After a great battle, the sky had not yet brightened, and the night on the sea grew even deeper. The stars fell, leaving a stretch of pitch-black haziness. Calculating the time, it had already reached the third watch.
Ghosts at the third watch, thieves at the fourth watch.
The third watch was the time when yin energy between heaven and earth was the heaviest, with darkness completely enveloping the vast land and swallowing everything.
However, Fang Han did not care about the yin energy and darkness between heaven and earth. His mood was extremely excited. Having killed the Target Island Master and seized the "Five Hells King Cauldron", this great pill furnace and a supreme item among treasure artifacts, a great increase in strength was just around the corner.
Now the most urgent task was to find a place to refine the Five Hells Great Pill Furnace, truly turning it into his own belonging, which would genuinely mean gaining another self-defense magic treasure.
This "Five Hells King Cauldron" was not only a pill furnace but could also be used as a house to dwell in. When a person lived inside and controlled the various grand arrays, it could be used for rapid flight and even to resist enemy attacks.
When the Target Island Master utilized this pill furnace, he had even blasted Long Xuan's "Cold Hornless Dragon Sword" apart. If the Target Island Master had not sustained heavy injuries and been struck by the Forgetfulness Water, Fang Han feared he still would not have been able to kill him.
Truthfully speaking, if Fang Han had known that the Target Island Master actually possessed the Five Hells King Cauldron, he might have planned things out, and the result would certainly have been missing the opportunity.
Fang Han flew rapidly in the air, his Wood Sovereign True Qi wrapping around the demoness and Long Xuan. His speed was extremely fast and his stamina protracted. Flying fiercely without a pause, twisting and turning, he finally saw another deserted island on the sea surface and hurriedly descended.
While flying, a faint yellow light flashed from his body, swallowing the "Five Hells King Cauldron" inside. He no longer needed to carry a house-sized pill furnace with him; otherwise, it would look too conspicuous.
Long Xuan knew that he had stored it into the space of a Dao artifact and secretly nodded.
When cultivators traveled abroad, the biggest trouble was not having enough baggage for collecting herbs, only able to carry a little bit each time. A treasure that could independently open up void space was an extremely rare Dao artifact; how could ordinary Divine Ability Realm experts possess one?
Now that Fang Han had a Dao artifact, Long Xuan calculated that collecting herbs largely overseas and taking them all back to refine pills would save her so much trouble.
Descending upon this unnamed deserted island, Fang Han, Long Xuan, and the demoness hid themselves and stood guard over the surroundings. Not discovering any powerful auras, they finally settled down.
"Where have we reached now? Do you have a sea chart, Long Xuan?" Having flown around blindly on the sea, Fang Han had long lost his sense of direction. He divided some of his spirit and magic power into the Yellow Spring Diagram to spur the "Five Hells King Cauldron" while asking Long Xuan for their location.
Long Xuan took out All Worlds, flipped through it for a while, looking very skillful, and found a sea chart. Then she took out a positioning compass from her bosom, calculated for quite a while, and finally said with certainty: "The place we are located should be the South Sea. Flying south from this direction for thirty or forty thousand miles is the Ever-returning Sea Market. Once you refine the Five Hells King Cauldron, we will go into the sea market to buy a large batch of medicinal materials to refine pills, which will save us from searching everywhere and wasting time."
"Ever-returning Sea Market?" It was the first time Fang Han had heard of it.
Long Xuan nodded: "The Ever-returning Sea Market is a maritime market organized by the Ever-returning Immortal Island in the recent cycle of sixty years. The market has everything one could wish for in terms of goods. Many overseas rogue cultivators go to this market to trade the medicinal materials they have collected and the spiritual and dharma artifacts they have found. The overseas nations also go to the sea market to purchase things, and some emperors even go there to seek spiritual pills and miraculous medicines. However, because this sea market developed recently, it is not recorded in All Worlds. The book All Worlds was written a hundred years ago. Things in the world change with each passing day, so the information within it is outdated."
"So that's how it is." Fang Han said in sudden enlightenment: "When I was in the Great Li Dynasty, I often heard that the emperor built ships and went out to sea to seek immortal medicines. I thought it was an absurd and baseless thing, never expecting it to actually be true."
While speaking, Long Xuan revealed a hard-to-detect coldness: "This move by the Ever-returning Immortal Island was thought of by an extraordinary genius within their sect. Therefore, over this cycle of sixty years, the Ever-returning Immortal Dao has developed extremely fast. In the Myriad Immortals Assembly a few years from now, I fear they will shine brilliantly. However, if they vainly attempt to contest with Taiyi for the position of the number one sect of the Daoist portal, I'm afraid their ending will be quite a sight to see."
"You seem to have some enmity with the Ever-returning Immortal Island?" Fang Han heard the resentment in Long Xuan's tone.
"Of course! The people of the Ever-returning Immortal Island have a blood feud with me! Sooner or later, one day, I will have this immortal dao sect removed from the Ten Sects of the Immortal Dao." Long Xuan tapped the hilt of the Cold Hornless Dragon Sword rhythmically with her finger: "Let's not talk about this. I just checked a bit; your Five Hells King Cauldron is an extraterrestrial treasure brought down here eight hundred years ago by a Great Heavenly Demonic King who descended from the outer realms. This Great Heavenly Demonic King was called the Five Hells Demonic King, who had already cultivated demonic arts to the ninth realm of the Divine Ability sequence, the Heaven and Earth Dharma Form Realm. Therefore, this pill furnace is no trivial matter. I also don't know why it fell into the hands of the Target Island Master. No wonder the Target Island Master cultivated gang qi so quickly. For these rogue cultivators, at a normal cultivation speed, it would take a hundred years to achieve."
"The ninth realm of the Divine Ability sequence! Heaven and Earth Dharma Form! An item refined by a demonic king of this level?" Hearing this, Fang Han couldn't help but shiver.
Just how formidable the ninth realm of the Divine Ability sequence was, his current cultivation gave him a slight understanding. Their power was at least the galloping strength of five hundred thousand fiery horses; just one finger could probably press him to death.
Stopping his speech, he poured all his attention, magic power, and true qi into the Five Hells King Cauldron within the Yellow Spring Diagram.
At this time, that massive Five Hells King Cauldron was completely soaked in the Forgetfulness Water. Strands of Forgetfulness Water seeped into it, and spurred by Fang Han using his true qi, they turned into mist and erased many spiritual imprints within the Five Hells King Cauldron.
Within the medicinal cauldron and pill furnace of this Great Heavenly Demonic King, many grand arrays were activated! Everything stored inside was entirely expelled, falling into the Yellow Spring River.
This Five Hells King Cauldron was also the place where the Target Island Master stored his things.
As the Target Island Master robbed a region, the good things he stored were not just a few. Spraying out on the spot, instantly ten large purple-gold gourds flew out first. These large purple-gold gourds were each over a person's height, all filled with pills.
"My goodness, this is the Life-sustaining Golden Pill of the Heavenly Absolute Demonic Sect! Every gourd contains three hundred pills. Ten gourds means three thousand pills! These pills are refined using thirty-six types of medicinal materials aged over five hundred years; the quality is incredibly good, having a better efficacy than blood pills."
Yan grabbed a large purple-gold gourd, opened the gourd lid, poured out a pill, and discovered this pill was the size of a broad bean. A dense fragrance filled the air, and fine lines on the pill displayed thirty-six colors. Its medicinal properties were intense.
This was the "Life-sustaining Golden Pill" of the major demonic path sect, the Heavenly Absolute Demonic Sect, a notch higher than the Yuhua Sect's Essence Pill and Inedia Pill. It was the best possible food for an expert of the Divine Ability Realm.
Furthermore, the Life-sustaining Golden Pill had another effect; after taking it for a long period, it could preserve one's appearance from aging.
After spraying out ten large gourds of golden pills, this Five Hells King Cauldron was still spraying continuously. Streaks of flying swords were shot out, flying and dancing above the Yellow Spring River; there were actually a full thirty-six of them!
"Good fellow, he actually gathered the thirty-six flying swords of the Heavenly Absolute Demonic Sect's Heavenly Absolute Sword Array. Too bad, it is still missing a Heavenly Absolute Array Diagram." Yan cackled continuously.
Before the voice faded, pieces of spiritual artifact dharma clothes were also sprayed out, amounting to over twenty pieces.
"This guy runs a clothing store! How many people did he kill to collect these spiritual artifact dharma clothes?" Among these spiritual artifact dharma clothes, there were some matching the quality of the Blood Cotton Demonic Clothes. However, there was not a single treasure artifact.
A lot of gold and jewelry also sprayed into the Yellow Spring River; these were things of the secular world, which was fine. But at the very end, poof! A pitch-black book was expelled; it was a demonic sect classic.
Heavenly Gang Target Breaking Hand!