Chapter 165 Tempest, Part One (1/2)

Chapter 165 Tempest, Part One

The sky was a blue-green that stretched forever into the distance. Ye Fan was unable to see anything else through it.

Within his Sea of Bitterness, a green lotus was growing alone, filled with vigorous life force that seemed as if it could form its own world. Primal chaos lingered around it, mysterious and hazy.

At this time, Ye Fan had calmed himself down and he carefully examined it. Just as he sank beneath the water, he saw three green leaves with a natural feeling of the Dao. The Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all living things.

“In this chaos, first heaven and earth forms, the ancestor of all living things, the first emperor.” Ye Fan thought of a line from an ancient text.

This green lotus and his Wheel and Sea had a kind of strange divine charm. It was like an unfathomably deep pool of the Dao. It was extremely tranquil, appearing as if it might exist forever without dying.

Now that Ye Fan had crossed over his Sea of Bitterness and stepped into Paramita, his Wheel and Sea had begun to evolve, becoming extremely mysterious.

The small cauldron was below the dome of the sky and above the green lotus. It floated grandly.

Now that he was a Paramita realm cultivator, his strength had been promoted to a new level, and he could now test his cauldron with his new strength.

The cauldron appeared outside his body, floating silently. He still felt as if it were as heavy as a huge mountain, but this time he was able to move it more easily.

BANG!

The cauldron did not shine brightly. It flew not that far away, and when it touched a huge boulder, dust filled the air as the boulder was silently destroyed.

With just a gentle tremble, the stone forest as well, the surrounding huge stones all collapsed into dust. The cauldron’s might revealed itself!

But Ye Fan’s body also shook. This cauldron hadn’t even given rise to Dao Glyphs, but it was already a bottomless pit of energy. Even someone as powerful as him ended up using a third of his power.

In other words, he could currently only use it three times. This cauldron’s power was too great. He was unable to control it easily. This caused both delight and concern.

Under Ye Fan’s urging, the cauldron grew to the size of a meter. This was already the limit of his control. He was unable to make it increase in size any more.

As the cauldron hung in the sky, it appeared like a bottomless pit, capable of swallowing even the sky. The surrounding stone forest was all sucked into the cauldron.

Ye Fan recalled the cauldron and looked inside. He saw the various boulders, and with a gentle vibration, everything turned into powder. The dust flew out, leaving the inside pure and clean.

Although his divine energy had been almost completely exhausted, he was still very satisfied. This kind of might was incredible. Without the slightest fluctuation or divine light, the cauldron silently disappeared back into his Wheel and Sea.

With the cauldron now successfully forged and having reached the Paramita realm, Ye Fan was much more confident in himself. Having already cultivated for several months here, he wanted to know what the situation was outside.

“I wonder if the Ji Family’s people have left yet…” Ye Fan recovered his divine sense and walked out.

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Outside the Flame Region, the ground was crack and scorched. It was a barren desert as far as the eye could see. The Ji Family’s disciples had already left, as already half a year had passed.

“This is good, I guess. Since they think I’ve already been burned to ashes, I’ll be able to give them a nice surprise when the time comes!”

Ye Fan once more returned to the Flame Region, this time preparing to enter the seventh level’s five-colored mist flames. He could use it to further refine his cauldron.

The five-colored mist flames were even hotter than the purple Qi. Even as he approached, he could already feel the heat increasing, causing Ye Fan’s heart to shiver. This was after he was holding the Bodhi seed. If he didn’t have it, he wouldn’t be able to endure it at all.

“Can I even use this kind of powerful flame?”

He carefully absorbed a strand of the five-colored mist. With a hissing sound, the divine energy that he had used to wrap it completely burned away.

This kind of flame was too powerful and even capable of burning powerful people. That was proved by the human-shaped ashes on the ground. He didn’t have any good method of absorbing it into his Wheel and Sea to further refine his cauldron.

Over the next few days, he continuously tested it out, trying to find a good way to handle it.

Suddenly, he heard a strange noise from outside this region. If it weren’t for his divine sense being so powerful, he wouldn’t have been able to sense it.

“Did someone else come in?” Ye Fan stealthily hid himself and moved away.

In the seventh level of the Flame Region with the black underworld flames, a middle-aged man was motionlessly sitting on a huge boulder. A one meter-tall ancient pagoda hung over his head.

The black flames were constantly collecting around his pagoda, raising rumbling sounds from it as it slowly changed.

“Why is he refining it outside his body? But if he didn’t care about it, why would he come to the Flame Region?” Ye Fan didn’t understand.

Just at this moment, his expression changed. He had seen that pagoda before!

The five level silver ancient pagoda wasn’t very bright, but he could see old-fashioned marks that gave people an ancient feeling.

“The hemp-clothed man!”

Ye Fan immediately thought of the people that had chased Ji Ziyue and him. Amongst them was a hemp-robed man who had almost killed them with his five-level ancient pagoda.

At this time, he was wearing black clothes. As for that silver pagoda over his head, it was constantly changing shape. He wanted to reforge it.

“A five-level ancient pagoda can already count as an extremely powerful weapon. But he actually wants to melt it…”

When a strand of Xuanhuan rushed out of the pagoda, Ye Fan was even more sure it was the hemp-clothed man. Although he hadn’t seen his face back then, this pagoda was definitely the same.

“He should be afraid of the Ji Family pursuing him, so he wants to erase his tracks!” Ye Fan wished he could find out this person’s background. The hidden enemies caused him to feel uneasy.

“It looks like he doesn’t really care about this weapon. Maybe it really is as Ji Ziyue said, and he’s being controlled as a puppet.”

Ye Fan carefully observed him and saw this person truly was somewhat stiff. He seemed just like a piece of wood as he sat there.