Grasping the Evil-Chapter 1009: Fire Soul Rampage
White robes fluttering, black flames roaring!
Destroy the Fire Spirit, devour its fire essence, and Ning Fan’s magic fire level surpasses the final threshold, completely breaking through the Twelve Metaplasia level. At this moment, he is surrounded by magic fire, standing atop the heavens. The pressure of the flames is further enhanced by the Feng Yin-Yang, causing the temperature on the steppe to suddenly rise, making all the Dabei Cultivators’ internal flames tremble with fear, looking in awe at the figure in the sky.
It seems that he is not a person, but a king emerging from the flames!
The Dabei Clan, being all Pill Masters, naturally are all fire cultivators, but few have flames reaching above the level of Nine Metaplasia. Those with Twelve Metaplasia are fewer still, and even they often achieve it through arduous cultivation at the Eternal level. Even their Twelve Metaplasia fire power rarely reaches the intensity of Ning Fan!
In this way, the exclamations on the steppe become more frequent, due to Ning Fan breaking the seal and emerging, and also due to the overwhelming might of the magic fire!
"Finally freed, counting the time, there should be just over five hours left until the end of the martial test..."
Ning Fan gathers his magic fire, his body flicker as he appears on the steppe, resembling teleportation, not immediately joining the competition but landing nearby Xianyu Chun.
Xianyu Chun looks at Ning Fan with excitement, his gaze fervent, still immersed in the shock of Ning Fan breaking out.
Ning Fan, however, looks at Xianyu Chun’s bloodied hands and sighs slightly.
Though he has just broken out, in reality, after destroying the firebird, the mountain posed no true barrier to him, unable to confine his omnipresent spirit sense, which allows him to observe external events.
This Xianyu Chun even tried to dig the mountain to rescue him! With this person’s cultivation and strength, such an action was nearly foolish, but it was a gesture of goodwill, sincere, and without any demand for repayment...
As far as Ning Fan knows, Xianyu Chun is not inherently a good-natured person but a tyrant in the Southern Frontier; the reason he went to such lengths was merely out of respect for him. If anyone else was trapped, this person would surely observe indifferently.
The martial test and potential offense to the Immortal Emperor were discarded, brushed aside by his limited intellect, leaving him focused solely on rescuing him.
Ning Fan does not intend to take a disciple, but today, he admires Xianyu Chun for the first time.
Though Xianyu Chun lacks wisdom, he possesses a certain stubbornness, daring to challenge the volcano established by the Immortal Emperor with his flesh and blood. Such courage is rare among people. It’s not that he is completely fearless, but that within the volcano, the person he wishes to save is trapped, thus he resolves to dig open the mountain regardless of consequence! Even without hope, he would see this through to the end! Despite ridicule from the world, enemies from all realms, even with the destruction of the world, he would not change his mind!
What surprised Ning Fan even more was that Xianyu Chun’s roaring shout brought about a touch within him, causing his mid-stage Shedding Void bottleneck in his Demon and Yin Yang cultivation to loosen slightly, even giving rise to a fleeting sense of heart tribulation...
This child lacks complete wisdom, yet is purer because of it, almost akin to the Dao... Although he didn’t actually rescue Ning Fan, Ning Fan is grateful for his intentions.
"This mountain was established by the Immortal Emperor, your injuries from digging will not heal easily. I have some expensive pills here, take them."
Ning Fan flips his hand, taking out a pill bottle and giving it to Xianyu Chun, then passes by him.
Xianyu Chun tearfully excited, he’s received a reward from master!
That expression, truly cold! That tone, truly authoritarian! That gesture, that demeanor, truly worthy of the master he admires; this is not something he can mimic in a short time!
Let’s see what kind of reward master has given...
Xianyu Chun opens the bottle seal, extends his spirit sense, and immediately sucks in a breath of cold air; it turns out to be a Ninth Revolution Golden Pill! It’s a kind of pill he’s not seen before, most likely from the external Eastern Heaven, judging by its properties, it seems for healing...
Yet the grade of this pill is exceedingly high! Even though he is the Young Sect Leader of the Xieyang Sect, to use a Ninth Revolution Golden Pill from the sect requires unanimous agreement from all elders, with three reviews and three reconsiderations... For any Southern Frontier sect, a Ninth Revolution Golden Pill is a treasured item, not to be lightly handled!
But Ning Fan casually gave him one!
Master truly is generous!
"Congratulations to senior for breaking free! Those who plotted against the senior, Duolan wishes to utilize Middle State connections to investigate fully! Duolan believes this matter isn’t the doing of Stone Flame Cultivators, but rather some elders mimicking Stone Flame’s divine ability..." Duolan approaches, secretly transmitting a message. In front of others, she does not dare to reveal her identity as a Soul-Locked Slave; hence her demeanor is high and cold, yet the transmitted tone is extremely humble and respectful.
"No need. The plotters, I can roughly guess who they are. During my absence, only one person from the Tamu Clan has continued in the comparison..." Ning Fan frowns slightly, his spirit sense sweeping towards the Tamu Clan comparison area on the steppe.
In that direction, only the last Tamu Enlightenment is struggling hard.
Tageli and others watch his direction with delight from outside the field.
"In these days of your absence, many clans bullied Tamu, but unfortunately, Duolan being an outsider and not a participant, was unable to intervene in these matters..." Duolan wanted to continue discussing Tamu’s plight, but Ning Fan didn’t have time for details; his figure flickered as he flew towards the Tamu area.
Duolan pouts, suppressing her words, and follows Ning Fan, but before entering the martial test range, she’s stopped by the Corpse Demon Elder.
"You are not a participant, you cannot enter here!"
Duolan stops, watching the martial test from afar. Only five hours remain. Whether the senior’s arrival can lead Tamu to good results remains unknown; being Southern Frontier’s best would be good...
Tamu martial test area!
Ning Fan arrives like a streak of light, whistling through the air, momentum soaring!
Sateng, his mana nearly exhausted, on the verge of despair from the Fire Soul’s pursuit, suddenly sees a savior arriving, causing him great joy, shouting, "Senior Ning, save me!"
The Half-Step Shedding Void Fire Soul, upon seeing Ning Fan arrive, immediately shifts its murderous intent, no longer chasing Sateng. From Ning Fan’s presence, the Fire Soul detects a delicious flame aura, tempting him, driving his killing instinct! He must kill Ning Fan, must devour his flame, must kill, kill, kill!
Roar!!!
The roar filled with murderous intent triggers a slight change in the fire traces. For any cultivator who hasn’t entered the eons, such action is extremely defiant of the heavens; this Fire Soul’s ability to achieve it with Half-Step Shedding Void cultivation is remarkable, even if only a minuscule amount.
But Half-Step Shedding Void is Half-Step Shedding Void, incapable of stirring great waves, attempting to kill Ning Fan is even more impossible!
Ning Fan doesn’t give the Fire Soul the opportunity to strike; as he expands his magic fire, he transforms into a swift fire shadow, crossing the steppe in an instant, intersecting with the Fire Soul. In that moment of intersection, he directly incinerates the Fire Soul into ashes, a spectacle that leaves the surrounding spectators from the Shedding Void Peak in shock.
It’s known that a Fire Soul born of fire possesses high resistance to fire attacks, yet under Ning Fan’s Twelve Metaplasia True Fire, it only ends up being instantaneously killed!
Such terrifying magic fire, containing rule changes beyond what these mere Enlightenment cultivators can comprehend!
"Thank you, senior, for the rescue!" Sateng’s eyes burn with passion, though the martial test time remaining is limited, as long as Ning Fan joins, there’s hope for Tamu to make a comeback!
"You back down and heal, for this Tamu martial test, I alone am sufficient!" Upon Ning Fan’s words, the heavily exhausted Sateng feels as if pardoned from great pressure, hands over all his Fire Summoning Talismans to Ning Fan, and quickly withdraws from the martial test.
No one within the Tamu group criticizes Sateng’s withdrawal, simply because Ning Fan remains!
Everyone is fervent with excitement! Their morale is heightened! They firmly believe that as long as Ning Fan alone is here, it is enough! Ning Fan’s demonic presence is truly compelling, particularly as he now carries three parts of anger, creating an aura of ’strangers, don’t approach,’ yet the feeling he brings to companions is overwhelmingly reliable!
After all, he is an Eternal Immortal Venerable whose cultivation was sealed!
"Hmm? This is..." Ning Fan suddenly notices amongst the ashes of the fallen fire soul a fiery red crystal core, lifting his hand to capture it, bringing it into his palm.
According to Ning Fan’s understanding of the martial arts trial, this seems to be a unique fire crystal produced by hunting the Fire Souls...
Before he could take a closer look, more than ten Peak Crossing Truth Realm masters suddenly descended, surrounding Ning Fan, scolding,
"Why could you escape from the volcano? Did you destroy the Punishing Ring? As Daxian cultivators, we have the right to examine your Punishing Ring! If it’s true, you’ll face great disaster!"
"You did not participate in the trial in time, and now that you broke out, you have probably lost the qualification to participate, so leave quickly! What are you waiting for!"
"The last person from the Tamu has already withdrawn, and this dead half-step Shedding Void Stage Fire Soul shouldn’t count towards Tamu’s score! Their final score remains at 1 point!"
If this were Eastern Heaven, how dare they speak to the Rain Monarch like that, but this is Daxian, where the cultivators are inherently prideful, even before Ning Fan, they still hold a high and mighty attitude!
A cold glint flashed in Ning Fan’s eyes.
Hehe, are you all here to suppress the Tamu tribes!
"First, as far as I know, midway participation in the martial arts trial does not lead to disqualification; there are precedents throughout the Southern Frontier..." Ning Fan said expressionlessly. This statement caused several people’s faces to change slightly, not anticipating Ning Fan’s thorough understanding of the Southern Frontier, making their previous deception extremely embarrassing.
"Second, my Punishing Ring remains intact, so I do not violate Daxian’s rules." Ning Fan’s spirit left his body, revealing the intact ring above, proving Ning Fan was not lying, then the spirit returned.
Some cultivators were secretly shocked. Ning Fan indeed managed to break out of the volcano that even the Fragmented Thought Elders couldn’t escape from with restricted cultivation!
"Third, as far as I know, there is another rule in the martial arts trial: it allows entering other tribes’ trial areas to seize and hunt Fire Souls. The trial does not permit harming others, but if one steps into another’s area and seizes their Fire Souls, then being attacked is deserved. You all seized Fire Souls in my Tamu trial area, so if I act against you, it doesn’t violate the trial rules!"
This remark caused those Peak Crossing Truth Realm cultivators who had seized Tamu’s Fire Souls to change their expressions drastically and attempt to escape the Tamu trial area. The implication in this person’s words was astonishing—this outsider dared to challenge the tribes of the Southern Frontier!
These people were not slow at running, but unfortunately, they couldn’t escape!
Ning Fan’s figure flickered, ghost-like appearing behind each Peak Crossing Truth Realm master, with an effortless gesture, sending each flying and spitting blood, tossing them like trash beyond the Tamu trial area!
The martial trial prohibits killing, so Ning Fan only severely injured those who oppressed the Tamu, yet even so, it caused bursts of cheer from the Tamu people.
At last, they could let out the anger festering in their hearts! Daring to seize Tamu’s Fire Souls, to curry favor with Emperor Lou Tuo at the expense of Tamu, this is the outcome!
"How dare you! Just an outsider, yet you dare to injure our White Ghost Sect cultivator!" bellowed the White Ghost Sorcerer, furious while hunting Fire Souls in his trial area.
"So ruthless! These injured cultivators won’t heal without a century of recuperation! If not for the rules, he might directly kill!" Some tribes developed fear towards Ning Fan, trembling with fright.
The Peak Crossing Truth Realm cultivator from the Xieyang Sect saw Ning Fan rushing towards him, shocked, fearing he’d be severely injured and thrown out. He stammered, wanting to explain anxiously.
To his surprise, Ning Fan didn’t attack him. With a raise of his hand, he sent a gentle breeze, softly carrying the person out of the Tamu trial area.
"I saw your help towards Tamu and won’t harm you. Your clan’s young chief is absent, hurry and help your sect hunt Fire Souls to improve your score!" Ning Fan instructed through a mental transmission.
The cultivator from the Xieyang Sect sighed with relief, immediately returning to the Xieyang Sect trial area to aid in hunting Fire Souls.
Ning Fan, in a single confrontation, injured more than ten Peak Crossing Truth Realm cultivators, which shook many hearts and stirred some anger and curses. Ning Fan ignored these curses, using spirit sense to scan the thirty-five martial trial areas, contemplating.
Tamu’s total score was originally only 1 point, after he killed a half-step Shedding Void Stage Fire Soul, it rose to 11 points. This score is still at the bottom; even the second last, the Hanzhen Clan, currently has 44 points, having successfully killed four Crossing Truth Fire Souls.
The vast majority of tribe scores exceeded five hundred, with major tribes having at least a thousand or more.
The leading Summon Wind Sect’s score exceeded nine thousand, followed by the Sea Soul Sect close to seven thousand, with the Xieyang Sect ranking seventh, barely reaching fifteen hundred points. This was much less compared to previous years, the cause being the sudden withdrawal of their young chief, Xianyu Chun.
"To become Southern Frontier champion, relying solely on my Fire Summoning Talismans is absolutely insufficient, thus I’ll seize Fire Souls from other tribes to increase my score!"
Ning Fan didn’t rush to use his clan’s Fire Summoning Talismans but charged towards one Southern Frontier trial area after another.
Poor Hanzhen Clan, with twenty participants besieging five Crossing Truth Fire Souls, they had no time to react when a jet-black flame swept past, in a blink, all five Crossing Truth Fire Souls were reduced to ashes!
Tamu now with 61 points! Ning Fan also acquired five more Fire Crystal Minerals!
"Why! We didn’t steal the Tamu Fire Souls, why are you robbing us!" a Shaman Mage from Hanzhen Clan angrily yelled.
"I’ve taken them, what can you do!"
Ning Fan’s almost indifferent glance instantly silenced the Shaman Mage, drenched in cold sweat.
Even knowing this martial trial prohibits killing...
After Hanzhen Clan, one tribe after another had their hunted Fire Souls seized by Ning Fan!
Initially, he only seized from tribes without Shekong overseers, subsequently even those overseen by Shekong powerhouses were visited by Ning Fan.
Forsaken Corpse Sect possessed three Shekong Early Stage overseeers, working together to hunt three Shekong Fire Souls, only to see a firelight flash by, enraging all three Shekong: "Bold outsider, trying to rob our Forsaken Corpse Sect Fire Souls won’t be easy!"
All three Shekong soared skyward to confront Ning Fan, leaving the three Shekong Fire Souls temporarily sealed by their sect’s cultivators.
According to trial rules, Ning Fan robbing others’ Fire Souls cannot proactively harm them, but if they retaliate first, he may counterattack.
"Scram!"
Ning Fan spat out a fire sea, engulfing the three ascending Shekong in screams, after which three panicked, trembling spirits fled the demonic fire, their bodies reduced to ashes!
Being lenient, killing three immediately would be effortless for Ning Fan!
"Please spare us, senior!" The three Shekong pleaded for mercy, fearing Ning Fan would audaciously disregard the rules and murder them.
Ning Fan didn’t even glance at the three Forsaken Corpse Sect’s Shekong, swiftly exterminating their summoned Shekong Fire Souls, moving to the next trial area.
Heishan Sect trial area!
Heishan Sect’s two Shekong Mid Stage licked their lips, determined to severely injure Ning Fan. They suddenly rose, casting the Sky Net at Ning Fan, only to have it incinerated by Ning Fan’s demonic fire, their bodies likewise annihilated!
Also destroyed were the two Shekong Fire Souls summoned by Heishan Sect!
White Ghost Sect trial area!
The White Ghost Sect had a total of seven Shekong cultivators, the strongest being the Shekong Late Stage White Ghost Sorcerer. As Ning Fan set foot in the White Ghost Sect’s trial area, the sorcerer immediately cast a Thunder Palm towards the grassland, activating a pre-set enemy-trapping formation array.
"Our White Ghost Sect is proficient in the Dao of formations, and even a Thought-Shattering Early Stage cultivator would suffer severe injuries entering this Liangyi Life and Death Formation. Today, I use my blood essence to empower the formation, intending to leave you severely wounded within!"
The White Ghost Sorcerer’s face was full of arrogance, not believing that Ning Fan, trapped within the formation, could achieve anything.
He spat out seven mouths of blood essence onto the formation, a considerable loss, and the other six White Ghost Sect Shekong did the same, causing the power of the array to surge more than twice!
"A mere formation like this won’t be enough to trap me!"
Ning Fan, having already easily broken through Emperor Lou Tuo’s mountain formation, certainly wouldn’t fear an array set up by a group of Shekong. Without even using the Momentum Character Secret, he directly charged forward with his physical defense, forcibly shattering the grand formation!
All seven White Ghost Shekong, including the White Ghost Sorcerer, vomited blood and staggered back in horror.
"This person’s physical body is terrifying! Even with his cultivation sealed, his physical defense alone is enough to dominate the Thought-Shattering Early Stage!"
They dared not obstruct Ning Fan any further and could only watch him slaughter the Fire Spirit their sect had summoned!
This brought tremendous pressure to the Summon Wind Sect!
As soon as Ning Fan set foot in the Summon Wind Sect, Nan Zhilong’s gaze hardened. He coldly instructed the nine Shekong cultivators behind him, "Quickly help me with Soul Fusion!"
The power of the medicine soul from the nine Shekong instantly strengthened Nan Zhilong, whose cultivation was originally at the Peak of Shekong, now surged past the Shattered Thought bottleneck, reaching the Shattered Thought Early Stage level!
"You have a Thought-Shattering physical body, and I, Nan, also have Thought-Shattering strength. How can we allow you, a mere outsider, to seize our Summon Wind Sect’s Fire Spirit! Tiandu Demon-Breaking Finger!"
Nan Zhilong suddenly raised his right index finger, chanting incantations, with twelve enormous golden Buddhist pillars appearing behind him!
His index finger gradually turned gold, pale yet exuding a captivating Buddhist aura, which seemed to slightly suppress the Ancient Demon Bloodline in Ning Fan’s body, making Ning Fan instantly aware that this was a Buddhist Demon-Banishing Divine Ability!
With a shout, Nan Zhilong forced his finger down with all his might, and a faint golden thousand-zhang finger mark appeared to press directly against the long sky, as if pressing directly into Ning Fan’s eyes.
Ning Fan, relying on his strong physical defense, directly punched and shattered the thousand-zhang fingerprint, yet within a few breaths, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, with a trace of blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
Such a strange divine ability! Even though he blocked the thousand-zhang fingerprint, he was still injured. It seems the finger mark that appeared in his eyes also had lethal power, targeting the demon sect’s spirit sense!
"What a strange Buddhist divine ability, able to directly attack the spirit sense..." This was the first time Ning Fan encountered this kind of Buddhist divine ability, and he suffered a minor loss, but now being prepared, such divine abilities would be hard to work again. Surrounding himself with blazing fire, even that small injury healed in Nirvana.
Seeing that Ning Fan only suffered minor injuries, which then instantly healed, Nan Zhilong was slightly shocked. This was the divine ability he had learned at great cost from Zhongzhou Tian Du Peak, his strongest technique! In the past, using it was unbeatable, even Thought-Shattering Mid-Phase cultivators were mostly heavily injured. Of course, there was one premise, the opponent must be a demon sect cultivator, for the Demon-Breaking Finger to exert maximum power...
There is no doubt that Ning Fan is a demon sect cultivator, almost evident from his aura, yet he faced the Tiandu Demon-Breaking Finger head-on!
"If you have no other cards, then don’t blame Ning Fan for being ruthless!"
Ning Fan moved with incredible speed, directly using his powerful physical defense to knock Nan Zhilong into vomiting blood and flying backward, unable to even evade.
Soul Fusion requires extremely intricate spirit sense to maintain, and with Nan Zhilong injured and nearly fainting, naturally, he couldn’t maintain the Soul Fusion, and soon his aura weakened.
The other Summon Wind Sect Shekong attempted to block Ning Fan, but Ning Fan knocked them away one by one. In the end, the Fire Spirit summoned by Summon Wind Sect was similarly hunted down by Ning Fan!
"Damnable! Damnable indeed!" Nan Zhilong felt extremely unwilling but helpless; after all, the martial trials were meant to test strength. In past years, the Summon Wind Sect would rob other clans’ Fire Spirits, but now the cycle turns, and it’s the Summon Wind Sect’s misfortune.
But now, this would mean they couldn’t suppress the Tamu Clan’s score, and thus couldn’t curry favor with Emperor Lou Tuo!
Ning Fan did not snatch from the Evil Sheep Sect, naturally considering Xianyu Chun’s favor, making Evil Sheep Sect cultivators feel for the first time that befriending Ning Fan Senior by their Young Sect Leader has its benefits.
The Sea Soul Sect was the last Ning Fan seized.
There were quite a few Shekong in the Sea Soul Sect, but when Ning Fan arrived, Sorcerer Minghai stopped others from intervening, standing alone in front of Ning Fan.
"Defeat this old man, and all the Fire Spirits my sect summoned will be yours to destroy. If not, then please leave my Sea Soul Sect!"
This man intended to stop Ning Fan with his own strength!
The Sea Soul Sect was among the few clans that hadn’t suppressed the Tamu, hence Ning Fan wasn’t as ruthless with them as with other clans. He nodded, agreeing to Sorcerer Minghai’s challenge.
Sorcerer Minghai’s expression was unprecedentedly solemn, hesitating before finally using his yet-to-be-perfected strongest divine ability against Ning Fan.
It was a type of Dao Thought Technique, a divine ability that only Shattered Thought cultivators could perfect. Once perfected, that would be the day Sorcerer Minghai formally stepped into the Shattered Thought Realm!
"Extreme Fire Concept!"
At the thought of Sorcerer Minghai, fierce winds surged and waves of fire rolled in the area where they faced off!
With one thought, he could move the clouds and winds!
"A Dao Thought Technique..."
Ning Fan didn’t directly defeat Sorcerer Minghai with his formidable physical defense but slowly lifted his finger, reminiscing about the killings and solitude on the cultivation road in his mind, like that western wind with falling leaves, drifting with a heart undaunted.
The western wind last night withered the trees!
Sorcerer Minghai was instantly terrified; in the moment Ning Fan raised his finger, the fierce winds he summoned with his Dao thoughts were instantly commandeered by Ning Fan, transforming into a gentle western wind, with falling leaves descending from the sky.
The silent falling leaves brought an unprecedented sense of crisis to Sorcerer Minghai, as he activated his entire Dao thought, crashing towards those leaves, attempting to burn them into ashes with the Extreme Fire Concept!
Belonging to the element of wood, leaves give rise to fire; in such elemental interactions, Sorcerer Minghai assumed that his Dao thought should suppress Ning Fan’s.
Yet the result was Sorcerer Minghai’s Extreme Fire Concept easily succumbing to Ning Fan’s Dao thought, gradually turning into ashes under the western wind Dao thought...
By the principle of the Five Elements, the Extreme Fire Concept should certainly not be defeated by Ning Fan’s Dao thought! 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
In terms of the degree of Dao thought completion, Sorcerer Minghai had a strange feeling that Ning Fan’s Dao thought wasn’t more complete than many Thought-Shattering Early Stage cultivators...
Could Ning Fan’s cultivation be lower than the Shattered Thought realm, hence his Dao thought was incomplete?
As soon as this idea emerged, Sorcerer Minghai dismissed it. Ning Fan was already proven to be an Eternal Immortal Venerable, so it couldn’t be that his cultivation was lower than Shattered Thought.
With that, Sorcerer Minghai could only conclude that Ning Fan intentionally lowered the Dao thought intensity to engage him in a fair duel.
Losing to such an open-hearted old monster, Sorcerer Minghai was utterly convinced!
"I earnestly request Senior’s guidance on why my Extreme Fire Concept lost to Senior’s West Wind Falling Leaf Dao Thought..." Sorcerer Minghai humbly asked.
Ning Fan was not a Fragmented Thought Elder and did not have a deep understanding of Dao Thought, not even surpassing Sorcerer Minghai’s Half-Step Shattered Thought realm, but being a cultivator of the Second Realm of Tianren, he could see the various issues that Sorcerer Minghai couldn’t understand, answering them was naturally easy.
"Different depths..."
After speaking, Ning Fan hunted the Fire Soul summoned by the Sea Soul Sect, Sorcerer Minghai sighed deeply, seemingly gaining great benefit from Ning Fan’s brief words, gave orders to his subordinates, and instantly, the Sea Soul Sect cooperatively summoned more Peak Crossing Truth and Shedding Void Fire Souls for Ning Fan to kill for points.
"Shall we kill the Shattered Thought Fire Soul!" Sorcerer Minghai suddenly asked.
Ning Fan did not immediately reply.
Intentionally, he was not inclined to hunt the Shattered Thought Fire Souls, after all, summoning them carried great risks. If a Half-Step Eternity Realm Shattered Thought Fire Soul were summoned, it would inevitably be a tough battle—of course, if Ning Fan used some hidden cards in front of the Southern Frontier Cultivators here, he could still hunt the Shattered Thought Fire Soul, but it would not be without cost, certain things would inevitably be exposed to the Dabei Clan...
Ning Fan calculated the scores.
With his constant seizing of Fire Souls, the Tami Tribe’s overall score had risen to three thousand points.
Three thousand points, enough to make any member of the Tami Tribe overjoyed, surpassing their expectations! Also sufficient to silence anyone who underestimated the Tami Tribe or Ning Fan, those who boasted that the Tami would not exceed a thousand points, now closed their mouths, those tribes that claimed to lead the Tami by many points, now severely impacted.
Yet Ning Fan was not satisfied with just three thousand points!
Ranked first was the Summon Wind Sect, with nine thousand points; to take the top position in the Southern Frontier, he needed to surpass the Summon Wind Sect’s score.
However, the problem was those tribes whose Fire Souls Ning Fan had seized suddenly stopped all actions, no longer summoning Fire Souls to hunt.
Some due to severe personnel damage, unable to hunt Fire Souls, others harboring ulterior motives, unwilling to summon, lest Ning Fan seize them and gain points.
Only the Sea Soul Sect remained genuine, faithful to their word, actively summoning Fire Souls for Ning Fan to seize.
According to the rules, if the other party didn’t summon voluntarily, Ning Fan was not allowed to snatch their Fire Summoning Talismans directly, proxy summoning was not permitted.
"To surpass the Summon Wind Sect’s score, even if I exhaust the Tami Tribe’s remaining low-grade and mid-grade Fire Summoning Talismans, it is not enough. Sooner or later, I must hunt the Shattered Thought Fire Souls..."
Thinking of this, Ning Fan replied to Sorcerer Minghai, "Summon one Shattered Thought Fire Soul from your sect, let me kill one, and then summon the second..."
"Good! Observing Senior battling a true Shattered Thought is a great blessing for me!" Sorcerer Minghai seemed unconcerned about the test score, now solely focused on watching Ning Fan hunt the Shattered Thought Fire Soul, immediately instructing his sect members to use the high-grade Fire Summoning Talismans.
However, a sudden problem arose!
After using the high-grade Fire Summoning Talismans, they had no effect, no Shattered Thought Fire Soul appeared!
"Strange! Could there be issues with these high-grade Fire Summoning Talismans? Otherwise, why can’t they successfully summon a Shattered Thought Fire Soul?" Sorcerer Minghai was greatly surprised, trying other high-grade Fire Summoning Talismans and finding all had issues.
Throughout the Southern Frontier’s small competition, no one was foolish enough to summon a Shattered Thought Fire Soul to kill, hence no one tried summoning a Shattered Thought Fire Soul.
For precisely this reason, until Ning Fan decided to summon a Shattered Thought Fire Soul, no one noticed the talismans had issues!
Ning Fan tried activating the Tami Tribe’s high-grade Fire Summoning Talismans and found they also had no effect, though the low-grade and mid-grade Fire Summoning Talismans were still usable.
Reluctantly, Ning Fan had to give up hunting Shattered Thought Fire Souls, as other tribes delayed summoning Peak Crossing Truth and Shedding Void Fire Souls, he had to use up the Tami Tribe’s Fire Summoning Talismans.
The remaining 38 low-grade Fire Summoning Talismans and 20 mid-grade Fire Summoning Talismans were all exhausted by Ning Fan. The Tami Tribe’s score then exceeded six thousand points.
Six thousand points, still less than the Summon Wind Sect’s nine thousand points.
As time gradually passed, other tribes still had no intention of continuing to summon Fire Souls, seemingly preferring to keep the current score ending the test rather than continuing summoning!
"Unable to make the Tami Tribe rank bottom, an oversight on our part, but in any case, we cannot let the Tami Tribe take first place! Our strength is not as good as the Ning surname foreign cultivator, if Fire Souls are summoned, they will undoubtedly be taken by this person before slaughtering them, so rather than summoning, it’s better not to, ensuring the Tami Tribe has no hope of taking first place, also fulfilling our part for Emperor Lou Tuo!"
This was the true thought of countless tribes!
This thought, even outsider cultivators with sane minds could see through, how could Ning Fan not see it?
This was a passive suppression tactic against the Tami Tribe, but incredibly effective, as those tribes didn’t voluntarily summon Fire Souls, Ning Fan couldn’t seize them even if he wanted to.
No further score increase!
"If necessary, use Illusory Art on those tribes’ cultivators, forcing them to summon Fire Souls under control..."
While pondering, the steppe suddenly underwent irregular tremors.
Sometimes light, sometimes heavy, the tremors were incredibly unpredictable, accompanied by these tremors, each combat testing zone suddenly experienced abrupt changes!
Within the Hanzhen Clan’s testing area, a dark brown flame suddenly appeared out of thin air, then a dark brown Fire Soul emerged from the flame, exuding a Mid-Phase Shattered Thought cultivation!
Then, a second, third, fourth, fifth Shattered Thought Fire Soul appeared one after another in Hanzhen Clan, with cultivation ranging from Shattered Thought Early to Shattered Thought Late Stage!
The appearance of the head Shattered Thought Fire Soul instantly triggered a frenzied massacre in Hanzhen Clan, the twenty contenders, almost none remained, all died on the spot!
Note that the Hanzhen Clan never activated the high-grade Fire Summoning Talismans, the timing of these five Fire Souls was bizarre!
Not only Hanzhen Clan, but other tribes’ testing areas also saw five Shattered Thought Fire Souls appear, their numbers precisely matching the count of high-grade Fire Summoning Talismans they possessed!
Shattered Thought Fire Souls are not something a group of Peak Crossing Truth and Shedding Void cultivators can withstand, moreover, since every tribe’s testing area produced five Shattered Thought Fire Souls at once, the casualties were immensely severe, many tribes’ contenders were slaughtered, only a few survived, but greatly terrified!
More fearsome was, after slaughtering the on-site contenders, those Shattered Thought Fire Souls began rushing towards the crowd here, with such momentum, once killing all cultivators here, they might escape to wreak havoc across the entire Southern Frontier, enacting a massacre!
Given the Southern Frontier Steppe’s cultivators’ capabilities, they could not stop this slaughter!
After all, these were 175 Shattered Thought Fire Souls! Even if an Eternal Immortal Venerable were to face so many Shattered Thought Fire Souls, they would be intimidated, cautiously confronting!
Furthermore, a cold laugh carrying Shattered Thought’s force suddenly reached every cultivator’s ear here, seemingly originating from the steppe’s depths!
"Jie jie jie jie, Chulie Duolan, the Fierce Realm did not kill you, that was Vacant Flame’s incompetence, but I, Stone Flame, am no incompetent, this time, you surely won’t escape our grasp!"
The Sanyan Guard, who ambushed Duolan that day, unexpectedly pursued here...
How did they escape Fierce Realm’s blockade and enter the Dabei territory!
