Chapter 369.1 (1/2)

Scared Witless

“Who is this lunatic?! How dare you kill my disciple?! You are blatantly courting death!”

An angry bellow resounded throughout Xuan Wu City along with a jarring whistling sound given out by the teleportation light of a Peak Divine Transformation Realm expert flying across the sky.

“This is bad! It’s Revered Flame! This person had always covered up for his shortcomings. No matter what the cause of Gu Zhen’s death was, he will certainly put up a fight against Venerated Ming until one of them dies!”

“In any case, Venerated Ming is still one of the Venerated Eight of the Internal Endless Sea. Would he be afraid of Revered Flame?”

“It seems like you have no idea who Revered Flame is. From his cultivation of flames, he has managed to turn his Sea of Consciousness into a fire consciousness. Besides, he has devoured countless types of flames in his whole life. He not only excels in pill refinement techniques, but he also has impressive combat power. He had literally burnt a Half-Step Void Refinement expert to death in the past!”

“What?! Revered Flame can kill a Half-Step Void Refinement expert?! Does it mean that his strength and power is considered superior even among the Venerated Seven?!”

“Not only that, I heard rumors saying that when Revered Flame entered the Endless Sea this time, he had also brought along two Void Refinement Realm experts to protect him… Even though no one knows where the two experts have gone, it’s enough to show how extraordinary Revered Flame’s status is in the Rain Palace!”

After all the spirited discussion, even if the cultivators there knew Ning Fan’s identity, many of them still did not have any hope in him. They quickly dispersed in the commotion, afraid that they might get involved with him.

Soon after these cultivators left, a blazing fiery light descended outside the southern tower with a loud bang and materialized into a red-robed old man.

The aura of the old man was extremely strong. What’s especially powerful about him was his flames.

By just standing there, the air became hot like steam for no reason and gave out crackling sounds of explosion. His aura force seethed from his body and glimmered into the sky.

This man was Gu Zhen’s master - Revered Flame, a revered being of the Rain Palace!

“Who are you?!”

Revered Flame let out a menacing bellow and his sound wave turned into raging flames which rushed towards the southern tower, trying to burn Ning Fan and the southern tower to ashes.

This technique was called Fire-Sound Transformation. It was an extremely high-end technique of fire manipulation. As soon as this technique was used, it immediately gained a lot of attention from the crowd.

Layers upon layers of fire waves blasted towards Ning Fan and invaded the palace. But at the next moment, the fire waves eerily disappeared from everyone’s sight.

Ning Fan walked out of the southern tower unaffected and stared at Revered Flame indifferently. He made a stomp on the ground which caused the whole ground to tremble. Revered Flame sensed a great force which came out of nowhere rushing towards his direction and hurriedly dodged.

However, the movement he made caused the aura condensed with his wrath to vanish.

“I’m Zhou Ming, the tower lord of the three towers of the Lost World Palace!”

“Zhou Ming?! You said you’re Zhou Ming?!”

Revered Flame seemed to have recalled something and one of the corners of his lips raised and formed into a cold smirk.

“Are you the one who took the Green Phoenix Flame? Are you the one who killed Dong Mu and the other two?”

“So what if I am?!” Ning Fan replied firmly.

“If you are, you can die then!”

Revered Flame sneered coldly. In the first place, He already had the intention to kill Ning Fan to vent his anger regarding the matter of the Green Phoenix Flame.

After all, were the people whom he placed in the Lost World Palace someone Ning Fan could kill?

Now, his disciple had died in Ning Fan’s hands. With all the grudges that he had yet to resolve with him, Revered Flame would, of course, not let him off.

Even if he set his personal enmity and grudges aside, Revered Flame coveted the several kinds of Earth Vein Demonic Flames that Ning Fan possessed!

Revered Flame patted his storage pouch and produced a fiery-red flying sword. Just as he was about to make a move against Ning Fan, he suddenly heard voices of two worried females.

“D-Don’t blame him. It’s me who has offended Gu Zhen!”

“Impudent! A revered being of the Rain Palace is trying to cause trouble in my Lost World Palace?!”

The voice which was begging for mercy belonged to Ya Lan while the other one that sounded imposing belonged to Bei Xiaoman.

Ning Fan was inwardly astonished. It was still explainable for Ya Lan to plead for him, but it was somewhat strange to see Bei Xiaoman taking his side.

Wasn’t this unruly little girl planning to kill me every day and night to vent her anger in the past…? I’ve heard that she has successfully attained the Divine Transformation Realm. Could it be that her disposition changed after achieving the breakthrough?

The group of cultivators who stayed to spectate the battle were all stunned. A showdown between two mighty beings which was originally going fine and smooth was abruptly stopped by two women with their words.

Revered Flame stood still with his hands clasping his sword. His eyes darkened and he stopped at once.

The reason why he did not attack Ning Fan was definitely not because of Ya Lan who pleaded with him for mercy but because of Bei Xiaoman’s arrival.

In terms of cultivation base, Bei Xiaoman was nothing in Revered Flame’s eyes but with regards to identity, Bei Xiaoman was the fourth young mistress of the Northern Heaven. She was not someone that Revered Flame could mess with.

However, what Revered Flame found difficult to understand was the rumors spreading in the outside world claiming that Bei Xiaoman had not been on friendly terms with Ning Fan. The reason why he dared to directly act against Ning Fan in Xuan Wu City was because of that information.

It seemed that the information he got was false. This Bei Xiaoman clearly did not resent Ning Fan. Instead, she was behaving coquettishly to the marrow of her bones and had a crush on him.

Revered Flame made a contemptuous smirk and mocked inwardly.

The so-called fourth young mistress of the Northern Heaven is nothing more than a loose woman.

“Mistress Bei, this man has killed my disciple and everyone here witnessed it. Don’t tell me that you and the Lost World Palace are trying to cover up for him?!”

“He killed your disciple?!”