Having decided to go to the "Wilderness Temple" to search for the Five Elements Spiritual Root, Fang Han was in no hurry. He continued to cultivate quietly in his "Samsara Peak" every day, tempering the "Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability" once more, especially the "Yellow Emperor Earth Sovereign Dao", which was currently the weakest and needed to slowly absorb the earth essence qi to adjust the balance of the five elements.
Aside from his daily cultivation, he guided the cultivation of Princess Hongyi and Crane Fairy. Although this person and crane had not cultivated to the Divine Abilities Secret Realm, under Fang Han's guidance, their progress was significant. Even Long Xuan and the Demoness received a lot of guidance from Fang Han, and even those few female true disciples, Ye Piaoling, Luo Shui, and Sha Qingmei, received guidance from Fang Han. Even Jia Lan benefited greatly.
Although Jia Lan's realm was higher than Fang Han's, having already formed a Golden Core, her understanding of cultivation surprisingly could not match his. When Fang Han discussed cultivation and Dao techniques, he always hit the nail on the head. A single sentence of his could solve the mysteries she had pondered bitterly for years.
The reason Fang Han had such a profound understanding of the cultivation of Dao techniques was partially due to "Yan", the flood dragon, and mostly the result of a full fifteen years of discussion and seeking advice from the "mysterious person" within the "Taiyuan Immortal Abode".
The mysterious person inside the Taiyuan Immortal Abode was powerful to an unknown degree; his understanding of the essence of Dao techniques simply saw through the origin of the world. Having received his teachings, Fang Han's understanding of the Dao of cultivation was now completely uninferior to any giant figure. He no longer needed guidance from any teacher and could even guide others.
In addition to this, Fang Han also guided some inner and outer disciples who came up the "Samsara Peak" seeking pills, and even a few true disciples.
Just like this, a full month passed. Fang Han consolidated the cycle of the five elements, achieving minor completion. At the same time, he refined a massive amount of "Nascent Soul Pills". Of course, the main reason he delayed his departure for the "Wilderness Temple" was to comprehend the supreme wondrous technique, the "Panwu Great Power Divine Ability"!
Having won the bet with Wan Luo that day and obtained a jade book, Fang Han had immediately memorized all the contents within it. Coming back to comprehend it in detail, he found that the incantations of the "Panwu Great Power Divine Ability" were vast as the sea. Just the martial arts for tempering the physical body numbered over a thousand, and it recorded the mysteries of many acupoints in the body, as well as the positions of the various stars in the sky corresponding to those acupoints.
Beyond this, there were techniques of praying and worshipping, using one's intent to sense the various hidden space-times between heaven and earth, extracting the origin qi within to cleanse oneself and stimulate one's potential.
The human body was a mystery; how to cultivate in order to prolong life involved many martial arts in both the secular and immortal Dao. Fang Han also knew quite a few, but seeing the foundational methods within the "Panwu Great Power Divine Ability", there were over a thousand physical tempering methods and over a thousand spiritual cultivation and praying methods. It truly surpassed any other divine ability.
Just cultivating the foundation of the physical body would require at least a few years, or even ten years.
As for later on, how to circulate magic power, how to expand the mind, how to adjust magic power, how to strengthen the various connections between oneself and heaven, earth, the world, and the myriad realms of the heavens, how to condense the Holy Spirit… and so on, it was even more vast as the sea. Various tempering methods emerged in an endless stream, simply opening up another marvelous world of cultivation for Fang Han, leading him into a new realm.
"So cultivation could also be like this!"
For instance, among them, there was a method to borrow the faith of the multitudes to expand the mind, condense a holy embryo, and open up another mind. There was a method to borrow the aura of slaughter from the battlefield and the tragic essence essence qi of life and death, stimulating a certain acupoint in the brain, storing it within…
Various cultivation methods, some never unseen, some never unheard of. Combined together, they constituted this eternal supreme divine ability. Although Fang Han had not cultivated it, looking through them one by one, he was suddenly enlightened.
"No wonder Hua Tiandu inherited the Dao lineage of the Panwu Immortal Venerable and is so formidable. If he steps into the Longevity Secret Realm, his cultivation journey will be smooth and unobstructed, which I'm afraid will be even more astonishing."
Fang Han memorized the various cultivation methods of the Panwu Great Power Divine Ability in his head. Then he left that jade book on the Samsara Peak for Jia Lan and the others to comprehend.
However, during this month, Fang Qingxue had returned to her own Purple Lightning Peak and continued her secluded cultivation. She seemed to be aiming to break through to the Golden Core realm.
Fang Han did not pay attention to any of this. In the season of rustling autumn wind and hills covered with red leaves, he left the Samsara Peak. He flew straight towards the Great Xuan Empire, the most powerful empire in the world.
It was now late autumn, approaching winter. Fang Han planned to go out for two months, obtain the Five Elements Spiritual Root, and then return in time for the Mountain and River Ranking Competition, to see if any genius figures would emerge in the sect this year and if anyone else would step into the Divine Abilities Secret Realm.
These days, he had scattered handfuls of pills, moreover, human-grade supreme-grade spirit pills, Nascent Soul Pills. For those disciples with extremely high genius ranking in the top ten of the Mountain and River Ranking, with ample pills, stepping into the Divine Abilities Secret Realm was not rare.
"Swoosh!"
A faint line broke through the air. Following that, it hid within the white clouds and vanished into the horizon.
On this trip, Fang Han did not bring the Five Hells King Cauldron either, because this magic treasure was simply too large and inconvenient to carry anywhere. It was better to leave it on his Samsara Peak to suppress the earth veins and refine pills for the Demoness and the others.
The Demoness had now cultivated to the True Qi Realm and was about to step into the Astral Qi Realm. Although she wasn't considered a true disciple of the Ascension Sect, watching over the peak for Fang Han was more than sufficient…
Fang Han flew in the sky, shuttling back and forth through the layers of white clouds. He did not fly very fiercely.
Going out this time, he also harbored the thought of traveling the world, admiring the beautiful scenery of the world, and experiencing the various aspects of the secular world. The last time he traveled with Long Xuan to the Extinct Domain, because his magic power was simply too weak, flying and traveling consumed a lot of effort, so naturally he had no time to admire the scenery along the way. This time was different; his magic power was profound. Using the Demonic Blade Blood Firmament, covering a thousand miles took only an instant. Coming and going like a ghost, like lightning, he naturally had plenty of time to do other things.
Before long, Fang Han flew above the "Longyuan River". Continuing along, he surprisingly saw the Fang Family of "Longyuan Province". Longyuan City was still bustling with activity, crowded with people, and filled with heavy traffic. And the Governor's Mansion was getting larger, evidently showing that the Fang Family's influence had expanded yet again within the Great Li Dynasty.
However, Fang Han did not intend to go down; there was nothing in the Fang Family worth lingering for.
Just as he was preparing to fly away, his mind suddenly stirred. He landed on the sandy beach beside the Longyuan River. Finding a spot among the towering reeds on the beach, he forcefully pushed his hand out, and with a crack, a large cave was revealed.
However, inside this large cave, there was nothing.
"How could this be? Where is Master Bai Haichan's corpse?" Fang Han was startled. He had clearly buried Bai Haichan here back then. How could the corpse be gone?
Bai Haichan had given him the Yellow Springs Diagram and the Nine Orifices Golden Pill, which allowed him to achieve what he had today. Having promised to resurrect him, he naturally wouldn't break his word, but now even the corpse was gone.
"I wonder who took the corpse away? Could it be Fang Qingxue?" Fang Han suspected one person. "But what would Fang Qingxue do with Bai Haichan's corpse? It has no use either. There's no need to go back and ask now; I will deal with it after obtaining the Five Elements Spiritual Root."
He originally wanted to find Bai Haichan's corpse and figure out a way to resurrect him in the future. But now that even the corpse was gone, Fang Han could do nothing about it and could only search for it carefully later.
Taking flight again, Fang Han sighed, no longer having the mood to admire the scenery along the way. He flew straight towards the borders of the Great Li Dynasty.
The border of the Great Li Dynasty was a vast expanse of grasslands. On the grasslands, there was a nomadic empire, the Great De Dynasty, which was very powerful. It frequently waged wars with the Great Li Dynasty, fighting at the borders, fighting for land, population, and plundering resources.
Passing through the Great De Dynasty on the vast grasslands, and crossing several dozen states of varying sizes, one would arrive at the number one empire in the world, the Great Xuan Empire.
Just as Fang Han was about to fly over, he suddenly saw wolf smoke rising into the sky on the grasslands ahead. Countless instances of blood light, resentment, fierce spiritual aura, and the aura of slaughter filled the sky.
"Is there a war going on?" Fang Han immediately looked down and sure enough, saw countless secular armies fiercely clashing at the border below. It was the cavalry and infantry of the Great De Dynasty besieging the border cities of the Great Li Dynasty.
The Great Li Dynasty had constructed countless formidable passes on the border near the grasslands to resist the iron cavalry from the grassland empire.
This battle was no small matter. Looking down from the clouds, Fang Han saw that along hundreds of miles of the border, beacon fires were everywhere. Columns of soldiers were as dense as ants. Arrows shot out like flying locusts; countless people fell, and countless soldiers stepped into the breach as others fell.
In this battle, both sides had at least hundreds of thousands of people fighting. At every moment, large numbers of people were dying.
Among them were some very profound martial arts experts at the seventh or eighth level of the Physical Body Realm, acting as leading generals, charging and fighting back and forth. Their fierce essence qi also soared into the sky.
Feeling the martial aura of slaughter and the desperate spirit of hundreds of thousands of people from the clouds, Fang Han felt his mind waver a bit. When a person reaches the final moment of life-and-death struggle, it's equivalent to burning their own spirit, emitting exceptionally strong spiritual power. On the battlefield, because the spirits of tens of millions of people are connected together, even ghosts and gods have to avoid it.
"Fang Han, in the Panwu Great Power Divine Ability, there is a supreme method to absorb the battlefield spirits and the aura of slaughter to stimulate the brain acupoints and open up a second mind. You just happen to have encountered a war, why not give it a try?"
Yan's voice suddenly transmitted over.
"Indeed, there is this wondrous technique!" Fang Han's mind stirred, preparing to absorb the aura of slaughter on the battlefield and the battle intent condensed by countless people to open up a "second mind" for himself.
However, before circulating the technique, he suddenly cast a grand divine ability, the "Mirage Qi Technique", changing himself into a different appearance. Dressed in black, appearing both righteous and evil, with an ordinary face.
The method of absorbing the spirits of the dead and the battlefield aura of slaughter was a demonic path method. Fang Han did not wish for anyone to see his true appearance.
The Panwu Great Power Divine Ability was an ability combining immortal and demonic cultivation.