Chapter 455 - Questioning Yao Lian at Night (1/2)
Translator: GE_Team
Dong Xu introduced the entire flow of the Pill Ceremony in great detail.
This ceremony was jointly organized by the Giant Devil Clan and the Pill Island. Moreover, having Void Inquiry Pills as prizes for this competition, made it an unprecedentedly grand occasion.
Countless old monsters and pill refinement masters who usually seclude themselves from the world had come to the Endless Sea to either participate or spectate in this competition.
The splendor of this time’s Pill Ceremony was nearly comparable to the Pill Conference that was held once every fifty years in the Middle State by the Rain Palace.
Pill refinement masters of all grades were qualified to sign up for the Pill Ceremony. However, those whose pill refinement skills were below the Third Revolution would very likely be disqualified in the first round.
This Pill Ceremony was separated into three rounds of tests. The first round was called ‘Grade Testing with the Pill Tablet’. The so-called pill tablet was an item the Pill Island had provided for this grand competition. It could test the grades of the pill refinement masters ranging from the First to the Fourth Revolution. Those who had yet to attain the Third Revolution would be directly disqualified.
The second round was called ‘Melting Spiritual Herbs’. In this round, pill refinement masters would be tested in their speed of melting spiritual herbs and the purity of the end product after their refinement.
Commonly, the process of pill refinement consists of three steps.
The first step would be melting the spiritual herbs and turning them into medicinal liquid. Then, keep refining the medicinal liquid with fire.
The second step would be mixing the medicinal power of different spiritual herbs.
The third step would be turning down the fire and forming the pills.
During the melting process, the medicinal power of the spiritual herbs would more or less dissipate. Hence, the faster the spiritual herbs melt, the less medicinal power would dissipate.
After completely melting the spiritual herbs, one would need to purify the medicinal liquid by getting rid of the impurities. The more purifications done, the better the quality of the medicinal liquid. Consequently, the quality of the pills that are refined from the medicinal liquid would be better. Of course, the longer the purification process, the greater the difficulty. If one makes just a single careless mistake, all of the medicinal liquid would be ruined.
For an example that incorporates the level of mastery in pill refinement, a Fourth Revolution Pill Refinement Master could carry out purification on a one thousand years old spiritual herb up to 5 to 10 times. It was rare for pill refinement masters of such level to purify a one thousand years old spiritual herbs up to 11 times or more.
As for a Fifth Revolution Pill Refinement Master, one could carry out the same process on a one thousand years old spiritual herb up to 50 times or more!
In the second test, those who fail to carry out the required number of times of purification on the given spiritual herbs within the specified amount of time would all be disqualified.
As for the third round of the tests, it was called “Uncover the Furnace and Concoct Pills”. In this round, the participants would have the freedom to choose what pills to concoct. Then, the appraiser would assess the quality of the pills they refine. After that, the rankings of the competition would be decided based on the assessment.
Those who get into the top three would not only win generous prizes, but also gain the qualifications to accept a mission from Ju Qing. The mission was to concoct a life-saving pill for Feng Xueyan. If the pill is successfully concocted, each of them would then receive a Void Inquiry Pill as a reward.
Other than the top three, the participants of the third round could also win different prizes depending on their ranks. The prizes include precious pill recipes, rare spiritual herbs and so on. To common pill refinement masters, these prizes were quite attractive.
Without doubt, many old monsters came for the Void Inquiry Pills and they aimed to get into the top three.
Nevertheless, most of the pill refinement masters who were aware that they had no chance of getting into the top three would still give their best shot for the other prizes.
News about the Pill Ceremony had already been released and spread around since a few years ago. Many pill refinement masters from all corners of the Rain World had come to the Internal Endless Sea for it.
For instance, one of the most outstanding young cultivators of the Rain Palace, Yun Niansu, had come to participate in this Pill Ceremony. He had met Ning Fan once in the past and he even invited him to stay on the Pill Island for a while. Unfortunately, Ning Fan ignored his offer.
There was still one month before the start of the first round of selections.
The Giant Devil Clan had thrown a banquet which was celebrated with hundreds of types of fruits to welcome Ning Fan and his group. After the feast, Ning Fan left along with his women with the reason of making preparations for his participation in the Pill Ceremony. They settled down in a guest house in the province.
Yue Lingkong and Fen Chi had been following Ning Fan all the way to the Giant Devil Clan. Both of them were already quite exhausted. Hence, as soon as they arrived at the guest house, they went to rest in their respective rooms.
Feng Xueyan insisted on sleeping on the same bed with Xu Qiuling. Both of them truly had a close relationship. However, her decision left Ning Fan no chance to interact with Xu Qiuling privately.
Anyhow, Ning Fan was already aware of the mystery behind the Giant Devil Clan. He handed over the four Void Glimpse Stage spiritual puppets to Yue Lingkong and had them guard outside where the women rested.
He sat alone on the west wing and lit up the candlelight. He looked at the piles of fine writing paper under the candlelight in silence.
Each sheet of paper was filled with the beautiful writings of a lady. They were written by Feng Xueyan in the past.
Since she could not talk to Xu Qiuling, she had to write out everything that she wanted to express on papers. Well, being mute left her with no choice.
In her writings, there was the feeling of loneliness and stubbornness, just like the snow in a cool windy night that no one understood.
She was the daughter of a man who was recognized as one of the seven venerated beings in the internal sea. However, her body was weak while her cultivation base was equally inadequate. All of her peers had already attained the Gold Core Realm or the Nascent Soul Realm but she was still just a Vein Opening Realm cultivator. She felt reluctance in having a slower progress compared to her peers but her fate was beyond her power to change.
The magic power that she gained from all the bitter cultivation she did would eventually become nourishment for the devil blood in her and be devoured by it. She was fated to never attain the Harmonious Spirit Realm in her current life.
Fortunately, she still had her innate talent in engraving devil marks. Thus, she put all of her focus in learning and researching the art of engraving devil marks. She had poured so much effort that common people would not be able to even imagine it and it paid off as she became a tattoo master whose name was widely known in the internal sea.
She engraved the teleportation devil marks on her own body. Thus, she gained the ability to fly. However, that devil mark was some type of general rank devil marks that needed forty plus inscriptions to complete.
Ning Fan found it hard to imagine how a young lady at the Tenth Level Vein Opening Realm could endure forty plus inscriptions on her white silky skin.
Ning Fan had the Stone Warrior Devil Mark. He obviously understood how painful it was to endure forty plus inscriptions.
“Ling Er really has a keen eyesight to have befriended this young lady and treating her like her own sister… The Giant Devil Clan, on the other hand, is trying to sacrifice such an outstanding individual. What exactly are they up to…?”
*Creak*
After blowing off the candlelight, he quietly pushed the door open and walked into the snowy night.
Under the effect of the Heaven Deceiving Cloak, his figure slowly faded and eventually vanished into thin air. No one knew where he went.
The Snow Lotus Pavilion was where the second elder of the clan, Yao Lian, lived.
The pavilion was being illuminated by flickering candlelight. There was also the sound of water flowing. Apparently, Yao Lian was bathing.
Outside the pavilion, a dozen Gold Core Realm maidservants were standing guard with vigilance.
The wind was quite strong and the atmosphere was filled with flying snow.
All of a sudden, a light breeze blew past them and went into the pavilion. None of the maidservants sensed anything wrong.
Elder Yao Lian was at the top floor of the pavilion. She was immersing herself in a wooden barrel filled with bathwater that was sprinkled with flower petals. Behind a veil of steam produced by the hot bathwater, her curvaceous body looked like juicy honey peaches that would make anyone who saw it feel tempted to take a bite.
Her appearance might be common, but her body was extremely alluring.
Bathing in hot water, a feeling of warmth enveloped her whole body.
Meanwhile, her eyes were recalling Ning Fan’s figure whom she had just met during the day. She was unable to forget that cool and handsome young man.
She closed her eyes and licked her lips. Within her mind, she visualized her doing erotic activities with Ning Fan while moving one of her hands down into the water, reaching to somewhere below her body.
She imagined Ning Fan tossing her to the bed in a rough manner and violating her fiercely.
She imagined having all of her clothes ripped apart by that man cold-heartedly.
She imagined the scene where the both of them physically wrapped each other while experiencing rapture together.
Soft moans resounded across the pavilion. As she continued to immerse herself in her imagination, she went into ecstasy over the images in her mind, causing her to succumb even more deeply to her sexual urges.
“V-Venerated Ming…My Brother Ming… I want it… I want it…”
Yao Lian who was in the middle of masturbating failed to notice that a young man in white robes had appeared in her room some time ago. His face darkened.
He had never expected that a day would come where he would be remembered by a loose woman to such an extent. He had actually become Yao Lian’s imaginary partner during her masturbation…
This Yao Lian is really lustful to the marrow of her bones.
Ning Fan shook his head. Even though he did not despise the likes of this woman who would sleep with countless men, he did not like them either.
After all, he was also a devil lord who practiced dual cultivation. His body might not necessarily be any cleaner than Yao Lian’s. That being so, he did not despise her.
However, he would also not try to make out with a woman like her. Why? There’s no why.
He doesn’t need a reason to dislike a person.
“Lady Yao Lian, what an excellent mood you have…” Ning Fan made a teasing smile and suddenly talked. He then sat beside a wooden table and poured himself a cup of light wine. While looking at Yao Lian, he was slowly sipping the cup of wine.
Yao Lian had no idea at all that someone else was inside her room. Ning Fan’s voice made her heart leap to her throat.
Yao Lian’s beautiful eyes turned to Ning Fan with a hint of coquettish anger. Then, she gave him a seductive look and said with a breathless but alluring voice.
“This is so embarrassing… When did Venerated Ming come into my room? Why didn’t you tell me earlier? *chuckle* Was that live masturbation just now enjoyable?”
This woman truly did not have any shame. Even though Ning Fan had seen her whole naked body, she could still remain so composed. As a devil cultivator, she was not half bad.
“You knew that I would come, didn’t you?” Ning Fan played with his cup with eyes that were as deep as the ocean.
“*chuckle* During the day, the way Venerated Ming looked at me was as if you wanted to gobble me down. Therefore, during that time, I figured that you will certainly come and spend a pleasurable night with me.”
Yao Lian rose up from the bathwater without wearing a single piece of garment. She got out of the wooden barrel and slowly wiped every part of her body dry in front of Ning Fan. Then, she randomly pulled a thin silk to wrap around her body and sat beside him.
She activated the power of her bewitching art to its maximum in each of her actions. Besides, with the nudity she purposely revealed, it was enough to entice just about any man.
She knew that her appearance was not unique but she had immense confidence in her own physique.
She was good at observing men. From the moment she exchanged glances with Ning Fan during the day, she could tell that he held some desire for her.