Grasping Evil

Chapter 499: Chapter 499: A Battle Against Venerated Pill

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Chapter 499: A Battle Against Venerated Pill

The old man was none other than Venerated Pill, the lord of the Pill Island.

The old man did not feel strange when Ning Fan figured out his identity. There were only a few Sixth Revolution Pill Masters in Rain World. After he had displayed his Sixth Revolution medicine soul, it wasn’t strange if others could guess his identity.

Although he had just returned from his travel, he heard about Ning Fan in different places of Rain World.

Only when he met him in person today did he feel that seeing for himself much more convincing than hearing from others.

As a Sixth Revolution Pill Master, Venerated Pill was considered to be an extremely well-known person in Rain World.

Even though he had yet to break through to the Void Refinement Realm, his status was much more respected than many Void Refinement Realm experts in Rain World. Besides, because he travelled around the world frequently, his knowledge and experience were so vast that not any common people could rival him.

He had met a lot of Void Refinement Realm experts in Rain World. However, when he had sensed the strength of Ning Fan’s qi, all sorts of feelings filled his mind. Of all the Void Refinement Realm experts he knew, there was actually not a single old monster of the Void Glimpse Stage or the Void Inquiry Stage had a more vigorous qi than Ning Fan.

When he looked past Ning Fan, he saw Su Yan who had already kept the silver boat and her twelve horned dragons stand behind him like a little bird resting upon a man.

This made Venerated Pill sigh with emotions. In Rain World, Su Yan was also a Void Inquiry Stage expert whose name was widely known. But now she had joined Ning Fan...

“As soon as I return to the island, I received news that Revered Ming has suppressed the Mist Horn Devil Clan depending on your own strength. I didn’t believe it at first. But now it seems like Revered Ming’s capability is probably unrivalled among Void Inquiry Stage experts... You have my respect and admiration!”

Venerated Pill glanced at Ming Que and recalled the misunderstanding between them earlier. Then, he continued said with an earnest tone of voice.

“My dharma name is Dan Songzi and I am a good friend of Dong Xu. After I have returned, I have already heard from Yang Gu and the others about what fellow Daoist did in the past. Since you have helped my Pill Island, we owe you a favor. Besides, you are a feudal ranking elder of my island. Thus, I have no objection if you want to use our Soul Washing Pond. In fact, I will try my best to help you. Moments ago, I didn’t know that this little young lady is one of yours. That’s why we had a misunderstanding. I hope you can forgive me for my recklessness and carelessness earlier.”

As a Sixth Revolution Pill Master, it wasn’t excessive for him to treat Void Refinement Realm experts in Rain World as people on the same level as him. Thus, it was completely fine for him to address Ning Fan as fellow Daoist.

“Senior Dan is modest. I’ve seen what happened between you and Ming Que just now. Senior is just have a fair fight with Ming Que. Besides, Senior has even pull your punches during the fight. Let’s just drop this subject and forget about it.”

The reason why Ning Fan addressed Venerated Pill as a senior was not just because he was paying respect to the latter for his Sixth Revolution Pill Refinement Realm but also because he has a relation with the Pill Sovereign.

From the perspective of the Dao of Alchemy, Venerated Pill’s pill refinement skills and seniority were higher than Ning Fan. Thus, it completely appropriate for Ning Fan to see him as his senior.

Venerated Pill was stunned upon hearing how Ning Fan addressed him. Then, he shook his head and laughed.

“Between you and me, there is no need for you to address me as your senior. It’s just like how you interact with Dong Xu. Treating each other as people of the equal status will do. My pill refinement realm is at the Low Grade Sixth Revolution and I am ranked seventh among the pill refinement masters in Rain World. As for you, you are said to have Peak Grade Fifth Revolution Pill Refinement Realm and you are even given the title as ‘The Eighth Pill Refinement Master of Rain World’. Perhaps you can break through to the Sixth Revolution in a single try by using the Soul Washing Pond this time... Thus, you don’t have to call me your senior.”

“It’s extremely difficult to advance my pill refinement realm to the Sixth Revolution. To be honest, I don’t have much assurance about whether or not I can attain the Sixth Revolution in a single try this time. However, since Senior insists on seeing me as a friend of equal status, then I will make bold to address senior as fellow Daoist. Fellow Daoist Dan, if I may ask, is the Soul Washing Pond fully prepared already? When will I be able to enter the pond?”

“Up until now, the Soul Washing Pond has been unsealed up to the fourth level. In another ten days, it will be unsealed up to the sixth floor. Fellow Daoist will at least need to wait for ten more days. Only after that can fellow Daoist use the pond.” Venerated Dan explained.

“The fourth floor and the sixth floor?” Ning Fan did not know much about the Soul Washing Pond. Thus, he was not aware that the pond was divided into different floors.

“Ah. I was being careless. Fellow Daoist, please have a look at this jade slip. It has a detailed introduction about the Soul Washing Pond.” Venerated Pill took out a jade slip and passed it to Ning Fan.

Ning Fan spread his spirit sense to scan the jade slip. The information within the jade slip flowed into his mind.

The Soul Washing Pond of the Pill Island had the unique power that could nourish and strengthen pill refinement masters’ medicine souls. The power was known as the “Soul Bathing Light”.

The intensity of the Soul Bathing Light differs according to the depth of the pond. The pond was divided into seven floors of pond domains by the Pill Island with each of them being restricted by a seal.

The first floor had the weakest Soul Bathing Light. This floor was commonly meant for Peak Grade Fourth Revolution Pill Masters to break through to the Fifth Revolution.

The second floor could help improve Low Grade Fifth Revolution Pill Masters’ medicine souls.

As for the third, fourth and fifth floor, they were prepared for Mid Grade, High Grade and Peak Grade Fifth Revolution Pill Masters to temper their medicine souls.

In order to achieve the Sixth Revolution Pill Refinement Realm, the sixth floor was the best to train one’s medicine soul.

The seventh floor was the deepest level of the Soul Washing Pond. The Soul Bathing Light on that light was terrifyingly powerful. Normally, only Mid Grade Sixth Revolution Pill Masters would be able to endure this level of Soul Bathing Light.

Even Venerated Dan himself was not daring enough to temper his medicine soul on the seventh floor.

“I see.” Ning Fan returned the jade slip to Venerated Dan and went silent for a short while.

Now, the Soul Washing Pond had been unsealed up to the fourth floor that could let High Grade Fifth Revolution Pill Refinement Master to enter and cultivate. However, the Soul Bathing Light on the fourth floor did not have much effect on Ning Fan’s medicine soul.

In order to borrow the Soul Bathing Light of the pond to increase the level of his medicine soul, Ning Fan would need to enter at least the fifth floor.

And if he wants to attains the Sixth Revolution medicine soul in a single attempt, the sixth floor would be the best option.

Considering that only true Sixth Revolution Pill Refinement Master could enter the sixth floor normally, Ning Fan felt that he probably would need to use some pills to protect himself if he wanted to enter the sixth floor with his current medicine soul. It would be less worrying if he enters with some self-preparations.

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The two elders of Ling Nan did not dare to conceal any information at all when answering Ning Fan’s question. They could only tell him every detail about the entire event.

It turned out that it was purely an accident that the two of them were pursued by the red-haired lady.

They two were Void Inquiry Stage old monsters and they had been searching and exploring historical remains of ancient cultivators throughout the years. This time, when they were checking out an ancient place that was used by the cultivators in the past, they accidentally discovered a passage to another realm that was filled with immense killing qi.

It was unknown what realm that passage would lead to. However, it seemed to be connecting to a broken and dilapidated small chiliocosm.

It wasn’t strange originally for an ancient remains to exist inside a hidden broken realm. Many ancient cultivators liked hiding their precious treasures inside a concealed realm. Thus, the two elders of Ling Nan were eager to explore the realm.

However, only after entering the realm did they realize that the small chiliocosm was particularly unique. It was pervaded with the killing qi that even Void Refinement Realm old monsters would find nauseating. Not many people could maintain their composure when they were inside that realm except for those devil lords who practiced the Dao of Slaughter.

Deep inside the broken world, there were many ferocious but obscure Void Refinement Realm qi. Presumably, it belonged to the living creatures that were left in this realm. As soon as the two of them entered that realm, the living creatures of that realm gave them a warning.

“Those who don’t belong to this realm shall leave now! Otherwise, death will be what awaits you ahead!”

That voice sounded extremely impolite. The two elders could not help but feel scared since there seemed to be a lot of powerful beings residing deep inside the world.

Therefore, they did not dare exploring to the depths of the broken world but examined just the outer region of that realm instead.

There wasn’t any treasure in the outer region, let alone any spiritual medicine. There was just a vast and boundless land full of blood-red grass. It was a type of grass that the two of them had never seen before.

They were not bold enough to explore deeper into the broken world but they were reluctant to return empty-handed as well. After contemplating for a while, they decided to pluck some of the blood-red grass casually so that they could study them in the future. Then, they left the broken realm.

However, none of them had thought that their actions of plucking the grass would actually alarm the Void Refinement Realm experts in the broken world.

Immediately, the red-haired female expert dashed out from the depths of the realm and took the lead to pursue them.

Behind the red-haired female expert, there were also a large group of cultivators consisting ten plus Void Refinement Realm experts and a few hundred Divine Transformation Realm cultivators. Every single one of them was a female.

These female cultivators had gorgeous and pretty appearances and packed with primordial yin. However, their faces had a cruel and cold-blooded look which scared the two elders of Ling Nan half to death. It was literally beyond their imagination that there would be so many experts hiding in a broken realm.

What’s worse was that they even sensed a Void Fragmentation Realm qi that was slowly awakening in the depths of the broken world.

The aura force of that Void Fragmentation Realm being felt like the doomsday had arrived as it gave out a command with a bone-chilling voice.

“Heed my words, my blood slaves. Take down the medicine thieves for me and kill them without exception!”

At this moment, the two elders of Ling Nan nearly had the impulse to vomit blood. How could they be considered as thieves after just randomly plucking a handful of grass? And the Void Fragmentation Realm old monster gave the merciless kill order on them, causing them to be hunted by so many experts just because of the grass?!

If they really had stolen some kind of rare and unique spiritual herbs of the world, they would find it acceptable to be hunted by others. However, they were extremely certain that the grass that they plucked had no medicinal use at all. It was definitely just a bunch of weeds. There was no way it could be any spiritual herb!

Unfair. It’s just too unfair!

The two elders understood that no explanations could help them from this situation at this moment. They were even aware that if this group of experts caught up with them, they definitely had no chance in surviving at all. All they could do was to flee at once.

They did not dare to stay in the world any longer. They flew straight towards the exit of the broken world, trying to get out of the place as quick as possible. Just as they got out, they both sent out attacks to destroy the passage connecting to the broken world.

Except for the red-haired lady alone, all the other experts of the broken world were unable to get out in time as they were trapped on the other side of the passage.

Even though there was only the red-haired lady who was pursuing the two leaders after that, she seemed to be able to kill the two of them by herself.

In the beginning, the two elders of Ling Nan disparaged her, thinking that she was just a Void Inquiry Stage cultivator and she was on her own. They two were also at the Void Inquiry Stage. If the two of them fought against her together, they had huge chance in defeating her.

However, who would have thought that the red-haired lady had frightening skills and her cultivation level was nearly at the unrivalled level of the Void Inquiry Stage. She was not a person whom the two elders of Ling Nan could resist.

When the red-haired lady used some kind of killing secret technique, she severely injured the two of them with ease. After that, they began a series of hot pursuit.

The two elders of Ling Nan fled for their life desperately with their grievous injuries. Eventually, they tore off the hollow space and bumped into Ning Fan and the others. Only then were they saved from her pursuit.

This was everything that the two elders knew. After surviving from the disaster, they still had not snapped out of it even when they were recounting the sequence of events.

“It’s really unbelievable that a Void Fragmentation Realm living being was actually hiding inside the broken world of that ancient remains. The two of you are very lucky for being able to escape from an old monster of that level.” Ning Fan said indifferently.

“Lucky? Hai... If it wasn’t for your help, the both of us would have died in the hands of that malefic lady for sure. How could we say anything about luck without your help? Hehe. We still haven’t asked about your name yet. Fellow Daoist has unrivalled strength among cultivators of the Void Inquiry Stage but we haven’t heard of your great name. Could it be that Fellow Daoist isn’t a member of Rain World?”

The two elders were extremely curious about Ning Fan’s identity. Based on his strength, it was impossible for his name to be unknown among the Void Refinement Realm beings of Rain World.

“My name is Zhou Ming. I am also a rogue cultivator of Rain World.”

“Oh, it’s Fellow Daoist Zhou. It’s nice meeting you. These are some gifts for you for saving our lives. Please keep them.”

After the two elders consumed a vulnerary pill respectively to slightly suppress their injuries, they instantly took out 5 jade boxes that were carefully sealed. Each of the boxes contained a tuft of one hundred thousand years old spiritual medicine.

Without a doubt, the five tufts of one hundred thousand years old spiritual herbs were the gifts from them to appreciate Ning Fan’s help.

Translated by Tommy, edited by Roel