This day, Yun Fan clearly felt that the world created by the Fusang Divine Tree was not necessarily safe.
Because upon arriving in this area, one could sense the aura of the Fusang Divine Tree, which was what the Fusang Divine Tree referred to as a drawback.
It had told Yun Fan that he must perfect this drawback, otherwise, when Xi Huang attacked, she would definitely discover this place.
Yun Fan naturally did not dare to be careless, knowing how terrifying Xi Huang was; he still had psychological trauma from it.
Therefore, today, he completely concealed this world.
Just as he was preparing to clear the surrounding traces, he felt an eternal power sweeping towards him.
When Yun Fan sensed this power, he initially thought Xi Huang had arrived, but he soon realized it might not be her.
Because Xi Huang's aura was an overwhelming presence to him.
This aura, however, could not crush him, though it was somewhat evenly matched. It was clear that the newcomer was definitely a formidable opponent.
As expected, after the other party detected Yun Fan's aura, they revealed themselves.
It was a war god clad in decaying armor, not only wearing it but also emanating an aura of absolute decay.
Possessing such an aura generally indicated a long period of slumber.
Upon seeing this war god, Yun Fan asked, "Your Excellency, are you here for Xi Huang?"
"That's right!"
He said to Yun Fan, "I have been looking for you for tens of thousands of years, and I have finally found you!"
The other party was direct and to the point.
"Who are you?"
Yun Fan asked directly, not surprised at all that Xi Huang had such a powerful subordinate.
Because Xi Huang's methods were unfathomable, she must have many experts. Back in the Origin Realm, Wang Shu had told him that Xi Huang was definitely not weak.
It was perfectly normal for such a master to appear, in Yun Fan's opinion.
He then said to Yun Fan, "Since ancient times, everyone who knew my name has died. However, you are qualified to know my name!"
"I followed the late Emperor to conquer countless epochs. After the late Emperor fell, I was buried with him! I buried myself until the Young Emperor revived me! I am Tian Mie!"
Upon hearing this, Yun Fan gasped internally.
Tian Mie, what a powerful existence. He was the foremost expert under the Creation God, and even Wang Shu was inferior to Tian Mie in status and strength.
One could say that Wang Shu was the Creation God's strategist, while Tian Mie was the Creation God's primary general.
Civil and military officials were two different concepts, indicating just how powerful Tian Mie was.
No wonder he hadn't seen this person in the Origin Realm; he must have been revived by Xi Huang later.
No wonder he possessed such a potent decaying power.
Just a single aura was enough to strike terror into people's hearts.
At this moment, Yun Fan said, "So, you are going to fight for Xi Huang?"
"That's right!"
He said to Yun Fan, "My master once fell, and now I naturally fight for the Young Emperor. You have offended the Young Emperor, and you deserve to die, not live on precariously!"
Hearing this, Yun Fan appeared very calm.
He said, "You should know Wang Shu, right?"
"Of course, I know!"
Tian Mie said, "He is my friend. We, one civil and one military, were the most trusted individuals of the late Emperor!"
"But he is dead!"
Yun Fan said, "He died at the hands of Xi Huang!"
"I know!"
Tian Mie said, "Even though Wang Shu is my friend, if he made a mistake, he should be punished! It would be the same for me."
"He did not make a mistake!"
Yun Fan argued, "The Creation God is a benevolent deity, while Xi Huang is the opposite. She has always been destroying the worlds created by the Creation God! Wang Shu was merely trying to stop her, and she killed him. Do you say Wang Shu was wrong?"
"He was wrong!"
Tian Mie said, "Wang Shu was clearly too pedantic. This era is no longer the era of the Creation God. He should have gone with the flow, rather than trying to replicate the steps of the late Emperor. The late Emperor fell precisely because he was too benevolent!"
It was clear that Tian Mie supported Xi Huang, not Wang Shu, as Yun Fan could detect from his tone.
Because of this, Yun Fan said, "It seems I will not waste any more time with you. No matter how much I say, it will be wrong to you. You are fighting for Xi Huang, and I can only say that you have chosen the wrong master!"
"Is that so?"
Tian Mie said to Yun Fan, "Boy, I heard you are also a traitor to the Young Emperor. Since you are a traitor, you should not have a good end! Today is your death day, and I will take your head to see the Young Emperor!"
"If you have the ability, come and take it!"
Yun Fan said calmly.
"Die!"
In an instant, Tian Mie attacked, using his powerful and overbearing decaying power to strike at Yun Fan. It was clear that he would not give Yun Fan any chance to breathe, launching a killing blow from the outset.
At this moment, a spear of decay fell from the void, as if to pierce Yun Fan.
Seeing this, Yun Fan was indeed moved, but he did not fear Tian Mie at all, because he did not feel the crushing pressure of despair from Tian Mie.
Therefore, Yun Fan engaged him in a battle of skills in the void.
Yun Fan suddenly produced a void blade in his hand, and the two clashed, creating dazzling sparks.
It was clear that in this exchange, both sides were evenly matched, with neither able to suppress the other.
At this moment, Yun Fan said, "You are strong, but if you think you can defeat me with this, you are greatly mistaken!"
"Just a prey, what's there to talk about!"
Tian Mie attacked again. As the first general of the Creation God, his strength was undeniable; he was an extremely powerful and domineering existence.
His attacks were very fierce, and even Yun Fan was forced to retreat under his pressure.
However, Yun Fan was not discouraged. Before he could find Tian Mie's weakness, he would not engage in a futile fight.
Even if he was being pushed back, it was only because he was not fighting with his full strength. If he were to go all out,
Tian Mie would have no opportunity to suppress him, and at worst, it would still be an even match.
One could imagine how powerful the two were.
They fought for a hundred rounds, and Tian Mie went from initial confidence and absolute dominance to being moved and astonished.
Logically, he should have been able to suppress Yun Fan from the first move and kill him by the hundredth round.
But the reality was not like this. From the first move to the hundredth move, he had not been able to suppress Yun Fan's state.
Yun Fan could still contend with him, suffering no losses other than being suppressed.
One could imagine that Yun Fan was holding back his strength.
It was just that he did not know why Yun Fan was holding back his strength.
At this moment, he asked Yun Fan, "You aren't even fighting me with your full strength. What are you hesitating about?"
"I'm looking for your weakness!"
Yun Fan answered directly.
"Weakness?"
He said disdainfully, "I have fought my entire life and have never had any weakness. Everything you are doing is just a futile struggle!"
"Is that so? I don't think so!"
Yun Fan said, "Everyone has a weakness, but you are an exception. Because you are someone who has already died, theoretically speaking, you are no longer human, but a ghost!"
"A dead person?"
He said dismissively, "Then you are greatly mistaken! Other than the late Emperor, no one can kill me!"
"Is that so?"
The next moment, Yun Fan decisively took out a mirror, the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Mirror, which he had not used for a long time.
This mirror, though long unused by Yun Fan, had been enhanced and could be considered a heaven-defying divine artifact.
When the mirror was opened, a beam of light shot out, landing on Tian Mie.
Tian Mie, who was previously indestructible, suddenly began to smoke all over, and his body even seemed on the verge of disintegration.
"What's going on?"
Tian Mie was instantly moved. This beam of light was actually searing him, and his previously flawless body was now showing several flaws.
Yun Fan said, "This mirror has no effect on the living, only on the dead. You still say you are not dead!"
"How is that possible?"
Tian Mie was moved, thinking that Yun Fan was just trying to scare him.
"Then let me ask you, why do you only possess the decaying power of death, but no vitality? Have you not noticed?"
"So what?"
Tian Mie said to Yun Fan, "The reason there is no vitality is that I have only recently been revived, and my vitality has not yet manifested!"
"Recently revived? You've been looking for me for tens of thousands of years, and you tell me you've only recently revived!"
Upon hearing this, Tian Mie was instantly moved, because Yun Fan's words struck him to the core, leaving him speechless.
"Stop deceiving yourself!"
Yun Fan said, "You are someone who has already died. Everything you are experiencing now is just an illusion!"
"No, it's not like that!"
Tian Mie retorted angrily.
However, at this moment, he was also cautious and began to release his vital energy.
When Xi Huang revived him, she had warned him never to use his vital energy, as it would cause great damage to his body since he had only just been revived.
But at this moment, to verify Yun Fan's words, he had no choice but to take the risk.
To his surprise, as soon as he used it, he realized that there was no vitality within him.
"What is going on?"
Tian Mie showed a look of surprise and terror, unable to believe that all of this was true.
Yun Fan asked, "Do you still think you are not dead? I never thought I would be fighting a dead person. How unlucky!"
When a strong person reaches a level beyond the ceiling, their spiritual sense does not perish, but their physical body and soul have long since died.
It's just that they might not have noticed it themselves. At this moment, with Yun Fan's revelation, despair and shock appeared in Tian Mie's eyes.
"I never thought I was actually dead!"
Tian Mie finally accepted this unfortunate reality.
Yun Fan said coldly, "I am not the one who lied to you, but Xi Huang. Do you still think Xi Huang is worth following?"
"How could she lie to me? How could she lie to me?"
Tian Mie roared in disbelief.
No matter what, he never expected that Xi Huang had deceived him.
At this moment, his sealed spiritual sense was opened.
Past memories resurfaced. That's right, he was indeed dead, and had died many epochs ago.
When the Creation God fought his nemesis, he was the vanguard and was cut in half by the nemesis, dying before the Creation God.
This was the cruel reality.
However, because the other party acted too quickly, he was killed in an instant, almost without any reaction.
Therefore, his spiritual sense was unaware, and it was only until Yun Fan pointed it out that he realized he had died tens of thousands of years ago.
"Even if I am just a dead person, so what?"
He said to Yun Fan, "Killing you is not a problem!"
"You are truly persistent!"
Yun Fan said, "If I were you, I would calmly dissipate into smoke. I never thought your obsession would still make you attack me. You are truly overestimating yourself!"
As Yun Fan infused the power of heaven-defiance and reincarnation into the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Mirror, the mirror released an ultimate radiance.
As Tian Mie charged forward, he was directly severed by it.
With a roar of unwillingness, Tian Mie was completely disintegrated by Yun Fan.
Tian Mie's obsession finally dissipated, without even the qualification for reincarnation.
At this moment, Yun Fan finally breathed a sigh of relief. If Tian Mie were not dead, perhaps he might have been a match for him.
But whether Tian Mie was dead or not, Yun Fan was quite confident in his ability to kill him.
Apart from Xi Huang, no one would be his opponent.
At this moment, Yun Fan completely erased the surrounding aura. He had intended to return to the world, but he knew that once he returned, this hidden world would have a flaw.
If Xi Huang found it, it would be a devastating blow.
Therefore, at this moment, Yun Fan knew that he absolutely could not return, at least not until Xi Huang was dead.
Thus, he bid farewell to his women across worlds.
The women wept. They never expected that even reuniting with Yun Fan had become an absolute luxury.
It was impossible for them not to be heartbroken.
Even though they were all at the heaven-defying realm, at the peak, and Yun Fan was the peak of the peaks, they could not be together.
At this moment, Yun Fan said to them, "My wives, do not be sad. The day of reunion will eventually come, and it will not be far off! This separation is only temporary. Promise me, cultivate well. Together, we will conquer Xi Huang in the future!"
"Yes!"
The women nodded firmly, "Husband, we will not disappoint you!"
Yun Fan also said, "I will not disappoint you either. Victory will ultimately belong to us!"
"Mmm-hmm!"
At this moment, with the cooperation of the Fusang Divine Tree, Yun Fan banished this hidden world into the void, leaving no trace of a flaw.
And Yun Fan was destined not to end his journey in solitude. He embarked on a new journey, this time not to kill Xi Huang, but to find a way to break through.
To kill Xi Huang, the prerequisite was to stand at the same height as her, otherwise, everything would be in vain.
At this moment, Yun Fan followed the coordinates given to him by Wang Shu before his death and traversed the Eye of Reincarnation.
He arrived at an ancient battlefield of gods and demons.
Here, Yun Fan could see the remnants of Daozhou, worn down to almost nothing.
Daozhou no longer existed, but traces of its worlds could still be found scattered about.
This was because this was where the Creation God and his nemesis, the World-Destroying God, had fought. In this battle, the Creation God fell. Although the World-Destroying God did not perish,
his condition was not much better, as he was also severely wounded and withdrew from the battlefield of contention, not appearing until now.
Xi Huang also assumed that since the World-Destroying God had not appeared in this era, she dared to be so unrestrained.
Of course, Xi Huang's goal was also to fight the World-Destroying God, because in her eyes, Yun Fan was not a true nemesis.
He was merely a stepping stone on her path to success. The only one who would contend with her in the end was the World-Destroying God.
The reason Wang Shu wanted him to come here was merely to allow Yun Fan to experience the auras of two top figures.
If he was lucky, perhaps Yun Fan could break through to this level, becoming a true existence beyond the heaven-defying realm.
Here, Yun Fan indeed sensed two auras that transcended the ceiling lingering for a long time.
After sensing these two auras, Yun Fan released his own aura, creating a situation of three competing forces.
As long as his aura won, he would have the potential to surpass the heaven-defying realm; otherwise, he would not.
This was the most realistic assessment of his potential; he would not believe he was great based on others' evaluations.
Possessing the potential to transcend the heaven-defying realm.
After all, he wanted a truly realistic assessment, to be himself; otherwise, everything would be in vain.
At this moment, Yun Fan quickly condensed his aura and first confronted the aura of the World-Destroying God.
Since this nemesis was even feared by Xi Huang, he wanted to see how strong he was.
The result did not disappoint him. Even though this was only an aura from countless epochs ago, it was enough to easily crush his aura.
Yun Fan did not feel embarrassed, because only then could he correctly understand how strong his potential truly was.
Thus, he spent twelve thousand years contending with the aura of the World-Destroying God, and finally, after twelve thousand years, he defeated the aura of the World-Destroying God.
After that, he began to contend with the aura of the Creation God.
Because the Creation God's aura was not at its peak, Yun Fan only took eight thousand years to defeat it.
Twenty thousand years, in Yun Fan's eyes, was merely a drop in the ocean. This period, though seemingly long, was actually not even a full epoch.
An epoch often started from a million years and peaked at ten million years.
This amount of time was not even enough for him to break through.
After realizing how strong his potential was, Yun Fan began to draw on these two auras for his breakthrough.
He wanted to reach the peak combat power, and even if he could not enter this level, he would at least set foot in it.
This realm was called Void.
That's right, the peak of cultivation was Void, where everything turned into nothingness and silence. This was the end of the cultivation path.
Even the heaven-defying realm was far inferior to this realm, but precisely because of this realm, no one had ever truly reached it.
Therefore, the heaven-defying realm was the ceiling; neither the World-Destroying God nor the Creation God had reached this realm.
At most, they had one foot in this realm, without truly stabilizing their footing.
As for Xi Huang, she had half a foot in this realm, so she was still far behind the two.
This time, Yun Fan did not believe he could truly enter this realm; half a foot would be enough.
Whether it was the World-Destroying God, the Creation God, or even Xi Huang, their talent was not inferior to Yun Fan's. Yun Fan tried his best to barely match their talent.
Therefore, they could not do it, and Yun Fan would not naively believe he could.
So, for him, as long as he could be on par with Xi Huang, he would not fear her.
This time, he did not know how long it took. He lived back and forth between reality and illusion.
His only goal was to break through.
In the end, even he did not know if he had broken through. He only knew that a familiar aura arrived and disturbed him, bringing him back from the illusion.
The visitor was none other than Xi Huang.
"I didn't expect you to be here!"
Xi Huang looked at Yun Fan with a cold smile. For the past half-epoch, both she and her subordinates had been searching for Yun Fan.
Because Yun Fan was currently the only stumbling block on her path to success, he had to be eliminated. For hundreds of thousands of years, she had never stopped pursuing Yun Fan.
She never expected Yun Fan to eventually appear on this battlefield of gods and demons.
Yun Fan said, "You only know I'm here now? It's a pity, I arrived hundreds of thousands of years ago!"
"If I hadn't found you this time, would you have continued to be a turtle hiding in its shell?"
Xi Huang questioned him.
Yun Fan said, "All the preparations were just to deal with you. Even if you didn't come looking for me, I would have found you!"
"Is that so?"
Xi Huang said to Yun Fan, "For me, you will never be qualified to be my true opponent. This time, it will be your death day!"
"Once I completely kill you, no one will be my opponent!"
"So, has your ambition reached its extreme?"
Yun Fan said, "I can tell you clearly, you cannot kill me. Of course, I cannot kill you either, but I can stop your inflated ambition! If one day, I break through before you, it will be your death day!"
This time, Yun Fan and Xi Huang went head-to-head.
"Overestimating yourself!"
Xi Huang said, "In the past, even with Wang Shu, I almost wiped you all out. Do you think you alone can be my opponent?"
In Xi Huang's opinion, Yun Fan's actions were undoubtedly the most foolish.
Yun Fan said, "I have spent hundreds of thousands of years growing, just to deal with you. This time, I will make you look at me with new eyes!"
"A clown I never take seriously has no right to contend with me. What I want is absolute dominance!"
In an instant, Xi Huang attacked. Although she did not take Yun Fan seriously and did not consider him a true enemy, this time, she used her full strength. It was not out of fear of Yun Fan's power, but because she did not want to waste time with this stumbling block, wanting to kill Yun Fan in the shortest possible time.
Yun Fan naturally knew Xi Huang's intentions. However, this time, he was well-prepared and had no pressure in his heart.