Chapter 33: Chapter 33 — Awakening

“What?”

When Princess Hongyi’s sword flashed and Liu Kang fell, Fang Han’s eyes flickered with shock.
After a long pause he said quietly,

“Liu Kang is the son of Marquis Zhenyuan.
The man controls military power in the Great Li Dynasty.
Killing his heir will bring endless trouble.”

She wiped the blood from her blade with a Cleansing Talisman, then smiled faintly at him.

“I thought you would panic.
Instead, you’re already thinking about the consequences.”

She admired that.

“Regret is useless,”
Fang Han replied calmly.

“The deed is done. Now we solve the aftermath.
Besides, he tried to blackmail us. Greed blinded him.”

She nodded.

“The Silver Serpent Sword and Blood-Cotton Demon Robe together could buy ten marquisates.
He lost a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
He was simply too impatient.”

Then she sheathed her sword.

“He wasn’t killed by me.
He was killed by Crimson Prince in the chaos.”

Fang Han rose.

“We must leave. I’m taking the Heavenly Rooster Pure-Yang Rope.”

Mo Shijie lay on the sand, poisoned by the Six-Desires Yin Thunder.
Even with her Divine Transformation Body, her face had turned black-purple.

Ordinary poison could never kill someone at her level.
But the Yin Thunder’s soul poison was ten thousand times more vicious.

“Whether you live or die depends on your fate,”
Fang Han murmured, removing the rope from her grasp.

The problem appeared instantly.

The rope was still bound to ten Flying Yakshas.

“It won’t release unless the owner commands it,”
Hongyi said.

Fang Han frowned.

“Then I’ll try something else.”

He pressed the rope against his chest, against the Fathomless Yellow Spring Diagram.

The instant his mind merged with the diagram—

Boom!

The rope erupted into thousands of radiant phantom roosters, all crowing toward heaven, shaking the night as if dawn were breaking.

Suddenly, a massive flood-dragon shadow burst from Fang Han’s chest.

It spewed yellow clouds across the heavens and collided with the roosters.

Roosters shrieked.
Clouds rolled.
Dragon and thousands of sun-spirits clashed in an apocalyptic vision.

Then—

“Demon Devours Heaven and Earth!”

The dragon swallowed every single phantom rooster.

The sky cleared.

The dragon vanished back into Fang Han’s chest.

The rope was gone.

The ten Flying Yakshas were gone.

Hongyi stared.

“What just happened?
Where is the rope?
Where are the Yakshas?”

Fang Han focused his mind inside the diagram.

Inside the Yellow Spring River lay all ten Yakshas, drifting like corpses.

But the Heavenly Rooster Pure-Yang Rope was gone.

Then Fang Han felt it.

The flood-dragon in the diagram…
Had awakened.

A voice thundered in his soul:

“Your intuition is correct, heir of the Yellow Spring Emperor.
Your blood and the Nine-Orifice Golden Pill have awakened this treasure.
Today you fed me a supreme artifact of pure yang.
I have regained one-thousandth of my strength.
I am awake.”

Fang Han stood frozen.

Hongyi shook him.

“Fang Han? What’s wrong?”

He slowly raised his head.

The ancient artifact spirit of the Fathomless Yellow Spring Diagram
had finally awakened.