To deal with Meng Shaobai, Fang Han naturally would not detonate the Golden Core, but he could use the Golden Core to execute the tactic of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, frightening Meng Shaobai to make him caught in a dilemma.
Sure enough, upon seeing the Golden Core and hearing the word "Detonate" coming from it, Meng Shaobai immediately retreated, his rhythm thrown into disarray. Fang Han caught a trace of an opening, and the two major supreme grade treasure artifacts with extremely powerful killing force, "Falling Star Bow" and "Star-Shooting Arrow," instantly struck, shooting to kill at his mind, intending to succeed in one strike and eliminate future troubles.
The insidiousness of the strike, the ruthlessness of the action, and the cunning application of strategy in an instant even gave a jump of fright to the three observing giants of ten thousand ages at the Longevity Realm. No one expected Fang Han to employ his tactics so ingeniously during combat, reaching the absolute pinnacle of brilliance. If it were a closely matched expert, this single move would send them immediately into a death-bound situation.
The penetrative power of the Star-Shooting Arrow was boundlessly strong, and by condensing limitless stellar power, once the arrow was shot to kill, it locked onto the opponent's aura and soul, stopping only at death. Experts at the Golden Core level and above would find it very hard to escape.
Now Meng Shaobai was caught in such a situation.
The "Star-Shooting Arrow" had arrived within a three-foot distance of his body! It was almost going to penetrate into his mind.
"Hmph!" Yet there was not the slightest appearance of shock on Meng Shaobai's face. At this moment, he entered a state where his heart was like still water. The aura on his body abruptly shrank inward, like a Kunpeng sucking water. The heaven and earth source energy collapsed once again, and the wind cut space into fragmented pieces. Swoosh! The Star-Shooting Arrow was actually sucked into his stomach.
"Eh?"
Fang Han stirred slightly. He had long since refined the "Falling Star Bow" and "Star-Shooting Arrow," and had a subtle connection with both treasures. Now that it was swallowed into Meng Shaobai's stomach all at once, he instantly felt that his Star-Shooting Arrow seemed to have entered an inexplicably chaotic space, unable to fly to the end no matter what. Furthermore, a lot of bizarre source energy around it seemed eager to digest the spiritual imprint he had left in the Star-Shooting Arrow.
That is right, digestion.
By executing the Demon Fetus Parasitic Art to parasitize the Kunpeng, Meng Shaobai inherently possessed the Kunpeng's life characteristics. The ancient Kunpeng swallowed stars, and its inner body was a stretch of endless chaos, capable of digesting all matter. Although Meng Shaobai was far from achieving the level of swallowing stars, he could leverage this trait to envelop and refine the magical treasure attacking him using his own "Kunpeng Primal Spirit" Dharma Idol.
"The Kunpeng's life characteristics are formidable indeed. Although I calculated this early on, only now do I experience the trait of the Kunpeng source energy devouring everything and digesting everything. But wanting to refine my Star-Shooting Arrow is still a bit too early!"
Fang Han sneered coldly in his heart.
"You think to shoot and kill me with a single supreme grade treasure artifact? You underestimate me too greatly!" After Meng Shaobai swallowed the Star-Shooting Arrow in one gulp, his body disappeared again. In the next moment, a sword was clinging close to Fang Han's side, thrusting in to kill.
The momentum was like rushing thunder, and the sword energy was like a cold moon, eerily freezing, as austere as winter, drawing away all vitality within heaven and earth. The endless heaven and earth source energy collapsed inward. Under this sword strike, those without high skill would even be directly sucked onto the tip of the sword.
However, just as the sword energy approached within three zhang around Fang Han, a five-colored canopy suddenly rose above Fang Han's head, like the canopy over an emperor traveling.
This five-colored canopy radiated brilliant light, surrounded by auspicious vapors and propitious clouds. Within it, there were faintly sounds of thunder and glittering lightning sparks. The moment it rose up, a massive force pushed outward. Meng Shaobai's sword actually met tremendous resistance and was blocked three zhang away, unable to pierce it.
"Such powerful force! Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability! Holding up to its name as a supreme-level divine ability capable of rivaling Doomsday Natural Disasters."
Seeing the five-colored canopy appear and actually prevent Meng Shaobai's sword from piercing in, the three giants of ten thousand ages—Ruyizi, the Heavenly Punishment Elder, and Jiang Rourou—all felt a shake in their minds, secretly analyzing the might of the Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability.
"Meng Shaobai, this canopy of mine was cultivated by absorbing a Vermilion Bird, a White Tiger, a Huang Snake, a Water Ape, and a Black Tortoise. It is invulnerable to all methods and unbreakable by all evils! Of course, if you self-detonate your Kunpeng Primal Spirit, you might just break through it, but that depends on whether you are willing to sacrifice your life."
Seeing the tip of Meng Shaobai's sword thrusting against the light shield emitted by his canopy, the force surging as the surrounding air continuously exploded, and clusters of air currents detonating, yet still unable to break the canopy, Fang Han laughed heartily. With a throw of his wide sleeve, several seemingly unremarkable purple lights the size of grapes suddenly flew toward Meng Shaobai.
These were the Purple Light Thunderbolt Spheres that Fang Han obtained using the Gates of Avici when he killed Song Weiyi that day, now being used to blast Meng Shaobai to death!
"Purple Light Thunderbolt Sphere!"
Meng Shaobai knew its worth. Seeing these grape-sized purple lights, his whole body shook. He knew they were divine thunder magical treasures of the Taiyi Sect. Although they were single-use, their explosive power was immense. Once tainted by it, purple fire would burn the body, posing enormous trouble.
"Swoosh!"
His body disappeared once more, fleeing at an unexcelled speed. The air between heaven and earth was cut into clusters by him, exploding like thunder. Countless air explosion thunders blasted around Fang Han's canopy.
"Fang Han, you think by wearing a tortoise shell I can do nothing to you? I will trap you in this storm lightning and let you enjoy endless assaults of storm lightning!"
Meng Shaobai's body flickered uncertainly, appearing in the west one moment and in the east the next; his shadows were everywhere within heaven and earth.
And with every flap of the six wings behind him, a storm gathered into form, turning into an air explosion shockwave. It sounded like a massive peal of thunder, vibrating so much that even heaven and earth swayed.
The speed at which he flapped his wings was incredibly fast. In the span of a single blink, it was hundreds, even up to a thousand times. In an instant, billions of storm thunders were already continuously blasting on Fang Han's canopy.
In terms of speed, no one could surpass Meng Shaobai, who had fused with the life characteristics of the Kunpeng.
Once the canopy condensed from Fang Han's Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability was enacted, there was indeed nothing that could forcefully break through it, not even a low grade Dao artifact! A Golden Core detonation might just blast open a gap, and experts of the Longevity Realm would still need to trap him first and refine him with powerful means for half an hour.
However, relying on speed, combined with the endless source energy of the Kunpeng Primal Spirit, Meng Shaobai flapped his wings, cutting the air currents to form "storm lightning" that directly besieged Fang Han.
Protected by the Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability, Fang Han had a tortoise shell invulnerable to all evils, standing in an invincible position.
And Meng Shaobai likewise stood in an invincible position, because with his speed, it was impossible for Fang Han to attack him. Fang Han could not even lock onto his position at all; his speed now was even faster than Golden Core level experts executing the Instant Kill Great Art.
Tens of millions of storm divine thunders exploded, but they were all forced back and melted by the brilliant light on the five-colored canopy. The five-colored canopy seemed to possess a wind-calming function; no matter how fierce the storms were, entering the five-colored brilliant light, they dissipated into nothingness.
The canopy condensed by the Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability was originally incomparably formidable to begin with, not to mention that Fang Han had consumed a "Lightning Bone Sarira" ten days ago, merging the medicinal power into the divine ability, making the might of that Five Elements Divine Thunder even greater.
"Now for these two, victory and defeat are hard to separate. One has the speed of lightning and ghosts, the other is invulnerable to all methods." The Heavenly Punishment Elder watched this scene and nodded slightly.
"That might not be certain. This child Fang Han has an endless stream of secretive tricks. I fear he still has some new schemes." Jiang Rourou said.
"Meng Shaobai's magic power is long-lasting, and his Kunpeng Primal Spirit is exquisite; being evenly matched, they are competing on whose breath is longer drawn." Ruyizi said with cold gloom: "In my view, Fang Han is the one to face defeat this time. After all, Meng Shaobai is three full realms higher than him! A difference of a full three realms is not something divine abilities and magical treasures can make up for. Even against a Heaven-Defying Fate Alteration figure at the tenth layer of the Divine Ability realm, the current Meng Shaobai would not fall into a disadvantage."
"Hmph! Swallowed my Star-Shooting Arrow and thinking of refining it? How could it be that easy? It exactly allows me to locate your position. You think the Star-Shooting Arrow is so easily swallowed?"
At this time, Fang Han's eyes were utterly clear, and his mind suddenly locked onto Meng Shaobai's position. It turned out that Meng Shaobai swallowing the Star-Shooting Arrow gave Fang Han a subtle connection with his primal spirit. What kind of cultivation did Fang Han possess? He immediately could use this subtle connection to seize an opportunity.
In truth, this was exactly a scheme Fang Han had designed early on. First threatening with the detonation of the Golden Core, then striking to kill with the Star-Shooting Arrow, forcing Meng Shaobai to have no choice but to execute the Kunpeng Primal Spirit to swallow the magical treasure. This allowed him to pinpoint Meng Shaobai's position at every single moment.
Having successfully cultivated the Kunpeng Primal Spirit, Meng Shaobai's speed was unexcelled, making it impossible for any attack to lock onto his position. How could Fang Han not know this? He had already calculated it within his heart long ago.
"Heaven-Covering Demon Hand! Capture for me!"
With a sway of his body, a giant hand palm flew out from his left hand. It was precisely the "Heaven-Covering Demon Hand," carrying pitch-black demonic flames, topped with five-colored brilliant light, and even slivers of thunder. The moment it flew out, it instantly swept aside a vast swath of the surrounding storm lightning. It directly grabbed toward the depths of a certain air current vortex.
The Heaven-Covering Demon Hand was already extremely formidable. Especially at the instant Fang Han successfully cultivated the Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability, the intense five elements source energy had tempered this demonic hand once more, making its quality stronger and its speed faster.
And ten days ago, the medicinal properties of the Lightning Bone Sarira had also permeated into the bones of the demonic hand, turning the bones of the demonic hand into lightning bones. With a single wave, it flew and sped like a thunderclap and lightning.
"Bang!"
With a single grab, the Heaven-Covering Demon Hand directly crushed that air current vortex until it exploded, revealing the shadow of Meng Shaobai inside.
At this moment, Fang Han found Meng Shaobai's true form. With a grab of the Heaven-Covering Demon Hand, mountains, rocks, plants, and trees were to turn into black flying ash; all surrounding air currents stagnated, as if space itself had been frozen.
"Sword energy without life snatches heaven's fate…" Seeing the demonic hand flying over and enveloping down to cover the sky and earth, Meng Shaobai flapped his six wings again. Wrapped within the Lifeless Sword in his hand, sword and body united into one, transforming into a long rainbow sword dragon. It actually somewhat resembled the sword dragon formed by dozens of experts of the Three Great Sword Sects. With a single strike, it knocked the demonic hand away and bombarded toward Fang Han.
"Bang!"
The sword dragon that Meng Shaobai transformed into carried endless power. With a single bombardment onto Fang Han's Five Emperors Great Demon Divine Ability canopy, the canopy trembled. Although it could not possibly be broken open, the source energy vibrated intensely.