"Alright! God Consolidating Stele, manifest with speed."
During his deduction, Fang Han suddenly halted. Spitting out a mouthful of original energy, the splashing waters within that void long river surged rapidly at once, and the phantom of a stone stele floated up.
It was exactly the God Consolidating Stele.
This God Consolidating Stele constantly changed and jumped, sometimes leaping to the West, sometimes leaping to the East. It actually did not settle down, but roamed everywhere, seemingly searching for something, or appearing to lay some traps.
"What is this guy doing?" The Little Rain Empress Xia Zhiqiu knew that the phantom of the God Consolidating Stele manifesting in the long river represented the form of the Little Stone Emperor Song Tengfei. But Song Tengfei wildly jumping around unsteadily truly made it hard to understand. What exactly was he trying to do?
"This person is constantly moving, changing positions, searching for things inside some alternate spatial dimensions of the Archaic Ruins, or making it impossible for people to lock onto his true location. Constantly deducing his tracks like this consumes an massive amount of original energy, few people can achieve this." Fang Han said casually.
This state of calm and composure made the Little Rain Empress Xia Zhiqiu secretly astonished. Indeed, few people could pull off deducing like this, while Fang Han did it so freely and easily, the power of his strength needing no further explanation.
"Since you can lock onto his location, and deduce it easily, then our cooperation is even more successful. However, this Dao art of yours is extremely strange. I wonder if you created it yourself, or inherited it from the Archaic era? I remember that the Yuhua Sect does not have this divine ability of deduction?"
Sure enough, the Little Rain Empress Xia Zhiqiu began to inquire.
"This was when I encountered a woman during my occasional travels, and she passed it on to me." Fang Han said deliberately: "I passed my Dao of the Epoch onto her, and in exchange, she passed a Dao of deduction onto me. However, this Dao of deduction consumes an extraordinary amount of essence, energy, and spirit. For prolonged deduction, it requires burning lifespan as the price."
"What? A woman passed it on to you? Who was that woman? What did she look like?" The Little Rain Empress Xia Zhiqiu asked anxiously, communicating via divine thought to prevent others from discovering, penetrating directly into Fang Han's mind: "Tell me quickly."
"Just a chance meeting, a hurried glance. I can no longer remember the true face of that woman clearly." Fang Han said: "That woman wore a veil, making her features unclear. Back then I had solely created the Epoch Divine Fist, fancying myself absolutely invincible under heaven. I sought people everywhere to compete, and a great many individuals suffered defeat beneath my fists. Yet occasionally, this woman found me and exchanged blows with me, and I was actually unable to do anything to her. In the end, she said she wanted to exchange Dao arts with me, thus we mutually exchanged this Dao of deduction."
Fang Han was blowing his own horn heavily, spinning a web of lies, yet speaking as if it were entirely serious. It made it impossible for anyone to distinguish truth from falsehood.
Furthermore, within his tone, there was an air of worldly vicissitudes, seemingly sunk into deep reminiscence.
This aura further caused the Little Rain Empress Xia Zhiqiu to believe what he said was true.
"A woman, passed a Dao art onto you…" Xia Zhiqiu trailed off for a moment, seemingly recalling something, then suddenly asked again: "What is the name of this Dao art?"
"A nameless command formula, that woman did not state what its name was." Fang Han said: "However, the more I cultivate this command formula, the more I feel its broad profoundness. It is a pity that this nameless command formula is incomplete, otherwise, my Dao art would be even more perfected. Cultivating to Origin Immortal, and then pointing straight towards the level of an actual Saint, would pose no problems. How come? You inquiring in such detail, could it be you recognize this woman?"
"Uh…" Xia Zhiqiu blanked for a moment: "No no no, I do not know her, just felt curious. This Dao of deduction of yours researches destiny, with the past and future included within, exquisite beyond measure. I merely felt it was formidable."
"Is that so?" Fang Han deliberately looked at Xia Zhiqiu with suspecting eyes.
Xia Zhiqiu simply recovered her calmness, expressing nothing, and no longer pressed questions in this regard.
"Let us go, this God Consolidating Stele seemingly jumped a bit slower. It is the Little Stone Emperor Song Tengfei slowing down, seemingly having found some treasure, needing to find a stable place, to thoroughly begin assaulting the Dao of the Origin Immortal. I have completely locked onto him, he cannot fly away even if he sprouts wings." Fang Han accepted the situation while it was favorable. The words he spoke just now evidently planted some seeds in the heart of this woman Xia Zhiqiu.
"Then let us go." Xia Zhiqiu waved her hand.
"By the way, you were injured by the Little Stone Emperor's strike, is there any problem with your injury now?" Fang Han asked.
"No matter, I have long since recovered. Moreover, I prepared a trump card, specifically aimed at dealing with the Little Stone Emperor. As long as you can block his direct attacks, disintegrating his magic power, I can suddenly strike out and cause him to collapse." A radiance flashed at the center of Xia Zhiqiu's brow, seemingly containing the sharpest thing between heaven and earth.
Fang Han nodded, soaring up into the sky.
With a movement of the Little Rain Empress's body and her clothes fluttering, she actually matched Fang Han's speed. It was unknown what Dao art she executed. Sun Shihua and the others, however, learned to be smart. Everyone arranged into a Heavenly Evasion Great Formation, joining their powers together, following behind at the speed of crackling lightning.
The Holy Sons of all three major sects united together. With their power driving the great formation, their speed was also quite considerable.
These Holy Sons were not entirely useless either. Truly united, pushing combined attack arts to the limit, they could parallel a beginner Origin Immortal, and could exert a massive effect during the battle against the Little Stone Emperor Song Tengfei.
Originally, the Holy Sons of the three sects did not cooperate very well. However, having gone through the tempering of slaughtering demons and fierce beasts along the way, they had already managed to cooperate excellently, with mutual communication between their true energies.
Fang Han withdrew his Dao art of deduction, but secretly operated it within the Zhou Tian Instrument, tenaciously biting onto Song Tengfei's phantom. As long as he was found, with the Little Rain Empress Xia Zhiqiu's cooperation, there was at least a seventy to eighty percent certainty of killing this person.
"Careful, ahead is one of the restricted areas newly opened by the Heavenly Court in the Archaic Ruins, called the Coffin of Life and Death. Look at the space ahead!" After flying for about a hundred breaths, the Little Rain Empress Xia Zhiqiu suddenly said.
Fang Han circulated his Heaven Cave Divine Eyes to observe over, seeing that the space ahead was grayish-dim, dead silent, stale, with an aura of archaic corpses emitting from it.
The space ahead was incomparably massive, resembling a coffin placed horizontally within the universe. The mouth of the coffin faced everyone, pitched black within, carrying a sort of magical power that drew people deep inside.
"The Little Stone Emperor actually entered the alternate spatial dimension of the Coffin of Life and Death?" Xia Zhiqiu muttered: "This Coffin of Life and Death, rumored to be an archaic restricted area, is the place where the Immortal King of Fortune buried many ancient demons, ancient gods, ancient evils, and ancient shamans. The giant demons born within it are far more formidable than the Hell Bats outside. For him to actually enter, unafraid of danger. Truly a desperate throw of the dice."
"The void of this Coffin of Life and Death is indeed dangerous."
Fang Han looked at the massive coffin-like space, not daring to enter it either.
Suddenly, a stir arose in his mind. He hastily swung his large sleeve, and a layer of spatial film instantly covered downward. Everyone felt that with this action, they transformed into a thin spatial membrane embryo, completely existing in a parallel state with the current world, without any intersection.
Just the instant Fang Han hid everyone, making them vanish into the air, suddenly right here, a powerful concentric circular timeline tunnel rippled out. A ten thousand mile radius of space shattered at once, and a sturdy giant man stepped out from within. This giant man carried a large axe on his back, his eyes like the sun and moon. With a sweeping look, brilliant light traveled everywhere, scanning every inch of space once through.
Following that, his gaze fell upon the void of the "Coffin of Life and Death".
"Coffin of Life and Death, Coffin of Life and Death, to think that the Heavenly Court actually opened this patch of seal?" The giant man muttered: "Are they not afraid that some of the supreme ancient gods sealed inside by the Immortal King of Fortune might come out from within it? Do not know what they were thinking, or if it was the idea of the few giant ruling Heavenly Monarchs of the Heavenly Court. But it matters not, I will enter, locate the items, and also take a momentary look at exactly how formidable that Little Stone Emperor is?"
Swish!
This giant man directly charged into the massive coffin-shaped space. The airflow stirred up around his body rippled wave after wave, vibrating a frenzied tide of heaven and earth.
"What a highly formidable giant man." Xu Muyun, hiding within the parallel space, watched that giant man disappear and couldn't help but say.
"This is the Little Axe Emperor Xuanyuan Po, the peerless Holy Son of the Xuanyuan Aristocratic Family, the reincarnation of the ancient Axe Emperor. The large axe on his back is called Heaven Rending. It can shuttle through the supreme void, and is the peak of a Supreme Grade Immortal Weapon. However, this is secondary. He is known to possess boundless strength, and the Heaven Opening Axe Arts he created rival the Great Immortal Art of the Work of Spirits and Gods of the God Race's Ancestral Holy King."
The Little Rain Empress said: "It seems within the Coffin of Life and Death, there truly might be something appearing in the world. The people of the Xuanyuan Aristocratic Family always have the most well-informed intelligence. Coming here this time, it is probably not solely for the Little Stone Emperor Song Tengfei."
"The Little Stone Emperor entering inside is likely also to search for some treasured items. At the very least, within this Coffin of Life and Death, there are King-tier spirit veins." Fang Han calculated a bit, preparing to disperse their forms. Just then, suddenly, he halted once more, remaining hidden in the space.
"Swoosh!"
Two scorching, sun-like radiances flew from the east and west, instantly dropping at the entrance of the alternate spatial dimension of this Coffin of Life and Death, actually revealing a single person.
This person seemingly carried two shadows stacked in layers. Behind his back were two halos resembling scorching suns, emitting a flavor of evaporating the mountains, rivers, lands, five lakes, and four seas.
"This is someone from your Yuhua Sect who has arrived."
The Little Rain Empress Xia Zhiqiu said.
"This person is from the Yuhua Sect?" Fang Han said with doubt, "How come I have never seen him?"
"His name is Zhu Chongyang, he is indeed a Holy Son of our Yuhua Sect, situated precisely at the very pinnacle among those few figures. He has been in secluded cultivation for many years and came out this time to participate in the Blood Trial." The Painting Saint Sun Shihua said: "This person, like me, is also the reincarnation of an ancient Saint. However, his strength is much more powerful than mine. That is simply because I have not awakened the Saint inheritance within my body. Once awakened, I would not be beneath him. The three most powerful Holy Sons currently in our Yuhua Sect are named Zhu Chongyang, Wan Xi'an, and Hua Zhentian. That Hua Zhentian, as rumor has it, is a descendant of the founder of our Yuhua Sect, Heavenly Monarch Hua, bearing his bloodline. He also entered the Archaic Ruins this time, but I have not seen him."