Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 314 - 140: Daoist Priest Fan is extremely experienced, so even for the first time, it won’t hurt (A 10,000-word mega - !)_1
Another day had passed.
The Great Demon Forbidden Land, located within Great Zhou’s Nanjun and incredibly perilous, had almost become notorious throughout the entire cultivator community of the Nanjun Prefecture Government to the point of common knowledge.
Many cultivators of ordinary background, or those who were outsiders...
Were hearing about the Great Demon Forbidden Land for the first time.
Who could have imagined that such a dangerous forbidden land lay within Great Zhou’s Nanjun!
"Goodness! Have you heard about that forbidden place?"
"How could I not have heard? It’s said that the forbidden area is called the Great Demon Forbidden Land, and it houses extremely terrifying creatures! Even dignitaries from the Prefecture, including the Lord of the Prefecture, the Thousand Households lord from the Heavenly Watch, and His Highness the Prince of Nanjun... They could only end up escaping from that place in a disheveled state!"
"Those three lords are all renowned figures! Especially His Highness the Prince of Nanjun, he is the grandson of the current Great Zhou emperor, a royal with dragon blood flowing through his veins!"
"I heard that only one person managed to walk out of the Great Demon Forbidden Land unscathed... It was that Daoist Priest Fan from the Qiulong Temple, who, just a few days ago, led to the Fu Clan’s near obliteration!"
"I’ve heard of that as well. They say Daoist Priest Fan slaughtered a very fearsome creature in the Great Demon Forbidden Land."
"One creature? Where did you hear that? I heard Daoist Priest Fan fought against ten, making the creatures wail and scream for mercy!"
"I heard it was several hundred creatures!"
"Ah, that... a few hundred is an exaggeration, right? Even turning the entire Prefecture upside down, you wouldn’t find so many creatures, would you?"
"That Daoist Priest Fan is too terrifying!"
"..."
No matter how outrageous or exaggerated the rumors circulating in the streets were, they all share one common point—Daoist Priest Fan from the Qiulong Temple was incredibly powerful!
Some might question whether Daoist Priest Fan killed one creature, ten creatures, or several hundred?
But no one doubted whether Daoist Priest Fan’s strength was real or not.
That’s because these stories were spreading from within the government offices and the Heavenly Watch.
It was basically information disseminated by the Imperial Court.
Moreover, the downfall of the Fu Clan was there for all to see; and those envoys from the Great Yan Dynasty, several of whom were now lying in the medical center.
Without resting for a few days to recuperate, they were estimated to be unable to even climb out of bed.
They all attested to Daoist Priest Fan’s strength.
They served as a backdrop to highlight Daoist Priest Fan’s prowess.
"Envoy, have you heard?" A burly man with bandages wrapped around his head rushed into the medical center. This center was nearly filled with envoys from the Great Yan Dynasty, and it was obvious they had spent silver to reserve the entire place for themselves.
The man’s face was full of shock as he blurted out, "I was loitering outside just now and overheard some cultivators discussing that Fan Wu, saying that he previously..."
"Previously entered the core area of the Great Demon Forbidden Land and killed a very powerful creature, right?" the Envoy the burly man referred to was an elder with graying hair, who appeared quite aged among the group from the Great Yan Dynasty.
"Exactly! That’s the..." The burly man suddenly caught on and, with a hint of curious astonishment, asked, "Envoy, did you already know about this?"
"That’s because I visited the Lord of the Prefecture yesterday and learned of this matter from him. The things I know are a bit more reliable than the rumors spreading outside," the elder with graying hair said. After taking a deep breath, he continued, "However, it’s quite different from how you might imagine it compared to the exaggerated rumors outside."
"The rumors outside are rather conservative because neither the Thousand Households lord from the Heavenly Watch nor the Lord of the Prefecture has let the details leak."
"Perhaps due to my special status, they shared some of the more detailed accounts with me."
As he reached this point in the conversation, the elder’s face was filled with boundless sentiment, "It was only after listening to the Lord of the Prefecture’s description that I realized that Daoist Priest Fan, who defeated us all before..."
"Is even more powerful than any of us could have imagined!"
"The very incarnation of a demon."
"Nothing short of that."
When the elder used the phrase "the very incarnation of a demon" to describe Fan Wu, it was not a derogatory description, but rather praise, an exclamation from the depths of his heart. These words conveyed endless shock.
...
"The Great Demon Forbidden Land?" A caravan that appeared to be a group of traveling merchants arrived within Nanjun Prefecture.
The merchant troop was vast, easily numbering in the hundreds, creating spectacular scenes enjoyed by passersby as their horse-drawn carriages traveled along the roads.
Within the caravan.
A middle-aged man frowned, his accent somewhat different from that of Nanjun Prefecture, sounding more sonorous and articulate, "I heard about this place when I was in the Imperial City. It’s said that before the Great Zhou Dynasty was founded, the previous dynasty had an army of over a hundred thousand mistakenly enter the Great Demon Forbidden Land, and within a few days, they were reduced to bones scattered across the ground."
"That is an extremely dangerous forbidden area, so perilous that even the Great Zhou Court dare not send people to explore its depths. Even if they ever sent people in, it is likely they only ventured into the peripheral regions."
