Chapter 438 - Devil Statue Slate (2/2)

Yue Lingkong might be willing to go against the Ghost Eye Clan, the Mist Horn Clan and the Lan Ling Sect for him, but he was not willing to kill all of the experts of the three forces to save the Six-Winged Clan who just had a shallow relationship with him.

It was still not the right time to completely go against the forces of this level. This time, Ning Fan was just prepared to protect the Six-Winged Clan from being annihilated but he was not prepared to slaughter all of the top-level experts of the three great forces.

With Ning Fan’s dual identity as a revered elder from the Rain Palace and the important guest of the Zhou Clan, it was already enough to make the three forces afraid of him. Hence, they would not dare to hold him responsible if he just kills some insignificant fries.

Just keeping the Six-Winged Clan from being destroyed was enough. If the Six-Winged Clan gives the devil slate to the Ghost Eye Clan and the Mist Horn Clan, it would not be destroyed since they had to give Ning Fan some face.

“However, the appearance of the devil slate is somewhat strange. The time when the strange phenomenon where the devil blood dyed the blue sky was a short while after I eliminated Mo Luo and obtained his devil blood. I wonder if there is any connection between them…”

“To err on the side of caution, I’ll make a copy of the devil statue slate first before handing it to the two foreign clans. Then, I can study it carefully later. Perhaps some information in this devil statue slate can help me devour Mo Luo’s blood completely!”

*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*

In the distance, the Six-Winged Clan was faintly visible. Fire signals were already lit up in many areas and the sounds of battle could be heard everywhere.

In the depths of the ocean, the great elder of the Six-Winged Clan was soaked in blood. He was battling against four experts and his body had been inflicted with countless wounds. Blood flowed out from him like a river. Even so, he still did not concede defeat.

“Xuan Yi, hurry up and hand over the devil statue slate. Then, I will keep your corpse intact!” A black-armored burly man who had a single horn on his head spoke with a cold smile. His cultivation base was at the Early Void Refinement Realm. Each punch he threw could make mountains collapse and the lands to crack. His strength put the great elder in a difficult situation.

“In your dreams, Gui Jiao! This slate contains the method to ‘free ourselves from the slave marks’. Furthermore, it even contains one-fourth of the cultivation method of Mo Luo’s Ancestral Talisman! This is the hope for our Six-Winged Clan to break free from Mo Luo’s slave mark forever. Even if I have to die, I absolutely will not give you the slate!”

“Hehe. Since Great Elder Xuan Yi is reluctant to hand the devil statue slate to us, then don’t blame me for being ruthless.” Lu Jiefen let out a hollow laugh with a gloomy expression. Then, he summoned a demon dagger-axe burning with purple flames and hurled it at Xuan Yi.

The might of this attack could burn mountains and boil the ocean. It was already extremely close to a Void Refinement Realm attack!

While facing four experts on his own, Xuan Yi had put most of his focus on the two Void Glimpse Stage experts and only used his remaining strength to deal with Lu Jiefen and the other Illusory Void Stage expert. He did not expect that Lu Jiefen would have such a strong killing technique.

All of a sudden, he became absent-minded and the fiery dagger-axe directly cut off one of his arms. He cried in agony with his qi becoming chaotic. The other three experts seized this opportunity and attacked with all of their might. In an instant, his injuries became even more severe and he was on the brink of death.

Furiously, Xuan Yi glared at Lu Jiefen. He knew that he was not far away from death now but he was not satisfied to die like this!

“Lu Jiefen, if it wasn’t because you have become a dog of the Ghost Eye Clan, how could a lowly Divine Transformation Realm ant like you be granted the devil pill and reach the Illusory Void Stage! I am really not satisfied to be sneak-attacked and killed by an ant like you! I am not satisfied!”

“Humph! You’re indeed courting death!” The old eyes on Lu Jiefen’s face turned grim. He hated being called an insignificant ant by others the most. He would take revenge on everyone who had humiliated him before.

Be it Xuan Yi or Ning Fan!

Of course, in Lu Jiefen’s eyes, Ning Fan was far more unfathomable than Xuan Yi. Before he truly breaks through to the Void Refinement Realm, he would continue to pretend to be afraid of Ning Fan. When the day he attains the Void Refinement Realm and obtains the power to suppress him comes, he would then take revenge for all of the humiliation he had suffered in the past!

He changed his hand seals and manipulated the fiery dagger-axe to go rush straight to Xuan Yi’s dantian. The force of that strike would be enough to directly kill Xuan Yi whose qi was already weak!

Both of Xuan Yi’s eyes turned bloodshot. He widened his eyes so big that his eyes were about to pop from their sockets.

He had finally seen the hope of rescuing the entire Six-Winged Clan after the occurrence of the abnormal phenomenon and the appearance of the slate.

He was not satisfied for the Six-Winged Clan to be annihilated at a time like this!

“I am not satisfied!”

Xuan Yi ignited his devil flames and his eyes turned like those of an ancient devil. He then condensed starlight on his palms. He wanted to use all of his strength to display the Star Punishing Bow to block the strike of the fiery dagger-axe.

At this moment, a few figures descended from the sky.

The person leading the group was a young man in white robes. He gently lifted his finger and pointed at the dagger-axe.

That dagger-axe was already close to becoming a Void Grade treasure. However, under the massive force of Ning Fan’s finger, it trembled violently. At the next second, cracks started to spread across its body, its spiritual light gradually diminished and then it disintegrated completely!

With just a single finger, he crushed a Half-Step Void Grade treasure!

Only a body cultivator at the Golden Body Realm could have such a frightening physical body!

“Who are you?! How dare you intervene in my business?!” Lu Jiefen was enraged when he saw that his magic treasure had been destroyed. He glared fiercely at the young man in white robes.

When he noticed the young man’s appearance, Lu Jiefen’s eyes were suddenly filled with great shock. In his look of surprise, there was also an indiscernible trace of enmity.

That enmity was deeply rooted in him. It started from the Broken World and then continued in the Star Palace and eventually in the External Endless Sea. Due to the circumstances, Lu Jiefen had to put up with Ning Fan’s challenges time after time. It was not because he was magnanimous but because he could still tolerate it!

However, having high tolerance did not mean that he would not harbor hatred!

“Zhou Ming, it’s you! Did you attain the Golden Body Realm? No. You didn’t! Your physical body is still not at the Golden Body Realm. It has been rumored that a body cultivator at the Golden Body Realm will have ten thousand traces of golden light shining on their bodies when hurling their fists. You haven’t attained the Golden Body Realm!”

Lu Jiefen intentionally reminded the other three experts that Ning Fan was not a Golden Body Realm cultivator.

He might be pretending to be afraid of Ning Fan, but he was inwardly planning to kill him using a borrowed knife.

The reason why he pointed out that Ning Fan was not at the Golden Body Realm was because he wanted to let the other three look down on Ning Fan and kill him!

“Zhou Ming, even though you have the protection of Yun Tianjue and the Rain Palace and three Void Glimpse Stage spiritual puppets, you are basically not putting the Ghost Eye Clan, the Mist Horn Clan and the Lan Ling Sect in your eyes by openly interfering in their struggle for the slate today! If you leave right now, I will consider our old relationship and ask for mercy on your behalf to spare your life.”

Lu Jiefen might be speaking for Ning Fan on the surface, but he was actually laying it on heavily and making a false claim that the reason why Ning Fan appeared here was to seize the slate.

After hearing that Ning Fan had come for the slate, the expressions of the two Void Glimpse Stage old monsters of the Ghost Eye Clan and the Mist Horn Clan turned a little grim.

“Lu Jiefen, your pleading for mercy on his behalf is useless! If this Zhou Ming came here to seize the devil statue slate, no matter who he is, he is the great enemy of our Mist Horn Clan and Ghost Eye Clan. He shall be eliminated! Even if he has three Void Glimpse Stage spiritual puppets, it’s not enough to make us fear him!”

Before Ning Fan could state his intentions of coming here, Lu Jiefen had already made the situation confusing, trying to scheme into making Ning Fan and the experts from the Ghost Eye Clan and the Mist Horn Clan fight among themselves.

After he kills Ning Fan with a borrowed knife, he would have a greater chance of seizing that slate to see what secrets exactly the slate held.

Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with a cold light.

This Lu Jiefen certainly didn’t change. His ambition is not small and he always likes to make use of others.

He had used Li Ban and the other demon generals. He had used the White Devil Sect. He had used everybody that he could make use of.

In the past, he dared to scheme to try to snatch the emperor’s star. Now, he even dared to scheme in trying to seize the devil statue slate. Apparently, there is nothing he wouldn’t dare to do.

“It’s clear that I must not spare him again today! If he obtains power in the future, he will certainly be a nuisance and he will obviously find me to settle an old score!”

Ning Fan had already activated his killing intent. Today, he would definitely kill Lu Jiefen.

Originally, he planned on negotiating with them kindly and peacefully. However, it seemed like there was no need for negotiation anymore.

It was the Ghost Eye Clan and the Mist Horn Clan who sought for trouble themselves!

He gently placed his hand on Yue Lingkong’s shoulder and said gently.

“Yue Er, if you fight the four of them on your own, how long do you need to defeat them?”

“At most, the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. I will certainly beat the life out of them!” Yue Lingkong revealed a look of confidence and arrogance. She took a step forward and she then vanished like a ray of faint moonlight, dashing quickly towards her opponents.

“What?!”

All of the four experts including Lu Jiefen were greatly astonished. Judging from Ning Fan’s words, Ning Fan was not going to use his three Void Refinement Realm spiritual puppets this time in interfering with the Six-Winged Clan’s predicament. Instead, he planned on letting Yue Lingkong, who was just a female cultivator, to face the four of them on her own.

In their eyes, Yue Lingkong was only a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm expert. This would be a fight between a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm against two Void Glimpse Stage experts and two Illusory Void Stage experts. She actually still claimed that she could defeat the four of them in just the time it takes for an incense stick to burn. It was indeed an extremely arrogant remark!

“Kill!”

Lu Jiefen and the other three experts turned into four rays of moving light and immediately surrounded Yue Lingkong.

Since Yue Lingkong had come to seek death, they naturally would not hold back!

Especially Lu Jiefen, as a hint of viciousness flashed in his eyes.

He had heard that Yue Lingkong was Ning Fan’s woman. If she dies, it would certainly make Ning Fan extremely broken-hearted. It would achieve his objective of taking revenge.

“In the past, I was just a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator and I was not as strong as Yue Lingkong. However, after obtaining the devil pill from the Ghost Eye Clan, I have already touched the threshold of the Void Refinement Realm. Now, I can already be considered as an Illusory Void Stage expert. Besides, I still have the help of two Void Glimpse Stage experts and another Illusory Void Stage expert. Killing Yue Lingkong will be as easy as raising my hand!”

Lu Jiefen secretly fished out a golden dart burning with purple flames. As he imbued his magic power into it, he threw it at Yue Lingkong, attempting to attack her stealthily.

His move did not escape from Yue Lingkong’s spirit sense at all. Instead, her expression showed a hint of contempt.

“Lu Jiefen, you are still so weak and despicable… I don’t care if you harm anyone else. But if you try to harm Little Cucumber, I’ll kill you!”

Yue Lingkong’s face was as cold as ice. Her presence emanated a terrifying killing intent. Facing the joint attacks of the four experts, she raised her hands and summoned four traces of silk-like moon rays. Then, she lashed the four of them with them.

When those moon rays which were as light as cotton fell into Yue Lingkong’s hands, they turned into the deadliest weapons.

*Bang* *Bang* *Bang* *Bang*

The four traces of moon rays struck the bodies of the four old monsters. The force was extremely close to a single strike from a Void Inquiry Stage expert!

Four traces of earth-shattering explosions were heard from the four cardinal directions. Upon receiving the attack, the chest armors of the two Void Glimpse Stage experts broke and they both suffered some minor injuries. As for Lu Jiefen and the other Illusory Void Stage experts, their physical bodies were nearly destroyed. Both of them took some serious damage, particularly Lu Jiefen who received a ‘special treatment’ from Yue Lingkong!

A trace of moon ray grievously injured Lu Jiefen’s demon soul, making him cough out blood incessantly. After taking that hit, he was already not that far away from death!

The four of them could not believe that Yue Lingkong, who was rumored to be only a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator, would actually be an Early Void Refinement Realm old monster. Moreover, she was still the kind of expert that was unrivalled among all Void Glimpse Stage experts. Her strength gave the Void Glimpse Stage old monsters from the Mist Horn Clan and the Ghost Eye Clan a massive sense of danger!

Ning Fan nodded his head. Yue Lingkong’s ferocity and strength were within his expectation.

However, Fen Chi’s tiny primordial spirit who was standing on his shoulder covered her mouth with her small hands. She was filled with utter disbelief.

Before this, she only thought that Yue Lingkong was just being arrogant saying that she could take on the four of them on her own. She only thought that she was just boasting by saying those shocking words. Now, she realized how strong Yu Lingkong was exactly and the words she spoke earlier were all true!

“This is the true strength of Venerated Moon! Even the great elder is definitely not her opponent!”

“However, I still can’t understand why such a strong expert would be willing to become Venerated Ming’s woman. She must be a lofty and haughty person. Why would she be willing to offend the three great forces just for Venerated Ming…? Does Venerated Ming really have such a great charm? Why can’t I notice it at all?”

Fen Chi’s beautiful eyes were filled with utter amazement.

She carefully looked at Ning Fan from head to toe. As she looked at Ning Fan’s weak and feeble figure, she found it even more difficult to understand.

She could not see what good qualities Ning Fan had that could make Yue Lingkong follow him so resolutely.

Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel