Grasping the Evil-Chapter 858: Gouchen Barbarian Domain, Mulan City
Barbaric Wilderness Battlefield, also known as Ancient Barbarian Domain, is an interface older than the four heavens and nine worlds.
In each of the Four Heavens immortal world, there is a portal that can access this ancient domain; similarly, in the Upper World Land of Demons, there is a portal to enter this place.
Since ancient times, within this ancient domain, the four heavens cultivators have clashed with the Upper World demon race over four hundred times.
Every time a realm war erupts, countless cultivators and demon race members bury their bones here... Every plant and tree contains the resolute and unyielding battle spirit of ancient cultivators.
Entering the Barbaric Wilderness Battlefield is easy, merely crossing the portal... but leaving is not an easy task.
The portal to depart only appears once every ten years across the various domains of the Barbaric Wilderness. Thus, even possessing a Campaign Command, one cannot leave at will...
The Barbaric Wilderness Battlefield is divided into forty-two domains, among which the demon race occupies seven domains, the four heavens cultivators occupy five domains, and the remaining domains are unclaimed territories, densely populated with countless ancient barbarian beasts...
Upon entering the portal, Ning Fan immediately, along with Liu Yan, is randomly teleported to the Gouchen Barbarian Domain within the Five Domains of the Human Clan.
The Gouchen Barbarian Domain was once occupied by the demon race. However, during a realm war millions of years ago, the four heavens cultivators seized control of this domain.
In sight, a blood-red continent stretched out, with sand and wind sweeping across the sky. Beneath the swirling dust, the remains of ancient cultivators, leftover weapons, the desolate war spirit burst forth everywhere.
Ning Fan did not know to which barbarian domain he was randomly teleported by the portal.
As Ning Fan formed incantations with his ten fingers, soft rains immediately descended and scattered towards the distant horizon.
Since cultivating the Five Spirit First Wheel, the perceptual range of the Heaven Prying Rain Technique noticeably increased.
With Ning Fan’s current cultivation, he could have his spirit sense rain cover an entire mid-level star domain.
Yet this wide range of spirit sense could only cover a corner of the Gouchen Barbarian Domain... Indeed, the entire Ancient Barbarian Domain is vast.
Within this corner, Ning Fan sensed a total of forty-five cities.
Half of these cities were ravaged by the flames of war and had long become ruins and relics. The rest of the cities, to varying degrees, had cultivators stationed within.
Ning Fan entered the Ancient Barbarian Domain during a non-realm war period, and currently, large-scale wars between the cultivator and demon races occur rarely in the Barbaric Wilderness Battlefield.
Liu Yan, with a cultivation merely at the fourth Heavenly Layer of Void Fragmentation, had not participated in realm wars before nor entered the Ancient Barbarian Domain. Upon entering, she was inevitably awed by the overwhelming battle spirit lingering in the air.
She did not ask Ning Fan why he held a Campaign Command, why he came to the Ancient Barbarian Domain... She wisely remained silent about it all.
"Let’s first find a cultivation city to inquire about the information concerning the Ancient Barbarian Domain... Hmm? There’s a city in the north, facing a minor demon race invasion..."
After dismissing the rain technique, Ning Fan remained silent for a while, then suddenly flicked his sleeve robe, transforming into a golden light along with Liu Yan, flying toward the city being invaded by the demon race.
Mulan City, a cultivation city situated at the border of the Gouchen Barbarian Domain.
This city had merely thousands of cultivators guarding it, mostly possessing Nascent Soul and Divinity Transformation cultivation, with only over twenty Void Refinement realm cultivators and five Void Fragmentation cultivators, all being permanent domain cultivators, distinct from outside cultivators.
This was a small city, serving as a temporary resting place for the Four Heavens Great Powers during realm war periods, not overseen by any powerful cultivators.
The City Lord was merely a Loose Immortal cultivator, but just half an hour ago, Mulan City’s formation was breached, and that Loose Immortal City Lord miserably perished at the hands of a demon cultivator.
Attacking Mulan City were only four demon cultivators, yet none among these four demons was anything less than a rogue devil cultivation!
The leader, a rogue devil man, was just a step away from the Human Profound Realm!
"Haha! With Mulan City’s Lord dead, who here now can pose a threat to us! Kill kill kill, the old man loves slaughtering the human race!"
A rogue devil bull-headed man with eyes like copper bells sneered endlessly as he rampaged through Mulan City. With each attack, masses of low-level cultivators fell.
A Human Void Fragmentation cultivator attempted to stop the bull-headed demon race from continuing the massacre, but was swallowed whole when the bull-headed man opened his massive maw.
"Hmph! Brother Bull, don’t kill all the female cultivators in this city! I still want to keep a few to play with!" A snake demon man watching the bull-headed demon race’s indiscriminate killing voiced a cold, dissatisfied snort.
He was also one of the four attacking demons.
The four rogue devils were like entering a realm without humans, slaughtering this small city would just be a matter of time.
The remaining four Void Fragmentation cultivators in the city showed expressions of despair.
During non-realm war periods, border towns were frequently harassed by demon races... Given the strength of this city, waiting for the Four Oceans Sect to send aid seems unlikely; it might end up being completely slaughtered...
"Unable to escape fate..." Among the four Void Fragmentation cultivators, the highest cultivation one, a beautiful woman, smiled bitterly.
Opposite, the snake demon man had already spotted her, coming with an evil grin... With her cultivation at the third Heavenly Layer of Void Fragmentation, if she fell into the hands of this demon, it would be difficult to escape dishonor...
"To become a Cauldron Furnace... I would rather die in battle, preserving my purity!"
The beautiful woman’s eyes suddenly showed a resolute and fearless expression, an expression that simultaneously appeared in the eyes of countless defending cultivators!
In the cultivation world, not all cultivators fear death, especially in this Ancient Barbarian Domain, with countless cultivators consistently living on the edge of life and death, fearless of dying!
The intense battle spirit in the Ancient Barbarian Domain is precisely because there are too many cultivators here who would rather die than yield!
"Burn!"
At this moment, the beautiful woman suddenly shouted tenderly, igniting her primordial spirit flame.
Within the cultivation city, countless cultivators likewise ignited their primordial spirit flames at this moment!
"A bunch of lunatics!"
Including the snake demon man among them, the four rogue devils immediately showed a sullen expression.
In theory, cultivators at the third Heavenly Layer of Void Fragmentation, along with thousands of Divinity Transformation cultivators, are unlikely to harm rogue devils.
But if they fight desperately, they might still inflict some injuries on the four rogue devils.
The snake demon man no longer intended to capture the Cauldron Furnace. At this moment, he only planned to kill all the Masters of this city as quickly as possible, to prevent any unforeseen changes.
The four rogue devils were already prepared to go all out, and countless Masters of this city were ready to fight desperately.
However, at this moment, the sky suddenly turned dark with thick clouds, a torrential downpour fell, and thunder roared, shaking the world.
Amidst the thunderstorm, above the cultivation city, a golden light suddenly flashed, revealing a man and a woman.
The woman had the Fourth Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm cultivation, undoubtedly a member of the Human race... the man wore a ghost mask and had silver hair, his cultivation level was not discernible.
Yet with just a wave of this silver-haired man’s hand, the primordial spirit flames within the bodies of countless Masters igniting their nascent souls all extinguished and became calm.
In an instant, the entire Mulan City echoed with gasps!
"Second Step Cultivator! Only Second Step Cultivators can easily extinguish the primordial spirit flames of the First Step Cultivators using great divine power!"
The beautiful woman’s eyes, filled with despair, suddenly gained a glimmer of hope.
The four rogue devils all, at this moment, showed expressions of fear.
"Not good! A Human Second Step old monster has arrived! Fast escape!"
Without saying a word, the four rogue devils immediately transformed into escape rainbows, seeking to flee.
The silver-haired man waved his hand, and rain intent swept across them, causing the four rogue devils to scream miserably, their bodies dissolved into blood.
With a grasp and call, four demon souls immediately fell into Ning Fan’s hands, and without a word, he directly searched their souls and erased their memories.
Then, raising a hand, he crushed the four demon souls... these demon souls were of no use, not primordial spirits, they couldn’t be used to cast the Divine Blast Technique.
At the moment of the four demon souls’ demise, Ning Fan’s Immortal Guard Token unexpectedly flickered with a faint light.
This was the sign of increased military achievement points... with more military achievement points, his Immortal position would gradually rise. Perhaps one day, unbeknownst, Ning Fan’s eighth-rank Immortal Guard might ascend to the seventh-rank steward...
"From the memories of these four demon cultivators, I got quite a bit of ancient realm intelligence..." Ning Fan murmured to himself.
He took action to slay demons not out of affinity for humans or aversion to demons. He simply appreciated the Masters of this city more and disliked these four rogue devils somewhat.
Compared to the strong who revel in killing, he preferred the weak who refuse to yield even in death.
The fallen Masters, their residual souls gradually disappeared, unable to reincarnate again...
The Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain is a realm that exists outside of reincarnation. Even if a First Step Cultivator dies here, they cannot reincarnate...
"It’s unfortunate to let these unyielding residual souls dissipate... if the Heavenly Dao’s reincarnation doesn’t accept you, I will."
Ning Fan waved his sleeve, and the force of residual souls between heaven and earth flew into his sleeve.
Ordinary Masters couldn’t see the residual souls, and naturally didn’t know what Ning Fan was doing.
No one knew that Ning Fan, with his hand hidden in his sleeve, summoned the Fu Li Spirit Wheels, gathering these unyielding residual souls within them.
The stubborn remnants of these residual souls could gradually enhance the level of the Fu Li Spirit Wheels.
And the Fu Li Spirit Wheels can construct reincarnation, allowing their residual souls not to disperse.
Not only demon race residual souls can enter the Fu Li Spirit Wheels... with Ning Fan’s identity of cultivating three races, humans can naturally enter as well.
If one day, Ning Fan’s Spirit Wheels are perfected, they can, like the Purple Dou Immortal Sovereign, grant these residual souls a new life... a Fu Li’s life!
"Thank you, Senior, for saving us! Could we ask if Senior is a Four Oceans Sect cultivator who came to aid?" The beautiful woman and the other three Void Fragmentation cultivators stepped forward to greet Ning Fan respectfully and asked.
"No."
"Is Senior a passing outsider cultivator?" The beautiful woman was slightly surprised.
"Yes. I have just entered the Barbarian Wilderness, intending to rest briefly in this city and gain some intelligence on the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain. Could you tell me some ancient realm intelligence?" Ning Fan asked politely.
Upon hearing Ning Fan would temporarily stay in Mulan City, the beautiful woman and others were overjoyed.
Recently, border cultivation cities like Mulan City had often faced small-scale demon race attacks.
If Ning Fan were to hold fort, Mulan City would be as steady as Mount Tai!
"Of course!" The beautiful woman and others readily agreed to Ning Fan’s request.
The four of them each took out a jade scroll, imprinted the memories about the ancient domain from their minds into the jade scroll, and handed them to Ning Fan.
Ning Fan received the jade scroll, scanned it briefly, then put it away, and asked, "Do you have a complete map of the Barbarian Wilderness Forty-Two Domains?"
"Well... not hiding from Senior, every few hundred years, the terrain of the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain changes, with some Barbarian Domains even switching places... we only have maps from tens of thousands of years ago, which are already quite inaccurate in recording the forty-two domains’ geography..."
"No matter, give me one."
"Yes!"
The beautiful woman took out another jade scroll, imprinted the Barbarian Wilderness map into it, and respectfully handed it to Ning Fan.
Ning Fan nodded in satisfaction, took Liu Yan, and escaped into the city, creating a cave abode on a low mountain in the northern part of the city to temporarily reside.
Liu Yan lived in a nearby cave abode, wholeheartedly integrating the Red Jade Star Disk.
Ning Fan resided in his cave abode, organizing the ancient realm intelligence he had obtained, gradually gaining a preliminary understanding of the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain.
The Barbarian Wilderness Forty-Two Domains, demons occupied seven domains, the Four Heavens occupied five domains... the remaining thirty Barbarian Domains were unoccupied areas rampant with Barbarian Beasts.
Barbarian beasts are native creatures of the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain, neither human, nor demon, nor devil.
Humanoid barbarian beasts cannot cultivate throughout their lives, as weak as ordinary people, building cities to survive in the chaotic wilderness era... they are known as Stone Warriors.
If a barbarian transforms into a beast, they will lose all memory, transforming into a powerful barbarian beast, recognizing no kin, killing like demons...
Outside of domain war periods, the God and demon clans rarely send forth experts above the Shedding Void realm to battle, even Fate Immortal and Enlightenment rarely take action.
Small-scale conflicts like those in Mulan City are rather common.
The battle intent in the Gouchen Barbarian Domain is extremely dense, almost ten times that of Broken Spear Peaks.
But here is not the strongest place of battle intent in the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain... those unclaimed barbarian domains, their battle intent is the strongest.
Once a domain war erupts, these unclaimed barbarian domains will be requisitioned by the God and demon clans as battlefields, where large-scale battles generally occur.
"So the best place to cultivate the War God Art isn’t the Gouchen Barbarian Domain then..."
"Forget it, let’s first try to condense the Fierce Origin Crystal in this Gouchen Barbarian Domain..."
Ning Fan couldn’t help but feel somewhat expectant.
His return to the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain to cultivate the War God Art is due to his improved method of cultivating it.
Previously, the War God Art required condensing Battle Crystals using the Condensing Crystal Technique, consuming them to increase the flames of war.
With Ning Fan’s improvements, the method was replaced by the Fierce Origin Technique.
The Fierce Origin Technique is the sect-defining technique of the ancient celestial sect, the Lieyuan (Fierce Origin) Sect, created by Saint Luyuan of Ancient Chaos.
This technique can condense Dao laws into Fierce Origin Crystals, adapted by Ancient Chaos to cultivate the Twenty-Seven Yin-Yang.
This condensation method far surpasses the Condensing Crystal Technique of the War God Art, and the energy contained in the Fierce Origin Crystal is far more than that of the Battle Crystal.
After mastering the First Transformation of the War Mantra, Ning Fan could use the Condensing Crystal Technique of the War God Art to produce low grade Battle Crystals.
However, condensing middle-ranked Battle Crystals is extremely difficult.
But with the Fierce Origin Technique, Ning Fan could barely condense low grade Fierce Origin Crystals in an intensely battle-intent area.
The energy of battle intent contained in a low grade Fierce Origin Crystal almost rivals the high grade Battle Crystals of the Luo Family!
At the Luo Family, high grade Battle Crystals are extremely rare, only Family Head Luo Shix can condense them, even Ning Fan cannot.
But Ning Fan forged a new path, using Fierce Origin Crystals as a substitute for Battle Crystals, greatly enhancing the cultivation speed of the War God Art.
The only trouble is the battle intent intensity at Broken Spear Peaks is insufficient to gather War Law and to condense Fierce Origin Crystals.
Thus, Ning Fan chose to come to the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain to cultivate the War God Art. Here, it should suffice to condense low grade Fierce Origin Crystals.
Ning Fan took out a pile of Dao Crystals from his storage pouch, casually picked one up, and performed the Fierce Origin Technique.
His Fierce Origin Technique hand gestures were still quite unfamiliar, even though the battle intent in the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain was sufficient, it was difficult to condense Fierce Origin Crystals.
Failure, failure, failure...
Continually, Dao Crystals shattered into powder, scattered across the ground like lime.
The journey of Ning Fan crafting Fierce Origin Crystals was challenging, for ten consecutive days, he couldn’t condense a single low grade Fierce Origin Crystal.
Gradually, Ning Fan gained some insight into the use of the Fierce Origin Technique.
On the eleventh day, Ning Fan finally condensed his first low grade Fierce Origin Crystal.
On the twelfth day, Ning Fan condensed three low grade Fierce Origin Crystals.
On the thirteenth day, Ning Fan condensed ten low grade Fierce Origin Crystals.
From then on, Ning Fan could consistently condense over ten low grade Fierce Origin Crystals each day, with minimal failure!
Three months later, piles of hundreds of Fierce Origin Crystals formed a small mountain before Ning Fan.
Observing the mountain of Fierce Origin Crystals, Ning Fan smiled with satisfaction.
With these low grade Fierce Origin Crystals as assurance, his War God Art cultivation speed will absolutely surpass anyone from the Luo Family.
Additionally, consuming Fierce Origin Crystals has another benefit... integrating the battle intent of the Fierce Origin Crystals can be used not just for cultivating the War God Art.
It can also cultivate the War Yin and Yang!
This time leaving Eastern Ocean Bell, Ning Fan specially visited the Luo Family, where the ancestors of the Luo Family bestowed upon him a cultivation technique.
That technique is a Nine-Star Technique, the main technique of War King Luo Hou, named the Unbeaten Scripture!
It’s a primary cultivation technique focused on battle intent, combining excellently with the secret art of the War God Art.
Instead of immediately consuming Fierce Origin Crystals to cultivate the War God Art, Ning Fan instead took out the Unbeaten Scripture to comprehend and cultivate first.
Three months later, Ning Fan had preliminarily mastered the Unbeaten Scripture and began condensing the Embryonic Star of War.
Seven days later, the center of Ning Fan’s brow bore a third divine star of battle intent, though just in embryonic form.
Only then did Ning Fan begin consuming Fierce Origin Crystals for cultivation.
The energy contained in low grade Fierce Origin Crystals is comparable to high grade Battle Crystals, seemingly without any upper limit of consumption.
In this regard, it’s undeniably another blessing of the Fierce Origin Technique.
For three entire years, Ning Fan stayed indoors, devouring hundreds of low-grade Fierce Origin Crystals.
After three years of arduous cultivation, the flames of war within Ning Fan had increased to 102 in total.
Possessing ninety-nine flames signifies the ability to cultivate the second transformation of the War Mantra.
The number of Ning Fan’s war flames was enough to achieve the second transformation, the only thing missing was a bit of enlightenment, a moment of opportunity...
To break through to the second transformation of the War Mantra, he ultimately required a blood-chilling battle to truly understand it!
Regardless, being near the completion of the second transformation within three years, Ning Fan already had reason to be proud.
Moreover, while nearly completing the second transformation, the embryonic star of war on Ning Fan’s forehead had evolved into a war Yin-Yang Star by one-thousandth.
The cultivation of War Yin-Yang was also complete by one-thousandth.
"Three years of arduous cultivation only increased the progress of War Yin-Yang by one-thousandth..."
"When I was cultivating Rain Yin-Yang back then, I only consumed one Fierce Origin Crystal to achieve Rain Yin-Yang... However, that Fierce Origin Crystal was of Heavenly Grade..."
The grade of Fierce Origin Crystals ranges from low, middle, high, finest... Heavenly Grade surpasses the finest as an attribute-less Fierce Origin Crystal.
The cultivation speed of low-grade Fierce Origin Crystals is naturally far inferior to that of the Heavenly Grade ones.
"The barbarian domain overrun by barbarian beasts has been the main battlefield of the realm war in previous years, where remnants of war intent are stronger. There, one might be able to condense a middle-grade Fierce Origin Crystal..."
Middle-grade Fierce Origin Crystals are extremely beneficial, whether for cultivating the War God Art or War Yin-Yang.
"Forget it, after breaking through the bottleneck of the second transformation, I’ll check out other barbarian domains... What is that sound!"
Ning Fan’s expression suddenly changed, and he walked out of the cave dwelling.
At this moment, Liu Yan was also startled into coming out of her cave dwelling, and in Mulan City, countless cultivators, shocked and in disbelief, stepped out of their cave dwellings!
Over three years, with Ning Fan guarding Mulan City, the city experienced no battles and no demon dared to invade for three years.
But at this moment, a massive surge of intense killing intent approached from the distance, targeting Mulan City!
Amidst those powerful auras were a few of the Fate Immortal level, and one aura whose strength was comparable to the initial stage of Crossing Truth!
The entire Mulan City was instantly thrown into chaos, fearful that it might be a large-scale invasion by the demon race.
"It’s not demons, it’s barbarian beasts! It’s the barbarian beasts attacking the city!"
Someone was the first to recognize the true adversary, exclaiming in shock, causing all the cultivators in the city to display stunned expressions.
In the Gouchen Barbarian Domain, barbarian beasts had long been eradicated, and there shouldn’t be such a large scale of barbarian beasts appearing.
This group of barbarian beasts came from another barbarian domain. Why did they travel thousands of miles here, heading straight for Mulan City?
The beast tide advanced too quickly; unless one were a Second Step cultivator, no one could escape the beast tide’s assault!
"Senior, with Mulan City on the verge of collapse, what should we do!"
Left with no alternatives, a beautiful woman and three others at the Void Fragmentation realm approached Ning Fan together, asking for help.
Though they understood that even if Ning Fan were a Second Step cultivator, possibly only a Fate Immortal, he wouldn’t be able to annihilate the entire herd of beasts single-handedly...
However, if Ning Fan could use his Instant Shift ability to lead the city’s cultivators to escape, they might stand a considerable chance of fleeing the beast tide.
"Fight!"
Ning Fan gave a one-word response, and his figment flickered, flying to the northern front of Mulan City, blocking the path of thousands of beasts alone.
He needed a blood battle to break through the second transformation of the War Mantra, and if these barbarian beasts came to die, he naturally wouldn’t let them go.
However, to Ning Fan’s dismay, when he blocked the beast tide, he saw a hidden silver-haired little girl suddenly appear at the forefront of the beast tide.
Her hands were holding seven or eight wild fruits filled with rolling lightning power, grinning as she fled away.
Behind her, the entire army of the beast tide, driven to madness, wished nothing more than to tear her to pieces.
The reason these barbarian beasts initiated a beast tide was that the sacred fruit they had guarded for years was stolen by the silver-haired little girl.
"Not tasty... too little lightning power... I still prefer Brother Food’s shattered lightning molted relics..."
"Sigh... I’ve been searching in this desolate place for many years, yet I still haven’t found Brother Food... Every day, I can only survive on wild fruits, how pitiful I am... boohoo..."
The pitiful little girl had, on that day, been separated during the real gate’s teleportation with Ning Fan, traveling separate paths...
She had followed Ning Fan into the Barbaric Wilderness Ancient Domain, only to be unable to find Ning Fan after entering...
Suddenly, the silver-haired little girl showed a look of surprise.
In front of her stood a dilapidated cultivation city, outside of which was Brother Food, whom she ’dreamed of’ day and night!
"Hehe, finally found you! My Brother Food!" the silver-haired little girl transformed into a streak of lightning, directly colliding into Ning Fan’s embrace.
Behind her were tens of thousands of barbarian beast armies...
"It was you!" Ning Fan felt at a loss.
He had unexpectedly reunited with this Nine Revolutions Thunder Body little girl in the Barbaric Wilderness Ancient Domain...
No, this mischievous girl must have followed him all the way here... Her aim was still on the shattered lightning within his lightning diagram... (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, welcome to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to cast your vote of recommendation, monthly vote. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com for reading.)
