Grasping the Evil-Chapter 826: Eighth Elder, Lei Jinshi
"So you came for the Divine Blast Technique... Unfortunately, Ning Fan will not hand it over to you, nor do you have the ability to search Ning Fan’s soul." A cold glint flashed in Ning Fan’s eyes, yet his expression remained calm.
This calmness made the blue-eyed elder sneer, thinking that Ning Fan was merely pretending to be composed.
"The other day, the old Chen Xuan sent people to the Initiate Realm, yet they couldn’t kill you. Unfortunately, today you have fallen into my hands... Unlike Chen Xuan, I desire to kill you mainly for the Divine Blast Technique. But since you refuse to cooperate, you can’t blame me for being ruthless!"
The blue-eyed elder smiled coldly, suddenly stomped his foot on the ground, and Shekong’s pressure spread out fiercely, as if freezing the world.
In the dark void above, countless cracks crazily extended from beneath his feet, tearing nine hundred heavenly fissures in the sky.
From the cracks, the intimidating aura of demon fire continuously emanated, as if a lightning tribulation had descended.
In the next instant, nine hundred massive meteors burning with green flame surged out violently from the heavenly fissures, carrying a powerful heavenly aura.
Each meteor was almost as large as a small cultivation star!
"Fall!"
With a single word from the blue-eyed elder, the meteors in the sky seemed like falling stars, smashing down toward the wasteland where Ning Fan stood!
This was the blue-eyed elder’s ultimate mystical ability, known as the Falling Star Technique.
Ten stars falling could kill a Fate Immortal! A hundred stars falling, any Initiate Realm would die! The impact of nine hundred stars was irresistible even for the Late Stage Enlightenment!
This strike was not exerted with full force by the blue-eyed elder. With his Shekong status, there was no need to go all out against a Ghost Immortal Realm.
Nevertheless, as the stars fell, it was as if doomsday had arrived. The world was instantly engulfed in green brilliance, blinding and indescribable.
The wasteland was shattered by the impact of the stars, the earth shaking, and countless green lava streams shooting up from beneath the earth.
The place where Ning Fan stood had already plunged into a sea of fire, and within the fire, his fate was uncertain...
"Perhaps the strike was a bit too heavy... Although this child has the Divine Blast Technique to protect himself, the number of his Spirit is extremely limited. It’s absolutely impossible for him to fully withstand a strike from me with the Divine Blast Technique... If the strike was indeed too heavy, and the child died directly, although the task entrusted by the Eighth Elder would technically be completed, I wouldn’t be able to search his soul or force him to hand over the secrets of the Divine Blast Technique..."
The blue-eyed elder shook his head, watching the fiery wasteland below indifferently.
Suddenly, the blue-eyed elder’s expression changed.
He saw that the sea of fire below suddenly split into two, as if clearing a path.
From within the sea of fire, a young man in white clothes walked out step by step, it was Ning Fan, who merely opened his mouth and inhaled, immediately absorbing the sea of fire into his stomach, refining and devouring it one by one.
"As expected of the Shedding Void Realm old monster, if you had struck with full force, Ning Fan would never be able to take it. However, it’s unfortunate that this strike only possesses the power of the Late Stage Enlightenment, furthermore, it is a fire-type divine skill, which cannot harm me."
Ning Fan swallowed a mouthful of green flame sea, once refined, and his internal mana was replenished by about 50%.
With another swallow, the fire sea on the ground was completely consumed by Ning Fan, and his mana was restored to its peak!
In the past, he couldn’t achieve this, but after cultivating the Grand Five Elements Body, he was able to do it!
Mana depletion? No need to fear! By devouring the five elements, one can quickly restore mana!
The blue-eyed elder’s previously calm demeanor was immediately replaced by astonishment.
There are not few with a physique that can ignore fire damage, but only one type with the heavenly ability to restore mana through devouring the five elements.
An adept with such a physique not only fears no five-element divine skills but can also treat five-element divine skills as a great supplement to devour, posing a nightmare to any fellow cultivator who specializes in the five elements.
Never did he imagine that Ning Fan, a mere Ghost Immortal Realm, would possess such a rare and precious physique...
"Grand Five Elements Body! It must be the Grand Five Elements Body! The intelligence from the Chen Family did not mention this child possessing this physique!" 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
"Fortunately, this child is only a Ghost Immortal Realm... Otherwise, if he were to break into the Late Stage Enlightenment, relying on the Grand Five Elements Body, my entire green fire path couldn’t harm him, and I’d have to find another way to deal with him..."
The blue-eyed elder restrained his shock, and the intent to kill resurfaced.
No matter how special Ning Fan’s physique was, his cultivation was still low, and thus not worth mentioning!
His figure flickered, disappearing from the sky, and in an instant, he appeared on the wasteland, only ten zhang away from Ning Fan!
He simply raised his withered hand, said nothing, and with what seemed like the utmost casualness, reached towards Ning Fan.
This grasp seemed devoid of any divine skill, very simple, yet carried an indescribable power, making Ning Fan feel a tingling fear.
This was his first time facing a Shedding Void Realm old monster’s divine skill so closely!
After achieving Unity of Heaven and Man, his senses became sharper, and he had a hunch that if the blue-eyed elder’s grasp hit him, all his Taoist practices would become void, turning to nothingness...
Shed the void, that one word, ’void,’ is precisely the strength of the Shedding Void old monster!
"Can’t stop it!"
Ning Fan didn’t hesitate for a moment, his feet instantly flickered with black flames, and his figure disappeared without a trace, avoiding the grasp of the old man with the green eyes.
"Dodged? Your movement technique is fast, but that’s all there is!"
The green-eyed old man looked up at the sky, now swapped positions with Ning Fan, standing on the ground while Ning Fan soared into the sky.
With a cold snort, the green-eyed old man raised his index finger, pointing fiercely from below to above, immediately summoning millions of green beams, erupting from beneath the earth and transforming into a million-foot-tall volcano!
On top of the volcano were millions of golden runes, which fragmented into countless lava boulders upon appearance, recomposing into a giant lava hand that reached fiercely for the sky.
The sky shattered in chunks, and a violent wind from below almost blew Ning Fan from the sky.
The four sides of space were sealed, with a giant hand that couldn’t be dodged reaching towards the sky below...
In this strike, the green-eyed old man finally used his full strength.
This volcano, the life-bound Acquired Immortal Treasure of the green-eyed old man; a Shekong Cultivator cannot withstand this volcano.
"...Shekong, indeed far beyond my ability to defeat. The fact that I can manage a few rounds with a Shekong old monster is already difficult..."
Ning Fan showed a look of regret; if the green-eyed old man hadn’t used full strength, he wouldn’t mind using his own power to counter slightly, gaining some combat experience against the Shekong... now, it seems impossible.
"Merge!" The green-eyed old man shouted, and the giant lava hand instantly gripped tightly, enveloping both the sky and Ning Fan within its palm, seemingly crushing everything completely.
The world began to tremble violently, with the sky continually collapsing.
The green-eyed old man laughed sinisterly, in his eyes, Ning Fan must have been beaten beyond recognition by this strike.
"Once I capture his gravely injured Spirit, I have ways to pry open his mouth and extract the complete spell of the Divine Blast Technique..."
This thought barely arose when suddenly the green-eyed old man’s face showed shock, looking incredulously towards the sky.
His Dao Weapon, the giant lava hand, started to tremble violently, with countless cracks rapidly spreading across it.
The next moment, a strong force accompanied by overwhelming demonic power crashed into the giant lava hand, shattering it into countless lava fragments, falling from the sky!
At the moment the giant hand completely collapsed, the green-eyed old man’s Spirit felt intense pain due to being life-bound to the treasure, blood trickling from his lips as he looked furiously at the sky!
Above the sky, as the smoke and dust dispersed, Ning Fan’s figure became visible.
Beside Ning Fan stood a cloaked giant!
At Ning Fan’s fingertips, the Six Desire Puppet Threads were entangled. It was his ancient demon puppet that shattered the volcano’s magical treasure with a punch!
"Shekong old monster! No, wrong, it’s... a puppet!" The green-eyed old man’s eyes showed shock once again.
He couldn’t comprehend why a mere Guixuan like Ning Fan possessed a Shekong Puppet.
Moreover, this Shekong Puppet’s aura, while also at the initial Shekong stage, was much stronger than his own...
"Kill!"
Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with a cold light, his puppet threads moving, causing the ancient demon puppet beside him to step forward fiercely.
This step carried immense power, forming dozens of demonic crevices that rapidly spread across the sky.
The spatial lock placed by the green-eyed old man was shattered at this moment by the ancient demon puppet’s step.
With his divine ability broken, the green-eyed old man suffered a mild backlash, feeling pain in his chest.
Before he could react, the ancient demon puppet flickered and vanished without a trace.
In the same instant, an eerie feeling spread from the green-eyed old man’s back.
Without any hesitation, the green-eyed old man immediately took out a treasure, throwing it as he turned around.
It was a golden brick, densely inscribed with grand runes, seemingly small but forged from an entire upper-level Cultivation Star, incredibly heavy.
Getting hit by this golden brick would leave even an ordinary Shekong heavily injured.
In the area where the golden brick fell, amidst the flickering demonic glints, the figure of the ancient demon puppet appeared.
The ancient demon puppet’s entire body was at that moment covered in numerous tadpole-like runes flowing.
Those runes were the power of the Ancestral Talisman Crushing Technique bestowed by Ning Fan on the ancient demon!
Previously, Ning Fan couldn’t apply the Ancestral Talisman Crushing Technique to others; now, with his Ancient Demon Blood Wine cultivation surging, it’s possible.
With the Ancestral Talisman Crushing Technique enshrouding it, the ancient demon puppet’s aura surged, almost leaving no one within the initial Shekong stage possessing such terrifying aura.
With a lift of the fist, it seemed as if the Ancient Demon Puppet held the entire universe in its hand.
As the fist struck, it was as if the whole world was blasted away by the Ancient Demon Puppet’s punch!
This punch hit the golden magical treasure brick, destroying it into countless golden powder, scattered by the wind.
As one punch ended, the Ancient Demon Puppet launched a second punch, directly striking towards the chest of the green-eyed old man, carrying an incomprehensible destructive force.
The ancestral talisman symbols scattered to all sides, immediately sealing the space within hundreds of feet, not allowing the green-eyed old man any chance to escape.
The green-eyed old man’s gaze shook, biting his teeth, he directly summoned a giant cauldron, smashing it towards the Ancient Demon Puppet.
Without a second thought, he also summoned the spirit equipment defensive armor, its aura flashing, capable of resisting all attacks below the Shedding Void.
The Ancient Demon’s hollow eyes suddenly surged with a cold glint; this cold gleam was Ning Fan’s emotions!
The fist fell, directly shattering the giant cauldron into countless pieces under the fist’s glow.
The remnants of the fist’s glow smashed hard against the green-eyed old man’s chest, instantly creating numerous cracks on his spirit equipment armor.
The destructive force penetrated through the cracks, rushing into the green-eyed old man’s body, immediately inflicting several injuries.
His face turned pale, he staggered back repeatedly, suddenly coughing blood, gazing in horror at the Ancient Demon Puppet.
Without giving him time to think, the Ancient Demon’s third punch arrived!
This punch carried the momentum of the previous two punches, striking like lightning, not allowing the green-eyed old man any chance to retrieve more magical treasures for protection.
In desperation, a brilliant azure rainbow shot from the top of the green-eyed old man’s Tian Ling, colliding heavily with the Ancient Demon’s fist glow.
It was an azure thunderbolt, with a force obviously exceeding the green-eyed old man’s own cultivations.
In this collision, the Ancient Demon Puppet’s fist glow was blocked, swayed by the duel’s fluctuations, slightly retreating half a step.
The green-eyed old man, meanwhile, spat more blood as he retreated, his face pale as paper, with his injuries worsening exponentially.
"The protective azure thunder bestowed by the Eighth Elder could only slightly repel this puppet... How can this puppet be so formidable! Even with all my remaining azure thunder, it might not be enough to destroy this puppet!"
"However, this puppet seems to lack any spirit awareness and must be controlled by Puppet Threads, meaning if I eliminate this child, the puppet would become ownerless and unable to attack me further!"
The green-eyed old man’s gaze turned ruthless, as he raised his hand, summoning several magical treasures to strike towards the Ancient Demon Puppet, not seeking to harm the puppet, but to slightly hinder its advance.
From his forehead shot out a second azure thunder, instantly transforming into an azure Thunder Dragon, shattering the Demonic Glint’s seal within hundreds of feet and soaring skyward, charging at Ning Fan.
"Such a powerful azure thunder!"
With the Grand Five Elements Body of Ning Fan, and the divine skills of the Tai Su Lightning Star, a sense of crisis emanated from this single azure thunder.
Without hesitation, Ning Fan activated his mind, immediately summoning the Tai Su Lightning Diagram, spreading it out ahead of the advancing azure thunder.
As the azure thunder collided with the lightning diagram, Ning Fan’s spirit sense changed, the lightning diagram fiercely retracting, forcefully swallowing the azure thunder into it.
Instantly, the green-eyed old man’s sense with this azure thunder was severely interrupted.
Ning Fan’s face turned pale, coughing blood suddenly, as the Thunder Star in his forehead transmitted severe pain, as if it was about to explode.
Forcibly absorbing this azure thunder was somewhat beyond his capacity...
On the other side, the Ancient Demon Puppet shattered several magical treasures of the green-eyed old man, with a fierce glint flashing in its eyes, it had already advanced step by step to the green-eyed old man’s front, grabbing both of his arms, tearing them fiercely!
Before he could understand why Ning Fan wasn’t destroyed by the azure thunder, a wave of intense pain transmitted throughout the green-eyed old man’s entire body.
Neither his spirit equipment armor, nurtured over ages, nor his painstakingly cultivated physical defense, could withstand the Ancient Demon Puppet’s tear, shattering into countless pieces, blood spilling onto the earth!
A cry of anguish echoed out, as the green-eyed old man’s Spirit, clutching the storage pouch, escaped from his corpse in extreme panic, leaving behind the third azure thunder within his body, directly transforming into a streak of light, desperately fleeing.
The Ancient Demon Puppet, however, flickered and directly vanished, blocking the green-eyed old man’s escape route, its large hand grabbing him, capturing his Spirit directly.
The shock of the essence in the palm caused the green-eyed old man’s Spirit to suffer greatly, its aura rapidly withering, unable to escape, even self-destruction seemed impossible...
Ning Fan flickered, landing beside the Ancient Demon Puppet, collecting the green-eyed old man’s storage pouch, along with an azure thunder left within his corpse.
This azure thunder originally belonged to the green-eyed old man as his protective measure, but now was seized by Ning Fan.
When Ning Fan received the Spirit from the Ancient Demon Puppet’s hand, the green-eyed old man’s eyes immediately showed a look of terror.
How could he have imagined that Ning Fan, with mere Ghost Immortal Realm cultivations, could escape his pursuit and, through a Shekong Puppet, reverse the circumstances to capture him...
If only he had known earlier, he would certainly not have come to kill Ning Fan alone; he would have summoned more people to ensure there were no failures...
"In your previous words, you seemed to mention Chen Xuan. Could it be the Chen Xuan Family Head of the Dongming Chen Family that you were talking about? Was it his assassins that attacked me on the Spiritual Platform Star that day..." Ning Fan asked coldly.
"Yes... so what! I’m not afraid to tell you, old man and that Chen Xuan, we both serve the Eighth Elder! If you dare to do anything to me, the Eighth Elder will certainly not let you go... ah!"
The old man with jade eyes tried to muster some momentum to intimidate Ning Fan, seeking a path for survival.
Unfortunately, before he could finish his words, Ning Fan had already started to perform the Soul Search and Memory Eradication technique on him.
To think that a Shedding Void Stage cultivator would fall to the fate of being soul searched and having memory eradicated by a mere Ghost Immortal, it would be hard for anyone to believe.
Yet this matter was genuinely happening at this moment.
Initially, the old man with jade eyes screamed violently, but as time passed, his eyes grew vacant, his expression hollow, and his cries gradually ceased.
Two hours passed, and Ning Fan finally completed the soul search on this man, his face exceptionally cold.
From this man’s memory, Ning Fan learned that his name was Qingyangzi, ranked forty-seventh among the elders of the Godly Void Pavilion.
Qingyangzi and the Chen Family Head, Chen Xuan, were both subordinates of the Godly Void Pavilion’s Eighth Elder.
Those who attempted to assassinate him on the Spiritual Platform Star were the assassins sent by the Chen Family...
Both the Chen Family and Qingyangzi’s main purpose in trying to kill him was due to their antagonism towards the War King Luo Family.
The Chen Family had heard of Ning Fan’s astonishing battle potential, so they sent assassins to try and eliminate Ning Fan, denying him the chance to cultivate the War God Art.
Qingyangzi’s attack also had the same purpose, and he planned to seize the Divine Blast Technique as a secondary aim.
"The Eighth Elder of the Godly Void Pavilion—Lei Jinshi, this man is the Family Head of the Dongming Lei Family, with Shattered Thought Later Stage cultivation, and in discord with the Ninth Elder. Secretly, he has already sent people to kill several cultivators with the potential to become Guest Elders of the Luo Family... The higher one’s battle potential, the more they are valued by the Luo Family, and consequently, the more this man opposes them... This man does not wish for the Luo Family to awaken the War King! The assassins from the Chen Family were sent under his orders!"
A flash of murderous intent gleamed in Ning Fan’s eyes as he noted down the grudge against the Lei and Chen Families!
"If it weren’t for having an Ancient Demon Puppet, this time, I would most likely have died at the hands of this Qingyangzi! If Qingyangzi perishes in the Divine Tomb, Lei Jinshi will surely become aware and might send more people to the tomb’s lower layers to kill me! Here I cannot activate the Slaughter Emperor Jade Slip, if he sends someone even stronger, I would struggle to defend myself..."
Ning Fan glanced at Qingyangzi’s Spirit, pondering silently.
After a moment, he sealed the now idiotic Spirit within a jade box, temporarily setting it aside.
This was not the best time for Qingyangzi to fall.
Once out in the outside world, with the Slaughter Emperor Jade Slip for protection, should Ning Fan then kill Qingyangzi, even if Lei Jinshi found out, it wouldn’t matter!
After securing Qingyangzi’s Spirit, Ning Fan’s spirit sense swept across Qingyangzi’s storage pouch, finding four Void Commands within...
Qingyangzi could move freely in the last three layers of the Divine Tomb, naturally holding a Void Command. Ning Fan didn’t expect that he would carry four Void Commands.
"This way, I now have five Void Commands, which, aside from opening the Chaotic Ancient Tomb Palace, might also unlock other tomb palaces..."
Putting the Void Commands away, Ning Fan gathered his power, and in his palm, condensed two strands of natal green thunderbolt.
These two strands of green thunder, were life-preserving divine skills bestowed upon Qingyangzi by Lei Jinshi. Ning Fan had seen this detail in Qingyangzi’s memories.
Any single strand of green thunder alone would be enough to annihilate any cultivator below the Shedding Void Stage!
In this third and final layer of the Divine Tomb, where demons roamed everywhere, this green thunder could fortunately serve as Ning Fan’s life-preserving divine skill.
Inserting the two strands of green thunder into the Thunder Star at his brow, Ning Fan’s form leapt away, entering the Xuan Yin Treasure world to begin healing.
Days later, he exited the Xuan Yin Treasure, pinpointed a direction, and continued searching for the teleportation entrance leading to the eighth layer.
...
Dongming Star Domain, Void Star, within the Heavenly Prison.
Near the Altar of the Bell, countless godly void gentlemen were seated cross-legged, performing spells to repair the Heaven Suppressing Bell.
Suddenly, the Eighth Elder Lei Jinshi opened his eyes, feeling something, and his brows slightly furrowed.
"Strange, the Spirit link between me and Qingyangzi seems to have weakened somewhat. Could it be that he encountered some unforeseen problem while in the Divine Tomb trying to kill a junior?"
"No, this cannot be possible... A mere Ghost Immortal, no matter how high the battle potential, could not possibly harm a Shedding Void Stage, just an ant. Unless it were the seventh layer’s Shedding Void demonic creatures, there might still be a possibility to hurt Qingyangzi... Yet Qingyangzi has the life-preserving green thunder that I bestowed upon him, common demonic creatures couldn’t harm him."
"The weakening of the Spirit link is probably just my imagination..."
Lei Jinshi shook his head, closing his eyes once more.
Naturally, he wouldn’t have imagined that at this moment, Qingyangzi had already become an idiot, sealed within a jade box by the ant in his eyes, Ning Fan...
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