In the harsh climates of the desert provinces, sandstorms frequently sweep through, and even half-step Golden Immortal mighty figures swept into them cannot escape unscathed.
And the sea is even more dangerous. Various storms emerge endlessly, and there are also demons drilling out of the water to prey on humans. The flesh and skin of demonic beasts are useful to immortal cultivators, and similarly, the magical treasures, cultivation arts, and various divine abilities of immortals are also very useful to demons.
Often, when a storm appears on the sea, many demons hide within it to launch attacks on human cultivators. Those demons possess an innate ability to fuse with storms, allowing them to walk and shuttle through them without the slightest harm, while human cultivators struggle bitterly to resist within the storm.
Now, Fang Han, Xu Muyun, Murong Shi, and this group of experts had encountered exactly this kind of harsh climate: the "Black Hell Storm."
It was as if a black hell had descended. Fang Han could see that the void above, reaching even into the heavens, was torn to shreds piece by piece by the storm. As the black canopy descended, mad winds roared on all four sides, the sun and moon lost their light, and the seawater on the surface formed countless vortexes. Within the vortexes, countless demons appeared faintly. Initially, there were Heaven Immortal and God Immortal level demons, but they grew increasingly numerous, and eventually, profound Immortal level, and even half-step Golden Immortal level demons actually emerged.
Deep within the oceans of the Heavenly Realm, spiritual veins were abundant, nurturing countless formidable life forms.
With a single glance, Fang Han saw that the vast majority of the demons within the Black Hell Storm were fish types, bizarre in myriad ways, with powerful physical bodies. Some were slaughtering each other, while others, discovering a group of people within the storm, swarmed over and pounced to kill.
Fang Han's group of people were all peerless Golden Immortals. The aura of Golden Immortal laws emitting from their bodies was like a bright lantern in the dark storm, attracting the demons as simply as fresh blood encountering flies.
Even in the deep sea, some demons that were formidable existences cast their intent upward.
"Buzz!"
Densely packed demons mingled within the storm, surging over in numbers blotting out the sky and covering the earth like locusts. Various immortal supreme arts and the innate divine abilities of the demons formed large formations, sufficient enough to smash people into meat patties.
The first to pounce was a group of silver fish demons. These silver fish demons all had fish heads and human bodies, with silver light brilliantly shining all over them. They were actually all Heaven Immortal level existences, numbering in the thousands and tens of thousands, or even hundreds of millions. Joining forces to launch water-attribute dao arts, they forcefully challenged Golden Immortals!
Those water-attribute immortal arts toppled mountains and overturned seas, their power surging and galloping, frantic as thunder, mixed with countless lightning bolts within.
Golden water surged, and lightning was born.
"The sea indeed has a lot of troubles." Fang Han shook his head and threw a punch straight out. Countless vortexes appeared, directly shattering the immortal arts of those silver fish demons. Then, the force of the punch rippled in all eight directions, tearing through antiquity. On the spot, over a thousand silver fish demons were utterly torn apart, completely transforming into streams of dragon qi, which were absorbed by Fang Han.
Fang Han fully circulated the Myriad Things Transforming into Dragons Art and the Epoch Divine Fist, sweeping across the scene and shuttling through the storm. With every shuttle, he took the lives of thousands of powerful demons.
The divine abilities, essence blood, and vitality of these slain demons all transformed into true dragons, absorbed by the Eight Divisions Pagoda. However, this was merely a drop in the bucket; killing any number of Heaven Immortal demons could not compare to refining a single Golden Immortal.
However, killing demons in the storm was mainly for Fang Han to temper the Epoch Divine Fist.
Since the Epoch Divine Fist had just been created, it truly needed actual combat to be tempered. The demons on the sea right now provided the best time for his tempering. With every punch thrown, the Epoch Divine Fist would condense a portion, and those runes would begin to grow. The radiance would temper, revealing numerous variations.
For example, the Shaman Dao from the previous epoch, or the Alaya Dao from the epoch before that. It even traced back to the Beast Dao from many epochs ago…
From its creation to its completion, a fist technique absolutely must undergo countless real combats to be perfected.
"Let's dive deeper. The demons in these storms account for nothing, and there is no value in killing them. Entering deeper, approaching the territory of the Sea of Chaos, that is where the true demon gathering lies, an ancient battlefield. Powerful demons haunt that place, with countless half-step Golden Immortal mighty figure demons. Their Great Luo laws still have some use for us."
Murong Shi also emitted a rainbow-like brilliant light that swept lightly, causing countless demons to lose their lives beneath that ray of light. Fang Han could see that this was not a magical treasure, but rather condensed from his own sword qi. This streak of sword qi was also absorbing the power of the storm, the souls and essence blood of demonic beasts, and various immortal dao laws to strengthen itself.
Many experts who wanted to temper their cultivation would run to the sea, diving deep amidst swarms of demons to temper themselves.
"Let's go!"
Winds and clouds changed rapidly. Fang Han also hoped to kill more powerful demons to temper the Epoch Divine Fist, diving deeper into the sea once again. They flew for a full three hours, killing all along the way, having already penetrated deeply into the ocean for who knows how many trillions of miles. That Black Hell Storm still had not passed and continued to sweep over. The demons in the deep sea grew increasingly formidable, and some demons seemed to have formed powerful tribes, also patrolling within the storm, hunting other demons.
During these three hours of flight, Fang Han's own primordial beginning qi was considerably depleted. Fortunately, the spiritual veins on his body were extremely numerous; he even had one complete pristine grade-one spiritual vein and two incomplete ones. If he did not unleash thirty-three times his combat power, this would be enough for him to continuously kill and exhaust for several months.
However, the more proficient the Epoch Divine Fist became, the more spiritual vein vitality it consumed. By the end, with every punch thrown, one-tenth of a grade-two spiritual vein would be reduced.
This rate of consumption made Fang Han's heart ache terribly.
Right now, he was a giant beast that consumed spiritual veins. He had to think of a way to obtain more spiritual veins. Otherwise, the consumption would only increase in the future.
"Buzz!"
Another swarm of demons amidst the storm appeared. This swarm of demons was not fish-type, but rather a flock of bird-types. These birds were all tall and massive in form, possessing bird heads and human bodies, with six wings growing from their backs. They floated perfectly within the storm, each bird emitting a formidable aura from its body.
To think every single bird had a Profound Immortal cultivation base.
An army formed by Profound Immortal bird monster demons!
"Watch out, these are Winged Thunderbirds, one of the more powerful demon tribes on the sea. They hunt everywhere, and will even ride the storms to attack coastal provinces, plundering human cultivators and even hunting half-step Golden Immortal mighty figures!"
Seeing the bird demon army appear in the storm, Xu Muyun immediately spoke.
"These Winged Thunderbirds will also bring immense benefits to our cultivation!" Bi Yu'er's eyes flashed. From entirely over her body flew out thousands of thick, thousand-mile-long jade-green longbows, burning right there in the air, spanning across the horizon, directly bombarding into that bird demon army.
Instantly, hundreds of bird demons vanished into formlessness, entirely sucked into the jade light.
"Human Golden Immortal cultivators!"
The major demonic monsters among the flock of Winged Thunderbirds all fell into shock, and the storm grew even fiercer. Those bird demons were no different from ordinary human Profound Immortals; they possessed high intelligence and knew how to operate Heavenly Dao formations. Suddenly, the flock of birds condensed into a massive Taiji diagram within the storm. Joining forces, tremendous lightning and wind blades radiated from atop it, actually managing to block Xu Muyun's jade rainbow.
Swarms of Profound Immortals, uniting together to form a grand formation, were actually able to block the attack of a peerless Golden Immortal!
"Hmph!"
At this moment, Fang Han did not hold back either. The Profound Immortal demon army presented a great deal of pressure, but for him, it served to temper the Epoch Divine Fist even more. He blasted a punch over, striking dead center of the Taiji diagram condensed by the demon army. Immediately, that Taiji diagram began to collapse, and many Winged Thunderbirds were reduced to powder, condensing into true dragons to be swept into Fang Han's punch force.
Indeed highly nourishing!
Fang Han praised in admiration. With one punch, he killed hundreds of Winged Thunderbirds. Those Profound Immortal laws, massive amounts of essence blood, and the divine abilities cultivated by those Profound Immortals were all swept into his body. Instantly, a warm current flowed back and forth within the countless divine kingdom crystals of his body.
Especially the divine abilities of the General Outline of Antiquity All Heavens Thunder Arts, which received immense benefits.
These "Winged Thunderbirds" were born carrying wind-attribute divine abilities and lightning-attribute divine abilities. Naturally condensed, within the divine kingdoms of their bodies, countless lightning nature spirits and wind-attribute nature spirits had even been born.
Fang Han having now killed these Winged Thunderbirds, incorporating them all into his body, obtained very ample benefits.
"Mm! Not bad, this flock of Winged Thunderbirds is quite a decent fortune! If captured and sold to individuals from sovereign great sects to act as mounts, it would also be a great income!" Murong Shi stretched out his hand, seemingly about to display a profound, grand immortal art to capture all the Winged Thunderbirds of this tribe in their entirety!
However, the instant he reached out his hand, Fang Han's entire person suddenly erupted like a blazing sun exploding. The countless divine kingdom crystals of his body emitted a resplendent divine light. In an instant, the Black Hell Storm across billions of miles on the sea was entirely scattered. Each crystal divine kingdom transformed into an existence akin to a gaping bloody maw, indiscriminately swallowing through the air.
Birds flew in chaos.
Instantly, a full one hundred thousand Winged Thunderbirds were entirely swallowed by his divine kingdoms.
"What kind of dao art is this? To be this ferocious!" Murong Shi was visibly shocked for a moment. He had wanted to plunder this fortune, but did not expect Fang Han to actually snatch it right ahead of him.
According to normal reasoning, even if they were powerhouses among Golden Immortals, they could not possibly slaughter a tribe of Winged Thunderbirds in an instant. They would absolutely have to slay for a long time. Harvesting all of them in a single move—one must definitely have an unparalleled magical treasure, or be an existence surpassing a Golden Immortal to deal with it so leisurely.
Yet Fang Han, with a single burst, caused all the Winged Thunderbirds of this species to disappear entirely, which showed the extent of his ferocity.
"I made a move a step ahead. Crown Prince Murong, do not take offense. This flock of Winged Thunderbirds is extremely helpful for me in cultivating wind and lightning attribute divine abilities." Having caught everything in one net, Fang Han spoke loudly.
"It does not matter, there are even purely fiercer demonic beasts further along on the sea!" Murong Shi let out a long howl, shooting forth like lightning, diving into the depths of the ocean once again.
The Black Hell Storm swept over once again, and gradually, experts at the level of half-step Golden Immortal mighty figures began to appear among the demons within the storm. After Fang Han and the others had flown for hundreds of billions of miles, suddenly, ahead of them appeared a group of gigantic demons resembling half-man, half-turtle creatures! These gigantic demons were entirely half-step Golden Immortal mighty figures, gathered together. Their Great Luo laws condensed into a canopy of heaven, covering the firmament.
"Careful, this is the Divine Turtle Heavenly King Beast! They are one of the most powerful species on the sea, far beyond what the Winged Thunderbirds can compare to. Many Golden Immortals have fallen beneath the armies of this species!"
Murong Shi also clearly bore some gravity.