The lightning spear and the Origin Power Hand slammed together, sending a terrifying shock wave sweeping out from the point of impact.
The ground for hundreds of miles around was ripped away, and the scarlet mist that hung over the Blood Rock Land year-round was swept clean by the shock wave.
On distant mountaintops, the spectators were blown back again and again. Some were even knocked flat on the ground.
"Th-this is the kind of commotion someone in the Nirvana Realm can cause?"
"That Ku Xuan is at the Initial Life Profound Stage! That Dao Sect youth is actually meeting a Life Profound Realm expert head-on!"
"And it looks like he has the upper hand?"
Everyone stared wide-eyed at the figure in the sky, wrapped in five-colored lightning.
Within the lightning.
The Immortal King's phantom pierced the Origin Power Hand with a thrust of its spear. The hand split down the middle and dissolved into fragments of Origin Energy that scattered across the sky.
Blood gushed from Ku Xuan's mouth, and he plummeted from the sky, smashing a huge crater into the ground.
But the moment he landed, he sprang back up and fled into the distance.
Ku Xuan had completely lost the will to fight.
What could he possibly use to fight a monster that grew stronger as the battle went on?
"Trying to run?"
Fang Yi's voice came from the sky.
The Immortal King's phantom waved a hand, and the five-colored lightning transformed into a gigantic palm that reached for Ku Xuan.
Ku Xuan slashed back with his blade, barely breaking through the lightning palm, but the attack also forced him to stop.
Fang Yi landed, five-colored lightning surging wildly around him.
Golden and white light intertwined, illuminating the sky for thousands of miles around.
Ku Xuan watched Fang Yi approach step by step, his face growing paler and paler. He shouted, "I'm an elder of the Yuan Sect! The Eight Great Super Sects are bound together like branches of the same tree. You can't kill me! You can't kill me!"
Faced with the threat of death, even a Life Profound Realm expert could not remain calm. There was something strange about Fang Yi's Origin Energy.
The life Qi that was a Life Profound Realm expert's greatest advantage over someone in the Nirvana Realm was being fiercely suppressed by Fang Yi's power.
That nearly undying force and the power invading his body were constantly wearing each other down.
What kind of monster is this?!
His Origin Energy in the Nirvana Realm can actually suppress the life Qi of the Life Profound Realm.
All these years, we actually failed to take this fellow seriously.
"I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have been led astray by the Demon Seal Faction. It was all because of Yao Ling. He and one of their division chiefs..."
"You don't know you were wrong. You only know you're about to die."
Fang Yi looked down at Ku Xuan. "As for the Yuan Sect, do you think it will acknowledge you?"
"If word gets out that a Life Profound Realm elder of the Yuan Sect was hunting someone in the Nirvana Realm, it will only ruin the Yuan Sect's grand plans. The Yuan Sect as it is now doesn't have the strength to sweep across the entire Eastern Xuan Region."
"Now, you can only be a grand elder of the Demon Seal Faction."
A flicker of panic flashed through Ku Xuan's eyes. Had this fellow even calculated that?
Fang Yi had struck at the Yuan Sect's sore spot.
"Go on ahead and wait for the Yuan Sect's people down below."
Ku Xuan knew he was beyond saving. The Origin Energy in his body burned wildly, and he transformed into a streak of blinding white light, hurtling toward Fang Yi.
This was the self-destruction of a Life Profound Realm expert, powerful enough to raze everything within thousands of miles to the ground.
But the next moment.
Ku Xuan saw a huge, illusory bronze bell appear.
A deep bell toll rang out. Wherever its sound passed, heaven and earth fell still, time seemed to freeze, and even thought seemed to be suppressed by the toll.
When he came to his senses, the swelling presence around him had completely subsided.
Ku Xuan could only watch helplessly as he was swallowed by a black hole. With a sweep of his sleeve, Fang Yi stored the black hole, now transformed into a pill furnace, inside it.
I wonder how many Profound Origin Pills this old thing can be refined into.
Everyone watching swallowed hard and fled without another word, not daring to linger.
But they all knew that a ruthless figure had come to the Blood Rock Land: a Dao Son who could kill a Life Profound Realm expert from the Nirvana Realm.
Fang Yi glanced at the people fleeing in all directions and paid them no mind. There were too many of them; concealing this battle was impossible, and there was no need to conceal it.
Unless the Yuan Sect dared to brave the condemnation of the world and admit it had sent a Life Profound elder to hunt him down, it could only swallow this bitter pill. But there would surely be plenty of covert moves from it in the future.
"Looks like I need to condense the Tower of Great Space as soon as possible. Then, vast as the world is, I'll be able to go anywhere. It's a pity the Space Ancestral Talisman is with Senior Brother Zhou Tong. Do I have to go looking for the Lord of Space beneath the Heavenly Demon Marten?"
"When I get back, I'll first ask the old man whether he has any treasures containing the power of space."
Fang Yi swallowed all the Profound Origin Pills and Nirvana Pills refined by the pill furnace, and surging Origin Energy furiously ground them apart.
They contained not only Origin Energy and life Qi, but also a great deal of Mental Energy, something ordinary Nirvana Pills and Profound Origin Pills did not possess.
As soon as this Mental Energy entered his mind, the Heavenly Talisman ground it apart, while the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique purified and crushed all the lingering thoughts within it.
In Yang God, spring thunder was still needed for purification, but Fang Yi, who wielded the Thunder Emperor Precious Technique, had no need to worry about that.
"If I had several Heavenly Symbol Masters to devour, I could probably condense another Heavenly Talisman before long."
Fang Yi shook his head. No wonder the man-eating approach was so popular in Yang God and Eternal Life. It really was good.
What a pity.
The Tianxuan Continent had not been developing for long enough. Reaching the Life Profound Realm was already considered a modest achievement.
In a place like the Eastern Xuan Region, Life Profound Realm experts were even considered pillars of strength. The highest combat power the Eight Great Super Sects sent out into the world was at the Life Profound Realm.
So it was still going too far for him to capture Life Profound Realm experts to devour.
At most, he could control them and have them produce a steady supply of Profound Origin Pills, but that would be too slow.
Fang Yi shook his head. It seemed he could only look for Yimo after all. Yimo were the best resources; a single Yimo True King would feed him for a long time.
A short while later.
Fang Yi walked out of Demon Seal City. He had not expected it to be so wealthy: tens of millions of Nirvana Pills, many Earth-grade Spirit Treasures, and even two or three Life Profound Pills. He had no idea where they had come from.
Of course, Fang Yi had refined and devoured them all.
He had only just broken through, yet he was already nearing the threshold of Six Yuan Nirvana. Sure enough, murder and arson earned a golden belt.
Cultivating like a gangster was awesome!
"Time to deal with the Immortal Origin Ancient Tree."
Fang Yi took a step and vanished, leaving behind only Demon Seal City, shattered by the aftershocks, and the utterly ravaged surroundings.
Only then did some wandering cultivators who had fled long ago, along with some of the villains who lived in the Blood Rock Land, slowly return and see that the harbinger of doom was gone.
They began rushing into Demon Seal City. The Demon Seal Faction had run rampant in the Blood Rock Land for so many years; it surely had amassed considerable wealth.
Things that were inconvenient to carry away were sure to have been left behind, and now that the harbinger of doom had gone, he surely did not want them.
Now it was first come, first served.
Demon Seal City had barely been quiet for long before the sounds of fighting and killing rang out once more. Treasure seekers, those seeking revenge, and those fishing in troubled waters came swarming in.
But none of that had anything to do with Fang Yi. He had already arrived at the forest where the Immortal Origin Ancient Tree stood.