"Xuan Wugu? He used me!"
Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable froze. Hearing Fang Han's words, a trace of anger appeared on his face: "I understand. Xuan Wugu knew that you, boy, are full of tricks and possess an extreme amount of peerless Dao artifacts. He had no confidence in defeating you himself, so he dragged me down into the water? Since it is so, I must go before Xuan Wugu and lay it out clearly! Between us, there is no enmity or grudge. My Great Yi Sect awes the heavens and all worlds. Release my two disciples, and the matter between us will be wiped clean."
"Hahaha!" Fang Han looked at Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable with a gaze meant for an idiot: "Do you take me for an idiot? You actually know in your heart that Xuan Wugu is using you, but you also wished to control my Yuhua Sect to gain benefits during the great tribulation of the Shen clan. Any person would covet the treasures of the Xuanhuang Great World. Just now, you couldn't defeat me, so you merely used this to find a way to step down. It's like this: I will not return the disciples to you. My world has just formed and precisely needs powerful living beings and magic treasures to suppress it. Having managed with great difficulty to obtain your two Light of Cosmos Realm disciples, do you think I would give them up easily?"
"Young man, do not be too extreme in everything you do. Doing things too absolutely brings no benefit to you. You probably do not know the strength of my Great Yi Sect." An intense murderous intent flashed in Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable's eyes, but he still refrained from acting: "My Great Yi Sect…"
"Enough, you don't need to say more. I am well aware of the Great Yi Sect." Fang Han waved his hand. "Does your Great Yi Sect have a person called True Lord Qi? He opened a chamber of commerce called True Lord Pavilion on the Treasure Division Rock. I might as well tell you right now, if he still doesn't bring the ransom to redeem his son, I am going to tear up the ticket."
"What? You kidnapped True Lord Qi's son." Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable was greatly shocked.
"That's right. Qi Minghao, come out and meet a senior from your Great Yi Sect." Fang Han waved his hand, and the Qi Young Master flew out from the Eight Divisions Pagoda, pressing his palms together: "So it is Martial Uncle Zhou Tian. I have now converted to the Master and attained great rejoicing and great happiness. Martial Uncle Zhou Tian, you are sinking in the sea of bitterness. Quickly convert to the Master. The Master is the true Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. The Kingdom of Eternity."
"Qi Minghao! You've turned into this state." Virtual Immortal Zhou Tian was so enraged he nearly vomited blood, and subsequently, his gaze became increasingly grim and cold: "Boy, do you know who his mother is? The daughter of the Great Yi Sect's sect master! Qi Minghao is the sect master's grandson! By dealing with him this way, once the supreme sect master of my Great Yi Sect is angered, the Xuanhuang Great World will be no more."
"Is that so?" Fang Han said without the slightest care: "I am a person who murders and kidnaps for ransom without considering the consequences. Whether it is you or True Lord Qi, to save your son or your disciples, you must bring out the ransom. Let's do this: for your two disciples, bring out two peerless Dao artifacts, and I will release them. How about that?"
"Two peerless Dao artifacts!" Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable nearly sprayed out a mouthful of fresh blood. "It seems you are forcing me. I must employ even more formidable methods to eradicate you; otherwise, my Great Yi Sect will have no face left. Today, both you and the Yuhua Sect must be destroyed."
While speaking, this Virtual Immortal expert let out a long howl: "Feng Baiyu and the Three Saints of Yuhua down below, if you capture this unworthy disciple first, I can forgive your sinful karma. You need to think clearly whether you want to oppose my Great Yi Sect for a single unworthy disciple."
These words were transmitted into the ears of the Three Saints of Yuhua, whose expressions changed again and again.
"Where is all this nonsense coming from!"
Seeing this, Fang Han suddenly lunged forward, chopping a palm toward Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable. In this palm, he applied the Great Poison Technique once more. In the center of his palm, however, nine streams of clear light surfaced. Each of these nine streams of clear light was as vastly boundless as a galaxy, communicating with a mysterious alternate dimension.
Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable originally wanted to counterattack, but upon seeing these nine streams of astral energy, it was as if he had seen a ghost: "Nine Clears Supreme Astral Energy! What is your relationship with the Nine Clears Supreme Heaven?"
"Nonsense!" Fang Han continued to urge this astral energy, sweeping it over.
Through dual cultivation with Mibao, Mibao's natal astral energy was integrated into the world within his body, while the natal primeval power refined from his own various divine abilities was also channeled into Mibao's body. Through mutual fusion, they basically learned some of each other's divine abilities.
"Kill!" Seeing the immortal astral energy sweeping over, Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable couldn't care about much else. Murderous intent erupted from his mouth. Amidst an explosive shout, he made a grasping motion with his large hand, actually executing the formidable "Heaven's Will Capture Hand" of the Great Yi Sect. With one move, Fang Han's astral energy was blocked and rolled back. Then, his body suddenly shrank, and with a few leaps, he approached Fang Han. Appearing suddenly, he aimed a hand chop at Fang Han's neck: "Heaven's Will like a knife, Time like a blade!"
This move was executed far too exquisitely. Fang Han didn't even have time to defend before the other forcibly intruded into his body's protective circle. It was evident Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable had brought out his ultimate trump card.
This "Heaven's Will Capture Hand" was actually an immortal technique, cultivated by combining the "Great Firmament Technique" and the "Great Soul Technique." Heaven was the Great Firmament Technique, and Will was the soul. Integrating the conceptual state of the Heavens' Hand into the natal soul created Heaven's Will.
Sizzle!
Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable's hand chop was simply the most formidable peerless Dao artifact. As it slashed over, the hairs on Fang Han's neck stood on end. If this hand chop landed, perhaps even his world would be destroyed.
"Disk of Reincarnation!" Without a second thought, Fang Han's body moved. His skin tore open right where Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable's hand chop slashed down, and the Disk of Reincarnation flew out, viciously colliding against Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable's hand chop. The two collided, and both were sent flying backward. Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable retreated continuously in the void, and the Disk of Reincarnation was also taken back into Fang Han's body, spinning for quite a while before finally coming to a stop.
"Whoosh!"
Right as the shaking primeval energy subsided, Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable's figure vanished again. Only a thousand faint shadows were seen shuttling through the void, which abruptly merged into one. Then, the opponent's hand chop, as crystalline as jade, directly pressed against Fang Han's heart. It was completely impossible to guard against and impossible to avoid.
A Virtual Immortal expert was indeed terrifying.
Fang Han took a deep breath. His heart collapsed inward, forming a massive black hole at the location of his heart. This was integrated with his Black Hole laws in coordination with True Lord Wither-Flourish. Combined together, the power multiplied.
Squelch!
Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable's hand chop was inserted into the black hole. Twisting forcefully, an immediate spatial storm was generated, seemingly wanting to shred Fang Han's entire body into pieces. But at this crucial juncture, Fang Han transformed into the Desolate Ancestral Dragon again and clawed downward. A spatial storm emerged, instantly drowning Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable within it.
"What an evil creature!" Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable executed another immortal technique. As his body moved, he transformed into eight clones looking exactly like himself. Moreover, it seemed every single clone possessed the exact same strength as his true self.
Fang Han even felt that the lifespan and life force on Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable's body were burning intensely to support the movement and attacks of the eight avatars. From this, it could be seen that this strike consumed an immense amount of lifespan and carried a great price. However, this was clearly a sure-kill strike meant to thoroughly bury Fang Han here.
"Fang Han, take this move of mine. Yi Dao Form Transformation, Eight Gods Returning to the Extremes!"
It was unknown what movements the eight avatars made, but they wrapped and surrounded Fang Han within. Then, from above, below, and the eight directions, they rolled into a mass, and suddenly detonated, turning into countless runes like an ocean of stars, recreating the cosmos.
"Not good!" Fang Han sensed an intense danger, and his actions were not slow. First, he wrapped himself with the Yellow Springs Diagram, then he used the Eight Divisions Pagoda, the Boundless River Sand, the Water and Fire Wings, and the Great Seal of Sentient Beings to wrap around the outside layer by layer.
Immediately after, the destructive force began to explode on the outside, tearing through the countless restrictions and formation arrays layer by layer. First, the restrictive techniques of the Water and Fire Wings were torn apart, and the power bombarded inward. Then the restrictive techniques of the Boundless River Sand were ripped open. At the very end, the power also penetrated the Great Seal of Sentient Beings, the Eight Divisions Pagoda, and the Yellow Springs Diagram. Destructive force exploded everywhere. The terror of Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable's strike was evident.
"Key of the Desolate God!"
Deep in the core of the Yellow Springs Diagram, Fang Han once again brought forth the Key of the Desolate God, and entered the final core. That mass of the storm crashed onto the Ancestral Witch Mirror. It was abruptly obstructed by an extremely massive force and then dissolved.
"What is going on!"
Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable was greatly shocked: "For this strike, I wasted three hundred thousand years of lifespan and one hundred eighty thousand years of cultivation power to execute the Eight Gods Returning to the Extremes immortal technique. Composed of the Great Avatar Technique, the Great Collapse Technique, and the Great Eight Trigrams Technique, compiling boundless power, and he actually managed to block it."
Amidst the intense storm, Fang Han flew out from within and looked at Zhou Tian Immortal Venerable. "How formidable, what a formidable immortal technique. Yet it still cannot do anything to me. You have now executed your killer move, so it should be time for me to execute my killer move. Weren't you asking for the treasures I obtained in the Heavenly Martial Library? Let me show you what my killer move is."
As Fang Han spoke, a powerful will instantly pierced into the fifth layer crystal wall space of the Key of the Desolate God.
The first crystal wall space of the Key of the Desolate God contained pure yang primeval energy, the second layer contained pills, the third layer contained puppets, and the fourth layer contained numerous treasures. Now that Fang Han had cultivated to the World King Realm, he could already open the fifth layer.
The treasures contained within every layer of the Key of the Desolate God were earth-shattering existences. The further inside, the more formidable the items. Using world laws, Fang Han's powerful will pierced entirely through the fifth layer space, and he saw a pitch-black outer space.
Within this dark canopy of outer space, powerful planets floated.
Aside from this, there was nothing else.
However, Fang Han saw it instantly; those powerful planets, which emitted power similar to fixed stars, were not real planets, but individual talismans.
Every single planet resembling a fixed star was actually transformed from individual talismans! Just how powerful were those talismans?
Fang Han even saw that some small planet talismans were forged by Virtual Immortals—Virtual Immortal Talismans. The slightly larger ones were forged by True Immortals. There were some enormously vast talismans that Fang Han did not even dare approach; they were likely forged by even more powerful Heavenly Immortals, Divine Immortals! Or even profound Immortals.
Those talismans, he simply could not manipulate at all.
Vast outer space, densely packed with talismans transformed into planets! This was the void of the fifth layer of the Key of the Desolate God.