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

He studied the jade slip calmly with his spirit sense. There were only a few brief sentences and a vast star map.

Judging from the positions in the star map, the star domain which this star map referred to was a small chiliocosm. It existed in a certain hidden and sealed land in the Eastern Heaven Immortal World.

“When Little Friend reads this jade slip, I must have already passed away. Death is certain for every human and the same goes for immortals. This is fate. When I decided to save you, I did it of my own free will. You don’t have to blame it on yourself…”

When Ning Fan read until here, he felt slightly sad. The great emperor of an era had actually perished without anyone being aware of it just to save him from Mo Luo’s hands.

“It has already been fifty million years ever since my physical body died. In these fifty million years, I spared no effort in keeping my Dao around just to wait for the opportunity to rescue you. You are the person whom I have been waiting for. You are my only hope in saving the True Lightning World. In this jade slip, there is the map of the True Lightning World. It’s located at an extremely hidden star domain in the Eastern Heaven Immortal World. Two seals had been established on the star domain. The first layer of the seals that had been established on the external region was something I did in the past. With my strength that allowed me to be unrivalled among the experts at the same level as me, I used up all of my strength to establish this formation technique. Other than the immortal emperors who are as strong as me, no one will be able to get past this seal.”

“Since you have obtained the inheritance of my lightning star and lightning diagram, you can ignore the first layer of the seals of the True Lightning World. The second layer of the seals, however… It was a seal that Immortal Sovereign Zi Dou personally formed one billion years ago. It has no effect on stopping enemies from coming inside of it. However, it had one and only effect and that is to trap my True Lightning Clan in there, causing us to be unable to break free from the True Lightning World forever and suffer endless pain…”

“My request is related to this seal. If Little Friend achieves great accomplishments in your cultivation one day, you must head to the True Lightning World and resolve the one billion years of suffering of my True Lightning Clan. It was my hometown. In the past, I have met a wise person who advised me that I could only wait until the appearance of ‘Zi Dou’s student’ in order to resolve the ill fate of the True Lightning Clan. My senses are always sharp. You are Zi Dou’s student. You certainly have obtained the Dao teachings of the immortal sovereign despite the difference in lifetimes! No one, including the Zi Clan can rescue the True Lightning Clan. You are the only one who can do this! This is my lifelong wish. I hope that you can help me accomplish it.”

“In addition… Fei Feng… If Little Friend goes to the True Lightning World, please help me look for one person. Her name is Fei Feng. Perhaps she is already married. Perhaps she is already dead… If she isn’t dead yet, you can bring this pill recipe to her in order to cure her stubborn illness. You don’t have to tell her that I am the one who gave her this pill recipe. If she is already dead, please pay a visit to her grave and burn this pill recipe in front of it… Then, I can die with no regrets.”

*Kacha*

When Ning Fan finished reading the jade slip, it suddenly broke apart and turned into traces of seven-colored lightning rays which condensed two scrolls.

One of them was the star map of the True Lightning World while the other one was an ancient pill recipe.

Ning Fan just took a close look at the pill recipe. It seemed to be a Ninth Revolution pill recipe. Besides that, it was a Ninth Revolution Golden Pill. When pills go into the Ninth Revolution, they would be categorized into four grades which were the Lead Grade, the Silver Grade, the Golden Grade and the Emperor Grade.

The recipe of this Nine Revolution Golden Pill was priceless!

Ning Fan kept quiet.

What this dignified great emperor of an era could not forget upon his death was to resolve the disaster of his hometown and to look for a woman who was called Fei Feng.

The so-called immortal emperors were certainly beings who had gone through the Venerated Indifference stage. However, even though they had become indifferent, they were not bereft of emotions.

Ning Fan deeply engraved the two things that Tai Su entrusted to him in his mind.

In regards to his second request of looking for Fei Feng and giving her the pill recipe, he did not find it difficult. If he has the opportunity to go to the Eastern Heavens, he could then accomplish it.

The first request, however…

Rescuing the True Lightning World…

This request only made Ning Fan smile bitterly.

Ning Fan did not think that he could accomplish something that even Immortal Emperor Tai Su could not do. After all, the person who sealed the True Lightning World for one billion years was Immortal Sovereign Zi Dou!

Perhaps one billion years ago before the immortal sovereign had attained his Dao, he had some grudges with the True Lightning World. Hence, he sealed that world and no one knew about it.

One billion years had passed and all the grudges were already over. If Zi Dou has yet to die, he would probably have also lifted the disaster of the True Lightning World.

Ning Fan had once formally acknowledged Zi Dou as his teacher. Hence, it was reasonable to say that he was his student.

He did not think that saving the True Lightning World would be going against Zi Dou’s will in any way. He was also not prepared to refuse Tai Su’s final request. However, he just did not think that the current him was capable enough of rescuing the entire True Lightning World.

He might not be able to do it at the moment but he could give it a try when he attains some success in his cultivation.

After keeping the star map and the pill recipe, Ning Fan stayed on the island for another dozen days. Only then did he bring Yue Lingkong who completely recovered to the Six-Winged Clan.

Yue Lingkong had completely recovered to her peak condition. Each of the moon portals she set up could transport them three hundred million li* (500m per li) a day. In just a single night, she had opened the moon portal more than twenty times and travelled across approximately seven billion li* (500m per li) along with Ning Fan. Then, they arrived at the sea domain where the Six-Winged Clan was located.

The amount of immortal jade they had spent for this trip was as much as 1.2 billion. Ning Fan had just obtained a lot of immortal jade from the Zhou Clan but all of them had been used up by Yue Lingkong.

The travelling speed of the moon portal technique was extremely quick but the cost was also very huge.

Luckily, Ning Fan did not have much concept of immortal jade. He would not feel heartache for the money he spent at all. To him, if he runs out of immortal jade, he could just rob others in the future.

Ning Fan, the female corpse and Yue Lingkong went into the sea and dove one million zhang* (3.33m per zhang) below the sea domain.

Just as they arrived at one million zhang* (3.33m per zhang) below the sea which was still tens of millions of li* (500m per li) from the Six-Winged Clan, Ning Fan and his group heard sounds of battle. They came from a sea hill not far away from them.

On the sea hill, a group of cultivators wearing black armor was visible. There were more than thirty of them. All of them had six wings. Most of them had been inflicted with serious injuries. Now, they were being surrounded by hundreds of experts.

Without a doubt, the cultivators that had been trapped were members of the Six-Winged Clan. The individual with the strongest cultivation base was a woman at the Early Divine Transformation Realm. She had already been severely injured. Her physical body had been destroyed and she was only left with her primordial spirit.

As for the hundreds of experts who had surrounded the sea hill, they consisted of four different groups of experts in total.

Those who occupied the eastern direction of the sea hill were a group of ferocious devil cultivators. All of them had a ghost eye on their glabellas. Without a doubt, they were from the Ghost Eye Clan. Those who blocked the western direction, they were also devil cultivators. Each of them had a devil horn on their heads. Naturally, they were the members of the Mist Horn Clan.

If there were only these two groups of experts surrounding the sea hill, Ning Fan would only think that this was just an internal battle among the Four Clans of the Hidden Sea.

However, other than the members of the two devil clans, there were still two other forces involved.

Ning Fan was very familiar with the ornaments worn by the experts blocking the north of the sea hill. They were actually the emblem of the Demon Sealing Sect. This Demon Sealing Sect really liked to be involved in everything. They even dared to intervene in the battle concerning the Four Clans of the Hidden Sea.

As for the experts standing south of the hill, their presence was absolutely beyond Ning Fan’s expectation.

Each of these experts cultivated mysterious cultivation methods. Their presence gave out a massive righteous qi. They were actually Xuan cultivators of the righteous path!

Judging from their attire, their cultivation methods and their qi, they seemed to have come from a certain righteous sect from the eight hundred cultivation countries.

The four great forces surrounding the hill had seven Divine Transformation Realm cultivators in total. All of them emanated immense killing qi and shouted to their trapped enemies. All of what they said revealed their determination to eliminate the Six-Winged Clan.

“Interesting… The divine cultivators of the righteous path, the devil cultivators of the devil race, the demon cultivators of the Demon Sealing Sect… These three different races are actually joining forces with each other to attack the Six-Winged Clan. What is their objective?”

If there weren’t great benefits involved, Ning Fan would not think the three different races which never had any dealings with each other in the past, would join forces.

At least, from Ning Fan’s understanding of the Demon Sealing Sect, they would never act if there were no benefits to be derived from it.

“Little Cucumber, should we rescue them?” Yue Lingkong asked Ning Fan. Naturally, she was asking whether they should save the members of the Six-Winged Clan.

The female corpse looked rather indifferent. She was never interested in battles where everyone was deceiving each other.

“We already have no choice even if we want to help them or not…” Ning Fan smiled and scratched Yue Lingkong’s nose. His eyes turned cold at the next moment.

The four groups of experts surrounding the sea hill had sensed Ning Fan’s presence and sent out a number of people to surround them as well.

“Impudent! We, the Ghost Eye Clan and the Mist Horn Clan, have already sealed off this sea domain and prohibited cultivators from entering. How dare a junior like you violate our command. You literally are courting death! Kill him!”

Groups of experts dashed towards Ning Fan without understanding the situation.

The fact that Ning Fan had violated their command, they already had enough reason to kill him.

“I think we should just kill them. If the Six-Winged Clan gets annihilated, I won’t be able to borrow the Revival Platform anymore…”

Ning Fan’s eyes were filled with indifference, as if killing these experts was just a trivial matter.

He suddenly spread out his sword sense which covered the sea hill. In an instant, a majority of the cultivators of the four great forces were killed by Ning Fan’s sword sense. Blood and flesh splashed everywhere.

Only the seven Divine Transformation Realm experts were filled with astonishment. How could they not know that Ning Fan, whose appearance looked rather normal, was actually a peerless expert.

Even though they were Divine Transformation Realm old monsters, they could not eliminate hundreds of Nascent Soul Realm cultivators with just their sense.

Ning Fan’s strength was beyond their imaginations!

“Zhou Ming! He is the important guest of the great elder, Zhou Ming! This lady is Fen Chi. I am the one who has been sent by the great elder to welcome you. Please rescue us and I will certainly be extremely grateful to you!”

That Divine Transformation Realm lady who was only left with her primordial spirit immediately recognized Ning Fan’s identity when she noticed his face. She instantly dismissed her hopeless expression and yelled for help.

When her words were heard by the seven Divine Transformation Realm cultivators, the seven individuals who were arrogant at first shivered in fear.

“Zhou Ming! Yes. He is the person whom our sect master warned us to never provoke at all costs!” One of the Divine Transformation Realm cultivators of the Demon Sealing Sect said in despair.

“Zhou Ming? Is he the notorious Zhou Ming of the Endless Sea?” The members of the Ghost Eye Clan and the Mist Horn Clan always lived beneath the hidden ocean. Thus, they were not familiar with Ning Fan’s appearance. When they heard of Zhou Ming’s devil prestige, they were naturally shocked.

“Zhou Ming? The newly-promoted revered elder of the Rain Palace?!” The several Divine Transformation Realm righteous cultivators were also deeply terrified after hearing Ning Fan’s name.

They finally felt fear.

Unfortunately, it was already too late for them.

“Don’t come forward! If you make another step, I will kill this woman!”

The seven Divine Transformation Realm cultivators knew that they were going to die. The person with the strongest cultivation base among them was only a Mid Divine Transformation Realm cultivator. How could they be Ning Fan’s opponents?

A ray of travelling light flashed. The Divine Transformation Realm old man of the Demon Sealing Sect got to the sea hill and stepped on the primordial spirit of the lady from the Six-Winged Clan. His eyes were filled with terror and his voice was quivering as he tried to threaten Ning Fan.

He had heard of Ning Fan’s terrifying strength from Lu Jiefen countless times.

He definitely was not daring enough to confront him head-on. Thus, the only thing he could think of was to use the lady as a tool to threaten him. Perhaps it would make Ning Fan afraid to make a move.

Ning Fan’s eyes revealed a hint of contempt. He took a step forward without having the intention to show pity for the lady and directly turned into a cloud of dark shadows.

An immense sense of danger landed on the Divine Transformation Realm cultivator of the Demon Sealing Sect, which suddenly filled him with disappointment.

“This is bad! This Zhou Ming does not know this woman at all. He won’t be threatened by anyone like her! Detestable! Since his strength could make Venerated Demon afraid, there’s no way I can survive! Detestable! I want to die together with you!”

The old man gathered strength on his feet and tried to stomp ferociously on the woman whose name was Fen Chi.

Since he did not have any hope of survival, he wanted to drag another person to hell with him before dying!

“Ahh!”

The small beautiful face on Fen Chi’s primordial spirit was filled with absolute horror and she let out a terrified cry.

She thought that she was going to die. At the next moment, however, she felt her body suddenly becoming light. She only felt that her tiny primordial spirit being held by someone.

Before she could take a clearer look at that person’s face, she could only see a cloud of black sense filling the surroundings. The seven Divine Transformation Realm cultivators were shredded into pieces by the black sense almost at the same time.

Black Tempest Rupture Art!

“W-What a frightening magic technique!” Fen Chi’s primordial spirit could not stop trembling. Only now could she clearly see the face of the unusually cold young man who had saved her.

“What had happened to the Six-Winged Clan?” When Ning Fan’s cold voice entered Fen Chi’s ears, it made her whole body jump.

It was as if Ning Fan would kill her if she ever tells a lie.

“He is a merciless person…” Fen Chi was extremely scared. That was her first impression of Ning Fan.

Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel