"Even the Passion Saint Nangong Shangxin returned without success. Rumor has it that this person entered the dao via passion, mastering the boundless heaven and earth supreme ethereal great art, and is now in secluded cultivation again. The elders in our family all said that this person would definitely be able to cultivate to become a Profound Immortal Emperor. I fear it won't be long before the Passion Saint transforms into the Passion Emperor. To think he surprisingly could not do anything to this Feng Yuan before my eyes. Then exactly who is sheltering him? Could it be a Heavenly Lord? Has the Yuhua Sect's Hua Heavenly Lord returned once more?"
The Little Axe Emperor Xuanyuan Po was secretly shocked in his heart.
"Senior Brother Xuanyuan, I request you to resolve this enmity." Xu Muyun said.
"No matter, when I return I will warn that kid Xuanyuan Chixiao to stop his wishful thinking. To actually dare to snatch Brother Feng's woman, it is simply a toad lusting after swan meat, not knowing life from death. If he still doesn't behave, I will slap him to death. Right, he has also entered the Immemorial Ruins this time, though presumably outside the coffin of life and death. When we meet face to face, I will act as a middleman and have him formally cancel the marriage contract." Xuanyuan Po deeply understood Fang Han's formidable might and recognized the difference between making this friend and adding such an enemy.
"Then I'll have to trouble you." Fang Han said flatly.
Xu Muyun, however, turned bright red in the face but could not deny it.
The female disciples of the three major sects present all clicked their tongues in admiration, feeling both envious and jealous. Following a man like Fang Han completely meant a boundless future. Among them, some women were even secretly calculating in their hearts how to use their beauty to seduce Fang Han, so that they could become his woman.
The women in the various major sects of the heavenly realm all respected the strong and wanted to attach themselves to the strong.
Even women like the Little Rain Emperor, when facing an overly powerful expert, might not be entirely without the psychology of attachment. Many Emperor Profound Immortal women in the heavenly realm all wished to marry a Heavenly Lord.
Even the three great ruling Heavenly Lord giants—Primal Chaos, Eternity, and Disaster—had groups of wives and concubines and were not single men. These kings of the heavens conjured billions of incarnations and had no misgivings regarding taking wives and concubines, doing exactly as they pleased.
Precisely because of this, every Heavenly Lord had a massive bloodline handed down.
For instance, the Battle King Heavenly Lord Muye Huang; his bloodline flowed down into the Muye Family, generation after generation. Now that it had branched out and spread its leaves, there were likely infinitely more than a trillion descendants, endless and inexhaustible.
"It's easy to say. Brother Feng Yuan rescued me, or else I would still be trapped by that cursed group of Ruyi Heavenly Demons unable to free myself." As the Little Axe Emperor Xuanyuan Po spoke, he cleaved out with a single axe stroke, instantly opening up a passage in the air. The baleful aura was thoroughly pierced, and dozens of demons lost their lives beneath the axe.
From the depths of the spatial passage, the furious roars of demons were transmitted out.
"Ahead? There seems to be another holy child fighting demonic beasts."
Hearing the furious roars, the group looked over again and saw that amidst the baleful aura, a tall demonic shadow was fighting against two searing red lights resembling scorching suns. With every clash, the powerful magical power fluctuations shook the surroundings like wrathful waves.
"It is Zhu Chongyang; he is fighting an immemorial fierce beast, Qiangliang."
The reincarnation of the Painting Saint, Sun Shihua, said. He recognized those two glaring, sun-like red lights; it was precisely one of the supreme three giants who had cultivated the peerless dao technique of the Yuhua Sect, the "Twin King Art", Zhu Chongyang.
One of the three giants among the Yuhua Sect holy children.
And the fierce beast fighting him was exactly a Qiangliang documented in ancient dao scriptures, entirely covered in pitch-black scales, with two yellow snakes pierced through its ears, bearing a tiger's head on a human body, roaring back and forth. Every time it struck, powerful magical power erupted from its body, surprisingly executing several innate divine abilities somewhat akin to the beast dao civilizations from the previous three eras.
This Qiangliang possessed extremely high intellect and extremely secretive methods, as if it had experienced thousands of battles. What was even more formidable was that it had cultivated to the beginner Fundamental Immortal realm. All the laws inside its body could be condensed into a fundamental dot at any moment, capable of killing countless Ancestral Immortals.
Even if over a hundred Ancestral Immortals besieged this demon, they would still be slaughtered in one strike.
However, Zhu Chongyang was fighting this Qiangliang with the realm of an Ancestral Immortal, and the two red lights burst forth with the might to incinerate heaven and earth, suppressing Qiangliang's demonic energy and dispersing it continuously, making the fierce baleful aura completely unable to approach his body.
Fighting above his level, and still holding the upper hand. This showed that this child Zhu Chongyang indeed lived up to being one of the three giants among the holy children of the Yuhua Sect. Many saints within the Yuhua Sect had failed to successfully cultivate the Twin King Art, yet he had managed to succeed in cultivating it; this had to be said to be an enormous lucky chance.
The void passage cleaved open by Xuanyuan Po's giant axe also alerted the fighting Qiangliang and Zhu Chongyang. This man and fierce beast were both startled. Zhu Chongyang swept his gaze over and also saw Feng Yuan, Sun Shihua, the Little Axe Emperor Xuanyuan Po, and the Little Rain Emperor Xia Zhiqiu. His gaze lingered upon the Little Rain Emperor and the Little Axe Emperor. He let out a long howl, issuing forth a rolling voice: "Little Rain Emperor, Little Axe Emperor, why are you together with the holy child of our Yuhua Sect this time?"
"Senior Brother Zhu Chongyang, do you want us to step in together to deal with this Qiangliang?"
Sun Shihua called out loudly: "This is Brother Feng Yuan. He contacted Senior Brother Xuanyuan Po and Senior Sister Xia Zhiqiu, preparing to go together to kill the Taiyi Sect's Little Stone Emperor Song Tengfei. Senior Brother's presence is just in time for us to travel together. The Little Stone Emperor is the great enemy of our Yuhua Sect! Until he is eliminated, no one will have peace in their hearts."
"Feng Yuan? The very troublemaker who made the Heart Emperor Holy Child kneel and caused the elders of our sect to go negotiate with the Dark Emperor Mansion, the Sun Divine Palace, and various major sects?" Zhu Chongyang's gaze turned towards Fang Han. In the dangerous state of fighting Qiangliang, he was unexpectedly dividing his attention, still managing to speak with utmost ease: "You all go about your own business. Naturally, I will go kill the Little Stone Emperor by myself. Moreover, the internal affairs of our Yuhua Sect do not require the intervention of people from other sects. Little Rain Emperor, Little Axe Emperor, please do as you like. Sun Shihua, you disregarded the rules of our Yuhua Sect to join forces with other sects to kill the Little Stone Emperor. If word gets out, even if we slay the Little Stone Emperor, it will not be glorious."
"Ignorant!"
Fang Han originally wanted to win over this Zhu Chongyang to jointly kill the Little Stone Emperor, but hearing such words simply ignited the fire in his heart. However, his self-cultivation was deep, and he did not show his joy or anger on his face, so as not to let others think that his Yuhua Sect had internal strife: "Zhu Chongyang, you actually call me a troublemaker. If you were not a disciple of my Yuhua Sect, solely based on these words, not only would your body die and your dao vanish, but your family, clan, relatives, and friends, everyone within ten generations of your family, would all perish. However, danger is fraught everywhere here today, and you are fighting Qiangliang. I am unwilling to kick a man when he is down and take advantage of someone's precarious state. Leave with haste."
"Shameless boasting!"
Zhu Chongyang sneered continuously: "Do you think this Qiangliang can do anything against me? Twin Divine Kings!"
"Buzz!"
With a great roar, two voices concurrently transmitted out from his two shadows. One voice was ancient, as if it had experienced countless years, and the other voice was filled with childishness, like a newly born child.
A great light shone in brilliance, and two divine kings manifested from within the light. With just a single strike, a rumbling noise was struck out. The sound pierced through the past and future. That Qiangliang was practically torn apart before it could even react.
"What a powerful burst of combat power. This burst exceeded ten times! It nearly reached more than ten times." The Little Rain Emperor said.
"The Twin King Art equates to two souls, past and future existing as two entities; the combat power displayed naturally surpasses ten times." The Little Axe Emperor clicked his tongue in praise, "No wonder he is so confident; he indeed has some real skill to directly slaughter Qiangliang."
The moment that Qiangliang was torn apart, it surprisingly transformed into two bodies, violently retreating outward.
But Zhu Chongyang's two shadows flashed, turning into scorching suns burning the void, unexpectedly forcing Qiangliang back again. Directly sealing it, he slowly drove it into a strangely shaped long sword.
This oddly shaped long sword lacked a sword hilt and looked just like a pool of autumn water, sparkling and constantly leaping. Forged of crystal, many demons were sealed inside it. Fang Han even saw that the Ancient Demon Heart Ape, Hell Bats, and even Ruyi Heavenly Demons were sealed within, flowing interchangeably, adding an immense amount of power to this strangely shaped long sword.
These demons circulated within it and soon transformed into several runes, forming a scripture that expounded the eternally unchanging truth of the great dao, a law that holds valid everywhere within the four seas.
"True Reason Sword!" The expressions of both the Little Rain Emperor and the Little Axe Emperor changed simultaneously. This sword followed the refining method of the rumored True Reason Sword. The True Reason Sword encompassed all phenomena, capable of integrating everything into it and manifesting all forms. It was an ancient strangely shaped weapon of extremely mysterious origin, rumored to be a sword refinement technique handed down by the True Reason Immortal King.
This "True Reason Sword" was clearly the sword embryo refined by Zhu Chongyang himself, slaying the demons of the Immemorial Ruins to sacrifice to the sword embryo as various preparations. In the future, once this sword is successfully tempered, it could govern a portion of truth, leaving him nearly unmatched within the same realm.
With Qiangliang drawn entirely into the sword embryo of the "True Reason Sword" in an instant, Zhu Chongyang's glabella twitched, and this sword embryo was absorbed back into his glabella. Immediately, the illusion of the heavenly court manifested on his forehead. The heavenly court was located exactly on a person's forehead, and his heavenly court unexpectedly emanated the majesty of the current heavenly realm's heavenly court.
After absorbing this sword embryo, he channeled his power slightly behind his back, and one could see the Qiangliang from just now conjured forth with completely spread claws and bared fangs, still possessing the power from when it was at full strength just a moment ago.
Finishing all this took merely a few breaths. He violently stared over, with layers upon layers of baleful aura failing to obstruct him, "It is you, Feng Yuan. You said that if I were not a Yuhua Sect disciple, you would wipe out ten generations of my family? Then now, I shall respond with the same sentence towards you. If you were not a Yuhua Sect disciple, solely based on this arrogant attitude of yours, I would make you just like this Qiangliang, integrating you into the blade of my sword to become a rune."
As Zhu Chongyang spoke, the two shadows merged into one, revealing his true face, holding the appearance of a man who possessed quite a bit of a scholar's demeanor, rigid and mean.
"One mountain cannot hold two tigers." The Little Rain Emperor Xia Zhiqiu shook her head: "Feng Yuan, I see it is necessary for you and this Zhu Chongyang to exchange blows and see who exactly is the most formidable holy child in the Yuhua Sect. Otherwise, things will truly be difficult to handle."
"Brother Feng, this Zhu Chongyang speaks meanly; take action." The Little Axe Emperor Xuanyuan Po could somewhat not stand it anymore either.
"Then fine, since this is the case, I will also ignore the rules." Fang Han nodded, standing tall: "Although my heart is devoted entirely to the Yuhua Sect, originally I cast my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon shines upon the ditch. Since this is the case, I do not mind the Yuhua Sect losing one powerful holy child."