Chapter 540 - I Can’t Find Her… (1/2)
Incomplete. 538 and 539 are coming today. Stay tuned.
Chapter 540: I Can’t Find It…
Yun Ruowei’s face was the same as before. She wore a plain green robes. Her eyes were bright and sparkling like clear spring. Her smile was soft and tender.
Her feet were still bare. She wore a bracelet around her wrist which had a hanging silver bell. When a gentle breeze blew, it would give out sweet-sounding ringing.
“Are you willing to help me look for the jade? The thing that I’m looking for is a piece of Blue Bridge Jade. It’s something that belongs to my elder sister… The true reason why I’m looking for the jade is because I want to look for my elder sister… I knew that she isn’t dead yet. I knew it…” When she heard that Ning Fan was willing to lend her a hand, Yun Ruowei no longer hid her thoughts from him. Instead, she put on a hopeful look.
She was just a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator while Ning Fan was a Void Refinement Realm expert who had powerful capabilities. With his help, it would be much easier to fin dthe jade.
“Is your elder sister the little winged demon that I saw in your dream last time?” Ning Fan asked.
“Yes… Yun Ruowei hesitated for a while and decided to answer truthfully.
“I remember that her name is Ning Qian…”
“Indeed…”
“She and Yun Tianjue are…”
“The two of them… are Dao companions… My elder sister went missing one thousand years ago. Yun Tianjue forwent his emotions at around the same time… Before my elder sister disappeared, she had given birth to a child for Yun Tianjue. It was a premature birth… No one knew what happened after that and my elder sister actually vanished with her child within a single night… After quite some time, that child’s life plate broke. It should have already dead. As for my elder sister’s life plate, it turned grey and dim. Even though she isn’t dead, she should have fallen into a difficult situation… She should not be dead yet. However, I couldn’t find her even after I have painstakingly searched for her for one thousand years. Where exactly is she…? What exactly happened in the past…? Yun Tianjue did not protect my elder sister nor his own child well. However, what’s worse about him is that he has completely forgotten my elder sister after she went missing and he didn’t even remember who Ning Qian was already… He really is a heartless and cruel person!”
Yun Ruowei no longer concealed anything from Ning Fan. She even told him some secrets through telepathy. Her eyes were filled with sadness and anger.
She hated Yun Tianjue’s cold-heartedness. Therefore, she was unwilling to continue staying in the Rain Palace and decided to join the Southeastern Cultivator Union.
She could not bear to harm Ning Fan in the past because his smile shared a striking resemblance with her elder sister’s and thus, sympathy overtook her…
“…” Ning Fan went silent. His heart, however, was not quiet. Would he be the deceased child of Ning Qian and Yun Tianjue…?
Filler word to make up the approximate word count.
Ning Fan stepped on the ancient golden sword with a cold glint in his eyes as he went straight after the three demoness.
The three of them had been spying on him. Besides, they did not conceal their killing intent against Ning Fan at all. Since they harbored ill intentions against him, it was impossible for Ning Fan to let them go.
The speed of his ancient sword was close to the Void Fragmentation Realm. The three demoness could not outrun him at all. Within just a few breaths, Ning Fan had already caught up with them.
Ning Fan kept his ancient sword and stood coldly in front of them, blocking their escape route.
“This is bad! We’ve been caught up by this malevolent being!”
“We can’t run away from him. The speed of the golden ancient sword that he rode is too terrifying. There is literally no way we can escape from him!”
“He doesn’t summon his Void Fragmentation Realm spiritual puppet. Let’s fight him with all we have!”
The three demoness were already aware that there was no hope in escaping and the only choice they had was to fight a desperate battle against Ning Fan.
Without hesitation, each of them took out their natal magic treasures and delivered an attack at Ning Fan.
“Demon Bone Fan!”
“Yin Phoenix Stings!”
“Poisonous King Cauldron!”
The three magic treasures were all High Grade Mortal Void Realm treasures. They went straight at Ning Fan’s head. Their vigorous momentum caused heaven and earth to shake.
Ning Fan, however, still remained a neutral expression. With a flick of his sleeve, he took out a blood umbrella and pointed it at the three incoming treasures.
As the blood umbrella spread open, it gave off faint red halos of spirit wheels that pulled all the three magic treasures into the umbrella.
The three demoness were immensely surprised. The blood umbrella that Ning Fan used was too unusual. Besides, despite his Void Inquiry Stage magic power, he actually could handle High Grade Mortal Void Realm magic treasures so easily!?
Judging from the situation, the three demoness could not put up a fight against Ning Fan at all unless they use Peak Grade Mortal Void Realm magic treasures!
Furthermore, if Ning Fan breaks through to the Void Pierce Stage, he probably could directly take away every magic treasure below the Void Fragmentation Realm and Immortal Void Realm magic treasures using his blood umbrella!
“Since our magic treasures can’t hurt him, we’ll use our demon techniques to kill him!”
Panic-stricken, the three ladies made a series of hand seals together. A massive void sea appeared beneath their feet and roiling demon power began filling the sky.
Ning Fan naturally would not give them a chance to display their magic techniques. He stepped on his ancient sword and turned into a pure golden sword ray, abruptly vanishing into nothingness.
When he appeared again, he was already behind the three ladies. He gathered his magic power in his hand to summon a half-black and half-white rope and cast it at the three demoness.
The three demonesses felt danger from the black and white rope. They wanted to avoid it but they could not make it in time at all.
The rope suddenly sped up. All they could see was a flash of light and they were already bound by the rope.
The power of this black and white rope clearly was not as powerful as Giant Zi Dian’s lightning fetters. However, when it tied around their bodies, it actually sealed off their entire magic power, weakening their bodies and restricting their mobility!
Their expressions paled with fright. All of them realized that the black and white rope was a type of extremely scary bewitching technique that specialized in restraining female cultivators!
This technique was none other than the Yin Imprisoning Rope Technique that Ning Fan used to capture Old Ancestor Bi Tong in the past!
Yin Plucking Finger, Yin Imprisoning Rope… The further Ning Fan’s cultivation in the Yin Yang Transformation, the scarier those techniques would be in restraining female cultivators.
“From today on, you all will be my human cauldrons!”
As soon as Ning Fan finished speaking, he dragged the three demonesses back to the desolate island. After a session of plucking, the three of them were only left with a cultivation realm at the Harmonious Spirit Realm. Then, he put them in the repentance palace of his Cauldron World.
Well, he was not a kind and magnanimous person. If someone tries to harm him, he would certainly not show them mercy.
Ning Fan had fused his magic power, demon power and devil qi together in the past. Even though the human cauldrons he plucked were demonesses, thy still could raise his magic power. After plucking the three of them, his magic power rose by two hundred thousand units, reaching eight million and two hundred thousand units in total.
Combined with nine million units of essence qi in him, the total units of his magic power and essence qi had reached a terrifying figure of seventeen million and two hundred thousand, which made him not far away from the threshold of becoming an Absolute Void Stage expert – twenty million units of magic power.
Theoretically speaking, when Ning Fan accumulates thirty-six million units of magic power, he could then start trying to pushing through the bottleneck of the Void Fragmentation Realm. However, his chances of achieving the breakthrough was extremely slim.
Many Absolute Void Stage old monsters had accumulated eighty to ninety million units of magic power but still only a few of them managed to break through to the Void Fragmentation Realm. The rest of them would eventually die due to the end of their lifespans.
The magic power required to advance to the Void Fragmentation Realm was too massive. At the Void Fragmentation Realm, units returned to yuan. The denomination for the measurement of magic power was no longer a unit but a yuan.
A unit was 60 years but a yuan was 129600 years.
Void Refinement Realm magic power and Void Fragmentation Realm magic power were not on the same level. Hence, it was extremely difficult for Void Fragmentations Realm experts to disregard the difference of their cultivation realms and defeat someone with a higher cultivation realm.
If Ning Fan wants to break through to the Void Fragmentation Realm, he must find some Void Fragmentation Realm arts to cultivate when he is at the Absolute Void Stage to turn his unital magic power into yuan magic power…
As for exactly how many yuan of magic power one would need to achieve the Void Fragmentation Realm, it was different from each and every single person. Ning Fan also was not sure about it.
There were a few Void Fragmentation Realm experts around him. Unfortunately, none of them had the same situation as Ning Fan who fused his magic power, demon power and devil qi into one. Without a doubt, the verbal spells or arts that other Void Fragmentation Realm experts used were already not suitable for Ning Fan.
If he wants to advance to the Void Fragmentation Realm, he must find a Void Fragmentation Realm art that is suitable for all the three races – the demon race, devil race and human race to practice… Well, it probably would take him some effort in order to find this kind of art.
“I’ll only need a Void Fragmentation Realm art after breaking through to the Absolute Void Stage. I’ve just attained the Void Inquiry Stage recently and the Absolute Void Stage is very far-off. Hence, there is no need to be in a rush to search for an art that is suitable for me…”
“As I’ve already broken through to the Void Inquiry Stage, none of the female cultivators below the Void Fragmentation Realm will be my match. Male cultivators, on the other hands… With my current cultivation realm, I’m certainly unrivalled among all Void Pierce Stage experts. And, I should be able to put up a fight against an Absolute Void Stage expert who has yet to turn their unital magic power into yuan. However, if I face those Absolute Void Stage cultivators who have successfully obtained yuan magic power, I’m afraid that I won’t have much chances in defeating them…”
Ning Fan muttered to himself on the desolate island. After quiet some time, he left the South Gazing Sea in a flash of light.
At the border between the South Gazing Sea and the eight hundred cultivation countries, Ning Fan suddenly stopped moving with a surprised look on his face.
On the shore of a cultivation country nearby the South Gazing Sea, a lady was quietly standing on a reef, gazing into the sea waves all alone. She seemed to be waiting for someone.
That lady wore a set of snow-white plumage dress and a light veil to cover her face. Her long sleeves made her look graceful and her eyes were picturesque. Her expression, however, was cold and arrogant. She looked like a saintess who looked down upon the mundane world and led a life that departed from common livings.
Her presence emanated the Mid Nascent Soul Realm qi. She had been staring blankly at the ebbs and flows of the ocean waves without speaking a single word.
Only when she noticed Ning Fan’s travelling light passed by did she raised her head and looked into the sky. Her eyes contained resentment, longing and complicated emotions.
“I’ve been waiting for you…” Her tone was ice cold.
“Waiting for me, huh…” Ning Fan also put on an uneasy look. He descended upon the reef and stood facing the lady.
“Should I call you Si Si or Si Wuxie or… Weiliang…?”