novelraw Chapter 757: The Power of the Imperial Shadow Finger!
Chapter 757: The Power of the Imperial Shadow Finger!
This time, it was Yao Qingyun who took the initiative, guiding Ning Fan to complete this dual cultivation.
Yao Qingyun diligently moved, closing her eyes, softly humming, as the desire poison within her was gradually absorbed by Ning Fan.
Ning Fan also closed his eyes, enjoying this dual cultivation while internally observing himself, controlling the flow of his desires, slowly absorbing the poison of desire from Yao Qingyun’s body.
The third Yin Spirit of the Stele of Sun and Moon had already been replenished, allowing the Xuan Yin Treasure to upgrade once more, where it could now remain for a decade.
As the power of desire circulated within his body, a new physique was gradually taking shape.
The power of desire slowly seeped into Ning Fan’s bones. All 206 bones became as warm and lustrous as jade.
As all the power of desire permeated his bones, Ning Fan’s body, on the foundation of the Grand Five Elements Body, gained the physique of the Six Desires Bone!
The Six Desires Bone is mostly an innate physique, rare for anyone to develop this physique after birth.
Those born with this physique are destined for dual cultivation methods.
With the Desire Bones in his body, Ning Fan’s resistance to the power of desire significantly increased, even allowing him to transcend various realms with his Life Immortal cultivation, directly dual cultivating with female cultivators of the Shedding Void Realm, the second realm of True Immortals!
With this Desire Bone, he could ensure that high-level female cultivators he dual cultivated with would not die!
As a cultivator of the Yin Yang Transformation, Ning Fan had naturally heard of the Six Desires Bone physique.
He never thought that one day he would develop the Desire Bone himself.
This was indeed an unexpected joy.
With the formation of the Desire Bone, Ning Fan’s speed in detoxifying Yao Qingyun naturally increased.
Suddenly, he flipped over, directly pressing Yao Qingyun onto the icy ground.
Yao Qingyun, who had been enjoying the position with her eyes closed, was suddenly turned over and pressed down by Ning Fan onto the cold ground, involuntarily letting out a soft moan, her tender white legs wrapped around Ning Fan’s waist.
She was quite cooperative with Ning Fan’s actions.
Opening her misty eyes, Yao Qingyun panted lightly, pretending to chuckle coldly, "Pressing down... pressing down on me, are you feeling very proud... is that right!"
"What if I am!"
Slap, slap, slap...
Two hours later, the desire poison within Yao Qingyun was completely eliminated.
She tightly embraced Ning Fan once more.
Seeing this, Yao Qingyun finally smiled with satisfaction, feigning disdain, "So you... you are just this much..."
"I’d still like to continue, but it seems someone can no longer take pleasure."
Ning Fan’s gaze softened, moved gently, and Yao Qingyun instantly let out a soft hiss.
As the pleasure slowly faded, she realized how much her body hurt, as if torn apart thousands of times.
Looking at herself again, she saw spots of green and purple kiss marks and touched her lips, finding them slightly swollen.
Her whole body felt as if the bones had been removed, soft like mud.
Only her chest gently rose and fell, pressed tightly against Ning Fan’s chest.
"Does it still hurt here? Do you need a rub?"
Ning Fan’s hand.
Yao Qingyun immediately showed a look of shame and anger, remembering the words she pleaded to Ning Fan when the desire poison acted.
"Get lost!"
With a slight recovery of strength, Yao Qingyun pushed Ning Fan away, sat up from the ground, gazing at Ning Fan with dissatisfaction.
After today’s events, she found it difficult to show her elder demeanor in front of Ning Fan anymore.
Smoothing her disheveled hair, Yao Qingyun pretended to be indifferent,
"Today’s events were mutual consent, I do not blame you, nor should you cling to me because of this. This kind of thing, there shall be no next time, understood?"
"Is there really no next time? What if you feel uncomfortable again, how will you resolve it?" Ning Fan looked at Yao Qingyun’s fair chest with a half-smile.
"You still want to help me? Could it be you are deeply infatuated with my body?" Yao Qingyun sneered at Ning Fan, yet her mood was extremely good.
"Hmm."
"You have good taste! If so, I will grant you special favor, allowing you to come to my aid when I am in discomfort!"
Yao Qingyun waved her hand, capturing the fallen storage pouch from the ground, taking out a copper basin and a silk cloth, and with a flick of her finger, the copper basin was immediately filled with clear water.
Soaking the silk cloth, Yao Qingyun was not pretentious. She began wiping her body in front of Ning Fan, cleaning away various fluids.
Then, she took out fresh clothes and dressed, the scenery was breathtaking.
Ning Fan also captured his storage pouch, quietly picking up a jade scroll from the ground, changed his clothes, and slipped the jade scroll back into his sleeve.
He mocked himself with a smile in his heart, he had acted too wildly earlier, even tossed the Immortal Venerable Strike jade slip onto the ground. If the Slaughter Emperor were to know, he wondered if he would blame.
During the time they were dressing, Ning Fan informed Yao Qingyun of his speculations about the fourth person and some trivial matters one by one.
Yao Qingyun was now considered an ’insider,’ there was no need to hide anything.
Upon hearing that a dead puppet of Mid-Phase Shattered Thought had entered the underground palace, and hidden within was an even more powerful Fragmented Thought Elder, Yao Qingyun’s phoenix eyes were unprecedentedly solemn and shocked. After a long moment, she bitterly smiled, bit her silver teeth, and resolutely said,
"The Fragmented Thought Elder is not someone I can defeat... I never thought that behind Fei He, there would also be a Fragmented Thought Elder. It seems this tribulation cannot be avoided. Well, the Desire Grand Array on the sixth level is gradually weakening, in the moment the formation light weakens, the enemies outside will surely appear. By then, I will try to hold off the numerous strong foes, and you escape from here with Liulan and Yanhong back to the Slaughter Hall..."
"Foolish woman, you wish to sacrifice your life to save me?" Ning Fan’s heart softened, he reached out his hand, stroked Yao Qingyun’s cheek lightly.
Yao Qingyun’s cultivation was merely at the Initiate Realm of Shekong, far from being a match for the Fragmented Thought Elders.
Outside, there were two with Shattered Thought, and three with Shedding Void Stage; Yao Qingyun intended to singlehandedly stop the enemies and create an escape opportunity for Ning Fan.
If so, she would undoubtedly die.
Feeling Ning Fan’s gentle touch, Yao Qingyun’s heart suddenly skipped a beat, and she quietly looked away, unnaturally brushing off Ning Fan’s hand with her usual cold smile,
"Don’t be mistaken, I’m risking my life just to let you take Liulan and Yanhong away from here. I owe them my life and can’t let them come to harm! Take them back to the Slaughter Hall... If possible, take good care of them for me..."
"Don’t worry, I won’t let you die," Ning Fan said seriously.
"Afraid? Would I be afraid?" Yao Qingyun instinctively sneered, wanting to retort Ning Fan.
But seeing Ning Fan’s earnest eyes, she couldn’t help but get flustered and didn’t know what to say.
Her waist tightened as Ning Fan held her in his embrace, and strangely, Yao Qingyun didn’t push him away.
"Don’t be afraid, while I’m here, none of them will leave!"
The man in front of her, despite not having a higher cultivation level than her, gave her an unprecedented sense of security, making her willing to believe his seemingly absurd words.
"Ning Fan, are you really at the Human Profound Peak..." Yao Qingyun asked softly, nestled in Ning Fan’s arms.
"Yes."
"Then how can you protect me..."
"No need to ask, stay close to me, don’t take a single step away!"
Ning Fan smiled, loosened his embrace, and swiftly moved Yao Qingyun behind him.
He turned his gaze, eyes flashing coldly, staring at the formation light on the sixth level!
The formation light finally disappeared completely at that moment!
As the light vanished, four figures stepped into the sixth level one by one!
Fei He, Jun Linyuan, Weichen Ancestor, and the cloaked elder!
Seeing the scattered remains and sniffing the lingering warm atmosphere, Fei He smirked sinisterly, Jun Linyuan nodded in satisfaction, while Weichen Ancestor glared at Ning Fan with overwhelming killing intent!
The scene starkly reminded Weichen Ancestor of the bloody truth: Yao Qingyun had been completely taken by Ning Fan, experiencing pleasure under him!
He knew this was a crucial step in their plan.
He couldn’t prevent Yao Qingyun’s fall, nor his jealousy and resentment towards Ning Fan!
Taking a step forward, sword qi surged from all around Weichen Ancestor, the four sword boxes behind him resonated with a ringing sound, causing the entire space of the sixth level to tremble!
He was eager to vanquish Ning Fan with a single sword strike to quell his hatred!
"Stop!"
The cloaked elder suddenly coldly snorted, and a vast aura swept towards Weichen Ancestor!
In an instant, all the sword qi around Weichen Ancestor crumbled, his chest ached, causing him to step back repeatedly, his face turning pale and blood oozing from the corners of his mouth!
Despite being an Initiate Realm cultivator of Shekong, he couldn’t withstand a reprimand from the cloaked elder!
"It’s him!" Yao Qingyun’s gentle hands clenched tightly, nails deeply embedding into her flesh, her phoenix eyes gradually showing signs of despair.
The opponent really had shattered thoughts, and that shattered thought wielder’s strength was enough to gravely injure her or another Initiate Realm of Shekong; she was no match for such power.
She remembered the cloaked elder standing before her once sought an audience with the previous head of the Yao family.
After this individual’s appearance, the Yao family’s cultivators poisoned her with a desire toxin.
It turned out to be a plot laid out long ago!
Today, it seemed inescapable from death, and Ning Fan was probably going to perish with her...
Fragmented Thought, Fragmented Thought, who here could be a match for this cloaked elder.
"Don’t be afraid."
Ning Fan’s calm words seemed to have immense power, instantly dispelling all the unease in Yao Qingyun’s heart.
Raising his gaze, Ning Fan looked coldly at the cloaked elder, meeting the serious gaze from the cloaked elder.
"Where have the puppet threads in your body gone?" the cloaked elder demanded sternly.
"If you want to know, have your true self come out!" Ning Fan’s words fell, and he suddenly stomped on the ground!
This stomp didn’t contain great mighty power, yet held an indescribable divine technique!
In an instant, the power of endless desire swept through the sixth level of the secret underground palace, the power of desire within the Six Desires Palace instantly became chaotic, the grand situation shifted!
In the fifth level of the secret underground palace, the Thousand-Eyed Elder hidden within the yellow sand was suddenly forced out by the power of desire, his eyes showing a look of disbelief!
And then, overjoyed!
"Six Desires Bone!"
If the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster’s expectation wasn’t wrong, the power that Ning Fan used to disrupt the power of desire on the sixth level of the secret underground palace came from the Six Desires Bone within him!
His figure flickered, and he suddenly disappeared from his original place, reappearing in the sixth level of the secret underground palace, looking greedily at Ning Fan, his Shattered Thought Peak aura sweeping across the entire sixth level!
Seeing the Thousand-Eyed Elder appear, Yao Qingyun’s phoenix eyes were greatly shocked, even Fei He, Jun Linyuan, and Weichen Ancestor were all astonished!
They had always known that the cloaked elder was a corpse, with a puppeteer behind him, but they had never seen who that puppeteer was.
This was their first time seeing the true visage of their master!
The restrictive spell in their divine senses reminded the three that the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster before them was their master!
"Master!" The three dared not delay, and immediately cupped their fists and saluted the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster, their expressions extremely fearful!
The Thousand-Eyed Old Monster, however, did not even glance at the three of them, his gaze greedy and fervent as he watched Ning Fan, mumbling only two words!
Perfect!
Ning Fan indeed was the most perfect vessel, not in vain did he wait all these years to execute his plan!
The Six Desires Bone, and still a flawless Six Desires Bone!
It must be known even the Six Desires Immortal King, though possessing the physique of the Six Desires Bone, had his physique damaged due to an accident, leaving his Desire Bone marred.
But Ning Fan, he possessed the perfect flawless Six Desires Bone!
If he obtained Ning Fan, then devoured everyone here, perfecting the Three Great Dao Completions, he not only had the hope to sweep over all the Immortal Kings of the Eternal Five Tribulations, surpassing the Six Desires Immortal King, but also the chance to step into the realm of the Eternal Sixth Calamity, becoming a generation’s Immortal Emperor!
"Give your body to me!"
The Thousand-Eyed Old Monster stepped closer to Ning Fan, each of his thousand eyes filled with greed!
Although his plan had a minor accident, with 184 puppet threads disappearing without cause, it did not affect the execution of the entire plan!
In the eyes of the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster, Ning Fan was ultimately just a Human Profound Peak, and Yao Qingyun behind Ning Fan was merely in the Initiate Realm of Shekong, unable to protect him!
Now showing his true form, personally in action, regardless of Ning Fan having three heads and six arms, he would inevitably become his vessel!
Faced with the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster approaching step by step, Yao Qingyun felt her breath stifled, unable to counter the aura of the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster!
Ning Fan stepped aside, completely blocking Yao Qingyun, taking on all the aura alone!
Aura would not injure him!
He had the Six Desires Bone, unless by an Immortal Venerable in Eternity Realm, no force intended to suppress him!
As he looked at the approaching Thousand-Eyed Old Monster, Ning Fan’s eyes grew sharper with ruthless coldness!
He had originally thought the fourth person was at most in the Later Stage of Shattered Thought, unexpectedly, he was at the Shattered Thought Peak, which was somewhat miscalculated.
Yet, this is not surprising; the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster planted puppet threads in the Jun Family Cultivators by the hand of the cloaked corpse, naturally giving rise to errors of his true cultivation level from the puppet threads.
However, so what if it was miscalculated!
Not to mention the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster being just the Shattered Thought Peak, even against Immortal Venerable Cultivation Level, Ning Fan had the means for self-defense, ensuring his escape without return!
At this moment, a deep sense of unease arose in the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster’s heart!
Before he could figure out why facing a Human Profound Peak made him uneasy, Ning Fan suddenly flipped his hand, taking out a golden jade slip from his sleeve and crushing it!
The instant the golden jade slip was crushed, an eternal and ancient aura flowed from Ning Fan’s body!
Under such powerful aura, Fei He, Jun Linyuan, Weichen Ancestor all showed expressions of terror, their bodies trembling uncontrollably!
Under this aura, even the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster quivered slightly, exclaiming in disbelief,
"A stored attack of the Eternal Immortal Venerable! Not good! Make haste!"
Without hesitation, the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster’s figure flickered, escaping to the fifth layer!
In the next instant, a massive golden shadow of the Great Emperor abruptly appeared behind Ning Fan!
The shadow of the Immortal Emperor! One of the divine skills of the Immortal Emperor!
An Immortal Emperor cultivates emperor aura into emperor qi, refining emperor shadows into imperial shadows; this step is crucial on the path to becoming an emperor!
At the moment of the imperial shadow’s appearance, Yao Qingyun’s lips parted slightly, and she gazed at Ning Fan in disbelief, unable to imagine Ning Fan hiding such terrifying hidden strength!
The jade slip of an Immortal Venerable strike, and it was even condensed by an Immortal Emperor personally!
Though its power was an Immortal Venerable Strike from the Eternal First Calamity, because it was condensed by an Immortal Emperor, this strike could almost crown the realm of the Eternal First Calamity, even a First Calamity Immortal Sovereign found it hard to resist, let alone True Immortal Cultivators beneath eternity!
With this jade slip, Fei He and others were no match for Ning Fan!
"No wonder that day before entering the pool of blood, he gave me an unprecedented sense of danger. So, this is the reason..."
At the instant of the imperial shadow’s appearance, Ning Fan’s spirit sense transformed, the gigantic imperial shadow behind him then raised a finger, at which swirled with molten golden light, pressing down with a finger!
"Emperor Skill, Finger Breaks the Thousand Army!"
Fei He looked incredulously at the approaching golden light, this finger of golden light was too fast, so fast that he had no time to make any defensive or evasive moves, and was about to die under this finger’s golden light!
At this moment, he regretted deeply, regretting why he decided to provoke Ning Fan!
He initially thought Ning Fan had low cultivations, weak and easy to bully, at most slightly possessing extraordinary talent.
Unexpectedly, Ning Fan held such earth-shattering hidden strength!
At this moment, Fei He finally understood!
Ning Fan’s previous repeated shows of weakness were merely toying with him!
Bang!
With deep resentment and terror, Fei He let out a miserable cry and was pressed alive by the golden light into a pulp of dirty flesh!
His spirit, perished in an instant!
Jun Linyuan’s drowsy eyes had awakened!
Until entering the sixth layer, he had never regarded Ning Fan as significant.
But at this moment, he realized how blind his drowsy eyes were, failing to see Ning Fan as a pig who eats the tiger type.
Bang!
No more time for thought, Jun Linyuan experienced a pain all over, already pressed by the finger’s golden light!
Weichen Ancestor trembled all over as he looked at Ning Fan, no longer showing any arrogance!
With a venomous and unwilling gaze, Sword Gaze looked at Ning Fan one last time, and the next moment, he fell beneath the light of the finger!
The finger light of the Imperial Shadow Finger crushed three Shedding Void!
This finger light seemed only to slay the living and did not harm the dead; its divine skills were exceedingly mysterious, causing no damage to the underground palace.
The corpse puppet of the cloaked elder, being a dead thing, was not destroyed by the finger light. However, the puppet strings within its body were all severed by the finger light, leaving it standing lifelessly there, now a masterless corpse.
The whistling finger light burst forth, rushing out of the sixth level, heading straight for the fifth level, chasing after the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster!
Perceiving the finger light rapidly closing in from behind, the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster was terrified!
"This is not a regular Immortal Venerable Strike! This is a jade slip created by an Immortal Emperor, this is the Imperial Shadow Finger! Though just the power of an Immortal Venerable Strike, it’s still not something I can withstand!"
"How can this be! How can this be! Just a mere Human Profound Peak, why is he favored by the Immortal Emperor and gifted such a precious jade slip! What is this boy’s background! Could it be that he’s a descendant of the Immortal Emperor!"
"Damn it, can’t escape! Burning Sky Fan!"
Sensing the finger light closing in, the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster made a resolute decision not to flee anymore, abruptly turning around, he took down the fiery giant fan from his back and fiercely fanned it towards the finger light!
With this fan, nearly all his mana was exhausted, and rolling crimson corpse flames blazed forth from the giant fan, instantly transforming into a sea of corpse fire.
Under the scorching of this sea of corpse fire, a tenth of the golden light of the Imperial Shadow Finger was actually burned away!
If it were ordinary times, the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster would be very proud to know that his strike could remove a tenth of the Imperial Shadow Finger’s light.
But at this moment, he did not feel any joy whatsoever.
With this one strike, he drained his mana, yet only destroyed a tenth of the finger light, enough remaining to obliterate him!
"Damn it... Separation and Union Sword, slash!"
He unsheathed the Cold Jade Longsword from his waist, with one slash, ninety-seven percent of his blood essence was consumed; this backlash from the strike nearly brought him to ruin!
The Burning Sky Fan requires mana to be activated, but the Separation and Union Sword requires the consumption of one’s own blood essence!
This is a magical treasure that harms a thousand enemies while damaging eight hundred of itself!
A crescent-shaped silver sword light slashed through the air, and wherever the sword light passed, slices of space shattered completely!
The sharpness of this sword light, even a thousand-fold immortal realm could be split open!
The sword light struck against the finger light, once again depleting a tenth of the power of the Imperial Shadow Finger before dissipating.
Despairingly, the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster watched as the Imperial Shadow Finger came closer and closer, he had drained his mana, exhausted his blood essence, yet only managed to block a fifth of the finger light...
"Must I use my ultimate divine skill..."
The Thousand-Eyed Old Monster gritted his teeth, stowing away the Burning Sky Fan and Separation and Union Sword, unraveling all the bandages on his body, tearing apart all his robes.
In the next moment, he revealed a hideously repulsive naked body, covered entirely with eyeballs, blinking incessantly, enough to make one vomit at a glance.
"This seat’s true self, is the Desire-Dissolving Pearl! This seat is one of the three treasures of the Six Desires! And the Desire-Dissolving Pearl, is a supreme treasure refined from an eye abandoned by the Six Desires Immortal King!"
"This seat’s true identity is the Six Desires Eye! Shatter!"
The thousands of eyes on his body all self-destructed, and in the next moment, the entire body of the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster blew apart, transforming into an enormous eyeball.
From this eyeball, countless streams of black blood suddenly flowed!
Once the black blood streamed out, bit by bit, it began to condense into a black finger light, which in power was not much inferior to the slightly weakened Imperial Shadow Finger!
If the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster truly managed to condense the black finger, even though still insufficient to withstand the Imperial Shadow Finger, it would still be capable of destroying the vast majority of the finger light. Even if wounded by the remaining finger light, he would not die and would have a chance to escape.
"Freeze!"
A distant voice came from the direction of the sixth level.
The next moment, the giant eye that the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster had transformed into was unexpectedly wrapped with strands of blood lines, locking him in place!
The technique was cast by Ning Fan, not enough to hold him for long, at most just for an instant; moreover, given Ning Fan and the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster’s cultivation gap, forcefully casting this technique would result in a severe backlash!
This technique might only be enough to restrain the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster for a moment, but in that moment, it was enough for the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster to fall!
Before the black finger had fully condensed, the Imperial Shadow’s finger had already struck the body!
A miserable scream echoed from the giant eye, and in the next moment, the giant eye shattered, and the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster fell!
To his death, the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster never understood why Ning Fan could cast the Heaven Securing Technique at the critical moment, preventing him from preserving his life...
As an Eastern Celestial Cultivator, he could not be ignorant of the terrifying nature of the Heaven Securing Technique.
"Securing the Heavens, Securing the Heavens... I died under the signature technique of the Ancestral Emperor from the Eastern Heaven, I have nothing to regret... So, this child is actually the successor of the Ancestral Emperor..." With this thought, the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster’s consciousness thoroughly dissipated...
In the sixth layer of the underground palace, Ning Fan suddenly spat blood, collapsing to one knee, his expression extremely haggard.
Forcefully restraining the Thousand-Eyed Old Monster bore a backlash that he could not bear.
This time, he would suffer serious injuries again...
Yao Qingyun hurriedly supported Ning Fan, still in disbelief.
The Immortal Venerable Strike jade slip, Ancestral Emperor’s Heaven Securing Technique... Why are there so many defiant things on Ning Fan’s body...
"Help me...heal..." Ning Fan’s face paled further, coughing up another mouthful of fresh blood.
"How should this palace assist you?"
"Dual Cultivation!"
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