Ying Xiantian, Meng Shaobai, and Su Xiuyi, all three men were entirely killed and refined by Fang Han.
This meant that the karmic enemies from the secular world were settled by Fang Han one by one. These people bore grand destiny and opposed him. If they were not killed, once they grew up in the future, it would surely make one feel a fishbone stuck in the throat, unable to sleep or eat in peace.
Now, completely beheaded by Fang Han, eliminating the future disaster, making even reincarnation into a new life impossible, their magic force, primeval qi, and even their destiny amidst the unseeable void were devoured by Fang Han. This allowed his cultivation base and his mastery over destiny to reach a new realm.
Carrying a thick cultivation base of fully nine epochs, Fang Han headed into the deeper parts of the bottomless abyss, satisfied.
The bottomless abyss.
Going deeper and deeper inwards, Fang Han and Yu Huang turned into a streak of flowing light shuttling rapidly. The surrounding environment was unimaginably beautiful. In some spatial fault lines, formidable planes floated and existed vaguely.
Some planes emitted extremely formidable powers; there were mountains and water inside, suns and moons revolving, mountains, rivers, stars, and vegetation all within it. It seemed to be an independent universe, inside which even powerful living beings grew. As for some other planes, they were lifeless, entirely hazy, and auras of absolute ferocity and evil emitted from them, harboring incomparably fierce immemorial ferocious beasts.
Aside from these planes, within that void, Fang Han could see hearts fully the size of planets, beating continuously.
These hearts were Abyss Hearts condensed from boundless noxious qi.
The Abyss Heart was the most dangerous thing in the depths of the abyss. Fang Han looked with one glance, and the structure of an Abyss Heart was entirely presented before his eyes. Countless secretive noxious qi and polluting qi condensed into the hardest solid entity, the destructive power of which made even Fang Han secretly apprehensive, sufficient to make Heavenly Monarchs who had passed several epochs thoroughly destroyed.
In the rumors, the Abyss Heart was the foulest, most depraved substance ejected from the Gate of Eternal Life. No one could touch it. In the past, there were some Heavenly Monarchs who collected Abyss Hearts, wanting to forge them into magical treasures. The result was that in the process of forging, the Abyss Heart exploded with a bang, turning into fine powder, and then dragging them along as well to become depraved.
Inside some Abyss Hearts, one could even vaguely perceive the aura of divine artifacts of the heavens. They were substances ejected from the Gate of Eternal Life originally, wrapped within the depraved qi, and then they completely condensed into Abyss Hearts just like this.
However, even if a Heavenly Monarch came in, they could not retrieve the divine artifacts from within these Abyss Hearts.
Ordinary Heavenly Monarchs, like Muye Huang and the others, could fundamentally not approach the Abyss Hearts. Once approaching, they would be corrupted, the Five Decays of Heaven and Man would occur, their lifespan would cease, and they would directly perish.
Like the Heavenly Monarch Miao Li directly cloned out by Fang Han, inside the Deep Red Plane, he directly suffered the Five Decays of Heaven and Man. Let alone having to get close to the Abyss Heart?
These were some of the sceneries of the bottomless abyss.
Dangerous, gorgeous, yet possessed of infinite and endless mysteries, treasures for people to explore.
Swish!
Passing by in front of a massive Abyss Heart, Fang Han's gaze swept over, and with incomparably sharp divine eyes, he saw through the interior of the Abyss Heart. He saw that inside that Abyss Heart, a massive piece of steel was contained. The steel presented a silvery-white sacred luster, wrapped by boundless depraved qi, yet it seemed eternal and immortal, not having suffered pollution.
"Divine iron ejected from the Gate of Eternal Life? Unstained Divine Iron?" Fang Han's gaze flashed and he recognized it. His palm suddenly grabbed forward, and a formless palm force naturally and soundlessly penetrated deep inside that Abyss Heart, grabbed onto that piece of "Unstained Divine Iron," and then tugged it out.
The Abyss Heart remained totally unaffected, seeming to have no perception whatsoever.
This caused Yu Huang's heart to leap in fright upon seeing it.
One should know that once this Abyss Heart exploded, even he could not withstand it and would be thoroughly annihilated and killed. The common sense that an Abyss Heart could not be touched was almost universally known. Precisely because of this, although these Abyss Hearts contained massive amounts of divine artifacts of the heavens, not a few Heavenly Monarchs were able to retrieve them from within.
But now, between Fang Han's grab, a piece of Unstained Divine Iron inside this Abyss Heart was grabbed out, yet there was not the slightest bit of fluctuation, which involuntarily caused Yu Huang's heart to be incomparably shaken.
A piece of "divine iron" glowing with a soft luster, remaining completely spotless no matter the time, appeared in Fang Han's hand. The luster not found in the secular world made one feel a little as if in an illusion.
"This Unstained Divine Iron, proclaimed as unstained, means that after it is forged into armor or divine weapons, numerous karmas, sinful forces, evils, curses… will not be bestowed onto the body." Fang Han stroked this piece of divine iron: "Good stuff, good stuff. No wonder numerous Heavenly Monarchs all chose to cultivate in the abyss, because in this bottomless abyss, there are far too many divine artifacts ejected from the Gate of Eternal Life."
"But, ordinary Heavenly Monarchs fundamentally cannot retrieve the divine artifacts, and instead perish within it." Yu Huang said: "Fang Han, how did you retrieve this divine iron just now without alarming the Abyss Heart?"
"I used my unique Path of the Epoch to calculate the structure of the entire Abyss Heart, and then without destroying its structure, took the Unstained Divine Iron out. Of course, this also contained the unique dao of stealing the heavens from within the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures. This piece of Unstained Divine Iron is the best material for forging the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures. I finally know why the five great Heavenly Monarchs of the Heavenly Court would come to forge in this bottomless abyss." Fang Han slowly absorbed this piece of Unstained Divine Iron, merging it into the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures, allowing the supreme treasures to receive a supplement.
The promotion of the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures required fragments of artifacts of creation for material, however, the forging of artifacts of creation also relied on the substances ejected from the Gate of Eternal Life before they could finally take shape. Precisely because of this, these divine artifacts were also the best materials for forging the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures.
Fang Han's expression turned solemn once more, seemingly having thought of something.
Yu Huang's expression was also solemn: "Fang Han, the five great Heavenly Monarchs of the Heavenly Court cultivating within here have also mastered the dao of stealing the heavens. Retrieving divine artifacts in the bottomless abyss is not a difficult matter. Having cultivated for countless years and months, hasn't their cultivation base reached the point of being unfathomable to ghosts and gods, and reversing heavenly secrets? They will be very hard to deal with. If you were to cultivate the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures within here, how long would it take you to forge the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures to the point of a Saint Grade Immortal Artifact?"
"The time is too long, I am afraid it would take many billions of years, even the great destruction of heaven and earth of this epoch." Fang Han shook his head, "Relying on collecting divine artifacts to cultivate is truly far too slow, unless I find massive treasures of divine artifacts."
"Then we can only rely on killing the five great Heavenly Court Heavenly Monarchs to obtain the treasures." A smile appeared on Yu Huang's face.
"Let's go!" Fang Han nodded, his body once more shuttling through the abyss. The deeper into the bottomless abyss he went, the more Fang Han felt the unfathomability of this bottomless abyss. He released his divine intent downwards, and naturally there was boundless, dense clusters of Abyss Hearts, with various planes dotted around like stars on a chessboard. It was as if an ant had come to the sandbank of the sea; facing the bottomless abyss, Fang Han was just an ant, and those Abyss Hearts were exactly like the gravel on the sandbank.
One must know, with Fang Han's current cultivation base, with a single glance, he could practically see through the endless void outside the myriad realms of the heavens, yet he could not see through this bottomless abyss. Just what degree had that bottomless abyss reached?
Inside the Abyss Hearts, as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, were wrapped exceedingly many divine artifacts. As Fang Han was flying, his body moved, and the power of the epoch seeped out. In an instant, those Abyss Hearts squirmed, and the divine artifacts within them all flew out one after another. There was divine iron, there were divine stones, there was gravel, there was silk and hemp, there were all sorts of marvelously strange radiances, there were even some water drops, flames, fragmented words, talismans…
Every time there was a great destruction of heaven and earth, the Gate of Eternal Life would manifest, and then eject all sorts of things. Not only steel materials, but even writing, magical powers, immortal arts, any strange and inconceivable things could be ejected from within it.
In rumors, from a very, very long time ago, in incomparably ancient records, matters from at least twenty epochs ago, when the Gate of Eternal Life completely ejected, human-shaped objects would even be ejected from within it!
"Haha, this is the Immortal Bright Flame, the divine fire in the rumors, who knows how many times superior it is compared to the purifying fire of the Heaven Realm, it is also one of the flame divine artifacts ejected from the Gate of Eternal Life." Seeing Fang Han taking a flame akin to a lamp wick directly into his body to combine with the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures, he could not help but be extremely delighted.
That lamp wick flame was called "Immortal Bright Flame." If it went through sacrifice and refinement, entirely sacrificed into the air, it could even compete with the sun and the moon for glory, containing the true meaning of immortality. If someone cultivating fire attribute magical powers obtained this single flame, they could even directly refine completely the impurities in their entire body, directly charting to the great position of a Heavenly Monarch.
"That is the Limitless True Water!" Yu Huang saw another droplet of water sinking into Fang Han's body, and secretly nodded.
"Good fellow, Soft Thread of the Heavenly Dao, Everlasting Inscription, Permanent Divine Talisman… There's more! There is also that Skin of Heaven! My Heavens, the Skin of Heaven is among them." Yu Huang was thoroughly shocked.
Because he saw it, Fang Han grabbed out an ancient piece of leather directly from a massive Abyss Heart. This leather resembled human skin, and also beast skin, and even more like dragon skin, densely covered with scale-like talismans. Its naturally condensed form emitted a solid, impenetrable will upon it.
On the textured scales on this piece of leather, some condensed into mountains and rivers, some condensed into the sun, moon, and stars, some turned into the Yellow River Map and the Luo River Books, some were the Eight Trigrams and Nine Palaces, some were the Five Elements and Six Directions…
This was the "Skin of Heaven" in the rumors, the skin on the body of the Lord of Heaven, and was also one of the strongest substances ejected from the Gate of Eternal Life.
The substances ejected from the Gate of Eternal Life had strong and weak ones, and were also divided into various ranks. For example, the Sand of Time was a relatively weak kind of substance, whereas this Skin of Heaven was a powerful divine artifact. Comparing the Sand of Time with it, one was a "commoner," and the other was a "noble."
Of course, there were also divine artifacts countless times more formidable than the Skin of Heaven. That was precisely the "Three Lives Stone," the divine artifact obtained by the Origin Demon Lord that could grasp anyone's "previous life," "this life," and "next life."