Chapter 533 - The Evening Rain Is Like Dao Which Should Be Like A Circle (1/2)

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Mei Chen was still asleep. Ning Fan, on the other hand, went inside the Yuan Yao World and entered the dark golden pagoda.

On the seventh floor of the pagoda, Ning Fan summoned ninety-nine natal black stars with a wave of his hand and basked under the starlight that filled the sky.

Then, he consumed a Sixth Revolution vulnerary pill and closed his eyes to begin the long recovery session.

Only after sitting inside the dark golden pagoda for three years did his injuries be fully healed. In the outside world, only half a month passed.

Ning Fan slowly let out a deep breath and opened his eyes. His black eyes were like two endless abysses. Not a single hint of emotion was visible on his face.

He recalled killing Bone Sovereign half a month ago and felt like it was a dream.

“Bone Sovereign was a strong enemy as well as the first Void Fragmentation Realm expert that I killed with my own capabilities. However, he definitely isn’t the last one… Even though Void Fragmentation Realm experts are strong as they are the strongest beings in the First Step of Cultivation, they can still be killed! Han Nietian, I’m gradually approaching your level …”

Ning Fan closed his eyes and inspected his body internally. He discovered that his baleful qi intensified by a great deal again.

Even though Bone Sovereign committed suicide, his death was due to the battle with Ning Fan. Thus, Ning Fan more or less would be stained with some baleful qi.

All of a sudden, he remembered a common saying from the mortal realm and seemed to gain an enlightenment.

‘I don’t kill Bo Ren but Bo Ren died because of me…’ Getting affected by baleful qi after killing someone. The ultimate principle of karma actually lies within it.

“Karma… If I can sever the karma, I can then prevent myself from being affected by the baleful qi after killing someone… When I broke through to the Void Glimpse Stage last time, the reason why I would be attacked by Giant Zhi Huo was because I’ve taken too many lives in my life and gained too much baleful qi…”

“In the Four Heavens, those true immortals and immortal emperors probably are unable to avoid conflicts and fights. When they fight, stars will be destroyed and millions upon millions will die. The number of people they’ve killed must be countless times more than mine… However, they aren’t banished by the Heavenly Dao. I suppose many of them possess the methods to sever the karma and avoid the baleful qi.”

Ning Fan muttered to himself. He was just thinking about these things and did not actually have the thoughts about erasing his baleful qi.

His baleful qi all originated from the killings he had committed in the past. However, he never regretted the lives he had taken. Thus, there was no need for him to hide it.

“The path that I’ve walked is my Dao. There is no need to regret it.”

He slowly readjusted his thoughts and began inspecting his storage pouch. He gained many spoils from the battle.

Five million Gold Core Realm sense beads, five thousand Divine Transformation Realm sense beads, twelve Void Refinement Realm sense beads and one Fifth Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm sense bead…

There were plenty of broken magic treasures as well as magic treasures that still remained intact. Besides, the countless ragged storage pouches were filed with innumerable spiritual herbs that had grown in the Seventh Region for countless years.

Ning Fan scanned across them and made a rough estimation. Just one hundred thousand years old spiritual herbs alone, there were fifty tufts of them among this batch of spiritual herbs. Apart from that, there were three thousand plus tufts of fifty thousand years old spiritual herbs, seventy thousand plus tufts of ten thousand spiritual herbs and an inestimable amount of one thousand years old spiritual herbs…

These spiritual herbs were more than enough for Ning Fan to spend them lavishly.

What intrigued Ning Fan the most was none other than the items he obtained from Bone Sovereign.

Other than the golden pen, he had even gloriously seized Bone Sovereign’s storage pouch.

There were indeed many excellent items inside that pouch. There was even a Low Grade Seventh Revolution vulnerary pill.

After giving it some thought, Ning Fan eventually decided to save this pill for Mei Chen to eat.

Even though Mei Chen needed to consume at least a High Grave Seventh Revolution vulnerary pill in order to be fully recovered, this Low Grade Seventh Revolution pill was still quite useful to her recovery.

Aside from the pill, there were also many other pills in the pouch.

In fact, there were four ghost sense beads at the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm.

Ning Fan guessed that these four Void Fragmentation Realm sense beads must be something that Bone Sovereign obtained when he ruled over the Seventh Region in the past.

It was imaginable how terrifying the massacre which Bone Sovereign had committed in the Seventh Region in the past as he even killed four Void Fragmentation Realm ghosts…

After keeping the spiritual herbs and sense beads, Ning Fan’s gaze fell upon the golden pen and the Earth Blazing Flame.

The Earth Blazing Flame was originally attached to the golden pen which Bone Sovereign chanced upon at the entrance of the Eighth Region.

The number-one Heavenly Cold Qi and Earth Vein Demonic Flames were actually attached to this golden pen by someone… What exactly is the origin of this golden pen?

It’s a golden pen that an immortal has used before. It isn’t a high-graded magic treasure in the first place. However, after infusing it with the cold qi and spiritual flame, its power was activated, enabling it to produce golden runes with unfathomable power to attack the user’s enemies. It’s indeed an unusual weapon.

“Little You Er, do you remember where this golden pen comes from?”

“Let me think about it carefully…” In the Profound Yin World, Luo You was locked in contemplation. She rarely behaved like him.

She flipped through the memories within her mind. She just felt that she had heard about this golden pen somewhere before but she could not remember it at the moment.

When her eyes shifted to the Earth Blazing Flame and Mending Heavenly Heart, that piece of information suddenly rose within her mind!

“Heavenly Cold Qi and Earth Vein Demonic Flames… That’s it! This is one of the rune pens of the Golden Rune Palace!”

“Golden Rune Palace?” It was Ning Fan’s first time hearing that name.

“Golden Rune Palace is an ancient force located in the Southern Heaven Immortal World. It was annihilated by someone tens of millions of years ago. That’s why I couldn’t recall it just now… I only managed to remember it when I noticed the heavenly cold qi and earth flame.”

Luo You paused for a while as if she was trying to dig out her past memories. After a while, she continued, “Golden Rune Palace is a sect of rune cultivation. The members of the sect were skilled in creating and drawing runes. Every one of them had a golden pen. It isn’t just an item for creating runes but also the identity tokens of the members of the Golden Rune Palace. They wouldn’t be able to enter the historical remains of the Golden Rune Palace if they didn’t have the golden pen with them… Trying looking at this golden pen. Does it have a name and position?”

Upon hearing what Luo You’s said, Ning Fan carefully scrutinized the golden pen. Then, he saw some ancient inscriptions at one end of the pen.

“Deacon of the Golden Rune Palace’s Treasury – Zhuo Jie…” Ning Fan uttered.

“*Chuckle* My younger brother surely has great luck. Even though the Golden Rune Palace was annihilated, there were still one hundred and eight treasuries that remained sealed in its historical remains. If you ascend to the Southern Heaven Immortal World one day and head to the historical remains of the Golden Rune Palace, you can take out the treasures in the treasury which Zhuo Jie guarded in the past. That is a treasury that an immortal looked after. I suppose there are many excellent items there.” Luo You chuckled as she spoke.

“Other than acting as a magic treasure that produces runes, what else can this golden pen do? In that case, if I have a chance to head to the Southern Heaven Immortal World, I’ll really need to pay a visit to the Golden Rune Palace.” Ning Fan nodded and said.

“It’ll be better for you to possess a cultivation base at the True Immortal Realm if you really want to go to the Golden Rune Palace… The waters in that place are quite murky. You might end up dead in the historical remains if your cultivation base is weak. Do you know why the Golden Rune Palace was annihilated in the past?” Luo You stopped smiling and said with a serious expression.

“Why?”

“The progenitor of that Golden Rune Palace was the painter of the second painting out of the four ancient paintings! The reason why the Golden Rune Palace was annihilated was because it carried the secrets of the four ancient paintings!”

“The four ancient paintings again?” Ning Fan sounded surprised.

“All the four ancient paintings are specially created and they contain the Great Dao… The first painting out of the four is called the ‘Immemorial Fisherman’s Mino Painting’. It contains the ‘Great Dao of Life and Death’. If you obtain the Immemorial Fisherman’s Mino Painting at your current level and comprehend the Dao of Life and Death within it, seeing through life and death, ascending to the heavens and becoming an immortal to you will be as easy as lifting your hands!”

“The second ancient painting is called ‘Golden Sky Black Earth Painting’. It contains the Great Dao of Yin and Yang and it can help a true immortal to see through yin and yang and the true and the false, enabling them to fully grasp the truth of cultivation. This will in turn provide them a chance to become an immortal emperor! Of course, since you are a cultivator of the Yin Yang Transformation, if you obtain the Golden Sky Black Earth Painting, it will surely be greatly beneficial to your cultivation.”

Luo You sighed gently. She also tried to search for the Golden Sky Black Earth Painting in the past. If she were to have gotten the painting, she would not have needed to settle for the second best option which was by cultivating the Yin Yang Transformation in order to get her revenge.

“One who obtains the Immemorial Fisherman’s Mino Painting will be able to ascend to the heavens and become an immortal? One who obtains the Golden Sky Black Earth Painting will be able to become an immortal emperor?”

Ning Fan felt slightly surprised. The Immemorial Fisherman’s Mino Painting sounded still reasonable. The Golden Sky Black Earth Painting, on the other hand, definitely could make countless true immortals fight over it just for obtaining the chance to become an immortal emperor!

Could the reason why the Golden Rune Palace was annihilated had nothing to do with the members of the palace but merely because they possessed the secret…?

Moreover, since it was unknown where the Golden Sky Black Earth Painting is currently, many True Immortals would probably be targeting the historical ruins of the Golden Rune Palace.

The golden pen in Ning Fan’s hands was a key that could unlock one of the one hundred and eight treasuries. If some true immortals find out about it, would they try to seize it from him forcibly…?

“That is to say that, it’ll be inappropriate to show it to anyone if it’s unnecessary, right?” Ning Fan asked.

“Yes. Keep this pen first for now. It is indeed a strong magic treasure as it can draw and produce golden runes. However, it’s involved with the secrets of the four ancient paintings. It’s best not to use it randomly.” Luo You said.

“I understood. I’ll just keep it properly for now. As for the Golden Rune Palace… I’ll visit it if I have the chance in the future. If I don’t have a sufficient cultivation base, I don’t want to go to the Golden Rune Palace to get myself killed…”

Ning Fan took out the cold qi from the golden pen and stashed it into his pouch.

Looking at the floating golden spiritual flame and black cold qi in front of him, one corner of Ning Fan’s lips curved upward.

“After devouring the two masses of cold qi and spiritual flame, I’ll have the complete collections of the twenty-four types of heavenly cold qi and earth flames. The grade of the Yin Yang Devil Flame from the combination of all the flames will probably be equivalent to a High-Level Seventh Grade Immortal Void Flame. Be it pill refinement or magic technique, it was extremely beneficial.

Ning Fan calmed his mind down and began assimilating the last two types of heavenly cold qi and earth flame.

While he was slowly refining the Earth Blazing Flame and Mending Heavenly Heart, the left part of his body felt like it was burning as raging golden flames rose whereas the right part of his body seemed to have frozen as it became a black ice statue.

Another six months passed on the seventh floor of the dark golden pagoda. Ning Fan suddenly opened his eyes. Everything, be it the golden flame or the black ice, was absorbed into his body.

He then rose to his feet and abruptly raised his hand. A mass of fear-inducing black flames floated on the center of his palm.

The black flames were clearly the combination of countless low-grade spiritual flames and cold qi. However, its power was comparable to that of a High-Level Seventh Grade Immortal Void Flame!

One has to know that even Pill Sovereign only possessed one-fourth of the Pure Yang Flame and it was just equivalent to a Mid-Level Seventh Grade flame.

After combining all the heavenly cold qi and earth flames that he had gathered, the grade of Ning Fan’s flame was much higher than Pill Sovereign’s!

“Next, it’s time to repair the puppet, Zhi Huo.”

Ning Fan kept the black flames into his body and took out a fiery-red figurine that was riddled with holes from his pouch.

Looking at the serious damage which the figurine had taken, Ning Fan could not help but smile bitterly.

Bone Sovereign really was strong and formidable. Even though his cultivation base had fallen to the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm, he could still nearly destroy Giant Zhi Huo with a single attack.

If he were at his peak, I’m afraid he wouldn’t be any weaker than Moksha Sovereign.

“Fortunately, the puppet wasn’t completely destroyed. There are still chances to repair it. However, the immortal jade required to repair a Void Fragmentation Realm puppet isn’t a small figure…”

After Ning Fan had given several billion immortal jade to the people of the Yellow Spring Demon City to defend their city, he did not have much immortal jade left.

Even so, he still had Dao Crystals which were equivalent to tens of billions of immortal jades. Hence, they were more than enough to repair a Void Fragmentation Realm puppet.

“Let’s begin…”

Ning Fan tossed the figurine into the air and it grew immediately, turning into a ten thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) tall fire giant.

Afterward, Ning Fan started to establish the grand formation for repairing a puppet on the ground, surrounding the giant’s body.

Doubtlessly, it would take quite some time for him to repair Giant Zhi Huo.

…

Ning Fan had spent almost four years in the dark golden pagoda. In the outside world, only half a month had passed.

Mei Chen had already woken up during this period of time.

Clad with an unlined garment, she sat at the head of her bed, staring at the light evening rain outside the window.

She still remembered how shocking she felt the moment she heard of Bone Sovereign’s death after she woke up half a month ago!

“This stinky man… Even though he’s a shameless man, he’s risked his life to fight Bone Sovereign for me and the Yellow Spring Demon City… Why is he so nice to me…?”

“He clearly is just at the Void Glimpse Stage. Wasn’t he scared to fight a Void Fragmentation Realm expert?”

Now, Mei Chen’s injuries were already stabilized fully and she had recovered her cultivation base at the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm. However, if she wants to regain her power at the Third Heavenly Layer, she must consume a High Grade Seventh Revolution pill.

Mu Xiaoliang was keeping Mei Chen company by her side. After hearing Mei Chen heave a sigh, she rested her chin on her hands, looking rapt and touched.

“Elder Sister Mei Chen, Ning Fan is very nice to us. What should we do in order to repay him?”

“Indeed. How should we repay him? Is it possible that I really have to be his demon pet to repay him?” As soon as Mei Chen thought of that idea, chills immediately ran across her body.

“Bah. I’d rather die than be his demon pet!!!”

When Mei Chen was muttering to herself, a voice suddenly resounded from outside, making fun of her.

“Little Black, you’ve become disobedient again. If you don’t be my demon pet, whose demon pet do you want to be? I’m going to be angry if you become someone else’s demon pet.”

Wearing a set of white robes, Ning Fan walked into the room with his lips curving upwards.