According to cultivation, Fang Han was a Heavenly Lord born in this epoch, while the Heavenly Mother was a cultivator born ten epochs ago. The two were simply as different as heaven and earth.
However, in this epoch, Fang Han arose as a sudden new force, devouring countless Heavenly Lords and melting them into one furnace. Numerous divine objects were all integrated into the Epoch Divine Array, and his cultivation had reached the peak of eleven epochs, right on the verge of breaking through to twelve epochs.
Originally, he had a cultivation of eleven epochs, but after swallowing the Mother Sword of All Things and obtaining the "Mother" character, it increased once again, almost completely exceeding the peak cultivation of a Heavenly Lord, infinitely approaching an Immortal King.
However, with this kind of cultivation, how long it would take to break through to an Immortal King was unknown. At the very least, Fang Han had not yet sensed the realm of an Immortal King. It was possible that he still needed to undergo a great destruction of heaven and earth, to experience the true essence of the universe's birth, aging, sickness, and death, before he could ultimately transcend everything and reach the peak of cultivation.
But exactly because of this, with his cultivation, he definitely did not need to resort to risky moves. He fundamentally did not need to take the risk of contesting origins with the Heavenly Mother.
This most dangerous kind of matter was a case of either you die or I perish.
Moreover, it was a contest occurring within the opponent's lair.
Everyone thought Fang Han had gone mad.
Contesting Heavenly Lord origins with the Heavenly Mother? Rumor had it that the Mythological Elder had once transferred some of his power to the Heavenly Mother, allowing her to possess a life far longer than a Heavenly Lord's. Through the accumulation of many epochs, her origin was inconceivably vigorous.
Contesting origins with this kind of person? Aside from an Immortal King or a similarly old antique, no one could withstand it.
Yet Fang Han stepped up to contend, intending to rout the opponent with absolute sheer will, invincible confidence, and a cultivation unmatched in heaven and earth.
Fang Han's hair flew wildly. His single fist collided with the jade finger, and the surging of their powers caused intense explosions to continuously generate at the place where punch and finger met. Amidst the consecutive explosions, heaven and earth collapsed.
As for the Lord of Illusion held in his hand, she seemed already unable to move.
The Heavenly Mother's physical body stood towering high. One finger pressed down, seemingly intending to directly pour all of her peerless power into Fang Han's body, inflating him until he burst and crushing him to pieces.
All of spacetime completely solidified. Even the aura generated by the two contesting Heavenly Lord origins caused the Lord of Glory, the Lord of Jianjia… these peerless Heavenly Lords to continuously retreat, deeply afraid of suffering collateral damage.
At this moment, their Dao techniques fundamentally could not attack into the circle of those two.
The power contest between the two formed an absolute force field. Anyone who entered it would undoubtedly suffer heavy injuries, and any Dao technique colliding with this force field would instantly turn to ash and smoke.
"Good opportunity!"
The Lord of Illusion's eyes suddenly flashed. A spot of red light twinkled at the center of her eyebrows. Her physical body began to twist and expand. With a shake, she actually broke free from Fang Han's grasp, arrived behind Fang Han, and waved her hands to carve out an absolute kill great seal incantation in the midair, violently bombarding downward.
On her palms, the auras of many myriad heaven divine objects tumbled. Combining with her Heavenly Lord origin, with a bang, it fiercely ignited into a raging fire and viciously stamped onto Fang Han's back.
She actually launched a sneak attack.
"Fang Han, you are dead for sure. Illusion Strike, all cultivation, the essence of an entire life, condensed into a single point, destroying the Great Dao, cleaving the firmament." Within the Lord of Illusion's will, there was deep-seated hatred. All the power of her entire life was condensed together to inflict destructive damage upon Fang Han.
Her malevolent smile and vicious curses also augmented onto Fang Han's physical body.
"Good, Junior Sister, well done."
"Fang Han is dead for sure this time. He actually even contested Heavenly Lord origins with Master, who does he think he is? An Immortal King?"
"Contesting Heavenly Lord origins tolerates not the slightest interference. Junior Sister took the opportunity to break free. It can be said that the heavens may forgive, but those who bring disaster upon themselves cannot escape death." Seeing this scene, the Lord of Jianjia and the others all became excited. Unfortunately, their smiles stopped right as they were still on their faces.
Because the Lord of Illusion's two palms struck Fang Han's back, yet produced absolutely no effect whatsoever. Instead, as if transmitting power, it caused Fang Han's physical body to expand section by section, and his Heavenly Lord origin increased once again.
"What is going on? My Heavenly Lord origin is draining away in massive quantities, all entering his body." The Lord of Illusion turned pale with fright and hastily tried to pull back and retreat, but her palms seemed as if they were suctioned tight, utterly unable to break free no matter what.
Within Fang Han's physical body, the Epoch Divine Array violently circulated. In a split second, a thick layer of crystals also condensed upon her physical body, as if frozen in ice. These crystals were formidable seals condensed from divine objects and laws together, rendering her fundamentally unable to move.
Swish swish swish swish…
The Lord of Illusion shrieked repeatedly, roaring hysterically and madly. Unfortunately, more and more Heavenly Lord origin drained away, her aura became increasingly weak, and the person visibly shriveled down.
In the end, her entire body turned into a dried corpse. With a bang, it exploded into powder within that crystal divine kingdom, completely and thoroughly disappearing. Along with some of the divine objects and magical treasures on her body, everything entered Fang Han's physical body.
With her cultivation not being beneath that of the Primordial Heavenly Lord, the formidable origin of eight epochs rushed into Fang Han's physical body. Immediately, inside Fang Han's body, consecutive snapping sounds resounded out.
This sound resembled the moment a butterfly broke through its cocoon, tearing the cocoon apart and breaking free to fly freely.
It was this powerful Heavenly Lord origin rushing into Fang Han's physical body that caused the thirty-three heavens supreme treasures to undergo another metamorphosis, transforming from king grade immortal artifacts into sacred grade immortal artifacts. This time, there were a full seven pieces; seven supreme treasures transformed into sacred grade immortal artifact Heavenly Lord level existences.
The Lord of Illusion, who had sneak-attacked Fang Han, completely disappeared, replaced by the supreme treasures within Fang Han's body advancing and his power elevating once again.
What kind of figure was Fang Han? His calculations of heavenly secrets and unfathomable cultivation meant the Lord of Illusion's movements could never escape his eyes and ears. Long before, he had laid down a restriction law within the Lord of Illusion's body. This restriction law was extremely formidable; the moment she urged her vital spirit, it would be suctioned away by his bodily divine kingdom.
Thus, during the Lord of Illusion's covert attack, she instead lost her life.
Moreover, the aftermath of Fang Han and the Heavenly Mother contesting Heavenly Lord origins right now was not something the Lord of Illusion could withstand.
"Fang Han, you killed my disciple, pay with your life." Seeing the Lord of Illusion's death, the killing intent upon the Heavenly Mother's physical body boiled once again. "You brought this upon yourself, so do not blame my Palace for showing no mercy."
Rumble!
Suddenly, thirty-three balls of incredibly intense radiance flew out from the Heavenly Mother's physical body. Inside each radiance was a large character, an ancient character. They exuded a myriad heaven eternity, dominating as king and sovereign in every epoch, characters of invincible unhindered movement. These thirty-three characters combined into an incantation formula. By comprehending this incantation formula, one could master the Dao of good fortune above the heavens, truly rivaling the Good Fortune Immortal King, and even coming to know the secrets of the Gate of Eternal Life.
These were the true thirty-three heavens ancient characters.
The ancient characters passed down from the Gate of Eternal Life each possessed invincible might, and this set of thirty-three ancient characters was an absolute legend among legends, a myth among myths.
After being obtained by the Heavenly Mother and undergoing refinement, they were now incomparably miraculous.
The moment these ancient characters emerged, they formed a vast stretch of palaces and mirages in the midair. Fang Han immediately felt the thirty-three heavens supreme treasures inside his body vibrating wildly, seemingly about to break away from his physical body and fly out at once, unable to be suppressed even by the Dao of the Epoch.
The true thirty-three heavens ancient characters were who knew how many times more formidable than the ones the Lord of Glory wrote down herself. Especially when displayed from the hands of this person, the Heavenly Mother, they were even more terrifying, specifically dedicated to countering the thirty-three heavens supreme treasures.
If it were anyone else but Fang Han, I fear that in a single encounter, the thirty-three heavens supreme treasures within their body would be snatched away, a lifetime of cultivation flowing down the drain, having worked painstakingly to make a wedding dress for someone else.
"Dao of the Epoch, Suppress the Supreme Treasures, One Body with Heaven and Earth, Divine Power of Good Fortune!" Fang Han's cultivation had almost reached a realm of utter perfection, and he had long maintained a precaution against the might of the thirty-three ancient characters. The moment the Heavenly Mother made a move, he knew it. Instantly urging the Dao of the Epoch, the numerous divine artifacts within his physical body consecutively displayed the realm of being one body with heaven and earth. Like cast iron, they firmly welded the thirty-three heavens supreme treasures inside his body, allowing not the slightest movement.
Subsequently, with a loud roar, he soared into the sky. The divine objects inside his body circulated, breaking free from the Heavenly Mother's grasp. With a tear of his two hands, he directly tore open the entire plane of the Tianyi Mother Cult. His physical body twisted, and he shuttled through endless spacetime, disappearing without a trace. At the scene, only his words remained drifting about: "Heavenly Mother, your thirty-three heavens ancient characters are indeed formidable, serving as a massive nemesis to the thirty-three heavens supreme treasures. However, sooner or later, there will be a day when I cultivate the thirty-three heavens supreme treasures to the realm of being one body with heaven and earth. At that time, I will naturally come to collect your ancient characters. Heavenly Mother, you just wait."
Fang Han actually left in this single moment.
"Die!"
The Heavenly Mother was also caught completely unawares. Her jade hand grabbed at the empty air, deriving outward. An unknown number of planes were enveloped under her demonic palm. One could faintly see thousands of planes in the Heaven Realm collapsing directly under her magic power fluctuations, turning into nothingness, and all the living beings existing within those planes perishing and falling.
However, when that large hand grabbed to the very end, it was still completely empty with nothing there; Fang Han had already completely and thoroughly disappeared without a trace.
"Despicable!"
The Heavenly Mother knew that the best opportunity to pursue Fang Han had already been lost now. For an expert like Fang Han, once he extracted himself and left, no one could do anything to him.
This time, the Tianyi Mother Cult could be said to have suffered disastrous losses: the Mother Sword of All Things lost, the "Mother" character lost, the Lord of Illusion dead, and the Emperor Human Pen and Yan Shuitian rescued and taken away.
"Mother, let us just all go together, directly besiege the Era Gate, and slay Fang Han. Otherwise, when he grows again, I fear we will no longer be able to slay him." The Lord of Glory stepped forward and said viciously, wishing to rip the weeds out by the roots.
The Heavenly Mother remained silent without speaking. Only after a long while did she say, "Inappropriate. Although my thirty-three ancient characters massively counter him, he actually cultivated to the realm of being one body with heaven and earth, capable of suppressing the supreme treasures. Moreover, if our Tianyi Mother Cult goes up to attack, even if we can wipe out the Era Gate, both sides will suffer heavy casualties. If the War Lord and some other old antiques take the opportunity, we might also face the disaster of sect extermination."