In an instant, Fang Han executed vicious methods against the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch, not even hesitating to use schemes.
He knew that the Chaos Heavenly Monarch had probably truly run into trouble and was currently suffering an encirclement. Although he believed the Chaos Heavenly Monarch would absolutely not perish.
Because the methods of the Chaos Heavenly Monarch were extremely formidable, and moreover, he hid his depths well; it was absolutely not to the point where his strength was only what was shown on the surface. For instance, the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch just mentioned that the Chaos Heavenly Monarch still had a Saint Grade Immortal Artifact in his hands, the City of Order.
The Chaos Heavenly Monarch was titled Chaos.
Yet the Saint Grade Immortal Artifact he refined was called "Order." It was obviously an opposing existence, which indicated that he had already comprehended the true essence between order and chaos.
This was exactly like the Saint Grade Immortal Artifact refined by the Disaster Heavenly Monarch, "Salvation."
One was disaster, the other was salvation. Obtaining salvation from disaster, this was also another kind of true essence.
Although the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch hid his depths well and was extremely formidable, causing all the people in the world to underestimate him, in front of Fang Han's cultivation base of fully nine epochs, it was still not enough.
Fang Han's body, appearing behind the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch, pointed at heaven and stepped on the earth, rolling forward. His large hand spread open, and his five fingers plucked as if playing a lute, and also as if turning the sun, moon, and stars. A tune of peerless musical notes ultimately appeared in the human realm; gorgeous movements, impassioned horns, majestic drumbeats… all appeared one by one in front of the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch.
In that instant, the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch saw thousands of troops and ten thousand horses rolling forward to kill; weapons of gold and horses of iron, an aura swallowing mountains and rivers. The universe itself was distorting, and the entire Despair Plain plane exerted a kind of repulsion against him. Fang Han actually executed supreme miraculous methods, a great dao no one could even imagine, directly stripping away the connection ability between the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch and the entire Despair Plain plane.
The Despair Plain plane was one of the most formidable planes in the abyss. The power of the plane was sufficient to stifle countless Heavenly Monarchs; this power existed eternally. If someone merged into one with the plane and became the Son of the Plane, the might would increase tenfold. However, there were also those with great magical powers capable of perceiving the profound mysteries of the turning of heaven and earth, comprehending the profound secrets of the birth and destruction of the universe, who could strip away the connection between a person and an entire plane.
Without a doubt, the current Fang Han was exactly one of such people.
"Fang Han, do not vainly attempt to strip my connection with the entire plane!" The Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch also felt the extreme displacement. He finally knew that the current Fang Han could collapse the Eight Wastes with a single stomp, tear the heavenly vault with a single hand; his mouth contained heavenly decrees, his words were heavenly chapters, his speech was followed by laws, his words were gold and jade.
Swish, the body of the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch stood upright and straight. Streaks of majestic thunder and lightning also connected into densely packed chapters and talismans around his body. Those talismans were not gods, immortals, buddhas, or demons; tracing back to ancient source origins, they were characters flowing out from the Gate of Eternal Life that no one even recognized.
Finally, these talismans transformed into a massive character: "Tribulation."
That was right.
It was precisely a "Tribulation" character, the supreme tribulation law flowing out from the Gate of Eternal Life, representing the ultimate profound mystery of all kinds of tribulations within the mortal world. With one tribulation in hand, one remains indestructible through myriad tribulations.
The Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch, resisting Fang Han's sneak attack, actually struck out the tribulation character. Mastering the number of tribulations, he naturally remained indestructible through myriad tribulations.
"Nine Tribulations Divine Dao, governing myriad tribulations, the chapters of tribulations, the imperishable text!" Centered around the "Tribulation" character, an article appeared. Every word was a gem; every single word was the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch's comprehension towards supreme tribulations. Even these comprehended characters were forged by him using divine artifacts of the heavens, merged into his own magic force, becoming a great magical power unifying law and martial arts.
Once the "Tribulation Chapters" emerged, it almost triggered all great tribulations. Heaven and earth shook together, colliding with Fang Han's incoming kill. Rumbling flames almost spewed forth. The Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch's body retreated repeatedly. That divine clothing on his body rustled loudly, guarding him, but deep between his brows, a blood mark still appeared.
And around Fang Han, smoke of gunpowder permeated the air. It was the flames produced by the collision of their magic forces, with various primeval qi shaking.
Fang Han's body had not the slightest damage. He walked out from the smoke and flames of war like an ancient Immortal King ruling over everything. During the collision with the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch, not only did his body suffer not a shred of harm, but instead its radiance became even more resplendent, as if it could elevate endlessly amidst battle. Even the yellow currents of qi transformed from the "Barren Earth" of this Despair Place surged massively into his body.
Within the entire plane, surges upon surges of the plane's power were twisting, seeping in, and being plundered by him.
Fang Han could actually plunder the power of the plane.
Crack!
On the face of the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch, a startling sound of tearing transmitted out. Even Yu Huang saw it; from deep between his brows, a blood mark split open, and blood akin to thunder and lightning flowed out from it.
The blood of the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch was not red, but a kind of gold. Within the golden blood, there were also thunder and lightning talismans flashing. Every single drop of blood could destroy a great world.
The originally handsome cheeks, sliced open by this strike with fresh blood flowing out, became somewhat ferocious.
"Fang Han! You actually dare to injure me!" The Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch did not use his hand to wipe away the fresh blood on his face, but spoke with a very calm tone, like the deathly stillness before a rainstorm arrives. The blood mark on his face gradually disappeared as he spoke, seemingly repaired by an extremely formidable magic force.
"Injure you? I am going to kill you!" Fang Han's body was burly, his face shrouded by a hazy cloud qi. This was actually not cloud qi, but a kind of destiny qi. At this moment, no one could see Fang Han's face clearly, nor could they touch his destiny, or even know what he would do in the next moment.
Fang Han could be said to have already completely and thoroughly leaped out of the long river of destiny, becoming an untouchable existence in mythology.
"Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch, I originally thought you only obtained a 'Thunder' character flowing out from the Gate of Eternal Life, and later used despicable means to steal the 'Lightning' character mastered by the Lightning Mother Heavenly Monarch. I did not expect that you further obtained a 'Tribulation' character even more formidable than thunder and lightning. It is no wonder your cultivation base increased so fast. Call out whatever characters you exactly master. This time, I will let you execute them as much as possible, lest you thoroughly perish from now on and have no chance to execute them."
Fang Han's one sneak attack had not succeeded, yet his aura grew more and more formidable. He looked at the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch, unleashing a momentum oppression, crushing over like tumbling mountains and overturning seas.
"How did you know I stole the 'Lightning' character mastered by the Lightning Mother Heavenly Monarch."
Seeming to have his deepest secret in his heart directly exposed by Fang Han's a single sentence, the voice of the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch turned shocked.
"There is nothing I do not know. I can deduce your previous lives and current body." Fang Han said indifferently. Although he had not made a move, the clothes on his body had already swelled up, like a volcano ready to erupt fiercely at any time. It could be foreseen that the subsequent strike would definitely shake heaven and earth, intending to kill the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch in one blow.
And Yu Huang was just at the side, coldly watching Fang Han and the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch confront each other. He did not make a move because he had absolute confidence in Fang Han, and he had to hold the line from the side, guarding against the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch escaping at any time.
If the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch was defeated by Fang Han, running away would still be very easy, but if there was Yu Huang blocking him, the chance of death would increase by another fraction.
When Fang Han dealt with Heavenly Monarchs now, it was always to kill in a single strike. Otherwise, there would be endless future disasters. The recovery ability of Heavenly Monarchs was extremely formidable; even if half their primeval qi was beheaded, they could recover very quickly. Having suffered an injury this time, next time they might comprehend new principles in battle, taking a step further from the top of a hundred-foot pole.
"Since it is so, I will let you see exactly which characters flowing out of the Gate of Eternal Life I have obtained! Right, back in the secular world you inherited the dao lineage of the Yellow Springs Great Emperor. He received the directly imparted gong power from the Samsara Daoist, cultivating directly from an ordinary mortal into a Heavenly Monarch. Pity he was killed by the Thirty-Three Heavens treasures. He also obtained the most formidable characters flowing out from the Gate of Eternal Life, the Five Elements characters!"
The Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch also emitted a formidable aura to contend against Fang Han.
Suddenly, in his hand, five rays of light appeared: cyan, black, red, yellow, and gold, representing the powers of the Five Elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. This kind of Five Elements power was the xiantian Five Elements.
His fingers wrote in the air like an executing divine dragon swinging its tail.
Subsequently, the five large characters "Metal", "Wood", "Water", "Fire", and "Earth" were written out. The aura of these five large characters was exactly identical to the "Approach", "Soldier", "Fight", "Those"… that Fang Han had obtained, and even much more formidable.
These were exactly the five large characters representing the source origin of the Five Elements, also flowing out from the Gate of Eternal Life, originally mastered by the Yellow Springs Great Emperor. This also explained that the Great Five Elements Technique of the Yellow Springs Great Emperor indeed reached the pinnacle of perfection, with no one in the world able to compare, because mastering the Five Elements characters and the xiantian source origin could indeed unify the Five Elements.
If back in the secular world Fang Han had mastered these five characters, I am afraid he could have immediately swept across the world, causing even immortals to fear him. It was no wonder the Yellow Springs Great Emperor had such illustrious prestige back in the secular world.
Once the Five Elements characters emerged, the resplendent light in the heart of the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch's palm gave people a pressure akin to collapsing mountains and roaring tsunamis; even Yu Huang was shaken by it. From a certain perspective, the might of these five characters was even more formidable than the six-syllable true words of Buddhism. They were also one of the highest characters of the Immortal Dao.
In every epoch, the Gate of Eternal Life would eject substances, among which characters were not in the minority. The might of the characters flowing out from the Gate of Eternal Life had large and small ones; for instance, the two characters "Tomb" mastered by the "Lord of the Tomb" had a might far smaller than any single character among the "six-syllable true words".
Yet the might of the six-syllable true words was just slightly inferior to the current Five Elements characters.
Of course, in the rumors, there were still some characters of tremendous might surpassing the Five Elements that had not appeared, such as the two characters "Universe".
Also the two characters "Yin and Yang".
Ignored by exactly whose hands these peerlessly mighty characters were mastered, they fundamentally would not flow out again. Or perhaps they were mastered by some Immortal Kings and went missing along with the disappearance of those Immortal Kings.