Chapter 411 - Tai Su’s Three Questions (1/2)
Above the vast sky, ferocious beasts gathered like clouds. Their presence seemed to overturn heaven and earth. As soon as they appeared, they charged at Ning Fan and Hong Yi regardless of everything!
The pack of beasts consisted of ten thousand Nascent Soul Realm beasts, one hundred Wild Beasts and 4 Early Void Refinement Realm beasts!
Hong Yi’s blood-red eyes revealed a bone-chilling killing intent. She conjured lightning using only her bare hands. Each of the ferocious beats which approached her was blasted to pieces by lightning one after another. Be it the Nascent Soul Realm beasts or Wild Beasts, none of them was able to withstand a single strike from her.
She took a gentle step and moved. By just making a step, she then bizarrely emerged in front of a Void Refinement Realm beast.
She pointed at the beast with her tender finger. Circles of blood-red lightning scattered in the vast sky and blasted on its gigantic body. The speed of the lightning was too fast. It did not give the beast a chance to evade at all.
In just an instant, the skin and flesh of the beast was charred. The degree of pain it experienced was difficult to describe. Then, it let out a shriek and fell from the clouds.
Hong Yi had actually put a dignified Early Void Refinement Realm beast in such a grievous condition in a matter of seconds!
*Roar*
The remaining three Void Refinement Realm beasts immediately realized that Hong Yi was their greatest enemy and surrounded her. Each of them let out a roar of rage which dispersed the clouds and disrupted the air current.
All of the three beasts had ten thousand zhang* (3.33 m per zhang) tall bodies. They shot out black lightning rays with their mouths which transformed into one hundred thousand magic weapons and sharp blades. All the weapons were filled with distinct killing qi as they rained down upon Hong Yi in torrents.
Each of the magic weapons was comparable to a Peak Nascent Soul Realm magic treasure! In the face of one hundred thousand attacks from Nascent Soul Realm weapons, it would be difficult to parry even for an Early Void Refinement Realm cultivator. All of a sudden, the light given out by innumerable weapons filled the sky!
However, one corner of Hong Yi’s mouth curved into a contemptuous smirk. She turned her silky white palms and muttered in a cold tone.
“Sacrificial Thunder Technique, Five Imperial Thunders Palm!”
Her soft palm was so slender as if it was boneless. However, the force she exerted when she turned her palm seemed to be strong enough to topple over the entire heavens.
At this moment, Hong Yi was like the master of lightning. By just turning over her palm, the one hundred thousand magic weapons all trembled in fear. In the next second, a surge of lightning power burst from her body, breaking each and every one of the incoming magic weapons!
With just a turn of her palm, she overturned the heavens and nullified the full-powered attack of the three Void Refinement Realm beasts combined!
It was the strength of her Five Imperial Thunders Palm which was the secret technique of controlling lightning and thunder that abnormally seized the Spirit Crushing Whip from Ning Fan’s hands earlier!
After just a short while, Hong Yi had already injured one Void Refinement Realm beast and overpowered the other three of them. In spite of that, she did not feel proud at all. There was only contempt in her eyes. To her, Early Void Refinement Realm beasts were just insignificant ants which could not even withstand a single blow from her. Hence, there was not the slightest hint of joy in winning against them.
She turned to look at Ning Fan and ordered in an indifferent tone.
“You will be keeping that injured Void Refinement Realm beast occupied. As for the ten thousand Nascent Soul Realm ants, you will wipe them out.”
“You’re underestimating me, huh…?”
Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with mild cold light. What Hong Yi had let him handle was just a severely injured Void Refinement Realm beast. Despite that, she still did not think that he would be capable of killing that beast…
In Hong Yi’s eyes, the three half-completed spiritual puppets were just considered to be satisfactory in terms of their strength.
As for Ning Fan’s strength, since he had yet to attain the Void Refinement Realm, perhaps he could not even gain the slightest recognition from Hong Yi at all.
“The daughter of the thunder sovereign sure is strong and arrogant… Your insight in the aspect of spiritual puppets and magic treasures is indeed sharp. However, your understanding towards me does not seem to be as keen… Underestimating me is a wrong choice…”
Ning Fan muttered internally but he did not speak any word with his mouth. To prove one’s strength and capabilities, it did not depend on their mouths. To earn respect from others, it did not depend on debates and arguments.
Ning Fan manipulated his puppets using his spirit sense. His three Void Refinement Realm puppets instantly dashed towards the injured beast in three traces of smoke and surrounded it. They then hurled a torrent of fists at that beast harshly and ruthlessly. Their earth-shattering strikes had blasted a vast piece of earth to pieces.
The mountains and rivers on the earth crumbled just like that!
Unfortunately, his three spiritual puppets lacked an ultimate killing strike. Even though they had beaten the beast to the point where blood flowed out from its wounds in streams, it could still move. Even though they battled so vigorously that even earth shook and mountains crumbled, they were still unable to finish that beast off.
That beast which was first injured terribly by Hong Yi and then was beaten like a horrible dog by the three puppets had finally turned mad. It was filled with the wrath and hatred to fight back even if it would cost its own life.
It let out a ferocious roar and ignited its own blood veins. All of a sudden, its qi rose sharply. It shook off the three puppets from him with a move and confronted them forcefully. Even though it bled so horribly to the extent where its blood had washed over mountains and rivers, it did not intend to yield at all.
As a matter of fact, it was within Hong Yi’s estimation. Spiritual puppets were dead creatures after all. When three Void Refinement Realm spiritual puppets faced a Void Refinement Realm beast which was in a desperate state, they might not necessarily be able to finish it off.
However, she had underestimated Ning Fan!
Ning Fan had let his three puppets to deal with the injured beast.
On the other hand, he made a step forward and stood facing the ten thousand lightning spirits.
Despite his thin and feeble body, he looked like an insurmountable mountain. There was not a single ferocious beast which could get half a step past his body.
His sword sense swept across the group of beasts again and again. The ten thousand Nascent Soul Realm beasts were annihilated by Ning Fan in just a matter of seconds. The roars of beasts reverberated across the sky like thunderclap and massive violent qi filled the atmosphere!
Ning Fan’s eyes were merciless and cold. That look on his face was the result of experiencing countless massacres and bloody scenes which had made his heart as cold as steel.
After one breath, there were only one hundred Wild Beasts which were one thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) tall left in front of him.
Ning Fan’s speed in wiping out the Nascent Soul Realm beasts had surprised Hong Yi.
“Oh? This young man’s sword sense is quite strong. He could even kill Nascent Soul Realm beasts instantly… However, there are many Divine Transformation Realm experts as well who can perform such a large-scale massacre… But he is still just an ordinary Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator in my eyes, unless he is able to withstand the one hundred Wild Beasts.”
Just as her voice fell, her eyes flashed with a hint of amazement for the first time.
Ning Fan did not have the slightest trace of fear despite confronting one hundred Wild Beasts. He extended his five fingers and clawed at the vast earth. Then, a vigorous aura force suddenly spread throughout the area. The soul of the great earth was extracted. Grass and trees withered and mountains and rivers weathered away!
As for Ning Fan who had devoured the soul of the vast land, his qi shot up incredibly. With the boost of strength, his magic power had arrived at one million units. In terms of magic power alone, he was not any weaker than common cultivators at the Void Glimpse Stage at all. Unfortunately, his cultivation realm did not advance as he was still at the Half-Step Void Refinement Realm.
Even if one uses the Soul Extraction technique, the technique would not be able to let cultivators stride over the bottleneck of Void Refinement Realm.
Despite that, Hong Yi was already astonished by Ning Fan for the first time.
“The Soul Extraction technique? This young man has actually comprehended this technique. It seems like I have underestimated him…”
With the help of the secret technique, Ning Fan’s magic power skyrocketed. Looking at the one hundred Wild Beasts, his eyes became even colder.
He touched his glabella and the White Lightning Whip appeared in his hand.
As he struck using the whip, he seemed to be flogging all living creatures. His body radiated a terrifying devil prestige which no one could look straight at it!
One strike. Ten strikes. One hundred strikes!
Ning Fan had made one hundred strikes with the whip almost instantly. As soon as he finished wielding his whip, lightning flashed and an ear-splitting thunderclap reverberated across the sky.
Even though he clearly lashed the air with his whip, countless and endless blood-red lightning rays emerged in the sky and blasted on the insides of the one hundred Wild Beasts!
Moreover, since all of the one hundred Wild Beasts were lightning spirits, they were completely restrained by his White Lightning Whip.
In a flash, the demon cores of the one hundred Wild Beasts were struck by the lightning rays. To the destructive power of the White Lightning Whip, all kinds of defenses were like nothing.
Each of the demon cores which was as solid as black iron was crushed by Ning Fan’s whip. Twenty-one Wild Beasts died on the spot as their demon cores were completely destroyed!
As for the remaining beasts, they suffered a different degree of severe injuries. All of their qi was greatly weakened. Besides, there were many Wild Beasts which showed signs of regressing to the Nascent Soul Realm due to the damage of their demon cores.
A deeply frightened expression filled on the Wild Beasts’ pupils.
Originally, they were never afraid of any kind of experts who were at the same level as them. However, when they met Ning Fan’s cold eyes, all of them felt their bone shiver, as if they were in a land of snow and ice!
It was as if they were not the ferocious beasts while Ning Fan was the true devil beast which emanated a monstrous and vicious aura!
The White Lightning Whip was truly horrifying! With just a strike, it had eliminated twenty-one Wild Beasts!