novelraw Chapter 752: The Massacre of Two Sects
Chapter 752: The Massacre of Two Sects
Ning Fan ignored the furious Jun Family Life Immortal and instead looked into his Dantian.
After slaying the Jun Family Scatter Immortal, a thread as fine as a strand of hair flew out from the corpse and silently entered Ning Fan’s Dantian.
That thread was the Puppet Thread!
This Puppet Thread, however, was vastly different from the Life Puppet Thread of the Ancestral Emperor of the Northern Heaven. Being controlled by this thread doesn’t mean becoming a true Living Puppet.
Neither a Living Puppet nor a Dead Puppet, but something in between.
This Puppet Thread contained a powerful force of desire, a Divine Skill that turns desire into threads and controls puppets through threads!
Inside the bodies of Jun Family cultivators and Weichen Sword Cultivators in this area, there were all Desire Puppet Threads.
With each person killed, a Puppet Thread would shoot into Ning Fan’s body.
The cultivation of the person planting the Puppet Threads was too high, and the speed of the thread was too fast, so fast that even Yao Qingyun hadn’t discovered its existence.
If Ning Fan hadn’t cultivated the Yin Yang Transformation or held the Yin Yang Locket, making him extremely sensitive to the force of desire, he wouldn’t have been able to notice the Puppet Thread’s existence either.
His gaze subtly shifted towards Fei He, Jun Linyuan, and Weichen Ancestor, and Ning Fan’s heart instantly sank.
There were no Desire Puppet Threads within these three.
However, Ning Fan was already certain that these three were together, and behind them, there was a fourth person.
This fourth person controlled everything! This person was the real mastermind plotting against Yao Qingyun and himself!
"Not at the Shattered Thought Peak, either late stage or intermediate stage..."
After another Desire Puppet Thread entered his body, Ning Fan’s sensing of the threads became clearer, identifying the approximate cultivation of the mastermind behind these threads,
With Ning Fan’s cultivation, he was decidedly not a match for the Fragmented Thought Elders.
But if he were to use the jade slip of Immortal Venerable Strike, destroying this Fragmented Thought Elder wouldn’t be too difficult!
This person was proficient in the force of desire and puppet mastery, and if Ning Fan killed this person, he would undoubtedly gain substantial benefits.
"When Fei He carries out his plan, it will be the action of this fourth person. At that time, I can use the jade slip of Immortal Venerable Strike to kill Fei He and the other three in one fell swoop, completely resolving this hidden threat of Fei He!" Ning Fan made up his mind.
The Jun Family Life Immortal saw that Ning Fan ignored him and, in a fit of rage, leaped onto the high platform, changing his spirit sense, and a torrential green thunder rolled around his body.
Pointing a finger, the roaring green thunder transformed into a giant blue-green Lightning Beast, whose vast mouth opened and swallowed towards Ning Fan.
This Jun Family Life Immortal was at the Human Profound Initial Stage, close to breaking through to the Human Profound Middle Stage.
The power of this strike was something that few at the Human Profound Initial Stage could withstand.
As the Lightning Beast charged forward, Ning Fan did not retreat but advanced, pointing a finger, and the Lightning Beast instantly cried out in agony, scattering into countless rays of lightning.
Opening his mouth, all the lightning rays were swallowed into Ning Fan’s belly.
Seeing Ning Fan swallow the magical thunder rays, the Jun Family Life Immortal’s expression immediately turned to extreme fear, instinctively wanting to flee.
But suddenly, the puppet thread in his body moved, and his eyes immediately turned hollow, followed by a ferocious, death-defying killing intent as he directly ignited his Spirit, deploying a suicide-style Immortal Technique.
"Immortal Technique, Thunder Water Dissolution!"
This Jun Family Life Immortal held a green thunder light in his left hand and a blue mist in his right, his palms clapped together fiercely, as his left half shattered into lightning and the right half into mist...
This technique, much like the Dismantlement Sword Technique, sacrifices oneself to harm enemies.
After using the Thunder Water Dissolution technique, the life of this Jun Family Life Immortal was in peril, yet powerful enough to severely damage a Human Profound Middle Stage cultivator with a single strike.
Unfortunately, this strength was still far from enough to harm Ning Fan.
"Falling to become a puppet, death is regrettable, let Ning Fan send you on your way!"
As Ning Fan moved his lips to transmit his voice, upon hearing this, the crazed gaze of the Jun Family Life Immortal slightly cleared, revealing a touch of gratitude.
In the next moment, Ning Fan’s aura burst forth, enveloping the entire scene with the overwhelming presence of the Human Profound Peak!
His five fingers formed a palm, which he opened without using any Divine Skills, but with just a casual palm strike, he obliterated the Human Profound Initial Stage Jun Family Life Immortal in one move!
The Spirit was naturally sealed and taken! The storage pouch was also casually taken!
"Human Profound Peak!" Seeing Ning Fan’s cultivation displayed, the three vantage points immediately erupted in astonishment.
Even Liulan and Yanhong were greatly shaken.
More than fifty years ago, Ning Fan was only at the Fracture Summit cultivation, and now he was already at the Human Profound Peak.
Such cultivation speed is astonishingly outrageous!
Ordinary Fracture Summit cultivators need hundreds to tens of thousands of years to break through realms in seclusion.
To cultivate from the Human Profound Initial Stage to the Human Profound Peak, even if all goes smoothly, it would require thousands to tens of thousands of years.
"Young Master Ning’s cultivation speed not only surpasses Eastern Heaven’s Chosen, but also likely surpasses any other cultivators of this generation across the Four Heavens," Liulan and Yanhong greatly admired.
Seeing Ning Fan continuously dispatch two Jun Family cultivators, Yao Qingyun raised his eyebrows, feeling quite pleased.
The Patriarch of the Jun Family’s gaze was solemn, seemingly furious, though it was uncertain whether he was truly enraged.
This was a set-up, where Ning Fan, Yao Qingyun, Jun Linyuan, Weichen Ancestor, and Fei He were all players, and the one setting the stage had yet to show.
Ning Fan coldly gazed at the Jun Family cultivators and raised his hand, pointing a finger, saying, "You all, come at me together!"
Neither arrogance nor conceit, just the confidence to annihilate the entire Jun Family assembly.
The Jun Family gathering still had 74 people, with 45 Scatter Immortals, 11 at the Human Profound Initial Stage, 8 at the Middle Stage, 5 at the Late Stage, 3 at the Peak, 1 at the Ghost Profound Early Stage, and 1 at the Ghost Profound Middle Stage.
With so many powerful individuals, if they all rushed forward at once, even the Ghost Profound Late Stage would fall.
Yao Qingyun furrowed her brows but didn’t say much.
Liulan and Yanhong, on the other hand, showed concern. They didn’t believe that Ning Fan, at the Human Profound Peak, could defeat the entire Jun Family cultivators with his own strength.
After all, the Jun Family cultivators all had trump cards bestowed by their elders.
Unless Ning Fan used the Divine Blast Technique to win, but wouldn’t that be too wasteful in this setting...
"The Divine Blast Technique is Young Master Ning’s strongest trump card. If he uses it here, how will he protect himself against Enlightenment Old Monsters in the future..." Liulan and Yanhong worriedly said.
"What an arrogant young man! All of you, attack him together and see his skills!" Jun Linyuan sneered coldly and instructed the Jun Family cultivators.
The Jun Family cultivators were furious at Ning Fan’s underestimation.
Each of them leaped onto the high stage, yet in the moment they did, their eyes became vacant, followed by their eyes turning blood-red, filled with murderous intent!
No more fear, no more emotion, only the resolve to completely kill Ning Fan!
"There’s something wrong with the eyes of these Jun Family cultivators, but I can’t discern what it is..." Yao Qingyun furrowed her brows even deeper, her delicate hands hidden in her sleeves ready to act at any moment.
Was she planning to reach out and assist Ning Fan at any time?
The high stage was quite expansive, with 74 Jun Family experts surrounding Ning Fan at the center.
Almost simultaneously, all 74 people launched their attacks, unleashing their Divine Skills and magical treasures towards Ning Fan!
Ning Fan sighed softly, took a step forward, and the evil aura around him soared into the sky, his eyes containing endless menace, his powerful aura transforming into seventy-four blood-colored giant fists, striking towards the 74 Jun Family cultivators on the high stage!
His evil aura was something even an ordinary Enlightenment couldn’t endure; here, Scatter Immortals, Human Profound, Ghost Profound, who could resist!
As the blood fists struck, 45 Scatter Immortals were directly blasted into blood mist, dying instantly!
Their magical treasures and Divine Skills were all obliterated by the blood-colored giant fists!
The remaining 29 Fate Immortals, all those with Human Profound cultivations, were each injured by the fist, devoured by the evil aura, their combat power halved!
Even the two Ghost Profound cultivators felt intense pain in their chests under Ning Fan’s aura, backing away several steps before stabilizing themselves, unable to steady their chaotic energy!
"Is he really at the Human Profound Peak! Just relying on the menace of his aura, he can maintain the upper hand in front of the group of immortals!" A hundred or so Abstruse Dust Sword Cultivators all revealed expressions of shock.
After stepping into the Second Step, Ning Fan’s manipulation of the evil aura became more skillful, mixing many variations.
The evil aura also became a means for Ning Fan to kill enemies and preserve his life!
With Ning Fan’s fierce evil aura, he could almost instantly kill all Scatter Immortals, countering any Scatter Immortal’s Divine Skills!
With its strength, he could also sweep across Human Profound and Ghost Profound, but still couldn’t defend against Fate Immortal level Divine Skills.
The 29 injured Fate Immortals, with their Human Profound, Ghost Profound strikes, relentlessly attacked Ning Fan.
Ning Fan stepped down hard, causing a lotus to rise from the earth, gray in color, followed by a million lotus shadows appearing around him!
Under the defense of these million lotus shadows, none of the 29 attacks could breach the Lotus Shadow Defense!
"Perfect!" Fei He’s eyes showed even more greed!
His eyes burned as he looked at Ning Fan, as if viewing the most perfect piece of craftsmanship in the world!
After the failed attack, the 29 Jun Family Fate Immortals still wanted to make a move, but Ning Fan acted even faster!
With a flip of his hand, Ning Fan summoned a Black-Gold Flying Sword out of thin air to his palm, then released it into the air, transforming into one hundred and eighty thousand phantom sword shadows, forming the Phantom Sword Formation to seal the entire high stage!
"Slash!"
With a single word, a power enough to confuse all Ghost Profound Late Stage practitioners appeared, immediately mesmerizing the minds of all Jun Family Fate Immortals.
In the layers of illusions, all Jun Family Fate Immortals had their deepest memories stirred.
One Human Profound Initial Stage Fate Immortal was lost in an illusion of his childhood, when he was merely a village child, and his father taught him how to craft farm tools.
His father was a blacksmith.
Later, when bandits massacred the village, he joined the bandits to survive, personally beheading his father.
In a daze, his father, somehow without a head, suddenly held a Black-Gold Long Sword, and slashed down on him...
Hiss!
The illusion ended here, and with a phantom sword shadow slashing through, the Human Profound Fate Immortal perished in the sword formation!
One Human Profound Advanced Stage Fate Immortal was lost in an illusion of his youth. At that time, he abandoned his first wife to seek Golden Core and partnered with a Nascent Soul elder’s disciple.
His first wife killed herself in resentment; it was his lifelong regret...
Now, in the illusion, he saw his first wife walking towards him with a smile.
Her hand held a Black-Gold sword, and with a cold smile, she stabbed into his Dantian.
Hiss!
This Human Profound Advanced Stage Fate Immortal fell with regretful eyes...
A Ghost Profound Early Stage Fate Immortal was lost in an illusion of his old age. At that time, to break through the Ghost Profound bottleneck, he forced himself upon his disciple...
That night, he mercilessly tormented her, ignoring her pleas.
Later, the disciple died after being exploited, while he broke through to the Ghost Profound Early Stage.
In the illusion, the disciple, bruised and blood-stained, approached step by step with hatred, driving a Black-Gold Long Sword into his chest.
Hiss!
This Ghost Profound Early Stage Fate Immortal screamed miserably and died!
The Phantom Sword Formation, with one hundred and eighty thousand swords, could simultaneously cast illusions upon one hundred and eighty thousand cultivators!
A sword illusion cut through, causing inevitable bloodshed!
In a mere few moments, the high platform was a river of blood, and all Jun Family cultivators had fallen!
Each weakened Spirit was sealed and whisked away by Ning Fan.
Every storage pouch was casually collected by Ning Fan, who then withdrew the sword array.
The remnants of corpses were absorbed into the Cauldron Ring by Ning Fan, leaving Zili to refine and consume the blood and flesh essence at her leisure.
"What formidable Dao Weapons!"
In an instant, even those like Yao Qingyun and Fei He were visibly shaken.
The Sword Cultivators of the Weichen Sword Sect looked at Ning Fan as though he were a cold-blooded reaper.
"Memory Severing Dao Sword, quite powerful..." Ning Fan nodded in satisfaction.
Once the Phantom Sword Formation was unleashed, cultivators who couldn’t withstand the sword illusions met their end unfailingly!
Even if eighty thousand Life Immortals came, as long as they couldn’t resist the power of the sword illusions, they would all perish!
Liulan and Yanhong showed terrified expressions consecutively; if Ning Fan’s cultivation reached the Initial Stage of Crossing Truth, level with them, they wouldn’t stand a chance against the Memory Severing Dao Sword’s might and would surely die!
The six corpse cultivators Fei He brought showed empty expressions, without a hint of surprise.
"You should join in too. Don’t worry, this time I won’t use the Memory Severing Dao Sword."
Ning Fan’s gaze swept lightly over the Abstruse Dust Sect’s cultivators, not prideful, but full of sympathy.
These people had become puppets, beyond salvation; all he could do was grant them death to give them release.
The faces of the Weichen Sword Cultivators were filled with terror, and none dared to step up to fight for a moment.
The eyes of Weichen Ancestor darkened as he silently moved his fingers hidden in his sleeve.
In the next instant, all the Weichen Sword Cultivators adopted vacant expressions and fearlessly ascended the high platform surrounding Ning Fan.
A total of 108 people formed a circular sword array, radiating sword intent, targeting Ning Fan.
They didn’t strike first; the Weichen Sword Sect’s array worked best with delayed action. Once the intruder struck, the array would launch a full-force counterattack.
Ning Fan glanced at the sword array, instantly understanding its delayed nature.
His heart held no extraneous emotions, only tranquility.
Raising his hands, his fingers formed seals, and suddenly his body fragmented into countless black fire lights.
The fire ascended into the sky, condensed into a massive purple-black dragon measuring ten thousand feet!
This dragon looked similar to ordinary demon dragons, but it had wings!
No one knew those wings were Fu Li’s wings!
This technique was a high-grade Immortal Technique—Flame Dragon’s Breath.
Ning Fan’s flames weren’t strong enough yet; if they could reach the eighth-grade peak level, the technique’s power would increase by a tier.
However, Ning Fan’s powerful Demon Bloodline, Fu Li ancestor blood, was capable of increasing the technique’s power by a tier!
The technique’s power rivaled peak-level Immortal Techniques, difficult for even Ghost Profound Peak-Stages to withstand!
Roar!
The purple-black demon dragon that Ning Fan transformed into opened its massive maw, spewing purple-black fire breath!
The flames came too quickly, not allowing the Weichen Sect Cultivators the chance to activate their sword array.
The Immortal cultivators were instantly turned to charcoal!
Human Profound cultivators were similarly turned to charcoal one by one!
Two Ghost Profound Early Stage sword cultivators were on their last breath, nearing death; two Ghost Profound Middle Stage sword cultivators had their Spirits severely damaged, losing seventy percent of their power.
The Ghost Profound Late Stage Weichen Sword Sect cultivator was also injured by the Flame Dragon’s Breath, but the emptiness in his eyes harbored a more ruthless intent.
Raising his hand, he attempted to unleash a Ghost Profound Peak-Stage Strike from a stored attack of the jade slip!
Ning Fan certainly wouldn’t give him the chance to unleash the jade slip’s attack!
Dissipating the dragon form, Ning Fan reverted to his white-clad form, opening his palm to instantly condense seven layers of palm prints, merging them into a black and white palm print!
At that moment, the entire Six Desires Star plunged into darkness!
At that moment, under the pitch-black sky, only Ning Fan’s white clothes fluttered, with the movement of Dao Force, could be the startling white brilliance of the Big Dipper Stars suddenly appearing in the night sky!
At that moment, Ning Fan’s eyes reflected only the Path of Obsession, dualist allegiance to Demon!
At that moment, Yao Qingyun’s phoenix eyes widened, while Fei He and the other three Shedding Void Stages couldn’t hide the joy in their eyes!
"Dao Image, such a strong Dao Image! Wonderful, wonderful, this child is superb, this child is superb!"
This palm, superficially resembling the Heaven Seizing Seal, but fundamentally different.
Neither Yao Qingyun nor Fei He connected this seal with the Heaven Seizing Seal.
What shocked them the most was the strength of Ning Fan’s Dao Image, which they had never seen before in their lives!
"Destroy!"
Ning Fan raised his palm and struck downward, causing the entire Six Desires Star to tremble violently!
In the next instant, the Heaven-Concealing Palm Imprint struck down, flattening the entire high platform with one strike!
Ning Fan’s palm force remained controlled, akin to the earlier Flame Dragon’s Breath, not exerting full strength.
Otherwise, those cultivators wouldn’t simply be turned into charcoal; their bodies wouldn’t remain, nor would their Spirits be preserved.
Even so, this palm strike in the eyes of the assembled cultivators here can only be described as stunning!
Even the Sect Master of the Six Desires Sect, who has been secluded within and doesn’t wish to meddle in external affairs, was shaken by the power of this palm!
He is a cultivator at the Initial Stage of Crossing Truth but cannot ignore the might of the palm!
"If I were careless, I would undoubtedly be severely injured by this boy’s palm strike! Though only at the Human Profound realm, this boy can wield such a powerful hand seal; under the Crossing Truth realm, no one is a match for his palm!"
"This boy, based solely on this hand seal divine skill, is enough to be ’the first person under True Immortal’ in Eastern Heaven!"
"My Six Desires Sect cannot interfere in the ancestral Dongfu Realm, nor gain any benefit from it. However, I can pursue greater benefits, and that is to befriend this boy! I will not be mistaken, this boy has unlimited potential, and it’s highly possible for him to not only break through to Shedding Void and Shattered Thought but also become an Immortal Venerable or Immortal King in the future! His talent surpasses this generation in Eastern Heaven, and even counting back one generation, no one can compete with him!"
The Sect Master of the Six Desires Sect’s mind spun rapidly, making a decision.
After the three great forces have finished exploring the ancestral secret land, he will surely have Ning Fan stay for some time, to form a good friendship.
He believes in his vision; Ning Fan’s future is absolutely beyond the imagination of ordinary people!
Landing upon the high platform’s ruins, Ning Fan gathered the scorched and fragmented corpses, collected the tattered storage pouches spread across the ground, and took away the ephemeral Spirits nearing their end. Then, he flickered back to the giant vessel.
The Sword Cultivators of Weichen, and the Jun Family Cultivators were slaughtered by him alone; there’s no longer any need to fight for the ten spots.
Fei He suddenly realized something and coughed lightly.
Jun Linyuan and Weichen Ancestor’s expressions changed, immediately retracting their joyful expressions.
Just now, having witnessed Ning Fan’s powerful palm impression, they both unintentionally revealed an expression of delight, which was not the look they should show...
Though they indeed were overjoyed, in the eyes of outsiders, when Jun Family and Sword Cultivators of Weichen were dead completely, they should be angry, how could they show joy instead.
Their faces changed faster than flipping a book; soon, they displayed signs of rage, coldly glaring at Ning Fan, as if wishing to strike him dead with a palm to avenge their dead disciples.
Fei He’s eyes shimmered, intended to step in and protect Ning Fan.
Before he had a chance, Yao Qingyun stepped in with a lotus stride, blocking in front of Ning Fan, coldly smiling at Jun Linyuan and Weichen Ancestor.
"Two Daoists, wanting to harm our Slaughter Hall’s outstanding disciple?"
"Humph, and what if we do!" The two sneered in anger.
"Dare lay hands on him, and I shall summon a hundred Ghost Eyes and slaughter your Jun Family and Weichen Sword Sect!"
Upon hearing this, Jun Linyuan and Weichen Ancestor’s eyes trembled, gritted their teeth, and retracted their anger.
On the surface, they seem frightened by Yao Qingyun’s threats.
In fact, they were feigning anger all along.
"Thank you. Be wary of Jun Linyuan and Weichen Ancestor; they appear to be Fei He’s people." Ning Fan transmitted a message, which drifted into Yao Qingyun’s ears.
Yao Qingyun initially wanted to retort, claiming that she helped Ning Fan only as fulfilling the duty of an elder, advising him not to misunderstand.
Upon hearing Ning Fan’s latter words, Yao Qingyun’s eyes flickered, transmitted a message asking, "Are you sure?"
"Yes."
"If that’s the case, once inside the Dongfu Realm, stay close to me. They include three at the Shedding Void, if you’re too far, it’d be hard for me to protect you." Yao Qingyun coldly said.
"Then I’d trouble Elder Qingyun to take good care of this disciple." Ning Fan smiled.
Indeed, he required Yao Qingyun’s protection.
Before that mysterious fourth person appears, he doesn’t plan to utilize the trump card of an Immortal Venerable Strike; he wishes to destroy all four of Fei He when that person appears!
Yao Qingyun’s repeated protection, Ning Fan naturally noticed.
Though unclear why Yao Qingyun suddenly broke norms to repeatedly aid him, he acknowledged owing Yao Qingyun a favor.
Glancing over the people present, Ning Fan’s mind spun rapidly.
The Dongfu Realm can only accommodate fourteen people, all along, Fei He, Jun Linyuan, and Weichen Ancestor never intended to choose ten people from each of their juniors to enter the realm.
All along, Fei He’s plan was for four at the Shedding Void, two at the Crossing Truth, and seven Life Immortals to enter the Dongfu Realm.
All along, Fei He only intended to bring these 13 people in!
Leaving the last spot for the person who has not appeared yet.
Fourteen people, not one more, not one less!
Looking into his Dantian, Ning Fan discovered that within his Dantian, there were already 184 Desire Puppet Threads.
As long as the mastermind controls the puppet threads, Ning Fan would easily turn into a puppet...
"Desire Puppet Threads, what can they do to me!"
Ning Fan coldly chuckled in his heart, activating the Yin Yang Locket, refining all the threads one by one.
After consuming 184 Desire Puppet Threads, Ning Fan’s Yin Yang Transformation Cultivation Technique unexpectedly made considerable progress.
Desire, by nature, is an excellent supplement to enhance the Yin Yang Transformation Cultivation Technique.
Liulan, Yanhong, and the six corpse cultivator Life Immortals, successively returned to the giant vessel.
The four at Shedding Void discussed a few words, subsequently, Fei He steering the giant vessel, directly flew towards the black hole vortex outside Six Desires Star!
The puppet threads are planted; Ning Fan was already thought to be within their grasp, heading towards the Dongfu Realm!
The three at Shedding Void are unaware; whether it’s corpse poison or puppet threads, none can control Ning Fan!
This meticulous scheme, plotted over many years, is already full of holes, difficult to mend...
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