Chapter 529 - A Complete Wipe Out! (1/2)
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Yue Country had annexed eleven cultivation countries which included Great Jin and it was officially promoted as a void-grade cultivation country, becoming the nineteenth void-grade cultivation country of the Rain World!
Seven Apricot City also rose to fame rapidly within a single night and became one of the strongest forces of the Rain World!
On a desolate land of Yue Country, a large island suddenly fell down from the sky. There was only a sect consisting solely of female cultivators on the island. It was the Bi Yao Sect and it joined Seven Apricot City.
From then on, many experts had appeared in Seven Apricot City. Each and every one of them had delicate and ravishing looks.
Su Yan, Yue Lingkong, Ming Que, Xu Qiuling… All the ladies that Ning Fan had brought back from the Endless Sea had stayed in Seven Apricot City.
The name of Seven Apricot City of Yue Country was crazily spread across the world all of a sudden.
Not only Marquis White Robe oversaw the city but also a few Void Refinement Realm female cultivators guarding it!
“Big Brother Fan! Where did you get so many ladies that are so strong and beautiful…? And there are so many of them… There aren’t only the legendary Divine Transformation Realm cultivators but also the Void Refinement Realm experts that only exist in the myth…”
Zhi He was slightly jealous. Her insignificant cultivation base might still be something in Yue Country but it was simply nothing in front of the genuinely powerful experts.
“Isn’t it good to have many people? From today onwards, I’ll be the city lord of Seven Apricot City and you will be the vice city lord. All of them will be feudal ranking elders and inner elders of the city. With them around, the city will no longer encounter any great danger… This is our home and we must protect it carefully.” Ning Fan patted Zhi He’s tiny head and shook his head with a smile.
“Is it good to have many people?!” Zhi He pouted. Well, there is no wife in the world who would like to have their husband bringing a bunch of ladies back home, okay?!
However, when she thought about it from another perspective, she recalled that there was a young girl called Mu Xiaohuan among the ladies Ning Fan brought back.
She was quite unhappy originally. However, when she saw Mu Xiaohuan, she began to feel joy from the bottom of her heart.
Mu Xiaohuan and Zhi He had similar temperaments. They just were like a soul mate to each other. Ning Fan actually had found such a good friend for Zhi He and it made her extremely happy.
Zhi He liked Mu Xiaohuan very much. It was just like how she liked Si Wuxie in the past. She did not need a reason for having those feelings.
She treated Mu Xiaohuan, who was a little foodie, as her biological younger sister and both of them were inseparable every day.
“Since you’ve found me a great younger sister, I’ll spare you this time. There will be no next time!”
Zhi He snorted gently. However, as soon as she turned around, she covered her mouth and smiled secretly. She was not truly angry at all.
“Silly girl, hurry up and sleep…” Ning Fan smiled apologetically and lulled Zhi He to sleep. After that, he walked out to the courtyard and stood below the snowy night sky that had a bright moon and a few stars.
He had returned with a powerful cultivation base. He had helped Yue Country to be promoted and developed Seven Apricot City.
However, everything he had done was still not enough.
“It’s still not enough. The current strength of Seven Apricot City is still not strong enough… Seven Apricot City must have a Void Fragmentation Realm guardian!”
“The little sable of the Demon Sinister Forest, Princess Mei… If I can bring her out, I can then find the first Void Fragmentation Realm expert to be the guardian of Seven Apricot City. And if I can bring the Min Luo Treant out of the Dark Sparrow’s Grave, Seven Apricot City will have the second Void Fragmentation Realm guardian…”
“In that case, I’ll need to visit the Demon Sinister Forest and the Dark Sparrow’s Grave to see if I can bring out the two Void Fragmentation Realm experts. If I succeed, they not only can help me protect Seven Apricot City but also become a powerful aid for me to face Moksha Sovereign!”
“Moreover, the Demon Sinister Forest still has one of Weiliang’s three souls, Ning Honghong… Bone Sovereign!”
Ning Fan’s eyes turned cold. He did not forget the Void Fragmentation Realm white bone sovereign being.
Min Luo Treant was the king of the Dark Sparrow’s Grave. Thus, he should not face any danger there.
The Demon Sinister Sparrow, on the other hand, had Bone Sovereign. Hence, it was unknown if the little sable, Ning Honghong and Mu Xiaoliang were still safe and sound.
Well, since Ning Fan had already found Mu Weiliang’s corpse, her remnant soul residing in the Demon Sinister Forest naturally had to tolerate having her name changed to Mu Xiaoliang.
“There are Su Yan and Yue Lingkong to handle the matter regarding the integration of countries into Yue Country. I don’t have to worry about it. When the sun rises tomorrow, I’ll return to the Sinister Sparrow Sect and head over the Demon Sinister Forest.” Ning Fan told Luo You within his mind.
“Don’t worry. With my help, you don’t have to bother about the mere Bone Sovereign at all!” Luo You chuckled. Then, she abruptly asked.
“Oh yes, what exactly is Yun Youmu’s purpose of giving you these items?”
“I don’t know.” Ning Fan frowned as he took out the storage pouch which Yun Youmu gave to him.
There were only two old jade slips that had turned slightly yellowish due to their age and nothing else. Each of them contained the incomplete version of a magic technique.
“Death Technique – Immemorial Fishing Line Technique!”
“Life Technique – Fishing Net of Creation!”
“When the Life and Death Techniques are used at the same time, one could cultivate a trace of Life and Death Qi…”
Ning Fan kept the jade slips and stood under the snowy sky. The shadows of his fingers were moving up and down.
As he was changing his hand seals, he sometimes extracted pitch-black fishing lines and sometimes white lines which would form into a large net…
The plum trees around him would lose their life force from time to time and become blossoming with winter plums again. The scenery was rather odd.
As the two techniques were being used alternately, traces of Life and Death Qi were condensing inside Ning Fan’s dantian.
The formation of the Life and Death Qi was extremely slow. However, as the two types of qi were formed, Ning Fan felt that the quality of his body had improved slightly.
He felt a little more surreal and a little less violent.
If he continues to cultivate the Life and Death Techniques, he would probably turn into a sage-like senior exuding the air of an immortal in the end.
“Life and Death Qi, huh…” Ning Fan was deep in thought.
“*Chuckle* I didn’t expect that Yun Youmu would give you this kind of secret technique. They actually allowed you to cultivate the Life and Death Qi. These two types of qi are excellent items. With your innate potential, if you cultivate the techniques diligently for one hundred thousand years, you will be able to gain enough Life and Death Qi and have at least thirty percent chance to become an immortal! The magic techniques that Yun Youmu gave to you are really good…” Luo You said with chuckles.
“One hundred thousand years of grueling cultivation just to increase the chances of becoming an immortal by thirty percent… I didn’t have one hundred thousand years just to cultivate these two techniques.” Ning Fan shook his head with a smile. He completely had no idea why Yun Youmu gave the two magic techniques to him.
Helping him become an immortal? It seemed unlikely…
Could there be a secret plot behind it? Probably…
Or, is it possible that Yun Youmu was just being too bored and that’s why he gave Ning Fan something randomly just to tease him?
Letting Ning Fan see the hope of becoming an immortal and then telling him that he would actually need to spend one hundred thousand years of effort in order to gain thirty percent chance in becoming an immortal?
But would Yun Youmu be that bored?
After standing there for an entire night, Ning Fan still could not figure out Yun Youmu’s intention.
When the sun rose, he informed Zhi He and other women about where he was going. Then, he made a step and left Seven Apricot City. When he descended upon the Sinister Sparrow Sect, he walked toward the Demon Sinister Forest all alone.
The formation lights outside the Demon Sinister Forest posed no resistance to him. With his body covered with golden purple mist, he directly disregarded the formation lights and entered the spooky forest.
The scenery of the forest was still the same as before but Ning Fan was no longer the same.
He still remembered the old saying: the more mysterious a mountain is, the greater the secret hidden in it.
Starting from the First Region, he travelled all the way into the depths of the forest. Meanwhile, past memories kept appearing in his mind.
When he first entered the Sinister Sparrow Forest, he was just a Harmonious Spirit Realm cultivator.
When he entered the forest again today, his cultivation base was far stronger than before.
In the past, he stopped at the Third Region of the forest. Today, he could even explore the Seventh Region of the forest!
Be it the Vein Opening Realm ghosts or the Harmonious Spirit Realm ghosts, all of them were shivering in fear upon sensing from afar the ferocious qi that Ning Fan emanated.
Ning Fan directly skipped past the first two regions and arrived at the Third Region without encountering any resistance.
Just as he was about to spread out his spirit sense to check whether Mu Xiaoliang and Ning Honghong were still in the Red Division of the Third Region, fighting sounds and footsteps were heard from a distance. In the next second, the land began trembling violently.
A white skeleton giant was sneering. He trampled upon mountains and trees while pursuing several tens of Gold Core Realm ghosts.
“How dare a division consisting of just Gold Core Realm ghosts follow Princess Mei to rebel against me? You all really are courting death! Today, I’ve come to kill you. Let’s see who else could save you!” The white skeleton giant was none other than the clone of Bone Sovereign. His current clone possessed the cultivation base at the Peak Gold Core Realm.
“H-Help!”
The group of Gold Core Realm ghosts were screaming for help while running for their lives.
Each time the white skeleton giant raised his palm, he could smash a Gold Core Realm ghost to death. After letting out a cacophony of laughter, he grabbed multiple ghosts and shoved them down his throat.
The giant was laughing evilly while the ghosts were fleeing desperately. All of a sudden, a young man in white robes appeared in front of them.
The giant was stunned. He did not see clearly how that young man appear. Besides, he felt that the young man looked extremely familiar. However, he could not recall who he was.
When the ghosts saw the young man’s appearance and sensed his outstanding aura force, they behaved like desperate patients turning to any doctor they could find and immediately shouted, “This friend, please save us hurriedly! We are the ghost cultivators of the Red Division. We are now being hunted by the Bone Sovereign’s clone!”
“Red Division… Isn’t that the division of Ning Honghong and Mu Xiaoliang…?” Ning Fan pondered for a while and took a step forward. He stood in front of the white skeleton giant, shielding the ghosts behind him.
“Bone Sovereign, it has been a while. So you aren’t dead yet.” Ning Fan uttered indifferently.
“It’s you!” The smile on the white skeleton giant’s face vanished and he burst with fury afterward.
The white skeleton giant had remembered him! The young man in white robes before his eyes was his nemesis. In the past, he had destroyed his clone that he summoned using his true soul. He was the culprit who caused his cultivation base to fall!
In that year, he took Wang Yao’s identity and sneaked out of the Demon Sinister Forest…
In that year, Ning Fan killed Wang Yao, inflicting serious damage to Bone Sovereign’s true body!
“Ning Fan! You killed my true soul clone in the past, rendering my cultivation base to regress. I have yet to regain that cultivation level even until today. I must kill you today to vent out my anger!”
Seething with anger, the white skeleton giant raised one of his fists and swung it toward Ning Fan.
The force of his punch was nearly equivalent to that of a common Nascent Soul Realm strike. The land within the one thousand li* (500m per li) shook violently.
Ning Fan also threw a punch at the giant. He did not use all his strength like how the giant did. It was just a random attack that he delivered casually.
Even so, as soon as his threw that punch, the forest within the area of several ten thousand li* (500m per li) was flattened. Countless mountains and rivers were destroyed. The entire Third Region was affected by an even more intense tremor!
The white skeleton giant stared at Ning Fan’s terrifying punch in disbelief. He was shocked and bewildered. Upon impact, he was literally smashed to ashes!
Even upon death, Bone Sovereign’s clone also could not understand why the Harmonious Spirit Realm young man he met forty years ago would gain such frightening power today!
“I’m no longer a Harmonious Spirit Realm cultivator like before. You also can no longer try to hunt me down with just your clone.” Ning Fan withdrew his hand and stood calmly. His eyes remained cold and indifferent.
All the ghosts of the Red Division behind him were petrified!
Since when did such a powerful expert appear in the Third Region? He could flatten the mountains and rivers within several ten thousand li* (500m per li) and kill Bone Sovereign’s Gold Core Realm clone with just a single punch!
Could the white-robed young man before them actually be a Nascent Soul Realm ghost king?
However, even a Nascent Soul Realm ghost king did not seem to possess such incredible power… What exactly was Ning Fan’s cultivation base?!
“I’m looking for Ning Honghong and Mu Weiliang… Are they still in the Red Division?” Ning Fan asked with a firm and assertive tone.
The group of ghost cultivators were afraid of Ning Fan’s might. Thus, they immediately told him everything they knew without reservation.
After hearing their answer, Ning Fan’s expression gradually became grim.
“Honghong has vanished?! Why would she disappear all of a sudden…? Did her disappearance have anything to do with Hong Yi…?”
“Princess Mei has brought Mu Xiaoliang to the Sixth Region. She is currently in the Yellow Spring Demon City of that region… I wonder if she is safe and sound…”
Ning Fan muttered to himself. His eyes flickered with a hint of worry. Then, he asked about the situation in the Sixth Region.
“According to hearsay, Bone Sovereign had dispatched an army of white bones to besiege the Yellow Spring City where Princess Mei was residing… Three months ago, Princess Mei fought Bone Sovereign and she suffered serious injuries from it. She has yet to recover even up until today. It’s unknown whether she is dead or alive… After losing Princess Mei’s protection, the Yellow Spring City is in a precarious state and it could fall anytime…” A Gold Core Realm ghost answered.
“Princess Mei was hurt? Then, would anything happen to Mu Xiaoliang?!”
Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with seriousness. Without any hesitation, he took out the ancient golden sword from his pouch and stepped on it.
He tossed countless immortal jade to fill up the indentations of the sword and activated the speed of the ancient sword to its maximum limit. Afterward, he drove the sword and dashed straight to the Sixth Region!
Princess Mei had suffered serious injuries and the Yellow Spring City was under siege. Naturally, Mu Xiaoliang was in danger…
She was one of Weiliang’s three souls. Thus, Ning Fan could not allow her to be harmed no matter what!
Ning Fan stood at the tip of the pure golden sword light. With frightening baleful qi, he dashed straight into the Fourth Region at a speed equivalent to the Void Fragmentation Realm.
All of a sudden, all the Nascent Soul Realm ghost kings in the Fourth Region shivered in terror. All of them felt an irresistible baleful qi from Ning Fan’s body. None of them dared to stop Ning Fan’s sword light!