The number one bandit among the Forty Thieves of the overseas cultivator world, "Heaven Forsaken Bandit," was incomparably mysterious, and her magic power was even more formidable. It had long been rumored that this bandit was going to cultivate to the Longevity Mystery Realm and then establish an immortal sect. Moreover, Fang Han had learned from a secret source within the Yuhua Sect that this bandit likely had the support of the Protoss behind her!
However, no one knew what this "Heaven Forsaken Bandit" was actually called.
But relying on intuition, a flash of insight crossed Fang Han’s mind, and he knew that the mysterious woman ranked first on the "Longevity Candidates List," Fan Qingying, should be the legendary number one bandit.
Because the top ten people on this list all had their respective sects behind them. Only this number one had an unknown sect origin; if she wasn't the number one of the Forty Thieves, who else could she be?
Furthermore, Fang Han also had a grudge against the Forty Thieves, having directly killed the third-ranked "Moon Piercing Bandit" and "Star Extinguishing Bandit," and even refined their Golden Core. Under these circumstances, it would be strange if the number one ranked "Heaven Forsaken Bandit" didn't come to kill him.
Moreover, he had now cultivated a Life Golden Core with ninety kinds of supernatural powers, supported by the rolling immortal world vital energy of the World Tree. With a wave of his hand, he could uproot mountains and split the earth; his vast magical power was indescribable. If ordinary people came to kill him, he could suppress the enemies into fine powder with a wave of his hand. Only the formidable figures ranked in the top ten of the "Longevity Candidates List" could deliver a fatal blow to him.
Hiss!
A sword broke through the sky.
This sword assassination took advantage of the moment he clashed head-on with Yan Shuiyi, when his magic power was scattered and its circulation inflexible. Suddenly striking out, like an eagle's dive, it pointed straight at his weak spot. It started silently and tracelessly, but after locking onto Fang Han, it immediately radiated sharp edges, and rolling killing intent rippled between heaven and earth. A single sword could practically slay gods!
However, just as this sword assassination thrust down, and Fang Han had no time to defend, a giant dragon claw reached out from behind the Gate of Avici.
This dragon claw was fully the size of a house, emitting an extremely tyrannical pure yang aura. The scales were even more ferocious, with five fingers like pillars and sharp nails. It blocked right in front of the sword light in one move.
It was exactly "Yan."
Ever since "Yan" absorbed the Heavenly Dragon skeleton, it had condensed into its true body, with tyrannical magic power and a tough physical body. After the Heavenly Dragon skeleton was further refined by the Nine Heavens Astral Wind and the Red Emperor Fire Sovereign Qi, all impurities had been forged away. Even the Blood Night King could not cut through it.
Now that Fang Han encountered danger, he immediately came out to protect his master.
His reaching out with the dragon claw to capture was a demonic supernatural power, the Great Soul Searching Claw. With a single claw, the soul-shaking demonic sounds of the demon sect were everywhere, mixed with countless dragon roars that shook heaven and earth. The surrounding air currents first twisted, then collapsed, and then expanded again.
With Yan's current strength, after refining the immemorial Heavenly Dragon skeleton and opening the Bridge of Helplessness, although the Yellow Spring Diagram could not contend with a giant of the ages in the Longevity Mystery Realm, it was enough to rival any expert at the tenth level of the Divine Ability Realm.
If his strength advanced a step further and opened the most mysterious, most terrifying, and most profound and unpredictable "Wheel of Reincarnation" grand formation inside the Yellow Spring Diagram, then he could truly suppress giants of the ages and contend with treasures like the "Human Emperor Brush" and "Heavenly Emperor Mirror."
The dragon claw and the sword shadow collided in mid-air.
Immediately, light and shadows flew wildly. Yan's claw shrank and expanded, and the nails transformed into hand seals many times to prevent the sharp sword energy from cutting off his own claw. As the incoming flying sword light swayed slightly, sword energy instantly ran rampant, and streaks of clear shadows pierced onto Yan's body.
Yan's body trembled, his eyes snapped open, and he watched in disbelief as the scales on his body were struck off piece by piece by the sword energy, almost revealing the bone.
"Great Thunder Sound Sword Technique!"
Yan seemed to have clearly recognized this sword technique. His body shook, and the two grand formations, the Gate of Avici and the Bridge of Helplessness, were executed by him to perfection, unimaginably more brilliant than Fang Han. After all, he was the true master of the Yellow Spring Diagram.
The archaic stone bridge, stained with the blood of gods and demons, spanned north and south in the air, also shaking wildly like a dragon. Subsequently, on both sides of the stone bridge, one Gate of Avici after another was opened, and monstrous demonic energy rolled out, covering the sky for hundreds of miles entirely. And Yan hid within it, truly a divine dragon whose head is seen but not its tail.
In an instant, Yan unleashed the power of the Yellow Spring Diagram to its limits, battling together with the sword shadow clear light that was assassinating Fang Han.
This mass of sword shadow clear light assassinating Fang Han did not speak either. Suddenly retracing, it transformed into the shadow of a female cultivator in azure. There was a ring of clear light behind her head, and her facial features were blurred, but her body exuded bursts of power that made even the void shatter. The treasured sword in her palm suddenly trembled.
Crack!
All of a sudden, the surrounding void cracked open, and countless bucket-sized lightning glows surged out. This lightning glow was not the thunder and lightning in the sky, but a kind of chaotic aura. From within, the reverberations of thunderbolts were vaguely transmitted out, as if a world was gestating inside.
"Great Chaos Lightning Method!"
Yan's body jolted, greatly shocked, and was just about to flee far away, but it was too late. Countless bucket-sized lightning glows exploded, and heaven and earth seemed to turn into a chaotic color. The powerful Avici demonic energy was also entirely blown apart. The Bridge of Helplessness was blasted, shaking on all sides, like a small boat in a rainstorm.
The dragon scales on Yan's body flew everywhere, and much flesh and blood on his back were blown open, revealing stark white bones. Were it not for his skeleton being an immemorial Heavenly Dragon, which was almost equivalent to an undying body, the bones would have been blasted broken at this moment.
Shrink!
Yan knew he was not a match for this woman. This legendary Great Chaos Lightning Method was the supreme existence among lightning, the source of all lightning, and its power ran neck and neck with the "Doomsday Natural Disaster" and "Five Emperors Great Demon Mahamudra." Having not yet cultivated an undying body, taking a direct hit would shatter his body, and it was unknown how much pure yang energy he would have to absorb to recover.
His body shrank, and both the Gate of Avici and the Bridge of Helplessness disappeared. Only a scroll of painting remained in the air, which was the main body of the Yellow Spring Diagram.
No matter how many divine thunders exploded on the Yellow Spring Diagram, it was of no use. The essence of this painting was a Peerless Dao Artifact, not an existence that could be easily destroyed.
Yan retreated.
However, his display of action had won precious breathing time for Fang Han.
"Today, I'm afraid things won't end well. I can’t handle one Yan Shuiyi. And a Fan Qingying actually came too! With two people besieging me, even if my means reached the heavens, it would be difficult to sustain! It is better to leave at this time."
At this moment, Fang Han finally suppressed his chaotic vitality and churning magic power. Catching his breath, he reached out and grabbed the Yellow Spring Diagram in the air. The Golden Core above his head illuminated all directions, and immediately all the wildly surging "Great Chaos Lightning Method" around him disintegrated under the illumination of the Golden Core's radiance, vanishing without a trace.
"Hahahaha, I didn't expect that the existences ranked first and second on the Longevity Candidates List would both come to kill me, a Golden Core expert. Are you treating me as a giant of the ages of the Longevity Mystery Realm? The two of you killing me is somewhat unfair. In a one-on-one, I would be happy to oblige. But today I have to rush out to offer birthday congratulations to Immortal Venerable Linglong, so excuse me for not keeping you company!"
Fang Han laughed loudly, flicked his large sleeve, and his body rose up like a divine dragon. With a few leaps and instantaneous movement, he broke out of the heavy encirclement, about to escape the trap.
Although he was formidable, facing the siege of two great experts, even a giant of the ages in the Longevity Mystery Realm would likely suffer misfortune, let alone himself? Faced with an outcome of absolute defeat, Fang Han wouldn't show the slightest bravado, leaving as soon as he said so.
Though not a match for the two of them, fleeing should at least be possible.
With Fang Han's current cultivation, if he wanted to flee and preserve his life, indeed, even a giant of the ages in the Longevity Mystery Realm would find it hard to kill him.
Moreover, at this moment, Fang Han fleeing carried not the slightest psychological shadow. With two people killing him alone, if he didn't run, was he supposed to wait for death?
"Trying to run?"
Yan Shuiyi seemed to have been prepared early on. While Yan and "Fan Qingying" were clashing like lightning, she was regulating her breathing and channeling her technique on one hand, while waving her hand on the other, sending a handkerchief-like magic treasure flying out, turning into sky-filling smoke and clouds, enveloping all directions. This was a Peerless Treasure Artifact, called the "Ten Thousand Miles Smoke and Cloud Barrier."
Just as Fang Han wanted to run, that "Ten Thousand Miles Smoke and Cloud Barrier" abruptly activated. Rolling white clouds formed a cloud wall, actually blocking Fang Han.
"Split for me!"
Fang Han did not hesitate; grabbing with both hands, he directly tore apart the rolling cloud wall, like splitting bamboo. That "Ten Thousand Miles Smoke and Cloud Barrier" immediately reverted to a handkerchief, but it was shattered in the middle. This Peerless Treasure Artifact was already heavily damaged. Fang Han unexpectedly destroyed this Peerless Treasure Artifact with a wave of his hand!
Now, his power could even injure a Low-Grade Dao Artifact; a treasure artifact like the Five Prison King Cauldron could be exploded with a single punch.
The moment the "Ten Thousand Miles Smoke and Cloud Barrier" was destroyed, Yan Shuiyi felt no heartache at all. It seemed she was just sacrificing a magic treasure to block Fang Han for a brief instant, securing the opportunity so he couldn't escape.
"Swoosh!"
Sure enough, when Fang Han waved his hand to destroy the "Ten Thousand Miles Smoke and Cloud Barrier," he paused for a moment. What kind of expert was Yan Shuiyi? She directly seized this flaw. The Azure Sea Divine Pearl rotated slightly, and suddenly erupted with fully tens of thousands of streams of sword energy.
These streams of sword energy were all formed treasured swords. Each treasured sword was like a pool of autumn water, a smear of condensed frost, incredibly cold, as if refined from a miraculous crystal.
Fang Han took one look and knew that each one of these was an extremely powerful treasure, refined from the essence of water. Tens of thousands of them, who knew how long they had been sacrificed and refined. At the instant the swords flew out, an array diagram also flew out of the Azure Sea Divine Pearl, with countless shadows of female immortals holding treasured swords on it; each female immortal had a different face, all looking like fairies treading on water.
The tens of thousands of treasured swords fell into the array diagram at once, and the swords in the palms of those water-treading fairies came to life. Spreading out at once, they immediately trapped Fang Han in the center.
This was an extremely formidable sword array!
The Waveriding Ten Thousand Immortals Plain Maiden Sword Array.
Those tens of thousands of treasured swords, each one was the elite of ten-thousand-year cold iron, combined with ten thousand layers of soft water essence, painstakingly forged using Nine Heavens Astral Wind and Profound Ice True Water. It was impossible for Yan Shuiyi to refine ten thousand treasured swords at once; even a giant of the ages would have to spend thousands of years. This was a legacy left behind by a Water God.
Swish!
Fang Han was trapped within this sword array. Instantly, all was vastness outside, and amid the white clouds and mist, countless female immortals holding Plain Maiden Swords appeared, unleashing powerful sword energy toward him.
And Yan Shuiyi, her body shifting, also entered the Waveriding Ten Thousand Immortals Plain Maiden Sword Array.
As for Fan Qingying, who was assassinating Fang Han, she kept silent; her body moved, the clear light melted, and she too entered the sword array, seemingly to coordinate the kill against Fang Han.