Chapter 437 - The Disaster of the Six-Winged Clan (1/2)

Zhou Chen took out forty tufts of one hundred thousand years old spiritual herbs and passed them to Ning Fan as promised.

Ning Fan then took out five pieces of dark golden bamboo leaves and handed them all to Hong Yi. From this trip, he gained the protection of the Zhou Clan in addition to the benefits he already received but in exchange, Ning Fan had to help Hong Yi deal with a trivial matter.

To Ning Fan, it was actually not very dangerous. He only needed to obtain a token in the great competition of the Sovereign’s Tomb which would be held ten years later to gain the right to enter it.

If he really could not obtain a token, Hong Yi would personally give him a token ten years later. Of course, with Ning Fan’s strength, it was definitely easy for him to be the number one expert among all Divine Transformation Realm cultivators.

After breaking Zhou Chen’s sword intent, Ning Fan had earned the respect of the high-ranking individuals of the Zhou Clan. The respect they had for him was certainly not lower than the respect they had for the Rain Palace.

Other than the danger Ning Fan might cause by accidentally exposing his sovereign qi, he nearly had no need to worry about his safety while travelling in the internal endless sea.

After also obtaining some fifty thousand years old spiritual herbs, Ning Fan left. Hong Yi did not ask him to stay as well.

There were still ten years of preparation for her important matter. Before that, she had some things to do, such as treating her wounds!

After leaving tens of millions of li* (500m per li) from Lightning Bamboo Island, Ning Fan chose to descend on an empty island and created a cave as a temporary dwelling. Then, he summoned Yue Lingkong and the female corpse.

The golden lightning bamboo leaves would need fifty thousand years old spiritual herbs to harmonize their medicinal power. All of the one hundred pieces of golden lightning bamboo leaves had used up a large amount of these spiritual medicines. In this process, Ning Fan produced tens of bottles of golden-colored medicinal liquid in total.

Each bottle of the golden medicinal liquid could help in nourishing and healing one’s primordial spirit. After just consuming a few bottles, the crack on Yue Lingkong’s primordial spirit closed up. After she had consumed one hundred bottles of the medicinal liquid, she could already use her magic power at will. Activating the moon portals was definitely not a problem for her anymore.

Ning Fan let Yue Lingkong and the female corpse rest in the temporary dwelling while he returned to the Profound Yin World to treat Luo You’s injuries.

Ning Fan did not know what kind of self-harming secret technique Luo You had used to help him break free from Great Sovereign Mo Luo’s control.

Looking at her unconscious and haggard face, Ning Fan was filled with sympathy. He then harmonized the medicinal effects of the 8 pieces of dark lightning bamboo leaves using 40 tufts of one hundred thousand years old spiritual herbs and fed it to Luo You.

Since Luo You was currently unconscious, she naturally could not consume anything on her own.

Ning Fan took in the medicinal liquid with his mouth. Then, he passed the medicinal liquid into her mouth each time their tongues and lips intertwined.

Even though what he was doing was disrespectful to this beautiful woman, he had no other options.

After feeding her the eight dark golden lightning bamboo leaves, Luo You’s cultivation base had recovered to the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm and was even close to the Second Heavenly Layer although she had yet to wake up.

Evidently, the dark golden lightning bamboo leaves were extremely suitable for recovering Luo You’s strength. If Ning Fan had enough one hundred thousand years old spiritual herbs, he could also refine each of the four remaining bamboo leaves. The medicinal liquid would certainly help Luo You’s cultivation base recover to the Second Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm in one go.

Unfortunately, even though heaven and earth were boundless and vast, one hundred thousand years old spiritual herbs were too rare. Spiritual herbs that could live up to one hundred thousand years were all precious herbs. Even though Zhou Chen had spent ten thousand years searching for spiritual herbs and had gone to countless locations, he only managed to gather one hundred tufts of these spiritual herbs.

Without luck, it would probably be very difficult for Ning Fan to obtain one hundred thousand years old spiritual herbs.

Staring at Luo You’s sleepy but ruddy complexion, Ning Fan felt rather pleased. Since he managed to heal Yue Lingkong and Luo You, his efforts did not go to waste.

What he had to do next was to bring the female corpse to the Six-Winged Clan and heal her broken Sea of Consciousness using the power of the Revival Platform.

To be honest, Ning Fan did not have a lot of confidence that it would help the female corpse completely recover her Sea of Consciousness in a single attempt.

However, the healing effect of the Revival Platform was greatly beneficial to the female corpse no matter what. It was an undeniable fact.

The trip to the Six-Winged Clan was a must. Aside from that, the day that the great elder of the Six-Winged Clan had promised was slowly approaching.

Ning Fan checked on Luo You and confirmed that she really was sleeping soundly this time instead of pretending to be asleep like before.

He no longer lingered in the Profound Yin World and went back to the temporary dwelling. As soon as he arrived, he met Yue Lingkong’s teasing eyes.

“Little Cucumber, where have you been? Your body has the fragrance of a woman.”

“Are you jealous?” Ning Fan smiled. He did not give her an answer but asked her a question in return.

“Do you really think I will be jealous of you having other women?! Tsk!” Yue Lingkong glared at Ning Fan contemptuously and internally thought that Ning Fan was really narcissistic.

“Are you getting a little better?”

“Don’t worry. Even though I still have some injuries, activating the moon portals will not be a problem. When night falls, I will let you witness speed that will even let Void Fragmentation Realm old monsters have no hope of catching up! Each time I open a moon portal at night, I can travel across three hundred million li* (500m per li) and will cost fifty million immortal jade. During the day, I can still open a moon portal. However, it will cost one hundred million immortal jade and it can only transport me one hundred million li* (500m per li) away…”

“… Do you really need such a massive amount of immortal jade to activate the moon portals with your magic techniques?” Ning Fan was deeply surprised.

When he followed Yue Lingkong through the moon portals, they did not use up any immortal jade.

However, when thinking more carefully about it, the reason why they did not have to spend any immortal jade back then must be because those moon portals were set up beforehand. The immortal jade needed must have already been inserted into them.

Today, Ning Fan wanted to go to the Six-Winged Clan. There weren’t any moon portals passing through there. If Yue Lingkong opens moon portals as she wishes without using a massive amount of immortal jade, she would not be able to transport anyone three hundred million li* (500m per li) away with her magic power alone.

With a single move, a Divine Transformation Realm cultivator could travel across ten thousand li* (500m per li), a Void Refinement Realm expert could travel across one hundred thousand li* (500m per li) while a Void Fragmentation Realm expert could move one million li* (500m per li).

Yue Lingkong, on the other hand, could travel across three hundred million li* (500m per li) each time she activates a moon portal. With a single step, she could completely escape from the pursuit of Void Fragmentation Realm experts.

It would only be weird if such a heaven-defying speed did not need a massive cost.

In a way, Yue Lingkong was literally a portable ancient teleportation formation!

“Your moon portals are really a heaven-defying technique… I’m afraid Immortal Concubine Zang Yue was extremely famous back in ancient times.” Ning Fan praised.

“Don’t say such a thing to me! No matter how terrifying my moon portals are, I still fell into your hands and was ‘done’ in by you until I was scared. It’s really the greatest humiliation of my life!”

Yue Lingkong also did not try to talk nonsense anymore. She fiercely glared at Ning Fan and stood up to walk outside the cave. There was still some time before the moonlight appeared. She needed to begin preparing her technique to summon the moon portals.

Secretly, she concealed the hint of paleness on her face. Her body was still a little weak but she did not want to let Ning Fan know about it.

She knew how anxious Ning Fan was to go to the Six-Winged Clan to treat the female corpse. She understood what kind of status the female corpse had in Ning Fan’s heart.

She was very touched that Ning Fan even went to Lightning Bamboo Island to steal some golden lightning bamboo leaves. Since she owed him a debt, she would surely repay him. Thus, she had to send him to the Six-Winged Clan as soon as possible. There was no time for her to rest.

*Piak*

Before she had even gone out of the cave, Ning Fan grabbed her wrist and pulled her into his arms.

“Little Cucumber, what are you doing?! I am going to do something serious. I will compensate you with my body later. I really have no time right now!” When Yue Lingkong fell into his arms, she only thought that Ning Fan was going to push her down on the ground. Her brows were tightly knitted together and her heart was filled with discontentment.

“No worries. Actually, there’s no need to be in such a hurry to go to the Six-Winged Clan. Even though the great elder of the Six-Winged Clan has given me a promise with regards to the time of activating the Revival Platform, he will not be anxious to activate it immediately. Even if I am a few days late, he will certainly wait for me to avoid angering me. Hence, it’s fine even if we set out a few days later. You can rest for several days. Weiliang and I will wait until you recover completely before asking you to open some moon portals.”

“I don’t need rest…”

“Your complexion is still a little pale. Rest well!”

Ning Fan stroked Yue Lingkong’s cheek with his palm, ignoring her dissatisfied expression and directly held her up to put her on the bed inside their temporary dwelling.

Yue Lingkong’s mind went blank. When she was being given concern by Ning Fan like this, she would naturally be at a loss of what to do next.

“Little Cucumber, I am really fine… Weiliang’s matter is much more urgent.” She avoided having eye contact with Ning Fan and dismissed her stubborn and arrogant personality.

“Don’t worry. I am well aware of what’s right. Get some proper rest. If you harm your body, you won’t be able to repay me with your body anymore. Now, you are no longer the immature and undeveloped little girl who has no breasts and buttocks. I kind of look forward to our next session.”

Ning Fan teased. As soon as he finished speaking, he held the hand of the female corpse and brought her outside the cave.

“Yue…Er…needs…rest…” Even the female corpse turned her head and showed some concern for Yue Lingkong. Even though her spiritual intelligence was slightly low, she also noticed that Yue Lingkong’s complexion was rather pale.

Yue Lingkong put on the blanket and laid on the side of the stone bed. Looking at Ning Fan’s figure which was going further away from her, her eyes were filled with confusion.

“Little Cucumber, don’t be so gentle to me… I’m afraid of not being able to extricate myself…” She sighed faintly.

Outside the cave, Ning Fan raised his head and gazed into the night sky. He stared at the moonlight given off by the last quarter moon and did not allow Yue Lingkong to open the moon portals in the end.

It was not because he was not in a hurry. Instead, it was because if he is going to make another woman suffer in order to save the female corpse, it would be similar to neglecting the fundamentals and focusing on the details.

The debt of love was always accumulating inadvertently. In this era where cultivators were like ants, it was difficult to tell who was right and who was wrong.

Be it with or without emotions, who was right and who was wrong? Be it killing people or saving others, who was right and who was wrong?

Everyone was giving their best in order to survive. If one stops and rests, they would then become the stepping stones of others on the journey of Dao cultivation.

“Weiliang, if you wake up and find out that I am actually such a fickle lover, would you blame me?” Ning Fan smiled bitterly. All the beauties whom he knew were women with excellent talents and each of them had their own arrogant personalities.

If they did not meet Ning Fan, they would definitely not fall for a fickle lover.

In Mu Weiliang’s previous life, she was the daughter of the Celestial Emperor. Thus, she must also have her own pride.

How could she tolerate a man whom she had waited one hundred and fifty million years for to be in love with others?

“Light…I…am…here…”

The female corpse raised her small cold hand and gently touched Ning Fan’s black hair, as if she was stroking a pet. Her actions were full of compassion.

“No… regrets…”

Her words were short and brief but they were like a sharp sword that pierced right through Ning Fan’s heart.

No regrets… The female corpse said she had no regrets…

The female corpse would never say these words. The only person who would say those would be Mu Weiliang.

She had never regretted it before. Starting from the last time she woke up when they were in the Star Palace, she slowly became Mu Weiliang again.

It turns out that when Ning Fan did not have a lot of time to pay attention to her, she had already turned into the previous Mu Weiliang.

“I have killed too many people and owed too many women. One day, I will probably be struck by lightning and die without a complete corpse. I have thought about the future. Living at the moment is already so difficult for me. I have too many enemies and each of them are so strong that I can’t even breathe. Sovereign Moksha, the White Devil Sect, Great Emperor Mo Luo, Immortal Emperor Zhang Qing… Each of them makes me unable to stop and rest. If I back off, I will then lose everything.”

Ning Fan spoke his mind to the female corpse. Meanwhile, his mind recalled that remnant image he saw in the Bell of Samsara.

A butterfly which was half white and half black still charged at Immortal Emperor Zhang Qing even though it was weak. Despite knowing that it would certainly die in the end, it did not back off. If it backed off, Mu Weiliang would then die without a complete corpse and it would certainly be impossible for the both of them to reunite in this life.

He had no other options in his path, much less the option to run away!

Ning Fan was definitely unwilling to share the same fate as Zhou Chen where he lost his loved one and was only accompanied by loneliness for ten thousand years… Even if his Dao will vanish and he will perish, he would still want to protect each and every one of his loved ones!

“Stupid…Light…” A sweet smile formed on the stiff face of the female corpse. What she had once loved deeply was a butterfly as stubborn as him.

He did not change. Even if the sea had turned into mulberry fields, he was still the old him. It was too good to be like this.

Ning Fan muttered to himself for quite a while. His Dao Heart became more and more determined.

Both of them stood side by side under the night sky. Ning Fan then patted his storage pouch and took out a jade slip. It had been given to him by Lightning Emperor Tai Su.

That day when the lightning emperor gave him this jade slip, he did not look carefully as he was in a hurry to treat Yue Lingkong and Luo You’s respective injuries. It was only now that he had the mood to see what request had Tai Su left in this jade slip exactly.

Ning Fan owed him a great debt of gratitude. He was his life savior. Ning Fan certainly had to repay him for such a huge favor. As long as his request was within Ning Fan’s capabilities, he would definitely not refuse to do it!