"What, impossible? Even Manager Wu, an expert of the Mixed Hole Realm, could not deduce the nameless brat's identity or any of his past and present, yet you can deduce it?"
Young Master Qi was greatly shocked, unable to believe it.
"Haha, Qi Shao's Great Tribulation Destiny Art has been condensed to the realm of absolute perfection; his deduction abilities naturally differ from the ordinary. Let's see where that brat condensing the Eight Divisions Pagoda is?"
The several youths laughed heartily, greed showing in each of their eyes.
These several youths were all young masters of major chambers of commerce. They appeared absurd and unrestrained, loving enjoyment and play, but in strength, they were all formidable characters. Each one had extremely high cultivation and deeply hidden calculating minds. Turning their hands to form clouds and flipping them to cause rain among the various chambers of commerce in the Cultivation Great World, who knew how many experts, even Void Immortals and True Immortals, they had dealt with in the past.
"Young Master Zhen, your Universal Qi Skill is also a unique marvel under the heavens, a secret art passed down by the ancient immortal Universal Golden Immortal, not in the slightest inferior to the Three Thousand Great Dao. Speaking of deduction abilities, it is also top-tier under heaven. Let us jointly deduce whether this treasure, the Eight Divisions Pagoda, has been successfully refined?"
"Within the Cultivation Great World, it's not easy to do deeds like murder and robbery, right? These are the iron rules established by the Treasure Master."
"No matter, wait until the person leaves the Cultivation Great World before dealing with it. As long as we investigate that person's background, I have ten thousand methods to make that person leave." Qi Shao smiled faintly, his expression suddenly stirring: "Good heavens, that person is actually truly not within the Cultivation Great World. He seems to be moving far away; who knows what he intends to do! The direction he is heading seems to be the Dragon Realm!"
Between Qi Shao's fingers, a stretch of starry sky appeared. A solitary figure was rapidly leaping through the starry sky, moving far away from the Cultivation Great World. This figure seemed to be a young man wearing yellow clothing. Leaping from this planet, he bounced to that planet; sometimes exerting more force, he could leap across dozens of planets.
Using planets as springboards to travel through the universe by leaping also revealed profound magical power and realm.
"This person is precisely that nameless brat!" Upon seeing this figure, Young Master Qi's face instantly showed deep-seated hatred. With one glance, he recognized that the yellow-clad youth leaping on the planets was Fang Han.
"To actually leave the Cultivation Great World, that is seeking his own death. Truly wearing out iron shoes in a fruitless search, only to find him without any effort." Young Master Qi licked his lips, killing intent brewing in his heart.
"Let's go! Time is of the essence; we must immediately go up and intercept him!" Qi Shao sneeered coldly: "After seizing this person's treasures, we will carve them all up. This Eight Divisions Pagoda is an item already in our bags; when the time comes, we will divide it fairly together. Young Master Qi, what is your stance?"
"I don't care, as long as I can kill this brat and vent my terrible anger first. However, this brat's magical power is extremely profound; utilizing magic treasures, even World King Realm experts can do nothing to him."
"Humph! I'd like to see how I can do nothing to him. He has magic treasures, and I have magic treasures too." Qi Shao flew up, a surge of world power rushing out from his body.
"World power! He actually cultivated to the World King Realm!" Young Master Qi felt jealous in his heart; this Qi Shao had actually cultivated to the World King Realm. "However, that nameless brat's strength was enough to even wound Manager Wu. Although you, Qi Shao, possess boundless methods and formidable treasures, you might not be able to swallow it all in one bite. I will let you take the vanguard."
While speaking, these several young masters flew up one after another. In the blink of an eye, they sacrificed piece after piece of powerful treasures, disappearing as their bodies shuttled away. The next moment, they detached from the Cultivation Great World and arrived in the starry sky, then began to leap. Especially that Qi Shao; clusters of halos appeared from within his body, and with a slight movement, thousands of planets were left far behind. Massive stars one by one seemed to assist him in his interstellar leaps. Every time he approached a massive star, a glowing cluster of pure light a million miles large would shoot out from that star and enter his body.
And from the Mud Palace Point atop his head, an odd magic treasure seemed to rise. It looked both like a human and a treasure, and also like a divine beast. As he operated it, a wisp of immortal dao law circulated within.
It actually seemed to be a fragment of an ancient immortal artifact.
Very quickly, Qi Shao had already left the Cultivation Great World very far behind, not knowing which star domain he was flying toward. Moreover, the nebula in his palm showing Fang Han's body was still continuously leaping, never stopping, rushing onward with extreme speed. A full ten or more hours passed, and he was still leaping.
"This person indeed has enduring magical power, but I have ample methods to kill him!" Qi Shao was in no hurry either. He simply stomped his foot, and a pair of boots appeared beneath his feet. On this pair of boots, countless soul phantoms of the Kunpeng actually appeared, flapping their wings. With a slight flap, ten thousand planets were left far behind. It was actually a high-grade dao artifact from the ancient era used for traveling, refined using the Kunpeng's soul and numerous materials.
After pursuing for another two hours, the starry sky before them suddenly changed. The stars became incredibly dense; the clustered planets formed a river of stars flowing in the atmospheric ether. At this very moment, a person was like a single grain of sand in the ocean, incomparably minuscule.
"This is the Heavenly Lamentation Star River. Even Void Immortals or True Immortals cannot fly to its edge, nor have any cultivators ever arrived within." Qi Shao looked at this river of stars, furrowing his brow slightly. In outer space, there were many star rivers composed of hundreds of billions of trillions of planets. No matter how formidable a cultivator was, if they flew inside, they would lose their sense of direction and be unable to reach the end.
However, he merely furrowed his brow slightly and followed down anyway.
As he plunged into the star river, Young Master Qi, Young Master Zhen, and the young masters of several other major chambers of commerce behind him also caught up.
In the tiny fraction of time they rushed into the star river, the several major young masters saw that on an enormous grayish-yellow planet, that yellow-clad youth was standing on a towering mountain peak, gazing up at the starry sky, as if observing astronomical phenomena.
They let out long howls and descended, seeing that this grayish-yellow planet was a dead, barren world devoid of any life, though its surface seemed entirely composed of gold ore, iron ore, and various metallic ores. However, to experts like them, gold no longer had any use. The currency that held use was pure yang pills.
"Various young masters of the chambers of commerce, you have followed me all the way into this star river. You have truly worked hard." Fang Han stood on the desolate mountain peak. This mountain peak rose ten thousand fathoms high, piercing the clouds. He looked up at the starry sky and saw several meteor-like streaks of light speeding down, landing among various peaks. Thus, completely unmoving, he issued a long, drawn-out voice.
"Oh ho!" Qi Shao jolted. Landing on the mountain peak, he looked at the desolate plains, the earth, and the dead world on the planet, then shifted his gaze to Fang Han: "It seems you actually knew we were tracking you. So, you purposely lured us into this star river. What do you intend to do?"
While speaking, Qi Shao's tone remained lazy, not caring in the slightest.
Meanwhile, Young Master Zhen and the two other youths looked at Fang Han with the eyes of evaluating merchandise. As for that Young Master Qi, he hadn't spoken yet; he was pondering how to make a move. He did know of Fang Han's formidable strength. When they departed, he had already transmitted his divine intent to Manager Wu, ordering him to bring the Boundless Constant Sand and pills over.
"Brat, I heard you have the Dragon Race's supreme treasure, the Eight Divisions Pagoda, on you. Our several chambers of commerce wish to do business with you. Take it out. Let us appraise it first. If it is genuine, we will give you a few pills and buy you out," Young Master Zhen said.
Young Master Zhen was the young master of the Zhenyu Pagoda chamber of commerce. Ranked twelfth, it was also a behemoth chamber of commerce.
"Very well. I indeed intentionally lured you all into this star river, because the star river is vast and boundless. It is exactly a good place to kill people and shift the blame. Young Master Qi, you suffered a huge loss in the Splendid Mansion, and you really thought things through. Cooperating with me, luring these people here for me to kill. It truly is a good stratagem."
Fang Han's gaze locked onto Young Master Qi.
"Qi Minghao! You!" One youth immediately looked toward Young Master Qi and shouted angrily.
"With such a stubbornly foolish trick to sew discord, do you take me for a fool?" The young master of the "Zhenyu Pagoda," Young Master Zhen, waved his hand and stared at Fang Han: "What an arrogant tone. Let me see what abilities you have? Hand over the Eight Divisions Pagoda, and I can spare your life. This is not the Cultivation Great World; we can attack as we please. Moreover, you absolutely have no idea how massive the power behind us is."
"Is that so?" Fang Han laughed heartily, his face suddenly sinking. "What abilities I have, by the time you know, you will already be dead." As he spoke, water and fire dual wings suddenly popped out from his back. With a flash of his entire person, a heaven-spanning blaze of fire swept across the scene. Right in front of Young Master Zhen, a massive hand in the shape of a dragon claw manifested, enveloping downward. In the center of the giant dragon claw hand, a pagoda surfaced. The pagoda gave a slight spin. Inside it, hundreds of thousands of low-grade dao artifacts, ten thousand mid-grade dao artifacts, numerous high-grade dao artifacts, and even half-peerless dao artifacts converged into a torrent of magic treasures, flashing in the void. Subsequently, billions of Heavenly Demons jointly channeled their strength. The flames derived from a full ten billion, a hundred billion, or even a trillion pure yang pills catalyzed the magical power of these powerful living beings and the wild violence of various dao artifacts.
A power that only a Void Immortal could contend against appeared before Young Master Zhen.
"Ah!"
Young Master Zhen was caught completely off guard that Fang Han would actually unleash such a tyrannically fierce attack power! He was immediately so horrified that his liver and gallbladder split! Looking at Fang Han, he thought it was a rabbit, never expecting that in the blink of an eye, this rabbit would turn into a male lion. Facing the attack, just as he thought to sacrifice a magic treasure, it was already too late. All the protective clothing and armor across his body ruptured entirely, and his shoes were also shattered into powder. Following that, his entire person turned into a streak of light and was sucked into the Eight Divisions Pagoda, disappearing from sight.
Just one move!
With the effort of just a single move, this young master of the "Zhenyu Pagoda" was completely sucked away, his life or death unknown.
Fang Han's current strength could match that of a peak powerhouse in the Mixed Hole Realm. If he burned his lifespan and consumed pills, he could resist Void Immortals. This Young Master Zhen merely possessed Heaven Position Realm strength; how could he possibly be Fang Han's opponent? He was virtually instantly routed, reduced to a prisoner caught between life and death.
"Scatter swiftly!"
Seeing this kind of situation, Qi Shao was surprisingly still able to remain calm. His body flickered, about to leap out of the star river.
"Too late!" Fang Han's voice was like that of an ancient Nether God.