Grasping Evil

Chapter 440: Chapter 440: Killing Lu Jiefen

This young emperor was actually someone of the previous generation whose name once shook the entire Rain World, King Lan Ling!

The King Lan Ling in the rumors was a Half-Step Void Fragmentation Realm expert. The cultivation base he was emanating right now was just at the Void Inquiry Stage. It was a little strange.

When Ning Fan studied him carefully, he discovered some clues. The King Lan Ling standing in front of him was actually just the second primordial spirit of the original. He was not the true person.

There should be a lot of them who could see through the identity of this King Lan Ling as the second primordial spirit of the original.

However, even if it was just his second primordial spirit, no one had the intention to resist him.

As soon as Liu Yi saw this person’s arrival, his eyes were instantly filled with hopelessness. If this person wants to eliminate the Six-Winged Clan, no matter how strong or how skilled Ning Fan was, he would not be able to protect the Six-Winged Clan! Luckily, this person just wanted to seize the slate. It can already be said that no one could keep the slate from King Lan Ling. However, no one could be sure whether the Six-Winged Clan could survive by chance after handing over the slate…

Yue Lingkong’s beautiful eyes were filled with shock. She was ready to activate the moon portal anytime and bring Ning Fan to flee. It was enough to show how terrified she was of King Lan Ling.

“Little Cucumber, let’s get ready to escape. We can’t afford to mess with this King Lan Ling…In the Rain World, no one below the Void Fragmentation Realm can fight against him!”

“You don’t have to worry. This person isn’t the original. He is just the second primordial spirit…”

“Even though he is just the second primordial spirit, you still can’t underestimate him… Rumor has it that King Lan Ling’s second primordial spirit is strong enough to kill ordinary Void Pierce Stage experts…”

Yue Lingkong’s voice carried some concern. She was worried about Ning Fan’s safety.

No one knew since when Ning Fan’s safety had become something that could make her worry.

“Don’t worry. This King Lan Ling’s enmity isn’t focused on us. Instead, his enmity is against the members of the Ghost Eye Clan and the Mist Horn Clan… He claimed that his reason for coming to the Six-Winged Clan is to obtain one item. That item is probably the Devil Statue Slate… Interesting. The Lan Ling Sect might only be joining forces with the Mist Horn Clan and the Ghost Eye Clan on the surface. I wonder what agreement they had amongst themselves. However, just as the slate was about to fall into their hands, King Lan Ling personally came to seize the slate and even wanted to pocket the profits without sharing. There is an old saying which goes: benefits make people fight. Those who cooperate in order to obtain benefits will eventually go against each other because of them.”

Just as Ning Fan had expected, as soon as King Lan Ling showed himself, his spirit sense targeted Gui Jiao and Wang Liang. It seems clear that he really harbored the intention to keep the slate for himself.

Even though Yue Lingkong was strong, she was just at the level where she was undefeatable among Void Glimpse Stage experts. She also did not have a strong and powerful background. Thus, she was not qualified to make King Lan Ling regard her with importance.

The only thing that could make King Lan Ling afraid was the forces backing Gui Jiao and Wang Liang – the Mist Horn Clan and the Ghost Eye Clan.

Especially the Ghost Eye Clan, which would be King Lan Ling’s greatest opponent in competing for the devil statue slate!

“Xuan Yi, hand over the devil statue slate!”

King Lan Ling’s bone-chilling voice carried an unimaginable aura force which directly pressed against Xuan Yi. To Xuan Yi who was already grievously injured, this aura force was difficult to resist!

Xuan Yi’s eyes looked extremely fearful. In the face of King Lan Ling’s aura force, he actually felt like he was suffocating. There was no way he could resist it.

If only Void Glimpse Stage old monsters came to seize the slate, he would still dare to fight against them. However, a strong expert like King Lan Ling had also come today. Of course, Xuan Yi did not need to think that he would still be able to keep the slate.

His eyes were filled with reluctance. The contents carved on this devil statue slate was extremely abstruse and difficult to understand. What’s more strange about it was that the words on the slate would constantly change after a while.

After Xuan Yi tried to study it, he only managed to find out that it contained methods to “break free from the devil marks” and “condensing the devil ancestral talisman’.

What Xuan Yi was particularly concerned about was that the slate seemed to also contain a trace of a massive power. He did not know what it was. It seemed to be the source of the power that kept changing the words.

Xuan Yi made a copy of the words that had appeared on the slate. Each time, the words were different from before. He deeply understood that if the power that was sealed in the slate did not exist, these abstruse and constantly changing words would not carry any meaning. They would not be able to eliminate the devil marks of the Six-Winged Clan. Hence, he was definitely unwilling to hand over the slate unless he could figure out the secrets behind it.

Now, since King Lan Ling had arrived, Xuan Yi finally did not have any other options but to give the slate away.

It was a deep black ancient slate which was emanating a faint devil qi. Even so, that trace of qi was boundless and heavy.

When Xuan Yi took it out, it immediately caught everybody’s eyes. Countless old monsters revealed covetous expressions and secretly spread their spirit sense to study what the words were on the slate.

However, after they checked it, the expressions of those old monsters changed. Not only were the words on the slate abstruse and difficult to understand, but they would also change from time to time.

Even Ning Fan’s expression also changed slightly. Similarly, he also could not understand what was written on the slate.

However, at the time he saw this slate and the words with his own eyes, Ning Fan suddenly felt that the drop of Mo Luo’s blood in his primordial spirit seemed to be boiling. As for the Profound Earth Devil Marks on his back, they actually became scorching hot. Gradually, they were showing signs of advancement!

This slate contained the secret of Mo Luo’s blood! Moreover, it also contained a mysterious power that could allow his devil marks to advance!

Ning Fan secretly activated Mo Luo’s Eye. His heart was instantly overwhelmed with shock. He discovered that when he looked at those words again after activating Mo Luo’s Eye, those words actually began to wriggle and eventually restructured into clear and readable words. Furthermore, they never changed again.

Only Ning Fan could see it. As for the others, what they saw was still words that constantly changed.

Aside from that, what Ning Fan did not expect was that he sensed a rush of massive devil qi from the slate.

That devil qi seemed to be resonating with the drop of Mo Luo’s blood in his dantian. It was as if he could take out the devil qi that was sealed in the slate with his will.

It was that devil qi that made the devil marks show signs of advancing to the next level!

Now, in this place, only Ning Fan could truly understand the slate!

In the Rain World, only Ning Fan could extract the devil qi that was sealed in the slate!

“That trace of devil qi can make my Profound Earth Devil Marks improve to the next level and raise my body refinement realm!”

“I have already committed the texts on the slate to memory. I just need to extract the devil qi in this slate and it will be equivalent to obtaining all of the value of the slate. After that, it won’t matter whether I get this slate or not!”

“After extracting the devil qi of this slate and jotting down the true texts, it will be similar to a useless piece of stone to me. However, the outsiders might not know about it. For example, King Lan Ling, the Mist Horn Clan and the Ghost Eye Clan will continue to fight among themselves for this slate… Now, I just need to obtain the devil qi within it and let them compete among themselves for it!”

Ning Fan’s eyes glinted. A plan to cheat the others gradually took form in his mind.

Currently, King Lan Ling had personally requested for the slate and it left Xuan Yi with no other options but to yield. His request also made countless experts not dare to seize it anymore. However, his action had caused the two Void Glimpse Stage old monsters, Gui Jiao and Wang Liang, to gnash their teeth in rage.

Detestable! King Lan Ling had promised to help the Ghost Eye Clan seize the slate over and over again. In the end, however, he wanted to forcefully keep this slate from the Six-Winged Clan all to himself!

The two of them were completely disgusted by the betrayal of the Lan Ling Sect but they did not dare to say a single word about it. It was all because of King Lan Ling being too strong. However, the two clans were also not easygoing forces that could be bullied easily. They had already made precautions to prevent the Lan Ling Sect from turning against them by sending experts here. However, they had just not arrived yet.

Since King Lan Ling wanted the slate, no one dared to have any thoughts of seizing that slate.

Except for Ning Fan!

Ning Fan took a step forward. Beyond everyone’s expectations, he stood in front of Xuan Yi and gently took the slate from his hands. His face wore a playful smile.

“Hehe. I didn’t expect that so many people have actually come for this devil statue slate. I am rather curious about what kind of mysterious effect a mere stone slate has that could make everyone die fighting for it… Great Elder Xuan Yi, could you lend it to me so I can have a look?”

Ning Fan took the slate from Xuan Yi’s hands and immediately activated his Mo Luo’s blood. Using the power of the ‘blood’, he extracted the devil qi within the slate and it went into his body.

Just as it entered his body, it instantly went into the devil marks on his back, beginning to fuse with the devil marks.

All of a sudden, the devil qi of the slate waned. The frequency of change of the texts also began to slow down. However, no one could notice the changes that were happening to the slate from the surface.

No one had thought that Ning Fan would actually ‘seize’ the slate in front of King Lan Ling. It was similar to giving King Lan Ling a slap on his face right in front of him.

What everyone noticed was the moment Ning Fan took the slate to have a look, King Lan Ling’s eyes flashed with killing intent.

“What a fool! King Lan Ling wanted that item for sure but Zhou Ming grabbed it for himself. He literally is seeking his own death!” Lu Jiefen sneered inwardly. He knew that Ning Fan had a gut so huge that it could envelop the sky but he did not expect that the latter would actually be bold enough to compete for the treasure with King Lan Ling.

Lu Jiefen also wanted to get the slate but he did not have the courage to seize it in front of King Lan Ling because he knew that it was equivalent to digging his own grave.

“Why would Little Cucumber be so reckless?! Even though he always does things without following rules and tradition, he still has a sense of propriety. Even though he’s aware that King Lan Ling wanted this item no matter what, he still went to grab this hot potato. There must be some kind of underlying meaning in his actions… No matter what, even if he offends King Lan Ling, I will still help him. I shall get ready to open the moon portals to flee!” Yue Lingkong secretly made some hand seals and was ready to summon the moon portals anytime it’s necessary to bring Ning Fan and the female corpse away.

Everyone was speculating that Ning Fan was seriously provoking King Lan Ling by taking the slate boldly and the latter might directly eliminate him right there.

However, no one expected that King Lan Ling still did not make a move to kill him even though his eyes were filled with intense killing intent. He was actually holding back his killing intent.

There were times when King Lan Ling was actually not bold enough to kill. As a matter of fact, Ning Fan was someone that the Rain Palace had repeatedly urged King Lan Ling not to hurt!

“So you are the newly-promoted revered elder of the Great Heaven Palace, Zhou Ming, aren’t you? You have the Indestructible Fire Body and are still useful to the Rain Sovereign. Even I was urged by the Rain Sovereign in person not to lay a finger on you at the moment. However, the fact that I am prohibited from killing you doesn’t mean that I can’t kill your woman or your loved ones. If you provoke me, your woman will pay for your foolishness. Hand over that slate and get lost!”

Every word that King Lan Ling said was filled with threat. In his eyes, Ning Fan was just an ant. The reason why he could not kill Ning Fan was just because the latter’s Indestructible Fire Body was of great use to the Rain Sovereign.

After all, King Lan Ling was an expert of the same generation as Yun Tianjue. Today, he was already at the Half-Step Void Fragmentation Realm and he had hopes of attaining the Void Fragmentation Realm in his current lifetime.

He was a supreme expert whereas Ning Fan was just a lowly weakling.

The words that King Lan Ling uttered caused Ning Fan to clench his fists. His eyes turned icy cold.

What he could not tolerate the most was someone using his women to threaten him.

The reason why he spent a great deal of effort to obtain the protection of the Rain Palace and the Zhou Clan was to make sure no one dared to touch his women.

Unfortunately, be it the intimidating reputation of the Rain World or the ferocious prestige of the Zhou Clan, none of them was enough to cause experts at King Lan Ling’s level to fear him.

In the eyes of Half-Step Void Fragmentation Realm old monsters, Ning Fan was still just an ant. However, he had a larger head than other ants.

He had to recognize his own strength clearly. He had to get stronger!

Ning Fan had already activated his killing intent within his heart. At the next moment, however, he dismissed that intention. His expression remained unchanged as he planned for something.

The plan to trick Lan Ling Sect was not going to change.

Frankly, with Ning Fan’s current strength, it was far from enough to battle against King Lan Ling. However, tricking someone had no direct relation to one’s strength.

Today, if he doesn’t make the Lan Ling Sect, the Ghost Eye Clan and the Mist Horn Clan fight among themselves and cause all of them to suffer losses, he would be considered to have cultivated the devil path in vain!

Ning Fan shifted his gaze to a place in the distance. From that direction, he sensed two traces of vigorous qi rushing to his location.

They were two Void Inquiry Stage old monsters! Judging from their qi, one of them was from the Ghost Eye Clan while the other one was from the Mist Horn Clan. Clearly, they had certainly come for the slate!

Lan Ling Sect wanted to keep the slate for themselves but the other two clans were not fools. They also had their own plans.

Very well. Everyone wanted to seize the slate of the Six-Winged Clan but no one was aware that Ning Fan had done something to it and turned it into a useless piece of stone.

I shall just use this piece of junk to cause a fight among the Lan Ling Sect, the Mist Horn Clan and the Ghost Eye Clan!

By muddling this situation, perhaps Ning Fan would have the chance to sneak into the Mist Horn Clan and the Ghost Eye Clan to steal their devil statue slates away.

“King Lan Ling, huh? I’ll remember you!”

A trace of cold light flashed in Ning Fan’s eyes. At the next moment, he tossed that piece of useless slate to King Lan Ling and then pulled the female corpse and Yue Lingkong towards him.

“Our business is done now. Next, we shall watch a play!”

King Lan Ling’s expression which was cold and unemotional moved for the first time when he met Ning Fan’s cold gaze. Somehow, he actually felt chills in his gut when he saw Ning Fan’s smile.

That was an instinctive feeling of danger! He, the dignified King Lan Ling, actually felt a sense of danger from Ning Fan’s smile… How could that be possible?

“It’s probably a wrong impression… This man is just a Divine Transformation Realm junior. It’s unknown whether or not he could attain the Void Refinement Realm. He’s just a nobody. Even if he cultivates for another one thousand or even ten thousand years and breaks through to the Void Refinement Realm by chance, he still won’t be an opponent who can withstand a single round with me. He’s just an ant. How could an ant like him give me a feeling of danger?”

King Lan Ling still regarded Ning Fan with contempt. However, he never expected that the threats he had spoken earlier had already touched Ning Fan’s bottom line and he would pay for it in the future.

He kept the slate and coldly stared at the two figures who were rushing towards him from far away. The figures of the two individuals were getting closer and closer.

“Lan Ling! You indeed harbored ill intentions. How dare you seize the most important treasure of my Four Clans of the Hidden Sea! You’re courting death!” The Void Inquiry Stage experts of the Mist Horn Clan and the Ghost Eye Clan who had come to help roared in anger.

“The few devil clans that had been suppressed by the thunder sovereign still dare to speak to me in such a manner? Did you say I am courting death? Well, let’s see who is really courting death here!”

Lan Ling took a step forward. When he raised one of his palms, he directly blasted the two Void Inquiry Stage experts away in midair. His combat power was extremely great.

The expressions of the two Void Inquiry Stage experts changed greatly. None of them dared to act slow. They used all of their strength to display their secret techniques and fought Lan Ling together. Eventually, they managed to be on equal footing with their opponent.

The three of them battled at the side. Slowly, their battlefield became further and further away from the Six-Winged Clan.

At this moment, no one cared about the life and death of the Six-Winged Clan anymore. All of their attention was placed on seizing the slate.

The experts of the three great forces also tailed after the travelling light of the three old monsters. Along their path, they fought and killed each. Blood flowed like a river.

There was not a permanent friend in this world. A single slate was enough to cause three great forces to turn against each other.

On the wasteland of the Six-Winged Clan, only the members of the Demon Sealing Sect were unable to retreat.

After the three great forces left, Lu Jiefen also wanted to leave as well but he was heavily surrounded by the members of the Six-Winged Clan.

The members of the Demon Sealing Sect had killed countless people in the territory of the Six-Winged Clan. Without the members of the other three forces, Great Elder Xuan Yi did not put Lu Jiefen in his eyes at all.

It was time to repay the humiliation he suffered earlier and vent out his hatred.

“Kill!”

As Xuan Yi yelled the command, all of the experts of the Six-Winged Clan swarmed in full strength and charged fearlessly at the members of the Demon Sealing Sect.

In just an instant, the cultivators of the Demon Sealing Sect suffered a crushing defeat. Many cultivators died and countless were injured. None of them had the strength to resist.

Lu Jiefen took out a teleportation formation disk. He was planning to run away.

At this moment, a teasing voice suddenly resounded behind him.

“Are you planning to flee? Unfortunately, it’s too late.”

*Bang*

Ning Fan pointed using one of his fingers and a massive force blasted Lu Jiefen’s back.

Lu Jiefen had always been cautious when it involved his life. When he came to cause trouble in the Six-Winged Clan this time, he had actually attached more than ten traces of protective talismans on his back.

All of them were activated one after another due to Ning Fan’s sneak attack. Each talisman formed a formation light that was enough to defend against a full strike from a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm expert.

However, all of those defensive layers collapsed one by one in the face of the strength of Ning Fan’s finger. It was overwhelming.

Lu Jiefen’s expression changed greatly. He was sure that Ning Fan had yet to break through to the Golden Body Realm. However, when he felt the strength of Ning Fan’s finger at such a close distance just now, he clearly felt that his strength was not any weaker than that of cultivators with the Golden Body Refinement Realm…

The force of Ning Fan’s single finger directly destroyed his armor. Moreover, there was still some force remaining which landed on Lu Jiefen’s back. All of a sudden, it pulverized his physical body, leaving only his demon soul which was on the brink of death. He hurriedly took his storage pouch and retreated. Along the way, the grievous injuries he suffered caused him to constantly cough out blood.

As for the teleportation formation disk, Ning Fan had already destroyed it. He did not give Lu Jiefen a chance to run away at all.

“Zhou Ming!”

Lu Jiefen stared at Ning Fan and clenched his teeth in rage.

It was Ning Fan who ruined his plan once again! If Ning Fan did not interfere, he would definitely not end up like this along with his schemes. Besides, he might even have a high chance of seizing the devil statue slate!

Once he obtains the devil statue slate, he could then get away from the Endless Sea and look for a secret place to study the secrets of the slate with all of his focus.

Since the earth and heavens were boundlessly vast, who could find him and catch him?

When Lu Jiefen discovers the secrets of the slate thousands of years later, he would certainly become an expert who could shake the entire Rain World!

“Zhou Ming! I can no longer tolerate you anymore! I want to fight you with all I have!”

Lu Jiefen’s miniature demon soul suddenly took out an old spiritual puppet from his storage pouch which was at the Illusory Void Stage. It seemed to be a little broken. No one knew where he had obtained it from.

His eyes burnt with hatred. This was his last trump card. Before this, he was certainly not willing to use it. Today, however, he had to use it no matter what! Otherwise, he definitely could not escape from Ning Fan alive!

“Puppet Fusion Technique!”

When Lu Jiefen used that technique, his demon soul turned into a ray of light and went into the spiritual puppet of the Illusory Void Stage.

After refining the Illusory Void Stage spiritual puppet and merging with it, his original Illusory Void Stage cultivation base had actually broken through the bottleneck and attained the Void Refinement Realm!

From this moment onwards, he was no longer Lu Jiefen. Instead, he had become an Early Void Refinement Realm spiritual puppet!

After merging with the spiritual puppet, Lu Jiefen’s lifespan got reduced to only one-tenth of his original lifespan. If he survives today, he would still die in another one hundred years.

He already had no chance to pursue longevity!

“Zhou Ming! You have ruined several opportunities I had in the past. You made me lose my physical body and become a half-dead spiritual puppet. I will make you pay!”

Lu Jiefen threw his punches in anger, killing a number of the members of the Six-Winged Clan. The destructive power of his single fist which was at the level of the Void Glimpse Stage crushed rocks on the seabed as big as mountains to pieces.

Xuan Yi’s eyes were filled with a hint of surprise. After fusing with his spiritual puppet, Lu Jiefen’s strength was not any weaker than him.

Yue Lingkong’s beautiful eyes flashed with killing intent. She blamed herself for being too weak as she was not able to help Ning Fan seize the slate from King Lan Ling.

However, no matter how weak she was, she could never tolerate Lu Jiefen from attacking Ning Fan.

She took a gentle step forward. Just as she was about to deliver a strike and directly eliminate Lu Jiefen with her Moon Burial Technique, Ning Fan gently pulled her behind him.

“Let me deal with him… Anyhow, he is still a Void Glimpse Stage spiritual puppet. Don’t destroy him. Void Technique, Double Dragon!”

Ning Fan moved forward with both of his fists coiled with the shadows of black dragons. When he pushed both of his fists, heaven and earth resounded with the roar of dragons. Wind and clouds trembled.

His physical body was nearly at the First Level of the Golden Body Realm. As for the technique he had just used, it was the body technique King Ying Long was proud of. It was a Low Grade Mortal Void Realm technique. Even so, the destructive power of this technique was extremely strong compared to other Low Grade Mortal Void Realm techniques.

Even though Lu Jiefen willingly turned himself into a Void Glimpse Stage spiritual puppet, the difference in strength between him and Ning Fan was still worlds apart!

*Boom*

Two traces of black dragon shadows violently crashed onto the body of Lu Jiefen’s spiritual puppet. All the force of his punches had been offset.

Lu Jiefen’s expression was filled with disbelief. He had given up everything to obtain Void Glimpse Stage power. However, he was still not Ning Fan’s match. Ning Fan was actually so strong!

Even upon death, he still could not believe that the gap between him and Ning Fan was so vast…

How can this be?! How?!

After Ning Fan’s attacks struck the spiritual puppet, its body was severely damaged whereas Lu Jiefen’s demon soul was literally eliminated. He was killed instantly by the force of Ning Fan’s fists.

After Lu Jiefen died, this Void Glimpse Stage spiritual puppet lost all of its spiritual intelligence and became a mindless object.

It was an Illusory Void Stage puppet at first but it had broken through to the Void Glimpse Stage after fusing with Lu Jiefen.

Because of Ning Fan’s attacks which had erased Lu Jiefen’s existence, this Void Glimpse Stage puppet became a mindless object once again.

Even though it was seriously damaged, it would become as good as new once Ning Fan spends some immortal jade and spiritual minerals to repair it.

“Lu Jiefen, thank you for your gift.”

Ning Fan’s mood became slightly better. Now, he tossed the displeasure which King Lan Ling had caused to the back of his mind.

Lu Jiefen had always obtained and secured his own personal gains through trickery. It made him no different than a fly. Whenever an opportunity arises, he would put one of his legs into it.

People like him must not be spared again and again. Otherwise, he would turn into a great disaster from a clown someday in the future.

Thus, killing Lu Jiefen today is just the same as getting rid of a hidden danger.

Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel