"You actually employed a trick! Breaking my heavenly lion! Since it is so, no one in heaven or on earth can save you! I will capture you alive, abolish your divine abilities, and hang you up to endure the pain of swords piercing your bodies for eighty-one days! So that the other immortal dao sects will know our formidability, and then send you back to the Yuhua Sect!"
Yao Dian's roaring voice shook heaven and earth!
If hit by the "Five Hells King Cauldron," even a mountain would be smashed to fine powder. However, Yao Dian's magic power was formidable after all. Although his "Heavenly Lion True Form" was blasted apart, at this critical juncture he still displayed his powerful strength. While roaring, his hands grabbed continuously, and a massive amount of milky-white gang qi surged up anew within his body, resisting the crash of the "Five Hells King Cauldron."
This was the "Heavenly Lion True Gang" he had cultivated. Its nature was mighty, the gang qi rolling like the angry roar of a male lion, vividly displaying the majesty of the king of beasts.
"Taiyi Light-Dividing!"
Amidst the frantic condensation of gang qi, the flying sword he controlled flew back once again, dividing into many sword lights, actually like a spider spinning silk, weaving into a densely packed sword net.
As this layer of sword net was cast down, ensnaring the King Cauldron, countless sounds of metal cutting rang out. It actually intended to viciously slice open this great cauldron.
"Demoness, use your magic power to spur the Five Fire Divine Thunder Grand Array in the great cauldron. Long Xuan and I will spur the Void-Grasping Shifting Grand Array. Let us leave here; one Yao Dian is already this difficult to deal with. If the other two true disciples strike, I am afraid we will fail to escape our doom." Inside the cauldron, Fang Han conveyed his meaning to the demoness and Long Xuan.
The demoness also knew the situation was bad. If caught by the people of the Taiyi Sect, she would definitely be subjected to demon-slaying and evil-eradicating. Thus, she poured her magic power into the "Five Fire Divine Thunder" grand array.
On the King Cauldron, fireballs erupted once more.
Meanwhile, Fang Han and Long Xuan's magic power was all poured into a "Void-Grasping Shifting Array."
This array formation was one that propelled a pill furnace to soar and shift. Once activated, the entire pill furnace would fly through the void at a speed surpassing sound. The greater the user's magic power, the faster the flying speed.
"Wu wu wu, wu wu wu…"
As all of Fang Han and Long Xuan's magic power suddenly poured into the "Void-Grasping Shifting Array," the pill furnace shook wildly again, letting out a whistle. Along with the Five Fire Divine Thunders, it shattered the sword net of the Taiyi Light-Dividing Sword in a single strike and flew toward the distance, immediately disengaging from the battlefield.
Because Yao Dian had been arrogant just now and had the rest retreat, Fang Han's sudden disengagement from the battlefield was something no one had anticipated. Of course, the main reason was that the pill furnace was too fast, reaching three or four times the speed of sound. A white wave of air left the sound waves far behind; the pill furnace rubbed against the atmosphere, generating a long tail of fire, like a phoenix firebird.
This kind of speed was originally something only experts who had cultivated to the "Heaven-Man Realm" possessed.
Now, relying on the Void Shifting Grand Array of the "Five Hells King Cauldron," Fang Han achieved this point.
Yao Dian cleared his mind and roared once more. But he knew that with his own speed, it was impossible to catch up to Fang Han, plus his gang qi had been corroded just now, sustaining light injuries. Thus, he slowly retracted his arts and regulated his origin qi.
"Senior Brother! This little thief ran rather fast! What do we do now? Should we give chase?" The other two true disciples, Xia You and Yu Fen, hurriedly flew over. Seeing Yao Dian like this, they knew he had sustained light injuries and asked in surprise one after another.
"I am fine, do not chase! If we continue the pursuit, it will turn into my Taiyi Sect chasing down Yuhua Sect disciples for a magic treasure, which has a very bad influence. It could also easily cause a sect dispute. I also did not expect they would refine this King Cauldron so quickly. We will discuss this matter at length later. We will not let them obtain this great cauldron! Let's go!"
Yao Dian smiled coldly and sinisterly.
"Where to?"
"The Ever-returning Sea Market! Having killed the Target Island Master, they will definitely go to the Ever-returning Immortal Island to claim the reward. We shall go there and wait for them. Capturing them down in public, letting them lose all face, empty of both person and treasure." Yao Dian had a well-thought-out plan. "You all must be careful. That Fang Han has an item in his hand that seems specialised in corroding immortal dao magic power, making him incredibly dangerous. Upon encountering him, strike to kill; do not give him a chance to execute the demonic treasure."
"Understood!"
A group of Taiyi Sect disciples flew toward the "Ever-returning Sea Market."
…
A great cauldron galloped fiercely, sweeping across the sea surface. The air current it brought up parted the seawater, plowing out a deep trench. For a time, seawater gushed, and for dozens of miles around, giant waves surged toward the heavens. Fortunately, this was in the deep ocean; if it were in a coastal area with many fishing boats, it was unknown how many fishing boats this giant wave would have overturned.
Suddenly, the flying of this great cauldron slowed down, landing on the ocean and sinking with a glug.
"The Void-Grasping Shifting Array truly consumes magic power. In just this short time, I have consumed more than half of my magic power, and now my spirit is also somewhat exhausted. If we are chased and attacked again, our lives will be hard to protect." Sitting in the great cauldron, Fang Han let out a long sigh, no longer spurring the grand arrays, but resting with all his might, circulating his spirit and recovering magic power.
"I reckoned the Taiyi Sect disciples would not pursue us. Otherwise, with thousands of millions of rogue cultivators on this sea, if some expert happened to see, it would turn into the Taiyi Sect pursuing and killing Yuhua Sect disciples for a magic treasure." Only now did Long Xuan have the chance to observe the space within the great cauldron. In the middle of this Five Hells King Cauldron, carved gold and sculpted jade were everywhere. Layer upon layer of gold and jade folding screens, nine in total, divided out many independent small secret chambers. Pictures were respectively carved on those folding screens: fire, wind, swords, and knives; clouds, thunder, dragons, and tigers; a hundred ghosts walking at night; a hundred demons eating humans…
On the nine folding screens, there were images of the immortal path and images of the demonic path. It seemed to be a unison of the immortal and the demonic.
At this time, Fang Han was also able to observe the space inside the King Cauldron. It was as large as the hall of a wealthy family, separated by these nine immortal-demonic unison folding screens, ingeniously laid out, revealing all sorts of mysteries.
Through the cauldron walls on all four sides, one could see the situation outside. The seawater was deep, with many fish swimming back and forth, because this pill furnace was sinking into the seabed. However, not a drop of water entered this pill furnace; it was very safe.
The group also felt not the slightest pressure from the deep sea.
The walls of this pill furnace seemed to be of a special material; one could see outside from the inside, but from the outside, the situation inside could not be seen at all.
"Then what do we do now?" The demoness asked: "When Taiyi Sect disciples catch a Great Asura, they always put it to death directly."
"I reckoned this group of people will not let the matter rest, but since they didn't pursue, they will definitely go to the Ever-returning Sea Market to wait for us. Because we killed the Target Island Master, we have to go to the sea market to claim the reward." Fang Han said: "Let us rest for a while first, recover our magic power, then float up and head straight to Guixu."
"I am afraid that is inappropriate; we still must make a trip to the sea market. Your Magic Crystal jade stones are all used up. Once your magic power fails during a magical battle, you will suffer a deadly attack. Moreover, Guixu is myriad times perilous. I originally wanted to go to the sea market to purchase some medicinal materials to refine pills, enhance my strength, and condense true qi!" Long Xuan said: "If I condense true qi and my magic power doubles, joining forces, we will be much more secure."
"What? You are also about to condense true qi? How so fast?" Fang Han was taken aback. Logically speaking, it would take Long Xuan two or three years to successfully cultivate true qi.
"I consumed the Yin-Yang Myriad Life Pill, coupled with my special constitution, naturally bringing out the best in cultivating the Myriad Water Divine Art. Now having obtained this pill furnace, if I can go to the sea market and buy Sunflower Water Jellyfish, Blue Lightning Jellyfish, Purple Cloud Jellyfish, Sea God Jellyfish, Golden Jellyfish, Silver Jellyfish, and Stellar Jellyfish, the seven great alien jellyfish, to fuse into my magic power and train within this pill furnace, my true qi will be formed immediately!" Long Xuan looked around the pill furnace: "The Myriad Water Divine Art, ah, the Myriad Water Divine Art… I don't know when it will be able to reach grand completion. Pity, if I could find a type of holy water and use the Myriad Water Divine Art to fuse it into my body, my magic power would advance by leaps and bounds."
"What water?" Fang Han asked casually.
"The number one holy water between heaven and earth. Forgetfulness Water!"