"How is this good luck of mine? I obtained a Dao artifact, but it's damaged. I obtained the World Tree, but it's a fragment. Now I am still trapped in this Taiyuan Immortal Palace, hovering between life and death. I don't know what year and what month I will be able to get out. It doesn't matter for me, but the demoness has run out of food and water and reached a dead end. In a few more years, her ending will be worrying…"
Hearing the mysterious person say his luck was good, Fang Han shook his head.
Because he saw that the demoness had completely run out of food and water. Her original "Origin Infant Pills," "Life-sustaining Golden Pills," and "Blood Pills" had all been eaten. Although there were still some of the over a hundred thousand Biluo Great Pills left, it was not enough to eat for another ten years.
As for the "Six Yang Holy Water," hardly a few drops remained now.
Although Fang Han had the World Tree continuously transmitting the Immortal Realm's spiritual qi, the demoness did not. If this continued for another ten or twenty years, she would die from exhaustion of food and water.
And inside here, he didn't know how long he would be trapped. One sixty-year cycle? Two sixty-year cycles? Three to five hundred years? Or even die of old age inside? Fang Han didn't have divine abilities as vast as the mysterious person's; he would absolutely die of old age first, eventually turning into dust just like those white bones in the great hall.
"Had I known this, I would have stored more pills and water in the Yellow Spring Diagram to guard against encountering such a deadly place. If the demoness truly cannot hold on, I will have no choice but to transfer origin qi to her to maintain her survival. Fortunately, when coming in, Hua Tiandu captured Long Xuan away; otherwise, having one more person would make things even tighter."
After thinking about it, Fang Han still sat down cross-legged, continuing to cultivate and comprehend, striving to break through to the Heaven-Man Realm early. Then he would decompose the Golden Pill and successfully cultivate twenty-eight divine abilities.
As for the remaining corpse of the Divine Race, Fang Han didn't plan to absorb it anymore. Absorbing it wouldn't increase his power by much anyway. He would wait until he manifested the twenty-eight divine abilities, and then see if this corpse could be refined into a pill to increase lifespan.
"Senior, roughly how many years will it take for me to step into the Heaven-Man Realm?"
After cultivating for a while, Fang Han felt his gang qi was perfected and had fused with "God Power," opening the skylight to sense heaven and humanity. Yet he could never take that final half-step, feeling some hindrance, so he asked the mysterious person.
"At least five years, at most eight years. However, you have now cultivated the Green Emperor Wood Sovereign Art to its pinnacle. Continuing to grind it will indeed make breaking through very difficult. It would be better to switch to cultivating other skills. Like your Yama Golden Body? You can cultivate it anew. You must know, the physical body is a treasure; cultivating divine abilities relies entirely on it. I feel your physical body is slightly lacking and hasn't matched up with the Wood Sovereign Art. You can try cultivating that."
The mysterious person possessed sharp insight and often had extraordinary ideas.
After all, the other party's cultivation experience surpassed even Yan's, let alone Fang Han's.
"Cultivate the Yama Golden Body? Pity, there is no earth origin qi here. How can I cultivate? I could cultivate the Wood Sovereign Gang Qi because of the World Tree."
Fang Han was stunned. It wasn't that he hadn't thought of cultivating the Yama Golden Body, but the very first requirement was to absorb the earth essence qi, the Wu Earth origin essence. He couldn't even sense the earth here; cultivating it was fundamentally impossible.
"No matter. You can slowly communicate using the World Tree. Perhaps you might be able to sense the earth. If you truly can sense it, then the clash of earth and wood qi, the clash of physical body and magic power, would not be a bad method to break through to the Heaven-Man Realm." The mysterious person guided patiently and systematically, explaining thoroughly.
Various methods for breaking through realms spilled from his mouth, suddenly opening Fang Han's mind.
"Good, then I will follow senior's advice and give it a try!"
Fang Han stirred the qi and blood of his physical body, fiercely urging the Yama Golden Body, striving to sense the earth with his entire being, attempting to communicate between heaven and humanity and call upon the earth origin qi.
"Infinite eye of wisdom, vast wisdom perfected, my sanctuary without defilement, pure lotus flower…"
Within this great hall, he was completely isolated from the outside world. But through the World Tree, Fang Han could faintly sense the heaven and earth outside, especially after he cultivated to the fourth realm of divine abilities, the Yin-Yang Realm, his sensing became even clearer. Now, as he just began cultivating the "Yama Golden Body," sure enough, he seemed to feel hints of faintly discernible earth origin qi, but it could not be absorbed by him.
"Caught it!"
Pouncing on this wisp of earth essence qi, Fang Han's "spiritual will" snatched it like a starving tiger pouncing on its prey. Delving deep into the World Tree, it extended outward, roaming through a folded space-time.
The World Tree was extremely miraculous. The space and time of this great hall formed an independent entity sealed off from the outside world, but the roots of the World Tree could fold space and time, penetrating every opening.
Through the folding of space and time, a sliver of Fang Han's spirit also seeped out. It was like experiencing a wondrous journey, gaining significant benefits.
A wisp of earth essence qi was found and caught by Fang Han, forcefully pulled into the roots of the World Tree, and then endowed upon his body. In an instant, a crystal-clear yellow crystal qi rippled on his body; this was genuine Wu Earth origin essence.
"The World Tree is truly wondrous." The mysterious person clicked his tongue in admiration.
Fang Han, however, did not hear the mysterious person's words. Operating the Yama Golden Body with full force, he mass-absorbed earth essence qi. The earth origin qi around his body grew increasingly vigorous.
Another year passed.
The earth origin qi on his body formed a crystal-yellow eggshell, completely enveloping his body. Within it, immense power rolled and surged, seemingly brewing a great god of strength.
Among the five elements, earth sits at the center; its power is the greatest and the most vigorous.
Among the Five Emperors Great Demonic Divine Abilities, the Yellow Emperor Earth Sovereign Dao was the most profound and towering. Fang Han was now preparing to refine this divine ability. The previous Yama Golden Body merely tempered the physical body and was not linked with magic power or true qi. Otherwise, it would explode, leaving no corpse behind.
Following the mysterious person's advice, at the grand completion of the Yin-Yang Realm, Fang Han let the earth and wood qi mix, breaking through to the Heaven-Man Realm amidst the explosion.
Two years passed.
The earth origin qi on Fang Han's body shone brilliantly golden, resembling a golden eggshell, surprisingly carrying the aura of a mountain.
"The time has come!" Fang Han sensed that he had accumulated sufficient earth essence and Wu Earth origin qi around his body. After weighing options for a moment, he ground his teeth, fiercely withdrawing it into his body, clashing it together with the Wood Sovereign Gang Qi.
Rumble! Rumble rumble!
Instantly, continuous explosions occurred within his body. Blood flowed from his seven orifices! Especially chunks of muscle on his body, which seemed about to explode and fall off. Even inside the bones of his entire body, explosions were happening. Within his mind, it was also popping endlessly, like setting off firecrackers, a shocking sight.
"What's wrong?"
The demoness jumped up in horror. Looking like this, anyone would think Fang Han was going to explode and die!
"The clash of earth and wood qi is somewhat dangerous, but he can turn danger into safety." The mysterious person was also carefully observing Fang Han: "I do hope he can break through this barrier!"
While the mysterious person spoke, the explosions within Fang Han's body suddenly halted. From the Heavenly Gate on top of his head, two streams of air currents suddenly rushed out: one purely yellow, one purely green. They washed down without ever ceasing.
The bloody filth from the explosions on his body was washed completely clean.
"Earth and wood dual qi, each settling in its place. The Wood Sovereign returns to the liver, the Earth Sovereign returns to the spleen… Five viscera and five elements, Heaven and Man grand array…" Chants burst forth from his mouth. These two streams of earth and wood qi all transformed into a swirling vortex. The flowing vortex resembled a nebula. Entering his body, the Wood Sovereign Gang Qi entered the liver, while the Earth Sovereign Gang Qi entered the spleen.
Those two vortexes were array formations!
Array formations condensed from gang qi!
In this instant, Fang Han broke through the boundary between heaven and humanity, stepping into the fifth realm of divine abilities, the Heaven-Man Realm! From then on, he could refine spiritual artifacts. If he obtained heavenly materials and earthly treasures, he could even refine treasure artifacts! Even more so, he could be styled as a Zhenren!
The liver belongs to wood, the spleen to earth, the heart to fire, the lungs to metal, and the kidneys to water.
Breaking through to the Heaven-Man Realm, he forged the Wood Sovereign Gang Qi into a grand array, hiding it in his liver, and condensed the Earth Sovereign Gang Qi into a grand array, hiding it in his spleen and stomach.
However, Fang Han's Wood Sovereign Gang Qi was vastly deeper, while the Earth Sovereign Gang Qi had only just been condensed; the difference between the two could not be measured. Yet the dual earth and wood qi grand arrays completely mobilized the functions of the liver and spleen.
Instantly, Fang Han's physical stamina skyrocketed! Waves of air currents rushed out from his pores, causing sonic booms everywhere. As his body moved slightly within the great hall, phantom images were everywhere. His entire person was like a flying sword, rushing out streaks of air waves at an inconceivable speed.
This was entirely the power of the physical body.
Gang qi condensing into a grand array, entering the physical body and combining with it; this is the reason why lifespan increases by eight hundred years! A Heaven-Man Realm expert! The fifth realm of divine abilities is no trivial matter! It is also a qualitative change in the divine ability realms.
However, with the earth and wood dual qi entering his body, Fang Han distinctly felt the five elements within his body losing balance. The wood qi was the heaviest, liver fire flourished, followed by the spleen, while the heart, lungs, and kidneys were the weakest.
"Vermillion Bird Banner!"
With a stir of Fang Han's mind, the treasure artifact left behind by the Fire Cloud Fairy, the Vermillion Bird Banner, flew up. Washed by Fang Han using Yellow Spring Holy Water, intense flames immediately surged. Infinite flames shot out from the banner.
"Yan! Lend me a hand!" Fang Han shouted fiercely, and Yan struck simultaneously.
The flames of this Vermillion Bird Banner changed violently, condensing slowly, and finally transformed into two noble sovereigns, women. These sovereigns and women both held flame scepters in their hands; they were precisely the forms of the Red Emperor and Fire Sovereign.
In this instant, Fang Han successfully cultivated the Red Emperor Fire Sovereign Qi.
The two sovereigns gradually transformed into a grand array, a flame pattern, shrinking and entering his physical heart. Rumble! Fang Han felt his heart's function become incomparably powerful; every single beat could shake fine steel to powder.
"How wondrous! Originally, for me to cultivate the Red Emperor Fire Sovereign Qi and collect heaven and earth flames, I would need at least a full sixty-year cycle of bitter effort. Now, dissolving the Vermillion Bird Banner to obtain the flame essence saves me so much cultivation!"
Fang Han thought secretly in his heart.
Subsequently, he took out that Golden Pill; it was time to dissolve the Golden Pill.