Chapter 288 (1/2)
Intent Realm of Small Accomplishment
The walls of the Human Hall was emanating starlight. Each of the bricks and tiles were bright and transparent like glass.
The complicated paths led to different palaces which were not built in an orderly manner. Instead, they were built according to a strange and confusing formation. Any ordinary Divine Transformation Realm experts who loses their way within the hall would be trapped within one of the palaces as they would keep returning to their starting area without being able to discover a correct path.
Somewhere outside the palaces, heavy footsteps could be heard from afar.
The sound of footsteps was slow and calm, as if each of steps was made after carefully considering things.
However, every area that person passed by would cause a drizzle to fall.
Even though it was just a bit of rain, whenever the droplets of rain fall upon the spiritual herbs, they would immediately turn as sharp as knives and cut each of the spiritual herbs. Then, all of the herbs would be gently kept into the storage pouch by the owner of the sound of the footsteps.
After a month, he had only travelled for thousands of li* on foot. However, the comprehension he obtained throughout the whole month caused his Divine Intent of Rain to undergo the transformation of misty rain.
Ning Fan did not utter a single word. When he lifted his finger, thousands of rain drops immediately transformed into hazy mist that was both foggy and illusory.
Suddenly, his eyes turned serious and his aura force experienced an abrupt change. Billions of drops of rain scattered and disappeared, leaving only 999 dark red rain droplets above the sky.
He then opened his mouth and inhaled. The 999 blood-red rain droplets were directly sucked into his mouth. Afterwards, he smiled.
“In order to enhance one’s intent realm, the first step is to ascertain the direction of cultivation. The cultivation for the Divine Intent of Rain is about the droplets of rain. Throughout the month, I have condensed a total of 999 droplets of ‘Natal Divine Rain’. If I manage to condense one thousand drops of them, my Divine Intent of Rain would probably achieve Small Accomplishment! Condense!”
Ning Fan held his hand high and grasped the air above. Countless misty rain intent surged into the sky and fell down in the form of rain.
When each drop touched the ground, it caused fog to rise. Ning Fan then extracted a trace of the fog and condensed it within his palm. One day later, countless traces of rain mist were congealed into a drop of dark red rain.
That drop of bloody-red rain was powerful enough to eliminate an Early Nascent Soul Realm expert!
As he swallowed it down, a concentrated rain intent built up within his body. After that, bloody rain droplets began to pour down heavily, turning into a hazy mist.
“It’s complete! My rain intent has achieved Small Accomplishment! If it wasn’t for a unique place like this Star Palace, it would be extremely difficult to cultivate my rain intent to the level of Small Accomplishment… I wonder how much power my magical techniques would be enhanced after fusing my current rain intent with them!”
Ning Fan randomly displayed the Ice Rain Technique. Actually, he no longer used this technique anymore as it was just a mere Spirit Realm technique. Now, he just wanted to test its power to see how strong it had become after his rain intent had improved.
However, with just a single attempt, Ning Fan’s eyes slightly widened in surprise. A thousand drops of blood-red arrow-like ice rain were shot out. After fusing his divine intent of Small Accomplishment, his Ice Rain Technique was able to wipe out one thousand Early Nascent Soul Realm experts at a time. When all the projectiles were combined into a single attack, it was probably even strong enough to put an expert of the Early Divine Transformation Realm in a grievously wounded state!
Being able to enhance a Spirit Realm magical technique to the point of injuring a Divine Transformation Realm expert. Divine intent of Small Accomplishment is indeed exceptional.
If there are ten thousand drops of rain, then wouldn’t I be invincible among the experts below the Void Refinement Realm?
After achieving Small Accomplishment for his divine intent, the restraint of the demon intent from the Star Palace upon his ability to fly greatly weakened. Perhaps it would not be as easy as before to make use of the suppression from the demon intent to cultivate his rain intent.
He withdrew his rain intent and dismissed the rain above the sky as he closed his eyes. When he reopened them, his body was filled with a strong devil qi. Each step he made would splash countless virtual shadows of black dust and ashes.
“My rain intent has reached the level of Small Accomplishment. It will be difficult to improve it more for now. It is truly unfortunate. But I can take advantage of this opportunity to improve my devil intent… Sixth Grade Devil Intent, the Devil Intent of Evil Luo Mountain. Just causing dust to fly in the air with every step I take is nowhere near enough!”
Ten days later, the dust which he caused to rise turned into shadows of stones the size of his fist.
Half a month later, for every step he made, there would be shadows of large black rocks growing out of the land by his sides.
One month later, wherever he goes, virtual shadows of black hills could be seen.
At first, the hills were just as tall as ten zhang*. However, under the continuous refinement of his devil intent every day, the hill grew taller and eventually became 999 zhang* tall massive mountain.
Ning Fan stopped, no longer taking any step further.
With a single thought, a black evil mountain emanating ferocious qi rose abruptly out of the ground beneath his feet, reaching a height of 999 zhang*.
“The Devil Intent of Evil Luo Mountain… This intent is about cultivating the height of the mountain. Using my devil intent to congeal the mountain, my ‘Natal Devil Mountain’ has grown to 999 zhang* tall in a month! When it reaches the height of 1000 zhang*, my Devil Intent of Mountain will then achieve the level of Small Accomplishment!”
Standing at the summit of the mountain, Ning Fan expelled traces of devil qi from his body, condensing it into the hill below his feet. Inch by inch, its height gradually increased.
When it had grown as tall as one thousand zhang*, Ning Fan opened his eyes. Spreading out his devil qi in all directions, he dismissed the shadow of the hill and landed on the ground. He then lifted one of his palms in the sky. When he activated his devil qi, a thousand zhang* tall devil mountain immediately emerged!
“Fall!”
The force of that falling mountain was extremely terrifying!
At the moment it crashed onto the ground, the vicinity of hundreds of thousands of li* around the Star Palace shook violently!
Ning Fan’s eyes lit up!
“If my ‘Natal Devil Mountain’ grows to ten thousand zhang* tall, the force from that strike would be enough to eliminate a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm expert!”
After his devil intent attained Small Accomplishment, it was difficult to improve it using the demon intent of the Star Palace.
After dispersing his devil intent and devil mountain, Ning Fan took a step forward and spread his purple wings. The color of his hair became dark purple, a pair of horns grew out of his head and his body began to be covered with dark purple scales.
It was the demon form of Fu Li.
“Demon intent is decided by demon blood. Since the Fu Li Race has gone extinct, I have no idea what grade this Fu Li’s demon intent would be ranked… But I presume that it must not be any weaker than the dragon or phoenix bloodlines. The cultivation of this demon intent is about one’s demon form!”
Recalling Li Ban and the other generals who easily displayed their thousand zhang* large demon forms, Ning Fan smiled bitterly.
“Apparently, Li Ban’s demon intent has already attained the level of Small Accomplishment. If it wasn’t because of my interference, he would have long broken through the Mid Divine Transformation Realm.”
“Cultivating the demon form is inevitable. However, if my Fu Li’s demon form enhances its power through increasing the size of the body, it will be opposing the path of my body refining techniques. An enlarged body might have astonishing strength, but a smaller and more refined body could focus all strength at one point and thus, its explosive power is much stronger… As such, if I refuse to enhance my Fu Li’s demon form based on its size, which aspect should I start?”
As Ning Fan was recollecting the unique characteristics of the Fu Li demons, his eyes gradually became clear.
“Demon wings! Yes. Instead of increasing the power of my Fu Li’s avatar, I could choose to increase its speed… Therefore, I shall condense the ‘Natal Demon Wings’ for my demon intent. It’s for the best!”
Within a period of a month, Ning Fan intended to use his Fu Li demon intent to congeal one thousand black plumes and add them onto his wings!
His cultivation level might not have increased but his ability greatly improved.