"The entire Tianya Sect came aggressively, yet now, they have utterly lost face. Thoroughly routed by Mi Bao's single husband, even Absolute Martial God died, refined alive."
An Earthly Dao Master of Taishang Jiuqing Tian shrank his body back, seemingly afraid of being tainted by Fang Han's aura and targeted by this terrifying god of slaughter.
"Yes, far too savage." Another Dao Master also retracted his aura, as though Fang Han were an immemorial ferocious beast. Being able to kill Absolute Martial God on the spot was already a realm beyond an ordinary person's imagination. Unless one was a Divine Immortal, it could not be done: "Absolute Martial God practiced the martial dao, fighting his way step by step to become a Heavenly Immortal. Rumor has it that when he promoted to a Heavenly Immortal, worldly anomalies appeared, the gate to the Heavenly Realm opened, and countless images of war gods rained down from within, seemingly rewarded by a martial dao paramount figure of the Immortal Realm. Who could have guessed that today he would die here without even his bones remaining."
"This Gate Master of Good Fortune, Fang Han, is truly one man holding the pass against ten thousand. It seems what he said at the beginning—that if Mi Bao wasn't released, he would make rivers of blood flow—I thought it was empty talk, but looking at it now, blood is truly going to flow like rivers."
"Unless it draws out the old antiques hiding in our sects to strike, he cannot be dealt with."
"Indeed, but those old antiques have all hidden themselves away, afraid of the Heavenly Realm finding out, so they wouldn't necessarily strike."
"With this, the Dongling Dao Master's standing is likely to rise with the tide, his position among the various dao arenas rapidly elevating. Furthermore, his disciple Mi Bao should be released; no one will forge enmity with Fang Han, this god of slaughter."
"A god of slaughter, indeed. Slaying Absolute Martial God right before our eyes. That might just be a warning to us."
"Far too arrogant, this person is too arrogant. Not to mention injuring the elders of our Taishang Jiuqing Tian, he even wants to confront the Tianya Sect. Why don't we simply have all our Earthly Dao Masters join hands with the experts of the Tianya Sect and obliterate this person once and for all?" The Phantom Dharma King said viciously. "I simply don't believe that with his individual power, he can oppose our two great sects."
"Foolishness!" The Right Vice Sect Master, that languid elder, spoke up: "Can you guarantee that we can definitely kill Fang Han? If we fail to kill him and let him escape, what will we be facing? Endless retaliation; our disciples dying completely clean. Moreover, he is Mi Bao's husband. If we can build an association with this grand expert, it will be immensely beneficial for the development of our Taishang Jiuqing Tian. You must know, our Taishang Jiuqing Tian still has enemies like the Great Yi Religion, the Heaven Pool Sect, the Ancestral Demon Land, the Linen Robe Holy Religion, the Pure Bright Dao… and others. If we can have Fang Han ally with us, out of those sects, how many people could withstand him? Headmaster Supreme, please discern clearly."
Fang Han stood alone, confronting the numerous experts of the Tianya Sect, even threatening to exterminate everyone. Yet against this level of arrogance, no one thought he was bragging; he had just shown more than enough strength.
A massive battle was once again on the verge of breaking out.
However, Ya Wuben of the Tianya Sect had reservations regarding his son and dared not strike first. But he couldn't just stand by either. After Absolute Martial God was refined, he knew that the Tianya Sect had already utterly lost its old face this time. Unless Fang Han was killed and the Gate of Good Fortune destroyed, they would not be able to compensate for this loss of prestige.
"Everyone, heed my words!" Zu Qingting suddenly raised his voice. His body moved, forcefully descending right into the middle between Fang Han and the numerous experts of the Tianya Sect. Standing rock steadfast, he produced a command token in his hand. On it was the form of a Taishang Heavenly Monarch, along with nine streams of pure light.
"Headmaster Supreme, Taishang Sole Sovereign, Nine Rivers of Pure Light, Illuminating the Myriad Realms!"
Seeing this command token, all the Dao Masters, Sect Guardian Dharma Kings, and Left and Right Vice Sect Masters of Taishang Jiuqing Tian stood up. Respectfully and simultaneously, they roared out sixteen words, their momentum condensing and their voices piercing through the nine heavens.
"All Dao Masters, Sect Guardian Dharma Kings, Left and Right Vice Sect Masters, heed the command!" Zu Qingting said, "If anyone engages in slaughter within my Taishang Jiuqing Tian, whoever makes a move will be seen as challenging the majesty of the Taishang Heavenly Monarch, to be killed without pardon!"
"Understood!"
All the experts of Taishang Jiuqing Tian issued a single voice, not daring to say more. However, they grumbled in their hearts; with this, Zu Qingting had essentially laid down an edict forbidding combat.
"You! Zu Qingting, you are shielding this kid, wanting to thoroughly stand against my Tianya Sect." Ya Wuben raged: "My son was captured by the other party; this is a bizarre and profound humiliation."
"Ya Wuben, do you really believe you can deal with Fellow Daoist Fang Han? I am acting to dissolve a blood feud, lest your blood feud deepen further and further." Zu Qingting spoke methodically, "You brought out even the fairy artifact Tianya Holy Dao Ruler and still could not do anything to Fellow Daoist Fang Han. If the fight continues, and Fellow Daoist Fang Han strikes down another of your Heavenly Immortals and refines them directly, integrating them into the Eight Divisions Pagoda, its might will increase yet another level. He grows braver the more he fights. It is highly likely your entire force will be wiped out. Fellow Daoist Fang Han is a heaven-and-earth genius rarely seen in hundreds of millions of years. He is not someone you can obliterate."
"Zu Qingting! By speaking like this, you are openly declaring a blood war with our Tianya Sect?" Ya Wuben spoke sinisterly, murderous intent emerging above his head, seemingly brewing an unparalleled evil fetus: "All Tianya Sect disciples, hear my command! Prepare for a blood war; I would rather forsake my son to uphold the dignity of my Tianya Sect!"
"Ya Wuben! You truly want to act willfully? You want to bury everyone entirely right here. Since that is the case, I will fulfill your wish." Fang Han right now was flushed with success. After refining a Heavenly Immortal, his essential qi surged wildly. He wanted to use an intense battle to further refine a portion of the Flesh and Blood Primeval Womb. He was someone who grew braver the more he fought, fearless of anything.
"Bring Mi Bao up!"
Zu Qingting suddenly spoke, completely disregarding the conversation of the two men, letting out a sudden long whistle.
Hearing this voice, Fang Han furrowed his brows, and Ya Wuben retracted his aura.
Ding dang, ding dang, ding dang… There seemed to be the sound of shackles transmitting from the air. Several experts came into view, leading a woman wearing gray clothes. Shackles adorned both her hands and feet as she appeared here at the headquarters of Taishang Jiuqing Tian. Though this gray-clad woman wore shackles, she was not desolate. Instead, a fathomless aura was brewing upon her body.
"Mi Bao!"
Fang Han rapidly called out. As the sound echoed out, that gray-clad woman violently lifted her head and saw Fang Han, her eyes immediately bursting with radiant vitality! "Fang Han, it really is you! You came to the headquarters of my Taishang Jiuqing Tian; it's dangerous here! How could you come here? Your cultivation…"
Suddenly, Mi Bao seemed to make out the current situation on the ground clearly, and then she saw the young master of the Tianya Sea Pavilion held in Fang Han's hand, suddenly breaking off her speech.
"Your Taishang Jiuqing Tian actually dared to put shackles on my woman! Damn you! Break for me!" The moment Fang Han clearly saw it was Mi Bao, his body shot out like lightning, a destructive force radiating from within him. Everyone present seemed to feel it—an enraged prehistoric Ancestral Dragon entering the Heavenly Realm, swallowing countless immortals in one bite, and even driving away some powerful Heavenly Monarch entities, making them run everywhere. Countless Golden Immortals, Origin Immortals, Ancestral Immortals… all died in the jaws of the prehistoric Ancestral Dragon.
When the Ancestral Dragon rages, immortals lay as corpses.
"Dang!" Dang! Fang Han instantly flew right before Mi Bao. With a tear of his hands, those hard shackles shattered into powder. Following that, a glowing treasure garment appeared in Fang Han’s hands—a glowing garment formed by the Thirty-Three Heavens Divine Light—and he draped it over Mi Bao. Instantly, Mi Bao transformed from looking like a female prisoner into seemingly an ancient goddess, glowing with vitality.
"The magic power within your body has actually been restricted. Despicable. Who dared restrict you! I will shatter this seal!" With that grab, Fang Han discovered that the magic power inside Mi Bao’s body had astonishingly been sealed by a grand array. He immediately deployed his unparalleled divine ability to violently blast the grand array apart.
"Don't, Fang Han. This is the Immortal-Locking Primal Cleaving Array laid down by the joint efforts of numerous Dharma Kings. The moment you make contact, you will face the joint attacks of many Heavenly Immortal paramount figures." Mi Bao instantly resisted.
"Hmph! Heavenly Immortals, Heavenly Immortals—I, your father, will kill them too! Break for me!" Fang Han didn't care in the slightest. He blasted out with a palm strike; his qi was like the myriad realms, a grand river of the great dao rolling inward. Crackle! Crackle! Within Mi Bao's body, a series of explosions occurred as numerous immortal arrays entirely ruptured, failing to block him in the slightest.
The moment the grand array broke, instantly, within the ranks of Taishang Jiuqing Tian, five Sect Guardian Dharma Kings in a row convulsed, their faces turning deathly pale, fresh blood trickling from the corners of their mouths—their Life Primal Spirit had been injured. It was the seal they had cast. Because it had been instantaneously blasted apart by Fang Han, they were hurt.
"Headmaster Supreme, Fang Han struck first, destroying our Sect Guardian Dharma Kings' Primal Spirit avatars." Seeing this situation, Hua Zixu was instantly enraged.
"Shut your mouth!" Zu Qingting waved a hand, saying loudly to Fang Han, "Fellow Daoist Fang Han, your wife Mi Bao has already been rescued by you. However, how should the grudge between you and the Tianya Sect be settled now? At the very least, you should first return the young pavilion master to Daoist Brother Ya Wuben."
"Hmph! This piece of trash, I have no use for him anyway, just take him." Fang Han threw out a punch, sending the sealed young pavilion master flying straight toward Ya Wuben.
Ya Wuben immediately caught him and transferred immortal qi into his son's body to heal his injuries.
"Fang Han, you have actually grown to such an extent…" Mi Bao instantaneously recovered her divine ability magic power. Looking at Fang Han, and having already grasped the gist of the situation, she spoke softly.
"I heard news about you in the Cultivation Great World and immediately hurried over. Only by consecutively defeating several of your Taishang Jiuqing Tian’s Dao Masters, Dharma Kings, and even that Hua Zixu, and killing the Tianya Sect’s Absolute Martial God—refining him directly—was I able to force them to hand you over. Otherwise, today I truly would have dyed Jiuqing in blood and leveled Tianya, seeing who would dare stop me." Fang Han held onto Mi Bao's hand. "Your father, the Treasure Master, has died, but you still have me. With me here, even if the heavens want to punish you, they will first have to see if they can kill me, Fang Han!"
"Fang Han, you…" Listening to Fang Han's boundlessly domineering words, Mi Bao's heart felt uncomparable happiness and sweetness. The man before her, for her sake, had actually performed such deeds, risking offending two great sects and executing Heavenly Immortal figures. Where could one find such a man in all of this life and world? Yet, she had him grasped in her hands.
"Disciple, the absolute arts you comprehended down in the prison, it's about time to unleash them and let the Headmaster Supreme take a look." The Dongling Dao Master descended, arriving right beside Fang Han and Mi Bao.