Grasping the Evil

Chapter 607: Yuan (Part 1)

Ning Fan’s gaze swept over the mountain-like piles of heavenly materials and earthly treasures within the Cauldron Ring.

Some of these treasures had been transported from the secret land of the Vine Hall, while others were seized after extinguishing the remnants of the Vine Hall’s forces.

In front of Ning Fan, there were four hundred mountains of immortal jade, each composed of ten billion pieces!

There was also a small mountain made of Dao Crystals, approximately two hundred thousand in total!

This was the immense wealth that the Vine Emperor had amassed for the Masters of one hall, and now this fortune belonged to Ning Fan!

All of the secret techniques and Cultivation Techniques of the Vine Hall were displayed on a thousand jade shelves.

All the spiritual medicines and roots of the Vine Hall filled a hundred pharmacies and spiritual fields.

All the expensive pills and jade bottles of the Vine Hall filled one hundred thousand jade boxes.

Among this batch of expensive pills, there were even three high-grade Seventh Turn Healing Pills. Named ’Flow Immortal Pill,’ they were revered healing sacred pills from the Four Heaven’s immortal worlds...

"The foundation of the Vine Hall is indeed very rich. With these pills, Little Black’s injuries will be of no concern." Ning Fan smiled lightly.

The puppets, magical treasures, and spirit equipment... the soaring brilliance of the treasures caused numerous clouds of precious lights to appear in the sky above the Cauldron Ring.

Ning Fan’s gaze brushed over those magical treasures and spirit equipment, unexpectedly finding many whose powers were not weak, which stirred his interest greatly.

Yet Ning Fan still turned his eyes away, concentrating all his attention on a towering ancient vine tree beneath.

That ancient vine tree was quite similar to the Ancestral Bamboo of Bamboo Hall; within its trunk might have once been a tree spirit, around the cultivation of turning broken bones into soldiers or Second Heavenly Layer of Void Fragmentation, but this tree spirit had already been killed.

Liu Haoyue, his gaze similarly fiery, looked at the ancient vine tree and explained to Ning Fan,

"This is the sacred tree of the Vine Hall — the Ancestral Vine of Calming Origin. Originally, there was a Second Heavenly Layer tree spirit within this Ancestral Vine, a die-hard remnant loyal to the Vine Hall, which I personally killed."

"The fruit of the Ancestral Bamboo in Bamboo Hall can enhance a Master’s Divine Intent strength. The fruit of the Ancestral Vine in Vine Hall, however, can substantially enhance a Master’s spirit sense. If one were to consume the entire Ancestral Vine, it would immensely benefit the enhancement of a Master’s spirit sense. If I were to consume this Ancestral Vine, my spirit sense would directly increase by one small realm, reaching the level of the Sixth Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm. However, since the Vine Emperor was slain by Brother Lu, this Ancestral Vine should belong to Brother Lu. If Brother Lu consumes this Ancestral Vine, even if his cultivation hasn’t reached Void Fragmentation, his spirit sense would most likely reach the Void Fragmentation realm ahead of time. When Brother Lu attempts to break through to the Void Fragmentation realm in the future, it would be much less difficult."

Liu Haoyue traveled far and wide to extinguish the Vine Hall, and after its destruction, still sealed all the Vine Hall’s treasures without taking any, leaving them all for Ning Fan.

The reason Liu Haoyue acted this way was partly out of gratitude for Ning Fan’s help, and partly because he considered Ning Fan a friend, and thus treated him genuinely.

Ning Fan gave Liu Haoyue a long look, without saying much else, but in his heart, he had also considered Liu Haoyue a friend.

Throughout his journey, he had rarely made connections, but this Liu Haoyue’s temperament was quite similar to his own, making him suitable for friendship with someone like him.

"Though there are many things in Vine Hall, not everything is useful to me. I’ll only take what’s useful, and leave the rest for Brother Liu, to expand the funding for the Liu Hall’s power."

With that, Ning Fan took away a trillion immortal jade, two hundred thousand Dao Crystals, also taking the Ancestral Vine.

He imprinted a copy of useful Cultivation Techniques and dan refinement recipes, took all the pills needed to enhance his Absolute Void Stage cultivation, half of the spiritual medicine over fifty thousand years old, and only five or six pieces of useful magical treasures and spirit equipment.

Naturally, those high-grade Seventh Turn Healing Pills were also taken by Ning Fan.

The remaining items were all left to Liu Haoyue.

"Meeting Brother Liu in my lifetime is truly a fortunate affair. For now, I have pressing matters, and must depart. If the chance arises in the future, I will surely meet again with Brother Liu to drink and discuss the Dao!"

"Farewell!"

Ning Fan clasped his fist towards Liu Haoyue and then turned to leave the Cauldron Ring, directly departing from Vine King City.

"Brother Lu, you..." Liu Haoyue was greatly startled, not expecting Ning Fan to leave him so many items.

But after a slight thought, he understood Ning Fan’s intentions.

Liu Haoyue naturally knew Ning Fan’s real name and his identity as Rain World’s cultivator, yet he never exposed it.

When Ning Fan was leaving, he referred to himself as Ning, signifying a sincere intention to befriend Liu Haoyue with his true identity.

With Ning Fan’s typically cold personality, for him to speak such words was to truly treat Liu Haoyue as a friend.

Leaving so many of the Vine Hall’s accumulated riches for Liu Haoyue was clearly a gesture to help him.

Now that the Vine Hall is collapsed, Bamboo Hall declined, though the Bamboo Sovereign is still around, yet heavily injured in the battle, unlikely to heal in a hundred years.

Among the Tree World’s Three Sovereigns, only Liu Hall remains with a solid foundation.

The Tree World needs Liu Hall to uphold its reputation in the future. For Liu Hall to enhance its power, it requires a significant amount of money, pills...

As for Ning Fan’s hasty departure from Vine King City, it was driven by the desire to avoid bringing trouble to Liu Haoyue.

Ning Fan, having slain the Vine Emperor and the Void Inquiry Stage, had offended the Three Realms Sect.

The storm stirred by the Four Deacons had passed, yet it’s uncertain how the Three Realms Sect would choose to deal with him.

The Three Realms Sect, being a force from the Upper Three Worlds, cannot openly act against the Bamboo Sovereign or Emperor Liu, but they might find an excuse to target Ning Fan.

Ning Fan had a premonition that the Three Realms Sect would not let go of the matter easily.

After leaving Vine King City, he planned to find a place to retreat for Return to Origin training, and make plans to subdue rogue devils.

If he could successfully subdue rogue devils, he wouldn’t fear even if the Tri-Realm Sect Master came personally!

"Brother Ning, I understand your good intentions. But I, Liu Haoyue, am not a man afraid of trouble. If the Three Realms Sect truly gives you a hard time, I will definitely not stand by!"

Liu Haoyue’s escape light flashed, stepping out of the Cauldron Ring, and he offered a fist salute towards the direction Ning Fan departed, transmitting a message.

Ning Fan, who had long since escaped a million miles from Vine King City, heard Liu Haoyue’s transmission, his gaze flickered slightly, but he didn’t say much and continued to flee far away.

At first, he traveled west all the way, and later turned south.

After traveling for several days, he found a deserted mountain forest, established a cave dwelling, and secluded himself here.

In the cave dwelling, Ning Fan took out a new set of oracle bones, divining the omens before leaving the Tree World.

With his divination skills, he naturally couldn’t predict the specific future.

But after a round of divination, his oracle bones once again shattered!

"The crisis of the Eastern Tree Ocean is over, but my crisis is not yet over... The shattered oracle bones still indicate great calamity..."

"Great calamity... Will this calamity be the Three Realms Sect..."

Ning Fan put away all his thoughts, shook his figure, and entered the Cauldron Ring.

Teng Xianrou and the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend were both in the Cauldron Ring, having rested for nearly two months, Teng Xianrou’s injuries from battling the Ancestral Bamboo Tree Demon were long healed.

However, the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend’s injuries were absolutely not light.

The blows left by Void Inquiry Stage on her were gradually worsened by the Vine Emperor’s death-defying counterattack.

If it weren’t to protect Ning Fan, with the divine skills of the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend, she certainly wouldn’t have been wounded by the likes of Void Inquiry Stage and the Vine Emperor.

As soon as Ning Fan entered the Cauldron Ring, he immediately traveled north for several billion miles, arriving above a huge lake.

The lake water was always crystal clear, but at this moment was stained purple-black with filthy blood, emitting a faint odor.

The one who tainted the lake water was the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend.

She was currently healing underwater at the bottom of the lake, but the injuries were too severe, without a hundred years of healing would be hard to recover.

"Injured so severely..."

Ning Fan didn’t mind the foul smell, with a flash of escape light, he penetrated the water and went to the lake bottom, appearing beside the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend, gently stroking her feathers, smoother than a woman’s silky hair.

"Chirp... Chirp..." Seeing Ning Fan approaching, the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend immediately coyly nudged her head.

Ning Fan’s eyes carried a hint of a smile, patting the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend’s massive beak, he took out a high-grade Seventh Turn Flow Immortal Pill and gently fed it into her mouth.

He obtained three pills in total, one for healing the sable, one for healing the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend, the last one was left for Ning Fan himself.

Though he hadn’t known the Purple-Eyed Netherfiend for long, her determination to protect him touched him deeply.

The other three Netherfiends were unruly and hard to tame, they died, then died.

But this Purple-Eyed Netherfiend came to be regarded by Ning Fan as his spirit pet, and he wouldn’t let her struggle with heavy injuries.

"Chirp... Chirp..." The Purple-Eyed Netherfiend obediently swallowed the pill, her beautiful light-purple beast eyes looked at Ning Fan with gratitude.

"From today, you’ll be called Zili, stay by my side. If I don’t die, I won’t let you die either."

Ning Fan stroked her black feathers, with a flash of escape light he left the Cauldron Ring, entering the Dark Golden Pagoda in Yuan Yao World.

The Purple-Eyed Netherfiend watched the escape light of Ning Fan leaving, her gaze was a bit reluctant, yet filled with immense determination and resolve.

He is the last of the Fu Li Race, she will definitely give everything to protect him, definitely...

In Yuan Yao World, Ning Fan stepped up the seventh level of the pagoda, walked into a palace room, and entered a scenic retreat.

Sitting cross-legged atop a high mountain, Ning Fan took out bottles of Healing Pills and Dao Fruit, beginning to consume them.

He first consumed the large number of Six Revolution Pills obtained from the Vine Palace.

Within the Vine Palace, totaling over 2000 peak Sixth Revolution Pills, which can enhance the cultivations of Void Refinement Realm experts. These pills can altogether improve nearly 20 million units of magic power!

Being a Tree Sovereign force, the reserves of the Vine Palace were naturally extraordinary, these 2000 plus pills comprised of dozens of different sorts, accumulated over hundreds of generations by the Vine Palace!

Ning Fan opened his first Divine Aperture of the Fiendgods, the enhancement effect from consuming pills to boost magic power was double that of ordinary experts, one pill equating to two.

As time passed day by day, within the seventh level of the pagoda, fifty years had passed in a flash.

Ning Fan spent fifty years refining the entire palace’s accumulated resources, his magic power soared from 21.1 million units to 59 million units, those not meeting the medicine efficiency were due to developing resistance.

Reached this step, Ning Fan could actually start the Return to Origin.

He wasn’t in a hurry to start, instead he took out the pills and Dao Fruit gifted by Wei Xuan, consuming them one by one.

Time flowed, thirty years passed again inside the pagoda, Ning Fan’s magic power was nearing 85 million units.

He finally took out 20 Nie Fruits, beginning to refine these fruits.

As time passed day by day, Ning Fan’s magic power had broken through the billion units constraint, yet continued to rise.

Speaking purely of magic power, he had exceeded normal Return to Origin Grand Void Realm masters significantly, not even inferior compared to the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm old monsters.

At this point, he finally started borrowing the power of Dao Crystal, transforming Jiazi magic power into yuan magic power.

To convert one thousand units of magic power requires consuming one Dao Crystal.

If Ning Fan wanted to convert his entire magic power to yuan, at least twelve thousand five hundred Dao Crystals would be needed...(to be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly votes at Qidian (qidian.com), your support is my greatest motivation. Please visit m.qidian.com for mobile users.)