The Gate Of Good Fortune

hen the Underworld Crow Ghost Rattan King could quickly suck them dry no matter how many of these golems appeared.

Ning Cheng looked at the hourglass and found that he still had about an incense stick worth of time left.
If he timed it tightly, he should still be able to open the fourth level of the Illusionary Fruit Orchard before the sand ran out.

If he didn’t know anything about this crystal barrier, Ning Cheng couldn’t have done anything and would have given up.
But now that he knew that this crystal barrier was shaped out of Invisible Stone Rattan’s stems, he now had a way to deal with it even without the Ghost Rattan King.
Not to mention now, when he had the Ghost Rattan King with him.

“Dark Crow[1], this crystal barrier is also formed by Invisible Stone Rattans.
I will use a formation to cut off its connection to the spirit source underground for a few breaths.
You have to suck out the vitality in those Invisible Stone Rattans and kill them in the shortest possible time.” Ning Cheng directly called out for the Underworld Crow Ghost Rattan King’s help.

If the Underworld Crow Ghost Rattan King couldn’t do it, he could still break those Invisible Stone Rattans, but it would take much more than one incense stick of time.

The Ghost Rattan King also wanted the spirit essence and vitality stored inside the Invisible Stone Rattan’s seed.
Even if it couldn’t use it right now, it could use it when advancing to the Starry Sky Grade 9 Demon Plant by storing it inside itself.

While others couldn’t find the existence of the Invisible Stone Rattan, the Underworld Crow Ghost Rattan King had no issues with it at all.
Therefore, as soon as Ning Cheng called for its help, it immediately stretched out its entire root system, covering the whole crystal barrier in just an instant.

The Underworld Crow Ghost Rattan King then quickly locked onto all the Invisible Stone Rattan seeds in the crystal barrier in another breath.
The crystal barrier immediately issued a buzz followed by a tremor.
Apparently, these Invisible Stone Rattan seeds had some form of instinctive intelligence and could sense danger.

Ning Cheng also didn’t waste any time and took out an array flag and threw it down.
In slightly less than ten breaths of time, the spirit aura around the crystal barrier weakened considerably.

“Devour!” Ning Cheng immediately shouted.
But even before Ning Cheng’s command, the Underworld Crow Ghost Rattan King had already started to frantically absorb the wood origin-attributed spirit essence and vitality within the Invisible Stone Rattan seeds.

The Invisible Stone Rattans essentially had no combat ability, and their most significant role was to assist.
In fact, it was only suitable for playing the assist role, whether to help the golems or assist with the crystal barrier.

With Ning Cheng’s formation isolating it from the underground spirit vine, the Ghost Rattan King immediately started sucking out everything inside the seeds.

In just half an incense stick worth of time, the crystal barrier cracked open.

A breath later, the crystal barrier completely disappeared with a click.
The rich smell of spirit herbs and the fragrance of dao fruits rushed out, making people feel fresh and refreshed.

From the beginning, until Ning Cheng opened the crystal barrier, the puppet art that one was supposed to comprehend and use here wasn’t even used at all.
In fact, if Ning Cheng guessed it correctly, the expert wanted to purposely trick people into wasting their time researching the puppet art.
With only an hour to study and comprehend the puppet art, it would be nothing more than a worthless effort to even attempt it.
The glimmer of possibility left by that great power who set up this Illusionary Fruit Orchard was nothing but a lie.

Ning Cheng sighed; working with other people, at least one would end up teaching you something unknown.
He only had an Underworld Crow Ghost Rattan King with him right now.
Yet, it not only taught him a lesson at this time, but it also helped him a great deal.

After breaking this crystal barrier, Ning Cheng didn’t even bother to think about things and directly threw out more array flags.
He wanted to take away this medicinal garden in its entirety, no longer feeling even half embarrassed about it now.

It only took a few moments for Ning Cheng to set up the formation.
With a burst of clicking sounds, he directly moved the garden into his True Spirit World.

Since the garden had gone, it also meant that all the spirit grasses and dao fruits had also gone.
Ning Cheng, however, didn’t feel too happy, as the entrance to the fourth level of the Illusionary Fruit Orchard didn’t appear as expected.

Looking at the trickling sand with less than half an incense stick worth of time left, Ning Cheng once again started to grow anxious.
Even if he found the entrance to the fourth level, he most likely didn’t have the time to refine the pills required to open the door.

Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness no longer held back and blasted out, scanning every corner of this level.
His powerful spiritual consciousness’s assaulting ability immediately became apparent at this time.

In about ten breaths, an extremely well-hidden formation appeared within Ning Cheng’s spiritual consciousness.
Since he couldn’t find an obvious gate standing here, he wouldn’t let go of any place that could potentially lead to the fourth level.
Ning Cheng didn’t even think about it and threw out an array flag.

Fortunately, the hidden formation wasn’t powerful, so it didn’t take too much time to open under Ning Cheng’s array flags.
It was another garden, a dao fruit orchard to be exact, and filled with only dao fruit trees.

Ning Cheng immediately rushed over and looked at the rows of dao fruit trees in front of him in shock.
Just a rough sweep indicated about 50-60 trees.

What was going on here? He found no fourth level, no fifth level, let alone a sixth level, unlike what he had heard.
After breaking the crystal barrier on the third level, it should have theoretically led him to the door to the fourth level.
But it didn’t; instead, he found another garden on the same level with many dao fruit trees, with grades ranging from Dao Sculpting to Dao Transformation.
But even so, there weren’t more than ten of each.
There were even a few dao fruit trees that Ning Cheng couldn’t recognise among them.

From the looks of it, that previous garden was just a distraction.
This orchard in the front was most likely the real orchard.

Ning Cheng looked back at the trickling sand and found that he had just about a quarter of an incense stick worth of time.

Not good, Ning Cheng quickly realised a few things.
These two gardens were linked together.
Once the sand finished trickling down, he would still be teleported out if he couldn’t open it and move to the next level.

[1] ‘Dark Crow’ and ‘Underworld Crow’ use the same characters.
It’s just that in this context, Ning Cheng is using the characters ‘Dark Crow’ as a nickname one uses to call a friend/acquaintance when working together.
So, I decided to change ‘Underworld Crow’ to ‘Dark Crow’ to make it flow smoothly without changing the characters’ meaning and the sentence’s intent.

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