After a short while, he still caved in to his curiosity and doubts. So he performed divination to foresee the bizarre feeling in his heart.
However, the only thing he could foresee was the omen of grave dangers.
Undoubtedly, someone was out to eliminate him and that person possessed a very high cultivation.
The only cultivators who have such powerful cultivation realm… Perhaps that person is a Spirit Severing Realm cultivator?!
No, it cannot be Revered Snow… With him out of the picture, there’s only one Spirit Severing Realm cultivator left in Great Jin – Demon General Carp!
“Impossible! He shouldn’t know that I killed one of his partners while holding the other two in my captive. What triggered him to eliminate me? If that’s what’s going to happen, I need to take precautionary measures. We need to leave Ju Shan Guan as soon as possible…”
…
Green mist permeated the air in the deepest part of the Dragon Vision Pond. In the centre of the place was a swamp which was guarded by thousands of demons.
Within the pond, there was a gigantic beast of blood-red colour. It was as big as a thousand zhang tall mountain, absorbing the dragon qi in the swamp while in a dormant state.
The beast was an amalgamation of different animals. It had the head of a carp with sharp fangs and a body of a snake with eight red claws under it.
Lightning rays flashed on its bloody scales and anyone who witnessed the current state of the beast would know that it was in the middle of transforming into a dragon.
Bloody Carp transforming into a dragon! Undeniably, the beast was the true form of the Spirit Severing Realm Demon General!
The bloody pupils of the beast blinked continuously while the horns of a dragon began to grow from its head.
This transformation would continue for the next ten days. The green color of the mist started to slowly dim while the color red began to take its place, turning the mist into blood-red in color. All of a sudden, a gust of strong wind encircled the enormous head of the beast. When the mist faded, the head of a carp fully transformed into a dragon’s head. It soared into the sky and a thousand zhang long blood dragon emerged under the sun!
At this moment, countless lightning rays appeared and gathered up above the sky which indicated the start of a Tribulation for demons who succeeded in their transformation. All the demons in the vicinity were stricken with fear.
The blood dragon changed into a naked man with bloody red scales all over his body.
He was the complete reincarnation of a mad devil with his red hair hanging down from his head. In his left eye, two blood-red demon stars violently flickered!
Two silver dragon horns grew from his forehead, suffused with lightning rays!
Demon General, Li Ban! (Li ‘鲤’ carries the meaning of a carp. Ban ‘伴’ carries the meaning of companion.)
He opened his mouth while facing the Tribulation of Lightning and sucked in all the lightning rays into his belly. He then let out a satisfied smile.
“Not bad. Transformation from a bloody carp into a dragon allowed me to master the second transformation – Lightning Dragon. I shall never fear the Tribulation of Lightning anymore! So this is the power of the secret art granted by the Demon Marshal. It’s really good…”
He replaced that smile with an indifferent expression and waved his hand. A necklace crafted from the bones of countless beasts appeared on his palm.
This necklace was out of the ordinary. A strand of Void Realm power flowed within it. It was… a “Forged Void Treasure”! Forged Void Treasures were the failed versions of the Void Treasures. It belonged to a Void Refinement or Void Fragmentation Realm cultivator who failed in refining the treasure into a Void Treasure and gifted it to the Demon General instead. Originally, there were twelve teeth on the necklace. Now, only nine of them were emanating a blood glow as two of them became dull while another one was… crushed!
“The Flower Demon and Wind Demon were captured while the Lion Demon was killed… Hmmph! Without the help of this ‘Void Necklace”, I might not have known that it was a human’s doing! The culprit is in Ju Shan Guan of Great Jin… There’s no mistaking it. The blood qi of the Lion Demon was on his body. He must’ve killed him… However, he seems to possess some extraordinary treasure which could conceal himself from the power of my necklace. What amazes me the most is not the treasure that hides him from me but the ‘Offering Vessel of Ancient Demons’ that shattered the void power from my necklace…”
He let out an evil laugh while his eyes radiated a cold light.
“I don’t care whether my partners are dead or alive… However, the Lion Demon carried the Immemorial Star and the Immemorial Dragon Blood that I granted him. They must not fall into the hands of that human. Besides, he also possesses an Offering Vessel of Ancient Demons… I’m going to find him myself and retrieve the items. I guess it would be a fruitful trip. Since the mission that was assigned by the Demon Marshal can only be completed when I arrive at the Demon World, I am going to finish off this little human first!”
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There were still three days ahead before the teleportation formation could be activated.
After travelling across tens of cultivation cities, the journey to the teleportation formation still needed two days and a half.
Ning Fan had already resigned from his position as the Seventh Commander of Great Jin. Now, he, Yin Suqiu and Jing Zhuo were rushing towards the centre of Great Jin using the Short-Ranged Transportation Portals.
Currently, all troops in Ju Shan Guan should be marching towards the demons’ base. Soon, they would unleash an all-out attack to reclaim the land of Great Jin.
However, Ning Fan no longer concerned himself with them. He was not interested in needlessly risking his life only to be killed by the Demon General.
The only thing he was worried about was the sense of danger was getting stronger and stronger to him… Every time they used the Short-Ranged Transportation Portals which allowed them to travel away for ten thousands of li, the feeling would become weaker. But it would catch up with them within a short period of time. It was as if no matter where they went, there would always be someone behind them.
“Don’t tell me that the Demon General abandoned the final battle just to chase after me!”
When he thought of this possibility, it sent chills down his spine. He did not dare to stop in his way towards his destination.
Two days later, they finally arrived at the centre of the country, Jiang Zhou City. The Ancient Teleportation Formation was here.
Ning Fan kept three hundred thousand battle points and used the rest to exchange for immortal jade.
After submitting his battle points to the person in charge, the three of them were guided to the teleportation formation which was built underground.
A thousand li under the surface of the city was excavated to set up the arrangement of the formation.
The atmosphere below the ground was musty with long and big rocks everywhere.
Ning Fan used his spirit sense to probe, encompassing the thousand li of the area from where he stood and started to count the number of formation eyes. The results left him astonished.
This formation consists of seventy thousand formation eyes. If there’s no blueprint for the entire formation, it would be impossible for me to set up this formation. Even if I have the blueprint and know about the precise spots for the formation eyes, I still cannot draw seventy thousand formation eyes together without the Void Refinement Realm Spirit Sense.
It must be an Immortal Void Realm Formation. Moreover, it should be one of the best formation among the Immortal Void Realm Formation.
This formation only allows 10 people to enter at a time. Each of them has to pay one hundred thousand battle points.
It was able to teleport the cultivators to dozens of places. However, each activation of the formation costs seven hundred thousand immortal jade.
As such, the profit gained from each activation would be three hundred thousand immortal jade. The Rain Palace will get 90% of the total and the remaining 10% would go to Great Jin.
Such a huge amount of profit being taken away by the Rain Palace caused dissatisfaction among the members of Great Jin. Each time they activated the teleportation formation, two hundred and seventy thousand immortal jade went into the Rain Palace’s pocket. It would be 27 million in total if that persisted for a hundred years. Try to imagine the amount of profit they would lose in a thousand years.
The king of Great Jin would at least live for another few thousand years. He would naturally have issues with the Rain Palace as he was going to lose millions of immortal jade without any logical reasons.
If he amassed such amount of wealth, he could break through Spirit Severing Realm!
Then, Great Jin would become a High-Grade cultivation country!