- Chapter 181 (1/2)

Saying Goodbye to Great Jin. Dangers Ahead!

On the bed, Ning Fan and Yun Ruowei’s opened their eyes at the same time.

Finally, my Heart’s Devil is eliminated… Yun Ruowei heaved a sigh of relief and then let go of Ning Fan’s hand. When she got out of the bed, her expression turned shy.

Ning Fan rubbed his shoulders tiredly since using the technique was quite exhausting for him.

“Why? Don’t tell me that your Heart’s Devil hasn’t been eliminated completely.”

“No… It’s just… Thank you!”

She bit her lips and breathed heavily. She was just too bashful to thank him properly.

Ning Fan was not really concerned about her. He was just satisfied with the technique he just casted.

Soul Memory Spirit Searching Technique would severely damage the Sea of Consciousness of the cultivator. The cultivator might even turn into an idiot. On the other hand, the Dream Entering Technique could be a good way to spy on the cultivator’s memories. However, the dreams may not be always true. Thus, compared to Soul Memory Spirit Searching Technique, this technique may not allow 100% access to the true memories of the person. If it is used to look into the memories of closed ones, it would be a better alternative than the Soul Memory Spirit Searching Technique.

The whole process only took half a day. Yun Ruowei had no intention of staying with Ning Fan any longer and left hurriedly. After eliminating the Heart’s Devil, the complicated feelings she had towards Ning Fan were eliminated. To her, Ning Fan was just like any other cultivator whom she would treat coldly.

However, before she left, she hesitated for a moment and said, “Once this demon tide is over, I guess I will never return to Orchid Temple again. If you need my help in the future, you can search for me at the Alliance of the Southeastern Cultivators. I will surely lend you a hand.”

“If there’s a need for it, I will find you.”

Ning Fan greeted her with cupped fist and guided her down the stairs.

At least she gave me her promise of help in the future. Apparently, she didn’t want me to help her for free.

Hundreds of cultivation countries including Yun Country were located at the southeastern part of the Rain World. This region was called the Southeastern Continent. The Alliance of the Southeastern Cultivators was a business league established by the rogue cultivators in there.

Why doesn’t she continue cultivating and carry out tasks at the Division of Rain Palace instead of joining the business league of the rogue cultivators?

Ning Fan didn’t ask for the reason.

It was still drizzling outside when she left the building.

She walked barefooted while holding an oil-paper umbrella, disappearing in the rain. However, when Ning Fan went back inside the building, she stopped and turned her head to look at Ming Yu Building with a beautiful smile on her face.

“I guess I’ve misunderstood him. He’s quite a serious man…”

…

Ning Fan went back into the building and got rid of all the distracting thoughts and meditated.

After consuming the three droplets of demon blood, his wounds were all recovered!

When his demon power achieved the Half-Step Gold Core Realm, it was much easier for him to cast the Dream Entering Technique compared to when his demon power was before consuming the demon blood.

He stood near a window and peeked at the lady who was walking in the rain with an umbrella with a faint smile forming on his face.

“Holding an umbrella… Hmm. Should I give Fellow Daoist Yin an umbrella…A lady who holds an umbrella is surprisingly quite a sight. However, I don’t think any cultivators, regardless of genders, would want to hold an umbrella except for Yun Ruowei…”

When he was deep in his thoughts, the Eastern Ocean Bell in his storage pouch vibrated gently and stopped right afterwards.

That vibration made Ning Fan’s knit his brows together. He spread his spirit sense a thousand li around his area but he found nothing unusual.

“It’s weird. Why did the Eastern Ocean Bell tremble? Never mind. Forget it. After ten days, we’ll be leaving this place anyway. The remaining ten days are a good opportunity for me to merge the Immemorial Star into the Separation Slayer Sword…”

After a short while, he still caved in to his curiosity and doubts. So he performed divination to foresee the bizarre feeling in his heart.

However, the only thing he could foresee was the omen of grave dangers.

Undoubtedly, someone was out to eliminate him and that person possessed a very high cultivation.

The only cultivators who have such powerful cultivation realm… Perhaps that person is a Spirit Severing Realm cultivator?!

No, it cannot be Revered Snow… With him out of the picture, there’s only one Spirit Severing Realm cultivator left in Great Jin – Demon General Carp!

“Impossible! He shouldn’t know that I killed one of his partners while holding the other two in my captive. What triggered him to eliminate me? If that’s what’s going to happen, I need to take precautionary measures. We need to leave Ju Shan Guan as soon as possible…”

…

Green mist permeated the air in the deepest part of the Dragon Vision Pond. In the centre of the place was a swamp which was guarded by thousands of demons.

Within the pond, there was a gigantic beast of blood-red colour. It was as big as a thousand zhang tall mountain, absorbing the dragon qi in the swamp while in a dormant state.

The beast was an amalgamation of different animals. It had the head of a carp with sharp fangs and a body of a snake with eight red claws under it.

Lightning rays flashed on its bloody scales and anyone who witnessed the current state of the beast would know that it was in the middle of transforming into a dragon.

Bloody Carp transforming into a dragon! Undeniably, the beast was the true form of the Spirit Severing Realm Demon General!

The bloody pupils of the beast blinked continuously while the horns of a dragon began to grow from its head.

This transformation would continue for the next ten days. The green color of the mist started to slowly dim while the color red began to take its place, turning the mist into blood-red in color. All of a sudden, a gust of strong wind encircled the enormous head of the beast. When the mist faded, the head of a carp fully transformed into a dragon’s head. It soared into the sky and a thousand zhang long blood dragon emerged under the sun!

At this moment, countless lightning rays appeared and gathered up above the skywhich indicated the start of a Tribulation for demons who succeeded in their transformation. All the demons in the vicinity were stricken with fear.

The blood dragon changed into a naked man with bloody red scales all over his body.

He was the complete reincarnation of a mad devil with his red hair hanging down from his head. In his left eye, two blood-red demon stars violently flickered!

Two silver dragon horns grew from his forehead, suffused with lightning rays!

Demon General, Li Ban! (Li ‘鲤’ carries the meaning of a carp. Ban ‘伴’ carries the meaning of companion.)

He opened his mouth while facing the Tribulation of Lightning and sucked in all the lightning rays into his belly. He then let out a satisfied smile.

“Not bad. Transformation from a bloody carp into a dragon allowed me to master the second transformation – Lightning Dragon. I shall never fear the Tribulation of Lightning anymore! So this is the power of the secret art granted by the Demon Marshal. It’s really good…”

He replaced that smile with an indifferent expression and waved his hand. A necklace crafted from the bones of countless beasts appeared on his palm.

This necklace was out of the ordinary. A strand of Void Realm power flowed within it. It was… a “Forged Void Treasure”! Forged Void Treasures were the failed versions of the Void Treasures. It belonged to a Void Refinement or Void Fragmentation Realm cultivator who failed in refining the treasure into a Void Treasure and gifted it to the Demon General instead. Originally, there were twelve teeth on the necklace. Now, only nine of them were emanating a blood glow as two of them became dull while another one was… crushed!

“The Flower Demon and Wind Demon were captured while the Lion Demon was killed… Hmmph! Without the help of this ‘Void Necklace”, I might not have known that it was a human’s doing! The culprit is in Ju Shan Guan of Great Jin… There’s no mistaking it. The blood qi of the Lion Demon was on his body. He must’ve killed him… However, he seems to possess some extraordinary treasure which could conceal himself from the power of my necklace. What amazes me the most is not the treasure that hides him from me but the ‘Offering Vessel of Ancient Demons’ that shattered the void power from my necklace…”