Fang Han felt a trace of tension in his heart. Ying Xiantian was old and cunning, excelling in Xiantian Divine Calculation, just as formidable as Feng Baiyu. Both were people Fang Han could not see through. Since he brought out his own life and fortune to make a bet, he definitely would have supreme means to resolve Fang Qingxue's Immortal Ancient Thunder Cannon.
This bet between two figures who feared neither heaven nor earth was truly large enough.
Ying Xiantian was genuinely standing there, entirely motionless. It seemed he was truly prepared to use the cave heaven he had bitterly cultivated to forcefully resist a killing strike from Fang Qingxue's Immortal Ancient Thunder Cannon and decide a victor.
After presenting the City of Violent Thunder, Fang Qingxue did not make a move. Instead, she took a deep breath. A surge of mana circulated within her body, and streams of destiny aura began to swirl around her physical form. It was formless and shapeless, yet anyone could tell she was operating a magical spell to launch a fatal strike.
Her clothes fluttered automatically without wind and began to dance in the air. On her plain white clothes, ancient lightning patterns manifested, forming numerous talismanic formations.
Seeing Fang Qingxue in this state, Ying Xiantian's complexion changed slightly, turning immensely solemn. The hands he originally clasped behind his back were released, and his ten fingers trembled. Above them, currents resembling white bones flowed, appearing to be condensing a kind of defensive grand array to resist this impact from Fang Qingxue.
"Ying Xiantian, it is useless. I have seen through everything about you. Today, I will let you know what it means to be a person who truly stole destiny." Fang Qingxue tightly shut her eyes, and then abruptly opened them wide. A vast and resonant voice burst forth from her mouth.
"The eternal destiny between heaven and earth, your power flows within the long river of time, space, life, death, and reincarnation. Any person attempting to dictate you will be conquered by your power. The power of destiny is beyond compare. The majesty of destiny masters all heavens. Even the Gate of Eternal Life cannot suppress your existence…"
It was unknown what kind of scripture Fang Qingxue was murmuring. Amidst rumbling sounds, an unnamed power above her head actually pierced through the blockade of time and space, and even pierced through the blockade of the Tianwu Storehouse, sensing a wondrous existence.
Faintly, Ying Xiantian saw it. Above Fang Qingxue's head, the phantom shadow of a massive gate seemed to manifest. This gate was not the Gate of the Immortal Realm and carried not a trace of power. But compared to the Gate of the Immortal Realm, it possessed a fundamentally unimaginable ancient, protracted, and simply inconceivable aura. The physical form of this gate could not be clearly seen by anyone. But on the gate, there appeared to be an ancient couplet written in ancient script, somewhat similar to the font of the couplet on the Tianwu Storehouse: "When heaven and earth decay, I do not decay; when the sun and moon perish, I do not perish." The horizontal scroll above it read two large characters: "Eternal Life."
Seeing the phantom shadow of this gate, Ying Xiantian's complexion finally changed drastically in an instant.
"Between heaven and earth, the most supreme, transcending the Immortal Realm, purely ethereal. Even immortals cannot find or glimpse its true body—the Gate of Eternal Life!" Ying Xiantian let out a long howl. His experience was extraordinary. Having read many ancient hidden texts of Daoist schools, he knew that within the Immortal Realm existed an entity known as the Gate of Eternal Life. This Gate of Eternal Life had spewed out the Three Thousand Great Daos and was the source origin of the Dao.
However, the shadow of this Gate of Eternal Life above Fang Qingxue's head right now was not the true Gate of Eternal Life, but a tiny imprint left behind from her memories over thousands of past lives.
When she was the Heavenly Lord of the Lightning Mother, she had once seen the Gate of Eternal Life. Thus, the memory of the Gate of Eternal Life was deeply branded into her memory; even through thousands of lifetimes, it could not be obliterated.
Just looking at the Gate of Eternal Life once, its form and memory left within her soul imprint held such power. If the actual Gate of Eternal Life manifested before one's eyes, what would that be like?
The Gate of Eternal Life was impossible for even the immortals of the Immortal Realm to see. Only existences who had comprehended Genesis, such as Daoist Primordial, the World Sovereign King Buddha of Independence, and the Saint King of Genesis of the Protoss, had the opportunity to lay eyes on it.
"Gate of Eternal Life? This is the Gate of Eternal Life Fang Qingxue once saw? In the legends, anyone who has seen the Gate of Eternal Life is an existence with tremendous destined fortune; even the Three Emperors never saw the Gate of Eternal Life. To think this Fang Qingxue could actually execute a bizarre Dao spell to manifest her impression of the Gate of Eternal Life from within her magic… This! This is simply inconceivable. Although this Gate of Eternal Life does not have a single trace of power, that powerful will, representing the most supreme realm of the Immortal Realm, a realm pursued by all heavenly deities, buddhas, immortals, and demons, is fully capable of disintegrating anyone's willpower."
The Human Emperor Pen was also somewhat shocked.
Only those who had seen the true Gate of Eternal Life with their own eyes could receive such a shock within their soul imprint.
"Immortal Ancient Thunder Cannon, bear my will. Bearing the will of the Gate of Eternal Life, crush everything. Your power cannot be stopped by anyone. When heaven and earth decay, I do not decay; when the sun and moon perish, I do not perish. The will of Eternal Life cannot be surpassed by anyone."
Within the City of Violent Thunder, the bronze great cannon surfaced once again, flashing with the radiance of lightning. And that phantom shadow of the "Gate of Eternal Life" above Fang Qingxue's head suddenly plunged directly into the phantom of the Immortal Ancient Thunder Cannon.
Boom!
The Immortal Ancient Thunder Cannon was urged once more. Auras of prehistoric, primeval, initial creation, the Immortal Realm, and absolute supremacy… epic-like auras shot out from it.
Ying Xiantian, this peerless old demon, finally could not endure any longer. His previously absolute confidence completely vanished after seeing the phantom of the Gate of Eternal Life. Although he was old and cunning and highly calculating, having prepared a series of methods to win this bet, the imprint of the Gate of Eternal Life was simply not something he could withstand, nor something he could have imagined.
"Hahaha, hahaha! Fang Qingxue, you are truly worthy of being the reincarnation of the Heavenly Lord of the Lightning Mother, to be this formidable. However, it seems right now is not the time for our contest, because my great arch-enemy, Su Xiuyi, is snooping nearby." Ying Xiantian suddenly moved his body. It was unknown what Dao spell he deployed, but he shifted away. He actually went back on his word and departed from his original position, teleporting away before Fang Qingxue could fire the Immortal Ancient Thunder Cannon.
"Going back on your word, what sort of Demonic Emperor is that? Xiantian Great Emperor, it seems you are an Emperor of Cowards!" Upon seeing this, Fang Qingxue shifted her body, continuing to lock the Immortal Ancient Thunder Cannon onto Ying Xiantian.
She was about to fire the cannon and blast it out.
"Hahahaha, hahaha!"
Right at this moment, an unexpected mutation occurred! A gigantic palm manifested behind Fang Qingxue. This palm was slender and pale, yet bore a profound demonic aura. The fingernails were exceedingly long, fully nine inches, slicing through space as simply as cutting through mud. In the center of the palm, a sinister eyeball was flashing, releasing a power of reincarnation from within. It blasted toward the vital acupuncture points on Fang Qingxue's back, and simultaneously, the aura of the reincarnation power clawed at Fang Qingxue's head.
It was actually a sneak attack.
A sneak attack from a top-tier expert, moreover a figure at the peak of the Heavenly Position Realm.
It was Su Xiuyi's palm.
"Ying Xiantian, your Xiantian Divine Calculation and schemes are indeed stellar, knowing that at this very moment, Fang Qingxue would lose her resistance. The moment she is at her strongest is also the moment she has the least capacity to defend. Taking her soul imprint and acquiring the mark of the Gate of Eternal Life to comprehend it might just allow me to break through my realm!"
In the air, Su Xiuyi's sinister voice resonated loud and clear: "To think, Fang Qingxue, I actually couldn't kill you last time, and let you recover instead. This time, you will meet a thorough death."
The speed was unimaginably fast. Under the grabbing force of Su Xiuyi's palm, time itself began to slow down.
"Halt!"
Right at this time, the Human Emperor Pen wrote with bold, sweeping strokes, drawing the character "Halt" in the air in a trillionth of a split second. Instantly, taking him as the center, everything within a ten-thousand-mile radius became completely still. He had influenced the power of time within a ten-thousand-mile radius.
"It's useless. Earth Emperor Book!"
On Su Xiuyi's palm, a book appeared. Its pages were blank white paper, not having any writing on them. But with a slight shake, the character "Halt" written by the Human Emperor Pen suddenly completely disappeared and manifested onto the blank pages of this book. The stilled power of time between heaven and earth immediately returned to normal.
"Although the Human Emperor Pen is the sharpest existence between heaven and earth, the characters written by a pen must ultimately fall onto a book. This is the eternal and unchanging truth. Only the Earth Emperor Book can bear the characters of the Human Emperor Pen. The earth is vast, and its great virtue carries all things." The book manifesting in Su Xiuyi's hands was precisely the Earth Emperor Book. It was not a phantom shadow, but the true main body.
The true main body of the Earth Emperor Book.
The ancient supreme treasure of the Three Emperors.
"Su Xiuyi, did you really think you could successfully sneak attack me?" Engulfed by Su Xiuyi's sneak attack, Fang Qingxue did not mind in the slightest. Her body shrank, directly disappearing from sight, while Su Xiuyi's palm grabbed onto the muzzle of a gigantic bronze cannon in the next instant.
Boom!
The muzzle of this gigantic bronze cannon flashed with piercing light, blasting out a shot. A light stretching for ten thousand miles seemed intent on completely shattering the entire Tianwu Storehouse to pieces.
And Su Xiuyi's palm, under the force of the Immortal Ancient Thunder Cannon once again, forcibly exploded.
"Evil spawn, do you think that by obtaining the main body of the Earth Emperor Book, you can bear my writing? Even when the Earth Emperor Book was at its prime, it would not dare easily receive my present writing. Now, I will let you know what true unity of heaven and earth is." The Human Emperor Pen stared into the depths of the void at the faintly manifesting shadow of Su Xiuyi's main body, and consecutively wrote two characters: "Break Illusions"!
Crack, crash! Fully over a hundred million layers of parallel space were pulverized, shattering into countless bits of powder like fragile glass. Su Xiuyi's physical form was instantly revealed. In his palm, he gripped a scroll of a book. Seeing the Human Emperor Pen acting so ferociously, he was also taken aback. However, he was also an expert of the Heavenly Position Realm. He brought his hands together and suddenly deployed the Great Reincarnation Spell. Boundless Pure Yang Pills poured into the Earth Emperor Book.
On the entirety of the Earth Emperor Book, a shadow of the Xuanhuang Great World appeared, slowly pressing down heavily toward the Human Emperor Pen to suppress it.