"So that's how it is!"
He could barely accept Xia Youyu's explanation.
If he was lucky enough to receive a suitable reward that allowed him to save Butian Pavilion, he wouldn't mind.
After all, he had taken a liking to Xia Youyu, and his disciple, Shi Hao, would also join Butian Pavilion in the future.
Moreover, the people of Butian Pavilion left a good impression on him in the original story.
Saving them was fine.
But it was limited to himself.
Liu Shen and Double Pupil Girl could also save them, and it would just be a matter of him speaking a few words.
But Butian Pavilion had no direct connection to them, so why should they expend their power and needlessly incur karma?
Ning Fan would never do such a foolish thing as using his connections to benefit others while owing favors himself.
He alone was enough.
With the diary system and knowledge of the plot,
saving Butian Pavilion, though not easy, wasn't extremely difficult either.
Not to the point where he couldn't do it.
What Ning Fan didn't know was that Xia Youyu had indeed wanted to ask for help earlier, but now she had already received a reward that allowed her to heal the Gourd Vine.
She not only obtained what she had always dreamed of, but in her flustered state, she also accidentally completed a hidden quest, gaining the method to obtain a hidden reward.
It was a method currently known only to her.
As for the subsequent tasks, considering that 25% of the task progress was achieved through her first kiss, she now had a guess about them.
"Actually… Fellow Daoist, there's no need to feel burdened. It was You Yu who was impulsive just now. In the future, there's no need to force yourself regarding the Butian Pavilion matter; Fellow Daoist can just do your best."
Xia Youyu's face was so red she couldn't stay there. After receiving the reward, now that she had calmed down, she realized she had been desperate earlier.
She had flustered Ning Fan and even scared him a little.
Damn it.
You used your first kiss to ask me for help, and I'm a hot-blooded virgin fantasizing about a happy life, and now you realize you were impulsive?
And you're telling me to just do my best?
Ning Fan immediately became displeased.
He began to rant in his diary:
[You kissed me by force!]
[You just took my first kiss and begged me to save Butian Pavilion, but now you're telling me not to force myself...]
[Woman!]
[Your name is fickle.]
[You pull up your skirt and don't recognize people.]
[My little wife You Yu, remember your kiss just now. I want you to be responsible for me, isn't that fair?]
[You wouldn't want to go back on your word, be a hooligan, and then refuse to take responsibility, would you?]
[Butian Pavilion, I'll save it! You, I want you too!]
[I, Ning Fan, am serious.]
[You chose this, idol!]
[Butian Pavilion, I'm saving it for sure!]
[Even the red hair can't stop me!]
[I said it!]
Xia Youyu's eyes darted around, pretending to look at the scenery. In reality, she was reading the diary, and her heart was already filled with unbearable shyness, so she dared not look at Ning Fan.
Then, after Ning Fan finished writing in his diary, they exchanged a few more random words, and she quickly bid farewell.
She left like a flash, taking a group of her little sisters with her.
The other women who were reading the diary.
Their expressions first became strange, then they showed an auntie smile.
On the way back to Stone Village's new site.
Ning Fan was restless on his brother's back.
His heart still couldn't calm down.
Recalling what happened just now, the soft and tender touch the girl gave Ning Fan seemed to have opened a certain switch in his body, making him incredibly restless.
Coupled with the enhancement from the Lao Ai template,
this symptom made Ning Fan's situation even worse.
He really wanted to somersault off his brother's back.
And then perform a set of earth-shattering forbidden spear techniques.
Spear Remains, Fearless Charge, Spear Heart Like Fire, Hundred Cuts of Prairie Fire!
"Forget it, I'll just write in the diary to distract myself!"
Helpless, Ning Fan could only write in his diary to forget the surging evil fire.
[Today is truly an unforgettable day!]
[What a sin….]
[Although a girl's shyness surpasses all love words!]
[But my little wife You Yu, she flirts and then runs, only responsible for igniting the fire, leaving me uncomfortable all the way. She's really too hateful.]
[Eh? Today's diary even has a theme, and it wants me to write about the Dark Land on the other side of the Boundary Sea?]
[What's there to write about that rotten place!]
[Just five old men.]
[There isn't even a beautiful fairy.]
"So that place is called the Dark Land?"
Liu Shen of Stone Village, the chicken keeper, the women of Immortal Realm…
All were incredibly surprised.
However, their surprise didn't last long before their faces turned horrified and incredibly pale.
As for the other onlookers with lower cultivation,
they didn't feel much.
If it weren't for the diary, they wouldn't even know about the Immortal Realm, Immortal King, Foreign Realm, Burial Ground… and so on.
The Boundary Sea was even more secretive.
Therefore, the Dark Land on the other side of the Boundary Sea was even more distant to them. Most of the people who appeared in the original story never went to that place even by the end.
What Ning Fan was about to write was no different from a divine scripture.
[The Dark Land!]
[The other side of the Boundary Sea!]
[To go there, one must first cross the Boundary Sea Dam. Only by reaching the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm can one go there.]
[And only a Quasi-Immortal Emperor can leave footprints there.]
[This is the lowest threshold to enter the Dark Land!]
[A total of nine people have been there.]
[Five are ancient existences, one is from the past, and the other three will go there in the future.]
[The one from the past is an unnamed Quasi-Immortal Emperor.]
[The faint footprints left on the dam on the other side of the Boundary Sea today belong to that unnamed Quasi-Immortal Emperor.]
[Of the three in the future, one is naturally Wild Heaven Emperor, and the other two are Little Pagoda and Liu Shen.]
[Today's topic is that place.]
[So I'll focus on those five people.]
[They are also the ultimate villains of this world.]
[They are the ones who caused the strangeness and ominousness in this world, launched the dark calamity, and initiated countless epochal clearings.]
[They are: Emperor Cang, Yu Di, Hong Di, Old Man of Extinction, and Emperor Bone Bro.]
[The first four are Quasi-Immortal Emperors, and Emperor Bone Bro is a true Immortal Emperor!]
[Speaking of this, it involves quite a lot, such as: why there is a dark calamity, why the Heavenly Court is ominous, the goal of the Ancient Guidance Hall, why there is an Age of Dharma End clearing, the origin of the Original True Solution…]
[Where did the prodigies and strong individuals who triggered the strangeness and ominousness throughout history go?]
[And also, why did the Foreign Realm and Burial Ground undergo changes?]
[The true reason why the Foreign Realm attacked the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths…]
Four Quasi-Immortal Emperors!
One true Immortal Emperor!
Although she had previously learned about the realm above Immortal King in the diary, and knew about the three Emperors Cang, Yu, and Hong.
She also knew about the Old Man of Extinction and Nine Nether Hound.
And the first three were her enemies whom she had to kill.
But the information about Emperor Bone Bro, this true Immortal Emperor,
still terrified her.
It brought her extreme shock!
Quasi-Immortal Emperor and Immortal Emperor are only one character apart, but the meaning and the strength of the ultimate enemy they represent are worlds apart!
One could get a glimpse of this from the difference between a Quasi-Immortal King and an Immortal King.