Chapter 170: A Scheme to Drive the Tiger Against the Wolf

The instant this enormous face appeared, the entire Martial Dao World seemed to freeze in place.

The wind stopped.

The clouds stood still.

Fang Han noticed that the spectators surrounding the martial arena did not seem surprised by this bizarre scene.

Instead, their expressions gradually became vacant.

It was as though the appearance of the colossal face in the sky had caused them to lose their consciousness.

And it was not merely the spectators. Even the two Grandmasters, Lu Feng and Luo You, had fallen into a state of complete mental chaos.

Between heaven and earth, only the giant Fang Han standing upon the earth and the enormous face in the sky remained conscious, silently confronting one another.

'So this is the mastermind who uses the world's Grandmasters as a flesh-and-blood breeding ground?'

'And it seems to have countless connections with the will of the Heavenly Dao in this world as well?'

Countless thoughts flashed through Fang Han's mind in an instant.

At the same time, he felt the oppressive might radiating from the enormous face in the sky.

In a daze, it was as though he had been transported back to the Primordial Wilderness.

Countless strange beasts of all shapes and forms, savage and ferocious, surrounded him, unleashing earth-shaking roars in unison.

"Die!"

Fang Han vaguely heard an angry shout coming from the mouth of the enormous face.

It was neither Great Qian's language nor the common language of the Martial Dao World.

Nor was it the language of the Shaman Clan that Fang Han had previously learned.

Although he had no idea where it originated, Fang Han somehow understood the meaning of the syllable the instant he heard it.

It was as though the spoken word itself carried the authority of law.

As the word "Die" thundered across the heavens, Fang Han's giant body seemed to have been struck by some inexplicable curse.

The boundless vitality surging through his body suddenly became obstructed and sluggish.

Then, having reached its peak, it began to decline.

Fang Han keenly sensed the changes taking place within his body and instinctively attempted to draw upon the vitality of heaven and earth once more to repair himself.

But he soon discovered that the method that had never failed him before had suddenly become ineffective.

It was as though a gigantic hole had appeared within his body, and no matter how rapidly he absorbed vitality, the vitality he drew in would always disappear through that hole at an even faster rate.

Like a balloon that had been punctured, his condition inevitably continued to deteriorate.

'What kind of divine ability is this...?' Fang Han thought grimly.

But he had no intention of simply waiting for death.

His hands, which were gripping the two strange beasts, suddenly tightened.

With sheer force, he crushed them to pieces.

The illusory projections of the strange beasts exploded with a thunderous roar, transforming into countless streams of chaotic spiritual qi that scattered through the air.

The giant bent his knees slightly and pushed off the ground.

Then he shot straight into the sky.

At the same time, his body seemed to transform into a sponge, rapidly absorbing the spiritual qi dispersing all around him.

This Wupeng True Body, forged through the [Primordial Ten Blessings: Verdant Wood Invocation], was truly extraordinary.

If Fang Han's original body had attempted to absorb these spiritual energies, which had exploded all at once and scattered chaotically without any pattern, he would have been able to absorb less than one percent at most. The rest would have been completely wasted.

But now, the Wupeng True Body could absorb nearly one hundred percent of it without wasting even the slightest bit.

Moreover, Fang Han noticed that the "hole" within his body seemed to have been partially repaired by the surging influx of spiritual qi.

Amid the roiling spiritual qi, the Wupeng True Body had already reached the area directly beneath the enormous face.

Compared with this face formed from endless, surging dark clouds, even a ten-zhang-tall giant was no more than an ant.

From that enormous face, Fang Han could see a trace of mockery, as well as the anger it felt because he had ultimately crushed the two illusory projections of the strange beasts.

In response, Fang Han merely sneered.

"I know this face formed from dark clouds is merely your manifestation, not your true body."

"Even if I shatter these dark clouds, it won't harm you in the slightest."

"But..."

"Try this!"

In an instant, wisps of black aura emerged from Fang Han's fingertips.

The black aura seemed extremely interested in the dark clouds filling the sky. Without requiring any command from Fang Han, the moment it descended, it eagerly surged toward them.

The dark clouds reacted as though they had encountered their natural nemesis, instantly recoiling in alarm and scattering in all directions.

At that moment, from the ground, the enormous face in the sky looked as though someone had sliced a gaping wound through it.

This black aura originated from Great Qian's Heavenly Dao Severance Qi.

After arriving in the Martial Dao World, it was like a dragon entering the sea, immediately running rampant without restraint.

It greedily devoured the dark clouds as though it had encountered some exquisite delicacy.

Fang Han had initially released only a single wisp.

Yet in the blink of an eye, the Heavenly Dao Severance Qi had grown several times larger through its devouring.

The world's level of existence in Great Qian was clearly far higher than that of the Martial Dao World.

Even so, the Heavenly Dao Severance Qi had been capable of forcibly eroding an entire Heavenly Dao Severance Sea.

It would even occasionally run rampant within Great Qian itself, requiring the combined efforts of the Hundred Schools to suppress it.

After entering the Martial Dao World, it was practically like a wolf entering a flock of sheep.

Fang Han could clearly sense the fear appearing on the face in the sky as it gradually lost its shape.

And...

The furious curses directed at Fang Han for his malicious act of inviting a wolf into the house.

Fang Han also sensed that after he released the Heavenly Dao Severance Qi, the malice gathering around him was increasing at a terrifying rate.

It was as though he had become the enemy of the entire world. Even the surrounding air had begun to reject him.

This hostility was even stronger than what he had experienced as the "Otherworldly Celestial Demon" who had stolen the Xuanhuang Qi of Heaven and Earth.

It was only because the Heavenly Dao Severance Qi had now become an urgent problem that the heavenly tribulation had yet to descend upon him.

Although the dark clouds in the sky were both shocked and enraged by the appearance of the Heavenly Dao Severance Qi, they had no effective means of resisting it.

They could only retreat again and again, scattering in every direction.

Before long, the enormous face had been completely devoured.

The Heavenly Dao Severance Qi had also expanded to more than ten times its original size in an instant.

Yet it still seemed unsatisfied.

The black aura churned and surged as though it possessed a consciousness of its own.

It seemed to be determining a direction, and then it was about to pursue something toward a certain location.

But at that very moment...

The Wupeng True Body that Fang Han had transformed into suddenly opened its mouth.

He directly swallowed the Heavenly Dao Severance Qi, which this world regarded as a scourge capable of destroying heaven and earth, into his stomach!

Ordinarily, the Heavenly Dao Severance Qi was capable of eroding even heaven and earth.

For mortal flesh to come into contact with it meant certain death or severe injury.

To swallow it whole was even more unthinkable.

Yet after Fang Han swallowed the Heavenly Dao Severance Qi, he remained completely unharmed!

Only Fang Han himself could see what was happening.

Within the Fangcun space, a strand of black-gold radiance descended upon the puppet Fang Han.

This radiance was precisely the characteristic extracted from Shentu Xin.

Originally, it had only been [Unbreakable Fortified Body].

But after Shentu Xin spent day and night tempering himself by constantly immersing his body in Heavenly Dao Severance Qi, more than a year had passed.

A few days ago, it had finally transformed into [Undefeated Mystic Body].

At this stage, it was still far from being completely immune to the Heavenly Dao Severance Qi.

However, it could already greatly increase one's resistance to it.

Combined with the terrifying self-healing ability of the Wupeng True Body, Fang Han could swallow the Heavenly Dao Severance Qi into his stomach without any danger to his life in the short term.

Although it had entered Fang Han's stomach, the greed of the Heavenly Dao Severance Qi did not diminish.

It continued to charge wildly in every direction, attempting to break out of his body and continue its pursuit.

Fang Han smiled faintly.

Sensing the direction in which the Heavenly Dao Severance Qi was moving restlessly, his body transformed into a streak of lightning as he rode the wind and sped away.