Chapter 559: Tree World!

Within the Scarlet Heaven Realm, Ning Fan sat alone inside the core of the cloud mountain in silence for a long time.

He never thought that the Rain Sovereign would assign such a mission to him...

In the message-transmitting jade slip, the Rain Sovereign had told him the reason why he required Ning Fan's Everlasting Flame Physique.

The Burning Immortal Valley in the Western Flame Kingdom is the former site of the Shedding Orchid Sect. In the deepest part of the Burning Immortal Valley, there is a forbidden area surrounded by intertwining immortal Flame called the Abyss of Death. An area where even Flame cultivators of the Void Fragmentation Realm are unable to enter.

The Rain Sovereign once tried to explore the Abyss of Death several times but could not enter. However, he could sense a strong and terrifyingly dense medicinal qi of a pill from the forbidden area.  

According to his investigation, an Eighth Revolution Pill is sealed in the abyss of Death. Moreover, these Eighth Revolution Pills are a treasure of the Shedding Orchid Sect!

Low-Grade Eighth Revolutions Pill, Wing Transformation Pill!

Once any Void Fragmentation cultivator consumes the pill, they would have a minuscule chance of directly becoming an immortal!

If an expert at the peak of Void Fragmentation takes it, they would have at least a 30% chance of instantly becoming an immortal!

The Rain Sovereign is currently at the Fifth Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation Realm. If he consumed the Wing Transformation Pill, the chance of instantly becoming an immortal isn't too high, but even if he failed, his cultivation base would improve by at least one heavenly layer. Additionally, the effects of the pill would establish a foundation within the Rain Sovereign's body. In the future, if the Rain Sovereign cultivated to the peak of the Void Fragmentation Realm, the chances of ascension would be thirty percent higher than that of ordinary cultivators!

This was the reason why the Rain Sovereign worked so hard to devise a plan for someone to enter the abyss of death. It was all for the Eighth Revolution Wing Transformation Pill!

This is a classified matter. Even the Imperial princes do not know what is sealed in the Abyss of Death.

The Rain Sovereign did not reveal the Wing Transformation pill to anyone. This is because if the news of the Wing Transformation Pill was leaked, all Nine Worlds would be in pandemonium, with every Void Fragmentation expert thinking of all possible methods to seize it.

This is especially so for those loose immortals who are stuck in the Void Fragmentation Realm and unable to ascend, for this Wing Transformation Pill, they would probably do everything in their power, not even stopping at slaughtering the entire Rain World.

Ning Fan is the only one who knows about the Wing Transformation Pill.

The only reason the Rain Sovereign told Ning Fan is because otherwise Ning Fan would not be about to help him complete the task.

"This task is of utmost importance and secrecy, you must not divulge this information. The immortal flame within the Fallen Abyss is very powerful. You should enter at the point when the immortal flame is in its weakest state. Three years later is the best time for you to enter the Burning Immortal Valley. Before that, this Sovereign wants you to sneak into the tree world!"

"Among the Flame Tree clan in the tree world, there is a divine spring called, 'Flame God's Spring', which is unsealed every one hundred years. If a Void Refinement cultivator soaks his body in this spring, he can not only improve his cultivation but also improve his defence against flames. After another year of the flame's defence ability, the Flame Tree clan will unblock the Flame God's Spring and have a certain quota for cultivators to enter and cultivate. This Sovereign hopes you can head to the Flame Tree clan and earn a spot. This can drastically increase the chance of obtaining the Wing Transformation Pill."

After the command was delivered, the golden message-transmitting flying sword immediately dissipated into powder.

Ning Fan pondered silently, he never imagined that the Rain Sovereign would make him travel to the Tree World.

After the flying sword finished conveying the message, Han Songzi, the Rain Temple lord personally visited and handed over a golden storage bag to Ning Fan. It was a gift from the Rain Sovereign.

Among them are not only 10 billion immortal jades, but also five Void Refinement Dao Fruits, ten bottles of Sixth Revolutions Pills, three Low-Grade Seventh Revolutions pills, five Magical treasures at peak Mortal Void Grade, and two Golden jade slips.

There is a terrifying technique sealed in the jade slip, called the 'Rain Gate Technique', which was left by a Rain Palace expert at the Peak Void Fragmentation Realm. It can directly open the Rain gate and allow the user to directly travel to one of the other Nine Worlds!

All cultivators with a cultivation base similar to the Rain Sovereigns, generally have a secret technique that allows them to travel to other worlds secretly, but they are generally not used, and even if they are used, they are secretly carried out.

It is considered arrogant behaviour to openly descend upon other worlds, like what the Moksha Emperor did.

Rain Sovereign had four pieces of this jade slip. After giving two pieces to Ning Fan, he only has two pieces left with him.

The spells in the two jade slips, one sends the user to the Tree world, and the other one sends the user to the Central State of the Rain World.

If Ning Fan urged the Tree World jade slip, he could open a Realm tunnel and sneak into the Tree World.

After completing the task, he could activate another jade slip and return to the Rain World

This time, to let Ning Fan enter the Flame Tree clan to improve his Flame resistance, The Rain Sovereign sacrificed a lot by giving Ning Fan two jade slips.

The Rain Sovereign is not afraid of Ning Fan betraying him. In his opinion, Ning Fan was a smart man, and his relatives were all residing in the Rain Realm. It was impossible for him to escape to the Tree World alone and never return.

After storing away the Sovereign Rain's reward, Ning Fan pondered for a while.

Presently, he has not yet broken his partnership with the Rain Sovereign. Additionally, he is quite willing to follow The Rain Sovereign's order and head toward the Tree World.

Ning Fan has indeed heard of the Flame God's Spring of the Flame Tree Clan in the Tree world. It is said that there was a Void Glimpse cultivator who practised in it. When he left three years later, he directly broke through to the Void Inquiry Stage. Most importantly though is that the Flame God's Spring is not only helpful because of its ability to improve the cultivation of cultivators, but even more so the fact it increases a cultivator's resistance to flames.

Ning Fan is not against being able to enter the Flame God's Spring to cultivate.

"The best time to enter the Abyss of Fallen is after three years, which means that I can stay in the tree world for three years at most, which is enough time for me to cultivate in Flame God's Spring."

"During this trip, I must make sure nothing goes wrong by being well prepared. For me, going to the tree world is a massive opportunity. With my current cultivation base, maybe after entering the tree world, I can begin to break through to the Void Pierce Realm."

"The rank of my Rain Intent needs to be increased. The sooner it breaks through to the First Grade the better. If Rain Intent reaches the First Grade I can probably depend on the Rain Ancestor's technique to find my mother in one fell swoop."

"Yun Tianjue hasn't returned yet. I'm afraid I can't return the blood wine gourd to him temporarily... He is my father, yet I don't know how I should face him..."

Ning Fan sighed, his figure flashed, transforming into a travelling light that left cloud mountain and headed towards Sitian City.

After sweeping through the eight palaces and rushing through the three stages, Ning Fan has long since shaken the entire Rain World.

When the cultivators he met saw his travelling light, they would respectfully stop their clouds and stand in awe while saluting.

Scarlet Heaven Palace Master, White Robed Marquis, Most notorious Demon in the Rain World, Mid Grade Sixth Revolution alchemist, these titles surrounded Ning Fan like an aura, no one dared to underestimate him.

Needless to say, the reason he travelled to Heaven Controlling City was to exchange his 30 billion merit points.

He directly flew to the centre of Heaven Controlling City. Han Songzi knew that Ning Fan would come as he had already received the order of the Rain Sovereign to receive him respectfully.

"This old man greets White Robed Marquis. May I ask if Esteemed Marquis has come to Heaven Controlling City, to exchange merit points?"

"Precisely."

"Then, please follow this old man to the Meritorious Pagoda of Heaven Controlling City!"

The Heaven Controlling City Meritorious Pagoda has six floors. The first to fourth floors are respectively open to Void Glimpse, Void Inquiry, Void Pierce and Supreme Void cultivators.

The fifth floor of the Meritorious Pagoda is only open to Six Revolution Alchemists and Primordial Supreme Void experts.

Only the Rain Sovereign and other Void Fragmentation cultivators can enter the sixth floor and exchange for items with merit points.

In the secret order, Han Songzi received from the Rain Sovereign. It said, if Ning Fan requests, Ning Fan can be allowed access to the sixth floor.

This shocked Han Songzi inexplicably. He couldn't imagine that in the Rain Sovereign's heart, Ning Fan's importance was comparable to that of Void Fragmentation experts. Therefore, he decided to receive Ning Fan even more respectfully and did not dare to slight him at all.

Ning Fan followed Han Songzi to the Meritorious Pagoda, which is a silver pagoda. Outside the pagoda are layers upon layers of formation seals, a giant tortoise stone statue, and two Rain Lion stone statues.

In the giant tortoise statue, there is a hidden soul of the tortoise demon who is at the First Heavenly Layer of the Void Fragmentation realm. It is indeed this tortoise demon who is guarding the Heaven Controlling City.

The two Rain lion stone statues are both rooted outside the Meritorious Pagoda and cannot be moved at all. Each Rain lion stone statue emitted an imposing First Heavenly Layer Void Fragmentation cultivation.

Although the two rain lions cannot move, if someone steals the treasures of the Hall of Merit, they will immediately launch a Void Fragmentation attack to kill the intruder!

There are turtle monsters and two rain lion stone statues guarding this place, and there are many seals on this place. The defence of the Meritorious Pagoda cannot just be described as strict.

Ning Fan's eyes moved, and he only glanced at the turtle statue and the lion statue. He didn't say much, as he didn't have the desire to steal them.

He is not yet arrogant enough to try to steal right under the Rain Sovereign's eyes. He believes that at this moment, the suspicious Rain Sovereign must be secretly observing him.

"The Rain Sovereign has ordered that if White Robed Marquis enters the Meritorious Pagoda, there is no limit on which floor he can enter. I don't know which floor of the Meritorious Pagoda Marquis wants to enter?" Han Songzi asked respectfully.

"What floor is the Divine Intent Stone on?" Ning Fan asked suddenly.

"The first floor. With Marquis's cultivation base, you still require the Divine Intent Stone?" Han Songzi exclaimed in surprise.

For Nascent Soul and Divine Transformation cultivators, the Divine Intent Stone is a treasure, which can help in obtaining insights into Divine Intents and enhance the advancement of Divine Intents.

But for the cultivators of the Void Refinement Realm, the effect of the Divine Intent Stone of enhancing the Divine Intent is greatly weakened. Generally, very rarely will Void Refinement cultivators come to Heaven Controlling City to exchange for Divine Intent stones.

So he felt that this situation is very bizarre. Why did Ning Fan come to the Hall of Merit, not to ask about the many treasures, but to first ask about Divine Intent Stones that are not even worth mentioning?

"I want this thing, it has its purpose. I will have to trouble fellow Daoist to lead the way. I want to exchange for all the Divine Intent Stones in this Meritorious Pagoda!"

Seeing that Ning Fan didn't want to say more, Han Songzi tactfully didn't ask any more questions and led Ning Fan to the first floor of the merit tower.

The Medicinal pills, Cultivation methods, Magical Treasures, and spiritual items in this layer are enough to make a Void Glimpse cultivator's heart move, but Ning Fan did not hang around the first floor. He only exchanged for all the Divine Intent Stones and went straight to the second floor.

A Divine Intent Stone can be exchanged for five million merit points. The same price as a Nascent Soul Dao Fruit.

There are more than one thousand Divine Intent Stones on the first floor, all of which cost Ning Fan a total of 5 billion merit points.

The Divine Intent Stones stored here are the stock of all the Divine Intent Stones within the Rain Palace. Ning Fan pondered secretly, wondering if absorbing the power of these Divine Intent Stones could make his Fifth Grade Rain Intent break through to the Fourth Grade.

He is still a long way away from the First Grade Rain Intent I must pay attention to finding a way to improve the rain intent in the Tree World.

On the second floor of the merit tower, all the treasures are prepared for Void Inquiry Cultivators.

Ning Fan's current cultivation base is precisely Void Inquiry, and there are a lot of things useful to him on this layer.

Pill Recipes, Medicinal pills, and 50,000-year-old Spiritual Herbs, Ning Fan exchanged quite a bit, and after spending 2 billion merit points, he went up to the next floor.

On the third floor, Ning Fan spent 2.5 billion merit points in exchange for Pill Recipies, Medicinal Pills, and Elixirs.

On the fourth floor, Ning Fan spent 3.5 billion merit points.

The fifth floor of the Meritorious Pagoda is a floor that only Sixth Revolution alchemists and Absolute Void Realm experts can enter.

In this layer, there are many great things, and there are more than ten kinds of Yuan arts

(TN: Primordializing magic arts is what it translates to. I believe this is when a cultivator reaches the Primordial supreme void and needs to convert their energy into yuan).

Ning Fan's gaze swept through, these Yuan arts, there are Divine Arts, Demon Arts, and Devil Arts even Yuan arts left by Rain Ancestor.

Because of some fortuitous encounters, the Rain Ancestor also possesses the power of the three races. His Yuan art is also very mysterious and can be used by cultivators of all three races.

After hesitating for a while, Ning Fan exchanged for the Rain Ancestor Yuan Art and several other Yuan Arts at the same time for a total of 5 billion merit points.

The 30 billion merit value was quickly squandered by Ning Fan to only 12 billion.

Ning Fan stopping wasting merit points and only exchanged for more kinds of Sixth Revolutions Pill recipes, and began to search around the fifth floor.

He also wanted to exchange for a High-Grade Seventh Revolution healing pill to heal Little Sable and wanted to exchange for a high-level sword seal to control the five sword spirits, for himself...

But on the fifth floor, the highest-grade healing Medicine Pill is only at the peak of the Sixth Revolution, and the highest-grade sword seal is only enough to control the Peak Mortal Void flying sword spirits.

"Go to the sixth floor."

Ning Fan said, led by Han Songzi, he entered the sixth floor of the Meritorious Pagoda.

The sixth floor is by no means spacious, with only thirteen jade racks to choose from. Despite there being not many items collected on each one, each item can make a Void Fragmentation cultivator's eyes fiery.

On this layer, not only are there a few Seventh Revolutions Pills, but also dozens of 100,000-year Spirit Herbs.

The asking price for a 100,000-year-old elixir is 500 million merit points, which is very expensive.

Ning Fan shook his head, not intending to spend the remaining merit points on useless Spirit Herbs.

His eyes swept across the jade racks and the Seventh Revolution pills one by one.

There are Seventh Revolution Healing Pills, but the highest-grade Healing Pills are only mid-rank Seventh Revolution, and the asking price is 10 billion merit points.

For Little Stable to restore her Third Heavenly layer Void Fragmentation cultivation base, at least a Seventh Revolution top-grade healing Pill is required.

This medicine can't heal Little Stable's injury, but it will probably help relieve some of her injuries.

Ning Fan sighed, but in the end, still spent 10 billion merit points in exchange for this medicine pill.

He only has 2 billion merit points left. Ning Fan scanned the sixth floor for secret techniques and the Seventh Revolutions Pill recipes. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, as he had found an old jade slip in a hidden corner.

The price of the jade slip is 1.5 billion merit value, and recorded in the jade slip is a sword seal that allows the user to control sword spirits.

This sword ban is called 'Life and Death Ban', and it is said that it was created by Sovereign Xia, one of the Sword Sovereigns who shook the Sword World millions of years ago.

That Sovereign Xia was an outstanding figure of that generation. It is rumoured that when he was alive, there were no Worlds that could rival the Sword World.

At his peak, he even dared to carry only his sword alone to the Demon World, the Demon World, and the Heavenly Immortal World to challenge the cultivators of various Worlds.

Unfortunately, when he was at its peak, he suddenly fell in an inexplicable way, causing countless Sword World cultivators to sigh in regret.

Sovereign Xia can also be said to have an outstanding character. The Life and Death seal he created is very powerful, and even immortal sword spirits can be controlled.

Ning Fan thought to himself, if he planted a Life and Death Seal on the five sword spirits, it should be enough to subdue the five sword spirits.

Now that both of his puppets have been destroyed, if he goes to the Tree world and is targeted by the Tree world Void Fragmentation experts, Luo You is the only one who can rely on.

The five fairy swords and sword spirits have amazing magical powers. If subdued the five sword spirits are quite useful.

If he encountered a sword cultivator in the First Heavenly layer of Void Fragmentation Realm, Ning Fan can rely on the five sword spirits to easily defeat them.

He finally made a decision, and he exchanged his limited merit points for the Life and Death Seal. Since he doesn't have many merit points left, he didn't stay any longer and left the merit tower with Han Songzi.

Afterwards, Ning Fan visited the Pill Sovereign, Yun Bushu, Yu Chung'er and others, to say goodbye before quietly leaving Heavenly Cloud Country at the peak of his popularity.

-

One month later, Ning Fan returned to the Seven Apricot City.

He Informed the girls about the intention of leaving temporarily. Coincidently, the Mo Luo blood in Feng Xueyan went berserk, so he used the power of an ancestral talisman to help her completely refine the blood.

With the refining of the blood of Mo Luo, Feng Xueyan's physique began to improve, and she gradually stopped stammering, and her cultivation level was also increasing rapidly.

Ning Fan left behind lots of Medicinal Pills for the girls and also left gave Middle-Grade Seventh Revolutions healing medicine to Little Stable.

He travelled to the barren hill a thousand li away (500km) from Qimei City, and met the secluded Ming Luo Tree Spirit.

"I'm going to the tree world. I'm afraid I won't be back for a while. I'll have to Trouble senior to protect the country of Yue while I'm away!"

"Are you going to the tree world?" The tree spirit of Ming Luo suddenly showed the colour of vicissitudes.

"I will take good care of Yue Country for you. Even if the Rain Sovereign comes personally, he will not be able to hurt a blade of any grass or tree in Yue Country. You can rest assured! It's just that since you are going to the tree world, the old man has a request. I hope you can agree."

"Since Senior will protect the Country of Yue for me. This junior is very grateful. This junior will put in his all to help fulfil any of Senior's requests! May I know what kind of task Senior has in mind?

"Countless years ago, the old man was the Tree Sovereign of the Ming Luo Tree Clan in the tree world. Later on, this old man became trapped in this Grave of the Rain World... Back then the Ming Luo Clan had already started declining due to the pressure of the other three Tree Sovereigns. Can you help this old man to see if the Ming Luo clan still exists, or if it has been wiped out for many years now?"

"If by chance, the Ming Luo clan still exists, please take care of the clan on behalf of the old man. The old man's true body is trapped in the grave, and the clone can't leave the country of Yue, I am afraid that I will never be able to return to the hometown of the tree world in this life... Can you please accept this request from the old man? If you agree, you can take this token with you."

The Ming Luo tree spirit sighed and took out a black wooden token from the storage bag while asking sincerely.

-

Half a month later, in a hidden sea of ​​trees in the Cloud Cliff Country of the Tree World, a door of rain and fog suddenly appeared quietly.

Within the jade gate, a young man in white slowly walked out. Behind him, five elf-like little girls, each only the size of a thumb, circled around.

"Is this the tree world?" The young man muttered before suddenly raising his head.

Around the vicinity, there was a faint sound of intense fighting.