Fang Hong merely smiled faintly at the Gray-robed Old Man’s panicked expression, offering no further explanation.

With a flick of his finger, he directly imprisoned the Gray-robed Old Man’s soul in the demon soul banner, intending to deal with him slowly after leaving this place.

This was Fang Hong’s first time using ’Time and Space Stasis’ in actual combat, and he hadn’t expected the effect to be so remarkable.

The Gray-robed Old Man was easily captured alive without even a chance to react.

Fang Hong waved his hand, putting the Gray-robed Old Man’s corpse into his storage space, then threw out a small cyan boat.

The small cyan boat expanded with the wind, instantly growing to nearly three zhang in length and width, with a delicate small house on it.

This was precisely the fierce wind boat that Fang Hong had bought at an auction back then.

This boat was originally only a fourth-grade Dao Artifact, but after several years of Fang Hong’s meticulous refining and multiple reinforcements, it had successfully advanced to the ranks of a sixth-grade dao artifact.

Not only was its defense greatly increased, but its flying speed also saw a tremendous improvement, and its power far surpassed what it once was.

Fang Hong’s figure flickered, entering the small house, and raised his hand to inject a dense amount of Immortal Qi into the fierce wind boat’s core formation.

The formation was instantly activated, emitting a faint cyan glow.

The entire fierce wind boat then hummed, transforming into a streak of cyan light, and directly escaped into the void.

Carrying Fang Hong, it sped away into the distance, instantly disappearing above the small island.

In the void, Fang Hong felt the rapidly receding scenery around him, personally experiencing the speed of the fierce wind boat, and nodded in satisfaction.

At this speed, it would take no more than two years to smoothly reach his destination for this trip — the Sea of Death.

Fang Hong sat cross-legged, once again taking out the Gray-robed Old Man’s soul from the demon soul banner to perform a soul search.

As the soul Searching Art was slowly performed, memories flooded into Fang Hong’s mind.

The Gray-robed Old Man’s name was ’Lin Qiu’, and he was the Old Ancestor of the Lin Family in Qianye City.

As early as five hundred years ago, he had already achieved a breakthrough to the Late Stage Immortal Emperor realm, and his strength was considered top-tier in the Qianye City area.

Qianye City was an ancient city near Cangnan City, and the Lin Family was one of the top-tier Families in the area, with a profound foundation.

Now that Lin Qiu had been killed by Fang Hong, the Lin Family had completely lost its backbone.

Before long, the Lin Family’s status would plummet, falling out of the ranks of first-rate Families.

However, the rise and fall of the Lin Family would, from now on, have nothing to do with Fang Hong.

After completing the soul search, Fang Hong directly fed his corpse to the Demon Gourd.

In just a moment, the Demon Gourd spat out a lustrous dao pill.

This dao pill glowed with a faint purple-gold luster, and it was a genuine Late Stage Immortal Emperor dao pill.

Its quality was even more outstanding, comparable to a sixth-grade dao pill.

It was a pity that there was only one such dao pill.

If he had a few more high-quality dao pills like this, his Cultivation would surely increase rapidly.

After sighing, Fang Hong began to carefully inventory Lin Qiu’s relics, wanting to see if this Lin Family Old Ancestor had any other treasures on him.

After a thorough inventory, Fang Hong was somewhat disappointed; Lin Qiu had nothing valuable on him.

The final gains were nothing more than a sixth-grade dao artifact, three tenth-grade immortal artifacts, and that Early Stage Immortal Emperor giant spirit puppet.

After all the twists and turns, they still ended up in Fang Hong’s hands.

As for Immortal Stones, the number was pitifully small, presumably because Lin Qiu had almost emptied his Family’s coffers to bid for the giant spirit puppet.

As a Late Stage Immortal Emperor Old Ancestor, Lin Qiu’s Family fortune was truly meager, with only these few items catching Fang Hong’s eye.

The sixth-grade dao artifact was Lin Qiu’s natal Dao Artifact, a long spear entirely gilded, which Lin Qiu usually called ’Zhuifeng’.

The grade of this spear was not low, but Fang Hong had no interest in this Zhuifeng Spear and planned to feed it, along with the three tenth-grade immortal artifacts, to the soul severing sword to help it improve its grade.

However, the giant spirit puppet still had some utility.

Fang Hong condensed a wisp of Immortal Qi on his fingertip and easily erased Lin Qiu’s mental imprint left on the puppet.

He then spent three more days refining it again, completely taking control of the giant spirit puppet.

However, the giant spirit puppet’s strength was still a bit weak compared to Fang Hong’s current level, offering him no significant direct combat assistance.

After some thought, Fang Hong simply arranged for the giant spirit puppet to manage the fierce wind boat, responsible for its daily propulsion.

If other Cultivators knew that Fang Hong actually made an Early Stage Immortal Emperor puppet serve as a stablehand, they would probably be dumbfounded.

Fang Hong had the giant spirit puppet continuously propel the fierce wind boat towards the predetermined direction, while he himself flashed into the Years Pearl Space to cultivate.

Time flew by, and two months quietly passed.

During this time, Fang Hong had successfully refined that Late Stage Immortal Emperor dao pill, and his Cultivation had slightly improved, bringing him a step closer to the Late Stage Immortal Emperor.

But to truly breakthrough, there was still a long way to go.

In addition, during this period, Fang Hong fed all the idle and useless Dao Artifacts and Immortal Artifacts on him to the soul severing sword.

The soul severing sword finally completed its transformation, successfully advancing to the ranks of a seventh-grade Dao Artifact, and its power greatly increased.

This was an Immortal Emperor-level Dao Artifact; generally, only Immortal Emperor Experts had the ability to refine a seventh-grade Dao Artifact.

Yet Fang Hong, merely a Mid-stage Immortal Emperor Cultivator, was able to achieve this through the Spirit Devouring Secret Art, which was the marvel of the Spirit Devouring Secret Art.

At this moment, Fang Hong was sitting in the small house of the fierce wind boat, intently examining an incomplete map suspended before him.

This incomplete map was obtained from Liu Jiang, the first Immortal Emperor Expert he killed during his last exploration of the Demonic Burial Mountain Ruins.

At that time, Fang Hong keenly noticed that this incomplete map subtly contained a special spatial fluctuation, which was very likely the key to an ancient ruin somewhere.

Moreover, the location recorded on the incomplete map was within a certain sea area of the Barren Sea.

Now, Fang Hong’s journey happened to pass through that sea area, so he could conveniently explore it to see if he could find anything.

With a thought, Fang Hong slowly injected a wisp of Immortal Qi into the incomplete map.

In an instant, the incomplete map glowed with brilliant golden light, and a small golden needle suddenly appeared on its surface.

The small needle swayed slightly, its tip pointing in one direction, clearly indicating the specific location of the ruins to Fang Hong.

Ten days later, guided by the small golden needle, Fang Hong finally arrived at the sea area indicated by the incomplete map.

Upon reaching his destination, Fang Hong first retrieved the fierce wind boat into his body, then stood alone in the high sky, gazing down at the sea area below.

He saw a huge island standing amidst the boundless blue waves.

The island was vast, not only featuring towering mountains that reached into the clouds but also covered with lush ancient forests.

The Immortal Qi between heaven and earth was also much more abundant than in the surrounding sea areas, subtly revealing an extraordinary aura.

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[Author’s Note: Tomorrow will be 20 Chapters mass release. Hope you’ll like it and help get a few new readers for this book. Thanks!]