Grasping the Evil-Chapter 883: The Might of the Divine Blast Formation
"Ha, trying to make an old man your slave, Daoist, you have quite the nerve! I am Tieya, at my peak, even as a Second Calamity Immortal Lord, others must show me three parts respect! Even the Northern Heavenly Immortal King cannot make me bow and scrape! Who are you to make me your slave!"
Tieyun Ancestor’s corpse suddenly exploded into a blood mist, from which emerged a sinister black shadow, known as Tieya Daoist, who looked at Sparrow God Kidd with contempt in his eyes.
Sparrow God Kidd sneered coldly, without wasting words on Tieya Daoist, directly activated the Barbarian Blood Rune.
Once activated, Tieya Daoist immediately cried out in pain and rage, "Such a powerful restriction! How dare you impose this restriction on me!"
"Tieya Daoist! As an ancient celestial sovereign, I too am an ancient celestial sovereign, my cultivation is certainly no weaker than yours! Now you have been placed under my restraint, becoming my slave; dare to speak disrespectfully again, and I won’t hesitate to activate the restriction and kill you!"
"Assist me quickly in battling this puppet! Defy my orders, and I will punish you severely without mercy!"
Even though Tieya Daoist hated Sparrow God Kidd, he was extremely afraid of the restriction within him. Glancing at the situation on the field, he saw that Sparrow God Kidd had another slave, the Earth Controlling Devil Star, who also seemed to have been an Immortal Sovereign, which slightly balanced his mood.
His eyes turned sinister as he gave a cold laugh, joining the battle circle, teaming up with Sparrow God Kidd and the Earth Controlling Devil Star to fight against the Cloak Puppet.
Though the Cloak Puppet was a mid-phase Fragmented Thought Puppet, Ning Fan was unable to exert its full power and could only control the puppet to launch simple attacks.
Sparrow God Kidd and the others, at their peak, were all Immortal Venerables, not ordinary beings. Even now, they could exert Peak of Shekong power, not to be underestimated.
Facing Sparrow God Kidd and the Earth Controlling Devil Star, the puppet could still fight evenly, but with Tieya joining the fray, the situation began to turn against the puppet.
"I am not truly Shekong, unable to exert all of this puppet’s power; if this continues, defeat is only a matter of time..."
Ning Fan’s gaze grew more intense as he controlled the Puppet Thread with one hand, and placed his other hand on the Soul Bag at his waist.
Besides the Fragmented Thought Puppet, Ning Fan had another life-saving trump card—the Divine Blast Technique!
Within the Soul Bag were numerous Nascent Souls of the Second Step, even a Fragmented Thought Nascent Soul, which belonged to the red-eyed old monster that pursued Ning Fan in the Divine Tomb.
Should Ning Fan activate the explosion of all the Nascent Souls, it would undoubtedly inflict unimaginable damage upon Sparrow God Kidd and the others!
Sparrow God Kidd, seeing the Cloak Puppet showing signs of defeat, was already at ease, but when Ning Fan’s hand touched the Soul Bag, alarm bells rang in his heart, a sudden chill ran down his spine, and he was secretly taken aback.
"This is bad! Aside from the Fragmented Thought Puppet, this kid has a trump card unused! Though I don’t know what Divine Skill he’s going to use, I cannot let him deploy it! Otherwise, my life could be in danger!"
"Third Tree Slave, appear! Fourth Tree Slave, appear!"
In haste, Sparrow God Kidd made two hand seals. As soon as they were formed, Four-eyed Demon Monarch and Fairy Hanwux both cried out in pain, on the brink of falling.
Ning Fan’s gaze transformed, realizing immediately that Sparrow God Kidd intended to summon some fierce creature from these two bodies once more.
With Earth Controlling Devil Star and Tieya joining the fray, things were already very thorny; if Sparrow God Kidd were allowed to summon another, Ning Fan saw his chances as slim.
"You shall not summon another fierce creature!"
Abandoning the immediate use of the Divine Blast Technique, Ning Fan’s figure blurred, transforming into a golden beam that flashed instantly before the Four-eyed Demon Monarch and Fairy Hanwux, pressing his index fingers on their foreheads with a trace of Jie Xue Zhi Li.
As Ning Fan’s finger light fell, they both groaned and fell unconscious, the Barbarian Blood Runes covering them gradually faded away.
Unexpectedly, Ning Fan used his own Jie Xue Zhi Li to suppress the Barbarian Blood Runes acting up within their bodies!
"No wonder the Taicang Calamity Spirit can suppress the power of the Barbarian Blood Pill... it seems without sacrificing some price, I can’t summon the last two Tree Slaves!"
Sparrow God Kidd gave Earth Controlling Devil Star and Tieya a glance, withdrew from the battle circle, pointed his right fingers together as blades, slashing open his left palm, blood flowing profusely, and slapped it onto the snowy valley ground.
A black-red small blood formation immediately appeared on the ground, with Barbarian Flash like thunderous roar, whistling within.
Sparrow God Kidd then combined his palms, continuously chanting, from the unconscious Four-eyed Demon Monarch and Fairy Hanwux two streaks of light shot forth, entered the blood formation, gradually transforming into two shadowy figures, one bright, one dark.
On the left, the shadow was a giant demon, approximately three zhang tall, emanating a foul, rancid corpse Qi, with cultivation nearing Shattered Thought Early Stage.
To the right was a fragmented moonlight, sometimes bright, sometimes dim, vaguely humanoid, but unable to fully coalesce into a person, only vaguely shaped.
"Hiss! How did the remnant spirit of the Burying Moon Celestial Consort become shattered! Who did this!"
Sparrow God Kidd, looking at the broken moonlight, was secretly alarmed, naturally unaware that the remnant spirit’s shattering related to Ning Fan’s entrapment of Hanwux...
"It seems the Fourth Tree Slave can’t be used for now..." Sparrow God Kidd sneered, intending to disperse the moonlight by activating a hand seal, but then heard a cold, arrogant female voice emanate from the moonlight.
"Did you assist me in unsealing? You helped me, I should have rewarded you, but you implanted a restriction within me, offending me! You deserve to die!"
The humanoid moonlight reprimanded, pressing down with elegant hands, countless moonlight rays fiercely lashed towards Sparrow God Kidd.
Sparrow God Kidd’s face paled, hastily forming seals, simultaneously activating the Barbarian Blood Runes within the giant demon and humanoid moonlight, disrupting the ray attacks.
Now looking at the humanoid moonlight, there was a hint of unexpected joy.
"Unexpected Burying Moon Celestial Consort, even with fragmented spirit, can exert Shattered Thought Early Stage power, truly admirable! However, pity that consort is now under my restriction, becoming my slave; I advise you, while under this roof, refrain from angering me!"
Sparrow God Kidd’s gaze then shifted to the giant demon, sinisterly smiling, "Demise Gate Immortal Honored One, I request your aid along with Burying Moon Celestial Consort to kill this child! Do not dare defy my commands, or face the consequences!" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
The giant demon, known as the Demise Gate Immortal Honored One, coldly snorted, glanced at the battlefield, joined the fray, quickly recognizing the situation, and refrained from arguing with Sparrow God Kidd.
The human-shaped moonlight, formed from the shattered Burying Moon, tried to break the restraints within her body, but to no avail. She let out a soft humph and stopped arguing with Sparrow God Kidd.
Her gaze swept across the battlefield and suddenly landed on Ning Fan, her intent to kill spreading like a tide.
She remembered Ning Fan’s aura, exceptionally clearly!
Previously, she attempted to seize Fairy Hanwux’s body. Just as she was about to succeed, Fairy Hanwux was hit by Ning Fan’s Purple Mist Charm Technique. The charm invaded her body, affecting Burying Moon, who was hiding in Fairy Hanwux’s divine sense. At the critical moment of possession, she suffered a backlash, carelessly resulting in the collapse of her remnant spirit, leaving her as scattered moonlight...
"It’s you! You’re the one who ruined my plan to seize the body! You’re the one who severely wounded my remnant spirit. You, you deserve to die!"
Burying Moon’s moonlit body suddenly transformed into a blinding moonbeam, bypassing the Cloak Puppet, charging through the battlefield, directly at Ning Fan, vowing to kill Ning Fan with a single strike to vent her hatred!
Ning Fan turned into a golden glow and retreated, dodging Burying Moon’s strike, but his heart sank.
He had clearly suppressed the effects of the Barbarian Blood Pill within the Four-eyed Demon Monarch and Fairy Hanwux, yet he still failed to stop Sparrow God Kidd from summoning the tree slaves.
Now, Sparrow God Kidd had summoned four tree slaves, each one a personage renowned in Northern Heaven.
Earth Controlling Devil Star, Iron Crow, Sangmen... Although Ning Fan had never heard these names, he vaguely sensed that these three were each once an Immortal Venerable!
As for Burying Moon, Ning Fan had indeed heard of her... Burying Moon was one of the founders of Guanghan Gong, an Ancient Immortal Emperor, said to once be a Ninth Calamity Immortal Emperor!
It’s said that Burying Moon, for some reason, betrayed Guanghan Gong.
Also, it is said that Burying Moon, along with several Immortal Emperors from Guanghan Gong, went missing after the collapse of the Heavenly Court, suspected to have fallen.
Ning Fan never expected that an ancient Immortal Emperor, buried in history, would become his enemy in such a way.
Even Sparrow God Kidd himself was an Eternal Immortal Venerable!
Although not at their peak, the cultivation levels of Sparrow God Kidd and others reached no higher than the Early Stage of Shattered Thought, it still imposed a heavy mountain-like pressure on Ning Fan.
Ning Fan knew that in this battle, he wasn’t merely facing one Early Stage of Shattered Thought, and four Peak of Shekong, but five Immortal Venerable and Immortal Emperor of unrecovered cultivation!
This battle, the chances of victory were bleak, with the Fragmented Thought Puppet and Divine Blast Technique, defeating these five ancient powers was nearly impossible.
Wisdom dictated using the Vertical Golden Light’s escape speed to flee the encirclement of the five, abandoning the Dust Flower, and giving up avenging the fallen Sparrow God Kidd.
But Ning Fan refused to flee, Sparrow God Kidd’s dying, restless pleas echoed in his ears!
In the state of Unity of Heaven and Man, Ning Fan could hear the real Sparrow God Kidd’s lingering plea from within the Fake Sparrow God Kidd’s body.
"I refuse to let others possess me! I, refuse!"
"No matter who, quickly give me relief, kill the one occupying my body! I refuse to let my corpse be manipulated, I, refuse!"
"Who will give me release! I, refuse!"
In Ning Fan’s eyes, the flames of war burned fiercely!
He would not flee; he would stay here to give his former benefactor Sparrow God Kidd... a release!
"What about former Immortal Venerables, what about former Immortal Emperors! They’re just a group of lingering spirits extending their existence for a mere moment, what does Ning have to fear!"
"Fight, fight, fight!"
Within Ning Fan, the thousand flames of war burned, his once black hair instantly turning blood red, his gaze wild with battle frenzy.
The more he was on the verge of despair, the more he had a reason not to retreat, yet it was able to stimulate the power of the War God Art.
Once, Ning Fan, though he had cultivated to the Fourth Transformation of the War God Art, had not yet deeply comprehended it due to the short time spent on the technique.
At this moment, through the intense battle in desperation, Ning Fan’s understanding of the Fourth Transformation deepened continuously.
The essence of the Fourth Transformation of the War God Art boiled down to a simple phrase.
Though faced with a multitude of enemies, I march forward!
No matter how strong or weak the enemy, they cannot block the conviction in my heart.
If I want to go, even with thousands of troops and horses ahead, none can stop me! Only then is one worthy of the word "battle"!
Burying Moon missed her strike, once more tapping her toes, wielding a band of moonlight, heading to bind Ning Fan.
This time, Ning Fan did not retreat, his gaze towards Burying Moon was filled with overwhelming battle intent.
He could see that Burying Moon’s moonlight body was unstable, on the brink of collapse, which for him, was an opportunity!
Ning Fan manipulated the puppets with one hand to impede the steps of Sparrow God Kidd and others, while his other hand clenched into a fist, gathering thousands of strands of Chaos World Purple Rosy Light, converting it into ninefold dark tides, then fiercely punching towards Burying Moon!
"Rosy Cloud Technique, Ninefold Strength!"
The seemingly soft band of moonlight easily shattered Ning Fan’s fist glow with a gentle strike, descending upon Ning Fan’s body, winding tightly around him.
Ning Fan was bound by the band, as it tightened, boundless moonlight power surged into his body, recklessly wreaking havoc within him.
In just an instant, Ning Fan suffered countless injuries, spat several mouthfuls of blood, yet his gaze remained undiminished in battle intent!
In a direct confrontation, he was no match for Burying Moon, defeated by her with a single strike, but he managed to use the Rosy Cloud Technique and cunningly countered Burying Moon.
The ninefold Rosy Light Dark Power pierced through moonlight rays, transmitted to Burying Moon’s hands, and immediately infiltrated her body along her arms.
As soon as the ninefold Rosy Strength entered her body, Burying Moon moaned, and upon the shock of the Rosy Strength, she started to retreat frantically.
With each step back, the Rosy Strength invaded her more, and the bewitching technique she suffered deepened.
After three steps, Burying Moon’s aura was in chaos.
After six steps, Burying Moon’s mana became unstable, and the moonlight rays binding Ning Fan shattered one by one.
After nine steps, Burying Moon’s entire body went limp, and her moonlight form, already on the verge of collapse, crumbled directly into the air, scattering specks of moonlight.
Had she not already been in a weakened divine state and previously suffered the backlash from Ning Fan’s Rosy Web Bewitching Technique and failed in Corpse Seizing Sect, she definitely wouldn’t have been easily defeated by Ning Fan’s ninefold Rosy Strength.
Unfortunately, there are no ifs in this world. Having seen the weak point of Burying Moon’s unstable moon form, Ning Fan naturally seized the opportunity to strike decisively.
In the duel with Burying Moon, the bewitching technique succeeded once again!
"Receive!"
Disregarding his internal injuries, Ning Fan swept his sleeve, and before the scattered moonlight could regroup, he collected all of it, sealing it within his sleeve.
Joining forces to suppress the Cloak Puppet, the Sparrow God Kidd and others were shocked to see Burying Moon captured by Ning Fan in a single round.
From ancient times until now, no master had ever wielded the unorthodox bewitching technique so grandly and awe-inspiringly.
Bewitching technique was always underestimated as a minor trick, commonly used by Plucking Art practitioners, whose cultivation was often shallow and rarely possessed strong combat power.
Ning Fan was an exception; he was a dual-cultivating Evil Sect practitioner with exceptional combat prowess.
In his hands, the bewitching technique was no longer unorthodox but a lethal weapon against female cultivators worldwide!
Even someone as powerful as Burying Moon, once reduced to human-shaped moonlight, could only be slaughtered by Ning Fan, powerless to resist.
Suddenly, an enlightenment struck Ning Fan... In this world, no divine skill is weak; with the appropriate user, any skill can become a supreme art!
Whether it’s a cultivation technique or a divine skill, there’s no such thing as the strongest or weakest...
Ning Fan took a deep breath, his gaze filled with battle intent sweeping toward the Sparrow God Kidd, while his left hand once again pressed upon the Soul Bag.
Upon witnessing Ning Fan’s action, a sense of foreboding arose in the Sparrow God Kidd’s heart, shouting,
"Earth Controlling Devil Star! Iron Crow! You two join hands and temporarily restrain the puppet! Landslip, you follow me immediately, let’s quickly take down this child, delay will lead to changes!"
As his words fell, he instantly flashed, rushing straight at Ning Fan, his right hand transforming into a black-red beast claw, Barbarian Flash intertwining, clawing at Ning Fan’s head.
The giant demon named Landslip also leapt into the air, sprouting countless iron spikes that glistened coldly, shrinking its body, rolling through the sky like a ball of iron, with the momentum of Pushing Mountains and Filling Seas, crashing into Ning Fan.
Faced with the deadly attacks of Sparrow God Kidd and Demise Gate Immortal Honored One, Ning Fan remained unmoved, his left hand tearing open the Soul Bag in one swift motion.
Instantly, the heavens and earth were filled with thousands of Secret Technique Spirits, each with empty eyes, brimming with corpses’ Qi!
Among these Spirits were countless Void Fragmentations, over 600 Nascent Souls of Fate Immortals, and even Enlightenment, Shedding Void Stage, and Shattered Thought Nascent Souls!
Having mastered the Momentum Character Secret, the Spirits Ning Fan summoned mysteriously aligned in formation, intensifying the power of the Divine Blast Technique by threefold compared to before!
This was something even the Ancestor of the Yao Family, who created the Divine Blast Technique, couldn’t achieve, for he didn’t understand the Momentum Character Secret.
No longer was it a simple Divine Blast Technique, but... a Divine Blast Formation!
"This is... the Divine Blast Technique! The Yao Family’s Divine Blast Technique from Eastern Heaven!"
"No, wrong! I’ve never heard of the Divine Blast Technique being used this way! This is no longer the original Divine Blast Technique!"
Sparrow God Kidd was greatly shocked, recognizing the Divine Blast Technique in an instant, wanting to retreat, but it was too late.
At that moment, Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with a cold gleam, his spirit sense performed, and all Secret Technique Spirits simultaneously self-detonated!
This detonation didn’t spread to the outside world but was confined within an array diagram that Ning Fan invoked through the Momentum Character Secret!
Outside the diagram, not a trace of explosive waves leaked.
Inside the diagram, however, earth-shattering explosive waves swept and obliterated everything!
Just from the self-detonation waves of the red-eyed freak’s Shattered Thought Nascent Soul, it was more than the current Sparrow God Kidd and Landslip could withstand.
Additionally, with the self-detonation of 600 Fate Immortal Nascent Souls, along with Enlightenment, Shedding Void Stage, and countless Void Fragmentation Nascent Souls, Sparrow God Kidd and Landslip couldn’t even manage a scream before their lives were claimed by the Divine Blast Formation.
The heart-stopping extreme light of the self-detonation illuminated the entire Yellow River Snow Valley, and the entire boundary realm could witness the soaring blood light released by the Divine Blast Formation!
The Yin Yang Evil Vein army still lying in wait outside the Yellow River Labyrinth were all profoundly shaken.
At this moment, how could they not know that the enemy had already infiltrated the Yellow River Snow Valley, and for some unknown reason, sparked a cataclysmic battle within the valley.
Three dragon monster leaders at the Initiate Realm of Shekong, gazed toward the direction of Snow Valley, cold sweat streaming down their foreheads.
They felt an inevitable death crisis emanating from the destructive blood light...
They couldn’t recognize that the blood light was the Divine Blast Technique, only because this technique had been modified by Ning Fan into a formation, losing its original appearance.
"What a powerful Divine Skill! Even an old freak at the Shattered Thought Early Stage, if caught in this blood light, would certainly end up with a nine deaths and one life scenario!"
"We cannot cross the Blood River to reach the Snow Valley, and we are unable to stop the humans from stealing the Dust Flower or prevent... Master Ning Fan, who can wield such Divine Arts, how could we possibly contend with him!"
"Luckily, no one has ever been able to pluck the Dust Flower, so these human experts naturally won’t be able to do it either! We only need to stand guard here, reinforce the barrier, and not allow the humans to leave. Once reinforcements arrive, we can join forces to capture them!"
...
Within the Yellow River Snow Valley, as the Divine Blast Formation gradually dispersed, two charred bodies fell from it, one being Sparrow God Kidd’s corpse, and the other, the corpse of the Demise Gate Immortal Honored One.
Sparrow God Kidd’s storage pouch was shattered, and the items within scattered messily across the ground.
The Demise Gate Immortal Honored One did not have a storage pouch, and his body quickly dissipated into eerie corpse Qi, vanishing into the air.
He was, after all, just a tree slave summoned by Sparrow God Kidd from within the Four-eyed Demon Monarch, without a physical body, so naturally, no corpse would remain.
Still entangled with the Cloak Puppet, Earth Controlling Devil Star and Iron Crow were now left with their mouths agape in shock.
With just one strike, Ning Fan had annihilated two individuals at the Peak of Shekong! Such a sight left them utterly terrified!
If they were at their full strength, at the Immortal Venerable cultivation level, they would naturally not fear Ning Fan. But unfortunately, now they were left with only Peak of Shekong cultivation levels, incapable of resisting such an extent of the Divine Blast Technique!
Yet this strike also exhausted all of Ning Fan’s Spirit. Unfortunately, this point was unknown to the pair, who simply assumed Ning Fan could still wield such powerful Divine Arts, instilling a deep-rooted fear in them.
Sparrow God Kidd’s Spirit was directly wiped out in the Divine Blast Formation, not a trace remained.
Even if any had remained, it would likely have little use for Ning Fan. Senluo had pointed out the shortcomings of the Divine Blast Technique, as it could not be driven by the Nascent Souls of Eternal Old Freaks, having limits on its usage.
Capturing Burying Moon, killing Sparrow God Kidd and the Demise Gate Immortal Honored One—although Ning Fan was heavily injured, his aura was unprecedentedly formidable.
Casually wiping away the bloodstains from the corner of his mouth with his left hand, his right hand still manipulated the Puppet Thread, gradually forcing the battle-weary Earth Controlling Devil Star and Iron Crow into desperation.
Now, without the Spirit to wield the Divine Blast Technique, Ning Fan couldn’t thoroughly defeat the two with Fragmented Thought Puppet, at most just slightly suppress them.
The Dust Flower had been blooming for over a moment, and the time left for Ning Fan to pluck the flower was scarce; he didn’t have the leisure to engage in further combat with the two.
When the fear in their eyes reflected in Ning Fan’s, an idea suddenly arose in his mind.
"These two, for all their past as Immortal Venerables, if relying solely on puppets, capturing them would be utterly impossible."
"Luckily, they already have fear of me. If I could deceive them, bind them as my slaves, it could be a favorable outcome."
Ning Fan’s gaze sharpened as he made a decision. After once again forcing them back with a puppet, he didn’t continue his attack but instead retrieved a jade scroll bestowed by the Slaughter Emperor, concealing it within his sleeve. Coldly and mercilessly, he addressed the two,
"Become my slave, or die. Three breaths to give me your answer!"
Upon hearing Ning Fan’s words, both Earth Controlling Devil Star and Iron Crow displayed expressions of shock and anger.
The two had been revered as Eternal Immortal Venerables, reduced to slaves of Sparrow God Kidd only out of sheer necessity, and now that Sparrow God Kidd was dead, how could they willingly become Ning Fan’s slaves?
Yet the ominous feeling transmitted from the jade scroll in Ning Fan’s sleeve suffocated them with fear.
The killing intent within that jade scroll, even at their full strength, they could not withstand!
How could they not know that Ning Fan held a jade scroll containing an even more terrifying killing move than the Divine Blast Technique; once unleashed, their deaths were assured!
It was only unfortunate that the two were unaware, that jade scroll could at most present a guise, utterly unable to be activated.
After all, the remaining two jade scrolls of Ning Fan, one was to summon the Eternal Puppets, the other to call upon the Descent of the Slaughter Emperor, but as Ning Fan was at the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain and not within the Four Heavens, the two Descent Jade Slips were unusable...
"What to do... I managed to escape the iron-blooded seal with great difficulty, how could I willingly become a slave! But if not becoming a slave, death is certain! I am even more unwilling to just die in vain!" In Iron Crow’s eyes, hesitation was evident.
"Damn! What choice is there to make! I neither want to be a slave nor do I wish to die!" As Earth Controlling Devil Star sensed the killing intent emanating from the jade scroll, his entire body began trembling uncontrollably.
After all, it was a jade scroll condensed by the Slaughter Emperor, and the killing intent it contained was naturally not something Earth Controlling Devil Star could withstand now.
"One breath!"
Ning Fan’s voice, like a nightmare, echoed in their ears, breaching their psychological defenses bit by bit.
They only had three breaths to choose, so how to choose, and what choice to make!
A wrong step, and what awaited them might be an inescapable doom...
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