"The tomb of this Ghost Martial Holy Lord is indeed miraculous! The bone mound is extremely tight and solid. If it does not loosen, even my Wings of Freedom cannot enter. Perhaps the Dao of Stealing Heavens can be attempted."
While watching this God Race army, Fang Han was also observing the gigantic "bone mound," using the Zhou Tian Instrument to perform deductions.
The materials in that "bone mound" were tempered and forged from the corpses and bones of ancient demon gods and Heavenly Court warriors. Its degree of hardness was comparable to the Crystal of Fortune, and it contained many arcane powers and formations within.
Even Fang Han now had no certainty in succeeding to breach and infiltrate.
Even an existence surpassing a Golden Immortal would likely be unable to tear an opening in the graveyard.
Furthermore, within the deductions of the Zhou Tian Instrument, the exterior of the tomb contained extremely tyrannical restrictive spells. Everywhere revealed an aura of manifold peril.
Fang Han had to wait quietly, waiting for an opportunity.
Since the God Race army had laid out a great formation here, activating the Calling of the Gods and the Praise of the Gods, they definitely would not be doing useless work. Every single matter Heavenly Consort Umo handled was acted upon only after meticulous planning.
He was like a patient hunter, thoroughly concealed, waiting exactly for the arrival of the optimum moment.
"Feng Yuan, the treasure of the Ghost Martial Holy Lord's tomb has appeared this time. Since the Heavenly Court obtained the news, leading to the arrival of the Jade Mansion Crown Prince Murong Shi, there are definitely other factions who also received the news, knowing that the God Race is coming to open it. When the time comes, many hidden experts will certainly appear. We must be careful."
Xu Muyun suddenly said.
"Are you saying that besides the God Race, it's possible other factions have come to pry?" Fang Han asked.
"Correct, before I came, I also obtained secret information saying that the Heavenly Court's number one fugitive, Wu Chang, might also come." Bi Yu'er said: "The reason I made the agreement with Murong Shi was exactly because I wanted to borrow his strength to deal with Wu Chang. But now Murong Shi's body is dead and his Dao erased, completely refined by you."
"The Heavenly Court's number one fugitive? That man named Wu Chang?" Fang Han recalled the wanted fugitive list he saw in the ancient city of Quanzhou, that absolutely ruthless young man who seemed to have seen through the affairs of the world. Although it was a portrait, his gaze alone could assassinate a person and snatch their soul.
"In addition, there should be some factions who also found out. For example, the Golden Pavilion, which is equally famous as the Jade Mansion, the Ziwei Palace… these are all Heavenly Court institutions. There are experts among them as well, and their sources for intelligence are not the slightest bit inferior to the Jade Mansion. How could they turn a blind eye to the news of the Jade Mansion Crown Prince Murong Shi coming out?"
"Perhaps, these experts are all hiding here, just like us, waiting for the God Race to open the tomb."
"The tomb of the Ghost Martial Holy Lord has been rumored for a long time. Many experts surpassing Golden Immortals have also come into the long river of white bones searching, but all returned without results. Do you think the God Race can open it this time?"
"They definitely can, because according to rumors, the Saint of the God Race, Heavenly Consort Umo, has resumed her position. A while ago in the secular world, she employed schemes and surprisingly extinguished a clone of a son of Disaster Heavenly Lord. Then comprehensively defeated the Heaven Realm army. Since she came prepared, she definitely has certainty in opening this tomb. Moreover, rumor has it that the Ghost Martial Holy Lord, while alive, was a good friend of hers."
Xu Muyun and Bi Yu'er talked sentence by sentence, respectively describing the matters and secrets they knew.
Hearing this conversation, Fang Han also calmed down thoroughly. Utilizing his divine sense, he observed the surroundings, and his Heaven Stealing claws slowly permeated into the surrounding void to see if anyone was prying.
Sure enough, with this prying sweep, he discovered that deep within some of the white bone mountains, there were obscure auras similarly hiding. As expected, besides the God Race, there were some experts who had already arrived here, just waiting for the God Race to open the tomb so they could enter and gain the advantage.
Right on the mountain of white bones where Fang Han was positioned, even halfway up the mountain, there was a fluctuation. It was extremely minute, almost fusing completely with space. If Fang Han had not used the Dao of Stealing Heavens to pry, it would have fundamentally been impossible to detect.
With a spin inside the Zhou Tian Instrument, the figure of a person hiding within a microscopic spatial particle halfway up the mountain appeared.
It was a white-clothed man, sitting cross-legged, his eyes piercing through space and time, looking toward the gigantic bone mound in the center of the mountains. This white-clothed man's appearance was very young, seemingly between seventeen and eighteen years old, yet devoid of any childishness, rather possessing a flavor of maturity from having experienced countless worldly vicissitudes.
His eyebrows were like swords, his body like a spear, and his hands like dragon-capturing hands. Sitting casually, he bore the imposing might of a crouching tiger and a coiled dragon.
He was also a Peerless Golden Immortal.
"Feng Yuan, this white-clothed man is… someone from the Ye family. If I am not mistaken, it is Ye Xuanyuan who once roamed freely under heaven. To think that he has actually arrived as well. Does that mean the forces of the Ye family have also intervened here?" Xu Muyun was knowledgeable and instantly recognized that this white-clothed man hiding in the mysterious spatial particle was a secretive figure.
"What is the Ye family?" Fang Han asked.
"It is an existence on the same level as my Xu family. Within the family, a Sage Old Ancestor presides, and it can be styled as a King Noble Family. Such a noble family holds an extremely high status in the Heaven Realm, and also has countless ties with the Heavenly Court. To make an analogy, the Heavenly Court is a dynasty in the secular world, and these noble families governed by Sages are the great gentry, capable of helping the Heavenly Court manage territories." Xu Muyun said: "The large sects in some provinces only have Golden Immortals presiding; they are considered minor factions. Truly major factions, King Great Sects, and King Noble Families, must have a Sage presiding."
"To think the Xu family actually has a Sage presiding!" Fang Han was also secretly taken aback. A Sage was a Sage Immortal, a status above even Ancestral Immortals and Origin Immortals. It was a supreme existence that he could only temporarily look up to for now.
"This Ye Xuanyuan, although formidable, is nevertheless not my match. Let me look again, to see just which formidable figures are hidden within these white bone mountains."
Fang Han executed the Dao of Stealing Heavens once again, permeating into the void to search for concealed powerful auras. This was to take preventive measures against possible dangers. He also hadn't expected that there actually would be so many experts, all holding maps, who preemptively entered the long river of white bones and arrived at the place where the God Race army was stationed.
Figures emerged one by one upon the Zhou Tian Instrument, all hiding extremely well. Yet all of them were caught within the capture of the Dao of Stealing Heavens.
"This is the Young Master of the Heavenly Court's Golden Pavilion, Jin Mieyu. He had great grievances with the Jade Mansion Crown Prince, Murong Shi. I didn't expect him to arrive early."
The images displayed on the Zhou Tian Instrument were projected onto Fang Han's palm, allowing Xu Muyun and Bi Yu'er to see them. Although the two women were shocked in their hearts, having seen Fang Han kill Murong Shi and his fierce and mighty techniques along the way, their shock had turned into numbness.
When a man in golden clothes appeared on that image, they all recognized who it was.
The image flowed, and another purple-clothed man appeared: "This is the Crown Prince of the Ziwei Palace. Utterly noble. The status of Ziwei Palace within the Heavenly Court is higher than the Jade Mansion."
"Mm? I didn't expect the people of the Muye family to have arrived as well!" Following that, the image flowed again, and within a space inside a mountain of white bones, a group of people emerged! Wrapped inside a nexus resembling a battlefield, countless experts emerged in great number, to the point that Fang Han found it somewhat hard to see clearly.
However, he recognized that the nexus resembling a battlefield was shockingly the Central Battlefield. But it was billions of times more exquisite than the battlefield of the Central Great World in the secular realm.
The Muye family was the largest faction in the secular realm, the ruler of the Central Great World. Ranked number one among the three thousand macroscopic worlds.
Such a faction naturally had backing in the Immortal Realm. The Muye family was rumored to be the bloodline of the War King Heavenly Lord.
In the Heaven Realm, the Muye family was more powerful than the Xu family, whatever Ye family, or the Yuhua Sect, because their ancient ancestor was a Heavenly Lord.
Although the War King Heavenly Lord was not as great as some ancient Heavenly Lords who had lived through several primal chaos epochs, such as Primal Chaos, Eternity, Chaos, and Disaster Heavenly Lords, he was still a Heavenly Lord after all.
When people of the Muye family appeared, absolutely no one dared to underestimate them.
Fang Han slightly withdrew the Zhou Tian Instrument lest the experts of the Muye family within the Central Battlefield discovered him.
With this rotation, the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasures displayed boundless magical utility, directly "plucking out" many hidden experts and great factions, yet no one detected Fang Han.
After all, the Dao of Stealing Heavens and the Wings of Freedom were far too profound, and among the Thirty-Three Heavens Supreme Treasures, there were also the existences of these treasures like Hiding Heavens, Concealing Heavens, and Escaping Heavens.
"Mm? What a treacherous and secret aura. If I hadn't refined Murong Shi and had the aura of ancestral spirits in my own Golden Immortal laws, and comprehended the Unity of Heaven and Earth realm, I really wouldn't be able to discover such a bizarre fluctuation." Suddenly, in the sky right above the heads of the God Race army, Fang Han discovered an aura that was almost fundamentally unnoticeable.
This was discovered using his own realm of the Unity of Heaven and Earth.
After comprehending the realm of Unity of Heaven and Earth and fortune artifacts, he almost had a flavor of intimacy and seamless connection with the entire heaven and earth, sharing the same lifespan as the heaven and earth, and radiating light together with the sun and the moon.
This kind of realm was originally the realm of magical treasures; it was impossible for humans to cultivate it. Yet, by fusing with the fragments of fortune artifacts and turning his own flesh and blood into countless crystal divine kingdoms, Fang Han had, by a stroke of serendipity, comprehended this wondrous realm.
"This is a powerful expert! How arrogant, to actually hide right above the God Race army? Is he not afraid of being discovered? Or of Heavenly Consort Umo?" Fang Han immediately employed the Dao of Stealing Heavens to observe again. The Zhou Tian Instrument and the Heaven Mandate Sphere deduced intensely.
"Buzz!"
A resounding noise echoed as a massive amount of Primal Origin Qi burned. Ultimately, the shadow of an expert appeared upon the Zhou Tian Instrument. This expert was not Heavenly Consort Umo, but a young man. This young man merely stood there quietly, his body emitting an aura akin to an ancestor and resembling an origin, like the ancestor of all living things, like a supreme ancestral god.
He also seemed to be a mighty figure controlling the impermanence of life and death, and also like a soul reaper walking the realm.
Within his body, there were not the slightest Golden Immortal laws. He did not seem to be a Golden Immortal.
"This is not a Golden Immortal! Yet so powerful! Could it be! An existence surpassing a Golden Immortal! Ancestral Immortal!" Fang Han's heart was severely shaken. An existence surpassing a Golden Immortal had actually appeared here as well.
In the current Heaven Realm, existences surpassing Golden Immortals basically would not come out and act often.
"This is! This is the Heavenly Court's number one fugitive, Wu Chang! A peerless powerhouse who defected from the Divine Prison Law Enforcement Squad! Coming completely out of the Heavenly Court's strongest warrior squad cultivated by the Thunder Emperor Heavenly Lord!"
Xu Muyun and Bi Yu'er simultaneously exclaimed in shock.
Right at the instant of their shock, that person seemed to sense the aura. Suddenly, his gaze turned, and he looked over in this direction.