Chapter 515: Characteristics of the Manghuang Ji Realm

Fang Yu stood in place, sensing a peculiar change.

In the Eternal Life Realm, he could never comprehend the runes of Lesser Fate Art—as if such an ultimate Divine Ability was beyond his right to cultivate.

But after arriving in the Desolate Wilds Realm, Fang Yu felt that the runes of Lesser Fate Art were gradually becoming comprehensible.

Without the blessing of Yongshengzhi Sect, without being in the Eternal Life Realm, the syllables of Lesser Fate Art flowed repeatedly in his heart, producing a subtle resonance, no longer as obscure and difficult as before.

"The vessel of fate is Qi; the root of Qi is fate; ceaseless renewal is fortune. What is destined by law is fate."

Suddenly, an ancient thought flowed into Fang Yu's mind.

At the moment this ancient thought appeared, Fang Yu sensed a strange Xu Yuan Qi flowing through the void—even in the Desolate Wilds Realm, this Xu Yuan Qi still flowed.

But in the Desolate Wilds Realm, this Xu Yuan Qi did not dominate the Qi of heaven and earth, and Fang Yu could not use it to rapidly cultivate his Divine Abilities.

He had merely comprehended some essence of Lesser Fate Art, but could not directly cheat like Fang Qingxue.

The cultivation of Lesser Fate Art is divided into two parts: the first is to comprehend the mysterious force deep within endless time and space—it is not among the Five Elements, not among Thunder Qi, not among any force known to humans, but a power born of the union of Xu Yuan Qi and cosmic law, called Fate Force.

The second part is to burn one's lifespan, converting it into Fate Force, enabling impossible feats—such as rapidly cultivating Divine Abilities, or even stripping others of their abilities.

In the Eternal Life Realm, Fang Qingxue often burned her lifespan—each time hundreds of years—allowing her to instantly bring a Great Dao to perfect completion, terrifying indeed.

Consider Yan Yan Shuiyi, a peerless expert: to master End-Time Calamity, she had to travel to perilous places to absorb Calamity Qi, enduring bitter cultivation for three hundred years to reach perfect completion.

But Fang Qingxue could instantly master End-Time Calamity—though she would pay with three hundred years of lifespan.

Both took three hundred years—but in reality, Yan Yan Shuiyi endured three hundred years, while Fang Qingxue endured only an instant.

The horror of Lesser Fate Art is evident.

Yet Lesser Fate Art was extraordinarily difficult for Fang Yu—he could not comprehend it at all in the Eternal Life Realm, and though he could now comprehend it in the Desolate Wilds Realm, it lacked its great power and could not perform impossible feats.

This ultimate Divine Ability was deeply tied to Yongshengzhi Sect, heavily bolstered by its blessing.

Fang Yu even had a premonition: even if he truly comprehended this section of Lesser Fate Art now, returning to the Eternal Life Realm would likely strip him of the right to use it.

This cheat is forbidden by Yongshengzhi Sect.

Of course, Fang Yu was not utterly desperate—without Lesser Fate Art, he had still forged a Jin Dan imbued with ninety-nine Divine Abilities; among all Jin Dan, who held supremacy? Look at Fang Yu—empty.

The Jin Dan experts of Taiyi Sect and the Shenzu's Divine Kings had all confirmed this fact.

Now, the three Jin Dan of Taiyi Sect rested within the Li Huo Divine Furnace, and the six Shenzu Divine Kings wore expressions of utter terror, for they found they could no longer draw energy from the Void God Realm, could not restore their power.

"What is this? Impossible! Impossible! Why has our connection to the Divine Realm been blocked? This is fundamentally impossible! Even a Peerless Dao Artifact could not block our link to the Divine Realm!"

Da Xia Divine King felt fear.

"We are Divine Kings—our True God Seeds long ago anchored into the void, drawing divine power from the Void God Realm. Even if reduced to dust, we cannot die—we are nearly immortal, yet why do I now feel fear?"

"Where are we? My Lord Hen Tian, come save us! Why have you not yet divined what happened in the past to rescue us?"

Dahe Divine King also trembled in shock and fear.

They knew well the power of their master, Hen Tian Divine Emperor—he should have rescued them long ago, yet he had not come.

The future holds infinite possibilities, so even a Great Luo Immortal struggles to predict it; but the past is fixed, and thus easier to divine.

With the strength of their master, Hen Tian Divine Emperor, he should easily have divined the past—but he has not rescued them, and they now find themselves trapped in an illusion where they cannot draw divine power—this means they are truly in danger.

"You six Divine Kings now realize the danger? Die."

Fang Yu carefully counted his gains; seeing the expressions of the six Divine Kings, he naturally understood why they had paled.

The Desolate Wilds Realm has no Divine Realm—they cannot draw divine power at all. Even if their True God Seeds were anchored in the void, they were useless—like saints who merged with Heaven's Dao in their world, immortal and unkillable, yet when removed from that world and no longer merged with the Dao, they too could perish.

These Divine Kings now had no ability to anchor their True God Seeds in the void; when Fang Yu activated Cang Qiong Piercing Divine Spear, the six Divine Kings died utterly.

"Ri Yue Jing Lun, your masters, the six Divine Kings, are dead. Will you not submit to me now?"

With the six Divine Kings dead, Fang Yu turned his gaze to the two mid-grade Dao Artifacts: "Ri Yue Jing Lun."

These two mid-grade Dao Artifacts were immensely powerful; though suppressed by Fang Yu's Li Huo Divine Furnace, he could not easily subjugate them.

Mid-grade Dao Artifacts are no trivial matter!

Only cultivators who have reached the Longevity Secret Realm and attained Immortal Body can forge them—when the artifact's spirit merges with its body, its strength equals that of a Longevity Realm, 2nd Stage Immortal Body expert.

To make such an expert submit to Fang Yu, a 7th Stage of Divine Abilities in the Golden Core Realm, was exceedingly difficult.

In truth, experts of the Divine Ability Secret Realm struggle to unleash a Dao Artifact's full power—because even the lowest Dao Artifact equals a Longevity Secret Realm expert; forcing one with Divine Ability Secret Realm power is like a child swinging a great hammer.

Fortunately, as long as a Dao Artifact obeys, it can fight on its own.

You are a mature Dao Artifact—you can cultivate yourself, fight your own battles, subjugate other Dao Artifacts.

You want me to activate you? Then I'll reward you with Pure Yang Pills and make you rage.

Now, without their masters to rage them, the two mid-grade Dao Artifacts, Ri Yue Jing Lun, were not unleashing their full power, and Fang Yu had not raged his Li Huo Divine Furnace either—yet he still held them suppressed.

But this meant the Li Huo Divine Furnace was now tied down.

"Fang Yu, don't even dream of making us submit! Hen Tian Divine Emperor will tear you into a thousand pieces! I, Chi Chi Yanyang, was born a Shenzu, and die a Shenzu! If you have the guts, destroy me entirely—ha ha, but if you destroy me, the Ri Jing Lun's rank will drop several levels—you'll end up with a worthless piece!"

The spirit of the Ri Jing Lun was a powerful man in golden robes; each ripple of solar light seemed to summon the sun itself, scorching gold and molten fire.

This golden-robed spirit had a name: "Chi Chi Yanyang." If he unleashed his full power, a single beam of light would evaporate everything within ten thousand li.

Now he refused to submit to Fang Yu, saying, "If you can destroy me, then the Ri Jing Lun becomes worthless."

He called himself worthless.

"Hmph! I, Leng Yuehua, will never submit! We were forged over ten thousand years by Hen Tian Luo Pan absorbing the essence of sun and moon—Hen Tian Divine Emperor is our true master! We were born to slaughter for the Shenzu—give up this idea!"

The spirit of the Yue Jing Lun was called "Leng Yuehua," a woman clad in lunar-black robes, with rings of lunar radiance rippling behind her head.

"Ungrateful fools—I have time to break you. Li Huo, you too cultivate Great Universal Liberation Light—properly guide them to salvation!"

Fang Yu spoke to the spirit of the Li Huo Divine Furnace beside him.

He had named the spirit of the Li Huo Divine Furnace "Li Huo"—it didn't sound very majestic, but naming the spirit of the Li Huo Divine Furnace "Li Huo" was perfectly reasonable and direct.

"Yes."

The spirit of this top-grade Dao Artifact, "Li Huo," nodded and began to cultivate.

The cultivation of the Great Universal Salvation Zen Light relies entirely on no external source; it is a cultivation of the mind. As long as one harbors benevolent thoughts, one can ceaselessly cultivate the Universal Salvation Zen Light, and in time, by accumulating the little into the much, one can deliver other living beings back to the righteous path.

Fang Yu himself, however, had not cultivated this great Dao.

Of the three thousand great Daos, the Great Universal Salvation Art.

Of the three thousand great Daos, the Great Confinement Art.

Of the three thousand great Daos, the Great Curse Art.

Of the three thousand great Daos, the Great Calamity Art.

These four great-Dao-level divine abilities, he had cultivated none of them, because above the Jin Dan his divine abilities were full, leaving no room to cultivate more.

Now Fang Yu also felt that the divine abilities he had cultivated in the past were a bit too many — why had he cultivated ninety-nine kinds to condense the Jin Dan? Now that he had obtained a great Dao, he could not cultivate it, and it was truly vexing.

Had he known it would be like this, he should have used only ninety kinds of divine abilities to cultivate to the Golden Core Realm; that way, upon obtaining a new great-Dao divine ability, he could also cultivate it.

"But now this is the Desolate Wilds Epoch Realm, where there are other choices. It seems one can cultivate more than a hundred kinds of divine abilities, but after going back…"

Fang Yu kept sensing his own cultivation state. He discovered that in this Desolate Wilds Epoch, there did not seem to exist any law of heaven and earth limiting him from cultivating more divine abilities, yet he did not immediately begin cultivating, because sooner or later he would have to go back.

What if, above the Jin Dan, he cultivated over a hundred kinds of divine abilities, yet the Eternal Life Realm did not permit it — that would also be quite troublesome.

Fang Yu thought of several solutions: one was to cultivate divine abilities but not place them within his own Jin Dan, instead sealing them upon a magic treasure; another was to cultivate a third avatar, a second Primordial Spirit, or the like within the Desolate Wilds Epoch Realm.

Such secret cultivation methods, the Desolate Wilds Epoch Realm seemed to possess.

Thus Fang Yu finally took his steps, heading toward the nearby city of Chancheng.

As he walked over, he casually used his divine sense to sense that broken bell he had obtained this time within the Great Mysterious Ruins; no matter how he looked at it, he could not discern the broken bell's awesomeness.

Clearly it was because his own realm was insufficient; he needed to elevate the realm before he could make out a thing or two.

"It must be a good thing. I wonder if it's some fragment of an immortal artifact."