Chapter 431 - Slaughter the Tower (7) (1/2)
Translator: GE_Team Editor: GE_Team
The desolate dragon marshland which was a million li* (500m per li) away from Ying Long’s lightning palace had been turned into a sea of blood.
Lei Shiyi led the cultivators of his Myriad Treasure Pavilion and the 200 illusory spiritual puppets forward while at the same time bathing themselves in blood from all the killing.
Ning Fan held the Separation Slayer Sword in his hand. As he travelled across the pool of blood, he would swing his sword to kill an enemy whenever they were within his sight. Nobody could ward off the destructive power of a single slash from him.
In just a short two hours, countless forces on the twenty-fourth floor which were affiliated to King Ying Long were wiped out by Ning Fan like sweeping the fallen leaves in autumn!
Originally, he did not want to cause too much trouble. However, whenever troubles come to find him, he would never back off from them.
Since Ying Long tried to hunt him down, he naturally had to pay the price for passing down that command.
“Zhou Ming, how dare you?!”
More than twenty roars of rage came from afar. The cluster of travelling lights which were approaching him had massive aura forces which could make heaven and earth tremble. Without a doubt, they were Void Refinement Realm old monsters.
Ning Fan’s eyes turned grim.
I hadn’t expected that King Ying Long would have quite a lot of strong subordinates.
The 19 Void Glimpse Stage experts and 3 Void Inquiry Stage experts were all his subordinates!
Besides, among the 3 Void Inquiry Stage experts aside from the one who was as strong as Lei Shiyi, the strength of the other two was far greater Lei Shiyi’s.
“How dare this brat offend King Ying Long? We should quickly subdue him!”
A Void Glimpse Stage expert rudely said. He took the lead and directly dashed towards Ning Fan.
His speed was too fast and was nearly at the level of the Void Inquiry Stage. Thinking of his terrifying speed, he did not place Ning Fan in his eyes. In fact, he was ready to eliminate Ning Fan with a single move.
However, he had underestimated Ning Fan and unknowingly entered his formation diagram.
Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with lightning. He had already noticed that this person wanted to sneak-attack him and even his attack was also filled with killing intent.
But when this person got within ten thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) from him, Ning Fan immediately flipped his hand and shook it. All of a sudden, lightning rays filled the entire sky and condensed into a scroll painting. As Ning Fan flung his hand, the scroll painting rolled open and a lightning painting of mountains and rivers extended as far as ten thousand li* (500m per li).
The runes of the lightning painting and the landscape that was dyed red with blood manifested in the portrait.
The sun, moon, stars and the great momentum of the heavens seemed to be in tune with the lightning painting.
In the past, the lightning painting only had ancient and abstruse runes. However, after Ning Fan used the lightning painting to kill Void Refinement Realm experts several times and devoured ten lightning dragons and countless primordial lightning along the way, the grade of the lightning painting had greatly increased.
The landscape that was dyed red with blood in the painting also gradually became clearer, clearly revealing the exterior and interior of the mountains and rivers. The destructive power of the lightning painting also rose sharply. Even if Ning Fan cannot injure Void Glimpse Stage lightning cultivators, he could still directly subdue them and eliminate them within the lightning painting. With this technique, he could be said to be invincible among lightning cultivators at the same level as him!
This divine ability of turning lightning into a painting with a flip of his hand was beyond the expectations of many of them, especially the Void Glimpse Stage expert who wanted to catch him by surprise. Chills ran down his spine. As he realized the situation had started to go wrong, he turned and went back to his group without any hesitation. However, it was already too late for him.
“Keep!”
Without showing any mercy, Ning Fan shook the lightning painting and kept the Void Glimpse Stage expert and the mountains and rivers within the vicinity of ten thousand li* (500m per li) into the lightning painting.
With a single move, everything within that area turned into ashes which flew with the air. After letting out a miserable cry, that Void Glimpse Stage expert also turned into ashes and died. He did not have the chance to escape at all.
“This lightning painting is really frightening! Is it the Tai Su Lightning Diagram from the rumors?!”
“Rumor has it that after the passing of Lightning Emperor Tai Su, no one had been able to comprehend this technique. This young man’s innate talent is extremely heaven-defying to have successfully learned it!”
“This person is definitely not someone we can match. King Long must personally act in order to subdue him!”
Fear rose within the hearts of each of the Void Glimpse Stage old monsters who were originally arrogant. None of them dared to charge forward and attack Ning Fan.
Only the three Void Inquiry Stage experts let out cold snorts, unaffected by what had happened in front of their very eyes.
“This lightning painting might be strong, but this young man is clearly not skilled enough to use it effectively. He can only kill Void Glimpse Stage lightning cultivators. As for Void Inquiry Stage experts like us, he won’t be able to subdue us! Qi Ji, you will deal with Lei Shiyi! Dao Li, you will cooperate with me in killing this young man. Don’t give him the chance to kill another Void Glimpse Stage expert!”
The Void Inquiry Stage expert who gave the commands was the strongest expert among the three. His name was Cheng Huang.
Of the three Void Inquiry Stage experts, Cheng Huang was the one with the greatest strength. Dao Li was next after him, while Qi Ji was the weakest.
His decision of letting Qi Ji handle Lei Shiyi while personally handling Ning Fan with another expert was enough to show how formidable Ning Fan was to him.
He was aware of the destructive power of the Tai Su Lightning Diagram. With that diagram around, Ning Fan could completely depend on that magical painting to kill ordinary lightning-elemental undead spirits instantly and none of them would be able to resist.
In the past, he would never believe that Ning Fan was capable of putting up a fight against Void Inquiry Stage experts. Today, however, he was convinced!
As for the remaining eighteen Void Glimpse Stage experts, after knowing that they do not need to face against Ning Fan, all of them heaved sighs of relief and went to battle against the group of cultivators from the Myriad Treasure Pavilion.
Qi Ji blocked Lei Shiyi, preventing him from assisting Ning Fan.
Even though Ning Fan faced the two Void Inquiry Stage experts all by himself, he showed no signs of fear. Without giving Ning Fan time to think, Cheng Huang and Dao Li directly delivered their most powerful attacks. Each of them took out their Mid Grade Mortal Void Realm magic treasures.
“Profound Void Thunder Sword!”
“Clear Purple Lightning Frost!”
The magic treasures that the two of them took out were precious and supreme items. Even though they were only Immemorial Divine Weapons, they were rare supreme treasures among all magic treasures of the same grade.
These supreme treasures were enough to make them nearly peerless amongVoid Inquiry Stage experts. Unless they face experts like Ying Long or Tai Yue, they would never be defeated.
Two traces of dazzling sword light which seemed to be cutting through the galaxy was about to shred Ning Fan into thousands of pieces.
There was no way Ning Fan could evade. However, he also did not want to evade. He took a step forward instead. Suddenly, a set of golden armor appeared on top of his white robes.
“So what if you have Mid Grade Mortal Void Realm magic treasures?!”
*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*
Two magic treasures which carried force that could overturn mountains and oceans landed on Ning Fan’s body and emitted an earth-shattering bang. Each and every one of the experts from the lightning palace was deeply shocked by that sound which was as if doomsday had arrived.
Mountains crumbled and rivers split. The great earth cracked and lava rose from below.
On the vast empty land, pieces of the great land turned into ruins.
However, no matter what changes happened to heaven and earth, Ning Fan was still standing arrogantly and remained unscathed. The golden armor he was wearing had endured thousands of attacks from the two treasures but there was not a single scratch on him.
“*Hiss* What kind of secret technique is that armor? Its defense is actually so heaven-defying?!”
“This is bad! He is going to strike back!”
Standing amidst the wind and thunder, Ning Fan’s black hair danced wildly in the air while his eyes remained calm and composed from the beginning.
He then pointed a finger at the sky. All of a sudden, ninety-nine black stars emerged and black starlight which was like thin chiffon shone upon the ground. When the black starlight fell on the golden armor on Ning Fan’s white robes, it glittered brilliantly which added to his presence.
He extended his five fingers and clawed at the air. The starlight then condensed into a black bow. The bow which was decorated with ninety-nine traces of devil marks gave off immense devil qi.
The aura he gave off while holding the bow was completely different from that of the great elder of the Six-Winged Clan when the latter used the same technique.
At this exact moment, he resembled Great Emperor Mo Luo from the way he held the bow.
Besides, with the number of natal black stars he had condensed, the current Ning Fan was definitely several times stronger than Mo Luo if the latter was at the same level as him!
The lightning painting dispersed and returned to Ning Fan’s feet. It then formed into a diagram which spread and covered a vicinity of one hundred thousand li* (500m per li).
With Ning Fan’s current reserve of magic power, he was only capable of firing a single arrow. However, the lightning diagram still had another magical effect and that was to store magic power of the lightning cultivators it devours and allow the user of the lightning diagram to use it.
Inside that lightning diagram, there was the massive magic power of ten Void Inquiry Stage lightning dragons.
With the lightning diagram, Ning Fan did not need to worry about having insufficient magic power before fully using up the magic power of the lightning dragons he had devoured.
The reason why Ning Fan had not used the magic power stored in the lightning diagram was because he was saving it for the final battle against King Ying Long!
“Die!”
Ning Fan’s tone was as cold as ice from the deepest part of the glaciers. At the same time, the arrow he fired seemed to have pierced through heaven and earth.
The arrow was burning with star flames with its shadow tearing the skies apart. The expressions of Cheng Huang and Dao Li, both of whom had been targeted by Ning Fan with his arrow, changed greatly.
“Carefully defend against it. The destructive power of this arrow is extremely great! If we become careless, we will be grievously injured by it!”
The two of them raised their magic treasures and hurled them at the incoming arrow.
The two Mid Grade Mortal Void magic treasures which had the power to destroy heaven and earth were knocked away by the arrow.
*Bang*
The gigantic force of the collision filled the two magic treasures with countless cracks. Their spiritual power was also greatly reduced.
Both Cheng Huang and Dao Li felt their scalp go numb. They were not body cultivators. If this arrow hits them, they would certainly be severely injured.
“What arrow technique is this? Why is it so powerful?!”
“Even Mid Grade Mortal Void Realm magic treasures cannot stop it. Who can withstand this arrow other than those who have attained the Second Level of the Golden Body Realm?!”
“However, displaying such a powerful technique will certainly exhaust a lot of magic power. Even though he has destroyed our magic treasures, his magic power will be used up at the beginning of battle. He is truly foolish!”
When the two of them thought that Ning Fan had used up his magic power after displaying this technique, the fear and alertness in their hearts vanished. A cold smirk formed on their faces instead. They then made a series of hand seals to perform lightning techniques and went closer to Ning Fan to kill him.
However, when they were halfway there, both of them were startled. They saw that Ning Fan was looking at them with contempt.
Ning Fan drew the bowstring once more and a trace of an arrow shadow which could destroy heaven and earth shot out from the bow. Its sharp shrill nearly broke their eardrums and Sea of Consciousness.
*Chi*
A single arrow whistled towards them, carrying with it an irresistible force. It filled the two of them with fear.
They could not understand why Ning Fan who was just at the Half-Step Void Refinement Realm with limited magic power could still fire a second arrow in such a short period of time.
Even with the magic power they have, they could at most fire two or three arrows. The destructive power of this magic technique was too strong and would naturally require an excessive amount of magic power.
Could it be that Ning Fan’s magic power was already comparable to that of a Void Inquiry Stage expert? But how is that possible?!
Both of them could not figure it out. There was also no one who could clear their doubts.
Their magic treasures had already been destroyed. They could not be used anymore. They could only summon their armor to forcefully block that arrow light.
Unfortunately, their armor was not like Ning Fan’s lightning armor. Their defense was sorely lacking. As soon as the arrow hit them, it directly went past their armor and the remaining shadow of the arrow landed on their physical bodies, leaving injuries behind.
*Cough* *Cough* *Cough*
Cheng Huang and Dao Li coughed out a few mouthfuls of fresh blood. Fortunately, with the help of their armor, their injuries were not that serious.
Their expressions turned grim. Despite being dignified Void Inquiry Stage old monsters, they had been humiliated by Ning Fan’s two arrows, making them lose their face. If they could not make Ning Fan pay, how could they quell their anger?
Inwardly, they thought that even though Ning Fan’s magic power might be at the level of a Void Inquiry Stage expert, he would not be able to fire the third arrow as his magic power was certainly depleted after firing the second arrow.
However, both of them were wrong once again. This time, before they could make a move to attack Ning Fan, he drew the bow again and shot out the third, fourth and fifth arrows!
“Oh my god! This Zhou Ming can actually fire three arrows in a row while using such a terrifying arrow technique?!” Voices filled with surprise and admiration echoed in the air.
The magic power within Ning Fan’s body was quickly depleting but the lightning power in the lightning diagram rapidly replenished his magic power.
For offense, the Tai Su Lightning Diagram could be used to subdue lightning cultivators at the same level as its user and kill them. For defense, it could be used to defend against lightning techniques at the same level of the user. At the same time, it could also be used as a magic power vessel which could store lightning power. It was really a profound secret technique.
It was no surprise that this technique became one of the strongest divine abilities the Lightning Emperor Tai Su had. It really deserved its reputation.
The lightning diagram had stored all the magic power of the ten Void Inquiry Stage lightning dragons. After firing five arrows, Ning Fan was still capable of shooting at least 25 more arrows!
The three arrows shot out of the bow like a chain of pearls. They gave Cheng Huang and Dao Li an extremely great sense of danger.
They could not survive them. Their only option was to quickly escape!
The two of them no longer had the courage to go against Ning Fan. They really had no idea how many arrows more he could still fire.
If Ning Fan fires five or seven arrows in a row, their lives would probably be threatened!
However, even though their movement speed was fast, how could they be faster than star arrows?
Arrow techniques or arrow divine abilities usually only have a single chance to hit the opponent. If the arrow misses, the user of the technique would fail to kill his opponent.
Even though his arrow techniques had such a huge drawback, its destructive power was still much stronger than some magic techniques and divine abilities. Not only does it have a large attack range, its speed was also extremely fast. Its destructive power was even more impressive.
Three traces of arrow shadows travelled at a speed comparable to a Void Inquiry Stage expert. Two of the arrows went for Cheng Huang while the other one tailed after Dao Li.