The three skeletons generated flesh and blood, transforming into forms: one young, one middle-aged, and one elderly. Their voices were also one truly tender, one majestic, and one heavily aged, but the tone belonged to a single person, which was the creator and originator of the God Race in legends, the Ancestor Holy King.
These three skeletons were three incarnations he condensed by collecting the corpses of fallen Immortal Kings in the Immortal King Battlefield. His true body could not come out of the Gate of Eternal Life, but his divine intent could transform into tyrannical power, descend upon the Immortal King Battlefield, and nurture incarnations.
Fang Han had already seen that the combined power of these three skeletons was probably not beneath the Lord of Qiankun, fully equivalent to an expert of fifteen epochs or more.
This was an Immortal King directly conversing with him.
However, he was not surprised. When annihilating the Heavenly Instrument Mother Sect, he had also conversed with the wills of the Mythological Old Man and the Creation Immortal King. With his current cultivation, even encountering the will of an Immortal King was nothing extraordinary, because their true bodies were hidden within the Gate of Eternal Life and could not come out.
As long as the true body did not descend, the will could not execute Fang Han.
"Ancestor Holy King, you trapped the End Holy King just to attract me here and slaughter me in this Immortal King Battlefield?" Fang Han faced the three skeletons that had generated flesh and blood and spoke.
"Greetings to the Ancestor."
Heavenly Consort Umo immediately left Fang Han's side, arrived in front of the three incarnations of the Ancestor Holy King, knelt down, and worshipped deeply: "Fang Han, I lured you here on the intentions of the Ancestor Holy King, do not blame me, you are the greatest enemy of our God Race."
"Is that so? Did you think I did not know you harbored treacherous schemes? However, to rescue a friend, I still came. When soldiers come, generals block them; when water comes, earth covers it. I want to see exactly what tricks you people are playing." Fang Han remained completely unmoved, not even looking at Heavenly Consort Umo: "However, Heavenly Consort Umo, after this time, you will no longer be able to exist in this world. Although I feel tender and protective toward women, towards those who deceive me, I cannot let them continue to live."
"Fang Han, can you kill me?" Heavenly Consort Umo's tone suddenly became tough and sharp: "Today, with the manifested clones of the Ancestor Holy King here, there is only one end for you, which is to completely fall…"
"Alright, Umo, step aside." The three Ancestor Holy Kings suddenly waved their hands: "Fang Han, I invited you here this time not to kill you. Perhaps we can discuss matters of cooperation."
"Cooperation? What kind of cooperation?" Fang Han did not believe any of the Ancestor Holy King's words in the slightest.
He naturally understood what kind of person the Ancestor Holy King was: a peerless ambitious and ruthless character, a god of eternity, a god above gods. Everything he did was extremely gloomy and cold, every single sentence was false, and he could turn hostile and refuse to recognize anyone anytime and anywhere; everything should serve him.
However, Fang Han wanted to see exactly what tricks the Ancestor Holy King wanted to play. Perhaps from his words, he could glimpse some traces of information about exactly what existence his own previous life was.
What his previous life was, was extremely important. If he ever understood it, Fang Han's Dao techniques might even advance to a terrifying degree.
"Naturally, it is a cooperation that benefits both sides." The Ancestor Holy King laughed: "Do you know that this great tribulation of heaven and earth's destruction could descend at almost any time and any place? When that time comes, the Immortal Kings sealed within the Gate of Eternal Life will all rely on this spraying power to completely break free from their seals and descend into the heavens. Your end will not be a good one, either."
"All of this is common sense, get to the main point." Fang Han waved his hand. His exterior remained as usual, but he was extremely vigilant, constantly guarding against the Ancestor Holy King abruptly rising and slaughtering him.
"My meaning is, I will come out from the Gate of Eternal Life, and then you and I will cooperate. Relying on this opportunity, we will seal the retreat path of the many Immortal Kings coming out of the Gate of Eternal Life, letting them be eternally imprisoned within it, unable to escape. Moreover, we can join forces to obtain the inexhaustible divine objects sprayed out from the Gate of Eternal Life, advancing to a realm higher than that of an Immortal King."
The Ancestor Holy King paused after every word, each word a temptation: "Fang Han, you probably know that your identity is extremely mysterious, and you are also an existence that emerged from the Gate of Eternal Life. Furthermore, because you came out this time, the Gate of Eternal Life has undergone a change. It will exhaust everything, spraying out more and more powerful divine objects than any previous time, even divine objects never seen or heard of before, divine objects a hundred times more powerful than the Three Lives Stone! Even eternal Great Daos passed down through the ages will be sprayed out from it. This time is the most crucial time, and also the time when many Immortal Kings, and even countless supreme existences, all wish to obtain the epoch. If you miss this opportunity, then you will never again be able to seek the Dao of Eternal Life."
"Is that so?" Fang Han remained silent for a while and asked: "This great destruction of heaven and earth is actually so unusual. Ancestor Holy King, let me ask you a question. The Gate of Eternal Life has no beginning and no end, converting epochs time and time again, destroying heaven and earth, and remolding them, starting everything from the source. Up until now, exactly how many times has the great destruction of heaven and earth occurred?"
"Good, you asked the right point." The three incarnations of the Ancestor Holy King spoke unhurriedly: "Although I am a supreme Immortal King and have lived a full twenty epochs, I also know some eternal legends. Rumor has it that the great destruction of heaven and earth has already occurred two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine times, and this time, is the three thousandth time!"
"What? The three thousandth great destruction of heaven and earth!" Even Fang Han was slightly shocked. He completely did not expect it to be this enduring and ancient.
"Correct, Three Thousand Great Daos, the number three thousand, is the extreme limit of the universe. That is why I said that this great destruction of heaven and earth is a crucial destruction. As for what the universe was like three thousand epochs ago, no one is clear. It is too ancient and profound. The Immortal Kings born amidst the three thousand epochs, and even great existences surpassing Immortal Kings, fell one after another into the long river of history, truly died, and disappeared forever. Furthermore, I can tell you with certainty. This great destruction of heaven and earth is the end of the entire epoch. What the next epoch will be like, is unknown. Perhaps it is a different heaven and earth, the arrival of an era entirely different from the three thousand epochs. No one can guess the changes after this destruction."
In the Ancestor Holy King's words, there was a trace of bleakness, and also a trace of fear towards the unknown.
Fang Han also fell into deep thought over these words.
Three thousand epochs actually reached the end. What would it be like after the destruction? Would it be an expanse of nothingness where all living beings went extinct and never gave birth to new living beings again, or would it welcome a new era?
Fang Han could not guess, because the path of the epochs had already reached its end.
Exactly what was the next era? What kind of heaven and earth would the final end of three thousand epochs welcome?
To have actually destroyed three thousand epochs, Fang Han truly could not imagine what era it was hundreds of epochs ago. The most he could trace back was the history of tens of epochs, because no matter how tyrannical an Immortal King was, it was impossible to live past a hundred epochs.
As for three thousand epochs, those histories had already completely disappeared, not even dust remained, making it impossible to trace back anything even by viewing the long river of history.
What era was it three thousand epochs ago? This was even more impossible to trace. Even if an Immortal King went to calculate it, their head might also explode, going back and forth, endless and inexhaustible.
"Fang Han, have you thought it through?" The Ancestor Holy King watched Fang Han's silence and asked again: "This time is the greatest fortuitous encounter. At the final critical juncture of the destruction of three thousand epochs, grasping this allows one to seek the Dao of Eternal Life."
"I still have a few questions." Fang Han's eyes flickered.
"Speak!" The Ancestor Holy King was neither rushed nor hurried.
"What exactly am I that was passed down from the Gate of Eternal Life? To play a crucial role in the great tribulation?" Fang Han raised his greatest question.
"This, I also do not know. Only by waiting until after the great destruction of heaven and earth will it be known. But we all know that you are the key within the great tribulation. As long as one grasps you, they can obtain massive benefits in the great tribulation, and even obtain the acknowledgment of the Gate of Eternal Life. However, there are many ways to grasp you. Some people want to kill you completely, some people want to cooperate with you for mutual benefit, and I am a person who wants to cooperate with you." The Ancestor Holy King shook his head.
"Your true body has now entered the interior of the Gate of Eternal Life; exactly what kind of world is it inside?" Fang Han inquired about the key point once again.
"The Gate of Eternal Life is unfathomable." The Ancestor Holy King sighed, "I will not hide it from you. After I entered the Gate of Eternal Life, I was trapped within a cluster of eternal life vital energy shaped like a chicken egg. No matter what, I could not get out, just like a bug in a cocoon, eternally unable to break the cocoon and become a butterfly. The world of the Gate of Eternal Life is a place entirely different from the outside, extremely miraculous. I also cannot explain the specifics within it. I am like being trapped in a tiny room, unable to see the dazzling world outside clearly."
"Saying that is the same as not saying anything." Fang Han's mind flashed. Aside from the fact that this great destruction of heaven and earth was the last of the three thousand epochs, he did not get the answers he wanted from the Ancestor Holy King's words.
"I wonder, how should our cooperation proceed?" Fang Han said: "Sealing many Immortal Kings and not allowing them to come out requires massive magical power. Moreover, how do you guarantee that you will come out from the Gate of Eternal Life first? What if the Creation Immortal King, the Lord of Primer, Origin, or Truth are the ones to come out? What then?"
"I naturally have an idea for this. Seeking you out for discussion is to jointly debate this matter. If I guessing correctly, you and the Lightning Heavenly Monarch have both already fully cultivated the Great Destiny Technique? With your help, I can be the first to come out from the Gate of Eternal Life, and I could even break the seal right now and have more room to maneuver within the Gate of Eternal Life. You must know that the divine objects in the Gate of Eternal Life are so numerous they cannot be counted."
The End Holy King, finally spoke of the thing he wanted to obtain.