The rain drenched him, seeped cold into his body, and his mind gradually grew restless...
"How much longer until I can break through to first-grade Rain Intent... How much longer until I can find my mother..."
"First-grade Rain Intent! No matter how difficult, I must break through to first-grade Rain Intent! Only by mastering this technique will I find my mother in this vast sea of people..."
Ning Fan’s gaze swept vacantly, and with a pat on his storage pouch, he retrieved and refined the Tree Spirit Fruits into his body.
The price of a single Tree Spirit Fruit was equivalent to a Nascent Soul Realm Dao Fruit... After consuming 5,000 Tree Spirit Fruits, the rain intent in Ning Fan’s eyes grew increasingly dense.
A year within the seventh level of the pagoda was merely three days in the outside world.
As he stood in the rain, it seemed he wanted to merge with the rainwater!
Between his fingers, he continuously formed the hand seals of the Vast Heaven Rain and Yang Heaven Rain techniques. Initially, the seals were extremely fast, but eventually, they grew slower...
When the seals slowed to almost a stop, Ning Fan formed a third set of hand seals, suddenly executing the third heavenly rain technique—the Scarlet Heaven Rain!
The day he swept through the Immortal Clouds, he attempted to merge the rain techniques but couldn’t even merge two of them.
At that time, his Rain Intent was of the eighth-grade...
Now, he was simultaneously executing three rain techniques, and there was an easy tendency for them to merge!
This was because Ning Fan’s Rain Intent had reached the peak of fourth-grade, just one step away from breaking through to third-grade Rain Intent!
"With third-grade Rain Intent, I can merge three rain techniques; as long as I break through to third-grade Rain Intent, I can merge the first three heaven rains..."
Ning Fan had consumed enough Tree Spirit Fruits, and all he needed was a trigger to break through to third-grade Rain Intent!
His figure suddenly blurred, leaving the Yuan Yao Realm and appearing atop the Tian Qing Boat in the external world.
Three days had passed outside, and the Tian Qing Boat was nearing Hancang Kingdom.
Ning Fan walked out of the cabin, sensing the lingering rain intent on the Tian Qing Boat, greatly aiding him in breaking through the Rain Intent bottleneck.
This Tian Qing Boat had been drenched in rain countless times, leaving behind an indelible rain intent.
This rain intent matched Ning Fan’s mood at the moment.
He fell into a mysterious state of Dao enlightenment, which Qingdai and Teng Xianrou noticed, refraining from disturbing him.
He gazed at the distant Hancang Kingdom, at the drifting clouds in the sky, and the expansive sea of pines on the ground...
His eyes fixed unmovingly on the isolation grand formation of Hancang Kingdom, and on the passing cultivators, ultimately resting his gaze on the Tian Qing Boat.
In his mouth, he repeatedly recited the incantation of the Heaven Prying Rain.
"There is rain in the nine heavens, the thought links one realm, clouds are my eyes, rain is my thought..."
Beyond the isolation grand formation, all the cultivators coming and going were from the Hancang Kingdom.
In front of the Tian Qing Boat, three massive voyage ships awaited review to enter Hancang Kingdom, and Tian Qing Boat was queued behind these ships.
These three voyage ships bore the same family crest.
It was a cedar crest, and the cultivators on the voyage ships all belonged to the Cedar Clan of Hancang Kingdom!
Qingdai halted the Tian Qing Boat’s escape light, making the flying boat hover behind the three voyage ships.
Her gaze inadvertently glanced over the crest on the three voyage ships, initially pausing, and then showing a hint of resentment.
"This is... the three-masted voyage ships of the Cedar Clan!"
Hancang Kingdom is a Void Ranked cultivation country, and the Cedar Clan is one of the twelve clans of Hancang Kingdom!
The twelve clans of Hancang all have Void Refinement cultivators among them, each is a top-tier force in Hancang Kingdom!
Among the twelve clans of Hancang, four have old grudges with the Ming Luo Tree Clan... The Cedar Clan is one of those four clans!
Qingdai still remembers, a thousand years ago, when she was still young, the Cedar Clan once bullied the Min Luo Clan.
At that time, she was not yet the High Priestess; the High Priestess was her mother.
At that time, her mother was about to succeed in Void Glimpse...
That day, the Cedar Clan heard that the Min Luo Clan was about to give birth to a Void Glimpse, a group of experts ruthlessly appeared within the Min Luo Clan.
That day, her mother was besieged by the strong of the Cedar Clan, and eventually died at the hands of the young sect leader of the Cedar Clan...
The Masters of the Cedar Clan did not allow the Min Luo Clan to give birth to a Void Refinement Realm cultivator!
They were very pleased to see the Min Luo Clan in decline!
Qingdai’s eyes carried intense hatred, her fists tightly clenched, long nails piercing into her palms, with blood gushing out.
She looked at the three voyage ships of the Cedar Clan ahead!
On each of these three Cedar Clan voyage ships stood one Void Refinement cultivator.
On the bow of one of the ships, stood the young sect leader of the Cedar Clan!
He was a sinister young man in a silver robe, with three magnificent silver demon stars shimmering above his left eye.
This silver-robed youth was named Ao Chen, possessing invincible Void Inquiry Stage cultivations, and in his hand, he was playing with a freshly severed head!
It was the head of a Void Inquiry Stage cultivator!
"Hehe, the clan leader of the Golden Oak Clan was also a Void Inquiry Stage cultivator, yet he was so easily defeated. I hadn’t even made a move, and he was already dead. What a disappointment..."