Fang Han refined War King Heavenly Monarch Muye Huang and Huangfu Bi'an with the speed of a sudden clap of thunder leaving no time to cover one's ears, shocking Miao Li Heavenly Monarch and Yi Heavenly Monarch so much that they almost passed out. These two Heavenly Monarchs truly felt the arrival of death.
"Plop!"
Yi Heavenly Monarch actually knelt down, "Fang Han, Fang Han… spare me. You are now also a Heavenly Monarch. My kneeling to you does not count as losing any dignity. Our Wing Realm is extremely vast, and all the Wing Race can serve as slaves for your Epoch Gate disciples. Think about it, when all the disciples of your Epoch Gate cultivate, they can receive the assistance of our Wing Race. How greatly would the sect expand?"
"That tribe of our Barbarian Race can also serve as slaves for your Epoch disciples. I can use all seven Holy Artifacts of the Barbarian Race to exchange with you. You have the Blood-Stained Clothes and the Totem Pot, but you still lack the Crown of Thorns… These Holy Artifacts, if all seven are gathered, can summon the ancestral primordial spirits of our Barbarian Race, invincible wherever they go!" Miao Li Heavenly Monarch also knelt down and pleaded.
They were all supreme Heavenly Monarchs, with unparalleled dignity, normally high and mighty, viewing all things as ants. If Fang Han were not a Heavenly Monarch, it would be absolutely impossible for them to kneel down like this and lose their dignity. But since Fang Han was now also a Heavenly Monarch sitting on equal footing with them, lowering their posture meant nothing much.
It was not as if a Heavenly Monarch could not kneel. When encountering those ancient Heavenly Monarchs or facing a fatal disaster of being killed, they still had to kneel and beg for mercy. When encountering an Immortal King, they had to kneel even more so.
"You did not kneel earlier, kneeling now is already too late." Above Fang Han's head, a massive pagoda suddenly appeared and suppressed downwards, sucking the two great Heavenly Monarchs into it.
It was the supreme treasure of the Dragon Race, the Eight Divisions Pagoda.
The Eight Divisions Pagoda was currently still a King Grade Immortal Artifact, but it had become a formation eye of the Epoch Divine Formation. As soon as it emerged, it could mobilize the power of the Epoch Divine Formation, which was equivalent to Fang Han suppressing the two using his own Dao of the Epoch. Naturally, capturing them was as easy as turning over a hand.
Fang Han intended to use the origins of the two great Heavenly Monarchs to refine the Eight Divisions Pagoda into a Saint Grade Immortal Artifact, adding another supreme treasure to his possession and enhancing his own strength.
According to rumors, the current supreme entity of the Dragon Realm, the Master of the Dragon Realm, was precisely a human form cultivated from an Eight Divisions Pagoda, called the Eight Divisions Heavenly Monarch. He was inherently a Saint Grade Immortal Artifact, possessing infinite power, and having survived the destruction grand tribulations of seven primal chaos epochs, his strength was exactly on par with that of Chaos Heavenly Monarch.
Fang Han harbored a thought, which was to let the Eight Divisions Pagoda also ascend to the realm of being one with heaven and earth. Then in the future, his Eight Divisions Pagoda would be the true, genuine article, perhaps even surpassing that Eight Divisions Heavenly Monarch, becoming the true Master of the Dragon Realm. The entire Dragon Realm would then belong to him.
As the two great Heavenly Monarchs were sucked into the Eight Divisions Pagoda, they were instantly crushed and ruptured by Fang Han's tyrannical power. All of their Heavenly Monarch origins poured into the pagoda. The entire pagoda began to change, emitting cracking sounds, and finally halted upon reaching a kind of peak power, falling just one step short of being able to ascend to a Saint Grade Immortal Artifact.
A Saint Grade Immortal Artifact was not that easily refined successfully. One only had to think of how Thunder Emperor Heavenly Monarch failed to succeed in refining the Myriad Lives Thunder Pool over billions of years. This was equivalent to one Heavenly Monarch creating another Heavenly Monarch all over again; the immense difficulty was unimaginable.
However, Fang Han was not anxious. With the Dao of the Epoch he comprehended, miraculous without bound and transcending all things, by cultivating step by step, there would always come a time of success.
Thoroughly circulating his magic power and digesting the origins after refining the two great Heavenly Monarchs, Fang Han felt his magic power grow significantly once more. His Heavenly Monarch realm became more consolidated, striding forward step by step.
After cultivating into a Heavenly Monarch, his realm, vision, Dao foundation, and power, as well as his comprehension of the Great Dao, had reached another entirely new realm. It was no longer the realm of a mortal, but rather one focused on countless epochs, seeing through the mysteries of eternal life.
Heavenly Monarch was only the starting point on the Great Dao of Eternal Life; there was still a very long road to walk ahead.
The limit of a Heavenly Monarch, according to rumors, was only being able to live for ten primal chaos epochs. After the destruction of ten primal chaos epochs, they too would fall. An Immortal King had double the lifespan of a Heavenly Monarch, able to live for over twenty primal chaos epochs, but after twenty destructions of heaven and earth, they would still die just the same.
Across the entire myriad heavens and the space-time kingdoms as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, in ancient myths and ancient legends, a mighty figure from before twenty epochs had yet to appear.
Activating the array diagrams within the Hongmeng Hall, Fang Han once again began his own cultivation, simultaneously scanning the Dan Realm with his divine sense. He knew that although he had ascended to a Heavenly Monarch, it was only the initial Heavenly Monarch realm. Compared to Death, Calamity, Eternity, and Chaos, he simply could not compare with these Heavenly Monarchs, and there was a certain gap in strength.
His cultivation now was to bridge that gap. The Hongmeng Hall was not his own and could not be refined, but the entire Ancient Dan Realm was his, and the Heavenly Burial Coffin was also his.
The method he would use to elevate his strength had already been planned out: to integrate the Heavenly Burial Coffin, a magical treasure not inferior to the Hongmeng Hall, into the Epoch Divine Formation to serve as the largest formation eye. If successful, his magic power would advance by leaps and bounds once again, and upon encountering Heavenly Monarchs like Calamity, Death, or Eternity, he would not suffer stage fright.
The Heavenly Burial Coffin was incomparably miraculous. Even though Fang Han had ascended to a Heavenly Monarch, he had not manifested even half of its might. In Hua Tiandu's hands, it was even less than a tenth of its power.
The more he refined this Heavenly Burial Coffin, the more Fang Han felt that the power hidden within this coffin was profound, seeming to be a supreme treasure prepared by the Creation Immortal King in order to pass through his final grand tribulation.
The Creation Immortal King was also approaching his great limit, just like the Progenitor Holy King.
He too would become the dust of history, unable to truly attain eternal life and indestructibility.
Fang Han knew that if he could arouse all the power of the Heavenly Burial Coffin and hide within it, he could perhaps pass through one destruction grand tribulation after another, possessing a lifespan as long as an Immortal King.
This coffin was originally meant to be used for passing through kalpas.
"Heavenly Burial Coffin, integrating into the Epoch, becoming the formation eye, the Law beyond the Law! Supreme Law of the Law Realm! Gate of Myriad Laws, Supreme Method! Gate of Hongmeng! Gate of Creation! Gate of All Marvels!…"
He slammed the Heavenly Burial Coffin into his own body at once.
Immediately, Fang Han felt that this coffin refused to become a formation eye of his Epoch Divine Formation. Instead, it emitted resisting light. Streaks of black energy rose continuously from within the coffin. This was absolute absolute darkness, far darker even than the rumored Night Emperor Heavenly Monarch of the Night Realm.
Being able to use the Heavenly Burial Coffin was one thing, but integrating it into the Epoch Divine Formation to become a formation eye was another matter entirely.
Integrating into the formation eye meant being thoroughly refined by Fang Han, becoming a part of his body. Now that Fang Han had ascended to Heavenly Monarch, the life form of his body had changed. The Crystal Divine Kingdoms had thoroughly become the Epoch Divine Formation, and he had truly become the Epoch Heavenly Monarch.
To make this Heavenly Burial Coffin his formation eye, Fang Han almost activated all the Dao techniques he had comprehended, even activating the "Supreme Law of the Law Realm" and the "Law beyond the Law" comprehended by devouring Monarch Cangsheng.
The "Law Realm" was a place even more mysterious than the Dan Realm. The Master of the Law Realm within it was adept at the "Law beyond the Law" and controlled the "Gate of Myriad Laws". He was a terrifying existence, and also an existence similar to the Heavenly Court.
This was something Fang Han sensed after ascending to Heavenly Monarch.
After ascending to Heavenly Monarch, his sensing and calculating powers could not be mentioned in the same breath as before. During his calculations, he faintly sensed that within the myriad heavens, there were places like the Heavenly Court, Origin Dynasty, and Truth Sacred Land, possessing extremely tyrannical powers, and the Law Realm was one of them.
"With heaven and earth being this vast, a Heavenly Monarch cannot afford to lower their guard either; elevating power is the only kingly way." Fang Han slowly integrated the Heavenly Burial Coffin using the Dao of the Epoch while simultaneously familiarizing himself with the entire Dan Realm.
In his divine sense, the entire Dan Realm appeared as a massive oval sphere suspended in the turbulent flow of the void. It was unknown what rules and laws the crystal wall system of this Dan Realm was condensed from, but it was so sturdy as to be indestructible. Even a Heavenly Monarch could not tear into it forcibly and could only enter through the portal of the Dan Realm.
And in the center of the Dan Realm lay a golden tomb.
The golden tomb was the tomb of the ancient Master of the Dan Realm, and also the most mysterious location in the entire Dan Realm. Fang Han had not yet entered it to explore. According to rumors, the Dan Realm had five great Heavenly Monarchs, as well as the Master of the Dan Realm.
Although Fang Han knew that the entire Dan Realm was basically under his control, it was not foolproof. Because the tomb of that Master of the Dan Realm was too mysterious, he had to completely refine the Heavenly Burial Coffin before he could enter it to search for treasures, perhaps even find the corpse of the Master of the Dan Realm, and then proceed with refining it.
Fang Han's body circulated continuously, continuously executing the Dao of the Epoch. In the process of refining the Heavenly Burial Coffin into a formation eye, the magic power in his entire body was also condensed once more. Auras of burying the heavens, in streaks of black light, integrated into the body of the Epoch Divine Formation. Within every single Crystal Divine Kingdom, the light condensed into the appearance of a vermilion coffin.
Rumble!
With a final sound, after an unknown amount of time, that Heavenly Burial Coffin finally emitted a noise, entirely familiarizing itself with Fang Han's aura and no longer resisting, bobbing up and down in the center of the Epoch Divine Formation.
"It has finally preliminarily become a part of the Epoch Divine Formation, but to thoroughly refine it, I do not know which year or month it will take; I am afraid it will only be accomplished when I transcend Heavenly Monarch and become an Immortal King."
In the blink of an eye, Fang Han stood up, closed his eyes, and looked inward.
He saw that the Heavenly Burial Coffin was continuously supplying power to his Epoch Divine Formation, consolidating his cultivation. If he circulated his magic power even slightly, that coffin would manifest in the Crystal Divine Kingdoms that were as numerous as the sands of the Ganges. His physical body was truly indestructible.
"Now, even if a true destruction of heaven and earth and a primal chaos grand tribulation arrives, my body will probably not perish and will not suffer the slightest harm…" Fang Han deduced, looking joyfully at this physical body of his, a smile appearing on his face. He raised his head and looked at Linglong and Yu Huang, who were currently comprehending supreme secret arts. With a flash of his body, he left the Hongmeng Hall and arrived at the center of the Dan Realm, in front of that massive golden tomb.
The golden tomb was hundreds of millions of li high and an unknown number of hundreds of millions of li in circumference. The large characters at the front of the tomb were in ancient Dan script. In front of the tomb stood a golden tombstone.
Behind the tombstone was a pitch-black entrance.
Pure pill medicine vital energy bubbled out from within it.