Chapter 376 (1/2)
The Former Rain Sovereign
The 49 layers of walls that were formed from 49 traces of void power were blocking the path in front of him, making him unable to advance or retreat freely.
There was hardly anyone below the Void Fragmentation Realm who could escape being sealed off by 49 Void Refinement Realm experts.
Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with ferocity. If he couldn’t destroy the walls in front of him, he would perish instantly.
He hurriedly performed a hand seal and aggressively channeled his magic power into his Eastern Ocean Bell. The golden bell started to grow and trembled, suddenly emitting a clear ancient bell ring.
Layers of golden sound waves spread toward all directions. When the walls made up of void power came into contact with the sound waves, they immediately shattered and vanished.
“Huh?”
Among those 49 puppets, one of them actually made a sound of surprise. It obviously didn’t expect that Ning Fan would be able to break free from the seals.
*SWISH*
Almost at the same time when the walls broke, Ning Fan vigorously thumped his chest, coughing out more than ten mouthfuls of blood essence. When he beat his Fu Li Wings again, his movement speed was close to the Mid Void Refining Realm. As he was retreating in a hurry, he managed to avoid the void power attacks from the 49 puppets. It was a narrow escape.
Despite that, a feeling of shock filled his heart.
That light hum of surprise did not escape Ning Fan's ears. He hadn’t expected that one of those 49 puppets was actually… a living creature!
The 343 puppets guarding the eighth floor were definitely puppets without any spiritual intelligence. It couldn’t be wrong! After all, if the Lost World Palace uses puppets with spiritual intelligence, some other changes might happen.
Ning Fan believed his senses… For some reason, one of the puppets was a living being!
This was definitely an encounter that was beyond Ning Fan’s expectations. But still, it didn’t stop him from escaping for his life.
Under the enhancement of one hundred and eighty thousand ‘Speed’ Spirit Seals and a few mouthfuls of his blood essence, his movement speed had already been boosted to its maximum. As long as he holds the group of puppets back for a second, he could then get out of there alive.
While he was flying, he was aggressively forming a series of hand seals while commanding his group of puppets. He placed his three Void Refinement Realm puppets at the frontline and positioned the black puppet and the black dragon corpse behind them as the second line of defense. As for his Divine Transformation Realm puppets, he commanded them to get into a circular defensive formation. Aside from that, he also activated his Inlaid Star Compass and laid out a massive star map. Thirty thousand star lamps emerged and the starlight of their formation lit up at once.
The light of this star formation was laid out by Ning Fan using five hundred million immortal jade. As long as the immortal jade was not exhausted, no one under the Mid Void Refinement Realm would be able to destroy this formation.
Among the 49 Void Refinement Realm puppets, 40 of them were at the Early Void Refinement Realm, 7 of them were at the Mid Void Refinement Realm while two were at the Late Void Refinement Realm.
As for the two Late Void Refinement Realm puppets, one of them was the puppet that made a light gasp of surprise just now.
“Oh? An Immemorial Divine Weapon in the form of a formation…”
That Late Void Refinement Realm puppet uttered a comment again. At the next moment, the other 48 Void Refinement Realm puppets launched countless punches with him on the starlight.
Bang! Bang! BANG!!!
Even though his Inlaid Star Compass had been fully activated which created a heaven-defying defensive formation, it could only withstand for a few breaths under the attacks of the puppets.
When the formation light broke, Ning Fan felt a sharp pain on his chest as if he had just received a heavy blow. There was a heavy backlash. However, he forcibly swallowed the blood in his throat and his eyes widened with ferocity.
The distance between the stone platform and the exit was just ten thousand zhang* (3.33 m per zhang). After breaking through the walls made of void power and defending the attacks of the 49 puppets using his star formation, Ning Fan was now only three thousand zhang* (3.33 m per zhang) away from the exit.
As long as he go through the final three thousand zhang* (3.33 m per zhang), he could then obtain this time crystal. He would then be able to attain the Peak Divine Transformation Realm by combining his three types of power!
“The thief of time shall DIE!”
The group of incoming puppets spoke again with an indifferent tone. After that, they raised their fists which were coiled with void power and got ready to blast them at Ning Fan which were powerful enough to destroy mountains and rivers.
If these punches are blasted at him, he would no longer have any means to defend himself even if he uses all of his puppets as shields.
“Grievance Technique, Life Imprisonment! Spiritual puppets from all worlds, every one of you who don’t follow my command will become my slaves! With one finger, I shall imprison your lives!”
Ning Fan's eyes filled with unprecedented focus. This technique, Life Imprisonment, was his final method to keep himself alive. No matter what, he must create a distraction to the group of puppets and stop their attacks.
His eyes became more and more indifferent as he stared upon the group of puppets. Even True Immortals would not have a pair of eyes like these.
His black hair danced in the air even though there was no wind, his eyes as deep as a bottomless pool. After he pointed his finger, his black hair instantly turned white and his appearance grew older too.
Meanwhile, a cold black moonlight shot out from his finger. At the next moment, a black crescent appeared on the faces of the 49 Void Refinement Realm puppets successively.
*CRUNCH*
All 48 puppets fell into a trance and stopped in their tracks at the moment when the mark of the crescent moon emerged.
Only the puppet with spiritual intelligence’s face was filled with absolute shock as if he had seen something unbelievable and spoke in surprise.
“Grievance Technique! The Grievance Technique of the Ancestral Emperor of the Northern Heaven! It can’t be wrong. This is definitely the Grievance Technique!”
This puppet with spiritual intelligence actually recognized the origin of the technique that Ning Fan used!
Well, it was no surprise that he could recognize this technique. Ning Fan usually wouldn't use this technique to its full potential, much less utter the chant of this technique.
At this critical moment of life and death, all he wanted to do was to maximize the power of this technique and not hide its origin.
With the help of this technique, the puppets seemed to have forgotten their objective and stood there absentmindedly. Ning Fan beat his purple wings again and was now only a thousand zhang* (3.33 m per zhang) away from the exit. With just a few more seconds, he could then escape from the eighth floor!
Since there were a total of 49 Void Refinement Realm puppets, Ning Fan’s Grievance Technique could at most hold them back for a short while. At the next moment, they regained their consciousness and continued swinging their fists.
Ning Fan had cast the technique a few times in the past, but none of them had such a heavy side effect like this time.
His black hair turned white and his face grew older. He finally realized why the technique could restrain puppets.
It was obviously a technique which seals a puppet’s life by sacrificing the caster’s life force in return!
None of the puppets that he used to deal with in the past had a Void Refinement Realm cultivation base. Therefore, he did not suffer such a significant side effect from using that technique.
The change in his hair’s color and his face which had grown old like that of an elderly man were the price of casting this technique. Unless Ning Fan's life force recovers, he could no longer use the same technique or fend off the puppets’ attacks with this technique anymore.
“It’s the last one thousand zhang*(3.33 m per zhang)! I must get out of here!”
“Burst!”
Ning Fan’s eyes glinted with resolve. While he was quickly retreating, his ten fingers were moving rapidly, forming patterns upon patterns.
He had 25 Divine Transformation Realm puppets in total with 10 of them at the Early Divine Transformation Realm, 7 at the Mid Divine Transformation Realm, 6 at the Late Divine Transformation Realm, 1 at the Peak Divine Transformation Realm and Half-Step Void Refinement Realm.
At this moment, Ning Fan commanded the 10 Early Divine Transformation Realm puppets to detonate themselves without any hesitation in order to delay the 49 puppets for a second!
*Bang*
The power of the self-detonation of 10 Early Divine Transformation Realm puppets were doubtlessly powerful. Even the fists of the 49 Void Refinement Realm puppets were slowed down for a second.
There are still five hundred zhang*(3.33 m per zhang) more!
Ning Fan’s hand seal changed like lightning. This time, the technique he used was actually the Puppet Sacrificial Technique to fuse his puppets.
The incoming 49 puppets didn’t show any signs of fusing into one which was good news to Ning Fan.