Chapter 408 - The Daughter of the Thunder Sovereign (1/2)

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The lady in red robes calmly looked at the golden leaves disappearing one after another.

The longer she looked, the more she found it unable to comprehend. She had immense doubt towards the identities of the intruders.

“What cultivation base does that intruder have? This individual seems to be a little different.”

“If the intruder is just a Divine Transformation Realm or even Void Refinement Realm cultivator, it is impossible for me not to see through its camouflage. However, if the intruder is a Void Fragmentation Realm being, it is, of course, beyond my capabilities… However, which Void Fragmentation Realm being in the Rain World will hide the head but show the tail when they are in action and steal the mere golden bamboo leaves? Besides, if they want to steal, they should be stealing the ‘dark golden bamboo leaf’ of the small chiliocosm… It’s illogical…”

“If this person is not a Void Fragmentation Realm expert, then is he just a Void Refinement Realm cultivator? A Void Refinement Realm cultivator who can avoid being discovered by my spirit sense… This person’s camouflage technique sure is somewhat profound. If this person can be recruited for our own use, he will be quite useful. However, what is this intruder’s background…? Could he be an assassin from the Palace…?”

“Somehow, I felt a hint of familiarity from this person’s qi. It’s as if I have met him before somewhere…”

“In the past, my physical body was destroyed. My primordial spirit dispersed into ten thousand tufts of thunder grass which in order to hide herself from the world. Now, I have already gathered back all ten thousand tufts of thunder grass and condensed my primordial spirit completely. Unexpected, my mind is flooded with ten thousand traces of new memories… Among all of them, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine traces of memories are the recollections of being a grass or a plant. However, there is one trace of memory which is rather unique. That single trace of my primordial spirit accidentally changed its form and turned into a ghost… When all my ten thousand traces of scattered primordial spirit reunited, the tuft of thunder grass which took the form of a ghost eventually dominated whole entity…”

“Ning Honghong. It’s almost time for me to abandon that identity… I have to erase those irrelevant and unimportant memories in my mind… Otherwise, my Sea of Consciousness will surely collapse carrying the ten thousand traces of different memories and the ten thousand traces of consciousness.”

The lady in red robes raised one of her hands. Arcs of silver lightning sizzled around her fingers. When she waved it across her Sea of Consciousness in her mind, fragments of her past memories vanished like smoke in thin air.

She did not need those memories. She did not need to remember that there was a point in her life when she lived under the alias Ning Honghong!

It was because she still had a more highly respectable identity!

“If this person who has such a heaven-defying camouflage technique is just a Void Refinement Realm cultivator, I can team up with him to get the dark golden bamboo leaves in the small chiliocosm. Apparently, this person seems to be extremely interested in the mere golden leaves. I can give him all the golden leaves in this area as a present and it will certainly make him delighted and be sincerely willing to work for me! Of course, this person first has to be able to get enough amount of dark golden bamboo leaves for me!”

The lady in red robes took a light step in the air. In the next second, she was already standing by Ning Fan’s side. Countless thoughts flew across her mind.

If he doesn’t know how to appreciate kindness, I won’t mind spending some effort to make him regret.

She was also concealing her presence and her camouflage technique was not weak either.

She could not see Ning Fan and the latter could not see her too.

She could sense that Ning Fan was right there and Ning Fan could also feel that there was an obscure qi approaching him!

Instinctively, he could tell that the person who had got closer to him was probably the red-robed lady who had entered this secret dwelling prior to him!

Ning Fan could not help but feel somewhat shocked.

The profoundness of my camouflage originates from the Heaven Deceiving Cloak. As for the red-robed lady, however, what supreme treasure she has depended on to give her a camouflage which is not any weaker than mine?

Perhaps this lady is proficient and skilled in camouflage technique?

Ning Fan’s mind was full of thoughts. The next thing he knew that he had to do after being spotted by the lady was to retreat and get out of this area as fast as possible in order to avoid any unwanted trouble.

Unfortunately, before he had even made a move, the lady in red robes suddenly revealed herself in the next second. Her baleful qi was terrifying. Her blood-red eyes coldly swept across the area in front of her and then spoke to the empty air with a menacing voice.

“Show yourself, intruder! Otherwise, I will seal off this ‘Golden Thunder Heavenly Dwelling’ and you will never be able to return!”

*Rumble*

The lady in red robes waved one of her hands. Instantly, thunder crackled and lightning flashed ferociously in the sky. The thunder rumble was so loud as if the entire area was going to crumble!

That lady seemed to be the lord of this heavenly dwelling. All of a sudden, she summoned countless traces of golden lightning which turned into barriers of electricity, sealing off all the exits of the area.

Ning Fan’s heart sank. The lady in red robes acted as fast as lightning. With just a wave of her hand, she had shut off all his escape routes!

He did not know this lady’s identity and neither was he prepared to show himself obediently. He had already obtained one hundred pieces of golden leaves. They were enough for Yue Lingkong to heal her wound and the remaining leaves would be able to help Luo You’s primordial spirit recover quite some power. What’s the benefit of continue staying around?

The barrier of electricity which now stretched into the entire sky might seem to be terrifying, but they could not cause Ning Fan to fear.

He had the Wind Mist Finger. This mere lightning heavenly dwelling might be strong enough to block an ordinary Void Refinement Realm being, but it could not stop Ning Fan’s footsteps.

To him, he could come and leave this place as he wishes!

Moreover, he was capable enough to visit most of the dangerous places in the Rain World!

Ning Fan flew backwards. A faint golden purple mist began to coil around his body. When the mist he conjured was blown, golden purple mist permeated the atmosphere between heaven and earth.

Everything disintegrated just like an ancient saying, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

That horrifying power of samsara was enough to wipe out everything!

Countless rays of lightning were eroded by the wind and disintegrated into samsara. A hole was also formed on the exits of the heavenly dwelling which were sealed off with dense barriers of electricity earlier.

The cold eyes of the lady glinted with surprise. That golden purple mist gave her a familiar but frightening feeling. She did not expect that Ning Fan had such a scary technique which could weather out everything. Now, the latter was about to escape!

She did not mind losing some of the mere golden bamboo leaves. However, if she loses Ning Fan’s help, perhaps she would not be able to obtain too many dark golden bamboo leaves in the next realm.

Judging from how the current situation looked like, she needed some other thing to threaten Ning Fan in order to make him stay.

Since the first plan did not work, one shall come up with a new plan.

The eyes of the lady in red robes flashed. She could tell that Ning Fan must have an extremely important reason to intrude this place to steal the golden leaves at the risk of offending the Zhou Clan.

In other words, the golden bamboo leaves were Ning Fan’s weak point…

Since she had figured out Ning Fan’s weak point, she had a way to force Ning Fan to show himself and lend her a hand.

The method might be a little mean and despicable, but… so what?

“Even if you manage to escape, your effort will also be in vain. I can crush all the golden leaves in this area with just a single will of mine. You have to know that each golden leaf here is imbued with my sense power. If you still don’t show yourself and face me, don’t blame me for activating my spirit sense to destroy all the golden leaves here. You should understand the consequence!”

“What?!” Ning Fan was inwardly stunned. He instantly activated his Fu Li Eye and checked the golden leaves. Indeed, there was an extremely hidden mark of spirit sense on the golden leaves.

Not only did the golden leaves have it, even the silver bamboo leaves which grew outside of this secret dwelling had it as well.

This lady in red robes was not lying and neither did she have the intention to make a joke.

At the next moment, she spread her spirit sense and detonated the marks of the golden leaves in Ning Fan’s possession. All one hundred pieces of golden leaves in his hands trembled violently and crumbled into golden ashes and vanished into nothingness…

This red-robed lady was also a person who would act without hesitation. To her, even though the golden leaves were not of great use, they still had some worth. However, in order to make Ning Fan stay, she did not hesitate at all to destroy all the one hundred pieces of golden leaves to instill fear in him.

If Ning Fan still does not reveal himself, she would activate her spirit sense again and destroy all the golden leaves in this place to crush Ning Fan’s hope and cause him unable to save the person he wanted to.

Perhaps the lady would not be able to force Ning Fan to show himself in the end.

However, no matter what Ning Fan does, he would not able to obtain even half a piece of a golden leaf, much less save Yue Lingkong!

“Let’s leave. This lady is not simple… She seems to be up to something on you…”

Yue Lingkong told Ning Fan through telepathy with a frown. Compared to her own injuries, she was even more worried about Ning Fan falling into that lady’s trap. She could vaguely tell that the lady’s motive was not kind by compelling Ning Fan to show himself.

“If we just leave like this, what about your injury?”

Ning Fan’s eyes turned grim. After hesitating for a while, his expression became determined.

He descended to the ground. With a flick of his sleeve, he took out the cloak and showed his true appearance.

At the same time, he patted his storage pouch and took out three Void Refinement Realm spiritual puppets, trying to intimidate the lady in red robes.

“You’ve won!”

Ning Fan’s face was cold and expressionless like still water. For the sake of treating Yue Lingkong’s injuries, he did not dare to let the lady destroy all the golden leaves in this place.

Looking at the lady’s appearance which greatly resembled that of Ning Honghong, Ning Fan’s heart felt even more confused.

“Void Refinement Realm spiritual puppets? You have three of them? These spiritual puppets are quite excellent. They are being refined from Realm Beasts, huh? Unfortunately, they are just half-completed products. Otherwise, these three spiritual puppets alone will be more than enough for you to overturn the Rain World

The piercing cold eyes of that red-robed lady scanned past the three puppets and nodded gently, seemingly complimenting the quality of the puppets.

Then, she glanced at the female corpse and Yue Lingkong. As soon as she gave Yue Lingkong a sidelong glance, she immediately saw through the wound of her broken primordial spirit. Then, she knew that the reason why Ning Fan stole the golden leaves must be because of this woman.

When she shifted her gaze to the female corpse, she was slightly stunned. Indistinctively, she felt that the female corpse was familiar to her. However, she had already wiped out her past memories, she could not remember who the female corpse was.

She only thought that the female corpse was probably just someone who appeared in her past experience in the mundane world and thus, she did not bother about it. The irrelevant past memories were like a puff of smoke. Why should one bother to recollect?

If she did not erase her past memories, her Sea of Consciousness would break apart when the ten thousand traces of memories and ten thousand traces of consciousness exist at the same time.

Eventually, the lady’s gaze fell upon Ning Fan who greatly startled her.