The "Ancient Sanctuary" was an existence akin to the ancient Heavenly Court, handled by the two great experts, the "Lord of the Sanctuary" and the "Lord of Arbitration". Under their command were many peerless powerhouses at the Heavenly Monarch level.
But for some unknown reason, suddenly overnight, the Sanctuary fell, and the Heavenly Monarchs perished. This subsequently led to the rise of the Heavenly Court, the Sacred Land of Truth, and the Origin Dynasty.
Fang Han was also not very clear about these matters, but he calculated that currently, heaven and earth were facing a major upheaval, and various figures were emerging one after another. For example, the "Lord of the Alchemic Realm" along with the four great Heavenly Monarchs under his command were returning from tribulation, and the "Lord of the Sanctuary" was also about to return.
He faintly calculated that Yuhuang was the "Lord of Arbitration", with the hope of obtaining the control rights of the Ancient Sanctuary. But if he met the Lord of the Sanctuary, he could only settle for being second.
As for exactly who the reincarnation of the "Lord of the Sanctuary" was, the heavenly mechanisms seemed faintly obscured by someone.
However, having Yuhuang grasp the Sanctuary in advance, being prepared for all contingencies, was the right path. If that reincarnation of the Lord of the Sanctuary returned and followed his orders, becoming a part of the Epoch Gate, then that would be fine. If unwilling, directly slay and refine them. Eternally turning them into dust, this kind of method was what Fang Han excelled at the most. Anyone who did not cooperate with him was totally an enemy.
Moreover, Fang Han faintly sensed that the "Lord of the Sanctuary" returning from reincarnation seemed somewhat disadvantageous to him.
"I have sensed it…" Yuhuang suddenly said.
"En? Sensed what?" Fang Han asked, his mind stirring.
"I have sensed my body, the Lord of Arbitration, is right inside the Sanctuary. As long as I enter it and retrieve the body of my previous life, I can immediately advance to a Heavenly Monarch, invincible and boundless." Under Fang Han's reminder, Yuhuang finally awakened ancient memories, beginning to know various matters of his past and present lives.
"The body is in the Sanctuary?" The Sword of the Sanctuary said in shock: "Then it must be found. If someone has found the body of your previous life, they can even utilize various devil arts to influence your current body, and even enslave your soul."
"Let's go, to the Bottomless Abyss…" Fang Han flicked his large sleeves.
Immediately, winds rose and clouds surged, spacetime violently leaping.
With Fang Han's current cultivation base, a single leap spanned a distance that would take an ordinary Emperor flying for tens of thousands of years to reach. In a short while, he arrived at a pitch-black ground in the Heavenly Realm. This was a desolate plain, everywhere was gray and gloomy. In the void, poisonous qi rolled, and not even the great sun of the Heavenly Realm could shine upon this place.
On the massive plain, abyssal rifts manifested one after another, continuously spurting baleful qi, black qi, and various kinds of decaying auras outward. Aside from this, some powerful demonic beasts haunted within, moving in flocks and herds. Fang Han even saw some thumb-sized mosquitoes and flies flying about within, every single one possessing a cultivation base at the Golden Immortal level.
A single mosquito possessing a cultivation base at the Golden Immortal level, exactly what kind of concept was that? Those mosquitoes shuttled back and forth, swarm after swarm, hunting within. When they encountered prey, they swarmed forward, sucking it dry into a mummified corpse directly.
With a single glance from Fang Han, upon that massive plain, the skeletons of countless immortals piled up into mountain ranges. These were the remains of cultivators who had explored the Bottomless Abyss since the creation of heaven and earth and died here.
Aside from this, he gazed over and discovered that in some voids, there were experts, Saints, and Ultimate Immortal Emperors who also came to the entrance of the Bottomless Abyss to collect the skeletons of fallen immortals, as well as catch mosquitoes, insects, and demonic beasts to refine magical treasures, or domesticate formidable poisonous insects to cultivate into killer moves.
Just think, the mosquitoes here were of the Golden Immortal level cultivation base. If one caught flocks and herds of mosquitoes, refined them into poisonous insects, and released them, I fear not many people could withstand it.
The entrance of this Bottomless Abyss was extremely vast, far, far larger than a hundred thousand great provinces of the Heavenly Realm. Abyssal rifts appeared on the earth, shocking to the eyes, with boundless demonic beasts and bizarre devil overlords haunting about. An unknown number of cultivators lingered outside the abyssal rifts: the Protoss, Devil Race, Monster Race, Immortals, Buddhas…
Fang Han ignored all of these, directly taking Yuhuang and entering into an abyssal rift, shuttling downwards.
The Bottomless Abyss, exactly as its name implied, was boundless and endless, forever without a bottom. Every layer of the abyss was a world, containing endless devils, dangers, and spacetime fragments. Even Heavenly Monarchs entering it faced the danger of perishing. However, what kind of cultivation base did Fang Han have? Inside his body was the protection of the "Heaven Burial Coffin" and the "Zen Conferment Altar", equivalent to the peerless essences of two great Immortal Kings. There was fundamentally nothing to worry about.
Penetrating all the way inside, shuttling downwards layer by layer, Fang Han also felt the vastness of the Bottomless Abyss. If not for his unparalleled Dao of Era calculations, they would very likely get lost within it, never able to exit.
Fang Han stood in the space of the Bottomless Abyss, looking in all directions, completely having lost all sense of direction, unable to tell east, south, west, or north. Because the spacetime here was constantly inverting, it seemed like a massive and chaotic Eight Trigrams maze formation, forever without rules to follow. Yet it was exactly identical to Fang Han's Dao of the Era, infinite and non-repeating.
"Here, the Bottomless Abyss, I have completely lost my sense of direction, not knowing how to get out. What about you, Fang Han?" Under Fang Han's shelter, Yuhuang watched the various situations within the Bottomless Abyss: the inverted and confusing spacetime, the tyrannical demonic beasts, baleful devils, sinister winds… flying back and forth, he could not help but shudder all over, "In the past, when we were still the Yuhua Sect, a senior who was practically close to a Heavenly Monarch, the leader of the seven great true disciples of Hua Heavenly Monarch, Daoist Master Canghu, entered the Bottomless Abyss to refine a treasure, yet disappeared without a trace, having perished within. Calculating carefully, the seniors of the Yuhua Sect who entered the Bottomless Abyss to cultivate and went missing number no less than several dozens, and the experts from other sects are even more numerous…"
Before Fang Han's unification, the Yuhua Sect had many experts wandering outside. Among them, some experts entered the Bottomless Abyss, lost their direction, and perished within.
Crack!
Fang Han shattered the endless sinister winds and baleful qi, descending into an unknown plane within the Bottomless Abyss.
This plane was vast and expansive, the earth solid. From time to time, volcanoes, magma, and earthquakes erupted continuously. The entire plane had become a magma plane. The essence of countless flames merged with baleful qi to form devils and demonic beasts that haunted the magma of this plane. Fang Han even saw some rare flames within this magma plane, such as the "Mystic Yin Separation Fire" and "Xun Wind Dazzling Fire"… these were all treasures that cultivators dreamed of out of an intense desire.
Especially, there were actually cultivators within this magma plane?
Fang Han saw at a glance that in the distance of this magma plane, a total of seven cultivators wearing fiery red great robes, male and female, old people and children, sat amongst it, utilizing the intense flames of this magma plane to refine a magical treasure.
This magical treasure was a massive, heaven-reaching piece of dead wood, mottled with bloodstains, seemingly like iron and stone, incomparably heavy. The dead wood extended outwards, fully comparable to a planet.
As the seven cultivators wearing fiery red great robes circulated their magical power, giant phenomena of the Fire God manifested behind their backs, absorbing the fire power of this magma plane to burn the divine wood.
"This is the flame of the magma plane, capable of melting all things, a terrifying location recorded within the Bottomless Abyss. What is the origin of these seven cultivators, to actually refine a magical treasure within it?" the woman transformed from the Sword of the Sanctuary said in horror.
"A fragment of the World Tree?" Fang Han saw it at a glance. That planet-sized piece of dead wood being refined by the seven great cultivators wearing fiery robes was precisely a fragment of the World Tree! This block of dead wood, the size of a planet, was several times larger than the Key of the Desolate God! If he could obtain it and merge it into the "Yuan Realm" he had opened up, its defensive power would advance by leaps and bounds to a new level.
He had been shuttling through the Bottomless Abyss, calculating the location of the Sanctuary, when he suddenly perceived a trace of the World Tree's aura, which was why he fell into this magma plane.
"There's someone!"
"Enemy attack!"
"Who would come to the magma plane in this Bottomless Abyss! The flames of the magma plane melt all things, only we the Seven Sons of Divine Fire can arrive here, absorb the flames, and remain safe and sound! Within this magma plane, we integrate with the power of the plane, even Heavenly Monarchs will be suppressed by us!"
"Wait until we refine this fragment of the World Tree and return to the Fire Realm, at that time, we can fully impact the supreme Way of the Heavenly Monarch."…
Fang Han's descent into the magma plane was silent and traceless, yet it still attracted the attention of the seven cultivators. These seven cultivators had practically merged themselves entirely with the magma plane, becoming sons of the plane, extremely terrifying.
The Alchemic Realm was also equivalent to a plane, and Fang Han was now also equivalent to a son of the plane. No, the father who forged the entire plane, the father of the plane.
Whether a son of the plane or a father of the plane, within the entire plane, they were extremely tyrannical, mastering heaven and earth and twisting the cosmos with every move. If an Emperor was a son of the plane, within the plane he resided, he could contend with a Heavenly Monarch!
"Seven Sons of Divine Fire? Supreme Heavenly Lords of the Fire Realm?" Yuhuang was slightly stunned: "Fang Han, these are experts of the Fire Realm amongst the heavens and myriad realms, the seven great disciples under the command of the Lord of the Fire Realm, each and every one simply equivalent to the strongest beneath Heavenly Monarchs. Although the Fire Realm is inferior to the Law Realm, Dragon Realm, Buddha Realm, Martial Realm, and Ninja Realm, it is also unparalleled in tyranny. These Seven Sons of Divine Fire of the Fire Realm, every person is an existence transformed from a sliver of divine fire from the creation of heaven and earth. Long before I even began cultivating, I heard the prestigious names of these seven sons from the seniors of the Yuhua Sect."
"Is that so? The Fire Realm actually obtained fragments of the World Tree…" Fang Han looked at the Seven Sons of Divine Fire continuously refining the World Tree, and couldn't help but frown.
Sizzle!
Right at this moment, suddenly among the Seven Sons of Divine Fire, a woman with an incredibly delicate and beautiful face pointed her finger. Instantly the entire magma plane turned upside down, and the massive magma transformed into rolling, towering giant waves, submerging towards Fang Han: "Actually daring to spy on us Seven Sons of Divine Fire cultivating a supreme treasure, you deserve to be killed!"