Chapter 985: The Great Xuan Empire's Adventures—How Numerous They Are!

In the Great Xuan Empire, Fang Yu's junior brother, Fang Han, had actually obtained a fragment of the World Tree.

Regarding this matter, Fang Yu felt it was both unexpected and, at the same time, perfectly reasonable.

Back then, the World Tree of the Xuanhuang Great World was severed by the Holy King of the Divine Race, and countless fragments were left behind in the Xuanhuang Great World. So across the vast territory of the Great Xuan Empire within the Xuanhuang Great World, there was still a chance of obtaining other fragments of the World Tree.

But whether one could actually obtain one depended on fortune.

Clearly, this time their fortune was good. The experts under Prince Yi's command were also highly capable, managing to find three fragments of the World Tree as tall as a person, which caused Fang Han's World Tree strength to undergo a tremendous boost.

This was a good thing.

The stronger the power of the World Tree, the greater its ability to inhale and exhale the Xu Yuan Qi of the Immortal Realm, and the more it would suppress the Divine Race. In the future, if they went out traveling together, they might be able to capture even stronger Divine Race Divine Emperors and refine them into Longevity Fruits.

"Two Immortal Reverends, my Great Xuan Empire has numerous ruins. What is recorded in this 'Xuanhuang Secret Records' is merely what this prince has noted down. There is much more within my Imperial Family's Elder Council. Originally, it would have been very difficult for this prince to obtain it, but once my strength reaches the Longevity Secret Realm, my status will greatly increase, and I will be able to gain access to more information about secret realms."

Prince Yi, seeing that the two Immortal Reverends of the Yuhua Sect seemed to be in a very good mood, spoke up. "I wonder if I might invite the two Immortal Reverends to stay here at my residence for a short while. I have a feeling that it won't be too long before I have a chance to break through to the Longevity Secret Realm!"

The Great Xuan Empire's Fourth Imperial Prince, Prince Yi, said with a smile. Standing in the middle of the field, he naturally exuded a powerful aura. Countless mysteries flowed within his physical body, his spiritual power constantly rising, and faintly his Tianmen aura was vast, as if about to connect with a mysterious world.

This was the manifestation of the peak of the 10th Stage of Divine Abilities. A few days earlier, Wan Lianshan, who had received a reward from Exalted Linglong, had possessed such an aura, just one step away from reaching the Longevity Secret Realm.

"Oh? Stay here for a few days?"

Fang Yu's gaze met Fang Han's, and in an instant the two nodded. "That should be fine. You are indeed close to the Longevity Secret Realm now. I can lend you another helping hand. I trust you won't disappoint me."

Fang Yu made a grabbing motion with his great hand, and a stream of liquid Eight Divisions True Dragon Qi appeared in his palm, then surged into Prince Yi's body. In an instant, Prince Yi felt his spirit, magic power, and physical body once again undergoing a frenzied surge. He was truly very, very close to the Longevity Secret Realm.

"Thank you, Immortal Reverends. I will absolutely not disappoint you! I am going into closed-door cultivation right now!"

Prince Yi nearly couldn't resist breaking through immediately, but he held himself back. Cupping his fists toward Fang Yu and Fang Han, he hurried off to enter closed-door cultivation.

To break through to the Longevity Secret Realm, one's essence, qi, and spirit had to reach an extreme, and one's state of mind had to reach the Realm of Dao Comprehension. Right now he was still somewhat impetuous, too overjoyed. He had to enter closed-door cultivation, calm his mind, and only then could he break through.

"Senior Brother Yu, it seems Prince Yi's move was indeed a good one. Perhaps we can obtain even more benefits in the mortal world."

Seeing Prince Yi go into closed-door cultivation, Fang Han clicked his tongue in wonder. Originally, their identities were titans of the Longevity Secret Realm—one an Undying Body, the other a legend of the Grotto-Heaven Realm. The mortal world shouldn't have brought them any benefits. But now it seemed the mortal world held many benefits, because this mortal world was the Xuanhuang Great World, and the Xuanhuang Great World had once been immensely wealthy in ancient times.

"Our Xuanhuang Great World holds many benefits, many ruins and immortal mansions. But to obtain those immortal mansions and ruins, one must be a person of destiny. A single person cannot be the destined one for all immortal mansions and ruins, but once you gather enough people beneath you, you become the destined one for many immortal mansions and ruins."

Fang Yu smiled, his gaze examining an illustrated册 in his hand, the 'Xuanhuang Secret Records'.

"Let's go see what other good places are recorded in Prince Yi's册, waiting for us to explore."

As he spoke, the void before Fang Yu condensed numerous spatial laws into a spatial passage, leading to another secret realm.

This secret realm was an ancient ruin excavated by the Great Xuan Empire, with the aura of antiquity permeating everywhere, though all the treasures within had already been taken.

"You can't pick up bargains every moment of every day."

Fang Yu smiled and continued to traverse the void, arriving at the next secret realm.

What met his eyes was ice and snow everywhere, a vast expanse of white, filled with an aura of biting cold that rushed toward him.

The temperature here was far, far too low. The countless ice-and-snow forces in the void seemed about to freeze a person solid, and the cold wind blowing through the void could directly freeze ordinary Physical Body Secret Realm cultivators and then blow them into ashes.

Even experts at the 10th Stage of Physical Body and Divine Transformation Realm could not survive here for long. As for cultivators of the Divine Ability Secret Realm, before reaching the 5th Stage of Divine Abilities, they could hardly withstand the cold aura here, unless they possessed treasure-grade garments, which could barely force the cold qi out.

This secret realm was called the Ice Xuan Secret Realm, a secret realm beneath the Great Xuan Empire.

Beneath the Great Xuan Empire—or rather, beneath the Xuanhuang Great World—lay numerous other-dimensional spaces, unfathomably deep. Going further down, one could even reach the legendary Nine Nether Lands, where many powerful beings who had perished throughout the Xuanhuang Great World's long history resided, as well as powerful ghosts and gods born from the Xuanhuang Great World's origin force. And back then, the Xuanhuang Great World's Diyimo Sect, the Huangquanmo Sect, had occupied the underground origin of the Xuanhuang Great World within the Nine Nether Lands.

This secret realm called the Ice Xuan Secret Realm covered an area of eight thousand li underground. The treasures on the very surface had all been excavated by the Great Xuan Empire. One could faintly sense the heavenly treasures that had once been here—countless mineral veins called Ice Xuan Ore, which could be refined into top-grade treasure artifacts.

And besides the Ice Xuan Ore, countless spirit herbs called Ice Xuan Grass had once grown here. If gathered, they would greatly benefit cultivators practicing ice-element Dao techniques and divine abilities.

The Yuhua Sect possessed a great divine ability called the Heaven-Cold Mysterious Darkness Force, which required gathering vast amounts of ice-cold force to cultivate successfully. Therefore, disciples of the Yuhua Sect who wished to cultivate this great divine ability often had to travel far, journeying to frigid lands to gather mysterious ice force, then cultivate bitterly for a full sixty-year cycle before succeeding.

Back then, Hua Tiandu's most pretentious experience was using the Heaven-Cold Mysterious Darkness Force to make it snow over the Great旭 Dynasty. The mysterious ice qi erupted, directly shrouding an area of eight thousand li, with snow falling three feet deep, so shocking that the Emperor of the Great旭 Dynasty wanted to send his Princess to Hua Tiandu as a maidservant.

That was truly an impressive display.

Of course, today, Fang Yu's prestige far surpassed Hua Tiandu's. The Princess of the Great Li Dynasty, the Princess of the Great Virtue Dynasty, or even the Emperor of the Great旭 Dynasty—all of them dreamed of entering Fang Yu's Yuhua Sect, even as a Yigewai Sect disciple. If they could enter Yuhua Sect's Feather Peak, it would be the luck of eight lifetimes for them.

Fang Yu's Feather Peak, to the Imperial Princes, Princesses, Emperors, and Empresses of the mortal world, was a place like the legendary Immortal Realm.

And now, Fang Yu, the Immortal Reverend in the eyes of others, had arrived in the mortal world, arriving at the Ice Xuan Secret Realm.

"There is one benefit here."

Fang Yu's divine sense directly enveloped the eight-thousand-li Ice Xuan Secret Realm. He saw that the treasures and mineral veins on the very surface of this eight-thousand-li Ice Xuan Secret Realm had all been explored, nothing left behind. But at the deepest point of this Ice Xuan Secret Realm, ten thousand zhang below, there was a Mysterious Ice Pearl. It was precisely the presence of this pearl that had condensed this eight-thousand-li secret realm.

That pearl was hidden in an extremely dark void, yet it radiated all manner of cold qi, causing this secret realm to remain covered in ice and snow to this day, incomparably cold.

"It seems those disciples weren't strong enough, and the people sent by the Great Xuan Empire's Imperial Family Elder Council weren't Grotto-Heaven Realm experts either, otherwise they wouldn't have left this Mysterious Ice Pearl for me."

Fang Yu smiled and made a grabbing motion with his great hand. Instantly, the pearl ten thousand zhang below flew directly into his hand. Boundless cold qi suddenly spread across his great hand, as if about to freeze it solid. But rolling great Dao divine abilities circulated within that hand of his, displaying the might of the Great Five Elements, Great Yin-Yang, Great Chaos, Great Freezing and other great Dao divine abilities. Though the pearl was powerful, it still could not do anything to Fang Yu.

"Congratulations, Senior Brother Yu, on obtaining such a treasure! This time the Great Xuan Empire has suffered a loss. The grade of this pearl is at least a top-grade Dao artifact, yet they failed to discover it! With this pearl, the disciples of our Yuhua Sect will no longer need to travel far to cultivate the Heaven-Cold Mysterious Darkness Force. However, strangely, this pearl has no artifact spirit, yet its power is truly terrifying…"

Fang Han watched his senior brother once again display the terrifying might of a Grotto-Heaven Realm existence, and clicked his tongue in praise. Grotto-Heaven Realm experts, after mastering spatial laws, had an incredibly strong treasure-hunting ability. The Ice Xuan Secret Realm before them was filled with mysterious ice, extending downward to an unknown depth. For a titan of the Longevity Secret Realm's Wan Shou Realm, mobilizing great magic power to break through underground was extremely difficult and required enormous consumption of magic power. Only someone like him, who had reached the Undying Body and cultivated the Great Five Elements Art, could use the Five Elements Divine Light to directly break through tens of thousands of zhang of mysterious ice. But even if he truly broke through, it would still be very difficult to discover that pearl.

Yet now, Senior Brother Fang Yu didn't need to break through the mysterious ice layer at all. By directly activating spatial laws, the Mysterious Ice Pearl deep below was instantly taken by Senior Brother Fang Yu.

Without the slightest effort.

This kind of treasure hunting was simply picking up treasures.

"The Mysterious Ice Pearl is indeed a heavy treasure…"

A smile appeared on Fang Yu's face.

After obtaining this treasure, he pinched it hard, yet failed to crush it.

This alone showed the wondrous nature of this treasure.

He was now an unparalleled genius of the Grotto-Heaven Realm. A single pinch of his great hand unleashed the force of five hundred Primeval Heavenly Dragons. Not to mention mid-grade Dao artifacts, even top-grade Dao artifacts would deform under a single pinch of his great hand. Yet this pearl showed no change whatsoever. Clearly, it held tremendous mysteries, and Fang Yu had to study it carefully.

This pearl reminded him of a broken bell he had once obtained in a secret realm, which was also extremely wondrous, even causing the Wan Jie Wang Tu to tremble for a moment.

It was absolutely a supreme treasure.