Grasping Evil

The war between the Devil armies and Yue armies had shocked every sect in Yue country in just three days.

The destruction of Extreme Yin Gate and the reappearance of the corpse devil from two thousand years ago had almost brought Yue country into the brink of extinction.

There was a total of three Nascent Soul experts that appeared in this war. When they were battling, visions of dragon fire could be vaguely seen by all of the experts in Yue Country.

Within a hundred li of the ancient battlefield, which was the site of the final battle had also been burnt into a wasteland. Not even a blade of grass could grow there. Such a condition left the cultivators who came and explored the area terrified.

On the other hand, more cultivators were heading to Ning City. Every one of them carried the hope to meet the Nascent Soul experts—Black Devil Ning and Jing Zhuo. However, martial law had been imposed in Ning City today. Jing Zhuo and Black Devil Ning had gone into seclusion. The person who greeted the cultivators who came to pay a visit was Nan Gong who always carried a soft smile.

“Ask me anything if you have any queries. However, I cannot guarantee that everything I tell is the truth,” said Nan Gong who was sitting on a tall seat while leisurely enjoying his fragrant tea.

At the side, several sect leaders from second class sects appeared immediately. They obediently offered their pouches to Nan Gong and asked, “Hehe, Nan Gong, the Vice City Lord and also the right-hand man of Black Devil Ning naturally has a lot of secrets that cannot be told. It’s understandable… understandable… These are just some small gifts from us, a little token to show our respect to you.” All of them had benign smiles spreading over their faces.

Nan Gong chuckled and said, “You all are so kind. However, I cannot receive the gifts, absolutely cannot.” Nan Gong deliberately pretended to decline their offers. The leaders gritted their teeth and took out a few more pouches and offered them respectfully.

Then, Nan Gong received the expensive gifts helplessly. He checked the pouches with his spirit sense and found out that there were at least ten thousand immortal jades.

“Ah, it is difficult to turn down this generous offer. Let me help you to clear your doubts. If you have any questions, please ask.”

“Is Master Black Devil the expert who killed the corpse devil? There are rumours saying that Master Black Devil was Revered Ning of Sinister Sparrow Sect. Are these rumours true?

“Those rumours are of course nonsense. My young lord, Ning Fan, is definitely not a Nascent Soul expert. He is not even a Gold Core expert. I can make an oath with my Heart Devil!” said Nan Gong with honesty.

Ning Fan was in fact a half-step Gold Core expert. However, the truth that Black Devil Ning was Ning Fan should always remain hidden. He would not tell the people as it was better to keep it mysterious.

“Aiya, there is no need for Vice City Lord Nan to make an oath with the Heart Devil. It makes us afraid of asking other questions…” said the old monsters with shame on each of their faces. They felt that they had owed Nan Gong a favor. However, their intention of making friends with Ning City became even more determined.

“Haha. This is nothing…” said Nan Gong with a smile while shaking his head.

Yu Chi who was standing beside looked at Nan Gong in awe. On the other hand, Nan Gong’s facial muscles made a rare twitch.

Nan Gong had just sweet-talked the group of old monsters. With just that, ten thousand immortal jades came to hand. Nan Gong would not spend those for personal use, but for the development of Ning City. In fact, it was Nan Gong’s doing that Ning City did not experience insufficiency of wealth.

“Let me explain the particulars of that battle for all of you…”

When Nan Gong started his explanation, all of the old monsters sat on their places and listened attentively. All of them were afraid that they would miss out one of the details.

When Nan Gong spoke of the thrilling parts in the battle, the old monsters’ faces turned slightly pale without them realizing.

At the last part of the story, Black Devil Ning appeared and transformed into a black shadow and defeated Tian Yi Zi. In the next instance, he cut the corpse devil from a distance of over a thousand li. Upon hearing this exciting part, the fire of excitement blazed in everyone’s eyes. They now understood the absolute strength of Black Devil Ning who rarely appeared.

“Vice City Lord Nan, could you make an exception for us to meet Master Black Devil…”

“There may be some troubles in your request. As you all know, Master Black Devil, our city lord will need to go into seclusion after the intense battle. I’m afraid that he would not exit his seclusion in another few decades unless disaster befall upon Ning city. If there really is a disaster, he would certainly appear and take action to protect Ning City.”

“Understandable, understandable… However, it’s really such a pity that we don’t have the luck to meet him.”

…

Nan Gong was responsible in welcoming the cultivators of Yue country. Situ took care of the remediation of the casualties after the war and reorganization the four armies of Ning City. Yuchi was in charge of mending the underground fire vein.

On the other hand, Ning Fan who did not do anything aside from ordering others to execute the tasks was regulating his breath in a secret chamber. Yin Suqiu who had been unconscious for three days was lying on a bed in the corner of the room.

Her poison was temporarily suppressed by the effect of the pills. However, the poison was just too deadly. Even the Void Origin Pill from Supreme Void Faction could not cure the poison completely. Although curing the poison wasn’t difficult, the process was quite troublesome. Therefore, Ning Fan chose to regulate his breath first, stabilizing the injuries that he suffered from the battle.

The battle against the black corpse had wounded him seriously. In order to threaten the black corpse, he had forced himself to achieved the Sixth Revolution of Dragon Vortex Fire. That technique consumed a lot of his blood essence. Originally, his divine spirit was already lacking as he had cut his soul and molded his incarnation. Now, he lost his blood essence for a number of times, causing his origin qi to decrease tremendously.

Without any special method, the condition of his injuries would at least take a few decades of seclusion to cultivate the blood essence again. After receiving all of these wounds, it was inevitable that Ning Fan’s life span would become shorter. Perhaps, Ning Fan’s destined age would not even reach two hundred.

He was sitting cross-legged on the rush cushion while regulating his breath. All the things that were displayed on the floor before him were the loot from the battle.

Ning Fan closed his eyes gently, pondering about the gains and losses of the battle.

There were a number of high rank magical technique from Old Monster Purple Yin such as the Nascent Realm magical technique Wind Soul Claw. However, this type of technique could only be used by Wind Spirit cultivators. To Ning Fan, it was useless. In fact, Ning Fan was intrigued by one of Purple Yin’s cultivation method.

Yin Evil Art… This cultivation method was about cultivating the Yin Pearl. In Extreme Yin Gate, all members ranging from the old ancestors to the disciples cultivated this method. However, the book of the cultivation method from Purple Yin certainly was much better compared to the others. It not only recorded the process of refining the Yin Pearl, but also the way of integrating the Yin Pearl with the Gold Core.

According to Ning Fan’s estimation, if he could refine the Yin Pearl and integrate it with the Gold Core like Old Monster Purple Yin, his Gold Core would be incredibly stronger compared to the ordinary Gold Core experts. Besides, it could also increase his chance of breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm by at least 10%!

This cultivation method was useful to Ning Fan. However, he still couldn’t use it before his core formation.

Other than the cultivation method of integrating the Gold Core, there was only one magical treasure that attracted Ning Fan’s interest amongst the loot from Purple Yin. It was the Purple Alms Bowl.

The Purple Alms Bowl was a high grade mid-ranked magical treasure. The specialty of this treasure was that a trace of Divine Intent was fused with it. Therefore, when this magical treasure was used, it took in any magical treasure that attacked Purple Yin during the battle.

Besides those, there was nothing else that could pique Ning Fan’s interest amongst the loot from old monster Purple Yin. Ning Fan was a person of high horizons.

However, Ning Fan dared not to belittle the stores of the black corpse.

Putting aside all the magical treasures and pills, the only thing that Ning Fan cared the most was the ancient fiendgod cultivation method, Corpse Devil Record!

The cultivation method recorded the method to open the Corpse Devil Vein. Techniques regarding the three transformations that a corpse had to go through in order to become an immortal were also found within it. Besides, there were also other types of magical power of the ancient fiendgod!

Having the Yin-Yang Devil Vein, it would be impossible for Ning Fan to cultivate the Corpse Devil Vein. However, the magical power of the ancient fiendgod in it had really caught Ning Fan’s attention. In Ancient Chaos’ memory, there was no inheritance of the fiendgod’s magical power. In contrast, it contained the Immortal Emperor’s insights of his entire life and also his memory. But, it was still difficult to say which was better. Anyhow, the magical power of the fiendgod was indeed useful to Ning Fan.

Transforming Corpse Technique… This technique could ignite the corpse qi of the Corpse Devil Vein, turning the cultivator directly into a living corpse.

Regarding the Third Corpse Pupil… before cultivating the pupil, the cultivator needed to cultivate the Corpse Devil Vein and connect the Heavenly Eye Vein on the glabella. With the pupil, the cultivator could perform illusion techniques. Putting the illusion techniques aside, the thing that interested Ning Fan the most was the Third Corpse evil sense.

All bodies of cultivators had three types of corpses. Even if the cultivator was a True Immortal, he would still fear the evil sense. The black corpse’s evil sense was only a smattering of the true power of evil sense. In fact, it was not even considered the Third Corpse evil sense. If it was the true evil sense, Ning Fan would not be able to slash it. There were only a handful of immortals from the Four Heaven Immortal Worlds who could slash it.

Ning Fan clearly understood this cultivation method. Unfortunately, he did not have the Corpse Devil Vein to activate the third eye.

As a matter of fact, the Third Corpse evil sense needed a third eye to store the evil sense because it was untouchable for the cultivators. Therefore, he needed to open other veins to store it.

“If I open up another path, storing the evil sense using other techniques, I may be able to hold the evil sense directly with my eyes and perform the technique…”

Ning Fan was in deep contemplation. If his guess was correct, he could perform Third Corpse evil sense without the need of the third eye. However, the only worry was the way to resist the Third Corpse evil sense himself.

Perhaps, the black incarnation might be able to withstand it. After all, that incarnation did not have mind and sense. In this way, it seemed like the cultivation method was worth a try.

Other than these, the black corpse also had numerous body refining cultivation methods. Among them, there was the Colossal Bone Secret Art. It enabled the cultivator to transform into a giant with a height of 30 metres. To Ning Fan, it was extremely useful.

And, the biggest loot was the body of the black corpse.

Now, the black corpse had been burnt badly after being charred by Ning Fan. However, judging from the strength of the corpse’s body, Ning Fan had an instinctive perception to turn it into a refined corpse. It would surely be a good fighter. This refined corpse might be able to fight ordinary Nascent Soul cultivators.

In addition, there were still numerous spoils of war on the floor. But, Ning Fan ran out of time to think about them when Suqiu Xianzi, who was on the bed, made a sound.

…

Inside the secret chamber, brocade silk bedded on the stone bed. A lady dressed in yellowish cloth was in deep slumber on the bed.

She looked like an unworldly young girl judging from her appearance. However, those who recognized her would know that she was an old monster who had lived for more than six hundred years. She was once the old ancestor of Great Void Sect, Yin Suqiu.

Even though she was unconscious, her eyebrows were knitted tightly. The sound she made just now was actually a moan of pain.

On the day of battle, the black corpse plotted against her and she got the Dead Silkworm Poison. Any ordinary Gold Core expert who had this poison would have their lives immediately snatched. However, Suqiu’s overpowering strength had allowed her to suppress the effect of the poison. The suppression continued until the end of the battle. The moment she stopped suppressing it, the poison had taken effect, causing her consciousness to slip away.

As a matter of fact, the reason that the poison had taken effect was because of Ning Fan’s request. During the battle, he requested Suqiu to pursue and attack the black corpse, triggering her magical power. Therefore, it was his fault that Suqiu was in this state. On another note, Suqiu’s determination had gained Ning Fan’s recognition as she did not mention anything after she was poisoned… If it was Zhi he who had the poison, she would’ve definitely cried out in alarm at the next second.

With her strong will, it was no wonder that this lady was able to become one of the old ancestors in Great Void Sect with just six hundred years of cultivation.

Truth be told, it was impossible for Ning Fan not to be concerned about the life of this lady. After all, she came to rescue Ning City alone. Ning Fan was quite touched by her action.

“Forgive me for the offence…”

Ning Fan spoke in a low tone as though he was talking to himself. At the next moment, he lifted Suqiu’s pendulum skirt which had never been lifted before by anyone in her entire life. Under the pendulum skirt, there was an underskirt. It was lifted by Ning Fan too. Then, Suqiu’s legs which were as white as the pure white cream was revealed.

However, at this moment, there were some traces of purplish red veins on the surface of her white legs. Those veins were like silkworms, climbing on the legs.

Ning Fan lifted the pendulum skirt until the knees. The purplish red veins did not go further above the knees. In fact, it was not necessary for Ning Fan to continue lifting up the skirt. If he continued this action, Suqiu would question him for philandering her after she was awake. That would actually make the act of curing her become a troublesome matter.

Her legs were indeed elegant. Although her legs were slightly facing inwards as a result of sitting cross-legged all day long on a rush cushion, her legs were really similar to the legs of the women in Ocean Country from the rumours. It looked similar as the women from the said country had to kneel for a long time every day.

Thoughts and imaginations started to flash across Ning Fan’s mind. However, he eliminated those thoughts immediately and accused himself inwardly. Then, he adjusted his frame of mind for work. He took off Suqiu’s plain shoes and brocade socks, revealing a pair of feet which were sparkling like a jade.

Her feet were different from the legs which had a little flaw. Her feet were born naturally like the jade ornaments. They were near perfect.

However, her feet seemed to be too sensitive. When Ning Fan touched her toes carelessly, the unconscious Suqiu immediately let out a soft moan.

“Hum…”

That moan made Ning Fan lose his focus. While her feet were in his hands, Ning Fan was disturbed by the Heart’s Devil.

“The legs that I am holding now are the legs of the most honourable woman in Yue Country. Although she was superior in the eyes of all cultivators, now she was here for me to play with.”

This voice interrupted his state of mind. At the next second, a cold light formed on his eyes, crushing that evil intention.

“Get lost!”

After suppressing the Heart’s Devil, Ning Fan’s eyes became clear and calm once more. Then, he secretly apologized.

From various points of view, he was counted as profaning Suqiu Xianzi. Having evil intention towards his benefactor was really inhumane for Ning Fan.

“It is not difficult to cure this Dead Silkworm Poison. Following the preparation of the Dead Silkworm Poison by using the medicine soup from seventeen types of  thousand-year-old spiritual herbs, it would be easy to cure the poison. However, the first step was leading the poison back to the original part before spreading.”

Ning Fan let out a soft sigh. Then, each of his hands stroked Suqiu’s knees. He transported his magical power when stroking along the knees. In that manner, he led the poison back to the ankle.

It was icy cold and smooth.

Inadvertently, Suqiu’s breath became a little more rapid. When the effect of the poison lessened, Suiqu woke up. However, she did not dare to open her eyes because she realized her calves were being stroked by Ning Fan.

“He… What is he doing?! How dare he do this!” said Suqiu in her mind. She nearly had the impulse to slap Ning Fan who was a frivolous man she thought at that time. However, at the next moment, she found out that Ning Fan was actually curing her…

Her heart turned soft. How could she refuse since he was curing her.

However, she must not open her eyes. Otherwise, it would certainly turn to a very embarrassing situation for the both of them.

Therefore, the only thing she could do was to endure the heat of Ning Fan’s palms on her calves, ankles and feet.

Unfortunately, her feet were so sensitive to an extent that she could feel Ning Fan’s palm print.

She was blushing, but she could only tolerate it. If she was unconscious, it did not matter that she moaned. Or else, she would never allow herself to let out the shameful sound. As a former old ancestor of a righteous sect, how could she degrade herself in that manner.

However, the more she tolerated, her face turned redder. Even though her state of mind was intact, her body became weak and soft.

“Please do it faster…to cure…my poison…” she whispered in her mind. She prayed inwardly that Ning Fan would move faster in ending this abnormal nightmare.

She did not favour this numb and lost feeling which was beyond her control. She should have a higher status than anybody else.