Grasping the Evil-Chapter 830: The First Gift

It was as if a gentle, water-like power swept over Ning Fan’s body.

In an instant, the red glow inside Ning Fan’s body strangely disappeared, and the Dao fire burning on him vanished as well.

Then, the Chaotic Ancient Phantom threw a jade scroll at him, saying something that left Ning Fan puzzled.

With Ning Fan’s wisdom, the moment his spirit sense scanned this jade scroll, his eyes immediately widened in surprise...

Within the jade scroll was recorded the complete Cultivation Technique of the Chaos Ring Technique, detailing the specific cultivation method of the Yin-Yang Demon Body. The technique did not require one to kill their kin to attain Dao...

"The red glow from earlier, named ’Calamity Thought’, is not a real Calamity Thought but rather a test for you from me, as well as a gift of some opportunities. Even if you were ultimately unable to withstand this Calamity Thought, I would not harm you..."

At the right time, the voice of the Chaotic Ancient Phantom reached Ning Fan’s ears.

"Test... Opportunity..."

Ning Fan’s gaze darkened, looking at the Chaotic Ancient Phantom half-believing and half-doubting.

Earlier, he had indeed walked a path of death, contemplating self-destruction.

At the moment the red glow entered his body, he couldn’t even activate the Illusory Life Pill within him to save his life...

Now, the Chaotic Ancient Phantom tells him that all of this was fake, merely a test and an opportunity... This was something he couldn’t comprehend in a short time.

"If you don’t believe it, you may examine your own body internally and see what changes have occurred," the Chaotic Ancient Phantom said blandly.

Upon hearing this, Ning Fan immediately examined himself internally. This internal inspection shook him instantly.

Deep in his blood, there was a trace of red glow subtly flowing...

That was the red glow planted in his body by the Chaotic Ancient Phantom, most of which had been dispelled, leaving a tiny part that merged into Ning Fan’s blood...

"This thing dissolving into my blood — how can it be considered an opportunity for me!" Ning Fan’s gaze cooled.

The red glow earlier nearly took everything from him, and he was deeply wary of this eerie red glow.

"Is a strand of the Blood Lightning from Taicang Calamity Spirits not considered an opportunity? Try again, and see if this level of Calamity Thought can still harm you..."

The Chaotic Ancient Phantom said halfway, suddenly raising his hand, as another red glow swiftly swept toward Ning Fan.

Ning Fan’s gaze shifted, but without a word, he flickered and vanished from the spot, trying to avoid the red glow.

Yet the red glow also flickered and disappeared without a trace, and in the next instant, a glaring red glow erupted in a deserted place not far away.

Ning Fan was hit by the red glow, forcibly revealing himself.

"No good!"

Ning Fan turned pale with shock and was about to guard his heart-mind again, but this time he found that no matter how the red glow entered his body, he showed no signs of going mad...

"A strand of red glow in my blood has the ability to resist this red glow! Is this red glow called Calamity Thought..." Ning Fan’s eyes immediately widened in disbelief.

What Calamity Thought is, Ning Fan does not know, but he vaguely senses that it is a type of power not inferior to the Power of Reincarnation.

This red glow, with just a strand, could drive even someone with a determined Daoist Thought like Ning Fan mad.

A single strand of this red glow is enough to drive any Shedding Void Stage cultivator into madness!

If the red glow were to increase tenfold, even a Thought-Shattering Cultivator would find it difficult to escape its control.

If it increased a hundredfold, even an Eternal Cultivator would face calamity.

If it increased a thousandfold, ten thousandfold...

The power of such red glow is terrifying!

Now, Ning Fan’s blood seems to have absorbed a strand of this red glow.

Now, even when struck by the same level of Calamity Thought from the Chaotic Ancient Phantom, he no longer falls into madness...

"What I imparted to you was just one ten-thousandth of the Calamity Thought; if it were complete, you would be unable to bear it... even Initial Saints couldn’t withstand it and would only fall..."

The gaze of the Ancient Chaos dimmed suddenly, looking at the twenty-seven bronze statues behind him.

After a brief silence, he continued, "What I told you before, some are true, some are false; what I did was all for the test. Perhaps you still can’t believe it for the moment, so I will first bestow upon you your first reward for passing the test. Follow me."

The Chaotic Ancient Phantom suddenly stepped forward, spreading a Daoist Thought, and in the next instant, he and Ning Fan both vanished into the sky, appearing above the Tomb Palace!

As the Chaotic Ancient Phantom left the Tomb Palace, formless pressure wildly spread over the Ninth Layer of the Divine Mausoleum!

In an instant, all magical creatures in the Ninth Layer — whether with sentience or without — trembled in awe upon feeling the pressure of the Ancient Chaos!

"It’s the Great Emperor! It’s him! He’s coming out of the tomb to kill again!" Countless sentient magical creatures exclaimed in unison, retreating to their respective caves and lairs to hide!

Few knew that the reason magical creatures dared not approach the Eastern Domain was because they feared the Chaotic Ancient Phantom greatly!

Theoretically, the phantoms within different Tomb Palaces in the Divine Mausoleum cannot leave their own palaces, except for one: the Chaotic Ancient Tomb Palace!

The Chaotic Ancient Phantom has left the Tomb Palace more than once; every time he emerges from the tomb, blood would flow in rivers in the Ninth Layer of the Divine Mausoleum!

"A Tomb Palace Phantom can actually leave its own Tomb Palace!" Ning Fan’s eyes widened in shock.

The Chaotic Ancient Phantom slightly shook his head, "As a Phantom, it’s impossible to leave one’s own Tomb Palace. The real reason I can leave that palace, you do not know... In fact, the last three layers of the Divine Mausoleum are all my Tomb Palace; it was built by the Shenxu Progenitor as my burial place... She was truly devoted to me, but, I am destined to let her down..."

"The last three layers of the Divine Mausoleum are all Senior’s Tomb Palace!" Ning Fan’s eyes widened again.

"The first time you entered the Divine Mausoleum was eight years ago, at that time, I sensed your arrival and awaited your emergence. But at that time, you did not enter the last three layers... This time, you finally came, and from the moment you stepped into the last three layers, my spirit sense never left you, which you did not realize... You were chased by the Shedding Void Stage of Godly Void Pavilion, I wanted to help you, but surprisingly, you resolved it yourself... It seems, however, that there is still some trouble you cannot resolve, given that you’re just at the Guixuan Level, able to reach this stage is rare..."

After speaking, with a shift in Daoist Thought, the Chaotic Ancient Phantom disappeared again with Ning Fan from the spot.

On the teleportation platform of the Ninth Layer of the Divine Mausoleum, a red-eyed old man who had been sitting cross-legged, watching and waiting, suddenly stood up in shock, drawing a cold breath.

"Hiss! It’s that star of misfortune! He’s out to kill again! The reason I was unwilling to remain at the Ninth Layer as a Demon Lord was out of fear for that star of misfortune! Otherwise, if I could stay and cultivate on the Ninth Layer, I would have broken through to the Mid-Phase Shattered Thought long ago, instead of still being an Initial Phase Demon Lord today!"

The red-eyed old man shivered all over and, without any hesitation, lifted his foot to step into the portal, intending to return to the eighth layer.

However, just as half of his body entered the portal, the entire Ninth Layer of the Divine Tomb suddenly trembled violently, as if the heavens and earth had been overturned.

The red-eyed old man, having taken half a step into the portal, immediately vomited blood and fell out of the portal. Without another word, he turned and looked back at the sky.

In the sky above, there stood a young man in white, with the cultivation of the Ghost Immortal Realm. It was Ning Fan, the very person the red-eyed old man had been pursuing!

In the past, seeing Ning Fan appear would have caused the red-eyed old man to be overjoyed, and without any dialogue, he would have immediately eliminated Ning Fan.

But at this moment, the red-eyed old man didn’t dare move recklessly, for there was an illusory elder standing beside Ning Fan.

Upon seeing that illusory elder, the red-eyed old man immediately felt a strange chill from his feet rushing to the top of his head!

He only met the gaze of that illusory elder for a moment, but instantly felt a piercing pain in his eyes, hurriedly shifted his gaze, cold sweat soaking his body!

"Xue Daofei, do you know what mistake you have made! He is my disciple, yet you dared to harbor murderous intent towards him, courting death!"

Hearing these words, the red-eyed old man’s face turned deathly pale with shock. He glanced at Ning Fan in disbelief, and without another word, he fled desperately towards the Eighth Layer of the Divine Tomb!

While fleeing, the red-eyed old man exclaimed in shock, "Ancient Chaos Grand Emperor! Have you gone mad! When you fell, the Divine Tomb had not yet been completed, the Well of Covenant had not yet been opened, and this child was not yet born. How could he be your disciple! Even if you wish to kill this old man, you must give me a convincing reason! Otherwise, I refuse, I refuse!"

Based on the red-eyed old man’s understanding of the Chaotic Ancient Phantom, if it directly came to accuse a demon, that demon would almost certainly die!

So, upon hearing the accusatory tone of the Chaotic Ancient Phantom, the red-eyed old man, without any hesitation, fled directly towards the Eighth Layer.

The Chaotic Ancient Phantom, however, paid no attention to the red-eyed old man’s words, merely glancing at Ning Fan beside him, and speaking faintly,

"In my lifetime, I had two most astonishing cultivation techniques, one was the ’Yin Yang Transformation,’ and the other was the ’Chaos Ring Technique’; I had three most dreaded divine skills, one was ’Void Stripping Path,’ another was ’Yin-Yang Five Swords,’ and the last was ’Chaotic Heaven Finger’... The one I am about to perform now is the Yin-Yang Five Swords, the key to this technique is first and foremost possessing the Grand Five Elements Body, and using it to reverse the Five Elements..."

"The five elements are gold, wood, water, fire, earth. The Grand Five Elements, however, are based on the small five elements, exchanging the elements for heaven, earth, human, god, ghost..."

"Heaven Sword Annihilates Fate, Earth Sword Severing Momentum, Human Sword Annihilates Life, Divine Sword Annihilates Dao, Ghost Sword Annihilates Thoughts..."

After saying all this, the Chaotic Ancient Phantom suddenly reached out and grasped at the sky and earth!

"Heaven and earth, Yin and Yang, all listen to my command! Condense!"

In the space between heaven and earth, five sword shadows instantly condensed, sometimes entirely black, sometimes entirely white, extremely strange.

The murderous aura released by these five sword shadows spread across the entire Ninth Layer, causing all the demons at that moment to lower their heads, not daring to look to the heavens!

"Cut!"

As the word dropped from the Chaotic Ancient Phantom’s mouth, the five sword shadows immediately vanished without a trace.

At the same time, the red-eyed old man who was desperately fleeing on the Eighth Layer, immediately showed an expression of extreme shock.

Behind him, five rifts in the sky and earth appeared, from which five sword points instantly lit up!

"No... No good!"

The red-eyed old man barely had time to glance back before being struck by the five sword points.

The moment he was struck by the five sword points, his fortune, his cultivation, his Dao, everything of his was utterly obliterated within them!

His eyes immediately became hollow, losing all signs of life.

On his body, there were five gaping wounds, left by the piercing sword shadows.

In the next instant, five streams of black and white flames surged out from the wounds, in just a moment, the red-eyed old man’s corpse was reduced to ashes...

The five sword points passed through the red-eyed old man, striking fiercely upon the earth of the Eighth Layer.

A catastrophic sword storm immediately spread from this center out wildly over a million miles, collapsing entire mountain ranges and rivers, and some demons who couldn’t escape in time perished in this storm.

The entire Eighth Layer of heaven and earth shook violently, the tremor spreading to the Ninth Layer, and then to the Seventh Layer, the Sixth Layer, and all the way to the First Layer!

In the first six layers, the Masters in the Divine Tomb and the Masters undergoing trials were all jolted out of their respective Tomb Palaces, deeply alarmed by the vibration!

Some old monsters of the Godly Void Pavilion immediately had their expressions change, sending messages to the Godly Void Pavilion one after another.

Either releasing message-transmitting flying swords or taking out Sound Lutes, all notifying Shenkong the Great Emperor that the base layer of the Godly Void Pavilion had experienced a ’quake’ that occurs once in a millennium...

Without needing any notification, Shenkong the Great Emperor, who was currently secluded in a part of the Heavenly Prison, had already sensed the disturbance within the Divine Tomb.

Now, he was in a Spirit state, with his physical body too severely injured, long since lost.

Apart from the Shenhao Twin Emperors of each generation, no one understood what the once in a thousand years quake in the Divine Tomb signified... But he knew...

"Is it the Chaotic Ancient Phantom again!"

Without any hesitation, Shenkong the Great Emperor directly activated a sliver of his spirit sense residing in the portal of the Ninth Layer, attempting to perceive the situation within the Divine Tomb.

Before he could perceive anything, a chilling voice already transmitted directly into his ear.

As soon as this voice arrived, it transformed into five sword lights, erupting within Shenkong the Great Emperor’s ear.

Attempting to probe into the Ninth Layer, Shenkong the Great Emperor’s Spirit immediately trembled, coughing up several mouthfuls of golden blood, his expression terrified.

"This generation of Shenkong, have you forgotten the agreement you have with me! If you continue to carelessly spread your spirit sense here, disturbing my slumber, next time it won’t be as simple as coughing blood!"

As these words fell, Shenkong the Great Emperor immediately felt the spirit senses he had stored in the last three layers being erased by someone!

The one who erased his spirit sense had cultivations reaching the heavens! If it weren’t merely an illusion, if all divine skills weren’t confined to the last three layers of the Divine Tomb, this person could, by themselves, obliterate the four heavens and nine worlds, decimate all Fiendgods!

His name was Ancient Chaos, known as the ancient great emperor who plunged an immemorial era into chaos!

"Young friend, are you satisfied with the first gift I gave you?" In the Ninth Layer of the Divine Tomb, Ancient Chaos held the Spirit of the red-eyed old man and said with a smile, looking at Ning Fan.

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