Underground, endless magma tumbled. Countless ferocious flames permeated the space in all directions, making Fang Han's Red Emperor Fire Sovereign Energy restless and eager to wantonly devour and cultivate.
Earthly fire is a very important type of flame. Many cultivators like to use earthly fire to condense and temper magic treasures. Some even throw their magic treasures into the earthly fire magma, tempering them for a thousand years. It is the same as throwing them into the Nine Heavens Astral Wind to temper.
If someone could go deep underground and search within the magma, it would be possible to obtain many magic treasures left behind by ancient experts.
However, searching for treasures in the underground magma is much more difficult than in the Nine Heavens Astral Wind. Originally, those who could go deep underground were few, those who could reach the magma layer were even fewer, and those who searched within the magma were as rare as phoenix feathers or unicorn horns. For one who had cultivated the Undying Body, without a powerful magic treasure protecting their body, it would also be impossible to sustain themselves in the magma for a long time.
Now, Daoist Hentian, the five God Kings, Fan Qingying, Yan Shuiyi, and "Prince Wula" arrived in the underground magma layer, and all felt incomparable burning heat. They were truly placed in a sea of fire purgatory.
At this moment, they came to know what true "purgatory" was.
However, Daoist Hentian, the five God Kings, Fan Qingying, and Yan Shuiyi were stunned upon looking at the purgatory sea of fire-like magma. Because they saw an object. This object was an incomparably majestic mountain peak, a crystal clear mountain peak. It lay horizontally within the boundless molten rock. All the fire energy was being absorbed by this mountain peak, seemingly as if it was tempering something.
Fang Han had long since seen the form of the "Human Emperor Pen". It was as massive as a mountain, determining life and death with a single stroke. Its might was boundless. Seeing it again now, he was not shocked.
He originally worried that the Human Emperor Pen would shift to another place, thereby making his plan fall through. But looking at it now, the Human Emperor Pen was clearly guarding some kind of object.
He had never doubted the abilities of this Human Emperor Pen. One must know, this thing used to be an immortal artifact. Although it later fell and became a peerless Dao Artifact, it still retained some strength of an immortal artifact. Even among peerless Dao Artifacts, it was the most formidable existence. Furthermore, what was even more important was that the artifact spirit of the Human Emperor Pen was still present.
Unlike the Heavenly Emperor Mirror that Feng Baiyu obtained, where its artifact spirit had gone unknown where, leaving only the main body. Even though it was still a peerless Dao Artifact, its power was vastly inferior.
To think about the difference between them, one merely needed to look at the Yellow Spring Diagram without "Yan".
"What is that?" Yan Shuiyi said in shock, her eyes looking at Fang Han inconceivably: "That mountain peak crystal! It is actually Heaven Crystal? In the universe of heaven and earth, the most precious Heaven Crystal! A piece of Heaven Crystal the size of a thumb can be sold for a sky-high price! What is the value of a Heaven Crystal the size of such a mountain? Enough to buy an entire sect?"
"Heaven Crystal Stone!"
Fan Qingying's body also trembled slightly.
"What a massive sum of wealth this is! To think that we did not find Fang Han, but actually found such a massive piece of Heaven Crystal Stone first." The five God Kings also became excited.
"Careful!" Daoist Hentian's expression experienced a huge change, as if he had seen a devil, "It is actually this magic treasure, this magic treasure! This is the Human Emperor Pen! In the ancient times, the Human Emperor Pen that executed countless experts of my race, with a wave of the large pen, life and death were instantly judged. It is actually this magic treasure, how could it be here. My race has secretly searched in the Xuanhuang Great World for who knows how many years, to think that our desires would be achieved in a single day. Fang Han's existence is no longer important. Obtaining this Human Emperor Pen is the most important of the most important. Hentian Compass! Come out, help me subdue the Human Emperor Pen! Once subdued, my status within my race will increase countless times!"
Under Daoist Hentian's formidable divine sense, a gigantic compass suddenly appeared above his head.
On the compass, the sun, moon, and stars were densely covered, resembling a shrunken star map. This was a high-grade Dao Artifact! The Hentian Compass! It is extremely hard to come by in the cultivation world. A high-grade Dao Artifact that a group of Giants of the Ages would need to temper for thousands of years. It could shake the universe and invert the sun and moon. In the hands of the Divine Ability Secret Realm, its power could not be unleashed. But in the hands of a Giant of the Longevity Secret Realm, it could be fully utilized!
As soon as this "Hentian Compass" emerged, the area of a thousand miles within the entire molten rock was completely suppressed. With a blink-of-an-eye change, it was as if shifting to a different space. The area was filled with densely packed stars. Streaking meteors tore through the void, emitting boundless light and heat, yet fleeting in an instant.
The mystery and profundity of the cosmic starry sky were once again displayed in front of everyone.
In the blink of an eye, everyone seemed to have transferred from the purgatorial molten magma sea tens of thousands of zhang underground to the endless outer space.
Space, was infinitely extended.
Power, was infinitely distorted.
Fang Han, however, knew in his heart that he was still deep within the underground molten magma fire sea purgatory. It was just that this section of space had been completely occupied by the Hentian Compass. It evolved all sorts of spatial variations.
This was the power of a high-grade Dao Artifact.
"Such immense power!" Fang Han sighed emotionally in his heart.
"What is this, it is just that your, Fang Han's, strength is not there yet. If you could have the strength of the Undying Body, my Bridge of Helplessness is much more formidable than this Hentian Compass. With just a casual movement, it could pierce through the space created by this Hentian Compass." Yan roared: "Yan Shuiyi's Ocean Divine Pearl, the Demon Marshal's Doomsday Eye, Fang Qingxue's Immortal Lightning Talisman, Fan Qingying's Great Chaos Lightning Sword, and even the God of War Whip, are all of better quality than the Hentian Compass. Strength! Strength! You must have the strength of a Giant of the Ages to be able to truly drive a Dao Artifact!"
"Fang Han!" Yan Shuiyi's body suddenly drew close to Fang Han, a tremendous crisis had descended, "Just what terrifying thing are you planning to use to deal with the God Race."
At this very moment, Yan Shuiyi already knew that this Daoist Hentian was from the God Race.
The God Race, the enemy of all races across the heavens and myriad worlds.
At this moment, Yan Shuiyi and Fang Han's hands once again held each other. The Dharmic power of both sides communicated with each other. The Water God True Spirit and the Water Sovereign Astral Energy fused together, making the Dharmic power boundlessly vigorous.
Receiving the nourishment of Fang Han's Black Emperor Water Sovereign Astral Energy, Yan Shuiyi's whole body felt so comfortable she almost groaned. Faintly, there was a sign of breaking through. After she obtained Fang Han's Oblivion Water, she had already washed the water energy in her whole body once, standing at the edge of breakthrough. Now, suddenly combining with Fang Han's Black Emperor Water Sovereign Astral Energy, the trace of Water God True Spirit she had spanning across a thousand lifetimes gave off a sense of awakening.
Fang Han felt comfortable all over as well. Yan Shuiyi's profound, majestic water elemental energy was continuously drawn over by him. The golden core in his mind became even more crystal clear and dazzling, and the phantom of the "Thousand-Handed, Thousand-Eyed" demon god on top of the golden core became increasingly pure.
Their holding hands this time was purely because of the crisis automatically bringing them together to fuse their Dharmic power into one, to deal with the impending calamity of life and death, so neither of them resisted.
Fang Han's Dharmic power circulated within Yan Shuiyi's body, and Yan Shuiyi's Dharmic power also circulated within Fang Han's body. Both of them roughly familiarized themselves with the other's divine abilities, nature of Dharmic power, and physical body.
In this instant, Yan Shuiyi was also extremely shocked. She felt the formidable power within Fang Han's body; the wave after wave of impact was simply startling.
And Fang Han also felt that this woman's body was ever-changing like water, gentle to the extreme.
Fan Qingying also saw Yan Shuiyi and "Prince Wula" holding hands, their Dharmic power mutually fusing, and faintly a trace of peculiarity showed on her face. She seemed not to understand why Yan Shuiyi would walk together with a person from this barbarian star. However, at this time, she did not overthink. Opening her mouth, she spat out. A stream of pure clear colored vital energy shot out from her mouth, spraying onto the "Great Chaos Lightning Sword". This high-grade Dao Artifact, the mysterious treasured sword, suddenly rose up, forming an ancient Chaos God, coldly looking below. Suddenly, its hands formed seals, going through a full million hand seal variations. Then, with a thunderous boom, a massive sea-like cluster of chaotic divine lightning struck downwards. Coordinating with the Hentian Compass, it smote upon the body of the Human Emperor Pen.
Rumble! Rumbling!
The boundless torrent smashed onto the body of the Human Emperor Pen. This peerless Dao Artifact, the majestic mountain peak, trembled unceasingly.
And "Daoist Hentian" turned the compass in his hands. Space varied continuously. That starry map-like space suddenly concentrated, incredibly trying to roll the "Human Emperor Pen" into it.
"Who disturbs my slumber?"
"Who makes me feel the great tribulation arriving ahead of time?"
"Who? Attempting to collect the peerless magic treasure, the celestial pen that controls life and death?"
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The Human Emperor Pen trembled, as if it had awakened from its slumber. Its massive body, having been chopped by Fan Qingying's Great Chaos Lightning Sword, did not suffer the slightest damage. From within its body, a majestic aura was emitted, as well as heaven-covering, earth-shrouding divine sense. This divine sense caused the starry sky created by the Hentian Compass to rupture and shatter everywhere.
"Fang Han, what do we do!" Yan Shuiyi now seemed to completely treat Fang Han as her main pillar of support. Even though she was the first true inheritance disciple of the Taiyi Sect and possessed extremely strong independence, the matters today were too massive. The appearance of the God Race, the appearance of the Human Emperor Pen. These were nothing she was capable of bearing.
Even the Headmaster of the Taiyi Sect could not bear the importance of this matter!
Just one member of the God Race would require the Xuanhuang Great World, or even various outer starry skies, and countless cultivators to collectively bear it.
"To actually borrow the hand of the Human Emperor Pen to eradicate the God Emperor. Reaping the benefits. Fang Han's kind of grand layout, seeking wealth amidst danger, no wonder he soared to his current realm. Formidable! Formidable methods! I have become one of his chess pieces! However, if this matter can succeed, the benefits I will obtain will be unparalleled!" In a split second, Yan Shuiyi thoroughly understood Fang Han's thoughts.
She and Fang Han held hands together, closing in all their Dharmic power to form a solid protection. The Ocean Divine Pearl circulated, forming a water world beside the two of them.
"Heaven Hating is heartless, Earth Hating is boundless! For the Universal World, with my lifespan, Three Thousand Great Daos, Great Sealing Technique!"
Daoist Hentian's whole body shook. Seeing the Human Emperor Pen awaken, simply with divine sense vibrating the starry sky created by his Hentian Compass till it cracked, he could not care about anything else. Opening his mouth, a large amount of blood spurted out. His blood was neither black nor white, displaying a great chaotic color. The moment a single drop fell, it transmitted the lineage and aura of destruction and ruling over all heavens and myriad worlds.
He unleashed the Great Sealing Technique!