Right now, Fang Han's body was truly wiped completely clean, with absolutely nothing left. He could be called a total pauper. The Eight Divisions Pagoda had already merged into one with the spiritual talisman of the Five Elements Land, and absolutely could not be given away. And all the magical treasures and pills seized from the dragon palace had also been completely exhausted. The vital energy accumulated by the World Tree every day also had to be transformed into his own magic power. He could not refine Nascent Soul Pills.
He now had five seas of consciousness, so how much magic power could he accommodate?
Especially since his Golden Core contained ninety supernatural powers. Every time the Golden Core operated, an incomparably massive amount of magic power had to be consumed. Without the support of the Immortal Realm vital energy from the World Tree, it could not be operated at all.
If he gave his Golden Core to others right now, experts like the Ghost Emperor or Black Phantom King, operating it just once would completely exhaust all their magic power. They would be exhausted, unable to move at all.
A Golden Core with ninety supernatural powers was equivalent to a mountain!
Even an expert at the tenth level of the Supernatural Power Secret Realm, Defying the Heavens and Changing Fate, could not use it more than a few times.
Therefore, the Immortal Realm vital energy Fang Han extracted every day had to be stored within his seas of consciousness to serve as the power to operate his Golden Core's supernatural powers. The Immortal Realm vital energy that he consumed each time he operated the Golden Core was enough to refine ten thousand Nascent Soul Pills!
The vital energy of ten thousand Nascent Soul Pills was only enough for Fang Han to operate the Golden Core slightly. Who could afford such consumption? This kind of supernatural power could only be utilized by eternal giants of the Longevity Secret Realm.
If he did not have the World Tree to draw Immortal Realm vital energy, even if Fang Han cultivated a Golden Core of ninety supernatural powers, he would not be able to run it, and it would instead be a burden.
A Golden Core of ninety supernatural powers was inherently an act of defying the heavens in the first place.
The current situation was exactly like this. The Immortal Realm vital energy drawn by the World Tree every day could no longer be used to refine Nascent Soul Pills; it could only be stored as the power to urge his own Golden Core. Hence, right now Fang Han had essentially lost the ability to "rake in heaps of gold daily." Never again could he casually bring out a million pills or a billion pills to make friends or buy and sell things in an instant.
Being powerful also had a price.
Just like martial arts experts in the secular world; although their abilities were formidable, they also had to eat and drink well every day.
If Fang Han did not have the World Tree and wanted to urge the Golden Core, there was no telling how many magic crystal jades he would have to prepare. With every single movement, the consumed magic crystal jades would be enough to bankrupt an expert in the Heaven and Earth Realm, the fifth level of supernatural powers.
Fang Han's total assets right now consisted of the Yellow Springs Diagram, a demonic saber Blood Firmament, and the Eight Divisions Pagoda formed by the Five Elements Land spiritual talisman and the eight Dragon Palace supreme treasures and the Blood Dragon Crystal mountain peak. Although on the mountain peak of the Feathered Transformation Sect, there were some mountain-protecting great arrays, such as the Moon Deriving Sword Array, the Giant Spirit Flag, the Five Hells King Cauldron, as well as the Shooting Star Arrow and a Falling Star Bow. But those were all meant to guard against the invasion of the God Race in the future, currently being controlled by the Demoness.
None of these could be given away.
Arriving at the Linglong Blessed Land, simply bringing out a Golden Core as a birthday gift would be too shabby.
"Poor! Poor! To think that I, Fang Han, have cultivated a Great Golden Core of ninety supernatural powers, with magic power approaching a hundred million, yet I have turned into a pauper. If I could just find another large fragment of the World Tree, that would be great!"
What Fang Han needed most urgently now was to find another fragment of the "World Tree." If he had a vast amount of fragments and a vast amount of Immortal Realm vital energy, urging his Golden Core would be much more agile. Furthermore, he would be able to spare excess spiritual energy to refine pills.
Why couldn't experts of the Longevity Secret Realm refine pills despite being able to draw Immortal Realm vital energy? It was simply because the drawn Immortal Realm vital energy was just enough to supply their consumption for cultivation.
Now Fang Han had also encountered this kind of awkward situation.
Just barely enough to use.
"How about this? Why don't we simply go to the Five Elements Land right now and capture a few Black Turtles, Soaring Snakes, Vermilion Birds… bring them back and give them away as gifts?" Yan suggested.
"Forget it, the existences in the Five Elements Land are not the benevolent sort either. I always feel that that ancient Demon Venerable is somewhat mysteriously bizarre, and moreover, the Taiyi Sect is coveting the Five Elements Land like a tiger watching its prey. An expert like Supreme Emperor Heaven almost killed me in the starry sky last time. Before rallying more experts to go to the Five Elements Land, I am unwilling to go lightly. You must know, I have now refined a Golden Core of ninety supernatural powers, so there is hope for the Longevity Secret Realm. If something goes wrong, all my efforts will be entirely in vain."
Fang Han shook his head.
With his current abilities, he did not want to be drawn into the struggles among the giants of the Longevity Secret Realm.
"Then what do we do now?"
"First, we will head to the Great Xuan Empire to find Prince Yi and see what gifts he has. This child has abundant financial resources; it's better to tap into his influence." Fang Han made up his mind in his heart.
Right at this moment, a streak of starlight suddenly descended; it was exactly the "giant infant"-like Star Cloud Baby.
"What is it? Star Cloud Baby? You have returned from the Tai Chi Star Palace. For paying birthday respects to Immortal Venerable Linglong this time, what gifts did the Star Lord give you?"
Fang Han asked.
"Just three hundred Starry Sky Law Gathering Pills, three hundred Starlight Beasts, three hundred Peerless Spiritual Artifact flying swords, and three hundred Peerless Spiritual Artifact magic robes. Nothing particularly good. My daddy said, Big Brother Fang Han, you are wealthy and imposing, so I will follow you to present gifts together," Star Cloud Baby said with a simple and honest voice.
"Follow me to present treasures? Right now I am so poor that I only have magic power left." Fang Han smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Your gifts aren't numerous either; I even wanted to freeload a tiny bit off you. But looking at it now, that won't work either. Right, how is Xing Miexie going to go?"
"He prepared gifts himself and has already departed for the Linglong Blessed Land. He definitely is unwilling to go pay respect with you together." Star Cloud Baby said: "Big Brother, for your gift, you want to present the Golden Core of a Taiyi Sect disciple. Who would go together with you and attract this kind of ruinous right-and-wrong trouble?"
"Let's go, we'll head to the Great Xuan Empire to see Prince Yi first and talk then."
With a wave of his large sleeve, Fang Han enveloped Star Cloud Baby and flew out of the Group of Stars Sect grotto-heaven.
This time, his harvest within the Group of Stars Sect grotto-heaven was immense. Not only did he cultivate into a Golden Core, but he also learned Buddhist methods. He even deepened his comprehension of the Dao of Stars, making the path for his future cultivation much clearer.
The only thing was, now he had absolutely nothing on him; he was a pauper.
Flying out of the Group of Stars Sect grotto-heaven, Fang Han traveled directly through the "Nine Heavens Astral Wind Layer," rather than descending to the ground. Typically, flying in the Nine Heavens Astral Wind Layer consumed an extreme amount of magic power, but this bit of astral wind was nothing to Fang Han. His passing through the astral wind layer was an attempt to find some Wind Giant Spirits, or encounter a flying sword left behind by a senior predecessor expert in the astral wind layer, subduing it to give as a gift.
"To think that I have actually been reduced to the state of gathering herbs and capturing spiritual beasts myself. If it were before, holding a billion pills, I would just go buy it directly. Or smash people with pills."
Being unable to spare Immortal Realm vital energy to condense Nascent Soul Pills all at once, Fang Han was truly somewhat unaccustomed. Having gotten used to spending lavishly in the past, days of being tight on money right now truly felt stifling.
Especially since heading to the Linglong Blessed Land next was a place to spend massively.
The outside world all rumored that Fang Han's wealth could rival a sect. But upon arriving at the Linglong Blessed Land, for all the female disciples to see his poverty to the point of being unable to bring out anything, that would also be a huge embarrassment, let alone making friends all around.
However, although the Nine Heavens Astral Wind Layer was gigantic and boundless, any valuable "Wind Giant Spirits" had long been collected by some superior masters. Fang Han, however, had no good luck and did not run into a single one.
Let alone a flying sword left behind by a senior predecessor.
Since refining his Golden Core, Fang Han felt that his luck seemed to have been exhausted.
The Linglong Blessed Land was rumored to be situated far overseas. Across multitudinous oceans, deep at the very end, were countless immortal mountains and jade pools. Deep within the shifting dimensions, this female sect capable of contending with the Taiyi Sect was hidden inside. Immortal Venerable Linglong, as the number one person in three thousand years, possessing magic power far more profound and formidable than Feng Baiyu and the Star Lord, traversed all heavenly realms and myriad worlds, creating her own supreme supernatural power, the Linglong Great Luo Heaven, titled Great Luo.
Great Luo meant being eternally free and unhindered in all times and spaces.
This was no longer a realm within the Longevity Secret Realm, but the realm of immortals in the Immortal Realm.
Fang Han had studied the supernatural power of the Linglong Great Luo Heaven; it was indeed unfathomably profound, not even beneath the "Book of the Boundless Stars" and the "Five Emperors Great Demon Supernatural Power." However, the "Linglong Great Luo Heaven" cultivated by Fire Cloud Fairy was also incomplete, seeming to only be less than half of it. Although a Golden Core expert was a little giant, it was impossible for them to be taught all of this kind of supreme supernatural power at once.
The profound depths of this type of supreme supernatural power required reaching the Longevity Secret Realm to be comprehended.
The "Five Emperors Great Demon Supernatural Power" cultivated by Fang Han was the same. Upon cultivating to the extremely high levels of the Longevity Secret Realm, one could even emulate the almighty beings of the ancient Buddhist sect, evolving five-element spiritual roots to suppress a Demon Venerable, and even evolve a piece of heaven and earth to open up a world.
The Nine Heavens Astral Wind tore and roared beside him, crying like ghosts and howling like gods, becoming increasingly ferocious.
But Fang Han didn't care in the slightest. With a glance, he could even peer through the astral wind layer to see the earth below and judge where he had flown to.
He was currently not heading to the Linglong Blessed Land, but rather to the Great Xuan Empire.
Just amidst this kind of flying, an accident suddenly occurred. A portion of the astral wind layer spanning hundreds of miles unexpectedly vanished without a trace. Subsequently, heavy fog permeated, mist and clouds lingered, and water vapor abounded. With Fang Han's abilities, he could not sense any magic power fluctuation at all.
It was incomparably quiet.
Amidst the surrounding mist and water, the sounds of singing birds and fragrant flowers emerged. Then, blossoms bloomed one upon another, and a river flowed among the clusters of flowers. Sunlight shone down from the void, refracting through the hazy mist and water to form a rainbow. In an instant, unknown to him who had used grand magic power to mold a world resembling a grotto-heaven and blessed land right within the Nine Heavens Astral Wind Layer. Mountains and oceans of flowers, the implication of happiness rippling everywhere.
"Who? Who is using grand magic power to put up an act to mystify things?"
As Fang Han went deep inside, he felt vastness all around, completely unable to see the Nine Heavens Astral Wind Layer or the earth; it was as if he had fallen into an illusionary realm of the void.
Needless to say, this was an extremely brilliant method setting up an ambush along the way to wait for him.
"Feathered Transformation Sect's Fang Han…"
Deep inside the mountains and oceans of flowers, abundant mist and water formed a hazy female silhouette. Truly like mist and like water, like a fairy treading on waves, like a water spirit within a river.
"Yan Shuiyi! The first true disciple of the Taiyi Sect, Hua Tiandu's fiancée!" Fang Han's pupils violently constricted: "You actually possess such a grand magic power. It's no wonder that even Xing Wuxue of the Longevity Secret Realm could not kill you."
"Hm? You can actually recognize me? No wonder you can contend with Hua Tiandu! Your magic power is actually this vast? How many supernatural powers did your Golden Core condense? Eighty types, ninety types?"
This woman formed of mist and water gradually became distinct, staring at Fang Han.