<h4>Chapter 440: Chapter 440: Killing Lu Jiefen</h4>


    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 n, no matter how strong or how skilled Ning Fan was, he would not be able to protect the Six-Winged n! Luckily, this person just wanted to seize the te. It can already be said that no one could keep the te from King Lan Ling. However, no one could be sure whether the Six-Winged n could survive by chance after handing over the te...


    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 be 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 n and the Mist Horn n... He imed that his reason foring to the Six-Winged n is to obtain one item. That item is probably the Devil Statue te... Interesting. The Lan Ling Sect might only be joining forces with the Mist Horn n and the Ghost Eye n on the surface. I wonder what agreement they had amongst themselves. However, just as the te was about to fall into their hands, King Lan Ling personally came to seize the te 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 te 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 n and the Ghost Eye n.


    Especially the Ghost Eye n, which would be King Lan Ling’s greatest opponent inpeting for the devil statue te!


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


    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 te, he would still dare to fight against them. However, a strong expert like King Lan Ling had alsoe today. Of course, Xuan Yi did not need to think that he would still be able to keep the te.


    His eyes were filled with reluctance. The contents carved on this devil statue te was extremely abstruse and difficult to understand. What’s more strange about it was that the words on the te 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 particrly concerned about was that the te 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 te. Each time, the words were different from before. He deeply understood that if the power that was sealed in the te 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 n. Hence, he was definitely unwilling to hand over the te 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 te away.


    It was a deep ck ancient te 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 te.


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


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


    However, at the time he saw this te 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 te 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 te.


    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 te with his will.


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


    Now, in this ce, only Ning Fan could truly understand the te!


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


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


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


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


    Currently, King Lan Ling had personally requested for the te 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 n seize the te over and over again. In the end, however, he wanted to forcefully keep this te from the Six-Winged n all to himself!


    The two of them werepletely 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 ns 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 te, no one dared to have any thoughts of seizing that te.


    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 te from his hands. His face wore a yful smile.


    “Hehe. I didn’t expect that so many people have actuallye for this devil statue te. I am rather curious about what kind of mysterious effect a mere stone te 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 te 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 te 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 te 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 te from the surface.


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


    What everyone noticed was the moment Ning Fan took the te to have a look, King Lan Ling’s eyes shed 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 thetter would actually be bold enough topete for the treasure with King Lan Ling.


    Lu Jiefen also wanted to get the te 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 specting that Ning Fan was seriously provoking King Lan Ling by taking the te boldly and thetter 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 Pce had repeatedly urged King Lan Ling not to hurt!


    “So you are the newly-promoted revered elder of the Great Heaven Pce, 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 toy 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 te 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 thetter’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 Pce and the Zhou n 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 n, 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 arger 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 nned for something.


    The n 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 rtion to one’s strength.


    Today, if he doesn’t make the Lan Ling Sect, the Ghost Eye n and the Mist Horn n 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 ce 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 n while the other one was from the Mist Horn n. Clearly, they had certainlye for the te!


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


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


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


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


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


    A trace of cold light shed in Ning Fan’s eyes. At the next moment, he tossed that piece of useless te 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 y!”


    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 te 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 ns of the Hidden Sea! You’re courting death!” The Void Inquiry Stage experts of the Mist Horn n and the Ghost Eye n who hade to help roared in anger.


    “The few devil ns 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 sted the two Void Inquiry Stage experts away in midair. Hisbat 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 disy 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 n.


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


    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 te was enough to cause three great forces to turn against each other.


    On the wastnd of the Six-Winged n, 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 n.


    The members of the Demon Sealing Sect had killed countless people in the territory of the Six-Winged n. 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 themand, all of the experts of the Six-Winged n 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 nning to run away.


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


    “Are you nning to flee? Unfortunately, it’s toote.”


    *Bang*


    Ning Fan pointed using one of his fingers and a massive force sted 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 n 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 defensiveyers copsed 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 whichnded 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 n 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 te!


    Once he obtains the devil statue te, he could then get away from the Endless Sea and look for a secret ce to study the secrets of the te 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 te thousands of yearster, he would certainly be 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 hisst 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 be 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 be 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 n. 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 shed with killing intent. She med herself for being too weak as she was not able to help Ning Fan seize the te 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 ck 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 strongpared 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 ck 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...


    <i>How can this be?! How?!</i>


    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 be 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.


    <i>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.</i>


    <i>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.</i>


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


    <strong>Tranted by Tommy, edited by Roel</strong>