There were many demonic divine abilities that required the gathering of human resentment, anger, battle aura, the various painful and desperate emotions when nearing death, as well as the intense aura of slaughter from mortal battlefields.
Such demonic divine abilities were incredibly formidable. A single strike would unleash thousands of battle souls with chilling killing intent, capable of forming a domain. Like divine abilities such as the Linglong Daluo Heaven and the Nine Palaces Divine Form Technique, they trapped people inside and tortured them to death.
Like Wan Luo's "Seven Emotions Great Handprint", it also involved going into the secular world to gather the joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, grief, bitterness, and worry of the masses, refining them into the seven emotions. With a strike, a tide of overwhelming emotions would surge forth; even Golden Core experts would be affected.
However, the Panwu Great Power Divine Ability took a different route. It did not borrow the battlefield aura of slaughter or despairing emotions to refine divine abilities, but rather to open up a "second mind". This was an unprecedented, brilliant idea that no one had ever attempted. Even "Yan", having inherited various divine abilities of the Yellow Springs Demonic Sect, upon seeing such a method to open up a "second mind", was completely prostrate in admiration.
It must be known that a person's brain/mind was the source of all divine abilities and the root of magic power. In many Daoist classics, the mind was also called the "Sea of Consciousness" or the "Purple Mansion". The magnitude of a person's divine abilities and the level of their magic power all depended entirely on the size of their mind.
Currently, Fang Han's mind held the magic power equivalent to the galloping force of five hundred thousand phantom horses, having reached its limit. To further increase his magic power, he had to elevate his realm and expand his mind. Otherwise, no matter how he cultivated, he would not gain any additional magic power. But the Panwu Great Power Divine Ability did not increase the capacity of the mind; instead, it opened up a second mind!
The human brain was extremely precious. It was also very delicate and fragile. Any slight disarray of true or astral qi would cause devastating damage to the brain. Whenever any divine ability cultivator touched upon brain cultivation, they had to proceed step by step and with extreme caution. Otherwise, suffering qi deviation, their brains would explode, resulting in instant death.
The idea of opening up a "second mind" within the brain was not something out of certain senior experts' imagination, but it was too difficult to experiment with. Even experts of the Longevity Secret Realm were unwilling to use their own heads for experiments.
The head was the chief of the six yangs; it could not be lightly moved.
However, the Panwu Immortal Venerable braved universal condemnation and truly created the foundational method for opening up the "second mind", figuring out its various marvelous uses. Thus, the disciples under him all possessed exceptionally powerful magic power and were titled "Great Power". When fighting against enemies, they suppressed them directly with magic power, not needing to use any magic treasures.
This also explained why Wan Luo, as a Golden Core expert, possessed such immense magic power that even the Demonic Blade Blood Firmament and the King of Blood Night could not suppress him.
The war on the border below raged like a wildfire. Beacon fires soared into the heavens, armored warhorses charging with a momentum that could swallow mountains and rivers, their bitter struggle darkening the sun and moon. The intense aura transmitted thousands of miles away.
Fang Han employed the "Panwu Great Power Divine Ability", fiercely condensing his magic power into a vortex, absorbing the surrounding battlefield aura of slaughter, various spirits, and desperate emotions, pulling them into his mind.
As this intense "aura of slaughter" entered his mind, Fang Han instantly felt as if thousands of war drums were beating in his mind, with countless soldiers slaughtering each other, and tragic bloodstains everywhere. It seemed his mind had opened up a new battlefield, dragging him in as well.
The tragic aura of slaughter on the battlefield was not that easy to extract. If one did not know the method of extraction and recklessly gathered it, the mind would immediately be destroyed. At the slight level, one's nerves would become disordered, going mad to death. At the severe level, it would disrupt the balance of the magic power circulating in the mind, causing it to explode. Although Fang Han understood this divine ability, he dared not act rashly.
As that tragic killing intent, along with the excitement, agitation, despair, and agony of countless people… various emotions naturally entered his mind, he immediately circulated his magic power, slowly rotating it according to the method of the Panwu Great Power Divine Ability, suppressing them one by one. Finally, they were concentrated and condensed into an extremely small sphere, floating uncertainly within his mind.
This small sphere in his mind was infinitesimal, yet it seemed to harbor a battlefield within. Many faces turned back and forth inside it, while shouts of slaughter and the beating of war drums faintly reverberated within.
Fang Han continued cultivating, continuously extracting the battlefield killing intent and the emotions of sentient beings from the clouds below. That small sphere in his mind also grew larger and clearer.
Not until nighttime, when the war at the border below ceased and both sides slowly withdrew their troops, did the aura in the sky slowly dissipate. Feeling there was no longer any aura left to extract, Fang Han withdrew his power and stood up.
"What a pity, I was just a bit short of forming a Battle Soul Sarira. According to the cultivation incantation of the Panwu Great Power Divine Ability, the aura of slaughter generated by a large battle is enough to condense a Battle Soul Sarira. Gathering one hundred and eight Battle Soul Sariras to form a cycle of the Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiend, and then burning one's own essence qi is enough to open up a second mind. But today's battle aura seems to lack a little."
Fang Han felt that the "Battle Soul Sarira" in his mind was not yet perfect and had not been fully formed. He couldn't help but find it somewhat strange.
"It's not strange, because besides us, there are others also extracting the battlefield killing intent. Hmph! They've come out. It looks like they want to demand an explanation."
Yan said abruptly.
Only then did Fang Han realize that he was surprisingly surrounded.
Counting around him in the sky, there were seven figures in total. They all wore long robes printed with skull motifs, reeking deeply of ghost aura, and carrying pitch-black gourds slung around their waists. The gourds were also engraved with skulls, radiating a creepy white bone glow, as if they were ready to fly out and bite someone.
The skull robes on the seven individuals were surprisingly all lower-grade Treasure Artifacts, allowing them to fly fast. Emitting a dense ghost aura, yin qi faintly wrapped around them, displaying powerful protective capabilities.
"Is this the person? Who dares to extract the battlefield aura of slaughter here! Fighting over it with our Young Master! Kill him!"
One of the deeply ghost-like figures pointed fiercely upon seeing Fang Han! He said with a sinister grin. At this moment, Fang Han had used the "Mirage Qi Technique" to transform into a person who appeared neither entirely righteous nor deeply evil. Unless it was a Golden Core expert or higher, no one could see his true appearance. Naturally, these seven people could not possibly be Golden Core experts, so how could they see through it.
"So it's you petty thieves who ruined my formation of a Battle Soul Sarira." Fang Han had extremely sharp observation and recognized immediately that these seven individuals had a cultivation base at the tenth level of the Physical Body Realm, the peak of Divine Transformation, the same level as Princess Hongyi, Fang Qingwei, and Ye Nantian. But not having stepped into the Divine Abilities Secret Realm yet, flying so high purely relied on the power of the lower-grade Treasure Artifact clothes on their bodies. How dare they be so arrogant?
The gourds at their waists were exactly treasures for gathering the battlefield aura of slaughter. However, they didn't dare extract it into their own minds, only dared to collect it with gourds, evidently to refine some magic treasure.
These seven individuals belonged unquestionably to the demonic path. As an orthodox disciple of the Ascension Sect, slaying monsters and demons while conveniently collecting magic treasures fell squarely within Fang Han's duties.
Immediately, without a second word, Fang Han reached out and unleashed a divine ability. Milky-white astral qi surged violently, condensing into a massive white heavenly lion the size of a mountain in the sky!
As this white heavenly lion opened its mouth, the wind and clouds immediately changed colors. The air currents within a radius of tens of miles plummeted abruptly, all drawn toward the heavenly lion's mouth.
The seven individuals clad in "skull robes" were instantly shocked by this white heavenly lion. They struggled with all their might but to no effect; the intense air current shooting from the white heavenly lion's mouth immobilized them, drawing them toward the lion's mouth, about to be swallowed by the heavenly lion.
Fang Han's Heavenly Lion Great Method was originally the divine ability cultivated by Fairy Fire Cloud, and it had even incorporated the natal Heavenly Lion Astral Qi of three disciples of the One Sect: Yao Dian, Xia You, and Yu Fen, making it inconceivably strong. Although it couldn't swallow a hundred thousand troops in one breath, it was certainly capable of swallowing ten thousand troops.
A grand army of ten thousand men in the secular world, as long as his lion opened its mouth, would be swallowed entirely.
For these seven people clad in "skull robes", let alone not having cultivated a divine ability, even if they were at the first or second level of the Divine Abilities, they would not be able to resist the heavenly lion's swallowing.
"You dare swallow my people, you are simply seeking death!"
Just as the white heavenly lion was about to swallow the seven people in skull robes, a sinister voice suddenly rang out, followed by an emerald-green figure flying forth. With a wave of his hand, an emerald-green longsword broke through the air, slashing at the heavenly lion.
"This emerald-green longsword…"
Upon looking, Fang Han felt alarmed, because this emerald-green longsword possessed immense power, simply comparable to the Demonic Blade Blood Firmament before it became a Dao Artifact. It felt like a supreme-grade Treasure Artifact!
Leaving Dao Artifacts aside, even supreme-grade Treasure Artifacts, every single piecould incite bloody strife; Golden Core experts did not have many. And coming out carelessly, he had bumped into one.
"Emerald Blood Soul-Extinguishing Sword?" Yan suddenly communicated via spiritual exchange, evidently recognizing the origin of this emerald-green longsword.
"It seems to be a good item as well. My innate luck is simply incredible; I just came out and met a sucker! Just right for murder and pillage! This person's magic power is not high either; not a Golden Core, seemingly not even cultivated to the Unity Realm! Nor having cultivated the Heaven and Human! Still at the fourth level of Divine Abilities, the Yin-Yang Realm. Looking powerful, but encountering me today is encountering terrible bad luck!"
Fang Han instantly grew excited.
Immediately, with a wave of his hand, a black storm shot out, precisely the supreme divine ability, Black Sun Wind Disaster. With just one move, it swept that Emerald Blood Soul-Extinguishing Sword into the air, preventing it from striking down.
"King of Blood Night!"
As Fang Han's intent moved fiercely, the King of Blood Night, dressed in blood-colored robes with blood-bat wings on its back, soared out. Spreading its hands apart, massive blood-drenched hands shot out through the air, forcefully trying to snatch away that Emerald Blood Soul-Extinguishing Sword.
"Seeking death!"
At this moment, that emerald-green figure revealed its body. It was a young man in an emerald-green long robe, with a sinister face. The astral qi surrounding him flickered like phosphorescent fire, crackling continuously! Sometimes condensing into skulls, sometimes into statues of demonic beasts. This showed a cultivation of divine abilities reached the fourth level, the Yin-Yang Realm.
This kind of cultivation was actually extremely strong and could dominate a region, but compared to a freak like Fang Han, he couldn't measure up.
At present, Fang Han wanted to deal this person a ruthless blow. The Great Sun Fire Disaster was brewing, meaning to burn this person to ashes in an instant.
However, Yan's voice suddenly came: "Fang Han, you cannot kill this person! And you cannot snatch his Emerald Blood Soul-Extinguishing Sword! Otherwise, there will be disastrous consequences! This person has a powerful backing."