Grasping the Evil-Chapter 781: Ghost Profound Middle Stage

Seeing that the remaining Two Apertures and Three Apertures Divine Corpses fled without a fight, Ning Fan was slightly surprised. Surrounded by a million lotus shadows, he flashed his escape light and pursued.

To open the third heart aperture, he needed the gray aura within these divine corpses.

There were 81 Fate Immortals and 4 Crossing Truth experts on the opposing side. If faced head-on, it would be anything but easy for Ning Fan to slay all these divine corpses.

Now that these divine corpses were fleeing without a fight, it was most favorable for Ning Fan.

Chasing closely behind the divine corpses, Ning Fan raised his hand, summoning the Memory Severing Dao Sword, transforming into a vast Phantom Sword Formation to block the divine corpses’ path.

The two-apertured divine corpses with inadequate cultivations were successively killed under Ning Fan’s Phantom Sword Formation.

Amidst these heavy illusions, they saw scenes of their lives before death.

Moments of joy, sorrow, fear... ultimately dying within the illusions.

One after another, the two-apertured divine corpses were extinguished by the sword shadows, and streams of gray aura were absorbed into Ning Fan’s body.

These two-apertured divine corpses were disorganized, offering no defense against Ning Fan’s attacks, only instinctively fleeing desperately, fearing the lotus shadows around Ning Fan.

Even the Ghost Profound Peak two-apertured divine corpses eventually fell at Ning Fan’s hands.

Only four three-apertured divine corpses, each with different appearances, were still desperately escaping.

After slaying 81 two-apertured divine corpses, Ning Fan’s body absorbed 81 strands of gray aura. These gray auras were the negative emotions of the two-apertured Ancient Gods, with each strand equating to hundreds of one-apertured Ancient God gray auras.

The gray aura entered his heart, causing Ning Fan’s chest to ache suddenly, halting his escape light, almost plummeting from the cloud tops.

In an instant, countless heavy illusions appeared before his eyes, depicting a black-robed giant wielding a scythe, ruthlessly slaughtering Ancient God cultivators, depriving them of their hearts to refine Death God Crystals.

This black-robed giant, surrounded by innumerable three-colored lotus shadows, was revered by Ancient Gods as the Death Ancestor.

The presence of this black-robed giant was terrifyingly powerful, not as strong as the Purple Dou Immortal Sovereign, yet much stronger than Immortal Emperor Mo Zhong whom Ning Fan had encountered!

"Death Ancestor... so he is the one who refines Death God Crystals..."

Ning Fan’s gaze shifted slightly as he gritted his teeth, invoking heart power, his body shining with divine light, dispelling wave upon wave of illusions, restoring clarity to his eyes.

Stabilizing his aura, Ning Fan’s escape light flashed, continually utilizing the Black Demon Escape Technique to chase forward again.

After absorbing the gray aura of 81 two-apertured Ancient Gods, Ning Fan had half-opened his third heart aperture.

Ning Fan understood that if he could slay the four three-apertured Ancient Gods ahead and seize their gray aura, he might have the chance to fully open his third heart aperture.

Realizing Ning Fan was still pursuing, the four divine corpses suddenly changed their escape light, fleeing in entirely different directions.

Ning Fan’s gaze sharply focused, identifying one of them, and doggedly pursued.

The one he chose to chase was the weakest among the four, the tiger-headed divine corpse.

It was evident that in life, this tiger-headed divine corpse, using a demon race body, practiced deity cultivation techniques. Due to the lingering demonic arts, its tiger head remained.

Its cultivation technique was impure and thus the weakest among the four corpses.

Although at the Initial Stage of Crossing Truth Realm, it only matched the strength of someone like hundreds of years.

Seeing Ning Fan pursue, the tiger-headed divine corpse’s expression turned fearful, and it fled even faster.

Ning Fan’s gaze darkened as he continually performed more than a dozen Black Demon Escapes, forcibly arriving in front of the tiger-headed divine corpse, halting its escape light with a finger sword beam, cleaving the void.

The moment he blocked the tiger-headed divine corpse, Ning Fan, without a word, transformed his true Dao Image, turning daylight into night with seven stars hanging in the sky.

A Black and White Heaven-Sealing Seal condensed instantly in his palm, without any pause, directly striking the tiger-headed divine corpse.

The Heaven-Concealing Palm Imprint descended from the sky. The tiger-headed divine corpse’s expression turned appalled, its body flickered, transforming into a million phantoms, each crashing into the giant palm.

This was a divine skill using phantoms as a human wall for defense; each of the million phantoms was destroyed by the palm imprint, eroding 50% of the seal’s power.

The remaining palm imprint still fell from the sky, but having used the phantom defense technique, the tiger-headed divine corpse had little mana left.

In a moment of crisis, the tiger-headed divine corpse’s figure flickered and vanished from its original place, reappearing a million miles away in an instant.

Yet, the palm imprint also vanished without a trace and, in a blink, reappeared a million miles away, still above the tiger-headed divine corpse, leaving it no escape, nowhere to hide.

On the edge of the Heaven-Sealing Seal, a faint purple-golden light shimmered.

The tiger-headed divine corpse hadn’t anticipated being unable to evade the palm imprint, let out a wretched scream, and was hit by the imprint, severely injured, falling from the sky.

On the ground, it was unclear when, a massive sea of black flames had already appeared.

As the tiger-headed divine corpse plummeted to the ground, it was immediately engulfed in the sea of flames, letting out an earth-shattering scream.

Ning Fan followed closely behind, descending slightly, his finger technique shifting, the black fire immediately condensed into a giant evil cauldron, imprisoning the tiger-headed divine corpse within, burning it fiercely.

Gradually, the anguished screams of the tiger-headed divine corpse ceased.

Then, with a bang, the body of the tiger-headed divine corpse collapsed within the cauldron, transforming into countless gray vapors.

Ning Fan opened his mouth and swallowed, ingesting all the gray vapors into his body, retracting the black fire, and sat cross-legged on the ground, refining the vapors.

The third heart aperture was again opened somewhat, Ning Fan clearly felt the speed of his mana recovery increasing.

The Heart Aperture Technique not only could assist Fiendgods in multiplying their cultivations by several or dozens of times but also could aid Fiendgods in swiftly recovering their mana.

At this moment, Ning Fan, approaching the opening of the third heart aperture, his mana’s automatic recovery speed was almost comparable to the recovery speed from consuming expensive pills in the past.

Exterminating the tiger-headed divine corpse, Ning Fan expended considerable mana, and once his mana was fully restored to its peak state, Ning Fan deployed the Ice Rain Technique in this Mirage world, beginning the search for the whereabouts of the other three divine corpses.

Standing in the light rain, Ning Fan was immersed for a long time, locating the positions of the three divine corpses.

The dragon-horned divine corpse was hidden within an abandoned forest, the fire-winged divine corpse concealed within a volcanic crater, and the turtle-shell divine corpse was nestled within a vast marsh.

After pondering for a moment, Ning Fan slipped away towards the marsh where the turtle-shell divine corpse resided.

Ten days later, Ning Fan left the marsh, heading towards the location of the fire-winged divine corpse.

A month later, Ning Fan emerged from the abandoned forest where the dragon-horned divine corpse previously stood.

After another month, Ning Fan successfully slew the dragon-horned divine corpse.

The power of these Three-Apertures Divine Corpses was formidable, each possessing cultivations comparable to the Initial Stage of Crossing Truth. Yet, fear of Ning Fan had arisen in their hearts, weakening their combat power, and divided, they were not difficult to defeat.

With Ning Fan slaying each of the four divine corpses one by one, the Mirage thus vanished.

Upon the Seven-Pointed Star Altar, Ning Fan stood unmoved like a mountain, almost condensing the third heart aperture above his heart!

At this moment, it was as if a vortex was born within Ning Fan’s heart, with mana seeping continually from the vortex.

That vortex, named Heart’s Fountain, was the source of the Fiendgods’ Heart Apertures.

Only Three Apertures Ancient Gods can open the Heart’s Fountain; once opened, the mana will increase by twice as much.

The second step of cultivation involves mana flowing through the Veins, stored within the primordial spirit in the Dantian.

For Three Apertures Ancient Gods, the god heart where the Heart’s Fountain is opened is like another mana container, capable of accommodating an amount of mana equivalent to the primordial spirit.

The third heart aperture was gradually being opened and stabilized.

The Heart’s Fountain was constantly generating mana.

The bottleneck mid-phase Ghost Immortal Realm was also being gradually pushed open.

The Three Revolution Dan Master watched Ning Fan from the side all along, his eyes increasingly filled with shock.

He distinctly felt the aura of the ancient god on Ning Fan was almost reaching the Three Apertures level, incredibly powerful, far beyond his half-aperture state.

"This young man’s crystal refining succeeded! And just after opening the second heart aperture, he surprisingly opened the third!" The Three Revolution Dan Master murmured incredulously.

He had heard from his master that even during the era when Fiendgods existed, opening the third heart aperture was not easy.

For Fiendgods, the first heart aperture was merely entry-level, the second was foundational, and starting with the third, it became tremendously difficult to open.

Thus, witnessing Ning Fan open the second heart aperture did not yet shock him.

But seeing Ning Fan open the third, he could not help but be astonished.

Three Apertures Ancient Gods, with eight times the mana recovery speed...

With three heart apertures aiding him, Ning Fan’s future was immeasurable.

Bang!

Suddenly, a loud noise burst from Ning Fan, startling the Three Revolution Dan Master.

Streams of divine light gushed forth from Ning Fan’s body, Ning Fan sat cross-legged on the ground, eyes shut, silent as an ancient deity.

At this moment, Ning Fan’s third heart aperture was thoroughly opened, and his cultivations finally formally broke through the mid-stage Ghost Immortal Realm.

Ning Fan’s mana limit had always been higher than common people, breaking through the mid-phase of Ghost Immortal Realm, the mana within his primordial spirit was as abundant as a peak-stage Ghost Immortal Realm cultivator.

Now having opened the Heart’s Fountain, Ning Fan’s mana increased by another fold, and the total amount of mana was no weaker than it was in hundreds of years ago!

Though his realm was yet to reach the Crossing Truth Realm, his mana had already first achieved the Crossing Truth realm!

In the Mind’s Illusory Realm, Ning Fan spent several months exterminating numerous divine corpses, yet in the outside world, only the time of burning a stick of incense had passed.

With the divine light around him fading, Ning Fan opened his eyes and stood up, sensing the vast mana within him, and couldn’t help but nod in satisfaction.

At this moment, he was already a Three Apertures Ancient God, a Mid-Phase Gui Xuan Cultivator, with mana comparable to an ordinary Enlightenment cultivator.

This trip to the Flowing Sand Star Domain was not in vain; the opportunities were indeed significant.

Of course, there were plenty of dangers as well...

Ning Fan’s gaze sharpened; he hadn’t forgotten that he was currently following behind Senluo, accompanying this man in his madness.

Senluo was a madman. Following him promised many opportunities but even more dangers.

A previous misstep had severely damaged even the Ancient Demon Puppet.

One more misstep, and he might end up losing his life...

"Oh? You’ve opened the third heart aperture? Very well, with you as a vessel for my Ancient God Power, that’s enough. I no longer need this inferior vessel of Three Revolution Dan Master."

Suddenly, a cold voice echoed around the Seven-Pointed Star Altar; it was Senluo’s voice.

The moment this voice emerged, the remaining Ancient God Power on the altar surged into Ning Fan’s Divine Heart.

The Ancient God Power previously stored within the Three Revolution Dan Master was also transferred to Ning Fan’s body one by one.

Senluo held half of the Flowing Sand Ancestor’s divine power within him, and Ning Fan held the other half. Senluo relied on his cultivation, and Ning Fan relied on his Ancient God heart apertures.

The Ancient God Power converged into the Divine Heart, and Ning Fan did not resist.

Since he had agreed to act as a vessel for Senluo’s divine power, he would not go back on his word, hoping that Senluo would honor his promise and detoxify the little demoness.

Suddenly, the scenery before him changed, and Ning Fan could feel a tremendous divine skill relocating him to another place.

In an instant, Ning Fan left the Seven-Pointed Star Altar and appeared in a world filled with starlight.

"This place is..." Ning Fan’s eyes glinted with speculation and disbelief.

"This is my Divine Star Space, and the star you’re on is the Ninth Star at my brow. From here, you can observe the outside world, and when necessary, even assist me in battle. You may also craft fireworks for me in this place, and of course, you can gain insights into my Way of the Void here!"

Senluo’s typically cold voice spoke in Ning Fan’s ear, confirming Ning Fan’s suspicions.

This was indeed Senluo’s Divine Star Space, and it was where his strongest star was located — the Ninth Star!

This space was filled with Senluo’s divine dao power, allowing Ning Fan to fully experience the Way of the Void insights within Senluo’s Ninth Star.

Yet Ning Fan still couldn’t believe Senluo would trustingly bring him into his Divine Star Space.

Divine Star, Demon Star, Devil Star, Ning Fan had long ceased cultivating them.

For those cultivating the Divine Path, training in the Divine Stars was an excellent way to enhance their power.

The Divine Star is located at the brow of a Xuan cultivator. Generally, only when a Nascent Soul cultivator reaches Xuan can they cultivate the first Divine Star, the second at Divinity Transformation, the third at Void Refinement, and the fourth at Void Fragmentation.

Upon reaching Fate Immortal, one could cultivate the fifth Divine Star, and during the Enlightenment, Shedding Void Stage, and Broken Thoughts stages, one could cultivate the sixth, seventh, and eighth Divine Stars, respectively.

Only in the Eternity Realm could one cultivate the Ninth Divine Star.

The Divine Star could nurture divine skills, with many Xuan cultivators relying on it for their trump card divine skills.

Ning Fan’s knowledge was vast and extensive, and he hadn’t focused much on cultivating Divine Stars, but Senluo had practiced each one methodically.

The Ninth Star was condensed by Senluo after eons, containing his Burying Stars River Technique.

Ning Fan stood within Senluo’s Ninth Star, with countless floating light orbs engraved with images in the air.

Casually summoning a light orb into his hand, Ning Fan infused his spirit sense into it, reading the contents within.

These light orbs contained details of Senluo Immortal King cultivating the Burying Stars River Technique and Senluo Immortal King’s insights into the Way of the Void.

By perusing these orbs, Ning Fan could gain considerable benefits.

He couldn’t believe that the cold-hearted Senluo would grant him such an opportunity for free, gifting him with void insights.

Not far away stood an elliptical blood-red Star Gate. Stepping through it, one could leave the star space, return to the outside world, and gain freedom.

Through this gate, one could observe everything happening outside.

Vigilance arose in Ning Fan’s heart; he always felt that Senluo’s actions had an ulterior motive.

"As you guessed, I’m not giving you this Ninth Star for free to comprehend. I want to trade its insights for one of your divine skills," Senluo’s voice sounded again.

"Exchange divine skills?" Ning Fan was taken aback.

"Indeed! I wish to comprehend this place in exchange for your Divine Blast Technique!"

"Divine Blast Technique?" Ning Fan was startled, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly slapped his storage pouch and took out a jade scroll, inscribing the Blast God Technique onto it.

At the moment of inscription on the jade scroll, a flash of blood-colored starlight appeared, and the jade scroll disappeared into thin air, taken away by Senluo.

In the outer void, while intruding in various star realms, Senluo was browsing the jade scroll in his hand.

After a long while, he nodded contently and said, "Not a bad technique. As long as you hold enough Masters’ Spirits, even the Shenhao Twin Emperors would struggle against this technique. I didn’t expect while I was imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison, someone in the Eastern Heaven managed to create such a mysterious technique."

Boom!

The essence of the technique was already understood, and Senluo crushed the jade scroll in his palm, a gleam of cold light flashing in his eyes as he suddenly stopped outside a cold, windy star realm.

This is the Imperial Star Domain of the Eastern Heaven Immortal World, known as the Jiuyou Star Domain.

The most powerful force in this star domain undoubtedly belongs to the Jiuyou Sect. Behind the Jiuyou Sect presides a Sixth Calamity Immortal Emperor——the Jiuyou Great Emperor!

At this moment, Ning Fan is hidden within Senluo’s Ninth Star, and through the nearby Star Gate, he can clearly see the Jiuyou Star Domain outside.

The location of the Jiuyou Star Domain is entirely opposite to the Dongming Star Domain where the Godly Void Pavilion is located.

Ning Fan recognized the Jiuyou Star Domain, and a hint of confusion appeared in his eyes.

"It seems this Senluo Immortal King is not in a hurry to proceed to the Dongming Star Domain, but instead, detoured here to the Jiuyou Star Domain. His purpose here is unclear..."

Ning Fan shook his head and released the little demoness from the Yuan Yao World, laying her flat on the ground.

Seeing the little demoness still peacefully asleep, with her residual poison unresolved, he sighed and returned to sit cross-legged on the ground, taking out various materials to make mortal fireworks.

He hadn’t forgotten that Senluo assigned him another task, to create fireworks.

His hands were busy crafting the fireworks, yet his gaze remained fixed outside the Star Gate, observing Senluo’s every move.

Senluo stood outside the Jiuyou Star Domain for a long time, at first full of nostalgia, but gradually a cold light grew fierce in his eyes, suddenly raising his hand and pressing down towards the Jiuyou Star Domain!

As this finger pressed down, the Locking Domain Great Array of the entire Jiuyou Star Domain shattered intensely, the collapsing sound shaking all the cultivators of the second step of cultivation within the star domain!

On the Jiuyou Star, at the bottom of an icy abyss, an elderly man in a purple robe suddenly opened his silver pupils, revealing an expression of disbelief, exclaiming,

"It’s Senluo!!! He’s actually still alive!!!"

Without any hesitation, the purple-robed elder stood up abruptly, his figure flickering as he swept up a sky full of divine radiance, disappearing from the icy abyss in an instant, appearing amidst the vast expanse of space.

The person stood in the starry sky, the star river trembling, and behind him suddenly appeared an enormously grand golden silhouette—the emperor’s shadow.

This person is the Emperor of the Jiuyou Star Domain, the Jiuyou Great Emperor!

Yet, clearly, the high and mighty Jiuyou Great Emperor now has an extremely tense and cautious look in his eyes, staring at the blood-haired man in the void ahead as if facing a great enemy.

"Luo Jiu! Back then you followed the Shenkong Emperor and ambushed me with a single finger. Today, I’ve come to return you that finger!"

Senluo’s lips curled into a cold smile, suddenly raising his hand and pressing a finger towards the Jiuyou Great Emperor.

This finger brought extinction and darkness, containing the overwhelming demonic thoughts of the Senluo Immortal King, seemingly intending to refine everything before him into the darkness of that finger.

In the instant this technique was enacted, a gigantic black solar phantom appeared behind the Senluo Immortal King, radiating a sinister black glow!

As Senluo Immortal King raised his finger, the Jiuyou Great Emperor’s face abruptly lost all color, trembling as his voice faded,

"That... That is——the Black Yaw Finger! A secret imperial technique of the Dark Clan, learned only by few Empires of the Dark Clan. How could you obtain this technique? Did you... did you dare to kill the Dark Clan’s Immortal Emperor and seize this technique? You madman! How dare you try to take on people of the ten secret clans!"

Before the words finished, the Jiuyou Great Emperor actually turned to flee directly!

Though he was a Sixth Calamity Immortal Emperor, with a higher realm than the Five Tribulations Immortal King Senluo, he had always acknowledged Senluo’s prowess, as well as the depravity of the Black Yaw Finger.

Senluo’s finger was certainly enough to severely injure him!

"Dark Clan?! Imperial Technique?! Black Yaw Finger?!"

Within the Ninth Star, Ning Fan witnessed everything occurring outside, his heart unable to calm.

This was the first time he heard of the information regarding the ten secret clans, realizing that among them is a clan called the Dark Clan...

This was the first time he saw Senluo perform the Black Yaw Finger, only feeling its evilness at the extreme and its power even more terrifying.

Unconsciously, Ning Fan raised his hand, mimicking Senluo’s Dao resonance of the Black Yaw Finger, but no matter what, he couldn’t replicate the essence of that finger...

Outside, seeing the Jiuyou Emperor attempting to flee, Senluo scoffed disdainfully, pressing that finger even faster!

"You, cannot escape!" (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you’re welcome to visit qidian.com for recommendation votes, monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please go to m.qidian.com for reading.)