Killing Xiao Buye equated to forging an irreconcilable, deep-seated grungde with the inner sect disciple Xiao Shi. The hatred of killing a father and stealing a wife could not be compromised.
But Fang Han also knew that even if he didn't kill Xiao Buye, this rogue cultivator island master had already formed an enmity with him because of his son being violently beaten by him. Otherwise, he wouldn't have blatantly come to intercept him.
Logically speaking, a petty rogue cultivator encountering a disciple from the Ten Great Colossal Sects of the Immortal Dao, let alone being respectful and reverent, at least wouldn't oppose them blatantly. Therefore, Fang Han concluded that the Everless Island Master Xiao Buye already had a plan in mind to deal with him.
He also had benefits in dealing with him.
Within the sect now, there were many disciples who wanted to see him out of luck and secretly trip him up, including great true disciples like East Lingxiao and South Wanluo. However, hindered by sect rules, they couldn't deal with him personally, but having some rogue cultivators deal with him and giving them some benefits was very normal.
Xiao Buye received the benefits and used the name of venting his son's anger to deal with him, a perfectly justifiable reason.
Looking at Xiao Buye's methods of forging alliances, although his magic power wasn't high, his scheming was deep; he would be a terrifying enemy in the future.
Exactly because of this, Fang Han struck first to gain the upper hand, killing this island master rogue cultivator to avoid future trouble, clean and neat, completely ending all variables.
"Father!"
Xiao Shi's face was already blood-red. Helplessly watching Fang Han murder his father yet powerless to act, with his strength, he fundamentally had no way to break through Fang Han's true qi barrier.
Gurgle gurgle… his eyes fixed deadly upon Fang Han. Xiao Shi spurted a mouthful of fresh blood and fainted, yet was grabbed by Cang Baizi, rolled up, and brought to his side, preventing him from falling down the gorge into the ocean to die.
The ocean currents in this Evil Ghost Gorge were intense. If an expert of the Divine Ability Realm lacked magic power and fell down, they would also be smashed to pieces, swept into the whirlpool by the ocean waves, and die completely.
"Retreat!"
The Everless Island Master Xiao Buye was killed by Fang Han in one strike, and the remaining four island masters were instantly terrified out of their wits. They hurriedly retreated, not daring to make a move. Fang Han also didn't go to kill them anymore. Retracting his true qi, his demeanor icily focused on Cang Baizi.
"Fang Han! You demon head! Slaughtering innocents wantonly, actually murdering the relatives of my Yuhua Sect's disciples! It seems you truly don't want to be a person of the Immortal Dao. Whole-heartedly and resolutely, you are certain to enter the demonic path."
Cang Baizi gritted his teeth. He didn't act just now because he wanted to see Fang Han's strength, but didn't expect Fang Han to actually be so ruthless, killing the enemy in one move, leaving him no opportunity to act.
"Whether I enter the demonic path or not is not for you to decide. That's for the Heavenly Punishment Elder to decide; what kind of thing are you? You even represent the Heavenly Punishment Elder? I originally wanted to imprison you just now, confine your divine abilities. But since I killed Xiao Buye, my anger has smoothed out a bit. I won't imprison you; get lost immediately!"
Fang Han killing Xiao Buye indeed smoothed out his anger slightly. At this moment he was also too lazy to lower himself to Cang Baizi's level. After all, if he imprisoned the other party, that would genuinely violate sect rules, and it would be hard to explain upon returning.
"Fang Han, don't be arrogant!" Fang Qingwei's body shrunk slightly. Seeing Fang Han so heartless and ruthless, killing a person with a strike, though she had the "Ruyi Gourd," she too felt somewhat apprehensive at heart.
Especially just now when she emitted the Ruyi Golden Smoke, it was actually directly torn apart by Fang Han's true qi! She understood that Fang Han's magic power was fundamentally not something she could contend with.
"If you had magic power like mine, you'd also have the capital to be arrogant." Fang Han stared fixedly at Fang Qingwei, and shifted his attention to the Ruyi Immortal Gourd again. "This gourd, it's the Seven Fiends Gourd Hua Tiandu snatched from me, right. Giving it to you, are you trying to test the power of the Seven Kill Sword Array inside?"
"Hmph! After my sister completes her seclusion, I will explain all this to her. When the time comes, I hope you can give her a reasonable explanation!" Fang Qingwei's fingers twitched, seemingly wanting to spur the Ruyi Gourd, but stopped again. Finally suppressing her impulse, having been through many things, her judgment was much more profound.
"Cang Baizi, you inverted right and wrong this time, forcibly wanting to claim a share of the credit. This matter, I have already recorded it using a Water Impression Talisman. After I return, I will hand it over to the Heavenly Punishment Elder and let him discern right from wrong."
Long Xuan, who had remained silent all along, suddenly stepped forward, a cold sneer appearing on her face. Between her fingers was sandwiched a talisman. The talisman was made of a thin crystal slice, flashing with various figures, dialogues, as well as the scene of Fang Han killing the Target Island Master and the Everless Island Master just now. Although it wasn't clear, a general outline could be seen.
The Water Impression Talisman was a dharma artifact refinement method of the Myriad Water Divine Art, which could be used to record some things that happened, imprinting them in the talisman.
"Long Xuan, you are formidable!"
Cang Baizi's expression changed slightly, waving his hand. "Let's go!" With a whistle, he flew off first. With him flying, the others also flew up, leaving cleanly. Even Fang Qingwei and Ye Nantian absolutely didn't turn back.
"Fang Han, you killing the Everless Island Master this time seems to carry some trouble." Seeing the people leave, Long Xuan breathed a sigh of relief and said slightly.
"How so? What trouble?" Fang Han didn't think so.
"Xiao Buye doesn't amount to much, but his former wife is a person from the Exquisite Blessed Land. Back then, Xiao Buye and his wife were both martial arts masters in the secular world. His wife obtained an immortal encounter and was taken in as a disciple by the Exquisite Blessed Land, and her cultivation seems quite high. But the Exquisite Blessed Land doesn't accept male disciples, so Xiao Buye went down to the ocean to become a rogue cultivator. Gaining some pill assistance from his wife, he cultivated bitterly for ten years and also cultivated to the Divine Ability Realm. Because of this connection, his son Xiao Shi could enter the Yuhua Sect." Long Xuan seemingly knew every single matter very clearly. The myriad interlaced connections of the disciples within the Yuhua Sect were clearly calculated in her heart.
"It seems I've offended another true disciple of the Exquisite Blessed Land." Fang Han waved his hand dismissively. "But the people I've offended are already enough; I don't care about one more. The most urgent task now is this Five Hells King Cauldron great pill furnace. I have to find a place, refine it, and gain another heaven-shaking and earth-shattering treasure artifact!"
"Indeed, the quality of this Five Hells King Cauldron is truly too good. Fang Han, it seems that for my future pills, I'm afraid I'll have to ask you for them." Long Xuan's heart also burned hot. A treasure artifact-level pill furnace had now completely fallen into their hands. With Fang Han's generosity, borrowing it in the future wouldn't be a difficult thing.
"Then let's go." Fang Han sent his true qi flying, transforming it into a giant hand, grabbing up some of the gold, silver, and jewelry from the Target Divine Palace and gathering them into the Five Hells King Cauldron. Although these secular riches were of little use, it was better than nothing.
As for the Target Island Master, known as a character ranked thirty-eighth among the Forty Great Thieves, who ordinarily did many deeds of murder and plunder, he had certainly accumulated some treasures as well. But those treasures of his were all inside the Five Hells King Cauldron.
The Five Hells King Cauldron was as large as a house, so holding some things was naturally not a problem.
After finishing the scraping, Fang Han then flew up, carrying the large cauldron pill furnace, howling away. He was just like a great thief himself.
Just after they left, a burst of slight air fluctuation transmitted from within the gorge. A few people wearing Eight Trigrams purple-gold Daoist robes revealed their forms. It was precisely the several inner sect disciples of the Taiyi Sect!
"I never thought the situation would actually undergo such a change!"
The leading "Senior Brother Zhang" looked at Fang Han in the distance, his gaze sinister and cold.
"What do we do? Could we just helplessly watch this treasure artifact pill furnace fall into the hands of a Yuhua Sect disciple? The Five Hells King Cauldron is rumored to be the top-grade pill furnace treasure artifact cultivated by the Five Hells Heavenly Demon King eight hundred years ago, an existence that might turn into a Dao artifact!" A Taiyi Sect disciple took out a book, looking through it carefully. Suddenly pausing, it seemed he had found the origin of the Five Hells King Cauldron.
"A top-level treasure artifact…" Senior Brother Zhang trembled. "Naturally we cannot let this thing fall into that Fang Han's hands! But this Fang Han's magic power is actually this powerful? Logically speaking, an expert of the second realm of the Divine Ability sequence, the True Qi Realm, at most only has the strength of five or six hundred fiery horses, yet he has at least two thousand! We are not his match. It seems I must notify the other senior brothers!"
While speaking, a golden talisman burned in his hand, transforming into a small golden arrow shooting rapidly into the heavens, vanishing into thin air.
This was the message-transmitting golden talisman of the Taiyi Sect, called the One Word Cloud Pierce Arrow.
After releasing the One Word Cloud Pierce Arrow, waving a hand, they hid themselves again, quietly following the direction Fang Han flew away in, pursuing them.