Grasping the Evil-Chapter 862: The Counterattack Begins

After a period of seclusion, Ning Fan completely mastered the third transformation of the War God Art.

Night, on the wall of Mulan City, the strange chill condensed into frost.

Ning Fan stood alone on the city wall, his heart seemed faintly uneasy... Even though the Reverse Infant had been refined, and even though the Demon Race Immortal Venerable had retreated, Ning Fan’s heart still felt a new sense of crisis...

Ever since the Unity of Heaven and Man, Ning Fan had gained a slight sensitivity to crises. He closed his eyes, and his entire heart and spirit submerged into this barbaric wilderness, as if becoming one with it...

Rain, quietly falling, pitter-pattering, spreading from Mulan City into the distance.

As Ning Fan’s cultivation deepened, as the fusion with heaven and earth deepened, as the Rain Yin Yang cultivation was achieved, the Heaven Prying Rain Technique no longer bore marks of divine skill sculpting.

The Shedding Void Realm old monster couldn’t tell that the rain on this night was a perception divine skill used by Ning Fan.

Even the Fragmented Thought Elders, unless they had cultivated to the Shattered Thought Peak, couldn’t discern the mysteries of Ning Fan’s Ice Rain Technique.

The area of the Gouchen Barbarian Domain was equivalent to the total of dozens of Mid-Level Star Domains.

Ning Fan’s rain technique perception couldn’t originally cover the entire Gouchen Barbarian Domain, at most only covering the range of a Mid-Level Star Domain. But with the unsealing of Rain Yin Yang, the rain seemed to immediately obey Ning Fan’s command.

Fine rain covered the entire Gouchen Barbarian Domain and extended all the way towards the Northern Territory.

Beyond the northern side of the Gouchen Barbarian Domain were one unoccupied Barbarian Domain after another, and these domains did not escape Ning Fan’s perception. Ning Fan’s spirit sense merged into the rainwater, scanning countless Barbarian Beast nests, sweeping across numerous Stone Warrior cities, and even over ancient forests and the Black Marsh Great Swamp from that day, checking the Barbarian City where Wu Chen and others resided...

Heading north, directly towards the Demon Race Seven Domains... The rainfall’s coverage continued to extend!

In the direction near the Demon Race Seven Domains, Ning Fan saw seventy-two Yin Yang Evil Vein’s escape light heading straight for him!

Upon perceiving these Yin Yang Evil Vein warriors, Ning Fan’s gaze immediately changed.

The source of the crisis was precisely these seventy-two Yin Yang Evil Vein warriors!

"Coming for me! How did they determine my location?!"

"The power of the Reverse Infant has been refined away. Within my body, there shouldn’t be anything they can sense..."

Ning Fan’s gaze grew solemn. After a moment of silence, he still closed his eyes, carefully examining inwardly.

One internal examination revealed no problems... Two times revealed no issues... Three times still found nothing amiss.

Ning Fan’s spirit became even more focused, his entire being seeming to turn illusory, almost vanishing from the world.

The spirit power within his body was driven to its utmost... Spirit power is the strength of ancient demons, akin to spirit sense yet surpassing it!

By spirit sense, he couldn’t detect any problem within his body.

But when Ning Fan used spirit power to probe within, to his horror, he discovered that a mysterious purple mark had been planted inside!

That purple mark was exceedingly subtle, placed there by a purple-haired elder using great divine power across several Barbarian Domains to mark Ning Fan’s location.

Ning Fan’s gaze instantly turned cold; within this purple mark, there lay a trace of an Immortal Venerable’s aura... That aura unmistakably belonged to the Demon Race Immortal Venerable who pursued him that day!

What surprised Ning Fan was... this purple mark was condensed from ancient demon spiritual power!

Therefore, it was so obscure and hard for Ning Fan to perceive, but ultimately, due to the mark’s spirit power being insufficiently pure, it couldn’t evade Ning Fan’s perception with Fu Li2 spirit power...

Ning Fan’s gaze deepened, a suspicion forming within yet still unconfirmed.

Some ancient demon spirit power within divided and invaded the purple mark, leaving a trace of perception.

Then Ning Fan opened his mouth, expelled the mark out of the body, breaking it into hundreds of fragments, flicking a finger, sending hundreds of mark fragments each flying in different directions like meteors across the night sky towards various unoccupied Barbarian Domains.

Instantaneously, in the far north, seventy-two Poison Dragon Guards halted their escape light, their eyes stunned.

Among the seventy-two, eleven were Shedding Void Realm cultivators, with only one at the Peak of Shekong!

That Shedding Void Peak Dragon Guard elder was briefly stunned before his expression turned gloomy.

"Strange! Why is the body’s mark perception separating! And simultaneously there’s feedback from 481 directions!"

"Could it be that the person discovered the ancestor’s internal mark and separated it to scatter it out?"

"Impossible! Among the True Dragon Race, only nineteen have cultivated the Fake Dragon Wheel, and Ancestor Dulong is one of them! The mark laid by the ancestor’s spirit power, even the Human Eternal Immortal Venerable finds difficult to decipher, let alone ordinary cultivators!"

"The cultivator displaying secret techniques and revealing their strongest state still cannot resist only seven-headed Shedding Void Realm Barbarian Beasts... He doesn’t have the ability to decipher spirit marks!"

"Thus, it seems that this person likely cultivated some body double secret technique, dividing into 480 body doubles, each scattering away from the main body... If that’s the case..."

The Shedding Void Peak Dragon Guard elder’s gaze sunk, arriving at a decision.

With a command, he ordered seventy-two Dragon Guards to chase different marks individually, and upon destroying all 481 mark fragments, one of them would be Ning Fan!

"Only, this rain falls quite strangely... The Northern Territory Barbarian Domain seldomly rains..." After seventy-two Dragon Guards went into action individually, the Shedding Void Peak old monster raised his head, looking at the fine rain in the night sky, somewhat perplexed, finding no anomaly under perception...

On Mulan City wall, Ning Fan’s gaze sharpened with chill.

After testing, he confirmed that these seventy-two Yin Yang Evil Vein warriors indeed possessed the ability to track the purple mark and were coming for him, with ill intentions!

For a bizarre infant, the Demon Race Immortal Venerable dispatched seventy-two powerful Demon Race warriors, moving southwards to assassinate him...

It’s a pity; before they could cross far from the Northern Territory, Ning Fan detected them!

"Think you can kill me? Let’s see if you possess that ability!"

Ning Fan’s eyes flashed with a trace of hostility; he was not one to sit and wait for his doom. Though it was a Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain, though the enemy was an Eternal Immortal Venerable, he dared to strike back!

Here lies a world outside reincarnation, where the Slaughter Emperor and Slaughter Hall puppet cannot cross realms to descend.

Returning to the city domicile, Ning Fan instructed Liu Yan to temporarily enter the Xuan Yin Treasure, deciding to temporarily leave Xian Luoli in Mulan City.

Xian Luoli, known as Xianxian, a certain loli.

"You stay in Mulan City, I’ve got some matters to attend to. You can’t enter the Yin Yang Locket space, so I won’t take you along."

"What are you going to do?" Xian Luoli asked innocently.

"Kill people!"

"I’ll help you!" Xian Luoli puffed up her chest, showing a deep sense of loyalty.

"You? Better not come along..."

Ning Fan shook his head. In the Barbarian Wilderness Ancient Domain, he had no means to counter the Eternal Immortal Venerable, but alone he could rely on Ghost Eye Clan, Yin Yang Locket, and cultivation speed to come and go freely, avoiding capture by the enemy.

However, if he brought Xian Luoli along, should circumstances change, this little girl, unable to hide within the Yin Yang Locket, might become a liability...

"Hmm, don’t underestimate me, I’m very capable!" Xian Luoli said, huffily.

"If facing the Eternal Immortal Venerable... you won’t escape!"

"Eternal Immortal Venerable, what is that..." Xian Luoli tilted her little head, expressing confusion.

"An entity a hundred times stronger than you at this moment..." Ning Fan replied speechlessly.

"Tch, so what if they’re a hundred times stronger than me. If I want to escape, no one can catch me! Little Qianqian and the others cornered me together, yet I escaped! Look, this is my secret weapon!"

Xian Luoli executed a hand seal, and pieces of the snowy thunderous force instantly surged from her body, forming a pair of icy wings behind her.

These wings seemed to be a significant load on Xian Luoli, but the pressure they emitted was something even Ning Fan dared not ignore!

"Immortal Thunder Wings!" Ning Fan appeared moved, never expecting this little girl to have such trump cards.

The Immortal Thunder Wings, the Extreme Thunder Palace’s ultimate secret technique, believed today to have fewer than ten successful cultivators.

If an Immortal Emperor cultivated these wings, among their peers, their escape speed was practically unbeatable.

Even if a Shekong cultivator trained these wings, they could harness a trace of Immortal Thunder force, briefly possessing Immortal Emperor-level escape speed...

After dispersing the Immortal Thunder Wings, Xian Luoli proudly raised her head, pleased at the sight of Ning Fan’s slightly bewildered expression.

After a moment’s silence, Ning Fan finally nodded, feeling uneasy about leaving Xian Luoli alone. Since she had her own self-defense method, bringing her along wouldn’t be too troubling, after all, she was a Shekong fighter...

An extra person could count as an additional support!

"Alright... let’s go together!"

With a wave of his sleeve, a flash of golden light enveloped Xian Luoli, and Ning Fan escaped, departing Mulan City, speeding northward.

He hadn’t pushed his cultivation speed to the maximum... He was waiting, waiting for the seventy-two Dragon Guards to thoroughly disperse before breaking them one by one!

...

Time flies, and ten days have passed.

Unoccupied Barbarian Domain, area twenty-nine!

The earth’s crust of the Barbarian Domain shifts greatly, and the Four Heavens of the Immortal World have not named the unoccupied Barbarian Domain, but the demon race high ranks secretly list and divide thirty unoccupied Barbarian Domains.

Different numbered Barbarian Domains hold different meanings for the demon race...

On a certain wasteland in the twenty-ninth area, a young man with dragon horns picks up a fragment of a broken imprint from the ground, his gaze extremely grim.

He is clad in purple-gold armor, carries three swords on his back, and possesses a late-stage Enlightenment cultivation, being one of the seventy-two Poison Dragon Guards.

After sensing the scattering of the imprint, this person pursued one of the senses alone, coming all the way here, only to see such a scene!

"The Ghost-Faced Cultivator that the Ancestor wants to kill can actually force the imprint out of his body!"

"In that case, he didn’t scatter any body doubles to hide, but directly shattered the imprint and tossed it all around, while his real body escaped... How did this person manage to do this!"

"In that case, continuing to track the imprint would also fail to find his whereabouts... Without the imprint’s sensing, trying to find someone in the endless Barbarian Domain is like searching for a needle in the ocean..."

"Forget it, better return to the Northern Territory first..."

This Dragon Guard snorted coldly, crushed the imprint fragment in his hand, and turned to return to the Northern Territory.

He was unaware that after crushing the imprint fragment, a trace of subtle Fu Li2 spiritual power flowed into his body, planting an imprint.

The same situation occurred with the other Dragon Guards; all were implanted with a trace of imprint, and no one knew about it...

On a mountain peak in the twenty-ninth area, Ning Fan sat with his eyes closed for ten consecutive days, waiting patiently.

He couldn’t always unlock Rain Technique Perception to sense the positions of all the Dragon Guards on a large scale.

He was waiting for his spiritual power imprint to be implanted in all the Dragon Guards...

The first imprint, implanted successfully... The second imprint, implanted successfully... The third imprint, implanted successfully...

As soon as the last Dragon Guard received the spiritual power imprint, Ning Fan opened his eyes, and with a surge of battle intent, his Ancient Demon cultivation skyrocketed to the peak of the Third Nirvana of Heavenly Demon.

With Xian Luoli by his side, Ning Fan headed in a certain direction.

In area twenty-nine, the late-stage Enlightenment Dragon Guard had just begun his northern journey by tens of millions of miles when his expression suddenly changed and he halted his Escape Rainbow.

Ahead in the sky, a flash of golden light revealed two figures, a man and a woman. The woman was a silver-haired little girl whose cultivation couldn’t be discerned, while the man was a silver-haired Ghost-Faced Cultivator.

The Dragon Guard youth was first startled, then let out a continuous cold laugh.

"It’s you! You are the one the Ancestor wants to kill! Hehe, I didn’t expect that without finding you, you would show up on your own. Very good, this great merit has fallen into my hands for nothing! You can die now!"

"Demon Sea Decree!"

The Dragon Guard youth unleashed a chilling killing intent, forming a sword hand seal. The three demon swords he carried shot out of their box, dissolving into formlessness.

Immediately, the sky manifested three huge dragon phantoms, each exuding terrifying Sword Intent capable of instantly killing a mid-stage Enlightenment cultivator.

No sword light was slashed out, but a vast ocean of Sword Intent spilled toward Ning Fan and Xian Luoli, killing invisibly.

In the sea of Sword Intent, any cultivator trapped within, unless they possessed late-stage Enlightenment strength, would have no chance of survival.

This technique gained great renown in the previous world battle, where nineteen Enlightenment powerhouses fell to this Dragon Guard youth’s demon sea Sword Intent!

"Impressive Sword Intent... but it’s not enough to kill me with this technique!"

Ning Fan’s expression remained icy, and with a mere grasp of his five fingers, the formless Sword Intent sea shattered immediately.

The three huge dragon phantoms in the sky also shattered with a cry.

Without using extra Divine Skills, Ning Fan achieved all this with merely his formidable physical body!

"Pseudo-Ancient Demon! Heavenly Demon Third Nirvana peak physical body!"

The Dragon Guard youth’s eyes twitched, not having expected Ning Fan to possess such a frightfully strong physical realm.

It was unclear why, but Ning Fan’s Heavenly Demon body seemed more powerful than other same-level Pseudo-Ancient Demons.

Relying solely on his physical body, Ning Fan could sweep through any late-stage Enlightenment cultivators now!

"Xianxian, before mid-stage Shekong, you don’t need to make a move, I’ll kill them all by myself!"

Ning Fan instructed Xian Luoli beside him, then with a push of his toes, he charged toward the Dragon Guard youth.

Streams of black and red Barbarian Flash gathered in Ning Fan’s hand, slowly condensing into a black and red ghost-headed halberd, which he hurled, transforming the ghost halberd into a black and red extreme light that bombarded toward the Dragon Guard youth.

This was the War King Halberd Divine Skill of the War God Art, and now, due to Ning Fan infusing it with the power of Calamity Thought Barbarian Flash, the War King Halberd’s appearance had changed.

"Barbarian Flash Forming Halberd! How is that possible!"

The Dragon Guard youth gasped, gritted his teeth, and formed a sword hand seal. Three demon swords immediately manifested in the sky, slashing toward the ghost halberd.

The three demon swords were all Third Nirvana Post-Celestial Immortal Swords, immensely powerful, but they shattered completely upon a clash with the ghost halberd.

The Dragon Guard youth couldn’t believe his three demon swords were utterly defenseless.

The next moment, he was engulfed by the black and red extreme light, his demon body perished.

In the Barbarian Flash extreme light, ten thousand miles of land turned into ruins, sinking ten thousand feet.

Atop the ruins, a menacing and terrifying ravine was left, carved out by the ghost halberd...

"Oh? What is this Divine Skill... I’ve never seen it..." Xian Luoli commented with the curiosity of a child.

"Barbarian King Halberd... A Divine Skill I created using Barbarian Flash and the War God Art..."

Ning Fan remarked indifferently, suddenly raising his fist, punching into the space beside them, causing black and red cracks to violently tear through the sky.

As space shattered, a terrified Dragon Spirit Ghost Soul fell out, extremely weak and on the verge of death, belonging to the Dragon Guard youth.

At this moment, it was rolling away with a storage pouch, attempting to escape, but Ning Fan noticed it.

"Trying to escape, can you really escape?"

Ning Fan reached out with a grasp, directly capturing the demon soul into his hand, taking the storage pouch away, and without a word, conducted a soul search and memory obliteration.

After a round of soul search, Ning Fan directly devoured the Dragon Spirit Ghost Soul, revealing a somber expression.

This demon soul couldn’t be used to cast the Divine Blast Technique and was of no use to keep.

"Reverse Infant... So, this is the real name of that strange infant..."

"I didn’t expect to accidentally kill a Reverse Infant planted by the True Dragon Clan, which seems to have significant use for them..."

"Unfortunately, this Dragon Guard is of too low a rank to know many secrets, only knowing that the Reverse Infant is a tool for the demon race to unify the Barbaric Wilderness and wipe out the Four Heavens cultivators... The specific use, however, this demon couldn’t know..."

"The thirty unoccupied Barbarian Domains have been secretly divided into thirty areas by the demon race. After I killed one Reverse Infant in area thirty, there are still one hundred and seven Reverse Infants remaining..."

"The Reverse Infants are all parasitic within the Barbarian Beasts, but exactly which Barbarian Beast they parasitize is unknown... The Barbarian Beasts seem to have made some agreement with the demon race, but the specifics of the agreement are not known to lower-level demon cultivators or Barbarian Beasts..."

Ning Fan gradually realized that the one Reverse Infant he inadvertently destroyed seemingly involved something significant...

If he hadn’t destroyed this Reverse Infant, perhaps the demon race’s plan wouldn’t surface for a long time and would strike a heavy blow against the Four Heavens cultivators...

"No matter what, let’s focus on hunting down these Poison Dragon Guards first! Seventy-two Poison Dragon Guards, quite the grand gesture by Ancestor Dulong, to dispatch such true figures to kill me, I wonder how many of these Dragon Guards will die by my hands!"

Ning Fan rolled his sleeves, turned into a golden spear with Xian Luoli, and sped toward another direction in area twenty-nine.

In area twenty-nine, there were a total of four late-stage Enlightenment Dragon Guards, he had only killed one, there were still three left!

With his mind set on hunting Poison Dragon Guards, Ning Fan did not notice the change in an item within his storage pouch.

After killing a Poison Dragon Guard, his Immortal Guard Token underwent a change.

Originally a low-grade eighth-grade Immortal Guard Token, after slaying the Poison Dragon Guard, the token’s grade soared to middle-ranked eighth-grade!

This indicated that Ning Fan’s Immortal Position had risen to Middle-Ranked Immortal Guard!

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