Inside the star cave dwelling, Ning Fan once again returned to his solitary life.
A year in the outside world was equivalent to 128 years in this place. What Ning Fan requested from Lu Qing was to stay in the Lost World Tower for a year. In other words, he still needed to stay in this place for another 128 years.
The Lost World Tower did not allow anyone to enter, so there were fewer noises around them.
5884 units of magic power, 71440 units of demonic energy, 83470 units of demonic energy, the shortcoming of magic power must be made up for.
Ning Fan patted his storage pouch and took out a large number of Profound Primordial Pills.
Profound Essence Pill was concocted for peak stage Nascent Soul cultivators to increase their magic power. It was a peak stage Fourth Revolution pill, and one pill could increase one's magic power by one unit.
He only had 1290 Profound Essence Pills in his possession.
The market price of a Profound Essence Pill should be around one hundred thousand immortal jade. In just ten days, Ning Fan consumed and refined all of the pills that were worth more than one hundred million immortal jade.
His magic power was 6,940 units. En … it was 234 units less than expected. This was naturally because he had consumed too many elixirs, and the medicinal effects were getting weaker.
Ning Fan did not care about it at all. He had plundered countless spiritual herbs from the sea of stars and taken away all of Bei Xiaoman's belongings openly. The thousand years old spiritual herbs he had were more than enough to concoct a few thousand Profound Primordial Pills.
Inside the immortal's cave, Ning Fan clenched his five fingers. His body shone with green light and a massive Rain Cauldron was condensed in front of him with the Divine Intent of Rain.
His pill refinement technique was already at the Intermediate Grade Five Revolution, and his flame was a fusion of nine types of heavenly frost and earthly fire.
He only needed three days to refine a cauldron of Xuanyuan Pills, and he could refine ten pills in one cauldron!
One should know that this was a Peak Fourth Revolution Pill. Even a Low Grade Fifth Revolution Pill Refinement Master would not dare to guarantee success in every cauldron. Moreover, they could only refine one pill at most.
Ning Fan had a strong pill refinement mastery. His spirit sense perception and control over fire were also outstanding. Besides, his luck was the strongest purple color.
With his strength and luck, if he still failed to refine the Mystic Essence Pill, he would really have to find a piece of tofu to kill himself.
If he refined one hundred pills in a month, it would be one thousand and two hundred pills in a year. As time went by, Ning Fan could even refine thirteen to fourteen Profound Essence Pills in a single cauldron.
Six years later, Ning Fan had concocted eight thousand Profound Essence Pills and he no longer concocted this pill.
So many elixirs were enough to create a Semi-God Realm cultivator.
Even a Peak Fourth Revolution Pill Refinement Master would not have the wealth to concoct eight thousand Peak Fourth Revolution Pills.
Even if one had sufficient wealth, one could only refine one Profound Essence Pill after four cycles and half a month, and there was no guarantee of success. If he wanted to refine 8,000 Profound Essence Pills, he would need at least 300 years even if he did not sleep or rest.
Six years of hard work was equivalent to 300 years of cultivation for ordinary pill refinement masters. However, Ning Fan helplessly realized that the improvement of his pill refinement mastery was not obvious at all.
His Mid Grade Fifth Revolution medicine soul was already dark green in color. At this moment, about one percent of the soul light in Ning Fan's medicine soul had darkened.
If Ning Fan is able to use all of the remaining soul light on his body, he would be able to break through to the High Grade Fifth Revolution Pill Refinement Realm.
Putting aside his pill refinement mastery for the time being, with eight thousand Profound Primordial Pills, Ning Fan temporarily had to live a life of munching on beans for four whole months.
One had to admit that Ning Fan's resistance to the Profound Primordial Pill was getting stronger and stronger.
At first, 1,000 Mystic Essence Pills could increase one's magic power by 650 units.
The next 1,000 Mystic Essence Pills only increased by 520 units.
Later on, 1,000 Mystic Essence Pills could only increase his magic power by 450 units.
420 units, 330 units, 290 units and then 240 units.
In the end, 1,000 Mystic Essence Pills could only increase Ning Fan's magic power by 50 units. It was because consuming Mystic Essence Pills was almost completely useless in the end!
Ning Fan shook his head with a bitter smile. He was probably the first person in the Rain World who had consumed Mystic Essence Pills until they were completely ineffective.
Eight thousand Mystic Essence Pills increased his magic power by 2,950 units.
At least, Ning Fan's magic power had reached 9890 units.
During the past four months, after consuming Mystic Essence Pills, Ning Fan's magic power had also become weak. He no longer consumed any pills. Instead, he took out countless spirit flames to refine and devour them.
A small portion of these spirit flames were given to him by the cultivators of the External Endless Sea. The rest of them were obtained from Flame Reverend.
There were nearly one thousand Third Grade Spirit Flames, 200 Fourth Grade Spirit Flames and three Earth Vein Demonic Flames.
The three types of Earth Vein Demonic Flames were respectively the Corrosive Poison Flame which was ranked twelfth, the Profound Thunder Flame which was ranked ninth and the Seven Rainbow Flame which was ranked fourth.
Ning Fan's eyes were burning with passion as he looked at the balls of flames floating in front of him.
Refining these flames could not only increase the destructive power of his fire technique but also increase the speed of pill refinement. Besides, it could also replenish the fire power of the stele soul in the Stele of Sun and Moon during the refining process!
"Swallow!"
Black flames swirled around Ning Fan's body. He opened his mouth and inhaled. Clusters of floating spiritual flames were all sucked into his mouth.
These flames were almost all the reserves of the cultivators in the Outer Endless Sea.
The refinement took a total of nine months. Nine months later, Ning Fan's magic power forcefully broke through the bottleneck of the Divine Transformation Realm with the help of the Fire Attribute and broke through to 14200 units!
In his dantian, the demon soul slowly turned into a primordial spirit. The primordial spirit was as big as a palm but it had the same appearance as him. Its small face was also filled with joy.
Dharmic powers, Soul Formation!
The moment he succeeded in becoming a Soul Formation cultivator, silver fire fell from the sky. It was the Heavenly Tribulation after becoming a Soul Formation cultivator — the Fire Tribulation.
Ning Fan let out a sigh. It seemed like he did not have the blood lightning of the heavenly tribulation to refine his lightning whip anymore. However, he could still use it to replenish the firepower of his Stele of Sun and Moon.
Without hesitation, he opened his mouth and swallowed the silver flames of the heavenly tribulation. All of them were devoured by the Stele of Sun and Moon while he remained unscathed.
Ning Fan exhaled a mouthful of murky Qi and rose to his feet. His aura swept across the area, causing the entire cave to collapse.
Black flames were burning around his body. These black flames gave off a dangerous qi. There were five types of Heavenly Frost Cold Qi and seven types of Earth Vein Demonic Flames.
Even though he did not collect twelve types of ice and fire respectively, he finally managed to gather twelve types of fire and ice together.
At this moment, the black flames leaping on his palm gave Ning Fan an extremely dangerous feeling. The grade of this flame was at least comparable to a Seventh Grade Immortal Void Flame. Only Void Fragmentation Realm fire cultivators could control this flame!
Due to the limitation of Ning Fan's cultivation realm, he could not fully unleash the power of this flame. However, by relying on the power of this flame, he could totally force Void Glimpse Stage old monsters to retreat when he activates it.
This flame seemed to be his fourth trump card other than the Black Tempest Spirit Splitting Technique, Wind Mist and Wind Snow!
It could lightly injure a Void Refinement Realm cultivator or severely injure a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator. It could even instantly kill a Peak Divine Transformation Realm cultivator!
Moreover, after Ning Fan devoured so many flames, the soul of the Stele of Sun and Moon in the Profound Yin World had already been replenished to one-third of its original capacity.
* Huff *
Ning Fan gently exhaled a mouthful of murky Qi and dispersed the flames on his body. His divine, demon and devil power had all broken through to the Divine Transformation Realm at the same time. His strength had increased tremendously and his qi had also become weak.
After refining a large amount of pills, he managed to condense his qi again after exhausting it over and over again.
He no longer concocted Fourth Revolution Pills. Instead, he concocted Fifth Revolution Pills.
Fifth Revolution Pills were extremely different from Fourth Revolution Pills. The difficulty of concocting Fifth Revolution Pills was increased and the medicinal efficacy of the pills was also greatly increased.
With Ning Fan's current pill concoction technique and the black flames, he still needed half a month to concoct a Low Grade Fifth Revolution Pill.
As for Mid Grade Fifth Revolution Pills, he would need at least three months to concoct them. Moreover, he could not guarantee the success rate.
For ten whole years, Ning Fan had been concocting a type of Low Grade Fifth Revolution Pill called 'Spirit Consolidating Pill'.
As the name suggested, the effect of the Spirit Consolidating Pill was to consolidate one's primordial spirit. Its main ingredients were the Moistening Heart Grass, Conforming Spirit Leaves and Round Harmony Ganoderma which could nourish one's primordial spirit.
Ning Fan had obtained a lot of these spiritual herbs from the Lost World Palace. Compared to asking Yu Long to collect them, it was obviously faster to transport them from the Lost World Palace.
Within ten years, Ning Fan had concocted a total of 225 Spirit Consolidating Pills. His success rate was around 90%.
Among these 225 Spirit Consolidating Pills, eighteen of them had been infused with the golden blood of the Demon Marshal.
Eighteen drops of Golden Blood contained 3600 Monster Force, which, after being transformed by the pill, could be used to increase one's strength.
After ten years of concocting pills, Ning Fan's magic power became solid again.
He only consumed the Spirit Consolidating Pill that contained the demon blood. As for the other 207 pills, he left them for Luo You to use to stabilize her primordial spirit.
Originally, eighteen drops of golden blood were only enough to increase his magic power by 3600 units.
However, after concocting the pills, the power of the demon blood was absorbed more thoroughly. Ning Fan's magic power increased by nearly 5000 units.
Magic power: 19060 units!
With the increase of his magic power and the stabilization of his primordial spirit, Ning Fan's breathing became longer and longer. Then, he began to concoct the Mid Grade Fifth Revolution Pill – Thunder Profound Pill!
To Divine Transformation Realm cultivators, this kind of pill was extremely expensive. A single pill was worth five million immortal jade!
Its effect was to increase an Early Divine Transformation Realm cultivator's magic power by 100 units.
To ordinary cultivators, the opportunity to consume this pill was naturally expensive. However, to pill refinement masters, they could save a lot of money by preparing their own spiritual herbs and concocting the pills themselves. The cost of a single pill was only around one million immortal jade.
To Ning Fan, the cost was even lower … His spiritual herbs were basically snatched and brought over. Who had ever seen Ning Fan buying pills properly?
To Ning Fan, the significance of immortal jade had always been for cultivation, setting up formations and increasing the power of the Star Positioning Compass.
He rarely used money to buy things. At least in the Endless Sea and the Luo Yun Tribe, he did not need to care about anything. Strength was everything.
To concoct the Profound Thunder Pill, Ning Fan needed three months to concoct a cauldron of pills and he could only concoct one pill at a time.
In the first five years, Ning Fan only concocted five Profound Essence Pills. His success rate was less than 30%.
In another five years, Ning Fan concocted eight Profound Essence Pills. His success rate had reached 40%.
In another ten years, Ning Fan concocted 21 Profound Essence Pills. His success rate had already exceeded 50%.
In another twenty years, Ning Fan concocted 62 Profound Essence Pills. His success rate was close to 80%!
After forty years of concocting pills, Ning Fan had already used up all the medicinal herbs he needed to concoct the Profound Essence Pills.
The area on his medicine soul that had deepened to almost half of its original color had already darkened.
In forty years, Ning Fan concocted 96 Profound Essence Pills. The improvement in his pill refinement mastery was not insignificant. He was becoming more and more like a grandmaster.
Among the Mid Fifth Revolution Pill Refinement Masters in the Rain World, there were less than three people who could increase their success rate to 80%. Ning Fan was one of them!
It took Ning Fan five months to completely refine the 96 Profound Essence Pills.
Five months later, Ning Fan's magic power had reached 28320 units. The 340 units that he had lost was due to his medicinal resistance.
His magic power became weak again. Ning Fan spent another ten years concocting many Fifth Revolution Healing Pills to stabilize his magic power.
Counting carefully, it had already been 67 years and 6 months since he entered the Lost World Tower.
More than half of the time had passed. In the remaining time, Ning Fan focused his attention on his Sea of Consciousness, spirit sense and sword intent.
The 17 Intent Severing Pills were consumed one by one. Each of them was enough to make a Divine Transformation Realm sword cultivator go crazy. In the end, all of them ended up in Ning Fan's mouth.
As the pills were refined, the four thousand and seven hundred Nascent Soul Realm sword qi in Ning Fan's Sea of Consciousness were also refined.
His sword intent was stable.
His sword intent was at Small Accomplishment.
His sword intent was at Grand Accomplishment!
Three years later, the sword intent around Ning Fan's body was at least a few times stronger than three years ago!
The remnant force of the broken Immortal Trapping Sword was completely refined. His sword sense became even more stable. The current strength of Ning Fan's sword sense was not any weaker than Yan Zun's fire sense.
He could instantly kill anyone below the Divine Transformation Realm. As for Early Divine Transformation Realm experts, he could also severely injure them!
When his sword sense swept across, the blood of the enemy cultivators would definitely flow like a river!
However, his sword sense was just a means to eliminate small fries. If he were to fight against a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm expert with just his sword techniques, he would not have much chance of winning.
The secret swords of the Sword Sovereign were becoming less and less useful because the grade of these secret swords was too low.
Ning Fan pondered for a while. There were several Divine Transformation Realm sword techniques in his storage pouch but none of them caught his attention.
His mind kept pondering and suddenly, an idea flashed across his mind.
He thought of the Eastern Profound Sword Formation on the Yingzhou Immortal Island!
Since he had the Heart Formation Technique, why didn't he use the sword formation to kill his enemies?
The Eastern Profound Sword Formation was a Peak Divine Transformation Realm sword formation. After Ning Fan modified it, the number of formation eyes had exceeded five thousand and it had become a Mortal Void Sword Formation.
The purpose of modifying the sword formation was to use the Heart Formation Technique to lay down a formation with magic power to kill his enemies.
The River Luo Heart Formation could form a grand formation with just a single thought of his.
If Ning Fan successfully cultivates the Heart Formation of the Eastern Profound Sword Formation, he would undoubtedly have another method to fight against a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm expert.
The Heart Formation Technique was affected by his cultivation base, spirit sense, Dao of Formations and many other factors. However, by relying on his profound sword intent, Ning Fan was barely able to condense a sword formation. As for the other formations, they were slightly inferior.
"Condense!"
Ning Fan began his boring cultivation and condensed sword qi of the Heart Formation Technique.
After the modification of the Eastern Profound Sword Formation, there were five thousand formation eyes. In total, he needed to condense five thousand traces of natal sword qi.
Within ten years, Ning Fan condensed the swords while comprehending the formation. His cultivation base in the Dao of Formations improved tremendously and he had a deep understanding of the Dao of Formations.
Ten years later, Ning Fan's sword qi was abundant. He walked out of his cave residence and pointed at a star which had a radius of ten thousand li * (500m per li). All of a sudden, sword mountains appeared out of thin air in all directions of the star. There was a total of five thousand sword mountains.
In each of the sword mountains, there was rarely any sword qi that was comparable to a Peak Nascent Soul Realm attack.
The sword qi formed a formation. In the void, a massive sword diagram unfurled like a scroll, engulfing the star within it. At the next moment, the sword light inside the sword diagram overflowed in all directions like a broken silver bottle. In an instant, it engulfed the entire star.
* Boom *
As the sword formation was activated, the sword light let out a piercing cry and the entire star was destroyed. The wind of the explosion swept across the entire void space.
Once this sword formation was activated, even a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm expert would be in grave danger if he or she falls into the formation.
Ning Fan nodded his head in satisfaction. In this case, he had one more trump card.
There were still fifty years left. Ning Fan decided to refine the Immemorial Divine Weapon.
The Separation Slayer Sword was naturally inscribed with the word "Sharp". Each word would have 312 strokes. With Ning Fan's current magic power, he could inscribe six hundred words of the word "Sharp" in a day. In just one year, he had inscribed one hundred and eighty thousand words of the word "Sharp" on the Separation Slayer Sword!
The Separation Slayer Sword was a Peak Grade Spiritual Treasure! It had the Mortal Void Grade Soul Burning Ability attached to it.
The Spirit Shattering Whip, on the other hand, was inscribed with the word "Lightning". Another year had passed. The Spirit Shattering Whip had also reached the grade of a Peak Grade Spiritual Treasure. It had the Mortal Void Grade Absorption Technique and the Mortal Void Grade Lightning Spirit attached to it.
Unlike the Separation Slayer Sword and the Spirit Shattering Whip, the Star Fixing Plate did not require any additional spirit seals.
With a thought, Ning Fan took out a handful of blood-red star sand. It was none other than the Immemorial Divine Weapon he obtained from Revered Flame – Blood Star Sand.
This handful of star sand was already a Peak Grade Spiritual Treasure. After attaching one hundred and eighty thousand words of the word "Suppress" to it, it was equivalent to a Half-Step Void Treasure.
It was a pity that this handful of star sand which had been refined by Revered Flame for many years had become his fourth Immemorial Divine Weapon.
In three years, he had refined three divine weapons. Now, he no longer refined any magic treasures.
He held two jade slips in his hands which recorded two types of magic techniques.
One of them was the Five Burial Dragon Technique. It was obtained by killing the City Lord of Dragon Burial City when he was traveling across the sea of stars. The strongest aspect of this technique was that it could seal one's primordial spirit and demon soul. It could be used to attack cultivators who have incarnated.
The second technique was the Samadhi Fire Palm. It was a technique that the Rain Palace bestowed upon him by Revered Flame. It was at the Mortal Void Realm and there was no need to mention its destructive power. If it wasn't for Ning Fan's fire resistance, he would definitely not be able to withstand this technique easily.
Thousands of cultivation methods and magic techniques were echoing in his mind. All of them were practiced by the women he had plucked.
Ning Fan sat on the star compass with the Eastern Ocean Bell above his head. He traveled across the void space and studied many magic techniques. Thirty years passed just like that.
There were still seventeen years left before he would leave the Lost World Tower.
In the next seven years, Ning Fan used several types of spiritual herbs to grind their medicinal liquid and cleanse his left eye, trying to increase the illusory power of the Fu Li Eye.
As such, there were only ten years left before he would leave.
During this year, Ning Fan suddenly raised his head. The Fu Li Eye in his left eye shone with bright purple light. It seemed like he had broken through a small bottleneck.
After improving his eyesight, Ning Fan lifted his head and his expression suddenly changed.
After being cleansed for seven years, his Fu Li Eye had improved tremendously. This time, he could clearly see that there was an eighth floor in this Lost World Tower!
"The Lost World Tower of Penglai Immortal Island clearly only has seven floors. Why would there be an eighth floor …? What exactly is on the eighth floor …?"
Ning Fan stepped on the star compass. The entire silver continent rose rapidly towards the peak of the void space. It only stopped when it hit a barrier.
He touched the barrier with his palm. He did not immediately break the barrier. Instead, he activated his left eye to its limit, trying to see through the eighth floor to see what was inside.
With his powerful eyesight, Ning Fan could vaguely see that there was a dark pavilion above the eighth floor.
It was not particularly spacious. It was merely ten thousand zhang * (3.33m per zhang) in size. There were hundreds of ancient statues standing in the pavilion. They protected seven stone platforms like stars surrounding the moon. Each of the seven stone platforms was enshrined with a piece of golden crystal.
The crystal gave off a strange energy as if it had the ability to reverse time.
Ning Fan took a deep breath. He finally realized what was above the eighth floor …
The eighth floor was not set up for cultivators to cultivate. Instead, it was a place to enshrine the crystal.
It was those seven pieces of crystal that had reversed the flow of time on the seventh floor of the Lost World Tower!
"What exactly are these crystals?!"
Ning Fan's eyes were burning with passion. He did not know what the crystals were but he deeply realized that they were probably extremely precious.
"Should I steal one and have a look?"
This thought immediately grew in Ning Fan's mind.
(2/3) (To be continued)
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