Translator: GE_Team Editor: GE_Team
In just three days, Ning fan managed to kill his way to the ninth floor as unstoppable as a strong gale.
To him, there was no difficulty in killing the creatures in the tower at all. Moreover, he was in a place where he could kill without having to worry about future consequences.
With the restraining effect of Ning Fan’s Tai Su Lightning Diagram on lightning and the formidable strength of his three spiritual puppets which could eliminate Void Refinement Realm beings, even lightning experts of the Void Glimpse Stage residing in this tower ended up dead when they tried to oppose him.
Ning Fan could be considered to be a natural enemy of lightning. He alone was already enough to eliminate Xu Longzi. With his three puppets by his side, whichever floor he went, it would mean catastrophe to that floor!
On the sixth floor, there was only the lightning lord left who was at the Void Glimpse Stage. He was surrounded by Ning Fan and his three puppets. In just a brief moment, he was directly beaten to death.
On the seventh floor, there were two beings of the Void Glimpse Stage in total. However, they were still not Ning Fan’s opponents. Both of them were killed without taking much time.
There were also two experts of the Void Glimpse Stage on the eighth floor and the both of them were also eliminated without exception.
On the ninth floor, there were three experts of the Void Glimpse Stage in total. However, only two of them were put down while the other one managed to flee!
From the sixth to the ninth floor, Ning Fan had killed 7 beings of the Void Glimpse Stage in total.
After calculating it carefully, 11 Void Refinement Realm experts had already died in his hands.
500 traces of Divine Transformation Realm primordial lightning and 7 traces of primordial lightning of the Void Glimpse Stage fell into Ning Fan’s hands.
He also kept all of the silver grade and golden grade lightning jades which the undead spirits dropped after he killed them. Perhaps he could use these lightning jades when he trades with Lei Shiyi again next time.
This much primordial lightning could only make his lightning armor which was at the first level of the gold grade advance two-thirds towards the second level. He still needed to kill at least 6 experts of the Void Glimpse Stage or 600 Divine Transformation Realm lightning spirits in order to gather enough primordial lightning to upgrade his lightning armor to the second level of the gold grade.
However, even though his lightning armor had yet to break through to the second level, its defense was already terrifyingly abnormal. None of the Void Glimpse Stage experts he met in the first nine floors could break the defense of his lightning armor.
Now, Ning Fan had already gathered 9 pieces of dark golden bamboo leaves in his possession. They were more than enough for him to accomplish Hong Yi’s mission.
According to the information he had gathered so far, the tenth floor of the lightning tower was being guarded by four Void Glimpse Stage beings.
Ning Fan was reluctant to risk his life to fight against four Void Glimpse Stage experts. Currently, he was already preparing to leave the tower.
He looked at the Thunder Sound Jade in his hands. That Lei Shiyi had yet to contact him and it inevitably made him feel a bit disappointed.
It appears he would not be able to trade with Lei Shiyi once more before leaving this tower.
Originally, Ning Fan had prepared to use these useless lightning jades to once again exchange for some excellent items that Lei Shiyi possessed.
However, he was not a Void Refinement Realm cultivator after all and he had fought his battles just depending on his lightning restraining ability and technique and his spiritual puppets.
If he gets surrounded by too many Void Glimpse Stage experts, there was no way he could win against them.
He had already made up his mind. He then walked towards the teleportation formation leading to the lower floor.
At this moment, however, a group of black travelling lights dashed past the vast sky. All of them revealed their killing qi without concealing it and they seemed to have come for him!
Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with solemnity. That group of black travelling lights consisted of more than a thousand Divine Transformation Realm beings and ten Void Refinement Realm experts!
All of the Void Refinement Realm experts on the ninth floor should already be dead. Undoubtedly, this group of experts came from the floors above the tenth floor!
“You bold and wild creature. How dare you murder King Ying Long’s brother?! You are digging your own grave!”
The Void Glimpse Stage cultivator leading the group was the lightning lord of the tenth floor of the tower. He released his forceful aura which turned into a sky-high colossal mountain that collapsed towards Ning Fan.
Ning Fan’s eyes turned cold. He immediately understood that these experts went after him under the command of the lightning lord of the twenty-fourth floor!
Ying Longzi, the lightning lord of the twenty-fourth floor…!
This man really held great power. He could actually send such a huge army just to deal with Ning Fan. He could actually make so many Void Glimpse Stage experts yield to him and sincerely recognize him as their king!
While the mountain that had transformed from the aura force of an expert was falling down on Ning Fan, the other experts displayed their respective secret techniques. Each of the secret techniques went straight for Ning Fan’s primordial spirit. All of them were techniques that specialized in attacking one’s primordial spirit.
Facing the joint attacks of ten Void Refinement Realm beings, even his Tai Su Lightning Diagram could not absorb all their lightning attacks.
Seeing their group outnumber Ning Fan, all of the ten Void Refinement Realm experts firmly believed that he could certainly not escape death.
At this very moment, however, a black-colored cloak suddenly emerged and draped over Ning Fan’s white robes.
Then, his presence literally vanished right before the eyes of countless experts!
“Impossible! This man is clearly just at the Half-Step Void Refinement Realm. How could he have a strong concealment technique that even we, Void Glimpse Stage experts, are unable to detect him!”
“It has been said that the reason why this man could wipe out the first nine floors was because he possessed three Void Glimpse Stage spiritual puppets while he only had insignificant strength himself. However, judging from what we have seen, it is definitely not the case! The techniques he has makes him a person who is difficult to deal with. This concealment technique alone is already enough to make us unable to locate him…”
“Even if we have no methods to search for him, we still have to find him! Otherwise, how are we supposed to report to King Ying Long?!”
The faces of the group of Void Glimpse Stage experts darkened. They had tried several kinds of magic techniques that could break one’s concealment but they still could not detect Ning Fan’s traces at all.
After all, the Heaven Deceiving Cloak was a spiritual equipment of the Profound Divinity Grade. It could even conceal the user from being detected by Void Fragmentation Realm spirit sense. How could this group of lowly Void Refinement Realm experts discover Ning Fan’s location?
All of them could not locate Ning Fan, but an idea suddenly hit them. They ordered a large group of people to tightly guard the teleportation formation leading to the eighth floor and wait for Ning Fan to fall into their trap.
While the large group of cultivators were searching for Ning Fan, he had already escaped one million li* (500m per li) away. The killing intent in his eyes gradually became more fearsome.
Even though this group of experts were unable to discover him, they had sealed off the way leading to the floor below. As such, Ning Fan would not be able to escape the lightning tower unless he kills every last one of the ten Void Glimpse Stage experts.
“Ying Longzi, you will certainly regret not letting me leave.”
Ning Fan’s travelling light did not move towards the teleportation formation to the eighth floor. Instead, he dashed towards the teleportation formation to the tenth floor.
He was not leaving anymore!
He had decided to teach Ying Longzi a lesson!
With so many experts coming to the lower floors, the line of defense on the tenth floor must be extremely weak.
The killing began!
When countless experts were guarding the path to the eighth floor, a gruesome and bloody calamity had befallen the tenth floor.
The lightning lord of the tenth floor had only brought one Void Glimpse Stage expert with him to the ninth floor. Other than the two of them, the remaining eight Void Glimpse Stage experts who joined their pursuit were experts from the eleventh floor.
There were only two Void Glimpse Stage experts left on the tenth floor. They were in the middle of a discussion while guarding the dark golden bamboo leaf on behalf of their lightning lord.
The topic that they were discussing was actually related to Ning Fan.
“That wild creature was actually bold enough to kill King Ying Long’s brother. It’s indeed an act that could get himself killed. I’m afraid that he should be already dead by now.”
“Hehe. Our lightning lord has personally gone there. How is it possible for the mission to fail? Unfortunately, we can’t join the pursuit mission this time. Otherwise, we will definitely gain a lot of credit from King Ying Long if we can kill that evil being with our very hands. King Ying Long is the strongest Void Inquiry Stage expert in this Black Lightning Tower. It’s just a matter of time before he can attain the Void Pierce Stage. Once King Ying Long breaks through to the Void Pierce Stage, he will certainly be the strongest expert in the first thirty-six floors!”
“If we can befriend this kind of expert by only pursuing a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator, what harm would it be to do so?!”
As the two of them were chatting and laughing, they suddenly heard wails and shrieks of pain from afar. Slowly, the noise of fighting and killing became even more discernible.
The smile on their faces froze. In the next second, their expressions were filled with anger and shock and they roared in rage.
“Who is so bold as to create troubles on my tenth floor!”
The tenth floor was the most formidable floor in the first ten floors of the tower. No undead spirits had ever dared to create trouble on this floor.
Both of them turned into two rays of travelling light and went out of the palace. Their cold eyes scanned their surroundings. They wanted to see what kind of wild creature was audacious enough to court death in this place.
When they saw the individual, the two of them found it difficult to conceal their astonishment.
Right before their very eyes, the figure of a man who wore white robes and golden armor walked indifferently across the mountains of corpses and sea of blood. He would attack every creature in his sight ruthlessly and vigorously wherever he walked past. Countless undead spirits died tragically.
By his side, three spiritual puppets in black robes were also killing their enemies without mercy. When the four of them joined forces, there were completely no Nascent Soul Realm or Divine Transformation Realm beings that could stop them in their tracks.
Ning Fan’s eyes shone with a cold light and his baleful qi was so intense that it covered the skies. Within his baleful qi, there were eleven traces of terrifying qi which were left by dead Void Refinement Realm beings.
The minds of the two Void Refinement Realm experts which stayed to guard the bamboo leaf were invaded by Ning Fan’s baleful qi after they exchanged a glance with him. They were unable to retain their composure.
“This wild being has clearly been heavily surrounded by ten Void Refinement Realm experts and one thousand Divine Transformation Realm cultivators. How did he still manage to get away from them?!”
“Eleven individuals! It can’t be wrong. This man has taken the lives of eleven Void Refinement Realm beings in total! This man is extremely dangerous! We must quickly retreat and join the lightning lord!”
The two of them wanted to flee. However, it was already too late!
The divine star on Ning Fan’s glabella flickered. The lightning diagram spread out and trapped all of the undead spirits into the diagram. His intention to kill was set.
“Kill!”
When he gave the command, his three puppets charged at the two Void Refinement Realm experts and surrounded them…
One hour later, this place turned into a wasteland.
Ning Fan stood on the dead corpses of the two Void Refinement Realm experts and devoured two traces of blood-red lightning. His gaze locked onto the teleportation formation of the eleventh floor.
The eleventh floor might be dangerous but why should he be afraid?!
Moreover, Lei Shiyi seemed to still be on the eleventh floor.
I wonder if I can still buy some primordial spirit from that man now.
…
On the eleventh floor of the Black Lightning Tower.
The news about Ning Fan had spread throughout the lightning tower with terrifying speed.
He had annihilated the first ten floors of the lightning tower with his own strength.
Although he had been surrounded by ten Void Refinement Realm experts, he could still vanish right before everyone’s eyes.
Even some Void Inquiry Stage old monsters did not dare to underestimate him.
Myriad Treasure Pavilion was one of the forces on the eleventh floor of the lightning tower. The leader of this force was the famous Lei Shiyi!
This Lei Shiyi had an odd temperament. Even though he was strong, he seemed to be on bad terms with the lightning lord of the eleventh floor. He never befriended any of the Void Refinement Realm experts in the lightning tower.
The only hobby this person had was doing business and earning lightning jades which he would devour to raise his cultivation level.
Even though he might normally haggle over a single lightning jade with others, he was definitely the wealthiest cultivator in the first twenty-four floors.
Now, in the Myriad Treasure Pavilion, Lei Shiyi was fiddling with a golden lightning abacus. With a wretched smile, he was calculating the number of primordial lightning he had newly obtained.
“Chu Nanfeng. This old man has contributed 1700 traces of Divine Transformation Realm primordial lightning and 4 traces of Void Refinement Realm primordial lightning to me… Mo Feiyun has contributed 3000 traces of Divine Transformation Realm primordial lightning and 7 traces of Void Refinement Realm primordial lightning… Old Man Yang has contributed 2500 traces of Divine Transformation Realm primordial lightning and 5 traces of Void Refinement Realm primordial lightning… There are still…”
Lei Shiyie revealed a look of excitement. In his trip back to the eleventh floor this time, he had acquired 10000 traces of Divine Transformation Realm primordial lightning and 35 traces of Void Refinement Realm primordial lightning in total.
If he sells all of them to Ning Fan, he would be able to earn quite a lot of money.
In the great hall, five Early Void Refinement Realm experts wore expressions of confusion. All of them were the feudal ranking elders of the Myriad Treasure Pavilion. They were none other than Chu Nanfeng, Mo Feiyun and the other names Lei Shiyi muttered.
They could not understand. They could not understand why the pavilion lord would spend so much effort to gather a large number of primordial lightning.
To undead spirits, these primordial lightning were trash.
They really could not comprehend why the pavilion lord would need them.
‘”Pavilion Lord, may I be so bold as to ask what magical use do these items have exactly…?” Chu Nanfeng asked with a doubtful tone.
“Magical effect? How would I know what use this garbage has? I only know that they can be sold for money… It’s not difficult to sell them for four to five hundred silver jades.”
“This trash can be sold at such an exorbitant price? What kind of person can afford to buy them at a price of five hundred silver jades? Could it be that your customer is also a Void Inquiry Stage old monster?” Mo Feiyun asked, confused.
“He’s not an expert of the Void Inquiry Stage. He is just a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator. However, this person is somewhat abnormal. Even I find him difficult to deal with.” Lei Shiyi sighed.
“Pavilion Lord must be joking. How could there be a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator that could resist a Void Inquiry Stage old monster in this world…?” Old Man Yang shook his head and disagreed. However, all of a sudden, he stopped speaking as if his tongue was tied in a knot. He recalled the crazy individual from the rumors who had wiped out the first ten floors of the lightning tower.
That individual seemed to be a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator as well. He has annihilated ten floors on his own.
The notoriety of that individual made ordinary Void Glimpse Stage cultivators deeply fearful.
“No! This rumor must be fake. For sure, there’s no Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator that strong in this world! I will certainly not believe it unless I meet him with my own eyes!” Old Man Yang was reluctant to believe it.
“A rumor might not necessarily be fake!”
They suddenly heard an arrogant and powerful voice from outside the door, interrupting Old Man Yang’s words.
This voice carried a Mid Void Refinement Realm aura force. It without a doubt belonged to a Void Inquiry Stage old monster. His aura force was even stronger than Lei Shiyi’s.
“Lightning Lord!” Old Man Yang, Chu Nanfeng, Mo Feiyun and the others instantly rose to their feet and their eyes were staring at their visitor warily.
Even Lei Shiyi’s expression turned grim. With a displeased tone, he said.
“Zhu Feng, why did you come to my place?!”
“I heard you are gathering a lot of primordial lightning. It’s truly hilarious. What’s the point of gathering this kind of trash?” Zhu Feng teased.
“You haven’t answered my question!” Lei Shiyi’s eyes turned even colder.
“The reason why I came here is to take away your ‘Immortal Emperor’s Lightning Bone’!” Zhu Feng smiled evilly.
“Why should I give it to you?!” Lei Shiyi sounded like he had just heard something ridiculous.
“If you don’t hand that item over, the Myriad Treasure Pavilion will be annihilated! This is King Ying Long’s intention. You should understand the consequences of defying him! You have one day. Consider it wisely! One day later, I hope to hear a satisfying answer from you!”
Zhu Feng sneered and left ethereally. The atmosphere in the hall was solemn.
Lei Shiyi’s face darkened. It felt extremely uneasy to be threatened by others.
When the group of experts were deathly silent, a subordinate nervously rushed into the great hall. His head was covered with sweat.
“Pavilion Lord… I-It’s bad…”
“What’s going on?! What happened?!” Lei Shiyi sounded very displeased.
“H-He has come…” The subordinate looked like he had just seen an extremely frightening thing.
“Who has come…?”
Before Lei Shiyi could ask about the details, a young man in white robes flew into the Myriad Treasure Pavilion at the next moment. Smiling gently, he said.
“Fellow Daoist Lei, how have you been since our last meeting? Have you gathered enough primordial lightning? This time, I have brought a lot of money.”
Just as Ning Fan appeared, he faintly released a trace of his ferocious aura. All of the members within the hall were shocked.
“Thirteen traces of Void Refinement Realm baleful qi! This young man has such a fearsome baleful qi. Is he really just a Half-Step Void Refinement Realm cultivator?!”
“It’s him! Isn’t he being pursued in the floors below? How did he intrude the eleventh floor?!”
Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel