Grasping Evil

In the ninth level of Dark Sparrow’s Grave.

Beyond the horizon was a sea of giant trees of 300 meters tall. Above the sea of trees was fine rain falling downwards.

Finally, Ming Luo’s tightened skin relaxed.

“We’re safe at this place. Each towering tree is a Spirit Severing clone of mine. There is roughly 100 000 of them.”

Ming Luo’s words were both consolation and warning. It relieved Ning Fan’s worries of Elder Snake Lin pursuing them, and also made him understood that it was best to behave in this place, or else, his life would be under a huge threat as any of the Spirit Severing giant tree here was capable of taking his life.

“Let’s begin the curing fast. The duration of my suppression of the poison is almost up.”

Ning Fan’s expression was indifferent, not putting the threat of Ming Luo in his heart.

His eyes swept across the fine rain in the ninth level and closed all of a sudden.

The drizzle here had no special features, no different than the ordinary curtain of rain…but due to Ning Fan having achieved certain insights about the Divine Intent of Rain, he was able to see that there should have been no rain in this level. This rain was transformed out of Divine Intent.

It was neither related to magical force nor magical technique. It was solely the Divine Intent that summoned the rain from the Heavens and Earth.

If the Void Spirit Intent had reached the peak of its cultivation, it could alter the law of Heavens and Earth. Moreover, rumor had it that there was an Ancestral Torch Dragon that had gained enlightenment of the law of Heavens and Earth during the immemorial time.

By closing an eye, he could alter day to night, and his single breath could change the cycle of the season.

An Immortal could turn a rock into gold with a touch, modify decay into divinity, and turned autumn to spring. All of these were closely connected to Void Spirit Intent.

Of course, even if a normal Spirit Severing cultivator mastered the early stage of Void Spirit Intent and integrated it with his Dao, he might still not be able to alter the law of Heaven and Earth.

Altering the law required not only one’s magical technique. During the time when Que Shenzi got enlightenment from the Divine Intent of Rain, his cultivation base was already at the profound level—a True Immortal Class expert. That was why his words could leave traces of his Dao Enlightenment in the rain curtain.

The ninth level of Dark Sparrow’s Grave was supposed to have no rain, but that year, a black-clad elder used only a word to activate the Divine Intent of Rain, causing rain to fall in the ninth level.

“I want you to rain and you have to… This is an order.”

These words turned all the heroic aura into a flat tone, but their dominance didn’t reduce because these words were directed to the Heavens.

Ning Fan had fully relived the Enlightenment Path of Que Shenzi from the first to ninth level during that year.

There was a profound feeling in his heart. This feeling would bring him further in integrating his own Divine Intent of Rain.

In the Heavens and Earth, there’s no similar raindrops nor spirit intent. If the step of integrating the Dao Heart into the spirit intent was completed, Ning Fan could thoroughly condense his spirit intent even though he was only at the Harmonious Spirit realm.

Although he might not be able to use it for the time being, the fact that he could condense the spirit intent would surely make countless of early Spirit Severing old experts envious.

Not every old expert could condense Void Spirit Intent, because of that, numerous early Spirit Severing old experts’ cultivation base remained stagnant at the early stage for the rest of their lives, and couldn’t advance any further.

The Dao Enlightenment in his mental state slowly rose.

It seemed like Ning Fan was about to usher his third transformation in this grave.

In the first transformation, his status had been changed from mortal to cultivator.

In the second transformation, his skills started to turn stronger.

This time, it was afraid that the transformation would be in Ning Fan’s mental state.

Ning Fan’s current strength was far better than the likes of Bai Feiteng, slightly better than the likes of Yan Bai, and probably not even weaker than Gui Qiaozi.

But his heart, despite being whitewashed by the memory of Ancient Chaos, was still the heart of a teenager, which inevitably still had a certain immaturity.

This immaturity manifested itself in his life experience. Even though he could imitate Ancient Chaos Immortal Emperor’s style of actions, there were plenty of things that he could never understand without experiencing it himself.

Many years ago, there was once a time when Ning Fan gazed at the sky, longed to be like those Immortals who flew in the sky, thinking that all Immortals were carefree. But now, it seemed to him that the life of Immortals were no different than that of the mortals. Similarly, it had joy, sorrow, happiness and sadness, and one would need to fight and wrestle with the fate ahead.

While he was meticulously comprehending the trace of insight, suddenly, a gentle sound was made by the unconscious little Bright Sparrow in his arms. A trace of black-colored blood trickled out from the corner of her mouth. Her pale eyebrows frowned as if showing a wince of pain.

“The poison is attacking her once more! Quickly take me to the place with a sea of fire, and prepare these ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herbs as soon as possible. I’m going to cure her poison there!”

Ning Fan’s expression turned grim. He patted the storage pouch, took out a jade slip, searched the names of the spiritual herbs on it and gave it to Ming Luo.

“You must cure her…” Ming Luo said solemnly.

“En.”

In the ninth level of Dark Sparrow’s Grave was a place with absolute depth. It was an extinct volcano. The reason it was no longer active was because next to the volcano lay a demonic beast’s remains 270 000 meters in size.

It was the bones of the Immemorial Dark Sparrow!

The bones radiated the peculiar cold Yin force of the Dark Sparrow, thoroughly extinguishing the active volcano. And this cold Yin Force spread across the entire ninth level, causing the cold rain in the grave to fall unceasingly. As it spread out of the Dark Sparrow’s Valley, waves of cold Qi blew across Sinister Sparrow Sect intermittently, making it a suitable place for cultivation.

These bones were extraordinary…but at the moment, Ning Fan seemed to have lost his interest in studying it.

He brought more than ten types of ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, carried the unconscious little lolita in his arms and reached the top of the mouth of the volcano in a flash. In the depths of the volcano was the vaguely scorching magma that made people’s scalp slightly tingle. After a short moment of hesitation, he spread open the Black Demon Flame that surrounded his body like a protective layer before he jumped into the mouth of the volcano.

He was afraid that the flames inside had reached the level of Fourth Grade Spiritual Fire, which was only a grade lower than the Earth Vein Demonic Flame. If he hadn’t devoured the Black Demonic Flame, he would never dare to leap into the crater!

The only reason he came here was to suppress the Void Poison in Bright Sparrow’s body. The Void Poison originated from the feathers of the tail of Immemorial Dark Sparrow. This poison was lethal to ordinary people, but to Bright Sparrow, it was a precious stuff that could boost her cultivation base, however, it was a pity that Treant Ming Luo had helped suppressed the poison with 10 000-year-old spiritual herbs numerous times. As a result of the suppression, the power of the poison intensified.

With Bright Sparrow’s Golden Core magical strength, she absolutely wouldn’t be able to refine all the Void Poison…but if with Ning Fan’s help…the outcome was still an unknown.

In order to suppress the cold Void Poison, she had to be brought to the dormant volcano. Ning Fan could use the fire here to warm the Immortal Veins inside Bright Sparrow’s small body.

30 000 meters below, inside the crater was a bluish-green magma with bubbles rolling within, radiating heat that blew across one’s face. To Ning Fan, the heat was somewhat unbearable, but when it blew against Bright Sparrow’s body, it turned into a trace of warm comfort.

“Warm…it’s warm…” The dazed little girl opened her big eyes and showed a sweet smile at Ning Fan. She was aware that Ning Fan was curing her poison and this had stirred her affection for this Cookie Big Brother.

“It’s merely warm to you…”

Ning Fan mused. Even he found the heat nearly unbearable, but to Bright Sparrow, the heat was like room temperature.

Previously, Bright Sparrow dared to put her delicate hand into the scalding pill cauldron to take those pills. This should be the cold Yin force of Void Poison that endowed her with this ability.

“The body of Pill Devil…”

Ning Fan revealed an enlightened look after gaining some understanding of Bright Sparrow’s physique.

Bright Sparrow was without a doubt a Pill Devil that originated from a Fifth Revolution Pill.

It was just that the birthplace of the Pill Devil was in the ninth level of the Dark Sparrow’s Grave, the place where the remains of Immemorial Dark Sparrow were at. Probably during the time when the Pill Devil obtained spirituality, it was being nourished by the bones of Dark Sparrow which then caused an unusual change to the body.

In other words, Bright Sparrow was a pill with extremely high quality and a demonic beast that had a chance to advance to Immemorial Dark Sparrow of Royal Clan. Based on what Xue Qing and Ming Luo said, Bright Sparrow had taken approximately thousands of years in transformation.

Pill Devil was a pill that was refined out of a pill cauldron as its body. The earth fire that was used to refine a Fifth Revolution Pill must not be lower than Fifth Grade. Then, it could only turn into a pill after a series of heavy calcination, which later becomes a Devil. Therefore, the little Bright Sparrow wouldn’t be scared of flames because she was born in flames.

However, there was something that concerned Ning Fan. Was the birth of little Bright Sparrow the Heaven’s Will or someone’s will?

If that was Heaven’s Will, he would forget everything about it, but if it was made by a human… The soul of Dark Sparrow had already integrated into the body of this Pill Devil… If one day, when little Bright Sparrow’s cultivation base improved, the quality of this Pill Devil would rise as well, and because it contained the soul of Dark Sparrow, its quality would intrigue even the True Immortals.

If Bright Sparrow was created by some True Immortal…then this True Immortal would surely return one day to retrieve this ‘Pill’.

However, this was only a guess. No one knew if this True Immortal existed, but Ning Fan was certain of one thing, that if this True Immortal really existed, he would never be Que Shenzi. From the Dao Enlightenment of Que Shenzi, he could tell the character of Que Shenzi. This man was decisive in killing, overbearing and did things in his own way. He would never go through so much troubles and spend countless years on a single Pill Devil.

Given Que Shenzi’s character, if he ever wanted a pill, he would most likely go and rob it!

Dark Sparrow’s Grave…Demon Sinister Forest… Demon Sinister Forest was decided as a forbidden place by Que Shenzi, but…Que Shenzi didn’t seem to be the one who deployed the forest. There was someone else who raised the ghosts!

Could the person who raised the ghosts raised a Pill Devil in Dark Sparrow’s Grave as well?!

Hundreds of thoughts were racing in Ning Fan’s mind, but in the end, he shook his head. All of these were merely speculation and couldn’t help him determine the truth. For the time being, he should cure the poison of Bright Sparrow first.

Facing the unconscious Bright Sparrow, Ning Fan became impervious to sexual desires. He slowly undid the buttons starting from the hemline of her black dress, one button at a time, and then, took it off.

It immediately revealed a petite naked body. The body of a seven or eight year old girl was almost the same as the body of a boy. If this could still arouse the evil intention of Ning Fan, then he had to be heaven defyingly lascivious.

Ning Fan wasn’t distracted in the slightest. He took out a jade bowl, placed those 10 000-year-old spiritual herbs into it and grind them into a medicinal liquid. The medicinal effect of the medicinal liquid was lesser than even a tenth of a refined pill. So that was a pure waste, but due to the urgency of the matter, Ning Fan had no time to refine a Fifth Revolution Pill. Even though the medicinal effect of medicinal liquid was poor, its large quantity was enough to offset that.

He dipped his fingers into the sticky and milky medicinal liquid, drew a profound formation pattern on her tender body before smearing the liquid on it.

When the dazed little girl felt Ning Fan’s fingers touching her, pictures of spring that didn’t belong to her memory appeared in her mind, making her panic.

“This, what are these…? Why are these sisters not wearing clothes…?”

The inexplicable memory that came from nowhere bewildered the little girl.

Gradually, she felt that her body being touched by Ning Fan was extremely inappropriate.

“Cookie Brother…don’t touch here…no…otherwise I will have lots of babies…” Her delicate face blushed and she spoke in a weeping tone.

“You are just a little girl! Who taught you these hideous things? Was it Ming Luo?!”

Ning Fan knitted his brows and was dissatisfied to see a seven or eight year old girl had that kind of thinking. That Ming Luo seemed righteous. Had he really been teaching Bright Sparrow those men and women thing?

Otherwise, a little girl would never blush immediately as soon as her body was touched.

However, Ning Fan had wrongly blamed Ming Luo for that. Ming Luo was a Treant. He didn’t even know things about men and women, let alone teaching Bright Sparrow about it.

It was all because of the damaged memory which originated from the Void Poison. As the toxicity was suppressed, the memory gradually spread inside of her.

“No, don’t…Cookie Brother, I beg you….don’t use that thing to jab me…I fear that it will hurt…” Bright Sparrow pleaded blurrily.

“You are thinking too much! You little girl, don’t be lost in your thoughts! Alright then, I will let you sleep for a while.”

Ning Fan shook his head, touched the forehead of Bright Sparrow with one finger, sending her to sleep.

Originally, he had only less than 70% chance of success in curing Bright Sparrow’s poison, but after being interrupted by Bright Sparrow, the outline of the formation pattern wasn’t perfect, which lowered the success rate even more.

The first step was to draw hundreds of formation patterns on her body, imitating the hundreds of Immortal Veins. That way, he could draw the Void Poison from the Immortal Veins out, and onto the surface of her body!

At first, Ning Fan’s gaze had no hint of being distracted and he didn’t think about those women and men thing at all, but after being agitated by Bright Sparrow, something strange was stirred in his heart. Was a Pill Devil who had lived for thousands of years and knew vaguely about the things between men and women still considered a little girl…?

While drawing the formation pattern, his finger unintentionally touched the pink and tender spot which instantly shivered his heart.

Ning Fan, you don’t do things that beasts do…you are a devil, but not a beast!

He muttered in his heart and suppressed all the indecent thoughts, then took quite a long time to complete the formation pattern.

The stringy hair of Bright Sparrow fell on the undeveloped breasts of her body. Little by little, warmth was rising towards the surface of her tender skin while the Void Poison was being suppressed.

It was just that the obscure memories were getting more and more in Bright Sparrow’s head.

“I’m…the Princess of Immemorial Dark Sparrow…my name is…Si Cang…”

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