Chapter 493 - Si Kong Demon Island (1/2)
The Slaughter Palace was not a force to be trifled with. They were not at the same level as Moksha Sovereign and the White Devil Sect.
Fortunately, Fu Linglong had already passed away a long time ago and the Blood Slave Garden had lost its owner. Even if Ning Fan kills his way into the garden and abducts all of the female cultivators to turn them into his human cauldrons, his actions would not offend the Slaughter Palace.
As for the unique purpose which motivated Fu Linglong to raise those flower devils, Ning Fan did not need to find out. He only saw each of those flower devils as high quality human cauldrons.
The current problem he faced was as to how he should get inside the Blood Slave Garden since the passage connecting this world and that realm was destroyed by the Two Elders of Ling Nan while the ancient remains was destroyed during their battle.
Even the red-haired lady was at a loss. She did not know how to return to the Blood Slave Garden.
Moreover, with Ning Fan’s current strength, he did not have any confidence of capturing a Void Fragmentation Realm female expert. Even an Absolute Void Stage human cauldron would be rather troublesome for him…
“It seems like I still have to wait until the day my cultivation base improves before visiting the Blood Slave Garden to capture human cauldrons. Currently, I can’t take down the Void Fragmentation Realm flower devil at all. If I go there recklessly, I will likely be ganged up on by those flower devils and get myself killed…”
“The top priority right now is still to take care of the matters in front of me by heading to Si Kong Demon Island and help Ming Que obtain the inheritance.”
Just as Ning Fan was deep in thought, the red-haired lady suddenly trembled within his arms. Her beautiful appearance turned pale and she grimaced in pain, as if she was enduring an extremely excruciating torment.
“Ah!” The lady wailed in agony. Her condition became extremely unusual.
Ning Fan, of course, would not feel protective of her. He just looked at her indifferently like he intended on watching by the sidelines, coldly studying the abnormal condition of her body.
The reason why she would be in this much pain was because she had left the Blood Slave Garden for far too long. Her lifespan was being drained multiple times faster than usual which pushed her to the brink of death.
Flower devils like her that had been created through an accelerated process would only have a lifespan one-twentieth of that of a normal cultivator if they live in the Blood Slave Garden.
However, if they go outside the garden and lose the protection of the grand formation, their lifespan would drain thousands of times faster than usual, causing them to die of old age very quickly.
This was the principle of the Heavenly Dao. If someone tries to take a shortcut in obtaining power that exceeds their own cultivation base, they would have to bear the costs.
The only way to resolve this situation was by crippling and dispersing the affected person’s cultivation base!
The red-haired lady was in so much pain that her pupils dilated. There was by no means anything beautiful in her at this moment. She only looked appalling and horrifying.
Ning Fan, however, was not bothered by itat all. He began to take off her clothes.
“Y-You… What do you want to do to me?!” The lady was extremely terrified. She had never touched a man before since the moment she was born a flower devil, let alone being fully undressed by a man.
“To pluck you!” Ning Fan did not talk much and directly pressed himself against her.
“How dare you?!” The lady was in a rage but she was deprived of the strength to resist.
She screamed as soon as a tearing pain ran across her entire body.
Then, she felt the pain gradually lessening as Ning Fan fondled and rubbed her erogenous zones ranging from the top of her head to the tip of her toes.
Her cultivation base was flowing into Ning Fan’s body in endless streams.
Fury filled her heart again when she realized that Ning Fan was really plucking her. However, she immediately discovered that as her cultivation base dropped, the pain she felt due to her declining lifespan was also slowly being reduced.
Even though she brimmed with killing qi since she was born, she also realized that what Ning Fan was doing to her if taken from another perspective, could completely eradicate the hidden trouble in her lifespan and save her life.
She was originally a tuft of Blood Burial Grass that had successfully developed into a flower devil. She cared little about her purity. All she knew at that moment was that if Ning Fan did not pluck her, she certainly would not live long after leaving the Blood Slave Garden.
When she thought that she would survive if Ning Fan did that to her, she no longer struggled or resisted. Instead, she began to go along with his actions.
Her enmity against Ning Fan did not reduce. However, she still understood the advantages of what he was currently doing to her and had stopped showing any resistance.
Two hours later, she was plucked until her cultivation base returned to the Vein Opening Realm. Her entire cultivation base was nearly emptied. Because her body could not endure its weakness after losing so much cultivation base, she passed out.
But the hidden trouble of her lifespan was completely eradicated. As long as she cultivates again from the Vein Opening Realm, she would never face the same problem again.
As for Ning Fan’s magic power, it received an impressive improvement after plucking the red-haired lady.
Currently, his magic power has reached seven hundred thousand units. That plucking session allowed him to gain nearly fifty thousand units of magic power. That amount of magic power was almost comparable to the medicinal effect of one Void Refinement Realm Dao Fruit!
“Indeed, plucking human cauldrons is much easier than searching for Dao Fruits.”
After Ning Fan cleaned up and put on his clothes, his eyes casually shifted to the unconscious red-haired lady.
Since she wanted to kill him, he plucked her cultivation base and felt not a shred of guilt for his actions.
This plucking session could be considered to have benefitted her since it saved her life as well.
Ning Fan shook his Cauldron Ring and placed the naked lady inside that realm. Then, he gave an order to a certain part of space in the ring.
“Bing Ling, Yue Ling, take good care of this lady. Even though she is just at the Vein Opening Realm, she will be of great use to me in the future.”
“Understood!” The two sisters, Bing Ling and Yue Ling, who were diligently cultivating inside the Cauldron Ring immediately replied politely.
After that, Ning Fan sat down on the floor in a meditative posture once again. With the help of the plucking session, he had managed to fully replenish all the essence qi he had used up during the two successive battles.
Besides, he also discovered that his sword consciousness and sword sense experienced a subtle change after plucking the red-haired lady. A small part of his sword sense had turned blood-red.
That color was a result of being stained by killing qi. After Ning Fan examined himself internally, he found out that the killing qi did not carry any side-effects. Instead, it even increased the destructive power of his sword sense. Thus, he stopped investigating it any longer.
He did not immediately leave the Yuan Yao World. He put out the green fire lanterns inside the dark golden pagoda.
In complete darkness, it was like he was falling into a battle with his Dao Heart.
When he was young, he shouldered a blood feud. During that time, however, he was weak and had no connections. The only thing he could rely on was plucking women using the Yin Yang Transformation which led him to walk the evil path.
After climbing and advancing to his current level, be it his pill refinement realm or his cultivation base, both of them were enough for him to cultivate peacefully. He did not need to go against the world to become a devil lord of dual-cultivation anymore.
However, ever since he chose the evil path, how could it be easy for him to turn back?
Two paths seemed to appear in his mindscape. One of them was black while the other one was white. The white path led to the vast and boundless righteous path while the black one led to the evil path strewn with thorns.
Ning Fan sighed gently. He crushed both the righteous and evil paths, combining the two paths into one. Then, he opened his eyes.
“I am neither righteous nor evil. However, if it’s to protect them, I can be righteous or evil.”
*Chi*
Ning Fan suddenly rose to his feet and turned into a ray of flowing light which flew out of the pagoda and the Yuan Yao World.
After returning to the silver boat, the first thing he did was to use the power of his memory intent realm to selectively erase one day of memories of all the Divine Transformation Realm cultivators including Old Man Qu.
The commonly used Soul Memory Searching Technique would inflict severe damage to cultivator’s Sea of Consciousness. As for the memory intent realm which Ning Fan used, it could reduce the damage a little.
All the Divine Transformation Realm cultivators whose memories were erased temporarily fell unconscious.
When they woke up later, they all felt that some part of their bodies hurt a lot but they could not remember anything.
Of course, the place where they felt pain wasn’t their backsides but their Sea of Consciousness.
“Weren’t we driving the silver boat just now? Why would we fall unconscious all of a sudden?” A Divine Transformation Realm servant asked.
“It seems like something had happened but I can’t remember it.” Another Divine Transformation Realm cultivator answered with a strange feeling.
Just like that, Ning Fan erased all of their memories of the day. None of them could remember him capturing the female expert and killing the devil general anymore.
Ning Fan nodded his head with satisfaction. The reason why he erased everyone’s memories was for his safety. For now, the matter about him killing Dao Yan should not be known by everyone in the world.
He then stared at the Sovereign Execution Token which he was holding in his hand. His eyes were as sharp and cold as ice. Moments after that, he kept the token.
It had already been used once and was no longer usable. To Ning Fan, the only purpose it would serve from now on was to remind him that he could not be complacent as he still had a great enemy he had to face in a decisive battle!
“Why would you offend someone that significant…” Su Yan’s face was full of worry. Moksha Sovereign, the Sovereign Execution Token, the top ten devil generals… She had seen and heard lots of things. Therefore, she understood the meaning behind Moksha Sovereign’s actions in using the Sovereign Execution Token to get rid of Ning Fan.
Moksha Sovereign viewed Ning Fan as a thorn in his heart…
Moreover, according to what Devil General Dao Yan said, Su Yan could guess that the reason why he used Ning Fan’s Harmonious Spirit Realm qi to pursue him was certainly because when Ning Fan offended Moksha Sovereign, he was just at the Harmonious Spirit Realm at that time…
Su Yan found it extremely difficult to imagine how a young Harmonious Spirit Realm cultivator would have the courage to defy a Void Fragmentation Realm sovereign being and leave a lasting and worrisome impression on the latter.
She had also heard before that Moksha Sovereign forcibly descended upon the Rain World forty plus years ago and retreated unscathed. That incident made the Rain World shamefully lose face.
When she thought about it carefully, she began to form a suspicion regarding Ning Fan.
That time Moksha Sovereign descended upon the Rain World, could it be that their feud started there?
For a while, Su Yan was gloomy. She realized that her understanding of Ning Fan was truly very shallow.
She could even tell that the remarkable achievements Ning Fan achieved were the results of the massive burden he shouldered.
“Although I am just a Void Inquiry Stage expert who is just as insignificant as an ant in the eyes of a Void Fragmentation Realm expert, I will help you no matter what without feeling the slightest regret. You have my word!” Su Yan spoke solemnly to Ning Fan as if she was making an oath.