You Guihou was not stupid. He found it suspicious that the Fourth Elder, someone who should be in his secluded meditation to break through to the Void Inquiry Stage, would suddenly appear outside his private training grounds and get himself killed by King Lan Ling.
He did not take any action against King Lan Ling immediately. Instead, he planned on questioning him about his reasons behind the murder.
At this instant, however, he got a message-transmitting flying sword from the devil guards which reported that the devil concubine of the clan and the devil statue slate had both gone missing.
You Guihou gnashed his teeth in anger. All of a sudden, he felt so angry that he swallowed back the words he was about to say to King Lan Ling.
Does he still need to question him? Isn’t it obvious enough?
From You Guihou’s perspective, King Lan Ling might have claimed that he will use his dark golden pagoda to exchange for the slate, but he secretly abducted the devil concubine and stole the slate while the Ghost Eye Clan put down their guard.
He has gone too far in bullying us!
"Lan Ling, you little brat! You killed the fourth elder of my clan, kidnapped my devil concubine and even stole my devil slate. I hereby declare that my entire clan will fight you until death from this second onwards!"
As soon as You Guihou’s voice fell, he ordered his men right away to activate the clan’s defensive grand formation and sent out every expert to surround and exterminate King Lan Ling.
King Lan Ling, on the other hand, had also blown his top. After losing his dark golden pagoda due to the Fourth Elder’s deception, he suspected that what the Fourth Elder did might just be out of his own personal decision without actual authorization from You Guihou.
Even though he had already killed him, he did not manage to get his magic treasure back. Thus, he initially wanted to question the Ghost Eye Clan about it.
However, he did not expect that the Ghost Eye Clan would accuse him first, blaming him for kidnapping the devil concubine and stealing the devil slate before he could even question them about the Fourth Elder’s actions which might actually be a part of their plot.
Feeling extremely angry, King Lan Ling let out a cacophony of laughter. From what he had seen, the reason why the Ghost Eye Clan vilified him was nothing more than to get his pagoda for free.
"You Guihou, I’ve already shown you a fair amount of respect. You are the one who failed to appreciate my kindness. You chose to make me your enemy!"
*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*
A gruesome fight between the two parties started. Reconciliation was now impossible between them.
Just as the two parties fought, Ning Fan was in a great mood as if he was watching an excellent show and emptied all of the spiritual herbs and immortal jade in the storehouses of the Ghost Eye Clan while invisible.
Needless to say, he purposely threw the Fourth Elder’s primordial spirit earlier to let King Lan Ling kill him. King Lan Ling had completely no idea that the Fourth Elder whom he had killed was not the person who offended him at all.
After a short while, Ning Fan secretly left. No one knew that he was the culprit behind this battle.
The great battle lasted for four hours. King Lan Ling’s second primordial spirit was nearly killed during the fight but he still managed to flee. One has to admit that King Lan Ling was really strong and tough as he still managed to survive after being surrounded by so many experts...
As for the Ghost Eye Clan, 31 of their Divine Transformation Realm cultivators and 2 Void Glimpse Stage experts were killed while 3 Void Inquiry Stage experts were severely wounded. The death toll for the Gold Core Realm and Nascent Soul Realm members exceeded one million.
Shocking news of this large-scale battle immediately spread, surprising the whole Rain World.
Meanwhile, Ning Fan was clearly very satisfied since he had watched a good show and even looted the Ghost Eye Clan.
The only thing he was regretful of was that King Lan Ling did not die in the Ghost Eye Clan.
That was really a waste...
He was already on his way towards the direction of the Mist Horn Clan while staying invisible throughout the journey.
Only after having traveled several hundred million li* (500m per li) away from the Ghost Eye Clan did he reveal himself. The effects of the Face Changing Pill had already faded a long time ago. He then entered into the Profound Yin World.
From his trip to the Ghost Eye Clan, he had not only obtained two billion immortal jades and countless spiritual herbs but also the dark golden pagoda, the devil scripture and the devil qi inside the slate.
Ning Fan spent three days assimilating the third devil qi in the Profound Yin World. Similar to what he had expected, the devil mark on his back evolved once again. This time, the symbol of a ghost eye appeared.
Now, he had completed three-fourths of the advancement in his devil mark!
After taking in the third devil qi, the strength of his physical body drastically improved again, making him nearly as strong as an expert with the Second Level of the Golden Body Realm!
Ning Fan believed that once he obtains the fourth devil qi and enters into seclusion, his devil mark would advance to Marshal Rank completely. When that time comes, he would not only be able to attain the Golden Body Refining Realm but also achieve the Second Level of the Golden Body Realm directly!
Ning Fan’s current physical strength was strong enough to instantly kill any Void Glimpse Stage cultivator.
Aside from the devil qi, the dark golden pagoda was also a great harvest from this trip.
When Ning Fan got out of the Profound Yin World, he activated his Yuan Yao Jade and went into the Yuan Yao World.
This dark golden pagoda was an imitation of the Lost World Palace. The Lost World Palace in Penglai Immortal Island was a silver-grade tower as it only had seven floors. Golden-grade towers were buildings with more than seven floors.
Inside the Yuan Yao World, Ning Fan chose a large and empty plot of land to place the dark golden pagoda in order to avoid disturbing Mu Weiliang from her slumber.
With a flick of his finger, that golden tower grew in the air, forming into a one hundred thousand zhang* (3.33m per zhang) tall gigantic tower and fell down at the foot of a mountain.
Ning Fan went inside the tower and discovered that the flow of time on the first floor was 2 times slower than normal. And every succeeding floor had twice the effect of the previous floor.
This dark golden pagoda did not have any flaws. However, the floors beyond the fourth floor were extremely strange. If ordinary people entered those floors, there was no distortion of time.
Ning Fan possessed two traces of the Blood of Time. When he entered the fifth floor, he felt that the flow of time was slowed down by 32 times. To his surprise, the time distortion on this floor only worked on him.
When he ascended to the sixth floor, the flow of time slowed down by 64 times and it was also only effective to individuals who possessed the Blood of Time.
As he went up to the seventh floor, the time slowed down by 128 times which was the same as the highest floor of the Lost World Palace.
When he tried to go for the eighth floor, he realized that he was not able to do so at all.
After making half a step into the eighth floor, he felt his primordial spirit nearly collapse!
With his current cultivation base, there was no way he could ascend the eighth floor. If he forces himself to do so, he would only end up dying!
In that case, Ning Fan was not able to go up there and check whether a ninth floor existed in this tower and whether there were time crystals hidden on that floor which could greatly enhance his cultivation base.
Ning Fan had destroyed the time distortion on the seventh floor of the Lost World Palace. Today, however, he had obtained a dark golden tower that was much better than the Lost World Palace. That being so, he no longer needed to visit Penglai Immortal Island as he could go into this tower for cultivation purposes in the future.
This dark golden tower had the time distortion effect while the Profound Yin World accelerated one’s magic power. One could continue to benefit from the acceleration effect on their magic power even until the Immortal Realm. The time distortion effect, on the other hand, was extremely dangerous to immortals as it had a lot of drawbacks.
The minor heavenly tribulation and major heavenly tribulation that an immortal would face were determined based on their age.