Chapter 424 - Is it Him? It’s Not! (1/2)

Translator: GE_Team  Editor: GE_Team

With the help of the Dao Comprehension from the Heavenly Dao under his current state, Ning Fan had improvised the Parting Sun Spear to the grade of an Immortal Realm technique.

However, everything has its limitations. The maximum level of this Immortal Realm technique obviously could not attain the Immortal Emperor Realm.

It was just an insignificant technique in a battle between immortal emperors. If it is used in the battles against Life Immortal Realm beings or True Immortal Realm beings, it would be more impactful.

This was the limitation of the Parting Sun Spear. Even if it had divided into multiple illusory shadows, it only possessed such destructive power.

Of course, if Ning Fan could make some changes on its illusory form, he perhaps would be able to make this technique stronger. However, even though Ning Fan had achieved this state, he was still unable to comprehend the changes he could make on the technique.

The future development of this technique would be restricted regardless.

Ning Fan’s eyes turned slightly cold. He no longer wanted to improvise the Parting Sun Spear. He should focus on much greater techniques. After improvising them, only could he gain more insights.

Eventually, all of this would serve as a preparation for him to comprehend the final technique.

Hence, he changed his mind. Since he is going to improvise magic techniques to complete the comprehension of the final technique, he, of course, would have to focus on stronger techniques.

Then, he began to move forward step by step. Each of his steps could connect to the great momentum of the Heavenly Dao.

When he made the first step, heaven and earth crumbled.

When he made the fifth step, the great momentum was destroyed.

When he made the ninth step, the sovereign sword took form!

Ning Fan’s eyes were filled with a hint of surprise. He had never expected that when he improvised his Nine Step, Sky Treader to its maximum level, it could actually break the great momentum and merge with the sovereign’s aura!

One million traces of sovereign qi turned into one million traces of pure golden deadly swords. After he had taken nine steps in midair, the might of the swords had arrived at their peak!

The one million traces of sovereign qi were undeniably left by Tai Su.

Seeing Ning Fan who was just a Divine Transformation Realm cultivator discover the way to use sovereign qi, be it Tai Su or Mo Luo, both of them were slightly amazed.

Those who were able to discover the threshold of sovereign qi at the Void Fragmentation Realm would be regarded as sovereigns. They were considered to be individuals who were born to have close affinity for the sovereign qi.

However, Ning Fan had comprehended the sovereign qi at the Divine Transformation Realm. This reflected an extremely significant meaning.

At first, Ning Fan was reluctant to use sovereign qi in order to avoid being discovered by the Rain Sovereign and bring a huge trouble to himself.

Fortunately, the place where he was displaying his sovereign qi now was the dream realm in his state of mind. No outsider would find out about it.

Besides, compared to the Rain Sovereign, Mo Luo obviously was hundreds of millions of times more dangerous.

Thus, he naturally would not mind using his sovereign qi.

After completing the nine steps in the sky, all of the one million sovereign swords which had replaced the swords formed from the great momentum of heaven and earth flew towards Mo Luo. The destructive power of this strike was already not something that Mo Luo could underestimate.

Mo Luo’s eyes glinted with a hint of seriousness. He began to feel that letting Ning Fan improvise his techniques was a mistake.

However, his pride did not allow himself to fear a Divine Transformation Realm junior.

Even if the magic power of a Divine Transformation Realm junior had been increased to the Immortal Emperor Realm using a secret technique and that cultivator had obtained comprehensions from the Heavenly Dao after achieving the unity of heaven and man, the difference between him and a true immortal emperor was worlds apart. There was nothing he could do to resist a true immortal emperor!

With a wave of his hand, Mo Luo sent out one billion traces of devil flames. Devil flames filled the whole skies, incinerating each and every one of the sovereign swords.

His tone of voice was as disdainful as before.

“I’ve already used one billion traces of devil flames… If you can’t show me a greater technique, you will certainly die today!”

“Don’t worry. I won’t disappoint you!”

Ning Fan had devised the advancement method for the Nine Step, Sky Treader.

His heart became even more silent. He closed his eyes and black qi rose from his body gradually.

Even though it was also a black qi, it was completely different from Mo Luo’s. It was the qi that was transformed from his black spirit sense.

Ning Fan’s black hair floated gently in the wind. He slowly reopened his cold eyes and the left part of his face was covered with demon marks.

The sleeves of his black robes as wind blew. The aura force he gave out became even more unfathomable.

“An incarnation? This incarnation is rather familiar… This is…Immortal Emperor Tai Chang’s Sense Soul Incarnation Chant!” This time, it was Immortal Emperor Tai Su who was shocked by Ning Fan’s technique.

He did not expect that the trump cards that Ning Fan displayed would have a more significant origin than the ones before.

“First, it was the sovereign qi. Then, it’s an incarnation. This young man has comprehended two types of Void Fragmentation Realm secret techniques when he’s just at the Divine Transformation Realm. His potential is considered to be unrivalled… However, if it’s just the incarnation, it’s still certainly impossible for him to be an equal match to Great Emperor Mo Luo. Immortal Emperor Tai Chang’s strength was not much inferior to me. However, his Sense Soul Incarnation Chant was good at defense but weak in attacking opponents…”

Tai Su muttered to himself. However, at the next moment, he suddenly stopped talking.

Ning Fan whose eyes were mercilessly icy took a step forward and his incarnation dispersed all of a sudden.

Within his mind, he was constantly studying the Heavenly Dao, figuring the method to improve his Black Tempest Rupture Art.

“Disperse, condense and repeat. Dispersing from a tangible body is actually the principle of void. Recondensing the body again is actually the principle of true. I don’t know about the principle of void, much less the principle of true. However, I understand… the ingenious fusion between the two principles. With my current abnormal state, I should be able to comprehend something about that balance…”

“Condense!”

Countless traces of black sense instantly turned into an illusory black figure and charged at Mo Luo. Each trace of power that constituted the black figure was all sword sense.

Mo Luo was slightly stunned. He did not expect that Ning Fan still possessed sword sense. However, with this level of sword sense, Ning Fan could not harm him at all.

Showing a hint of mockery, he just activated a trace of devil flame to incinerate that black figure.

“Weak. Too weak! This level of attack can’t hurt me at all!”

Just as his voice fell, his eyes were filled with surprise at the next moment.

He only saw that when the single black figure was incinerated, it split into two figures. When the two figures were incinerated, they split into four figures.

After times and times of dispersal and recondensation, the number of black figures became greater. Eventually, there were ten billion traces of black figures!

The destructive power of each of the black shadows was slightly stronger than Mo Luo’s devil flams.

If this ten billion traces of black figures disperse and recondense at the same time, the conversion of power between being real and illusory would be enough to wipe out all Mo Luo’s ten billion traces of devil flames. It could even injure Mo Luo!

“This technique…”

Mo Luo was stunned. But at the next second, his expression became relieved. It was because the ten billion traces of black shadows that Ning Fan had forcibly created exploded and scattered one after another. He had failed in displaying this technique!

The reason why he would fail was not because he improved the technique in the wrong direction. This technique of summoning ten billion black figures of himself had even made both Tai Su and Mo Luo feel amazed.

The reason why Ning Fan would fail was just because the strength of spirit sense that Tai Su had given to Ning Fan was not enough to display this technique!

When one cultivates the Black Tempest Rupture Art to the level of summoning ten billion clones, the requirement for the level of the caster’s spirit sense was especially high.

Even Tai Su’s spirit sense was not enough to display this technique.

If the level of Ning Fan’s spirit sense is a little higher which could allow him to display the ten billion traces of black shadows, he would definitely have the confidence of injuring Mo Luo in a single strike.

This technique was indeed really strong! Of course, the condition was that Ning Fan needed to be able to display it.

“I failed, huh…”

Ning Fan was not disappointed. In contrast, he was rather satisfied.

He finally saw the direction of cultivating his Black Rupture Tempest Art. In the future, he could increase the number of his clones when killing his enemies.

The secret technique in Ning Fan was gradually diminishing.

The Immortal Emperor Realm magic power was also slowly weakening.

Ning Fan did not intend to delay any further. He would only make use of this opportunity to improvise those magic techniques which were worthy to be improved as much as possible.

His eyes flashed. There was still one technique he wanted to improve… Soul Extraction!

In the past, he only knew how to extract the soul of the great earth and mountains and rivers.

Today, however, after he witnessed Mo Luo display the Soul Extraction, he only knew that he could also extract the soul of the skies, the souls of the sun, the moon and the stars and the soul of the Heavenly Dao other than the soul of the earth.

The Heavenly Dao only had a single soul and it was extracted by Mo Luo now.

However, Ning Fan who currently had a close connection with the Heavenly Dao could faintly tell that the actual soul of the Heavenly Dao was still yet to be completely extracted by Mo Luo.

There were still many souls… The souls of the diverted Dao!

At this moment, Ning Fan gained an insight about extracting the soul of the Heavenly Dao. Besides, he had even comprehended the Soul Extraction Technique which was a level higher than extracting the soul of the Heavenly Dao.

However, what he found laughable about himself was that he might be able to clearly see through the most profound Soul Extraction Technique but he could not understand the technique of extracting the soul of the void space which was ranked second weakest.

The reason why he could not see through it was because his comprehension towards the word “void” was not deep enough.

Unless he gains a deeper understanding about the void, he would not be able to extract the soul of the void.

Now, however, with the Immortal Emperor Realm magic power, he could extract the soul beyond the Heavenly Dao and nullify Mo Luo’s technique!

“The Heavenly Dao is only one Dao… The Six Dao are the true foundation of all Dao… The current me can’t comprehend what Dao is but I can forcibly extract some of the soul of the Six Dao. It might not be enough to increase my magic power, but it can nullify your Soul Extraction Technique! The soul of Six Dao, extract!”

Ning Fan extended his five fingers. Even though he had yet to completely understand the technique of extracting the soul of the Dao, he was able to seize the soul of the Heavenly Dao from Mo Luo in his current state.

The Six Dao reversed and the Heavenly Dao turned chaotic. The power of the soul collapsed!

Mo Luo felt like his chest had received a heavy blow as he fell back three steps before he could regain his balance. His expression turned extremely grim like he was about to kill his opponent. A trace of blood had actually flowed out from the corners of his mouth.

Due to his carelessness, Ning Fan had managed to seize the soul he had extracted from him, causing him to suffer a backlash!

“Extracting the soul of the Six Dao? Good. Very good! You won’t have another chance to improvise your magic technique. You have truly enraged me!’

Mo Luo’s eyes flashed with cold light. A rush of intense and ferocious devil qi suddenly permeated heaven and earth.

Ten billion devil eyes shot out their devil flames simultaneously, carrying the formidable destructive power that could incinerate the entire heavens and a myriad of worlds!

Each trace of devil flames was like a meteorite colliding against him. As soon as Ning Fan took the impact, he immediately coughed out blood incessantly and fell back continuously. The injuries he suffered became more and more severe.

With such severity of his injuries, it was certainly impossible to be healed using his black stars. The only thing he could depend on was the Immortal Emperor Realm magic power within him to heal his physical body automatically.

However, healing his physical body depleted too much of his magic power. During the time when he was falling back for hundreds of steps, Ning Fan had already depleted half of the magic power that Tai Su had given to him.

“We can’t delay it any longer. Hurry up and act! This devil has already lost his patience!” Tai Su warned.

“Mm.”

After making a few improvisations on his magic techniques, Ning Fan felt even easier and more composed when controlling the Immortal Emperor Realm magic power.

He might still be nowhere near the other immoral emperors, but among all cultivators at the First Step of the Dao Cultivation, even Void Fragmentation Realm old monsters would not dare to say that they had a better manipulation on the magic power than Ning Fan.

Ning Fan did not waste the slightest trace of the magic power. Every single trace of them was completely used in defending and attacking his opponent.

His mind replayed the memories of the elegant demeanor of the man while displaying that palm technique. The figure of that man in purple robes became more obscure that Ning Fan could not figure out who he was.

Who was he? Who was he…

A familiar person or a stranger…?

Have I met him before or not…?

With the help of the comprehension and view from the Heavenly Dao, the movement of each trace of the magic power that was used to condense the palm gradually became crystal-clear in Ning Fan’s heart.

Five fingers form a palm. The first five fingers of the Heaven Breaking Sword Finger combined into one…

“First, break the ethereal island, rivers and mountain!”

The first finger that could break mountains and rivers had the destructive power of killing Nascent Soul Realm cultivators!

“Second, crush the vast heavens and black sun!”

The second finger that could crush the sun and cause the heavens to incline had the destructive power to eliminate Divine Transformation Realm cultivators!

“Third, pulverize the void space and dead bones!”

All the corpses and bones of those individuals who died in the void space emerged one after another and turned to ashes. The sword finger that was condensed from the dead qi in the void space could eliminate Void Refinement Realm beings!

“Fourth, shatter the emperor’s shadow and remaining mausoleum!”

Each of the ancient tombs which were condensed from sovereign qi appeared in the vast sky but each of them crumbled as soon as they appeared. Each time one of them crumbled, they would definitely be a sovereign qi sword that was at the level of the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm pierced into the vault of heavens. If one hundred tombs crumble, a Void Fragmentation Realm shall perish. If ten thousand tombs crumble, a Life Immortal Realm being shall be injured!

“Fifth, smash the imprisoning heavens and immortal’s path!”

Each of the paths that led to the heavens collapsed at once. Each time a path collapsed, there would be an immortal imprisoning sword which would be enough to kill a Life Immortal Realm expert destroying everything, sweeping the entire void space.

Each of the immortal imprisoning swords had the destructive power to eliminate a Life Immortal Realm being!

With Ning Fan’s previous understanding, the first five fingers of the sword finger technique had to be displayed in accordance with their sequence continuously.

Today, however, he had displayed each of the five swords using each of his five fingers and all of the five swords combined into one.

A golden purple mist rose from the center of his palm. Under his Wind Mist Technique, the five sword fingers gradually condensed into a golden purple palm imprint.

The fifth finger of the five sword fingers he had displayed was only sufficient to kill an ordinary Life Immortal Realm being.

However, when all five of them were combined into one, Ning Fan only felt that his magic power had channeled into the palm imprint like a flood current. The destructive power of this palm imprint could eliminate a True Immortal Realm being!

While evading the attacks of the devil flames, Ning Fan condensed the palm imprint.

Ning Fan had been devising in his mind countless times but he could not devise the following steps in condensing the palm.

Perhaps the profound principle that this palm technique contained had already exceeded the Heavenly Dao in this world.

He began to understand that the reason why the five fingers had to be condensed using the golden purple wind mist was because this technique would need to borrow its power of Samsara.

The principle that this palm imprint portrayed should be Samsara.

The principle of Samsara that the Wind Mist Technique presented was about indifference and helplessness when everything returns to its original form, just as the saying goes: ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

As for the Wind Snow Technique, it was about the determination of making everything stay even if one has to freeze Samsara.

This palm imprint, however, was different.

“When that man in the jade slip was displaying this palm imprint, he had merged his own Dao Sense into it…”

“He wanted to manipulate Samsara with this palm!”

“Immortal Realm Technique, One Hand Covers the Heavens!”

Ning Fan pushed out his palm. A kind of aura force that was hard to describe was given off by that palm.

At the same moment, the jade slip broke. A vague figure of a man flew out. It then gradually condensed into a gigantic purple shadow behind Ning Fan. The appearance of that gigantic shadow was surprising to Mo Luo and Tai Su. Other than Ning Fan, both of them had seen that man in purple robes.

He was the peerless cultivator who vowed to control Samsara. He was the one who created this ‘One Hand Covers the Heavens’!

Tai Su had met that man before. It was him who gave Tai Su the jade slip consisting of the palm imprint technique.

Mo Luo had also met that man before. When he saw the appearance of that person, he also could not help but feel fearful from the bottom of his heart, despite his arrogance.

“The jade slip was actually sealed with a Dao Sense from him! It’s him! It’s him!”

“It’s him! But… how is this possible?! He clearly has already died!”

“No. It’s not him… If it’s him, there’s no way I can remember him. He does not allow anyone to remember him!”

“Yes. It turns out to be him but not him… But I should not know him and I should also have not met him before. Where was it…?”

“Detestable. Someday when seventy percent of my devil sense breaks out from the suppression, I will certainly figure out all of this and find out the exact reasons behind it! Today, however, I have to flee!”

Mo Luo was actually afraid to battle!

Even if his opponent was an immortal emperor or the number one emperor of the nine devil emperors, he would also not be afraid.

But this trace of gigantic purple shadow was one of the individuals who he would certainly be not daring to mess with!

Whether his guess was correct or wrong, he could not afford to provoke this individual!

“Who is it?!”

Ning Fan was inwardly shocked. He intended to turn around and looked at the appearance of the person but he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his Sea of Consciousness. At the moment the appearance of that person entered his vision, all his memories about it were wiped out, making him no longer remember the appearance.