novelraw Chapter 701: Inlaid Star Compass, Seven Fiends Sect
Chapter 701: Inlaid Star Compass, Seven Fiends Sect
On the Chaotic Demon Star, a shocking piece of news quickly spread across the Seven Thousand Cultivator Nations.
The Lord of the Hundred Ghosts Sect, the treasured disciple of Ancestor Dangyue, was killed!
And the one who killed him was merely a Master from a lower-level cultivation kingdom.
However, many old monsters had heard of this Master’s name.
Thousand Autumn Ancestor!
Four thousand years ago, with his late Divine Transformation cultivation, the Thousand Autumn Ancestor became the top figure below the Void Refinement on the Chaotic Demon Star.
Four thousand years later, the Thousand Autumn Ancestor is still alive, and it is highly likely that he has broken through to the Void Refinement Realm.
As time goes by, the Thousand Autumn Ancestor must be even more formidable now.
Even so, no one believed that the Thousand Autumn Ancestor could provoke Ancestor Dangyue.
Although Ancestor Dangyue only has the Void Glimpse Stage, he is a Six Revolution Pill Master, held in high esteem by the Star Lord of the Chaotic Demon Star, and is one of the seventeen demon guards of the Star Lord.
When Ancestor Dangyue led sixteen other Void Refinement and Void Fragmentation demon guards and descended upon the lower-level cultivation kingdom, besieging the Qianqiu Sect, the whole star was shaken.
And all the Masters in the Qianqiu Sect were terrified and knelt down.
"All seventeen demon guards have been deployed! It’s not good, our Ancestor has stirred up trouble!"
"What should we do, no matter how formidable our Ancestor is, he is no match for the seventeen demon guards!"
"Yes, among the seventeen demon guards, there are three in the Void Fragmentation realm, and the rest are formidable enough to sweep through the Seven Thousand Cultivator Nations. Our Ancestor is by no means their match. Moreover, the backing of these demon guards is none other than the Star Lord of the Chaotic Demon Star, an existence we cannot provoke!"
Several elders of the Qianqiu Sect all had ashen faces.
The arrivals were too powerful, so powerful that it left them without any thought of resistance.
It should be known that the Star Domain of the Chaotic Demon Star has a total of seven great demon stars, each with seven star lords, all of whom are superpowers above the Sixth Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm.
The Star Lord of the Chaotic Demon Star himself is a Fracture Sixth Rank cultivator.
Looking across the entire Seven Thousand Cultivator Nations, there are only a dozen Void Fragmentation experts.
The Star Lord of the Chaotic Demon Star alone is enough to sweep across the entire star.
Now Ancestor Dangyue has called out three Void Fragmentation experts to destroy the Qianqiu Sect in revenge for his disciple, and no one believes the Qianqiu Sect can escape this calamity.
"Qianqiu Sect, quite the Qianqiu Sect!"
Ancestor Dangyue stood in the sky, with sixteen peerless experts behind him.
He looked coldly at the members of the Qianqiu Sect kneeling below and suddenly, with a thought, said coldly,
"I heard that the Millennium Child is still in seclusion?"
"Yes..." Several elders of the Qianqiu Sect had pale faces, answering all questions.
"Heh, do you desire to live?" Ancestor Dangyue sneered.
"Yes!" All the members of the Qianqiu Sect shouted.
"Heh, I’ll give you a chance. As long as you swear by your spirit sense to sever ties with the Millennium Child and pledge allegiance to me, I will spare your lives, how about it?"
"Really!"
All the Masters of the Qianqiu Sect were excited.
They revered the Thousand Autumn Ancestor, but only because they wanted to rely on him to survive.
Now they knew their Ancestor was no match for Ancestor Dangyue, so how could they remain loyal?
If betrayal meant survival, why hesitate?
"I swear by my spirit sense; from this day onward, I shall sever all ties with the Thousand Autumn Ancestor... no, with Daoist Qianqiu and pledge allegiance to Senior Dangyue!"
"I swear by my spirit sense!"
"From today, I shall have no ties with Daoist Qianqiu or the Qianqiu Sect!"
Watching the Masters of the Qianqiu Sect below desperately swearing by their spirit senses for survival, Dangyue laughed mockingly.
He never intended to spare them.
He merely wanted to see how many were Ning Fan’s loyals.
Heh, there are none. How ironic.
"The Millennium Child killed my disciple to protect the Sect and offended me, yet his disciples betrayed him for survival. If he knew this, he would be deeply pained... Die!"
With a flick of his hand, Ancestor Dangyue unleashed a sword light that immediately turned into a rain of swords, reducing the Qianqiu Sect to ruins.
None of the Masters of the Qianqiu Sect survived.
Their bodies were left like meat paste, only their heads retaining shocked and terrified expressions.
How laughable it is to think betrayal could ensure survival...
Ancestor Dangyue gave a cold snort, and with a wave of his sleeve, stacked thousands of heads into a tower.
He intended to use this head tower to pay homage to his disciple.
But this tower was still missing one head!
Ning Fan’s head!
With a flicker, Ancestor Dangyue, accompanied by sixteen experts, descended outside the rocky seclusion cave of the Qianqiu Mountain.
Seeing the humble rocky seclusion cave, he immediately saw through its interior and frowned deeply.
"The Millennium Child is not in the rocky seclusion cave... Damn it, has he escaped!"
"Perhaps he has retreated into the Immortal’s Abode for healing... It’s said he has injuries, and he might be recovering inside the Immortal’s Abode," guessed an old figure of the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm.
"Hiding inside the Immortal’s Abode, are you... Elder Qu, tear open this space," Ancestor Dangyue directed the old figure of the Second Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm.
"That’s simple... Shatter!"
Elder Qu pointed, unleashing a ray of light upon the Qianqiu Mountain, reducing it to ashes.
With a claw, he grasped towards nothingness, attempting to tear open the ’Immortal’s Abode’ where Ning Fan lay hidden.
Creating a heavenly dwelling space with a wave of one’s hand is a common talent among old monsters of the Void Fragmentation Realm. When pursued by Void Fragmentation cultivators, hiding in the Immortal’s Abode is merely seeking death.
The expected scene of tearing open the Immortal Abode’s space did not occur; there was no hidden abode here.
"Impossible, even the spatial barrier of a high-grade Immortal Abode could be torn open by me! Has the Millennium Child really escaped ahead of time!" Elder Qu couldn’t believe it.
"No, the Millennium Child must still be here. Although I haven’t torn open the Immortal Abode, I detected an imperceptible trace of The power of the ring here... Perhaps the Millennium Child isn’t hiding in the Immortal’s Abode but in the Yin Yang Locket..."
"Chiliocosm!" Everyone, including Ancestor Dangyue, showed a look of greed.
The Chiliocosm is a treasure; even when pursued by an ordinary Fate Immortal, hiding inside ensures survival.
Of course, many Fate Immortals could break open a Chiliocosm.
"If the Millennium Child truly hides in the Chiliocosm, it becomes somewhat tricky unless he exits on his own; capturing him is impossible. However, for the Yin Yang Locket, waiting a hundred years here is worth it! I don’t believe he’ll never exit this Chiliocosm!"
The group continued to laugh coldly.
Originally Dangyue came here to kill Ning Fan in revenge, but now, even just for the Yin Yang Locket, he had to kill Ning Fan and seize the treasure.
Dangyue and the others sent a message-transmitting flying sword to the Star Lord, informing him of the discovery of the Yin Yang Locket, garnering the Star Lord’s great attention.
The Star Lord ordered Dangyue and six other demon guards to remain and lie in wait for Ning Fan’s appearance, to kill him and seize the treasure.
The remaining demon guards returned to the Chaotic Demon Nation to continue the mission of collecting Cauldron Furnaces to aid in the Star Lord’s healing.
One year, two years, three years...
In the Yin Yin World, Ning Fan stood with hands behind his back on the verdant earth, bathed in bright sunlight, silent.
With each upgrade of the Stele of Sun and Moon, the Yin Yin World correspondingly advanced, turning from barren land into a paradise.
The thatched cottage remained, but the woman who resided therein had departed...
Ning Fan’s injuries were fully healed, and now, he remained the immensely powerful first demon of the Nine Worlds.
From the memory of the Lord of Hundred Ghosts Sect, he had long known the overall strength of the Chaotic Demon Star.
The Chaotic Demon Star was weak, not worth mentioning.
Precisely because of this, Ning Fan could feel the formidable power of the Eastern Heaven Immortal World.
The Eastern Heaven Immortal World encompassed countless star domains and countless cultivation stars.
The cultivation stars are divided into four levels; a cultivation star like Chaotic Demon Star is the lowest rank cultivation star — a lower-level cultivation star.
On a lower-level cultivation star, the Star Lord is at most of rogue immortal cultivation, or at least the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation realm.
On a middle-level cultivation star, a Fate Immortal is stationed.
On an upper-level cultivation star, a True Immortal sits in place.
The highest grade of cultivation star is called the Immortal Mansion Star, where often an Immortal Venerable or Immortal King resides.
There might even be... an Immortal Emperor!
For the Four Heavens, the lower realms are indeed insignificant.
This Chaotic Demon Star Lord is of the Shattered Sixth Rank cultivation, enough to make a name in a single world if placed in the lower realms.
But in the upper realms, it is far too insignificant...
The Eastern Heaven is chaotic, and the Heavenly Decrees of the Four Oceans Sect are of no use here.
Ning Fan also holds the status of an eighth-rank Immortal Guard, which is only useful within the Four Oceans Sect but unfortunately useless in the Eastern Heaven.
If a lower-level cultivation star were to be destroyed, almost no one would care.
Of course, if someone backs up the destroyed lower-level cultivation star, it would be a different story.
"My strength can traverse the nine worlds, but in the Four Heavens, I’m only fit to be a Star Lord of a lower-level cultivation star... No wonder the Four Oceans Sect is negligent in managing the succession of the Divine Emperor in the lower realms. Who would spend effort managing such weak lower realms? In the eyes of cultivators from the upper realms, the nine worlds might not be any more noble than nine lower-level cultivation stars..."
"I have three purposes for coming to the Eastern Heaven Immortal World. The first is to find the Immortal Soul Grass to help the growth of Weiliang’s soul. The second is to complete the last wish of the senior Taisu... and the third, uh, is to collect debt for my master..."
Ning Fan patted his storage pouch, took out a yellowed IOU, and sighed helplessly.
Though the old monster asking him to collect debt seemed somewhat petty, ten billion Dao Crystals are not a small amount. With that sum, Ning Fan’s breakthrough in his realm would be much easier.
He might purchase a large number of expensive pills for cultivation with Dao Crystals, or directly devour many Dao Crystals to break through his realm.
His belongings are already left in the lower realms; there’s no need to worry about money in the upper realms.
Let the money burn; if he runs out, he can always rob for more.
"My injuries have healed, and it’s about time I left Chaotic Demon Star to head to the Immortal Soul Star to search for the Immortal Soul Grass... though I do not know in which star domain the Immortal Soul Star lies..."
The Tablet Master Immortal Emperor, Meng Xuanzi, had given Ning Fan an Inlaid Star Compass, recording the location of the Northern Black Tortoise Star.
The stars move along their trajectories, thus no fixed map can accurately depict the locations of various star domains and cultivation stars.
Maps in the Four Heavens are known as star compasses, which can serve as treasures for flying, though their greater use is as maps.
Each star domain has a specific star compass, and only by following the constantly changing direction of the star compass can one find the desired star domain or cultivation star.
To head to the Immortal Soul Star, one must first know which star domain the Immortal Soul Star resides in, and then purchase the star compass for that star domain to reach it.
Star Palace navigation is always troublesome. Lower-level cultivation stars do not sell star compasses.
Making a star compass requires a trace of an immortal’s power to deduce the star positions and condense the power of the stars into a disk.
Thus, only powerful cultivators at or above the Fate Immortal level can create star compasses.
Usually, star compasses are only sold on middle-level cultivation stars.
"To head to the Immortal Soul Star, I first need to find a middle-level cultivation star to gather information and buy a star compass..."
"In the vast starry sky, if one just flies aimlessly, who knows how long it would take to find a middle-level cultivation star..."
Ning Fan sighed lightly, his form flickered, and he left the Xuan Yin Treasure.
At the moment he appeared in the outside world, seven killing intents immediately locked onto him.
A cold laughter moreover reached Ning Fan’s ears, "Millennium Child, you’ve finally shown up! The Lord of Hundred Ghosts Sect was my disciple, and the Qianqiu Sect has been slaughtered by me! We follow the Star Lord’s order to guard you here, hand over the small chiliocosm treasure quickly, and I’ll leave you a whole corpse!"
Ning Fan’s gaze turned icy cold; at this moment he stood on the ruined site of Thousand Autumn Mountain.
Around him were the fierce magical qi of seven demonesses, 5 of Void Refinement, and 2 of Void Fragmentation!
The entire Qianqiu Sect had been flattened, and on the ruins, a tower of human heads had been erected.
Three years had passed, and the heads had long decayed.
Ning Fan looked at the heads, and his heart felt no ripple.
He was originally a cold-hearted person; the Qianqiu Sect was unrelated to him.
"Oh? Millennium Child, unexpected to see that you remain unmoved by your disciples’ tower of heads. Indeed as rumored, cold and unfeeling. Actually, you don’t need to feel sad for them; just a bunch of rebels who had already betrayed you to save their own skins..."
Ancestor Dangyue’s words were merely trying to unsettle Ning Fan’s mind.
Secretly his finger gestures changed, causing the ground to tremble slightly, and five gigantic earth dragons emerged from beneath Ning Fan, attempting to bite from five directions.
"Die!"
Ning Fan maintained an indifferent expression, truly unconcerned about whether the Qianqiu Sect’s cultivators betrayed or why they died.
Ancestor Dangyue’s attempt to disturb his mentality was truly clumsy.
Even the ambush was just as clumsy.
The five earth dragons could bite and kill a normal Void Glimpse, but for Ning Fan, they were insignificant.
A casual sweep of his sleeve, and the five earth dragons were directly blown to dust by Ning Fan’s sleeve wind!
At the moment of the attack, Ning Fan’s Crumbled Void Seventh Layer momentum surged forth without reservation!
In an instant, all seven of the devil guards, including Ancestor Dangyue, displayed expressions of extreme terror!
Even the two stationed cultivators of Void Fragmentation revealed their fear!
They were merely Shattered First and Second Rank cultivators, completely powerless before Ning Fan of the Shattered Seventh Realm!
Crumbled Void Seventh Layer, this Millennium Ancestor turned out to have a cultivation higher than that of the Star Lord!
"Run!"
Without any hesitation, all seven fled in different directions.
Ning Fan flicked his finger, and a giant illusory vortex appeared in front of all seven, pulling them directly in.
In an instant, six were refined into blood by the Swirling Void Realm.
With a sweep of his sleeve, the seven’s storage pouches fell into Ning Fan’s hands.
Ancestor Dangyue’s Spirit was also caught by Ning Fan, who ruthlessly destroyed this soul remnant and then killed him.
He collected the seven’s Dao Crystals, while all other magical treasures and expensive pills were sent into the Cauldron Ring.
The Cauldron Ring now housed a hundred thousand cauldrons, yet the leaders remained Bing Ling and Yue Ling sisters.
The two women had broken through to the peak Nascent Soul expert, nearing Divinity Transformation, and all other female guards were above Golden Core.
These female guards perhaps couldn’t go to battle, but could refine in the rear, providing Incense Flame power to Ning Fan continuously through Incense Fire Seed.
Incense Flame power is a crucial method for immortals to elevate their power...
After finishing all this, Ning Fan’s gaze turned cold as he took out the Ancient Golden Sword, riding the sword towards the Nefarious Demon Nation, the capital of Chaotic Demon Star!
Very well! To think the star lord of Chaotic Demon Star would send people to kill him for the small chiliocosm treasure.
He was never one to endure being taken advantage of. Since this Star Lord provoked him, he didn’t mind teaching him a lesson!
The sword light of the Ancient Golden Sword was remarkably stunning, shaking nation after nation along its swift journey!
All demonesses attempting to obstruct him were extinguished by Ning Fan’s fingers.
In the Nefarious Demon Nation, the Chaotic Demon Star Lord watched the snow-like rapid reports in his hand, his gaze extremely dark.
"The seven devil guards, all slain by that Millennium Elder! How could he possibly have become so powerful in just four thousand years! Already possessing Crumbled Void Seventh Layer cultivation!"
"Lord Star, what should we do now! His cultivation is formidable, and all those who stand against him are killed. Your injuries are yet to heal; on Chaotic Demon Star, I fear no one can withstand his might!" a Fragmented Void elder looked at the Chaotic Demon Star Lord with a pale face.
"Quickly seek assistance from the other six star lords!" the Chaotic Demon Star Lord gritted his teeth.
"Uh... But aren’t there conflicts between you and the other star lords, why would they save you..."
"How dare they not come! Our conflicts are merely internal brawls. We seven are all disciples of the Seven Fiends Sect; if I die, they won’t escape accountability from the Seven Fiends Sect! Hmph!"
The Chaotic Demon Star Lord snorted coldly, his fists clenching, his gaze frostily chilly.
He wanted to see how bold this Millennium Elder was and how capable, daring to simultaneously oppose the seven star lords of the Nefarious Demon Star Domain!
Even if this Millennium Elder were mightier than the seven great star lords, could he possibly dare oppose the Seven Fiends Sect!
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