Grasping the Evil-Chapter 797: Fourth Demon Mountain

That Evil Sect roared fiercely, striding forward with a cracking sound throughout his body, and his right arm instantly enlarged by more than a fold, delivering a palm strike towards Ning Fan’s Tian Ling.

He was merely inches away from Ning Fan, and his move was as quick as lightning, confident that Ning Fan could not evade the lethality of his palm, certain he could kill Ning Fan with his strike.

In the information he had received, Ning Fan was just a divinity transformation novice, and this palm strike was enough to kill him a thousand times over.

He was unaware that Ning Fan was no longer the divinity transformation novice in his memory, but had already stepped into the second stage of cultivation.

"Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo, huh..." Ning Fan’s gaze went cold, suddenly raising his hand with a sword, slicing towards the demonic palm approaching him.

A flash of sword light shone, and the Evil Sect’s right arm was directly severed by Ning Fan’s sword, the severed arm falling to the ground, sizzling and transforming into demonic fog and dissipating; black blood spattered across the ground, instantly freezing solid.

The sword was none other than Ning Fan’s Dao Weapon—the Memory Severing Dao Sword!

"It’s actually a Dao Weapon! You’re not a divinity transformation, you’re at the Guixuan Level!"

The Evil Sect grunted, retreating several feet back, clutching the severed arm, looking at Ning Fan in disbelief.

Based on the information he had received, Ning Fan should have only been at the divinity transformation level, so how could he possibly be at the Guixuan level? He did not understand!

Knowing that he was no match for Ning Fan at this moment, the Evil Sect resolved to eliminate all distractions, transforming into a demonic rainbow to flee from the cave dwelling instantly.

"You think you can escape!"

Ning Fan snorted coldly, a black fire flashed beneath his feet, instantly disappearing from where he stood, taking a step to pursue outside the cave dwelling, blocking the Evil Sect’s path, and without further ado, swung a sword down.

As this sword was swung, a hundred and eighty thousand illusory sword shadows instantly appeared across the sky.

The Evil Sect had not even reacted, already penetrated by the hundred and eighty thousand sword lights, life extinguished, meeting his untimely death.

Upon the fall of this demon, his corpse, much like the previously severed arm, immediately began dissipating into demonic fog.

Ning Fan’s gaze shifted, dispersing the widespread sword shadows, fingers moved like lightning, pressing a finger upon the Evil Sect’s body.

With this finger, Ning Fan employed the Sealing the Heavens technique, fixing the demon’s body to prevent it from dissipating into demonic fog.

A slash of the sword carved out a blood-covered crystal from the demon’s dantian flesh, with another slash, he decapitated the demon.

Ning Fan stored away his Dao Weapon, flicked a finger, releasing black flame to incinerate the demon’s remains, and returned to the cave dwelling with the crystal and the demon’s head.

From the moment this demon took form to when Ning Fan slain him, only a few breaths had transpired.

The group of demons on the outskirts of the Oblique Moon Mountain Range only felt the intense fluctuations of divine skills from the inner region, unaware of what had transpired within.

Inside the cave dwelling, Ning Fan tossed the demon’s head onto the stone table, gazing at the Illusionary Demon Crystal in his hand with extremely stern eyes.

Indeed, this crystal was precisely the Illusionary Demon Crystal.

After arriving at the Oblique Moon Mountain Range, Ning Fan had consecutively slain two demons related to the crystal, these two individuals, in reality, were one and the same Quasi-Emperor demon creature resembling Moro the Great Emperor!

The Illusionary Demon Crystal is an exceptionally rare immortal ore, and if a demoness obtains it, they can, through Demonic Secret Arts, refine the crystal, using it to forge an ’Illusory Demon Form’.

If Ning Fan’s assumption was correct, the demon named Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo was precisely Moro the Great Emperor, who personally refined using the Illusionary Demon Crystal an Illusory Demon Form!

A demon form refined from the Illusionary Demon Crystal will not truly die unless the crystal is destroyed.

To a demon form, the Illusionary Demon Crystal is its spirit, its heart, its entire existence.

After each death of the Illusory Demon Form, it can resurrect again as long as enough demonic qi is supplemented, retransforming to continuously serve its master.

Senluo had previously slain this demon once, at that time, the Illusionary Demon Crystal fell to Spiritual Platform Star.

After absorbing a certain amount of demonic qi, this demon barely transformed for rebirth, displaying Human Profound Initial Stage cultivation. It was an incomplete rebirth, once again leading to his annihilation by Ning Fan.

This time, Ning Fan personally transmitted demonic qi to the crystal, enabling the demon to transform and rebirth a third time.

Since the quantity of demonic qi was far from sufficient, this still was an incomplete transformation and rebirth.

Although this demon was once again cut down by Ning Fan, as long as the crystal remained undestroyed, it did not count as true death; with enough demonic qi, it could still transform and rebirth.

The Illusionary Demon Crystal can be used for refining Illusory Demon Forms, exceedingly coveted by demoness, considered a supreme demonic treasure.

Each Illusionary Demon Crystal can only be refined once; if refined a second time, it will be destroyed.

The cultivation of the refined demon form cannot exceed that of the original demoness.

The cultivation of the demon form cannot be elevated through training, once refined into form, it cannot gain acquired advancements.

This particular crystal had already been refined once by Moro the Great Emperor, and held no further use for Ning Fan.

But that demon’s head still had value for Ning Fan.

"Moro the Great Emperor’s Illusory Demon Form, is it... Soul Search!"

Ning Fan placed the crystal down, a cold gleam flickered in his eyes, raising his hand to press upon the demon’s head, performing the Soul Search and destroying this soul remnant technique.

He closed his eyes, his heart spirit invading the demon’s divine sense.

Within the demon’s divine sense, nine layers of seals were set, each seal imprisoning varying degrees of important memories.

Ning Fan first tore open the first seal of the demon’s divine sense, beginning to extract this segment of memory.

Memories revealed this demon was named Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo, one of six crystalline slaves created by Moro the Great Emperor.

The so-called crystalline slaves hold the same meaning as Illusory Demon Forms, merely termed differently.

In Moro the Great Emperor’s lifetime, he had obtained ten Illusionary Demon Crystals, all used to refine Illusory Demon Forms, failing four times, succeeding six times.

Crystalline slaves like Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo, Moro the Great Emperor had five more, all with Primordial Chaos levels of cultivation!

The first seal’s memories ended here, and Ning Fan activated his divine skills again, tearing open the second memory seal of Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo.

Memories showed that Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo leveraged the power of the Well of Covenant to descend from the Ancient Demon Abyss to the Eastern Heaven Immortal World seven years ago.

Upon arriving at the Eastern Heaven Immortal World, his sole objective was to pursue and kill Ning Fan, to vent the wrath of his master’s heart!

Currently, Moro the Great Emperor was sealed somewhere, isolated from the world.

Moro the Great Emperor used the Seven-Pointed Bone Sacrifice Formation to divine that Ning Fan was currently hiding within the Eastern Heaven Immortal World.

Since Ning Fan had refined the Innate Ghost Mask in advance, it rendered Moro the Great Emperor unable to accurately divine Ning Fan’s position and cultivation level.

To know that Ning Fan was in the Eastern Heaven was considered fortunate news for Moro.

Moro the Great Emperor was trapped and could not personally eliminate Ning Fan, but fortuitously, near his confinement was an abandoned domain gate, connecting with the Divine Tomb of Eastern Heaven’s Well of Covenant.

He was unable to descend to the Eastern Heaven through the domain gate, but his crystalline slaves could!

Thus, Moro the Great Emperor decisively sent Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo to the Well of Covenant, issuing the command to eliminate Ning Fan!

He originally wanted to send several more crystal slaves, but after one person passes through the abandoned domain gate, it takes thousands of years before a second person can pass.

Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo arrived at the Well of Covenant and made a pact with Shenkong the Great Emperor, promising to assist the Shenkong Emperor once in battle, with the agreement that after the fight, the contract would be terminated, regaining freedom to roam Eastern Heaven.

Unfortunately, the first time he assisted Shenkong Emperor, he encountered the fierce demon Senluo, and perished at Senluo’s hands.

Before he had a chance to reincarnate and transform again, the Phantom Demon Crystal that contained his Spirit fell into Ning Fan’s hands...

"To think that the reason Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo came to Eastern Heaven Immortal World was actually to kill me!"

Ning Fan’s eyes instantly sharpened.

Back then, he almost fell victim to Moro the Great Emperor’s Corpse Seizing, becoming a slave to Demon Luo. Fortunately, the Lightning Emperor Tai Su rescued him, allowing him to barely destroy thirty percent of the devil’s devil sense and escape disaster.

Moro the Great Emperor once made a vicious statement, saying that in a million years, he would break free and seek revenge on Ning Fan.

To Ning Fan, a million years felt too distant, and he never really regarded Moro the Great Emperor’s revenge seriously.

What Ning Fan did not expect was that Moro the Great Emperor’s true body did not break free, yet he managed to send out a crystal slave to hunt him down...

"Luckily, Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo was slain once by Senluo, causing his Phantom Demon Crystal to fall into my hands... If he had truly fulfilled the pact with Shenkong Emperor, regained his freedom, and roamed Eastern Heaven with his Quasi-Emperor cultivation level, hunting me secretly, I can’t imagine how dangerous it would have been for me!"

"In an unexpected way, Senluo actually helped me once..."

Ning Fan’s eyes flashed, and then he tore open the third layer of memory seal.

The memory revealed that Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo came from the Fourth Abyss of Ancient Demon Nine Abyss, and Moro the Great Emperor was currently being suppressed beneath the Fourth Demon Mountain. And the location of the Fourth Demon Mountain was at...

"The Fourth Demon Mountain!"

Ning Fan’s gaze changed. The information he extracted from the third layer of memory seal had already touched upon the ultimate secrets of the demons!

Just as he was about to extract the location of the Fourth Demon Mountain, an abrupt change occurred.

Within the third layer of memory seal, a pre-planted Divine Skill was triggered at that moment.

At that moment, Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo’s divine sense began to burn.

Without any hesitation, Ning Fan immediately withdrew his spirit sense and removed his hand from Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo’s head.

At the moment he let go, Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo’s head suddenly ignited and disintegrated into ashes.

The Phantom Demon Crystal placed by Ning Fan on the stone table suddenly shattered into two halves at that moment.

"Double precautions, huh..."

Ning Fan’s gaze immediately darkened, and only after a long time did his expression calm down.

Unexpectedly, within Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo’s memories, there was not only a memory seal but also a self-destruct restriction for the divine sense.

The restriction was personally planted by Moro the Great Emperor, and once triggered, unless one’s cultivation was higher than Moro’s, one could not prevent Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo’s divine sense from being destroyed.

The trigger timing of the restriction was not when Ning Fan tore open the first layer of memory seal, but when he tore open the third layer of seal.

A Quasi-Emperor cultivation, such as Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo, wouldn’t be easily captured by ordinary people.

Anyone capable of capturing him would at least be an Immortal Emperor of the Four Heavens.

In Moro the Great Emperor’s view, if the crystal slave were truly captured by a Four Heavens Immortal Emperor, even planting the strongest seal in the crystal slave’s divine sense would not be secure, and it would be hard to ensure that the crystal slave’s memories wouldn’t leak.

Therefore, he planted a spontaneous combustion restriction within the crystal slave’s divine sense, so that when someone attempted to extract the third layer of sealed memory, they would be attacked by the spontaneous combustion restriction...

The reason he planted the restriction in the third layer of memory was truly malicious.

When people conduct a soul search, they are usually cautious initially, then tend to relax as they proceed. After extracting the first and second layer sealed memories, they often are mentally relaxed, making it easy for the restriction to ambush successfully...

If Ning Fan hadn’t been alert and withdrawn his spirit sense quickly, he could very likely have been attacked by the spontaneous combustion restriction and lost his life...

"What a pity, deep within Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo’s memories, there must be even more secrets... such as Cultivation Techniques or other matters..."

Ning Fan looked at the Phantom Demon Crystal, which had shattered into two halves, and sighed softly.

The shattered crystal could no longer transform back into Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo. Without the transformation, he couldn’t conduct the soul search again.

Thousand-Leaved Demon Luo was truly extinguished.

Ning Fan’s gaze fell upon the two halves of the Phantom Demon Crystal, and suddenly, his expression changed drastically!

Within the shattered crystal, a particle of silver dust unexpectedly dropped onto the stone table.

This particle of dust was extremely tiny, to the point that without careful examination, one wouldn’t notice its existence.

Although it was just a speck of dust, Ning Fan didn’t dare to underestimate the origin of this dust!

"It is the Illusory Demon Dust!"

Ning Fan took the silver dust into his hand with great caution and an extremely solemn expression.

The Phantom Demon Crystal itself was a rare immortal ore, extremely uncommon, and even in Moro the Great Emperor’s lifetime, he had only acquired ten pieces.

The Illusory Demon Dust was even rarer than the Phantom Demon Crystal. It grew within the Phantom Demon Crystal, and the chances of its formation were extremely low; to have one piece develop Illusory Demon Dust out of a thousand Phantom Demon Crystals was quite exceptional.

Illusory Demon Dust was extremely rare, and its usage was quite esoteric.

This demon dust could be used to refine an elixir called ’Illusory Life Pill’.

The Illusory Life Pill’s grade wasn’t high, just a Four Revolutions Immortal Elixir.

But its formula was challenging to find, and even the Imperial Star of Eastern Heaven might not possess it. Usually, Alchemists only knew its name but not its formula.

However, its medicinal effect was indeed bordering on miraculous.

Any Master who consumes this elixir would have three Ghostly Flames rise within their Dantian.

Within two hours, each time a Master who has consumed the pill dies, one Ghostly Flame will extinguish, allowing the Master to be reborn once from the flames.

If during those two hours the Ghostly Flames are completely exhausted and the Master dies again, there will be no way to be reborn from the flames.

Ning Fan gazed at the Illusory Demon Dust in his hand, pondering silently.

If he could find the Illusory Life Pill’s formula, he could use this dust to refine the Illusory Life Pill, increasing his life-saving options.

However, the Illusory Life Pill’s formula...

"I wonder if in this Dongming Star Domain, it would be possible to acquire the Illusory Life Pill’s formula. If not, there’s no need to rush..."

As Ning Fan pondered, on the Spiritual Platform Star, suddenly a group of Masters arrived on this star...(To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation votes and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)