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But Ning Fan didn’t think anything of these fire palms. In fact, along the way, he had heard of news regarding Wu Dongnan, and he knew that this person’s spirit techniques had a lot to do with fire.

This was why he wanted to try the Yin Yang Locket’s ability to stop fire and attempted it once. It was really effective so, at this time, looking at the fire palm seals, he naturally was not afraid at all and left the palms to hit his body. But when they were all at a distance of one foot from his body, a mysterious power forcefully sucked them in and they disappeared without a trace.

“How is this possible! This person didn’t block or dodge yet he was able to destroy my spirit technique!”

Wu Dongnan was immensely shocked. However, he had no other way to go and could only capture Ning Fan to have a chance of escaping.

He was only ten zhang away from Ning Fan! Wu Dongnan murmured in his mouth and numerous flames burned on his body. Like a burning man, he directly rammed towards Ning Fan.

The forceful impact along with the burning flames were enough to make any Late Harmonious Spirit cultivator lose their colors, but Ning Fan was still emotionless and simply was not afraid of Wu Dongnan’s fire spirit techniques.

As the hot winds brushed him in the face, Ning Fan met Wu Dongnan’s charge and, at the same time, swung his sword. All of his power was focused into the sword in his hand.

Wu Dongnan’s fire spirit technique couldn’t hurt him!

And this one sword of his must be with all of his power to strike a killing blow against Wu Dongnan!

With the Flame Transformation Sword technique appearing in Ning Fan’s head, as if the mind became brighter as the fortune arrived, black flames suddenly burned on Ning Fan’s sword, emitting a terrifying heat.

The army that followed Ning Fan in all directions had their eyes wide open. They were shocked from this sword move of Ning Fan.

The black flame flew one thousand zhang into the air, jumping like a normal Black Dragon that bellowed continuous dragon roars, causing the whole earth to shake!

What a frightening sword technique, it was able to create such a terrifying phenomenon!

“Not good!”

Wu Dongnan was surprised by the aura of this sword move and wanted to avoid it, but because his offensive momentum was too strong, he had no way of changing directions.

“Transformation Flame!”

Ning Fan coldly shouted. This one sword technique — without a shadow — had a fierce fire that rose from the sword like a rising black run. Within several li of the area, everything was burned into nothingness by this stream of fire.

This was Ning Fan casting his most powerful spirit technique as well as his strongest hidden ace. One sword nearly exhausted all of his magical power, but with this sword’s power, such an expenditure was worth it!

This sword — Situ knew that he couldn’t block it, so Wu Dongnan also couldn’t block it!

“Wait! I know my mistake, I shouldn’t have offended Seven Apricot City, and I especially shouldn’t ask for Zhihe… Ah!”

Unable to avoid it, Wu Dongnan wanted to admit his mistakes. Unfortunately, the strength of this sword was too powerful. Once released, even Ning Fan was unable to stop this sword from completing its path.

The flame sword that reached the heavens slashed through Wu Dongnan’s body and directly burned the flames covering Wu Dongnan’s body away completely.

Afterward, Wu Dongnan bellowed pathetically as he was devoured by the flame sword. Fear and astonishment shone on his face as his vision completely vanished.

There was no blood nor screaming as Ning Fan swung his sword across Wu Dongnan’s body. The two people crossed by each other, leaving behind a Wu Dongnan with a sluggish expression like a statue on top of the snow.

In the blink of an eye, Wu Dongnan’s body dissipated into ash due to this sword technique of Ning Fan.

Above the white snow was the remnants of ashes. Wu Dongnan — this person no longer existed in this world!

Amongst the ashes, an immaterial soul flew out that resembled Wu Dongnan. Ning Fan coldly waved his hand and captured this soul in his grasp. He then investigated the soul along with its memories before destroying this soul remnant with one palm.

The Soul Memory Searching Spirit Technique was also learned by him from the Immortal Emperor’s memories. This was his first time using it, and the result was not bad. From Wu Dongnan’s memories, Ning Fan knew Wu Dongnan’s reason for making a move with Zhihe, along with his plans.

This was the first time Ning Fan killed someone. He was clean and swift when using the Soul Memory Searching Spirit Technique as if he was a natural born evil cultivator.

“So powerful! Young Lord only needed one sword to immediately kill this person!”

In the sky above, Yuchi and Situ were both amazed. They put themselves in Wu Dongnan’s position and they both knew that there was a high chance that they would also be killed by Young Lord’s sword below.

The two couldn’t help but have a rising sense of respect and fear towards Ning Fan. Only such a person would be eligible to become the Seven Apricot Young Lord.

The only unexpected thing was that the normally bright and smiling young man, once angered, would have such a heartless way of killing.

This boy was given birth by the heavens to cultivate the Evil Dao… The most terrifying demons... when dormant, people would even think that they were only mortals. However, once they made a move, a country would be annihilated, and the thousand armies would be destroyed as the world mourned in a white silk dress with its shaking mountains and rivers as the heaven and earth collapsed!

After killing Wu Dongnan, Ning Fan closed his eyes and revealed a wry smile on his lips.

Not long before, he was a mild-mannered young man, but now, he was a cold-blooded evil murderer.

Is this the evil cultivation path? Fine, once one steps onto this road, one could only close their eyes and keep treading forward.

Wu Dongnan’s storage pouch was of fine quality and was not burned away. Ning Fan picked it up and took away all of Wu Dongnan’s treasures.

True Spirit Violet Coral, Shadow Chasing Sword, Middle-Ranked Immortal Cloud, tens of thousands of immortal jades along with the Gold Core Dao Fruit!

Ning Fan’s gaze became slightly strange. He didn’t think that the Dao Fruit sold at the auction would eventually fall into his hands.

“Gold Core Dao Fruit… Mortals eating it would directly break through to the Harmonious Spirit realm. A Late Harmonious Spirit eating it would directly break through to the Gold Core realm. Gold Core old devils eating it could even raise a small level… If I eat it, what will happen!?”

“Young Lord, what to do next?”

“Erase all traces of the battle here!”

***

After three days, a shocking piece of news traveled across the land of Yue. Yue Country’s number one evil sect, the Heaven Separation Sect´s outer elder Wu Dongnan was killed after participating in the Seven Apricot Dao Fruit Auction!

The killer was unknown! However, many experts from the Heaven Separation Sect suspected that this was caused by Seven Apricot City. There were rumors that, after Wu Dongnan left the city, Seven Apricot City’s two godly armies also left the city with strange actions.

This matter caused great anger in the Heaven Separation Sect. There were even many Heaven Separation Sect cultivators who threatened to wage war against Seven Apricot City for revenge.

This caused panic throughout the Yue Country’s cultivation world. They were afraid that after many years of peace, there would be a second war in the Yue’s cultivation world. However, Seven Apricot City’s cultivators acted like they had nothing to do with it and still went on with their business as they remained unaffected by the Heaven Separation Sect´s threats.

Great Commander Nangong hosted a banquet in his palace to entertain Situ and Yuchi, along with the generals of the three guards. He was very excited; this new Young Lord truly had the qualifications to lead Seven Apricot City!

What he was most satisfied about was Ning Fan’s style. Directly killing the enemies without any hesitation — this was exactly like the old monster forty years ago.

With such a Young Lord, they would not be lacking war campaigns in the future. This was great news to a war loving military group.

The only regret was that Ning Fan did not show up to this drinking banquet.

At this moment, Ning Fan was in isolated cultivation in his palace, trying to refine the Gold Core Dao Fruit.

After three months of isolated cultivation, his energy kept on rising from fifth level Vein Opening all the way to tenth level Vein Opening. Just one more step and he would reach Harmonious Spirit!

Once he reached Harmonious Spirit, he would be an expert that could only be counted on one’s fingers in Seven Apricot City!

Regrettably, there were one hundred Yin Yang Evil Veins opened in his body, but he couldn’t find the feeling for Harmonious Spirit.

“What on earth is missing…” He was a bit lost. Even though he inherited the Immortal Emperor’s memories, but once he actually cultivated, he would still meet many problems that were not in the memories.

It seemed that there was a layer of binding that always stopped him from breaking through to Harmonious Spirit.

It was as if his breakthrough method was not correct…

At his time of anguish, Zhihe’s bashful voice suddenly came from outside of the door.

“Big Brother Fan, why not try that thing… Maybe, you could immediately break through…”

“That thing? You are talking... dual cultivation!” Ning Fan became enlightened. So it was like this. He cultivated a dual cultivation merit law. In order to break through, he still had to resort to the origin of this merit law and dual cultivate.

Dual cultivation with Zhihe, perhaps, could really break through to the Harmonious Spirit realm!

Something that was worth mentioning was that after three months had passed, the old monster destroyed a total of fifty-two cauldrons but still was not able to refine a Fourth Revolution Dan Medicine…

His old face became as red as a pig’s liver, and he finally decided to ask Ning Fan for advice only to find that Ning Fan took Zhihe outside to play with the kites.

And after he learned that, when he was refining dan, Ning Fan killed a Heaven Separation Sect´s elder, provoking a great calamity for Seven Apricot City, he suddenly became livid with anger without a way to let it out.

Angry, not because Ning Fan caused trouble, but because of something else.

“Smelly brat! This old man is here working hard to refine dan, yet you were simply killing people alone without bringing this old man! Am I still a master in your eyes ah! Your grandmother! This brat alone stole the good fun, and I have to deal with this troublesome outcome!”

So it turned out he was angry because of this.