“Five palms! Yan Zhongze’s strongest technique is the Compounded Palm Forces. If you are able to withstand the combined force of his five palms, I promise you that I will give you the Profound Heart of Mother Earth! However, I believe it is beyond your capability since you can’t even withstand one of his full palm attacks!
“Fine! Five palms! Bring it on!”
Other than Zhuo Tong and Yan Zhongze whom Ning Fan purposely made the telepathy easily accessible, none of the Nascent Souls at the scene knew what they were up to!
Yan Zhongze knitted his brows like Xu Rushan and indifferently stared at Ning Fan.
“Little friend Zhou, it is true that one has to press forward with indomitable will and courage, however, the stiffest tree is the most easily cracked. At the end of the day, you aren’t a Spirit Severing Realm expert. It would be impossible for you to withstand five of my palms!”
“How would you know without letting me try it?!” Ning Fan lifted his face and gazed upon the sky. His long hair danced in the air and a fearsome fighting spirit surged within him.
I understand now… It is an undeniable fact that my punch is weaker than Yan Zhongze’s palm. But my Nascent Soul Realm Body Refining Technique – Ice Smash and Half-Step Jade Life Body Refining Realm are not the reasons at all!
The true reason is because my punch lacks Divine Intent!
The reason why my body refining realm is stagnant at the Half-Step Jade Life Realm is because the Jade Life Realm is similar to the Spirit Severing Realm. Once a cultivator reaches this level, he must congeal his own Divine Intent!
Ning Fan himself had already comprehended the Divine Intent of Rain. However, that was too soft in nature and unsuitable to his firm and strong punch.
Besides, Yan Zhongze’s Divine Intent was the cloud and rain was inferior to it as clouds came before the rain. Naturally, Ning Fan’s divine intent could not compare with Yan Zhongze’s.
In his right eye, the devil star rotated!
On his back, the devil marks flickered!
A monstrous devil prestige converged within his body!
“In my whole life, I never yielded to anyone, be it Emperor Moksha, the Bone Sovereign, the White Demon Sect, the mysterious True Immortal… if I imbue this unyielding spirit into my punch and form my second Divine Intent, I would then be able to fight against Yan Zhongze! Moreover, I will be able to attain the Jade Life Realm itself today!”
The cold light in his eyes dispersed and was replaced by an immense battle intent!
Yan Zhongze felt shocked for the first time as he saw the look on Ning Fan’s face!
“This kid wants to comprehend the bottleneck of the Jade Life Realm through resisting my attack! There is a surge of Divine Intent slowly congealing in his body… Furthermore, this Divine Intent is rather unusual…”
His eyes turned serious. With a wave of his sleeve, he summoned gusts of strong wind that blew all the Nascent Soul Real experts of the other six sects thousands of li* away!
He touched on a piece of cloud and completely sealed the vicinity of a thousand zhang* within with his magic power!
Afterwards, he turned towards Ning Fan with a solemn expression!
Usually, experts would congeal their Divine Intent by taking inspiration from other living things like flowers, birds, insects, fish and others or discover their concepts from the five elements of heaven and earth. Despite the diversity in the types of Divine Intent, one had to fuse it into his Heart of Dao.
Clouds were ethereal. Therefore, he was elusive.
Clouds were unpredictable. Therefore, he had a strange character.
Clouds were soft and tender. Therefore, he could bend but he would not crack.
He, Yan Zhongze, was just like a piece of cloud that would adapt himself to circumstances.
However, currently, the Ning Fan he saw was like a gigantic mountain with a heaven-piercing summit which emanated devil qi that soared high up into the sky! It completely portrayed his spirit of being unwilling to concede defeat!
Ning Fan’s battle intent was unyielding! Not even heaven and earth could make this person submit!
The current Ning Fan was able to make Yan Zhongze feel oppressed with just his unyielding battle intent. If he manages to congeal a new battle intent, regardless of its type, he would be able to put up a fight against Yan Zhongze!
Xu Rushan revealed himself and exchanged glances with Zhuo Tong. Both of them rotated their magic power and sealed the activities of the qi of heaven and earth.
None of the magic power resulted from the battle would be leaked outside. Meanwhile, Xu Rushan wanted to see whether this kid could really withstand Yan Zhongze’s five palms!
“If he can do it, I will personally present the Profound Heart of Mother Earth to him. But the question is, can he really do it?!”
Yan Zhongze descended to the other Sparrow Ascending Stage. Ning Fan gently stroked the female corpse’s hair as if he was telling her to not worry and leaped over the pool of blood which belonged to Zhao Zijin and into the stage.
The atmosphere was somber. A massive battle intent rose when the two of them stood at the thousand zhang* large stage which was made of silver!
Yan Zhongze moved his palm and Ning Fan clenched his fist!
“You want to borrow my Cloud Intent to comprehend your Unyielding Intent. Fine! I’ll lend you a hand! Just think of it as this old man trying to form good ties with Fellow Daoist Zhou. However, I have a reminder for you. You can’t withstand all my five palms… If you are able to withstand three of them, I will then help you persuade Xu Rushan in giving you the Profound Heart of Mother Earth… The first palm!”
Yan Zhongze gently pushed his palm at the direction of Ning Fan. It looked soft and weak. But the next moment, a blast could be heard in heaven and earth. Countless clouds of the island dispersed and transformed into traces of cloud power! The power of the clouds formed a palm!
All of a sudden, a thousand zhang* tall palm radiating golden light rushed down from the sky. Wherever it passed by, the sky would be fragmented, exposing the indistinctively black realm of the void!
That palm constituted a hundred percent of his power!
Any cultivator below the Spirit Severing Realm would instantly die the moment they came into contact with it!
When facing the pressure generated by the palm, Ning Fan’s legs turned feeble, showing signs of kneeling down to surrender!
It was no wonder why Yan Zhongze had not given his all earlier. If he did, Ning Fan would likely be forced to kneel before the pressure of his palm. In a way, that action would breed enmity with Ning Fan as he caused the latter to suffer humiliation.
Ning Fan was in agony. His knees were in excruciating pain as if they were on the verge of being crushed to pieces. But he deliberately chose to stand on his feet!
“I must not yield! If I yield, who is going to protect the people who stand by my side! I…will…not…kneel!”
Even if the bones of his knees broke, he was determined to not fall to his knees!
“Jade Life… Jade Life! That word ‘jade’ is not about the formation of jade. Instead, it is about the willingness to be pulverized like jade and not yield! Being overcautious and indecisive would only cause the intent of my punch to crumble! Flinching and retreating would only render my Heart of Dao to shatter! I’m willing to sacrifice my body but my intent will never be extinguished. My punch can be pulverized like jade but my heart will never yield! In that manner, only then could I congeal my Divine Intent! In that state, only then could I attain the Jade Life Realm!”
The next moment, he forgot all the pain he was feeling. He forgot everything. In his ears, there was only silence. In his eyes, there was only one gigantic palm from above the sky.
“Ice Smash!”
He hurled his punch but this time, the ice that froze heaven and earth was black in colour!
That color was the representation of his tremendous devil intent!
Zhuo Tong, Yan Zhongze, Xu Rushan… Each and every one of them had Divine Intent!
However, what Ning Fan was condensing was Devil Intent!
Although it had yet to take its form, its aura surpassed that of his Divine Intent of Rain. It was quickly reaching the Seventh Grade and possibly even higher!