"Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram! Wrap! Capture the essence soul."
Ruyizi chanted the spell, discarding a Pure Yang essence soul to let the artifact spirit of the Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram devour it. He actually intended to capture Fang Han's essence soul, his Lifebound Heaven and Earth Dharma Idol.
When a Mid-Grade Dao Artifact was mobilized by a Giant of the Ages burning enough Pure Yang vital energy, although the power unleashed could not refine stars, it could destroy the land within a thousand miles, turning it into fine powder.
The Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram, a Mid-Grade Dao Artifact, was originallly incomparably miraculous. After discarding a Pure Yang essence soul to be burned and devoured, its power elevated tens or a hundred times over, actually wrapping up Fang Han's thousand-handed and thousand-eyed demon god in an instant.
A Mid-Grade Dao Artifact was miraculously unimaginable. Although inferior to a High-Grade Dao Artifact, even Giants of the Ages did not possess many of them. Without cultivating to the Undying Body, it was utterly impossible to refine one. Even an expert with an Undying Body had to undergo hundreds or thousands of years of tempering before it could take shape.
Ruyizi's Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram was obtained from ancient inheritance, an occasional fortuitous encounter from an ancient cultivator. It was not refined by the Yuhua Sect. However, this Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram had already been refined by him for over a thousand years. He had long since purified the artifact spirit, almost reaching the point where it could self-detonate with a mere thought.
It was already no different from his own second essence soul.
This also showed the bitter effort Ruyizi was willing to put in.
Rumble, rumble, rumble!
An immense and tyrannical strength locked down Fang Han's Lifebound Heaven and Earth Dharma Idol, wrapping him into the diagram.
"Hahaha, haha! Fang Han, you are ultimately not a Giant of the Ages. Although your essence soul Heaven and Earth Dharma Idol is powerful, you do not know that my Mid-Grade Dao Artifact, having devoured a Pure Yang essence soul, will go completely berserk! Now I want you dead! I want you dead. Do you know? The Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram has been thoroughly refined by me; the artifact spirit has united with my mind, equivalent to me having refined it personally. Now I am going to make it self-detonate! To perish together with you! To what extent is a Mid-Grade Dao Artifact formidable after going berserk from devouring a Pure Yang essence soul? You can absolutely not imagine it. Its self-detonation is equivalent to the self-detonation of a Giant of the Ages!"
Having succeeded in this strike, which was premeditated for a long time, Ruyizi flew out the Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram, actually proving to be incomparably ruthless. After wrapping Fang Han's Lifebound Heaven and Earth Dharma Idol, he actually prepared to mobilize the Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram to self-detonate! To blow Fang Han to death. This immediately displayed the fierce tyranny and the willingness to discard of a Giant of the Ages.
Fang Han currently could not make the Sun and Moon Essence Wheels self-detonate, and of course, he was also reluctant to part with this pair of magic treasures. But Ruyizi was willing! Because after killing Fang Han, he could obtain the Yellow Springs Diagram and the Eight Divisions Pagoda, and moreover, eliminate a great scourge.
Under the mobilization of Ruyizi's mind, the Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram trembled frantically, seemingly about to disintegrate immediately. Terrifying power circulated, sharply collapsing and condensing inwards like a black hole, an primal chaos cavity that could no longer swallow anything, ready to explode and destroy the heaven, earth, and universe.
"This is bad!"
"This is bad! Ruyizi still had this trick."
Seeing this scene, Qiu Xiyu of the Linglong Blessed Land was greatly shaken in her heart, but she could not react in time. She was extremely nervous, cold sweat actually seeping out all over her body.
The rest of the Giants of the Ages all stood up in unison.
When a berserk Mid-Grade Dao Artifact exploded after wrapping an enemy, the power was peerless; even a Giant of the Ages would have to die.
Although Fang Han now displayed a tyrannical and terrifying power, he also could not withstand the explosive might of a Mid-Grade Dao Artifact, unless he hid inside the Yellow Springs Diagram. But now the Yellow Springs Diagram was currently sucked in by the Great Desolation Ancient Furnace, making it completely impossible to escape into.
The Heavenly Punishment Elder also had cold sweat seeping out all over his body, and Feng Baiyu furrowed his brows deeply.
"The Mid-Grade Dao Artifact is going to explode, Fang Han is undoubtedly dead!" Far away in the Innate Demonic Sect, the Demonic Marshal saw all this through the Eye of the Dharma's End, blurted out, and stood up, his whole body agitated.
Ying Xiantian shook his head.
At this moment, time seemed to have frozen. The explosion of the Mid-Grade Dao Artifact, the Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram, was a foregone conclusion. Fang Han perishing together with this Mid-Grade Dao Artifact had also become a foregone conclusion.
However, in this one three-thousandth of a split second, from within the Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram, a ray of sword light suddenly shot up into the sky. This sword light was vast like never before, as if between heaven and earth, all the thunder and lightning, all the primal chaos, had gathered onto the body of this sword. A sword light and will that could cleave apart heaven and earth and create a new world were condensed together.
The void was cut open by this sword.
Time fell into chaos because of this sword.
Countless thunderbolts rose and surged under the sword light, frantically rushing out from every part of the void. Countless primal chaos was born in the void. The thunder cleaved the void, propagating worlds, while the primal chaos destroyed the worlds, returning them to nothingness. Then the thunder created them once again.
One three-thousandth of a split second, merely one three-thousandth of a split second.
The elegance of this sword strike.
The majestic might of this sword strike precisely destroyed and reborn countless worlds in that one thirty-millionth of a split second.
The change occurred in the blink of an eye.
Chhiila! Without any suspense, or even any forewarning, the Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram was torn apart. The artifact spirit inside that was about to frantically explode silenced its drums and lowered its banners, because the artifact spirit was slain by this sword, its consciousness thoroughly obliterated. This sword destroyed and created a small world countless times in one three-thousandth of a split second. The Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram was included within; this Mid-Grade Dao Artifact was destroyed without any chance, decomposed into the most pristine vital energy. The devoured Pure Yang essence soul inside, having not yet had time to be thoroughly digested, was also dispersed at this moment.
The wreckage of the Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram, the various great arrays and materials inside. And the nine refined great rivers entirely began to collapse.
If the nine great rivers refined within the Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram completely collapsed, the water could fully submerge a nation, causing floods over a radius of thousands of miles and drowning countless living beings.
But at this time, it had no effect whatsoever.
Just as they began to disperse, these nine rivers were all swept up by this sword light, disappearing without a trace. Vaguely, one could see nine crystal-clear water dragons converging onto the body of the sword.
All the wreckage was also swept into it, even including the dispersed artifact spirit, sealed by this sword light into the Immortal Lightning Talisman. It was melted into a mass of vital energy, rising and falling within the lightning world of the Immortal Lightning Talisman.
Within the Immortal Lightning Talisman was a lightning world. Whatever was pulled inside had to endure the endless washing and refining of the immemorial heavens' divine thunder, such as the Divine Firmament Thunder, the Fire Wheel Thunder, the Iron Armor Thunder, the Violent Flame Thunder… Essentially, any existence sealed inside would be transformed into the purest vital energy by the berserk divine thunder of the heavens.
Especially after the Immortal Lightning Talisman combined with the Great Chaos Lightning Sword, Great Chaos Divine Thunder was generated within the lightning world. Its power was even greater, almost capable of tearing and shattering even Giants of the Ages, transforming them into vital energy as well.
One sword!
Merely one sword!
The Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram disappeared, disappearing thoroughly. It was as if this Mid-Grade Dao Artifact had never appeared between heaven and earth, thoroughly evaporated from the human realm by the Immortal Lightning Talisman and the Great Chaos Lightning Sword.
With merely one sword, Fang Han shattered the Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram, shattering all of Ruyizi's hopes.
After the Great Chaos Lightning Sword and the Immortal Lightning Talisman combined, they birthed the World Power that only Supreme-Grade Dao Artifacts possessed. In terms of quality, they inherently infinitely surpassed a Mid-Grade Dao Artifact.
In front of these two High-Grade Dao Artifacts that had birthed World Power, this Mid-Grade Dao Artifact, the Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram, was like an infant still in swaddling clothes, unable to withstand a single blow.
The wind swept away the scattered clouds, sweeping clean everything.
With one sword strike, Fang Han split open the Nine-Curved Yellow River Diagram. He did not speak, but condensed his Lifebound Heaven and Earth Dharma Idol. The thousand hands grasped the hilt of the Great Chaos Lightning Sword, like an ancient god separating heaven and earth, and slashed toward the Great Desolation Ancient Furnace with one sword.
"Bang!" Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! …
In seven consecutive explosions, seven of Ruyizi's essence souls were struck by the Great Chaos Lightning Sword, disintegrating without any suspense. That majestic Pure Yang vital energy all directly rushed into the lightning world of the Immortal Lightning Talisman.
Subsequently, eight Heaven and Earth Dharma Idols were all slashed and extinguished, leaving only a single lifebound essence soul.
Ruyizi's Lifebound Heaven and Earth Dharma Idol actually possessed a full seventy-one divine abilities. Short of just one, he could cultivate seventy-two divine abilities, achieving the number of Earthly Fiends.
Clang!
That massive Desolation God mouth of the Great Desolation Ancient Furnace, struck by this sword, emitted an agonized roar and fiercely vibrated, shrinking back into the furnace's body. This single sword strike left an indelible injury on the Great Desolation Ancient Furnace, severely wounding its artifact spirit. It would require at least a cycle of sixty years of cultivation to recover.
Although the Great Desolation Ancient Furnace was formidable, it could not oppose World Power, the World Power belonging to a Supreme-Grade Dao Artifact.
With the "Mouth of the Desolation God" shrinking back at once, the Yellow Springs Diagram and the Eight Divisions Pagoda both broke free.
"What is this? What magic treasure is this, a High-Grade Dao Artifact? No, World Power, is it a Supreme-Grade Dao Artifact? Ah!" At this moment, Ruyizi let out an earth-shattering scream of misery.
His full eight Pure Yang essence souls were all slashed and extinguished by this sword from Fang Han. All the majestic Pure Yang vital energy was sucked into it. At once, the lifebound quintessential essence obtained from the Beautiful Beard Immortal, the Bronze Leg Immortal, Lulanpo, and Fuyunsou, and all the borrowed Pure Yang vital energy, were entirely exhausted.
These eight Pure Yang essence souls were indeed what he obtained in exchange for promising those four people he would kill Fang Han. Moreover, he bet all his net worth, who knew how many medicinal pills, various heavenly materials and earthly treasures, as well as numerous magic treasures and pills he had given those four. He even borrowed many pills from his disciple Hua Tiandu, including at least ten thousand Great Sixty-Year Pills that increased lifespan by a sixty-year cycle.
Although they were collectively known as the Three Immortals and Two Elders, without benefits, it was impossible for them to discard their lifebound quintessential essence and Pure Yang vital energy accumulated over hundreds or thousands of years to enhance Ruyizi's power.
But now, all of it vanished entirely like smoke in thin air.
"What powerful Pure Yang essence! The Pure Yang vital energy of these eight great essence souls is fully comparable to the Pure Yang Qi contained in a hundred Great Brahma Radiant Ships. It is enough for me to condense this lifebound magic treasure, the Eight Divisions Pagoda, and also allows Yan to increase in power! It could even forcibly push me to the realm of Defying the Heavens and Changing Fate! But right now, I have no chance to refine it, I must wait until I finish off Ruyizi!"
Fang Han flicked the Great Chaos Lightning Sword, once again slashing toward Ruyizi's Lifebound Heaven and Earth Dharma Idol.
This sword was even more powerful than earlier. Completely enveloped, a look of despair appeared on Ruyizi's face.