Chapter 443 - I Will Give You a Peaceful Life (2/2)
I just need to get to the seventh floor and eliminate the tower spirit there with the stored attack of my Stele of Sun and Moon and the treasures will all be mine!
Ning Fan stared at the entrance to the seventh floor which was still far away from him with eyes filled with determination. Then, he took out the seven yellow jade tokens and raised them to the sky.
“Yellow Dragon Seven Tokens! Fall!”
All of the seven jade tokens were Mid-Grade Mortal Void Realm treasures. With Ning Fan’s current magic power, he was still too weak to properly use these treasures.
He had infused his blood essence into those jade tokens. Even though he already inflicted injuries on himself in exchange for the power to use these treasures, he was only able to activate half of the destructive power of the jade tokens.
Even so, the combined destructive power of the seven jade tokens was already very close to that of a Void Pierce Stage attack.
Seven layers of yellow skies fell upon the evil spirits. Each and every one of these creatures cried in agony and misery. Some of them were wounded by the attacks while some of them were crushed right away and died.
Ning Fan did not have the mood to check on the conditions of the evil spirits. He kept the jade tokens and dashed towards the entrance of the seventh floor in a flash. In the end, he still managed to kill his way out.
“Impossible!”
The moment Ning Fan set foot on the seventh floor, a cold and stiff voice resounded within the floor. It revealed a look of disbelief for the very first time.
He did not expect at all that Ning Fan who was just a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator could actually get to the seventh floor!
Ning Fan had expected a fight to occur the very moment he stepped into the seventh floor but what greeted him was just an empty Buddhist hall with an ancient monument made of pure gold at the center. It was in bad condition.
Ning Fan understood that this monument was the tower spirit guarding the seven floors of the tower.
This monument was already in such a bad condition. Hence, it was no surprise that there was a long interval between its attacks.
Ning Fan seemed to have overestimated this tower spirit. Evidently, he did not need to use his Void Fragmentation Realm stored attack at all to deal with an Absolute Void Stage tower spirit which was already worn out similar to an arrow at the end of its flight.
When that ancient monument saw Ning Fan on the seventh floor, its eyes shot out multiple rays of Buddha light which turned into countless glittering gemstones. Each of them glowed with Buddha light and attacked him.
“The ancient devil must be eliminated!”
This attack came too fast. It was a Void Pierce Stage attack. It had the power to kill Ning Fan who had nowhere to hide.
Ning Fan’s eyes shined with a hint of joy. They seemed to indicate that his plan had worked. All of a sudden, he vanished from his original spot and went into his Profound Yin World.
All of the gemstones lost their target and fell to the ground aimlessly. As all of them had bombarded the seventh floor of the Buddha Tower, it nearly destroyed it entirely.
“He disappeared?! Where did he hide?! Even if he has gone into a magic treasure of an immortal’s abode, the space within that treasure would also be blown up by the gemstones to pieces. Could it be that this devil has hidden himself inside a small chiliocosm?” The ancient monument could not figure out where Ning Fan had gone to.
When the dust and smoke dispersed, Ning Fan then slowly came out from his Profound Yin World. He looked at the ancient monument which could not deliver the next attack at the moment, without giving it an explanation.
He would not give an explanation to something that was about to be eradicated.
It could not be any better that he could finally eliminate the tower spirit by chance.
Ning Fan pressed his glabella and his Separation Slayer Sword appeared. It split into multiple sword shadows and cut the dilapidated ancient monument to pieces.
The moment the ancient monument was destroyed, the spirituality of the entire Buddha Tower suddenly plummeted. All of the evil spirits that had been summoned by the tower spirit struggled and vanished into golden light.
After the ancient monument was destroyed, a glowing portal immediately appeared on the wall behind it. It must be the portal leading to the eighth floor. It must be where the supreme treasures which had been supplying the healing power of this tower are.
Ning Fan did not hesitate and directly went through the portal.
This Buddha Tower had been given to the Six-Winged Clan by the Kunlun World Jade Pool. It no longer belonged to them.
That’s why the tower spirit of this tower was so dilapidated and weak.
That’s why Ning Fan was bold enough to eliminate the tower spirit and steal the treasures after figuring out that there must be some hidden in this tower without worrying that he would provoke the Kunlun Jade Pool.
The eighth floor of this tower was different from the one on the Lost World Tower. Seven jade platforms had been built on this floor and each of them had a treasure glowing brilliantly with Buddha light. All of them had massive healing power. Aside from that, there were no formations or spiritual puppets here to guard the floor.
Since this was a tower to be given to someone as a gift, the Jade Pool naturally would not spend a lot of effort in protecting the treasures in it. Besides, since this tower was already given to the Six-Winged Clan, it must be the ancestor of the clan who accepted this gift that was responsible for setting up the defenses of this floor.
Ning Fan returned to his original form. His white robes were soaked with blood and the injuries he suffered were rather serious. Even so, his face wore a satisfied smile.
From the seven treasures, he sensed frightening healing power. They were seven relics that had been left by a true Buddha after passing away. The seven relics were in the form of gold, silver, colored glass (Chinese: 琉璃 [liu li]), crystal, shell, coral and amber.
It was clear to Ning Fan that if he consumes one of the seven relics, even if his condition was two times worse than his current condition, his injuries would still be completely healed in an instant.
However, he was unwilling to consume the seven relics as the seven of them were all for the female corpse.
“Keep!”
With a flick of his sleeve, Ning Fan kept the seven relics. At the next moment, the whole Buddha Tower began to tremble. Its spirituality completely disappeared. All of the seven floors of the tower no longer had any healing effect.
“W-Why would this happen?!”
The Great Elder who had been waiting outside the tower nearly had the impulse to cough up blood.
He had lent the Buddha Tower to Ning Fan for him to use but he had never expected that the latter would actually break it, rendering it unable to provide treatment to others.
In a way, Xuan Yi felt really heartbroken that the tower was destroyed. On the other hand, however, he was greatly astonished. The Buddha Tower was the greatest treasure of the Six-Winged Clan. It was not something that someone could just destroy as they wish.
The Buddha Tower was guarded by an Absolute Void Stage tower spirit. If someone wants to destroy this tower, they would have to get rid of the tower spirit first. Other than Void Fragmentation Realm old monsters, who else could do such a thing?
Furthermore, Xuan Yi did not understand Ning Fan’s motive in destroying the Buddha Tower at all.
Doesn’t he want to use the tower to treat the female corpse? What could he get by destroying the tower?
“I can’t understand… Could it be that Venerated Ming wasn’t the one who destroyed this tower? It’s too unreasonable.”
Xuan Yi was not really aware about what exactly happened inside the tower and if it was truly Ning Fan who destroyed the tower.
After sensing that Ning Fan’s qi was still in the tower, no one dared to enter the tower to investigate. They could only wait for him to exit from the tower and ask him about it.
On the eighth floor of the Buddha Tower, Ning Fan summoned the female corpse and sat on the ground with her in his embrace.
In the past, he did not have the confidence to fully recover the Sea of Consciousness of the female corpse. Now, after he stole the seven relics of the Buddha Tower, he was confident of curing her completely in a single try.
He inserted the seven relics inside the mouth of the female corpse one after another.
As the seven relics got to her abdomen, surges of healing power which seemed to be strong enough to bring the dead back to life spread throughout her body.
The body of a corpse devil did not have any life force. It would not have physiological activities. The injuries the body suffers could only be ‘repaired’, but not ‘healed’ at all.
However, these seven relics seemed to have given the female corpse a strand of life force which allowed the injuries that she had gotten in the past to be healed completely.
Her pale face revealed a reddish color of an ordinary healthy woman for the first time.
Her ice-cold hands had the warmth of a living human for the first time.
Her Sea of Consciousness was recovering bit by bit.
Magic power also began to fill up her withered immortal veins.
“This is… resurrection!”
Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with surprise. What he was seeing right now was beyond his imagination. It filled him with great joy.
The reason he stole the relics was only to help the female corpse heal her Sea of Consciousness and he had never thought that the female corpse would be revived because she lacked some pieces of her soul.
At this moment, however, the seven relics began to supply endless life force to the female corpse after entering her body. Now, she really was showing signs of life!
“Light… cold…” The female corpse knitted her brows tightly. She felt pain for the first time.
In the past, she was just a corpse devil which had no senses. She would not cry, feel pain or cold or even shed tears because of sadness.
Today, however, she actually said that she was cold in her dream.
Then, her body began to turn cold and weak again. Ning Fan did not know what went wrong.
He used his spirit sense to check the female corpse and very quickly, he found out that the reason why the female corpse would feel cold was because she was already dead and was also female. The yin qi in her body was too strong and she needed some yang blood which could supply her some yang qi.
Without any hesitation, Ning Fan swung his Separation Slayer Sword and made a cut on his arm to feed his blood to the female corpse.
The sharp fangs of the female corpse sank into Ning Fan’s arm and sucked his fresh blood unconsciously.
Ning Fan’s blood was just too delicious. Compared to the blood of other Divine Transformation Realm or Void Refinement Realm old monsters, Ning Fan’s blood was the most perfect.
The female corpse was still a corpse devil after all. How could she be able to withstand the temptations of flesh and blood. In an unconscious state, she clenched her jaw and tore a large piece of flesh from Ning Fan’s arm.
*Hiss*
Ning Fan took in a deep breath. This unexpected pain made him frown. However, it faded immediately and his expression was filled with affection right after.
She was a corpse devil and she made a mistake unconsciously. Thus, Ning Fan was not going to blame her.
After devouring a piece of Ning Fan’s flesh, the yang qi inside the female corpse’s body was replenished. With a satisfied smile on her face, she slept soundly.
Even though she showed signs of revival after consuming the seven relics, no one knew how long it would take for her to be completely revived.
Perhaps it would take a year, ten years, one hundred years or even one thousand years.
However, no matter how long she needed to sleep, Ning Fan would wait for the day she awakens and truly reunite with her.
When that time comes, she will be a living breathing Mu Weiliang. She would no longer be a corpse devil.
Ning Fan pointed his finger on his arm and stopped the bleeding. He was not concerned about treating his wound right away. Instead, he carefully held the hands of the female corpse and massaged her arms. Gradually, he extended his hands to her whole body in order to relax her muscles and activate the flow of her blood.
“From today onwards, you are no longer the female corpse. Instead, you are the true Mu Weiliang…”
Ning Fan revealed a hopeful look on his face. He really looked forward to the day when Mu Weiliang would finally wake up.
In his previous life, he was a butterfly whereas she was the daughter of the celestial emperor. He sacrificed himself for her and she died because of him.
In this life, he had reborn as a human and Zhihe who was a part of her souls had saved him one again.
Be it Zhihe or Mu Weiliang, Ning Fan would certainly not let any of them to be harmed.
In order to protect her, he still needed to continue improving his cultivation base.
“You gave me a pair of butterfly wings and I will grant you a peaceful life… I assure you…”
Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel
[1] 卐 is the swastika symbol. In Buddhism, the swastika symbol signifies auspiciousness and good fortune as well as the footprint of the Buddha and Buddha’s heart. It is also said to contain the whole mind of the Buddha and can often be found imprinted on the chest, feet or palms of Buddha images. (Source: )