"Fang Han, I am truly fighting you to the death."
Heavenly Monarch Duobao erupted again. The "King of Ten Thousand Armors" on his body unfolded, soared up, and turned into a pair of broad wings, somewhat similar to the Wings of Liberty, but manifested from magic power.
He roamed between form and emptiness, between the false and the real, dodging Fang Han's attacks to launch counterattacks.
"Three Moves of Form and Emptiness; Form has appearance, Emptiness has no appearance, Form and Emptiness as one! Transformations of the false and the real!" In a flash, he actually struck out an ancient ultimate learning. According to rumors, in ancient times there was an Immortal King named the Lord of Form and Emptiness who left behind a set of ultimate learning: the Form and Emptiness Fist. Many epochs ago, it fell into Heavenly Monarch Duobao's hands.
Now, Heavenly Monarch Duobao finally displayed this set of ancient ultimate learning, which was invincible wherever it went, attempting a counterattack against Fang Han to reverse his disadvantage.
The Form and Emptiness Fist: one form and one emptiness, form form empty empty, empty empty form form, form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Intersecting and transforming, the sky was filled with Heavenly Monarch Duobao's palm shadows.
If it were an ordinary Heavenly Monarch, they probably would have been directly plunged into an illusion by this set of ultimate learning, unable to distinguish form and emptiness, false and real. Unfortunately, Heavenly Monarch Duobao was facing Fang Han.
Fang Han gave a cold sneer. His large hand flipped and covered down like a millstone, collapsing. As his palm was driven, true qi detonated. With a single palm and a single fist, he completely destroyed the Dao of Form and Emptiness, vibrating Heavenly Monarch Duobao so hard that he flew backward, spitting blood. The King of Ten Thousand Armors on his body erupted again with beams of dark green essence light.
"Heavenly Monarch Duobao, you are proficient in the Dao of Origin. I will truly let you see what the power of Origin is, what the Dao of Origin is. Endless Origin!"
Fang Han's entire body jolted. In Heavenly Monarch Duobao's astonished eyes, a stream of the power of origin descended from the sky, converging into massive iron fists and evolving into an endless ocean.
Buzz… The endless ocean directly submerged Heavenly Monarch Duobao.
Before Heavenly Monarch Duobao could almost even react, he took a punch, getting hit so hard that he spat blood again, the bright red origin aura even flowing out from his eyes as it sprayed.
Cracks even appeared on the King of Ten Thousand Armors armor on his body.
"Take off your armor!" With a grab from Fang Han, crackle, crackle, the armor on Heavenly Monarch Duobao's body flew up entirely. Especially that character "Armor" was utterly devoid of light, completely suppressed by Fang Han. Then, it slowly flew out from the armor, falling into Fang Han's grasp.
Finally, that dark green armor was also entirely deprived by Fang Han, transforming into a dark green small Jade King sphere that entered Fang Han's body.
The power of this armor, the King of Ten Thousand Armors, was immense, even more formidable than the Heavenly Exalted Divine Garment. According to rumors, it was refined and forged by an expert named the "Lord of Jia-Yi".
It was unknown how many epochs ago this "Lord of Jia-Yi" was an expert; he experienced the great destruction of heaven and earth countless times and perished and vanished before the Creation Immortal King. However, the treasure trove he left behind was still obtained by Heavenly Monarch Duobao.
Unfortunately, now all of Heavenly Monarch Duobao's destiny was being plundered by Fang Han, and he himself became Fang Han's sacrifice.
With the "King of Ten Thousand Armors" suddenly plundered, Heavenly Monarch Duobao thoroughly lost the ability to resist.
Although "Heavenly Monarch Duobao's" cultivation had reached the peak of twelve epochs, facing the current Fang Han, he had not the slightest bit of resistance ability and was directly captured.
With a scoop of his large hand and a light grab, Fang Han pinched Heavenly Monarch Duobao's neck as if holding a rooster waiting to be slaughtered. Lifted mid-air, entirely unmoving like a steel pillar, powerful magic power imprisoned Heavenly Monarch Duobao's whole body.
"Heavenly Monarch Duobao, how can you conspire and calculate against me now? Thank you. If not for your character 'Human', I could not have broken through to the realm of thirteen epochs. If not for you, I would also not have obtained the Sword of Severing the Void, the Wheels of the Heavenly Dao, the characters Mountain and Sea, the nine streaks of immortal radiance, all the magical treasures and magic power of Heavenly Monarch Taishang, as well as your River of Myriad Treasures and the King of Ten Thousand Armors, nor could I have cultivated to the peak of thirteen epochs."
Fang Han thoroughly controlled the situation. The life and death of the expert with an illustrious reputation, once the number one Heavenly Monarch of the Heaven Realm, was completely in his grasp. Unhurriedly, he said slowly and calmly: "You are very extraordinary, possessing the realm of Heaven and Earth as One within your body. By refining you, I will advance to fourteen epochs of cultivation. Do you think the Lord of Qiankun, under my Great Destiny Technique, can still do anything to me?"
"Fang Han, I must admit that you are somewhat formidable." Heavenly Monarch Duobao's expression was vicious at first, then resentful, but then it turned plain, with a somewhat calm-in-the-face-of-death flavor: "However, as soon as the Origin Immortal King returns, you will have no way out either. Your cultivation is advancing by leaps and bounds here, but the various Immortal Kings are progressing even faster within the Gate of Eternal Life. After they come out, you will still become their sacrifice. I die at your hands today, but another day you will die at the hands of these Immortal Kings. I do not need to say more; if you want to kill me, do it."
"As you wish!"
Fang Han was about to attack and kill into Heavenly Monarch Duobao's body with his magic power.
"Wait!" Heavenly Monarch Duobao suddenly yelled out, "Fang Han, if I use the secret of Heavenly Monarch Lightning Mother to exchange with you, will you let me off?"
"Haha." Fang Han burst into loud laughter, looking at Heavenly Monarch Duobao with eyes purely filled with mockery: "Heavenly Monarch Duobao, you are still afraid of death. In this world, no one is not afraid of death. The more powerful the existence, the more they care about their life. However, regarding the whereabouts of the Lightning Mother, I roughly already know it is somewhere very close to the Gate of Eternal Life. Won't I go look for her myself?"
"Hmph! Not long ago, Heavenly Monarch Lightning Mother revealed her face once in the City of Qiankun, seemingly preparing to pass through the City of Qiankun to enter the depths of the Realm Above Realms to look for the Gate of Eternal Life. Unfortunately, she was discovered by the senior disciple of the Lord of Qiankun. Therefore, now the Ten Cities Alliance are all secretly hunting her down, attempting to imprison her and force out the secrets of the Gate of Eternal Life."
Heavenly Monarch Duobao said: "If you don't kill me, I can use the famous talisman mandate of the Origin Immortal King to persuade the Lord of Qiankun and make him abandon the idea of hunting down Heavenly Monarch Lightning Mother. How about it?"
"Hmph, what Ten Cities Alliance? A bunch of earthen chickens and pottery dogs, and they still want to hunt down Heavenly Monarch Lightning Mother; every single one of them has eaten the heart of a bear and the gall of a leopard. In the future, I will kill them one by one. You don't need to worry about this, Heavenly Monarch Duobao; do you think I don't know your tricks? You have long wanted to go see the Lord of Qiankun and then deal with me together with him. Do you think I will let the tiger return to the mountain?" Fang Han finally set his heart on killing: "Heavenly Monarch Duobao, if you have to blame something, blame yourself for opposing me. If there is a next life, you had better choose to submit to me and be my slave."
Bang!
Fang Han's massive power directly surged into Heavenly Monarch Duobao's body, tearing him apart until he exploded. Subsequently, every inch of his vital energy was enveloped by the crystal divine kingdom, and then Fang Han began to absorb it.
Heavenly Monarch Duobao was truly like a centipede that dies but does not fall stiff; he was still struggling continuously. Some soul fragments emanating intense resentment continuously produced void curses.
With a backhand palm strike, Fang Han obliterated all the curses, and then began his cultivation and devouring. Heavenly Monarch Duobao possessed the realm of Heaven and Earth as One, and his cultivation was at the peak of twelve epochs, the divine objects contained within his body being almost inconceivably numerous. Fang Han didn't refine them directly, but instead drove them into the Thirty-Three Heavens supreme treasures.
The Thirty-Three Heavens supreme treasures, the Heaven Sealing Lock, the Heaven Suppressing Ring, the Lawless Umbrella… these treasures had all reached their limits. Now, the only thing lacking was Heaven and Earth as One.
Heavenly Monarch Duobao's body fused into them, combining with the Thirty-Three Heavens supreme treasures. The massive character "Treasure" flashed with radiant light. Using the Great Destiny Technique, Fang Han performed fierce sacrificial refinement. Before long, Heavenly Monarch Duobao became silent and soundless, completely sinking into stillness.
His soul, carrying unwillingness, reluctance, intense resentment, and curses, ultimately vanished, utterly unable to cause the slightest bit of harm to Fang Han. A Heavenly Monarch who had commanded the wind and clouds just perished completely like this, all his cultivation becoming a wedding dress for someone else.
"What intense origin." Fang Han felt Heavenly Monarch Duobao's origin; it was almost more than ten times more formidable than Heavenly Monarch Taishang's. Moreover, the 'Heaven and Earth as One' realm contained within it could almost keep pace with his own. As soon as it fused into the Thirty-Three Heavens supreme treasures, Fang Han's cultivation climbed steadily. Powerful auras emanated from every inch of the crystal divine kingdom. The Thirty-Three Heavens supreme treasures shook.
Buzz!
Like the grand toll of a great bell, it resonated throughout the myriad realms. Every single magical treasure resonated with heaven and earth, combining tightly, changing the laws of heaven and earth. With casual distortions, they transformed into existences that could replace the laws of the Heavenly Dao.
Heaven and Earth as One was about taking heaven and earth into one's own integration, enforcing the Dao on behalf of heaven, exercising laws and rules, and ultimately reaching the utmost absolute peak.
Originally, Fang Han could not make the Thirty-Three Heavens supreme treasures transform into the realm of Heaven and Earth as One for a long time. Now, by incorporating Heavenly Monarch Duobao's bodily soul memories, cultivation experience, and understanding of magical treasures, they finally advanced.
At the same time the Thirty-Three Heavens supreme treasures advanced, his realm also broke through at once. He directly reached fourteen epochs of cultivation. His entire body radiated a strange halo, and the aura of the Great Destiny Technique was inconceivably dense. With a slight wave, destiny in the sky formed a symphony that resounded in anyone's ears.
The cultivation of fourteen epochs was finally achieved. Compared to the number one expert in the Realm Above Realms, the Lord of Qiankun, there was only a gap of one epoch.
It had only been a few days since Fang Han ascended to the Realm Above Realms, yet his advancement could be described as leaping by bounds. In the Heaven Realm, he only possessed the cultivation of twelve epochs, but now he actually reached fourteen epochs. Although it was just a short span of two epochs, it was cultivation that was supposed to be impossible to advance further.
For an ordinary Heavenly Monarch, even those with grand destinies, after reaching twelve epochs of cultivation, it was impossible for their cultivation to increase further, even if they experienced great destructions of heaven and earth time and time again—such as Heavenly Monarch Duobao.
A difference of two epochs of cultivation meant two cycles of chaos reincarnation; the gap was simply far too immense. Whether in terms of power or realm, one was the sky and the other was the ground.
With the cultivation of fourteen epochs, one could look down upon all heroes in disdain.
Based on the intelligence and information from the three great Ancestor Witches, Fang Han knew that within this Realm Above Realms, experts with fourteen epochs of cultivation were exceedingly rare. Even the Lord of Qiankun had to be somewhat wary of them, and they numbered no more than a hand's slap.