- Chapter 50 (2/2)

There were certain grumble in their hearts for being left here to suffer the hunger and cold for nine days straight. However, after realizing the scary cultivation grade of the deacons, they decided to keep their mouths shut. They stood up respectfully and patted their buttocks to dust off the dirt. They shook their heads while they found out about the condition of their immortal veins.

One of them only raised one in tenth of an immortal vein in these nine days. In other words, his cultivation speed only allowed him to raise the spirit of one immortal vein.

To Ning Fan who had raised thirty immortal veins, it was really as slow as a tortoise.

“After entering the sect, I will use the herbs given by them to concoct some dans. But I can only concoct ‘Burning Spirit Dan,’ which is far more inferior compared to Raising Spirit Dan. But, it is not possible to concoct Raising Spirit Dan due to lacking of necessary herbs. I will also suffer some kind of pain after consuming Burning Spirit Dan but it seems I don’t have other choices.”

While Ning Fan was muttering to himself, the rest of them had entered the Outer Mountain led by the few deacons. Ning Fan quickly joined in the group with an emotionless face.

The first examination was over. But, there would be a second examination tomorrow. All of them only had one night to rest.

Every thatched cottage was occupied with ten people. Ning Fan was alone sitting on the ground, continuing to raise the spirit of the immortal veins. The other nine in the same cottage with him had left for dinner in the dining area.

When all of them had left, Ning Fan suddenly stood up. The hair tie that was a gold ranked Spirit Equipment glittered with green light as he casted body concealing art.

Ning Fan didn’t feel tired after nine days of meditating. So he would take the opportunity when the others were not around to find out about the whereabouts of the Dark Yin Qi.

The name of Dark Yin Qi itself indicated its function. It could only be formed from the coldest place. Ning Fan cautiously casted his spirit sense to find a place which is the coldest but no place of such was found.

Though there were some cold area except the chilling fog that didn’t dissipate throughout the year, it was still far away from the extent of extreme cold.

If it wasn’t in Outer Mountain, could it be in the Inner Mountain?

Ning Fan passed through many buildings and headed to the direction of Inner Mountain. He ignored the guards that were patrolling in the night.

With the gold ranked Spirit Equipment, not even Gold Core experts could detect him. No one could see him outside in the Outer Mountain. He continued until he saw a yellow jade door as large as three hundred meters.

The area inside the yellow jade door was the Inner Mountain. As he was standing outside the door, some kind of movement was stirred up from the Yin Yang Locket in his dantian.

“What is the thing here has attracted the Yin Yang Locket?”

Ning Fan’s gaze was solemn. He then stepped into the doorway. Suddenly, a layer of grey light glittered, and at the same time, produced a piercing sparrow sound that resounded throughout the entire Sinister Sparrow Sect. Ning Fan’s body concealing art couldn’t get past the formation.

His facial expression changed. He didn’t expect that there was such strange formation in the Inner Mountain. He couldn’t see such formation by his current cultivation grade.

It wasn’t because of the rank of this spirit equipment was too high. The formation was too natural in the aspect that it had completely integrated with heaven and earth, which also told him why he couldn’t see such formation existed before him. The eye of the formation wouldn’t be extremely difficult to find. So the only way for him to destroy this formation was to attack it forcefully.

He tried to think about the reason for destroying this formation and found none because he didn’t nurse any vengeance or feud against Sinister Sparrow Sect.

“It seems like I can’t enter the Inner Mountain for the time being. I still don’t know whether Dark Yin Qi is in there. Never mind, I will find out about it next time.”

Not far away from the door, the experts of the sect rushed over to see who had trespassed into Inner Mountain. Ning Fan knew he couldn’t stay long, so he had stepped into icy rainbow and was gone.

…

In the middle of the night outside the cottage, sound of some insects chirping could be heard. Ning Fan was sitting crossed legs in the cottage while a few youths were attracted in their gossip.

“Did you hear about it? Someone tried to trespass into Inner Mountain in the evening. It has alerted many experts and elders, including a Harmonious Spirit elder. But the trespasser wasn’t caught.”

“I have no idea who is this super audacious man. He actually dared to trespass the Inner Mountain. I heard that that person fled towards our accommodation area. Hey, Ning Fan, have you seen the face of the Harmonious Spirit elder?”

“No.” Ning Fan replied in a plain tone.

“Humph! What kind of tone is that?” The youth who asked obviously wasn’t pleased with Ning Fan’s unapproachable tone. He knitted his eyebrows and decided not to care about him anymore.

“As a matter of fact, we are going into ‘Demon Sinister Forest’ for our second examination tomorrow. I heard that we are required to stay in the forest for up to a month.”

“What, Demon Sinister Forest? The place where Sinister Sparrow Sect dump the corpse of their enemies? Some say there are a lot of powerful dark and sinister ghosts there. Even a level ten Vein Opening expert will die going into that forest.”

“Don’t worry about it. The highest cultivation grade among us is level four Vein Opening and the lowest is zero. I don’t think Sinister Sparrow Sect will ask us to go so deep into that forest.”

“At the time, the sect will give us a contribution task that requires us to either kill the ghosts or harvest some herbs but I’m not sure what’s the point behind all this is.”

They were engaged in their discussion. Ning Fan’s eyes twitched as the words fell into his ears.

‘Demon Sinister Forest… a place where ghosts linger. It must be a very dark and cold place but I still can’t confirm that Dark Yin Qi will be there. I have to search it whether it is there or not.”