Chapter 1149: Chapter 1149: First Trial of the Domain

Xuanwu Pass is the foremost stronghold of the Sixth Route, with a formidable formation originally, but this formation only causes damage to different races. Even if the different races defend it, they lack the strategic advantage of the terrain, which is the first unfavorable factor.

Ning Fan’s surprise attack came too suddenly. Except for a few patrols of different races, the vast majority were attending banquets, unarmed and unprepared; many had even drunk themselves unconscious and hadn’t awoken, which is the second unfavorable factor.

Amid the startled and horrified expressions of all the different race powerhouses, Ning Fan and his party forcefully invaded Xuanwu Pass, beginning their rampage!

Profound Tail Daoist wanted to do something, but he was too late, as Destroying Path Thunder Infant was already riding the Ancestral Thunder Sparrow, sneering as they charged at him.

"We meet again, Little Scorpion Demon. This time, I must capture you, and I will not let you escape again!" Thunder Infant waved his chubby little hand, sending countless thunderbolts shooting towards Profound Tail Daoist, who, although he managed to barely activate the second transformation of the Eternal True Body, was still struck so hard he was charred both inside and out, in a pitiful state.

"Why! Why does the proud Thunder Infant clan submit to the humble Cultivator of the Decline!" Profound Tail Daoist was unable to fight back against Destroying Path Thunder Infant and roared unwillingly.

"How dare you call Little Infant’s master humble! Little Infant will not let you insult the master!" Destroying Path Thunder Infant’s anger erupted instantly!

It felt as if the most revered and idolized deity had been blasphemed!

Immediately, the thunderbolts striking Profound Tail Daoist became even more violent, leaving no room for him to retaliate.

In truth, the Destroying Path Thunder Infant captured by Ning Fan was not powerful enough to crush a being of Profound Tail Daoist’s level.

But she was not battling alone; she was riding the Ancestral Thunder Sparrow! The Ancestral Thunder Sparrow itself wasn’t formidable, but when the thunder power of the Thunder Sparrow clan merged into the Thunder Infant’s clan thunder power, it significantly enhanced the Thunder Infant’s power.

This fusion of thunder power where one plus one is greater than two was something Ning Fan didn’t understand, as it was all the result of Black Evil Sect’s meticulous teaching. It was a fact achieved through Black Evil Sect’s knowledge of the Dao Soul Clans as a member of the Jiuli King Clan.

Thunder Infant subdued the Profound Tail Daoist, while the Eternal Dragon King of Ten Thousand Saints, with his power, suppressed the Water Buffalo God, Crane Immortal Elder, and Ahuinan, three Half-Saints!

Based on the original strength of the Wansheng Dragon King, he couldn’t take on the three alone, but now that the Wansheng Dragon King has become an Immortal Creature? A Half-Saint that can infinitely reincarnate would give even a genuine Quasi-Saint a tough battle, what’s odd about suppressing three Half-Saints?

To put it bluntly, combined, the three Half-Saints, Water Buffalo God, and the others, weren’t as formidable as a single Profound Tail Daoist.

"Wansheng! You actually betrayed us! You actually surrendered to the Purple Astral Immortal Cultivator! Have you forgotten the ancient debt of blood feuds?" Water Buffalo God and others were shocked to find that even together, the three Half-Saints couldn’t match one Wansheng Dragon King. Their emotions shifted from shock to anger at the Wansheng Dragon King’s betrayal.

If it was the true Wansheng Dragon King, even with a desire to survive, he wouldn’t have surrendered to Ning Fan. Unfortunately, the current Wansheng Dragon King is merely an Eternal Ghost Soldier created from the Netherworld Ghost Flower following Wansheng Dragon King’s demise. Though he possesses the cultivation and battle memory of the Wansheng Dragon King, he isn’t truly the Wansheng Dragon King.

He naturally could not comprehend what Water Buffalo God and others meant by betrayal.

Betrayal? When had he betrayed anyone? From his inception, his master had only ever been Ning Fan. In this life and the next, he will never betray his master, as this is the faith of the Eternal Ghost Soldier!

"Million Snake Net Formation!"

The Wansheng Dragon King’s eight snake heads spewed forth millions of white shadows, each one a venomous snake attacking with unimaginable speed, submerging the Water Buffalo God and the three Half-Saints in a sea of snakes.

In life, any single one of the Water Buffalo God and others could easily have wiped out the Wansheng Dragon King’s millions of small snakes.

But now the Wansheng Dragon King possesses the traits of an Immortal Creature, and the small snakes he summons also possess a certain degree of immortal power, making them difficult to annihilate.

With the Water Buffalo God and others submerged in the snake sea, they suddenly found themselves in dire straits, unable to suppress the Wansheng Dragon King’s snake formation attacks.

All four Half-Saints were suppressed, and Ning Fan’s opponents were those lower-ranked different races, those two hundred plus Immortal Venerable Immortal Kings, and those twenty-two Immortal Emperors!

Flame Thunder Fire was pushed to its extreme by Ning Fan, submerging more than half of Xuanwu Pass in a sea of flames. Lower-ranked different races that collided with the Flame Thunder Fire immediately turned to ash. In just a few breaths, tens of thousands of different races were burned to death by the Flame Thunder.

Bristles abound, the fire sea rampages, the war cries shake the heavens, as do the screams of agony; this is the hellish scene unfolding right now at Xuanwu Pass.

"Damn it! Quickly extinguish this demon’s flames!"

Several different race Great Emperors skilled in Water Elemental Spells simultaneously acted, summoning clouds and rain, calling forth ocean waves to try and quench Ning Fan’s flames.

But were these ordinary flames!

This was a dignified Innate Mid-grade flame, further empowered by Ning Fan’s thirteen thousand five hundred tribulations’ mana, which was not something that an average Immortal Emperor could extinguish!

The fire sea turned rain and ocean waves into steam, while more flames soared into the sky, setting the massive bodies of several Immortal Emperors ablaze.

The Immortal Emperors exhausted a large amount of mana, barely managing to disperse the flames clinging to their bodies, but before they could even catch their breath, Ning Fan’s further attacks had already arrived.

The twenty-two different race Immortal Emperors were continually injured!

Knocked from the sky by the Seven Treasures Marvelous Tree, vomiting blood and seriously injured!

Decapitated by the Sword of Severing Bonds, bloodied in the sky!

Smashed by the Sun Moon Stars Stele, spewing fresh blood wildly!

Pierced by the Reverse Sea Sword, thousands of Sky-hook Jade shattered his body!

The average Immortal Emperor would often be severely injured the moment they faced Ning Fan. As for those Immortal Kings and Immortal Venerables, they fared even worse. Even when two or three of them joined forces, Ning Fan often dispatched several of them with a single move, not even close to being a match.

As for the lower-leveled different races, they were stirred into agony by the large-scale fire sea Ning Fan released, unable to find a gap to attack him, constantly being consumed by the flames.

Two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand, four hundred thousand...

The number of lower-leveled different races Ning Fan slaughtered increased continuously. As the massacre surpassed one million, the few Netherworld Ghost Flowers present here suddenly began to reproduce en masse, naturally reaching the condition for advanced summoning.

Under such conditions, Ning Fan had a certain chance to transform someone killed in this battle into an Eternal Ghost Soldier similar to the Wansheng Dragon King!

Amidst the vast slaughter, the Slaughter Technique also fed the blood flesh essence of the deceased back to Ning Fan, greatly enhancing his imposing aura and making it increasingly formidable.

More and more Immortal Venerables and Immortal Kings perished under Ning Fan’s hand!

Only the Immortal Emperor-level powerhouses were difficult for Ning Fan to kill, extremely difficult.

Ordinary different race Immortal Emperors weren’t a match for Ning Fan, but the enemy had as many as twenty-two Immortal Emperors; against such teamwork, killing an Immortal Emperor was exceedingly arduous.

These Immortal Emperors too found it difficult to injure Ning Fan. Once Ning Fan activated his Eternal True Body and Cross Halo, his defense was formidable enough to resist even a Quasi-Saint, rendering the attacks of regular Immortal Emperors insufficient to harm him; of course, if Ning Fan didn’t dodge and allowed all twenty-two Immortal Emperors to strike him simultaneously, he’d still be severely injured.

Even a genuine Quasi-Saint wouldn’t stand still, letting a group of Immortal Emperors mob them as shooting targets.

Ning Fan’s speed was swift, making it hard for the enemy’s attacks to catch his shadow; for the twenty-two Emperors to simultaneously injure Ning Fan, was as hard as ascending to heaven.

Ning Fan also possessed the power of Poisonous Yin-Yang, capable of killing invisibly; when utilized skillfully, it was more bizarre and hard to guard against than any Divine Skills.

An Immortal Emperor of the Ice Leech Clan, assisted by more than ten Immortal Emperors, found the moment when Ning Fan’s Golden Flame True Body was flickering indefinably, and fiercely bit Ning Fan, causing the Golden Flame True Body to spatter blood wildly, greedily sucking Ning Fan’s blood.

Successfully landing a strike, this Ice Leech Clan Immortal Emperor was extremely complacent, little realizing it was all within Ning Fan’s plans. Ning Fan had deliberately left an opening for the enemy to bite him!

It was merely a bit of blood that Ning Fan was willing to abandon!

The Ice Leech Clan Immortal Emperor who had consumed Ning Fan’s blood didn’t revel for long before his complexion suddenly darkened, as lethal poison attacked his heart.

The Ning Fan’s blood he drank contained formidable poison! It was a lethal concoction primarily made of Fire Toad Sacred Poison, supplemented by Jade Wave Fire Poison, beyond what a Sixth Calamity Immortal Emperor like him could endure!

In merely three breaths, large fire spots spread across the giant face of the Ice Leech Clan Immortal Emperor, a sign of deep fire poison!

In just ten breaths, his organs were burned through by the fire poison!

By the twenty-fourth breath, his flesh body ignited spontaneously without fire; the flames were poison fire, incinerating his enormous body to ashes, and even his Demon Soul was poisoned nearly to death, captured in one fell swoop by Ning Fan and thrown into the Refining God Cauldron!

The crowd of different race Immortal Emperors was all startled, not expecting Ning Fan to possess such fearsome venom.

Profound Tail Daoist, struggling under the Thunder Infant’s onslaught, looked grim, unable to ignore the hint of Jade Wave Fire Poison in Ning Fan’s toxic power.

Who would’ve thought their previous attempt to poison Ning Fan didn’t kill him, but instead granted him a benefit, giving his venom a trace of Jade Wave Fire Poison’s characteristic...

Where there’s one, there’s two. Ning Fan can slay one Immortal Emperor, he can kill more Immortal Emperors.

The death of the Ice Leech Clan Immortal Emperor made other Immortal Emperors wary of Ning Fan’s venom. Unfortunately, there were things that couldn’t be simply guarded against despite caution.

Ning Fan had learned too many toxic techniques from Profound Tail Daoist, employing various methods, making defenses futile.

When Ning Fan deployed Dark Illusion Technique, pulling the emperors into a dark world, two Immortal Emperors became careless, directly poisoned to death by the sudden light in the darkness.

When Ning Fan crashed with brute force, another Immortal Emperor was bumped directly into the venom, dying with a shriek.

Wind, thunder, rain, electricity, light, shadow—even a mere glance or a Daoist Thought from Ning Fan contained venom, making defenses impossible.

As the number of different race Immortal Emperors dwindled, the advantage Ning Fan held grew larger and larger, eventually, even without trickery, he could crush the remaining Immortal Emperors head-on.

When the enemy’s Immortal Emperor count reduced to twelve, Ning Fan unexpectedly didn’t dodge or hide, braving the attacks of twelve people, rushing forcibly to an Immortal Emperor, and with one strike of the Reverse Sea Sword, the person was exploded.

Capture Demon Soul, refine and kill!

Rumble!

A lightning bolt, formed from golden Emperor energy, suddenly descended from the sky onto the battlefield, surprisingly shaping into a dazzling Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit.

Ning Fan glanced with surprise and took the Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit away. Since the Boundary River Alliance, his killings at the Boundary River had been intense; every battle exploded several Dao Fruits, but never had such a high-grade Dao Fruit popped out.

For Ning Fan at this moment, the effectiveness of ordinary Dao Fruits was too low, but an Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit could not be underestimated.

This was a small episode on the battlefield. Ning Fan casually collected the Immortal Emperor Dao Fruit and continued to immerse himself in the battle of crushing the Different Race Immortal Emperors.

Nine people, seven people, four people, two people...

The number of enemy Immortal Emperors dwindled, and even the last two were eventually slashed to pieces by Ning Fan’s Reverse Sea Sword, their Demon Souls refined into Blood of Ten Thousand Spirits.

The enemy’s twenty-two Immortal Emperors were slaughtered by Ning Fan alone; more than two hundred Immortal Venerables and Immortal Kings were also slaughtered by him alone; millions of low-ranking Different Race beings were all burned to ashes by Ning Fan!

His Golden Flame True Body was stained with blood, some his own, some his enemies’, and some representing the foundation of an Immortal Emperor, the Golden Imperial Blood!

He seemed to become a blood-soaked demon god, walking amidst fire and bloody mist. The more he killed, the more imposing his presence became. After slaughtering twenty-two Emperors, his mana temporarily surged from thirteen thousand five hundred calamities to sixteen thousand calamities!

This was the limit of the Slaughter Technique’s augmentation that Ning Fan’s current cultivation could endure. Of course, if he wanted, he could increase his mana limit even further at the cost of sustaining damage; however, today’s battle didn’t seem necessary to go to such lengths.

Only four Half-Saints remained: Profound Tail Daoist, Water Buffalo God, Crane Immortal Elder, and Ahuinan!

Merely relying on the Destroying Path Thunder Infant and Eternal Dragon King of Ten Thousand Saints was enough to suppress the four enemy Half-Saints. Now that Ning Fan joined the fray, the opposing Half-Saints no longer had any chance of victory!

Ning Fan sealed the momentum of heaven and earth, using the surged mana of sixteen thousand calamities to cast the seal, and further fortified it with the power of the Wooden Control Position, transforming the surrounding battlefield into his [Domain of Authority].

This was the ability awakened when Ning Fan initially condensed his Godhood, by devouring his own Palatial Void of Wood. With his increasing familiarity with the power of the Godhood of Wood, today was the first battle where he truly utilized the power of the domain!

Within the domain’s range, it was exceedingly difficult for a Master to escape; even if the Ancient Chaos Grand Emperor initiated the Demonic Channel, they couldn’t escape the domain directly unless they shattered the domain beforehand!

This was not the Palatial Void used by later generations of Palatial Masters! Ning Fan’s path of the Palatial Master has long deviated from the route of typical Masters.

This is the Domain of Authority that only the orthodox wooden deities could use in the Immemorial times, the ancestor of the Palatial Void. The Palatial Void was created by later generations imitating such a domain!

The Palatial Void requires pulling the enemy into one’s created void world to be effective.

The Domain of Authority is different; wherever Ning Fan stands is his domain, the absolute king of that place. There’s no need to specially create a Palatial Void, no need to pull enemies into other interfaces; he can become the emperor of the Wooden Control Position at any place, any interface!

Unfortunately, the time since Ning Fan cultivated the Godhood of Wood is too short. Even if such a Domain of Authority is released, it only has the effect of trapping the enemy and hasn’t developed more abilities yet.

What bothers him more is that with his mana of thirteen thousand five hundred calamities, it’s challenging to release the domain. This thing consumes several times more mana than the Palatial Void, and it was only after his mana surged to sixteen thousand calamities that Ning Fan successfully released the Domain of Authority for the first time.

After cultivating the Divine Status, Ning Fan gained a lot of bloodline memories about deities. According to what he knows, a true Divine Spirit Domain not only includes the divine skill of the Palatial Void but also the Saint’s Ring abilities of the Three Saints of Shienie Wilderness.

Even the Cross Halo he developed earlier, strictly speaking, is actually a variant of the Divine Spirit Domain, possessing some abilities of the Divine Spirit Domain.

Divine Status is the origin of deities, and the domain is the primary means for deities to kill enemies.

It’s laughable that Profound Tail and others, already trapped in Ning Fan’s Domain of Authority, aren’t aware of the domain’s intractability.

Seeing Ning Fan join the battle circle, Profound Tail Daoist, apprehensive, once again thought of fleeing.

He desperately blocked an attack from the Thunder Infant while using the force to retreat and simultaneously attempt to initiate the Demonic Channel to escape.

Unfortunately, this time the Demonic Channel opened very unsmoothly, failing halfway.

In Ning Fan’s domain, without Ning Fan’s permission, how could he possibly open the Demonic Channel?

"What’s going on! This kid didn’t even pull me into his Palatial Void, merely sealed the momentum of heaven and earth and reinforced it with Palatial Power, so why can’t the Demonic Channel open!"

Profound Tail Daoist, unwilling to believe it, tried a dozen times but couldn’t successfully initiate the Demonic Channel. Instead, he unnecessarily wasted a lot of Ancient Devil Dao due to continuous attempts.

Even Profound Tail Daoist can’t escape Ning Fan’s domain seal, so figures like the Water Buffalo God are even less likely to escape.

Following the principle of dealing with the easier targets first, Ning Fan decided to start with the weaker ones like the Water Buffalo God, locking his gaze on the weakest among the three, the Water Buffalo God.

Precisely because the Water Buffalo God is the weakest among the three Different Race Half-Saints, he was heavily injured by Old Demon Bai back then. Though his injuries have been healed by Profound Tail Daoist, his Primordial Qi was severely damaged, and his combat power has only recovered to ninety percent of its former state. It’ll take more time to heal and regain his peak state.

Unfortunately, he is destined not to have the opportunity to heal.

The Wansheng Dragon King cooperatively kept Crane Immortal Elder and Ahuinan occupied, giving Ning Fan the chance to face the Water Buffalo God alone.

The Water Buffalo God is not even as formidable as the Wanxingzi from before. Wanxingzi, strong as he was, was still crushed by Ning Fan, and with the Water Buffalo God’s full power only at nine-tenths, he is even less of a match for Ning Fan.

In just one hundred rounds, Ning Fan decapitated the Water Buffalo God, refined his demon soul, and hung the head of the Water Buffalo God, still with a resentful expression, from his waist, arrogantly heading towards the next Half-Saint, Ahuinan.

Ning Fan was deliberately flaunting his power!

Having a Half-Saint’s head hanging from his waist is enough to instill fear in people’s hearts, making the enemies tremble and unable to fully exert their strength!

At this moment, Ahuinan found himself in such a predicament.

He originally harbored resentment towards Ning Fan, because Ning Fan had taken his fiancée, his beautiful and kind Aflo.

Indeed, it was he who had initially proposed offering Aflo as a sacrifice to the Blood God. Indeed, he wronged Aflo, so her being indifferent to him was only natural.

But even if Aflo didn’t love him, she shouldn’t have fallen for a descendant of Purple Dou!

As an esteemed Ziwei Immortal Cultivator, as a noble human shark, how could Aflo abandon her beliefs and fall in love with a Purple Dou Immortal Sovereign!

Ahuinan was a martial faction member of the Ziwei Immortal Cultivators. He could not tolerate Aflo’s betrayal, he could not forgive Ning Fan for enticing Aflo onto the path of evil!

Therefore, he came originally filled with anger to kill Ning Fan.

Yet upon witnessing Ning Fan slay the Water Buffalo God in a hundred rounds, Ahuinan was afraid; he lacked the courage to fight Ning Fan. The bull’s head hanging from Ning Fan’s waist seemed like the most terrifying thing in the world, making Ahuinan unable to face it directly.

Fear before the battle!

Even though Ahuinan was stronger than the Water Buffalo God, if he truly engaged with Ning Fan at this moment, he wouldn’t fare any better than the Water Buffalo God.

In just one hundred seventy rounds, he too was slain by Ning Fan! His head, similarly hung at Ning Fan’s waist!

Because Ahuinan was a human shark, Ning Fan involuntarily recalled his memories with Aflo.

He did not know if there was any familial connection between Ahuinan and Aflo. By a strange turn of events, his heart softened, planning to temporarily imprison Ahuinan’s Demon Soul.

He owed Aflo a favor.

Should Ahuinan be Aflo’s close kin, extinguishing Ahuinan’s Demon Soul might inevitably sadden his benefactor.

Under righteousness, he wouldn’t let Ahuinan escape; under sentiment, he decided to temporarily spare Ahuinan from death, merely imprison him indefinitely to prevent further attacks on Eastern Celestial Cultivators.

Unfortunately, Ahuinan insisted on courting death.

Once Ning Fan captured his Demon Soul, he only thought his fate would be the same as the Water Buffalo God’s, believing he was doomed, and began to curse.

Not only cursing Ning Fan.

He went on hurling insults, calling her a traitor, vilifying Aflo, who was cast into the death row.

From Ahuinan’s sporadic words, Ning Fan learned a shocking revelation: after leaving, Aflo indeed arrived at the Sixth Path and, due to refusing a certain order from the Grand Divine Minister, was imprisoned in the death row...

Death row...

Ning Fan sighed.

Ultimately, he and Aflo were on separate paths. Naturally, he wouldn’t immediately rush into the foreign lands to rescue her upon hearing about Aflo’s imprisonment.

He lacked that ability.

Nor did he have that obligation.

Aflo was his benefactor, yet she was also his enemy...

Ironically, Ning Fan gained further insights from Ahuinan’s sparse words.

This Ahuinan wasn’t someone important to Aflo!

This person once had a marriage contract with Aflo when young, but betrayed her for the reward of a foreign clan’s Grand Divine Minister, nominating her as a sacrifice to the Blood God Gengwu...

This person pushed Aflo onto a path of death, even though he was of the same human shark clan; to Aflo, he was also an enemy.

"In that case, there’s no need to spare you..."

Ning Fan casually executed Ahuinan.

Then, joining forces with Wan Sheng Dragon King, after hundreds of rounds, they slew Crane Immortal Elder, hanging three heads from his waist, teamed up with the Destroying Path Thunder Infant, now three against one, besieging the Profound Tail Daoist.

The Profound Tail Daoist was so furious that the Three Corpse Gods jumped!

Ning Fan was too despicable! He couldn’t defeat even the Destroying Path Thunder Infant alone, yet now went three against one!

"Ning Fan, you brat! If you have the guts, duel me one on one! Gangying up isn’t heroic!" Profound Tail Daoist cursed angrily.

"I’m determined to gang up, what can you do about it!" Ning Fan sneered. He wasn’t foolish enough to discuss chivalry with Profound Tail Daoist.

This Profound Tail Daoist, with the status of ancient Half-Saint, was hard to kill even in a three against one scenario...