Grasping the Evil-Chapter 948: Golden Armor Shatters the Stone Statues
Ning Fan had not used the divine power of his third eye for many years.
Back in the days of the Rain Immortal World, with the help of the Pill Emperor, Ning Fan opened the third eye. Initially, its purpose was merely to distinguish between genuine and fake spiritual medicines.
Later, Ning Fan entered the death site of the Six Desires Immortal King and refined the Immortal King’s eyeball—the Desire-Dissolving Pearl, which enhanced the vision to the level of the Acquired Dharma Eye.
The recognition ability of the third eye also improved significantly, though it still wasn’t of much use.
After many years, the third eye finally served its purpose, becoming the possession site after the Eye Orb Monster’s self-detonation!
Upon possession, the Eye Orb Monster took over Ning Fan’s body and transferred all its power into Ning Fan.
Twelve black crescents rotated within the third eye like hooked jades. Ning Fan’s aura began to rise rapidly, but it was the Ancient God Cultivation among the four that was rising!
Although the Eye Orb Monster’s possession was of Barbarian Cultivation, when transferred to Ning Fan, it transformed into pure Ancient God Power... all seemingly caused by the Black Moon Hooked Jade.
This cultivation enhancement was only temporary, akin to a secret technique, and couldn’t last long. After defeating Yin Mo, Ning Fan’s cultivation would fall back to its original state.
Even so, for Ning Fan, it was a rare opportunity to truly experience the power of higher realms.
The phenomenon of four Executing True Bridges manifested under Ning Fan’s feet, as well as the miniature of the True Fantasy Long River. Ning Fan’s Ancient God Cultivation, as if powered by a secret technique, continuously skyrocketed. Every advancement in realm added a reflection of Ning Fan in the river...
Shedding Void Initiate, Mid Stage of Shekong, Late Stage of Shekong, Peak of Shekong!
With a flash of light in Ning Fan’s eyes, he looked at the reflection in the True Fantasy River, which was somewhat blurry and unclear.
His Calamity Blood Cultivation was comparable to the Eternal Immortal Venerable, but unfortunately, the principles of Calamity Blood were fundamentally different from those of gods, demons, and fiends.
Crossing Truth Realm cultivators envision the true bridge on the river; Shedding Void Cultivators, the reflections beneath... Suddenly, Ning Fan sensed a revelation, seemingly grasping the key to triggering the Heart Tribulation and breaking through the Shedding Void Realm. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the time or place to ponder deeply.
Shattered Thought Early Stage, Mid-Phase Shattered Thought, Shattered Thought Later Stage, Shattered Thought Peak!
Ning Fan’s cultivation continued to rise, finally feeling the power of the Shattered Thought Realm personally.
Fragmented Thought Elders were stronger than Shekong Cultivators not only due to the suppression in realms but also because Thought-Shattering Cultivators possessed Daoist Thought, blending it into their divine skills to form the Dao Thought Technique.
Once, in the solitude of lamenting autumn leaves, Ning Fan created the West Wind Technique, a form of Dao Thought Technique, which shone brightly in the tomb comparison, making Ning Fan’s fame rise dramatically.
Daoist Thought is key for Thought-Shattering Cultivators to enhance their cultivation...
The advancement continued, and Ning Fan’s cultivation began breaking into the Timeless Realm after the True Immortal Realm!
Eternal Zero Calamity, Eternal First Calamity, Second Calamity, Third Calamity... all the way to the Ninth Calamity!
Upon entering the Timeless Realm, the sovereign qi in Ning Fan’s body began frantically merging into the Primordial Spirit.
After merging, the Primordial Spirit turned a pale golden color, and as Ning Fan’s cultivation continued to soar, the gold became deeper. Eventually, Ning Fan’s Primordial Spirit turned completely golden, just like most Immortal Emperors!
The Golden Primordial Spirit, known for being nearly indestructible and possessed only by Immortal Emperors!
At this moment, Ning Fan’s aura was as strong as the Nine Tribulations Immortal Emperor, yet it continued to escalate, eventually exceeding the range of the Nine Tribulations, reaching the prowess of a Quasi-Saint!
So, this is the power of a Quasi-Saint... It seems that within the Quasi-Saint realm, there are divisions of ranks.
Ning Fan was unclear about the divisions within the Quasi-Saint realm, but if forced to categorize, the realm could be divided into three tiers.
Weaker Quasi-Saints, like Shen Xu Ge Lao Zu Xiang Mingzi and the Zi Clan Quasi-Saint who seized the Skull of Sen Luo, should belong to the first tier.
Yin Mo... is at the peak of the third tier of Quasi-Saints! Ning Fan looked up at Yin Mo, feeling his increasing aura, and consequently, the terrifying nature of Yin Mo. If his true cultivation was a drop of water, then Yin Mo’s cultivation would be vast like lakes and seas, unfathomable and immense.
Yet, despite Yin Mo’s strength, there’s no reason to calculate against himself! Against Yin Mo, Ning Fan fears not the battle!
The Eye Orb Monster, controlling Ning Fan’s body, took a step forward, and twelve black full moons arose in the night sky!
After these twelve full moons appeared, Ning Fan’s aura also reached beyond the third tier of Quasi-Saints!
"Yin Mo, battle me!"
The Eye Orb Monster shouted furiously, and a surge of power remarkably similar to the Power of Mourning surged within Ning Fan. If Ning Fan didn’t sense it wrong, the Eye Orb Monster was using the Mourning Black Moon Divine Skill of the Ancestral Emperor of the Northern Heaven!
Ning Fan also knew some Black Moon Divine Skills, learned back in the lower realms’ Tree World. Compared to Ning Fan’s divine skills, the Eye Orb Monster’s powers were evidently more complete and could harm beings other than puppets!
As ’Ning Fan’ raised his hand, black moonlight scattered from the sky, resembling countless threads of rain.
"Mourning for the Ancient, the Moon as Rain!"
Possessing Ning Fan’s body, the Eye Orb Monster could slightly utilize Ning Fan’s divine skills, transforming the moonlight into an unexpected night rain, sweeping fiercely toward Yin Mo.
This rain, under the Eye Orb Monster’s control, wielded astonishing power, with a single drop capable of killing an Immortal, a hundred drops an Immortal in the Ghost Immortal Realm, and ten thousand drops a Shekong Cultivator. The overwhelming rainfall could heavily damage any cultivator below Quasi-Saint!
"There’s a trace of the Control Position Power of the Rain Dao Principle..." Yin Mo’s expression was solemn. As far as he knew, the Eye Orb Monster’s control position principle should only be the Immortal Dao Principle, for the Immortal Void is still in the Eye Orb Monster’s possession...
In that sense, the Eye Orb Monster could utilize its own power due to Ning Fan.
This guy, being an inheritor of the Ancient Chaotic Grand Emperor with not very old bone age, had already cultivated a type of Yin and Yang, indicating excellent potential.
Unfortunately, this guy followed the wrong person! Walking the path with the right eye leads only to death!
"If the Mourning one himself came, I might dread three points. Alas, using the Black Moon Technique through you, no matter how much moonlight transforms into rain, what can it do! Fire, arise!"
Yin Mo spat out a grey mist, which immediately turned into a sea of fire, occupying most of the sky and earth.
Before the raindrops arrived, they were evaporated by the sea of fire. The massive fire elemental power made Yin Mo flicker within the flames, indistinct.
At this moment, Yin Mo seemed to become the sovereign of fire in the universe, able to ignite everything his eyes fell upon at his thought!
"This is... the Control Position Power of the Fire Dao!"
Miao Yan Hua Rong’s face went slightly pale. Just as Yin Mo’s gaze swept over her, her Primordial Spirit felt a burning pain, and she sensed her body was about to ignite.
As if with just one look from Yin Mo, she could be burned to ashes! It seemed only because he disdained killing her that she survived!
She was an Eternal Immortal Venerable, yet she couldn’t withstand the power of Yin Mo’s gaze. How could this person be so powerful!
Candle Bow was equally stunned, fearing that the strength Yin Mo displayed was no less than his first master, Zhuli.
Zhuli ranked in the top ten of Immortal Emperors under Purple Dou, and even if Yin Mo didn’t rank in the top ten among ancient emperors, he wouldn’t fall far behind!
Fsssss!
The sea of fire spread rapidly, soon reaching the locations of Miaoyan, Candle Bow, and others. Before this fire, they seemed utterly powerless.
Could die...
"This place is too dangerous; I will send them out of the Ninefold Celestial Towers. With my assistance, it’s enough to kill Yin Mo!" In his heart and spirit, Ning Fan said to the Eye Orb Monster.
The Eye Orb Monster shared the same thought. Miao Yan and Candle Bow were no help here and were instead likely to be inadvertently killed by the spreading sea of fire, with no meaning.
Controlling Ning Fan’s body, it waved its sleeve heavily, sweeping toward Miaoyan and Candle Bow.
In the next instant, Miaoyan and Candle Bow were directly thrown out of the Ninefold Celestial Towers by the Eye Orb Monster with Great Divine Power, returning to the Shattered Wilderness.
"Your heart, like that of the Mourning one, is too soft. Just a few ants, if they die, they die, why save them? Only the weak have compassion for others."
Yin Mo sneered disdainfully, clapping his hands together fiercely, causing two giant grey fire hands to appear within the sea of fire, closing violently toward Ning Fan.
"Moon like War!"
The Eye Orb Monster, controlling Ning Fan’s body, flicked his fingers, numerous black lines twisting into a bundle, forming a black war halberd. With a horizontal cut, not only were the two fire hands annihilated, but all the sea of fire extinguished in an instant.
Simultaneously, the ninth layer of the Tianque’s sky was also severed in half!
Collapse! Collapse! Collapse!
The top of the ninth layer of the Tianque began to collapse. Countless fragments of stones and space debris fell from the sky, and storms of shattered void howled through this place.
The scene outside was revealed before their eyes. The sky above was undoubtedly the sky of the shattered, primitive wilderness!
This strike directly opened a passage between Tianque and the outside world, enough to reveal its terrifying power!
This black battle halberd was very similar to the War God Art’s battle intent divine skill - the War King Halberd. However, its power was a thousand times, ten thousand times more formidable than the War King Halberd!
This black battle halberd was a divine skill the Eye Orb Monster conjured with Ning Fan’s War Yin and Yang power, forming a black moon’s moonlight!
"Another trace of the Palm Position Path..."
Yin Mo’s expression grew even more solemn.
"Moon as Darkness!"
The Eye Orb Monster didn’t give Yin Mo a chance to catch his breath. With a grasp of its large hand, the entire world instantly plunged into darkness.
It was the purest form of darkness. Yin Mo’s gaze trembled, and in this darkness, he was deprived of the five senses, unable even to perceive with his spirit sense.
It was utterly impossible to predict from which direction the right eye would make its move!
In the ever-changing duel of cultivators, even a moment’s negligence could lead to death.
An unprecedented sense of crisis appeared in Yin Mo’s heart. He dared not be negligent, and at the cost of self-damage, he fiercely spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.
The fresh blood turned into gray moonlight, dispelling all darkness, but it was still a step too late.
His five senses had not yet recovered when the attack of the Eye Orb Monster was already upon him, and the battle intent halberd that could cleave the sky slashed his body.
Arrogant as always, Yin Mo was severely injured by the battle intent halberd in an instant. His spirit sense was directly cut in half by the halberd, slowly dissipating into the air.
The residual halberd brilliance swept out horizontally, once again slicing half the ninth layer of Tianque, exposing it to the wilderness outside.
"Have I killed Yin Mo!" The Eye Orb Monster was ecstatic.
"Be careful, his aura is still there! He isn’t dead!" Ning Fan reminded within his heart and spirit.
Ning Fan had completed the final step of cultivating Rain Yin and Yang. The rain of the heaven and earth was all under his spirit sense; in terms of perception, he surpassed even the Eye Orb Monster.
Sure enough, as Ning Fan anticipated, in the midst of the open stone forest, a stone statue of a Thought-Shattering Cultivator suddenly split with a crack, and a gray shadow emerged. Who else but Yin Mo could it be!
Such a bizarre divine skill! The Eye Orb Monster’s gaze trembled. He believed that his previous strike hadn’t failed; it relied on Ning Fan’s Dark Yin and Yang power to launch a sneak attack, not even giving Yin Mo time to activate the Tribulation Feather to save himself...
That strike should have definitely killed Yin Mo, why didn’t it succeed?
"There’s even a third type of Palm Position Power, one that involves the difficult-to-handle Darkness Law...I was careless. If not for the master’s gift of the stone substitute technique, I might have been gravely wounded even if I survived." Yin Mo spoke with a livid face.
The shattered stone statue was precisely a certain Master he had captured earlier. If he hadn’t set up in advance, he would surely have been gravely injured under the Eye Orb Monster’s halberd earlier.
"Stone substitute technique...He actually mastered this secret technique without my knowledge." The Eye Orb Monster’s heart sank.
The substitute technique is a very ancient secret technique, capable of avoiding inevitable crises. The higher-grade the substitute technique, the greater the crisis it can evade.
The ones circulated in the cultivation world are mostly lower-grade substitute techniques, useless to high-level Masters. However, it was certain that Yin Mo’s use was definitely not a low-grade substitute technique—can it be low if it can evade the full force strike of a Third Order Quasi-Saint?
In this stone forest, there are many statues; among them, there are twenty-three statues with lingering life aura.
The Eye Orb Monster calculated silently. Substitute-type secret techniques must use living people as substitutes, meaning that if he doesn’t destroy the twenty-three life statues here, even if Yin Mo is killed, he could still use the substitute technique twenty-three times to avoid death...
To kill Yin Mo, one must first destroy all twenty-three statues here!
The Eye Orb Monster controlled Ning Fan’s body and instantly appeared before one of the life statues, raising his hand to smash the statue.
Yin Mo smirked slightly, allowing the Eye Orb Monster to act as he wished. The Eye Orb Monster’s divine skill struck the fragile-looking statue, but it couldn’t be shattered!
A dignified Third Order Quasi-Saint couldn’t destroy just one statue!
"This is the master’s gifted secret technique, its conditions extremely demanding, but its effect equally excellent. With your cultivation, without a Heaven-Opening Artifact, you can’t destroy the statue!"
"I can die twenty-three more times, how many times can you die!"
Seven-Pointed Bone Sacrifice!
Yin Mo severed his finger bones once again, summoning a large white bone club into his hand.
With such a treasure and twenty-three lives, how could he lose to merely a right eye!
Today, the right eye must be unified with him, and Ning Fan...must also become his body for essence seizing!
Perfect! This boy’s physical defense is too perfect; it possesses the power of God, Demon, Yin Yang, Blood Lightning, and also the identity of the Tenth Generation Barbarian God!
Seizing this boy, he could escape from here and devour his 36 Punishment Mountains!
Yin Mo licked his lips; he wanted to crush the right eye and Ning Fan with absolute power, leaving them in complete despair!
Without a Heaven-Opening Artifact, these statues can’t be broken!
A Heaven-Opening Artifact, hmph, that’s a supreme treasure even a Saint finds hard to obtain! The right eye separated from me only after arriving at the Tianque, having stayed within the Tianque all these years; how could it obtain a Heaven-Opening Artifact!
The right eye must be in utter despair now?
Clearly having a chance to kill me, yet unfortunately, I have so many substitute statues. How can you kill me!
"Right eye, if you surrender now and return to serving me, I can forgive your past transgressions and spare your spirit worth." Yin Mo said loftily.
"Bullshit! Does this old man need to surrender to you? What a joke! Hey, kid, lend me your Heaven-Opening Artifact!"
The Eye Orb Monster cursed while controlling Ning Fan’s body, manifesting the shadow of the God-Slaying Giant outside the body.
The golden giant wrapped around Ning Fan, as if possessing the strongest defense in the world!
With Ning Fan’s cultivation, using the God-Extinguishing Shield is enough to defend against all attacks below Nine Tribulations. Switch to the cultivation of a Third Order Quasi-Saint like the Eye Orb Monster, and this defense is even more terrifying!
Heh heh, as long as the God-Slaying Giant is summoned, the Eye Orb Monster believes, unless Yin Mo uses his greatest trump card, there’s absolutely no way to break this shield!
"Smash them, smash them hard! Leave none!" The Eye Orb Monster ordered sternly, and the golden giant protecting outside began to pound down fiery fists toward the stone forest below, where the golden flames blazed.
From the moment the Eye Orb Monster summoned the God-Slaying Giant, Yin Mo had a slight sense of unease.
Upon witnessing the golden-armored giant’s fists, capable of invoking Heaven-Opening power, Yin Mo’s expression shifted to one of shock.
"This is the power of a Heaven-Opening Artifact! How is this possible! Wait, this thing is...where did you find this thing!" Finally, Yin Mo recognized the Ancient Kingdom’s God-Destroying Shield, even more shocked.
As the Ninth Generation Savage God, how could he not know the God-Extinguishing Shield!
This is a supreme treasure ranking nineteenth even on the Heaven-opening List, enough to make any Fourth Step Immortal Emperor covet it!
The right eye having this treasure...endanger the statues in the stone forest!
"You ask me, who do I ask. How do I know where that brat got this supreme treasure..." The Eye Orb Monster was more curious than Yin Mo, wasn’t he? He was known for his rampant curiosity.
Heaven knows, when he explained the plan to Ning Fan, discovering that Ning Fan actually possessed the God-Extinguishing Shield, how shocked he was, so shocked his eyes nearly popped out!
Asked Ning Fan, and Ning Fan wouldn’t even reveal how he got the God-Extinguishing Shield, even keeping it a secret, utterly infuriating!
Whatever, as long as it works, first take down Yin Mo, and later inquire Ning Fan about the origin of this God-Extinguishing Shield...
The golden-armored giant pooled its fist brilliance, enveloping all the remaining statues within its attack. Seeing that all the statues were about to be destroyed in one go, just then, Ning Fan’s voice timely echoed in his heart and spirit.
"Wait, leave some statues, don’t smash..." (To be continued. If you like this work, please visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)
