Coming out of the "Yuhua Heavenly Palace", Fang Han did not return to Reincarnation Peak to cultivate, but instead swaggered back into the "Mountain and River Courtyard" to watch the results of the "Mountain and River List" competition.
His return to the "Mountain and River Courtyard" immediately caused a sensation once again.
"Fang Han has actually returned!"
"How could he be fine? Swaggering like this! Could it be that even a giant of the ages, Elder Ruyi, can do nothing to him? It seems the Sect Master Supreme looks upon him with special favor!"
"I'm afraid the top ten of this Mountain and River List competition will really be completely monopolized and controlled by the people in his hands. Look at his fierce and malicious appearance; if we go and snatch them, I'm afraid we'll also be crippled by him. What a pity, it's the Yin Yang Ten Thousand Life Pill! A miraculous elixir capable of increasing lifespan by six hundred years, something even Golden Core little giant experts dream of."
"Despicable! This Fang Han is simply too domineering!"
"There's no other way. When under someone's roof, one has to bow their head. If we curry favor with Fang Han, there will definitely be benefits." Some inner sect disciples and outer sect disciples were all discussing spiritedly. Among them, there was no shortage of royal descendants from various countries, and expert scions from hidden great families and large chambers of commerce in the secular world.
"What should we do this time? We have received the utmost cultivation from Senior Brother Tiandu, Senior Brother Wan Luo, and Senior Brother Ling Xiao. Senior Brother Tiandu even put our batch into a Dao artifact pill furnace to temper our muscles and bones, and fed us countless spiritual pills. Finally, those of us with good aptitude grasped magical power. Before leaving, Senior Brother Tiandu gave each of us a talisman to conceal our auras, so we could play the pig to eat the tiger. Senior Brother Wan Luo and Senior Brother Ling Xiao also instructed us that we must snatch a Yin Yang Ten Thousand Life Pill and give it to them. Now, if we make a move, I'm afraid we will also be crippled by Fang Han."
In a dark corner, three or four inconspicuous disciples were greatly shocked upon seeing Fang Han return, and then their complexions became extremely ugly.
These three or four people were on good terms with Hua Tiandu, Wan Luo, and Ling Xiao, and were even single-handedly cultivated by them.
"Fang Han suppresses dissidents and eliminates obstacles with hair-raising methods. If we make a move, he will truly cripple us just like he crippled Fang Man, Fang Rui, and Fang Lie." A young man wearing green clothes spoke fiercely in a low voice.
"Hateful, I originally wanted to undo the seal! Wielding the Polo Saber bestowed upon me by Senior Brother Tiandu, I would sweep the spot. Snatching a Yin Yang Ten Thousand Life Pill would be no problem. At this point, it is definitely impossible." The one speaking was an inner sect disciple wearing a jade crown.
"Then what do we do? Senior Brother Wan Luo is still waiting for us to send him the Yin Yang Ten Thousand Life Pill after we snatch it."
"With the current situation, Fang Han is glaring at us like a tiger watching its prey; how can we snatch it? Senior Brother Wan Luo also won't step forward. If Senior Brother Tiandu returned from the Taiyi Sect at this time, he could still suppress Fang Han. Otherwise, if we jump out now, there is only a path to death."
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Fang Han had long seen these people discussing in the dark corner into his eyes: "Hehe, do you think I don't know that Hua Tiandu selected over a hundred people from the inner sect disciples this year to enhance their strength? To think that even with a Dao artifact-level pill furnace, only four Mystic Realm cultivators emerged. How could that compare to the marvel of my Mystic Fruit! You four have auras sealed by spiritual talismans on your bodies, preparing to play the pig to eat the tiger. With me watching over here, let's see how you pretend!"
He sneered continuously in his heart.
In this iteration of the Mountain and River List competition, his methods could be described as turning clouds and flipping rain. First, he directly crippled three Mystic Realm disciples, then he even tried to capture Grand Elder Jin Rilie in one fell swoop. Finally, alarming Elder Tianxing, he actually walked away completely fine. And even more formidable was that when Ruyi Zi, one of the giants of the ages, came to obstruct him, he did not succeed, but instead allowed Fang Han to directly elevate three Mystic Realm experts.
In the end, this matter escalated to seeing the Sect Master. Everyone thought that Fang Han would definitely have a hard time dealing with the aftermath this time, but they never expected him to come out swaggering! Looking as if he didn't care at all!
Seeing this, many elders, true inheritance disciples, inner sect disciples, and outer sect disciples were all greatly shocked.
To cause such a disturbance and still be fine, just how strong was Fang Han's force?
Even if Hua Tiandu caused such a disturbance at the Mountain and River List competition, he would probably be locked up in the Immortal Prison.
"Hmph!" Fang Han coldly swept a glance over the entire venue. Immediately, the hundreds of thousands of disciples present all quieted down, not even daring to breathe loudly, for fear that if he found someone displeasing to the eye, he would go directly up and cripple them too. However, the disciples who were on good terms with Fang Han, especially the female disciples of the Jialan Society, were all jubilant and high-spirited.
What is called majesty?
This is called majesty, this is called holding the great power in hand.
Seeing the reaction of many disciples present, Fang Han felt extremely refreshed in his heart.
When Fang Han initially entered the Mountain and River Courtyard, scanning with his gaze, he actually discovered that there were a few disciples hiding their depths, who had unexpectedly also cultivated to the "Mystic Realm"! Moreover, they had faint auras of powerful magic treasures on their bodies, clearly coming for the rewards of the Mountain and River List.
Originally, under normal circumstances, even with a massive base of hundreds of thousands of disciples, even if these disciples were all top-tier figures in the secular world, some even being martial arts grandmasters famous in their youth, cultivating to the "Mystic Realm" was still extremely difficult, not even one in ten thousand. Therefore, the number of disciples advancing to the "Mystic Realm" each year was absolutely not many; one or two was normal.
But this year was different!
Because this year, the sect issued a large number of medicinal pill rewards, and Fang Han also distributed a massive amount of Origin Infant Pills. Furthermore, to counter Fang Han, Hua Tiandu spared no expense to cultivate a batch of disciples, rewarding them with large handfuls of spiritual medicines like the "Jiazi Divine Pill". Because of these three aspects, the outstanding individuals among the Yuhua Sect disciples were catalyzed to emerge.
Of course, the generous prizes of the Mountain and River List competition inspiring some disciples to cultivate desperately was also an important reason.
Zzzt zzzt zzzt!
A purple lightning saber phantom slashed down, instantly cutting apart a disciple's flying sword and landing on this inner sect disciple's head, spinning non-stop.
"Senior Sister Hongyi, I concede. To think that Senior Sister actually cultivated the true qi of the Purple Lightning Yin Thunder Saber." This inner sect disciple hastily conceded. Princess Hongyi withdrew the saber light, standing on the spot, having already won.
Without a doubt, besides Fang Han monopolizing and controlling the whole Mountain and River List competition, manipulating everything off the arena, and displaying the posture of holding great power, among the disciples within the arena, the one who stood out the most was "Princess Hongyi". After cultivating to the Mystic Realm, under Fang Qingxue's infusion, she cultivated the Purple Lightning Yin Thunder Saber and actually elevated directly to the True Qi Realm of the second layer of the Mystic Realm.
In truth, upon reaching the Mystic Realm, for the first three layers, as long as one had sufficient resources, it was still very easy to cultivate and improve.
Back when Fang Han obtained the "Heavenly Wood Divine Needle", he cultivated an immensely difficult magical power like the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art into true qi in just three months. And the Purple Lightning Yin Thunder Saber was much easier to cultivate than the Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Art. As long as one had ample power of lightning and thunder, as well as an ore called Purple Gold Primary Magnet, it could be easily cultivated.
The Purple Gold Primary Magnet ore inherently had excellent communication with the power of lightning and thunder. Cultivators extracting its aura to hook the heavenly lightning and condense it into a thunder-lightning saber phantom had an excellent effect for killing enemies, self-defense, and tempering the body. It was extremely domineering and exceedingly fierce. However, when drawing the power of heaven and earth's lightning, one had to be particularly careful; otherwise, if unsuccessful, one would be struck to death by lightning.
Therefore, it was extremely rare among cultivators.
However, Fang Qingxue possessed the Undying Lightning Talisman and could manipulate lightning to a microscopic level, making it convenient to cultivate.
"Senior Sister He, I also concede!"
On an arena stage, Fairy He grabbed out, and magical power formed streaks of crane shadows, directly grabbing a disciple into the air. That disciple's flying sword and spirit artifact had no effect at all, and he hastily conceded.
Fairy He had now transformed into a human. Although she had not cultivated true qi, her entire body's magical power was extremely vigorous, practically not far off from the "Black Water King Snake" Fang Han encountered back then.
It was originally extremely difficult for demons to transform into humans, but once transformed, the benefits were also extremely numerous. Their magical power was much stronger than humans'.
Fairy He's foundation was also solidly laid. It was unknown just how many miraculous elixirs she had eaten from Fang Han's hands. Furthermore, while underground, she had eaten blood pills refined by the White-Haired Flying Zombie, so she had a bit of Demon Emperor bloodline in her body.
"Heng heng!" As disciple after disciple was defeated by her hands, Fairy He acted like a child, humming happily.
A "Mountain and River List" competition proceeded continuously for thirty-six hours without any problems occurring in between. Under Fang Han's glaring "suppression", no one else caused trouble. Even those four disciples cultivated by Hua Tiandu behaved obediently, neither undoing the seals on their bodies nor displaying their Mystic Realm strength, but rather carefully staying outside the top ten.
Because Fang Han's gaze rested upon them, always sneering, causing them to be on tenterhooks, wishing they could withdraw from the competition.
Everything settled into dust.
In this Mountain and River List competition, Princess Hongyi took first place, Fairy He second, while Xu Yue'er was third, Ye Yu fourth, and another named Yan Xiaoyu was fifth. She was also someone Fang Han met on the heavenly demon battlefield that day. Upgraded to the Mystic Realm by the "Mystic Fruit" this time, she naturally swept the spot.
Five people monopolized the top five, and each person obtained a precious "Yin Yang Ten Thousand Life Pill" that even Golden Core experts desired. At the same time, they bagged the Treasure artifacts of the top five.
As for the subsequent five places, they were all disciples of the Jialan Society: Nan Beibei, Ai Wei, Zi Xuan, Yan Xiaoxing, and Lin Fengxi. This time, the top ten of the Mountain and River List were entirely monopolized by Fang Han's people.
The top ten on the Mountain and River List had the heaviest rewards, with the most Treasure artifacts and medicinal pills. Even the top ten places each received a magic treasure pouch refined from Void Crystal.
After the competition ended, Fang Han stood up, nodded in satisfaction, and returned to Reincarnation Peak.
Before long, several women of the Jialan Society also ascended Reincarnation Peak. The three leading women were "Xu Yue'er", "Ye Yu", and "Yan Xiaoyu", who had received massive benefits from Fang Han. They immediately came up to express their thanks, and at the same time, the three of them took out the "Yin Yang Ten Thousand Life Pills" they had obtained.
"Senior Brother Fang Han, you also lack this Yin Yang Ten Thousand Life Pill. We received your divine pills and cultivated magical power, and we are already satisfied. Therefore, we come to present these three medicinal pills to you, Senior Brother."
Xu Yue'er spoke first.