"How many days has it been! How many years has it been! How much hardship and suffering, how much hope and despair, how many slaughters, how many plunderings, how much effort, how much struggle, hovering between life and death. At this moment, it is finally accomplished."
Not only Fang Han, but even the artifact spirit "Yan" within the Diagram of the Yellow Springs felt a sense of rebirth after a tribulation, his eyes welling up with warm tears.
Fang Han had finally stepped into the Longevity Secret Realm, becoming a giant through the ages.
A single step to the heavens, ten thousand years, ten thousand years, ten thousand of ten thousand years! He had become a powerhouse of the first tier of the Longevity Secret Realm, the "Ten Thousand Lifespan Realm."
This step brought about earth-shattering changes, an essential alteration!
"Yan" finally saw the dawn, the dawn of restoring his own strength and the Diagram of the Yellow Springs becoming a supreme-grade Dao artifact once again! Once Fang Han stepped into the Longevity Secret Realm, not only could he siphon Immortal Realm vitality and extract pure Yang essence, but his methods for forging magical treasures and comprehending rules also expanded significantly.
Fang Han could even feel some of the power from the Wheel of Reincarnation inside the Diagram of the Yellow Springs, comprehending more things from it.
No matter how strong the power, how many the methods, or how abundant the magical treasures a cultivator in the Divine Ability Realm possessed, they could never break past the force of one hundred million galloping fierce horses, nor could their lifespan exceed ten thousand years!
Even less could they siphon Immortal Realm vitality and extract pure Yang power.
In the past, although Fang Han possessed the World Tree and could siphon Immortal Realm vitality, he lacked the ability to purify it. But now, it was different.
The moment Fang Han stepped into the Longevity Secret Realm, he clearly felt his lifespan increasing madly: one thousand years! Two thousand years! Ten thousand years! Twenty thousand years! Thirty thousand years!
After reaching the tenth tier of the Divine Ability Realm, the realm of Defying the Heavens and Changing Destiny, one could have a clear understanding of their own lifespan. Upon reaching the Longevity Secret Realm, it went without saying.
As his power elevated continuously, his lifespan surged wildly! It reached a full thirty-six thousand years before stabilizing.
The power of one billion galloping fierce horses!
A lifespan of thirty-six thousand years!
This was Fang Han's greatest harvest the moment he stepped into the Longevity Secret Realm.
Ordinary experts of the Longevity Secret Realm, such as Priest Dragon, Priest Wood, and Ruyi Zi, had a lifespan of only just over ten thousand years at most.
And Fang Han had fully three times more than them! More than three times, he could nearly rival Fang Qingxue, who had stepped into the Undying Body!
That's right, Fang Han's current lifespan of thirty-six thousand years fully rivaled the formidable figures with an Undying Body. For experts like Ba Liming and Chi Rongtian, their lifespan was only slightly over thirty thousand years.
Moreover, after stepping into the Longevity Secret Realm, Fang Han was not satisfied; he wanted to directly achieve the "Undying Body"! He was charging at the bottleneck of the "Undying Body"!
He knew his own accumulations already possessed the capability to charge at the Undying Body.
Of course, he still needed to devour the artifact spirit of the Great Chaos Lightning Sword.
The Great Chaos Lightning Sword had already been passed over by him using the Great Pudu Zen Light and the Little Fatalism; it would not resist him. But he would not devour it prematurely, because he had not yet comprehended the bottleneck of the Undying Body.
Although his power had increased and he had cultivated a domain, he had not been able to comprehend the bottleneck of the second tier of the Longevity Secret Realm, the Undying Body.
The reason Fang Qingxue and Yan Shui Tian were able to comprehend this layer of the bottleneck was that neither of them was an ordinary mortal, but the reincarnations of ancient natural deities—one the Lightning Mother, the other the Water God. Having awakened their memories, cultivating was thousands of times easier for them than for ordinary cultivators.
Fang Han was different. He was not the reincarnation of any deity, so the final layer of the Undying Body's bottleneck was difficult to comprehend.
Without comprehending the bottleneck, devouring the artifact spirit of a high-grade Dao artifact prematurely was entirely useless.
However, right now, he was thoroughly elevating his strength, nakedly combusting vitality, absorbing spiritual power, and merging his spirit, endlessly adding power in an attempt to reach the peak of the first tier of the Longevity Secret Realm, the "Ten Thousand Lifespan Realm," to comprehend the Undying Body's bottleneck.
Who knows how many things had accumulated inside Fang Han's body, for example, the power of the Dragon Wood Star Core. Although he had refined it, due to the limits of his realm, it was entirely impossible to unleash its full power.
But now, he had stepped into the Longevity Secret Realm, becoming a giant through the ages. The Dragon Wood Star Core vitality accumulated in his body was completely refined. It elevated his power and laid a solid foundation for him. A star core was no small matter. The reason Fang Qingxue was able to step into the Undying Body at the very moment she stepped into the Longevity Secret Realm was thanks to half a Dragon Wood Star Core and the power of the Undying Lightning Talisman's artifact spirit. Of course, the Nine-Turn Soul-Returning Pill, the Seven-Life Profound Gate Pill, and the rudimentary form of the Longevity Fruit were also sources of assistance.
Right now, he fused all the power accumulated in his body together. The thirty million pure Yang pills inside the Dragon Transformation Gourd were all absorbed by his body. Those thirty million pure Yang pills absorbed the Eight部 True Dragon Qi from the Dragon World, turning into little pure Yang dragons that merged into his body. In an instant, it equated to adding hundreds or even a thousand years of arduous cultivation.
An ordinary giant through the ages could only forge one hundred pure Yang pills a day. In one year, that was thirty-six thousand pills. In ten years, three hundred and sixty thousand pills; in a hundred years, three million six hundred thousand pills; and in a thousand years, it was exactly thirty-six million pills!
In other words, by devouring thirty million pure Yang pills, Fang Han essentially added a thousand years of cultivation directly.
The reason the Soul-Devouring Holy Beast kept the thirty million pure Yang pills warming and nourishing inside the Dragon Transformation Gourd was so that, once they were cultivated, he could enhance his power, reach his peak, and charge at the Undying Body.
Now, Fang Han reaped the entire benefit.
"I cannot let him keep charging forward like this, otherwise, it is highly likely he will break through to the Undying Body! If that happens, I am absolutely going to be overthrown by him! He has the Great Chaos Lightning Sword; if he devours the artifact spirit, it's really possible! Thankfully, he hasn't comprehended the bottleneck of the Undying Body!"
Witnessing this scene, Young Master Chu Nan immediately knew what Fang Han was plotting.
He gritted his teeth! He never expected that not only did he fail to refine Fang Han this time, he actually allowed him to step into the Longevity Secret Realm and progress even further. Now, dealing with him would not be averagely difficult.
Even more severe was that Fang Han now knew the secret of this Chaos Origin Womb.
Only Young Master Chu Nan knew the secret of the Chaos Origin Womb within the Chaos Continent. To scheme for the supreme-grade Dao artifact deep in the core of the Chaos Continent, Young Master Chu Nan had plotted for an unknown amount of time. But now that Fang Han knew, if the matter leaked out, everything would come to nothing.
This was something he absolutely could not tolerate.
Therefore, he had made up his mind: even if it cost him everything, he must kill Fang Han inside this Chaos Origin Womb! Although Fang Han had currently cultivated to the Longevity Secret Realm, he hadn't yet broken through to the Undying Body, so Chu Nan still had the confidence to handle him.
"Heaven and Earth without Limits, the Universe's Righteous Law! Stars Falling, Meteor Shower of Fire, World-Destroying Divine Magic!"
Under his power, the Star Emperor Dragon Bed suddenly inspired supreme majesty, shattering the blue sky and pressing down upon Fang Han to suppress him. Particularly, the star core on the dragon bed suddenly shifted, and a starry sky appeared before Fang Han, forming a space that locked Fang Han within it.
In doing so, he used the Great Protection Technique to shield Fang Qingwei and pulled her to his side.
Fang Qingwei did not anticipate this sudden crisis either and was frightened pale. She knew that Fang Han was the type to retaliate to the slightest offense; once he suffered a disadvantage, he would demand payback thousands of times over.
Back when he was just a minor player, there was no telling how many big figures he had slain. Now that he had suddenly reached the Longevity Secret Realm and become a giant through the ages, this was catastrophic!
"Kill Fang Han, hurry and kill Fang Han, Young Master! This vile spawn Fang Han cannot be left alive, otherwise, with his viciousness, we will end up dying without a burial place in the future!" Fang Qingwei screamed: "Even when he was a nobody, he turned the world upside down endlessly and killed giants through the ages. Now that he has reached the Longevity Secret Realm, I'm afraid even the Wu Ji Star Palace will face disaster! He is the source of calamity, a great menace, he must be killed! Thoroughly killed!"
"Pity, I still couldn't comprehend the essence of the Undying Body and break through the bottleneck. But I have already reached the peak of the 'Ten Thousand Lifespan Realm.' My lifespan, power, and intake and output volume for Immortal Realm vitality are no different from an expert with an Undying Body. It is imaginable how powerful I will be once I step into the realm of the Undying Body; I will certainly surpass this Young Master Chu Nan."
As the Star Emperor Dragon Bed pressed down to suppress him, Fang Han sighed quietly in his heart.
His current power had already increased to the force of one billion galloping fierce horses, which was equivalent to the power of ten Immemorial Heavenly Dragons, making him even more formidable than nine giants through the ages combined.
Right now, his strength was enough to deal with more than ten giants through the ages joining forces. If he were to fight a battle against an Undying Body expert at the level of Patriarch Yuanyuan, the winner would undoubtedly be him.
However, he still hadn't been able to comprehend the bottleneck of the Undying Body.
"Kill me? When I was in the Divine Ability Realm, you couldn't kill me, let alone now when I have stepped into the Longevity Secret Realm, reaching the heavens in one bound and becoming a giant through the ages. Young Master Chu Nan, by acting against me this time, you have planted a disaster for the Wu Ji Star Palace. The Wu Ji Star Palace will be completely destroyed! And Fang Qingwei, you have always wanted to kill me; I will let you know what true revenge is!" After his sigh, Fang Han's body jolted. He gave Fang Qingwei a cold smile, terrifying Fang Qingwei so much that her face went completely pale, without a trace of blood.
"Star Emperor Dragon Bed, suppress!"
Young Master Chu Nan was also infuriated, his face pale, his killing intent unprecedentedly strong. Standing up, his palms rolled forward, shaking heaven and earth.
"Eight部 Pagoda, Great Chaos Lightning Sword, Diagram of the Yellow Springs! Kill!" With a sweep of his grand sleeves, Fang Han deployed the Eight部 Pagoda, hovering in mid-air. The nine great giants through the ages chanted together. The five million heavenly demons within, the three thousand heavenly demon kings, the thirty-four Golden Core disciples of the Big Dipper Hall, and Wang Fulong all sent out their own natal Golden Cores, Heaven and Earth Dharma Idols, or magical power and gangqi, condensing them into a single force. With just one collision, it blocked the suppression of the Star Emperor Dragon Bed. The sky-filling Buddha light met the Star Emperor Dragon Bed, tangling against each other.
Fang Han's strength was absolutely different now that he attained the Longevity Secret Realm. The massive intake and output of Immortal Realm vitality and the extraction of pure Yang power were worlds apart from before.
The Immortal Realm vitality he siphoned every single moment, the Immortal Realm vitality siphoned by the nine great giants through the ages every single moment, and even more so the Immortal Realm vitality siphoned by the World Tree—all of it was condensed by him. From it, he stripped away pure Yang power to thoroughly activate the Eight部 Pagoda.
This Eight部 Pagoda rumbled as it rotated, and with every rotation, hundreds of millions of dragon-shaped treasure lights shot out. It could suppress a giant through the ages to death purely by force.
Now he finally understood why only experts of the Longevity Secret Realm could unleash the true might of a Dao artifact.
Only now did the power of the Eight部 Pagoda truly manifest.