“No, I’m not complaining. It’s just, surprised…”
Ning Fan coughed lightly for his surprised expression to subside.
If Ning Honghong was the ancestor of Ning Family, so what? With one look on this girl, she was certainly a virgin and hadn’t had any offspring. As such, she wouldn’t have any blood relation with him.
‘…why am I thinking all these things for…?’ He shook his head and continued with his task.
While setting the formation, he asked Mu Weiliang about her background. He wondered what the identity of this girl was…
“Sister Weiliang didn’t have the memories before her death. I accidentally picked her up when I was a patrol guard in Red Clan.” Ning Honghong explained.
Mu Weiliang looked slightly down spirited when they said she had no living memory.
“Really…? It doesn’t matter if you forget it. Living memory may not always be pleasant anyway.”
Ning Fan gently patted Mu Weiliang’s hair as a comfort and continued setting the formation. It caused the girl to blush.
It was very strange that these three individuals who clearly had just met for the first time, but they felt as if they were very familiar with one another. Ning Fan was afraid that it was hard to encounter such coincidental incidents again in his lifetime. While he was in an unfamiliar place, he had to entrust his safety to a stranger or strangers.
Maybe, they knew each other in their previous lives…
Inversing-Mountains-and-Rivers formation had seven thousand formation eyes and Ning Fan could set it without a problem. The Sinuous formation only had 216 formation eyes, naturally, it wouldn’t trouble him either.
Every formation eye was placed with immortal jades and immortal ores. Ning Fan exerted his spirit sense. After the time it took to burn half an incense stick, all the formation eyes were connected and the grand formation was formed!
If such speed in setting the formation was witnessed by other Nascent realm formation masters, it would scare their eyes out of them.
The grand formation was successfully deployed. Ning Fan searched for the place where the earth fire was most prosperous. Then, with a slash, he broke open the earth vein which led out the earth fire, and he started to concoct pills.
As for Ning Honghong and Mu Weiliang, they sat leisurely at one side, looking at Ning Fan’s skilful concoction technique in admiration.
‘Profound Netherworld Dan’ was a Third Revolution pill. Using it in conjunction with the Gold Core Sense Beads could purify the energy of Yin and ghost spirit.
The five-century old spiritual herbs he got from the vault of Green Clan was more than enough to concoct hundreds or even a thousand of Profound Netherworld Dan. The only problem he had was that he could only concoct one hundred Third Revolution pill at one time. He was afraid that he would need several different cauldrons to produce sufficient amount of pills.
Three days passed, Ning Fan had opened twelve cauldrons for concoction. Besides the one cauldron which smelted, the other eleven cauldrons were barely successful. A total of 1 100 Profound Netherworld Dan had been produced.
He couldn’t do anything about it. Even with the inherited alchemy skill of the Immortal Emperor, he couldn’t guarantee success in every concoction of Third Revolution pills.
The higher the level of the pill, the lower the success rate.
After completing the concoction of the pills, the next thing he had to do was to refine the force in the Sense Beads. Ning Fan sat cross-legged to adjust his magical power. In just half a day’s time he was already in his best condition again, and then he began refining the Sense Beads one by one.
The spiritual force in the Gold Core Sense Bead was too strong. At the moment, Ning Fan was so focused nothing outside could register in his head.
There were still seven days before the end of the examination.
…
The winding and secluded place, the deep flowers and trees and the meditation abode… The Sinuous formation was a Nascent realm grand formation. The formation was set using the terrain of the bamboo forest. Besides its harmful defences, its more important function was to protect and conceal.
The twists and turns of the formation were difficult for one to discern. After searching the bamboo forest for a few days, no experts of Green Clan was able to find Ning Fan who was hiding in the very forest where they had searched.
Ning Honghong and Mu Weiliang were praising the grand formation unceasingly, while on the other side, in Green Clan, Great Elder Qing Lengshan had become as restless like the ants on a hot pan.
The experts of Green Clan had searched for thousands of miles in the Third Region for four days, but they still couldn’t find any trace of Ning Fan.
“Trash, a bunch of trash! What’s the use of you all if you can’t even find a single person?”
Qing Lengshan unleashed his overbearing aura that swept across the experts in the hall, giving them a chilling fright. Even the late Gold Core elders changed their facial expression.
“Great Elder, perhaps that man is no longer in the Third Region. He is a living human so he can enter the Fourth Region or return to the Second Region without a problem.” The second elder, Qing Hengxing, said. He was a brawny man with rough and cold face.
“Well, it makes sense…” Qing Lengshan’s expression changed and immediately, the corner of his mouth raised a smirk.
“Has the refinement of the Immortal Execution Order completed?”
“Great Elder, the refinement has reached the last step, but… are we really using this to destroy a mere Zhou Ming? This is the item we use to deter the other Clans…” The third elder,who was called Qing Wuwei, said. He was a short, elegant middle-aged man. His face was full of hesitation.
“Stupid. As long as we kill that man, we will get the favour of the Bone Emperor. If everyone in Green Clan has reached Nascent Soul realm, can you imagine how easy it is to enter the Fourth Region!”
Qing Lengshan let out a cold humph. He was extremely disdainful of the short-sighted thoughts of the elders in the hall.
In Nine Yin Land, the Eighth and Ninth Regions of the forest didn’t exist. As such, the Bone Emperor who resided at the Seventh Region was the king. If they could please the king, who would dare to touch the Green Clan?
It was a pity that all these ghosts were short of visions. No wonder none of them could be the Great Elder.
“The refinement of the Immortal Execution Order is about to complete. Have you collected a strand of Zhou Ming’s Qi?” Qing Lengshan asked apathetically.
“Great Elder, we have completely collected Zhou Ming’s Qi in his bamboo house has.”
The fourth elder, Qing Yun, was a handsome man. He reported to the Great Elder respectfully.
“Good. Set up the altar and be ready to execute that man!”
Qing Lengshan flicked his sleeve and led all the experts to the ancient sacrificial altar.
“That year, I used the Immortal Execution Order to kill a peak Gold Core elder of Ivory Clan, causing them to fall. I can’t believe that today, I have to reuse the order to kill only a mere Zhou Ming!”
He laughed and couldn’t wait. Suddenly, as if he had a second thought, he commanded.
“Also, Second and Third Elder, you two will bring experts to search for Zhou Ming in the Third Region. When the Immortal Execution Order is executed, that man will surely die, and there will be a formation with four sword shadows at the place he dies. If he is still in the Third Region, you all can bring back the spiritual herbs to the clan. Of course, if anyone dares to swallow the spiritual herbs, humph! I still have another Immortal Execution Order!”
Qing Lengshan’s eyes swept across the crowd. No one dared to express a single dissatisfaction.
…
In the grand formation within the bamboo forest, Ning Fan was refining the energy of spirit sense in the Sense Beads. His intermediate Gold Core realm was approaching the next stage – late Gold Core realm.