Grasping the Evil

Chapter 603: Mourning Ancient Heaven-Piercing Jade

In the boundless void, a silver-haired giant thousands of feet tall was desperately fleeing through the air, each step spanning millions of miles.

Behind him, a black-clothed youth stood on a massive Nine-Headed Nieli with purple eyes and black feathers, coldly pursuing the silver-haired giant.

The purple-eyed Nieli occasionally unleashed a black mist, and if it hit the silver-haired giant, it would inflict some injuries on him.

The silver-haired giant grew increasingly alarmed in his heart; the power of this purple-eyed Nieli was beyond his imagination.

"Lu Bei! Stop pursuing me anymore, or if you push me to desperation, don’t blame me for perishing together with you!" the silver-haired giant shouted as he fled.

"Noisy!"

Ning Fan snorted coldly and then ordered the purple-eyed Nieli to launch a more ferocious attack.

More black mist swept towards the silver-haired giant, forming a giant hand glowing with an ominous light, clawing towards the giant.

"Ah!"

With a single grab from the glowing claw, the giant screamed miserably and fell from the void, spiraling into the endless abyss of the void.

This strike inflicted not only severe injuries but also imbued him with an overly ominous aura, significantly corrupting his fortune!

Despite being an old monster of the Void Fragmentation realm, many of whom had cultivated purple fortune, though his fortune wasn’t purple, it was infinitely close to it from a life of slaughter.

But struck by this black misted claw, his fortune was immediately contaminated heavily, and it began to plummet.

"What kind of divine skill is this! It can even corrupt one’s fortune!"

The silver-haired giant struggled to stabilize his position, halting his descent, consumed a pill, and forcibly suppressed his injuries.

In this brief interval, Ning Fan had already, riding the purple-eyed Nieli, blocked the giant’s path, coldly stating.

"I told you, you cannot escape!"

The giant’s heart sank. He knew that if he kept running, he truly wouldn’t be able to escape Ning Fan’s pursuit.

Only by fighting Ning Fan with all his might could he possibly find life in a dead end.

"Lu Bei! My true self has learned from the memories of the Divinity Transformation that you possess the highest secret technique of the Lamenting Deceased Clan—the Hei Yue Shen Tong! ’Grievance Technique, unmatched in the world; encounter the Black Moon, and resisting means annihilation.’ Certainly, your Hei Yue Shen Tong is extremely powerful, capturing the Crushed Five Nieli with this technique and hunting me down with it...but let me tell you, don’t push me or you’ll regret it! If you let me go, then I will..."

Though he seemed to be negotiating with Ning Fan, before finishing his words, he abruptly paused, a flash of viciousness flickering in his eyes.

At that moment, a silver dimensional light gate suddenly appeared beneath Ning Fan and the purple-eyed Nieli.

As soon as the dimensional light gate appeared, countless living puppets surged out, launching a deadly assault on Ning Fan.

Among these living puppets were not only a White Bone Nie Li and a Nine-Headed Nieli but also three Void Fragmentation cultivator puppets and nearly a hundred Void Refinement puppets.

Between the Divine Transformation Realm and Golden Core, there were millions of puppets!

This was a personal Immortal Abode’s Magical Treasure crafted by Void Inquiry Stage to store puppets.

Upon reaching the Void Fragmentation realm, many old monsters loved crafting Immortal Abode spaces to store important things.

Regarding the silver-haired giant’s ambush, Ning Fan showed no hint of surprise, having long prepared for it.

The only thing that slightly surprised him was that among the three First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm puppets, there was a familiar face...Fusang Old Demon.

From the Fusang Clan, Ning Fan had learned that the Fusang Old Demon was ambushed by a mysterious Void Fragmentation cultivator and killed, his corpse whereabouts unknown thereafter.

Unexpectedly, the Fusang Old Demon’s body fell into the hands of the silver-haired giant, who turned it into a puppet.

Clearly, the person who attacked Fusang Old Demon was undoubtedly Void Inquiry Stage.

"Eliminate all but that black-robed elder!" Ning Fan instructed the purple-eyed Nieli.

"Squawk—" the purple-eyed Nieli responded, chirping obediently.

In the face of the puppet surprise attack, the purple-eyed Nieli’s eyes expressed deep disdain.

She opened her massive beak unhurriedly, forming a void vortex in her mouth, swallowing the millions of puppets in a single gulp, utterly annihilating them!

She devoured a million beings in a single bite!

At the same time, she swept out layers of black mist, turning the hundred Void Refinement puppets into ash, annihilating two out of the three living puppets of the First Heavenly Layer, sparing only Fusang Old Demon.

While the two Nieli puppets that ambushed Ning Fan were repelled by the mist, their wounds deepening.

As for Fusang Old Demon’s puppet, it was wrapped by rings of purple-black light from the purple-eyed Nieli, binding him tightly, leaving him to be dealt with by Ning Fan.

Ning Fan extended his hand, pulling the bound Fusang Old Demon puppet before him, their eyes locking as Ning Fan sighed slightly.

From Fusang Old Demon’s eyes, Ning Fan detected a look of utter despair.

"Kill...me..." Fusang Old Demon pleaded.

Although Fusang Old Demon had already fallen, because his corpse was turned into a puppet by Void Inquiry Stage, he ’resurrected’ in a puppet body.

He could still retain awareness, able to think like a living person.

But he could no longer control his own body, only able to obey Void Inquiry Stage’s commands.

Since parting from Ju Mang Country, he had never seen Ning Fan again, unable to conceive that Ning Fan had grown so capable, possessing a terrifying spirit pet that could swallow millions of beings in an instant and slay Void Fragmentation cultivators.

The current Ning Fan, with the Immemorial Fu Li’s Demon Bloodline soaring within him, seemed unattainable to Fusang Old Demon.

Fusang Old Demon sought nothing but death, pleading for Ning Fan to end his fate as a puppet, granting him release.

Once one becomes a Living Puppet of the Void Inquiry Stage, there is no chance of being revived, and after death, there is no entering reincarnation.

If the Void Inquiry Stage falls, then all Living Puppets will also be buried with it, a certain death...

"Senior Fusang, I owe you a favor that I have yet to repay. Today, I’ll grant you relief from this burden. After your death, I will collect your ashes and return them to the Fusang Clan..."

"Thank... you..." The Fusang Old Demon felt a wave of relief but also a hint of melancholy.

"Safe journey!"

Ning Fan raised his finger, gathering a strand of void sword light and pointed at the top of the Fusang Old Demon’s head.

The void sword light pierced into the Fusang Old Demon’s head, immediately wreaking havoc within, ultimately destroying his spiritual puppet body entirely.

Moments later, the Fusang Old Demon’s body shattered into innumerable ashes, and these ashes were collected one by one into a jade box by Ning Fan, who planned to return them to the Fusang Clan afterward.

This way, he had repaid the Fusang Clan’s favor, and henceforth, they owed nothing to each other.

"On the battlefield, everything changes in an instant, and you still have the leisure to collect a friend’s ashes. How laughable!"

The silver-haired giant laughed heartily and led the final two Nieli Puppets to attack Ning Fan from three directions.

Ning Fan buried the Fusang Old Demon and collected his ashes in just the span of a moment.

The silver-haired giant wasn’t wrong; on the battlefield, even a moment’s distraction could lead to unimaginably tragic consequences.

However, the silver-haired giant overlooked one thing.

Whether Ning Fan was distracted or not was inconsequential; after all, it was the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend who was vigilantly watching the silver-haired giant’s movements.

Moreover, Ning Fan wasn’t actually distracted; as he collected the Fusang Old Demon’s ashes, he was also monitoring the silver-haired giant’s actions.

Taking advantage of Ning Fan’s ’distraction’, the silver-haired giant and the two Living Nieli Puppets launched an attack together.

The White Bone Nie Li flapped its wings, scattering countless white bone rains.

The Nine-Headed Nieli spewed out nine icy lights, forming nine icebergs, once again crashing down onto Ning Fan.

The silver-haired giant was surrounded by endless Nirvana Qi, a unique divine skill of Nirvana Body Cultivation.

Under the enhancement of Nirvana Qi, the silver-haired giant’s body emitted a glazed luster, exuding a heavy aura.

That aura carried the force of the Heavenly Dao; so-called Nirvana cultivators refine their bodies by merging with the Heavenly Force and Dao Power!

"Void Technique, Heavenly Dao Fist!"

At this moment, the silver-haired giant waved his fist, carrying traces of Heavenly Dao’s might!

As his fist was waved, the void within five million miles shook violently!

One punch, ten punches, a hundred punches... in a brief instant, the silver-haired giant launched a hundred punches at Ning Fan!

Such a terrifying rain of punches was not easy for even the Vine Emperor and others to withstand.

Ning Fan frowned, his right eye, the devil star, flashing and spinning rapidly, instantly copying the silver-haired giant’s Heavenly Dao fist technique; with hard practice in the future, he could master this art.

This Heavenly Dao Fist had mysterious elements, a mid-grade Immortal Void physical divine skill, capable of merging Heavenly Dao power into Nirvana Qi, making its power astonishing.

However, this technique seemed to be somewhat exaggerated. Even at its best, this technique only fused one layer of the lower realm’s Heavenly Dao power, not incorporating the higher level Heavenly Dao power.

To name it after the Heavenly Dao seems a bit exaggerated.

While Ning Fan was learning the Heavenly Dao fist technique freely, the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend swept out countless layers of black glow, directly sweeping away the two Living Nieli Puppets and breaking all their divine skills.

The glow swept towards the Heavenly Dao fist light, extinguishing each one.

Perhaps the silver-haired giant’s divine skill borrowed the Heavenly Dao’s power, but the Fu Li race were once the overseers of the Heavenly Dao, using ways to suppress the Heavenly Dao’s power!

What is the Heavenly Dao again? In ancient times, it was merely a subordinate of the Fu Li!

Boom!

Each broken fist light’s counterforce caused the silver-haired giant to retreat rapidly through the void.

Within mere moments, a hundred fist lights were all shattered, and the silver-haired giant showed a look of shock!

This Heavenly Dao Fist was an ancient body technique he stumbled upon; it could attack enemies by borrowing the Heavenly Dao’s power, with formidable strength.

Such a powerful divine skill was effortlessly resolved by the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend, which truly left him unable to accept!

This Heavenly Dao Fist was his strongest divine skill, and if even this skill couldn’t harm the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend and Ning Fan, he had only one last trump card that might kill Ning Fan...

"I didn’t originally want to use this, but now I can’t care too much... the Mourning Ancient Heaven-Piercing Jade... it was this jade that gave me the opportunity to condense the Mourning Demonic Bloodline, and cultivate the Living Puppet Art..."

"If this jade unfolds its power, Lu Bei will die! I didn’t want to use this jade, but now I can’t care about anything else!"

"Lu Bei, you forced me to do this!"

The silver-haired giant showed a look of resentment, curled his hand, and suddenly a piece of ancient jade appeared in his palm.

Activating the power of the ancient jade needed some time, and this time, he would let the two Living Nieli Puppets delay!

"At all costs, delay Lu Bei for ten breaths, after ten breaths, the old man shall have a way to kill him instantly!"

"Sreechh—" The two Living Nieli Puppets dared not disobey, rushing towards Ning Fan at all costs! (To be continued. If you like this work, you’re welcome to vote for it on Qidian (qidian.com), your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)