Yan Shuiyi also retreated. Seeing Fang Han recover his magic power within a breath, a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes. She stared intensely at the space between Fang Han's eyebrows, as if trying to see something out of it.
But how could she possibly tell it was a World Tree sapling?
Even the "Moving Star Elder" could not tell.
"You want my World Tree!" Fang Han's heart chilled, followed by three hearty laughs: "You truly are greedy enough. However, as long as you dual cultivate with me and let me use the Black Emperor Water Emperor Fist to absorb the water god primal spirit within your body, expanding my Five Emperors Great Demon Supernatural Power, I can also share this treasure with you."
The World Tree sapling was the most important treasure on his entire body. Even if he were to discard the Yellow Springs Diagram, he could not discard this thing. If he discarded it now, then when exchanging blows with someone and urging his Golden Core, his magic power would be exhausted within two or three bouts.
Of course, ordinary people could not withstand the power of his Golden Core. However, if he encountered an expert of the Longevity Secret Realm, or the presence of a High-grade Dao Artifact, without sufficient enduring combat strength, he would definitely be beaten to death, and clashing with Hua Tiandu would certainly result in a crushing defeat.
However, this was also because his realm was not high enough. If he also cultivated to the level of the tenth level of supernatural powers, Defying the Heavens and Changing Fate, his seas of consciousness would expand further. At that time, storing even more magic power, he could hold on for a very long time even without the World Tree.
"Since you are unwilling, I will come and take it myself."
Yan Shuiyi shook her head and lightly patted out another palm. Instantly, clouds and mist rose massively; vastness surrounded, and the heavens and earth turned gray.
With a palm strike from "Yan Shuiyi," clouds and mist surged abruptly, and heavy fog permeated, entirely losing all traces of her. When Fang Han swept with his divine intent, it actually could not penetrate the dense fog to lock onto the other party's form, causing him to be startled.
"Five Emperors Canopy, Immune to Myriad Evils!"
In this instant, he condensed the Five Emperors Great Demon Supernatural Power into a canopy, suspending it above his head. Sure enough, in the very moment he set up the defense, a terrifying tremendous force transmitted from behind, bombarding onto his body without any warning.
"Clang!"
This tremendous force shook the "Five Emperors Canopy" causing a burst of swaying and continuous spinning, but it did not shatter the defense.
Fang Han's Five Emperors Great Demon Supernatural Power was inherently formidable to an inconceivable degree. When transforming into the Golden Core, it uniquely advanced another step. If he could advance yet another step and undergo the Wind and Fire Great Tribulation, having his Five Elements Heavenly Aura tempered by the Wind and Fire Great Tribulation, then it would be truly formidable. Even the "Human Emperor's Pen" would probably have to draw over a hundred strokes to be able to slice through him and kill him.
Currently, the Human Emperor's Pen only needed dozens of strokes.
Whereas before refining the Golden Core, the Human Emperor's Pen only needed four strokes to put Fang Han to death.
"The Five Emperors Great Demon Supernatural Power is indeed worthy of being the highest supernatural power of the demonic dao. I actually cannot deal with you even with the Ocean Divine Pearl. It seems I must employ my natal Heaven and Earth Dharma Characteristic, the Natural Disaster Primal Spirit."
Yan Shuiyi walked out from the dense fog, strolling amidst the clouds. Wherever she walked, the heavy fog and clouds there transformed into a cloud path for her, while on both sides of the cloud path, there were constantly cloud dragons, cloud tigers, fairies in the clouds… worshiping her. She was a supreme god high up within the Nine Heavens, in the boundless heavens beyond heavens.
At this time, the Ocean Divine Pearl had already vanished, seemingly being taken back into her body, or perhaps hidden by her to launch a sneak attack on Fang Han.
As she spoke, a cluster of dark clouds rushed out from the top of her head. Within the dark clouds, there was frantic thunder and lightning, volcanic eruptions, an aura of the impending doomsday; entirely different from the peaceful serenity just moments ago.
"Doomsday Natural Disaster!"
Fang Han said in shock.
He had seen this supernatural power before; it was in the Five Elements Land, the highest supernatural power unleashed collectively by the twelve great Golden Core little giants of the Taiyi Sect, fully capable of rivaling the Five Emperors Great Demon Supernatural Power, the "Doomsday Natural Disaster."
Now, Yan Shuiyi actually displayed it all by herself. This was simply appalling! How massive a magic power must this require? How high a realm?
Furthermore, the Doomsday Natural Disaster displayed by this woman was far more exquisite, and its destructive power far greater, than that unleashed collectively by the twelve Golden Core little giants of the Taiyi Sect.
This woman's Heaven and Earth Dharma Characteristic was called the "Natural Disaster Primal Spirit"; it was a cluster of natural disasters.
Natural disasters cannot be resisted.
The degree of cultivation required for a supernatural power like the Doomsday Natural Disaster could be said to be not a bit easier than the Five Emperors Great Demon Supernatural Power. It required merging the Great Sun Fire Disaster, Black Sun Wind Disaster, Earth Tribulation, Human Tribulation, God and Demon Tribulation, Samadhi Tribulation, True Nature Tribulation, Karmic Hindrance Tribulation, Mind Tribulation, Soul Tribulation… these supreme-level supernatural powers into one, and then using one's own determination to subdue the disasters and melt them into a single entity.
Its degree of difficulty was ten to a hundred times harder than Fang Han subduing the demonic entities within the Ghost Emperor's primal spirit. Over the years, those who had successfully refined the "Doomsday Natural Disaster" could not even fill the fingers of one hand.
This supernatural power was not something that could be refined with resources alone, but required the operation of the mind. Extremely brilliant wisdom, perseverance. Sitting firmly in closed-door death cultivation. A millennium of cultivation.
However, once successfully cultivated, comprehending the disasters of heaven and earth, after cultivating the Longevity Secret Realm, they could be said to be unwearable by myriad tribulations. Numerous karmic dooms could not befall their body.
Yan Shuiyi flew out her own Heaven and Earth Dharma Characteristic, the Natural Disaster Primal Spirit, which condensed into a cluster of tribulation clouds. It wasn't any specific shape, but merely enveloped downwards, instantly wrapping Fang Han within. Instantly, various massive sounds transmitted from within: volcanic eruptions, tearing earth, the sea drying up and rocks rotting away…
Fang Han only saw his vision turn black, unexpectedly failing to fly out in time.
Once enveloped, the tearing destructive forces all around, wave upon wave, actually bound him completely motionless. Like a fly frozen in amber!
"This woman is actually capable of trapping me! The Doomsday Natural Disaster is truly formidable. She has genuinely obtained its essence. However, to kill me relying on this single supreme supernatural power is simply wishful thinking. Break for me!"
Trapped within, no amount of Fang Han's successive struggling was of any use. Tremendous force shook from all directions, and the void continuously collapsed. In a split second, the disasters of demon gods, wind, fire, and water followed in rapid succession. Although it could not harm him, how could he endure such a plight? Immediately feeling slightly enraged in his heart, he shrank his power inward. His originally tall physique abruptly became only one or two feet high, akin to an infant.
And his natal Golden Core surprisingly shrank as well, turning the size of a sesame seed.
This time, using all his skills, he currently could not be bothered to waste words with this woman; deciding to go all out until either the fish died or the net broke, directly using violence to carve out a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
"Even the Natural Disaster Primal Spirit cannot destroy him! This person is truly terrifying!" Just as Fang Han was shocked that Yan Shuiyi had actually cultivated the Doomsday Natural Disaster and trapped him, Yan Shuiyi was simultaneously shocked by this person's ability to resist attacks.
This Doomsday Natural Disaster was lawlessly terrifying. Ever since Yan Shuiyi successfully cultivated it, for an average tenth-level supernatural power cultivator, as long as it enveloped down, whatever magical treasures the opponent had would be shaken into powder, their physical body turned to fine particles, and their Heaven and Earth Dharma Characteristic severely injured, fleeing in panic.
One move could burst experts of the same level.
But now, having trapped Fang Han within, apart from the opponent's movements being somewhat obstructed, nothing happened to him at all. That force of natural disasters bombarding the Golden Core brilliance above his head was firmly unable to erode inside; the opponent didn't even spit out a mouthful of fresh blood and remained full of vitality like a dragon and tiger.
"Not even injured! Exactly how terrifying is this person?" At this very moment, she too realized the great terror of a Golden Core with ninety supernatural powers.
Just as she was about to circulate her magic power again, the center suddenly became empty. She saw Fang Han shrink, and the originally massive Golden Core also turned to the size of a small sesame dot. She could not help but inwardly cry out that things were bad, hurriedly withdrawing the "Natural Disaster Primal Spirit" outward.
"Bang!" After Fang Han's Golden Core concentrated into a small sesame dot, in an instant, it expanded a thousand, a hundred times over. Immediately, it flashed with fire and flowing gold, akin to the blazing sun exploding in the sky. Layer upon layer of space was shaken. The Nine Heavens Astral Wind Layer within a radius of hundreds and thousands of miles seemed to suffocate for a moment, and the astral wind ceased its operation.
A Golden Core a full size of a house hovered in the void. Streams of supernatural powers burst out in all directions, slicing, swallowing. Yan Shuiyi's Natural Disaster Primal Spirit was directly shattered, sent flying hundreds of miles away, before finally condensing back into a cluster of tribulation clouds to re-enter her own body.
"Natural disasters are not to be feared, earth tribulations are not to be dreaded, human tribulations are not to be sorrowed over. Even if you have cultivated the Three Disasters and Nine Tribulations, I am unwearable by myriad tribulations!" Fang Han burst open the primal spirit, extricated his body, and did not pause. Carrying the imposing might of his Golden Core, he took a step out, flicked the Yellow Springs Diagram out, and the Bridge of Helplessness was directly erected between him and Yan Shuiyi. He punched out.
This punch sucked in all the vital energy and astral wind from all directions, and it was boundless suction, tearing, twisting, rendering an unknown number of air currents into a state of chaos.
Yan Shuiyi's body continuously shifted, and with a single flicker, she arrived a hundred miles away. But the moment she turned her head, she still saw the Bridge of Helplessness erected right behind her. Fang Han swept down from the bridge, like a heavenly god descending to the mortal realm, like a goshawk pouncing on a rabbit.
"This bridge actually possesses such supernatural power! Distance within inches extending to the ends of the earth, locking onto my aura!"
Yan Shuiyi narrowed her eyes and no longer swept away in flight. The Ocean Divine Pearl flew out from between her eyebrows, transforming into a fist seal, shifting through hundreds and thousands of hand gestures, before finally forming a Dharma seal that seemed to gather all the sovereign overbearing aura of the world, chopping towards Fang Han.
This Dharma seal was precisely the hand seal that Supreme Emperor Heaven used when crossing blows with the ancient Demon Venerable in the starry sky back then. Its profound mysteries were endless, and its might shook heaven and earth.
Fang Han's punch approached aggressively, while Yan Shuiyi's hand seal contained an absolute art that shocked the universe. The two collided in the sky without any hesitation.
"Buzz!"
Fang Han only felt as if his head had been knocked a million times by a massive hammer; his magic power fell into chaos, and the Golden Core brilliance dimmed. While the Ocean Divine Pearl was directly shaken back into Yan Shuiyi's body.
Suffering a massive concussive force, the woman's body flew backward, and her face turned slightly pale; it seemed she had sustained a minor injury.
Within the span of this clash, neither side obtained any advantage.
Just when Fang Han's magic power was in chaos and his golden light was dimming, suddenly. In the higher skies above, from a concealed location, an assuredly fatal sword qi burst out vigorously! Crashing toward Fang Han, this sword light was not the least bit inferior to Hua Tiandu's Pan Wu Divine Sword.
It was actually a sneak attack, an assassination!
Behind the sword light, in a flash of lightning and a spark of flint, Fang Han caught sight of a figure of a woman wearing green clothes, mysterious and unfathomable!
"Longevity Candidate List, rank one, Fan Qingying. The Forty Great Thieves, the number one thief." At this critical juncture, Fang Han suddenly understood who the person attempting to assassinate him was!