Although the spiritual aura emanating from An Ran was also that of the Nascent Soul realm.
That alone proved nothing.
The Nascent Soul realm had eighty-one manifestations; the first manifestation was Nascent Soul aura, the thirty-sixth was still Nascent Soul aura, and the eighty-first was the same.
Not only that, even after transformation, spiritualization, and deification, the aura remained that of the Nascent Soul.
Yet the difference between them, seemingly just a single word apart, was in reality higher than mountains and deeper than seas.
The Hei Feng Twin Fiends, both Nascent Soul experts who had cultivated for millennia, naturally understood the vast gulf between the eighty-one manifestations, and knew just how terrifying the differences between transformation, spiritualization, and deification truly were.
If that were all, it still wouldn't be enough to make the Hei Feng Twin Fiends wary. With their current cultivation levels, unless the opponent was a top-tier Nascent Soul master, they had nothing to fear. Even if they couldn't win, they were at least confident they could escape.
But the problem was, this woman named An Ran also possessed three Breaths of Fortune.
One was the Breath of the Great Nature's Colored Spirit.
That was nothing unusual. In the Present Era, with all things flourishing, many geniuses possessed the fortune of the Great Nature's Colored Spirit. Unless it was an extraordinary, top-tier Great Nature's Colored Spirit, the Hei Feng Twin Fiends weren't afraid.
However.
The other Breath of Fortune on An Ran's person was something they couldn't help but be wary of.
It was a Breath of Holiness, also a Breath of Light.
And everyone knew that such fortune belonged to only one kind of existence: the Immortal's Blessing, the Halo of Holy Light.
Possessing the Halo of Holy Light, in this world, represented a symbol of status, a symbol of nobility, and more importantly, an Immortal Official revered by all.
In this world, the Immortal Dynasty reigned supreme.
Who would dare cross an Immortal Official?
The answer was certain.
No one.
Even though the Hei Feng Twin Fiends had been rogue, desperate villains roaming the Great Northwest Frontier since the Ancient Times, they wouldn't dare openly oppose an Immortal Official of the Immortal Dynasty's Immortal Court. They knew that the Immortal Dynasty of the Present Era was fundamentally incomparable to that of the Ancient Times.
The Immortal Dynasty of the Ancient Times was a pure Immortal Dynasty, consisting of nothing but Immortals.
But the Immortal Dynasty of the Present Era was different.
Not only did the Immortal Dynasty have Immortals presiding over it, it had also established Immortal Courts in various regions. Every year, it bestowed a fixed number of Halos of Holy Light upon those with great prestige, great talent, great comprehension, great fortune, and great potential. In this way, most of the contemporary masters of this world, as well as future masters, had essentially become people of the Immortal Court.
Under such circumstances, who would still dare oppose the Immortal Dynasty?
Even more frightening was that besides the Breath of the Great Nature's Colored Spirit and the Breath of Holy Light, An Ran possessed another, unknown Breath of Fortune. As for what kind of fortune it was, the Hei Feng Twin Fiends didn't know. Precisely because they didn't know, they were afraid.
Over a century had passed in the Present Era, and they had seen all sorts of fortunes. If it was a fortune they hadn't seen before, they simply wouldn't know how to deal with it.
An Ran, hailing from the Immortal Court, was already enough to make the Hei Feng Twin Fiends extremely wary.
But the woman not far away, dressed in black robes, her face veiled with black gauze and holding a black cat, made the two Fiends feel a chill in their hearts.
Because they had never seen this woman before, neither in the Ancient Times nor the Present Era.
They didn't know her identity, her background, not even her name.
Although this woman also emanated the aura of the Nascent Soul, besides that, she too possessed three Breaths of Fortune.
Two of those Breaths of Fortune, they also didn't recognize.
However.
One of those Breaths of Fortune made them exceptionally wary.
A Breath of Turbidity.
And between heaven and earth, only those who had undergone reincarnation would carry a Breath of Turbidity.
Those who reincarnated were all Immortals in their previous lives.
Even after reincarnating and cultivating anew, they were not something ordinary people could compare to. Relying on countless years of cultivation experience from their past lives, they were proficient and masters of all kinds of Immortal arts and techniques. Never mind that this woman holding the black cat was also a Nascent Soul Daozun with two unknown Breaths of Fortune; even if she had no Breaths of Fortune at all, even if she were merely a reincarnated person with only Nascent Infant cultivation, the Hei Feng Twin Fiends would still be wary of her.
The only thing that gave them some relief was that all these people were alone, while the two of them were a pair. If they joined forces, they definitely had the qualifications to put up a fight.
Seeing how everyone was staring at the little turtle that was likely a Mystic Beast, Hei Hu Sha, one of the Hei Feng Twin Fiends, said with a sinister tone, "Everyone here should be able to see that this beast is no ordinary item. With so many of us present, I wonder how we should divide it?"
As soon as the words fell, Feng Lie Old Monster, the Supreme Elder of Yaoyue Palace, cursed loudly, "Divide my ass!
This is mine!
Who dares snatch it?"
"Yours?"
Hei Hu Sha was just saying, "I say, Feng Lie Old Monster, have you been in seclusion for so long your brain isn't working right..." when Feng Lie Old Monster suddenly turned around, glaring furiously, and roared, "Hei Hu, Hei Shi, you two little bastards! Haven't seen you for a few years and you've grown some guts, daring to yap at me! Believe it or not, I'll beat you up again!"
"Feng Lie Old Monster!
Do you think this is still the Ancient Times? Tsk tsk..." Hei Hu Sha sneered. "In the Ancient Times, your Yaoyue Palace ruled the Great Northwest, but the Present Era is not...
Feng Zhuyue is dead, your Yaoyue Palace has declined...
Do you think we'd still be afraid of you now?"
"Well, well!"
Feng Lie Old Monster looked at the Hei Feng Twin Fiends, his smile not reaching his eyes. "Seems you two little bastards really have grown some guts!
Fine, just wait for me! After I capture this turtle, we'll settle your matter. I'd like to see just how much skill you two brats have gained in the two hundred years we haven't met!"
"Capture this beast...
Heh."
Hei Hu Sha laughed. "Feng Lie Old Monster, aren't you afraid of your tongue getting twisted by the wind? Even if the two of us yielded to you, the other few here wouldn't agree!"
"Hmph!"
Feng Lie Old Monster snorted coldly, looking at Profound Heart Daozun of Wuse Mountain. "Well then, Profound Heart kid, do you want to fight me for it?"
In mid-air.
The middle-aged man with a stern face shook his head slightly. "This junior has no such intention."
The saying 'All gentlemen hail from Wuse Mountain' wasn't just empty words.
In a place as chaotic as the Great Northwest, Wuse Mountain was absolutely a clear stream, like a lotus unstained by the mud it grew from.
From Wuse Mountain's founding ancestor, to the famous Nine Solitaries, down to the contemporary Eighteen Swords, all were chivalrous, vanquishing demons and defending the Dao, gentlemen in conduct, humble and low-key.
Even though Profound Heart Daozun was the most famous, had the highest cultivation, possessed the greatest strength among the Wuse Eighteen Swords, and was the successor likely to take charge of Wuse Mountain in the future, he still showed the utmost respect when facing an old-timer of the Great Northwest like Feng Lie Old Monster.
"Tsk tsk!"
At that moment, Granny Qinghua of Hunyuan Gate, leaning on her cane, chuckled. "Brother Feng Lie, if the two of you have no objections, your little sister Qinghua naturally won't fight you for it either."
In the Great Northwest Frontier, any expert who had cultivated for many years almost knew Feng Lie Old Monster's temperament. He was called the Mad Fiend, especially when it came to fighting; no matter who you were, he was the type to fight you to the death. Back in the Ancient Times, he was a truly formidable figure in the Great Northwest Frontier.
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