novelraw Chapter 1070: Hex Family of Wood Flame
Chapter 1070: Hex Family of Wood Flame
Wuxx Yan felt she had slept for a very long time.
Confused and drowsy, she worried about the fate of her adopted sister after she had been convicted, but she could not open her eyes.
The injuries were too severe.
This was the consequence of defying Baihua Great Emperor’s orders.
The rumors outside that she had been implicated by the Foreign Cultivator were false. The real reason she was stripped of her Witch status and imprisoned in the Sea Valley Altar was because she broke her promise to Baihua Great Emperor.
In her dreams, the scenes of Baihua Great Emperor’s spirit descending upon the Sea Witch Sect to exact punishment replayed over and over in her mind.
"Hehe, such a romantic fool, you blame me for attacking that Foreign Cultivator, so you deliberately hid all the South Sea Spring Water from me, right!"
"It’s a pity that the Foreign Cultivator has already escaped the Supreme Pill Sacred Domain. He won’t know that you dared to break our deal in outrage for him."
"Killing you outright would be too easy! Just as well, the twelve Blood Prisons of your Sea Witch Sect’s Refining God Cauldron still have a vacancy. Let’s imprison you in them so you’ll suffer eternally! Hehe, this is your last chance. Hand over the South Sea Spring Water, and I can pretend nothing happened! Otherwise, you won’t escape the blood prison for a lifetime! As the Witch of the Sea Witch Sect, you should be well aware of this!"
"Fine! Good! Since you’re obstinate, don’t blame me for showing no mercy!"
It hurts, so much...
How could it not hurt when all the Witch’s Bones were shattered?
Was it for the Foreign Cultivator that she broke Baihua Great Emperor’s command?
No, she felt her actions weren’t purely for such a simple reason. Baihua Great Emperor was a malignant tumor of the Sea Witch Sect, gravely injured and dying a thousand years ago after an expedition to the Fiendish Domain Continent. Now, his injuries are several times worse after his body was destroyed by Blood Martial Master. Without the South Sea Spring Water for healing, the injuries would never heal and only worsen daily! Even if Baihua Great Emperor wasn’t dragged to death by his injuries, he would sooner or later be conspired against by other Great Emperors from Middle State and removed...
If Baihua Great Emperor dies, the Sea Witch Sect would regain its previous freedom, no longer poisoned by the so-called Elder Council...
She sacrificed herself and defied Baihua Great Emperor’s orders for the Sea Witch Sect’s future, yes, it must be so.
But maybe... there was a bit of factor concerning that Foreign Cultivator too. Hmm, just a little bit, she told herself.
She was very regretful.
The day Ning Fan was destroyed by Thunder Sound Immortal Emperor and suddenly became a criminal pursued by several Immortal Emperors, she didn’t step forward to help Ning Fan.
Because she knew, even if she helped, her meager cultivation wasn’t enough to aid Ning Fan in anything.
But she still felt regret.
This sentiment was unrelated to romance, it only stemmed from a sense of gratitude and debt towards Ning Fan. When she was caught in a desperate situation inside the Fire Soul Tower, Ning Fan rescued her. Yet when Ning Fan was in trouble, she was powerless...
Blood Martial Master was captured, Ning Fan fled from the Supreme Pill Sacred Domain. She once took a Restrictive Spell vow and owed Ning Fan a favor, but it seemed there would never be an opportunity to repay it...
When Ning Fan was in trouble, she was powerless to help him, but Baihua Great Emperor, supposedly Ning Fan’s ally, was clearly capable... not helping Ning Fan was one thing, but why be the first to turn against him!
It was truly shameless! Even as a Great Emperor of Zhongzhou, chasing criminals who destroyed Punishing Rings must be done, but to such an extent? With not even a shred of regret for betraying an ally, shame on being an Emperor Cultivator!
In a strange twist of fate, she hid the South Sea Spring Water, defied Baihua Great Emperor’s orders...
She kept telling herself this sacrifice was for the Sea Witch Sect’s future. But heavily injured and slumbering now, she couldn’t escape confronting her own heart.
She wasn’t such a noble person.
She just couldn’t tolerate Ning Fan’s betrayal, and her head got hot...
"Your sister’s bones have been set by me. As for the injuries, they aren’t a severe concern, I’ve left enough expensive pills for you, and combined with your Sea Witch Sect’s reserves, they’ll heal sooner or later. According to my estimation, your sister should awaken in at most three days." In a daze, she heard a man’s voice.
Who is it... so familiar, yet so strange... seemed like that Foreign Cultivator, but wasn’t the Foreign Cultivator already escaped from the Supreme Pill Sacred Domain...
Doubtlessly, it was a dream, she was surely dreaming of this Foreign Cultivator because of her deep thoughts during the day.
"Big brother, thank you, you are truly a good person! Wuxx Na has decided, when she grows up, she will pledge herself and marry big brother, to repay his kindness!" It was Wuxx Na’s voice, even Wuxx Na dreamed of this? She actually wanted to marry that Foreign Cultivator? Haha, Wuxx Na has never met that Foreign Cultivator, she must have a fever and dream such illogical things...
"Old Wuxx Ming, if not for the hero vanquishing Baihua Peak’s King and three Venerables planted among our clan, the old man would never have been freed from prison, to see the light of day again. Our clan’s Elder Council can rebuild, the witches freed from that Blood Prison, all thanks to the hero; does the hero really not wish to linger with our clan a few more days? We Sea Witch people still wish to properly repay the hero’s kindness."
Eh? She actually dreamt of Elder Wuxx Ming’s voice, ever since Baihua Great Emperor intervened in Sea Witch Sect matters, the former elders were all imprisoned. Elder Wuxx Ming should still be locked in prison now...
"No more staying, Bai Lu’s death will soon spread across the entire Dabei, staying could bring unwanted trouble to your sect. Besides, I have other matters to attend to; I cannot linger here long... as for your sect’s Guardian Deity, now it no longer complies with Baihua Great Emperor’s deal and will again protect you. With it here, looking across Dabei Grassland, no force will dare to target your Sea Witch Sect again." Again, it was that Foreign Cultivator’s voice...
Such a reassuring voice...
"What! Guardian Deity has decided to protect us Sea Witch people again!" It was Elder Wuxx Ming’s ecstatically joyful voice.
Afterwards, afterwards, the voices grew faint, hard to hear, yet she hadn’t had enough listening.
Sleepy, so sleepy.
Slumbering, still slumbering...
Uncertain how long she had slept, Wuxx Yan groggily opened her eyes.
Upon awakening, she still felt pain in her limbs and bones, yet the shattered bones were somehow set...
Though injuries remained in the body, they weren’t as severe as before and were recovering continuously.
In the glaring morning light, Wuxx Yan gradually discerned the furnishings within the room; the bed she lay on, the room she occupied was her former dwelling as the Witch.
She wasn’t inside the twelve Blood Prisons of the Refining God Cauldron?
What is going on?
The Blood Prison of the Refining God Cauldron can’t be broken even by Baihua Great Emperor, traditionally able to only imprison, not release.
She clearly remembered her Witch Bones being shattered, imprisoned in the Blood Prison, but why... would she be in her own room.
That Blood Prison supposedly couldn’t be smashed even by Baihua Great Emperor.
Everything before her... could it be a dream...
"Sister, you’re awake! That’s great! Big brother said you’d surely awaken in three days, I originally didn’t believe it, but it turned out true! Big brother is so accurate!"
Wuxx Na entered the room with a basin of face water, her little face full of joy.
"Big brother... the big brother you mentioned, who is he..."
Wuxx Yan rubbed her brow, gradually emerging from the confusion. For some reason, she recalled dreaming during her slumber about being touched all over by a man, with Wuxx Na’s little girl beside shouting ’Big brother’ repeatedly...
"It was big brother who set your bones!"
She was actually really touched all over! Wuxx Yan was startled!
"Big brother even said you have a small chest; he wondered why you did such brainless things to defy Baihua Great Emperor’s orders... foolish, so foolish!"
!!!
Her chest isn’t small! At least it’s above average for women, right!
Wait, was she being told she had big boobs but no brains!
"Big brother said, if you awaken, to tell you he has been here and has left again. As for the favor you owe him, he doesn’t need you to repay it; he says he has taken all the South Sea Spring Water you hid, consider it as repayment."
Kindness of a life-saving favor?!
It’s him, it’s him...
He even took away the South Sea Spring Water that she meticulously hid and that even Baihua Great Emperor couldn’t find?
No surprise, it’s him, such a great skill...
"The big brother you mentioned, is his name Ning Fan?!"
Wuxx Yan asked urgently, and due to speaking too hastily, started coughing violently.
"I don’t know, big brother never said his name, nor did he show his true face in front of Wuxx Na. People all call him the Ugly Warrior, the Ugly Hero, saying he wears a mask because he is ugly. But elder Wuxx Ming secretly told Wuxx Na, big brother isn’t ugly, he just has a special identity, and wears the mask to prevent the Sea Witch Sect from attracting disasters by colluding with foreign cultivators..."
Wuxx Yan smiled bitterly.
Indeed, that foreign cultivator isn’t ugly...
Was it him who rescued me from the Blood Prison? As expected, his methods are heaven-defying...
The voice I heard in dreams, wasn’t an illusion after all...
He came, but then left... at a time unknown to her...
"Why are you sighing, sister?"
"Nothing much, Nana, please tell sister what has happened during this time, how is our Sea Witch Sect now?"
"Alright, let Wuxx Na tell sister about big brother’s glorious deeds! Big brother is Wuxx Na’s great savior, great hero, and also the great savior, great hero of our Sea Witch Sect! When Wuxx Na grows up, I definitely want to marry big brother..."
...
Ning Fan did not stay long in the Sea Witch Sect.
After helping the human sharks remove the black rod inside their body, he placed Wuxx Na sisters back in the Sea Witch Sect and left.
He also took away the sect’s treasure... the seventh of the Nine Great Alchemy Cauldrons used by Saint Nan Yao in life—Refining God Cauldron!
The Communication with All Things ability that had awakened finally became under Ning Fan’s control, no longer hearing the heart voices of nearby objects at all times, but only when he activated his Divine Power.
This ability is not a mere gimmick.
After becoming proficient, Ning Fan managed to find the South Sea Spring Water that Wuxx Yan had meticulously hidden, from a place imperceptible to the spirit sense.
He still remembers the scene from back then, with Wuxx Na looking at him with a ’big brother is really childish’ expression while he gathered intelligence from ants and flowers on the ground...
Yet these inconspicuous entities provided Ning Fan with all the traces of Wuxx Yan hiding the South Sea Spring Water that day.
Thus, Ning Fan conversed with strange entities along the way, eventually finding the location where Wuxx Yan hid the treasure...
It was an innately formed, mysterious cave that could shield a Master’s spirit sense from perceiving it, merely relying on spirit sense and Divine Skills wouldn’t discover this place, but if you could gather intelligence from all things in the world, there’d be almost no secrets hidden from Ning Fan in this world.
Communication with All Things is a far superior ability beyond a Master’s understanding! Even the memory-lost Immortal Emperor human shark finds it hard to believe such an incredible power exists in the world.
Yet it truly exists.
After leaving the Sea Witch Sect, Ning Fan went to the Fiendish Domain Continent once, took away Ouyang Nuan and others, temporarily accommodating them in the Xuan Yin Treasure.
A few days later, Ning Fan appeared outside a barrier on a seventh-level continent.
The immense barrier power covered deep regions within Fiendish Domain Continent, making it impossible for any Prairie Cultivator to enter without a command token from the Central Continent Five Emperors.
Ning Fan didn’t have such a thing.
But according to Burying Moon, the powerful bodies that Saint Nan Yao had poisoned during his life lay somewhere within these depths.
And as for the Jiuli Clan’s Innate Ceremony Artifact...
It seems it indeed lay somewhere in this direction.
Previously, unable to find the whereabouts of the Jiuli Ritual Vessel, he could only make transactions with Baihua Great Emperor, attempting to extract information from him.
But now, since he had cultivated his abilities to a certain realm, with the Cultivation Technique of Yin Yang Transformation, naturally achieved the Divine Spirit Wasted Body.
While his spirit sense strength couldn’t yet unleash Myriad Miles Wander or such heaven-defying perception skills, the extent of his Ice Rain Technique expanded manifold from before.
Even without Baihua Great Emperor’s information, Ning Fan could vaguely determine the approximate range of the Jiuli Ritual Vessel relying on his own Ice Rain Technique. As for its specific location, he could easily find it gradually using Ice Rain Technique and Communication with All Things.
Emperor Butcher must be saved.
But there is still time before the execution, so he could make preparations.
If he could find a suitable body for Burying Moon, and successfully perform Corpse Seizing Sect in an extremely short time, Ning Fan would immediately gain a Ninth Tribulations Immortal Emperor as a helper, drastically increasing success odds, wouldn’t it?
Thus, he sought outside this powerful barrier on a Seven Tribulations continent.
A tremendously powerful barrier, if not a Master of Triple Flame Bloodline or a Prairie Cultivator with pass permission, forcing entry would get obliterated by this barrier.
Being arranged by Saint Nan Yao with a trace of the power of the Second Step, the force is incomparable, even superior to Saint text craved on the Einige Monument.
Ning Fan could activate the God-Slaying Giant to forcibly assault the barrier, yet estimating the success rate would be less than fifty percent, and might cause substantial commotion, alerting Centurion stationed here, and conveying messages back to Tri-Flame Mainland headquarters...
At that point, it is extremely likely for Ning Fan to face Tri-Flame’s relentless pursuit, making finding a suitable body far more difficult.
How to silently and seamlessly infiltrate Tri-Flame Mainland’s depths...
Ning Fan looked at the barrier before him, contemplated, and decided to converse with it.
Upon activating Divine Power, he instantly heard the barrier’s heart voice.
Barrier: "I am a barrier, a barrier! Passage is blocked, passage is blocked!"
Ning Fan paused momentarily in silence, finally decided to take a seemingly insane step, thick-skinnedly saying, "Uh... hello there, barrier. I have no pass permission, can you open a channel for me and let me in?"
"No way! No way! Duty prevails, can’t let anyone through!" said the diligent barrier.
"Cough, cough... can’t it be accommodated a bit?"
"No way! No way! I am the most loyal barrier warrior!" proclaimed the barrier proudly.
"A lady? The barrier actually differentiates between gender? Right, Taiji Generates Two Instruments, Two Instruments Generate All Things, everything in the world is divided into male and female, having Yin and Yang, or perhaps being both genders simultaneously, possessing duality. This barrier, being the feminine barrier of this place, no wonder it calls itself a lady. If it’s a lady, hehe, perhaps the bewitching technique I specialize in against female cultivators might be effective..."
Ning Fan sighed helplessly, half-jokingly cast a ray of Chaos World Purple Rosy Light towards the barrier, a technique he occasionally used dealing with female cultivators, the strongest among his various bewitching techniques.
Without having the slightest belief that this bewitching technique would genuinely affect the barrier, just a playful trial has been intended as a response to the barrier claiming itself a lady.
But suddenly, an eerie scene unfolded!
In the past, the Chaos World Purple Rosy Light would never affect barriers!
Yet presently, the force of the Purple Rosy Light directly disrupted the flow of the barrier Yin Array of this place, even causing the barrier to emit sounds of maidenly moans only Ning Fan could hear.
"Stop it! Stop it quickly! Don’t! Ah... not here..."
"There it is! Darn it, there it is! Ah..."
"You shameless cultivator, even spare my feminine barrier, you... aren’t human..."
Amidst repeatedly shameful curses, this place’s barrier Yin Array grew increasingly chaotic, gradually tearing open spaces, allowing passage through!
Opportunity can’t be missed!
Ning Fan was initially surprised, but then he gathered himself. He didn’t concern himself with why the boundary was broken by his bewitching technique and immediately flashed into its interior.
Setting foot on the land of the Tri-Flame Mainland!
"Shameless! Bastard! Beast! Cease your bewitching technique immediately, if you violate me more, I’ll die before your eyes! You’ve desecrated my beauty, you’ve disgraced me... you’re not human..." cried the boundary in a pitiful lament.
Ning Fan was speechless; even if he were extremely lustful, there’s no way he’d become aroused by a boundary that lacks breasts, a backside, or a body.
As for desecration... he hadn’t even taken off his pants, had he!
The bewitching technique was merely a half-joking attempt; who would’ve thought it would actually work? Ning Fan himself hadn’t expected this outcome.
In the past, Chaos World Purple Rosy Light could only attack female cultivators.
But since he awakened the divine talent of Communication with All Things, everything seemed to have changed...
Ning Fan experimented with other bewitching techniques and found that only Chaos World Purple Rosy Light had this defying capability; the other techniques were ineffective against the boundary...
Chaos World Purple Rosy Light seemed special...
Ning Fan fell into contemplation.
Divine spirits are also people.
However, spirits with awakened Communication with All Things might no longer be considered human.
Currently, Ning Fan felt more like the essence of nature itself, akin to all creatures that exist in the world.
He recalled the barbarian cultivation and how barbarians held the belief that all things in the world had souls.
If ancient gods, demons, and fiendgods were imitation practices of ancient divine spirits’ spiritual cultivation, then the Barbarian Clan practiced a form mimicking the divine spirits’ integration with nature.
To ancient divine spirits, humans were no different from the vegetation, mountains, birds, and beasts of nature; whether eating vegetables, beasts, or humans, it was all killing, without distinction.
Ancient divine spirits seemed to be envoys of nature.
And spirits awakened with Communication with All Things appeared to be creators of the natural world...
For this reason, his bewitching technique possessed apparent divine infringing abilities, influencing the Yin Array boundary here through Chaos World Purple Rosy Light...
"The divinely awakened talent I possess to communicate with all things seems quite powerful..."
"As for Chaos World Purple Rosy Light, it appears to be a bewitching technique designed to complement my divine talent..."
"Could it be that Ancient Chaos Grand Emperor’s creation of Chaos World Purple Rosy Light was tailored for divine spirits with the capability to communicate with all things? No wonder it’s named so arrogantly; it’s only a bewitching technique and can’t actually cause worldly havoc, but if this Purple Rosy Light can suppress everything of Yin nature, it could be a different matter..."
Ning Fan’s eyes flashed, and suddenly he patted his storage pouch, releasing countless magical treasures, at least hundreds.
These treasures, most of which he didn’t even know the names, nor could he recall which unfortunate souls he took them from.
As all the treasures ascended, Ning Fan swept out Chaos World Purple Rosy Light, keeping a portion untouched by the light’s power, causing them to fall to the ground like mortal weapons...
Only three-tenths of the treasures were unaffected by the Purple Rosy Light.
There were sets of parent-child flying swords, the mother sword’s power sealed directly by the Purple Rosy Light!
There was the Three-Thousand Refining Yin-Yang Hammer, struck down by the Purple Rosy Light!
There was the Nine Yin Soul-Snatching Banner, all nine banners feeding on female souls, swept down by the bewitching technique!
Pure Yang treasures were unaffected, but Yin-Yang mingled or purely Yin treasures couldn’t withstand the Purple Rosy Light’s sweep, sealing their Yin power!
Ning Fan took a deep breath, collected the numerous treasures and the Purple Rosy Light.
He confirmed one thing!
This Chaos World Purple Rosy Light was indeed a divine skill tailor-made for spirits like him!
With this divine skill, in future encounters, unless the opponent’s treasure is purely Yang and beyond his bewitching technique’s control range, they don’t even have the qualification to approach him. One glance would sweep them away by Chaos World Purple Rosy Light!
Divine skills are divided by Yin and Yang.
Puppets are also divided by Yin and Yang.
Formations have both Yin and Yang divisions.
Grass, trees, mountains, rivers—everything has distinctions of Yin and Yang.
Everything of Yin nature falls under the press of his Chaos World Purple Rosy Light! What a terrifying thing!
Unfortunately, Ancient Chaos Grand Emperor never achieved ancient divine spirithood nor possessed Communication with All Things, hence this divine skill in his hands couldn’t have had such terrifying power.
Therefore, renowned techniques of Ancient Chaos Grand Emperor included Yin-Yang Five Swords, Chaotic Heaven Finger, and Void Stripping Path, with bewitching techniques regarded as minor paths.
But Ning Fan was different!
This Chaos World Purple Rosy Light might gain fame in Ning Fan’s hands, shaking a generation!
Ning Fan rescinded the Purple Rosy Light that impacted the boundary, allowing it to close again, wiped away all traces of his invasion into the Tri-Flame, and vanished without a trace.
Two days later, within Hex Family’s territory on the Wood Flame Continent, a silver-haired guest with a ghostly face arrived.
Before entering Hex Family, this ghost-faced silver-haired guest slightly urged an Illusory Art, instantly changing his appearance to an ordinary middle-aged scholarly man.
The Tri-Flame consists of Stone Flame, Wood Flame, and Vacant Flame branches. Overall, Stone Flame is the strongest, Wood Flame second, Vacant Flame weakest. Yet, in terms of peak power, the strongest cultivator of Tri-Flame is the Vacant Flame’s master.
Wood Flame stands as a middling presence among the Tri-Flame powers.
Hex Family ranks among the top forces on the Wood Flame Continent and is renowned for alchemy.
Hex Family’s alchemy skills inherit entirely from Saint Nan Yao, carrying on one of his negative habits.
They enjoy testing pills on living beings, also recruiting cultivators externally to serve as the clan’s medicine slaves.
Every year, countless medicine slaves are drugged to death by Hex Family cultivators.
Strangely, the corpses of medicine slaves aren’t abandoned in the wild but are secretively disposed of, as to how it’s done, no outsider has seen.
It’s rumored that the Hex Family has a forbidden area dedicated to storing the corpses of medicine slaves...
Other rumors suggest Hex Family’s founder stole all the medicine slave bodies collected by Saint Nan Yao when he fell...
Annually, numerous Tri-Flame cultivators visit Hex Family, whether to seek pill refinement, apply to be medicine slaves, or... purchase stored corpses from Hex Family.
Occasionally, trouble brews, but with an Immortal Emperor in Hex Family, despite disturbances, the family remains unshaken.
An hour later, one of countless Hex Family managers began welcoming some of today’s guests in one of Hex Family’s tents.
This manager was named Hex Zuzi, with a cultivation level at the Initiate Realm of Shekong. He sat in the tent’s main seat, sipping Spiritual Tea, without raising his head, addressing the one or two dozen cultivators below.
"All of you came to apply as medicine slaves for Hex Family?"
"Yes," answered the guests with Destiny Immortal and Truth-Transcending Cultivation Level.
"Do you know the rules for hiring Medicine Slaves at our Hex Family?"
"I know. We don’t hire anyone who hasn’t reached the second step of cultivation. The higher the cultivation level, the higher the reward, but also the higher the risk. The salary is settled every three years, and the survival rate for Medicine Slaves is less than thirty percent. However, for the surviving thirty percent, the benefits are immense..."
"Since you already know, I won’t waste words. Take the pill before you, then I will take you to the next place to settle down. As a warning, we at Hex Family welcome those who sincerely come to be Medicine Slaves and thank you for your contribution to our family. However, if you’re a petty person coveting the secrets of Hex Family’s corpses, you will die from poisoning the moment you ingest the pill. If anyone harbors ill intentions, now is the time to leave."
As soon as Hex Zuzi finished speaking, the expressions of three people below changed slightly. After biting their teeth, they ultimately found an excuse to bid farewell and leave Hex Zuzi.
The remaining eighteen people then took the pill before them one after another. A stick of incense later, four people among the crowd suddenly spewed black blood and died.
The remaining people are those Hex Family can trust.
Another half stick of incense later, the cultivators who found excuses to leave earlier were brought back by Hex Family guards, carrying bloodied heads.
Seeing the scene, many cultivators applying for Medicine Slave changed their expressions slightly, while Hex Zuzi set down his tea bowl, clapped hands, and laughed.
"Not bad, out of twenty-one people, we can actually trust fourteen. Now, I announce that you are all hired by our Hex Family. For the next three years, you will be our Medicine Slaves. As long as you don’t harbor treacherous thoughts, our Hex Family won’t treat you unfairly."
Hex Zuzi stood up and approached the guests, beginning to inquire meticulously about their names and origins.
When he reached a middle-aged scholarly young man, he suddenly noticed a flash in the man’s left eye, as if it had never flickered.
Hex Zuzi shook his head, seemingly unaware of the change, and asked the middle-aged man amicably,
"How should I address you, young friend? Where did you previously work?"
"This junior is called Lu Bei. I used to cultivate on Standing Sky Mountain on Wood Flame Continent, as a Loose Cultivator," the middle-aged man replied.
"A Loose Cultivator, is it? Loose Cultivators are good, very good indeed. From today, you and the others will be organized into a Centurion unit, and you will be the Centurion of this unit."
"Yes."
Seeing that the middle-aged man was directly appointed as the Centurion simply for being a Loose Cultivator, several Hex Family cultivators with higher cultivation levels than the middle-aged man felt discontented but dared not challenge Hex Zuzi’s order, calculating their moves within.
Half a day later, this group of people was led by Hex Zuzi into a Hex Family’s top-secret space with restricted access, where each person had a separate house.
This space was divided into four regions using Great Divine Power, and the middle-aged man and others were taken to the outermost first region, where there were over ten thousand Medicine Slaves residing, all here for less than three years.
If one survives as a Medicine Slave for three years, they have two choices: take the reward and leave the Hex Family, or sign a thirty-year contract and enter the second region to continue being a Medicine Slave.
Of course, if some Medicine Slaves have special physiques, they can be given a special dispensation to advance directly to the second region...
"Hex Family, is it? Being so cautious even to find a Medicine Slave, it seems Burying Moon was right. The countless medicine corpses left behind by Saint Nan Yao might really be within this Hex Family..."
Within the secluded house, the middle-aged scholarly young man, originally sitting cross-legged in meditation, suddenly spoke aloud after sensing nearby probing spirit senses vanish.
He was no other than Ning Fan in disguise, infiltrating Hex Family.
He came here and applied as a Medicine Slave not for other reasons but precisely to find a fitting shelter for Burying Moon!
Hex Family is supervised by an Immortal Emperor. If he were to invade openly, it would be too difficult, but if he sneaks in quietly, even with an Immortal Emperor on guard, they might not detect Ning Fan’s secret actions.
"Hex Family’s Alchemy indeed has unique aspects. They even crafted a poison pill that detects spirit sense. Those cultivators harboring ill intentions towards Hex Family died after ingesting the pill, but such toxic power couldn’t harm my Divine Spirit, so it naturally couldn’t kill me..."
"The four regions of this space are all isolated by barriers, and the barrier levels are not low. Immortal Emperor-level Medicine Slave corpses seem to be stored in the deepest fourth region..."
"Now I have two choices: one is to use Chaos World Purple Rosy Light to find the location of the barrier Yin Array here and infiltrate it secretly; the other is to consume some potent poison pills, become a high-quality Medicine Slave, and step by step upgrade treatment to be dispatched by Hex Family to higher level regions..."
After much pondering, Ning Fan abandoned the idea of direct invasion.
He could vaguely sense a Sixth Calamity Immortal Emperor stationed in the fourth region, and if he broke the barrier using Chaos World Purple Rosy Light, it would inevitably cause some barrier fluctuations...
Being prudent is better; observe the situation before making a move.
While musing, footsteps were heard outside, followed by the door of Ning Fan’s house being abruptly kicked open.
"Hmph! You’re called Lu Bei, right? A mere Loose Cultivator, and you dare to wish to be our Centurion. I want to see what qualifies you to step on my head!"
It was a burly man at the Late Stage Enlightenment, accompanied by several others at Initial and Mid Stage Enlightenment, who came looking for trouble with Ning Fan.
These people came on menacingly, their expressions vicious and sinister.
Medicine Slaves at Hex Family are managed using an ancient military system, and a Centurion has certain privileges. For instance, moving freely within a small range in the dwelling, managing and punishing Medicine Slaves within the unit, and during pill testing for Hex Family, choosing the type of pills to be tested, avoiding danger...
If Ning Fan had come from a large family, they perhaps wouldn’t dare to offend him, but unfortunately, Ning Fan was merely a Loose Cultivator. So if they killed Ning Fan secretly, the Centurion position could be rightfully reassigned.
These individuals came targeting Ning Fan’s Centurion position!
Under his disguise as the middle-aged scholarly young man, Ning Fan had revealed cultivation at Mid Stage Enlightenment. To the burly man at Late Stage Enlightenment, this cultivation was insignificant, and since he had brought several Enlightenment-level helpers, he felt confident about dealing with Ning Fan.
He expected Ning Fan’s face to show anger or fear due to his arrival, but none of these emotions appeared on Ning Fan’s face.
All he saw in Ning Fan’s eyes was an ancient Xuan Ice-like coldness.
What an icy gaze it was!
What terrifying Evil Qi it was!
It seemed within this dwelling, before these few people, Ning Fan embodied Heavenly Dao and could replace it!
Just with a glint of the eyes, this burly man at Late Stage Enlightenment, along with his companions, was immediately intimidated by Ning Fan’s gaze, collapsing with trembling limbs, completely beyond self-control! The once arrogant, provocative words could no longer be uttered!
To possess such terrifying Evil Qi, how many must you have killed!
Seems even Immortal Venerables were slain!
Looks like Immortal Kings have been killed!
Possibly even Pinnacle Immortal Kings have been slain!
What’s the background of this Lu Bei!
He definitely can’t be a Mid Stage Enlightenment Loose Cultivator!
Could this person be an Immortal Emperor plotting against Hex Family? Yes! If not an Immortal Emperor, how could he have slain a Pinnacle Immortal King!
As these individuals felt near suffocation under Ning Fan’s gaze, Ning Fan’s aura suddenly receded, followed by a flash of Demon Light in his left eye.
Instantly, these Enlightenment-level individuals felt dizzy, their eyes filled with confusion, and then forgot the prior events, respectfully saluting Ning Fan, mended the kicked door, and left.
They had become enslaved under Ning Fan’s Illusory Art!
Just like Hex Zuzi at Shedding Void Stage, all were controlled by Ning Fan’s Illusory Art!
"Every Chou Hour, Hex Family cultivators in this realm provide Medicine Slaves with pills to be ingested, and as Centurion, one has certain privileges, such as choosing the type of ingested pills."
"To enter higher-level regions, merely being a Centurion-level Medicine Slave isn’t enough! Since that’s the case, I’ll ingest some lethal poison pills and quickly upgrade! This is how I can demonstrate the value of this physical defense!"
"Haha, the so-called Medicine Slaves are, in fact, just a scam by Hex Family. Survival rate of thirty percent, huh? Those who survive here are likely bodies Hex Family has no use for..."
Ning Fan’s eyes subtly narrowed.
Everything about Hex Family, with his intelligence, had already been seen through!
If the so-called Medicine Slaves are merely a scam, then he doesn’t mind using this scam in reverse to plot against Hex Family...