"The Thirty-Three Heavens treasures, I have finally refined the Lawless Umbrella into a Saint Grade Immortal Artifact. I didn't expect the might of the Thirty-Three treasures to be this great. By refining the Lawless Umbrella into a Saint Grade Immortal Artifact, my cultivation base has increased by this much. If all Thirty-Three treasures are cultivated successfully, what degree would it reach?"
Fang Han felt his grand destiny reaching a peak, deducing fate; he had obtained the destiny of Meng Shaobai, Ying Xiantian, and Su Xiuyi, meaning that in the future, the fortuitous encounters and some items belonging to these three would all fall onto Fang Han's body.
If it were an ordinary person killing someone, they would not understand how to obtain the other party's grand destiny. But Fang Han was different; his cultivation base had already reached the highest realm of perceiving through the void, able to spy upon the destiny amidst the unseeable void and bestow that destiny upon his own body.
Although Meng Shaobai, Ying Xiantian, and Su Xiuyi were not incredibly strong, their destiny was very strong. If they remained alive, they would still have very many great fortuitous encounters in the future.
Fang Han forcefully severed their destinies right now, ultimately stifling them. Otherwise, with their grand destiny, they could very quickly reach a supreme realm and attain countless divine artifacts of the heavens. In fact, for Fang Han to have just obtained this "Skin of Heaven" the size of a continent, a portion of the destiny belonging to Meng Shaobai and the others was contained within it.
Yu Huang clicked his tongue in praise as he watched.
With Fang Han refining the "Lawless Umbrella" to the realm of a Saint Grade Immortal Artifact, his cultivation base skyrocketed once again, equivalent to directly adding a formidable Heavenly Lord inside his body. His cultivation base of nine epochs was further consolidated; if he were to run into the "Lord of Spring and Autumn" or the "Honghuang Heavenly Monarch" right now, he could even directly kill them, leaving them no hope of survival at all.
"Fang Han, exactly where is that Despair Plain plane?" Having flown for a long time, watching Fang Han retrieve piece after piece of divine artifacts from the Abyss Hearts, yet still not discovering any massive plane, Yu Huang couldn't help but quietly inquire.
"I have already sensed the aura of the Chaos Heavenly Monarch. There is also the overwhelmingly formidable aura of the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures. The Despair Plain plane is not far away." Fang Han secretly calculated for quite a while, then fiercely opened his eyes. From the center of his brow, the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures ultimately manifested, turning into divine artifacts of the heavens, sensing the existence of their own kind.
However, Fang Han knew that his Thirty-Three Heavens treasures could sense those people of the Heavenly Court. Likewise, those five great Heavenly Monarchs of the Heavenly Court could also sense Fang Han's position.
Within the Abyss Hearts dotted like highly packed stars, divine artifacts of the heavens were contained everywhere, making it a better cultivation site.
Fang Han suddenly accelerated, shuttling through the air among the Abyss Hearts. More divine artifacts of the heavens flew over towards him as the center. At this moment, he was like a massive magnet, and those divine artifacts of the heavens, the substances ejected from the Gate of Eternal Life, were the steel, respectively sucked over by him.
This caused his magic force to become more and more formidable, his crystal divine countries to become more and more numerous, and his Thirty-Three Heavens treasures to also begin waves upon waves of transformations.
"Ahead is exactly the Despair Plain plane, what a powerful aura…" Fang Han suddenly halted, looking forward with both eyes, and immediately saw it. Far away among the endless Abyss Hearts, an incomparably huge plane faintly appeared and vanished. This plane was thousands of millions of times larger than the Deep Crimson plane, almost like the boundless ocean of the Heaven Realm. Inside was entirely the qi of despair; before Yu Huang even got close, he felt a deep despair penetrating straight to the marrow.
His own true qi and Heavenly Monarch source origin could not avoid being shaken by this plane.
This was fundamentally not a place for Heavenly Monarchs to come; it was fraught with dangers.
Even this surrounding star region-like area of Abyss Hearts was who knew how many times more formidable than the Abyss Hearts outside, incomparably massive. However, within these Abyss Hearts, there was not a trace of the aura of divine artifacts; it seemed they had all been plundered clean by someone.
A star region-like expanse of Abyss Hearts, with numbers like the sands of the Ganges, and moreover, these Abyss Hearts were more than ten times larger than the ones outside. How many divine artifacts of the heavens must have been contained within every single one of them?
But right now, every single Abyss Heart was empty, with not a trace of a divine artifact contained inside.
"What a pity, what a pity. The divine artifacts of the heavens in these Abyss Hearts were all collected away by the five great Heavenly Monarchs Lightning Emperor, Eternal, Disaster, Chaos, and Slaughter. So many Abyss Hearts, just how many divine artifacts did they contain, this is truly detestable." Yu Huang sighed.
"It matters not. Once we slay them, all the divine artifacts will be ours." Fang Han smiled coldly.
Swish!
Fang Han's body once again approached the depths of that Despair Plain plane and shot downwards, immediately arriving inside an entirely new world of heaven and earth.
This world was an expanse of yellow earth; what met the eye was desolation, with no breath of life, no animals whatsoever, no plants—only sky-reaching yellow earth, yellow mountains, and a barren land.
Especially the yellow earth on the ground, it was not ordinary earth, but seemed to be soil of despair left behind by some peerless demonic overlord, incapable of deriving any vitality whatsoever.
"This earth will plunder one's vitality."
As soon as Yu Huang landed on this earth, he immediately felt his essence qi violently draining away, and even his Heavenly Monarch source origin was shaking. Fortunately, the Instant Royal Robe stubbornly halted the drainage of this source origin, otherwise, he could very likely lose everything to this yellow earth in a single instant.
This was precisely the "Despair Plain plane."
An overbearing plane; when a Heavenly Monarch landed inside, they would instantly be stripped of all their essence qi, turning into the power deep within the earth, thoroughly falling into depravity and despair, and from then on, having not a shred of a chance to survive again.
In this vast and boundless plane, the five great Heavenly Monarchs of the Heavenly Court were all cultivating inside this plane, forging the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures. However, as Fang Han looked around, he did not see the slightest trace of abnormality.
Everywhere was the sky-reaching yellow earth, stretching beyond the horizon.
This Despair Plain plane was much more overbearing than the Land of Origin; many force fields were distorting. It was fundamentally difficult to see an end. Originally, while outside, Fang Han could sense the auras of the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures and the Chaos Heavenly Monarch inside the Despair Plain plane, but now having entered the Despair Plain plane, he could not feel them at all, as if he had entered a desolate plain, looking far out into vast and boundless wilderness on all four sides.
This situation was extremely secretive and bizarre.
"Fang Han, can you sense the auras of the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures now? The auras of the five great Heavenly Monarchs of the Heavenly Court?" Yu Huang asked.
Boom!
Just at this moment, Fang Han's gaze suddenly flashed, "Careful."
With the shock of a thunderbolt, from deep within the barren earth of that Despair Plain, a giant hand of thunder and lightning containing the most powerful extermination force violently grabbed towards Yu Huang.
The entire ground caved in, wishing to plunge Yu Huang inside.
That hand of thunder and lightning had formidable power, actually surpassing the Lord of Spring and Autumn, and flashing within it was the "Xiantian Thunder and Lightning" flowing out from the Gate of Eternal Life.
Pressed by this hand of thunder and lightning, the Instant Royal Robe on Yu Huang's body jolted entirely.
He repeatedly urged magical arts to resist, but conversely encountered the suppression of the Despair Plain, and still sank completely into it in one fell swoop.
Crack, the earth that had originally split open, healed over once again. That hand of thunder and lightning also disappeared at once, ultimately leaving without a trace, actually capturing Yu Huang away in one stroke.
The power of thunder and lightning was manipulated to the absolute peak.
Between heaven and earth, only one person had such manipulation methods of thunder and lightning, and that was the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch! A powerful existence born within this epoch of the Heavenly Court. Although despised by many old antiques who didn't take the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch seriously, Fang Han knew deeply that this person's power was not as weak as the outside world imagined, but rather profoundly hidden; in sudden moments, he could erupt with peerlessly formidable combat strength.
He was even fundamentally not beneath some of the Heaven Realm's old antiques.
Just thinking back to how a figure like the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch was going to hunt down the defecting Chaos Heavenly Monarch back then, one could see it clearly.
Now, the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch made a sudden move, actually capturing "Yu Huang" away in one go.
Fang Han's eyes immediately flickered; he turned his body and immediately saw it. At that caved-in ground, there were countless wormhole tunnels, deep and maze-like, meandering in the depths of the Despair Plain plane.
And Yu Huang seemed to be temporarily suppressed, dragged towards an array formation by that hand of thunder and lightning.
The earth of the Despair Plain was called "Barren Earth," a type of divine artifact even more ferocious and overbearing than an Abyss Heart. Yu Huang and Fang Han both suffered tremendous suppression here. If they were outside, Yu Huang fundamentally would not have been captured in this one go, but being inside the Despair Plain and encountering a sneak attack, he was plotted against in an instant.
Of course, that hand of thunder and lightning generated a perfectly smooth coordination with the "Barren Earth" of the Despair Plain. It showed that the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch had been biding his time and brewing this for a very long while, and furthermore, having sacrificed and refined magical treasures in this Despair Plain plane for who knew how many hundreds of millions of years, he had already successfully merged into one with the entire plane, almost becoming the role of the Son of the Plane.
One must know, even for a simple, ordinary plane, like the Seven Sons of Divine Fire of the Molten Lava plane, once they became the Son of the Plane, they could contend against Heavenly Monarchs, let alone a plane like this Despair Plain.
The powerful laws of the Despair Plain plane compared to the Molten Lava plane were like the difference between a Heavenly Monarch and a Mortal Body Realm martial artist in the secular world; the two were like heaven and earth, clouds and mud, a distance that could not be calculated with words.
Precisely because of this, the might of that hand of thunder and lightning could be said to have mobilized the power of the entire Despair Plain plane, actually directly capturing Yu Huang alive right under Fang Han's eyelids, causing him to fall victim to the plot.
"Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch!"
Almost at the exact same moment, four words spat out from Fang Han's mouth, having already perceived through all karmic rhythms. Facing the yellow earth in the depths of the Despair Plain plane and those wormhole-like tunnels, he let out a loud roar. Invincible magical powers seeped out from his body, and all of a sudden, those wormhole tunnels beneath the ground of the Despair Plain plane shattered one after another, evaporating from the human realm, turning into currents of yellow qi rising between heaven and earth. With both hands, Fang Han directly struck out a long river of destiny, surging endlessly, shattering everything.
With a buzzing sound.
That hand of thunder and lightning holding onto Yu Huang was blocked all at once, and densely packed cracks appeared upon it.
However, this hand of thunder and lightning flipped its palm to turn clouds and reversed it to turn rain, changing incessantly. Suddenly flipping a finger, hundreds of millions of streaks of lightning light birthed electricity from the void, fiercely assassinating towards Fang Han's long river of destiny.
"Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch, even if you hide your depths well, you are still not my opponent." Fang Han was cold and proud. With a flip of his palm, the long river of destiny expanded a hundred times once again, directly drowning out the hundreds of millions of lightning lights.