novelraw Chapter 724: So What If a Hundred Immortals Descend!
Chapter 724: So What If a Hundred Immortals Descend!
"Zili, bring back this person’s Spirit!"
Upon Ning Fan’s command, Zili immediately transformed into a world-stirring demonic wind, chasing after the fleeing Blood-Armored Life Immortal.
The Blood-Armored Life Immortal’s strength was average, no match for Zili.
Ning Fan remained outside the abandoned star, stepping forward, instantly transforming into a figure in black, then his body scattered like ink, turning into countless black butterflies.
The Blood-Armored Life Immortal had brought along 12 Void Fragmentation cultivators, among whom four had rogue immortal cultivations.
Unfortunately, none of these twelve were Life Immortals, and no one could resist Ning Fan’s Black Turbulent Separation Art!
In just a moment, all twelve were destroyed by the black butterflies, leaving only their weakened Spirits!
Despite everything, these were Void Fragmentation cultivators, and their Spirits had some value.
Ning Fan captured the twelve Void Fragmentation Spirits, sealed them, and stored them in the Soul Bag.
Of course, Ning Fan took all their storage pouches without leaving any behind.
Before long, Zili returned, holding the half-dead Spirit of the Blood-Armored Life Immortal in her mouth, along with the person’s storage pouch.
Ning Fan performed the Soul Search to destroy this soul remnant, then sealed its Spirit and stored it in the Soul Bag.
Looking through the storage pouch, finding nothing of use, he casually put it away.
Ning Fan’s expression was extremely serious; he knew that after capturing this Life Immortal, the Yao Family would undoubtedly discover his location.
Each Yao Family cultivator patrols different star domains, and the disappearance of the Blood-Armored Life Immortal in his patrol zone would make it clear to the Yao Family cultivators that Ning Fan was responsible, prompting them to rush to this location.
Turning back to the abandoned star, two-thirds of the Ancient Chaos Grand Emperor’s formation pattern had been set.
Ouyang Nuan’s face was slightly pale, as setting the Ancient Chaos Grand Emperor’s formation drained her significantly.
Ning Fan’s gaze softened, wondering if he would live and die here with this woman he had been with for fifteen years...
Yes, it had been fifteen years since they met on Shaoze Star.
Sensing Ning Fan’s gaze, Ouyang Nuan looked up, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and gave him a bright smile.
It was still that dazzling smile, so bright it was almost blinding...
She was smiling, a genuine smile...
Perhaps, after this battle, Ning Fan’s demonic reputation would shock the world.
Perhaps, she would die here with Ning Fan on this abandoned star.
Regardless of the outcome, she had no regrets.
These short dozen years were fleeting for a cultivator, yet they were the happiest years of her life.
"Don’t be afraid, after this battle, I’ll take you to the Blood Sea Star Realm. Even a Crossing Truth Realm True Immortal wouldn’t dare hinder us!"
"Mm, I’m not afraid, I believe in you."
...
At this moment, within the Yao Zong Star Region, at the array gate leading to the Tianshui Star Domain, a large number of Yao Family Life Immortals were stationed!
A total of 31 Life Immortals were stationed here!
The Family Head of the Yao Clan, Yao Kong, was also guarding this place!
Yao Kong had already discerned that Ning Fan was urgently heading for the Blood Sea Star Realm and would certainly use this array gate to reach the Tianshui Star Domain.
He was waiting here for Ning Fan to walk right into the trap!
The Yao Family had plenty of Life Immortals, but most were at the Human Profound Initial Stage.
Under the shelter of the Slaughter Hall’s Qingyun Elder, Yao Family cultivators who become Immortals could go to the Slaughter Hall and undergo the blood pool baptism!
Those who experienced the blood pool baptism had a 5% higher chance of becoming Immortals than those who did not!
Do not underestimate this 5% chance! With it, not a few Yao Family cultivators became Immortals.
Unfortunately, the family’s cultivators lacked vigor, and none could break through to a True Immortal, wasting Qingyun Elder’s support!
"Report to the Family Head, Elder Honglei is missing..." A Life Immortal rushed to the array gate and reported the news to Yao Kong.
"What! Yao Honglei is missing! Hmph, he’s probably not missing, just captured by that Millennium Child! What a useless waste! He was the first in our Yao Family in millions of years to receive the Ancestor’s recognition and be granted the Blast God Technique. Since Yao Honglei is missing, you go to his residence within the clan and retrieve the Blast God Technique for me. If the clan elders object, tell them that this Family Head is only temporarily safeguarding the secret technique and will return it once he returns!"
Yao Kong sneered, showing not anger but a sense of schadenfreude over Yao Honglei’s capture.
Who told Yao Honglei to be the only one in millions of years to be recognized by the Ancestor?
The Ancestor of the Yao Clan, Yao Hongshen, created the powerful Blast God Technique, but it was too fierce, and he did not pass it on to the descendants.
However, Yao Family descendants with a fate tied to the Ancestor had a chance to receive the technique when paying respects at the ancestral temple.
Over millions of years, no Yao Family member inherited this technique, except Yao Honglei, which incited envy among numerous Yao Family cultivators.
Due to ancestral teachings, no Yao family cultivators dared to seize Yao Honglei’s technique.
With Yao Honglei captured, Yao Kong naturally worried that Ning Fan would perform a Soul Search on Yao Honglei to extract his memory and gain this technique.
However, after a moment’s thought, he realized that the incantation acquired through a memory extraction wouldn’t be complete, so even if Ning Fan searched Yao Honglei’s memory, he wouldn’t obtain the Blast God Technique.
Now that Yao Honglei was captured, the first thing Yao Kong wanted to do wasn’t to rescue him, but to seize Yao Honglei’s secret technique in the opportunity.
With Yao Honglei captured, as the family head, he can temporarily safeguard Yao Honglei’s secret technique, a reasonable act that even the family elders couldn’t criticize.
"Uh, that... Reporting to the Family Head, there has been information stating that the jade scroll of the Blast God Technique is not in Elder Honglei’s residence..."
"What!"
Yao Kong was instantly furious.
First, he was angry that someone had got to Yao Honglei’s residence before him, trying to plot for the secret jade scroll.
Second, he was angry that the jade scroll wasn’t at Yao Honglei’s residence, so where could it be...
Could it be, Yao Honglei was foolish enough to carry such an important jade scroll with him?
No, it couldn’t be! Although Yao Honglei’s talent is mediocre and he is unlikely to achieve much, he’s not stupid and wouldn’t carry such an important secret technique with him.
"The elders have interrogated Yao Honglei’s concubines, and they reported that Elder Honglei always carries the secret technique jade scroll with him, fearing that someone might covet it when he’s not around..."
"Foolishness! Such foolishness! How could that fool carry such an important secret jade scroll with him! Yao Honglei, now captured by the Millennium Child, which means the jade scroll is now in that Millennium Child’s hands!"
In an instant, Yao Kong’s eyes surged with a killing intent!
The secret jade scroll he painstakingly failed to obtain had been ’handed’ over to Ning Fan by Yao Honglei!
Fine, very well!
He now had more reason to kill Ning Fan!
"Investigate! Investigate now! I need to know the whereabouts of the Millennium Child right now! I cannot wait any longer! I must kill him now and reclaim the ancestor’s secret technique jade scroll!"
In a fit of rage, Yao Kong immediately dispatched people to investigate Ning Fan’s whereabouts.
Before long, intelligence came in.
Elder Xuesen was missing! The twelve Void Fragmentation Cultivators traveling with him were also missing!
Elder Xuesen, named Yao Xuesen, is the Blood-Armored Life Immortal captured by Ning Fan earlier!
"Missing again? Not dead? Fine, I understand!"
Yao Kong clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking!
Ning Fan captured Yao family cultivators without killing them, probably because he wanted to use their Spirits to perform the Blast God Technique!
The Blast God Technique requires using a cultivator’s Spirit as a medium to perform it!
The power of this technique depends entirely on the number of cultivator Spirits used as a medium.
So Ning Fan plans to collect cultivator Spirits in the Yao Zong Star Region to unleash the Blast God Technique?
Fine, very well!
"Send the order, close all formation gates, and reinforce the domain locking formation light, not allowing anyone to enter or leave! Within the Yao Zong Star Region, have all Yao family Void Fragmentation level and above experts converge near the Tianwei Star area, including those guarding the formation gates! Make no mistake! If you see the Millennium Child, kill without mercy!"
Tianwei Star is a lower-level cultivation star, very, very close to the abandoned star where Ning Fan is.
Yao Xuesen went missing there!
Ning Fan might still be near Tianwei Star, or maybe he’s not!
No matter what, as long as the entire star region is completely locked down and all Yao family experts closed in on Tianwei Star, Yao Kong believed they would gradually tighten the encirclement and find Ning Fan’s location!
Once the formation gates are closed, and the domain locking formation light reinforced, any Life Immortals and True Immortals getting information from other star regions and rushing to the Yao Zong Star Region won’t be able to enter.
Yao Kong originally wanted to use borrowed strength to kill, thus spreading Ning Fan’s true identity to lure other experts to kill Ning Fan.
But now the situation was different, with Ning Fan holding the Yao family’s ancestor’s secret technique.
This secret technique, Yao Kong didn’t want outsiders to obtain it, he wanted to monopolize it!
So this operation to eliminate Ning Fan, he wouldn’t allow outsiders to partake, only Yao family experts could participate!
The Yao family had a total of 117 Fate Immortals available to deploy!
Among them, sixteen were above the Early Human Profound stage!
Yao Kong believed that with the Yao family going all out, with a hundred Immortals arriving, Ning Fan was doomed to die!
Just a mere Void Fragmentation cultivator, even slightly defying the heavens, able to kill one or two Early Human Profound Life Immortals, could he possibly contend alone against over a hundred Immortals!
The Yao family’s full-scale mobilization to hunt down Ning Fan shocked the entire Yao Zong Star Region and all surrounding star regions!
Those trapped outside the Yao Zong Star Region, unable to enter, lamented in frustration.
They had traveled from afar to the Yao Zong Star Region, only to find they couldn’t get in!
Eastern Heaven’s top "big fat sheep" was within the Yao Zong Star Region, and the Yao family, going all out, seemed to want to devour the sheep whole!
Killing a Void Fragmentation cultivator would earn a hundred billion reward. Such a great deal, but it seems the Yao Family intends to monopolize it...
A few old monsters at the Crossing Truth Realm grumbled, trapped outside the Yao Zong Star Region, their expressions full of dissatisfaction as they stared at the reinforced formation lights of the lock domain.
If the formation lights weren’t reinforced, they could bypass the formation gate and directly pass through the lights to enter the star region.
Now that the lights had been reinforced, even if they wanted to enter, they couldn’t.
"I had hoped to kill a junior and earn a little money, but it seems that’s not going to happen. Humph! The Yao Family is so overbearing, keeping the meat for themselves and not even allowing others to sip the soup!"
A True Immortal at the Crossing Truth Realm sneered, clearly quite discontented with the Yao Family.
Unfortunately, he dared to express dissatisfaction verbally but didn’t dare to make a move against the Yao Family.
After all, the Yao Family was supported by a Qingyun Elder...
Within the Yao Zong Star Region, over twenty Life Immortals from other star regions were scattered across the area.
When these people heard that the Yao Family had locked down the entire star region, they felt very fortunate.
They were lucky to arrive early in the Yao Zong Star Region, giving them a chance to kill Ning Fan and get the hundred billion reward!
The powerful ones who couldn’t enter the Yao Zong Star Region could only stand outside the Locking Domain Great Array, drooling over the fat sheep, unable to taste a drop of the soup!
These people quietly moved out, trailing behind the Yao Family cultivators, ready to strike once they spotted the fat sheep...
Many self-confident Fragmented Void Cultivators, bandits, and bounty hunters also quietly headed towards Tianwei Star...
Ning Fan sat unmoving atop the gigantic form of Nieli, like an ascetic in deep meditation.
Yet, whenever a cultivator approached, he would respond mercilessly, killing and seizing their spirit!
Gradually, Ouyang Nuan finished setting up the formation and was temporarily recalled to the Yuan Yao World by Ning Fan.
As Ning Fan slaughtered wave after wave of Void Fragmentation cultivators, he finally faced innumerable escape lights of Life Immortals!
He stood outside the Abandoned Star, calmly observing the many old monsters arriving.
There must have been tens of thousands of Void Fragmentation cultivators, at least seventy or eighty thousand.
Over a hundred and forty Life Immortals came, with seven or eight Ghost Profound Fate Immortals.
The Yao Family only had one Ghost Profound, but there were many from other star regions!
So many had come, all to kill Ning Fan alone!
Ning Fan’s lips curled into a cold smile, the Yao Family really thought highly of him!
Under the watchful gaze of seventy or eighty thousand Void Fragmentation cultivators and over a hundred and forty Immortals, Ning Fan showed not a hint of panic.
With the Chaotic Ancient Formation Patterns here, once the Imperial Formation activated, the fate of invaders would lie within his whim!
"Oh? You’re rather composed. Do you know who I am?"
Yao Kong stepped forward, his blood robe fluttering without wind, white hair flying, his aura imposing!
"You must be the Family Head of the Yao Family, Yao Kong," Ning Fan said indifferently.
"Exactly! I am Yao Kong, the Family Head of the Yao Family. Today, I’ve come here solely to kill you! Junior, hand over the Yao Family Secret Technique Jade Slip, and I can let you die swiftly!"
"What jade slip?" Ning Fan was slightly taken aback, then seemed to realize something.
No wonder Yao Kong suddenly locked down the Yao Zong Star Region and mobilized everyone; I must have accidentally obtained the Yao Family’s Secret Technique Jade Slip.
I wonder what kind of jade slip it is to warrant such importance from Yao Kong.
I’ve killed quite a few Yao Family cultivators and acquired some powerful divine skills.
Upon reflection, Ning Fan wondered if the secret technique jade slip Yao Kong referred to was the Blast God Technique.
"Junior, stop pretending! Hand over the secret technique jade slip you obtained from Yao Honglei!" Yao Kong’s expression turned a little cold.
"Indeed..." Ning Fan patted his storage pouch and retrieved the jade slip recording the Blast God Technique.
This Blast God Technique had given Ning Fan hope against True Immortals and altered his plans entirely.
Ning Fan thought if such a divine skill could tempt even him, it must have a formidable origin.
Since it was highly valued by even the Yao Family Head, it should be destroyed...
After all, he’s memorized the spirit sense, keeping this technique on him could only invite trouble...
Without the jade slip, even if others covet Ning Fan’s Blast God Technique, they couldn’t forcibly take it, nor could they destroy this soul remnant to retrieve it, only by other means could they obtain the technique...
Bang!
Ning Fan crushed the secret technique jade slip under his palm.
Yao Kong, who had been watching the jade slip Ning Fan took out with fervent eyes, instantly turned icy cold!
"You seek death!"
Hateful, so hateful!
This secret technique jade scroll was actually destroyed by Ning Fan!
In this way, if he wants to learn this technique, he must request Ning Fan to teach it!
Soul Searching won’t yield the complete secret technique!
But for Yao Kong to humble himself to an enemy is absolutely impossible!
"Do you think that by destroying this technique, old man would spare your life? You are wrong! I have ways to interrogate you, force you, make you reveal the complete spell unwillingly! Afterwards, you will still be unable to escape death! Pass my order, capture this child, only retaining his Spirit. I will bring him back to the clan for questioning!"
With one command from Yao Kong, seventy thousand Yao clan Void Fragmentation cultivators and 116 Yao clan Lifes Immortal transformed into escape lights, charging towards Ning Fan!
Their momentum was so overwhelming that even Ning Fan felt slightly pressured.
Those Void Fragmentation and Life Immortal not from the Yao clan furrowed their brows one by one.
What to do now?
It seems Ning Fan took the Yao clan’s secret technique and the Yao Family Head wants Ning Fan captured, keeping his Spirit.
In this manner, those wanting to kill Ning Fan for reward might return disappointed...
If they actually killed Ning Fan, they might immediately face the Yao clan’s rage...
It is not worth it to make enemies with the Yao family for a hundred billion Dao Crystals...
"Let’s see how things change, don’t take action, watch how the Yao family handles this youngster..." sighed a Ghost Profound Fate Immortal, instructing several disciples nearby.
"A hundred billion Dao Crystals, slipping away, truly a pity. I just wonder what secret technique that youngster just destroyed that made the Yao family emphasize it so much, could it be the legendary strongest secret technique of the Yao family... Blast God Technique?" a Human Profound Peak Life Immortal mused.
"No need to watch anymore, this child will surely be captured by the Yao family, lingering here is pointless, best leave," another Life Immortal scoffed with a heart to depart.
Ning Fan stood in the hunting virtual wind, gazing at the countless powerful Yao family members charging towards him, a murderous gleam flashed in his eyes.
If this calamity cannot be avoided, then amidst this calamity, let’s kill to the heart’s content!
"Hasten!"
At this moment, Ning Fan uttered a single word of command, his spirit sense transforming swiftly!
At this moment, the formation light concealing the abandoned star behind Ning Fan suddenly withdrew, revealing the thinly spiritual energy star!
At this moment, on the empty abandoned star, black and white formation lights silently appeared!
In an instant, those formation lights swept across the entire Yao Sect Star Region!
The attack range of this formation light covered the whole Yao Sect Star Region! Even Ning Fan was caught off guard!
No one knew this corner of the formation pattern had become this threatening! No one had tried it, so nobody knew!
In that formation light, there was an ancient, powerful, and overwhelmingly old aura!
That aura seemed to suppress even eons, making everyone here unable to catch their breath, faces changing drastically, bodies trembling!
Only Ning Fan found that aura warm and comfortable.
That was a trace of the Ancient Chaos Great Emperor’s aura, and Ning Fan, was the inheritor of Ancient Chaotic Grand Emperor!
Countless sounds of utter fear resounded through the starry sky!
"Imperial... Imperial Formation! Which Great Emperor laid this grand formation; just a corner of its pattern holds such terrifying power! A mere corner of pattern is enough to kill all cultivators below True Immortal in this Star Domain!"
"If this formation were complete, could it even wipe out Immortal Emperors! This formation is too terrifying!"
"Impossible! How could a mere Void Fragmentation ant possess such a terrifying formation pattern!"
"Damn it. Damn this! This child has long laid this formation here, waiting for us to take the bait, he wants to slaughter all cultivators in my Yao Sect Star Region!"
Ning Fan’s expression was extremely indifferent; at this moment, he saw countless Life Immortal and Void Fragmentation fleeing desperately!
The situation seemed to reverse in an instant!
Ning Fan hadn’t expected the Ancient Chaos Great Emperor’s corner of formation pattern to be this formidable, just a corner of the pattern could cover an entire mid-level star domain!
If he wanted, he could in one thought slaughter all cultivators in the entire Yao Sect Star Region!
However, he won’t kill everyone in this star domain.
He will selectively slaughter, only kill Yao family members, only kill those bandits, demons, bounty hunters that pursue him!
At this moment, Nieli respectfully retreated to the side, while Ning Fan leapt onto the abandoned star, stepping onto the Ancient Chaos formation pattern, as if merging with the entire Yao Sect Star Region!
A trace of the Ancient Chaos Grand Emperor’s aura entered Ning Fan’s body!
At this moment, Ning Fan had an illusion, as if he had become the Ancient Chaos Great Emperor!
"I, the Emperor of Ancient Chaos, shall today bury the Eastern Heaven Yao family forever in the starry rivers!"
"Those who aid the Yao family, share the same crime!" (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to vote for recommendation tickets, monthly tickets at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read at m.qidian.com.)