Chapter 405 - Advancement. Half-Step Void Refinement Realm! (1/2)
“You’ve actually defeated my second primordial spirit. Little Cucumber, you really are a monster!”
They were in a gloomy corridor which seemed long and endless. Yue Lingkong was guiding Ning Fan to the secret area of the Divine Space Island. Up until now, she still found it somewhat unacceptable that Ning Fan had won against her second primordial spirit.
By drawing a bow and firing an arrow, he could eliminate someone at the Void Refinement Realm. The might of that single arrow was indeed a little too terrifying.
Condensing the star power of ninety-nine natal black stars into a star bow… Ning Fan’s means was surely not any bit weaker than Early Void Refinement Realm cultivators.
“Light…certainly…wins…” The female corpse glanced at Yue Lingkong with a hint of dissatisfaction.
To her, Ning Fan was omnipotent. There was nothing he was not capable of accomplishing. Hence, there was nothing strange about him gaining victory in the fight earlier.
Ning Fan wore a pleased smile.
This little lady’s improvement is not bad. Her spiritual intelligence has recovered to a level where she can argue with another person.
Perhaps when he visits the Six-Winged Clan in the future to borrow their Revival Platform and treat the female corpse, her Sea of Consciousness might recover even faster.
After Yue Lingkong’s second primordial spirit was sealed, she was handed over to Yue Lingkong. Of all the female cultivators on the island, only one-third of them could still be considered alive. The rest of them had already been turned into moon puppets and were nothing more than living corpses…
There were seven Divine Transformation Realm human cauldrons which, of course, needed to be plucked. They had betrayed Yue Lingkong in the first place. Even though they were turned into moon puppets, they deserved it as a consequence for their actions. Thus, Yue Lingkong would also not harbor any guilt in letting Ning Fan pluck them.
Within the secret area on the island, there were also four Divine Transformation Realm Dao Fruits which Yue Lingkong had gathered in the past.
Aside from that, there were two types of Heavenly Cold Qi inside the body of her second primordial spirit.
All the spiritual medicine and immortal jade of the island were Ning Fan’s reward for his victory.
Even if Ning Fan wants to take all of them away with him, Yue Lingkong would not hold any resentment towards him.
She looked at the Divine Space Island which was nearly turned into ruins and sighed with emotion.
The Divine Space Island which was once the pinnacle of power in the internal sea in the past had met its inevitable downfall today. Too many treacheries had transpired in this place. At first, she thought she could slaughter every last one of the traitors and re-establish the prestige of the Divine Space Island.
In the end, however, she realized that there was nothing here at all which she could cherish.
“After cultivating the Dao for four thousand years, there is nothing in the end, just like drawing water with a sieve… Little Cucumber, what path should I follow in the future…?”
“If you’ve lost your direction, just continue to follow me. After all, you have yet to compensate me with the ‘service’ you promised. So why bother going faraway so insistently?”
“Alright.”
Yue Lingkong nodded her head. It seemed like she was going to stay by Ning Fan’s side for quite a long time.
Yue Lingkong’s storeroom was located at the end of the secret area. All the precious items that she had gathered in her entire life were stored inside. Even her second primordial spirit was unable to access them.
Inside, Ning Fan obtained four Divine Transformation Realm Dao Fruits. Even so, he did not feel excited at all.
Four Divine Transformation Realm Dao Fruits were only equivalent to four thousand units of magic power. In the past, he went hither and thither for Divine Transformation Realm human cauldrons and Divine Transformation Realm Dao Fruits. Now, with the current intensity of his magic power, the effect of consuming Divine Transformation Realm Dao Fruits was rather insignificant.
Thus, he did not consume them. Instead, he stored them in his storage pouch, planning to give Xu Qiuling one of them while bringing the rest to his hometown for Zhihe and the others.
As for the seven Divine Transformation Realm human cauldrons, he, of course, would pluck them himself.
Yue Lingkong stayed inside the secret area to refine and assimilate her second primordial spirit whereas Ning Fan went outside to deal with the female cultivators of the Divine Space Island.
After plucking the seven Divine Transformation Realm female cultivators dry, he gained an extra seven thousand units of magic power.
He did not touch the other female cultivators. Instead, he lifted the moon puppet seals of all the affected female cultivators.
After the seals were nullified, the female cultivators who were in a deathlike state faded one after another and turned into moonlight. They could now pass away and return to Samsara.
As a matter of fact, it was Yue Lingkong’s request. She decided to let go of all the goodwill and grudges of the past and hoped to let everything return to what it originally was, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. She was no longer emotionally attached to the Divine Space Island.
Since goodwill and grudges are already not important, then one shall let the dead return to Samsara.
There were just 2000 female cultivators who were not turned into moon puppets. Ning Fan planted demon seals in each and every one of them and took them into the female guards of the Ning Clan.
The rest would be handed over to Bing Ling and Yue Ling.
Eventually, only Ning Fan and the female corpse were left on the Divine Space Island which was split and broken apart. Both of them stood guard outside the secret area to protect Yue Lingkong during her assimilation.
Once they settled down to guard the secret area, it lasted for ten consecutive months.
Yue Lingkong attempted to completely devour her second primordial spirit and abandon the idea of having double primordial spirits in order to avoid the previous incident from happening again.
The two types of Heavenly Cold Qi in her second primordial spirit were filtered out from her body. They were then given to Ning Fan for him to devour.
The two types of Heavenly Cold Qi were the Snow Moon Mist which was ranked fifth of the twelve Heavenly Cold Qi and the Orchid Tomb Frost which was ranked seventh.
After devouring both of them, Ning Fan’s magic power increased by another 2000 units. Currently, he already accumulated 8 types of Heavenly Cold Qi.
There was still one trace of Profound Yin Qi with the little pill devil which he could definitely obtain in the future. That is to say, Ning Fan would only need to look for the other three types of Heavenly Cold Qi and he would then have all twelve of them.
In regards to the Earth Vein Demonic Flames, he had already devoured seven of them. There were still three other types in the Rain Palace. If the types of Earth Vein Demonic Flames in the Rain Palace do not overlap with the current ones that Ning Fan already had, he would just have to find two more and he could then complete the collection of the twelve types of Earth Vein Demonic Flames.
As the Heavenly Cold Qi and the Earth Vein Demonic Flames in his possession combined, the current might of his Yin Yang Flame was at least equivalent to an Intermediate Seventh Grade Immortal Void Flame.
Using this flame to refine pills, not only would the quality of the pills be higher, but the speed of the refinement would also be incomparable.
During these ten months, other than keeping guard for Yue Lingkong, he spent most of the time refining pills.
Now, his pill refinement technique was already on the verge of breaking through to the High Grade Fifth Revolution. For the past ten months, he had been refining the Consciousness Repairing Pill and Thunder Profound Pill.
A single Thunder Profound Pill was able to raise an Early Divine Transformation Realm being’s magic power by a hundred units. However, Ning Fan could only gain 50 units of magic power from consuming a single pellet with his current Peak Divine Transformation Realm cultivation base.
Despite that, he did not bother thinking about it. Taking advantage of the realm within the Profound Yin World where he could refine pills one hundred times faster than in the outside world, he refined Thunder Profound Pills energetically.
There was certainly a single cooldown day where he could not access the Profound Yin World after using it for three consecutive days. Nonetheless, spending ten months refining pills was similar to 750 months worth of effort to others.
Ten months later, Ning Fan’s success rate of producing a complete Thunder Profound Pill had reached ninety percent and he produced 240 pellets of Thunder Profound Pill in total throughout all the pill refinement sessions.
After he consumed and assimilated every single pellet of the Thunder Profound Pill, his magic power increased by 8000 units. It was nearly 4000 units less than what he had estimated to gain.
Presumably, it was already not far from turning the Thunder Profound Pill into a candy without any effect.
Currently, he has amassed 419500 units of magic power in total.
As for the Consciousness Repairing Pill, he had also produced over one hundred pellets. They helped the female corpse’s Sea of Consciousness recover by quite a lot.
Now, the day when Yue Lingkong would come out of her seclusion was about to come. Apart from waiting for her to come out, Ning Fan was waiting for the breakthrough of his Medicine Soul.
His Medicine Soul was already at the critical point of breaking through to the next level. His pill refinement technique could advance into the High Grade Fifth Revolution anytime. All he needed was just an opportunity.
Once he achieves the breakthrough in his pill refinement technique, he would then be considered as a High Grade Fifth Revolution Pill Master and he would then be able to refine High Grade Fifth Revolution pills.
He left the Xuan Wei Bloody Gourd within this secret area.
There is no one else in the Divine Space Island. Except for Void Fragmentation Realm experts, there is literally no one who can pass through the moon mist and enter this place.
Hence, there won’t be any problems in keeping the bloody gourd here for ten years to brew the blood wine. Besides, I can also avoid interrupting the fermentation process of the blood wine by frequently entering the Profound Yin World.
When Ning Fan carefully calculated it, he found out that his magic power was only eighty thousand units away from attaining five hundred thousand units.
There were still three Peak Void Refinement Realm Dao Fruits with him. All of them had been given to him by Wei Xuan and each of them contained sixty thousand units of magic power.
When he was still at the Late Divine Transformation Realm, he could only absorb one-third of the power in the Dao Fruit after consuming it.
Now, his cultivation base had reached the Peak Divine Transformation Realm. He could take in at least two-thirds of the total power contained in the Dao Fruit.
The remaining power of the Dao Fruit was the portion that his current cultivation base was unable to endure. In the past, if he were to forcefully assimilate that extra portion, he would only bring harm to himself.
However, after he had condensed ninety-nine natal stars, his heart was filled with assurance when faced with the Dao Fruit. He was confident that he could now absorb the power of the Void Refinement Realm Dao Fruit in its entirety.
He was not afraid of harming himself in the process. With the ninety-nine natal stars to protect him, he could already withstand Void Refinement Realm attacks without suffering injuries. How would he be afraid of the backlash from consuming a Void Refinement Realm Dao Fruit?
If it was the Void Fragmentation Realm, he would not dare to consume it. But for Void Refinement Realm Dao Fruits, he was nearly at a level where he could consume it without suffering any injuries.
“I may as well break through to the Half-Step Void Refinement Realm in one go!”
Inside the Profound Yin World, Ning Fan summoned his ninety-nine natal stars. Ninety-nine rays of starlight shone upon him, shielding his body.
He consumed the three Void Refinement Realm Dao Fruits one after another and a massive amount of magic power surged within his body, nearly causing his physical body to explode.
However, under the blessing of the starlight, his physical body immediately became normal again as soon as it showed signs of exploding.
Three Peak Void Refinement Realm Dao Fruits containing one hundred and eight thousand units of magic power in total were eventually assimilated by Ning Fan thoroughly!