Grasping the Evil

Chapter 1048: The Secret of Yue Kun Holy Sect

Ning Fan was slightly taken aback and replied, "What kind of force is the Hun Kun Holy Sect... As for the Reincarnation-Fixing Technique, are you referring to my Heaven Sealing Art?"

To this day, it was not the first time Ning Fan had heard the name Hun Kun Holy Sect.

Early in his cultivation journey, he had heard of the words "Yue Kun." At that time, his cultivation was shallow, and his opponent was quite strong, a Master who knew the ’power of the True Sun.’ Then, Luo You taught him a verse, and upon reciting it, he absorbed all the opponent’s ’power of the True Sun.’

At that time, Ning Fan’s experience was still shallow, and he didn’t realize that the so-called ’power of the True Sun’ was just a Master’s imitation of the extreme Yang power between heaven and earth.

And the extreme Yang power was something indispensable to Quasi-Saint cultivation. The verse taught by Luo You seemed to have a dedicated restraint on this type of power...

Ning Fan always remembered this verse deeply, and even in his later cultivation, he occasionally studied it, always feeling that the verse was unfathomably profound, but due to its incompleteness, it was difficult to comprehend...

[In the Northern Sea, there is a fish named Kun; in the Northern Sea, there is a Saint named Yue Kun. In the Northern Sea, there is a sun called Yin Rong. In the Northern Sea, there is thunder named Lei Tong]

Perhaps this was Ning Fan’s first encounter with the name Yue Kun, but at that time, he could not have possibly known what those simple two words represented.

Later, he ascended to the Eastern Heaven, arduously cultivating for many years, and entered the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain for training, eventually getting caught up in a great turmoil.

In that turmoil, he gained great fortunes, becoming the Tenth Generation Barbarian God of the Dao Man Clan and obtaining one of the fragments of the Heaven-Opening Artifact, the God-Extinguishing Shield!

[I am from the Hun Kun Holy Sect... Heaven-Opening Artifact... Sixth Fragment...]

[You have the aura of... the Fourth Fragment... nostalgia...]

This was what the God-Extinguishing Shield said to him when he first saw the Ancient Kingdom’s God-Destroying Shield.

The God-Extinguishing Shield that Ning Fan possessed was actually only the sixth fragment left after the original was shattered.

The fourth fragment seemed to be the previous life of the Immortal Emperor...

And the God-Extinguishing Shield, this Heaven-Opening Artifact, seemed to originally belong to the Hun Kun Holy Sect, but later, for some reason, ended up in the hands of the First Barbarian God Tao Man Mountain...

In that turmoil, Ning Fan had his second encounter with the Hun Kun Holy Sect. Subsequently, Ning Fan’s Memory Severing Dao Sword upgraded to the Reverse Sea Sword, once again getting entangled with the Hun Kun Holy Sect.

Ning Fan remembered that on the blueprint of the Dao Weapon of the Reverse Sea Sword, there was a passage left by the illustrator.

[The Reverse Sea Sword is the Sword of the Superior Disciple of the Hun Kun Holy Sect. If a non-Sect disciple holds the sword, they can also enter the Zong Ze’s Dao Field and listen to the Dao... Due to this convenience, many Masters strive for even a drop of Eternal Rain just to forge this sword and gain entry to the Sect to listen to the Dao...]

As he walked along the path, how could Ning Fan not know that the so-called Hun Kun Holy Sect is an immensely powerful force within the three Great Realms? But he had little concept of its exact magnitude, knowing little, which is why he had this question.

"You haven’t heard of the Hun Kun Holy Sect? Nor do you know what the Reincarnation-Fixing Technique is?" Emperor Butcher was quite surprised.

"I don’t know..."

"Aren’t you a descendant of the Ancestral Demon of the East? Didn’t your elders tell you about these things?"

"Are there descendants of the Ancestral Demon of the East? I am not a descendant of this lineage and have never heard any news about the descendants of the Ancestral Demon of the East..."

"Then where did you learn the Reincarnation-Fixing Technique from?"

"Due to certain circumstances and by chance, I managed to learn the Body Sealing Technique, Secret Art of Prestige, and Momentum Character Secret of the Ancestral Demon of the East. By integrating them, I was able to develop the true form of the current Heaven Sealing Art. Moreover, I didn’t know that this Heaven Sealing Art had another name called the Reincarnation-Fixing Technique..."

"Not knowing anything, you managed to explore this technique to its current form by yourself, you truly are a freak!"

The Emperor Butcher was filled with emotion, but then recalled that Ning Fan was one of the few who achieved Unity of Heaven and Man, and felt relieved. Such cultivators like Ning Fan were among the most insightful people among heaven and earth, and it wasn’t impossible for someone like him to explore the Heaven Sealing Art on their own through serendipity and chance.

"I was concerned about what the girl previously said. Why does the girl refer to my Heaven Sealing Art as the Reincarnation-Fixing Technique? And why mention the name Hun Kun Holy Sect? The girl also said that the Ancestral Emperor from the Eastern Heaven allegedly learned the Heaven Sealing Art by stealing... What does that mean?" Ning Fan asked with a frown.

"You have too many questions; let me answer them one by one. Starting with the Hun Kun Holy Sect, you should know that there are three Great Realms in total, right? The size of the true realms is far beyond what our current Dreamland Realm can compare to. If you were to say that the four heavens and nine worlds you foreign cultivators inhabit, along with the Immortal Demon World, the Ancient Demon Abyss, and our Dabei Clan’s Supreme Pill Sacred Domain, and many other broken interfaces, combine to form the once complete Dreamland Realm. In the past, when the Dreamland Realm was intact, the demon race, demon race, and gods weren’t separated by barriers but coexisted in the same world. Of course, in this shared world, there weren’t just the three races of gods, demons, and demons, but numerous small groups like our Dabei Clan and various real realm remnants now living in the crevices of the Four Heavens Boundary River..."

"But even the previously complete Dreamland Realm is nothing but a grain of sand in the Ganges compared to the true realm, extremely insignificant."

"The vastness of the true realm is beyond your imagination. In my dreams, I’ve seen that even an immortal emperor-level expert flying tirelessly without rest, exerting their life-long strength, cannot traverse even a corner of the Three Great Realms..."

"The boundless true realm makes it impossible for even a second-step cultivator to fully comprehend how many living beings and forces exist within a true realm..."

"For us Dreamland Realm cultivators, a Third Step Saint is a legend, and a Fourth Step Immortal Emperor is someone so far beyond comprehension. But do you know that even Saints and most Immortal Emperors in the true realm dare not easily offend the Hun Kun Holy Sect? Its overall force even surpasses the most prosperous time of the Zi Dou Immortal Domain! And there is a legend that even Purple Dou Immortal Sovereign, a peak force among the immortal emperors, was subdued by the great powers of the Hun Kun Holy Sect before attaining Dao, suppressed beneath the Buddha Mountain for five hundred eras before being released upon serving his sentence..."

The Hun Kun Holy Sect... A force that not even Saints and most Immortal Emperors dare to offend... A legend that Purple Dou Immortal Sovereign was once suppressed for five hundred cycles before achieving Dao...

Ning Fan listened as if hearing a story, engrossed in the tale. On one hand, he was amazed by the strength of the Hun Kun Holy Sect, but on the other hand, he felt that the story told by Emperor Butcher was too far removed from him, lacking a sense of reality, and held little reverence for this Hun Kun Holy Sect.

"You seem relaxed; I said so much, and you’re not even a bit nervous or scared?" Emperor Butcher was somewhat speechless seeing Ning Fan engrossed.

"Why should I be nervous? What is there to be afraid of?" Ning Fan asked, puzzled.

"If I told you that your Heaven Sealing Art has many issues, and you might even be erased by the Hun Kun Holy Sect at some point in the future due to it, wouldn’t you be afraid?"

"What do you mean! What is wrong with the Heaven Sealing Art? Could it be..." Ning Fan recalled the words ’learned by stealing’ from Emperor Butcher earlier, and couldn’t help but have some suspicion.

"As I mentioned earlier, the Heaven Sealing Art of the Ancestral Demon of the East wasn’t entirely his own creation. I once overheard some disciples of the Hun Kun Holy Sect talking in a dream, mentioning that the signature Divine Skill of the Hun Kun Holy Sect is the Reincarnation-Fixing Technique. And the Ancestral Demon of the East was once a titular apprentice of the Hun Kun Holy Sect, expelled for secretly learning this technique. At that time, the Ancestral Demon of the East hadn’t completely learned the Reincarnation-Fixing Technique, only a little bit, but his insight was astonishing. By relying solely on his insight, he fused the stolen parts of the Reincarnation-Fixing Technique and created his own Heaven Sealing Art... Do you know how the Ancestral Demon of the East died?"

"I once dreamt... of such a scene! A Saint from the Hun Kun Holy Sect, from a pool called the Cause and Effect Pond, reached across the infinite distance between the true realm and the Dreamland Realm, directly pulling out the Demon Soul of the Ancestral Demon of the East from the water, and annihilated it within the Sect!"

"The crime that led to the death of the Ancestral Demon of the East was due to the Heaven Sealing Art! Back then, the Ancestral Demon of the East’s attempt to learn the Reincarnation-Fixing Technique failed, and he narrowly escaped death. But this time, he created the Heaven Sealing Art, giving the technique some semblance of the Reincarnation-Fixing Technique. This violated the prohibition of the Hun Kun Holy Sect, and he couldn’t escape death! Subsequently, that Saint even fished out many of the Ancestral Demon of the East’s descendants from the Cause and Effect Pond! All the descendants he fished out, without exception, had already mastered the complete Heaven Sealing Art and were all eliminated! As for the descendants of the Ancestral Demon of the East who hadn’t mastered it completely, they were spared out of pity... Now, aren’t you afraid? Nervous yet?"

The Emperor Butcher sighed slightly, casting a glance at Ning Fan.

If what she saw in her dream was not an illusion, then once Ning Fan mastered the complete Heaven Sealing Art, there was a high possibility that one day in the future, he would be erased from existence by the Hunkun Holy Sect, far away in the True World, using the same Great Divine Power...

Even if this was the Dreamland Realm created by the Purple Dou Immortal Sovereign, incredibly distant from the True World, there was no possibility of survival!

At this moment, Ning Fan’s expression finally changed.

Traversing countless distances between the True World and the Dreamland Realm, to annihilate the Ancestral Demon of the East and his numerous descendants... Is this truly possible!

Isn’t this the Dreamland Realm created by the Purple Dou Immortal Sovereign!

Didn’t the Eye Orb Monster say that the coordinate of this Dreamland Realm was so secret that even the Taicang Calamity Spirit Clan couldn’t uncover its details!

Yet, the outcome was that the Ancestral Demon of the East was killed, slain by a saint from the Hunkun Holy Sect far away in the True World...

The crime was... mastering the complete Heaven Sealing Art!

Ning Fan deeply understood that his current Heaven Sealing Art could only be considered partially mastered. At present, all he could do was combine the Body Sealing Technique, the Momentum Character Secret, and the Secret Art of Prestige, but compared to the Ancestral Demon of the East’s complete Heaven Sealing Art, it was still missing something important...

Previously, Ning Fan didn’t know what his Heaven Sealing Art was missing, but now he could make a guess. It was certainly something related to the principles of reincarnation. After all, the Ancestral Demon of the East’s complete Heaven Sealing Art had incorporated some principles from the Reincarnation-Fixing Technique, and these principles related to reincarnation were not currently possessed in Ning Fan’s Heaven Sealing Art.

One could say that the Heaven Sealing Art he had learned was not yet complete.

If one day, he learned the art to its fullest and grasped the essence of reincarnation, wouldn’t that mean the eradication from the Hunkun Holy Sect would follow?

If it weren’t for the Emperor Butcher’s warning today, with his aptitude, he would most likely, one day in the future, thoroughly perfect the reincarnation part of the Heaven Sealing Art. The consequence... would likely be inevitable death.

That was the formidable Hunkun Holy Sect that even most Immortal Emperors in the True World feared!

Reflecting further, ever since he ascended to the Eastern Heaven, though he acted in secrecy, the matter of him knowing the Ancestral Emperor from the Eastern Heaven’s secret technique couldn’t possibly go unnoticed by any Eastern Heaven Great Emperor.

Despite it being such a powerful secret technique, not a single Great Emperor had ever plotted against him to seize this technique...

Perhaps, those Eastern Heaven Great Emperors were wiser, refraining from coveting this technique precisely because they didn’t want to follow in the footsteps of the Ancestral Demon of the East...

"Let this technique end here; do not attempt to perfect it further. Once you master it fully, your death will arrive. Never harbor any hope of getting lucky, you should know how grave a crime it is to secretly learn and alter a supreme art of a sect. Not to mention Hunkun Holy Sect, even across all sects worldwide, none would tolerate the dissemination of their secret techniques." The Emperor Butcher warned.

"I understand. Before I possess the strength to rival the Hunkun Holy Sect, I will not attempt to master this technique to completion." Ning Fan remained silent for a moment before responding.

"Try to use it sparingly, and if possible, never use it again! This art, after all, is entangled with the cause and effect of the Hunkun Holy Sect. Using this technique often will do you no good!"

"I... understand."

"As long as you understand, my warnings are prompted by a concern for my cooperative partner. Now, it’s getting late, so I’ll gouge out an eye and give it to you."

Slash!

The sound of a fingernail piercing through flesh! The sound of a fingernail forcibly digging out an eyeball!

The Emperor Butcher nonchalantly gouged out her left eye, and surprisingly, not a single drop of blood was shed, evidently indicating that the act of eye-gouging lay within her abilities.

After gouging out her left eye, she closed her left eye, keeping her right eye open, and handed the warm left eye to Ning Fan.

Ning Fan spoke with slight speechlessness, "You seem to really not care for your body."

First she cut her flesh to feed the Heavenly Dog, and now she casually gouges out her left eye, as if it were a game... This woman does not know how to cherish herself, concluded Ning Fan, reflecting on her various deeds.

"The physical body is merely a shell; the Spirit is fundamental. Protecting the Spirit is enough; there’s no need to cherish a mere shell. In any case, I would never harm my Spirit; as for my body, it’s of no consequence." The Emperor Butcher replied indifferently.

"As long as you’re happy..."

Ning Fan refrained from debating about the importance of the physical body versus the Spirit with the Emperor Butcher and carefully put away her left eye, seriously inquiring about the use of the Pig Face Treasure Box.

Afterwards, he executed a spirit sense on the Pig Face Treasure Box in his hand, chanting softly, "Prajna Paramita!"

This was clearly the mantra to activate this treasure box.

As the mantra was recited, the pig face on the treasure box suddenly emitted millions of strands of moonlight, sweeping around majestically.

About half a stick of incense’s time passed before the pig face took a sharp breath, absorbing back all the moonlight into its mouth and then letting out a burp.

"This way, the timeline here is locked by this treasure box. If something truly unforeseen happened to you, you could reverse time and return to this place. But I must remind you that the use of this treasure box is not unlimited. Within one day, you are allowed to resurrect only ten times, which means you can die at most ten times in the depths of the Yellow Springs. Do you remember?"

"I remember."

Having noted down the timeline, Ning Fan then put the Pig Face Treasure Box into his bosom, before jumping from the ship into the Yellow Springs Great Sea.

After a stick of incense’s time, a muffled groan echoed from the depths of the seabed.

Subsequently, the entire world was swept clean by moonlight, and everything began to rewind...

Ning Fan died for the first time...