The broken heavenly dwelling still had the qi of a great battle. Ning Fan erased all of it with his Wind Mist Finger.
Even if someone comes to investigate this place in the future, they would not be able to find out that Ning Fan was the one who killed the Fourth Elder.
Gu Shiniang looked at the place where the Fourth Elder was killed and remained silent for a long time. She seemed to be reminiscing and feeling sad.
She was reminiscing about the past when she was with her family.
What made her sad was that all of her family members who used to protect her were already dead.
Suddenly, she knelt on the ground and put her palms together, chanting an unknown ancient devil scripture as if she was bidding farewell to her deceased family members and telling them that she had taken her revenge.
Ning Fan did not disturb her. After she was done, he helped her up.
"From today onwards, you can follow me."
"Yes."
Gu Shiniang looked at Ning Fan. She still found it hard to believe that this young man who looked like a scholar actually had the terrifying strength to kill the Fourth Elder.
He did what she asked him to do. From today onwards, she belonged to him.
She swore a devil oath of loyalty to Ning Fan and told him all the devil concubine abilities that she knew.
From her words, Ning Fan found out that she knew how to awaken devil marks just like Fen Chi.
After devouring the slate, her devil marks evolved into the picture of six wings and Fen Chi awakened the six wings.
After devouring the slate, her devil marks evolved into the picture of a giant devil which could also allow her to awaken the devil abilities.
After devouring the slate, Ning Fan guessed that her devil marks would probably evolve by another quarter and evolve into the picture of a ghost eye.
Gu Shiniang was temporarily kept in the Cauldron Ring. She could not show herself in front of the world yet. Otherwise, the fact that Ning Fan kidnapped the devil concubine would be exposed.
At this moment, Marquis You Gui was discussing the matter of exchanging the slate with the elders of the clan while Prince Lan Ling was resting in the Ghost Eye Clan.
If the devil concubine is kidnapped and the slate is taken, who would be the first one to be suspected?
If Prince Lan Ling's dark golden pagoda is stolen, would the misunderstanding between him and the Ghost Eye Clan still be reconciled?
Ning Fan's lips curled into a smile. There was another reason why he did not kill the Fourth Elder.
He patted his storage pouch and took out the primordial spirit of the Fourth Elder which was sealed in the puppet. After pondering for a while, he searched his memories and obtained countless information about the Ghost Eye Clan.
Then, he swallowed the Fourth Elder's primordial spirit into his abdomen. With the help of the Heaven Deceiving Cloak, he concealed his own qi and only purposely emitted the qi of the Fourth Elder's primordial spirit.
He then activated his devil cultivation technique. For a moment, devil qi billowed around his body.
Then, he took out a High Grade Fifth Revolution Face Changing Pill and with a shake of his body, he turned into the Fourth Elder's appearance.
The medicinal power of the pill could last for two hours. Within these two hours, no one would be able to see through Ning Fan's disguise unless they were real Void Fragmentation Realm old monsters.
His Qi was the real Qi of the Fourth Elder. At this moment, Ning Fan had completely become the real Fourth Elder.
Ning Fan's eyes flickered. The dark golden pagoda was still with King Lan Ling. He would use his identity as the Fourth Elder to deceive King Lan Ling and take away his pagoda …
At that time, the Ghost Eye Clan would lose the Devil Concubine, the slate, the Fourth Elder, and Prince Lanling would lose the dark golden pagoda.
Both sides would suspect each other, and naturally, they would fight each other.
"There will be a good show in the Ghost Eye Clan today."
...
Guan Xin City, Demon Prison Palace.
Inside the Devil Prison Palace, King Lan Ling was sitting cross-legged in the main hall. He was meditating alone while waiting for Marquis You Gui to give him an answer.
Outside the Devil Prison Palace, layers of grand formations were activated. Countless experts of the Ghost Eye Clan were guarding the place carefully. They were afraid that King Lan Ling would leave the palace and cause a massacre in the Ghost Eye Clan.
When Marquis You Gui and the elders were having a meeting, the Ghost Eye Clan had almost used all of their strength to guard against King Lan Ling.
King Lan Ling's reputation was too strong. Even though his second primordial spirit had come to the Ghost Eye Clan alone, the Ghost Eye Clan did not dare to underestimate him.
In the Devil Prison Palace, King Lan Ling was meditating quietly. However, his eyelids were twitching slightly. He had a feeling that something was going to happen today which made him feel slightly uneasy.
As a cultivator's cultivation base improved, their ability to sense the heavens would become stronger. Even if they were not proficient in divination, they would still be able to sense some heavenly secrets and avoid calamities.
King Lan Ling frowned slightly. Could this uneasy feeling be telling him that Marquis You Gui would refuse to trade the slate with him?
"Humph. I have already shown enough sincerity and am willing to exchange the dark golden pagoda for the devil statue slate. If the Ghost Eye Clan still doesn't agree to this deal, they would be too insensible! When my true body recovers from its injuries and breaks through to the Void Fragmentation Realm, I will certainly teach the Ghost Eye Clan a lesson! "
King Lan Ling did not lower his voice when he spoke. Outside the Devil Prison Palace, each of the old monsters of the Ghost Eye Clan heard his arrogant words.
All of the old monsters were dissatisfied with King Lan Ling's contemptuous words towards the Ghost Eye Clan. However, none of them dared to refute him. After all, the guards of this place were only at the Nascent Soul Realm and Divine Transformation Realm.
"Greetings, Fourth Elder!"
Outside the Devil Prison Palace, groups of devil cultivators suddenly saluted at the same time and greeted respectfully.
The Fourth Elder who was disguised as Ning Fan appeared outside the Devil Prison Palace in an arrogant manner. He stood with his hands clasped behind his back as if he was the king of heaven.
He imitated the Fourth Elder's demeanor and tone and nodded at the group of experts arrogantly.
"I want to see King Lan Ling. Open the grand formation!"
"This … Yes!"
Even though the experts of the Ghost Eye Clan had been ordered not to let anyone enter the Devil Prison Palace as they please, the Fourth Elder was a Void Refinement Realm expert of the Ghost Eye Clan. He had a transcendent status. Naturally, he could enter the palace.
Immediately, one of the experts opened the grand formation with a flattering smile on his face.
Ning Fan did not even look at that expert. With his usual arrogant expression, he went straight into the Devil Prison Palace.
The group of experts seemed to have gotten used to the Fourth Elder's coldness. Thus, they naturally did not dare to show any dissatisfaction.
Inside the Devil Prison Palace, King Lan Ling gently opened his eyes. He looked at Ning Fan and said indifferently.
"I wonder what brings the Fourth Elder of the Ghost Eye Clan here?"
"I have come under the old ancestor's order to check if your dark golden pagoda is damaged or defective. After the discussion between the old ancestor and the group of elders, many of them did not believe that King Lan Ling who had dominated the world would use a treasure that was in perfect condition to exchange for the slate instead of directly snatching it. Our Ghost Eye Clan must confirm whether the pagoda is in perfect condition or not! "
King Lan Ling's eyes turned grim. Killing intent flashed in his eyes. He could clearly hear the sarcasm in Ning Fan's words.
King Lan Ling, who had dominated the world, had always snatched whatever he wanted. When had he ever made a fair trade?
If it wasn't because his true body failed to reach the Void Fragmentation Realm and was severely injured, if it wasn't because his second primordial spirit suffered a great loss in the Giant Devil Clan, why would he be afraid of a mere Ghost Eye Clan? Why would he use a supreme treasure like the dark golden pagoda to exchange for the devil statue slate?
King Lan Ling knew that he had already lowered his pride by exchanging for the slate with a treasure. He had given the Ghost Eye Clan a lot of face.
He did not expect that the Ghost Eye Clan would still dare to suspect him of using a damaged magic treasure to exchange for the slate.
Very well. The Ghost Eye Clan had once again provoked his dissatisfaction.
King Lan Ling suppressed his dissatisfaction and said coldly.
"I wonder how Fourth Elder can confirm whether the pagoda is in perfect condition or not?"
"I can just take a look!"
"Alright. Since Fourth Elder has received the Ghost Monkey's order, there's no harm in letting you take a look!"
King Lan Ling did not want to cause any more trouble. At this moment, all he wanted to do was to obtain the four slates as soon as possible. Thus, he did not doubt the identity of the Fourth Elder in front of him.
The appearance of the Fourth Elder that Ning Fan had transformed into was flawless. Moreover, his qi was directly extracted from the Fourth Elder's primordial spirit.
The biggest doubt about Ning Fan's appearance was that his cultivation base was not really at the Void Refinement Realm.
However, under the concealment of the Heaven Deceiving Cloak, his qi was unstable and hard to estimate. It was quite fitting for the Fourth Elder's identity.
The Fourth Elder was someone who was close to breaking through to the Void Inquiry Stage in the first place. It was extremely normal for his qi to be unstable.
King Lan Ling patted his storage pouch and took out the dark golden pagoda. He placed it on the table beside him and closed his eyes in disdain. Then, he began to meditate, signaling Ning Fan to take the pagoda away at will and check whether it is in perfect condition or not.
Ning Fan took the pagoda. As soon as he touched it, the two traces of Blood of Time in his body suddenly became scorching hot.
Inwardly, he was shocked. He realized that when the Blood of Time was scorching hot, the flow of time in the dark golden pagoda in his hand actually became slower.
Originally, the dark golden pagoda could slow down the flow of time by 16 times. At this moment, however, it could at least slow down the flow of time by 32 times. Moreover, it was still showing signs of slowing down.
Since Ning Fan possessed the Blood of Time, he could definitely slow down the flow of time by more than 16 times by using this dark golden pagoda to cultivate!
Ning Fan wanted to study the dark golden pagoda in detail. However, he also understood that it was not the right time to do so.
"Fourth Elder, do you think that my pagoda is damaged?" King Lan Ling opened his eyes indifferently and asked in a calm tone.
"It's not damaged. But …"
Ning Fan's eyes were imitating the Fourth Elder's. His gaze was extremely domineering.
"However, from now on, this pagoda belongs to my Ghost Eye Clan. What Old Ancestor You Gui means is that it's impossible for me to give you the devil statue slate … Little Lan Ling, you can get lost from the Ghost Eye Clan now!"
Ning Fan activated the Heaven Deceiving Cloak and became completely invisible. All of a sudden, he disappeared with the dark golden pagoda.
King Lan Ling was stunned at first. He did not understand the situation.
At the next moment, he suddenly rose to his feet in anger.
How dare a mere Fourth Elder of the Ghost Eye Clan humiliate him like this?!
How dare a mere Ghost Eye Clan covet my dark golden pagoda?!
He had already lowered his pride and used the dark golden pagoda in exchange for the slate. He had already given the Ghost Eye Clan enough face.
However, not only did the Ghost Eye Clan refuse to give him the slate, they even snatched his pagoda.
"Give me back my pagoda!"
* Boom *
King Lan Ling's overbearing aura force carried endless killing intent that swept across the entire Devil Prison Palace.
Layers of formation light and the entire palace were turned into ashes under his aura force.
Before the members of the Ghost Eye Clan who were guarding outside the devil palace could figure out what was going on, they were already killed by King Lan Ling's overbearing aura force!
All of a sudden, King Lan Ling's killing intent enveloped the entire Guan Xin City. However, he could not locate the Fourth Elder at all.
All of a sudden, a trace of the Fourth Elder's qi appeared in the sea above the sky.
King Lan Ling's eyes were like lightning. He pointed a finger and countless orchids turned into a ten thousand zhang * long sword light, splitting the sea above the Ghost Eye Clan into two.
Under the sword light, the Fourth Elder's primordial spirit that was sealed was minced into pieces by King Lan Ling's sword. Blood mist flew everywhere!
At this moment, the life plate of the Fourth Elder was crushed in the ancestral temple of the Ghost Eye Clan!
At this moment, all the experts including Marquis You Gui spread out their spirit sense and found out that the Fourth Elder had been turned into blood mist. Moreover, the monstrous baleful qi that killed the Fourth Elder was wrapped around King Lan Ling's body!
"King Lan Ling, why did you kill the Fourth Elder of my clan?!"
Marquis You Gui was enraged. He brought the nine Void Refinement Realm experts of the Ghost Eye Clan and soared into the sky towards King Lan Ling.
Marquis You Gui was not an idiot. The Fourth Elder who was supposed to be in seclusion suddenly appeared in the outside world and was killed by King Lan Ling. There were still a lot of suspicious points about this.
He did not attack King Lan Ling immediately. Instead, he was prepared to question the reason why King Lan Ling attacked him.
However, at this moment, another devil guard sent him a voice transmission through a flying sword, claiming that the devil concubine of the Ghost Eye Clan had gone missing and the devil statue slate was missing.
All of a sudden, Marquis You Gui was so angry that he gritted his teeth. He swallowed all the questions that he wanted to ask.
Was there a need to ask? Was there even a need to ask?
From Marquis You Gui's point of view, King Lan Ling claimed that he wanted to exchange the devil slate with the pagoda. However, he secretly kidnapped the devil concubine and stole the slate when the Ghost Eye Clan's guard was down.
"Little Lan Ling, you killed the Fourth Elder of my clan, kidnapped my devil concubine and stole the devil statue slate. I hereby announce that from now on, my Ghost Eye Clan will never rest until you are dead!"
Marquis You Gui no longer said anything. He immediately gave the order to activate the clan's protective grand formation and mobilized all of his experts to besiege and kill King Lan Ling.
King Lan Ling was truly enraged. The Fourth Elder had cheated him of his dark golden pagoda. He had once suspected that it was the Fourth Elder's selfish act.
Even though he had killed the Fourth Elder, he did not get the dark golden pagoda back. Originally, he still had the thought of denouncing the Ghost Eye Clan.
However, he did not expect that the Ghost Eye Clan would accuse him of kidnapping the devil concubine of the Ghost Eye Clan and taking the slate of the Ghost Eye Clan before he could denounce them.
King Lan Ling was so angry that he laughed instead. From his point of view, the Ghost Eye Clan was just trying to steal his pagoda. That was all.
"Marquis You Gui, I respect you a little but you are the one who failed to appreciate my kindness. From today onwards, I, King Lan Ling, will never rest until your Ghost Eye Clan is dead! "
* Rumble * * Rumble * * Rumble *
A dog-eat-dog battle unfolded just like that. No one could mediate the enmity between the two parties anymore.
While the two parties were engaged in a deadly battle, Ning Fan stealthily stole all the spiritual herbs and immortal jade of the Ghost Eye Clan …
Needless to say, the primordial spirit of the Fourth Elder was also thrown out by him. King Lan Ling did not know that the Fourth Elder whom he killed was not the one who offended him at all.
Then, he quietly left. No one knew that he was the culprit of this battle.
The battle lasted for four hours. King Lan Ling's second primordial spirit was almost destroyed but he still managed to escape from the encirclement of the Ghost Eye Clan. One had to admit that King Lan Ling was really tough. He could not even die in such a situation …
As for the Ghost Eye Clan, 31 Divine Transformation Realm experts, two Void Glimpse Stage experts and three Void Inquiry Stage experts were killed by King Lan Ling. The number of Gold Core Realm and Nascent Soul Realm experts who were either injured or killed was more than one million.
This earth-shattering battle was immediately spread to every corner of the Rain World by countless people who were interested in it.
Ning Fan was naturally very satisfied as he had watched a good show and obtained countless spoils of war.
The only thing that made him feel a little regretful was that King Lan Ling did not die in the Ghost Eye Clan. It was kind of a pity …
He concealed himself all the way and hurried towards the direction of the Mist Horn Clan.
Only when he was hundreds of millions of li * (500m per li) away from the Ghost Eye Clan did he reveal himself. The medicinal effect of the Face Changing Pill had already worn off. He then entered the Profound Yin World.
Not only did he obtain two billion immortal jade and countless spiritual herbs during this trip, but he also obtained the dark golden pagoda, the devil scripture slate and the devil qi of the slate.
Ning Fan spent three days refining the third trace of devil qi in the Profound Yin World. As he had expected, the devil marks on his back evolved by one-fourth again, revealing the pattern of a ghost eye.
The advancement of the devil marks was now three-quarters complete!
After refining the third trace of devil qi, the strength of Ning Fan's physical body skyrocketed once again. It was almost infinitely close to the Second Level of the Golden Body Refining Realm!
Ning Fan guessed that if he obtains the fourth trace of devil qi and goes into seclusion to completely advance his devil marks to the Marshal Rank, not only would he be able to break through to the Golden Body Refining Realm, but he would also be at the Second Level of the Golden Body Refining Realm!
The current Ning Fan's physical body was so strong that he could almost instantly kill any Void Glimpse Stage cultivator!
Other than the devil qi, the dark golden pagoda was also a great harvest.
After leaving the Profound Yin World, Ning Fan activated his Yuan Yao Jade and entered the Yuan Yao World.
This dark golden pagoda was an imitation of the Lost World Tower. The Lost World Tower on the Penglai Immortal Island was of the silver grade. It only had seven floors. The ones that had more than seven floors were all of the golden grade.
In the Yuan Yao World, Ning Fan chose a secluded place to place the dark golden pagoda to avoid disturbing Mu Weiliang's sleep.
With a flick of his finger, the golden pagoda grew to twenty zhang * (3.33m per zhang) tall and landed at the foot of a mountain.
Ning Fan entered the pagoda. The first floor slowed down the flow of time by two times, the second floor slowed down by four times, the third floor slowed down by eight times and the fourth floor slowed down by sixteen times.
This dark golden pagoda did not have any flaws. However, the floors above the fourth floor were extremely strange. Ordinary people would not gain any cultivation effect when they enter.
Ning Fan possessed two traces of the Blood of Time. After entering the fifth floor, he felt that the flow of time around him had slowed down by thirty-two times. As for the time slowing effect of this floor, it was only effective on him alone. It was ineffective on others.
When he entered the sixth floor, the time slowed down by sixty-four times. Similarly, it was only effective on those who possessed the Blood of Time.
When he entered the seventh floor, the time slowed down by one hundred and eighty-eight times, which was the same as the silver tower of the Lost World Tower.
He tried to enter the eighth floor but realized that he could not enter it at all.
Just by taking half a step into the eighth floor, he actually felt that his primordial spirit was about to shatter!
With his current cultivation base, he could not enter the eighth floor. If he forcefully enters it, he would definitely die!
As such, Ning Fan could not go up to check if there was a ninth floor in this tower. Would there be time crystals on the ninth floor that could greatly increase one's cultivation base?
He had destroyed the seventh floor of the silver tower of the Lost World Palace. Now that he had obtained a golden tower of a higher level, he could enter the golden tower to cultivate whenever he wanted in the future. There was no need for him to go to the Penglai Immortal Island anymore.
The golden pagoda slowed down time, while the Profound Yin World accelerated magic power. Magic power acceleration could be used all the way to the Celestial Realm, but time deceleration was extremely dangerous for Celestials and had many drawbacks.
An immortal's minor and major tribulations were calculated according to their skeletal age.
Cultivating in the Profound Yin World would not increase one's bone age, but cultivating in the Lost World Tower would.
To an immortal, cultivating in the seventh level of the Lost World Pagoda for 100 years would increase his skeletal age by 12800 years. Once he left the Lost World Tower, he had no idea how many heavenly tribulations he would have to face …
Therefore, there was a saying in the Four Heavens Immortal Realm: Time has no meaning to immortals.
If there comes a day when Ning Fan could eliminate the drawbacks of the Profound Yin World and he could stay in the Profound Yin World for an unlimited amount of time, then the Profound Yin World would definitely be his first choice for seclusion.
For now, going into seclusion for a short period of time and entering Yuan Yao for a long period of time was a good choice.
Ning Fan was very satisfied with the dark golden pagoda. He decided to keep it in the Yuan Yao World for the time being.
His gaze finally landed on the last item he had obtained.
Ning Fan engraved the devil scripture on the third slate into the jade slip.
This slate recorded the unique cultivation state of the Ancient Demons.
In ancient times, Ancient Devils didn't cultivate magic, only blood. Their cultivation system was different from all the cultivation systems of the current era.
The first step of cultivation was divided into seven realms: Vein Opening, Harmonious Spirit, Gold Core, Nascent Soul, Divine Transformation, Void Refinement and Void Fragmentation.
The first step of the Ancient Devil Realm was divided into five realms: Ninth Layer Blood Refining Realm, Bone Talisman Realm, Jade Blood Realm, Barbarian Demon Realm, and Revered Demon Realm.
The current Body Refinement Realm was inherited from the Ancient Demon Realm.
The Nine Levels of Silver Light were similar to the Nine Levels of Blood Refining Realm. The first three levels corresponded to the Vein Opening Realm, the middle three levels corresponded to the Harmonious Spirit Realm, and the upper three levels corresponded to the Gold Core Realm.
Like the Silver Bone Realm, the Bone Seal Realm corresponded to the Nascent Soul Realm.
Just like the Jade Life Realm, the Jade Blood Realm corresponded to the Soul Formation Realm.
Just like the Golden Body Realm, the Reckless Demon Realm corresponded to the Void Training Realm.
Just like the Void Fragmentation Realm, the Revered Devil Realm corresponded to the Void Fragmentation Realm.
This was the cultivation system of the Ancient Devil Race. They did not cultivate any magic power at all.
The Ancient Devil Race cultivated blood. What corresponded to the magic power of the Divine Race was the devil blood essence qi of the Ancient Devil Race.
Powerful cultivators could move the stars and the moon with a trace of magic power.
Powerful ancient devils could suppress mountains and rivers with a trace of their essence qi!
The third slate only recorded the cultivation system of the Ancient Devil Race.
At the end of the devil scripture, it mentioned that one could obtain the Ancestral Talisman Blood Refinement Technique after collecting all four slates. That was the Blood Refinement Technique of the Ancient Devil Race!
Ning Fan kept the jade slip and remained silent for a while.
He had never thought that he could step onto the path of cultivation of the Ancient Devil Race after collecting all four slates.
That was a completely different path of cultivation compared to the cultivators of the past. By cultivating his devil blood, Ning Fan only needed to cultivate his physical body and it would be enough for him to prove his Dao and become invincible in the world!
The Ancient Devil Race's blood cultivation was completely different from the body refinement of cultivators.
If there were still ancient devils in the current era, they would certainly be invincible among body refiners of the same level!
"If I collect all four slates, will I be able to step onto the Ancient Devil Dao …?" Ning Fan's mind raced.
If he could become an ancient devil, he would be able to dominate the world with just his physical body. It was a great temptation!
(1/3) (To be continued)
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