Chapter 507 - Striking Awe Into One Hundred Sects (1) (1/2)

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Chapter 507: Striking Awe Into One Hundred

Sects (1)

The ancient golden shadow swiftly flashed across the air. Huang Tingzi who was standing at the hilt of the sword had eyes full of astonishment.

Moments ago, Ning Fan killed Gold Core Realm and Nascent Soul Realm cultivators by just using his aura force. He could not believe his eyes when he saw that scene.

That white-robed young man who was usually calm and composed would actually become such a terrifying expert when he harbored the intention to kill.

Yang Gu’s eyes, on the other hand, were filled with passion. He had even more respect and admiration for his master’s techniques.

“Even though my master is still very young, be it his pill refinement realm or cultivation realm, he is among the top of the Rain World. Acknowledging him as my master is indeed the best decision I’ve made in my entire life!”

Ning Fan stood at the tip of the golden sword, facing the setting sun. His ten fingers continued to perform hand seals, driving the ancient sword.

From time to time, he would take a good quality pill to nourish his Sea of Consciousness.

Basking in the faint golden afterglow of the sunset, Ning Fan closed his eyes while controlling the sword using his spirit sense. After time went by, his spirit sense gradually adapted to the burden of supporting the ancient golden sword.

The first day went by. The tiredness he felt in his spirit sense slightly reduced.

After the second day, his spirit sense felt even less tired.

The third day… The fourth day…

On the fifth day, Ning Fan had already become completely used to the speed of the ancient sword. Controlling the sword using his spirit sense was no longer exhausting because it was becoming closer to reaching the Void Inquiry Stage.

At this moment, Ning Fan was felt as if he had become one with the ancient sword.

Venerated Pill who was regulating his breathing and healing his injuries at the hilt of the sword would occasionally raise his head and steal a glance Ning Fan. His eyes were contained amazement as well as embarrassment which arose due to the fact that he was not as good as him.

Venerated Pill had seen many Void Inquiry Stage and even Void Pierce Stage experts. However, even a Void Pierce Stage expert would not be able to do what Ning Fan was currently doing – controlling the ancient sword so smoothly and easily.

It was at the same day that the ancient sword reached the Blissful Abyss Sea Domain of the internal sea.

Blissful Abyss Sea Domain was dangerous zone that was quite notorious in the internal sea. This place was known for its excessive number of demon beasts. The sea domain was a few million li* (500m per li) vast and was covered in a magnetic mist.

Under the magnetic mist, it was unknown how many Nascent Soul Realm and Divine Transformation Realm beasts lying in wait for their preys.

“This place is extremely dangerous. Do we need to take a detour…?” Su Yan asked with a gentle voice.

She naturally was not worried about Ning Fan’s safety. However, there were still Huang Tingzi, Yang Gu and Venerated Pill who had yet to recover from his grievous injuries on the sword.

If they are ganged up by the Divine Transformation Realm beasts after entering the magnetic mist, Ming Que, Ning Fan and her would be able to keep themselves unscathed but the safety of the three others might not be guaranteed.

“Don’t worry.”

Ning Fan replied with an indifferent tone. Even though his answer was brief, it gave Su Yan infinite amount of confidence, eliminating all of her worries.

Under Ning Fan’s control, the ancient golden sword dashed directly into the area covered by the magnetic mist.

Due to the disturbance of the mist, the speed of the sword was greatly reduced. It could only travel at one-tenth of its original speed.

Even so, it was still travelling as fast as a Void Glimpse Stage expert.

“Huh? This golden sword sure is an excellent flying treasure. Despite being inside this magnetic mist, it can still travel so fast.”

Out of the blue, an elderly man’s hoarse voice resounded from the area in front of the golden sword.

The voice of this elderly man carried the Void Glimpse Stage aura force which immediately alerted everyone on the ancient sword.

“Hand over the golden sword if you want your lives to be spared! If you dare to defy me, I will unleash the one million sea beasts of the Blissful Abyss to attack you lot!”

*Roar* *Roar* *Roar*

The moment the elderly man spoke, countless beast roars echoed across all directions. It was so loud even the magnetic mist dispersed slightly.

Ning Fan’s eyes turned cold. Through the dissipating magnetic mist, he saw an old man in red robes standing in midair right in front of him. That man had an

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Filler words to make up the word count

The old man was none other than Venerated Pill, the lord of the Pill Island.

The old man did not feel strange when Ning Fan figured out his identity. There were only a few Sixth Revolution Pill Masters in Rain World. After he had displayed his Sixth Revolution medicine soul, it wasn’t strange if others could guess his identity.

Although he had just returned from his travel, he heard about Ning Fan in different places of Rain World.

Only when he met him in person today did he feel that seeing for himself much more convincing than hearing from others.

As a Sixth Revolution Pill Master, Venerated Pill was considered to be an extremely well-known person in Rain World.

Even though he had yet to break through to the Void Refinement Realm, his status was much more respected than many Void Refinement Realm experts in Rain World. Besides, because he travelled around the world frequently, his knowledge and experience were so vast that not any common people could rival him.

He had met a lot of Void Refinement Realm experts in Rain World. However, when he had sensed the strength of Ning Fan’s qi, all sorts of feelings filled his mind. Of all the Void Refinement Realm experts he knew, there was actually not a single old monster of the Void Glimpse Stage or the Void Inquiry Stage had a more vigorous qi than Ning Fan.

When he looked past Ning Fan, he saw Su Yan who had already kept the silver boat and her twelve horned dragons stand behind him like a little bird resting upon a man.

This made Venerated Pill sigh with emotions. In Rain World, Su Yan was also a Void Inquiry Stage expert whose name was widely known. But now she had joined Ning Fan…

“As soon as I return to the island, I received news that Revered Ming has suppressed the Mist Horn Devil Clan depending on your own strength. I didn’t believe it at first. But now it seems like Revered Ming’s capability is probably unrivalled among Void Inquiry Stage experts… You have my respect and admiration!”

Venerated Pill glanced at Ming Que and recalled the misunderstanding between them earlier. Then, he continued said with an earnest tone of voice.

“My dharma name is Dan Songzi and I am a good friend of Dong Xu. After I have returned, I have already heard from Yang Gu and the others about what fellow Daoist did in the past. Since you have helped my Pill Island, we owe you a favor. Besides, you are a feudal ranking elder of my island. Thus, I have no objection if you want to use our Soul Washing Pond. In fact, I will try my best to help you. Moments ago, I didn’t know that this little young lady is one of yours. That’s why we had a misunderstanding. I hope you can forgive me for my recklessness and carelessness earlier.”

As a Sixth Revolution Pill Master, it wasn’t excessive for him to treat Void Refinement Realm experts in Rain World as people on the same level as him. Thus, it was completely fine for him to address Ning Fan as fellow Daoist.

“Senior Dan is modest. I’ve seen what happened between you and Ming Que just now. Senior is just have a fair fight with Ming Que. Besides, Senior has even pull your punches during the fight. Let’s just drop this subject and forget about it.”

The reason why Ning Fan addressed Venerated Pill as a senior was not just because he was paying respect to the latter for his Sixth Revolution Pill Refinement Realm but also because he has a relation with the Pill Sovereign.

From the perspective of the Dao of Alchemy, Venerated Pill’s pill refinement skills and seniority were higher than Ning Fan. Thus, it completely appropriate for Ning Fan to see him as his senior.

Venerated Pill was stunned upon hearing how Ning Fan addressed him. Then, he shook his head and laughed.

“Between you and me, there is no need for you to address me as your senior. It’s just like how you interact with Dong Xu. Treating each other as people of the equal status will do. My pill refinement realm is at the Low Grade Sixth Revolution and I am ranked seventh among the pill refinement masters in Rain World. As for you, you are said to have Peak Grade Fifth Revolution Pill Refinement Realm and you are even given the title as ‘The Eighth Pill Refinement Master of Rain World’. Perhaps you can break through to the Sixth Revolution in a single try by using the Soul Washing Pond this time… Thus, you don’t have to call me your senior.”

“It’s extremely difficult to advance my pill refinement realm to the Sixth Revolution. To be honest, I don’t have much assurance about whether or not I can attain the Sixth Revolution in a single try this time. However, since Senior insists on seeing me as a friend of equal status, then I will make bold to address senior as fellow Daoist. Fellow Daoist Dan, if I may ask, is the Soul Washing Pond fully prepared already? When will I be able to enter the pond?”

“Up until now, the Soul Washing Pond has been unsealed up to the fourth level. In another ten days, it will be unsealed up to the sixth floor. Fellow Daoist will at least need to wait for ten more days. Only after that can fellow Daoist use the pond.” Venerated Dan explained.

“The fourth floor and the sixth floor?” Ning Fan did not know much about the Soul Washing Pond. Thus, he was not aware that the pond was divided into different floors.

“Ah. I was being careless. Fellow Daoist, please have a look at this jade slip. It has a detailed introduction about the Soul Washing Pond.” Venerated Pill took out a jade slip and passed it to Ning Fan.

Ning Fan spread his spirit sense to scan the jade slip. The information within the jade slip flowed into his mind.

The Soul Washing Pond of the Pill Island had the unique power that could nourish and strengthen pill refinement masters’ medicine souls. The power was known as the “Soul Bathing Light”.

The intensity of the Soul Bathing Light differs according to the depth of the pond. The pond was divided into seven floors of pond domains by the Pill Island with each of them being restricted by a seal.

The first floor had the weakest Soul Bathing Light. This floor was commonly meant for Peak Grade Fourth Revolution Pill Masters to break through to the Fifth Revolution.

The second floor could help improve Low Grade Fifth Revolution Pill Masters’ medicine souls.

As for the third, fourth and fifth floor, they were prepared for Mid Grade, High Grade and Peak Grade Fifth Revolution Pill Masters to temper their medicine souls.

In order to achieve the Sixth Revolution Pill Refinement Realm, the sixth floor was the best to train one’s medicine soul.

The seventh floor was the deepest level of the Soul Washing Pond. The Soul Bathing Light on that light was terrifyingly powerful. Normally, only Mid Grade Sixth Revolution Pill Masters would be able to endure this level of Soul Bathing Light.

Even Venerated Dan himself was not daring enough to temper his medicine soul on the seventh floor.

“I see.” Ning Fan returned the jade slip to Venerated Dan and went silent for a short while.

Now, the Soul Washing Pond had been unsealed up to the fourth floor that could let High Grade Fifth Revolution Pill Refinement Master to enter and cultivate. However, the Soul Bathing Light on the fourth floor did not have much effect on Ning Fan’s medicine soul.

In order to borrow the Soul Bathing Light of the pond to increase the level of his medicine soul, Ning Fan would need to enter at least the fifth floor.

And if he wants to attains the Sixth Revolution medicine soul in a single attempt, the sixth floor would be the best option.

Considering that only true Sixth Revolution Pill Refinement Master could enter the sixth floor normally, Ning Fan felt that he probably would need to consume some pills for self-protection in order to enter the sixth floor with his current medicine soul without worries.

“It seems like I have to trouble your Pill Island for ten days.” Ning Fan broke the silence.

“Hehe. Anyhow, fellow Daoist is a feudal ranking elder of my island. Just set your mind at ease and stay on this island for ten days. I will ask Huang Tingzi, Yang Gu and others to prepare some pills and spiritual equipment for you to act as self-preservation items when you enter the sixth floor of the Soul Washing Pond. When you are staying in the Pill Island, you can go to any library on the island and study whatever pill recipes or records you wish. If you discover a pill recipe that you like, you can just directly make a copy of it for yourself. No one will stop you. Besides, if fellow Daoist wants to know some experience and insights regarding the breakthrough of Sixth Revolution Pill Refinement Realm, you can always look for me anytime. I will certainly share with you everything I know.”

Venerated Dan sounded easygoing and accommodative. What he said was similar to tacitly giving Ning Fan the permission to do whatever he wants on the island.

At the next moment, he seemed to have thought about something new. His eyes actually lit up, looking eager to try something out.

“I intended to swap some medicine soul battle techniques with fellow Daoist. I wonder if you are interested to do so.”

“Swap techniques?” Ning Fan sounded slightly surprised.

“Precisely. I believe fellow Daoist has also seen the Soul Transforming Dragon I used just now. That is actually a battle soul technique that I obtained from an ancient cultivator remains. In present, I’ve reached the bottleneck in this technique’s cultivation and I need to swap battle soul techniques with others in order to achieve the breakthrough. I heard that you’ve learned the Pill Sovereign’s battle soul technique. That’s why I am interested to have a friendly fight with you. Of course, I’m going to pull my punches as well. But if fellow Daoist is unwilling to do so, I certainly won’t force you either…”

“I’m fine with you. I’m willing to fight fellow Daoist Dan since it will help you in breaking through the bottleneck of your battle soul technique. Now, please!”