"To the God Realm?"
The five great Heavenly Monarchs—Yu Huang, Mi Bao, Primal Chaos Heavenly Monarch, Feng Baiyu, and Linglong—were all shaken. Mi Bao said, "The God Realm is our enemy. It might be somewhat dangerous for you to go. Moreover, rumor has it that the main trunk of the World Tree has already been forged into a magic treasure by the experts of the God Realm to suppress the destiny of the God Realm. For you to retrieve it from them is equivalent to overturning the entire foundation of the God Realm. Will they allow you to do that?"
"Indeed, they will not allow me to do that. However, I naturally have a way. The current leader of the God Race, Tianfei Umo, is a smart person and will naturally know how to choose." Fang Han said, casting his gaze toward Primal Chaos Heavenly Monarch.
"Tianfei Umo's wisdom is unfathomable; it is indeed possible to have a talk with her." Primal Chaos Heavenly Monarch had discussed matters with Tianfei Umo many times and knew her layout schemes very clearly: "Actually, Fang Han, you are not the enemy of the God Race; the Heavenly Court is. That is why the God Race has repeatedly joined forces to attack the Heavenly Court. If you can fully display a strength capable of cooperation, reaching an agreement with the God Realm is indeed possible."
"It is impossible for the God Realm to cooperate with the Heavenly Court, so they are a target worth striving for." Feng Baiyu nodded: "There are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests. The unfortunate part is that although the Buddha Realm is also entirely irreconcilable with the Heavenly Court, they cannot become our allies. While resisting the Heavenly Court, we must simultaneously guard against the Buddha Realm stabbing us in the back."
"The Boundless King Buddha of the World is the junior brother of the Sovereign King Buddha. Although he does not have the cultivation of an Immortal King, his cultivation is not below mine." Fang Han spoke up: "He has experienced many ancient great calamities, and the fall of Shakya Heavenly Monarch also had his shadow within it. Originally, Shakya Heavenly Monarch should have been the Lord of the Buddha Realm, but the Boundless King Buddha of the World stole the Buddha's glory to become the current Lord of the Buddha Realm. This point alone makes it inevitable that he must kill Feng Baiyu to eliminate the final trace of hidden danger, thus making him an enemy of our Epoch Sect. However, he will not ally with the Heavenly Court. It is possible he is observing from the dark, waiting for the Heavenly Court and my Epoch Sect to engage, so he can sneak attack both sides and reap the fisherman's profit."
"The same situation applies to the Lord of the Dragon Realm as well."
"Therefore, while resisting the Heavenly Court, we must simultaneously prevent invasions from the Dragon Realm and the Buddha Realm. This is a great tribulation for the Epoch Sect. If we endure this great tribulation, the Epoch Sect can grow into an enormous force."
Fang Han narrated sentence by sentence, planning in a highly organized manner: "Primal Chaos Heavenly Monarch, you go contact the Treasure Realm and merge everything of the Treasure Realm with the Meta Realm, while I will go to the God Realm to meet the Holy King of Endings. As for the rest of you, go to the Fire Realm, Poison Realm, Shock Realm, Scenery Realm, and Soup Realm; sweep through these five great worlds completely to expand our Epoch Sect. At the same time, utilize grand divine abilities to integrate the planes of these five great worlds into the Meta Realm to reinforce it further. I will closely monitor the movements of the Meta Realm."
"This is the only way; we must grasp every opportunity to prepare for war. The life and death of the Epoch Sect depend entirely on this."
Many nodded, including some disciples of the Epoch Sect, such as Star Cloud Baby and Jialan, who all wished to cultivate into Supreme Heavenly Monarchs. They also held hope now, because upon his return this time, Fang Han had brought back quite a number of heavenly divine artifacts from the Bottomless Abyss.
However, they still required immense fortuitous encounters; it was not something one could casually assault the grand position of a Heavenly Monarch for.
After everything was arranged, Fang Han stood up and departed from the "Meta Realm" he had personally forged.
The strength of the "Meta Realm" grew increasingly robust. With the five great Heavenly Monarchs—Feng Baiyu, Yu Huang, Mi Bao, Linglong, and Primal Chaos—holding the fort, along with countless disciples and divine artifacts like the Hall of Grand Meng, those who waited outside dared not come and act wild. Extremely formidable in particular was Primal Chaos Heavenly Monarch, whose magic power was unfathomable; not even the Thirty-Three Heavens Treasures could slay him. With him joining forces with the Treasure Realm to protect the Meta Realm, it would not be a difficult task.
At the very least, as long as the Heavenly Court did not ally with the numerous realms of the heavens to launch an attack, the Meta Realm remained solidly impenetrable.
With the long river of the aurora guarding the outside, the World Tree grew slowly upward. The Meta Realm had already been forged to an extent that it could nearly rival the Heavenly Court. One must know, was the Hall of Grand Meng not suppressing its center? Further supplemented by some array formations previously forged by the Lord of the Pill Realm, after being refined by Fang Han, they had become even more perfect, entirely reborn and world-changing.
All the medicinal pills, spirit veins, dao books, dharma doors, and divine artifacts currently in the Meta Realm… were incomparably abundant, something no other major faction could ever match.
The cultivation speed of these disciples was much faster, and their cultivation much deeper, than the disciples of any other sect world.
Given time, if they encountered fortuitous turns, there would surely be some experts who advanced to Supreme Heavenly Monarchs. For instance, the old antique Crimson Sea Demon Venerable had also reached the verge of advancement, he was merely unable to take that final step yet.
"Lord of the Crimson Abyss, Lord of the Inner Demon, you are both elites of the demonic dao, and you should have restored your power by now! The Lord of the Blood River, Lord of Dark Antiquity, Lord of the Tomb, and Lord of Inverting Demons of the demonic dao have all been slain and devoured. The Primeval Demon Sect has perished. Return quickly and accompany me to the God Realm. After I acquire the World Tree and rely on its origin energy to advance into the peak of a ten-epoch Heavenly Monarch, we will search for the strongest divine artifact of the Demon Sect, the Sansheng Stone!"
Taking a step out of the "Meta Realm" he forged, Fang Han's hands continuously carved characters and musical notes in the air. Suddenly, he struck them into the void, transmitting them to a distant unknown place.
He was summoning the "Lord of the Crimson Abyss" and the "Lord of the Inner Demon," who were precisely Crimson Abyss Demon Venerable and Inner Demon Old Man from the mortal world. His trip to the Bottomless Abyss this time was partly intended to find the whereabouts of these two, but he had been delayed by unexpected events. Fortunately, his dao techniques had reached the realm of summoning across the heavens. With a single vibration entering the void, the two would definitely feel it clearly.
"Human Emperor Pen, you should also come quickly and concentrate all your power to achieve the indestructible divine might of the Epoch Sect. Between this heaven and earth, only I, Fang Han, am the absolute sole leader."
Another musical note was struck into the void. With a swoosh, Fang Han vanished. After several hours passed, and the blazing sun of the Heaven Realm went through its cycle of rising and setting, Fang Han had already torn an opening in a rift. He looked outside the Heaven Realm at the massive, vast starry universe, the residence of the gods: the God Realm.
This was Fang Han's first time visiting the God Realm.
However, he had been dealing with the God Race for a very, very long time. Back in the mortal world, while still in the Divine Ability Secret Realm, he had gained his first pot of gold precisely by slaying members of the God Race. Now, looking at the boundless and vast God Realm, he felt an overwhelming sense of emotion in his heart, because his visit this time was to form an alliance with the God Race.
What was once his greatest enemy was now his prospective ally; the affairs of the world were truly unpredictable.
Back when the God Race invaded the Xuanhuang Great World, Fang Han was the first vanguard resisting the invasion, and it was unknown exactly how many members of the God Race he had slain.
The God Realm was right before his eyes, boundless and vastly expansive. Rumor had it that at the dawn of heaven and earth, the Ancestral Holy King had opened it up with a single swing of his axe, forging the gods. During every great destruction of heaven and earth, amidst the primordial chaos, the Ancestral Holy King would wield the broadaxe to clear the God Realm, a pure land, making the God Race the most tyrannical race from beginning to end.
Every member of the God Race possessed an endless lifespan from birth, matching the lifespan of heaven and earth. This was also a supreme life ability bestowed upon them by the Ancestral Holy King, granting them superiority over any other race within the heavens. The God Race had always been synonymous with domination, nobility, and ruthlessness.
With one step, Fang Han crossed from the Heaven Realm into the God Realm. Instantly, the laws changed, and space-time shifted. Streams of god power wrapped around him; an outsider would be entirely poisoned to death by this god power. But he was different; with his current cultivation, even forcefully tearing apart the God Realm meant nothing to him.
The God Realm was a vast starry universe, yet different from the starry rivers of the mortal world. The planets of the God Realm were each boundlessly massive, and each presented an incomparably solid purple color. Those purple planets were noble and elegant, exuding the flavor of ruling the heavens everywhere.
Fang Han glanced over, and hundreds of billions of planets entered his sight. Densely inhabiting those planets were warriors of the God Race, including God Sovereigns, God Kings, God Emperors, God Venerables, Divine Emperors…
They were equivalent to the experts of the Divine Ability Secret Realm, the Longevity Secret Realm, and the Immortal Realm.
The planets in the God Realm were as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, and each planet was inhabited by several billion members of the God Race, forming numerous families, factions, nations, tribes, alliances…
With Fang Han's current cultivation, casting a glance over it all made his scalp tingle. If this many members of the God Race were all to descend upon the Heaven Realm, the Heaven Realm would likely be immediately occupied by them. The Heavenly Court, the Origin Dynasty, the Sacred Land of Truth—all would fall.
Of course, struggles between races primarily depended on the gaps between their strongest individuals, rather than sheer numbers.
However, such accumulated numbers as the God Race possessed were also terrifying. Fang Han felt that if the power of the God Race residing on millions of planets were gathered together and transformed into a torrent of divine abilities and immortal arts, it could withstand the attacks of a Heavenly Monarch.
Of course, not a Heavenly Monarch like Fang Han.
"The main trunk of the World Tree is right at the very center of the God Realm, I seem to have sensed it. What tyrannical power!" Fang Han paid no mind to the members of the God Race residing on the planets as numerous as the sands of the Ganges. Instead, he looked directly at the deepest part of the God Realm. With his supreme dharma eyes, he instantly saw a heaven-reaching divine tree traversing the deepest depths of the God Realm.
This divine tree was boundlessly massive, far larger even than the hundred thousand great provinces of the Heavenly Court. Fang Han could see that this heaven-reaching divine tree was densely packed entirely with planes. The tree bark, the textures of the annual rings—each was actually a plane.
The World Tree lived up to its reputation, containing worlds as numerous as the sands of the Ganges.
The new World Tree that Fang Han had forged from the retrieved fragments could not even be considered a drop in the ocean compared to this main trunk. Every crystal divine kingdom inside Fang Han's body was boiling; he felt that as long as he refined this main trunk of the World Tree, his own magic power could elevate to a new realm, reaching the tier corresponding to the Holy King of Endings.
Swish!
His body moved again, charging toward the main trunk of the World Tree at the center of the God Realm.
Right at this moment, streams of faint magic power fluctuations echoed. Subsequently, endless white hair coalesced into an ocean and appeared before Fang Han.
"Epoch Heavenly Monarch, you have come to my God Realm, why didn't you give a greeting?"
Tianfei Umo had finally appeared.