Chapter 45: Great Fortune, Great Fortune

The green-haired man's eyes were like a hungry eagle's as he stared at Ji Ning, his voice hoarse: "If I submit to you, what would you have me do?"

Ji Ning smiled. The other clearly had thoughts of submission, but as a True God, if he were humiliated too greatly, he would rather die. Ji Ning said, "I need the treasures on you. You're imprisoned here, and the treasures are useless on you. It's better to give them to me. Also, I want to see your memories..."

"Memories?" The green-haired man's expression changed.

"To me, you are a Chaos Outsider; to you, I am also a Chaos Outsider." Ji Ning laughed. "Some of your secrets are important to you, but they are utterly useless to me. Rest assured, I won't spread your secrets."

The green-haired man looked at Ji Ning.

"I promise." Ji Ning said. "Just these two things! If you agree, you can live on safely, and I will provide you with elixirs to keep you alive. As long as you live, there is hope of leaving this world-prison."

"Fine!" The green-haired man said hoarsely, "I agree."

The other's decisiveness surprised and delighted Ji Ning.

The green-haired man then closed his eyes and sat cross-legged. Ji Ning, outside the formation restrictions, extended his right hand, which instantly swelled to hundreds of miles, and placed it on the green-haired man's head. Then his soul power seeped in, beginning the soul-scouring technique. The green-haired man offered no resistance at all... if he had resisted, Ji Ning would have been unable to scour his soul.

The vast memories of this True God were boundless, with countless bubbles, each representing a huge chunk of memory. Some bubbles had complex secret patterns on their surfaces; those with such patterns were memories Ji Ning could not penetrate or examine. Powerful techniques learned by Celestial Immortals, True Immortals, Heavenly Gods, and True Gods were all bound by lifeblood oaths, making them impossible to transmit even if they wished.

"No wonder he's willing to submit..."

"So he harbors such a towering hatred. His enemies are also some Ancestral Gods and Ancestral Immortals. Even if the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom is destroyed, those Ancestral Gods and Ancestral Immortals scattered in flight, some might escape and survive." As Ji Ning examined the memories, he learned the identity of this True God and understood the hatred in his heart.

The other longed to get out, to find his enemies, and kill them one by one! Even if the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom had fallen, he would have to go out and confirm that all his enemies were dead before he could rest.

Ji Ning didn't dwell on the other's grudges; he quickly set them aside and carefully searched the memories for what he needed...

Whoosh.

Ji Ning's soul power penetrated a memory bubble, and instantly, a profound technique surged into Ji Ning's mind.

...

At Mount Wu Bao in the Sword Immortal Realm.

The white-robed Ji Ning, sitting cross-legged in the thatched hut comprehending sword techniques, suddenly paused. He too became aware of the profound technique.

...

"Master, Mingyue has gone to cause trouble again. She saw injustice on the road and provoked some cultivators. She fought the small and the big came out, killing all the way. Now it's blown up big. The patriarch of the opposing sect is a Celestial Immortal. I'm not afraid of the sect's underlings, but if that Celestial Immortal appears, it'll be trouble. Qiu Ye and I haven't undergone our tribulations yet." Xiaoqing quickly reported to the black-robed Ji Ning.

"Oh? It's fine, don't worry." The black-robed Ji Ning nodded. "Mingyue is kind by nature. It's good for her to gain more experience outside. But you must keep a close watch and not let her stray onto the wrong path."

"Rest assured, Qiu Ye and I have been watching her closely." Xiaoqing nodded quickly. "Alright, I'm off."

Swish.

She vanished into thin air, teleporting away.

The black-robed Ji Ning smiled. Over the years, Mingyue had matured a lot. She no longer liked to walk around looking like a child; she had changed into the appearance of a young girl. Moreover, Mingyue's cultivation talent had been inherited from her parents. Patriarch Subhuti also doted on her, and she had long reached the Void-level. However, because of her extraordinary origins and experiences, her heavenly tribulation would surely be extraordinary, so she was still building up her strength. Ji Ning allowed Mingyue to roam the world, only having Xiaoqing and Qiu Ye accompany her.

In truth, none of them knew...

His second soul had split into eighteen incarnations. One of those incarnations was hidden inside an unremarkable jade talisman. This talisman was a Pure Yang treasure, which Ji Ning had specially requested from Senior Apprentice-Brother Jiang Jun on Mount Fangcun. Senior Apprentice-Brother Jiang Jun had set restrictions on the talisman, making it appear like an ordinary object, revealing no hint of its mystery.

After refining the talisman, Ji Ning gave it to his daughter. Ji Ning rarely gave gifts, so his daughter Mingyue naturally carried it with her happily. She had no idea that this ordinary-looking talisman was a Pure Yang treasure. Inside its space, one of Ji Ning's incarnations was comprehending sword techniques and cultivating, also protecting his daughter closely.

But Ji Ning couldn't let his daughter know. If she knew, the tempering effect would be lost, and Mingyue would probably be angry.

"Mingyue, she really..." Thinking of his daughter, the black-robed Ji Ning couldn't help but smile. Suddenly, he froze.

The profound technique surged into his mind.

...

The eighteen incarnations of the true body and the eighteen incarnations of the second soul.

When one incarnation learned something, all the others learned it simultaneously... All the incarnations were stunned. After more than ninety years of sweeping through the world-prison, having swept up over four hundred Heavenly Gods and Celestial Immortals and three True Gods and True Immortals, while scouring the soul of a True God, Ji Ning finally had a real gain.

In the world-prison.

After obtaining the complete technique, Ji Ning suppressed his excitement and continued to examine the True God's memories before withdrawing his hand.

Ji Ning's eyes were full of surprise, and his body even trembled slightly. He murmured, "Great fortune, great fortune."

"Heaven helps me."

"Heaven helps me!!!" Ji Ning's eyes burned with fervor and excitement.

Ji Ning had always believed that since the Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom was a vast power even greater than the Three Realms, it should have some incredibly heaven-defying techniques and divine abilities. The Three Realms had techniques like the Finger of the Seven Kills and the Eight-Nine Arcane Art. The Nine Directions Chaos Kingdom indeed had some powerful divine abilities and techniques, but all those he had examined before were bound by lifeblood oaths, making them impossible for Ji Ning to access.

This time, Ji Ning had finally obtained a technique, and one he desperately desired.

"The Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent Evasion." Ji Ning murmured to himself. "In the Chaos, there is a sea of lightning. In the sea, there are spirit serpents, each with nine horns on its head..."

"I can cultivate it."

"I can definitely cultivate it. It can be cultivated in the Three Realms." Ji Ning hadn't expected to encounter such a great opportunity.

In the Three Realms.

Evasion techniques were naturally very important divine abilities. The more powerful the evasion technique, the faster the speed. Famous ones in the Three Realms included his senior apprentice-brother's Somersault Cloud and the Golden-Winged Great Peng's Garuda Wings, both top-tier evasion techniques. For instance, the Garuda Wings of the Golden-Winged Great Peng, when cultivated to the extreme, could cover two hundred thousand li in an instant! This was beyond the reach of many True Gods and Dao Ancestors.

But Ji Ning knew well...

The true number one evasion technique in the Three Realms was a legendary one called—the Solar Golden Rainbow!

The supreme star 'Sun Star' would give birth to divine beasts called Golden Crows! These Golden Crows, born entirely from the Sun Star, were truly perfect Golden Crows. As for the Golden Crow divine beasts born from mating with some creatures of the Three Realms, no matter how pure their bloodline, they could never reach absolute perfection.

In ancient times, the Sun Star once gave birth to ten Golden Crows at once. These ten Golden Crows had heaven-defying talents and roamed the ancient world with their divine abilities. One of them even reached the True God level and was honored as the Demon Emperor... They released endless flames and light, like ten suns in the ancient world, causing headaches throughout the ancient world.

Moreover, they had an incredibly heaven-defying evasion technique—the Solar Golden Rainbow! With True God strength and the Solar Golden Rainbow divine ability, even Nüwa and other Ancestral Gods couldn't catch them.

But then Houyi acted.

Houyi, equally heaven-defying and fearsome, possessed strength that made the ancient world tremble. His arrows were the fastest and most terrifying to great powers in the ancient world. Even so, Houyi wasn't sure he could kill the Golden Crow Demon Emperor. So he first spent considerable time forging ten powerful arrows. Then Houyi struck! His arrows, which even time and space could not hinder, directly struck the Golden Crow Demon Emperor, who couldn't escape and perished. The remaining nine Heavenly God Golden Crows, though incredibly fast, couldn't escape either. Houyi killed eight more, and the last one survived only because Nüwa intervened.

But this does not deny the power of the 'Solar Golden Rainbow' divine ability.

The Solar Golden Rainbow is essentially a rainbow light! Its speed is the speed of light! The body merges into the Solar Golden Rainbow, and wherever the rainbow light goes, one can reach. Its speed... is six hundred thousand li in an instant! This is the limit of pure speed. Even great powers cannot surpass the 'Solar Golden Rainbow' in speed, unless they manipulate time and space or use treasures and spells to bind the Golden Crow, slowing it down, so they can catch up.

Back then, the Golden Crow Demon Emperor at the True God level was someone no one could catch.

Even Houyi could only catch and kill him with his specially forged terrifying arrows.

The Solar Golden Rainbow... the speed of light!

It absolutely surpassed the speed of any living being in the Three Realms. Ji Ning's third senior apprentice-brother was a Golden Crow newly born from the Sun Star in the Three Realms era, naturally adept at this divine ability. This technique had long been coveted by countless great powers.

But—

The Solar Golden Rainbow could only be cultivated by Golden Crows born from the Sun Star!

"The Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent Evasion?" Ji Ning was excited.

The Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent Evasion was a divine ability of the same level as the Solar Golden Rainbow.

The Solar Golden Rainbow is essentially a beam of light, requiring a Golden Crow body to control.

The Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent is essentially a bolt of lightning. Cultivation is equally difficult and has harsh conditions, even described as nine deaths and one life. But once successfully cultivated, the body can merge into the 'Nine-Horned Lightning Serpent,' and with a flash of the lightning serpent, one can reach a distant place. Lightning speed and light speed are the same, both the limit of speed.

"If I succeed in cultivating it, I can roam the Three Realms, attacking the various locations of the Palace of No-Space, and they won't be able to catch me." Ji Ning knew this evasion technique was very difficult, but the moment he obtained it, he decided: no matter the cost, he must master this divine ability!