Meanwhile, the pottery teapot that had been quietly suspended in the valley seemed to be stimulated. Its surface suddenly flashed with five-colored radiance and trembled violently.
The crystal light shield in front of Ning Fa suddenly rippled, instantly spreading to his entire body.
The next moment, Ning Fa was directly sucked into it, turning into a streamer of light that plunged into the pottery teapot.
At this time, strange changes also began to occur in the valley.
The surging five-colored liquid in the valley suddenly rushed towards the pottery teapot, disappearing without a trace in an instant.
As the pottery teapot spun, it vanished into the void.
This originally peculiar valley was immediately flooded with surging seawater, becoming ordinary.
Su Wanwan, whose face was still filled with schadenfreude, was now dumbfounded. The protective light barrier around her vibrated violently, almost failing to hold.
"Why? Why is this happening?! What's so special about this guy? Why is he always so lucky?!"
Su Wanwan's chest heaved with anger, and she wailed.
The valley barrier, which she had been unable to overcome with all sorts of methods over the years, was entered by Ning Fa in less than the time it takes for a cup of tea to steep.
Now, it seemed that the treasure had taken Ning Fa to who knows where.
The thought of this made Su Wanwan, who cherished treasures like her own life, want to cry without tears.
She understood that this precious treasure was now completely lost to her.
After a bout of dizziness, Ning Fa suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze filled with vigilance, followed by surprise.
He found himself in a peculiar space.
His spiritual sense swept across it; the space was only about ten miles wide and long, surrounded by hazy five-colored radiance.
Ning Fa immediately looked towards the center, where he saw a circular pool about a mile in circumference, filled with crystalline five-colored liquid – the Five Phases True Origin.
Above the pool, a pottery teapot was suspended.
However, unlike what he had seen in the valley, this pottery teapot seemed to be only partially solid, with the rest of it made up of a transparent phantom.
Even the solid half was cracked all over, as if pieced together from fragments.
Ning Fa vaguely understood that he was likely inside the pottery teapot, and the reason for this was clearly the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book.
He immediately communicated with the Heavenly Book in his sea of consciousness. The teapot pattern on the surface of the Heavenly Book was still flickering, but it couldn't be completely restored, nor was there any feedback.
But Ning Fa waited for a while, and the Heavenly Book still showed no change. He didn't rush towards the pool but went to the edge of the space.
He wanted to first determine how to get out of this space.
But soon, his expression changed slightly.
The edge of this space was also covered by the same five-colored crystal light wall as the outer layer of the valley, and its power was even stronger – much stronger, to be precise.
Even if he were at his peak, he wouldn't be able to break through it.
Ning Fa frowned slightly. After a moment of thought, he still walked towards the central pool.
"No matter what, I'll absorb the Five Phases True Origin in this pool first and recover from my injuries."
But as soon as his hand touched the space above the pool, the light flashed, and a similar five-colored light wall appeared above the pool, blocking him.
Ning Fa was stunned.
"This is troublesome. If I can't get into the pool, I can't absorb the Five Phases True Origin. Am I going to be trapped here to die?"
Just then, the pottery teapot trembled slightly. A fragment the size of a thumb peeled off its surface and floated gently in front of Ning Fa, flashing with five-colored light.
Then, with a flash of white light in front of Ning Fa, the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book actually manifested on its own.
Ning Fa's expression changed.
Even more surprisingly, the white light on the Heavenly Book flickered intensely. The previously blurry teapot pattern disappeared, replaced by the pattern of this fragment. Immediately, the Heavenly Book emitted a dazzling white radiance, engulfing the fragment.
After a few breaths, the white light dissipated. The original thumb-sized fragment had become palm-sized, its surface smooth as a mirror, with countless runes faintly visible, emitting a mysterious aura.
Then, the fragment flew back into the broken teapot above the pool with a "whoosh" and merged with the other fragments.
Instantly, the five-colored light flashed intensely. After the anomaly subsided, although the teapot looked the same, its solid portion, which was originally only about thirty percent, had now recovered to forty percent.
The cracks on its surface had also diminished, and some mysterious runes began to flicker on its surface.
A clear chirp emanated from the teapot, seemingly filled with joy and excitement.
Then, with a crisp "crack," the light barrier covering the pool shattered.
Ning Fa was somewhat dumbfounded.
This time, the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book, without his control, had traced the origin of the fragment of the pottery teapot and seemed to have repaired a significant portion of its damage.
In return, the teapot removed the barrier around the pool, as if offering a gift for a gift.
It was as if they had completed a transaction.
Ning Fa didn't rush to absorb the Five Phases True Origin but looked at the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book in disbelief.
Because, generally speaking, when the Heavenly Book exhibited such a significant anomaly, it meant that the object causing the reaction was something it could absorb.
But this time, the Heavenly Book not only didn't absorb the pottery teapot but also traced its origin and repaired its damage. This broke Ning Fa's previous understanding of the Heavenly Book.
He contacted the Heavenly Book again, and his face immediately turned as dark as the bottom of a pot.
This was because all the Origin Points in the Heavenly Book had been depleted. Not a single Origin Point of any of the five major tiers remained.
It was one thing to lose the other tiers, but the Fourth-Tier and Fifth-Tier Origin Points were extremely important. They could be used to trace precious Spiritual Materials that transcended the current realm's limitations. Now, they were all gone.
This was merely secondary. What truly stunned Ning Fa was that as soon as he contacted the Heavenly Book, he received a message.
"The Heavenly Book's energy is severely depleted. Spiritual Materials of Fourth-Tier and above cannot be traced for the time being. To unlock them, corresponding Origin Points must be provided."
Specifically, to trace Fourth-Tier Spiritual Materials, one thousand Third-Tier Origin Points were required for unlocking.
To trace Fifth-Tier Spiritual Materials, two hundred Fourth-Tier Origin Points were needed.
For Sixth-Tier Spiritual Materials, one hundred Fifth-Tier Origin Points were necessary.
In other words, to trace that teapot fragment, Ning Fa not only used up all his existing Origin Points but also owed the Heavenly Book a large sum of Origin Points. And this was an action the Heavenly Book took on its own initiative.
This simply dumbfounded Ning Fa.
If it weren't for the protective barrier above the Five Phases True Origin disappearing as a result, Ning Fa would have spat blood.
Ning Fa couldn't understand why the Heavenly Book was so "fond" of this teapot, willing to engage in such a loss-making transaction.
Furthermore, without Fourth-Tier and Fifth-Tier Origin Points, he wouldn't be able to hire the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant anymore.
Thinking of this, Ning Fa wore a bitter smile again.
He suspected that the Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant had likely already died in that Six Paths Yuan Destruction Great Array.
Ning Fa fell silent, and boundless hatred surged in his heart once more towards Yan Jingchen, the Tianshu Alliance, the Qianyuan Merchant Alliance, and the Nine Immortals Association.
After a long while, he took a deep breath.
Thinking about it now was useless. He could only put away the Source-Crossing Heavenly Book for the time being and look at the unobstructed Five Phases True Origin before him, a flicker of excitement in his eyes.
Even if he had to choose again, knowing the immense price he would have to pay, he would still do it. After all, the Five Phases True Origin was too important to him at this moment.
Ning Fa looked up at the teapot Magic Treasure, a sharp light flashing in his eyes.
Not only that, but he might even be able to seize this Precious Treasure.
This treasure was definitely at the Heaven-Piercing Spirit Treasure level, and by no means an ordinary one.
With this thought, Ning Fa immediately used his Spiritual Sense to touch the teapot, attempting to see if he could take it.
However, no matter what method Ning Fa tried, the teapot remained unresponsive. It simply continued to drip five-colored liquid from its spout.
Ning Fa stopped trying. Subduing the teapot could wait for later. The immediate priority was to recover his injuries.
With this in mind, his clothes flew off, and he leaped naked into the pool of Five Phases True Origin.
Instantly, the five-colored liquid surged into his body. An indescribably pure energy flowed into every part of him, making Ning Fa's previously parched body feel like a withered tree meeting spring. He let out a cry of comfort.
He immediately circulated his Hand Seal, mobilizing the Metal, Fire, and Wood True Origins within his body, directing them towards his heart, liver, and lungs.
These were the three Innate Thunder Sea Divine Treasuries he had previously opened.
Because he had used the Chaos Divine Thunder Divine Ability at all costs, these three Thunder Sea Divine Treasuries had all withered and fallen from the Innate Realm.
At this moment, Ning Fa's mind flashed with images of his relatives, and his expression turned somber.
Given the current situation, although he had escaped, Yan Jingchen, the Tianshu Alliance, the Qianyuan Merchant Alliance, and the Nine Immortals Association would clearly not let him go.
If they couldn't find him, those factions would likely target his clan members. This time, no one would be able to stop them.
Ning Fa guessed that they might even refine his clan members into Bloodline Pearls to locate him.
Even Xuan Ning Island might not be safe. He could only hope that some of the contingency plans he had set up would work.
The thought weighed heavily on Ning Fa, causing his aura to fluctuate violently.
But he immediately took a deep breath, clearing his mind of other distractions.
He couldn't go out right now. Even if he did, it would be futile; the other side would simply annihilate them completely, cutting the grass and removing the roots.
He was still alive, which might make them hesitate to act for fear of hitting the wrong target.
The only course of action now was to recover his injuries as quickly as possible before making any further plans.
Even with the help of the Five Phases True Origin, his injuries would not heal easily.
The three Innate Divine Thunder Sea Divine Treasuries were now like shattered Dantians, or even worse. Restoring them to their former state would be no simple feat.
Ning Fa took a deep breath, cleared his mind, and then single-mindedly absorbed the Five Phases True Origin, beginning his cultivation.
About half a year later, Ning Fa's eyes snapped open.
At this moment, an image suddenly appeared in his mind.
The image showed a deep pit about ten miles in size. Numerous cultivators were roughly pushed into it. Before long, the pit was filled with thousands of people, men, women, old, and young.
They looked terrified. Some tried to resist but were ruthlessly suppressed by masked cultivators.
Soon, a leading cultivator produced a blood-colored token and waved it gently.
Immediately, mysterious patterns on the surface of the pit erupted with blood-red light as sharp as knife blades. The densely packed people in the pit seemed to suffer extreme torture, roaring in pain, yet they were inexorably melting into blood water.
The deep pit gradually transformed into a blood lake, with countless bones bobbing in the water, creating a gruesome sight.
On the edge of this deep pit, several middle-aged cultivators were bound. Upon witnessing this scene, their expressions turned ferocious and filled with extreme pain, tears of blood streaming from their eyes.
At this moment, the array formation within the deep pit pulsed with black-red blood light again. The blood within began to boil, shrinking gradually as if being refined.
After an unknown period, the blood water in the lake condensed into a blood-red orb, about the size of a fist, emitting a heaven-shaking blood aura.
This blood bead floated lightly into the hands of a handsome youth in a platinum robe standing by the lake.
The youth looked at the blood bead with a smile, then handed it to the middle-aged man in the black robe sitting in a pavilion behind him.
The black-robed middle-aged man gazed at the blood bead, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes. He reached out and grasped the orb, his mana surging as he activated it.
Not long after, blood qi began to emanate from the space where Ning Fa was located. However, it seemed to be obstructed by something, as the blood qi emerged at a slow pace.
Ning Fa, who had been motionless like a statue, suddenly had a five-colored thunder rune pattern appear on his forehead—the mark of his Five Elements Thunder Body.
The pattern detached and flew out, spinning rapidly. A slender five-colored lightning bolt shot forth, accompanied by what sounded like a piercing roar in the air. The emerging blood qi was instantly annihilated.
More than that, this five-colored lightning bolt tore through the void, directly severing the subsequent blood qi.
The area returned to silence.
After an unknown amount of time, a reaction finally occurred.
He began to tremble violently, his hands clenched, his expression one of extreme agony.
This was because the people who had been killed and refined into Bloodline Pearls were all his clan members.
Although he had long anticipated that this event was unavoidable, the reality of it still felt like a knife twisting in his heart.
He suddenly looked up, his eyes bloodshot, and spoke in a hoarse voice, word by word:
"Gu Ying, Gu Zun! I, Ning Fa, swear here and now that in this life, I will uproot your Gu Family completely, exterminate every last one of you, leaving no one alive!"
His voice was filled with boundless hatred, for the handsome youth in the white robe and the middle-aged man in the black robe were none other than Gu Ying and Gu Zun.
After making his vow, Ning Fa remained motionless.
Three days and three nights passed before he finally looked up again. His expression had become calm, and clarity had returned to his eyes.
He knew that pain and sorrow were useless now. Only by recovering from his injuries as quickly as possible, and even advancing to Spirit Transformation, could he possibly seek revenge in the future.
He took a deep breath, cast aside all distracting thoughts, and entered a state of meditation once more.
Unknowingly, twenty years had passed.
Ning Fa opened his eyes again and stood up. His eyes were filled with divine light, and he exuded the powerful aura of a mountain and an ocean once more. His previous withered state had completely vanished.
At this moment, he had clearly recovered from his injuries.
The Sea of Lightning Divine Treasuries for the Metal, Fire, and Wood supreme divine thunders had been restored, returning him to the Innate Realm.
The Earth and Water supreme divine thunders had also reached the peak of the Third-Tier, only lacking the opening of their Sea of Lightning Divine Treasuries.
If not for these Five Phases True Origins, he might have taken ten times, or even more, time to recover to this extent.
This was because finding high-grade and large quantities of Five Elements Spiritual Material in the outside world was extremely difficult.
To have recovered so quickly in such a short time was already incredibly fortunate.
Ning Fa looked around and saw that the water level in the circular pool had dropped significantly, now less than half of its original volume.
However, the pottery teapot above was now emanating a faint five-colored glow, and the speed at which five-colored liquid dripped from its spout had increased.
If he continued to absorb it, the pool should be replenished in a short time.
At this moment, Ning Fa's face contorted in pain again.
The scene of his many clan members being refined into Bloodline Pearls replayed in his mind.
He took a deep breath, his expression returning to calm. He stopped cultivating and flew to the barrier of this space.
He still wanted to try and see if he could leave this place.
Ning Fa's gaze sharpened. He activated his Divine Firmament Manifestation, raised the Heaven-Shattering Sword, and slashed fiercely at the light wall before him.
Yet, this sword strike, which would force even a Spirit Transformation Cultivator to go all out, had no effect on the light wall. It didn't even budge.
Ning Fa tried several other powerful Divine Abilities, all to no avail.
He stopped trying and sighed softly.
The defensive power of this light wall was too high. Even if he unleashed Chaos Divine Thunder, it would likely be useless.
He even suspected that even a cultivator in the Late Spirit Transformation stage might not be able to break through this light wall.
Furthermore, this space clearly possessed strong spatial shielding abilities; several of his communication artifacts had become useless.
A faint gleam flashed in Ning Fa's eyes. What brought him some comfort was that his mental connection with Blue Lightning was still intact, and the barrier placed on him by Baili Ming also remained.
This indicated that Xuan Ning Island was likely safe for now.
However, when he thought of Ning An and Ning Huarong, he couldn't help but sigh again, a look of worry flashing in his eyes.
Because those two were in Zhenhai City. Although their strength was not weak, and they possessed life-saving items he had given them, how could they possibly resist against those Spirit Transformation powerhouses?
At this moment, they were likely imprisoned. It was only because he had disappeared that they were still alive for now.
After all, Ning An was his blood relative, and he would be able to sense it if Ning An perished.
Ning Fa looked at the Five Phases True Origin Pool again, a look of determination flashing in his eyes.
Since that was the case, he wouldn't leave. He might as well continue cultivating here.
Throughout the entire Nine Dragons Sea, and perhaps even the entire Human Realm, there was likely no better place for him to cultivate.
Moreover, he already had the crucial Spiritual Materials for advancing his Supreme Water Divine Thunder and Supreme Earth Divine Thunder to the Innate Realm. With the assistance of the Five Phases True Origin, coupled with the vast cultivation resources he had stored, he could directly advance these two Divine Thunders to the Innate Realm in one go and push himself to the Peak Nascent Soul stage, directly attempting to break through to Deity Transformation.
Only by truly advancing to the Deity Transformation Realm would he have any chance of avenging this deep blood feud.
Otherwise, what would be the point of him going out now?
With this thought, Ning Fa jumped back into the pool of Five Phases True Origin and continued his cultivation.