Amidst the myriad heavens and realms, the long years passed by in a hurry.
In a flash, hundreds of millions of years had already gone by.
The two top factions, the Era Gate and the Tiandu Cult, was both in a state of silence. The people in the rest of the myriad realms were small fries taking charge of the Heavenly Realm and establishing new factions. The past dynasties and holy lands such as the Heavenly Court, Origin, and Truth, had all become fleeting clouds.
During these hundreds of millions of years, because heaven and earth underwent changes, Heavenly Lords sprang up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, showcasing the final moment of glory in this epoch.
The last epoch of the three thousand epochs.
The next epoch, who knew what kind of magnificent and grand era it would be?
Some newly born Heavenly Lords had even forgotten the Era Gate that once proudly overlooked the heavens, and they had also forgotten the Heavenly Court. Deludedly thinking that all the many experts had vanished, they believed themselves to have become the dominators of the heavens, truly fearless in their ignorance.
However, Fang Han paid no attention to the activities of these tiny ants. He cultivated single-mindedly, waiting for the arrival of the era of the Great Destruction of Heaven and Earth.
His cultivation now was becoming increasingly tranquil, growing more and more united with the Gate of Eternal Life. He had a feeling that he himself was the Gate of Eternal Life. It seemed he already faintly knew what exactly his previous life was, lacking only the final layer of film to be pierced through.
And during his years of cultivation, his own power had also reached the peak of the nineteen epochs. At any time or place, it was possible for him to break through to the realm of an Immortal King.
However, this required the cooperation of the great changes in heaven and earth. Without the external changes of heaven and earth, he might have to remain at this cultivation level forever, unable to advance a single inch.
At the same time, he also thoroughly saw through Hua Tiandu's cultivation. Every change in the other party, even his communications with the Immortal Kings, were within Fang Han's grasp. All things and phenomena could no longer escape his eyes and ears.
In these hundreds of millions of years, Fang Qingxue's progress was also extremely fast. She had already reached the peak of the eighteen epochs, and before long, she could advance to a cultivation base of nineteen epochs.
Any disciple within the Era Gate also advanced by leaps and bounds. There were fully over a thousand Heavenly Lords, and some important core disciples had all become Heavenly Lords, converging into an unparalleled force.
The cultivation bases of Linglong, Feng Baiyu, and Long Xuan advanced rapidly, sequentially reaching the sixteen epochs.
The rest of the people mostly advanced to the fifteen epochs.
The reason the disciples of the Era Gate grew ever higher in cultivation and ever stronger in power was because Fang Han's strength was too formidable. The energy of eternal life he absorbed actually condensed in mid-air into talismans of eternal life, which were hundreds of millions of times more advanced than Immortal King Pills. When absorbed into their bodies, their true qi underwent transformation, and their origins also became structures similar to the Gate of Eternal Life, naturally causing their cultivation bases to advance by leaps and bounds.
The current Fang Han manipulated the qi of eternal life, condensing it at will, and had already far surpassed the Immortal Kings.
Even the legendary Lord of Primordial Beginning would not be his opponent.
His confidence surged as he waited for the Immortal Kings to be spewed out of the Gate of Eternal Life to wage the final battle. He knew his enemy was not Hua Tiandu. Hua Tiandu no longer qualified to be his enemy; he was merely one of his chess pieces, a puppet. His enemies were the Creation Immortal King, the powerful Lord of Primordial Beginning, and even… even that person who manipulated Bai Haichan.
Woo woo woo…
On this day, Fang Han and the experts of the Era Gate continued to sit in the Realm Above Realms, comprehending the grand momentum of the heavenly dao. Suddenly, heaven and earth shook universally, and countless cold, gloomy auras transmitted from the void.
Fang Han opened his eyes and saw an inconceivable scene. The great sun of the Heavenly Realm suddenly lost its luster and all its power, turning into a gigantic meteor falling toward the bottomless abyss.
The entire Heavenly Realm was instantly engulfed in darkness, so dark one could not see their own hand.
Affected by the fall of the great sun, the bottomless abyss of the Heavenly Realm experienced a chain reaction. Countless hearts of the abyss began to explode, and abyssal qi billowed up from the Heavenly Realm, rotting the void.
This great sun of the Heavenly Realm was no small matter; it was manifested by extremely fierce and pure yang masculine righteous qi. It was not a stellar star, but a symbol—a symbol representing vastness, masculinity, and searing heat. It would never fall, but now it actually plunged into the abyss, thoroughly rotting, perishing, and disintegrating. This indicated that heaven and earth had already begun to rot, and the great tribulation of destruction was about to descend immediately.
The Heavenly Realm was the origin point of all heavens and realms.
The great sun of the Heavenly Realm was also the convergence point of all pure yang masculine qi; once it fell, the entire world was plunged into darkness.
Fang Han cast his gaze outward and realized that the great suns existing in countless worlds were all perishing sequentially. Innumerable voids began to collapse, and the sound of explosions reached his ears.
These explosions were the sound of the worlds beginning to be destroyed.
Buzz!
The first to be destroyed was the mortal world.
Through a quadrillion crystal wall systems, Fang Han's eyes saw that in the mortal world, where stars were like an ocean, all the stars that emitted light and heat fell like raindrops.
The entire mortal world was also plunged into darkness as planets disintegrated one by one. Countless cultivators flew up, howling in agony, their boundless magic power proving useless. The Heavenly Immortal experts in the mortal world rapidly aged in their faces, their skin withering, their bodies emitting a stench, and their magic power failing to circulate. They turned into dried corpses and began dropping down.
The Five Declines of Heaven and Mortals!
Immediately after, Fang Han saw that the three thousand grand worlds amidst the boundless sea of stars in the mortal world also began to break apart. In the original Xuanhuang Grand World, new humans, new cultivators, and new factions had long since evolved. But now, before the Great Destruction of Heaven and Earth, overwhelming magic power was useless, and even Immortal Kings could not stop the Five Declines of Heaven and Mortals.
Buzz!
The entire Xuanhuang Grand World thoroughly collapsed. The Central Grand World, the Heavenly King Grand World… all these places, thoroughly turning to ash, the places representing all of Fang Han's memories vanished into nothingness.
Yet, Fang Han's heart did not ripple in the slightest. With his current magic power, as long as he passed this epoch and a new world was born, he could perfectly recreate another Xuanhuang Grand World, exactly identical, flawless in every way.
"Has the Great Destruction of Heaven and Earth finally begun?" Fang Qingxue also sensed that the pure yang masculine qi between heaven and earth had disappeared, the endless abyss spaces thoroughly collapsed, and the bottomless abyss fully erupted. Startled, she also opened her eyes, only to find the entire world already plunged into darkness.
The Realm Above Realms also began to collapse; land, sky, oceans, mountains, and rivers all started to crumble, and waves of intense, foul, pungent auras arose in the air.
Sewage flowed everywhere, and pure primal qi turned into toxic gas that polluted people's hearts.
If the crystal wall system of the Realm of Yuan wasn't exceptionally sturdy, this foul qi would have seeped in, dragging even Heavenly Lords to the brink of depravity.
"Ah… Ah…"
Suddenly, mournful screams also echoed within the Era Gate. Disciples who had not ascended to Heavenly Lords groaned and struggled in agony as rotting auras emanated from their bodies. Then they passed away in meditation. Their marks of life had already integrated with heaven and earth; now that heaven and earth were destroyed and rotting, through sympathetic response, their lives also rotted immediately. This was something no tremendous divine ability or magic power could reverse.
"Destiny is nothingness, eternal life is boundless."
Fang Han looked solemn and dignified as he sat upright in the very center of the Realm of Yuan. He abruptly reversed his divine abilities, unleashing the Great Destiny Art. Countless powers of destiny expanded violently outward.
Instantly, those disciples who had already passed away unexpectedly re-condensed fresh flesh and blood, and their souls were shockingly reborn and resurrected.
Furthermore, other disciples who had begun to rot stopped decaying. Their destinies seemed to have undergone a fundamental change, leaping out of the three realms and beyond the five elements. Almost in an instant, in name, they became Heavenly Lords.
"Fang Han, you are actually using the Great Destiny Art to twist their destinies? Allowing them to escape the Five Declines of Heaven and Mortals? This is an act of swimming against the river of destiny and will invite a backlash from the power of destiny." Fang Qingxue was greatly alarmed.
Even Immortal Kings could not protect their disciples from the Five Declines of Heaven and Mortals, but now Fang Han had begun to do so.
"It matters not. I have an inseparable connection with the Gate of Eternal Life. Even Immortal Kings cannot thoroughly master destiny, but I can. I am not destiny's slave, but destiny's master. I control everything; whoever I want to live, must live, and whoever I want to die, must die."
With a movement of Fang Han's body, layers of misty, dream-like clouds erupted, purifying the rotting qi in the void.
The entire Realm of Yuan radiated bright light, almost becoming a sanctuary amid the Great Destruction of Heaven and Earth, the final pure land.
The Realm of Yuan transformed into a blazing sun, replacing the former great sun of the Heavenly Realm, illuminating the void. In an instant, its light shone upon all the heavens and realms.
"I protect all sentient beings. I shield the spirits numbering like the fine dust of quadrillions of grand universes. Survivors of the myriad heavens and realms, come to my Realm of Yuan! I will guard you through the tribulation of the apocalypse!"
Fang Han's voice rolled endlessly outward.
Immediately, many newly born Heavenly Lords, who were struggling bitterly amid the Great Destruction of Heaven and Earth, saw the infinite bright light. Suddenly, as if encountering a savior, they began flying toward the Realm of Yuan one after another.
Rumble!
The collapse of heaven and earth grew even more intense, the entire void trembling. In the eyes of Fang Han and the experts of the Era Gate, the entire Heavenly Realm was completely destroyed in an instant, turning into a massive black storm of filth that swept towards the eight wastes and six directions. All kinds of territories exuded a hellish aura of sulfur. Within this black storm, the Realm of Yuan also began to tremble, its light subjected to extreme suppression.
Some demon gods born within the filth also emerged sequentially to devour the souls of cultivators. These demons of filth were formed from the fierce and ominous intent between heaven and earth; possessing no will of their own, they merely acted on the instinct to destroy, carrying out the deeds of annihilation.
"Why has the Great Destruction of Heaven and Earth come so quickly and so fiercely this time?" Within the Era Gate, some experts who had experienced the kalpas of the Great Destruction of Heaven and Earth looked at one another, expressions of terror appearing on their faces. Within the storm of destruction, they all felt the primal qi in their bodies grow restless, showing signs of decline. It seemed this destruction would even affect Heavenly Lords.
"This is the final great kalpa of the three thousand epochs; it surpasses any previous time. Everyone, take your positions and guard the Realm of Yuan…"
Fang Han transmitted his edict, "Within the greatest danger lies the moment of greatest harvest. The Gate of Eternal Life is about to spew divine objects."