The power of Little Rain Emperor Xia Zhiqiu was much stronger than when she had just entered the Primordial Ruins. In an instant, she single-handedly slaughtered a Poison Viper Beast, her movements flowing like water and formed in one continuous sequence, even more relaxed and free than when Zhu Chongyang fought Qiang Liang.
Directly collecting a King-tier spiritual vein and integrating the laws of a Origin Immortal and immortal spiritual light into her body, Little Rain Emperor Xia Zhiqiu radiated brilliance. She possessed the air of someone ready to advance and break through to the next realm at any moment.
Fang Han remained outwardly composed. While silently calculating the presence of Little Stone Emperor Song Tengfei in his heart, he looked towards some powerful demonic cities in the distance, which also contained the auras of King-tier spiritual veins.
Having just had a King-tier spiritual vein snatched away by Little Rain Emperor, Fang Han felt a secret sense of pity in his heart.
Currently, as long as he collected five or more King-tier spiritual veins, he could advance to a Origin Immortal and charge to break through his realm. In this demon world within the devil cave, powerful demons were innumerable. Almost every powerful demon was in charge of a King-tier spiritual vein; all he needed to do was kill one of them and plunder the spiritual vein.
However, ever since entering this devil cave, the aura of Little Stone Emperor Song Tengfei had become indistinct, occasionally disappearing and then reappearing. It seemed he was utilizing some kind of demonic art to mix and merge with the aura of the devil cave into a single mass. Even Fang Han could not truly lock onto his exact location right now.
This person was indeed a formidable overlord of a generation; killing him would be extremely difficult.
"How is it, have you calculated the aura of Little Stone Emperor Song Tengfei?" Little Rain Emperor Xia Zhiqiu flew back.
"No, this person has certainly obtained some kind of benefit, and his aura is mixed with the devil cave's aura." Fang Han waved his hand.
"Then it doesn't matter." Little Axe Emperor Xuanyuan Po, seeing Xia Zhiqiu obtain benefits, was extremely envious, itching to have a go and rubbing his fists and wiping his palms: "This underground demon kingdom unexpectedly has so many powerful demons, and there actually are King-tier spiritual veins present. Let's go! We will slaughter our way through. Even if we cannot kill Little Stone Emperor, killing more of these Origin Immortal level demons will ensure that once we cultivate to become Origin Immortals, we won't need to fear Little Stone Emperor at all. When the time comes, killing him will be as easy as flipping a hand."
"This is indeed not bad. We entered the Primordial Ruins exactly to enhance our strength and search for wealth. I have already stimulated the memories of an Emperor. The experience of advancing from an Ancestor Immortal to an Origin Immortal is right within my body. If there are enough King-tier spiritual veins, advancing will not be a difficult matter."
Little Rain Emperor Xia Zhiqiu nodded: "With Brother Feng Yuan protecting us, we will certainly be safe and sound. As soon as we advance to the realm of an Origin Immortal, that Little Stone Emperor won't be able to run even if he wants to."
"Ahead is a primordial devil city. Gathered inside seems to be an ancient shadow of a fierce beast that has existed since the primordial era."
Little Axe Emperor Xuanyuan Po suddenly pointed forward.
In the distance, an imposing city of shadows amidst malevolent energy was restless, intermittently swallowing and spitting. Within it, a massive shadow was cultivating something, and within the city, there was also the aura of a King-tier spiritual vein.
"Little Axe Emperor, your strength has also grown quite a bit. How about we compete and see who can slay that powerful ancient shadow first and obtain the King-tier spiritual vein inside?"
As she spoke, Little Rain Emperor and Little Axe Emperor suddenly flew up simultaneously, crossing space and time, directly launching a killing strike towards the city of shadows.
The ancient shadow fierce beast within that city of shadows abruptly raised its head, seemingly sensing a massive crisis. It immediately prepared to transform and flee.
"There is no need for the two of you to compete. I also need to cultivate into an Origin Immortal, and what I lack right now are King-tier spiritual veins. You two shouldn't fight over it for now. Wait until I have gathered enough spiritual veins, then it won't be too late for you to fight over them."
Just at the moment the two approached the city of shadows and unleashed overlapping killing moves, Fang Han's voice transmitted from behind. A dragon claw shattered the firmament, enveloping down from above. The massive city of shadows and the ancient shadow fierce beast inside were compressed by a peerless force, unexpectedly shrinking down instantly to form a palm-sized miniature city that was grabbed by the dragon claw, gradually falling into Fang Han's hands.
In Fang Han's hand, the miniature city of shadows radiated flowing light. The ancient shadow fierce beast struggled continuously inside, but to no avail. A King-tier spiritual vein was extracted from it, looking like a large earthworm the thickness of a ring finger.
Not long ago, by using supreme mana, Little Stone Emperor Song Tengfei had sealed a King-tier spiritual vein, transforming it into a three-foot-long spirit snake, which already showed boundless mana. And now Fang Han had turned it into an earthworm, demonstrating a skill who knows how many times more profoundly brilliant than Song Tengfei's.
Seeing this made the scalps of Little Rain Emperor and Little Axe Emperor go numb.
However, they did not dare to say anything more.
In their hearts, they were thinking: "Such an existence, if he advances to become an Origin Immortal, to what extent will his power reach? The calamity for an Origin Immortal will definitely not be small. I am actually anticipating just how massive his calamity will be."
The more powerful a figure was, the more turbulent the rules of heaven and earth they would incite when elevating their realm, and the greater the calamity would be. Going from an Ancestor Immortal to an Origin Immortal would attract a calamity, and similarly, later advancing from an Origin Immortal to a Saint Immortal would bring an enormous saintly calamity.
"I now roughly have the Primal Origin Energy of three King-tier spiritual veins, but this is far from enough. To put it conservatively, for my advancement to Origin Immortal, I need five King-tier spiritual veins. No, it seems more than that, because I just absorbed Little Stone Emperor's stone diagram, and the accumulation in my entire body has grown much thicker. Universal Astrolabe, calculate for me, how many King-tier spiritual veins in total do I need to advance."
Fang Han began to calculate.
In a split second, the information fed back on the Universal Astrolabe flashed past, showing the phantoms of eight King-tier spiritual veins.
In other words, for Fang Han to advance now, he needed a minimum of eight King-tier spiritual veins. Furthermore, after advancing, every time he exerted his mana, such as for fourteen times combat power or thirty-three times combat power, the Primal Origin Energy consumed would be terrifyingly frightening.
Therefore, he absolutely had to collect more King-tier spiritual veins to maintain his operation.
Being powerful also had its powerful drawbacks, which was that any casual movement or a single breath would consume an amount of vital energy that others could not imagine.
Right now, within Fang Han's body, the casual operation of the crystal divine kingdom would burn through the vital energy of several first-tier spiritual veins.
Fortunately, by entering the Primordial Ruins to undergo the blood trial, treasures were everywhere. Although it was extremely dangerous, as long as one's strength was great, astonishing wealth could be obtained. Seeing the appearances of King-tier spiritual vein auras in the distant demon world, Fang Han could not help but feel a secret surge of gratitude toward the Heavenly Court.
If he had not infiltrated the Ascension Sect to participate in this blood trial, trying to accumulate King-tier spiritual veins in the outside Heavenly Realm would have taken an unknown number of years and months.
"Swoosh!"
Fang Han's body flew straight out, transforming into a surging river. This river expanded unceasingly, forming countless vortexes.
These vortexes emitted a powerful suction force, drawing space itself into them. Wherever it flowed, the space there directly disappeared, and the demons present could offer absolutely no resistance before being swept into the river and devoured by Fang Han.
On the ground, crisscrossing spiritual veins also immediately flew up, all plunging into the river. One by one, first-tier spiritual veins were entirely sucked away by Fang Han.
Following behind Fang Han, Little Axe Emperor, Little Rain Emperor, and the others could not fish up a single benefit.
Watching thousands of first-tier spiritual veins continuously fly up along the way, the two felt a secret sense of pity, but there was nothing they could do. Fang Han was like the Gate of Eternal Life devouring the heavens; wherever he went, everything disappeared.
"These spiritual veins on the ground have all been tainted by malevolent energy. Forcibly drawing them into the body will do harm and bring no benefit. They must be purified. But absorbing such a massive quantity into the body, I would have absolutely no way to purify them. Is he actually handling this so effortlessly?" Little Rain Emperor's greatest source of pride was her purification art, but now seeing that Fang Han had already absorbed tens of thousands of severed veins, swallowing even the malevolent energy along with them, this completely exceeded her imagination. Even she felt that she would have no hope of doing so when she advanced to the realm of an Origin Immortal.
"Humph, these two, after being recruited by Senior Brother Feng Yuan, haven't contributed any effort, yet they want to take advantage. Now look at them, they can't reap the slightest benefit." Observing the appearance of the two, Xu Muyun secretly laughed in her heart.
"There is truly hope for the revival of my Ascension Sect. Originally, we relied on Zhu Chongyang, Hua Zhentian, and Wan Xi'an, those three magnates. Unfortunately, looking at it now, the aptitudes of those three are ordinary. Compared to Feng Yuan, they are inferior by countless times. After returning, I will definitely report the situation in the Primordial Ruins to the Supreme Headmaster, letting him make the decision to grant Feng Yuan sufficient resources and opportunities." Sun Shihua's heart was agitated.
He now finally knew that, in the Primordial Ruins this time, as long as Fang Han advanced to become an Origin Immortal, he could kill Little Stone Emperor Song Tengfei, eliminating a great enemy for the Ascension Sect.
The long river that Fang Han transformed into grew larger and more surging. The severed veins and demons on the ground, whatever Hell Bats, Inner Demon Ancient Apes, Crimson Kui Divine Beasts, or Ruyi Heavenly Demons… none could escape his sweeping embrace, all being thrown into the long river.
Wherever Fang Han's long river reached, not a single thing could be left behind.
There was nothing that was not devoured by him. Even the Great Devouring Art among the Three Thousand Great Daos developed to its extremity did not possess such an effect.
During the devouring process, the long river not only lacked any malevolent energy pollution but instead became more and more translucent and resplendent. Within the reflection of the long river, everyone could see their own past, and even their future.
"Xia Zhiqiu, look at this long river!" Little Axe Emperor Xuanyuan Po seemed to have noticed some clues, his brow trembling repeatedly, his whole body acting as if it had caught a severe chill.
"Formidable, he is making final preparations for his advancement to Origin Immortal. Once he successfully advances, killing the Holy Sons of the thousands of king-tier great sects who entered this time will be absolutely no problem. Even Mu Ye, those few freaks from the Huangfu aristocratic family, won't be his opponents at all."
Little Axe Emperor deeply agreed.
Every time the Heavenly Court conducted a blood trial, there would be thousands of king-tier great sects, and tens of hundreds of thousands of Holy Sons would enter the Primordial Ruins. Among them, powerful existences were innumerable. Existences like Little Rain Emperor and Little Axe Emperor were not few in number, and there were even powerful existences like Little Stone Emperor in some freakish aristocratic families and massive factions guarded by a Heavenly Monarch.
However, existences like Fang Han were simply non-existent.
In merely ten breaths of time, Fang Han was like a hurricane sweeping across the plains, leaving it riddled with holes. All life was on the path of destruction. On the vast plains, a full hundreds of thousands of severed veins were incorporated into his body.
"Look, above that long river, tribulation clouds are coalescing."
Little Rain Emperor's eyes were sharp, immediately spotting that above the long river Fang Han had transformed into, deep within the void, perhaps even in a mysterious alternate space beyond the Primordial Ruins, rolling dark clouds were coalescing. It was Fang Han's calamity.