- Chapter 52 (1/2)

Being High-profile for this time, Lan Mei’s Intention

The Inner Mountain (inner sect) was full of pine and cypress trees. Meanwhile, immortal cranes flew above the clouds. The density of soul Qi here was many times greater than the Outer Mountain. When it came to cultivation, this place could undoubtedly increase the speed of advancement of any cultivators, namely Vein Opening cultivators, Harmonious Spirit cultivators and so on.

There were a hundred and sixty candidates who had passed the verification and had come to the Inner Mountain. With the deacons leading the way, they headed towards the forbidden area of the Inner Mountain.

In order to enter the Inner Mountain, they only needed an inner sect pass, which could be bought at five hundred immortal jades only.

Ning Fan was dumbfounded. If he knew about this earlier, why would he foolishly took the risk to break and trespass this place?

Every candidate would be given a temporary inner sect pass that could only be used once. They would use this temporary pass to enter the Inner Mountain to take the second examination.

Five hundred immortal jades was a very expensive price for an ordinary Vein Opening disciple but it was just a small amount to Ning Fan who had roughly a hundred thousand immortal jades.

After this examination, he would need to get one inner sect pass.

On the way, random people from the group would glance at Ning Fan with a strange expression. Some showed disdain while others showed interest. They were the people who came to learn the evil cultivation. So naturally, they weren’t nice. Most of them had fixed their eyes on Ning Fan’s profound Dual Cultivation Technique. Even the arrogant Lu Zi Qiao had darted Ning Fan a few threatening glances.

“Give me a copy of your technique. If you dare to refuse, I would make sure that you would regret it when we enter the Demon Sinister Forest.”

Ning Fan only smiled coldly against Lu Zi Qiao’s threat. He was an intermediate Harmonious Spirit expert who was able to kill an early Gold Core expert. How could he fear a level four Vein Opening Lu Zi Qiao? Was he being a little too low-profiled that insects started to bully him?

In the meantime, many gazes were fixed on him. Gazes that exuded spirit sense of Harmonious Spirit. These gazes seemed to discern something from him, as result, they annoyed Ning Fan.

He could ignore Lu Zi Qiao’s threat but he couldn’t neglect the attention of these Harmonious Spirit elders. He would meet some problems if these people targeted him. If they were trying to plot against him, he wouldn’t need to worry about it because he could always break the plot of his enemy.

‘Stun. I must stun these greedy and deceitful old men.’

Since he had lost the chance to disguise as a pig to eat a tiger, he should just be high profiled instead. As long as these problems would be resolved, it didn’t really matter to him whether it was by hook or by crook.

At the back of Inner Mountain was a dark forest sealed with formations. This was the venue of their second entrance examination—Demon Sinister Forest.

Many higher-ups of Sinister Sparrow Sect paid much attention to this second entrance examination. There was even a Gold Core elder who had come to watch.

Faint whines of ghosts were heard from the damp and dark forest. The outside of the forest was stationed with an army of the Sinister Sparrow Sect, the Eagle Guards.

When they got closer to the forest, Ning Fan closed his eyes. He used his spirit sense to examine the condition of the forest but it was in vain.

This forest was cold, but it was entirely different from the coldness of the Dark Yin Qi. He slightly knitted his brows. ‘So Dark Yin Qi isn’t in Demon Sinister Forest?’

If this was true, he was afraid that this trip to the forest would be a waste again.

He shifted his attention to the five hundred Eagle Guards, and his eyes sparkled. These guards were all level six Vein Opening and above. The formation that they practiced was ancient. Their overall combat strength weren’t any weaker than Apricot Guards and they might even be on par with the Sword Guards.

It seemed like Sinister Sparrow Sect wasn’t as simple as it was on the surface. Probably, those people who established a popular sect in Yue Country weren’t fools at all.

As Ning Fan’s eyes swept across the Eagle Guards, a Gold Core elder who stood in the guards’ front row saw Ning Fan and knitted her brows immediately. Her name was Xu Rou.

She was one of the few who knew Ning Fan’s true identity here. Ning Fan was the disciple of the old devil, the master of Ning City.

She was quite close to the old devil. Now, she was concerned about Ning Fan’s current condition because when she used her spirit sense, she could sense the spirit senses of roughly ten people that were possibly Harmonious Spirit experts.

“What is this kid doing here? Why is he targeted by so many old men the moment he entered? Can’t help it. He is exactly like Old Han. Should I aid him?”

Xu Rou knew that Ning Fan was an intermediate Harmonious Spirit cultivator. She also heard about his Dual Cultivation Technique which had crushed the verification crystal ball, but then again, all of these were very logical to her.

In order to break the verification crystal ball, the technique had to be at least a Nascent Soul technique. It wasn’t unusual that Ning Fan had such a technique. Given his master, the old devil’s Third Revolution Dan Master ability, though it wasn’t easy, it was certainly not difficult for him to create a Nascent Soul technique.

Furthermore, Ning Fan had reached the intermediate Harmonious Spirit realm at the age of seventeen. This could only be explained by his Dual Cultivation technique.

Since the old devil was a person who only looked at the top, the thing that bugged her was why did he imparted the Dual Cultivation Technique to this young man. Dual Cultivation Technique was the most futureless technique in all of the evil cultivation techniques. It could allow one to grow fast in the early stages but when one reached the later stages, more and more challenges and bottlenecks were needed to be broken through. Plus, a dual cultivator would have unfortified magical strength, which would reduce his combat strength.

Before Xu Rou could really show her concern for Ning Fan, another person had.

The young prince who had attracted plenty of attention during the verification and the cultivator of Corpse Seizing Technique, Li Zhi Huan, slowly approached Ning Fan and said in low voice.

“Brother Ning, I’m afraid that you have drawn some attention to yourself. Do you want my help?”

“You want to help me?” Ning Fan’s brows twitched. Before, it was a level four Vein Opening Lu Zi Qiao but now it was a level three Vein Opening Li Zhi Huan? Why were these Vein Opening cultivators attempting to get close to him?

“That’s right. I am good at observing people. I see that Brother Ning’s face carried some evil Qi and your body is exuding a faint black light. I am sure that you aren’t an ordinary person.”

“……..” Ning Fan felt odd. ‘This guy does know how to flatter. Normally, people would always say the praise Your face carries some luck and your body is exuding purple light?’

“During the verification procedure, Brother Ning has revealed the power of his cultivation technique. Although it was unverified, it had attracted a lot of people’s greediness. In an evil sect that doesn’t forbid anyone from killing one another, it is not a good news to offend so many people. In my opinion, Brother Ning should give this cultivation technique up. As the saying goes ‘A man’s wealth is his own ruin, igniting other’s greed.’”

“Huh? Brother Li thinks that Ning Fan should present this cultivation technique out? But to whom?” Ning Fan’s expression stiffened.

“A senior in my clan. Currently, he’s also an elder of this sect. Why not Brother Ning present the cultivation technique to him? Once you have done that, you would be attached to him. And with Elder Li’s protection, no one would dare to target you.”

“I appreciate Brother Li’s idea but I dare to say that no one in Sinister Sparrow Sect should dare steal my cultivation technique.”

These words weren’t said meekly. Not only Li Zhi Huan could hear it, but also Lu Zi Qiao, the hundred and sixty candidates and the ten Harmonious Spirit elders who were concealing themselves could also hear it.

Li Zhi Huan slightly frowned. Wasn’t this Ning Fan, who was younger than him, too arrogant? Did he really think that he alone could handle countless of plots of Harmonious Spirit elders? This was an evil sect. As long as the crime wasn’t exposed, no one would mind it.

As Ning Fan’s voice faded, a beautiful silhouette of a girl in blue gently moved forth.

The girl’s appearance stopped all of the youths’ breath. Quite many of them had heard the identity of this girl in blue. Their eyes turned fervent.

“The daughter of Sinister Sparrow—Lan Mei. This girl would normally not intervene with the sect’s matters. Why did she come to watch examination?”

Could it be that someone among the candidates had caught her eyes?