Chapter 404 - The Might of A Single Arrow! (1/2)

On the following day, stars suddenly appeared in the sky above the island in broad daylight. Ninety-nine streaks of light which resembled falling meteors flew past the clouds. It looked extremely weird especially during this time of day. However, that strange phenomenon disappeared after a few seconds.

Innumerable cultivators on the island began to guess and discuss with each other. None of them could explain why such a strange phenomenon happened.

When it was in the dead of night, only then did Ning Fan come out from his Profound Yin World. His presence and temperament were entirely different from before. If one were to describe it in a way, it would feel like Ning Fan had an ethereal, spiritual and mysterious aura surrounding his body, making him erratic like the stars in space.

“Little Cucumber, were the stars that appeared during the day related to you? There’s nothing wrong with you, right? If there is any problem with your body, we can delay the trip and just go to Divine Space Island in the future. You have to take care of your body and recover first.”

Yue Lingkong’s tone sounded indifferent but her eyes were filled with concern.

“Are you concerned about me?” Ning Fan teased.

“Why should I be concerned about you, Little Cucumber? You are so thin and tiny. Putting you as a dressing on the salad isn’t even enough for me to eat!”

“Really…?” Ning Fan shook his head. Well, he had no memory of him having a small ‘cucumber’.

“You don’t have to worry. The stars which appeared during the day were indeed related to me. However, it wasn’t a bad thing. In fact, it’s a good thing… I will help you retrieve your second primordial spirit.”

“Mm… You have to be careful. Don’t you get yourself killed in the end! Since you are lending me a hand on this, I will feel like crap if you die.” Yue Lingkong was a bit uneasy. She did not have confidence like Ning Fan did.

The female corpse, on the other hand, always had that peaceful and tranquil look on her face.

With her Late Divine Transformation Realm strength and her corpse devil body, she could even put up a fight against a Peak Divine Transformation Realm expert. Her spiritual intelligence was improving and her experience in combat was getting richer. Hence, she would not have a problem in protecting herself on this trip.

The third quarter moon rose and the final moon portal was activated.

The closer they got to the moon portal, the more nervous Yue Lingkong became. Once they get through the portal, they would then enter the Divine Space Sea Domain.

Ning Fan held the two women in each of his hands. His expression turned serious. Without giving Yue Lingkong a chance to hesitate, he dragged the both of them to enter the moon portal together.

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the three of them appeared above a sea domain which was filled with white mist.

The white mist was light as cotton and faint like moonlight. However, it blocked the spirit sense of nearly all cultivators.

Ning Fan’s eyes narrowed with solemnity. This white mist was far stronger than the power of the Primordial Magnetic Force in the Pleasure Devil Sea.

Despite having an Early Void Refinement Realm sword sense, he was unable to spread his spirit sense too far in the white mist. The longest his spirit sense could reach was two hundred zhang* (3.33m per zhang).

As such, when one enters this sea domain that was filled with white mist, they would certainly be lost. If ordinary cultivators enter this sea domain without knowing the exact path, they would probably be unable to come out again.

“Follow me closely. This is the ‘moon mist’ that I established on the Divine Space Sea Domain.Anyone’s spirit sense will be severely impaired in this area unless they are Void Fragmentation Realm old monsters…”

As soon as she finished explaining, she spread out a spirit sense which was silver like moonlight. It extended for approximately one hundred thousand li* (500m per li).

Only she, the inheritor of Zang Yue’s divine veins, could use the moon consciousness to discern the path within this dense white mist.

She disliked having too much body contact with Ning Fan. However, she had no other alternative but to hold his hand right now in order to prevent him from being lost in the moon mist.

She set up this moon mist when she was on the verge of attaining the Void Refinement Realm. Now, since she was forcibly piercing through the mist using her current spirit sense, the burden was quite immense.

Seeing that her magic power was being consumed extremely quickly, Ning Fan channeled his magic power into her through the center of their palms.

Immediately, Yue Lingkong’s little hand shuddered. She then spoke with a bland tone.

“Save more magic power for yourself. Don’t waste it on me. Later, I will still have to rely on you to battle against my second primordial spirit with your three spiritual puppets… My second primordial spirit is really strong. You should retain your strength.”

“Don’t worry.”

“I’ve told you I’m not worrying about you! Once this is over, I will regain my status as a supreme being of the internal sea. I won’t be following you around anymore. As for the favors that I owe you, I will compensate you one after another.”

“Compensate me? How will you compensate me?” Ning Fan lifted his eyebrows.

“Immortal jade, spiritual medicine, human cauldrons, Dao fruits…”

“Not enough.” Ning Fan’s tone was really indifferent.

“What about my body? Will that be enough?!” Yue Lingkong answered explosively.

“Your body?” Ning Fan smiled meaningfully. Yue Lingkong’s current body which was similar to an eight-year-old girl was too tight. How could she pay him back with it?

“Rest assured! After you help me seize back my second primordial spirit, I will probably regain my original body. It will be enough for you to play. I will certainly suck you dry!”

Yue Lingkong said with a lot of confidence.

The flatness of her tone made Ning Fan feel a little ashamed of himself. He was indeed not as thick-skinned as her.

However, when he thought about it carefully, Yue Lingkong seemed to treat him quite specially. When she said she would repay him using her body, she did not feel disgusted at all.

If it were other men, she would feel disgusted even with a single touch. It was impossible for her to be so open-minded…

In other words, he was quite special to Yue Lingkong after all, wasn’t he?

“Interesting. I really look forward to the day you compensate me with your body.” The corners of Ning Fan’s lips formed into a smile.

“Mm. You better stay alive and look forward to your compensation. My original body is really hot. I’m sure you’ll be satisfied.”

“What if I don’t get satisfied?”

“If you are not satisfied, I will keep following you and keep doing it with you until you are satisfied!”

“Very well. It’s a deal.”

Ning Fan’s eyes became deeper. If Yue Lingkong was unable to satisfy him, she would then be unable to break free from his devilish grasp.

I suppose it will be very difficult for this little lady to regain her status of being single.

During their conversation, Yue Lingkong had already guided Ning Fan to the end of the moon mist.

After getting through this mist, they would arrive at Divine Space Island. By now, they could vaguely sense the mountains, rivers and formation light outside the mist.

Yue Lingkong retracted her hand whereas Ning Fan no longer cracked a joke.

He slapped his storage pouch and took out his three Void Refinement Realm spiritual puppets. After that, he took out six Divine Transformation Realm spiritual puppets which consisted of five Late Divine Transformation Realm puppets and a Peak Divine Transformation Realm puppet as well as the black dragon refined corpse.

Other than the spiritual puppet whose body had been completely destroyed, the remaining spiritual puppets had already been repaired by Ning Fan using a great amount of immortal jade.

Ning Fan stared at his spiritual puppets deeply for a while and then made a hand seal.

“Devour!”

As soon as his voice fell, four painful cries reverberated in the air. Four primordial spirits which were sealed within the puppets were devoured by the puppets.

The auras of the three Void Refinement Realm spiritual puppets improved by a bit.

“This… You used four Half-Step Void Refinement Realm primordial spirits to increase the strength of your spiritual puppets? You are a madman!” Yue Lingkong was flabbergasted once again.

During the time she was recovering from her injuries in the past, Ning Fan had already eliminated the Revered Elders of the Five Elements in the Dragon Determining Valley. He then kept their primordial spirits and fed them to his spiritual puppets as nourishment.

“I was already a madman from a very long time ago… Enter the island!”

Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with seriousness. With a single step, he brought the two women and got out of the white mist.

Right before their very eyes, a splendid and magnificent holy cultivation land appeared. It was like a palace on the moon. It was exceptionally pure and tranquil. The air was a little cold and thin ice formed on the surface of the sea.

A formation light which emanated the color of the moon surrounded the Divine Space Island. It seemed like the island had been sealed.

By looking at the formation light, one could vaguely determine that someone was absorbing the power of the moon with the help of the formation light to raise her cultivation base inside the palace on the island.

Without a doubt, the person who was raising her cultivation base with the help of the moonlight was none other than Yue Lingkong’s second primordial spirit.

If that was the case, even though Yue Lingkong had not been cultivating during the past twenty plus years, her second primordial spirit was helping her original body cultivate.

“I’ll deal with the second primordial spirit. You, Weiliang and the puppets will handle the other disciples and elders!”

As soon as Ning Fan’s voice fell, he crushed the formation light with a single finger.

At the next moment, countless cries of surprise echoed from within the island. They could not comprehend why the formation light would break.

Then, a cold and fearsome female voice suddenly blew across the air. It carried the terrifying aura force of an Early Void Refinement Realm cultivator.

“Who dares to come to my island?! How dare you intrude my Divine Space Island! You are courting death!”

After that cold voice reverberated across the air, countless traces of moonlight fell down from above the sky like light cloth, falling upon Ning Fan.

Even though the moonlight looked soft and gentle, the force they gave out was not inferior to that of a ten thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) gigantic mountain!

In the middle of the faint moonlight, a graceful woman wearing faint yellow mist walked out leisurely. Every step she made seemed to blossom lotuses. Her appearance was peerlessly beautiful. It was the mature and beautiful version of Yue Lingkong.

However, the eyes on her face were overly cold. There was not a hint of emotion. What filled those eyes was only killing intent!

“Long time no see, my second primordial spirit!” Yue Lingkong’s beautiful eyes were filled with rage.

“Oh? It’s actually my master who has returned. Master, you haven’t died yet. Then, I will send you to hell with my own bare hands today! Suppress!”

When she uttered that word, the rays of moonlight became even more ethereal but their power immediately increased by a few times. All of them were aimed at Yue Lingkong now.

“Let me deal with this woman!”

Ning Fan took a step forward and hurled a punch forward. The rays of moonlight which were falling towards Yue Lingkong were immediately dispersed. However, he felt that his fist was a little numb.

These moonlight rays have a really strong pressure.

Taking the three Void Refinement Realm spiritual puppets with him, the four of them instantly surrounded the lady wearing yellow robes.

This lady in the yellow robes was an Early Void Refinement Realm expert. Other than her, there were also seven Divine Transformation Realm elders on the Divine Space Island. All of them used to be Yue Lingkong’s disciples. Four of them were at the early stage, two were at the middle stage and the last one was at the late stage. By letting Yue Lingkong, the female corpse and the group of spiritual puppets to deal with them, they could completely overwhelm them without any difficulty.

Yue Lingkong looked a little dejected as her eyes fell upon her seven Divine Transformation Realm disciples.

Among them, some of them had once risked their lives to save her while the others had betrayed her. Today, however, the consciousness and spiritual intelligence of all seven of them had been wiped out by her second primordial spirit. Every one of them was turned into moon puppets.

As for the other disciples at lower levels, most of them had also been turned into moon puppets and only a few of them barely preserved their spiritual intelligence.

The rest of the members of the Divine Space Island had already died long ago during the rebellion of her second primordial spirit.

Be it the debt of gratitude she owed them or the hatred she harbored towards them, these disciples seemed to have already paid the price.

Originally, Yue Lingkong had intended to kill every last one of the traitors. Now, however, she did not want to commit a massacre.

To her, there was only one enemy – her second primordial spirit.

“Cucumber’s woman, let’s show them some mercy. Let’s just knock them out…” The ‘cucumber’s woman’ Yue Lingkong was referring to was, of course, the female corpse.

“Oh…”

The female corpse lightly replied in agreement even though she did not understand at all what ‘cucumber’s woman’ really meant. She then took a mincing step and joined Yue Lingkong and the puppets. In a group of nine, they killed their way into the group of cultivators.

For those who they could spare, they knocked them out without exception. They would only resort to killing when they were dealing with those who were really stubborn.

Out of the group of two women and seven puppets, every one of them had a cultivation base of at least the Late Divine Transformation. How could the disciples at the Divine Transformation Realm resist them?

The sharp and alluring eyes of the yellow-robed lady turned grim and cold. The fact that such a massive foundation that she had seized with painstaking effort would actually be so frail truly infuriated her. With a cold and angry tone, she asked.

“Who are you?! Why are you helping her?!”

“…” Ning Fan certainly did not have much to say to her.

Although the yellow-robed lady was also a Void Refinement Realm expert, she was wary of the three Void Refinement Realm spiritual puppets of Ning Fan.

Of course, she only felt alarmed and nothing else. After all, she was Yue Lingkong’s second primordial spirit and she inherited her self-conceited and domineering personality. She did not think she would be defeated even if she was going to confront the three of them on her own.

Besides, since they were just spiritual puppets, all of them would become useless trash once she eliminates Ning Fan who was the master of the puppets.

“I will finish you off instantly with a single move and it’ll be all over! Scattering Moon Technique!”

The yellow-robed lady raised her hands and rays of moonlight scattered from within her sleeves.

As the moon rays swept across the air, the three Void Refinement Realm spiritual puppets were shoved aside at the same time. Meanwhile, a ray of moonlight condensed at one of her hands, forming into a long, moon-colored sword. Its sharpness was terrifying as if it could cut through the firmament.

She tapped the tip of her toes in the air and charged towards Ning Fan, wielding the peerlessly sharp sword.

“Magnificent Dispersal Blade!”

*Shua*

An ear-piercing shrill of a sword reverberated across the atmosphere. The hollow space within the vicinity of one hundred thousand li* (500m per li) was split open by the yellow-robed lady with a single swing of her sword. The tear was bizarrely smooth and frightening.

Seeing Ning Fan’s body being cut into two after taking her slash, a corner of the lady’s mouth curved into a vicious smirk.

At the next moment, however, her large eyes were suddenly filled with shock because she realized that what her sword had cut through was just Ning Fan’s afterimage!

*Shua*

Behind the yellow-robed lady, the figure of a white-robed man gradually emerged. There were two huge purple wings on his back producing gusts of wind as they flapped.

Just as he appeared, he tried to immediately close the gap with his speed. He pointed using one of his fingers and amassed the power of his Yin Plucking Finger, intending to subdue her with a single touch.

“A pair of demon wings that can travel at a speed comparable to that of a Void Refinement Realm expert… This bewitching technique does not seem to be weak either…”

The yellow-robed lady knitted her brows and instantly understood why Ning Fan was able to dodge her deadly strike.

Faint moonlight was glowing around her body. Her movement speed was actually a fraction faster than Ning Fan’s. She evaded Ning Fan’s Yin Plucking Finger with ease and kept him at arm’s length, not giving him any chance to get close to her.

Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with solemnity.

This lady is very vigilant. Aside from that, she is much quicker than me. I’m afraid landing a sneak-attack on her with my Yin Plucking Finger might not be possible.

There was a streak of blood on his chest. It was a cut left by the sword attack of the yellow-robed lady just now. Even though he had already dodged with the fastest speed possible, he was still wounded by her slash.

This lady’s reactions are extremely quick. Her speed is very fast and she strikes like lightning. She certainly is not a person that one should underestimate!

She truly deserves to be Yue Lingkong’s second primordial spirit. If it were to be Yue Lingkong herself, I wonder how strong she will be.

“Surround her!”