Fast! The speed was unimaginably fast.
Just as Young Master White Bone said, "Who dares to kill me!", before his words had even faded, his head flew up, and his corpse was also scooped away.
All the evil path practitioners couldn't even react to what exactly had happened. Was it an illusion?
"What a formidable cultivator?" Among the many women captured by the evil path cultivators, an ordinary woman who looked like a slave flashed a strange luster in her eyes. "I used the supreme secret art of resurrecting a dead body, hiding here for many days without daring to make a move. Who is this person, acting so arrogantly?"
No one noticed that this woman's body gradually withered, and a subtle golden light integrated into the void.
It was actually an expert female peerless Golden Immortal who was also going to assassinate Young Master White Bone, but she was beaten to it by that sword light.
Rumble!
The entire White Bone City was enraged; it was the Lord of the White Bone City, the peerless Golden Immortal Bone Demon, who became furious. Cultivating in seclusion deep underground, he suddenly felt that his son had actually been assassinated. He immediately flew into a thunderous rage and began urging his restrictive arrays. For a time, the sky was dark and the earth was gloomy; the sun and moon lost their light. All spacetime was completely sealed off, countless white bones shuttled through spacetime, and bone-colored flames burned everywhere.
"Buzz!" In the air, a figure was forcefully forced out. It was none other than Fang Han.
But Fang Han was completely unafraid; he opened his mouth and let out a long howl that shook heaven and earth.
"Break for me!"
In this instant of a hair's breadth of a peak, an intense golden light bloomed from his body, like an eternal Heavenly Lord walking the mortal world. A massive will pierced through the seal and vanished without a trace.
In that instant when the seal was pierced through, a speck of subtle golden light followed out.
"Phew! That Old Bone Demon is truly difficult to deal with!"
The void twisted for a burst. In a vast desert an unknown number of trillions of miles away from the White Bone City, Fang Han revealed his body. Carrying Young Master White Bone's head, he casually plundered the magic treasure pouch off his corpse onto his own person, and then collected his qi and blood, divine powers, and Great Luo Laws into the Thirty-Three Heavens Ultimate Artifacts, before settling down securely.
"Another one killed. Assassinating his son right under a peerless Golden Immortal's nose is truly thrilling, but this is nothing to me. There is so much wealth and magic treasures on this Young Master White Bone's body! When I return to the Yuhua Sect, will that bunch be greatly startled? It doesn't matter anyway."
Standing in the desert, Fang Han pondered in his heart.
"Next time, should I accept a mission to assassinate a peerless Golden Immortal? But any mission involving a Golden Immortal is Peerless-grade, thousands of times more difficult than a rank one mission. With my current strength, although it might be possible to complete, it would be too showy and I would look like an anomalous existence. Let's forget it and just take on some more rank one missions first."
Having completed two missions consecutively, Fang Han was extremely satisfied, especially since this Young Master White Bone wasn't completely clean like the seventy-two Shaxings, but rather possessed abundant wealth.
Even his magic treasure pouch was an intermediate-grade immortal artifact, entwined with Golden Immortal laws on it. Fang Han recognized it as a "Myriad Mother Brocade Pouch" recorded in ancient Daoist texts.
He was just about to open the brocade pouch to take a look inside and inventory the treasures when suddenly, in the sky, a streak of dark light flashed past. The entire desert plunged into pitch-black darkness. In the void, a bone-white large hand directly reached down, and white bone prisons appeared everywhere.
It was actually the peerless Golden Immortal, the White Bone Sect Master who had caught up.
"Humph! You came quite fast! But I am not afraid of you either!" Fang Han stood unyieldingly upright. His current strength was entirely different from the past. He met it head-on with a palm strike mid-air, transforming into the hand of a primal ancestral dragon. With a shake, he charged hard upwards, and the two massive palms collided in mid-air. Exploding into powder, the dark clouds began to dissipate.
Seeing this situation, Fang Han's body moved. The Wings of Freedom flickered faintly behind his back, and abruptly, he crossed through the void and vanished without a trace.
In the next moment, an evil sect Golden Immortal radiating an eerie luster descended into the desert. This evil sect Golden Immortal was just skin and bones, a living skeleton frame. But upon landing on the ground, his qi and blood immediately began to fill out, transforming into sinister old man: "Killing my son! Right under my nose, killing my son! Who on earth is it? I want you to pay a blood debt in blood!"
Rumble! The precise desert began to melt, ignited by his fury, transforming into bone-white pale flames.
These flames penetrated deep into the void, searching everywhere, but could not find a trace of movement, as if Fang Han had never appeared at all.
"This old monster still wants to track me?"
The next moment, the place Fang Han appeared was atop a towering mountain peak. White clouds floated past; looking far in all directions, mountains were everywhere, exuding a distant and profound aura.
"Return to the Yuhua Sect first to claim the mission reward." Seeing that the Old Bone Demon had completely failed to catch up, Fang Han was about to leave. However, just as he turned around, his body suddenly trembled: "Miss, you should come out too. You hid in the White Bone City and followed me all the way for so long. Do you really think I didn't know?"
His words had not yet faded when an expanse of golden light erupted, and a woman appeared in mid-air. This woman wore a crimson crown on her head and a golden cape draped over her body. The aura emanating from her body was as vast as the ocean. She was actually a peerless Golden Immortal!
"Miss?" As soon as this woman appeared, she glanced at Fang Han: "You are a Half-Step Golden Immortal, right? You actually dare call me miss?"
"Oh? If I don't call you miss, should I call you senior?" Fang Han shook his head.
"Not bad." This woman said: "I lay hidden for three days and three nights to assassinate Young Master White Bone, but you suddenly struck out and disrupted my plan. How do you explain this? Hand over Young Master White Bone's corpse. In front of a senior, you should be a bit more respectful. That Old Bone Demon is cultivating the supreme Dao of the Ancestor and can only spare a small fraction of his mana to pursue you. Don't think you can really deal with him. I am at full strength now; you cannot escape."
"Bullshit senior!"
Fang Han suddenly rose from the ground, his body flickering, and actually transformed into thirty-three projections. The sky was full of shadows, surrounding this woman.
"What is this?" That woman was greatly startled, golden light bursting from her entire body.
But in the next moment, rumble! Fang Han's fist technique bombarded down. The woman's golden light entirely cracked open, and her entire person flew rapidly backward, establishing layers upon layers of kingdoms within her body.
"Pfft!"
Although she protected herself and blocked one move from Fang Han, she was hit so hard by Fang Han that mouthfuls of golden blood sprayed out.
"Haha, still calling yourself a senior. What Golden Immortal? You're still beaten by me until you vomit blood! Remember, even if you are a Golden Immortal, don't be so arrogant next time." Fang Han smiled coldly, and his body vanished once again.
"You!" That woman became pale with anger, but could no longer catch up to Fang Han, or even know where he had run away from.
"Is this still a Half-Step Golden Immortal? I didn't expect that I, Hua Xiangrong, would suffer a loss at the hands of a Half-Step Golden Immortal!" This woman viciously stomped her foot, circled around for a while, and caught none of Fang Han's aura. "I will find out who you are! With the power of our Flower God Palace, there is nothing we cannot investigate. Such a cultivation base, such a genius… it is truly terrifying."
She vented for a moment, calmed down, and personally felt Fang Han was terrifying.
"Once this kind of figure advances to a peerless Golden Immortal, what will become of him? I have just advanced to a peerless Golden Immortal, and my Golden Immortal laws are not yet truly solid, so it's no wonder I suffered a loss. Let me return and bitterly cultivate for a while first."
This woman, Hua Xiangrong, also flickered and vanished without a trace.
"This woman is from the Flower God Palace? I have never even heard of the Flower God Palace, nor is it in Shang Ziluo's memories. But obviously, it is a mysterious sect. However, this Hua Xiangrong is indeed a Golden Immortal who has just advanced, far inferior to those veteran Golden Immortals like the Tianquan Sect Master; she could actually be killed. However, with my current identity, it's better not to cause extra trouble."
After Hua Xiangrong vanished, Fang Han re-emerged from the void again.
Apparently, he had not left just now.
He wanted to kill this woman, but on second thought, he let it go. The two sides had no deep enmity or great hatred. After killing her, he would offend the mysterious Flower God Palace. Moreover, the other party was a peerless Golden Immortal, and he wasn't even necessarily able to kill her. If he were counterattacked, and that Old Bone Demon caught up, he would definitely be buried here.
After thinking about it, his body moved, flying towards a nearby large state. Upon arriving at the ancient teleportation array there, he returned to the Yuhua Sect again.
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Yuhua Sect, Tiangong Courtyard.
The aftermath of Fang Han completing the mission by killing the seventy-two Shaxings had not yet dissipated, and everyone was discussing animatedly. Furthermore, many disciples and elders were now discussing the second mission Fang Han had accepted—assassinating the White Bone Sect Master's son. This was a near-impossible, extremely arduous mission that was a narrow escape from death.
"Feng Yuan's next mission is to assassinate the White Bone Sect Master's son, Gu Fen? This is probably impossible. That White Bone Sect Master is an outstanding individual among Golden Immortals; many Golden Immortals at the same realm have been defeated by him. Going to assassinate his son, isn't that seeking death?"
"Mm, it looks like Feng Yuan will probably not be coming back this time."
"This mission is insane."
"Xiao Shaoyun, do you think Feng Yuan can complete this mission?" After Xue Lie learned this news, he asked Xiao Shaoyun next to him.
"Basically no one dares to do this mission. Even that Chen Xin would not have a way to face the Old Bone Demon's fury. Throughout history, who knows how many people have hated Young Master White Bone down to their bones, but still, nobody has been able to kill him." Xiao Shaoyun shook his head.
"If that Feng Yuan truly assassinated Young Master White Bone and returned completely intact, then he would truly be an anomalous existence."
"Pfft, how is that possible?" That Shi Feng sneered: "I could not possibly complete this mission. The Old Bone Demon is different from an ordinary peerless Golden Immortal. He is comprehending the Dao of the Ancestor Immortal. Rumor has it that he has already comprehended a trace of Ancestor laws. Normally, even if two or three Golden Immortals joined forces, they might not be able to defeat him."
"Perhaps, he successfully assassinated precisely by capitalizing on the crucial juncture of his seclusion?"
"Who dares to take such a gamble? Wagering their own fortune and life?"
"Feng Yuan is a hundred percent dead this time."
…
A large group of people conversed in whispers.
However, right at this moment, suddenly a golden light flashed, and Fang Han had already descended into the center of the great hall, carrying a head in his hand: "Handing in the mission. This is the White Bone Sect Master's son, Gu Fen. I have brought his head."