The "Demon Sacrifice Technique" was a Daoist technique within the demonic path involving self-mutilation to stimulate the body's potential and unleash maximum power. However, a cultivator's body was the most precious thing, related to the achievements of their lifelong cultivation. Once limbs were missing, there would forever be no hope of attaining the Great Dao.
If Fang Han were to sacrifice an arm, he could forget about cultivating into a Golden Core within a sixty-year cycle, because the vital energy depletion would be too severe.
But the current situation was truly critical. The "King of Dark Hell" would die if he did not self-mutilate. Without any other choice, he could only sacrifice a piece to save the whole, abandoning a part of his body to enhance the power of the "Dark Hell Primal Spirit" and escape first.
Sure enough, as an arm exploded into a rain of blood and merged into his Heaven and Earth Aspect, the "Dark Hell Primal Spirit," the power of this demon-like primal spirit immediately surged, expanding ten times over. With a horizontal and vertical tear of its pitch-black demonic claws, it instantly parried the "Panwu Divine Sword" and simultaneously resisted the devouring suction of the Great Wild Ancient Furnace. Subsequently, it flew back, merged as one with his body, and directly transformed into a black light, shattering the Dragon Palace crypt and flying away to escape.
"Hua Tiandu, the enmity between you and me for this life is sealed. You forced me to mutilate my own body. I will definitely grind your bones to dust to dispel the hatred in my heart."
With this escape, the "King of Dark Hell" truly became like a bird flying freely in the vast sky and a fish leaping in the boundless sea. In an instant, he disappeared into the horizon, his destination unknown.
"He actually mutilated his own body!" As a portion of Hua Tiandu's Heaven and Earth Aspect, the Panwu Primal Spirit, drilled out from underground and saw the King of Dark Hell fly away, his brows couldn't help but furrow deeply. This time, he surprisingly managed to gain nothing. Although the Heavenly Dragon skeleton, the Blood Dragon Crystal Peak, and the magic treasures in the dragon's lair weren't considered great items to him, they were still worth billions. Especially that Heavenly Dragon skeleton, which could be integrated into his own body to enhance his strength and possess dragon power, making it easier for him to break through to the Longevity Secret Realm.
"Great Wild Ancient Furnace, collect this Dragon Palace for me!" Hua Tiandu did not chase after the King of Dark Hell either. Instead, he sprayed a mouthful of vital energy onto the Great Wild Ancient Furnace. Instantly, this Dragon Palace trembled violently. The palace blended from the essence of the five metals and the essence of water surprisingly began to shrink gradually, and finally, it was entirely loaded in by the Great Wild Ancient Furnace in one gulp!
The entire Dragon Palace was surprisingly stored inside a pill furnace!
This was the power of a Dao artifact, especially a high-grade Dao artifact. It was even more powerful than the current Yellow Spring Diagram. At best, the current Yellow Spring Diagram's power was close to a mid-grade Dao artifact, far from being a match for the "Great Wild Ancient Furnace."
Within this crypt Dragon Palace, there were still some magic treasures left behind as soup by Fang Han, and the materials of the entire Dragon Palace were also extraordinary. Only cultivators of the Longevity Secret Realm would have the energy to refine such a luxurious item. Unable to find other magic treasures, Hua Tiandu could only collect the entire Dragon Palace all at once.
"Great Wild Ancient Furnace, follow me to pursue and kill that King of Dark Hell. This devil has crippled an arm and his vital energy is severely damaged; I must have him die by my hands."
Having collected the Dragon Palace in an instant, Hua Tiandu flew up, ascending into the mid-air. Gazing far into the distance, he suddenly sensed something and flew off into the distance.
"Fourth Brother! This Hua Tiandu took away the entire Dragon Lair Palace! We don't even have a drop of soup left to drink! Too vicious."
As soon as Hua Tiandu left, the sky-filling lake water immediately crashed back down, and the dragon's lair at the bottom of the lake collapsed at once. The land within a ten-mile radius caved deeply inward, and the sky filled with storms and water vapor, as if the end of the world had arrived. It was fully a long time later before it subsided. The center of this lake with a radius of a hundred miles had already changed its appearance, emptying out into a mass of ruins and mud. Where was there any of the spiritual energy that concealed dragons and crouching tigers left?
The Thirteenth Prince, "Prince Zhan," and the Fourth Prince, "Prince Yi," had left the area. Seeing the changes in the center of the lake from a distance, their faces turned ashen. Such immense mana was impossible for the two of them to achieve even if they joined forces. Even if they were ten times stronger, there would be no such possibility.
"Let's go! This Panlong Planet is the nest of Immemorial Heavenly Dragons. Aside from this place, there should be other hidden Dragon Palaces. We'll search everywhere. Even if we just find a dragon egg, this trip won't be in vain."
The Fourth Prince, Prince Yi, flew towards the distance.
Boom! An unknown distance away from here, amidst a primordial forest, the earth suddenly cracked open, ancient trees were uprooted violently, and a silhouette drilled out from underground. It was none other than Fang Han, who had successfully cultivated the Great Devouring Technique and shaken off Hua Tiandu's restraint.
"Hua Tiandu, despite your thousands of divine abilities, you still couldn't figure out my true identity! You let me take all the cheap advantages, and I even cultivated a peerless divine ability. Now my sea of consciousness has expanded by a full one hundred percent, and my amulet also possesses fifty-six divine abilities. Once it is refined into a Golden Core, it will be even more powerful. Let me first accumulate enough vital energy!"
Fang Han inspected his cultivation and was extremely satisfied in his heart.
A Natal Amulet floated and sank in his sea of consciousness. Fifty-six divine abilities circulated endlessly, especially the newly cultivated Great Devouring Technique, which condensed into a demonic formation, looking like a bloody maw, swallowing external vital energy in massive quantities, seeming capable of neutralizing any divine ability attack.
"I wonder if I were to fight Meng Shaobai now and use the Great Devouring Technique, would I swallow him in one gulp?" Fang Han said in his heart.
"Fang Han, I am now doing my utmost to fuse together with the Heavenly Dragon skeleton to manifest a true form. During this period, I cannot use the slightest bit of mana, otherwise it will ruin all my previous efforts. During this period, you will be in charge of the Yellow Spring Diagram." Yan's voice sounded quite strained.
Fang Han hurriedly sent his divine sense into the Yellow Spring Diagram. He saw that above the tumbling Yellow Spring River, a thousands-feet-long bone dragon was coiled around a Blood Dragon Crystal mountain peak, letting out heaven-shaking roars, the sound sweeping across the space of the Yellow Spring Diagram like thunder.
"The skeleton of the Immemorial Heavenly Dragon, its pure yang energy is thick. By forcibly occupying it, one can indeed evolve a true physical form. However, right now those bones lack vitality; I better lend you a hand." Seeing Yan in such difficulty, Fang Han's mind moved. He abruptly opened his mouth and spat out a large expanse of azure vital energy, transforming into a cloud of azure mist that rolled and scattered over the Blood Dragon Crystal peak, followed by falling raindrops.
As soon as this landed on the bone dragon that was "Yan," it instantly filled with powerful vitality, seeming as if it were spawning something like flesh and blood.
"Good, good, good, the Eastern Azure Emperor Wood Sovereign Astral Energy can condense a wood body for me, but I do not want to become an Azure Dragon!" Yan roared, and a massive amount of Yellow Spring Holy Water poured into its body. It was unknown what divine ability it was executing.
"Prince Yi, come out!" Spotting "Prince Yi," Fang Han hurriedly pulled him out of the Yellow Spring Diagram. At the same time, Baby Nebula also flew out from the Sun Moon Five Star Bracelet, along with that little fox demoness, who had been talking with Baby Nebula about an unknown topic. Surprisingly, they flew out together.
"That was too thrilling, this is simply snatching food from the tiger's mouth!" Although Prince Yi had vast experience and knowledge, he still couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, "I never expected you, Fang Han, to truly possess such immense mana, being able to snatch treasures right from the mouth of Hua Tiandu. However…"
"My harvest this time is not small. Besides the Immemorial Heavenly Dragon skeleton and that Blood Dragon Crystal peak, I also obtained a gourd of pills and eight powerful supreme-grade treasure artifacts. Naturally, there will be a share for you." Fang Han first took out the emerald-green small gourd of pills he had obtained. With a wave of his hand, he opened it, discovering there were nine pills inside. Each one presented an emerald-green color, looking fresh and dripping with greenness, wrapped in a layer of talisman clothing on the outside, and possessing powerful dragon breath inhaling and exhaling inside.
"Fang Han, these are Dragon God Pills. They are pills refined by Immemorial Heavenly Dragons to cleanse the marrow and replace the tendons of young dragons. Every single pill is extraordinary, no less than the Yin Yang Ten Thousand Life Pill, the Nine-Orifice Golden Pill, or the Lightning Bone Relic; they are Heaven-grade pills. Oh right, that manual in the mouth of the Immemorial Heavenly Dragon skeleton is one volume from the Dragon Race's ninety-nine volumes of the Heavenly Dragon Secret Manual, called the Artifact Refining Volume. It's not for cultivating divine abilities, but rather records the refining methods for many powerful magic treasures of the Dragon Race!"
Yan opened its mouth and spat, and a secret manual was spat out, landing in Fang Han's hand.
Fang Han opened it to take a look, his divine sense permeating inside. Indeed, it was a book specifically addressing artifact refining. It contained the refining methods for many powerful magic treasures.
"Heaven Splitting Halberd! Radiant King Axe! So, those two supreme-grade treasure artifacts, a square-sky painted halberd and a refined steel wheel-sized giant axe, are actually semi-finished products."
He had collected several magic treasures from the Dragon Palace, and the most domineering and fierce among them were a square-sky painted halberd and a refined steel wheel-sized giant axe. Only now, after glancing through the Artifact Refining Volume in this Heavenly Dragon Secret Manual, did he realize that the names of these two magic treasures meant they were merely semi-finished products, because if these two magic treasures were refined for another thousand years, they could become Dao artifacts.
The remaining coral rosary beads, small copper bell, ruler magic treasure, and large drum were also recorded in the Heavenly Dragon Secret Manual, all being semi-finished products. Yet they were also incredibly powerful and of immense value. Taken outside, they were goods worth hundreds of millions of pills. Golden Core experts would fight to snatch them.
However, Fang Han did not have the energy to completely refine these magic treasures one by one. Not to mention the delay in cultivation, he currently didn't even have the capability.
Only an existence at the level of the Supreme Emperor Heaven or the ancient Demon Venerable in the Land of the Five Elements would have the inclination to refine those magic treasures. Improving one's own cultivation was the right path.
"So many supreme-grade treasure artifacts…" The little fox demoness was so greedy her eyes were green with envy, wanting one piece, but it was hard for her to open her mouth and ask, so she had to stare at Baby Nebula, hoping to get one through Baby Nebula. But the baby ignored her, and instead took a "Dragon God Pill" from Fang Han's hand, dangling it in front of the little fox demoness: "Do you want it?"
"Give it to me." When the little fox demoness saw this Dragon God Pill, her pure eyes swiveled round and round, "I'll give you something fun to play with?"
"Hehe, you want it, but I just won't give it to you." Baby Nebula swallowed it in one gulp, chewing it with crunching sounds.
"You!" The little fox demoness stamped her foot, "Hmph!" She already knew that this Baby Nebula was not an ordinary baby either.
After eating the "Dragon God Pill," Baby Nebula's body expanded slightly. It seemed as if scales had grown on his giant infant-like skin. The fingernails also became abnormally sharp, like dragon claws, and with his inhalation and exhalation, he sprayed out powerful dragon breath, appearing like a newly hatched small dragon.
"This look is not pretty, I might as well refine it." Baby Nebula took a look, and the starlight flowing down from the top of his head soon completely refined all the scales on his body, returning him to a giant infant with delicate skin. However, the life essence of his entire body had risen another level.
Just then, Fang Han saw a long black rainbow flying towards his direction in the distance, "King of Dark Hell?"