novelraw Chapter 1059: Five Dao Souls
Chapter 1059: Five Dao Souls
Ancestral Thunder Sparrow...
This name, Ning Fan was hearing for the first time. Originally, he had planned to activate the God-Extinguishing Shield immediately, but a single sentence from Black Evil changed his mind.
The Dao Soul of this realm wasn’t controlled by a demon creature but was an existence of the Dao-Soul Clan. The demon race and the Dao Soul Clan stand as yin and yang opposites, their auras similar yet distinct. The difference was undetectable to ordinary people, but Ning Fan, having experienced the auras of Dao Carp, Jiuli, and other Dao-Soul beings, could distinguish them somewhat.
The enemy was a Dao Soul called the Ancestral Thunder Sparrow, while Black Evil ranked fourth among the myriad Dao-Soul Clans as the Jiuli...
If it were just Ning Fan alone, facing the vast Heavenly Dao of the Supreme Pill Sacred Domain, he would never arrogantly claim to capture the Heavenly Dao Soul to create a lightning diagram spirit.
But now, Black Evil uttered such words, and with an indescribable confidence...
Interesting, should I give it a try, to capture the Dao Soul of this realm...
Ning Fan’s lips curled into a cold smile, his eyes seething with demonic intent!
The Dao Soul is the emissary controlling a realm’s Heavenly Dao. The stronger the realm’s positional power, the more powerful the Dao Soul can wield the force of heaven and earth. To oppose the Dao Soul means opposing the entire realm. Those who go against the Heavenly Dao will later face amplified lightning tribulations in this realm, and might even attract heavenly wrath for extermination. Capturing the Dao Soul of a Void Realm requires contending against the entire realm’s positional power, an absolutely impossible task for a master at the second step of cultivation!
During his time rampaging through the Rain Immortal World, Ning Fan was at odds with its Heavenly Dao. He wasn’t killed due to his endless trump cards and because the Rain Immortal World is merely a chiliocosm with limited positional power, allowing Ning Fan the chance to defy the Heavenly Dao. But it was just defiance; capturing Li Xiaoxiao while withstanding the Rain Immortal World’s positional power was naturally impossible back then.
The Supreme Pill Sacred Domain’s positional power is preeminent among the Void Realm, even the esteemed Da Bi Demi-Saints at the highest level can at most use the divine skill of extracting the Heavenly Dao Soul to borrow heaven-and-earth power, but cannot directly bear the entire realm’s power to capture the Dao Soul.
At the same level, humans cannot defeat the world; it is common sense.
Yet what if the Jiuli acts... what would be the outcome!
The scene of Black Evil slaying the Quasi-Saint Dao Carp was vivid in Ning Fan’s memory. He held tremendous confidence in his own Little Kitten.
If the enemy is the same as the Dao Soul, then my Little Kitten will be formidable! Even arrogantly capturing this realm’s Heavenly Dao carries a shred of possibility!
"Since you have this plan, I shall assist you a bit, restraining this realm’s Heavenly Dao from the front, while you launch a sneak attack from the shadows!"
Ning Fan did not retract the lightning diagram but dissolved his fusion with Black Evil. Instantly, at his shoulder, a flash of black light revealed an indolent and arrogant little black cat, which disappeared in a blink.
After dissolving the Dao Soul fusion, Ning Fan’s aura naturally plummeted, returning to its inherent strength. Consequently, the power of the T-Tai Su Lightning Diagram also diminished due to Ning Fan’s declining aura. It was already riddled with holes from the thunderbird’s repeated assaults, and now further weakened, it couldn’t withstand the thunderbird’s thunderous strikes, showing signs of collapsing immediately.
A massive surge of thunder power spilled from the damaged portions of the lightning diagram, hissing and violently pouring out. All the leaked thunder was greedily swallowed by the thunderbird.
The heavenly tribulation’s thunder power, previously devoured by Ning Fan’s lightning diagram, was being slowly reclaimed by the thunderbird at this moment.
As the lightning power of the diagram was forcibly consumed, Ning Fan’s heart spirit was affected, causing a sweetness in his throat, with blood seeping from the corners of his mouth, yet his gaze remained unperturbed, showing a glint of calculation. With a pinching spirit sense, some thunder power consumed by the thunderbird abruptly turned into hundreds or thousands of threads as tough as steel wires, piercing out from the thunderbird’s abdomen, binding its entire body like a zongzi, tightly and securely.
The thunderbird let out an angry beastly roar in pain. Upon seeing the thunder threads restraining its body, its eyes were filled with disdain.
These steel-like thunder threads were condensed from thunder traces and even contained a trace of Thunder Control Position power, which easily penetrated its thunder body.
Pity, after all, it was just a sliver of the Control Position power. This boy was no true Thunder Control cultivator, dreaming of suppressing its thunder with just this tiny bit of positional power—ridiculous!
"Such weak thunder threads, attempting to bind the Heavenly Dao... Hmph, overestimating oneself!"
Lightning arcs erupted around the thunderbird’s body, breaking all the binding thunder threads effortlessly, allowing the thunder body to regain its freedom. The dense wounds pierced by the threads healed rapidly under the repair of thunder traces.
Then, chanting some unknown spells, the thunderbird’s body grew larger, the gigantic beak showing some impatience. It directly took a big swallow, ingesting the T-Tai Su Lightning Diagram whole, satisfiedly letting out a burp. It then fiercely flapped its wings, and the endless release of thunder power spread over a wide area, causing the entire Fiendish Domain Continent, where Ning Fan stood, to descend into apocalyptic thunderstorms.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The continent’s countless mountains, fields, and creatures, all turned to dust under the thunderstorm.
Located at the center of the lightning attack, Ning Fan let out a miserable scream, being directly blasted to charcoal.
After the collapse of the entire Fiendish Domain Continent, the sky formed a thunderstorm mushroom cloud as vast as a continent, which took eons to dissipate. Yet, the surrounding thunder elemental energy remained wild, and the chaotic spiritual energy raged on. The laws of the land here suffered devastating damage, needing hundreds of millions of years to return to their original state.
Gazing at the destroyed, charred continent below, the thunderbird’s voice carried supreme heavenly might, speaking disdainfully.
"A mere foreign cultivator dares to defy heavenly will, such is the consequence!"
"The only regret is that the faint Jiuli aura sensed earlier also seems to have vanished, possibly annihilated by my thunderstorm! Hmph, the so-called famed Jiuli is no more than this! It appears that the terrifying depictions of the Jiuli Clan in my bloodline memories were somewhat exaggerated."
In vain, it had treated Ning Fan as a great enemy upon detecting Jiuli aura on him, immediately displaying its Dao Soul true form and unleashing its ultimate move. It seems... a little overkill.
With a spread of its wings, the thunderbird was about to soar again through the devastated sky, when suddenly its pupils dilated in horror!
The originally dark thunderclouded sky had somehow turned into the color of fleshy walls of a living creature, expanding and contracting rhythmically like internal organs.
No, not just the sky! The surrounding space, the ruins of the continent below, the scenery in front of it—everything had instantly turned the color of flesh and begun to writhe and contract!
What is happening!
Did someone cast a divine skill to change heaven and earth, altering the world’s form? And actually deceived this realm’s Heavenly Dao’s perception!
No, that’s not right!
This isn’t a Change Heaven and Earth divine skill, this is... an illusion!
Damn, careless!
"Dispel!"
With a strange cry from the thunderbird, the writhingly fleshy surroundings shattered and collapsed like broken glass.
The illusion of heavenly contraction in the surroundings vanished in an instant.
However, just as consciousness returned to reality, the thunderbird felt a searing pain, as if something bit its body, almost tearing it into two parts.
The thunderbird widened its eyes angrily, finally seeing that it hadn’t transformed into a giant form but had shrunk to the size of a mortal sparrow, caught in the mouth of a fierce-looking black cat!
The surrounding world wasn’t devastated by a thunderstorm!
The massive lightning diagram still hung in the sky, unconsumed!
The Fiendish Domain Continent below wasn’t destroyed by a thunderstorm mushroom cloud!
On a certain mountain peak on the land below, Ning Fan stood pridefully amidst the fierce winds like an unrivaled demon god, his left eye tightly shut, with a trail of black blood streaming down from it.
He wasn’t dead!
"Damn it, was it this little foreign cultivator who cast the illusion on me! A mere foreign cultivator, actually, actually... Too careless! Damn it, damn it... ah!"
The thunderbird cursed in resentment, and just as it finished speaking, it felt the black cat gripping it bite down furiously, causing its reduced body to feel pain so deep it seemed to tear at its very soul, making it cry out uncontrollably.
Its sparrow-sized body wanted to struggle in the black cat’s mouth, but was horrified to find that its entire body seemed to be paralyzed by some venom, unable to summon a shred of lightning power from the surroundings. With its current weak body, it was completely impossible to escape from the black cat’s fangs!
"The Sixth of the Jiuli, Dao Sealing!"
The black cat almost mercilessly uttered in a low voice, and as its jaws opened and closed, the thunderbird became more tortured, letting out continuous cries of pain.
Deep in its heart, it felt the greatest fear it had ever experienced for the Jiuli Clan!
It was an Ancestral Thunder Sparrow, one that had left its tribe. It had never lived in the Real Realms, nor had it ever seen a single Jiuli.
Everything it knew about the Jiuli Clan, its hatred, came from the ancestral memory in its bloodline.
In ancestral memory, it had seen scenes of the Jiuli Clan cruelly devouring Ancestral Thunder Sparrows.
In ancestral memory, it had seen the nine great secret techniques of the Jiuli Clan, deeply understanding the terrifying nature of these techniques.
The Sixth Great Forbidden Technique of Jiuli... Dao Sealing! This is a venom attack. When a Jiuli who knows this technique bites another Dao-Soul Clan creature, they can implant venom through the wound, sealing the other’s Dao-Soul power to a certain extent!
No mistake! This Jiuli bit it, and implanted the Dao Sealing venom!
This Jiuli... actually knows the Sixth Technique of Jiuli! In terms of perception, it is definitely one in ten thousand among the Jiuli Clan! After all, the higher the Jiuli Forbidden Techniques, the harder they are to master. According to the thunderbird’s blood lineage memory, only one in ten thousand Jiuli can master the sixth technique.
Even the Sixth Technique of Jiuli shouldn’t have such immense suppressive power over it!
The opponent should only be an immature Jiuli! The Dao-Soul level seems to barely reach the Emperor Grade Second Rank, on par with the Second Calamity of the Eternals among masters.
While it, is a dignified Adult Stage Emperor Grade Fifth Rank cultivator! Even if it’s hit by the opponent’s Sixth Forbidden Technique, at most only a small part of its Dao-Soul power should be sealed, absolutely not capable of a complete seal!
Unless... the opponent’s bloodline is extremely strong, one of those Royal Jiuli, of which only one in a million exists!
Hiss!
The thunderbird, faintly guessing the truth, felt the greatest fear it had ever felt towards the black cat biting it, a fear stemming from a trembling in its bloodline!
The most terrifying aspect of the Jiuli Clan is not their ferocity in devouring other Dao-Soul creatures as prey, but their heaven-defying ability to forcibly wipe out other clans’ fortune!
The Ninth Forbidden Technique of Jiuli, Royal Bow! A Dao-Soul creature shot and killed by this bow would implicate their clan, erasing their clan fortune!
The Ancestor of Jiuli, shooting the bow in ten steps, hunted down the Dao-Soul Three Emperors across billions of worlds, seized the demon race’s fortune...
The words from the bloodline memory lingered in its ears, causing the thunderbird’s heart to harbor a crazy decision.
It didn’t know if the Jiuli in front of it had the earth-shattering skills to use the Royal Bow to kill it, seizing the fortune of its Ancestral Thunder Sparrow clan.
If the opponent truly possessed such ability, then under no circumstance could it die at the hands of this Jiuli!
Better to self-destruct than be killed by the Jiuli Royal Bow! This is the consensus of all Dao-Soul creatures! For suicide only ends a single reincarnation, but if it implicates the clan’s fortune’s extinction, it’s a grave sin that wipes them from endless cycles...
...
With the thunderbird near death in its mouth, the black cat descended to the peak of the mountain where Ning Fan was, laying the immobilized thunderbird beside Ning Fan’s feet like offering a treasure, purring and rubbing against Ning Fan’s shoe.
She had accomplished a great feat.
She had done what even the Da Bi Demi-Saint couldn’t: capturing the Heavenly Spirit of the Supreme Pill Sacred Domain!
Ning Fan merely cast a single illusion to slightly confuse the thunderbird’s perception; after all, the thunderbird’s cultivation was merely at the Emperor Grade Fifth Rank, only comparable to the Five Tribulations Immortal King, so it wasn’t too difficult to momentarily bewilder it with illusion magic.
The black cat was somewhat heaven-defying.
The Fifth Forbidden Technique of Jiuli, Reversal!
When the black cat used this forbidden technique, it directly seized control of this thunderbird’s Heavenly Dao, completely interrupting the thunderbird’s ability to manipulate the surrounding mighty force.
It only forcibly seized control of the Heavenly Dao for a moment, but it was enough to shock Ning Fan. If he had known Little Kitten possessed such skills, he wouldn’t have needed a massive confrontation with this realm’s Heavenly Dao, just ordering Little Kitten to seize control for a moment, then taking advantage of the moment to ignore the Heavenly Dao’s suppression to enter the Xuan Yin Treasure.
The Sixth Forbidden Technique of Jiuli, Dao Sealing!
Directly sealed the thunderbird’s entire Dao-Soul power, rendering the supreme thunderbird Heavenly Dao soul, powerless in the blink of an eye, a pitiful and powerless sparrow.
"Unexpectedly, you actually captured this realm’s Heavenly Dao soul, yet something is strange... Normally, if a realm’s Heavenly Dao soul leaves its post, this realm’s Heavenly Dao should cease to function. We’ve clearly captured this realm’s Heavenly Dao soul now, yet... why hasn’t the Heavenly Dao’s operation completely stopped, only slightly slowed down..."
Ning Fan perplexedly gazed at the sky.
"What the master doesn’t know is that this realm’s Heavenly Dao soul appears not to be just one, but several. This Ancestral Thunder Sparrow seems to be just one among them; from the summit of this realm, I sense the presence of other Ancestral Thunder Sparrows, each far stronger than this one..." the black cat pondered and replied.
"I see, so even though you and I have captured one Ancestral Thunder Sparrow, we still cannot completely stop this realm’s Heavenly Dao from suppressing my foreign cultivator status, is that the case..."
Ning Fan swallowed the Yin Yang Locket back into his Dantian, attempting to enter the Xuan Yin Treasure, yet was still unable to enter.
The Heavenly Dao’s restriction on foreign cultivators still remained...
At this moment, the originally opened gigantic beast pupil in the sky had closed. It was the thunderbird’s eye captured by Ning Fan.
After one beast pupil closed, another four beast pupils opened, each emitting a far stronger aura than the thunderbird in Ning Fan’s hand!
Two at Emperor Grade Seventh Rank, one at Emperor Grade Eighth Rank, one at Emperor Grade Ninth Rank!
The Supreme Pill Sacred Domain’s Heavenly Dao had four more Ancestral Thunder Sparrows in control, each possessing terrifying cultivations above Immortal Emperor!
This was not the level Little Kitten was capable of capturing!
At this moment, the four beast pupils were all filled with an uncontrollable rage, naturally angry at Ning Fan’s audacity to publicly defy this realm’s Heavenly Dao and capture one of the Five Great Heavenly Spirits!
Originally believing that dealing with a mere foreign Immortal Venerable wouldn’t require all of them to join in, it now seemed they had all underestimated this foreign cultivator’s skills.
This foreign cultivator somehow managed to tame a Royal Jiuli as a spiritual pet!
A Royal Jiuli! Capable of extinguishing a clan’s fortune — a Royal Jiuli!
Cannot allow the Ancestral Thunder Sparrow clan’s fortune to be lost to this foreign cultivator’s hands! If the clan fortune is captured, the Great Elder within the clan will surely be furious, erasing all of their existence from endless reincarnation!
"Que Gu, since you’ve been captured by Jiuli, why have you not committed suicide! Are you afraid of death?"
Above the summit, four ancient voices simultaneously questioned.
As these four voices sounded, the little thunderbird in Ning Fan’s left palm finally had the resolve to face death, gritting its teeth and forcefully breaking free from the Jiuli Dao Sealing a bit!
It only broke a tiny bit free, only restored a tiny bit of power in its body, but this tiny bit of power was sufficient to ignite the other sealed cultivations inside, detonating its entire power!
It wants to self-destruct! It wants to use its life to make this audacious outsider pay the price!
"Self-destruct, is it? Admirable courage, but unfortunately, I’ve long been prepared for this. How could I give you the chance to end yourself..."
Ning Fan’s lips curled into a cold smile, and countless golden flames emerged from his left palm, forming hundreds of ancient and obscure seals, sealing away even the last bit of strength this little thunder sparrow could muster to free itself.
This time, even self-destruction was impossible for this thunder sparrow.
"Damn it! Que Gu’s attempt to self-destruct failed!"
"If it gets killed by the Jiuli King Bow, our clan’s fortune will surely suffer a great loss. You and I will both share the blame!"
"Fight! Fight with this outsider, using the power of one realm’s Heavenly Way, battling to the death!"
"No! This youth has a Royal Jiuli beside him, who knows the Jiuli Fifth Forbidden Technique and can temporarily counteract the Heavenly Way at critical moments. This counteraction is quite limited, but it’s enough to temporarily deprive us of our ability to use this realm’s power. If, in that brief moment, any among us gets captured by his Jiuli, what then!"
"Do not act rashly!"
"But either way, it’s death..."
The four thunder sparrows’ aura in the dome started to argue and hesitate at this moment.
They would unhesitatingly kill any cultivator daring to defy the heavens, even a Quasi-Saint defying the sky would not be shown mercy.
However, facing Ning Fan and the Royal Jiuli beside him, they became fearful, hesitant, panicked, and concerned...
They dared not easily transform into their Dao-Soul form to attack Ning Fan! Once transformed, they could be captured by the Royal Jiuli!
But if they didn’t transform into their Dao-Soul form, the realm power they could wield would be very limited and absolutely unable to kill Ning Fan...
"Can we capture more Ancestral Thunder Sparrows?"
Though Ning Fan’s expression showed no change, he secretly communicated with the black cat.
"Just capturing this one Imperial-Grade Fifth-Tier Thunder Sparrow has greatly drained the Black Evil Sect. If we want to capture the Ancestral Thunder Sparrows that surpass the Imperial-Grade Sixth-Tier, the hope is slim. Of course, if Black Evil Sect is willing to risk its life, it might be able to catch one or two more Ancestral Thunder Sparrows. Does the master need to catch a few more thunder sparrows? If master commands, Black Evil Sect will certainly comply without hesitation!"
The black cat replied with a calm tone, treating life and death with indifference.
If it could assist Ning Fan even a little, it would sacrifice its life without regret.
Ning Fan’s heart was moved.
He certainly wouldn’t let Black Evil Sect risk its life just to capture a few extra Ancestral Thunder Sparrows.
From a benefit perspective, the value of one Royal Jiuli far exceeds that of a few Ancestral Thunder Sparrows.
From an emotional perspective, Ning Fan could feel Black Evil Sect’s loyalty toward him. He wasn’t sure where that loyalty came from; he questioned himself if he had ever done anything to bind Black Evil Sect to him so deeply. Yet, Black Evil Sect regarded him as dearly as life.
With just one command, this little kitten would die for him...
"If sacrificing your life is what it takes to capture more Ancestral Thunder Sparrows, then forget it. Capturing one Ancestral Thunder Sparrow is already an unexpected gain. At this moment, the other sparrows’ fear of your presence works to my advantage. This fear is actually beneficial."
Ning Fan didn’t plan on having Black Evil Sect use the Jiuli King Bow’s forbidden technique.
Sure, killing this Imperial-Grade Fifth-Tier Ancestral Thunder Sparrow could forcibly seize some of the Ancestral Thunder Sparrow’s clan fortune, but such fortune is currently of little use to Ning Fan. He still possessed fifteen hundred colorful Clan Fortune, forcibly taken from the Dao Carp Clan. Wary of attracting the countless forces of the four heavens and nine worlds by using the clan fortune, he hadn’t utilized it.
The clan fortune is temporarily useless.
Moreover, using the King Bow’s forbidden technique seems to cause extreme depletion to the little kitten, with severe side effects to boot.
On that day, Black Evil Sect only shot down three Dao Carp, yet its cultivation greatly waned, nearing obliteration. Unless in life-and-death situations, Ning Fan couldn’t bear to have the little kitten use such powerful forbidden techniques.
With these thoughts, Ning Fan suddenly raised his head and gave a slight smile towards the four beastly eyes above the dome.
"How about a trade?"
"What trade!" The four Ancestral Thunder Sparrows hiding in the dome suddenly stiffened.
If it were just Ning Fan, they would never take him seriously, much less lower themselves to listen to what Ning Fan wanted to trade.
They would simply strike and kill him!
But now with a Royal Jiuli at his side, they dared not act rashly. Their regard for Ning Fan had been elevated to an unprecedented level due to that Royal Jiuli.
"I can refrain from having my little kitten shoot this thunder sparrow with the King Bow, but you all must agree to three of my conditions!"
As soon as Ning Fan’s words fell, the four Ancestral Thunder Sparrows in the dome were instantly filled with fury!
What a joke! They were the supreme Heavenly Dao Souls, commanding the Heavenly Way of the entire Pill Holy Domain. Even those Da Bi Demi-Saints had to lower their status before them. This insignificant, lowly foreign cultivator actually dared to present conditions to them!
"Hmph! Who do you think you are! Daring to propose conditions to us Ancestral Thunder Sparrows!"
"You have three breaths to release Que Gu, or we will transform into our Dao-Soul forms and call upon realm lightning to strike you dead!"
"If you obediently comply, we might consider sparing your life and allowing you to leave the Supreme Pill Sacred Domain unharmed!"
"One breath! Two breaths! Two and a half breaths! Two and six breaths! Two and seven breaths! Two and eight breaths! Two and nine breaths! Two point nine-nine breaths! Two point nine-nine-nine breaths!"
"Damn it, is this outsider forcing us to count to the third breath and destroy him!"
"We really have to start counting the third breath now, we’re really going to..."
Noisy!
Ning Fan coldly shouted towards the four Ancestral Thunder Sparrows whose fierce outer facade belied inner weakness, and then gave a signal with his eyes. The black cat immediately pretended to act, showcasing a stance as if about to perform the King Bow forbidden technique!
This move instantly filled the four Ancestral Thunder Sparrows atop the dome with fear.
"Wait! Wait! The King Bow forbidden technique must not be used. If used, you will become the undying enemy of us Ancestral Thunder Sparrows!"
"Damn it! This youth is in the Phantom Dreamland created by the Purple Dou Immortal Sovereign, and it is too far from the Real Realms to fear the legendary reputation of our Ancestral Thunder Sparrows!"
"Fine, fine! We agree to trade with you, as long as you promise not to seize our clan fortune and release Que Gu, we can reluctantly agree to your three conditions!"
"No way, elder brother, three conditions are too many. At most, we can agree to two!"
"No, at most one!"
"Half a condition!"
"A third!"
"A tenth!"
"Hiss! This outside cultivator seems to be angry! You scoundrels, shut up!"
Ning Fan’s eyes showed impatience, coldly saying, "You seem to be misunderstanding one thing. I am not negotiating with you, but commanding! My three conditions, you must agree to. If you don’t, I will let this Jiuli obliterate your clan’s fortune!"
"Impossible! This matter is absolutely impossible! Whatever your demands are, we will agree!" The four Ancestral Thunder Sparrows exclaimed.
"If you had been so sensible sooner, things would have been easier!"
Ning Fan wore a cold smile, yet felt speechless inside.
The Heavenly Dao of the Supreme Pill Sacred Domain is rather easy to threaten... Of course, the reason he could easily coerce the Heavenly Dao to obey was entirely due to Little Kitten’s contribution.
Little Kitten is from the fourth-ranked Jiuli Clan of the myriad Dao-Soul races, and is from the royal Jiuli, a name too imposing for the Ancestral Thunder Sparrows, involving major matters of clan fortune, making them dare not take any risks.
Previously, both the Dao Carp Clan and the Ancestral Thunder Sparrow Clan suffered great losses at the hands of Little Kitten; indeed, Little Kitten’s abilities are truly formidable.
Haha, I never expected that I just wanted to resist the Heavenly Dao’s suppression of the Supreme Pill Sacred Domain to enter the Mysterious Yin World, but unexpectedly captured one of the five great Heavenly Dao souls of the Supreme Pill Sacred Domain...
"May I ask what conditions your Excellency has for us? Also, can Que Gu be returned?" Among the dome’s four Ancestral Thunder Sparrows, the oldest voice asked, the sound reverberating through heaven and earth, potent with heavenly might, but somewhat lacking in confidence.
"This little sparrow is my war trophy, so naturally it cannot be returned to you. However, if you agree to my conditions, I can promise not to kill it, only keeping it as the spirit of my Lightning Diagram."
Ning Fan wasn’t foolish; returning the captured Ancestral Thunder Sparrow would lose the threat of the Royal Bow’s obliteration of fortune, and what awaited would surely not be gratitude from the Heavenly Dao soul, but... unrestrained, frenzied retaliation!
"The first condition, I want you to gather the lightning power of one realm for me to devour and cultivate!"
"What! This violates the Saint’s will who created this realm, if we do this, we will..."
"Humph! I seem to have already stated this is not a negotiation, but a command!"
"This... alright, this condition we can agree to," the oldest voice responded through gritted teeth.
"The second condition, I demand the Heavenly Dao’s suppression of my identity as an outside cultivator be completely abolished! The forbidden force of certain special locations within this realm must also be abolished for me!"
"This... this matter also violates... forget it, we agree to this condition as well," the old voice said helplessly.
"The third condition, if I have any needs, you must obey me, if I want you to kill someone... you must kill who I say!"
"This matter is absolutely impossible! We are Heavenly Dao souls, commanded by the Saint who created the realm, it is absolutely impossible to follow anyone else’s orders!"
"So, the negotiation failed, huh, if that’s the case, then I will..."
"Hold on! Your Excellency’s condition... we agree! But you must know, within the Dabei Clan, there are three people even our Heavenly Dao cannot kill... If you provoke those three, don’t blame us if we cannot assist you in slaying them."
"Oh? This realm actually has three people even your Heavenly Dao cannot kill? Who are these three?"
"This... this matter is a top secret of the Supreme Pill Sacred Domain, but since you’re asking, we can answer a bit. These three are the top three among the five supremes of the Dabei Clan; the second and third supreme’s identities are special, we cannot attack them with our Heavenly Dao. The first supreme is far too terrifying in power; although now reduced to just a skeleton, their strength weakens day by day, yet still possesses ancient great cultivator-level power! Such existence, even we Heavenly Dao dare not recklessly attack. If you command us to attack these three, we can only say we’re helpless..."
Hearing this, Ning Fan furrowed his brow.
His understanding of the five supremes of the Dabei Clan was limited to the fourth-ranked Niu Gui and fifth-ranked Shifeng.
But now, from the Heavenly Dao, he learned information about three other supremes.
The second and third supremes, with special identities, are existences even the Heavenly Dao cannot attack...
The first supreme, terrifyingly strong, dead but only a skeleton remains, their cultivation level weakening day by day, yet even now holding ancient great cultivator-level strength! An existence even Heavenly Dao dare not provoke!
The Dabei Clan actually has ancient great cultivator-level existence!
Doesn’t this mean the foundation of the Dabei Clan is even more frightening than that of the secret clans...
"Who are these three supremes respectively!" Ning Fan asked solemnly.
"The third supreme is the remnant soul of Medicine Master Buddha, attached to Bright Buddha, intending to refine Bright Buddha into their Transmigration Spiritual Body!"
"The second supreme is Yan Ancestor’s remnant soul, attached to Vacant Flame Dead Emperor, intending to refine Dead Emperor into a Transmigration Spiritual Body!"
It turns out to be the remnant souls of Medicine Master Buddha and Yan Ancestor!
Based on Ning Fan’s understanding of the Dabei Clan’s history, the founder of the Dabei Clan is Saint Nan Yao, and after Saint Nan Yao’s death, the kind and evil corpse did not die, each occupying half the forces of the Supreme Pill Sacred Domain, confronting each other.
The kind corpse named Medicine Master Buddha is an existence worshipped with incense by the countless people of the Dabei.
The evil corpse named Yan Ancestor is an existence worshipped as a deity by countless Three-Flames cultivators!
It seems most people of the Dabei clan believe these two have long died, yet unexpectedly, these two’s remnant souls have persisted from ancient times to the present!
And attached themselves to Bright Buddha and Dead Emperor!
This... definitely counts as the utmost secret of the Dabei Clan!
Dead Emperor aside, if Ning Fan intends to rescue Emperor Butcher at the Holy Mountain, he is bound to become an enemy to Bright Buddha, whose body houses the third supreme, Medicine Master Buddha... This matter...
No wonder Emperor Butcher was captured by Bright Buddha of equal cultivation, this matter is definitely related to the remnant soul of Medicine Master Buddha attached to Bright Buddha!
Ning Fan sighed, then asked,
"Who is the first supreme?"
"Unknown, we only know she is an extremely terrifying woman, her origins unknown, her identity untraceable, hiding somewhere in the forbidden region of the Sanyan Continent. Few in the Dabei Clan know, referring to this mightiest supreme as White Bone Lady."
White Bone Lady, is it...
If this strongest supreme is in Sanyan, at least it won’t obstruct my rescue of Emperor Butcher...
Ning Fan asked about some of the Dabei Clan’s secrets, then, tiring of wasting words with the dome’s four energies, temporarily stored the sparrow named Que Gu in the Lightning Diagram, and ordered the four energies within the dome,
"By order of Ning Fan, guide the lightning force of one realm from the Dabei Clan for my cultivation, without fail!"
"This... it shall be done!" The four energies reluctantly agreed.
In a situation unknown to all the cultivators of the Dabei Clan, the lightning force of one realm was continuously drawn to this Barren Continent by the Heavenly Dao...