Chapter 530 - The Confrontation After Forty Years! (1/2)
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Mei Chen’s injuries were really serious. They were so severe that her cultivation base had regressed…
The sky above the Yellow Spring Demon City was pervaded with a thin ghost mist. The air was dull and stuffy. Faint blood stench wafted into the city from the battlefield outside.
Mei Chen draped a splendor black marten coat. She looked as gorgeous and ravishing as before. However, her complexion was unusually pale because of the injuries she was suffering from.
Ning Fan made a sigh and grabbed Mei Chen’s wrist without bothering how she was trying to resist. He held her wrist in the center of his palm and used his medicine soul to carefully examine Mei Chen’s injuries.
“Stinky bad man! You are still as brazen and shameless as before even after forty plus years. How dare you profane me in front of so many people?!” Mei Chen might be cursing verbally but she did not break free from Ning Fan’s hand.
All the cultivators in the Yellow Spring City were dumbfounded.
As far as they remembered, Mei Chen hated men the most and she would never allow any man to touch her body.
Today, however, she actually let Ning Fan hold her wrist. This was literally inconceivable!
Mu Xiaoliang’s cheeks were rosy. She was still the shy and sensitive lady like before. When she saw a man holding a woman’s hand, she would blush.
After a long while, Ning Fan withdrew his medicine soul but did not let go of Mei Chen’s wrist. With a stern face that looked as if he was going to berate her, he asked with a concerned tone, “Tell me, why would you get such serious injuries? If my estimation isn’t wrong, during the forty plus years of my disappearance, your cultivation base should have already recovered to the Third Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm… However, because of the grievous injuries you got this time, your cultivation base has fallen sharply to the First Heavenly Layer. Furthermore, you’re just a hair’s breadth away from falling down from the Void Fragmentation Realm… Your injuries are extremely serious. Even I can’t heal you entirely with ease.”
“*Tsk* The reason why I would get such injuries has nothing to do with you at all. Besides, I didn’t ask you to help me heal my injuries at all!” Mei Chen’s expression was slightly abnormal. She randomly talked back to Ning Fan and swiftly removed her hand from Ning Fan.
“The reason why Elder Sister Mei Chen would get these injuries is because…” Mu Xiaoliang wanted to tell Ning Fan about it but Mei Chen glared at her, interrupting her from talking.
“Don’t tell this stinky bad man about it! Otherwise, the bond between me and you will end right now!”
“T-Then… I won’t tell him…” Mu Xiaoliang was afraid that Mei Chen would break off the relationship with her. Thus, she immediately covered her tiny mouth with her hand, not daring to speak a single word.
Ning Fan was not a person who liked getting to the bottom of something. However, he wanted to help Mei Chen heal her injuries. Therefore, he needed to understand the cause of her injuries.
Looking at the silly Mu Xiaoliang, Ning Fan put on an innocent and harmless smile and said, “Little Black just doesn’t want you to ‘tell’ me but she didn’t say that you can’t ‘show’ me. You can imprint the causes of Little Black’s injuries in a jade slip. Then, I’ll look through them with my eyes. It won’t be considered as telling me.”
“That’s right. Why didn’t I think of this just now?” Mu Xiaoliang gently patted her head and stuck out her tongue. After that, she took out a jade slip and imprinted the sequence of events into the jade slip.
She sure was still as naïve and silly as before.
Ning Fan received the jade slip and scanned it with his spirit sense. After taking a look at the jade slip, he already understood why Mei Chen would get hurt.
Mei Chen tried to stop him but it was already too late. She let out a light angry humph and turned around, flying back to the city.
Ning Fan kept the jade slip. Looking at Mei Chen’s figure that was gradually diminishing into the distance, his eyes filled with complicated emotions.
Without a doubt, it was Bone Sovereign who inflicted those injuries on her. However, the reason why she would get such injuries was because of Ning Fan…
When Ning Fan eliminated Bone Sovereign’s true soul in the past, the latter’s cultivation base had regressed to the Third Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm.
Mei Chen had also recovered her original cultivation base that was at the Third Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm after breaking the seals within her body. During that time, she was considered to have equal strength with Bone Sovereign who was severely injured.
Mei Chen lingered around the Sixth Region while Bone Sovereign ruled over the Seventh Region. Both of them could not do anything to each other. Thus, all of them were living together peacefully.
However, no one expected that Bone Sovereign would hate Ning Fan to the marrow of his bones. He spent years of efforts to condense another true soul to try sneaking out of the Demon Sinister Forest and head to the Rain World to seek revenge on Ning Fan!
After knowing this information, Mei Chen got into the Seventh Region on her own and fought Bone Sovereign at all cost, trying to eliminate Bone Sovereign’s true soul forcibly!
The reason why she chose to do that was because she did not want Ning Fan to be hurt by Bone Sovereign…
After Bone Sovereign’s second true soul was eliminated, his cultivation base had fallen sharply once again to the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm. It made him extremely furious…
Mei Chen, on the other hand, suffered even more serious injuries. Her cultivation base regressed even more and it nearly fell from the Void Fragmentation Realm…
In that battle, both Mei Chen and Bone Sovereign suffered heavy losses.
When Mei Chen was treating her injuries, Bone Sovereign sent out the great army of ghost soldiers with the intention to kill Mei Chen in the Yellow Spring Demon City to vent out his anger!
“Little Black actually got herself hurt because of me…” It was impossible for Ning Fan not to feel touched. His intention to help her heal her wounds became even more determined.
“N-Ning Fan… Could you heal Elder Sister Mei Chen’s injuries…? Please, I beg you…” Mu Xiaoliang placed her hands on her chest and stared at Ning Fan with her large puppy eyes.
Ning Fan laughed and patted her head. He was really defeated by those innocent pleading eyes.
“Don’t worry. Little Black is my demon pet. How could I cast her aside and leave her high and dry? Let’s go. Bring me to her boudoir. I’ll help her treat her injuries.”
As soon as Ning Fan finished speaking, he directly held Mu Xiaoliang’s soft waist and flew toward the demon city in a flash of light.
Commander You Hai and the other cultivators of the city did not stop Ning Fan.
Everyone with discerning eyes would be able to tell that the relationship between Ning Fan and Mei Chen was ambiguous.
Yellow Spring City was Mei Chen’s territory. Ning Fan naturally could come and go freely and no one would care about it.
It was just that many ghost cultivators were filled with deep admiration for him.
“That Young Master Ning is truly outstanding. He actually dares to hold Lord Princess Mei’s hand in public just now and Lord Princess Mei did not resist at all! What exactly is their relationship? Could the two of them be partners?!”
“Oh my god1 If that man really is Lord Princess Mei’s partner, he will be the second master of our Yellow Spring City, won’t he?!”
“That Young Master Ning has outstanding charm for being able to win Lord Princess Mei’s heart successfully.”
“Even though Young Master Ning called Lord Princess Mei as Little Black, Lord Princess Mei actually did not beat the life out of him… Apparently, the relationship between Lord Princess Mei and Young Master Ning is really close!”
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Ning Fan travelled past layers of ghost mist. After a while, he stopped and descended outside a palace that had the tightest defense in the entire city.
He completely ignored the layers of formation light surrounding the palace. When he pointed his finger that was covered in golden purple mist at the formation light, the formation light immediately parted, forming a passage for him.
Ning Fan put down Mu Xiaoliang and they walked into the palace together.
Mei Chen also just returned to the palace. After walking for some distances, her complexion began even paler. Her injuries worsened, nearly making her unable to maintain her human form and had to return to her demon form as a yellow spring sable.
Before she could sit properly after getting back to the side of her bed, Ning Fan had already entered her palace. It made her feel slightly displeased.
“Stinky bad man! Who gave you the permission to enter my palace…? *Cough*” She felt a sudden sharp pain in her chest and started coughing. Traces of light red blood flowed out from the corners of her mouth.
“You are my demon pet. Therefore, your resting palace naturally is my resting palace. If I want to enter, I’ll enter. Whose permission will I need to enter?” Ning Fan was verbally teasing but his eyes were filled with a hint of sympathy.
“Bah! Who is your demon pet?! If you dare to speak nonsense again, I’ll… *Cough*…”
Mei Chen tried to talk back to Ning Fan again but it aggravated her injuries, causing her to cough out blood once more.
When she was speaking, Ning Fan and Mu Xiaoliang had already reached in front of her bed.
“Ning Fan, hurry up and save Elder Sister Mei Chen!” Mu Xiaoliang urged with concern.
“Don’t worry!”
Ning Fan ignored Mei Chen’s ferocious look that seemed like she wanted to eat him alive. He just gave her a faint smile and then reached out his hand, using his Yin Plucking Finger on her.
In the past, Ning Fan could not subdue Mei Chen completely using his Yin Plucking Finger because he was just at the Harmonious Spirit Realm.
Today, however, he was already a Void Refinement Realm expert whereas Mei Chen was grievously injured. When he used this technique, Mei Chen could not resist at all. She literally felt numbness across her entire body and then she collapsed to the bed behind her.
“Shameless! How dare you use a bewitching technique on me when I am in such a state. You are the most shameless stinky man that I have ever met in my entire life! What do you want to do to me?! Stop! Don’t take off my clothes! Watch your hands! Don’t touch here!”
Mei Chen’s face turned rose while she was cursing Ning Fan. She could only watch Ning Fan take off all her clothes without having the capabilities to retaliate due to the numbness and weakness of her body.
Ning Fan did not leave a single piece of clothing on Mei Chen’s body. Then, he carried her in his arms and placed her flat on the bed.
Mei Chen’s body was spotlessly clean like a porcelain sculpture. Not a single wound could be seen on her body.
However, Ning Fan was aware that the injuries that Mei Chen had were not external wounds but the wounds in the demon soul.
In her dantian, her demon soul was completely scattered. It was dispersed all over her immortal veins and could not be condensed again.
The only way to stabilize her injuries was to put her scattered demon soul power together again.
Besides, even if it could stabilize her condition, the cultivation base that she had already lost could not be recovered and it would only remain at the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm…
She had fought Bone Sovereign with her life for Ning Fan’s sake. The injuries she got from the fight were too grave. Even if Ning Fan uses the Black Star Technique or Sixth Revolution Pills, he might not necessarily be able to cure her completely…
In order to let her regain her full health and recover her cultivation base, she would need at least a High Grade Seventh Revolution vulnerary pill.
Ning Fan did not have such a powerful pill. Thus, he could not heal her completely. The most he could do was to suppress her injuries.
His palm produced traces of black starlight. After that, he used that hand to stroke Mei Chen’s silky and tender body.