"Senior Sister!"
Fang Han let out a heart-wrenching cry. His body flickered, directly flying beneath the falling Fang Qingxue and embracing her body.
"Su Xiuyi, I will eradicate this clone of yours!"
He grabbed fiercely with his five fingers, unleashing his two great spiritual domains, the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and the Primordial Demonic Domain. Grabbing fiercely at the surrounding void, he pulled out a faint phantom shadow, locking it within the two great spiritual domains.
This faint phantom shadow was precisely the residual soul vital essence of Su Xiuyi's clone.
"Fang Han, consider your providence great this time, actually managing to escape a calamity. Having the World Tree absorb the projection of my Earth Emperor's Book. Fang Qingxue's divine ability stripped away the connection between my clone and my true self, causing my clone to dissipate, but she has also paid the price with her life. Next time, next time, Fang Han, wait until I come out of seclusion and seek you out with my true body, you will not be so lucky. Feng Baiyu will not be able to protect you either."
Su Xiuyi issued a cold sneer.
"Die!"
Fang Han did not speak any more nonsense with him. Instead, he directly utilized his spiritual power to crush it. Crack, crack! With a series of explosive sounds, this phantom shadow vanished without a trace.
In his final moment of dissipation, Yanluo Palace Master Su Xiuyi remained sneering coldly, "I only lost five thousand years of lifespan, but Fang Qingxue is thoroughly dead. I have already destroyed all her vitality. Using the Great Reincarnation Technique, I shattered her soul. A generation's reincarnation of the Lightning Mother, falling just like this. This can be considered as making up for the loss of my lifespan."
"Dead and still talking so much nonsense!" Fang Han let out a long howl, vibrating away the lingering residual voice. His eyes fell upon Fang Qingxue, "Senior Sister, Senior Sister, you're alright, aren't you? What's wrong with you?"
At this moment, Fang Qingxue's face was deathly pale, devoid of all blood color. However, her eyes were open, bright and piercing. She stared at Fang Han for quite a while before forcing herself to speak: "Just now, I executed the Minor Destiny Technique, consuming my only remaining lifespan to sever the connection between the soul of Su Xiuyi's clone and his main body. But his demonic arts are profound; he used the Great Reincarnation Technique to shatter my soul as well. I am now like a lamp running out of oil, my lifespan nearing its end. I have no way to continue holding on."
"That won't happen, Senior Sister, you won't die. Senior Sister, why did you have to forfeit your lifespan to save me." Fang Han shook his head continuously.
"Fool, you are a member of my Fang family, if your Senior Sister doesn't save you, who will I save." Fang Qingxue's eyes opened wider as she reached out a hand, softly caressing Fang Han's face, seemingly wanting to see the lines of his face more clearly: "You must comprehend the Minor Destiny Technique. Su Xiuyi will not let you off. Although he hasn't learned the Great Reincarnation Technique completely, it is still far above the Great Five Elements Technique. Also, hidden within the Minor Destiny Technique is a secret; it is the mystery of the Great Fate Technique, the number one ranked among the Three Thousand Great Daos. If you cultivate the Minor Destiny Technique to its apex, you can go search for Fate…"
Her voice grew increasingly faint, yet her face looked radiant, and her pale skin even revealed a rosy luster.
"Senior Sister, no cultivation method is important. Even the complete cultivation methods of the Three Thousand Great Daos together are not as precious as a single finger of yours." Beads of sweat trickled down Fang Han's face, his heart burning with anxiety, "I absolutely must save you, Senior Sister, even if it means sacrificing everything, I will not hesitate. What method is there to save you? What method?"
"There is no method, my vitality is already severed. Listen to me, you must live on well. By executing the Minor Destiny Technique just now, not only did I exhaust my own lifespan completely, but I also sacrificed my chance at reincarnation. My soul was struck by the Great Reincarnation Technique and now it is impossible for it to reincarnate. From now on, between heaven and earth, the person named Fang Qingxue will no longer exist, nor will there be the reincarnation of the Lightning Mother." Fang Qingxue closed her eyes, her voice becoming slow and incomparably serene: "But this is fine too, it might not be anything other than a kind of peace. I will leave the Immortal Lightning Talisman to you. Relying on this talisman, when you comprehend the Minor Destiny Technique and advance to the Longevity Mystic Realm, no one will be able to harm you anymore…"
"What do I do, what do I do…" How could Fang Han possibly listen to Fang Qingxue's words? Right now, he truly felt a sense of panic. Fang Qingxue's vitality was severed all because she saved him. If she truly died, he feared his heart would never find peace for all eternity.
"Right, I have the Longevity Fruit! I still have the Longevity Fruit condensed by the Hentian Divine Emperor, and I also have the Seven Lives Profound Gate Pills, which I had prepared to use for breaking through to the Longevity Mystic Realm. They will definitely be useful in delaying the loss of your vitality. Senior Sister, you must hold on. I will use the pills to secure your vitality first, then we will return to the Yuhua Sect and beg the Supreme Sect Master to save you. The Sect Master Feng Baiyu commands the Heaven Emperor's Mirror, he can definitely save you."
Fang Han suddenly recalled that he still had life-extending pills. Instantly casting aside all other thoughts, he shook his glabella, and a Longevity Fruit flew out. Pointing his finger at it, with a poof, it transformed into vital essence and surged into Fang Qingxue's body and mind.
The Longevity Fruit was condensed by the World Tree absorbing the essence of a Divine Emperor.
Although this was only an embryonic form and had not absorbed the complete essence of the Hentian Divine Emperor, it contained an incomparably robust life force. Once injected into Fang Qingxue's body, her spirit was immediately revitalized significantly.
However, Fang Han still felt her vitality continuously fading. The embryonic form of a single Longevity Fruit could not cause Fang Qingxue to recover her vitality.
"Seven Lives Profound Gate Pills! Come out for me!"
Fang Han did not pause. Moving his hands rapidly and flicking his fingers continuously, seven powerful pills flew out. Immediately radiating brilliant light and vibrant colors, an intoxicating fragrance assaulted the nose. Vaguely, voices of praise could be heard from the void, as if the pills were about to condense physical forms and cultivate Daoist Prime Spirits.
Ever since he obtained these seven Profound Gate pills, he had kept them for his own consumption. Every day, he used the spiritual qi of the World Tree to nourish and nurture them, making these seven pills even more miraculous. So that later, the medicinal efficacy would be better, and upon consumption, it would be easier to break through to the Longevity Mystic Realm.
The vital essence of the World Tree was the ancestor of all vegetation and the god of all flora. Using it to refine pills, just a single drop could elevate the quality of the pills by a whole grade.
Precisely because of this, the Nascent Soul Pills Fang Han refined were ten times better than those refined by the Taiyi Sect itself.
Furthermore, over such a long period of time, the Seven Lives Profound Gate Pills had been nurtured by the World Tree's spiritual qi, making them many times more miraculous than before. Fang Han felt that this would definitely be of great help to Fang Qingxue.
He had bitterly studied the "Heavenly Dragon Secret Manual," which contained the arts of pill refinement as well as the effects of pills on the human body. Fang Qingxue was currently at the peak realm of the tenth stage of the Divine Ability Mystic Realm, Heaven Defying Fate Altering. If she consumed the Seven Lives Profound Gate Pills, it would stimulate the effects of the seven great life gates, blood gates, and essence gates of her body… Allowing her to break through to the Longevity Mystic Realm in one swoop and become an eternal giant. Then, everything would easily be resolved.
However, this was equivalent to making his own future advancement into the Longevity Mystic Realm even more difficult.
But he didn't care at all. As long as he could bring back Fang Qingxue, what did a handful of pills matter?
In almost one five-thousandth of an instant, Fang Han tapped consecutively seven times. These worldly rare Seven Lives Profound Gate Pills turned into fine powder, transforming into seven rainbows that entered Fang Qingxue's body.
Inside Fang Qingxue's body, the seven life gates each received the injection of seven streams of power. Instantly, the soul within her sea of consciousness trembled. Her vitality gradually became robust.
Her breathing also grew stronger.
Fang Han could feel her vitality continuously changing.
"Good, it indeed has an effect. The Seven Lives Profound Gate Pills truly live up to the name of treasure pills. I hope they can restore Senior Sister's soul." Seeing the effect, Fang Han was overjoyed in his heart.
"Seven Lives Profound Gate Pills…" Fang Qingxue opened her eyes, yet she still had no strength to stand up: "Such pills are extremely difficult to refine. Although they are not Immortal Pills, they are even more precious than Immortal Pills. Being able to help one break through to the Longevity Mystic Realm, yet you actually gave them to me. What will you do in the future?"
"Is Senior Sister feeling a little better? As long as you are a little better, it's fine." Fang Han hastily said: "I will just painstakingly cultivate myself. With my current strength, am I afraid I won't be able to break through to the Longevity Mystic Realm? Senior Sister, I will send you to the Yuhua Sect right now and have the Supreme Sect Master save you."
Saying this, he was about to stand up.
"Don't, absolutely don't. The fewer people who know the secrets on me, the better." Fang Qingxue grabbed Fang Han's hand tight and shook her head: "The Minor Destiny Technique contains the mystery of the Great Fate Technique, the number one among the Three Thousand Great Daos. Across all heavens and myriad worlds, who knows how many people want to obtain it? Even the Yuhua Sect, facing this secret, would exhaust all methods. Feng Baiyu, towards your Huangquan Treasury and Hua Tiandu's Heavenly Martial Treasury, merely possesses a desire to obtain them, but lacks an absolute necessity. That is why he is so indulgent towards you two. He has the Heaven Emperor's Mirror and does not particularly care about those things. But the Great Fate Technique is something that can change his lifelong destiny. He will not disregard it. Any relationship has a value. When that value is exceeded, it will deteriorate. You must remember this. Keep this firmly in mind. You absolutely cannot entrust everything to the Yuhua Sect. The only person you can trust is yourself."
"No, I used to think the only person I could trust was myself. But now I know, the person I can trust is also you, Senior Sister." Fang Han shook his head repeatedly.
"The Seven Lives Profound Gate Pills have stimulated my vitality, but my soul and will have suffered an irreversible trauma. The damage from the Great Reincarnation Technique cannot be erased by pills. In a short while, my soul will still scatter and dissipate." Fang Qingxue smiled like a blooming flower, "But to be able to hear you say this sentence, it can be considered worth it. You never trusted anyone, but now you trust me…"
"Senior Sister, say no more. Tell me, what method is there to erase the damage to your soul? There must be a method! The Minor Destiny Technique is incomparably profound. There is certainly a chance."
Fang Han stopped Fang Qingxue from continuing her words.
"The Minor Destiny Technique is a supreme Great Dao involving destiny. Although it is not the legendary Great Fate Technique, it can indeed restore my soul. However, I no longer have any power to execute it. And you, you have not comprehended it yet. If you comprehended it, you could save me. I originally passed the Minor Destiny Technique to you, hoping that after you successfully cultivated it, you would help me accomplish one thing. But looking at it now, it's no longer necessary."
The smile on Fang Qingxue's face grew even brighter, like a blossoming night-blooming cereus.
"Senior Sister, I will definitely comprehend the Minor Destiny Technique, heal your injuries, restore your soul, and expel the damage from the Great Reincarnation Technique." Fang Han's tone held an unprecedented firmness.
"Alright, Fang Han, I am tired, I want to rest now. Take good care of yourself…" Suddenly, the smile on Fang Qingxue's face stiffened, and her entire person ceased breathing.