Chapter 348.1 (1/2)

Becoming A Mortal Once Again

A nominal apprentice was Ning Fan’s answer to Yang Gu.

He would tentatively accept him as a nominal apprentice. If Yang Gu does not fit Ning Fan’s standard, then he would be kicked out. However, if he is useful, then he could be trained for a bit and cultivated.

Even though Yang Gu only received an ambiguous reply, he was very excited about it and immediately excused himself to rush back to the Pill Island in the Internal Endless Sea.

His departure this time had two purposes. Firstly, he wanted to recommend Ning Fan to join the Pill Island and become a feudal ranking elder.

Secondly, he wanted to find a big group of people to help Ning Fan eliminate the Alliance of Ming Assassins!

As for roughly how many people he could find, it was still uncertain. Yang Gu was very popular. With his amiable character, nearly everyone beneath the heavens are his friends. Adding up some of his good friends from the Pill Island, perhaps this group battle would be a spectacular one.

The matter regarding Yang Gu was set aside for the time being. The next concern that Ning Fan had was to remove the hidden threat in Xu Qiuling’s body.

Firstly, that remnant piece of the Immortal Entrapping Sword must be taken out.

Next, he must thoroughly solve the problem of having insufficient gold elements in Xu Qiuling’s life force.

For several consecutive days, Ning Fan meditated hard in seclusion, deducing the outcome of dozens of therapeutic methods and eventually picked three of them.

Once he got out from the Profound Jade Palace, Ning Fan headed to the Blissful Summit to look for Xu Qiuling. However, it was empty when he arrived at her room.

As he spread his spirit sense encompassing half of the Pleasure Devil Island, he also could not find Xu Qiuling’s whereabouts.

Ning Fan was then inwardly surprised when a thirteen-year-old girl who was dressed like a maidservant servilely approached him and gave him a paper butterfly in the flower mound.

“Y-Young Master Zhou, this is f-from the young mistress… She asked you to seek her…”

The little girl’s voice was trembling as she spoke, as if she was very afraid of Ning Fan.

“You are Xiao Lian?”

“Y-Yes…”

“You folded this paper butterfly?”

“I-I… This is my fault. I won’t do it again…” The girl fell to her knees and cried for mercy, as if maidservants were not allowed to fold a message-transmitting paper butterfly in order to prevent information leaks.

“Mm… Don’t worry. I won’t tell others about this. This paper butterfly is quite nice. Not bad.”

Ning Fan patted Xiao Lian’s head. He unfolded the paper butterfly and glanced through the words within. Right after he finished reading them, he did not know whether to laugh or cry. He then made a step forward and vanished without leaving a trace.

Only the maidservant, Xiao Lian, was left at the flower mound who remained kneeling. After making sure Ning Fan had left, only then did she dare to to raise her head. Even so, her expression was still plastered with fear.

After Ning Fan was gone, almost eight young, little maidservants immediately came out from behind the flower bushes to help Xiao Lian get up. Each of them were in dread.

“Xiao Lian, you’re so bold. That Young Master Zhou is the devil whose reputation is being spread like wildfire in the External Endless Sea. The number of lives he has taken is innumerable. Yet you actually dared to have three lines of conversations with him!”

“That’s still fine. I’ve heard that he is the big devil who lusts after other’s wives and daughters. Did he do anything to you?”

“I saw that he has just touched your head. Could it be that he has planted some kind of mental seal on you?”

These girls were feeling worried about Xiao Lian, but the latter shook her head and blushed. She then said with a soft tone.

“I-I think that Young Master Zhou does not seem to be a bad person… He actually complimented me and said that the paper butterfly I folded was attractive…”

“Oh, my! Xiao Lian is lovesick…”

“I think she’s not just lovesick, but her soul has also been taken by Young Master Zhou.”

“Hehe…”

*Giggle*

A group of young girls began to frolic amidst the path adorned with flowers, totally forgetting how intimidating Ning Fan was.

In the sky above the Pleasure Devil Island, Ning Fan swept over the palace with his spirit sense. After sensing that the maidservants were frolicking with each other, he let out a sigh.

Even though these maidservants do not have a high status and strong innate talent to attain the Gold Core Realm or even the Nascent Soul Realm in their entire lifetime, they can stay innocent and naive and live a normal life like that of a mortal’s.

Indeed, Ning Fan was envious of someone who could live such an ordinary and peaceful life where one could have the room to have fun and have no worries. However, his life did not give him any choice.

There were only a few words from the message transmitting paper butterfly. It was Xu Qiuling’s soft and gentle voice.

“Beauties are like water that never flows in reverse, it’s a pity that a young master never thinks of worldly pleasures…”

This line was a short poem that Xu Qiuling made casually. She was without a doubt a talented girl.

Although she was on the brink of dying, she still had the mood to play hide-and-seek with Ning Fan by purposely hiding herself to let him search for her.

It’s a pity that a young master never thinks of worldly pleasures… Was she showing compassion to Ning Fan for being too laborious in cultivation in his lifetime?

Ning Fan shook his head. It was the most helpless thing for him to handle an independent lady like Xu Qiuling.

He closed his eyes and placed his fingertips on the paper butterfly, using the slight wisp of qi left on the paper butterfly to trace the qi left in the air. Then, Ning Fan pursued Xu Qiuling relying on the direction to where the wisp of qi led him.

Xu Qiuling’s qi was rather unique as she always immersed herself in flowers every day. She reared flowers and she loved flowers. Therefore, there was a floral fragrance in her soul.

Perhaps she was a flower in her previous life…

Amidst the black snowstorm in the Pleasure Devil Sea, a brightly-painted boat drifted out in the sea and only Xu Qiuling was on it alone.