grass Garden.
Ning Cheng could barely be regarded as a Rank 5 Profound Pill Master, as such he knew that other than some special Spiritual Grasses, most of the Spiritual Grasses needed light. Planting Spiritual Grasses in this dim courtyard, coupled with her own residence being so dark, Ning Cheng could only say that Xu Anzhen herself was a shady person.
The Spiritual Grass Garden was sealed with Restrictions, although Ning Cheng could easily break the Restrictions here, Ning Cheng did not dare to do so. This was Xu Anzhen's lair, in case he accidentally disturbed Xu Anzhen, it would make it even more difficult for him to find Shi Qionghua's Life Essence.
Regardless of whether the Heavenly Cusp Flower was in this Spiritual Grass Garden or not, he would have to wait until he rescued Shi Qionghua's Life Essence.
Ning Cheng carefully used his Spiritual Consciousness to investigate this place several times, and finally found that there were only some simple Trigger Restrictions, causing him to feel relieved. He passed through the dim Spiritual Grass Garden, and arrived outside a very ordinary looking Immortal Cave.
The Immortal Cave was tightly closed, surrounded by many Restrictions, and the Spiritual Qi was extremely rich, Ning Cheng guessed that this was the place where Xu Anzhen usually went into seclusion.
Other than this very ordinary looking Immortal Cave, there were no other entrances around, it seemed that he had already reached the last place of the Severing Emotions Peak. The Severing Emotions Peak was really simple, which made Ning Cheng somewhat worried.
If he could not find Shi Qionghua's Life Essence in Xu Anzhen's Immortal Cave, then this trip would be tantamount to him coming here in vain.
Xu Anzhen's Immortal Cave looked very ordinary, and Ning Cheng could easily break the Restrictions above it in the shortest possible time. Ning Cheng was afraid that Xu Anzhen might have used some tricks on the Restrictions, so he hid outside the Immortal Cave for two days, before he silently opened the Restrictions of the Immortal Cave and entered the Immortal Cave.
At this time, Ning Cheng finally arrived at the place where Xu Anzhen was cultivating. The inside of this place looked much simpler than the outside of her Immortal Cave. Ning Cheng also did not think that Xu Anzhen's Immortal Cave would be so simple and crude, other than the magnificent and imposing main hall before entering, after entering, there was only such a small cultivation room.
Ning Cheng repeatedly swept out with his Spiritual Consciousness, making sure that there were no hidden entrances in the surroundings, and that there really was only one room in this place.
There was a praying mat in the middle of the room. It was hard to tell what it was made of. Apart from that, there wasn't even a chair. Needless to say, there was no need to mention things like a boudoir and a bed.
Ning Cheng did not find it too strange, although Shi Qionghua had said that Xu Anzhen did not look old, but in his opinion, this Xu Anzhen was already Xu Yingdei's grandmother, as such she was definitely an old woman. Of course, an old woman wouldn't decorate her room in a gorgeous way. Besides, he also heard that Xu Anzhen's corporeal body was in tatters, as such she did not need a bed.
Although there was nothing in the room, Ning Cheng still did not give up. If Xu Anzhen managed to suppress Shi Qionghua's Life Essence, then it would definitely be in the vicinity of the place where Xu Anzhen usually cultivated. Xu Anzhen would never place Shi Qionghua's Life Essence in such a far place, it simply did not conform to logic.
But before Ning Cheng entered this place, he had already used his Spiritual Consciousness to look around, and found that there was absolutely no place outside Xu Anzhen's Immortal Cave that could suppress someone's Life Essence.
Ning Cheng did not spend much time, before he found a hidden entrance to an Array Formation under the praying mat in the middle of the room.
Carefully moving away the praying mat, Ning Cheng threw out a few Array Flags, causing a dark entrance to appear in front of him.
A cold and gloomy aura leaked out from this hole, Ning Cheng wanted to use his Spiritual Consciousness to observe how deep this hole was, but he found that his Spiritual Consciousness was unexpectedly blocked. Below this hole was a Shielding Restriction, as well as a Forbidden Space Restriction. In this black hole, his Spiritual Consciousness could only revolve around his body, and was unable to extend further than that.
It was a dark hole, without any steps, without any end. One could not use a Magical Weapon to fly, nor could one release their Spiritual Consciousness outside. Even a Crucible Transformation Cultivator would not be able to enter this place. If one was not afraid of death, then they could simply jump down and die directly.
Although Ning Cheng was not a Crucible Transformation Cultivator, but he had something that was much more powerful compared to a Crucible Transformation Cultivator, and that was his Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds.
The moment he saw this dark hole, Ning Cheng was sure that Shi Qionghua's Life Essence was suppressed down here. Ning Cheng did not hesitate to jump down, while simultaneously stimulating the Twin Wings of the Heavenly Clouds.
The cold and gloomy aura assaulted him, causing Ning Cheng to quickly descend. He felt that he had fallen nearly a thousand feet, before he finally landed on the ground.
The Severing Emotions Peak was only a few hundred feet high, it could be seen that this place was already at the bottom of the Severing Emotions Peak, it was truly a good place to hide.
The surroundings were densely packed with restrictions, if replaced by a person who did not understand Array Formations, then there would only be a single path for them, that is, courting death. In other words, if Xu Anzhen was still here, then even if he understood Array Formations, he would not be able to enter this place. Even if he managed to enter, it would only be a dead end for him.
At this time, Ning Cheng could clearly see that the place he was standing on was a huge white ice stone. In the middle of the ice stone, there was an altar with a radius of about ten feet. The altar was surrounded by nine dark red pillars, these nine pillars were slightly slanted, covering the entire altar, as if they were pressing down on it.
In the middle of the altar, there were nine copper lamps, each of which had a crystal ball slowly rotating above it. At the bottom of the copper lamps, there was an ice-cold aura constantly invading the copper lamps, which was then transmitted to the crystal balls through the copper lamps.
Ning Cheng's Spiritual Consciousness immediately found a familiar aura, Shi Qionghua's aura was circling around one of the copper lamps' crystal balls.
Sure enough, she was being suppressed here, moreover it was not just Shi Qionghua who was being suppressed. Xu Anzhen, that old woman, really was not a good thing. Although Ning Cheng did not know how Xu Anzhen would use these crystal balls, but he knew that once she used them, Shi Qionghua would not have the ability to resist. No wonder Shi Qionghua wanted to go to Heaven's Way.
In the face of this kind of suppression, would she be able to escape from Heaven's Way? Ning Cheng was very skeptical.
Ning Cheng's Spiritual Consciousness swept through the crystal balls one by one, but he did not immediately take away these crystal balls.
What Ning Cheng did not expect was that he once again found a familiar aura, the aura of Yin Kongchan's Life Essence unexpectedly appeared here. No wonder Yin Kongchan was looking for the Geocentric 9 Yin Essence, her Life Essence was also suppressed in the Severing Emotions Peak.
After a dozen breaths, Ning Cheng's complexion turned ugly to look at. Wanting to take away the Life Essence Crystal Balls in this place without Xu Anzhen knowing about it, it was absolutely impossible, at least with his current ability, he could not do it.
Since he was going to be discovered anyway, Ning Cheng simply took out a huge sign, wrote a few words on it and inserted it on the side. Then he was too lazy to carefully crack the Array Formation, and instead forcibly brought out the Cosmic True Devil Axe, as he smashed it towards the nine slanted pillars.
"Boom-Boom-Boom …." Bursts of explosions sounded out, as Ning Cheng grabbed the nine copper lamps with the crystal balls and put them into his ring, before he instantly rushed out.
Now that he had obtained the things he wanted, he now had to escape with the fastest speed possible. Ning Cheng no longer had any scruples, in just a twinkling of an eye, he rushed out of Xu Anzhen's Immortal Cave, and once again arrived at the dark Spiritual Grass Garden.
This time, Ning Cheng did not slowly try to break the Array Formation, as he brought out the Cosmic True Devil Axe, and directly smashed down towards the Spiritual Grass Garden's Restriction.
"Katcha" A sound emerged, as the Restriction instantly shattered. This was not a Defensive Restriction, as such it did not have even half a shred of defensive effect, as such Ning Cheng would not have to expend much effort to break it.
Ning Cheng did not even have the time to observe the Spiritual Grasses inside, as if he was harvesting wheat, he immediately pulled out all the Spiritual Grasses and threw them into his ring.
Not waiting for Ning Cheng to rush out of the Palace's' Falling in Love into Nothingness', Ning Cheng could already feel a powerful spacial fluctuation.
At this moment, Ning Cheng had pierced through the Severing Emotions Dao Sect's sky.
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The Grand Peace City's Auction had not yet begun, but the major academies of the Tian Continent had already gathered here. The Severing Emotions Dao Sect had already occupied the Rest Stop closest to the Profound Light Auction House.
At this time, inside the Rest Stop, Xu Anzhen and the many Crucible Transformation Elders of the Severing Emotions Dao Sect were discussing matters in a spacious room. A cultivator in the Essence Building Realm was trembling as he stood in front of Xu Anzhen, narrating every single word spoken by that second generation ancestor of the Red Star Sword Faction in the West Lu Spiritual Tea House.
Xu Anzhen, who was listening with a frown, suddenly had a change in her expression, as the black robe on her body began to flutter without any wind.
"Grandmother … …" Xu Yingdei only managed to call out those two words, before she did not have the time to say anything else, when she was interrupted by Xu Anzhen, "Immediately return to the academy, we have fallen into the trap of luring the tiger away from the mountain."
"Elder Taoist, why don't we leave a few people here, while the rest of us go back … …"
A Crucible Transformation Elder had also not finished his words, when he was interrupted by Xu Anzhen, "Let's go, all of us immediately go back, don't leave even a single one behind."
If it was something else, then it would have been fine, even if she did not obtain the Geocentric 9 Yin Essence, she, Xu Anzhen, would still have a chance to recover. However, someone unexpectedly sneaked into the Severing Emotions Peak, and blew open her 9 Revolving Soul Subduing Grand Array. Not only did they smash apart the nine Soul Subduing Pillars, they also took away the nine wisps of Soul Essence that she had carefully selected for countless years, and even stole her Heavenly Cusp Flower.
Compared to the Geocentric 9 Yin Essence, these things were undoubtedly a hundred times more precious.
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"The auction has not yet started, yet the Severing Emotions Dao Sect actually left?"
"Xu Anzhen took all the elders of the Severing Emotions Dao Sect and left the Grand Peace City … …"
Xu Anzhen had just left the Grand Peace City, when the major academies immediately received the news.
The airship of the Severing Emotions Dao Sect was intercepted several hundred miles outside the Grand Peace City, and the first to bear the brunt were the Crucible Transformation Cultivators from the Floating Snow Palace. In addition to that, the Heavenly Dao Academy, Red Sun Weapon Sect, Yin Yang Dao Sect, Red Star Sword Faction, Star Gathering Mansion, Thousand Zen Hall, Battle Devil Hall and other academies, all of them sent their experts over. Of the ten major academies, other than the Great Change Island and the newly promoted Rainbow Fall Sword Sect, the rest had all arrived.
"What do you want to do?" The Severing Emotions Dao Sect's Headmaster had an ugly expression on his face.
Xu Anzhen, who was sitting on the black lotus, had an even uglier expression on her face. She knew that she had not only fallen into the trap of luring the tiger away from the mountain, but had also fallen into the hands of these people. If her cultivation had recovered, then these people would only be ants in her eyes. Unfortunately, her cultivation was far from recovering.
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