Chapter 558: The Heart of a Lightning Immortal

After the third stage, the Pill Sovereign was not only heavily injured, and also needed to stabilise his pill refinement realm.

Ning Fan was also affected by the detonation of the two puppets in the third stage and suffered severe injuries.

Hence, he could only give up on the fourth stage.

Although the Rain Sovereign still has his doubts, he was currently not in the mood to inquire deep into Ning Fan's secrets.

All of the Rain Sovereign's attention was focused on helping Pill Sovereign recover from his injuries, the reason was obvious. Even the entire Rain World would become excited because of the Pill Sovereign.

The Pill Sovereign is presently the only pill refinement master who has achieved the Seventh Revolutions in the Rain World! With him around, Rain World's Void Fragmentation experts breaking through was only a matter of time. The reputation of being the weakest among the Nine Worlds would one day fade away. This alone, caused countless experts of the Rain World to become filled with excitement!

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Ning Fan has been recovering from his injuries in Scarlet Heaven Palace. It has been one month since the incident.

Because he was unable to advance to the fourth stage that day, it indirectly caused prevented him from a confrontation with Yun Qingge, though the latter had already gradually given up her hostility towards him...

During this month, other than treating his injuries, he also reflected on the encounter in the third stage.

He had to admit that he had become overconfident after subduing the Heavenly Tribulation Puppets twice, consequently underestimating the Heavenly Dao of the Lower Realm.

The mysterious lady who appeared in the Heavenly Dao rings was extremely powerful, making Ning Fan's hair stand on end... being observed by such an Expert, was definitely not something Ning Fan's hoped for. Luckily, the lady had no ill intent; this could be considered a fortune among misfortunes.

The terrifying power of the chill wind Tribulation of the 4th Heavenly Layer of Void Fragmentation realm caused Ning Fan, who always looked down on the Heavenly Tribulation, to discover the true horror of the Heavenly Tribulations for the first time.

The chill wind of the tribulation almost made the Pill Sovereign turn into floating ashes. Ning Fan rubbed his forehead, feeling a headache. The chill wind tribulation truly is something difficult to deal with.

His Void Inquiry Heavenly Tribulation was equivalent to the Tribulation a Void Fragmentation First Heavenly Layer would face. Fortunately, it was a Lighting Tribulation which he could restrain with the Tai Su Lightning diagram.

The might of the Heavenly Void tribulation, must be stronger than Void Inquiry Heavenly Tribulation and possess the power of at least a Second Heavenly layer Void Fragmentation tribulation.

Heavenly Dao has summoned Fire Tribulations and Lightning Tribulations so far and will not send these tribulations again. It is unknown what the next Heavenly Tribulation will be. If it is the chill wind Tribulation, things won't be looking too good...

Ning Fan patted his storage pouch and took out a pile of Puppet fragments with a sigh.

Although he doesn't regret the self-destruction of the two puppets, seeing the broken parts on the ground, he still felt a little crestfallen.

In this broken state, can the remnant parts of the puppet still be pieced together and restored... even if Ning Fan has an innumerable amount of Immortal Jade, he still felt that it was an impossible task.

If they were ordinary Puppets, naturally they wouldn't be able to be restored. But on the body of the two puppets are Ancient runes. They possess a sliver of the power of the Tribulation, a special status of the Heavenly Tribulation envoys.

Even if the two Heavenly Tribulation Puppet had become broken fragments, these fragments still held some Spirituality.

"Perhaps if Little Brother was in the Four Heavens, a Puppet Grandmaster would be able to restore these Puppets, in the Lower Realms... hehe. I'm afraid it would be difficult to restore these two puppets." Luo You giggled while pursing her lips in the Profound Yin World.

"Difficult to restore..." Ning Fan sighed, whether it can be repaired or not is a matter of fate and cannot be forced.

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One month flew by and he fully recovered from his injuries. In recent days, he would receive regards via sound transmissions from the Pill Sovereign, Yun Bushu, Yu Chong'er and others every day.

The Pill Sovereign's injuries stabilized. This made Ning Fan feel slightly relieved.

During this period, he sent a massive amount of Medicine Pills to Ning Fan, and it was due to this that Ning Fan managed to recover so rapidly.

Most of the voice transmissions sent by Yu Chong'er contained content full of concern and tender feelings.

Ning Fan shook his head trying hard not to laugh while listening to them. Nonetheless, it warmed his heart.

Yun Bushu kept Ning Fan up to date on matters to do with the Rain World. Although Ning Fan was confined to Scarlet Heaven Palace, he knew everything going around outside.

Yun Tianjue is still tirelessly searching for clues for the Suppressing Heaven Four Swords remnant swords and has yet to return to the Central State.

The Rain Sovereign temporarily dispelled his suspicions of Ning Fan and focused all his attention on the Pill Emperor, but according to Yun Bushu, the Rain Emperor will assign Ning Fan a task in the next few days, related to his Five Elements Physique.

Days went by, Ning Fan fully recovered and he started processing the spoils he obtained from the four stages.

I need an opportunity to go to Controlling Heaven City to spend the 30 billion merit points. They should be able to be exchanged for some good items.

The drop of Rain Ancestor's natal blood contained vast amounts of Rain Intent, with Ning Fan's current Rain Intent Realm, he is still unable to fully assimilate this rain. This task can only be left to a future date.

Ning Fan does not dare to refine the Loose Immortal Dao Fruit yet as the 2 million units of Magic Force contained within would instantly make Ning Fan touch the Void Pierce bottleneck.

After experiencing the power of the chill wind Tribulation, Ning Fan realized that he is far from prepared to face it. That is why temporarily he cannot refine the Dao Fruit.

For passing the third stage, Ning Fan was rewarded with a Low Seventh Revolutions Grade Pill, called the Soaring Dragon Pill.

The pill was refined from the soul of a Void Fragmentation dragon and can improve the Soul of Sixth Revolutions Alchemists.

After refining the pill, it would increase his Sixth Revolutions Mid Grade Medicine Soul by a lot and cause him to touch his bottleneck. Being only a sliver away from reaching the High Grade Medicine Soul...

Ning Fan slowly sorted through all his items and reached the final one. He received this item from his transaction with Chu Chang'an.

It was a heart, one flowing with silver blood within it.

The heart once belonged to an expert with a cultivation base of at least a Life Immortal and the Immortal must have been skilled in the Dao of Lightning. Judging by the age of the heart, the expert must have passed away tens of millions of years ago.

After his death, the heart still contained some primordial lightning which have not scattered, providing vast amounts of qi to the heart, allowing the heart to continue beating. This filled Ning Fan with some amazement.

Immortals surpass the realm of Life and Death, which means even the flesh and blood on their bodies become extremely abstruse.

Or are there other underlying principles hidden within...

The reason Ning Fan was willing to exchange the Blood dragon demon sword for this heart was naturally to obtain the vast amounts of primordial lightning residing within the heart.

The primordial lightning is extremely pure, in fact it was multiple times purer than the undead spirit Primordial Lightning souls within the Heavenly Lightning Bamboo Tower.

If the primordial lightning within was fully absorbed, the Primordial Lightning Armor could become much stronger.

The Blood Dragon Demon Sword was only useful when facing the Blood Dragon Clan. But this Lightning Immortal heart has infinitely wondrous effects to any Lightning Cultivators, in this sense, the trade with the former for the latter was indeed worth it.

But there was actually another reason why Ning Fan agreed to exchange the heart.

This reason was something that Chu Chang'an would not necessarily understand.

Ning Fan held the beating heart, carefully observing it.

At the top of the heart, was a mysterious silver orifice.

That orifice seemed like spring, overflowing with endless traces of primordial lightning.

To Ning Fan, it looks like, the Lightning Immortal Heart being provided with a steady stream of primordial lightning and the Lightning heart beating are all due to the continuous overflow of primordial lightning from this orifice.

"What is this orifice, how can it still be functioning continuously after tens of millions of years after the death of its owner..."

The opening of the orifice looked quite rough, as if the Lightning Immortal didn't know the true method of doing so himself.

Due to the rough way it was opened, the primordial lightning produced by it was very limited, an almost negligible amount.

But after tens of millions of years of accumulation, the primordial lightning contained in this small heart has become a terrifying amount...

"This is... the Four Heavenly God Clan's Heart Orifice Technique!" Luo You said suddenly.

"Heart Orifice Technique?"

"Well, this is a very rare secret technique of the Four Heaven Gods, a technique created by imitating the heart of the ancient gods, in order to make up for the lost 'heart' of the ancient gods... thus this technique is extremely strong. After the orifice is cultivated on the heart the heart orifice will continuously produce spiritual energy by itself, increasing the cultivation speed of the cultivator. It is just that this technique is very difficult and cruel to practice. Every time a heart orifice is gouged out, it takes a thousand years to refine and requires them to endure the pain of cutting out the heart for a thousand years. Moreover, within those one thousand years, they cannot use spiritual energy.

"Heart orifice... What is the heart of an ancient god? With your former identity, do you know a thing or two about it?"

"My former identity..." In the Profound Yin World, Luo You seemed to be reminiscing her past as her eyes darkened for a split second, before she wiped her frown away and shook her head.

"I don't know much. Even back in my prime, my understanding of the heart of the ancient gods was limited to one sentence, 'The heart with three orifices can transform the heart into a source. The heart with seven orifices can transform the heart into a realm'. Although I don't understand this sentence, I'm guessing that the magical powers of the ancient gods are probably related to the heart orifice, so mortals tried to imitate the god's hearts by opening up their own heart orifices. Back then I had secretly learned the art of heart orifices and opened seven heat orifices on my heart. I didn't understand whatever the source of the heart was, nor the realm of the heart... But, my cultivation speed did more than double... "

Luo You looked a little lost before because she was thinking of past events. Usually, her mental state is very steady.

After recovering her mental state, her enchanting demeanour was naturally restored.

After hearing her words, Ning Fan felt pity for her but didn't know how he could comfort her.

Ning Fan realised he didn't know much about her past. He didn't know what kind of blood feud she had to be have been carrying in order to search for the Yin-Yang Locket and choose to cultivate the stained Yin-Yang Transformation.

In the past she gouged out seven Orifices on her heart, therefore, she must have once endured seven thousand years of pain from her heart.

How many people in the world can endure seven thousand years of heart wrenching pain?

Ning Fan sighed after getting to know more of her past. In some sense, Ning Fan felt that he and Luo You were very similar.

"Good Brother, if you want to learn this technique, hehe, Elder Sister can teach you. However, Elder Sister also believes that whilst you can endure one thousand years of pain, you probably don't have one thousand years to spend on this technique. Thus, Elder Sister chose not to teach you this technique."

"Yeah, I truly don't have one thousand years to spare."

Ning Fan didn't say much as he wanted to avoid bringing up past matters as it would remind Luo Yue of her unpleasant memories, thus making her sad.

He studied the Lightning heart while carefully considering. After a while he decided he would refine it.

First, Ning Fan took several assisting Spiritual Herbs and summoned his Lightning Armor. Finally he swallowed the Lightning Heart and started refining.

One day, Two days, Three days...

By the Fourth day, the Grade of the Lightning Armor had risen to almost the fourth level of the Golden Grade.

Ning Fan quietly took out a bottle of Sixth Revolution Pills billowing with primordial lightning. After swallowing the pills he continued refining the Lightning Heart.

On the seventh day, the Lightning Armor broke through to the fourth level of the Golden Grade and could defend against a Supreme Void hit.

There were still some extra primordial lightning from the Lightning Heart that had yet to merge with the Lightning Armor. By the ninth day the primordial lightning contained within the heart was on the verge of being exhausted.

The Lightning Heart was fully refined on the eleventh day. Whilst the Lightning Armor broke though to the peak of the Golden Grade.

At this moment, even a strike from a Primordial Supreme Void could not break through the Lightning Armor.

Ning Fan gently exhaled a mouthful of foul breath while trying to stabilize his breathing. Suddenly he received a Golden Flying Sword with a Sound Transmission attached transmitted by the Rain Sovereign.

Within the Sound Transmission was unexpectedly a secret order!

A secret order for Ning Fan to keep a low profile and head towards the Tree World by himself!