For a full three days, Fang Han refined all of a "War World Divine Pill", but he only successfully refined the Thirty-Three Heavens Ultimate Artifact "Zhoutian Globe" into an intermediate-grade immortal artifact. The "Lawless Umbrella" was not refined successfully, let alone the rest. It was not due to a lack of Golden Immortal laws, but a lack of materials that led to a lack of stamina.
Originally, Fang Han still had some materials on him, after all, he had cleaned up thousands of sects in the Mang Mountain Range, killed Shang Ziluo, and plundered everywhere. But now he was truly completely clean. Even a sealed immortal artifact "Iron Blood Battle Flag" had been melted down into it, swept utterly clean, and he had only managed to refine the "Zhoutian Globe" and half of the "Lawless Umbrella."
Right now on Fang Han's body, besides seven "War World Divine Pills" and "two rank-two" spirit veins, there was only the Wings of Freedom and the Staff of Legend, and these two great treasures had also transformed into a set of runic martial arts. The Thirty-Three Heavens Ultimate Artifacts and the Eight Divisions Pagoda were his root ultimate artifacts. Of course, there was also a talisman of the World Honored Constrain King Buddha, but these were all things that could not see the light of day and could not be taken out.
"The materials needed to refine the Thirty-Three Heavens Ultimate Artifacts into intermediate-grade immortal artifacts are too astonishing. The Golden Immortal laws needed for the subsequent treasures are also fiercer one after another. I'm afraid that even refining thirty-three peerless Golden Immortals wouldn't make the refinement successful." Fang Han shook his head. "However, I have finally stabilized these past few days. Let's go and accept sect missions. Earn pills and magic treasures to purchase various materials. It would be best if I could find fragments of Creation Divine Artifacts, then I wouldn't need other materials at all."
The materials for forging the Thirty-Three Heavens Ultimate Artifacts are hard to collect; some materials are even rare in the Heavenly Realm. But if he could find fragments of Creation Divine Artifacts, that would be better than any material, providing immensely huge benefits to the Thirty-Three Heavens Ultimate Artifacts.
If all the Thirty-Three Heavens Ultimate Artifacts were forged using fragments of Creation Divine Artifacts, exerting thirty-three times the combat power would eternally be sturdy. Then there would be no need to ever worry about signs of cracking.
Currently, Fang Han also had great misgivings, because when he cultivated to peerless Golden Immortal, his combat power would soar. As low-grade immortal artifacts, the Thirty-Three Heavens Ultimate Artifacts and the Eight Divisions Pagoda would no longer be able to support exponential expansions of combat power. He feared that halfway through executing it, they would violently explode and cease to exist.
Moreover, the spirit veins on him might not have the vital qi to support him in exerting thirty-three times the combat power.
When the time comes, for a peerless Golden Immortal, I'm afraid that every time thirty-three times the combat power is exerted, one rank-two spirit vein will be consumed.
"I need Origin Qi! Purchasing materials requires Origin Pills, thirty-three times the combat power requires Origin Qi, and advancing to a peerless Golden Immortal also requires more Origin Qi! Go accept sect missions! Many of the sect missions of the Yuhua Sect are extremely abnormal, but the rewards are also extraordinarily generous. There are even rewards of spirit veins, rank-three spirit veins, and rank-two spirit veins."
Based on Shang Ziluo's memories, Fang Han knew that many sect missions of the Yuhua Sect had generous rewards.
However, although Shang Ziluo claimed to be a "genius", he dared not take on some dangerous missions to seek his own death.
"Swoosh!"
Fang Han's body disappeared into the mountain range of the "Jiangshan Courtyard," soundless and traceless.
Relying on his token as a "true disciple," he passed through countless restrictive arrays of the Yuhua Sect and arrived at the "Tiangong Courtyard," which specialized in accepting missions.
In the Yuhua Sect, there were countless restrictive arrays hidden in the void. If one was not a disciple, even a peerless Golden Immortal would find it difficult to take a single step. Once discovered, they would be strangled by the restrictive arrays.
With the Yuhua Sect being such a king-tier grand sect, it was simply impossible for outsiders to sneak in; even an attack by a hundred peerless Golden Immortals would be of no avail.
In the depths of the Yuhua Sect, places where true disciples could not reach, Fang Han knew there were terrifying great figures who surpassed Golden Immortals cultivating and keeping watch.
"The Taiyi Sect is also a giant sect in the Heavenly Realm, I wonder exactly what kind of atmosphere they have?" Standing in front of the "Tiangong Courtyard", Fang Han's thoughts drifted.
This "Tiangong Courtyard" was a massive palace, inside which stood tens of thousands of giant puppets: demons, individuals of the God Race, Buddhas, and even war puppets forged from various rare metals.
These puppets shuttled through the void, coming and going, exuding formidable combat power. They intimidated every disciple who came here.
However, Fang Han turned a blind eye to them. He walked directly into the depths of the "Tiangong Courtyard", where several elders sat upright before a massive table.
These few elders wore white clothes; they were all elders of the Yuhua Sect. However, their cultivation bases were not peerless Golden Immortals, but like Fang Han, they were Half-Step Golden Immortal almighty experts. Yet, their bodies exuded the aura of intermediate-grade immortal artifacts. Each person possessed a set of intermediate-grade immortal artifact magic treasures, and their combat power was astonishing. This was the treatment of an elder.
Seeing Fang Han arrive, the elders opened their eyes: "Are you a disciple here to accept a mission? Just in time, there are quite a lot of missions for the Yuhua Sect recently. What mission do you want to take? Rank three? Rank four?"
"Are there any rank one missions?"
Fang Han asked directly.
"What? You, a true disciple, want to take a rank one mission?" The elders seemingly could not believe their own eyes: "For a Half-Step Golden Immortal almighty, taking a rank two mission is good enough."
As it turned out, the sect missions of the Yuhua Sect were divided into many grades. From rank nine up to rank one. Among them, rank three and rank four belonged to dangerous missions.
While rank two was extremely dangerous.
As for rank one, that was a narrow escape from death; basically, true disciples and Half-Step Golden Immortal almighty experts couldn't possibly complete them.
Of course, above rank one, there were Peerless-grade missions, King-grade missions, Holy-grade missions… but these were for Golden Immortals, and even experts above Golden Immortals to do. Some missions were even dispatched down by the Heavenly Court, among which was killing wanted criminals.
Among them, the most outrageous mission, according to legend, was to find the Heavenly Lord of Chaos who defected from the Heavenly Court, and then capture and escort him back to the Heavenly Court for trial.
However, this mission was something the Yuhua Sect basically didn't even dare to think about. If the Heavenly Lord of Chaos truly appeared, even the several Great Heavenly Lords currently ruling, Disaster, Eternal, Primal Chaos, Thunder Emperor… these ancient figures wouldn't dare say they could truly defeat him. If the Yuhua Sect went to capture him, the entire sect would be gone, directly wiped out by a spit from the other party.
However, the Yuhua Sect had a supreme mission, which was to find news of the legendary creator of the Yuhua Sect, Heavenly Lord Hua. As long as one could get a shred of accurate news, and relying on this news, the higher-ups of the Yuhua Sect found Heavenly Lord Hua, then no matter what disciple it was, they would be immediately promoted to "Holy Son."
These missions existed in legends, illusory and ethereal, circulating among the disciples of the Yuhua Sect, talked about with great relish. Countless disciples of the Yuhua Sect fantasized about it, but none of these small figures had yet been able to find a tiny trace of news regarding "Heavenly Lord Hua."
"You must be a newly entered disciple. Young man, sometimes you must know the immensity of heaven and earth. Although the rewards for rank one missions are abundant, it's a narrow escape…"
"Don't speak rubbish, just a rank one mission! Give me a few more!" Fang Han's eyes flashed with a cold light, displaying his formidable strength, and he threw out the token representing his identity.
"Feng Yuan?" These elders were about to reprimand him, but seeing Fang Han's identity, their expressions abruptly changed: "You are that disciple who defeated Hong Zhou? Very well, you have some strength, but if you're not afraid of death, I'll give you a rank one mission. Complete this mission, and then come to receive other missions. The rewards for this mission are extremely bountiful: a total of five low-grade immortal artifacts, and an additional reward of two rank-three spirit veins."
"Such bountiful rewards?" Upon hearing this, Fang Han said, "I accept!"
"Young man, hold it well." While speaking, that elder handed a golden book page to Fang Han. When Fang Han caught it in his hand, the golden book flashed for a moment, and that elder smiled somewhat sinisterly: "Young man, I forgot to tell you, once you accept a mission, it cannot be returned. Retreating from a mission equates to quitting the sect, and you will face the punishment of our Yuhua Sect: life imprisonment."
"Oh?"
Fang Han opened this golden book page and saw that the general outline of the mission on it was that in the remote Chen State, a group of extremely vicious immortal bandits had appeared, calling themselves the "Shaxing Alliance". Its leaders were seventy-two Shaxings, each and every one a Half-Step Golden Immortal almighty. They wreaked havoc in a region. These Shaxings were extremely formidable, and the Heavenly Court had besieged and annihilated them several times, but all ended in failure. They had even deployed Golden Immortals, but as soon as a peerless Golden Immortal appeared, these Shaxing bandits vanished without a trace. Their intelligence was very well-informed; once the Golden Immortal left, they would come out to plunder, burn, and kill. Countless minor sects were destroyed, and their spirit veins were plundered.
Especially minor sects like the Mang Mountain Alliance, which were almost more numerous than ants in the Heavenly Realm, countless of them were destroyed by the "Shaxing Alliance" in a short period.
When Fang Han dealt with the Mang Mountain Alliance, he merely collected a main spirit vein and killed some people who humiliated him and didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth. He didn't refine all of them.
But the "Shaxing Alliance" killed everyone, refining all Heavenly Immortals, God Immortals, and Mystic Immortals to forge devil sect magical instruments. All spirit veins were scraped entirely clean, executing a "three lights" policy.
"The Shaxing Alliance, is it? I will go and slaughter them all right now!"
Fang Han accepted the mission, and with a swoosh, he vanished without a trace.
"This disciple indeed has a bit of an air of not knowing the immensity of heaven and earth, taking on a mission that even peerless Golden Immortals cannot complete. Those people from the Shaxing Alliance are extremely cunning. Their intelligence is terribly well-informed. I'm afraid that as soon as we issue a mission here, they might know about it and formulate corresponding countermeasures."
"Let's just watch, there isn't much hope anyway."
"Being able to survive would already be extremely good."
"Originally, Chen Xin was going to accept this mission, but he has been busy cultivating recently. I heard that yesterday he went to Quanzhou to inquire about that very famous genius named Heng Budong. Otherwise, if he accepted this mission, there would be hope."
These elders sat back down and discussed animatedly.
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Chen State.
It was located in a remote area, bordering a boundless Heavenly Realm ocean, abundant in products. Cultivators gathered in mountain ranges near the sea, establishing many sects for cultivation.
However, ever since the "Shaxing Alliance" appeared, the cultivators in the Chen State area had all died out. The mountains and seas withered, and devil qi and evil qi permeated everywhere.
At this moment, in a cavern, the leader of the "Shaxing Alliance," "Di Kui Xing," was receiving reports from his subordinates.
"Leader! According to the intelligence, yesterday at the third quarter of the Hour of Mao, in the Yuhua Sect, a disciple named Feng Yuan accepted a sect mission to come and strangle our Shaxing Alliance!"