- 28 (1/2)

Intermediate Harmonious Spirit!

Inside Seven Apricot City, Zhihe was asleep with a peaceful expression under the night’s curtain. Ning Fan got dressed and left the bed. He pushed out the door and met the moonlight which only made him recall Ning Gu several thousand miles away.

“There will come a day…”

He stretched a bit with a warm expression. Even the coldness of Seven Apricot City could not permeate through him.

After coming back to the city, the old monster continuously destroyed cauldrons day after day. Ning Fan — on the other hand — was happy to wait for the old monster to come to him for help with the dan refinement.

Basking in the moonlight, he sat in the courtyard and rearranged the various storage pouches at his waist. There were things given to him by the old monster and also stuff that he personally robbed.

Ning Fan didn’t care for the Magical Treasures inside. He already obtained the Separation Slayer sword. In the future, his life protecting treasures would not be any of these items. After all, this sword was refined from Immemorial Stars, and it could rank up with extraordinary potential.

Ning Fan also looked down on merit laws. With the Immortal Emperor’s inheritance, even Gold Core merit laws were useless to him. If they were Void Fragmentation, then they would be useful because the inheritance only went up to this level without any higher ranked merit laws.

He was not lacking in dan medicines either, and later he could make them for himself.

There were a few pieces of Spirit Equipment as well. In the Nine Grand Immortal Worlds, Spirit Equipment was divided into six ranks: Silver, Gold, Jade, Earth, Sky, and Divine.

Divine Spirit Equipment was only usable by Void Fragmentation old devils. The Fiery Jade Ring that accepted him as a master, before, was only of the silver rank.

From his war bounty, there were two Gold Spirit Equipment; they were comparable to Gold Core level Magical Treasures. One was an Ancient Beast Protecting Wristband, the other was a Cyan Silky Ribbon.

The Ancient Beast Protecting Wristband could increase a Gold Core expert’s wrist strength by 30%. Don’t look down on 30%. Physique refinement cultivators with 30% extra wrist strength was enough to fight level surpassing battles.

On the other hand, the Cyan Silky Ribbon’s effect was stealth. It is similar to the “Body Concealing Art,” but it did not consume magical power.

Even the complete “Body Concealing Art” had flaws. It wasted magical power and because of the movement in magical power, people would normally be able to detect it. However, Spirit Equipment was different. It didn’t use mana [1] and could be used passively.

Ning Fan wore the wristband and tied the ribbon up around his long hair behind his back. He used spirit energy in his immortal veins to imprint a master seal on both of the Spirit Equipment to complete the master process.

It was not difficult, and Ning Fan suddenly felt his strength growing quite a bit right after the process.

His right wrist strength was now increased by 30%. The sword energy within his sword techniques must be a lot more powerful now. As for the stealth effect of the ribbon…

Ning Fan’s mind suddenly stirred, and a green light flashed as his figure disappeared amidst the snow and wind.

After a short while, above the snow, a ghastly row of footprints were left behind as if a ghost was walking.

“Ah! A ghost!”

A scream came from outside of the wall, and it seemed to be Little Dugu.

Ning Fan removed his stealth and was speechless. Was him being in stealth that scary? Was it as if someone had seen a ghost? Moreover, Little Dugu herself was a ghost. And not to mention that ghosts were extremely normal in the cultivation world. Even a level one Vein Opening cultivator dared to exorcise demons and ghosts…

Was Dugu such a scaredy cat and afraid of ghosts? Interesting!

Ning Fan smirked and left the courtyard to head over to the quiet solitary grave.

Under an apricot tree, a female ghost wearing white clothing with shapely shoulders, waterfall-like hair, and a soft thin waist stood in the cold snowy wind. Adorned above her ear was an apricot flower; a pair of beautiful eyes that resembled serene orchids in an empty valley were perfectly proportioned on her cold and pure appearance. She stood there mirroring a lonely apricot tree…

However, her cold expression — at this moment — carried a hint of embarrassment. It seemed as if she was tricked by this little demon Ning before her...

“You didn’t say anything while you were concealed, I actually thought I saw a ghost…” Dugu raised her beautiful brows and glared at Ning Fan before drifting back to the grave like a spirit.

“I actually didn’t know a female ghost would be afraid of ghosts… Say, why did you die at this place? And what is your relationship with Master?” Ning Fan stretched, producing cracking sounds.

“Why do I have to tell you?! Han Yuanji isn’t a good person, and you aren’t either. You are with that little girl every night… Don’t you ever get tired? I can’t sleep because of the noisy sounds…” Dugu’s indignant voice came out from the grave.

“So the noises are bothering you, my bad! I also didn’t know Zhihe was so loud…”

“You are still talking!? You, you have no shame! You don’t know delicacy! You’re not a good person!” Inside the grave, Dugu’s voice became a bit frenetic. She was inexperienced and was bothered by the love-making noises of Ning Fan every day, leaving her aghast…

Zhihe was screaming in pain, but why did she also sometimes say “don’t stop”? But if it didn’t hurt, then why did she shout so miserably…

Dugu’s heart felt the chill and decided that Ning Fan was an extreme sex fiend — a devil.

He is indeed the disciple of the old monster… Hmph, he’s also a little monster; how annoying, very annoying! Doing that thing every day, why not go a bit further away to do it. Such loud noises and shouts, do they not know other people are trying to sleep...? This lady still hasn’t married… but I’m already impure…’

Dugu felt some grievances and considered Ning Fan to be a little devil while cursing him.

“I was never a good person. The two words ‘good person’ are too far-fetched for me…” Here, Ning Fan didn’t say anything else.

He didn’t argue with Dugu. He freely sat on the blue boulder to observe the two remaining sword intents on top.

There were three of them, but the “Fire Transformation Sword” was already taken by him accidentally…

Seeing Ning Fan gazing at the swords, Dugu felt worried and softly spoke: “I won’t allow you to steal the sword energies…”

“Don’t worry, I won’t take the sword energy right now. These two sword energies are very strong. Without a Gold Core cultivation, I won’t be able to handle the second one. Without being a Nascent Soul, I won’t be able to handle the third. Once I have enough power, I will definitely come back to take them!”

“You still can’t have them even when your cultivation is enough… If you dare to take my sword energies, I will not let you get off!” Dugu bashfully spoke.

“Why can’t I take it? Were they not slashed here so that other people can become enlightened?”

“Correct, this is indeed the case. However… this has something to do with an important promise. If anyone takes away the sword energies, they have to…”

The words “marry me” — Dugu couldn’t say them outloud no matter what. It was too unconventional for a girl to speak of such a matter. Not everyone was as thick-skinned as the old monster and Ning Fan who were capable of talking about bedroom matters publicly.

“Fine, I won’t ask. Since you have some reservation, I won’t take the sword energies…”

Ning Fan stopped talking and took out many types of pills from his storage pouch.

Mysterious Scholar Dan — ten pills. Each pill was able to create a Harmonious Spirit immortal vein.

Suffering Spirit Dan — five pills. Each pill created two Harmonious Spirit immortal veins.

Blood Sucking Dan — four pills. One was enough to form three Harmonious Spirit immortal veins.