The Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch was no small matter. By sacrificing the "Five Elements ancient characters", he directly plundered the primeval qi of Fang Han's Great Five Elements Technique to strengthen himself, wishing to thoroughly suppress Fang Han. Yet he did not expect to be dealt with by Fang Han paying him back in his own coin; instead, Fang Han used his own Great Five Elements Technique to evolve the histories of Five Elements civilization, which conversely purified the "Five Elements ancient characters" and devoured them into his body, bringing the Five Elements civilization to ultimate grand perfection and making the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch reap what he had sown.
The Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch absolutely could not believe it.
He simply could not believe his own eyes. The most formidable "Five Elements ancient characters" were lost just like this? Becoming food in Fang Han's belly?
He knew deeply how formidable the Five Elements ancient characters were. Obtained after killing the Yellow Springs Great Emperor, every single ancient character held profound mysteries that would startle the heavens and make ghosts weep. Circulating them slightly, the xiantian Five Elements source origin would be endless, and they were even peerless magical treasures for when he cultivated into an Immortal King in the future.
It was exactly after he looted these five Five Elements ancient characters that his magic force advanced by leaps and bounds.
Merging the Five Elements ancient characters into the body was almost more than enough to fully increase one's cultivation base by one epoch. For slightly lower-level Heavenly Monarchs, such as Huangfu Bi'an and Muye Huang, obtaining the Five Elements ancient characters could even increase their cultivation base by four or five epochs.
Losing the Five Elements ancient characters, the magic force inside the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch's body immediately plummeted, his aura became unstable, his primeval qi suffered great damage, and his strength immediately fell below that of the Lord of Spring and Autumn.
Meanwhile, Fang Han's cultivation base became even more consolidated.
His aura skyrocketed once again. Although it was impossible to reach the terrifying extent of ten epochs, he once again consolidated his cultivation base of nine epochs to greater perfection. The Five Elements primeval qi and xiantian source origin forged the crystal divine countries inside his body; the formidable degree of every single crystal divine country was such that I am afraid it could withstand a formidable strike from a giant like the Lord of the Dharma Realm without moving an inch.
The higher the cultivation base, the more difficult it is to promote. Ordinary Heavenly Monarchs obtaining the Five Elements ancient characters could directly increase their cultivation base by several epochs, but it was different for Fang Han who had reached a cultivation base of nine epochs. Promoting upward, every single level was almost incomparably difficult. A cultivation base of ten epochs, in the rumors, was the peak for a Heavenly Monarch. Once cultivated successfully, one could reach a realm infinitely close to an Immortal King. Because the lifespan of an ordinary Heavenly Monarch was exactly ten epochs, ten great destructions of heaven and earth.
The End Holy King had exactly this kind of cultivation base.
Of course, there were also some freaks, heaven-sent geniuses. Although not Immortal Kings, their cultivation base had also surpassed ten epochs, reaching the terrifying eleven, twelve, thirteen… or even more, which was not rare. The most typical example was the "Lightning Mother Heavenly Monarch", who mastered the Great Destiny Technique, summoned the Gate of Eternal Life, and even shattered an artifact of creation in one hit.
Besides this, there was also the rumored "Lord of War", whose cultivation base also surpassed ten epochs, above the End Holy King.
"Obtaining these five ancient characters is truly no less to me than obtaining yet another divine artifact of the heavens. The benefit is far more massive than merging the Ancient Sanctuary. However, there are still ancient characters inside the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch's body. The two characters Void and Empty are even more miraculous, and the two characters Thunder and Lightning, I must also seize them into my hands. Stripping the ancient characters entirely off his body! I suppose I would be able to charge towards the peak of a ten-epoch cultivation base, reaching the highest realm a Heavenly Monarch can attain. At that time, even if some Lord of War comes to find trouble with me, I can also contend against him." The calculations in Fang Han's mind once again grew intense.
"Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch, your Five Elements ancient characters have been looted by me. My magic force increases, and your magic force decreases. Under this ebb and flow, what method do you have to do anything to me? Kneel down obediently, offer up all the ancient characters in your body, and simultaneously automatically merge into my Thirty-Three Heavens treasures. I can preserve a sliver of your soul to reincarnate, to become a new person and enjoy the life of an ordinary person. If not, today you will turn to flying ash and be annihilated!"
The aura around Fang Han's entire body expanded, and the Five Elements civilization began to strip away the connection between the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch and the entire Despair Plain plane.
"Fang Han, you looted away my Five Elements ancient characters. Sooner or later, I will take them all back. What belongs to me is always mine, I am just temporarily leaving them with you. Wait until one day, I will make you vomit them all back out, completely, with both principal and interest." The Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch's expression was freezing, his body transforming. The "Void" character in his left eye circulated, and the "Empty" character in his right eye flashed. The two characters Void and Empty reached a boundless realm of supreme, unexcelled, unpredictable profoundness.
Swish!
The form of the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch vanished.
He had begun to flee.
He was incomparably clear in his heart that, having lost the Five Elements ancient characters, he could no longer contend against Fang Han. If this continued, being stripped of the plane's force by Fang Han, it was entirely possible he would die a tragic death right here.
"Want to leave? Where is it that easy? These Five Elements ancient characters were originally things belonging to the Yellow Springs Great Emperor. I inherited his dao lineage in the secular world, so these ancient characters belong to me. Now it is merely returning things to their original owner. Moreover, the 'Lightning' character you looted from the Lightning Mother Heavenly Monarch must also be returned today. The two characters Void and Empty, I don't even know who you looted them from. Bring them all to me!"
Fang Han watched the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch's form vanish. The entire plane calmed down, and the barren yellow earth stretched to the very end of the sky.
However, what kind of cultivation base did he have? Among the five ancient characters he looted, he had grabbed the memories from the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch's soul brand. With Fang Han's cultivation base, relying on just these tiny clues, even if the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch fled to the ends of the earth and the corners of the sea, it would be hard for him to escape Fang Han's tracking and hunting.
Boom!
Fang Han took a step out, facing the void, and delivered a fierce punch.
The boundless world was jolted by this all at once. Endless primeval qi boiled over, as if a volcano had smashed into the ocean, causing a continuous chain reaction of explosions. The tectonic plates of the entire Despair Plain plane flew up into the sky piece by piece. Tectonic plates the size of divine mountains became floating continents.
With a single punch, Fang Han almost directly punctured entirely through this solid Despair Plain. One could see from this exactly how ferocious this punch was.
"Pfft!"
"Not good!"
The Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch spurted out a mouthful of fresh blood, manifesting out from the void. Fang Han had directly jolted him out from the void with a single punch.
"Great Hidden Space-Time, Plane Shift." Fang Han looked at the jolted-out Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch, his expression unchanged. With a flip of his hands, he almost flipped the entire plane over entirely. The crystal wall system above the vault of heaven of the plane split open all at once, allowing one to see outside into the bottomless abyss, where densely packed Abyss Hearts were like bright stars.
Looking up at the sky from the Despair Plain plane, the Abyss Hearts seen were equivalent to the Milky Way and the Great Bear.
"Abyss Hearts, fall down for me, fill this plane. Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch, you five great Heavenly Monarchs of the Heavenly Court merged this massive plane to make yourselves Sons of the Plane. Now I am going to destroy this plane and thoroughly destroy you all." Fang Han let out a long howl, transmitting outward. The massive, densely packed Abyss Hearts in the sky shook.
Wherever his sonic waves swept, countless Abyss Hearts actually broke free from suspension and descended, falling like a meteor shower, all smashing into this Despair Plain plane.
"Pop!" Pop! Pop! Massive sounds of explosions resounded fiercely. Within the plane, Abyss Hearts split open, and foul qi stuffed large swathes of the void. That Barren Earth also began to change under pollution, turning into a decayed, pitch-black aura.
Watching this, even Yu Huang's scalp tingled. Every single Abyss Heart exploding open could directly fully pollute an entire plane and destroy many Heavenly Monarchs, causing those Heavenly Monarchs to undergo the Five Decays of Heaven and Man and ultimately all die.
Yet now Fang Han actually jolted thousands and hundreds of Abyss Hearts all down, dropping into the Despair Plain plane, shaking and exploding. This could indeed destroy the entire plane, and this sort of grand stroke was something even a giant like the Lord of the Dharma Realm could not perform.
"Ah! Ah! Ah…" The Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch had just moved his body when, catching him off guard, he saw Fang Han unleash such an exterminatus tactic. The place he appeared was the region where the meteor shower transformed from the Abyss Hearts struck the fiercest. Before he could react, his person was wrapped up by densely packed Abyss Hearts. Amidst explosion after explosion, the primeval qi of those Abyss Hearts seeped into his body. In an instant, his youth-like body began to age, his body became hunched, his whole body emitted a foul stench, his hair turned white, showing extreme senility, ready to age and die at any given time and place.
This was exactly Fang Han's method!
Encountering a sneak attack of such grand stroke, the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch could only scream tragically.
"The two characters Void and Empty, fall into my hands!"
Fang Han took advantage of his sickness to take his life, absolutely not hesitating. With a large grab, all five fingers vibrating, shaped like divine hooks, swift as a shooting star, he viciously landed a palm, destroying upon the decayed, declined, and aged body of the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch.
"Clang!" Like the crash of a great bell, the body of the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch exploded all at once. That lightning robe, clothing no less than the Instant Royal Robe, also flew up, falling into Fang Han's hands.
"Good, this is the Robe of Tribulation Destiny! Even more formidable than the blood-stained clothes of the barbarian race at their prime, you should also merge into my body!" Fang Han grabbed this clothing. With a slight movement, this clothing merged into his body, becoming yet another array core.
At this very moment, the body of the Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch had already turned into countless thunder and lightning talismans, becoming an ocean of thunder and lightning. However, inside the ocean, foulness rolled over; obviously, the aura of the Abyss Hearts had seeped in. The Lightning Emperor Heavenly Monarch was strenuously resisting, attempting to expel it.
"Fang Han, you are so ruthless! My Robe of Tribulation Destiny! This is a divine robe I refined by gathering fragments of great tribulations of heaven and earth, condensing them for countless years and months, and also relying on the power of the Creation Immortal King back in the day! It absolutely cannot fall into your hands!"
That ocean of thunder and lightning continuously recombined and transformed again, actually forcing out the streaks of foul qi, intending to launch a desperate counterattack against Fang Han.
Within the ocean of thunder and lightning, that massive "Tribulation" character floated up and down, rotating at high speed, emitting whimpering sounds. Amidst the whimpering, all the foul qi immediately evaporated.
The pity was, Fang Han attacked once again.
This strike from Fang Han was even more ferocious than just now. His footsteps trampled, his palms violently shook, continuously changing who knew how many times. Crack after crack expanded outward in the air, like spiderwebs. The entire plane was like a piece of shattered glass, ready to explode at any time, turning into fragments drifting inside the bottomless abyss.