Chapter 496: Ning Zhuo steals luck!

Ning Jiufan had actually returned to the vicinity of Fire Persimmon Mountain long ago.

But on Lin Bufan's advice, he did not return to the family, but hid on the spot to delay Meng Kui's layout.

Now, Meng Kui had activated the flying letter.

Ning Jiufan soon received this letter.

"Meng Kui can't sit still and finally came to urge me to meet up and attack the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence." Ning Jiufan spat out a turbid breath and stood up slowly.

He stared at the distant Fire Persimmon Mountain, his expression serious, knowing that this siege of the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence would be a huge challenge!

The real difficulty of this challenge was actually not the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence, nor was it "taking care of the citizens of Fire Persimmon Immortal City while besieging and killing the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence", but Meng Kui.

The struggle between the Meng family and the Zhu family over Fire Persimmon Immortal City, although the Molten Immortal Palace had officially changed hands, had already reached a new stage.

The Zhu family, relying on Zhu Zhu Xuanji's efforts, successfully pulled in the Zhou family and the Ning family, using these two great cultivation families as nails, attempting to contain the Meng family's encroachment.

Meng Kui usually didn't find it easy to attack these two great families, but now it had become inevitable for him to make a fuss about the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence.

Thick smoke billowed from the Fire Persimmon Mountain Pass, and streaks of scorching magma splashed out from time to time.

In the Fire Persimmon Mountain, the Molten Immortal Palace.

Meng Kui sat on the throne of the Immortal Palace, his eyes like torches, piercing through the void, penetrating layers of mountains and magma, observing the battlefield in the middle of the volcano.

The battlefield had been arranged properly.

The two Golden Core ancestors of the Zhou family were already in place.

Meng Kui transmitted his thoughts with his spiritual sense, his tone icy: "Ning Jiufan has been waiting for a long time and has not arrived; his slackness is obvious to all. After this battle, I will settle accounts with him."

"Now time waits for no one, let the battle begin."

The two Golden Core ancestors of the Zhou family both had grave expressions and responded simultaneously, accepting the order.

Although they had both defected to the Zhu family, when it came to the safety and survival of Fire Persimmon Immortal City, they, as Golden Cores and people of Fire Persimmon Immortal City, had to stand out and contribute their share of strength.

Since the Zhou family occupied many resources in Fire Persimmon Immortal City and enjoyed many rights, they naturally had to take responsibility in such matters.

This is the rule of the righteous path.

"Rise." Meng Kui gave a light shout, officially opening the great array.

This great array had been pieced together bit by bit by him and the two Golden Core ancestors of the Zhou family over the past period of time. Being so cautious was to prevent alerting the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence in advance and letting it slip to the depths of the ground.

The benefits of doing so were reflected in the next moment.

The Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence was floating in the magma, leisurely and content, when it was suddenly trapped by the great array.

It immediately realized that it had been ambushed, and its whole body immediately burned with raging heat, and its eyes revealed scorching anger.

The great array opened, exerting its power, forming lightning chains, capturing the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence quickly and accurately.

The Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence's body paused, and electric light flashed all over its body.

It roared in anger, struggling desperately, but the great array immediately increased its magic power, the electric light expanded, becoming dazzling, and continued to trap the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence in place.

Subsequently, the two Golden Core ancestors of the Zhou family manipulated a part of the great array's power, causing changes.

Countless talismans, like fireflies in the sky, from small to large, covered the surface of the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence's body one after another.

As these talismans increased, the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence's roaring sound, the flames burning around its body, and its body size all began to shrink rapidly.

Divine Ability—Universe in the Sleeve.

Meng Kui acted according to the situation, slowly stretching out his arm, his wide sleeve expanding rapidly, turning into a huge black hole, erupting with violent suction power.

The pitch-black sleeve sucked the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence in.

The sleeve shrank rapidly, but halfway through, it suddenly sprayed out a line of fire. Immediately, four or five lines of fire burned through the sleeve and shot out.

These lines of fire condensed in mid-air, forming the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence in a blurred human shape again.

The Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence roared, and raging fire burned in the magic array. At the same time, rolling magma surged up one after another, wanting to swallow everything.

The great array suffered a violent impact, and many array feet collapsed one after another.

The two Golden Core ancestors of the Zhou family saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly manipulated, hitting out a large number of finger incantations, temporarily stabilizing the great array.

The Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence set off magma and heat all over the sky, and its offensive became more and more fierce.

The two Golden Core ancestors of the Zhou family gradually could not support it, and their aura became more and more chaotic.

The Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence suddenly disappeared.

"Where did it go?"

"Be careful, it's drilling in front of you along the gaps in the array!"

The two Golden Core ancestors of the Zhou family communicated urgently.

The Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence was extremely fast, turning into a line of fire, entangling Zhou Nongying.

Zhou Nongying had received a warning a moment ago and set up a defense at the last moment. If it had been a little worse, he would not have died but would have been injured!

However, soon, his expression changed.

Because he found that the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence had not been completely blocked by him, and countless tiny lines of fire were rapidly penetrating his defense, wanting to drill into his body!

"Zhou Nongying, hold on!" The other Golden Core ancestor of the Zhou family shouted with all his might, his voice trembling slightly.

He really wanted to make a move, but was worried about endangering Zhou Nongying's life, and for a time fell into an awkward dilemma.

"Why not let me try?" At the critical moment, Ning Jiufan's voice suddenly came.

The two Golden Core ancestors of the Zhou family were overjoyed; they all knew that Ning Jiufan had a magic treasure in his hand that was just right for solving the current difficulty.

Meng Kui's expression was cold but he did not immediately open the magic array, but stared at Lin Bufan.

Ning Jiufan immediately made an explanation.

Although he really wanted Lin Bufan to continue to ambush, doing so had too many hidden dangers.

Without Ning Jiufan's introduction, which was essentially an endorsement, Meng Kui could have intercepted Lin Bufan outside the array, or even attacked the latter.

After all, according to normal practice, when a Nascent Soul cultivator steps into the territory of another Nascent Soul cultivator, they should send a flying letter in advance.

Lin Bufan suddenly appearing was an offense to Meng Kui, or even a provocation!

Hearing Ning Jiufan's introduction, Meng Kui said to Lin Bufan: "It is rare for Fellow Daoist Lin to be so warm-hearted. Little do you know that many times, good intentions lead to bad results."

Lin Bufan smiled slightly and countered tit-for-tat: "Just now observing Fellow Daoist Meng casting divine abilities, you let the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence escape. Although I am passing by, as a person of the righteous path, I have a heart of benevolence and really don't want the citizens in the Molten Immortal City to suffer."

Meng Kui:...

Lin Bufan, as the sect master, managed the Ten Thousand Medicine Sect very well, and his foundation in rhetoric was naturally not weaker than others.

In the end, Meng Kui smiled slightly and expressed his gratitude for Lin Bufan's support on the spot.

He opened the magic array and let Ning Jiufan and Lin Bufan enter the array.

Seeing the arrival of two strong reinforcements, the two Golden Core ancestors of the Zhou family were naturally overjoyed.

"Fellow Daoist Ning, you finally came!"

Ning Jiufan laughed: "To seek strong reinforcements, I delayed some time, I hope the two fellow daoists will not blame me."

"No blame, no blame!"

"Say less, solve my crisis first." Zhou Nongying couldn't hold on anymore, seeing the lines of fire constantly penetrating, he was a bit anxious.

"I'll do it." Ning Jiufan laughed, took out the Ice Heart Jade Pot, opened the pot mouth, and aimed it at Zhou Nongying.

The next moment, a cold current flew out from the pot mouth, covering Zhou Nongying's whole body, and soon turned into a block of black ice.

Zhou Nongying was frozen in the center by the ice block, and his injuries were rapidly restored.

At the same time, the bone-chilling cold of the ice block was constantly hurting the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence.

The Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence couldn't bear it, so it had to condense into one body again, turning into a blurred human shape, melting through the ice block, and running out.

Zhou Nongying was thus relieved.

The Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence then transferred its hatred to Ning Jiufan.

It was extremely fast, turning into a fire light in the air, rushing directly toward Ning Jiufan.

Ning Jiufan retreated in a panic, shouting loudly: "Grandmother Yuan, save me."

The next moment, an old Fire Fusion Demon Ape suddenly appeared, stretched out its hand, seemingly slow but fast, and actually grabbed the line of fire with its bare hands.

The Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence immediately changed its form, clinging to Grandmother Yuan, and burned her.

But this time, the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence repeated the same trick, but it was not as effective as it was against Zhou Nongying before.

On one hand, Grandmother Yuan was a Nascent Soul level after all. On the other hand, Grandmother Yuan herself was a Fire Fusion Demon Ape; such demon beasts lived in the volcano all year round and were famous for taking magma baths.

Seeing Grandmother Yuan and the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence entangled together, Lin Bufan immediately made a move, activating magic spells, forming strips of vines, entangling Grandmother Yuan, and also entangling the Ten Thousand Year Fire Essence.

"We will help you!" The two Golden Core ancestors of the Zhou family were overjoyed, hurriedly manipulating the great array, actively cooperating with Lin Bufan. Meng Kui witnessed this scene, slowly closed his eyes, and began to use mysterious means...

As soon as he made a move, Shen Lingshu outside Fire Persimmon Mountain had a sense.

Shen Lingshu looked up abruptly, looking in the direction of the volcano: "Meng Kui has made a move."

Zhu Zhu Xuanji also became vigilant: "Sure enough. Meng Kui doesn't find it easy to attack Ning Jiufan directly, so he probably adopted this means to secretly harm Ning Jiufan's fate."

"Ning Jiufan is in a fierce battle environment; once his fate weakens, there will be an obvious reaction."

"It's just that I don't know what kind of spell he used specifically?"

Spell—Frost Locking Life!

In the depths of Meng Kui's eyes, Ning Jiufan's figure appeared. Under the effect of the spell, Ning Jiufan's fate was no longer agile, as if covered with a layer of frost, about to be frozen to death.

Ning Jiufan's luck was low, and soon there was a reaction on the battlefield, falling into a huge crisis.

Two kingdoms, near Canglin Immortal City.

The demonic cultivator elder took a deep breath, the blood-red spirit pearl between his forehead stared wide, observing Ning Zhuo's fate at all times.

Please... you.... collect_（! ）

Ning Zhuo's fate was declining.

"It's declining, hahaha!"

"It seems that Ning Zhuo used some forbidden arts before to temporarily boost his fate."

"The timing for the decisive battle has arrived, Third-line Small Curse of Breaking Qi!"

The demonic cultivator elder shouted, urging all his magic power, and fiercely attacked Ning Zhuo's fate.

Boom!

In the dark, the demonic cultivator elder seemed to hear a roar.

The Third-line Small Curse of Breaking Qi successfully hit the left arm fate. The fate was indeed shaken and scattered by more than half in an instant, but immediately there was a layer of frost that re-condensed and froze the fate.

Demonic cultivator elder:?!

Nandou Kingdom, Molten Immortal City.

Meng Kui: "Hmm?!"

His expression changed in an instant.

In the depths of his eyes, Ning Jiufan's fate, which was about to be frozen to death, suddenly shook fiercely, and a large amount of frost was shaken away just like that.

"What kind of means is this?"

Meng Kui couldn't distinguish it for a time, but understood that such "protection" intensity was very rare, at least at the Nascent Soul level.

"So, Ning Jiufan possesses a Nascent Soul level fate-protecting magic treasure?"

Meng Kui was unwilling to fail and cast the Frost Locking Life spell again.

The demonic cultivator elder was unwilling to fail and continued to urge the Third-line Small Curse of Breaking Qi.

Both: "Hmm?!"

There were still effects.

Ning Jiufan's fate was indeed frozen and killed quite a bit. And on the other side, Ning Zhuo's fate was also shaken and scattered quite a bit.

Meng Kui was unwilling to fail and cast the Frost Locking Life spell again.

The demonic cultivator elder was unwilling to fail and still continued to urge the Third-line Small Curse of Breaking Qi.

Both: Eh hey?!

The battle results were indeed more.

Ning Jiufan's fate continued to be low, and Ning Zhuo's fate was shaken and scattered more.

Meng Kui was panting.

The demonic cultivator elder's pores began to bleed.

Spell—Frost Locking Life!

Third-line Small Curse of Breaking Qi!

Meng Kui was panting like a cow, his face pale.

The demonic cultivator elder's pores were all bleeding, blood flowing non-stop.

Frost Locking Life spell!!

Third-line Small Curse of Breaking Qi!!

Meng Kui's eyes were a bit unfocused.

The demonic cultivator elder's ears and nose were gushing blood, blood flowing non-stop.

Frost Locking Life spell!!!

Third-line Small Curse of Breaking Qi!!!

Meng Kui was dizzy, his eyes blacking out.

The demonic cultivator elder had already become a bloody man, his face like gold paper, swaying.

"This Ning Jiufan (Ning Zhuo) is stronger than expected, and has quite a set of means!" The two Nascent Soul cultivators far apart in different places had the same thought at this moment.

And Shen Lingshu, who was watching the battle, also showed a look of shock: "I didn't expect Ning Jiufan's fate foundation to be so thick. Just now Meng Kui cast fate spells one after another, continuously. Ning Jiufan actually supported it all, which is very remarkable."

Zhu Zhu Xuanji couldn't see these, but hearing Shen Lingshu's sigh, he also sighed: "The Ning family's foundation is still there; as expected of a hero of the North."

His impression of the Ning family had always been good from beginning to end.

Meng Kui couldn't help but roll his eyes.

He decisively stopped using this spell and secretly felt uneasy and suspicious: "Strange, why did I just focus on using the Frost Locking Life spell?"

"Maybe I should change to another spell, or I might get good results!"

Near Canglin Immortal City.

The demonic cultivator elder knelt on the ground, with a huge pool of blood under him.

He gritted his teeth and kept trying to persist.

"No!"

"I can't faint; if I fall, under the effect of the Great Curse, Little Six's luck will be stolen by this thief Ning Zhuo!"

"Will the great cause of rebuilding the demon country be ruined in my hands?"

"Absolutely impossible..."

"I must persist, I have one last strike."

"Three, Third-line Small Curse, Curse..."

This time, without the counter-attack from Meng Kui's side, the demonic cultivator elder very smoothly shook and scattered Ning Zhuo's fate.

"Success!"

In an instant, ecstasy filled the demonic cultivator elder's heart.

"I won! It turns out he was also at the end of his rope, and the previous persistence was worth it. It was all..."

The next moment, a magnificent light suddenly bloomed.

In the radiance, Ning Zhuo's scattered fate re-gathered and solidified in an instant.

The My Buddha Heart Demon Seal was finally triggered at this moment, suppressing the fate!

The demonic cultivator elder stared, shouting loudly: "No—!"

He endured the intense pain and disappointment, and was about to continue squeezing his strength.

Nandou Kingdom, Fire Persimmon Mountain.

"The timing is here!" Shen Lingshu took out a cloth bag, opened it directly, and returned a large amount of fate to Ning Jiufan.

In an instant, Ning Jiufan's fate soared!

The other spell cast by Meng Kui hit like a head hitting an anvil, hurting him so much that he gasped.

Ning Jiufan and Ning Zhuo were connected by the Human Life Suspension Thread.

Ning Zhuo's fate also soared accordingly.

This immediately cost the demonic cultivator elder his life!

Bang.

He was shaken to death, turned into a puff of smoke, and soon dissipated on the spot.

Without his support, Ning Zhuo's left arm fate, which had expanded a few points and became strong again, fiercely grabbed the earthy yellow heart.

Squeak, squeak, squeak...

The monkey face on the heart kept screaming, the sound shrill, panicked, fearful, and also extremely angry.

Bang.

With a light sound, the left arm fiercely crushed the earthy yellow heart of the monkey face and absorbed it all!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 497 =====