All of a sudden, a giant rotten hand broke out from the ground and reached out towards Ning Fan!
A putrid grey qi spread out from the giant hand, making one feel nauseous just by smelling it.
A strong gust of wind blew and the grey qi turned into a giant grey dragon. It opened its mouth and swallowed Ning Fan.
Ning Fan's body turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared from his original spot. At the next moment, he appeared in the sky. He raised his palm and pressed it against the grey dragon. Then, he looked down at the ground with a grim expression.
The ground kept cracking and giant rotten corpses crawled out from the ground.
All of the rotten corpses had black holes in their chests. None of them had a heart.
Each of the rotten corpses had an extremely dense ancient god qi. They were the corpses of ancient gods.
Among the group of ancient corpses, there was an ancient god corpse with dragon horns on its head. Its body was surrounded by dragon-shaped grey qi. Its aura force was like a mountain, carrying an unusually vast pressure. It was completely different from the corpses of ordinary ancient gods!
* Roar *
The giant corpses crawled out from the ground and roared at the sky. Their voices were filled with endless resentment.
Some of the giant corpses began to wave their fists at the sky. Heaven and earth were instantly filled with countless ancient divine lights.
Without any hesitation, Ning Fan turned into green smoke again and evaded the fists. His eyes were fixed on the ancient corpse with dragon horns and he remained silent.
All of a sudden, several spatial cracks appeared in the sky. Giant rotten hands reached out from the cracks and grabbed at Ning Fan when he least expected it.
Among the countless giant hands, there were countless traces of grey qi which turned into the demon form of a grey fire sparrow. It attacked Ning Fan ferociously like the wind.
Ning Fan's expression changed slightly. Without saying a word, he summoned the Memory Severing Dao Sword. The sword produced countless illusory sword lights and killed the grey demonic sparrow. Then, he raised his hand and cut off the countless giant rotten hands.
After a series of loud noises, countless giant hands were cut into pieces by the sword lights and exploded into countless traces of grey qi.
Then, the giant corpses whose arms were cut off walked out from the spatial cracks one after another. They roared at Ning Fan furiously as if they resented him for cutting off their arms.
Among this group of giant corpses, there was an ancient god corpse with grey fire wings. Its aura force was extremely vast, which was completely different from ordinary ancient corpses.
On the ground in all directions, countless giant rotten corpses were approaching Ning Fan step by step.
In just a few breaths, the Ancient Corpses in the distance had all closed in.
Among this group of ancient corpses, there were two giant ancient gods with exceptionally vast auras. One of them had the head of a tiger and the lower body of a human.
The other person was a fat giant who carried a huge turtle shell on his back.
Underground, in the sky, in the cracks in space, there were Ancient God corpses everywhere.
However, only the four ancient corpses could give him a sense of danger.
Ancient Dragon Horn Corpse! Flamewing Ancient Corpse! Tiger-headed Ancient Corpses! Ancient Tortoise Shelled Corpse!
Among these Ancient God corpses, most of them were One-apertured Ancient Gods, a small number of them were Two-apertured Ancient Gods, and a small number of them were Three-apertured Ancient Gods.
Most of the ancient god corpses with one aperture possessed Void Fragmentation Realm cultivation base.
Most of the Ancient God corpses had the cultivation of Life Immortals.
Most of the Ancient God corpses with three orifices had the cultivation of the Crossing Truth Realm.
There were only four ancient corpses here, and they were the corpses of Three-Apertured Ancient Gods!
Ning Fan's figure flickered continuously in the sky. He used his spirit sense to scan the surroundings and his expression turned grim.
After a rough count, he found out that there were ten thousand One-apertured Ancient Gods, eighty-one Two-apertured Ancient Gods and four Three-apertured Ancient Gods.
Ten thousand One-apertured Ancient God corpses waved their fists at Ning Fan at the same time. Divine light dazzled the world and the light from their fists shook the heavens.
Large areas of the hollow space collapsed one after another. The ground could not stop trembling.
For some unknown reason, the eighty-one Two-apertured Ancient Gods and the four Three-apertured Ancient Gods did not immediately join in the attack.
Since they were just attacks from One-apertured Ancient Gods, Ning Fan was not afraid no matter how many ancient gods there were.
Ning Fan raised his hand and summoned the Memory Severing Dao Sword. He made a hand seal and the sword turned into one hundred and eight thousand sword shadows, setting up a sword formation. Rays of illusory sword light began to rampage and kill in the sword formation.
Groups of One-apertured Ancient Gods were killed by the sword light, exploding into traces of grey qi.
Every time an ancient god was killed, a trace of grey qi would fly out from the black hole in the ancient god's chest and enter Ning Fan's body.
Once the grey qi entered his body, it would rush to his heart, causing an excruciating pain as if his heart was being torn apart. At the same time, it would deprive his heart of its life force bit by bit.
Ning Fan used the Illusory Sword Formation to kill all One-apertured Ancient Gods. Immediately, ten thousand traces of grey qi appeared in his body.
Boundless pain assaulted him. Ning Fan's breathing became sluggish. His face immediately turned abnormally red and his qi began to become slightly chaotic.
His heart was tainted by countless traces of grey qi!
At the moment when the grey qi appeared, Ning Fan lost control of his mind. He almost wanted to break free from this illusory realm.
This was one of the reasons why countless people failed to open up their divine apertures after consuming the Death God's Crystal.
A fragile heart could not resist the corrosion of the grey qi at all!
The strength of one's heart had nothing to do with one's cultivation level. It was closely related to one's Ancient God Realm.
Cultivators who were not ancient gods would immediately be corroded by the grey qi once they come into contact with it. They would be forced to break free from the illusory realm forcefully, causing the refinement of the Death God's Crystal to fail.
Even ordinary One-apertured Ancient Gods would not be able to resist the corrosion of ten thousand traces of grey qi at the same time.
"Those who are heartless … will die!"
"Those who are heartless … will die!"
"Those who are heartless … will die … We are unwilling to accept this!"
The remaining eighty-one Two-Apertured Ancient Gods' corpses and four Three-Apertured Ancient Gods' corpses roared furiously.
Ning Fan's mind gradually lost control. The illusory realm in front of him split into two and then into four. As the number of changes increased, he could no longer see anything clearly.
Heaven and earth seemed to be shaking, and everything began to blur.
At this moment, it was not the heaven and earth or the illusory realm that was wavering. It was Ning Fan's heart!
At this moment, it was also Ning Fan's heart that might suffer the backlash!
The roars of the ancient gods' corpses echoed in his ears. Suddenly, Ning Fan realized that the grey qi in his body was growing bit by bit.
The amount of grey qi was increasing and it contained endless negative emotions.
Resentment, anger, unwillingness, jealousy, greed, fear, despair, sorrow …
Ning Fan vaguely had an epiphany. His eyes turned sharp and he shouted coldly. His divine heart emitted countless rays of divine light, slightly dispersing part of the grey qi. His eyes regained some clarity.
"As expected, this grey qi is the combination of all the negative emotions of the fallen ancient gods …" Ning Fan's eyes turned cold and he muttered to himself.
To open the first aperture of an ancient god, he relied on the opportunity given by Ancestor Yu. It was not the right way.
To open the first aperture, he had to endure the pain of severing his heart for a thousand years. After that, he opened the first heart aperture and his heart became even more persevering. He was no longer afraid of any pain.
Even though he used the Ancient God Heart Lotus to build a good foundation for opening the second aperture, he was still on the verge of danger. Fortunately, he was calm and decisive in the face of danger. He abandoned the excess ancient god heart force to ensure the success of opening the heart aperture.
After opening the second aperture, his heart became calmer. The more serious the situation was, the more he could calm himself down and not lose his composure.
The third aperture was the divine aperture that Ning Fan was trying to open by consuming the Death God Crystal.
The process was filled with endless negative emotions. Those were all the emotions left behind by the ten thousand ancient gods after they lost their divine hearts.
"I must eliminate all these negative emotions!"
The divine light on Ning Fan's body became stronger and stronger. That divine light came from his heart!
He was a Two Aperture Ancient God. His heart was already strong enough to suppress all these negative emotions!
The grey qi in his divine heart gradually disappeared amidst a sizzling sound.
The grey qi was not expelled from Ning Fan's body. Instead, it was forcefully refined by him.
Why would he be afraid of these negative emotions?!
Every time he refined a bit of grey qi, his divine heart would become stronger.
After refining ten thousand traces of grey qi, a grey light spot slowly appeared above his divine heart.
That light spot was right beside the second divine aperture!
That spot was the location to open the third divine aperture!
"I can obtain grey qi by killing the ancient god corpses in the illusory realm. Refining this grey qi might increase the ancient god heart force and help me open the heart aperture … All of this is just a possibility. It's not absolute … "
Ning Fan's eyes were now completely clear. He understood the key to refining the Death God Crystal.
He already understood why this Death God Heart could help people open the heart aperture.
Killing ten thousand ancient gods and extracting their hearts was not as simple as extracting their heart force. Instead, one had to kill these ancient gods using incomparably cruel methods, causing their hearts to be filled with all kinds of negative emotions before they died.
The stronger the divine heart of an ancient god was, the less likely it was for them to have negative emotions. However, once negative emotions are produced, those emotions would be even more ingrained and indelible. It would make people unable to extricate themselves and sink deep into the mud!
Killing these ancient gods, extracting their hearts, and refining them into crystals …
The Death God Crystal was the amalgamation of countless negative emotions. When a cultivator consumes it to resist the negative emotions within, it could temper their heart and improve the power of their divine heart.
If the grade of the Death God Crystal is too low, it would not have much of an effect.
If the grade of the Death God Crystal is too high and the negative emotions are too strong, the cultivator who consumes the crystal would not be able to resist it. Hence, the refinement process would usually fail.
Mu Tu and the three gods had failed to refine the crystal because they could not resist the negative emotions.
As for Sen Luo, it was because even though he was not an ancient god, he had always been obsessed with evil thoughts and had an extremely tough will. What he refined was just a second-grade Death God Crystal which was far from enough to open the heart aperture …
The grade of the Death God Crystal that Ning Fan obtained was neither too high nor too low. It was just right for him to use.
The power of the grey qi could make him lose himself for a moment but it was not enough to make him sink completely. It was still within the range of his refinement ability.
Standing in the sky, Ning Fan scanned his surroundings with his spirit sense. When he saw the remaining ancient god corpses, his eyes flashed with determination.
The negative emotions of ten thousand one-aperture ancient gods were not enough to help him open the third heart aperture.
He needed more grey qi!
At the moment when Ning Fan scanned them with his spirit sense, the eighty-one two-aperture ancient gods moved!
These two-aperture ancient gods at the Ghost Profound Realm let out deafening roars. Some of them flew into the sky while some of them were already in the sky. All of them were closing in on Ning Fan.
At a certain moment, the eighty-one ancient gods suddenly stretched out their palms in unison. The grey qi around their bodies condensed into longbows which were held in their palms.
Amidst the thunderous roars, the eighty-one ancient gods drew their bows and released their arrows. Eighty-one whistling giant arrows made of grey light pierced through the sky towards Ning Fan.
Each of the grey arrow light had the destructive power of a Ghost Profound Realm attack.
Among the eighty-one arrows, six or seven of them even had the destructive power of a Peak Ghost Profound Realm attack!
The arrows fell at the same time. Grey qi covered the sky. This piece of land that was already upside down was once again turned upside down.
Before the arrows could get close to him, Ning Fan immediately lifted one of his feet and stepped on the sky. Immediately, a huge ravine with lead-colored light appeared in the sky. Within the ravine, a gigantic lead-colored lotus grew!
At the next moment, millions of lotus shadows appeared in the sky. Divine light illuminated the world!
The arrows bombarded the defense of the Three Flowers but failed to break it.
To be honest, the strength of Ning Fan's Three Flowers Technique was not enough to defend against the joint attacks of eighty-one Life Immortal Realm experts.
However, in this illusory realm, Ning Fan's Three Flowers Technique seemed to have undergone some changes.
The Natal Lead Lotus that he summoned was the Human Lotus. It was actually born from the countless ravines. It was a humongous object that was as large as a mountain.
Unknowingly, the defense of his Three Flowers Converging Prominence Technique had greatly improved.
When his first flower was cultivated to the Great Perfection Realm, it was enough to defend against the destructive power of an Early Truth Crossing Realm expert.
However, at this moment, under the full defense of this technique, even a Mid Truth Crossing Realm expert might not be able to destroy or break through the lotus shadows that filled the sky!
"The power of the Three Flowers Converging Prominence Technique has increased?!" Ning Fan's eyes were filled with surprise at first. Then, he seemed to have understood something.
The reason why the technique's power increased might be related to the act of consuming the Ancient God Heart Lotus.
The Three Flowers Converging Prominence was a divine technique of the ancient gods. It was a necessary technique to pluck the Ancient God Heart Lotus. It was not impossible that consuming the Ancient God Heart Lotus could increase the power of the technique …
While Ning Fan was surprised by the increase in the power of the Three Flowers Technique, all of the ancient gods' corpses revealed a look of terror the moment they saw the lead lotus!
The era where these ancient gods fell was too long ago. It was so long ago that the Three Flowers Technique had not been created by a powerful ancient god yet.
During that era, an ancient god appeared out of nowhere and created the Three Flowers Converging Prominence Technique.
This ancient god was cruel by nature. He loved to kill other divine races the most. He used the divine hearts of others to refine the Death God Crystal.
His title was' Death Ancestor '…
The Death Ancestor was the murderer who snatched the hearts of these ancient gods.
Even though these ancient gods' corpses had lost their spiritual intelligence, they still instinctively feared the Death Ancestor!
That fear was evoked by Ning Fan's Three Flowers Technique!
"Run …"
The moment they saw the lotus shadows that filled the sky, the eighty-one Two Apertures Ancient Gods and six Three Apertures Ancient Gods turned and fled without exception …
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