Chapter 528 - Yue Country’s Promotion (2/2)

In the past, she was the sky and he was the earth… Today, however, she was the earth and he was the sky…

Ning Fan descended on the jade platform that was hanging in midair again and scanned around the place. When his eyes scanned past Tianji Laoren and the Ning Family of Hai Ning, he looked down-hearted.

Both Tianji Laoren and Ning Tian did him wrong in the past. They must die.

However, the Ning Family of Hai Ning and the cultivators of Wu Country were innocent.

His past resentments had already lessened. He was not willing to commit more massacres in Wu Country. When he looked back at his mortal life, the mountains and rivers in Wu Country once had his footprints as well. The Ning Family of Hai Ning had fostered him when he was an orphan and raised him into a man…

He was not in a hurry to look at the storage pouch that Yun Youmu gave him. Instead, he gradually walked toward Tianji Laoren and coldly uttered, “Kill yourself.”

“N-No! I’ve realized my mistake. I was muddle-headed in the past and that’s why I sold Senior’s information to the Heavenly Dao Sect. I was wrong! Please give me a chance! Please spare my life! I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die!”

“If you refuse to commit suicide, then let me help you…”

With a cold and indifferent face, Ning Fan lifted a finger and pointed at Tianji Laoren’s forehead. The latter’s body trembled for a while and his expression froze. His nascent soul broke and his corpse collapsed to the ground.

“I’m not a kind person. If someone does me wrong, I’ll seek revenge; if someone helps me, I’ll definitely repay them. That’s all. You have made a huge mistake in the past and caused countless cultivators of Yue Country to lose their lives. Your mistake even nearly got Zhi He killed… After I’ve killed you today, that animosity will be permanently resolved…”

Ning Fan did not even spare a glance at Tianji Laoren’s corpse. His coldness made countless cultivators shiver with fear.

After that, he gradually walked toward the seats of Wu Country, approaching the Ning Family of Hai Ning. Every step he took instilled immense anxiety into the cultivators of Wu Country, sending chills down the spines of the three ancestors of the Ning Family.

“Is Marquis White Robe going to eliminate our Ning Family?! Are we going to die?!!!” The three ancestors did not even have the courage to escape.

“Ning Fan! Please spare me! I was wrong. I was thoughtless in the past to harm you. I was silly in the past!” Ning Tian suddenly dashed out from the seats of the Ning Family and knelt before Ning Fan, kowtowing and begging to him ceaselessly.

Countless cultivators of the Ning Family were petrified.

It turned out that it was Ning Tian who provoked Ning Fan. It was him who caused a huge trouble to the Ning Family!

Ning Fan’s face remained cold. He uttered a few words calmly.

“Ning Tian, you’ve made an inexcusable mistake against me and Ning Gu in that year and you must pay with your life. It’s impossible for me to forgive you.”

“Since you leave me with no choice, I’ll just fight you with my life!” Ning Tian’s eyes suddenly flashed with ferocity. He shot out a mid-grade flying sword from his long sleeve directly at Ning Fan’s dantian.

Ning Fan did not even care about that flying sword. When the flying sword was three cun* (3.33cm per cun) away from him, it was literally burned to ashes by Ning Fan’s massive magic power.

With Ning Fan’s current level, Ning Tian certainly could not harm him even if he stood there without moving at all… This was the difference between their cultivation bases!

“Impossible! I don’t believe it! Forty years ago, you are just a mortal. Why could you get so strong? I refuse to believe it! Only I, Ning Tian, am the blessed son of Heaven. You’re just nothing. Why Heaven would show favoritism toward you?! Ah!”

Ning Fan did not give Ning Tian the chance to continue blabbering. As soon as he pointed his finger at him, the latter vanished into ashes…

As such, his grudges against Wu Country were ended once and for all, ashes to ashes, dust to dust…

“Are the three of you the three ancestors of the Ning Family?” Ning Fan shifted his gaze toward the seats of Hai Ning and said with a flat tone.

“Yes. J-Juniors are t-the three ancestors of the Ning Family.” The three ancestors of the Ning Family were scared half to death. They immediately cupped their fists and bowed at Ning Fan while their bodies were trembling uncontrollably. They did not know how Ning Fan would deal with their family after killing Ning Tian.

“Is Ning Daniu dead…?” Ning Fan suddenly asked an unrelated question.

“Erm… W-Who is Ning Daniu? We don’t know him…” The three ancestors began trembling even more intensely. They had no idea whether they would enrage Ning Fan without giving him a satisfactory answer.

“He is dead. Your foster father is dead. He died of old age.” In the next instant, a lady in green robes walked out from the seats of the Ning Family. She was none other than Ning Qingqing.

“He’s dead also…” Ning Fan closed his eyes and felt slightly disappointed.

Ning Daniu was a mortal. He was one of the servants that the Ning Family of Hai Ning adopted and he was Ning Fan and Ning Gu’s foster father.

Ning Daniu was not any less harsh on Ning Fan. However, despite his bad treatment, Ning Fan still had gratitude to him for raising him…

Thus, Ning Fan more or less felt melancholic upon hearing of his death.

Looking at the green-robed lady in front of him, Ning Fan was slightly astonished.

Ning Daniu was just a lowly mortal servant in the Ning Family of Hai Ning. The cultivators of the Ning Family should not be paying attention to a mortal.

Even though he asked the three ancestors of the Ning Family about him, he did not expect to get an answer from them.

To his surprise, this lady could actually give him an exact answer.

“So it’s you… Mistress Qing…” Ning Fan reviewed his past memories and gradually remembered who this lady in green robes was.

When he was still a mortal young man in the past, he had entered the Ning Bi Hill to gather herbs.

On that day, he saw a green-robed young lady in danger and shouted for help to draw the attention from the gang of scoundrels.

On that day, he had offended Young Master Tian of the Ning Family because of this which brought a life-threatening disaster to himself. When he was in trouble, it was that lady who saved him again.

The resentments and debts of gratitude surfaced in his mind again. All of a sudden, feelings of exhaustion filled him.

“Ning Fan, a-are you going to annihilate the Ning Family…?” Ning Qingqing bit his lips and asked.

“It’s only Ning Tian who did me wrong in the past. The Ning Family has nothing to do with it. Besides, I’ve once promised a friend in the Demon Sinister Forest to help her take care of the Ning Family. I won’t eliminate the Ning Family… You can be rest assured.”

Ning Fan turned around to leave the seats of the Ning Family and returned to the jade platform.

His indifferent eyes scanned across the surroundings. Several hundred thousands of cultivators lowered their heads, not daring to look Ning Fan in the eye.

“King Jin is already dead. Great Jin will not integrate the countries. The one that is going to integrate the countries will be my Yue Country. I declare that from today onward, the land of the eleven countries here will all integrate with my Yue Country!”

“I’m a Void Refinement Realm expert. With me around, the Yue Country will be promoted as a void-grade cultivation country anytime. As long as the countries that join my Yue Country are not rebellious, I will not disappoint you all. If any of you have a second thought in mind, don’t blame me for being ruthless and merciless!”

Ning Fan did not have the idea of discussing with the eleven countries. What he said was the order. Not a single cultivation country would dare enough to defy his order.

After annexing the countries, the Yue Country’s territory would be expanded one hundred times. And, Ning Fan decided to strengthen his forces within Yue Country.

He wanted to build a force that would be strong enough to protect Yue Country and withstand all the forces from the Rain Palace!

By building this force, he did not wish to go on conquest everywhere. All he wished was to protect each and every one of his women.

Only when he no longer had any worries for them could he step onto the sea of blood of the cultivation world all alone!

He would not give anyone a chance to gather the forces from one hundred plus sects and threaten his friends and relatives again.

“If there is time in the future, I’ll return to the Ning Family of Hai Ning and have a look. I also miss the mountains and rivers there.” Ning Fan said indifferently to the members of Hai Ning. Then, he turned around and returned to the seats of Yue Country.

“Let’s go home.” He smiled gently at Zhi He and other women.

“Mm.”

…

Ten days later, on the south-eastern continent of the Rain World, a surprising news was being spread around like wildfire.

Yue Country had annexed eleven cultivation countries including Great Jin and it was officially promoted as a void-grade cultivation country, becoming the nineteenth void-grade cultivation country of the Rain World!

The person who ruled Yue Country was the lord of Seven Apricot City –Ning Fan who was also known as Marquis White Robe!

The situation in the south-eastern continent of the Rain World was instantly changed because of the rise of Yue Country!

Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel