novelraw Chapter 680: Battle for This Life Beneath the Undying Tree
Chapter 680: Battle for This Life Beneath the Undying Tree
The love in a chaotic world is not simply a desire of the flesh, nor is it merely the affection between a man and a woman.
In it, there is favor, there is righteousness, there is desire, there is admiration, and there are too many helplessnesses.
Ning Fan sent everyone out of the Reverse Wheel Blood Formation and reached out to gently stroke the sleeping face of Mu Weiliang in the coffin.
Some emotions cannot be explained in a lifetime, just like the entanglement between him and Mu Weiliang for two lifetimes.
Is it simple love? No...
It’s hard to explain; just seeing her in trouble, Ning Fan would rush towards Love Wielding Immortal Emperor at any cost.
For her to awaken, Ning Fan was willing to sever his soul, extinguish his seven emotions, and forever lose reincarnation.
Thus, it is enough.
Mu Weiliang’s serene sleeping face has a peaceful beauty.
The skin that seems like it could be damaged by a puff of wind is slightly cold.
Ning Fan withdrew his hand, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He is smiling!
Even after losing his seven emotions, he can still smile!
A smile is an expression, unrelated to emotions.
If Ning Fan wants to smile, he can smile, even if he cannot feel happiness, he can still smile.
Just like Tian Ling who lost his seven emotions, yet remained deeply attached to Ning Qian, would still be enraged to the point of seeking revenge.
The heavens may extinguish human feelings, but they cannot take away human thoughts.
A truly unfeeling person, even with all seven emotions intact, is cold-blooded and unfeeling towards their dearest, that would be true apathy.
Ning Fan is not like that, even if he extinguished his seven emotions, he is not a heartless person.
He formed a hand seal with his ten fingers, silently urging the power of the Reverse Wheel Blood Formation, closing his eyes.
The blood formation spanning thousands of miles lit up with a bloody glow in an instant.
The bloody glow enveloped the green jade coffin, seeping into Mu Weiliang’s body, melting the seven relics within her, using Ning Fan’s soul as a foundation, gradually forming a new soul within Mu Weiliang.
Mu Weiliang originally has a soul; her three souls are the paper crane, Mu Xiaoliang, and Little Stammer, and her seven spirits are Wuxie.
The three souls and seven spirits did not perish, yet she is reshaping her soul, and the coexistence of souls from two lifetimes does not conform to the rules of reincarnation.
Therefore, Ning Fan is punished by the Heavenly Dao of Reincarnation.
Ning Fan feels as if something in him is being extracted thread by thread.
He knows that what is being extracted is the qualification to enter reincarnation again.
From this day on, if he dies, he will have no chance of rebirth.
The power of the Undying Tree is also being drained bit by bit.
Several Immortal Fruits, originally supported by the tree, withered within a dozen breaths, turning into flying ashes and disappearing in the end.
Ning Fan’s wish to collect Immortal Fruit Core seems to be in vain.
But the seal within him is long broken, rendering the fruit core useless.
The towering golden divine tree is gradually withering.
Within the green jade coffin, the vitality within Mu Weiliang’s body grows more intense.
Ning Fan closed his eyes, silently controlling the operation of the great formation.
After losing the qualification to reinvent reincarnation, he instead gained a deeper understanding of reincarnation.
In the affairs of the world, where there is loss, there is gain.
Detaching from reincarnation, he stood outside the mountain, seeing the mountain in greater clarity.
Unable to see the true face of Mount Luxxx, simply because one is within this mountain...
"Back then, I died in battle here, now I return to this place, is this not a form of reincarnation?"
"In my past life, I met Weiliang here, yet failed to protect her peace and joy. In this life, however, I am here to aid her rebirth... is this not a form of reincarnation?"
"Only whether in my previous life or this life, one thing has never changed, and that is the obsession in my heart... apparently, reincarnation cannot erase the obsession in my heart, it cannot... perhaps, reincarnation is not the strongest force in the world."
"Reincarnation..."
A faint Power of Reincarnation within Ning Fan’s body began to grow at an extremely slow pace.
His heart and mind gradually merged into the Reverse Wheel Blood Formation, as if becoming one with the formation and this place.
Within the green jade coffin, strands of Mu Weiliang’s memory flowed into Ning Fan’s divine sense.
In his ears, the rumbling sound of magical duels gradually sounded.
In his heart, scenes emerged one after another.
Vaguely, he seemed to once again witness the destruction of the ancient Heavenly Court.
Above the Heavenly Court, the purple-golden gate opened, a golden-haired man stepped out, waving his hand to slaughter countless Immortals.
He was Love Wielding Immortal Emperor!
He casually tossed a fist-sized eyeball, that eyeball was the Eye of Heavenly Emperor.
He disdainfully attacked Mu Weiliang, yet a butterfly angrily soared to the sky, destroying one of his eyes, leaving him immensely shaken.
That butterfly ultimately turned into ashes and faded away.
But the valiant feat of that butterfly Immortal Emperor provoked the hot blood of numerous ancient Heavenly Court Immortals!
More and more powerful figures stepped out from the purple-golden gate, all were invaders, the fall of the Heavenly Court was imminent!
Love Wielding Immortal Emperor summoned a treasure, sealing the divine heart power of all Heavenly Court Immortals.
Mu Weiliang, with tears, rushed towards Love Wielding Immortal Emperor, seeking revenge for the little butterfly, only to be extinguished by a mere finger lift from Love Wielding Immortal Emperor.
An elder Immortal Emperor sealed Mu Weiliang’s corpse into the green jade coffin, tears brimming in his eyes.
The Heavenly Emperor has fallen, the emperor’s daughter is dead, the Divine Heart sealed away; the Heavenly Court will likely face the same calamity as the demons and the demon race.
But what does it matter!
What is there to fear in death!
What is there to fear in destruction!
"All Immortals of the Heavenly Court, follow this old man to kill every external enemy! Avenge the Emperor!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!!"
"Kill!!!"
Though the butterfly died, it passed its resolute thoughts to everyone.
If even a simple butterfly does not fear death, what should the proud Immortals of the Heavenly Court fear!
Emotion Control’s gaze was cold as he pointed a finger, and the heavens collapsed.
That one finger could silence reincarnation!
With just one finger, several Immortal Emperor-level immortals fell!
Yet, none feared Emotion Control, and none feared the external enemies!
The elder Immortal Emperor laughed heartily, though his eyes were blood-red, and charged directly at Emotion Control, detonating his physical body!
Emotion Control grunted in pain, seemingly injured, while several external domain experts around him were blasted to death by the explosion.
More immortals, their eyes blood-red, began to risk their lives to annihilate the external enemies.
Most who walk the path of cultivation cherish their lives, but in this moment, what fear do they have of death!
A giant Immortal Emperor burned his primordial spirit, his fist shining with earth-shattering power, striking at Emotion Control.
Countless mountains and rivers shattered at the sound, but facing such tremendous force, Emotion Control merely raised a finger, turning the giant Immortal Emperor’s physical body to dust.
Though his body was destroyed, the giant Immortal Emperor’s primordial spirit laughed as it rushed at Emotion Control!
"External people, roll back where you came from!"
Bang!
The primordial spirit detonated, slightly injuring Emotion Control once again.
Another Immortal Emperor, riding a yellow ox, looked to the sky and laughed, charging at Emotion Control.
In that laughter lay an unspeakable grandeur, a spirit unafraid of heaven and earth!
"Old Yellow, you go first, this old man follows!"
At the command of the Immortal Emperor, the yellow ox beneath him charged at Emotion Control recklessly!
The yellow ox’s strength was comparable to that of an Immortal Emperor, with horns sharp enough to pierce most Immortal Emperors’ defenses!
"Miserable beast courting death!"
Emotion Control snorted coldly, raising a finger to extinguish the yellow ox.
The yellow ox was extinguished, but its pair of golden horns did not falter under Emotion Control’s finger, piercing into Emotion Control’s Dantian.
Pfft!
For the first time since opening the domain passage, Emotion Control coughed blood!
The Immortal Emperor’s expression showed mourning, mourning for the loss of the yellow ox.
Once, he was a shepherd boy, riding the yellow ox through the woods, encountering an Immortal Master, and thus began the immortal path...
The ox accompanied him throughout his life, but now, it is gone...
"Old Yellow, don’t rush, this old man is coming for you! Haha!"
The elder suddenly disintegrated his physical form, his body turning into innumerable sword lights, fearlessly charging at Emotion Control.
Emotion Control’s gaze turned cold, raising a finger to block most of the sword lights, yet still getting injured by a small portion.
While the Yellow Ox Immortal Emperor held up Emotion Control, thousands upon thousands of immortals charged at the purple-golden gate!
No extra words, no hesitation, only a resolute gaze!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Immortals of the ancient Heavenly Court, one after another, used their flesh and blood to crash against the purple-golden gate!
They intended to destroy the Heavenly Gate!
The purple-golden gate gradually became filled with cracks, gradually became illusory, gradually began to close.
Emotion Control’s gaze was extremely cold, for this door had been destroyed!
The painstakingly opened external passage was destroyed just like that!
Millions of years of planning were ruined in an instant!
"Great Honored Zhanqing, retreat!" an external domain Immortal Emperor gritted his teeth.
Though the external domain path was destroyed, the extermination of the divine, demons, and devil cultivators, and the deprivation of their spiritual blood, was already a great victory, with no need to continue depleting forces.
"You wish to leave! Has this Emperor permitted it!"
A middle-aged man of utmost authority, stepping on millions of black stars, approached step by step!
He was clad in a black dragon robe, with one eye forcibly gouged out, continuously bleeding black blood.
He looked over the battlefield, at the nearly all-dead immortals of the Heavenly Court, laughing at the sky!
"Let us all die together!"
Boom!
At that moment, the Heavenly Emperor self-detonated, and the remaining immortals of the Heavenly Court all self-detonated!
The terrifying self-destruction power swept across, causing countless enemies from the external domain to fall...
Emotion Control spat blood in shock; he couldn’t believe that the Heavenly Emperor he had clearly slain still had a breath left!
At the critical moment, it gave him a fatal blow!
Countless black star power entered Emotion Control’s body, and his injuries were severe. With a clenched jaw, he escaped back to the external domain just before the purple-golden gate completely collapsed.
The remaining enemies of the external domain were all dead...
...
Ning Fan opened his eyes, feeling a slight increase of Power of Reincarnation within himself, remaining silent.
He had received Weiliang’s memories, which meant that Weiliang had lost her past memories...
When she awakes, she will not remember the destruction of the Heavenly Court, will she...
"This is also good. Those memories only bring sadness to her, better to be forgotten. Who would have thought that such a heroic battle happened on the eve of the Heavenly Court’s demise..."
"On the path of cultivation, one should cherish life, yet many times, one has to put their life aside."
Ning Fan’s spirit sense kept changing as the Undying Tree approached complete withering, almost becoming a lifeless piece of dead wood.
Mu Weiliang’s souls were nearly completely restored; she was about to become a truly living person.
The sound of her steady breathing reached Ning Fan’s ears, bringing even more peace to his Heart Spirit.
A slight smile appeared at the corner of her mouth; she seemed to be dreaming something pleasant.
"Little butterfly...don’t run, wait for me..." she murmured softly in her sleep, which made Ning Fan laugh silently.
So, she was dreaming of him.
In just a little while, she would awaken...
Suddenly, countless beams of teleportation light lit up in the sky.
An endless number of Burial Immortal Clan members appeared around the Undying Tree!
Wuxie and others all hurried to Ning Fan’s side, each looking at the sky with great gravity.
"Ning Fan, the situation is somewhat unfavorable. Has she resurrected? If she has completely resurrected, we should retreat and avoid a direct confrontation with these people..." Wuxie’s beautiful eyes were serious.
Even a fool could see that these Burial Immortal Clan members came with ill intentions.
In just a few moments, the Nine Ancestors and Eighteen Kings had all arrived!
Endless waves of Burial Immortal Clan members came to this place; there were already hundreds at the Void Fragmentation Realm! Each one filled with killing intent!
"Just a little more time is needed for a complete resurrection," Ning Fan said, clenching his fist.
"Damn it!" Wuxie cursed softly, her delicate brows furrowed tightly.
To break the seal, she had nearly exhausted her mana; her true body undergoing the Heavenly Tribulation, and this body double was in a state of collapse, with no strength left to fight.
Even if the body double was unharmed, it could not oppose the entire Burial Immortal Clan alone.
Lux Xiu and others were extremely weak due to the break of the seal.
The rogue devil’s mana was mostly consumed, and before such a great battle, no matter how powerful the rogue devil was, it was of no use.
"The Undying Tree is destroyed! The Undying Tree is truly destroyed! Haha, haha!" The Nine Ancestors and Eighteen Kings looked at the already withered Undying Tree, tears in their eyes, laughing up to the sky.
Then, everyone’s killing intent locked onto Ning Fan!
It was this outsider who slaughtered the Burial Immortal Clan members all the way!
It was this outsider who destroyed the Undying Tree!
Amidst their shock and anger, the Second Ancestor suddenly noticed the rogue devil and was slightly stunned, then dismissed him with disdain.
Seeing Bright Sparrow, and then seeing Mu Weiliang in the green jade coffin, he showed an overjoyed expression!
The rogue devil was also a demon with a pill body, but there were two kinds of demon: one with a pill body and one with a demon body.
He had a demon body, no pill power, unable to aid the earliest ancestor in resurrection.
Bright Sparrow was a demon, with a pill body, and a demon of extremely high quality!
Mu Weiliang had absorbed all the power of the Undying Tree, not entirely refined yet!
If Mu Weiliang could be captured and sacrificed to the earliest ancestor, the immortal power could definitely be transferred to the earliest ancestor!
If Bright Sparrow could be captured and sacrificed to the earliest ancestor, the earliest ancestor’s demon body could be completely restored!
"Everyone, do not despair. Although the Undying Tree is destroyed, that little demon and the woman in the green jade coffin are of great use to the earliest ancestor!"
"Capture those two alive! The rest, kill them all!"
Upon the command of the Nine Ancestors and Eighteen Kings, the strong of the Burial Immortal Clan surged like a tide towards the direction of the Undying Tree!
"Sisi, Bright Sparrow, you stay here to guard the green jade coffin! Large Skull, you people also stay under the Undying Tree to protect the green jade coffin!"
"I alone will handle the Burial Immortal Clan!"
Ning Fan took a step, rising into the sky, fearlessly facing the wave of powerful enemies.
The Formation was nearing its end, capable of operating on its own. He could fight!
The rogue devil and others only needed to protect Mu Weiliang well!
Before Mu Weiliang completely resurrected, no one was allowed to enter within ten thousand miles of the Undying Tree!
With black clothes, drawing the Earth Void Soul, Ning Fan’s eyes were filled with towering demon thoughts, and with a point towards the sky, eight thousand eight hundred black stars suddenly appeared under the daylight!
In this life, he would never let Mu Weiliang die a second time!
Within ten thousand miles of the Undying Tree was his inviolable forbidden territory!
"Black Star Technique! The Heavenly Emperor’s Black Star Technique! And there are so many Natal Stars!" The Nine Ancestors and Eighteen Kings were all shocked.
In the next instant, Ning Fan grasped with a large hand, the endless black star light converging into a bow of stars!
The Symbol of Devil Raising from the Ancient Chaos Grand Emperor transformed into strange patterns, etched on the star bow!
This was the secret technique of the earliest ancestor of the Six-Winged Clan— the Star Punishing Bow!
Ning Fan said nothing, drew the bow and arrow, and shot towards the Burial Immortal Clan!
The power of this arrow seemed to arouse the momentum of 8,800 stars!
At the moment this arrow was shot, the entire Thirty-Third Layer of the Heavenly Realm was bathed in black starlight and shuddered violently!
Countless relics of the deceased immortals from years past, upon sensing this force of black star power, inexplicably shed tears of bone, an extreme oddity.
This was the technique of the Heavenly Emperor! Once the glory of countless ancient immortals from the Heavenly Court!
The bowstring sang a long and resonant tune, the arrow flew unrelentingly!
That maddened black star arrow light, carrying Ning Fan’s two lives of determination, transformed into a deluge of tens of millions of black arrows, pouring down like a locust plague, killing each of the Burial Immortal Clan practitioners of Divinity Transformation and Void Refinement cultivations!
Those with cultivations below the Void Fragmentation Realm were directly devastated by the arrow rain!
Even Fragment Eight Cultivators were slightly repelled by this arrow light, unable to approach the Undying Tree!
Ning Fan bent the bow, knocked the second arrow, and shot towards a Fragment Eight Cultivator.
At the moment he shot this arrow, Ning Fan bent the bow and consecutively shot fifteen arrows, all aimed at another fifteen Fragment Eight Cultivators with star arrows!
His mana was already depleted, this succession of arrow lights was almost entirely formed from star power.
The star power was so strong, it instantly slew Fragment Eight, effortlessly!
An old man with a yellow face of Fragment Eight cultivation looked dismissively at the approaching arrow light, raised his finger and pressed down, sneering, "Mere arrow glow..."
Before his words fell, he had already been pierced through the Tian Ling by an arrow, the black star power rampaging within him, obliterating his Spirit in an instant!
Ultimately, this Fragment Eight monster’s physical defense exploded into a blood mist and perished!
The Fragment Eight Cultivator was killed by a single arrow from Ning Fan!
The remaining Fragment Eight Cultivators were all greatly shocked, realizing the power of the arrow light, none dared to face the arrow glow head-on with their bare bodies!
Golden shields, Spirit Talismans, defensive armor... Various defensive divine skills and magical treasures were displayed by the remaining fifteen Fragment Eight monsters.
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
Each defensive magical treasure was pierced through, formations were broken, divine skills extinguished.
Every Fragment Eight Cultivator was pierced through the Tian Ling by star arrows, perishing in hatred, dispersing into a sky full of blood mist!
Of the Burial Immortal Clan, the remaining sixteen Fragment Eight monsters were instantly slain by Ning Fan with a single encounter!
The yet-to-fall 325 Fragmentation and over 40,000 Void Refinement masters of the Burial Immortal Clan all dramatically changed expressions!
The Nine Ancestors and Eighteen Kings also drastically changed their expressions, recognizing that with the power of one individual alone, it was absolutely impossible to annihilate 16 Fragment Eight Cultivators in a face-off!
Ning Fan continually slaying sixteen Fragment Eight Cultivators had already reached his limit.
Yet in his eyes, his demonic thoughts grew deeper, as he howled to the heavens!
From his head sprouted a pair of demonic horns, and eight wings grew from his back, demonic aura encircling his entire body!
"Ancient Chaos Grand Emperor!" All of the Nine Ancestors and Eighteen Kings were shaken in expression.
"Lifestealer Technique!"
Ning Fan forcibly swallowed the blood essence of the fallen in this place, transforming it into his own essence, and then drew the Star Punishing Bow again, aimed at the Burial Immortal Clan’s Fractured Seven Cultivators!
A gaze, killing intent shook the world, demonic thoughts roiled!
Facing Ning Fan’s ferocious gaze at this moment, over 40,000 strong Buria Immortal Clan experts retreated in madness, not daring to contend against him!
This power of the star arrow was too strong, beyond their resistance!
In this place, only the Nine Ancestors and Eighteen Kings were worthy of battle with Ning Fan!
The Sixteenth Throne coldly laughed, "What of the Ancient Chaos Grand Emperor! Your archery power is not weak, it can instantly kill Fragment Eight, and frighten off my clan juniors, but it cannot intimidate us rogue immortals! Immortal Technique, Grand Wither and Flourish Finger!"
With a flick of the finger in the void, Ning Fan was immediately enveloped by deep yellow finger light, his body showed signs of collapse.
Gritting his teeth, he aimed the star bow at the Sixteenth Throne, forcibly shooting out an arrow.
In the next instant, Ning Fan’s physical defense withered and dispersed into an ink shadow, then re-condensed, yet his face was extremely pale, as if severely wounded by the Sixteenth Throne.
However, when the Sixteenth Throne raised his hand to point at the star arrow, he was merely repelled hundreds of steps, his blood and energy surged, yet he was uninjured.
The superiority was clear!
"You are strong, but no match for this king! You can die now!"
The Sixteenth Throne raised his hand, and with another flick of the Grand Wither and Flourish Finger, Ning Fan clenched his fist tightly, his gaze already frenzied!
Not his match, he was still not the opponent of the rogue immortals, but, so what!
Star light turned, his wounds healed instantly!
In one motion, he shattered the line bow, and with the swing of his hand, Emperor Xia’s Sword was in his grasp!
His entire body suddenly surged with blood light, the sword pointed at the Sixteenth Throne!
"Dissolving the weapon..."
The faint utterance of two words sent a sense of soul-searing fear into the Sixteenth Throne!
The other 26 Ancestor Kings were all extremely frightened, shouting, "Sixteenth Throne, retreat quickly, this sword light cannot be contended with!"
Ning Fan was already mad, if not mad, how could he be called a demon!
In his previous life, he was just a Butterfly, yet he did not fear the Love Wielding Immortal Emperor.
In this life, he also does not fear the Nine Ancestors and Eighteen Kings, not slighting the Burial Immortal Clan!
Under the Undying Tree, fight for this life!
With my lingering thoughts, trade for your present life!
"Kill!"
With a demonic roar to the sky, he forgot everything, remembering only one point.
This is his battlefield, he will not retreat half a step, regardless of any price! (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to vote at Qidian (qidian.com) with recommendation and monthly votes, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)