novelraw Chapter 597: Battle!
Chapter 597: Battle!
Butterfly Flame fans, all things turn to ash!
Ling Zhuzi is an old monster of Void Fragmentation realm, and Baili King is also an absolute powerhouse, yet both were injured by the Void Ignition Technique, their figures sorry-looking.
Ning Fan’s eyes burn with black flames, today he unleashed the Burning Butterfly Void Ignition Technique, its power is at least 30% stronger than usual!
The reason this technique can burn the void is due to the caster holding a strong obsession within, fusing the flame with the thought, burning the wings with the flame, and igniting the heavens with the wings!
The stronger the obsession, the greater the power of this technique’s void fire!
The closer to desperation, the more the state of mind resonates with this technique!
The butterfly burns its wings, struggles to shake the heavens, a hundred deaths without regret, a hundred battles without retreat!
At this moment, Ning Fan was first trapped in this realm by Void Inquiry Stage, then his state of mind was touched by the fate of Sunx Yu and other Living Puppets.
At the instant he unleashed the Butterfly Fire Technique, an obsession also ignited within his heart.
That obsession was to liberate all Living Puppets with a death!
That obsession was to break open the seal of this realm and battle against Void Inquiry Stage!
To fight for Sunx Yu, Baili, and other Living Puppets, to seek revenge for the Min Luo Race who died at Void Inquiry Stage’s hand ten thousand years ago!
"Void Ignition!"
Ning Fan’s finger technique flies like shadows, a giant butterfly on the long sky unfolds fire wings, aiming at Ling Zhuzi and Baili King, fanning the butterfly wings for a second, third, fourth time!
Above his head, black smoke instantly spreads throughout the sky, burning all void objects to ash, including clouds and fierce winds!
The fourth fan of butterfly fire, its fire power is enough to instantly kill the Return to Origin Grand Void Realm!
As smoke assaults the body, an astonished look surfaces in Ling Zhuzi’s vacant eyes, his figure flickers, turning into a giant bamboo form, transforming into a giant golden bamboo ten thousand feet tall.
This giant bamboo’s defensive form is considered unrivaled, Ling Zhuzi’s strongest defensive divine skill, even a First Heavenly Layer of Void Fragmentation Realm Strike cannot harm it.
But as the smoke arrives, this giant bamboo immediately ignites with skyward black fire, in a moment, it is burned to flying ash by the black fire!
With the form broken, Ling Zhuzi reveals his human form, a muffled groan, blood spilled as he retreats across the long sky, treading on void after void.
His dignified First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm cultivation, unleashing the strongest defensive technique, yet still severely wounded by the Void Ignition Technique!
Ling Zhuzi is severely wounded by the Void Ignition Technique, Baili King is even more desolate.
As smoke assaults the body, Baili King immediately senses a crisis of death, his body instinctively acts, a slap to his Tian Ling, from which fly out seven blood tiger shadows!
Every blood tiger holds Absolute Void Stage cultivation, each of the seven blood tigers sways their bodies, dissipating into tiger forms, transforming into seven layers of blood-colored radiance stretching a hundred miles, enclosing Baili King within the radiance.
That blood radiance defense is quite extraordinary, it can withstand the joint attack of seven Return to Origin Grand Void Realms, unbroken.
But as the smoke arrives, the seven layers of blood radiance are all ignited with black fire, burned to void by the black fire!
After breaking the seven layers of defense, smoke rolls towards Baili King, his body suddenly igniting with layers of black fire.
In the face of certain death, Baili King’s body suddenly falls towards the clouds, swaying into a giant blood-colored tiger ten thousand feet large.
The giant tiger’s body is covered with nearly enchanting blood-red symbols, but at this moment, those blood-red symbols are burned empty by the Void Ignition Flame.
As the symbols dissipate, the giant tiger lets out a roar of extreme pain, its body turning piece by piece into flying ash and disappearing.
As the flying ash disperses, the charred Baili King reappears on the long sky, clutching his chest, half-kneeling on the heavenly clouds, his breath weak, a hair’s breadth away from dying under the Void Ignition Technique.
Ling Zhuzi and Baili King are severely injured by Ning Fan, their expressions as dark as water, but beneath it is joy.
They await being killed by Ning Fan, wishing to escape from their Living Puppet bodies with death!
"Kill...kill me!"
Baili King’s face shows an expression of extreme pain.
He is a Living Puppet, he longs for liberation, he resents being manipulated by Void Inquiry Stage, he would rather die!
Ning Fan remains silent, his black-clothed figure suddenly scattering into countless dark shadows.
As the Void Ignition giant butterfly dissipates, the dark shadows overwhelm the dying Baili King!
The indifferent aura opens, Baili King’s body is twisted into pieces by layers of dark shadows, his lifeforce gradually slipping away, yet his gaze reveals a relieved expression.
"Thank you!"
Bang!
In the next moment, Baili King is twisted into fragments of flesh by layers of dark shadows, perishing under the Black Turbulent Separation Art...
"Farewell..."
The shadows reconverge, Ning Fan dressed in black reappears on the long sky.
At this moment, after repeatedly unleashing Void Ignition Technique and Black Turbulent Separation Art, his mana is greatly depleted.
Ten thousand feet away, Ling Zhuzi holds a golden dust whisk, his face pale, his injuries severe.
"Kill...me..."
Ling Zhuzi struggles to utter these words, yet his body transforms into an Escape Rainbow, charging towards Ning Fan with killing intent.
He is an old monster at the First Heavenly Layer of Void Fragmentation realm, even severely wounded by the Void Ignition Technique, he still holds strength that makes Void Refinement Realm cultivators flee in awe.
He flies and simultaneously raises the dust whisk, striking down at Ning Fan, stirring up golden radiance across the sky.
At this moment Ning Fan’s mana is lacking, difficult to unleash overly powerful techniques.
A slap to his storage pouch, he summons the Rain Sealing Pagoda, hoping to compete with Ling Zhuzi using magical treasure strength!
Circles of silver rain wheels resonate on the long sky, forming a giant silver ring.
Within the ring, countless rain arrows rise to the sky, colliding head-on with the golden radiance raining down.
Boom!
Golden radiance scatters, rain arrows extinguish, this round of collision, yet it’s a draw.
Ling Zhuzi suddenly halts the escape light, spitting out a golden lightning, instantly summoning countless thunders to fall.
That golden lightning carries an unstoppable edge, capable of travelling millions of miles in a flash, the power immense.
The long sky is split open by the extremely brilliant golden lightning, this lightning assaults too fast, as Ning Fan retracts the Rain Sealing Pagoda, unable to evade, the golden lightning pierces into his body.
The golden lightning rampages within, damaging his Dantian, organs, Veins, divine sense.
In just a moment, Ning Fan is severely injured, on his brow, three blood-red stars begin to flicker.
Underfoot, a giant blood-red lightning diagram suddenly appears!
"Refine!"
As the lightning diagram activates, the golden lightning rampaging within Ning Fan starts to dissolve and disintegrate, transforming into strands of golden lightning power flowing out of Ning Fan’s body, the lightning diagram devours it.
Though Ning Fan is injured by the lightning, after devouring it, his mana is somewhat restored.
Upon seeing Ning Fan withstand the golden lightning, Ling Zhuzi again raises the dust whisk, striking down on Ning Fan.
This time, Ning Fan neither dodges nor evades, channels immense strength to lift his palm to the sky, a towering fiery monument of ten thousand feet emerges in his palm.
After several clashes, Ling Zhuzi’s injuries were already extremely severe, and his aura began to weaken.
In contrast, although Ning Fan was also injured, these wounds were healing rapidly under the treatment of the Black Star Technique.
He suddenly threw the fiery, towering tablet, and it soared into the sky, displaying the light of the Sun and Moon, shattering Ling Zhuzi’s golden dust glow completely.
Ning Fan pointed with a finger, and the Stele of Sun and Moon flickered away, disappearing without a trace. The next moment, it appeared directly above Ling Zhuzi’s head!
The shadow of the stele split into ten, then a hundred, and instantly transformed into fifty giant blazing suns and cold moons, as if heralding the end of the world, all falling down and crashing towards Ling Zhuzi.
One Spirit Monument Technique, Sun Sinks Moon Falls!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The blazing suns and cold moons exploded, unleashing waves of destructive aura.
Ling Zhuzi, at his wits’ end, was struck by the Stele of Sun and Moon, spat blood, and fell from the sky, out of the range of the Sun and Moon shadows!
"Kill... me..."
Ling Zhuzi struggled to steady himself and pleaded once more. At this moment, his body could no longer mobilize any mana, making even a half-step movement impossible, presenting the perfect opportunity to end him.
Without needing Ling Zhuzi’s reminder, Ning Fan’s escape light flashed, and he appeared a thousand feet away from Ling Zhuzi.
He summoned the White Tiger Vambrace on his right arm, took a mighty step, and sent a punch from a thousand feet away, with his body following the white tiger’s fist radiance, shooting straight towards Ling Zhuzi.
Before the fist radiance reached Ling Zhuzi, Ning Fan unleashed a second fist radiance. The rear force and the front force merged into one and struck Ling Zhuzi’s chest.
Boom!
The fist radiance struck Ling Zhuzi’s body, and the resulting rebound force directly sent Ning Fan flying, with his fist bones bleeding profusely.
Ling Zhuzi, at the end of his tether, was hit twice by Ning Fan’s Divine Spirit Equipment, causing his chest to cave in deeply, shattering all his Veins, with his mana dissipated.
His flesh appeared like a withered tree, slowly drying up and aging.
His skin turned into bark, eventually peeling off piece by piece.
"Thank you..."
Ling Zhuzi sighed complexly, giving a salute to Ning Fan before his demise.
Throughout his life, he was devoted to the righteous path of the Profound Sect and hated demonesses, never bowing to any.
Ning Fan was the only demoness he was ever grateful to...
"Farewell!"
Ning Fan retracted the Divine Spirit Equipment into his body and returned the salute to Ling Zhuzi.
The next moment, Ling Zhuzi’s physical body perished, turning into ash and dissipating into the sky.
A generation of Void Fragmentation fell at the hands of Ning Fan...
From then on, Ning Fan single-handedly annihilated Ling Zhuzi, Baili King, Sunx Yu, and the others!
Ling Zhuzi was the first Void Fragmentation he had slain purely on his own strength!
This was fundamentally different from killing the bone emperor, who had fallen in the Void Fragmentation realm due to severe injuries.
Ning Fan swallowed several expensive pills, his gaze coldly swept towards the last person in the sky — Vine Hall Chief Alchemist Zhux Hong!
This person was not a Living Puppet; he was a subordinate of the Vine Emperor and could be considered a true enemy of Ning Fan!
Being eyed by Ning Fan, Zhux Hong’s face turned ashen.
He was merely a Xuan Yi Cultivator and had witnessed with his own eyes Ning Fan killing Ling Zhuzi and Baili King, knowing he was absolutely no match for Ning Fan.
He looked toward the distant Ancestral Bamboo Tree Demon, believing that only the tree demon could save him now in this Golden World.
Zhux Hong’s escape light flashed, attempting to flee towards the tree demon, but was pinned in mid-air by a casual point from Ning Fan.
"You are not a Living Puppet, so I should be able to perform a Soul Search on you and gather some intelligence from your memories."
Ning Fan’s escape light flashed, appearing indifferently in front of Zhux Hong, ignoring his horrified expression, and pressed his palm to Zhux Hong’s Tian Ling.
"How dare you! I am the Vine Hall Chief Alchemist, the most valued subordinate of the Vine Emperor. If you dare search my soul, the Vine Emperor will not let you off... Ah!"
Before Zhux Hong could finish his harsh words, he let out a miserable scream and fainted.
Ning Fan showed no mercy to Zhux Hong, directly destroying this soul remnant after the Soul Search, and pointed out a void sword ray, exterminating Zhux Hong.
Through Zhux Hong’s memories, Ning Fan learned many secrets of the Vine Hall and learned of the Vine Emperor’s full plan to overthrow the Bamboo Hall!
He then realized that the likes of Void Inquiry Stage and others who descended upon Eastern Tree Ocean were not there to hunt him but had long plotted against Bamboo Hall.
Raising his gaze, Ning Fan looked toward the distant battlefield where the tree demon of the Third Stage of Shattered Void was fighting Teng Xianrou and the heavenly tribulation puppet.
This Ancestral Bamboo Tree Demon had fallen as one of Void Inquiry’s Living Puppets, with no chance of restoration.
Although the Bamboo Sovereign had asked Ning Fan to heal Ancestral Bamboo, it was clear that Ancestral Bamboo was beyond saving...
The Ancestral Bamboo, reduced to a Living Puppet, was living a fate worse than death.
Ning Fan’s gaze was decisive; the only way to free this Ancestral Bamboo was to slay it.
With Ning Fan’s cultivation, even employing the burning butterfly technique, it was insufficient to destroy the tree demon of the Third Stage of Shattered Void.
Though Teng Xianrou and the heavenly tribulation puppet could manage to restrain the tree demon, it would be extremely difficult for them to kill the demon.
"If I utilize the power of the five rays of sword light and wield the Emperor Xia’s Sword, I might have a decent chance of slaying Ancestral Bamboo... but with my current cultivation, after one slash, my mana would be exhausted, requiring a long time to recover... Given the current situation, I must rely on the power of the Emperor Xia’s Sword to eliminate the Ancestral Bamboo Tree Spirit."
Ning Fan placed his palm on the sword pouch, preparing to summon the five rays of sword light and Emperor Xia’s Sword.
Just then, a bloodthirsty roar echoed from within the Bamboo Realm, forcefully piercing into this golden world created by the Sealing Skill.
That roar was filled with the joy of liberation, issued by a Nieli of the Void Fragmentation Realm’s Third Heavenly Layer!
Inside the Bamboo Realm, Void Inquiry Stage had successfully broken open a gap in the Bamboo Realm’s formation array, unsealing the first Fierce Beast, Nieli!
This Nieli seemed to sense the presence of a member of the Fu Li Race nearby, with its roar expressing boundless hostility.
This was a Nieli at odds with the Fu Li Race!
This Nieli’s cry was distinct from the plaintive cry Ning Fan had previously heard!
The unsealing roar of the first Nieli was exceptionally sharp, piercing through the Bamboo Realm, audible across the vast ten billion miles of Muye Kingdom!
As the roar reached above the Jishui River, the Vine Emperor and the masters of Vine Hall rejoiced with delight.
In contrast, Emperor Liu and Bamboo Sovereign’s expressions darkened instantly.
Particularly the Bamboo Sovereign was deeply shocked and furious after deducing from the roar the enormous upheaval in the Bamboo Realm, exclaiming, "The Fierce Beast Nieli, suppressed within the Bamboo Realm, has broken the seal and emerged!"
"Good! Good! Good! My spirit sense has successfully unsealed the first Nieli! When all four Nieli are unsealed, it will be the moment of your demise, Bamboo and Willow Emperors!"
Void Inquiry Stage’s remaining ten spirit senses all laughed triumphantly, full of self-satisfaction.
The appearance of Liu Haoyue took Vine Emperor and Void Inquiry Stage by surprise.
But with Nieli aiding them, even if Liu Haoyue were present, it would be impossible to oppose the Vine Hall!
"Today, with Nieli unleashed, no one can save the Bamboo Hall!" The Vine Emperor sneered with disdain. (To be continued. If you like this work, feel free to visit Qidian (qidian.com) and vote with your recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)