Chapter 990: Following Junior Brother Fang Han is not as good as staying within my grotto-heaven

Two keys appeared in Fang Yu's hands.

Both keys were three feet long, like a treasured sword. Their bodies were covered in shocking sawtooth edges and fresh-blood runes, and at the head of each key was the skull of an ancient fierce beast, each one different.

Seeing these two keys, Yan was overjoyed: "Not bad, not bad, these are exactly the keys. These ten keys are held separately by the ten great hall masters. If we can seize the keys from the other eight hall masters and combine them with the Huang Quan Diagram, we can open the treasure vault of the Huang Quan Great Emperor!"

The old dragon's eyes blazed with light, as if he could already picture the scene of the Huangquanmo Sect rising again after seizing the Huang Quan treasure vault.

"All that is for the future. For now, let's first seize the treasures within this ruin."

Fang Yu stepped forward without pausing. Within his grotto-heaven, the Five Element great mountain crushed downward, directly shattering the grotto-heavens of the Twin Wandering-Soul Demons and pulverizing all the flesh and blood of the two old demons.

What undying body, what legendary existence — as long as Fang Yu was at the same realm, all myths, all legends, all titles meant nothing at all.

Even though these two Grotto-Heaven-realm beings could stride across billions of alternate dimensions with a single step outside, now they were inside Fang Yu's body. Here, dense spatial laws filled every corner, and countless great Dao divine abilities were like branches shaping this grotto-heaven to be incomparably solid. They could not leave this grotto-heaven and could only watch helplessly as their flesh and blood were annihilated and refined.

"We were wrong, we were wrong! We are willing to submit to Fang Han, willing to support him, to assist him. Please, Immortal, spare our lives!"

"We truly were wrong — we failed to recognize the Immortal! We are willing to sincerely assist Fang Han, to make him the next Demon Sect Great Emperor! We two have lived for over ten thousand years as Supreme Elders and know everything about the Huangquanmo Sect. If Fang Han wishes to become the new Great Emperor of the Huangquanmo Sect, he will surely need our assistance!"

Within Fang Yu's grotto-heaven, the Force Demon Daoist and Ni Mozi did not die immediately. Though their bodies could not coalesce and had been beaten into clumps of flesh and blood, a wave of will was trembling violently.

Within this will were unwillingness, fear, and submission. They were antiques who had lived for over ten thousand years, existing even when the Huang Quan Great Emperor was still around. Having now cultivated to such a realm as Grotto-Heaven, enjoying hundreds of thousands of years of lifespan, how could they be willing to be refined here?

Thus, the two old demons immediately began to beg for mercy.

"You are truly foolish. Once I refine you, I can also know all your memories — why take this unnecessary step? The greatest contribution you can make is still your spatial law fragments. That is your greatest contribution!"

Fang Yu's divine sense flowed; with a single thought, countless great Dao laws transformed into rolling furnace-fire that seemed able to melt everything.

A moment later, countless ice-crystal fragments flowed out from the bodies of the two old demons. These ice-crystal-like fragments bore the patterns of the Heavenly Dao, and within those patterns lay the profound mysteries of many spatial laws.

A stream of Huang Quan Holy Water baptized these ice-crystal fragments, and afterward they became pure spatial law fragments.

A single spatial law fragment flew out from Fang Yu's grotto-heaven and landed in Fang Han's hand, immediately delighting him.

"Many thanks, Senior Brother Yu!"

"We are brothers — why stand on ceremony? If Junior Brother Fang Han could also comprehend spatial laws and achieve the Grotto-Heaven realm, that too would be a fine thing."

Fang Yu smiled and continued tallying the wealth of these four old demons.

On the body of the Force Demon Daoist was a demonic robe, a High-Grade Dao Device called the "Wrongful-Death Demon Robe." It was an extremely fearsome demonic magic treasure among the demonic path, traceable back quite some years. It had been personally refined by the Huang Quan Great Emperor when he had not yet ascended to immortality and was still a master of the Longevity Secret Realm, and was bestowed upon the Force Demon Daoist. Now this High-Grade Dao Device, the "Wrongful-Death Demon Robe," had fallen into Fang Yu's hands.

This was truly somewhat miraculous.

Besides this one High-Grade Dao Device, there were also dozens of Mid-Grade Dao Devices, and as for treasures like Low-Grade Dao Devices, there were even more.

These several demons had all cultivated for thousands or even over ten thousand years, had obtained countless fortuitous encounters, and had refined numerous demonic treasures — now all of them belonged to Fang Yu.

However, these demonic treasures were truly heinous and utterly incompatible with the treasures of the immortal path.

For instance, the hundred thousand blood-black long banners refined by Hall Master Tu Luo — fully ten of them were Mid-Grade Dao Devices, and the rest were Low-Grade Dao Devices or Top-Grade Treasure Devices. Yet on a single Low-Grade Dao Device blood-black long banner alone, there were a billion living souls.

A billion living souls refined into a single Low-Grade Dao Device.

On the Mid-Grade Dao Devices, the souls were even more numerous, each one in extreme agony — one could imagine what kind of torment they had suffered in life.

And on every Top-Grade Treasure Device, there were ten million living souls.

Such magic treasures numbered a full hundred thousand.

What manner of thing the Huangquanmo Sect truly was, how terrifying and evil these demonic cultivators were — all of it could now be seen.

What Hundred-Million-Soul Banners — before the demonic treasures refined by an undying-body old demon like this, they were utterly nothing.

The demonic path — truly the demonic path.

Upon meeting such demonic cultivators, one still ought to exterminate them.

This really was an act of virtue and merit.

After clearing out the old demons in his grotto-heaven one by one and obtaining all their memories and divine abilities, Fang Yu discovered that these several old demons had actually cultivated a great Dao divine ability.

Three Thousand Great Daos — the Great Summoning Art.

In the memories of these several old demons, this Three Thousand Great Dao had been taught to them by a rising star of the Huangquanmo Sect, Su Xiuyi, for the purpose of summoning Su Xiuyi when they encountered danger — at which point he could descend upon the scene and slay all.

But before Fang Yu, none of them had the chance to summon; they were directly annihilated by Fang Yu.

Three Thousand Great Daos — the Great Summoning Art.

This great Dao divine ability had no direct killing power, nor any direct defensive power. It was not like the Great Five Elements Art, which upon successful cultivation rendered one immune to all laws beneath the Five Emperors' Canopy; nor was it like the Great Chaos Art, unmatched in attack, transforming all power into chaos. It was simply a pure summoning ritual. If cultivated to the Great Perfection realm, one could summon across not merely a billion light-years, but even across several hundred star domains in an instant.

But what was summoned was another matter entirely.

As Fang Yu advanced, perceiving the mysteries of the Great Summoning Art, he discovered that although this great Dao was an auxiliary-type great Dao divine ability, it had other uses as well — such as summoning the ghosts and gods of the Nine Hells of the Xuanyuan Great World. Once summoned, they could be refined into one's own magic treasure to become its spirit.

This great Dao divine ability could also summon the ancestors of one's own sect — provided the ancestor consented and a summoning procedure was established, allowing the ancestor to dispatch a clone to a disciple at a critical moment of life and death.

This Great Summoning Art could also sense certain beings in the void, causing meteors to fall from the sky, causing wondrous treasures to descend from the heavens.

Three Thousand Great Daos — the Great Summoning Art. The deeper one studied it, the more one discovered the mysteries of this great Dao divine ability. This seemingly auxiliary great Dao divine ability could also be divided into many supreme divine abilities, many great divine abilities, each one an evolution of summoning — it could be considered extremely valuable.

And besides this Great Summoning Art, these several old demons had all cultivated the supreme demonic arts of the Huangquanmo Sect, each one extremely cruel and terrifying — not the sort of thing a cultivator of the immortal path like Fang Yu would be willing to practice.

Although cultivation methods could unite immortal and demonic, the demonic path of the Huangquanmo Sect — which refined a magic treasure with several billion living souls — was not worth learning.

"Senior Brother Yu, look — that seems to be a mountain peak, but there's a restrictive formation on it!"

Just as the group advanced, Fang Han spoke, his gaze turning toward a mountain peak. The peak towered into the clouds, but a wave of scorching aura emanated outward, as if within the restrictive formation there was an extremely terrifying flame grand array.

"Let's go — we'll take a look!"

Fang Yu stepped directly forward, entering the restrictive formation of this mountain peak. In an instant, the void transformed — everywhere were thick fire pillars shooting out from all directions, rolling flame Xu Yuan Qi surging forth, accompanied by wind, wind and fire raging together. Many flame giants rose up, all charging to kill Fang Yu's group.

"The might of this grand array is enough to slay experts of the Longevity Second Layer Undying Body realm. If fully activated, it could even slay Grotto-Heaven realm experts. However, no one is activating the array here, so it has lost its function."

Fang Yu surveyed the surrounding void. Each flame giant was comparable to an expert of the Longevity Second Layer Undying Body realm — every casual strike carried dozens of units of Primeval Heavenly Dragon power. And those flame Xu Yuan Qi were also an extremely high-grade fire-system supreme divine ability. Although not a match for the Scarlet Emperor Fire Sovereign Qi, the realm was extremely high — it seemed the original master of this mountain peak had a cultivation base of at least the Longevity Fourth Layer, Time-Light Realm.

But unfortunately, with no one activating the array, it could pose no danger to a legendary existence like Fang Yu.

He still made a casual grab with a great hand, employing the Heavenly Will Capture Great Immortal Art. Within his capturing immortal art, this entire void was seized in an instant. The void here continuously shrank, shrank, until in Fang Yu's hand it was about the size of a pearl. Within the pearl, one could see deep within this space a full one hundred and twenty thousand Blazing Fire Banners, arranged into a flame grand array. The array eye was a High-Grade Dao Device, and among the other one hundred and twenty thousand Blazing Fire Banners, a full twelve were Mid-Grade Dao Devices, with the rest being Low-Grade Dao Devices and Top-Grade Treasure Devices.

A grand array composed of one High-Grade Dao Device, twelve Mid-Grade Dao Devices, and numerous Low-Grade Dao Devices and Top-Grade Treasure Devices — all of them Blazing Fire Banners. If there were enough Pure Yang Pills to activate this grand array, even a Longevity Fourth Layer titan would have to tread carefully. But now all such treasures had fallen into Fang Yu's hands.

A tremendous haul!

"Heavens, how could this secret realm be so rich? That's one High-Grade Dao Device, twelve Mid-Grade Dao Devices, and so many Low-Grade Dao Devices — what ancient sect has so many treasures? Even the Grand Unity Gate probably doesn't have this many!"

"So many treasures! I'm absolutely green with envy, but it's a pity all these treasures were taken by Immortal Venerable Fang Yu!"

"We have to get a share too! We must get the treasures!"

Several Imperial Princes of the Great Xuan Empire were so moved their tears nearly flowed from their mouths—Heaven take pity, some among them were only at the 7th Stage of Divine Abilities, Golden Core Realm. For a realm like that, even a top-grade treasure would be extremely precious, yet now over a hundred thousand Dao artifacts were swept up right before their eyes by Immortal Venerable Fang Yu. The feeling was simply too agonizing.

Of course, they didn't dare open their mouths to ask Immortal Venerable Fang Yu for even a few treasures. An Immortal Venerable is an Immortal Venerable—a legend, a myth. He could not be offended, or else they'd have no idea how they'd die.

"Quickly, go seize the treasures!"

Prince Yi of the Blood, seeing the void-restriction grand formation here broken open and the true face of the mountain peak revealed, immediately ordered his band of brothers to go seize the treasures.

On this mountain peak, there were indeed many treasures. After the mountain-protecting grand formation's restrictions were destroyed, an aura of spiritual energy spread out. Fang Yu and the others saw that on this great mountain, numerous spiritual medicines had grown, and now all of them had become spirits. Some of the spiritual medicines had even cultivated human forms, reaching the 7th Stage of Divine Abilities, Golden Core Realm, with a gleaming Jin Dan in their foreheads, possessing as many as eight or nine divine abilities.

Other spiritual medicines had even higher realms, having overcome the Wind and Fire Tribulation, cultivating to the 9th Stage of Divine Abilities, Heaven and Earth Dharma Form realm.

This place was simply a blessed grotto-heaven for spiritual medicines. Many of the spiritual medicines had transformed into individual factions, waging war and conquest against one another.

Seeing Fang Yu and the others enter, all the spiritual medicines looked over. Then several of the most powerful spiritual medicines burst forth with an emotion of boundless joy: "Minions! We've been trapped here for many years, and finally outsiders have broken the barrier. Let's kill our way out right now and seize the splendid world beyond!"

"Kill!"

One spiritual medicine after another charged straight at Fang Yu, Fang Han, and the others. Some even unleashed their divine abilities. One spiritual-medicine king at the 9th Stage of Divine Abilities, Heaven and Earth Dharma Form realm suddenly spat out a stream of green Daoist Gang Qi, swift as lightning, reaching Fang Yu in an instant.

"So many spiritual medicines that have become spirits…"

Fang Yu sighed with some emotion. His gaze fell on that stream of green Daoist Gang Qi, and the Daoist Gang Qi froze in place in the void.

One could see that the space where that green-glowing Daoist Gang Qi lay was directly frozen solid. This so-called divine ability, of course, could never erupt.

"What?"

That spiritual-medicine king at the 9th Stage of Divine Abilities simply could not believe his own eyes. That strike of his was a supreme divine ability of the Men Sect—yet it had been blocked just like that?

"Little fellow, I do have something I'd like to ask you."

With one move from Fang Yu, that spiritual-medicine king at the 9th Stage of Divine Abilities, Heaven and Earth Dharma Form realm involuntarily arrived before Fang Yu. No matter how the spiritual-medicine king struggled, it was utterly useless.

"What is this place? Could you tell me?"

Fang Yu said with a smile.

"Hmph, I won't tell you."

The spiritual-medicine king continued to struggle.

"Fine, then I'll just search your memories. It's not like I can't."

Fang Yu shook his head.

"Wait! This is the Wuwangtian Sect!"