As Fang Han went deeper into the Land of the Five Elements, the demonic beasts transformed from five elements origin energy inside became increasingly powerful.
However, among his Five Emperors Great Demonic Divine Ability, the two divine abilities "Green Emperor Wood Emperor Technique" and "White Emperor Golden Emperor Slash" had both been cultivated to grand completion. With a spray from his mouth, a green cloud and a platinum thick cloud covering a radius of dozens of miles would appear in the sky, with thunder flashing, and Yi Wood Divine Thunder and Geng Metal Divine Thunder smashing down like hail. Wherever they passed, all demonic beasts turned into origin energy to benefit himself.
This meant that no matter how powerful a demonic beast was, it could not get close to him within a radius of dozens of miles.
The two patches of thick clouds in the sky above his head were his best protective talismans.
Now, these two divine abilities had completely surpassed the power of the "Great Sun Fire Disaster" and "Black Sun Wind Disaster", becoming the two most powerful divine abilities he cultivated.
"Fang Han, if you cultivate the entirety of the Five Emperors Great Demonic Divine Ability to grand completion, you can condense a Five Emperors Canopy Precious Umbrella, immune to myriad evils, unbreakable by all techniques, and invincible wherever it goes. Back in the day, Yellow Spring Great Emperor just unleashed this divine ability, and when he ascended to become an immortal, he tore open the gates of the immortal realm. The immortal realm bombarded him with endless void divine thunder, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred tribulations, yet could do nothing to him in the slightest."
Yan looked at the two patches of dense cloud qi in the sky above their heads, squinting his eyes.
A canopy was the umbrella-shaped top cover above an emperor's head when he went on an inspection tour, decorated with various magnificent precious objects to increase prestige. After the Five Emperors Great Demonic Divine Ability was cultivated to completion, it could also condense into a canopy to protect oneself, making one immune to myriad evils.
Right at this moment, in the distant sky, a burst of splashing water sounds came surging over from afar, as if a heavenly river had suddenly appeared in the void.
"Another massive water attribute monster, I wonder what is coming this time? Black Tortoise? Black Tortoise descending to the water?"
The divine beast of the water attribute was the Black Tortoise.
In the east Jia-Yi wood, the divine beast was the Azure Dragon. In the north Ren-Gui water, the divine beast was the Black Tortoise. In the south Bing-Ding fire, it was the Vermillion Bird. In the west Geng-Xin metal, it was the White Tiger.
In the center Wu-Ji earth, it was the Flying Snake. The king of Flying Snakes was known as the Huang. It was also called the Huang Snake. Rumor had it that it was the king of hell, and with one turn of its body, hell would invert.
Heaping water sounds came from afar, and one could feel monstrous water qi rushing against the face. Its imposing aura was not in the least inferior to that White Tiger they had refined; whether it was Fang Han or Yan and the others, they all felt joy in their hearts, because finding a water attribute divine beast meant that if it was refined again, then the Black Emperor Water Emperor Fist could reach grand completion. The Five Emperors Great Demonic Divine Ability would advance another step!
After the Five Emperors Great Demonic Divine Ability reached completion, its power could rival the Taiyi Sect's Doomsday Natural Disaster.
Everyone roused their spirits; even Fang Han opened his mouth and sucked, and the two patches of Wood Emperor qi cloud and Golden Emperor qi cloud that were scattered over a radius of dozens of miles all gathered over, shrinking to the size of a mus of land, suspended above his head. The more widely they were scattered, the more dispersed their power was; now concentrated together, the power was even greater.
Just as Fang Han shrank the two divine abilities of metal and wood, a massive ape appeared in everyone's vision, looking at Fang Han's group with untamed and arrogant eyes.
This massive ape had countless water clouds coiling around its body, and held a giant water cudgel in its hand. Like a human yet not a human, like a demon yet not a demon, the water origin energy contained on its body was not in the slightest weaker than the White Tiger, and its magic power surged boundlessly.
"So formidable! What is this thing! Having such a tyrannical imposing aura!" Xingyun Baobao said in shock: "I have seen the divine beast Black Tortoise condensed from water origin energy in the Crystal Grotto Heaven before, but its power did not seem as formidable as this ape's!"
"This is the Immemorial Water Ape! It is also a water attribute divine beast, and this water ape seems to have also swallowed a Heavenly Demon King, congealing the flesh and blood of the Heavenly Demon King together with its own water origin energy, transforming into an existence that is like a demon yet not a demon, like a god yet not a god." Yan smacked his lips.
"Mortal cultivator, you have infringed upon my territory." This Immemorial Water Ape looked at Fang Han for quite a while, seemingly having seen through Fang Han's terrifying strength, "Retreat quickly, and we shall live in peace, otherwise, I do not mind killing you right on the spot!"
"Oh? Kill me right on the spot?" Fang Han let out a burst of random laughter: "The White Tiger blocking the way earlier also said the same thing to me, and the result is that it has now been refined into origin energy by me… Today, no matter what you do, you cannot escape the fate of being refined by me, you had better consider yourself instead."
This Immemorial Water Ape was actually an existence on the same level as the Black Tortoise; Fang Han naturally could not let it off. Right now, his most important task was to cultivate the Five Emperors Great Demonic Divine Ability to completion, so he absolutely would not let this object go.
As he spoke, he had already unleashed a divine ability, the "Heaven Concealing Star Evasion Art", upon the "Heaven Obscuring Demonic Hand". This was a divine ability of the Immortal Extinguishing Thief, not meant for attacking, but for hiding one's physical form, best at assassination; Golden Core experts of the same level, or even people who had survived the Wind and Fire Great Tribulation, would not be able to spot it without looking carefully.
Because this relied on the qi of celestial stars to distort the surrounding magnetic field, creating various illusions.
At the same time, Fang Han also blessed the "Snake Sparrow Wandering Spirit Qi" upon the "Heaven Obscuring Demonic Hand". This made this giant hand become as hard to deal with as the "Ghost Snake Sword" when it operated.
These auxiliary divine abilities, as long as they were unleashed well, were much more formidable than primary attack divine abilities.
Just think, with the terrifying power of the "Heaven Obscuring Demonic Hand", shadowless and formless, soundless and breathless, coupled with the flexibility and slipperiness of the Ghost Snake Sword, to what extent of terror would it reach?
"Hahahahaha, mortal! You are too self-righteous…" Listening to Fang Han's words, the water ape erupted into a burst of crazy loud laughter, its entire body's water qi spinning violently, but it did not sense that faintly above its head, air was flowing, and suddenly with a whoosh, the air was parted, and a giant hand carrying monstrous demonic flames had already infinitely approached it.
"Bang!"
This Immemorial Water Ape had not expected Fang Han to actually be so deceitful. Amidst a furious roar, the giant water cudgel in its hand propped upwards, exactly blocking the demonic hand, but its entire body was wrapped up by the demonic flames.
Strike!
The King of Blood Night, Yan, and Xing Chan, these three major Dao Artifacts flew out almost in unison, besieging this Immemorial Water Ape; the coordination between them right now was truly too tacit. They were completely a replica of the Forty Great Thieves; these past few days, the business of being atrociously wicked and murdering for wealth had gone too smoothly for them.
The three major Dao Artifacts had now become three bandits. They had severe violent tendencies, which of course were all brought out by Fang Han.
"Gui Water Divine Thunder! Fire Ape, come out for me!"
The Immemorial Water Ape expanded with full force, endless water thunders detonating from within its body, black qi crisscrossing everywhere. The water thunders derived endlessly in a chain reaction, pushing all these Dao Artifacts far away.
Its power was far above Golden Core experts, even surpassing Fang Han's. Nearing the strength of two million galloping fierce horses. However, its methods were single-dimensional, without any flexible and varied divine abilities, possessing only the Gui Water Divine Thunder.
But precisely because its methods were single-dimensional, its power was immense. Even if Hua Tiandu used the Gui Water Divine Thunder from the Myriad Waters Divine Incantation, he might not be as powerful as this water ape.
Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! …
Right when Fang Han was besieging this Immemorial Water Ape, in the distance, a streak of firelight soared to the sky, and another ferocious ape unexpectedly appeared. This ape had flames burning endlessly all over its body, and also held a giant fire cudgel in its hand, its ferocious might even surpassing the Immemorial Water Ape. Seeing the water ape under siege, it waved its giant fire cudgel, and a bolt of firelight like a waterfall flew over, transforming into a fire dragon that spat out clusters of Bing Fire Divine Thunder from its mouth, detonating around Fang Han and the three major Dao Artifacts.
Those clusters of Bing Fire Divine Thunder were each the size of a bushel basket; they were clusters of spherical flames, and upon detonating, loud tremendous thundercrashes rang out; just the sound waves alone could collapse a house.
"Not good!"
Fang Han had actually not expected that there was unexpectedly an even more formidable fire ape.
Against one water ape, he was confident he could besiege and refine it, but two of them were too strenuous. He might even be injured himself; one must know, this kind of divine beast could simply rival a cultivator at the eighth layer of the Divine Ability realm, and had absolutely no physical body concerns. Gathering and then scattering, scattering and then gathering, it was equivalent to half an Undying Body. The two divine abilities of water and fire had an incomparably immense power.
Moreover, Fang Han could sense that these two apes, one water and one fire, seemed to be husband and wife! By joining forces like this, with water and fire sharing the same origin, the power was even greater.
The fire ape was male, and the water ape was female.
Rumble! Rumble rumble!
The Bing Fire Divine Thunders exploded continuously, forcing the three major Dao Artifacts, Fang Han, and Xingyun Baobao to divide their attention to resist. The three major Dao Artifacts were still somewhat fine, but Xingyun Baobao and Fang Han had to protect their physical bodies; if their physical bodies took a single hit from the Bing Fire Divine Thunder, just one hit, they would inevitably be smashed to pieces.
Before cultivation reached the ninth layer of the Divine Ability realm, the "Heaven and Earth Dharma Idol", one absolutely must not lose their physical body; once lost, it would mean absolute death.
"What should we do? Against the two apes, we can at most fight to a draw; wanting to annihilate them is simply impossible."
"Such an opportunity cannot be missed! We must do it even if we have to risk our lives! These two apes, one water and one fire. If I can refine and kill them, I can immediately cultivate the Water Emperor Fist and Fire Emperor Qi to grand completion; if we miss this opportunity, where will we go looking for them? Furthermore, the deeper we go into the Land of the Five Elements, the more formidable the monsters become; if things like the Vermillion Bird and Black Tortoise come out, we will be even more unable to kill them!"
"That is also true; let us tangle in combat for a while, and then look for an opportunity."
Fang Han's spirit immediately communicated with the three major Dao Artifacts and Xingyun Baobao.
"Swoosh!"
That fire ape transformed into a streak of firelight and flew over; wherever it passed, Bing Fire Divine Thunders flew wildly, its momentum fierce to the extreme. Fang Han immediately gave way, allowing it to converge together with the water ape.
"Mortal cultivators, you are courting death!"
The moment the fire ape and the water ape converged together, water and fire instantly blended, faintly vibrating an imposing aura, their ferocious flames monstrous. The two great apes looked at Fang Han's group, killer intent enveloping over.
"Do you think that because you two joined forces, I cannot kill you?" Fang Han stared at these two great apes, his gaze gloomy, traces of chilling air bursting out, making people shudder.
"Mortal cultivator! You actually possess Dao Artifacts on your body, and three of them! This truly surprises me. To be able to arrive deep within this Land of the Five Elements, I view your abilities very highly. However, for us, this might not necessarily not be a good thing! By seizing your Dao Artifacts, our cultivation power will greatly increase, and then we can swallow the Black Tortoise, Vermillion Bird, and other divine beasts hidden even deeper, enhancing our strength so we can break free from the Land of the Five Elements. Mortal cultivators, you want to kill me, but I want to kill you even more!"
That giant flame ape also laughed sinisterly.