"Ah, Senior Brother Zhou, the birthday gifts for Seventh Senior Brother we…" The five True Legacy Disciples were instantly startled, "We were delayed because of a certain matter…"
"What? You were actually delayed? Do you not know that this is the most glorious moment of Seventh Senior Brother's centennial birthday? Countless disciples of our Qunxing Sect are coming to offer congratulations. You went out for so long and didn't even bring back a single decent birthday gift; you are simply courting death." Smack, smack, smack, smack, smack! A palm condensed from starlight flew out. In an instant, it slapped the faces of these five True Legacy Disciples heavily five times: "You are truly a bunch of trash, my cultivating you all normally was all in vain. Mm? Who is outside?"
Flying out following this starlight palm was a middle-aged man wearing a feather garment and star crown. His body was tall and thin, his eyes were like a vulture's, and there was a slight murderous aura between his brows.
This middle-aged man was surprisingly an expert at the fifth layer of the Divine Ability Realm, the "Heaven and Earth Realm." An existence at the level of a True Person, roaming freely across a region; no wonder he was so imperious. With one look, Fang Han knew that the factionalism within the Qunxing Sect was much more severe than in the Ascension Sect. However, this was also an ordinary matter; every major sect had such situations.
"Zhou Hu, you are a truly annoying person. These junior brothers have been playing with me, yet you actually dared to hit them. I will slap you to death!" Baby Nebula wasn't having it. He suddenly flew out and launched a streak of starlight completely aimed at Zhou Hu's face.
"Mm? Baby Nebula?" Zhou Hu took a look and saw it was actually the Young Sect Master. But he was a "True Person" of the fifth layer of the Divine Ability Realm with an illustrious status; how could he let someone slap his face? Furthermore, he was Seventh Senior Brother's person. He was not of Baby Nebula's faction; he was someone who would support Seventh Senior Brother to ascend to the position of the Qunxing Sect's Headmaster in the future, so why would he care about Baby Nebula?
"Young Headmaster, it is better if you cultivate for a bit more time and raise your own mana before you come striving for supremacy and fighting ruthlessly. You are two or three realms apart from me; no matter what it is all in vain." Zhou Hu saw the starlight flying over, and another streak of starlight rushed up from within his body to resist it. He laughed loudly, but suddenly his expression changed as he felt the opponent's starlight pressure being as heavy as a mountain. "No, you have cultivated to the Heaven and Earth Realm, furthermore…"
Smack!
Before his voice even faded entirely, the starlight he emitted had already shattered, and then he took a solid slap to the face, being knocked sprawling onto the steps.
Baby Nebula originally cultivated the "Future Constellation Great Magic," a supreme divine ability, and had also comprehended the "Myriad Stars Limitless Book" divine ability together with Fang Han. He swallowed the "Yin Yang Ten Thousand Life Pill," had his body tempered by the Immortal Lightning Amulet, and then took the Nirvana Pill, fused with Zhao Xuanyi's twenty-six divine abilities, and furthermore consumed the Dragon God Pill. His cultivation had already terrified to an unimaginable degree. Now he could even contend against ordinary minor giants with Golden Cores at the seventh layer of the Divine Ability Realm. How could a mere Zhou Hu be his match?
"Pfft!" Zhou Hu spat out a mouthful of fresh blood mixed with several large teeth. He stared at Baby Nebula with a resentful and venomous gaze, yet he dared not strike back.
"Alright, go back and tell Seventh Senior Brother to say there's no need to hold the centennial birthday. Even the Golden Core expert minor giants of other sects don't have birthdays as exaggerated as his, actually requiring junior brothers under his command to go everywhere collecting gifts. If other sects see this, the joke will be huge." Baby Nebula clapped his hands and walked inside with Fang Han.
"Abominable!" Seeing Baby Nebula, Fang Han, and the five True Legacy Disciples all walk inside, Zhou Hu only then rolled over and climbed up. He discovered a group of outer sect disciples patrolling the mountain gate hiding far away, pointing at him, and he could not help but let out an angry roar. Subsequently, he said with sinister viciousness: "Baby Nebula, you wait. I can't do anything to you, but Seventh Senior Brother can do something to you!"
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At this time, Fang Han had already entered this immemorial meteorite. As soon as he stepped through the stone gate, he felt that the sky was broad and the earth was expansive, boundless and limitless. He had surprisingly seemingly arrived in another world. He only felt a fresh and peaceful aura assault his face. Excellent mountains and clear waters were entirely everywhere, flowing springs and flying waterfalls, precious herbs and strange flowers, and birds and beasts possessing spirituality. With countless heavenly materials and earthly treasures, it was truly a pure land detached from the mortal world.
On countless mountain peaks, many palaces were built.
There were also some depths within the void emitting powerful auras, seemingly cave heavens that had been opened up again by people with deep mana.
On the earth, there were also some cities and towns, in which the bustling crowds were surprisingly ordinary people. These ordinary people lived peacefully. They didn't need to plow fields or plant land. Every day they just went to the large temples in the cities to pray and worship, and then the Qunxing Sect disciples inside the temples would give them abundant food, clothes, and even all sorts of luxury goods to enjoy life.
Within this immemorial meteorite, the space was incomparably vast, surprisingly not inferior to a broad kingdom like the Great Li Dynasty.
"Big Brother Fang Han, there are tens of millions of ordinary people inside the mountain gate of our Qunxing Sect. They don't have to work as arduously as in the secular world; our Qunxing Sect will provide them with countless food and countless luxury goods for their enjoyment. The only thing they put forth is continuous praying. The more devout they pray, the stronger the power of this cave heaven of our Qunxing Sect becomes."
Baby Nebula saw Fang Han's surprised gaze and could not help but explain.
"Mm, I know of this." Fang Han used his spirit to sense, and discovered the power of the devout praying wishes of the tens of millions of people in the secular world below condensed into a vast spirit, pouring into the space, continuously tempering the immemorial great meteorite.
"This is a method of refining powerful magic treasures. It was also recorded in the Heavenly Dragon Secret Manual that to refine the Eight Sections Pagoda, one must collect hundreds of millions of living beings and have them devoutly worship inside the pagoda, gathering powerful power of vows for a thousand years, ten thousand years, to enable the treasure to transform." Fang Han thought in his heart: "I wonder if ordinary secular people are kept inside the Ascension Heavenly Palace of my Ascension Sect? Praying day by day?"
The power of vows was one of the most mysterious and vast powers between heaven and earth.
Fang Han suddenly recalled that within the Panwu Great Power Divine Ability, there were also methods to coalesce the power of vows of all sentient beings to cultivate the body and soul and to temper magic treasures. "No wonder Hua Tiandu's mana is so powerful, tearing the earth and uprooting mountains, wanting to kill whomever he pleases? Even when an expert Demon Emperor of the Longevity Secret Realm took action, he could do nothing to him. Could it be that inside his Great Wild Ancient Furnace, he has also converged some sentient beings who worship him day after day? Providing him with profound power of vows?"
"Fang Han, powerful magic treasures, in the end, all must condense the power of vows. Inside the Yellow Spring Diagram, the Yellow Spring Great Emperor once collected billions of living beings—there were humans, there were Heavenly Demons—opening up kingdoms within it. It took a full several thousand years to elevate the Yellow Spring Diagram to the level of a supreme-grade Dao artifact. The scale was much grander than the Qunxing Sect. However, later, when ascending to become an immortal, the power implicated the Yellow Spring Diagram, and all the living beings died."
Yan seemed to have anticipated Fang Han's thoughts and emitted mental fluctuations.
"The Three Sovereigns' Treasures, the Emperor's Mirror, the Earth Sovereign Book, and the Human Sovereign Pen, have all condensed the powerful power of vows of an unknown number of tens of thousands of people, over an unknown number of tens of thousands of years. Once you have the time, you should collect a few more living beings, move them into the Yellow Spring Diagram, provide for them, teach and preach the Dao to them, and they will purely pray for you. This is a worthwhile transaction. It is also the most powerful method for refining magic treasures and cultivating arts."
"Alright, I will talk about it when I have time. Collecting living beings, providing for them, and making them pray is an extremely troublesome matter. It requires careful management, just like farming land; it needs meticulous sowing."
Fang Han deeply knew the immense trouble involved.
"Ahead is where the central hub of our Qunxing Sect is located, called the Taiji Star Palace. Both my father and mother are cultivating inside it; let us go in together."
While flying, Baby Nebula pointed at a grand palace in the void ahead that was indistinctly visible and seemed entirely formed from the power of stars.
Fang Han did not fly straight in either, but raised the vital energy in his chest, exhaled and spoke, his voice ringing out: "Fang Han of the Ascension Sect, carrying the talisman decree of my sect's Headmaster Supreme, Immortal Venerable Feng Baiyu, has come to visit the Headmaster Immortal Venerable of the Qunxing Sect!"
"Hum…"
As soon as Fang Han made a sound, it was like the falling thunder of the nine heavens crashing directly down, and also like thousands of volcanoes erupting all together. Centered on him, the air currents in a thousand-mile radius rubbed against each other, surged, vibrated, overturning heaven and earth. Formless soundwaves spread out limitlessly into the distance. With this, he guaranteed that almost everyone in the Qunxing Sect could hear it.
His current mana was incredibly formidable. A very long time ago, he already possessed the power of one million galloping fiery steeds. Now, after multiple fortuitous encounters, cultivating to the Unity Realm, and condensing a Natal Amulet, his strength had long risen eight or nine times! He possessed almost the power of eight million galloping fiery steeds, and if it transformed into an illusory core, it could even directly reach ten million!
What kind of concept was the power of ten million galloping fiery steeds? There was no need to say much. It was simply equivalent to profound figures among the Heaven-Defying Fate-Changing powerhouses at the tenth layer of the Divine Ability Realm.
But Fang Han knew that Hua Tiandu's mana was much higher than he had imagined; uprooting mountains and tearing the earth, it was several times his own. Close to that of experts in the Longevity Secret Realm.
"Dang!"
Right at the moment before he exhaled and his voice resounded, the soundwaves radiating in all directions. Deep within this immemorial meteorite, on a mountain peak dense with flowers and vegetation, in a palace of magnificent presence, Zhou Hu, who had just been smacked flat onto the ground by a slap from Baby Nebula, was tearfully complaining to a giant sitting on a golden throne.
"Seventh Senior Brother, that Baby Nebula actually cultivated to the Heaven and Earth Realm! Furthermore, his strength is extremely formidable! Harboring multiple kinds of divine abilities, fully crushing my divine abilities without even using the Sun Moon Five Star Bracelet! I did not have the slightest bit of power to fight back!"
"Oh?" The one sitting on the golden throne was a young man, precisely one of the minor giants of the Qunxing Sect, Seventh Senior Brother! Boundless star power was contained within his body, and with a breath, patches of nebulas condensed above his head.
"What? Baby Nebula cultivated this fast? Reaching the fifth layer of the Divine Ability Realm, the Heaven and Earth Realm? No? Among the injuries on your body, there is the aura of a divine ability cultivated by a Golden Core expert!"
This young Seventh Senior Brother moved his fingers twice, suddenly grabbing in the air, and instantly a faint trace of aura from Zhou Hu's face was grabbed, entwining around his fingertip: "Great Sun Fire Calamity! This is one of the supreme divine abilities of the Taiyi Sect, and furthermore, this divine ability has already undergone transformation. Only a Golden Core expert can cultivate it. How could Baby Nebula possibly possess it? Could it be, could it be that he obtained the Golden Core of a Taiyi Sect Golden Core expert? Or did an elder of the Taiyi Sect impart a divine ability he painstakingly cultivated to him? This is impossible."