Chapter 249 2 (1/2)
True Spirits of the Royal Clan
The surprise on Lu Wan’er’s face was replaced with terror as she saw the golden wings which were on the verge of materializing break into pieces.
However, when she saw Ning Fan who had his entire body stained with blood while climbing out from the pool, her heart ached.
“Lu Bei, what happened to you? Are you alright?”
“Did you fail? How come it ended up like this?”
“Never mind. Don’t be afraid. It’s nothing even if you fail… I’m here for you…”
But when Ning Fan lifted his head and looked at her, he did not appear to be disappointed nor pretended to be calm. Instead, he only smiled.
Although it was just a faint smile, his eyes were filled with some kind of craziness.
He patted Lu Wan’er’s head. At the same time, a tremendous battle intent surged around his body.
“I did not fail! This time, I broke free from that person’s plot. The next time I undergo Bloodline Awakening, I will make sure his plan will fail!
Lu Wan’er was completely clueless of what Ning Fan was talking about.
However, the one thing she knew was that he seemed to have failed in the Bloodline Awakening on purpose.
Ning Fan took out his battle point plate and swiped it without any hesitation, deducting the remaining one hundred thousand battle points. After that, he leaped into the pool of blood once again!
“Regardless of who you are, your predictions will end here!”
Somewhere in the Void Realm above the Rain World, there were four heavenly gates which led to four different vast, hollow spaces. They were all immeasurably tall.
Beyond the southern heavenly gate, it was a bright world filled with rainbow-colored clouds.
A grey-haired elderly man was sitting in front of a massive chessboard which shone in starlight while adjusting the black and white pieces on it.
He was playing a chess game, but he was playing it with himself.
The chess piece which he was twisting with his fingertips was sometimes dark and sometimes white. Once in a while, it became partially white and black at the same time.
Behind him stood seven polite children dressed in monastery robes. All seven of them were Dao practitioners.
Facing the seventh child, the grey-haired elderly man smiled while placing the chess piece in his hand onto the chessboard.
“Ming’er…”
“Si Ming is here!”
“You are already at the peak of the Ninth Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm. In other words, you are just a half-step away from the Life Immortal Realm. I, as the Fate Wielding Immortal Emperor, have selected seven Taoist corpses. Which one did you pick to accomplish your Life Immortal Realm?!”
“I picked the Star Lord of the Kui Si1 Star in the Secondary Star Domain in the Southern Ocean Heaven – Kui Ling. Currently, he is a rogue immortal!” Si Ming courteously answered.
“It isn’t the best choice. Due to my plan, after ruling the sea eye of the southern sea for ten thousand years, Kui Ling was betrayed by his closest relative. One of his arms was severed by his loved one, causing his heart to be filled with hatred. After that, he devoted himself into swordsmanship. Using his heart to sharpen the sword, turning his own very eyes into swords and finally killing others with his eyes… His Sword Eyes is indeed a powerful ability, which may suit you in breaking through the Life Immortal Realm. Nonetheless, he isn’t the best person…”
“If that’s the case, I will pick Jin Peng, the sect master of the Cloud Scraping Sect in the Heaven Immortal World which is one of the nine mortal worlds. He is currently at the Eighth Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm!” Si Ming answered after pondering for a while.
“This isn’t the best choice either…Due to my plot, Jin Peng’s closest relatives had all died. His enemies were everywhere in the Heaven Immortal World. For his destiny, he severed his feelings without a second thought. For power, he killed his master and seized his position. For the Golden Vein, he sent his wife to others. For longevity, he even sacrificed his own son to cultivate pills… This person is extraordinarily ruthless. His Divine Vein of Gold is able to manipulate the gold elements in every place within millions of li* and use them to enhance his bones, his body and his weapon, making him possess a heaven-defying offense and defense…But still, he is not the best corpse for you…”
The elderly man smiled again. However, Si Ming, one of the seven child cultivators was puzzled.
After contemplating for a while, he cupped his fists towards his master and directly asked, “I wonder who will Master recommend for me to devour to seize his cultivation level as well as luck to break through to the Life Immortal Realm!”
“The person I recommend is this one…”
The chess piece in his fingertips suddenly turned grey from half-white and half-black.
The Taoist kid was startled.
“This person? He is just an insignificant ant from the mortal world. He entered the cultivation path by chance and his inner potential is extremely inferior. The inheritance he possesses is the incomplete volume of the Yin Yang Transformation. Besides, he still needs the famous Ancient Chaos Inheritance which was created before the Ancient Chaos Emperor invented the Yin Yang Transformation. Only with that inheritance complementing his current one could he have hope of attaining the Great Dao… Moreover, his current cultivation level is so weak. He’s just at the Nascent Soul Realm. What’s good in devouring him?”
“You don’t have to ask! Si Ming, I have already given you a choice. Among the seven Taoist corpses, choose one yourself…”
With a smile on his face, he placed the chess piece back on the chessboard and walked away.
At the moment he turned to his back, his brows tightly knitted together.
“This kid abandoned the Immemorial Golden Crow’s Bloodline? Hmmph! A thickheaded man. Do you really think that you can break free from the fate that I have set for you?Even if you failed in your Bloodline Awakening today, you are still the best corpse for my seventh disciple! Hmm? This is…?!”
Ever since the grey-haired elderly man became an Immortal Emperor, this was his first time wearing a surprised look.
On the chessboard, the grey chess piece which represented Ning Fan was smeared by a foul, dark-purple demon qi.
“It’s contaminated! Why?! It’s Fu Li2!”
“Master, what happened?”Si Ming cautiously asked. As a matter of fact, it was his first time seeing his master frowning.
“It’s nothing. That Ning Fan is no longer the perfect corpse for you… Now, his luck has already been tarnished. Whoever devours him would never be able to become an Immortal forever! All the hopes that I placed on him are all in vain. Now, his path of Dao is destroyed!”
Defy the Heavens and change one’s fate. It was easier said than done!
Ning Fan did not know that the person who plotted against him was one of the Immortal Emperors above the Four Heavens.
Neither did he know that his entire life, from the time he was born until his death in the future, was all planned. Today, however, he had altered the predetermined ending!
As long as he is able to cause the mysterious True Immortal to miscalculate a single step, he would then be able to break free from the shackles of fate. He would no longer be within anyone’s schemes.
He shut his eyes and entered into the Bloodline Pool once more.
He did not rely on the golden sense of the Demon Ancestor. On the contrary, he made a bold and reckless choice.
He injected that trace of golden sense from the Demon Ancestor into the demon statue.
As soon as it entered into the demon statue, it rapidly disappeared. In the next moment, the top of the statue began to radiate with dazzling golden light.
The condensation speed of the pool of blood became tens of times stronger than before! It was even much stronger than the power of the Life Blood Incense Flame!
“I don’t know how to awaken a complete Immemorial Demon Bloodline. But perhaps the strength of my demon bloodline is the key! Condense!”
Within his mind, he saw different kinds of flames floating in the air. They all came in different colors. Each and every one of them represented a type of demon blood.
There were the Golden Crow, the Fire Phoenix, the Roc and even the Dark Sparrow!
However, Ning Fan did not reach out to any of them because none of them was able to reduce the uneasiness in his heart.
101 traces, 102 traces …199 traces.
200 traces, 201 traces …299 traces.
When he had congealed three hundred blood vortexes, a dark-purple flame suddenly lit up within his heart but it was extinguished in a flash.
In spite of that, it managed to make Ning Fan nauseous. It seemed to carry an extremely strong stench of blood.
Even so, his face was suddenly full of joy. It was because he liked this feeling – a feeling that could lessen that uneasiness within his heart!
Moreover, every step he got closer to this dark-purple flame, the yellowness within the green color of the Stratagem Stone would fade. That is to say that his luck was returning. However, it did not just remain at emerald green but it was gradually turning dark.
“A dark-colored luck?!” Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with seriousness. In the Four Heavens Immortal World, there was an alias for people who had dark-colored luck – Hopeless Immortal!” It simply meant that they were virtually hopeless to become an Immortal in their lives.