novelraw Chapter 709: Ouyang Nuan Is Dead?!
Chapter 709: Ouyang Nuan Is Dead?!
"Millennium Child! I must admit, your technique is very strong. But unfortunately, with your cultivation level, unleashing such an attack once will almost deplete your mana. Below the Life Immortal realm, you may have no rivals, but crossing the Immortal realm to challenge a Life Immortal is doomed to fail! Life-burning Pill!"
Despite the obese Life Immortal being severely injured, his powerful mana aura still overwhelmingly surpassed Ning Fan.
He took out a fiery red pill and, after consuming it, walked step by step towards Ning Fan.
With each step, his flesh and blood spontaneously burned and vanished at incredible speed, while his injuries rapidly healed.
After ten steps, the obese Life Immortal stood ten thousand feet away from Ning Fan, now thin and frail.
Yet, within those ten steps, his injuries had mostly healed!
Ning Fan’s gaze subtly darkened.
This person is a powerful figure from the Pill Sect, naturally an Alchemist.
As an Alchemist, he naturally has a plethora of expensive pills. Using pills to aid and heal makes him a troublesome opponent.
I can’t give him any more time to heal!
The obese Life Immortal suddenly raised his head, his gaze coldly fixated on Ning Fan, and with a sneer, he took out another icy blue pill, intending to consume it.
It was a secret pill that could vastly enhance strength in a short period.
Ning Fan would not allow the obese Life Immortal any time to consume the pill, raising a finger to create four illusory vortexes surrounding the Life Immortal.
Between each pair of vortexes, a column of escape light was generated, instantly piercing through the Life Immortal’s body.
The columns intersected like a cross, rendering the obese Life Immortal immobile, unable to feed the pill into his mouth.
This technique was a variant of the Swirling Void Technique, the Swirling Void Intersection!
It didn’t harm cultivators but used the intersecting power of escape light to lock the space, rendering them immobile.
At the moment the obese Life Immortal was immobilized, Ning Fan tapped a toe, his left hand reaching into his sleeve, his gaze icy as he charged at the Life Immortal.
The obese Life Immortal was suddenly fixed by the light column, his gaze slightly narrowed.
Seeing Ning Fan charging straight at him, he sneered incessantly.
"A commendable technique, but unfortunately, it’s not perfected to the pinnacle realm; otherwise, even if your cultivation hasn’t entered the Life Immortal realm, with this technique, you could easily immobilize me. But now, don’t even think of keeping me immobilized in the slightest! Shatter!"
The obese Life Immortal shook his mana, instantly shattering the four illusory vortexes together.
Watching Ning Fan coming at him, the obese Life Immortal flicked the icy blue pill between his fingers and changed the finger tactic.
This icy blue pill could be consumed or used as a hidden weapon.
Streams of icy flames flowed from the pill, instantly transforming it into the illusory image of a massive azure ice-flame giant, throwing a punch towards Ning Fan.
Boom!
The punch came too fast; Ning Fan hastily crumbled into an ink shadow, still suffered a heavy blow, feeling as if his body split open with pain.
When the ink shadow reformed, Ning Fan had already bypassed the ice-flame giant, appearing a hundred feet away from the obese Life Immortal.
His face pale, the corner of his mouth bleeding, his injuries severe, yet his eyes remained relentlessly fierce.
With every limb aching, it only fueled his fighting spirit even more!
With a flip of his hand, a golden small sword appeared in his left palm, and he raised his hand to throw it at the Life Immortal’s Dantian!
Meanwhile, after heavily injuring Ning Fan with a strike, the obese Life Immortal snorted coldly, utterly despising Ning Fan’s arrogant insolence.
In his view, Ning Fan could withstand no more than seven or eight punches from the ice-flame giant before meeting his end.
He acknowledged that Ning Fan was definitely a formidable master in the first step of cultivation, but even then, he didn’t believe Ning Fan could defeat him.
"How can an ant of the first step defeat an Immortal of the second step!"
With a cold sneer, the obese Life Immortal was ready to motion the finger tactic, urging the ice-flame giant to attack Ning Fan again.
Suddenly, the obese Life Immortal saw Ning Fan approach, raising a hand to unleash a golden small sword!
At the sight of that golden small sword, the obese Life Immortal’s body involuntarily trembled, his expression changed dramatically!
From this golden small sword, he felt an inevitable sense of peril!
This time, the strike from the golden small sword was even more powerful than the previous yin fire mountain!
With his current weakened body, the obese Life Immortal absolutely couldn’t withstand such an attack!
"Impossible! How can you, a mere Fracture Level Seven Cultivator, possess so many powerful cards! I refuse to believe it!"
The obese Life Immortal’s expression was hideous and frenzied, and he slapped his storage pouch with a big hand, swallowing a handful of multicolored pills.
At the same time, the golden small sword flashed brilliantly, transforming instantaneously into twelve hundred terrifying sword lights, forming layer upon layer of sword blade storms, engulfing him within.
Each sword light easily pierced his Immortal body!
Sword Qi surged within, recklessly ravaging his Immortal Veins and Spirit!
The potent pill power forcefully repairing the obese Life Immortal’s shattered body.
His eyes bloodshot, he frantically attacked, hands crushing each sword light, his injuries deteriorating, his essence waning, yet his fighting spirit intensifying!
The sword Qi continually dwindled, his life force declining even faster!
He will die, he will die, he will die!
Sensing the increasingly weak essence within, the obese Life Immortal angrily gritted his teeth, grinding his teeth to pieces!
Regrettably, he underestimated Ning Fan entirely!
How could a mere Fracture Level Seven ant be so formidable, almost not much weaker than him!
Yet an ant is still an ant; wanting to kill him won’t be that easy!
"Shattered Immortal Technique!"
Resolutely, the obese Life Immortal started gesturing with ten fingers, performing a forbidden technique!
This technique is widely spread across the Four Heavens immortal world, a divine skill only unleashed by Immortals when desperate!
The Shattered Immortal Technique, sacrificing eternal descent from Immortal Position, could suppress all injuries temporarily, fully unleashing power; it’s the technique many Immortals employed at death’s door to preserve life!
The finger gesture for the Shattered Immortal Technique was exceedingly complex, but with the obese Life Immortal’s dexterous gesture speed, he gestured hundreds of times within moments, completing half the Shattered Immortal Technique gestures.
"Can’t let him finish the gestures!"
Encased in star light, Ning Fan charged into the sword blade storm, his body instantly pierced by countless sword lights.
His internal injuries worsening, yet he showed no hesitation, raising a palm to summon the power of recollections, forming a small black gold sword.
The sword grew with the wind, transforming swiftly into a three-foot-long black gold sword.
One merciless slash severed the obese Life Immortal’s arm, forcibly ceasing his finger gestures!
"Ah!"
The obese Life Immortal screamed miserably, staring at Ning Fan in disbelief.
He hadn’t anticipated that Ning Fan, to prevent him from casting the Shattered Immortal Technique, would unhesitatingly charge into the sword blade storm, enduring the sword light’s attack without fear of death!
Even less did he expect Ning Fan to have cultivated a Dao Weapon; though not yet refined, it was sharp enough to sever his arm with a single strike!
Ning Fan is a madman, a fearless madman, a madman wielding a Great Dao Weapon!
The obese Life Immortal truly regretted underestimating Ning Fan; if he had used all his bottom card pills initially, he could have eradicated Ning Fan before unleashing his trump card!
But unfortunately, there’s no pill of regret to swallow.
What Life Immortal would exhaust all his bottom cards against an ant junior? Who would have thought Ning Fan, despite low cultivation, wielded such high combat power?
Now, trapped within the sword light storm, without using the Shattered Immortal Technique to suppress injuries and augment power, breaking through the sweeping sword light would certainly end him amidst the boundless ancestral sword Qi!
Risking life!
He seeks to risk life against Ning Fan, and Ning Fan is doing the same in return!
With an arm lost, he has no chance of employing Shattered Immortal to gamble for life...
The next moment, a distorted expression crossed the obese Life Immortal, almost compelling him to laugh wildly!
The Shattered Immortal Technique was hindered, he was undoubtedly fated to perish within this sword blade storm!
No escape, no escape route, certain death!
Facing inevitable death, he resolved to drag Ning Fan into death with him for satisfaction!
"Explode!" the obese Life Immortal sneered sinfully.
He would self-detonate his Spirit, intending mutual demise with Ning Fan amidst the sweeping sword light!
Worth it, definitely worth it!
Ning Fan, cultivating Dao Weapons at Fracture Level, undoubtedly possesses unprecedented talent!
Dragging Ning Fan with him in death makes it quite worthwhile!
"Let’s die together!"
Boom!
An unimaginable wave of self-destruction spread wildly across the entire Tiantai Star, the whole Cultivation Star was under attack by the self-destruction storm of the obese Fate Immortal.
Mountains and rivers were obliterated, Spiritual Energy frenziedly depleted, and each cultivating country was leveled to the ground!
This is the power of self-destruction of a Fate Immortal!
After this battle, Tiantai Star would completely become an Abandoned Star, no longer able to support any cultivator’s habitation or cultivation!
"What! Elder Gu was forced to such a desperate state by that junior, he actually self-destructed! Is that junior really that formidable!"
The tall Fate Immortal poured out all his mana, unfolding a mana barrier to protect the entire Yun Cliff Mountain.
With his cultivation, wanting to self-destruct under the self-destruction wave of a peer-level Fate Immortal was already difficult, yet he had no choice but to divert mana to protect Yun Cliff Mountain.
Simply because within Yun Cliff Mountain, Wei Qi was still imprisoned.
Before Ouyang Nuan’s downfall, Wei Qi could not die.
In this way, the tall Fate Immortal inevitably got injured by the self-destruction aftershocks, though it was only a minor injury, it was still frightening.
He had lived for hundreds of thousands of years, and it was the first time he saw a mighty Fate Immortal forced by a First Step cultivator to such a state of no return, only left with the option to self-destruct...
Fortunately, it was the obese Fate Immortal dealing with Ning Fan just now, not him.
If it were him, he’d likely end up the same way as the obese Fate Immortal, forced to mutual destruction with Ning Fan...
"Millennium Child, what a formidable junior! But that junior was hit directly by the power of Elder Gu’s self-destruction, he must have already fallen. After all, he was at the center of the Fate Immortal’s self-destruction attack, even if hiding in a chiliocosm, he might not evade the harm... Elder Gu could pull a peerless genius along to bury with him before dying, it wasn’t in vain..."
The tall Fate Immortal shook his head and sighed.
After being baptized by the self-destruction wave of the obese Fate Immortal, the entire Tiantai Star had become a truly Abandoned Star.
On the whole Cultivation Star, apart from Yun Cliff Mountain, not a second high mountain was left.
Perhaps it was time to find another place to imprison Wei Qi.
Upon Elder Gu’s fall, it was necessary to report to that person.
Wei Qi was also injured by the aftershocks.
He was tightly bound to the stone wall with chains, his body bearing numerous heavy seals, unable to mobilize mana.
Yet he was not completely oblivious to the outside situation.
Ning Fan had come to Tiantai Star, he sensed it.
He could guess that Ning Fan came, most likely to rescue him.
And it was likely his own young lady who asked Ning Fan.
"Alas, that Qiānqiū Xiaoyou came to save this old man, yet gave his life for me... I owe him a favor that I can never repay in this lifetime..."
"I don’t know where the young lady is now, hopefully, she hasn’t come to Tiantai Star, the most dangerous thing here isn’t the people of the Fourth Revolution Dan Refinement Master but the disgrace of my Medicine Sect!"
Thinking about how he was captured made Wei Qi extremely angry.
He really wanted to curse that traitor, but bound by seals, he couldn’t make a sound.
Recalling Ning Fan’s tragic and heroic battle with the Fate Immortal, Wei Qi felt profound sorrow.
While in deep sorrow, he suddenly saw the tall Fate Immortal approaching, taking out a chain key and unlocking his chains.
"Wei Qi! You consumed our Fourth Revolution Dan Refinement Master’s Immortal Sealing Pill, don’t think of mobilizing any mana. You were hit by our Fourth Revolution Dan Refinement Master’s Dark Speech Art, don’t think of speaking! Now, I’m going to release your chains and take you to another Cultivation Star to continue imprisoning you, as a word of advice, don’t try any tricks, don’t try to escape, or else I won’t hesitate to kill you halfway!"
Wei Qi snorted coldly, glaring angrily at the tall Fate Immortal, eyes filled with anger, yet he did not resist.
Now he was at someone else’s mercy, though angry, he wouldn’t cause trouble with the tall Fate Immortal at this moment.
The heavy chains were unlocked one by one, as the tall Fate Immortal was about to place Wei Qi into the Treasure of Immortal’s Abode to take him away, suddenly a sharp sword light came from behind.
A blood-drenched youth in black appeared, holding a heavy-duty black-gold sword, eyes filled with coldness, his body turned into sword light, rushing straight into the stone chamber!
"Qiānqiū Xiaoyou isn’t dead! Good! Good! Truly wonderful!" Wei Qi was both surprised and delighted.
"Impossible! How could this mere Fracture Level Seven cultivator survive Elder Gu’s self-destruction storm! How did he survive!" While the tall Fate Immortal was still in shock and lost focus, the black-gold sword was already thrusting towards his face, just half an inch away from piercing his Tian Ling!
He already learned from previous fights that the sword in Ning Fan’s hand was an indestructible Great Dao weapon, and didn’t dare to block it with his physical body.
But with his cultivation, even a slight lapse of focus wouldn’t allow Ning Fan’s mindless sword to hit him.
With a flicker, the tall Fate Immortal transformed into a green escape light, disappearing ten thousand feet away, leaving the Yun Cliff Mountain stone chamber, standing in the air.
His face still bore an incredulous expression, unable to comprehend how Ning Fan survived the deadly self-detonation of the Fate Immortal.
He naturally did not know that the moment the fat Fate Immortal decided to self-detonate, Ning Fan had already flickered and escaped into the Xuan Yin Treasure.
Although he narrowly avoided the terrifying self-detonation of the Fate Immortal, he was ultimately injured by the Ancestral Sword Qi.
The Fate Immortal was indeed not someone he could defeat.
He had exhausted all his trump cards and only by luck managed to slay the fat Fate Immortal.
The hardships involved were beyond words to outsiders.
Along with his previous injuries, Ning Fan was extremely weak at this moment, even having difficulty standing.
Yet he still unexpectedly left the Xuan Yin Treasure, revealing himself, just to rescue Wei Qi.
If the tall Fate Immortal took Wei Qi away and imprisoned him elsewhere, he might summon more Fate Immortals as guards, rendering further rescue attempts impossible.
He had promised Ouyang Nuan he would save Wei Qi, and he was determined to keep that promise!
Caressing the Yuan Yao Jade, a ray of light flashed, and Ouyang Nuan emerged from it.
Upon seeing Ning Fan’s seriously injured state and Wei Qi falling to the ground protected behind Ning Fan, her heart felt as if it was being pierced by a knife...
The Five-Color Medicine Soul’s perception was exceptionally strong; though she was within the Yuan Yao World, she clearly witnessed the entire external battle.
When she saw Ning Fan, with his Shattered Seven Cultivation, forcing the fat Fate Immortal to retreat step by step, she almost wanted to cheer for him.
When witnessing the fat Fate Immortal self-detonating, Ouyang Nuan’s vision went black, nearly fainting. She thought Ning Fan would perish in the Fate Immortal’s self-detonation...
If Ning Fan died helping her, she would never forgive herself for the rest of her life.
At that moment, she regretted it, regretting asking Ning Fan for help and dragging him into this mess.
Luckily, she immediately sensed Ning Fan had entered the medium dichiliocosm, avoiding the Fate Immortal’s self-detonation.
This slightly eased her mind, yet she was greatly surprised, amazed that Ning Fan possessed a medium dichiliocosm.
Now, released from the Yuan Yao World by Ning Fan, Ouyang Nuan looked at Ning Fan’s blood-soaked figure standing straight, her heart filled with a complex mix of guilt and gratitude.
She did not question why Ning Fan possessed a medium dichiliocosm, nor did she plan to reveal Ning Fan’s secret to others.
She was determined to keep this secret for Ning Fan.
"Is there a way to restore Senior Wei Qi’s battle power?" Ning Fan’s voice was low and somewhat weak.
"Yes! Uncle Qi was afflicted by Dan Zōng’s Dark Language Technique and the Immortal Sealing Pill. I can break both in an instant, and in the time of half an incense stick, Uncle Qi will recover thirty percent of his fighting strength, enough to deal with the other Fate Immortal!"
While answering Ning Fan’s question, Ouyang Nuan took out two expensive pills and gave them to Wei Qi.
Wei Qi took a deep look at Ning Fan’s back and gritted his teeth, "Ten breaths! Young friend, hold on for ten breaths for this old man! Even if it costs me, I will forcibly recover one-tenth of my Mana within those ten breaths and annihilate that Dan Zōng scoundrel!"
At this place, a Fate Immortal was still lurking, leaving no chance for Wei Qi to have half an incense stick’s time to regain his strength.
"Ten breaths, is it..."
Ning Fan said no more, his figure flickered, appearing outside the stone chamber, coldly watching the tall Fate Immortal approaching step by step.
The tall Fate Immortal had already seen Ning Fan release Ouyang Nuan and tend to Wei Qi’s injuries.
He wouldn’t give Wei Qi the chance to restore his Mana since Wei Qi’s cultivation was at the Human Profound Middle Stage, higher than his, possessing a Dao Weapon and formidable combat power.
Even with just one-tenth of his Mana restored, it would be enough to destroy him!
He must annihilate Wei Qi before he recovered his Mana!
Now that Ouyang Nuan had appeared, Wei Qi was useless and could be killed!
"Young one, do you think that in your current state, you are a match for this old man? Charge!"
The tall Fate Immortal looked at Ning Fan with disdain, raising his hand to unleash a beam of treasure light, targeting Ning Fan’s neck.
It was a hooked Silver Ring magical treasure, one ring could easily cut off the head of a first step cultivator.
The fact that Ning Fan survived a Fate Immortal’s self-detonation left the tall Fate Immortal in disbelief.
The myriad methods of this Shattered Seven youngster made the tall Fate Immortal feel ashamed.
Even so, the tall Fate Immortal did not believe Ning Fan could survive the attack of the Silver Ring Immortal Treasure.
After all, at this moment, Ning Fan could barely stand, unable to contend even with Fracture Level Six or Five Cultivators.
Ning Fan gripped the Black Gold Dao Sword tightly, letting out a soft sigh.
Now at a dead end, does he indeed have to resort to that Divine Skill...?
This technique has grave consequences, but now, it seems there is no other choice...
Ning Fan hesitated in his heart, suddenly, he saw the silver rings before him split into three, one ring directly attacked him, leaving no possibility to evade.
The other two rings bypassed him and attacked Wei Qi and Ouyang Nuan behind him!
The tall Fate Immortal had indeed decided to be more cautious!
Even though he firmly believed he had the strength to kill Ning Fan in an instant, he still wanted to ensure nothing went wrong.
If by any chance Ning Fan had some means to withstand for ten breaths, it wouldn’t be fun anymore.
It would be better to kill Ouyang Nuan and Wei Qi first, then slowly grind Ning Fan to death, that would be the best plan.
No opportunity must be given for Wei Qi to recover his mana!
"Ah!" The ring image slashed towards Ouyang Nuan, her cry of pain echoed as she felt her body being sliced in half by the rings, facing imminent death.
Ning Fan’s gaze suddenly changed, and without any hesitation, he murmured two words, his body transforming into a blood light and disappearing from the spot.
"Dismantling..."
The sealed demonic thoughts, as if finding a crack, seeped out bit by bit from beneath the Minglun Seal, flowing throughout Ning Fan’s entire body.
Ning Fan and the Dao sword in his hand merged into one, surrounded by a halo of blood light, transforming into a Blood Devil form.
But then, with a flash of blood light, all three ring images were shattered, Wei Qi and Ouyang Nuan survived!
In the next moment, outside Yun Cliff Mountain, blood light shot to the sky!
A Blood Devil with rampant blood energy burning appeared in front of the tall Fate Immortal!
He lifted his fierce gaze towards the tall Fate Immortal, his large hand grasping, an extremely terrifying blood-colored sword light gushing out from his palm, as if intending to slice the world into pieces!
Consciousness gradually blurred, at the moment Ning Fan lost his mind completely, he saw the terrified expression of the tall Fate Immortal opposite him.
It seemed he also heard a woman’s heartbroken cry, somewhat similar to Ouyang Nuan’s voice...
After that, he completely lost consciousness...
What the Blood Devil form did, he could no longer remember...
His body was torn bit by bit by sword light, stitched again and again by demon starfall, eroded again and again by demonic thoughts...
Slumber, it seemed as if he was about to forever slumber within demonic thoughts...
The heart spirit world was a blood-red land, eroded by demonic thoughts.
Ning Fan was wandering aimlessly in the heart spirit, not knowing where to go...
Unclear how much time passed, he seemed to hear a voice calling him.
Gradually, the blood-red in the heart spirit world began to fade.
Gradually, demonic thoughts receded back into the Minglun Seal, which someone was repairing thread by thread.
"Who... who is saving me..."
Ning Fan wanted to open his eyes and see, but felt his eyelids were too heavy to open.
Peering into himself, he found the demonic thoughts resealed into his heart, truly a blessing in disguise.
He vaguely heard the voices of several young Dao practitioners.
"This person, Patriarch Qian instructed, should be taken care of well, not to slack..." The voices afterward became somewhat indistinct.
Gradually, a trace of drowsy medicinal power spread throughout Ning Fan’s body, and Ning Fan fell into a deep sleep once more.
How long he slept this time, he did not know.
When he awakened again, Ning Fan finally opened his eyes.
In sight was a simple Dao shed.
He lay on a bed, beside which a young Dao practitioner held a large palm fan, fanning Ning Fan, driving away mosquitos.
Upon seeing Ning Fan awakened, the young Dao practitioner’s eyes widened in disbelief, exclaiming.
"Awake! Awake! The person Patriarch Qian brought back actually woke up! I’ve never seen anyone survive such injuries and come back to life, Patriarch Qian’s pill medicine art is truly amazing!"
With such a loud call from the young Dao practitioner, plenty of young Dao practitioners flooded into the Dao shed, eager to see the commotion.
These young Dao practitioners were all Opening Vein cultivators, not even one Harmonious Spirit among them...
Ning Fan’s throat burned with pain, his head buzzed, and with such a disturbance, only felt his headache worsened, he furrowed his brow slightly, asking,
"Where is this? Who saved me? Where are the people who were with me?"
"This is the Hundred Medicine Sect on Youhai Star, the one who saved you is our sect’s Patriarch Qian, and no one was with you, you were brought back by Patriarch Qian."
A young Dao practitioner respectfully answered all of Ning Fan’s questions.
Despite his low cultivation, unable to discern Ning Fan’s cultivation level, he had seen Ning Fan at death’s door.
The kind of terrifying injuries Ning Fan sustained were unheard of in his life, to survive such injuries, one must surely be a senior master.
He naturally dared not slack.
"Youhai Star... Hundred Medicine Sect?" Ning Fan forced himself to sit up, a look of doubt and uncertainty in his eyes.
Wasn’t Youhai Star a Cultivation Star in the Ancient Chen Star Domain!
Ning Fan had heard of the name of the Hundred Medicine Sect mentioned by Ouyang Nuan, at that time she even entrusted him with a Warm Jade Hairpin, telling him, if in difficulty, to seek help from an elderly Dao practitioner surnamed Qian at the Hundred Medicine Sect...
Could this old Dao practitioner surnamed Qian be the Patriarch Qian the young Dao practitioners spoke of?
Wasn’t he confronting the tall Fate Immortal on Shaoze Star Domain? He remembered, compelled by circumstances, he used the forbidden technique, the Dismantling Technique, he couldn’t recall anything thereafter.
What happened afterward?
Who brought him to Youhai Star?
Where was Wei Qi? Ouyang Nuan?
Hiss!
When thinking about the questions, Ning Fan immediately felt his divine sense shatter with pain, involuntarily he drew a cold breath.
All items he carried were still with him, untouched...
"Hmph, a life greatly blessed, to survive such heavy injuries, and regain life despite demonic thoughts backfiring! Slept for seven years, yet still awoke!"
A shriveled old man in a hemp Dao robe, with a tilted Dao crown, staggered into the Dao shed.
Upon the entrance of the shriveled old man, all the young Dao practitioners immediately bowed to the elder in reverence.
"Greetings to Patriarch Qian!"
Ning Fan’s heart trembled, he had been unconscious for seven years!
"No need to bow, you all may leave now, the old man is here to heal this young friend."
With a blackened face, the shriveled old man waved his hand, the group of young Dao practitioners respectfully exited.
"Want to know why you appeared in the Ancient Chen Star Domain?"
"Please enlighten me, Senior!" Ning Fan, unable to get out of bed, could only clasp his fist in salute to the shriveled old man.
He couldn’t discern the man’s precise realm, but he could tell that the man was a True Immortal!
The power of the medicine soul on the man was exceedingly strong, at least an Eighth Revolution Pill Refinement Master.
Apparently, this man was the Qian Kaiyan Ouyang Nuan mentioned...
"It was that girl Nuan who brought you here!"
"Ouyang Nuan? Where is she?"
"She is dead!"
"Impossible!" Ning Fan’s gaze turned cold, he could not believe Ouyang Nuan would die!
"Don’t believe? Then look at your medicine soul, is it five-colored? Hmph!"
With a dark face, the shriveled old man slammed the door and left the Dao shed.
Ning Fan only then looked within himself and suddenly found his medicine soul had turned into five colors...
The form of the medicine soul was no longer a black butterfly but a five-colored butterfly...
Ning Fan vaguely remembered that Ouyang Nuan’s medicine soul seemed to be five-colored...
Why did he gain the same medicine soul ability as Ouyang Nuan!
What really happened to Ouyang Nuan!
Could she really have died as the old Dao practitioner surnamed Qian said!
"Impossible!"
Ning Fan gritted his teeth, struggling to get out of bed, only to fall to the ground.
He couldn’t believe Ouyang Nuan was dead, but what was the deal with the Five-Color Medicine Soul!
What exactly happened after he lost consciousness...
"Awooo, awooo..."
A small ball of fur, entirely white, suddenly darted out from some corner and leaped into Ning Fan’s arms.
It stuck out its little tongue, licking Ning Fan’s fingers, catching his attention.
This ugly little creature, wasn’t it the Lingze he gifted to Ouyang Nuan!
It was named Ning Xiaoqiu, with the nickname Maoqiu...
Maoqiu had already Harmonious Spirit cultivation, lightly leaping, using its demonic power to write a few words on the ground.
’Nuan Nuan Mother’, ’trapped’, ’forbidden land’, ’Ziwei Pool’...
Ning Fan’s eyes suddenly lit up, he thought for a moment, then erased the words from the ground.
"Ouyang Nuan isn’t dead, right?"
"Awooo, awooo..." Maoqiu nodded its head.
"She’s trapped in Ziwei Pool? Is she in danger?" Ning Fan asked again.
"Awooo, awooo..." Maoqiu shook its head.
"I see..."
Ning Fan shook his head speechlessly, that damned Qian-surnamed True Immortal actually deceived him...
Ouyang Nuan isn’t dead, and for now, she’s also safe...
Thank goodness...
It made sense; the old man with the surname Qian seemed deeply connected to Ouyang Nuan, how could he let anything happen to her...
His heart relaxed, and Ning Fan’s vision went black as he fainted again.
Outside the door, the Qian-surnamed old man walked in with an annoyed expression, looked at the words on the ground, glanced at Maoqiu, then at Ning Fan, his face darkening.
"Little one, who told you to tell the truth, go find your mother!"
With a boom!
The Qian-surnamed True Immortal kicked Maoqiu. The kick was so mystical that it didn’t harm Maoqiu in the slightest, yet it sent the little one flying around Youhai Star several times before landing precisely into a purple secluded pool in the forbidden area of the Hundred Medicine Sect’s back mountain...
The force of the Qian-surnamed True Immortal’s kick was truly terrifying...
And his cloudy eyes showed a hint of regret after kicking Maoqiu away.
"That silly girl, really a total fool... How could you give your original Medicine Soul to someone else! Now what? How should I extend your life... How can you show your face ever again in this life..."
"The number one beauty of the Medicine Sect, Ouyang Nuan, screw that ’number one beauty’, from now on, it’s just a name for ridicule..." The Qian-surnamed old man kicked Ning Fan onto the bed, fed him a spiritual pill, sighed deeply, and turned to instruct the young Dao practitioners waiting outside the room.
"I, the Patriarch, will leave the Hundred Medicine Sect for several years. Take good care of that brat, don’t neglect him!"
"Yes... Wh-what! The Patriarch is leaving! Where is the Patriarch going!" Instantly, all the young Dao practitioners panicked.
"My heart is troubled, I want to travel afar for a few years, kill a few scoundrels, I have no time to stay here any longer!"
"No! But this is the Ancient Chen Star Domain, a place rampant with bandits! Without the Patriarch here, the Hundred Medicine Sect could be annihilated by a wave of bandits in no time!" The young Dao practitioners wailed.
"What’s there to fear! Isn’t there someone lying in that room! If the Hundred Medicine Sect faces difficulty, have him take action! Tell him, if he can’t protect the Hundred Medicine Sect, if he can’t protect the Ziwei Pool, then Ouyang Nuan will be beyond salvation!"
The Qian-surnamed old man scolded the kneeling Dao practitioners angrily, then transformed into escape light and left Youhai Star in an instant...
Soon, the news of the Qian-surnamed old man’s departure from the Hundred Medicine Sect for several years spread through the entire sect.
Even more astonishingly, it spread throughout the whole of Youhai Star!
The outer disciples of the Hundred Medicine Sect were mostly Vein Opening cultivators, the inner disciples all Harmonious Spirit, and one needed Golden Core cultivations to be an outer elder, while all inner elders were Nascent Soul cultivators.
The sect master of the Hundred Medicine Sect was an old man at the Divinity Transformation stage, and he was also identified as a Fifth Revolution Dan Master.
Such cultivation and identity could hardly protect the Hundred Medicine Sect on the bandit-ridden Youhai Star...
The cultivation shown by the Qian-surnamed old man within the sect was Void Fragmentation Fifth Heavenly Layer, and his pill refinement was Seventh Revolution lower tier.
Besides Ning Fan, no one else in the Hundred Medicine Sect knew about the True Immortal cultivation and Eighth Revolution dan refinement skills of the Qian-surnamed old man...
With his departure, the entire Hundred Medicine Sect was thrown into chaos.
Actually, Ancestor Qian leaving the Hundred Medicine Sect wasn’t the first occurrence; his absences often spanned decades.
But lately, the Ancient Chen Star Domain had been engulfed in constant warfare, and Youhai Star’s domain had just been overtaken by bandits adorned in green scarves, resulting in the Star Lord’s beheading!
The Green Scarf Bandits! One of the seventy-two powerful bandit groups in the Ancient Chen Star Domain!
The leader of the Green Scarf Bandits was a Loose Immortal Old Monster!
This person, after killing the Star Lord of Youhai, was now purging the old Void Fragmentation forces on the star...
It was said that the Hundred Medicine Sect was also on the list for purging...
The sect master of the Hundred Medicine Sect had thought that, with Patriarch Qian’s ’Seventh Revolution Dan Refinement’, perhaps he could invite a few Loose Immortal experts to help the Hundred Medicine Sect through this crisis, as well as the entire Youhai Star.
Yet now calamity was about to strike, and Patriarch Qian just chose this moment to travel...
If the Green Scarf Bandits slaughtered their way to the gate, who could save the Hundred Medicine Sect from disaster?
Could they really rely on the young man saved by Patriarch Qian to make a move?
Wasn’t that young man heavily injured, hadn’t he been in a coma for a few years, wasn’t he barely able to protect himself, let alone the Hundred Medicine Sect?
What kind of cultivation did that young man have, was he actually a senior with cultivation in the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm?
Even if he truly had cultivation in the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm, what of it? The opposition was the Green Scarf Bandits!
In the face of the Green Scarf Bandit’s army, what is a Broken First Layer Cultivator...
Outside the room where Ning Fan lay in a coma, the sect master of the Hundred Medicine Sect and several Nascent Soul elders sighed repeatedly, pacing back and forth.
The sect master had tightly sealed the information, prohibiting anyone from leaking the news of the Patriarch’s departure.
Every day, across Youhai Star, many factions were being slaughtered or absorbed by the new Star Lord.
One by one, cultivation countries were being devoured by the flames of war, and three months passed by, slowly the flames began to approach the neighboring cultivation countries.
Eventually, in the fourth month, they reached the Ancient Medicine Kingdom where the Hundred Medicine Sect was located.
When the sky was filled with bandit armies wearing green scarves, invading the Ancient Medicine Kingdom like a plague of locusts, countless cultivators from the kingdom knelt outside the Hundred Medicine Sect, begging Patriarch Qian to intervene.
In the Ancient Medicine Kingdom, only Patriarch Qian was a Void Fragmentation cultivator!
With Patriarch Qian’s Void Fragmentation Fifth Heavenly Layer cultivation, he might not be able to be a match for the Green Scarf Bandits.
But all cultivators on Youhai Star knew, Patriarch Qian was a Lower Tier Seventh Revolution Dan Master, surely even the leader of the Green Scarf Bandits would not easily underestimate his alchemical prowess...
"We beg Patriarch Qian to save us Ancient Medicine Kingdom cultivators!"
"The Green Scarf Bandits have arrived, does Patriarch Qian truly not mind seeing our Ancient Medicine Kingdom perish among bandits?"
"We implore the Patriarch to strike, kill the bandits, and save the Ancient Medicine Kingdom from peril!"
Voices of plea echoed faintly into Ning Fan’s ears.
After another four months of slumber, Ning Fan groggily awakened, his serious internal injuries astonishingly fully recovered!
Throughout these four months, though unconscious, he vaguely sensed a powerful pill within his body, its medicine power healing the grave injuries caused by the backlash of demonic thoughts...
The grade of that pill, at the very least, seemed to be of the Ninth Revolution...
Was it a pill gifted by the Qian-surnamed old man...
"Why is it so noisy outside..."
Ning Fan pushed open the door and stepped out. The scene that met his eyes was one of numerous Hundred Medicine Sect cultivators kneeling, earnestly begging for help.
Outside the Hundred Medicine Sect were countless Ancient Medicine Kingdom cultivators kneeling too!
Above the expansive sky, tens of thousands of strong beings adorned in green scarves cruised through the air, their murderous intent soaring!
"One sentence, tell me the current situation!" Ning Fan commanded an old man at the Divinity Transformation stage nearby, who was the sect master of the Hundred Medicine Sect.
"Patriarch Qian has traveled afar, he instructed that if the Ancient Medicine Sect faces trouble, to please, Senior, lend a hand, because without the Ancient Medicine Sect, without the Ziwei Pool, Ouyang Nuan will surely perish!"
"Understood..."
Ning Fan looked at the sky full of Green Scarf Bandit cultivators, a cold gleam flashing in his eyes.
He spread his divine sense and noticed the location of the Ziwei Pool, where he could sense Ouyang Nuan’s aura.
And a group of bandits was audaciously attacking the Ziwei Pool!
They... were courting death! (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to cast your recommendation votes, monthly votes on Qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)