Chapter 337: Chapter 337

In the remaining days, Ding Fan kept himself locked in his room. During this period, he refined some Fireball Talismans and Explosive Talismans.

Besides that, Ding Fan also concocted some pills that could rapidly restore True Qi, anticipating the unpredictable dangers of the forbidden land, he decided to prepare more thoroughly.

Over these days, what delighted Ding Fan the most was Zizi's evolution once again.

A couple of days ago, Ding Fan had intended to extract a Crimson Fire Pill from the Crimson Flame Fire Frog. However, when he took out the Crimson Flame Fire Frog, Zizi started to get restless.

After pondering briefly, Ding Fan understood why.

Ever since Zizi had consumed the Nine Luminaries Fire, it had developed a fondness for items with fire attributes.

The Crimson Flame Fire Frog was a Fire Attribute Miraculous Beast of Heaven and Earth, and the Crimson Fire Pill refined from its Demon Core could significantly improve cultivation levels. Even for Ding Fan at the Sixth Level of Qi Cultivation, the Crimson Fire Pill could bring about an extraordinary advancement.

However, seeing Zizi's restlessness, Ding Fan decided to reward Zizi with the Crimson Flame Fire Frog directly. During this period, while refining pills and talismans, Zizi's Nine Luminaries Fire had indeed been very helpful, so the frog could be considered a reward for Zizi.

Right away, Zizi very expertly killed the Crimson Flame Fire Frog, extracted the Demon Core, and gulped it down in one go.

Having consumed the Demon Core, Zizi obediently returned to Ding Fan's collar to meditate and absorb the essence of the Crimson Flame Fire Frog's Demon Core.

The next day, when Ding Fan saw Zizi again, a tuft of purple fur had grown on the back of Zizi's neck. The entire body of the fiery-red Zizi fluttered with this strand of purple fur, looking rather stylish.

Zizi's eyes were bright, and as it moved, it even had a human-like manner, and surprisingly, it could now speak a few human words.

How could Ding Fan not understand that Zizi had plainly elevated to the Second Layer of Enlightenment?

Now that Zizi had gained spiritual intelligence, Ding Fan passed on a Cultivation Technique for Spiritual Pets to it, which he had obtained while in the Cultivation World.

"Master... I might need to use the storage space to enter closed-door cultivation for a while..." Zizi sat in Ding Fan's palm, now appearing to have the demeanor of a profoundly wise person.

Yet, as Zizi was only the size of a thumb, it still looked more cute than imposing.

Ding Fan naturally understood that Zizi had just advanced and had just learned the Cultivation Technique, so it needed time for closed-door cultivation to comprehend it deeply.

"Here are a few Foundation Establishment Pills. If you encounter any bottlenecks, feel free to use them..." Ding Fan placed several Second Grade Foundation Establishment Pills in front of Zizi, sitting on his palm.

"Master, thank you so much..." Zizi was visibly delighted by these pills. After all, being at the Second Layer of Enlightenment was still the stage of Foundation Establishment, making the pills Ding Fan gave it incredibly valuable.

Immediately, Zizi held the pills Ding Fan had given it and went into closed-door cultivation inside Ding Fan's storage ring.

Now Ding Fan felt an even greater need to upgrade his storage ring. If the storage ring could become a Small World that he could carry around, then Zizi would have a place to play as well.

After a dozen days, Ding Fan had completed his preparations. He left behind a letter and then set off on his journey.

Following the agreement with Ma Xiaochuan, Ding Fan went to a villa outside Yanjing City, where Ma Xiaochuan had arranged for a plane to pick him up.

When Ding Fan arrived there, he was somewhat surprised to find the person coming to receive him was no other than Ma Xiaochuan's prized daughter, Mary.

"Brother Fan, you're really a man of your word." Seeing that Ding Fan had indeed come as promised, Mary was very happy.

Ding Fan simply smiled faintly at Mary.

"Miss, surely Mr. Ma doesn't intend for us to enter the forbidden land with this man?" A middle-aged man beside Mary scrutinized Ding Fan and said with a frown.

"Yes, my father said to assist Young Master Ding..." Mary said on the side.

"Miss, I think that's unnecessary. If we have to enter the forbidden land with this person, we might as well go on our own..." The middle-aged man spoke with certainty.

Ding Fan glanced at the middle-aged man, whose words clearly conveyed a lack of faith in him.

"If you don't wish to form a team, that's fine too. My father said, whoever can find my grandfather's remains, the generous reward and that big diamond will belong to them," Mary said nonchalantly.

After hearing Mary's words, the middle-aged man's eyes lit up, and he rubbed his chin pensively. The generous reward and the Sky Changing Stone were obviously very tempting for him.

"Brother Fan, my father initially asked these people to assist you, but it seems they don't have much confidence in you..." Mary said, while giving Ding Fan a seductive gaze.

"It's fine, whoever gets it deserves it," Ding Fan said indifferently.

"Kid, the forbidden land is not a playground, some money cannot be earned by just anyone," said the middle-aged man with a slight smirk.

"Can we set off now? I have other matters to attend to," Ding Fan said bluntly, ignoring the words of the middle-aged man beside him, for he didn't deign to waste words on such insignificant characters.

Mary nodded. "The helicopter is ready. We can depart at any time."

"Then let's go," said Ding Fan, and with that, he walked towards the helicopter.

"Miss, this kid is quite arrogant," the middle-aged man sneered as he watched Ding Fan's retreating figure.

"Who asked him to have the capital to be arrogant..." Mary said and then headed straight towards the helicopter.

"Big brother, what's the situation here?! Where did this kid come from?" At this moment, a muscular man approached the middle-aged man and questioned.

"This kid is an idiot without a single bit of cultivation, yet he dares to enter the forbidden area..." The middle-aged man sneered disdainfully. Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs 𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡✶𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚✶𝙣𝙚𝙩

"There are actually idiots ? Big brother, once we're in the forbidden area, should we just take him out? It'll save this kid from sharing the hefty reward the Ma Family promised us..." the muscular man said.

"Let this idiot be on his own. Tell the brothers, when we enter the forbidden area, let this foolish kid take the lead and we'll all follow behind him..." the middle-aged man instructed.

"Understood, big brother!" The muscular man responded...

Ding Fan boarded the helicopter and soon after, the middle-aged man also brought five martial artists onto the aircraft.

The martial artists with the middle-aged man weren't very high in cultivation, probably around Human Level Third or Fourth Grade, and the middle-aged man himself was only at Human Level Seventh Grade.

These people weren't skilled in cultivation, but they spoke with their noses in the air, acting as if they were unbeatably awesome, as if there was nothing in the world they couldn't do. Ding Fan genuinely began to wonder where these people got such immense confidence from.

The helicopter took off, with Mary personally escorting them.

The journey was smooth, without any incidents, and in less than two hours, they arrived at Zhangjiajie.

Since the location of the forbidden zone was in the heart of Zhangjiajie forest, where the miasma was quite dense, the helicopter couldn't get too close.

Having no other choice, the helicopter had to land on the edge of the Zhangjiajie forest.

After the helicopter landed, everyone disembarked.

"Mr. Ding and everyone, I will be waiting for you here. Within three days, whether you've found my grandfather's remains or not, please come out to this location. I have a GPS tracking system here."

As Mary spoke, she handed out what looked like wristwatches to everyone present.

"The red dots on these watches represent each of our locations. The forbidden area is very dangerous, so if you get separated, you can use this tracking system to quickly find your teammates..."

While Ding Fan explained, he went over the use of the GPS tracking system with everyone there.

Immediately, everyone put on the tracking watches. Although Ding Fan thought the device was rather useless, he eventually put on the watch as well.

"The rest is up to you..." Mary said.

"Miss Mary, you actually didn't need to find some useless people to come along. We alone are fully capable of accomplishing the task Mr. Ma has given us," the middle-aged man commented on the side.

When the middle-aged man spoke of 'useless people', everyone there understood he was referring to Ding Fan.

Mary looked at Ding Fan with a flirty smile. "Whether someone is useful or not, we'll only know after seeing who can accomplish the task my dad has assigned."

At that moment, Ding Fan paid no attention to the banter of these minor characters; his Divine Sense reached out and detected faint traces of Spiritual Energy emanating from within the forest.

Without wasting words with Mary and the others, Ding Fan's figure flickered, and in an instant, he had vanished from everyone's sight.

"Damn, that speed, is he even human?" At that moment, everyone present was astonished.

"Could this kid be performing some kind of trick?"

"Is this some kind of disappearing act?"

One second Ding Fan was there, and the next, he had suddenly vanished right before everyone's eyes; his movement technique was simply too impressive.

The middle-aged man stood there with his mouth agape. As the highest leveled among them, he hadn't managed to see clearly at all just what method Ding Fan had used to disappear.

"Do you still think he's a useless person now?" Mary's lips curved up slightly as she looked at the middle-aged man who was already dumbfounded.

The middle-aged man wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say.

He had called someone useless before, but now that someone had casually demonstrated a movement technique that completely exceeded his understanding.

If someone as awesome as that was considered useless, what did that make him? He was beyond compare to such a person.

If that person was useless, then he would be all the more useless. He couldn't even catch up to the other man's coattails.

This was a blatant slap in the face!