Grasping Evil

Mei Chen was still asleep. Ning Fan, on the other hand, went inside the Yuan Yao World and entered the dark golden pagoda.

On the seventh floor of the pagoda, Ning Fan summoned ninety-nine natal black stars with a wave of his hand and basked under the starlight which filled the sky.

Then, he consumed a Sixth Revolution vulnerary pill and closed his eyes to begin a long recovery session.

Only after sitting inside the dark golden pagoda for three years did his injuries fully healed. But in the outside world, only half a month passed by.

Ning Fan slowly let out a deep breath and opened his eyes. His black eyes were like two endless abysses. Not a single hint of emotion was on his face.

He recalled killing Bone Sovereign half a month ago which felt like a dream.

"Bone Sovereign was a strong enemy as well as the first Void Fragmentation Realm expert that I killed with my own hands. However, he definitely isn't the last one… Even though Void Fragmentation Realm experts are strong since they are the strongest beings in the First Step of Cultivation, they can still be killed! Han Nietian, I'm slowly reaching your level…"

Ning Fan closed his eyes and inspected his body internally. He discovered that his baleful qi had intensified by a great deal.

Even though Bone Sovereign committed suicide, his death was due to his battle with Ning Fan. Thus, Ning Fan was more or less still stained with some baleful qi.

All of a sudden, he remembered a common saying from the mortal realm and seemed to have gained enlightenment.

'I didn't kill Bo Ren but Bo Ren died because of me…' Getting affected by baleful qi after killing someone. The ultimate principle of karma actually lies within it.

"Karma… If I can sever karma, I can prevent myself from being affected by baleful qi after killing someone… The reason why Giant Zhi Huo attacked me when I was previously breaking through to the Void Glimpse Stage was because I've taken too many lives and obtained too much baleful qi…"

"In the Four Heavens, true immortals and immortal emperors are probably incapable of avoiding conflicts and fights. When they fight, stars will be destroyed and millions upon millions will die. The number of people they've killed must be countless times more than mine… However, they weren't banished by the Heavenly Dao. I suppose many of them possess methods to sever karma and avoid obtaining baleful qi."

Ning Fan muttered to himself. He was just thinking about these things and did not actually have thoughts of erasing his baleful qi.

His baleful qi all originated from the killings he had committed in the past. However, he never regretted the lives he had taken. Thus, there was no need for him to hide it.

"The path that I've walked is my Dao. There is no need to regret it."

He slowly readjusted his thoughts and began to inspect his storage pouch. He gained many spoils from the battle.

Five million Gold Core Realm sense beads, five thousand Divine Transformation Realm sense beads, twelve Void Refinement Realm sense beads and one Fifth Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm sense bead…

There were plenty of broken magic treasures as well as magic treasures which were still intact. Additionally, he obtained countless ragged storage pouches filled with innumerable spiritual herbs that had grown in the Seventh Region for countless years.

Ning Fan scanned across them and made a rough estimation. Just the one hundred thousand years old spiritual herbs alone, there were fifty tufts among this batch of spiritual herbs. Apart from that, there were three thousand plus tufts of fifty thousand years old spiritual herbs, seventy thousand plus tufts of ten thousand spiritual herbs and innumerable one thousand years old spiritual herbs…

These spiritual herbs were more than enough for Ning Fan to spend lavishly.

What intrigued Ning Fan the most was none other than the items he obtained from Bone Sovereign.

Other than the golden pen, he had even gloriously seized Bone Sovereign's storage pouch.

There were indeed many excellent items inside the pouch. There was even a Low Grade Seventh Revolution vulnerary pill.

After giving it some thought, Ning Fan eventually decided to save this pill for Mei Chen to eat.

Even though Mei Chen needed to consume a vulnerary pill of at least High Grave Seventh Revolution in order to fully recover, this Low Grade Seventh Revolution pill was still quite useful to her recovery.

Aside from the pill, there were also many other pills inside the pouch.

In fact, there were four ghost sense beads at the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm.

Ning Fan guessed that these four Void Fragmentation Realm sense beads must be something that Bone Sovereign obtained when he still ruled over the Seventh Region.

It was imaginable how terrifying the massacre Bone Sovereign committed in the Seventh Region in the past as he even killed four Void Fragmentation Realm ghosts…

After keeping the spiritual herbs and sense beads, Ning Fan's gaze fell on the golden pen and the Earth Blazing Flame.

The Earth Blazing Flame was originally infused to the golden pen which Bone Sovereign chanced upon at the entrance of the Eighth Region.

Someone actually infused the number-one Heavenly Cold Qi and Earth Vein Demonic Flames to this golden pen… What exactly is the origin of this golden pen?

It's a golden pen that an immortal had once used. At first, the pen wasn't a high-grade magic treasure but after infusing it with the cold qi and spiritual flame, its power was awakened which enabled it to produce golden runes with unfathomable power to attack the user's enemies. It's an unusual weapon indeed.

"Little You Er, do you remember where this golden pen came from?"

"Let me think about it carefully…" In the Profound Yin World, Luo You was stuck in contemplation. She rarely behaved like this.

She flipped through the memories within her mind. She felt like she had heard about this golden pen somewhere before but she could not remember it at the moment.

When her eyes shifted to the Earth Blazing Flame and Mending Heavenly Heart, that piece of information suddenly surfaced in her mind!

"Heavenly Cold Qi and Earth Vein Demonic Flames… That's it! This is one of the rune pens of the Golden Rune Palace!"

"Golden Rune Palace?" It was Ning Fan's first time hearing that name.

"The Golden Rune Palace is an ancient force located at the Southern Heaven Immortal World. It was annihilated by someone tens of millions of years ago. That's why I couldn't recall it earlier… I only managed to remember it when I noticed the cold qi and earth flame."

Luo You paused for a while as if she was trying to dig out her past memories. After a while, she continued, "The Golden Rune Palace is a sect of rune cultivation. The members of the sect were skilled in creating and drawing runes. Every one of them had a golden pen. It isn't just an item for creating runes but also the identity tokens of the members of the Golden Rune Palace. They wouldn't be able to enter the historical remains of the Golden Rune Palace if they didn't have their golden pens with them… Try looking at this golden pen. Does it have a name and position?"

Upon hearing what Luo You said, Ning Fan carefully scrutinized the golden pen. Then, he saw some ancient inscriptions at one end of the pen.

"Deacon of the Golden Rune Palace's Treasury – Zhuo Jie…" Ning Fan uttered.

"*Chuckle* My younger brother certainly has great luck. Even though the Golden Rune Palace was annihilated, there are still one hundred and eight treasuries that had remained sealed in its historical remains. If you ascend to the Southern Heaven Immortal World one day and head to the historical remains of the Golden Rune Palace, you can take out the treasures in the treasury which Zhuo Jie guarded in the past. That is a treasury that an immortal once looked after. I suppose there should be many excellent items there." Luo You chuckled as she spoke.

"Other than acting as a magic treasure that produces runes, what else can this golden pen do? Since that's the case, if I have a chance to head to the Southern Heaven Immortal World one day, I'll really need to pay a visit to the Golden Rune Palace." Ning Fan nodded and said.

"It'll be better for you to possess a cultivation base at the True Immortal Realm if you really want to go to the Golden Rune Palace… The waters there are quite murky. You might end up dead in the historical remains if your cultivation base is weak. Do you know why the Golden Rune Palace was annihilated in the past?" Luo You stopped smiling and said with a serious expression.

"Why?"

"The progenitor of that Golden Rune Palace was the painter of the second painting of the four ancient paintings! The reason why the Golden Rune Palace was annihilated was because it carried the secrets of the four ancient paintings!"

"The four ancient paintings again?" Ning Fan sounded surprised.

"All the four ancient paintings were specially created and all contained the Great Dao… The first painting is called the 'Immemorial Fisherman's Raincoat'. It contains the 'Great Dao of Life and Death'. If you obtain the Immemorial Fisherman's Raincoat Painting at your current level and comprehend the Dao of Life and Death within it, giving you the ability to see through life and death, ascending to the heavens and becoming an immortal will be as easy as lifting your hands!"

"The second ancient painting is called the 'Golden Sky Black Earth Painting'. It contains the Great Dao of Yin and Yang and it can help a true immortal see through yin and yang and truth and falsehood, enabling them to fully grasp the truth of cultivation. This will in turn provide them a chance to become an immortal emperor! Of course, since you are a cultivator of the Yin Yang Transformation, if you obtain the Golden Sky Black Earth Painting, it will surely be greatly beneficial to your cultivation."

Luo You gently sighed. She also tried to search for the Golden Sky Black Earth Painting in the past. If she had gotten the painting, she would not have needed to settle for the second best option which was to cultivate the Yin Yang Transformation in order to get her revenge.

"One who obtains the Immemorial Fisherman's Raincoat Painting will be able to ascend to the heavens and become an immortal? One who obtains the Golden Sky Black Earth Painting will be able to become an immortal emperor?"

Ning Fan felt surprised. The Immemorial Fisherman's Raincoat Painting still sounded reasonable. The Golden Sky Black Earth Painting, on the other hand, would definitely make countless true immortals fight over it just to obtain the chance to become an immortal emperor!

No wonder the Golden Rune Palace was annihilated. It was not because of their members but the secrets they possessed instead...

Moreover, since the current location of the Golden Sky Black Earth Painting was unknown, many True Immortals would probably be targeting the historical ruins of the Golden Rune Palace.

The golden pen in Ning Fan's hands was a key that could unlock one of the one hundred and eight treasuries. If some true immortals find out about this, would they not try to seize it from him forcibly…?

"That is to say, it'll be inappropriate to show it to anyone if it's unnecessary, right?" Ning Fan asked.

"Yes. Keep this pen first for now. It is indeed a strong magic treasure as it can draw and produce golden runes. However, it's involved with the secrets of the four ancient paintings. It's best not to casually use it." Luo You said.

"I understood. I'll just keep it for now. As for the Golden Rune Palace… I'll visit it if I have the chance in the future. If I don't have a sufficient cultivation base, I wouldn't want to go to the Golden Rune Palace to get myself killed…"

Ning Fan took out the cold qi from the golden pen and stashed it into his pouch.

Looking at the floating golden spiritual flame and black cold qi in front of him, the corner of Ning Fan's lips curved upward.

"After devouring these two masses of cold qi and spiritual flame, I'll have the complete set of the twenty-four types of Heavenly Cold Qi and Earth Vein Demonic Flames. The grade of the Yin Yang Devil Flame, a flame produced from the combination of all the earth vein demonic flames, will probably be equivalent to a High-Level Seventh Grade Immortal Void Flame. Be it in pill refinement or magic techniques, it was extremely beneficial.

Ning Fan calmed down and began to refine the last two types of Heavenly Cold Qi and Earth Vein Demonic Flame.

While he was slowly refining the Earth Blazing Flame and Mending Heavenly Heart, the left part of his body felt like it was burning as raging golden flames rose whereas the right part of his body seemed to have been frozen as it became a black ice statue.

Another six months passed by on the seventh floor of the dark golden pagoda. Ning Fan suddenly opened his eyes. Everything, be it the golden flame or the black ice, was absorbed into his body.

He then rose to his feet and abruptly raised his hand. A mass of fear-inducing black flames floated on the center of his palm.

The black flames were clearly the combination of countless low-grade spiritual flames and cold qi. However, its power was comparable to a High-Level Seventh Grade Immortal Void Flame!

One has to know that even the Pill Sovereign only possessed one-fourth of the Pure Yang Flame and it was only equivalent to a Mid-Level Seventh Grade Immortal Void Flame.

After combining all the heavenly cold qi and earth flames that he had gathered, the grade of Ning Fan's flame was now much higher than Pill Sovereign's!

"Next, it's time to repair the puppet, Zhi Huo."

Ning Fan kept the black flames into his body and took out a fiery-red figurine that was riddled with holes from his pouch.

Looking at the serious damage on the figurine, Ning Fan could not help but smile bitterly.

Bone Sovereign really was strong and formidable. Even though his cultivation base had fallen to the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm, he had still almost destroyed Giant Zhi Huo with a single attack.

If he were at his peak, I'm afraid he wouldn't be any weaker than Moksha Sovereign.

"Fortunately, the puppet wasn't completely destroyed. It can still be repaired. However, the amount of immortal jade required to repair a Void Fragmentation Realm puppet isn't a small figure…"

After Ning Fan gave several billion immortal jade to the people of the Yellow Spring Demon City to defend their city, he did not have much immortal jade left.

Even so, he still had Dao Crystals which were equivalent to tens of billions of immortal jades. That being so, he had more than enough to repair a Void Fragmentation Realm puppet.

"Let's begin…"

Ning Fan tossed the figurine into the air and it grew immediately, turning into a ten thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) tall fire giant.

Afterward, Ning Fan started to establish the grand formation for repairing a puppet on the ground, surrounding the giant's body.

Doubtlessly, it would take quite some time for him to fully repair Giant Zhi Huo.

…

Ning Fan had spent almost four years in the dark golden pagoda. In the outside world, only half a month had passed.

Mei Chen had already woken up during this period of time.

Clad with an unlined garment, she sat at the head of her bed, staring at the light evening rain outside her window.

She still remembered how shocked she felt the moment she heard of Bone Sovereign's death after she woke up half a month ago!

"That stinky bastard… Even though he's a shameless man, he risked his life to fight Bone Sovereign for me and Yellow Spring Demon City... Why is he so nice to me…?"

"He clearly is only at the Void Glimpse Stage. Wasn't he scared of fighting a Void Fragmentation Realm expert?"

Now, Mei Chen's injuries had already completely stabilized and she had recovered her cultivation base at the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm. However, if she wanted to regain her peak which was at the Third Heavenly Layer, she must consume a High Grade Seventh Revolution pill.

Mu Xiaoliang was keeping Mei Chen company by her side. After hearing Mei Chen heave a sigh, she rested her chin on her hands, looking rapt and touched.

"Elder Sister Mei Chen, Ning Fan is very nice to us. What should we do in order to repay him?"

"Indeed. How should we repay him? Is it possible that I really have to become his demon pet in order to repay him?" As soon as Mei Chen thought of that idea, chills immediately ran across her body.

"Bah. I'd rather die than become his demon pet!"

While Mei Chen was muttering to herself, a voice suddenly resounded from outside, making fun of her.

"Little Black, you've become disobedient again. If you don't become my demon pet, whose demon pet do you want to be? I'm going to be angry if you become someone else's demon pet."

Wearing a set of white robes, Ning Fan walked into the room with his lips curved upward.

After leaving the Yuan Yao World, he had already taken away all the sense beads in Yellow Spring Demon City. Only then did he come to visit her in a leisurely mood.

As soon as they saw Ning Fan, Mu Xiaoliang became so shy that her face instantly turned red while Mei Chen's cheeks turned so black they looked like the bottom of a pan.

"I will not become your demon pet even if I die!"

"Why do you hate me so much?" Ning Fan continued on teasing her.

"It's a must! You're too shameless!" Mei Chen answered straightforwardly.

"Is that so? So it turns out that you aren't willing to become my demon pet. Now that really gives me a headache… Originally, I thought of a method that could directly bring you and Weiliang out of the Demon Sinister Forest and let both of you see the world of the living. However, you aren't willing to become my demon pet. In that case, I can't bring you out with me…" Ning Fan deliberately sighed dejectedly.

"What?! Do you actually have a method to enable the ghosts and demons in the Demon Sinister Forest to leave this place?! How is that possible?!"

Mei Chen was shocked. The Demon Sinister Forest was a land of Nine Yin and it was a nether world where ghosts and souls resided. The ghosts in the nether world could not go outside to the living world. Otherwise, they would certainly turn into ashes and die.

Even if they were brought out by hiding within a heavenly dwelling space, they could only stay within that space and never leave.

Even if Bone Sovereign wanted to exit the Demon Sinister Forest, he would still need to exert great efforts in order to condense a true soul clone…

Now, Ning Fan was saying that he actually had a way to directly bring ghosts out of the Demon Sinister Forest. This really was too unthinkable.

Mei Chen certainly would not believe it if it were someone else who told her that. However, Ning Fan never made an empty promise. If he said he had a way, then he really must have one.

Goodness, Mei Chen really wanted to leave the Demon Sinister Forest to see the world outside. She yearned for this chance more than those ghosts in the forest.

In the entire Demon Sinister Forest, she was the only demon creature – a netherworld sable. She enhanced her cultivation through devouring ghosts. Unlike the other ghosts who had died once and had seen the beautiful and dazzling world outside, Mei Chen had never left this spooky and foul forest in her entire life!

She really wanted to go out and see the world. However, when she heard Ning Fan's tone which sounded like he was threatening and tempting her at the same time, she felt greatly dissatisfied.

Obviously, Ning Fan was using her desire to get out of the forest as a condition to make her surrender willingly and become his demon pet. It made her feel particularly unhappy because she did not like being threatened.

Mei Chen gritted her silver teeth and glared at Ning Fan.

"Are you threatening me?! If I refuse to be your demon pet, you won't bring me out of the Demon Sinister Forest forever, right?! You're shameless!"

Ning Fan sighed and shook his head. He was just joking with Mei Chen.

"I was just kidding. I've obtained an ancient pill recipe. It's for refining a Low Grade Sixth Revolution pill called True Yang Pill. It's specially meant for ghosts like you. Once a ghost consumes it, it would allow them to condense some Yang Qi within them. Even if they leave the Demon Sinister Forest, they will certainly not vanish into ashes."

"I'll naturally be extremely happy if you agree to be my demon pet. If you aren't, I won't force you either. For the sake of our friendship, I'll help you concoct this pill no matter what it takes. However, if I bring you out of the Demon Sinister Forest, I hope that you can promise me one thing – help me protect my family… In exchange, I'll find ways to help you search for a High Grade Seventh Revolution vulnerary pill which will heal your injuries completely, enabling you to regain your cultivation base at the Third Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm…"

"I'll go and have a look around the Seventh Region. You go and have some rest…"

Ning Fan let out a gentle sigh and turned around to leave the room, walking toward the light evening rain.

Mei Chen looked stunned. All of a sudden, a hint of emptiness filled her heart.

Somehow, when Ning Fan talked to her like he was dealing and begging her, she actually felt downcast and distant from him.

She would rather have Ning Fan behave shamelessly toward her and playfully tease her than be cold and distant to her…

If I knew that it would be so upsetting, I would have directly promised to be his demon pet!

"Stinky bastard! If I refuse to be your demon pet, won't you beg me to do so…?" Mei Chen muttered and gently bit her lips.

Mu Xiaoliang looked at Mei Chen in confusion. She did not understand why she would sigh disappointedly.

"Shouldn't Elder Mei Chen be happy since she can leave the Demon Sinister Forest without needing to be Ning Fan's demon pet? Why would she sigh? I really don't understand it…"

Based on Mu Xiaoliang's pure and naïve mind, she was unable to understand a woman's complex emotions.

…

Ning Fan walked under the drizzling evening rain all alone with an open blood umbrella.

Bone Sovereign's death, Ning Honghong's disappearance and being alienated by Little Black… All these things made all sorts of feelings fill his heart.

He raised his head and looked at the falling rain. Gradually, he found the sound of the rain annoying.

However, when he arrived at the ruins of the Seventh Region and looked at the battlefield with corpses lying all over it accompanied with the drizzle from the sky, he felt that the rain was actually not annoying. In fact, it was a little depressing…

Then, Ning Fan suddenly realized that it was never the rain that made him feel annoyed or depressed. Instead, they were his human emotions.

The threads of rain fell from the sky and their trajectories were their entire journeys.

Even though the life of a rain was short, it also contained the joy of reunions and sorrow of partings.

Whatever a person is feeling, their emotions would be reflected in the rain.

There were countless Great Dao in the world and everyone had their own Dao.

If one is in the mood of comprehending the Dao, they will probably also find out their Great Dao from the rain.

Ning Fan's eyes became as deep as the ocean as he recalled the time when he first entered the Dark Sparrow's Grave.

"In the past, I thought that what Que Shenzi comprehended in the Dark Sparrow's Grave was the Divine Intent of Rain. However, it was actually wrong. What Que Shenzi really learned was Dao…"

"Every different type of rain contains a Great Dao. A single drop of rain is enough to include thousands of kinds of emotions and Great Daos in the world…"

"The circular shape that a single raindrop has is the Great Dao and its trajectory is the path of the Great Dao."

Ning Fan's eyes gradually turned clear and empty. The raindrops which lightly fell in front of his eyes seemed to have stopped. The movement of every drop of rain was infinitely slowed, as if they had become still.

He raised his hand to hold one of the raindrops and carefully observed it.

From that single drop of rain, he saw countless Great Daos. However, some of them were true while some were false, making it difficult to discern.

He immersed his state of mind into the raindrop on the center of his palm. The scenery before his eyes changed and he seemed to be standing within a world of rain that was vast and boundless.

Within this world where raindrops intersect with each other, a gigantic golden ring was floating in the vast sky.

The Ring of Heavenly Dao!

As Ning Fan stood in this world of rain, he gained an even deeper understanding.

It turns out that a single drop of rain also has the heavenly dao that belongs to me and that heavenly dao has a circular shape!

As long as one makes their heart extremely small, it will be as huge as a world when they are viewing a drop of rain.

If one makes their heart larger than the Four Heavens and Nine Worlds, it'll be similar to seeing a single drop of rain when viewing those worlds.

"A world in a wild flower and a Buddha in a leaf…"

"The world that I'm currently in, is it actually boundlessly huge or it is so small that it's just a single drop of rain in others' eyes…?"

*Puke*

Ning Fan suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest and started coughing out blood. He withdrew his state of mind from the rain and his eyes slowly turned focused and clear.

The reason why he coughed out blood was because the thing that he was trying to comprehend was far beyond his current level. It was not something that the current him could see through!

In order to know the original appearance of the world, I need to comprehend my own Truth of Dao…

And that is what those immortals are pursuing tirelessly!

"This silly younger brother. He actually wanted to comprehend the Truth of Dao from a single droplet of rain!? What a terrifying power of understanding! If it wasn't because of an insufficient cultivation base, I'm afraid he could have obtained great benefits from that just now."

"I wonder if he could ever gain the Truth of Dao when he has an adequate cultivation base in the future…"

In the Profound Yin World, Luo You clicked her tongue and praised him. She was once again surprised by Ning Fan.

Ning Fan spread his hand, allowing the rain droplet on his palm to slide away without any reluctance.

The Great Dao that was contained in that rain droplet was not something that he could comprehend at the time.

As the saying goes, going beyond one's limit is as bad as falling short… If he forced himself to comprehend the Dao, he would end up killing himself. The mouthful of fresh blood that he coughed out earlier was evident enough to serve as a warning to him.

Indeed, matters regarding cultivation had to be done step by step and could not be rushed.

"Let's check out the entrance of the Eight Region…"

Under the drizzling evening rain, Ning Fan walked all the way, passing by the ruins created by the previous battle in the Seventh Region.

After some time, Ning Fan stopped walking and stood at the end of the Seventh Region.

The first seven regions of the Demon Sinister Forest were separated by the levels of the ghosts. However, the Eighth Region was blocked by a territory separation light barrier.

On the way leading to the Eight Region, a dazzling light barrier stood in the middle. It looked like an enormous mirror that was standing in the way, preventing anyone from entering.

Ning Fan took out a Mortal Void Grade magic treasure from his storage pouch and tossed it at the light barrier.

As soon as the treasure touched the light, it immediately disappeared into ashes…

Ning Fan frowned. The light barrier was extremely scary. A Void Fragmentation Realm expert or an Immortal Void Grade magic treasure would even turn to ashes…

As long as the territory separation light barrier still existed, Ning Fan would not be able to enter the Eight Region no matter what.

It's such a pity… The Eighth and Ninth Regions are situated in the Ancient Heavenly Court. However, it seems like I won't be able to enter now.

"Fine. What can I do if I enter the Ancient Heavenly Court earlier anyway? With my current cultivation base, it must be pretty dangerous for me. Well, there is no need to be in a hurry to succeed. The matters regarding cultivation should be taken step by step and one must not be clouded by greed…"

The Dao comprehension in the evening rain today really improved Ning Fan's state of mind by a great deal.

"It's about time to leave. Concocting the True Yang Pill for Little Black isn't something that can be done in a day. Besides, I still lack several types of spiritual herbs. I probably need to stock up on some spiritual herbs again after leaving the Demon Sinister Forest…"

"I've been out for half a month. I should return to let them know that I'm safe. Then, I'll make a trip to the Dark Sparrow's Grave to see if I can bring Treant Min Luo out of it…"

"Even though I have a way to bring Little Black and Xiaoliang out of the forest, I don't have much confidence in bringing Treant Min Luo out of the Dark Sparrow's Grave at the moment… At most, I can only bring his clone out…"

"I will try to figure it out again when I go there…"

Ning Fan returned to Yellow Spring Demon City to say goodbye to Mei Chen and Mu Xiaoliang temporarily.

…

In the Hall of Merits of the Sinister Sparrow Sect, the elder guarding the hall, Meng Chu, was petrified and stood still with his jaw slack.

Beside him, the former sect master, Gui Quezi, wore a bitter smile on his face.

He was already a Half-Step Nascent Soul Realm cultivator. All he needed was a long secluded cultivation to officially form his nascent soul.

Just as he got out from his seclusion, he encountered something that he did not know whether he should cry or laugh.

Within the Hall of Merits, the contribution points of Ning Fan's division was rising at an unimaginable speed and it eventually went beyond the maximum limit of the tablet of merits, causing the tablet to explode.

"Did he do anything shocking again after entering the Demon Sinister Forest this time…? Is it possible that he has killed the Void Fragmentation Realm ghosts in the Seventh Region…? Otherwise, why would his contribution points break the maximum limit…?"

Gui Quezi shook his head and smiled. He was merely joking about it. He did not really think that Ning Fan had the capability to kill a Void Fragmentation Realm ghost. That would be too unimaginable.

Unfortunately, things are always unexpected.

When he found out the true incidents that had happened in the Demon Sinister Forest which shocked him, it had already been many years since then… He could never imagine that Ning Fan, who was only at the Void Glimpse Stage, had actually managed to kill Bone Sovereign…

<strong>Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel</strong>