Chapter 416 - Ying Longzi (2/2)
“You are also a body cultivator at the Fourth Level of the Jade Life Realm?!”
The elderly man was slightly surprised. However, he did not think he would lose to Ning Fan at all considering the grade of the body techniques he had was uncommon.
He hurled a fist at Ning Fan while the latter also threw a punch in return.
Even though both of them were at the Fourth Level of Jade Life Body Refinement Realm, as soon as they exchanged blows, the bones of the elderly man’s fist were pulverized upon contact. A massive force broke the bones of his entire arm and then spread to his chest. That blow caused his gigantic body to retreat one hundred li* (500m per li) away before he could regain his balance again. In just an instant, he was already severely injured!
Ning Fan, on the other hand, did not even move half a step backwards after throwing a punch. He was as composed as before. The force of the elderly man’s punch did not break the defense of his lightning armor!
A single punch!
With just a single punch, the elderly man in dragon robes had lost to Ning Fan. His physical body was far too weak compared to Ning Fan’s!
“The strength of a single punch of yours is definitely at the Peak Level of the Jade Life Realm! No. It’s even stronger than the Peak Level of the Jade Life Realm. It is nearly comparable to a single strike from a cultivator with the Golden Body Realm!”
“Your insight is not bad. The strength of my punch is already close to the Golden Body Realm!”
Ning Fan’s eyes were like the sun and the moon. He dashed past one hundred li* (500m per li) with a step and caught up with the elderly man. Without hesitation, he hurled one hundred punches at the latter in one breath.
A single punch made the heavens and earth darken.
Ten punches caused the mountains and land to shake.
When Ning Fan threw one hundred punches, the skies collapsed and the earth crumbled.
After taking one hundred punches from Ning Fan consecutively, the elderly man’s physical body was completely pulverized. Blood flowed like rivers, flooding the wastelands. His breathing, thin and feeble. He was already on the brink of death.
His face revealed a look of terror and shock. To think a dignified cultivator of the Void Glimpse Stage would actually be afraid of a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator. If others hear of it, they would definitely find it hilarious!
However, reality was always this cruel.
His magic power had been restrained by Ning Fan’s lightning diagram and the strength of his physical body was inferior to him as well. He did not have a chance of winning against Ning Fan at all.
“You must not kill me. I am Xu Longzi, the younger brother of Ying Longzi who is the lightning lord of the twenty-fourth floor. If you kill me, you will certainly be pursued and hunted down by all the members of the next twenty floors in this tower!”
“The lightning lord of the twenty-fourth floor, huh…”
Ning Fan was as indifferent and cold as usual. He was not intimidated by Ying Longzi’s reputation at all.
When Xu Longzi noticed that his threat was ineffective, his eyes were filled with hopelessness.
He could already tell that Ning Fan was a person who would never be threatened by anything. Even if his elder brother is the number-one expert among the cultivators of the Void Inquiry Stage in this lightning tower, it would still not make Ning Fan afraid of him.
Eventually, his hopelessness turned into madness.
Xu Longzi was also an outstanding being. If begging was useless, the only thing he could do was to fight Ning Fan to death!
His mouth muttered an incantation and two dragon horns gradually grew on his head. When he shook his body, he underwent a transformation. Lightning rays turned into pieces of golden scales which covered his body.
In seconds, he had actually transformed into a massive golden lightning dragon which was five thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) long!
His dragon eyes flashed with a hint of ferocity.
The reason why he showed his true form was to put up a desperate fight against Ning Fan!
“Crushing Dragon Roar! *Roar*”
As soon as the gigantic dragon opened his jaws and let out a deafening roar, traces of golden light turned into golden circles that spread towards Ning Fan’s direction.
Ning Fan’s eyes remained indifferent. No matter how strong this sound wave technique was, it still had the essence of golden lightning power after all.
Hence, there was nothing to be afraid of!
Ning Fan made a forceful stomp in his golden-armored gigantic body, breaking the lightning diagram beneath his feet into traces of blood-red lightning.
At the next moment, a massive lightning diagram condensed in his palm.
That was a picture scroll which was ten thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) long and the blood-red lightning served as the pen and ink which drew abstruse and mysterious lightning runes on the scroll.
The golden-armored giant held the lightning diagram in his hand at the direction of the golden dragon.
As soon as the lightning diagram spread out, it sucked the golden dragon and kept it into the scroll.
Then, the scroll rolled up and was sealed, keeping the lightning diagram. The golden-armored giant held it in his hand.
The golden dragon which was trapped in the scroll let out frightening and painful roars. However, a brief moment later, its voice gradually grew quiet.
Ning Fan’s face remained tranquil. He then spread out the lightning diagram again and shook it. Then, traces of golden ashes fell out.
Judging from the situation, Ning Fan had directly kept Xu Longzi who was already grievously injured into the lightning diagram and turned him into a pile of ashes.
What a terrifying Tai Su Lightning Diagram!
“The Tai Su Lightning Diagram can be used to defend against or attack my opponents. If it’s used for defense, it will turn into the diagram formation and appear beneath my feet. No lightning attacks can then destroy me. If it’s used to attack my opponents, it will turn into a painting scroll and trap all the lightning cultivators beneath this heaven within it. With a single thought, they will be reduced to ashes. This is the punishment of Lightning Emperor Tai Su who commands and wields lightning in ancient times!”
“Even though this technique is strong, it is only effective on lightning cultivators. Besides, to kill a lightning cultivator, their cultivation base must not be too high from mine. With my current cultivation base, I can originally kill lightning cultivators below the Void Refinement Realm with the help of this diagram. I was not capable of killing Xu Longzi on my own. However, I managed to grievously injure him. Thus, it was not a surprise that he would be absorbed into this diagram and turned into ashes in his weakened state.”
“With this diagram around, I only need to beat a lightning cultivator of the Void Glimpse Stage half to death and put them into this diagram. Then, it can kill whichever lightning cultivator that gets trapped within!”
Ning Fan withdrew his golden-armor giant form and kept his lightning diagram. He waved at the sea of blood and brought a trace of golden primordial lightning into his hand. Without further delay, he refined it into his lightning armor.
His faint golden lightning armor immediately turned pure gold. At this moment, it had completely broken through to the first level of the gold grade!
At the same time, the other items he obtained from this battle were a piece of golden lightning jade and a dark golden bamboo leaf.
Now, he was done with the fifth floor after eliminating the lightning lord of this floor and getting what he needed!
“This Xu Longzi was not weak. However, he was still a lightning cultivator in the form of an undead spirit at the end of the day. Thus, his lightning power was completely restrained by me. Since the moment I condensed the Tai Su Lightning Star, I am already the lord of all lightning and have the ability to restrain all lightning cultivators. There is nothing to be afraid of against all lightning cultivators of the Void Glimpse Stage in the floors below the tenth. What I need to be wary of is Xu Longzi’s brother, Ying Longzi who is the lightning lord of the twenty-fourth floor!”
“The fact that this Ying Longzi was capable of becoming the lightning lord of the twenty-fourth floor implies that his cultivation base must be at the Void Inquiry Stage. Besides, he probably is unrivalled among all the experts of the Void Inquiry Stage. With my capabilities, it is definitely impossible for me to kill him. However, it would also be completely impossible for him to kill me. I have the Heaven Deceiving Cloak and many other techniques. Even if Ying Longzi personally pursues me, I will definitely not suffer any injuries.”
“What if I kill all the way up to the twenty-fourth floor in one go…?!”
As soon as this bold idea surfaced in Ning Fan’s mind, he immediately eliminated it without a second thought.
He was in a hurry to accomplish Hong Yi’s mission by obtaining seven pieces of dark golden bamboo leaves in order to exchange for the golden leaves to treat Yue Lingkong’s injuries. He did not really have much time to slaughter his way up.
Dark golden bamboo leaves could also heal and nourish one’s primordial spirit. Naturally, it could also be used to save Yue Lingkong.
However, after witnessing the dark golden bamboo leaves with his own eyes, Ning Fan realized there were two difficulties posed a problem in saving someone using the dark golden bamboo leaves.
Firstly, with the intensity of the medicinal power in a dark golden bamboo leaf, it needed at least one hundred thousand years old spiritual medicine to harmonize its medicinal effect. That was an immortal medicine that would only be used in refining Seventh Revolution Pills. Ning Fan had none of them.
Secondly, the medicinal power of the dark golden bamboo leaves was too strong. It was not something a Void Refinement Realm cultivator could consume.
Perhaps only someone with Hong Yi’s status could obtain some one hundred thousand years old spiritual medicine to harmonize the dark golden bamboo leaves for consumption.
However, Ning Fan felt rather doubtful about this.
“Hong Yi… If this lady is just a Void Refinement Realm expert, could she really endure the terrifying medicinal power of the dark golden bamboo leaves? I keep having a feeling that she is hiding something from me. Fine. I have no interest in snooping on her secrets. If she has nothing to do with Honghong, then I also have nothing to do with her. What I should focus right now is to kill all the way up to the seventh floor as soon as possible.”
A terrifying killing intent rose in his eyes. He marched forward to the teleportation formation and entered the sixth floor.
At the moment he arrived at the sixth floor, he immediately patted his storage pouch to summon his three Void Refinement Realm spiritual puppets.
After fixing the injured spiritual puppet, he immediately went all-out and killed whatever was in his way.
After he gained new techniques, cultivators at the Void Glimpse Stage were no longer that scary to him.
He could travel unhindered in all floors below the tenth floor!
…
Three days later.
On the twenty-fourth floor of the lightning tower, a six thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) tall yellow dragon which had a pair of wings was lying down on a lightning swamp. He seemed to be asleep.
A black-armored guard then came and knelt on the ground to report something.
Suddenly, after hearing his subordinate’s report, his eyes widened with intense killing intent.
“Xu Longzi is dead?! Someone go and investigate. Find out who was behind his death. I want that person’s existence erased from the Black Lightning Tower forever!”
“Your Majesty, there’s no need to investigate anymore. This subordinate has found out who did it. In just a few days, the first to the ninth floor of the lightning tower have all been wiped out by a single man. According to some low-grade undead spirits who have personally seen him, the killer is this man!”
*Shua*
The black-armored guard rolled open a painting scroll which had a drawing of Ning Fan’s appearance.
When the yellow dragon saw his face, he narrowed his eyes and coldly said.
“So this is the man who committed the murder? Very well. Pass down my command. All undead spirits below the twenty-fourth floor shall pursue this evil creature with all their strength. No mistake is allowed! Within three days, I want the head of this evil creature to be presented before me as a sacrificial offering for my dead brother’s spirit!”
Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel