Strolling on the broad streets of the Great Xuan Empire, Fang Han felt in his heart the atmosphere of a vast and mighty country, an authentic "Celestial Empire above all". Even as a cultivator at the Fifth Layer of the Divine Ability Secret Realm, the "Heavenly Human Realm", he felt waves of shock and admiration toward this dream-like great city.
After touring for a while, Fang Han had a rough understanding of some local conditions and customs of the Great Xuan Empire in his heart. The people of this Great Xuan Empire were all physically strong and robustly powerful. They were particularly skilled in the ways of preserving health. The most special thing was that there were no starving people, nor were there those beggars seen in other countries. It seemed that everyone had food to eat and clothes to wear; this point made Fang Han sigh with deep emotion.
Moreover, the vast majority of ordinary residents cultivated some superficial martial arts. Even some seemingly frail and weak women appeared to be between the third and fourth layers of the Physical Body Realm, understanding "moves" and even knowing the "hard and soft" variations of physical force. Among some well-off residents, there were actually strong practitioners at the Fifth Layer of the Physical Body Realm, the "Divine Force" realm.
Within the Great Li Dynasty, the Fifth Layer of the Physical Body Realm, the "Divine Force" realm, was sufficient to become a great general of a region, commanding thousands of soldiers and horses, fighting on the battlefield, establishing illustrious merits, and it was even possible to be conferred a noble title. But here, they were just ordinary residents.
Even the patrolling soldiers were experts at the Seventh Layer of the Physical Body Realm, the "Divine Bravery". The national quality of this number one great empire in the world was evident.
Fang Han knew that the rice planted by ordinary farmers in the Great Xuan Empire was a kind of "White Yang Rice" seed that the Taiyi Sect had the government distribute. It was best at absorbing the earth's essence and was extremely nourishing, additionally yielding thirty to fifty thousand catties per mu. Because of this, it was able to keep the tens of billions of people in the Great Xuan Empire from showing any signs of starvation.
The royal court of the Great Xuan Empire also hid dragons and crouching tigers.
Other experts of the Divine Ability Secret Realm might even ignore the emperor in some large empires, but in the Great Xuan Empire, that was absolutely impossible. The royal nobles and high ministers of the Great Xuan Empire were almost all strong practitioners of the Divine Ability Secret Realm.
If the royal court of the Great Xuan Empire were separated out to form a sect, it would probably be a major sect no smaller than the Ten Tenets of the Immortal Path.
Fang Han walked on the broad street. This street was paved with white stones, spotless, allowing fifty horse carriages to travel side by side. On both sides of the street were drainage ditches, but these drainage ditches were not canals, but rather rivers over ten zhang wide. Bridges spanned across every five hundred steps, akin to the Golden Water River in an imperial palace.
Crossing the bridge, there were various shops. Every shop was decorated resplendently and magnificently, not inferior in the slightest to a royal mansion or imperial palace of an empire. And behind them were manors one after another, or tall buildings. In Dragon Abyss City, ordinary four-story buildings were already considered very tall, but here there were buildings dozens of stories high, looking like grand pagodas.
People coming and going shuttled among them, while in the sky, there were some people flying back and forth looking down from above. They were cultivators who possessed spirit artifact dharma robes or were in the Divine Ability Secret Realm. Showing an aloof and lofty posture, they were just like those official lords riding in sedan chairs in other empires. Being able to fly in the sky was a symbol of strength.
Fang Han strolled for half a day, secretly using the "Black Emperor Water Sovereign Fist" to check the situation of the three great killers, Mie Xing, Ci Yue, and Zhu Xian, but unexpectedly he did not sense them.
Right at this moment, an extremely large shop attracted Fang Han's gaze.
This shop occupied a street ten miles long, with tall houses, bright red walls, jade carved qilin as tall as several men, and a continuous row of guards standing at the entrance, wearing bright yellow vests, meticulous in every detail, and emitting powerful auras. These guards were remarkably all experts at the Tenth Layer of the Physical Body Realm, the Divine Alteration realm! Although their mental power was not strong enough to the extent of "becoming intelligent", they possessed at least the strength of five or six violent steeds! What was even more formidable was that the bright yellow vests on these guards were all low-grade spirit artifacts. Fang Han immediately knew this shop was no small matter.
Especially since there was a huge plaque hanging above the shop that read "Tiandao Pavilion".
The three large characters were written with bold and vigorous strokes, presenting a magnificent and majestic spectacle, faintly revealing an overwhelming domineering aura. Merely relying on the imposing manner of these characters, Fang Han knew that the realm of the person who wrote the plaque was probably still above his own.
"Tiandao Pavilion? It seems this was mentioned in the Myriad Worlds." Fang Han recalled. The description of the "Tiandao Pavilion" mentioned in the Yuhua Sect's "Myriad Worlds" was: A mysterious organization, containing both the Immortal Path and the Demonic Path, not committing evil, specializing in the trading of magical treasures, medicinal pills, heavenly materials and earthly treasures; possessing extremely abundant resources… Has existed for several thousand years… This pavilion possesses Dao artifacts!
Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh…
A number of brilliant lights descended from the sky; they were experts one by one. Either people of the Divine Ability Secret Realm, or sect disciples possessing top-grade spirit artifact dharma robes, or even precious artifact dharma robes. All of them landed in front of this "Tiandao Pavilion" and then walked inside.
Moreover, Fang Han faintly heard many voices: "This is the annual treasure selling convention of the Tiandao Pavilion, one of the top three treasure pavilions. There are countless magical treasures and medicinal pills to be sold. This time I brought all my family property, hoping to buy a few pieces of Profound Heroic True Iron to let me refine the Great Metal True Qi…" This was a cultivator who had just entered the Divine Ability Secret Realm speaking.
Profound Heroic True Iron was also a kind of extraterrestrial meteorite iron, containing abundant and pure Metal element vitality, though far inferior to the Great White Venus Stone. However, it was also a rare treasure. If one was cultivating the Great Free Profound Metal Sword Qi, just a few pieces, once absorbed, would give a fifty percent chance of successfully refining the true qi.
"I actually want to buy a precious artifact pill furnace…"
"I want to obtain peerless-grade Origin Infant Pills, sufficient for a year's consumption. By cultivating bitterly for a year, I hope I can step into the Divine Ability Secret Realm."
"Origin Infant Pills, those are not easy to obtain either. A hundred White Yang Pills can only be exchanged for one Origin Infant Pill. Even a true legacy disciple of the Taiyi Sect cannot possess a massive amount of Origin Infant Pills."
Hearing these words, Fang Han knew this was an event held by a major merchant guild in the Great Xuan Empire dedicated to providing treasure buying and selling trades for cultivators. This was not unusual. He just happened to want to buy some Earth element treasures for himself to absorb, to cultivate the "Yellow Emperor Earth Sovereign Dao" to be more vigorous. So, he followed and strolled inside as well.
Unexpectedly, he was stopped by a guard wearing a yellow vest.
"Do you have a prestigious invitation from the Tiandao Pavilion? For this treasure selling convention, only cultivators who have obtained an invitation can enter. If your distinguished self does not have an invitation, please return," this guard in the yellow vest said.
"Oh? Not even me?" Fang Han's finger moved slightly, and a surge of Daoist astral energy wound around his fingertip, condensing into a small magical array that circulated endlessly.
"Ah! Divine Ability Fifth Layer! A Heavenly Human Realm expert!" This guard in the yellow vest continuously stepped back several paces! A look of disbelief appeared on his face, which then involuntarily showed respect.
This guard had seen many ordinary experts of the Divine Ability Secret Realm, but those at the Fifth Layer Heavenly Human Realm were out of the ordinary. They were figures who could cultivate multiple kinds of divine abilities, condense great arrays, and rhythmically forge spirit artifacts!
One "spirit artifact" could allow a person without divine abilities to fly. How many people desired a spirit artifact but could not obtain one; a single flying sword could be exchanged for a city.
And figures at the Fifth Layer of the Divine Ability could casually refine them!
Even among the Ten Tenets of the Immortal Path, disciples at the Fifth Layer of the Divine Ability, the "Heavenly Human Realm", were cultivated and cultivated again, cherished and cherished again, and their status soared rapidly. Outside, experts of the Fifth Layer of the Divine Ability were grandmasters of cultivation of an entire region.
"What? This person is a Heavenly Human Realm expert!"
"Indeed, this person is truly a Heavenly Human Realm expert! This person might be here to buy materials containing Five Elements Qi to fully condense the five elements!"
"So a Heavenly Human Realm expert looks like this…"
For a moment, Fang Han actually caused quite a stir. In the cultivation world, Heavenly Human Realm cultivators were rare to see. In the eyes of many people, they were reclusive seniors.
"Why haven't you stepped down quickly! Let me attend to the senior!" Right at this moment, a voice transmitted over. It was a woman wearing a long skirt, with faintly green eyebrows. With one glance, Fang Han saw that this woman was a cultivator of the Divine Ability Secret Realm, but also only at the First Layer, the Magic Power Realm, and had not yet successfully refined true qi. As soon as this green-browed woman appeared, she shouted back the guards in yellow vests and hurriedly invited Fang Han inside: "Junior Lu Mei, an executive disciple of the Tiandao Pavilion. Senior's cultivation base naturally qualifies you to participate in the treasure selling convention. The guards are ignorant, please do not take offense, Senior."
After saying that, this Lu Mei offered an invitation with both hands.
Fang Han grinned, took the invitation, and discovered that the base of this invitation was actually made of pure gold, with characters molded from Cold Iron on it, emitting bursts of magic power fluctuations. It was surprisingly a magical artifact, very difficult to counterfeit.
"Senior's cultivation base allows you to be called a VIP. Please follow Lu Mei to the VIP room." Lu Mei spoke while leading the way.
"I have long heard that the Tiandao Pavilion is one of the top three merchant guilds in the Great Xuan Empire, and even Dao artifacts can be bought and sold. I wonder if that is true?" Fang Han followed this Lu Mei inside while offering exaggerated compliments.
"Not at all, not at all, Dao artifacts are supreme treasures that can be encountered but not sought. Although our pavilion has them, they are used to suppress our luck. As for buying and selling them, that is probably impossible. It is all false rumors spread by people outside." Lu Mei's words greatly startled Fang Han; he did not expect this "Tiandao Pavilion" actually truly had Dao artifacts!
Before Fang Han could speak, this Lu Mei spoke again: "May I ask where Senior is from? Coming to participate in the treasure selling convention this time, what items do you wish to purchase?"
"Naturally, heavenly materials and earthly treasures condensed from the essence of the five elements. I want to cultivate five elemental divine abilities and am in urgent need of five elemental essence. As for my origins, I am an independent cultivator." Fang Han said with a wooden expression: "I wonder what you use for exchange when purchasing heavenly materials and earthly treasures here? Is it the Profound Yellow Coins of the Great Xuan Empire?"
"Profound Yellow Coins are worldly items. Although they can be exchanged for some medicinal materials at many shops outside, a large merchant guild like our Tiandao Pavilion does not use Profound Yellow Coins. The hard currency is human-tier top-grade spirit pills, the White Yang Pills." Lu Mei smiled beautifully and explained: "Of course, if Senior has any magical treasures or spirit artifacts to sell, you can exchange them for White Yang Pills here with us, and then bid for Five Elements spiritual items at the treasure selling convention. Senior is an expert of the Heavenly Human Realm; we will definitely purchase Senior's spirit artifacts at a preferential price."
As Lu Mei spoke, there were a few traces of attempting to rope him in.
"So it's White Yang Pills. As hard currency, it is quite acceptable." Fang Han nodded. White Yang Pills were human-tier top-grade medicinal pills of the Taiyi Sect, consumed by inner and outer sect disciples. The main material for refining them was "White Yang Rice". However, it took five thousand catties of White Yang Rice, going through multiple layers of refining, adding many auxiliary medicinal materials, and multiple means such as steaming, crushing, washing, and fire calcining…, to remove the dregs and extract the essence, before a single White Yang Pill could be refined.
White Yang Pills were on the same level as "Life-Sustaining Golden Pills".
If a disciple with decent aptitude at the Tenth Layer of the Physical Body, the Divine Alteration realm, possessed a superior cultivation method and cultivated bitterly day and night, consuming a White Yang Pill every day, after twenty to thirty years of bitter cultivation, they would have a fifty percent chance of stepping into the Divine Ability Secret Realm.