Grasping Evil

Chapter 432: Slaughter the Tower (8)

The Qi Regulation Technique of the Void Pierce Stage borrows power from the void to produce the Sea of Qi. When one stands above it, their magic power would be inexhaustible so long as the Sea of Qi remains in effect.

The magic power contained in the Sea of Qi beneath King Ying Long’s feet had a total amount of magic power of at least ten Void Inquiry Stage experts.

It was somewhat similar to Ning Fan and his lightning diagram. With this technique, even if King Ying Long faces the great army of the Myriad Treasure Pavilion by himself, he would not exhaust his reserve of magic power and avoid being defeated.

No one below the Void Pierce Stage would be able to break his Sea of Qi.

As soon as King Ying Long displayed this technique, even the two lightning lords, Tai Yue and Mo Lei, felt that they had no chance of winning against him.

However, Ning Fan directly broke this technique apart using his Eastern Ocean Bell.

King Ying Long’s eyes were suddenly filled with greed. He remembered that there was one old monster from a higher floor who was searching for this bell with all his might.

After Ning Fan broke King Ying Long’s Sea of Qi, Lei Shiyi and the Void Refinement Realm experts of the Myriad Treasure Pavilion took advantage of the opportunity and charged forward with the 200 illusory undead puppets. Countless magic techniques and magic treasures were sent towards King Ying Long.

Facing the group of experts who had surrounded and attacked him together, King Ying Long smiled and revealed a bloodthirsty expression. His hands produced the sun, moon and stars in front of him. That magic technique was extraordinary.

Both of his hands suddenly turned into dragon claws. As he swung his claw, the claw marks his five fingers made were like five rays of ethereal moonlight.

Each ray looked gentle and light but they held massive force that could suppress mountains and rivers. These moonlights were like sharp claws that could tear into the hollow space. An immense rush of tearing force instantly swept across the vast sky.

“Void Technique, Moon-Tearing Dragon!”

The defensive armor of Lei Shiyi and the other five Void Refinement Realm experts were crushed as soon as they were struck by the claws. Blood spurt out from their wounds with their flesh badly mangled. The remaining undead puppets suffered considerable damage, greatly reducing their strength.

200 illusory undead puppets had combat power equivalent to 20 Void Glimpse Stage experts. However, nearly 50 of the undead puppets had been torn to pieces by King Ying Long. All of the remaining undead puppets were also damaged with their combat power significantly decreased.

So this is King Ying Long’s true strength? Even ordinary Void Inquiry Stage experts at the level of Lei Shiyi are unable to withstand a single strike from him!

“Lei Shiyi, you are just an ant! Next, it’s your turn!”

King Ying Long did not even spare a glance at the Divine Transformation Realm juniors from the Myriad Treasure Pavilion. His gaze only swept past Ning Fan, Tai Yue and Mo Lei.

Ning Fan’s expression became even more serious. King Ying long’s strength was far beyond his initial estimation.

So this is the true strength of a Void Inquiry Stage expert who is invincible among those at the same level as him.

Even though his face was filled with seriousness, there was no hint of fear on it. Tai Yue and Mo Lei, on the other hand, were staring at King Ying Long in shock and fear.

“Impossible! One thousand years ago, even though you are peerless among Void Inquiry Stage experts, you weren’t as strong as you are now! Defeating 6 Void Refinement Realm cultivators and 200 illusory undead puppets with a single move. You certainly would not be capable of doing this one thousand years ago!”

“Yes! I finally get it now. You are already a hair’s breadth away from the Void Pierce Stage. You are already at a level where you can meditate in seclusion and break through to the Void Pierce Stage anytime. That must be it! This is bad. This Ying Long can already be considered to be at the Half-Step Void Pierce Stage. He is someone whom we definitely can’t beat! Fellow Daoist Zhou, let’s retreat now. There is still a lot of time for revenge in the future. We must not get ourselves killed here!”

Both Tai Yue and Mo Lei were astonished by King Ying Long’s current strength. They already had intentions of retreating.

Fortunately, the two of them were not cold-blooded and selfish individuals. They did not have the idea of running away by themselves. Instead, they intended to bring Ning Fan along with them and flee.

However, Ning Fan was not going to flee in the end.

When one attains the Void Refinement Realm, the difference between each of the minor cultivation realms was worlds apart and it would be extremely hard to outdo an individual who had a higher cultivation level.

Ning Fan understood that no matter how heaven-defying a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator was, there was no way they could win against a Half-Step Void Pierce Stage expert. In the eyes of countless people, it was certainly impossible for him to defeat King Ying Long.

He was aware of it all. However, he still had a trump card that can turn this impossible situation around!

“Hand over the golden bell and I will leave your whole corpse intact! You are just a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator. No matter how frightening your combat power is, you are still an ant in my eyes! How dare you try to defy me?! It’s similar to a tiny dot of light trying to compete with the brightness of the sun and moon. Your death won’t even arouse any pity from others!”

King Ying Long’s eyes turned grim. He stood above the vault of the heavens and looked down on Ning Fan and the others as if he was looking at ants.

Even though his Void Pierce Stage Qi Regulation Technique had been neutralized, he still had confidence of killing Ning Fan within ten breaths!

“Ant? A tiny dot of light? Are you sure? Demonization!”

Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with a hint of mockery. It was the last human-like emotion that he had before his transformation.

At the next moment, all emotions in his eyes faded, only leaving behind coldness.

The trump card that Ning Fan still had up his sleeve was to borrow the power of Mo Luo’s blood to demonize his primordial spirit, temporarily turning his body into a true devil body.

At this very moment, the drop of Mo Luo’s blood in Ning Fan’s primordial spirit began to boil, turning his primordial spirit black.

His white robes began to be dyed black by the devil qi with his black hair fluttering wildly in the wind. He looked just like a devil lord clad in golden armor.

Two horns grew from his head and six wings spread across his back. A ghost eye also split open on his glabella. The only thing that remained unchanged was Ju Mo’s gigantic form.

A rush of unusually ferocious devil qi spread out from his body, freezing the space around him.

At this moment, Ning Fan seemed to have fallen into the abyss of thousands of devils. He seemed to have become one of the nine great devil ancestors who stood at the pinnacle of the devil race.

“Demonization?!” The expressions of Mo Lei and Tai Yue changed. Those experts from the Myriad Treasure Pavilion who were severely injured and had been knocked to the ground were also shocked.

It has been said that many secret techniques and abilities of the devil race in ancient times needed ‘blood’ power in order to use them. One of these abilities was demonization. By devouring a devil’s blood and letting the devilishness develop within them, one could turn into a true devil.

However, this demonization technique had already been lost after the disappearance of ‘blood’ a long time ago. No one could understand why Ning Fan was capable of using this lost ability of the ancient devils.

Could it be that Ning Fan possesses devil blood? But how could this be possible?

“I didn’t expect an insignificant ant like you still knows something like the demonization technique. However, if you think you can put up a fight against me using this mystical trick, you’re absolutely wrong.” Ying Long said with disdain.

“Is that so?!”

Ning Fan’s eyes shone with a cold light. He turned to Tai Yue and Mo Lei who were standing by his side and spoke to them. Even though his tone was indifferent, it had an irresistible devil prestige.

“The two of you, fall back!”

“What? Don’t tell me you want to face King Ying Long on your own! This is not a good idea under any circumstances!”

The two of them tried to dissuade Ning Fan from his decision but he had already taken a step forward. His figure turned faint and disappeared without a trace.

His movement technique was incredibly fast. It’s level was above the Void Inquiry Stage. The current him was so fast that Mo Lei and Tai Yue could not see him.

His aura force was also vigorous. Even though he was not deliberately going against the two of them, it still made them feel a sharp pain in their Sea of Consciousness. It was caused by Ning Fan’s gaze.

Mo Lei and Tai Yue did not know that Ning Fan’s physical body’s strength had already attained the true First Level of the Golden Body Realm after his demonization. With his corpse devil body at its peak condition, his physical body was nearly comparable to that of a body cultivator at the Second Level of the Golden Body Realm. In other words, he was definitely not any weaker than Lightning Lord Tai Yue!

Just as Ning Fan disappeared, Ying Long’s eyes narrowed. Without any hesitation, he turned around and hurled both of his fists behind him.

In that direction, Ning Fan’s figure appeared like a ghost. His speed and the strangeness of his technique seemed to almost touch the threshold of the genuine Void Pierce Stage!

“Void Technique, Double Dragon!”

Both of Ying Long’s fists had illusory shadows of two roaring dragons. The strength of his attack had the capability of destroying heaven and earth.

As Ning Fan who suddenly appeared looked at the incoming blows, his eyes only had indifferent frigidness.

This single attack was strong enough to defeat either Tai Yue or Mo Lei.

However, in the eyes of Ning Fan who had undergone demonization, this strike was still not enough to harm him.

He did not move or evade at all and allowed the punches to directly hit his lightning armor. The impact of the punches only caused tiny ripples of lightning rays. It could not break the lightning armor at all.

Besides, the moment the impact of the attack was about to dissipate, Ning Fan opened his mouth and devoured the remaining force of the punches into his abdomen.

Refine!

The remnant force of the attack was devoured by Mo Luo’s blood.

Surprisingly, Ning Fan discovered that he could actually create an imitation of the body refinement technique which he had withstood just now with the help of his devil blood after it devoured the force of the attack.

All of King Ying Long’s disdain and contempt turned into astonishment in the face of Ning Fan’s lightning armor which was at the third level of the golden grade.

“What armor is that? Its defense is actually so frightening!”

“You don’t have to know! Void Technique, Double Dragon!”

Ning Fan threw out both of his fists. Above his arms, two traces of illusory black shadows of dragons entangled with each other and roared.

The technique he had just displayed was undeniably the body refinement technique he imitated from King Ying Long using his devil blood!

Moreover, the body refinement technique that Mo Luo’s blood imitated seemed to have made some improvements on the technique as its destructive power was slightly stronger than that of the original!

“What?!”

King Ying Long became even more surprised. Well, there was no way one could remain calm after seeing their opponent learn and use their techniques immediately after just witnessing it for the first time!

Even though Ning Fan was not proficient in displaying that technique as he had used it for the very first time, the grade of the technique he displayed was evidently much higher than that of King Ying Long. Many aspects of the technique had become even more perfect than before.

*Bang*

As the two punches landed on King Ying Long’s chest, the force broke his inner armor layer by layer and made him fall to the ground.

The shock in his eyes turned into rage. Even though his physical body was at the Second Level of the Golden Body Realm, Ning Fan still managed to harm him with a single strike disregarding the countless layers of inner armor he wore. Even though his injuries were not serious, he was still injured by Ning Fan who was an ant in his eyes.

He could not tolerate being injured by an insignificant being just like that.

However, he also could not understand why Ning Fan was able to secretly learn his secret technique right after being hit by that technique from him earlier.

“Using Mo Luo’s blood, one can refine enemy attacks and borrow the power of the devil blood to instantly create imitations of the body techniques and even create improvements on them… So this is the power of the ‘blood’ of the ancient devil race, huh… The divine race cultivates magic techniques, the demon race cultivates sense and mind power while the devil race cultivates the body. With the power of the devil blood, one will be able to comprehend body techniques one hundred times faster compared to the other two races!”

Ning Fan gradually turned calm. Today, it was his first time going into a complete demonized state and it was also his first time discovering the profoundness of ‘blood’.

Maybe the reason why the ancient devil race was vanquished and their ‘blood’ were seized from them was because their ‘blood’ was just too heaven-defying.

The ‘spirit’ of the demon race was the key to borrowing power from heaven and earth.

The ‘blood’ of the devil race was an innate quality which made devil cultivators skilled and proficient in body techniques as soon as they were born.

The Fu Li Demon Blood gave Ning Fan the ‘spirit’ while Mo Luo’s devil blood gave him the ‘blood’.

With Ning Fan’s current cultivation base, he was still unable to completely understand these two types of power. However, it was within his capabilities of using the devil blood to copy the body techniques of others.

Thus, King Ying Long was no longer a terrifying opponent.

“Double Dragon Void Technique is just a Low Grade Mortal Void Realm technique. It isn’t surprising that you managed to secretly learn it. However, I don’t believe that you can still imitate a Mid-Grade Mortal Void Realm body technique!”

King Ying Long calmed down. He moved both of his hands to draw the great Dao and summoned the sun, moon and stars. It was the prelude of his ‘Moon-Tearing Dragon’ technique.

This technique was also a body technique. Its destructive power was extraordinary. With this technique, King Ying Long defeated six Void Refinement Realm experts including Lei Shiyi and even 200 illusory undead puppets with a single attack.

Ning Fan activated the devil blood within his body to its maximum capability. On his right eye, three devil stars began to shine simultaneously.

The first devil star was a devil star with an attribute. It was called the Earth Controlling Devil Star.

The second devil star was a devil star with a divine ability. It once contained an earth-element divine ability. However, the destructive power of that ability was far too weak. Thus, Ning Fan had abandoned it a long time ago.

The third devil star was a devil star that has an enhancement effect. It gradually took form after Ning Fan had condensed his natal stars. However, Ning Fan had yet to obtain an enhancement from this star as it was not fully developed yet.

As Ning Fan activated the devil blood, he suddenly felt that his right eye was burning. To put it more precisely, it was the second devil star that was burning.

The divine ability that the second devil star had got replaced by Mo Luo’s blood!

The ability that the devil star had was no longer an earth-element magic technique but… Mo Luo’s Eye instead!

At this moment, Ning Fan’s left eye represented his demon power while his right eye represented his devil power.

His left eye was Fu Li while his right eye was Mo Luo.

His left eye could see through illusions and cast bewitching techniques. His right eye, however, has been blessed with a greater ability by the power of the ‘blood’.

Slowly, his right eye no longer burned and the pain subsided. But to Ning Fan’s surprise, he discovered that he could now see some unimaginable things after activating the devil eye.

For example, he could see the movement of blood and qi inside King Ying Long’s body. It was all presented in Ning Fan’s eyes without any reservation. The flow and the movement were extremely clear.

The destructive power of a body technique originated from the essence qi in the user’s blood and flesh.

Mastering the flow of blood and qi is equivalent to mastering that body technique.

Ning Fan imitated the changes of King Ying Long’s hand movements and summoned the illusions of the sun, moon and stars.

The blood and qi in his body began to flow similarly to King Ying Long’s.

King Ying Long widened his angry eyes. He realized that Ning Fan was really crazy enough to imitate his technique on the spot.

A strong rush of humiliation surged in his heart. He stopped drawing power from the great momentum. At this moment, the essence qi in his blood and flesh reached its peak!

“Moon-Tearing Dragon!”

“Moon-Tearing Dragon!”

Two voices resounded nearly at the same time.

Just as King Ying Long displayed that technique, Ning Fan had actually displayed it as well through imitation.

Of course, it was impossible for him to be as skilled as King Ying Long in displaying that technique since he merely imitated it. However, his devil eye had seen through this technique and made some improvements. Hence, the grade of Ning Fan’s version of ‘Moon-Tearing Dragon’ was definitely a level higher than that of King Ying Long!

Displaying body techniques in front of a member of the devil race who possessed the true devil blood was similar to bringing disgrace upon one’s own self!

King Ying Long stretched his five fingers and tore the moonlight. Ning Fan also lifted his hand and tore five traces of moonlight which could crush mountains and rivers.

*Bang*

The vast heavens where the both of them were under was torn apart by a massive force. The hollow space collapsed piece by piece as the entire space violently shook.

Gigantic dragon claws which were formed from moonlight tore the hollow space which each of them occupied.

The destructive power of the technique was not weak. When King Ying Long was slashed by Ning Fan’s moon claws, five scratches which were so deep that bones were visible appeared on his chest. Blood flowed out from his wounds incessantly. This time, the injuries he suffered were no longer light.

Ning Fan remained as composed as before. With the heaven-defying defense of his lightning armor, he directly blocked King Ying Long’s moon claws without getting any injuries.

“Despicable! You just barely managed to win against me by secretly learning my body techniques and depending on your lightning armor! Do you have the guts to use your own strength to fight against me?!” King Ying Long roared with resentment. During the two clashes just now, he was the one who got injured while Ning Fan remained unscathed. How could he accept this fact?

“…”

Ning Fan did not care about what King Ying Long said.

He imitated his opponent’s body techniques using the devil blood he possessed while the lightning armor was something he condensed using his primordial lightning. How could these not be his own techniques?

Based on what reason was he considered despicable?!

Ning Fan did not like tolerating nonsense. He did not mind letting King Ying Long witness his true strength.

He took a step forward and his figure vanished once again. At the next moment, he directly appeared in front of King Ying Long and engaged in a fierce and ruthless hand-to-hand combat.

*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*

King Ying Long had never expected that Ning Fan would actually be bold enough to fight him in a physical battle.

He was an expert at the Second Level of the Golden Body Realm while Ning Fan seemed to only be at the Peak of the Jade Life Realm.

However, as soon as they exchanged blows, he immediately realized that the physical body of Ning Fan who had gone into a demonized state was absolutely not any weaker than his.

Each of his punches was strong enough to pulverize mountains and rivers. Each of his palm strikes was enough to move heaven and earth!

Both of them exchanged blows thousands of times. Ning Fan fought like a berserk devil as he only attacked and attacked without even defending. Well, since he had the lightning armor, why did he need to defend himself at all?

All of King Ying Long’s punches were blocked by the lightning armor.

As for Ning Fan’s punches and palm strikes, all of them left wounds on King Ying Long’s physical body.

A lot of dragon scales fell off from King Ying Long’s body. All of them scattered from the force of Ning Fan’s punches.

Droplets of dragon blood splashed across the vast sky. They came from the wounds that Ning Fan left on his body.

King Ying Long might be unrivalled among Void Inquiry Stage experts but the current demonized Ning Fan had the lightning armor which allowed him to disregard all kinds of Void Inquiry Stage attacks!

The fight between the two of them shook heaven and earth. Both Mo Lei and Tai Yue were watching the fight with their mouths open. None of them dared to intervene.

Lei Shiyi and the others gradually regained their mobility. After suppressing their injuries, they raised their heads and looked at the sky.

The hollow space would be torn apart by Ning Fan and Ying Long from time to time. That violent and brutal battle was not a battle that ordinary experts could partake in.

Even though time went by, Ning Fan did not show any signs of weariness. King Ying Long’s injuries, however, became more and more severe, making him unable to continue battling with Ning Fan.

Each of the experts who was watching the fight revealed an amazed and horrified expression.

King Ying Long who once ruled over all of the first twenty-four floors revealed more and more signs of being defeated.

After the demonization, Ning Fan had actually gotten so strong that he was able to defeat King Ying Long!

Who was King Ying Long? He was someone invincible among Void Inquiry Stage experts. He had even defeated an ordinary Void Pierce Stage expert in the past.

This kind of expert was actually going to be defeated by Ning Fan. It was without a doubt an astonishing feat!

*Bang*

It was another collision of blows and King Ying Long was sent flying away. He had used all of his strength to strike Ning Fan’s lightning armor but he could not even leave a scratch on it.

The durability of this lightning armor was far beyond his imagination. King Ying Long deeply understood that if he does not display his strongest trump card any time soon, he would definitely be unable to win against Ning Fan. Moreover, he might even die here today!

“There’s no other options. Even if I have to use the treasure King Dong Long gave to me, I will do it if it means I can kill you! Void Treasure, Yellow Dragon Jade Token!”

While King Ying Long was falling back, he suddenly took out seven dark yellow jade tokens which had the shape of a dragon.

As he tossed the seven jade tokens into the air, he shook and turned into a winged yellow dragon which was six thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) long. His breath would blow mountains and split rivers apart.

The Yellow Dragon Jade Tokens were just Mid Grade Mortal Void Realm magic treasures. However, when the seven tokens are combined into one, it might even be stronger than some High Grade Mortal Void Realm magic treasures. It was able to deliver a Void Pierce Stage attack.

However, the magic power needed to activate this treasure was too much. That was why King Ying Long had to transform into his original form in order to use the tokens.

Ning Fan’s eyes turned solemn. The destructive power of the tokens could nearly break his lightning armor!

The gigantic mouth of the yellow dragon shouted out abstruse and complex incantations.

“When the heavens are dead, the yellow sky shall prevail! Yellow sky, crush!”

Just as the yellow dragon muttered that sentence, the yellow dragon jade tokens each turned into a golden ray and vanished.

At the next second, the vast heavens within the vicinity of one hundred thousand li* (500m per li) turned golden yellow. Layers of skies spread out with seven layers of yellow skies in total.

“Crush!”

The seven layers of skies directly fell on Ning Fan. This was the true force of the falling heavens!

All Void Inquiry Stage old monsters and even some Void Pierce Stage old monsters would be killed under the force of these seven layers of yellow skies!

This was already King Ying Long’s strongest attack. This attack could even change the color of the wind and clouds!

“I also have my strongest attack. Now, I shall let you witness what kind of power will appear when Mo Luo and Tai Su fuse with each other! Heaven Breaking Sword Finger. The First Finger, the Second Finger and the Third Finger!”

Ning Fan raised his fingers and pointed at the sky. The bone of his index finger suddenly gave off a dazzling lightning ray.

It was the emperor’s finger bone!

Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel