Chapter 541 - Lunatic (1/2)
Incomplete. Chapter 539 will be up today. 540 and 541 will be up tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Chapter 541: A Crazy Man
With a single teleportation technique, Ning Fan brought Yun Ruowei and Ning Qingqing back to Hai Ning.
He had already grown used to smiling. No matter how difficult the path ahead of him, he would also never lose the smile on his face.
To him, smiling was just an attitude and it had nothing to do with his feelings… Today, however, he could no longer put on a smile on his face, even if he tried forcing it.
“Mistress Yun, if you encounter any trouble in the Southeastern Cultivator Union in the future, you can come to Seven Apricot City to seek help anytime. Mistress Qing, as long as I am alive, you can rest assured that the Ning Family of Hai Ning will continue to exist and prosper…”
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned around looking slightly depressed and left.
Ning Qingqing had something to ask him at first but she was unable to get a word out from her mouth.
Yun Ruowei originally wanted to ask for the blue jade from Ning Fan but when she saw his sad expression, she also could not open her mouth to ask for it.
Seemingly, there was a feeling that rose within her heart and told her that he should be the one who keeps the jade and no one could replace him…
“Why will he be so depressed…?” Neither Yun Ruowei nor Ning Qingqing could understand him.
No one would…
Ning Fan returned to Seven Apricot City in a ray of travelling light. Three days later, he received a message-transmitting flying sword from the Endless Sea.
Right after he had heard the message from the flying sword, he entered the Sovereign Tomb using his separated soul without speaking a word to help Old Ancestor Dong Xu who had been waiting for him to break through to the Void Refinement Realm.
It had been a long while since the last time Old Ancestor Dong Xu met Ning Fan. He planned to crack a joke upon meeting him but when he noticed Ning Fan’s desolate expression, all the jokes he planned to tell turned into sighs.
One month later, Old Ancestor Dong Xu had successfully gotten through the bottleneck of the Void Refinement Realm under Ning Fan’s aid. All he needed to do next was to return to his island and commence a long secluded cultivation and he would truly become a Void Refinement Realm expert.
After Ning Fan had done his part, he left Seven Apricot City all alone and headed to the Middle State.
The little sable still stayed in the city as her injuries were yet to recover. With her and Min Luo around the city, it would be strong enough for the city to defend against someone like Moksha Sovereign even if they personally come.
Ning Fan walked past the land of Wu Country on his own and travelled across four countries, passing by each and every one of the foreign countries which he had never visited before.
He travelled all the way north. Sometimes, he would fly in the sky and sometimes, he would travel on foot. During his journey, he would walk for some distances and stop and occasionally go deep into the mountains and ridges to rest while looking at the blooming mountain flowers… It was unknown how many cultivation countries he had passed by within one month…
He intruded the den of a demon tiger by mistake and a tiger tub bared its fangs fiercely and pounced on him ignorantly.
He slightly released his aura force and it literally made that tiger cub cower in fear.
He lifted his finger with the intention to kill that tiger cub. However, a large black tiger jumped in front of the tiger cub and knelt to the ground like a human. With eyes filled with despair, it kept kowtowing to Ning Fan, begging him to spare them.
It was a tigress and it probably was that tiger cub’s mother…
Ning Fan let out a sigh and his killing intent diminished instantly. Then, he turned around and left the den.
Evening rain started to drizzle. Ning Fan stood on the edge of a nameless river and stared at the duckweeds on the river that were scattered by the raindrops.
The mayflies which were originally resting on the duckweeds immediately leaped and flew away from the scattered duckweeds to look for another resting place.
The rain gradually became heavier and the fine raindrops became so dense that it looked a curtain, blocking the view on the other side of the river. Eventually, the light rain turned into a stormy downpour.
Filler Word to make up the 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.