If this Target Divine Palace were placed in the secular world, it would be equivalent to the mansion of a governor-general, considered magnificent and exquisitely beautiful. However, placed in the context of immortal dao sects, this palace was a bit small, lacking the atmosphere of immortals and gods. But this perfectly suited the Target Island Master's identity as a rogue cultivator. Where would a mere rogue cultivator have the time and energy to build a palace hundreds or thousands of miles in circumference?
The residences of rogue cultivators were all somewhat petty in scale. They could not be compared with immortal dao giant sects like the Yuhua Sect.
Outside the palace, there were no grand arrays or restricting spells.
Because setting up grand arrays required experts above the fifth Heaven-Man Realm of the Divine Ability sequence. Only at the Heaven-Man Realm could one communicate with heaven and humanity, comprehend the sun, moon, stars, vegetation, feng shui, and the rise and fall of tides, and fully integrate various magic powers together, circulating them mutually to increase power hundreds and thousands of times.
The Target Island Master absolutely had not reached this realm, otherwise Fang Han would have been killed by him long ago.
It was exactly because of this that this Target Island seemed hidden deeply, but was blasted out to its true form by a single stream of Fang Han's "Wood Sovereign True Qi." If there were protective grand arrays around, Fang Han would not even be able to break the array.
Rumble! Rumble!
Upon blasting it to its true form, Fang Han saw faint traces of magic power transmitting from deep within this "Target Divine Palace." Thus, he smiled coldly, raised a single hand, and instantly five streams of green qi shot out from his fingertips, transforming into five giant logs again in the void, descending from the sky and viciously striking down. In an instant, several buildings were collapsed. Although these buildings were constructed glittering with jewels, they were just decorated with ordinary gold, silver, and pearls, which were invaluable in the secular world but of no use to cultivating Daoists.
Fang Han did not feel it was a pity to blast shatter the pearls, gold, and silver on these buildings.
Gold and silver in the secular world were generally of no use to those cultivating immortality. Firstly, they could not buy pills, and secondly, they could not buy dharma artifacts or spiritual artifacts. Gold and silver could only be used occasionally in refining pills. The strongest empire in the world, the Great Xuan Empire under the command of the Taiyi Sect, did not use gold and silver as currency, but a kind of "Black Yellow Coin." Only this kind of coin was the circulating currency among cultivators. However, the vast majority of transactions among cultivators were through barter.
"Ah! You lingering ghost, you actually found your way to Target Island!"
Fang Han collapsing many palace buildings at once finally made the Target Island Master unable to sit still inside. He abruptly flew out from his most hidden pill room, and flying up with him was a cauldron-shaped house.
Looking closely, this cauldron-shaped house was actually a pill furnace!
That is right, a giant pill furnace cauldron the size of a house!
Although this giant pill furnace was not as large as Jialan's, it was not small either, mighty and unmatched. Gang qi coiled around it, air currents spiraling, bringing up fierce wind sounds. From its appearance, treasure light faintly shone, and it was unknown what metal it was cast from. Powerful medicinal essence and magic power fluctuations transmitted from the pill furnace, seeming like hundreds and thousands of fiery horses trampling and shaking.
At a glance, this pill furnace was a treasure artifact pill furnace!
"A treasure artifact-level pill furnace! Heavens! No wonder this Target Island Master, a mere rogue cultivator, could actually cultivate to the third realm of the Divine Ability sequence, the Origin Gang Realm, and refine gang qi! It turns out he had such a treasure artifact-level pill furnace. Among treasure artifacts, a pill furnace is the most hard to come by. A single treasure artifact-level pill furnace is more than enough to exchange for a hundred treasure artifact flying swords and dharma clothes!"
Long Xuan cried out, a gurgling sound coming from deep in her throat, seeming to choke on her saliva, so shocked she was!
What was the most important thing for a cultivator?
It was not flying swords, nor dharma clothes, much less all sorts of treasures. It was a pill furnace!
Cultivators lived by consuming pills. To gain powerful strength and physical stamina, they had to eat pure pills to supplement such massive energy and nutrition. Pills were food, and those who ate pills would be plump and ageless. It was exactly because of this that a pill furnace was the most important thing for a cultivator.
A pill furnace was just like land for ordinary people.
When ordinary people had land, they could plant grain, grow mulberry trees to raise silkworms for weaving, and eating and clothing would not be a problem.
When a cultivator had a pill furnace, they could produce pills, refine endless flying swords, and even temper the magic power of their own fleshy body! Many Dao techniques required cultivating within a pill furnace. For example, Fang Han's "Yama Golden Body" also needed to be boiled viciously in a pill furnace.
With a precious pill furnace, a cultivator could be said to have a guarantee.
Long Xuan's current pill furnace was also a spiritual artifact, which was already quite remarkable.
And Fang Han's pill furnace was even worse; it was currently still a dharma artifact. Fortunately, he had the Yellow Spring Diagram, the Forgetfulness Water, and Yan, this master of pill refining. Only then did he not lack pills.
In fact, the pill furnaces of most true disciples in the Yuhua Sect were spiritual artifacts! Treasure artifact-level pill furnaces numbered less than ten, possessed only by a sparse few with profound cultivation like East Lingxiao, West Jialan, South Wanluo, and North Yaoguang.
It was also because they occasionally had immortal encounters and obtained treasure artifact-level pill furnaces that their cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds step by step.
And Hua Tiandu's pill furnace was the Dao artifact used by the Immortal Venerable Panwu. That was why his magic power was so high!
Among various magic treasures, a pill furnace was the hardest to refine, requiring numerous array combinations: filtering grand arrays, grand arrays to control true fire, grand arrays to collect heavenly fire, earthly fire, thunder fire, wood fire, metal fire… flame grand arrays, as well as grand arrays to divide medicinal materials, grand arrays to adjust air currents, grand arrays to regulate medicinal properties, and various musical arrays, because pills had spirituality, and channeling beautiful music during refinement could enhance their spiritual efficacy. There were also demon-expelling grand arrays, because when a pill was successfully refined, formless heavenly demons would come to destroy it… The arrays were incomparably rich in variety.
If it were a Dao artifact-level pill furnace, it could even control the shifting of time and changes in space within the pill furnace!
An ordinary pill furnace contained dozens of grand arrays at least, or hundreds and thousands at most.
While flying swords and dharma clothes were quite something with just a few grand arrays.
For example, the supreme spiritual artifact "Sonic Killing Demonic Blade" only had one "Sonic Killing Array" on it, a grand array that spurred the blade body to accelerate.
If they were equally spiritual artifacts and treasure artifacts, a hundred flying swords and a hundred dharma clothes could not match a pill furnace of the same level.
The pill furnace was truly the king among magic treasures. What a cultivator's net worth was like primarily depended on their pill furnace. With a good pill furnace, their cultivation would certainly be profound; this was an infallible truth.
Many magic treasures were refined within a pill furnace.
Now that this Target Island Master flew out and actually had a treasure artifact-level pill furnace with him, one could see why his cultivation could turn into gang qi. With a good pill furnace, the quality of the pills refined was high, and cultivation would naturally rise with the tide.
"What a fine treasure artifact pill furnace! Excellent! The Yellow Spring Diagram is only suitable for water-method pill refining, and many of my techniques cannot be executed. With this treasure artifact pill furnace, I can use fire-method pill refining, and you can even throw the ten Asuras into the pill furnace to cultivate, fully integrating them with the flying swords! The power will be even greater. Your Yama Golden Body can also advance a step further!"
At this time, Yan also roared in excitement.
"Kill! Kill kill! Don't want anything else, this Target Island Master's treasure artifact pill furnace must be obtained! The benefits are too immense."
"Alright! Wood Sovereign True Qi Swords!"
Fang Han did not hesitate, releasing his true qi, transforming it into millions of green wood divine swords shooting out, overwhelmingly slashing toward the flying Target Island Master.
"Kill!" The Target Island Master at this time also knew it was extremely dangerous. The gang qi on his body circulated, turning into the "Heavenly Gang Target Breaking Hand," erupting into a sky full of palm shadows, violently crashing against Fang Han's Wood Sovereign True Qi Swords.
Clang clang clang clang…
True qi and gang qi crashed, detonating simultaneously in the void, as if setting off a myriad of fireworks. The gorgeous Target Divine Palace below collapsed in a large area from the shock, fragments of gold, silver, and jewelry flying everywhere.
Fang Han let out a muffled groan, gliding backward over ten zhang in the air to stabilize himself, whereas the Target Island Master actually glided backward over thirty zhang, crashing into his own treasure artifact pill furnace before coming to a stop.
In a head-on clash, Fang Han actually gained the upper hand!
As soon as Fang Han struck, it was now the galloping strength of two thousand fiery horses, unparalleled in power. All the magic power of the Black Water King Snake added to his own magic power was entirely enough to overwhelm a Gang Qi Realm expert! Furthermore, the quality of his Wood Sovereign True Qi was extraordinarily high, giving him every advantage.
"How did your magic power increase so much?" the Target Island Master exclaimed in shock.
"Evildoer, suffer death!" Answering him was Long Xuan's Cold Hornless Dragon Sword! The cold air was deep, freezing massive amounts of seawater into ice blocks, and the Target Island Master's entire body was frozen inside thick ice walls, his movements instantly hindered.
"Ice Soul Divine Thunder!" Long Xuan had now cultivated divine abilities and was much more formidable than when sparring with Fang Han. She executed the Cold Hornless Dragon Sword to perfection, able to unleash its maximum power. That Cold Hornless Dragon Sword transformed into a cold ice hornless dragon, opening its mouth to spew fiercely. A series of pale white Ice Soul Divine Thunders were spat out, detonating and nearly blasting the Target Island Master's gang qi apart. During the struggle for the Black Water King Snake, she had been sneak attacked by the Target Island Master and almost injured; now that she wanted revenge, how could she hold back?
"Five Hells King Cauldron Great Pill Furnace!"
Seeing the situation was grim, the Target Island Master let out a loud roar. Behind him, the house-sized, cauldron-shaped pill furnace suddenly began to spin, and five streaks of flames shot out from it. Upon touching the ice layers, they exploded instantly.
A bolt from the blue! The earth swayed and the mountains shook! The sky collapsed and the earth tore asunder!
All the ice layers were blasted to pieces! The Cold Hornless Dragon Sword screamed repeatedly from the explosion, flying back and falling into Long Xuan's hand. Long Xuan let out a slight muffled groan, flashing behind Fang Han a few times; she was on guard this time and was not injured.
"Hahahaha! With my Five Hells King Cauldron in hand, what can you do to me? Entering the cauldron, myriad evils cannot invade!" The Target Island Master howled wildly with laughter. His body moved, preparing to enter the cauldron.
So it turned out this cauldron-like pill furnace was called the Five Hells King Cauldron!
"Keep dreaming beautifully!" Fang Han's body moved, his true qi boiling. The overwhelming true qi recondensed, actually turning into an extremely tiny needle, clear light flashing so brightly one could not look straight at it.
"Heavenly Wood Divine Needle!"
Shhh crack!
In a flash, this tiny Heavenly Wood Divine Needle reached the Target Island Master's body. It pierced through the Target Island Master's gang qi and penetrated into his body!
Fang Han had cultivated the Wood Sovereign True Qi by relying on the Heavenly Wood Divine Needle. All the heavenly wood qi on the Heavenly Wood Divine Needle had been absorbed by him, but he could also condense his true qi at any time to simulate it again.
Now, he recondensed the Wood Sovereign True Qi, forming the Heavenly Wood Divine Needle again, shooting it out with power concentrated to the extreme. Taking advantage of the moment the Target Island Master blasted open the ice layers and his power failed to keep up, one strike was certain death!
The opportunity was grasped to perfection!
"Ah!"
The Target Island Master let out a scream, watching helplessly as the Heavenly Wood Divine Needle pierced his body, wanting to envelop it with gang qi and force it out. But suddenly the Heavenly Wood Divine Needle expanded, transforming into a giant log, propping his body apart and tearing it into pieces in an instant!
A rain of blood filled the sky, limbs flying everywhere!
The Target Island Master's body was blasted into fine powder! Within his body, the massive gang qi lost control and instantly went berserk, rushing into the sky like a volcanic eruption! Then, it blew open.
When a Divine Ability Realm expert died, their magic power would shoot into the sky at once, explode and dissipate, dispersing between heaven and earth.
Fang Han did not care about the Target Island Master's flesh and blood either; it did not have much origin energy and was not much stronger than an Asura. Divine Ability Realm experts, unless they cultivated to the stage of the Heaven-Man Realm, their bodies would not become much stronger, not like prehistoric alien species like the Black Water King Snake.
As for the opponent's magic power, although useful, it could only be slowly refined if captured alive. Though Fang Han had the ability to kill the Target Island Master, he lacked the ability to capture him alive and refine him.
Even Hua Tiandu was unable to refine the Great Majestic Demonic King, causing the opponent to execute the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Method to self-destruct. Being able to capture alive and refine an expert was how difficult; refining the Black Water King Snake was picking the right timing and taking a vast advantage, a once-in-a-millennium opportunity.
"The head!"
In the rain of blood, Long Xuan saw the Target Island Master's head protected because of the rushing gang qi. She hurriedly waved her hand, cold air flying out, freezing this head inside a block of ice.
The Target Island Master was dead, but the head was very important, because it could be taken to claim the reward.
And Fang Han seized this opportunity, his Wood Sovereign True Qi grabbing toward the Five Hells King Cauldron Great Pill Furnace!
This pill furnace was as large as a house. Once the Target Island Master died, it lost control and flew outward. Catching it would not be easy.
Right at this moment, suddenly from the gorge in the distance, many people flew over: "To think someone beat us to it! Leave the pill furnace behind!"
Many flying swords and magic treasures bombarded toward Fang Han. At the same time, a lot of magic power turned into large hands and ropes, coiling onto the Five Hells King Cauldron Great Pill Furnace!
"How comes there are suddenly so many cultivators coming to pick up a cheap bargain and reap the spoils? Logically speaking, this Target Island is extremely hidden! My first time slaying a demon to eradicate evil, about to obtain a treasure artifact pill furnace, could I hand it over on a silver platter just like this? Who are those people? Why so many?"
Fang Han saw that after undergoing countless hardships to kill the Target Island Master, just as he was about to obtain the treasure left behind by the opponent, the treasure artifact pill furnace, who would have thought so many cultivators would suddenly pop out? He did not know from which nook they drilled out.
Fang Han almost wanted to curse out loud!
However, this was not the time to curse out loud, because many magic treasures had already slashed onto his body. Among them, several highly powerful spiritual artifact flying swords were no less inferior to the Sonic Killing Demonic Blade, and the most formidable was a golden rainbow! With infinite strength, it simply equated to three or four hundred fiery horses galloping and trampling together, wrapping onto the Five Hells King Cauldron in a flash, almost sweeping the pill furnace away!
Seeing the situation look bad, Long Xuan and the demoness respectively released divine abilities, blocking in front of Fang Han and stopping the slashes of a few flying swords.
While Fang Han himself, at this critical juncture, displayed divine might once again. The Wood Sovereign True Qi spread out, fully more than ten mu, fluctuating slightly like a giant swamp, instantly trapping those attacks inside.
Following that, he turned the other half of the Wood Sovereign True Qi into a giant hand, grabbing toward the Five Hells King Cauldron Great Pill Furnace, instantly grasping that golden rainbow.
His half portion of Wood Sovereign True Qi possessed fully a thousand horse power, tearing the golden rainbow apart in an instant! The Five Hells King Cauldron was also grabbed by him and flew to his side.
"This golden rainbow has such great strength and is so tough! If I hadn't grafted all the magic power of the Black Water King Snake, even risking my old life now, I couldn't have torn it apart!" Amidst the tight schedule, Fang Han saw the owner of the golden rainbow from afar. He saw a young girl holding a gourd; it was actually Fang Qingwei!