Chapter 470 - Ancient Devil Cultivation Realm (2/2)

The whole building as well as the several layers of formation light outside were all reduced to ashes under the violent pressure of his aura force.

Each and every one of the clan members standing guard outside the palace were also instantly killed by that incredible pressure before they could even understand what was going on!

All of a sudden, King Lan Ling’s killing intent enveloped the entire Guan Tian City but he still could not discover the Fourth Elder’s whereabouts.

Then, a trace of the Fourth Elder’s qi suddenly appeared on the sea current above the city.

King Lan Ling’s eyes flashed like lightning and he pointed a finger at its direction. Countless orchids formed into a ten thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) long sword light which cut the sea domain above the Ghost Eye Clan into two parts.

The Fourth Elder’s primordial spirit that was still unconscious was shredded to pieces by King Lan Ling’s attack. A mist of blood spread across the area!

At this very moment, the Fourth Elder’s life plate in the ancestral temple of the Ghost Eye Clan cracked!

All the experts including You Guihou spread out their spirit senses and detected that the Fourth Elder was turned into a mist of blood. As for the massive baleful qi from killing the Fourth Elder, it coiled around King Lan Ling’s body!

“King Lan Ling, why did you murder the fourth elder of my clan?!”

You Guihou burst into anger, sternly questioning him about the murder. He soared into the sky with nine other Void Refinement Realm experts of his clan, dashing towards King Lan Ling.

You Guihou was not stupid. He found it suspicious that the Fourth Elder, someone who should be in his secluded meditation to break through to the Void Inquiry Stage, would suddenly appear outside his private training grounds and get himself killed by King Lan Ling.

He did not take any action against King Lan Ling immediately. Instead, he planned on questioning him about his reasons behind the murder.

At this instant, however, he got a message-transmitting flying sword from the devil guards which reported that the devil concubine of the clan and the devil statue slate had both gone missing.

You Guihou gnashed his teeth in anger. All of a sudden, he felt so angry that he swallowed back the words he was about to say to King Lan Ling.

Does he still need to question him? Isn’t it obvious enough?

From You Guihou’s perspective, King Lan Ling might have claimed that he will use his dark golden pagoda to exchange for the slate, but he secretly abducted the devil concubine and stole the slate while the Ghost Eye Clan put down their guard.

He has gone too far in bullying us!

“Lan Ling, you little brat! You killed the fourth elder of my clan, kidnapped my devil concubine and even stole my devil slate. I hereby declare that my entire clan will fight you until death from this second onwards!”

As soon as You Guihou’s voice fell, he ordered his men right away to activate the clan’s defensive grand formation and sent out every expert to surround and exterminate King Lan Ling.

King Lan Ling, on the other hand, had also blown his top. After losing his dark golden pagoda due to the Fourth Elder’s deception, he suspected that what the Fourth Elder did might just be out of his own personal decision without actual authorization from You Guihou.

Even though he had already killed him, he did not manage to get his magic treasure back. Thus, he initially wanted to question the Ghost Eye Clan about it.

However, he did not expect that the Ghost Eye Clan would accuse him first, blaming him for kidnapping the devil concubine and stealing the devil slate before he could even question them about the Fourth Elder’s actions which might actually be a part of their plot.

Feeling extremely angry, King Lan Ling let out a cacophony of laughter. From what he had seen, the reason why the Ghost Eye Clan vilified him was nothing more than to get his pagoda for free.

“You Guihou, I’ve already shown you a fair amount of respect. You are the one who failed to appreciate my kindness. You chose to make me your enemy!”

*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*

A gruesome fight between the two parties started. Reconciliation was now impossible between them.

Just as the two parties fought, Ning Fan was in a great mood as if he was watching an excellent show and emptied all of the spiritual herbs and immortal jade in the storehouses of the Ghost Eye Clan while invisible.

Needless to say, he purposely threw the Fourth Elder’s primordial spirit earlier to let King Lan Ling kill him. King Lan Ling had completely no idea that the Fourth Elder whom he had killed was not the person who offended him at all.

After a short while, Ning Fan secretly left. No one knew that he was the culprit behind this battle.

The great battle lasted for four hours. King Lan Ling’s second primordial spirit was nearly killed during the fight but he still managed to flee. One has to admit that King Lan Ling was really strong and tough as he still managed to survive after being surrounded by so many experts…

As for the Ghost Eye Clan, 31 of their Divine Transformation Realm cultivators and 2 Void Glimpse Stage experts were killed while 3 Void Inquiry Stage experts were severely wounded. The death toll for the Gold Core Realm and Nascent Soul Realm members exceeded one million.

Shocking news of this large-scale battle immediately spread, surprising the whole Rain World.

Meanwhile, Ning Fan was clearly very satisfied since he had watched a good show and even looted the Ghost Eye Clan.

The only thing he was regretful of was that King Lan Ling did not die in the Ghost Eye Clan.

That was really a waste…

He was already on his way towards the direction of the Mist Horn Clan while staying invisible throughout the journey.

Only after having traveled several hundred million li* (500m per li) away from the Ghost Eye Clan did he reveal himself. The effects of the Face Changing Pill had already faded a long time ago. He then entered into the Profound Yin World.

From his trip to the Ghost Eye Clan, he had not only obtained two billion immortal jades and countless spiritual herbs but also the dark golden pagoda, the devil scripture and the devil qi inside the slate.

Ning Fan spent three days assimilating the third devil qi in the Profound Yin World. Similar to what he had expected, the devil mark on his back evolved once again. This time, the symbol of a ghost eye appeared.

Now, he had completed three-fourths of the advancement in his devil mark!

After taking in the third devil qi, the strength of his physical body drastically improved again, making him nearly as strong as an expert with the Second Level of the Golden Body Realm!

Ning Fan believed that once he obtains the fourth devil qi and enters into seclusion, his devil mark would advance to Marshal Rank completely. When that time comes, he would not only be able to attain the Golden Body Refining Realm but also achieve the Second Level of the Golden Body Realm directly!

Ning Fan’s current physical strength was strong enough to instantly kill any Void Glimpse Stage cultivator.

Aside from the devil qi, the dark golden pagoda was also a great harvest from this trip.

When Ning Fan got out of the Profound Yin World, he activated his Yuan Yao Jade and went into the Yuan Yao World.

This dark golden pagoda was an imitation of the Lost World Palace. The Lost World Palace in Penglai Immortal Island was a silver-grade tower as it only had seven floors. Golden-grade towers were buildings with more than seven floors.

Inside the Yuan Yao World, Ning Fan chose a large and empty plot of land to place the dark golden pagoda in order to avoid disturbing Mu Weiliang from her slumber.

With a flick of his finger, that golden tower grew in the air, forming into a one hundred thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) tall gigantic tower and fell down at the foot of a mountain.

Ning Fan went inside the tower and discovered that the flow of time on the first floor was 2 times slower than normal. And every succeeding floor had twice the effect of the previous floor.

This dark golden pagoda did not have any flaws. However, the floors beyond the fourth floor were extremely strange. If ordinary people entered those floors, there was no distortion of time.

Ning Fan possessed two traces of the Blood of Time. When he entered the fifth floor, he felt that the flow of time was slowed down by 32 times. To his surprise, the time distortion on this floor only worked on him.

When he ascended to the sixth floor, the flow of time slowed down by 64 times and it was also only effective to individuals who possessed the Blood of Time.

As he went up to the seventh floor, the time slowed down by 128 times which was the same as the highest floor of the Lost World Palace.

When he tried to go for the eighth floor, he realized that he was not able to do so at all.

After making half a step into the eighth floor, he felt his primordial spirit nearly collapse!

With his current cultivation base, there was no way he could ascend the eighth floor. If he forces himself to do so, he would only end up dying!

In that case, Ning Fan was not able to go up there and check whether a ninth floor existed in this tower and whether there were time crystals hidden on that floor which could greatly enhance his cultivation base.

Ning Fan had destroyed the time distortion on the seventh floor of the Lost World Palace. Today, however, he had obtained a dark golden tower that was much better than the Lost World Palace. That being so, he no longer needed to visit Penglai Immortal Island as he could go into this tower for cultivation purposes in the future.

This dark golden tower had the time distortion effect while the Profound Yin World accelerated one’s magic power. One could continue to benefit from the acceleration effect on their magic power even until the Immortal Realm. The time distortion effect, on the other hand, was extremely dangerous to immortals as it had a lot of drawbacks.

The minor heavenly tribulation and major heavenly tribulation that an immortal would face were determined based on their age.

One’s bone age would stay the same by cultivating in the Profound Yin World but if one does the same activity in the Lost World Tower, their ages would increase by the same amount of years they spend inside the tower.

To immortals, their age would increase by 12800 years if they spend one hundred years on the seventh floor of the Lost World Tower. Once they leave the tower, no one could be sure of how many heavenly tribulations they would need to deal with…

That’s why, in the Four Heavens Immortal World, there was a saying that time was meaningless to immortals.

If Ning Fan could eliminate the time restriction of staying in the Profound Yin World one day, it would certainly be his primary choice for his secluded meditation.

For now, it was best for him to do some activities that only required a short period of time to complete in the Profound Yin World and those that would take a lot of time in the Yuan Yao World.

Ning Fan was very satisfied with the dark golden pagoda and kept it within his Yuan Yao World for the meantime.

Finally, his eyes fell upon the last item he gained from his trip.

He made a copy of the devil scripture of the third devil slate on a jade slip.

This latest piece of devil slate had a written record of the unique categories of the cultivation levels that only the ancient devil race had.

In ancient times, devil cultivators did not learn magic techniques and only focused on the cultivation of their blood. Their cultivation system was entirely different from all of the current ones.

In present times, the First Step of Cultivation was divided into seven realms which includes the Vein Opening Realm, Harmonious Spirit Realm, Gold Core Realm, Nascent Soul Realm, Divine Transformation Realm, Void Refinement Realm and Void Fragmentation Realm.

For ancient devil cultivators, the First Step was divided into five realms which were the Nine Levels of Blood Refinement Realm, Blood Charm Realm, Jade Blood Realm, Reckless Devil Realm and Revered Devil Realm.

As a matter of fact, the current era’s body refining realms was inspired and modified from the cultivation realms of the ancient devil race.

The Nine Stages of Silver Light Body Refining Realm were similar to the Nine Levels of Blood Refinement Realm. The first three levels correspond to the Vein Opening Realm, the next three levels correspond to the Harmonious Spirit Realm and the last three levels correspond to the Gold Core Realm.

The Bone Charm Realm was equivalent to the Silver Bone Body Refining Realm and was the counterpart for the Nascent Soul Realm.

The Jade Blood Realm was the same as the Jade Life Body Refining Realm and it corresponds to the Divine Transformation Realm.

Accordingly, the Reckless Devil Realm was the equivalent of the Golden Body Refining Realm and it matched the Void Refinement Realm whereas the Revered Devil Realm paralleled the Void Fragmentation Realm.

This was the cultivation system of the ancient devil race and no cultivation of magic power was involved.

However, the ancient devil race’s cultivation of blood was similar to the cultivation of magic power of the divine race. To the ancient devil race, the cultivation of blood referred to their devil blood and blood essence.

A powerful cultivator could move stars and alter the moon with a trace of their magic power.

A great ancient devil could crush mountains and rivers with a strand of their essence qi!

The third devil slate Ning Fan obtained only showed the cultivation system of the ancient devil race.

At the end of the devil scripture, it said that when one gathers all four of the devil slates, they could then learn the Ancestral Talisman Blood Refinement Technique which was a genuine blood refinement cultivation method of the ancient devil race!

Ning Fan kept the jade slip and remained silent for a while.

He had never imagined that he would be able to step into the cultivation path of the ancient devil race once he gathers the four slates.

That was a completely different cultivation path from the one he had been practicing up to this point. Through cultivating his devil blood and physical body, it would allow him to realize his Dao and be invincible among the rest beneath the heavens!

The cultivation of blood that the ancient devils practiced was an entirely different concept compared to the body refinement of the cultivators in the present era.

If an ancient were to still exist in this era, they would, without a doubt, be an unrivalled existence among all body cultivators with the same body refining level as them!

“If I gather all four slates, will I be able to step into the path of the ancient devils and become an ancient devil…?”

Ning Fan pondered. If he really could become an ancient devil, he would be able to reign the world with just the strength of his physical body. To him, it was really a great temptation!