The Black-clothed person reacted, a strong sense of crisis surged in his heart, and he hurriedly took out a blade, hastily blocking it in front of him.

Clang.

The two Immortal Artifacts collided, and sparks flew.

The Black-clothed person was sent flying hundreds of feet, but fortunately, he reacted in time, otherwise, with that sword strike, he would have probably been split in half.

"What is this kid’s background? How can he produce so many high-grade Immortal Artifacts."

The Black-clothed person couldn’t help but tremble, secretly thinking that he had run into a tough opponent.

Before the Black-clothed person could stabilize his body and adjust his defensive posture, Fang Hong’s figure appeared beside him again like a ghost.

Fang Hong flipped his wrist, and the Aurora Sword Technique was instantly unleashed.

Countless black and white sword shadows intertwined in the air, like shooting stars across the sky, densely striking towards the Black-clothed person.

The Black-clothed person was already firmly suppressed by the demon soul banner, and his full Immortal Power couldn’t even exert half of its strength.

Even if he resisted with all his might, Fang Hong’s soul severing sword still carved deep, bone-visible sword marks on his body, and blood continuously seeped out from the wounds.

"Ahhhhh... Ahhhhhhh."

Screams of agony came from the Black-clothed person’s mouth.

The Soul Severing Power unique to the soul severing sword instantly spread throughout his body through those wounds.

The Black-clothed person’s soul was severely damaged, as if countless fine needles were simultaneously piercing him.

At this point, the Black-clothed person could mobilize even less Immortal Power, and he could barely stand.

The Black-clothed person knew that if he continued to drag this on, he would surely die. He immediately threw out a completely black warship from his sleeve, intending to escape from here using the warship.

As soon as Fang Hong saw this warship, his eyes lit up instantly, and he couldn’t help but exclaim, "What a good item."

This warship was as black as ink, about three to four zhang long and wide. Faint demonic light entwined its hull, emitting a powerful aura. It was actually a seventh-grade flying Immortal Artifact.

Fang Hong calculated in his heart that as long as he took this warship, long-distance travel would be much more convenient in the future, allowing him to cultivate while traveling.

The Black-clothed person was just about to activate the warship’s formation to make it ascend, but it was already too late.

Fang Hong once again used the Void Secret Technique, instantly flashing in front of him, and the soul severing sword in his hand unhesitatingly pierced through his head.

"Ahhh, ugh." The Black-clothed person’s eyes suddenly widened, filled with despair.

Fang Hong lifted his foot and kicked the Black-clothed person off the warship.

The Black-clothed person fell heavily to the ground, his body twitching continuously, still emitting painful screams and moans from his mouth.

Fang Hong raised his hand and made a grabbing motion towards the Black-clothed person, directly extracting his soul, giving him no chance to escape.

"Fellow Daoist... Fellow Daoist, I was wrong. I know I was wrong."

"I am willing to submit to you, to serve you as a beast of burden from now on, never shirking from any task. Please, Fellow Daoist, show mercy and spare my life."

The Black-clothed person knew to beg for mercy at this moment.

Fang Hong, however, completely ignored his pleas. He had no interest in taking on servants.

In comparison, refining this soul into nourishment for the demon soul banner was more practical and useful.

Fang Hong condensed a faint Golden Immortal Power on his fingertip, firmly sealing the Black-clothed person’s soul and putting it into the demon soul banner, to be dealt with later.

Next, Fang Hong swept away the Black-clothed person’s corpse along with his Immortal Artifacts, and then quickly left the battlefield, fearing that the commotion of the fight would attract other experts, which would cause more trouble.

Not long after, Fang Hong found an uninhabited small island nearby.

This small island was not large, covered with low shrubs, and very secluded.

Fang Hong found a sheltered hillside, casually set up a few defensive restrictions, opened up a simple small Immortal Cave, and then walked in to perform soul searching on the Black-clothed person.

Through soul searching, Fang Hong learned that the Black-clothed person was named Ma Tai, primarily cultivated the Dark Law, and had been active in the Purple Cloud Sea Domain area for many years, with no special identity or background.

From Ma Tai’s memory, Fang Hong also learned that about a million li away, there was a very large Purple Cloud Immortal Island.

Because of this Immortal Island, that sea area was called the Purple Cloud Sea Domain.

There were many Cultivators in the Purple Cloud Sea Domain, scattered on various small islands, relying on the sea and the Immortal Island for survival.

And Purple Cloud Immortal Island was the overlord of that sea area. The island’s strength was very strong, and the island master was an Immortal King level expert, enjoying extremely high prestige in that area.

Fang Hong’s heart stirred, and he decided to visit Purple Cloud Immortal Island to see if he could acquire some useful artifact refining materials there.

In Ma Tai’s memory, the Cultivators of Purple Cloud Immortal Island were particularly keen on artifact refining. There were a large number of artifact refining workshops on the island, and occasionally, one could even find some rare and precious artifact refining materials that were uncommon on the market in the trade associations.

This made Fang Hong even more eager to visit Purple Cloud Immortal Island.

Subsequently, Fang Hong began to inventory Ma Tai’s belongings.

Ma Tai was a Late Stage Grand Unity Cultivator, so his net worth should not have been poor, but Fang Hong flipped through it and found that his family fortune was actually quite ordinary.

In the end, Fang Hong collected a total of more than one hundred thousand Immortal Stones, more than twenty Immortal Artifacts, and some miscellaneous items, such as medicinal pills for healing, jade slips recording cultivation techniques, and so on.

Among those more than twenty Immortal Artifacts, only two were seventh-grade Immortal Artifacts: one was an offensive Immortal Artifact called the Demon Slashing Blade, and the other was the vast sea warship from before.

The rest were all fifth or sixth-grade Immortal Artifacts.

Fang Hong planned to keep the vast sea warship for convenient travel in the future.

The other Immortal Artifacts were useless; it would be better to use them all to feed his commonly used Immortal Artifacts to upgrade their grades.

As for the miscellaneous items, Fang Hong didn’t pay much attention to them at first, but as he flipped through, he found a red key under a pile of jade slips.

This key looked very unusual, three feet long, much larger than an ordinary key.

The entire key was enveloped by a faint red light, and it felt a little warm to the touch.

Seeing this key, Fang Hong couldn’t help but recall the Dragon Palace Key he had obtained before.

Although the auras of the two were different, both exuded a feeling of a secret treasure.

"Could this also be the key to some ruins?" Fang Hong held the key, secretly guessing in his heart, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt it was possible.

In Ma Tai’s memory, this key was bought by him from a Golden Immortal Loose Cultivator.

That Loose Cultivator said that this key came from the Ancient Demon Continent, but he didn’t know what specific place it could open.

Fang Hong put the key into his storage bag. He happened to be planning to go to the Ancient Demon Continent for experience later, so it wouldn’t be too late to slowly investigate the secret of this key.

Then Fang Hong fed Ma Tai’s corpse to the demon gourd, refining it into a Late Stage Grand Unity Immortal Pill.

Subsequently, Fang Hong returned to the years pearl secret chamber to refine this Immortal Pill.