"That is correct, it is Hua Tiandu." Fang Han also saw clearly that what appeared in Feng Yaoguang's bright mirror was Hua Tiandu. As it turned out, this person had truly entered the Tianwu Storehouse and had even manipulated a portion of the formations within this treasure storehouse.
"He should not have obtained the true manipulation right of the Tianwu Storehouse yet, nor has he refined the Desolate God Key, or rather, he has not obtained the acknowledgment of the Desolate God Key." Feng Yaoguang deduced with deep concentration, "I just divined a hexagram, and in this hexagram image, signs of fortune and misfortune have appeared. For us, there is both good fortune and peril. If Hua Tiandu truly masters the Tianwu Storehouse, that will be an omen of great disaster."
"Senior Sister Yaoguang, you are still formidable, able to divine fortune and misfortune into the future." Upon hearing this, Fang Han was overjoyed.
"Fang Han, did Yan Shuitian also enter the Tianwu Storehouse? Because you have always had a mutual connection with her, that is why you are so calm. Have you already calculated everything and plan to ambush Hua Tiandu?" Fang Qingxue suddenly transmitted her divine sense over.
"That is indeed the case, but after I entered the Tianwu Storehouse, my connection with her has been intermittent, seemingly obscured by a certain power." Fang Han frowned and transmitted his divine sense: "We currently cannot absorb any Immortal Realm essence qi, while Hua Tiandu has manipulated a portion of the formations and can definitely absorb a massive amount of essence qi. If this consumes over a long period, it will be extremely detrimental to us. We must quickly find this guy and kill him in one fell swoop, seizing his Great Desolate Ancient Furnace and gaining control of the treasure storehouse's pivot."
"My compass has sensed the aura of the Common People Great Seal!"
The Seventh Princess of the Qingqiu Mountain Fox Race suddenly said.
The compass in her hand began to operate once again.
Although the mana of these seven princesses was highly profound, all of them being either of the Undying Body or an eternal giant, in a perilous place like the Tianwu Storehouse, it was fundamentally insufficient. Therefore, Fang Han had taken all of them into the Yellow Springs Diagram, which could guarantee they remained safe and sound.
These seven princesses were crucial candidates for obtaining treasures within the Tianwu Storehouse. Relying on them, one could acquire the Common People Great Seal. That was an important pivot of the Tianwu Storehouse.
"Good, then let us break through the restrictions and find the Common People Great Seal first." Fang Han's body moved, attaching himself beside the Human Emperor Pen.
The Human Emperor Pen took a step forward and once again wrote a gigantic "Pierce" character in the air. Its body immediately transformed into a shadow hovering between solid and spectral. This shadow flickered once and disappeared. Many formations of the Tianwu Storehouse could not block it. One could only hear space being constantly torn apart amid the shuttling.
"Senior Desolate God King, this is the Human Emperor Pen! A supreme treasure of the ancient Human Emperors."
At this very moment, within a gigantic hall entirely bronze in color, there was a high flight of steps. Standing upon the steps were two people, and one of them was shockingly Hua Tiandu!
As for the other person, his face was wooden, and the lines on his face were rigid and resolute. He looked both human and not human, both divine and not divine. He wore an ancient suit of bronze armor. On the armor, there were neither talismanic runes nor patterns; it seemed just like what ordinary soldiers in the secular world would wear. However, worn on this person's body, it faintly revealed a supreme aura that looked down upon heaven and earth.
This person stood proudly with his hands behind his back. In front of him and Hua Tiandu was a massive bronze mirror, and within the mirror, the shadow of the Human Emperor Pen faintly appeared.
"You do not need to say it. I already know that this is the Human Emperor Pen, the peerless immortal artifact that once awed the various heavens by concentrating the sharpness of all living beings. Now, although its realm was knocked down during the great tribulation and it has become a Peerless Dao Artifact, it has comprehended the realm of being one with heaven and earth. This kind of realm is something only those legendary Genesis Divine Artifacts can possess."
This person, addressed by Hua Tiandu as "Desolate God King," stared fixedly at the Human Emperor Pen in the bronze mirror: "Only if I master the entirety of the Tianwu Storehouse would I be able to trap it, but do not even think about killing it. Right now, I can only master a portion of the restrictions within the Desolate God Hall, and this portion of restrictions is not even one tenth of the Tianwu Storehouse. Furthermore, it was only after obtaining your Great Desolate Ancient Furnace that I was able to possess such ability. Originally, I was merely a cold puppet."
"Whatever the case, Senior is now close to regaining a body of freedom. Moreover, Senior is the leader of the eighty-one Desolate God puppets. Can you take these Desolate God puppets out now?" Hua Tiandu wore a smile on his face, extremely pleased with himself.
"That will not do. Although I can normally command these Desolate God puppets, if I do something detrimental to the Tianwu Storehouse, these Desolate God puppets will not obey my orders." The Desolate God King shook his head: "The most urgent matter is for me to refine the Great Desolate Ancient Furnace once over and open the passage leading to the Desolate God Key in the deepest part of the core. If you can obtain the acknowledgment of the Desolate God Key, you will be able to truly master the entire treasure storehouse, and then acquire the numerous treasures left behind by Immortal Venerable Panwu, truly roaming free between heaven and earth and becoming an existence like the primeval mighty figures."
"Then we just let this Human Emperor Pen shuttle through the treasure storehouse? What if it seizes control of some item in the treasure storehouse? What should we do then? This person is an existence with a great destined chance." Hua Tiandu said viciously: "What a pity that I deployed the Scorching Sun Grand Array just now and still failed to kill that Fang Han, letting him escape."
"Rest assured. In this Tianwu Storehouse, there are many powers holding their own ground, just like how I govern the Desolate God Hall and guard the central pivot. Among the others, there is the Common People Hall, where the Common People Great Seal controls extremely formidable restrictions, and there is also the Tianwu Hall… You could never imagine what perils you will encounter in the Tianwu Storehouse. There are some places that even I do not dare go to. That Heavenly Mirage King just now was not released by me, but was the guardian divine beast of the Heavenly Mirage Hall. It has been subdued by Immortal Venerable Panwu for fully over ten thousand years. Its mana and realm are far above yours. If it were not wary of the Human Emperor Pen, it would have swallowed that Fang Han you speak of a long time ago." The Desolate God King said coldly, "However, we all have soul imprints and extremely formidable restrictions carved onto the Desolate God Key, meaning we are subject to restraint. Fortunately, several thousand years ago, when someone claiming to be Yellow Springs Great Emperor intruded to seize the Desolate God Key, a great battle ensued. The Desolate God Key sank into dormancy, giving us a bit of freedom."
"In this Tianwu Storehouse, one fundamentally cannot absorb Immortal Realm essence qi. It is a pity. Why did Immortal Venerable Panwu have to establish such a rule, allowing anyone who can enter the treasure storehouse to absorb ten breaths of liquid Immortal Realm essence qi to sustain their power? If it were not for this, their power would eventually have been completely depleted." Hua Tiandu said viciously.
"Even so, their power will still be completely depleted." The Desolate God King said: "Inside the Tianwu Storehouse, the rate at which mana is consumed is faster than outside. There are powerful restrictions everywhere, and every time they activate something, they must consume a greater amount of power. But we, existences branded with the mark of the Tianwu Storehouse, can rely on the power of the Desolate God Key to absorb even more Immortal Realm essence qi than from the outside world. Therefore, battling within the Tianwu Storehouse guarantees a certain victory. By now, you should also be able to sense the power of the Desolate God Key, because your Great Desolate Ancient Furnace was originally the treasure that flew out when Yellow Springs Great Emperor broke the barrier during his entry. To acquire it serendipitously several thousand years later does not mean you have inherited Immortal Venerable Panwu's orthodoxy."
"So that is how it is. I thought that I was destined to be the person who inherits the Tianwu Storehouse." Hua Tiandu suddenly felt some reluctance deep in his heart, but he did not show it on his face. With a casual movement, he sensed that in the unseen void, a massive key had appeared. This key stood connecting heaven and earth, with countless Immortal Realm essence qi transmitting from the key, then sensing the Great Desolate Ancient Furnace on his body, it sprayed out, pouring into his body. It was many times greater than the Immortal Realm essence qi he inhaled and exhaled through cultivation, because what sprayed out was all liquid-state Immortal Realm essence qi.
Even when World King Realm experts extracted essence qi down from the Immortal Realm, it was in the form of gas flows; they could not possibly condense it to the level of a liquid. Only after reaching the eighth level of the Longevity Secret Realm, the Chaos Hole Realm, and passing the lightning tribulation, could an expert be this formidable.
Who knows how much gas was needed to compress and produce a single drop of liquid Immortal Realm essence qi.
"Good, good, good! Cultivating inside the Tianwu Storehouse, I am advancing a thousand miles a day. Meanwhile, that kid Fang Han is constantly depleting himself within the Tianwu Storehouse. Once he is completely exhausted, I will kill him!" Hua Tiandu thought with smug satisfaction.
"Someone else has entered the Tianwu Storehouse." The Desolate God King said.
Right there in the bronze mirror, many powerful existences were seen filing in one after another. However, they did not enter through the main doors, but had chosen some secretive areas, using methods to squeeze through the operational gaps of the Tianwu Storehouse.
"What powerful mythical beasts, both of them. Hmm? Meng Shaobai!" Hua Tiandu saw a person appear among the entering shadows, and conspiratorial thoughts involuntarily surfaced on his face once again.
"Fang Han, if this continues, I am afraid we will hardly be able to afford the consumption." While flying behind the Human Emperor Pen, Fang Qingxue suddenly transmitted her divine sense to Fang Han: "Although I absorbed a massive amount of Immortal Realm essence qi just now, the consumption is also significant. The Tianwu Storehouse is fraught with danger, and every time a spell is cast or a flight is made, there is a drain with no replenishment. If we encounter powerful existences and a battle of magic breaks out, the mana consumed will be even greater. Your current stock of Pure Yang Pills is not very sufficient either. We must make plans for the long term."
"Is that so? This point, I have also considered it. I encountered a similar situation in the Taiyuan Immortal Mansion before. Luckily, I have the World Tree, which can communicate with the Immortal Realm, ignoring the confinement of various laws. I will now try the World Tree again to see if I can absorb Immortal Realm essence qi."
Fang Han said.
"The amount of Immortal Realm essence qi your World Tree absorbs is at most the quantity of a Ten Thousand Years Realm existence. What use is that?" Feng Yaoguang shook her head.
Fang Han's mind stirred, placing all his thoughts on the World Tree.
All of a sudden, he felt that the World Tree seemed to have thoroughly connected with a certain powerful existence within the Tianwu Storehouse. An extremely surging liquid of Immortal Realm essence qi rushed forth from above, permeating his own cave heaven.