novelraw Chapter 570: Weapon-Flame Finger Technique
Chapter 570: Weapon-Flame Finger Technique
The towering ancient trees within a million miles transformed into millions of Golden Armored Wooden Soldiers.
Ning Fan recalled the Rain Sealing Pagoda, raised the black wooden token high, and rapidly formed seals with ten fingers, the afterimages flying swiftly.
In the distance, five Sword Spirits were already engaged in a battle with the Flute-playing Tree King, moving further as they fought.
On this side, the Ax-wielding Tree King looked incredulously at Ning Fan, and when his gaze fell upon the black wooden token, a trace of fear unexpectedly appeared in his eyes.
He had heard of this black wooden token!
The Ax-wielding Tree King was a member of the Ghost Wood Clan, which was once a major clan in the Tree World but was wiped out by the Ming Luo Clan long ago, leading to its decline.
In the prosperous years of the Ming Luo Clan, this black wooden token had another name—the Tree Emperor’s Command!
It was rumored that any master holding the black wooden token would exude an unparalleled imperial pressure during battles with wooden masters, making it difficult for the wooden masters to resist.
After Ning Fan took out the black wooden token, the Ax-wielding Tree King felt a wave of apprehension as the wooden attribute mana within him became somewhat sluggish.
He was absolutely sure that the token Ning Fan wielded was the black wooden token!
The irresistible imperial pressure emanated thread by thread from the token, without a doubt!
In those times, the Tree World did not have only one Tree Emperor of the Ming Luo Clan, but the Mingluo Tree Emperor was the strongest, dominating the Tree World, always leading the other tree emperor forces.
The strongest divine skills of all the past Mingluo Tree Emperors were mostly related to the black wooden token, requiring the cultivation of sovereign qi and the use of the black wooden token to perform spells.
According to rumors, this black wooden token had long disappeared with the last Mingluo Tree Emperor. Why did it appear here?!
The Ax-wielding Tree King was too shocked, and even more so when he saw Ning Fan summoning the wooden soldiers with a command.
The towering ancient trees turned into Golden Armored Wooden Soldiers, the lowest being Golden Core cultivations!
With just one spell, about five million Golden Armored Wooden Soldiers were summoned!
"This is a spell to destroy nations! A single spell summoning five million wooden soldiers, just relying on these five million wooden soldiers is enough to destroy a country!" The Ax-wielding Tree King’s mind was in tumult.
When he saw Ning Fan perform another divine skill, he was even more shocked.
But then Ning Fan suddenly bent his palm and summoned the black wooden token into his sleeve.
Immediately, he bit off his pinky, offering the bone which turned into countless fragments scattered on the ground.
In the next moment, the pinky regenerated, and on the ground appeared six million Bone Armored Demon Soldiers!
Five million Golden Armored Wooden Soldiers, six million Bone Armored Demon Soldiers!
After performing two spells, Ning Fan’s mana was significantly depleted, yet he summoned a total of 11 million Golden Core puppet soldiers!
At this moment, Ning Fan was enveloped by a golden dragon illusion, all of which were sovereign qi!
The young girl in green on the ground, named Qingdai, stared at Ning Fan blankly, her bright eyes full of disbelief.
At this moment, Ning Fan’s sovereign qi was manifest, standing in the night sky like a dazzling golden sun.
He stood in the void like a sovereign descending, beneath him were 11 million submissive soldiers!
He came wielding the black wooden token, claiming to be the current Tree Emperor of the Ming Luo Clan, appearing to protect the Ming Luo Clan...
He looked three parts handsome, seven parts graceful. His slanted brows reached his temples, his black eyes carried an emperor’s majesty, yet were calm like a deep, unfathomable pool.
At this moment, he transformed into a black-clad figure, his long black hair reaching his waist, dancing wildly in the night wind, a strange pattern on his left face, and an indescribable demonic charm surrounding him.
"Is he truly the current Tree Emperor of the Ming Luo Clan... What kind of person is he really..."
"I attempted to assassinate him, yet he protected me..."
Ning Fan did not spare Qingdai a glance, his reason for protecting this young girl was merely to repay the kindness of the Treant Ming Luo.
At this moment, Ning Fan’s mind was wholly immersed in the two spells.
He had performed the Crushed Bone Soldiers spell many times before but never had he experienced such profound mystery as today.
At this very moment, as he simultaneously performed All Grass and Trees as Soldiers and Crushed Bone Soldiers, he gained some insights through comparison.
This insight was unprecedented!
The All Grass and Trees as Soldiers spell, where the grass and trees truly exist, the wooden soldiers are false lives.
The Crushed Bone Soldiers spell, where finger bones truly exist, the bone soldiers are false lives.
Both the All Grass and Trees as Soldiers and Crushed Bone Soldiers contain the ultimate principle of transforming reality into illusion.
Transforming reality into illusion is already considered an insight into the Great Void Sect, the power of these two spells is closely related to insight into the word ’void’.
The wooden soldiers and bone soldiers summoned by Ning Fan only have Golden Core cultivations, but if his insight into the void word elevates to a higher realm, the power of these two spells will surely increase...
Currently, the wooden soldiers and bone soldiers he summons are at the Golden Core cultivation.
With the elevation of his understanding of the void word, one day, the soldiers he summons will upgrade to Nascent Soul cultivations, or even higher...
He just does not know if the insight into the Great Void Sect would be sufficient to summon Nascent Soul puppet soldiers.
Or, perhaps, only by reaching the level of shattering the void with the insight into the void word can he summon Nascent Soul puppet soldiers...
"In the Rain Immortal World, Nascent Soul cultivators do not exceed 5 million, if I use two spells to summon 11 million Nascent Soul puppet soldiers, perhaps with just these two spells, I could sweep through an entire realm..."
Ning Fan lifted his gaze, looking towards the distant Ax-wielding Tree King.
His eyes gradually revealed a trace of madness, the reason he summoned 11 million puppet soldiers was to deliver a devastating blow to the Ax-wielding Tree King!
He intended to make all summoned puppet soldiers self-destruct, using the force of the self-destruction to severely wound the Ax-wielding Tree King!
million Golden Core self-destructions would injure even a Return to Origin Grand Void Realm!
"Ignite!"
Ning Fan’s seals changed, and all 11 million puppet soldiers were engulfed in golden flames!
These puppets soared into the air, their bodies burning quickly.
They were dead objects, obeying Ning Fan’s orders, fearlessly rushing towards the Ax-wielding Tree King, all to harm the Tree King through their deaths.
The Ax-wielding Tree King was stunned, he initially wondered why Ning Fan summoned so many puppet soldiers.
One must know that although there were many puppet soldiers, their cultivations were too low, each only at the Golden Core stage, of little use in a Great Void Sect battle.
But at this moment, the Ax-wielding Tree King understood Ning Fan’s purpose in summoning puppet soldiers, upon seeing the puppets self-ignite, he immediately deduced that Ning Fan intended to detonate the puppets, such great anger almost made him curse out loud.
"Madman!"
Watching the swarm of puppet soldiers surging into the night sky and surrounding him, the Ax-wielding Tree King felt his scalp tingle.
He wanted to move and flee, but was blocked by puppet soldiers all around, and the night sky for thousands of miles was swarming with puppet soldiers like a locust plague.
The Ax-wielding Tree King swept with his giant axe, each swing slicing through the long sky, killing tens of thousands of Golden Core puppet soldiers.
But there were too many puppet soldiers, with a few swings only eliminating less than 300,000, unable to break through a path of escape.
As Ning Fan’s seals changed again, the countless puppet soldiers at this moment were about to self-destruct!
The Ax-wielding Tree King’s eyes shook violently, his mind slightly chaotic. He calculated that if he bore the force of 11 million Golden Core self-destructions directly, he would certainly perish!
He was a Return to Origin Grand Void, having vaguely touched upon Creating a heavenly dwelling space with a wave of his hand’s divine skills, changed his seals immediately, creating a Cauldron Ring light gate in front of him, stepping into the gate, hiding inside the Immortal Abode’s Magical Treasure.
The Ax-wielding Tree King knew well that the force from the self-destruction of 11 million Golden Cores could even blast the Immortal Abode’s Magical Treasure into ash.
He chose to escape into the Immortal Abode’s Magical Treasure, hoping to use the spatial barrier of the space to block some of the force from the self-explosion.
Once inside, the Axe-wielding Tree King immediately patted his storage pouch, took out seven Mortal Void Array Plates, and opened the Sevenfold Mortal Void Great Formation to strengthen the defense of the space.
At the same time, his form shook, transforming into his true form, a giant tree nine thousand zhang tall.
He was of the Ghost Wood Clan, and his tree form’s defense was exceptionally strong, making it virtually impervious to attacks, even from a Void Pierce Stage assault.
All his defenses were completed in an instant.
As he transformed into his original form, outside in the night sky, thousands of puppet soldiers roared in unison and self-exploded!
"Shatter the myriad soldiers, transform into the Finger of the Fiendgod!" the thousands of puppet soldiers shouted in unison!
These thousands of puppet soldiers, whether wooden or bone, were all transformed by Ning Fan’s spell.
They had no spirit awareness and couldn’t think, with only one thought in their hearts, to fight for Ning Fan from the moment of their creation until death!
As the million Golden Core puppet soldiers self-exploded simultaneously, they unleashed a terrifying golden storm in the night sky!
Within this golden storm in the night sky, a massive golden finger, a thousand zhang long, suddenly appeared, absorbing all the explosive energy into itself as the storm gradually subsided!
How did that golden finger appear? Ning Fan had no idea!
A profound, ancient aura emanated from the golden finger, and even Ning Fan was momentarily breathless under its presence!
Ning Fan stared at the golden finger in shock, its appearance obviously beyond his expectations.
His purpose in using the All Grass and Trees as Soldiers and Crushed Bones Turn into Soldiers techniques was to make the myriad puppet soldiers self-explode simultaneously.
Even Ning Fan did not know that simultaneous self-explosion could trigger another Ancient Chaos Grand Emperor’s divine skill.
"This is... the lost divine skill of the Fiendgods... ’Weapon-Flame Finger Technique’!!! This is the first time I’ve seen someone actually perform this divine skill!" Luo You from the Mysterious Yin Realm exclaimed without her voice.
Both Crushed Bones Turn into Soldiers and Weapon-Flame Finger Technique are divine skills of the Fiendgods, with the former occasionally performed by someone, but the latter rarely ever performed...
Even with Luo You’s past experience as a True Immortal, she had never seen anyone perform the Weapon-Flame Finger Technique divine skill.
Today, she realized that to perform the so-called Weapon-Flame Finger Technique, one must first summon ten million puppet soldiers through Crushed Bones Turn into Soldiers, and then have the soldiers self-immolate and self-explode to unleash it!
Even Moksha Emperor could only summon one hundred thousand puppet soldiers using Crushed Bones Turn into Soldiers.
Even among True Immortals above the Four Heavens, none could summon ten million puppet soldiers through crushed bones.
Without summoning ten million puppet soldiers, the prerequisites to perform the Weapon-Flame Finger Technique could not be met!
Ning Fan had learned the complete Crushed Bones Turn into Soldiers from Immortal Emperor Mo Zhong and used the black wooden token to perform the Ming Luo Tree Clan’s All Grass and Trees as Soldiers technique.
He had summoned enough puppet soldiers to reach ten million, and when they self-exploded, they unexpectedly triggered the divine skill of the Weapon-Flame Finger Technique!
"Weapon-Flame... becomes the Finger!"
Ning Fan halted his spirit sense and gazed heatedly at the colossal golden finger in the night sky.
The thousand-zhang golden finger was transformed from the self-explosion of ten million puppet soldiers into the Finger of the Fiendgod!
Could the self-explosion of thousands of puppets truly trigger such a terrifying divine skill?
The current incarnation of the Finger of the Fiendgod from exploding a million Golden Cores already revealed a single-finger’s power equivalent to the First Heavenly Layer of the Nirvana Body Refinement Realm!
If Void Realm perception were to ascend to its peak level, who knows what devastating power would emerge from summoning a thousand Nascent Soul self-explosions...
And Ning Fan also had other insights; Crushed Bones Turn into Soldiers, Crushed Thousands of Soldiers, Return the Finger... within these, there seemed to lie an inexplicable mystery, which he couldn’t yet comprehend...
The thousand-zhang golden finger shone brightly like the sun, standing out in the night sky.
The golden finger pressed toward the Immortal Abode’s Magical Treasure where the Axe-wielding Tree King was hiding, and it couldn’t withstand the power of the Finger of the Fiendgod, shattering with a boom!
The Axe-wielding Tree King, who was hiding in the space, appeared in the night sky as the space shattered.
He looked at the colossal golden finger in the night sky, suddenly perplexed and bewildered.
"What is this golden finger... Wasn’t that child self-exploding ten million puppet soldiers? Why aren’t there any self-explosion waves, but instead a golden finger appears... This isn’t good!"
Though the Axe-wielding Tree King didn’t know where the golden finger came from, he felt an annihilating power emanating from it.
Having already transformed into the original form of the Ghost Wood Clan, a tree nine thousand zhang tall, with extremely strong defenses.
He was also protected by the sevenfold Mortal Void Great Formation, yet he felt no sense of safety.
Faced with this thousand-zhang golden finger, the Axe-wielding Tree King felt a false sense of facing not merely a golden finger, but an ancient Fiendgod overshadowing the heavens and earth!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The golden finger pressed on the sevenfold Mortal Void Grade formation light, shattering all of them!
The golden finger pressed down on the colossal tree body of the Axe-wielding Tree King, causing the tree body to tremble slightly.
The Tree King’s giant tree form was incredibly tough, impervious even to ordinary Void attacks, and while the golden finger was formidable, it could not easily break through the tree’s defenses.
But as time passed, the bark of the giant tree slowly shattered, turning to ash under the pressure of the finger’s force.
The golden finger’s power gradually depleted, but before it fully dissipated, it managed to cleave the giant tree in half!
As the giant tree split, the scattering finger force exploded outward, leveling the forest within a million li into flat ground!
Splurt!
The Axe-wielding Tree King coughed up blood wildly, his tree form crushed by the single strike of the golden finger, reverting him back to human form.
His face turned ashen like gold paper, severely injured, with his chest’s black armor shattered, and he retreated hundreds of steps in the night sky before finally stabilizing his stance, eyes filled with fear.
"What a terrifying golden finger! Even the finger force of a Nirvana Body cultivator is nothing compared!"
He had hidden in the Immortal Abode’s Magical Treasure, opened the sevenfold Mortal Void Grade formation light, and taken on his giant tree form, yet the golden finger still gravely wounded him...
The power of this finger was too terrifying!
Nirvana Finger...
Ning Fan descended from the sky just in time, blocking the residual waves of the clash from reaching Qingdai.
His expression was complex, having unexpectedly triggered the divine skill of the Weapon-Flame Finger Technique...
Before, though confident that the self-explosion of ten million puppets could injure the Axe-wielding Tree King, he didn’t believe that the self-explosion of a million Golden Cores would gravely injure the Tree King.
But once the self-explosive force transformed into the Finger of the Fiendgod, its power was suddenly amplified, and the Tree King was directly gravely injured.
"Now my strongest divine skills, in addition to the Void Ignition Technique and Sun Moon Monument Technique, have another, the Weapon-Flame Finger Technique!"
"Yet even with these three techniques, there’s no assurance of defeating a Return to Origin Grand Void... The strength difference between Void Refinement Realm experts after Returning to Origin and those who haven’t is like the difference between clouds and mud!"
He glanced around and, seeing Qingdai’s eyes filled with shock yet unharmed, felt slightly relieved.
He flew back into the sky, confronting the Axe-wielding Tree King once more.
"You are strong! Transformation, Soul Extraction, Sovereign Qi... if I’m not mistaken, you’ve mastered all of the Shattered Void Triple Technique, no wonder you can match the strength of a Return to Origin Grand Void with mere Void Inquiry Stage... But you’re still not a match for us Return to Origin Grand Void experts!"
The Axe-wielding Tree King’s mind gradually calmed, his eyes slowly gleaming with vicious light.
He decided to use his strongest divine skill to annihilate Ning Fan, not giving him another opportunity to use the golden finger! (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, feel free to vote for it on qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)