Chapter 289: Star Domain Realm

This time Ding Huan did not add Starry Sky spiritual veins; he wanted to see just how effective cultivating with these one hundred and eight spiritual veins would be.

If it really wouldn't work, then he would add two Starry Sky ones inside.

The moment the Grand Cosmos Art began to circulate, Ding Huan knew his previous insight had been far too shallow.

Indeed, the higher the grade of a spiritual vein, the more beneficial it was for cultivation.

But once spiritual veins reached a certain number, and were arranged according to a certain great Dao pattern, they would trigger a qualitative change.

The spiritual source produced by this qualitative change was absolutely more effective for cultivation than a single higher-grade spiritual vein.

Right now Ding Huan could feel the formidable effect of cultivating with these one hundred and eight high-grade spiritual veins.

The Grand Cosmos Art was already powerful to begin with; once this powerful technique formed a Zhou Tian with the spiritual veins, it was as if it were drawing the spiritual source here to automatically convert into true essence.

A single spiritual vein or two found it very hard to form a Zhou Tian with the Grand Cosmos Art, but these one hundred and eight high-grade spiritual veins here easily formed a spiritual source Zhou Tian with the Grand Cosmos Art.

Feeling his strength soaring wildly, Ding Huan did not take out any Starry Sky spiritual veins.

Compared to Ding Huan, Fu Qijian was even more like sitting on a flying sword while cultivating.

Human Immortal Nine-Layer Peak…

Human Immortal Nine-Layer Perfection…

The Great Dao questions the heart, charging toward Earth Immortal…

In less than a single year, Fu Qijian let out a long howl and stood up:

"Ding Huan, I'm going out to undergo Tribulation Crossing, preparing to advance to Earth Immortal."

Ding Huan laughed heartily: "Good, I was also planning to charge toward the next realm."

Compared to Fu Qijian, Ding Huan had stepped into Star Change Perfection even earlier; he likewise needed to charge toward the next realm.

The two, as if by unspoken agreement, chose to leave the Spiritual Source Valley to charge toward higher levels.

Undergoing Tribulation Crossing inside the Spiritual Source Valley would be of greater help to the two of them, and the effect would also be better.

Neither Ding Huan nor Fu Qijian wanted to damage the seal here.

Once the seal was damaged, who knew what consequences it might trigger?

The Void-Devouring Insects from before had already been extremely terrifying.

Once endless Void-Devouring Insects poured in, not only would the Opening Heavens Battlefield suffer a calamity, the Triple Heaven Star Land would also be in danger.

If these insects charged all the way to the Ascension Realm or even the Dao Cultivation Realm, that would be a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions.

Leaving the Spiritual Source Valley, Ding Huan began to set up concealment arrays and defensive arrays.

These arrays directly concealed this Opening Heavens Spiritual Source Valley.

"Ding Huan, you help me guard the Dao; I'm going to undergo Tribulation Crossing." Fu Qijian's mood was surging; he had a premonition that this time he would surely break through the Human Immortal realm and step into Earth Immortal.

"Qijian, don't worry. With me here, this place is guaranteed to be as safe as an iron barrel." As Ding Huan spoke, he tossed out formation flag after formation flag.

He too needed to undergo Tribulation Crossing now.

High-grade spiritual vein after high-grade spiritual vein, along with two mid-grade Starry Sky spiritual veins, were implanted by Ding Huan; pile after pile of high-grade spirit stones were also implanted by Ding Huan into the Gathering Spirit Array.

At the same time, Ding Huan took out several top-grade spirit stones and implanted them into the array core of the Gathering Spirit Array.

These top-grade spirit stones were still ones he had obtained from Dao Cultivation Commerce Guild Master Lu Yuan; today was the first time he had taken them out to use.

Fu Qijian was already madly circulating the Fu Xu Seven Swords technique; streams of spiritual essence along his Zhou Tian sought to break through the barrier of his Earth Immortal cultivation.

After only a few Zhou Tian cycles, Fu Qijian's expression changed.

The reason he had the confidence to charge toward the Earth Immortal realm was that during cultivation he had clearly sensed exactly where the barrier to his Earth Immortal cultivation lay.

He could also be certain that he would surely break through this layer of cultivation shackles and step into the Earth Immortal level.

Now, as he kept charging toward the Earth Immortal realm, his perception of the Earth Immortal realm not only failed to grow stronger, but instead grew weaker and weaker.

If this continued, let alone Earth Immortal, his cultivation was probably going to fall back down from Human Immortal Perfection.

In just an instant, he understood what was going on.

It was because of Ding Huan.

Earlier, when he was cultivating beneath those one hundred and eight spiritual veins, Ding Huan was also cultivating there, so he progressed extremely quickly, and his perception of the Great Dao laws was also extremely clear.

Now that Ding Huan was not cultivating, his perception of the Great Dao was growing more and more blurred; under such circumstances, how could he charge toward Earth Immortal?

Just as Fu Qijian was growing anxious, suddenly his perception of the Great Dao became clear once again; he finally once more caught where the shackles and obstacles of his Earth Immortal cultivation lay.

Fu Qijian didn't need to look to know that Ding Huan, just like him, had begun charging toward the next level; at this moment, how would he dare be the slightest bit negligent, and he charged toward the Earth Immortal realm even more desperately.

If he missed this chance, how would he advance to Earth Immortal?

Ding Huan was indeed charging toward the Star Domain realm.

The galaxy star rings in his consciousness sea gradually fused together, then connected with the star ring of the main star into a single whole.

The embryonic form of a star domain slowly appeared.

A ring of Dao rhyme formed on the outer perimeter of the consciousness sea universe, looking like the radiance of nature illuminating everywhere—magnificent and resplendently beautiful.

During the Zhou Tian circulation of Ding Huan's Grand Cosmos Art, the star domain grew clearer and clearer.

Boom boom boom!

Several arcs of lightning crashed down.

Ding Huan felt this was the easiest time he had ever triggered a Lei Jie since he began cultivating.

The first wave of Lei Jie was thirty-six bolts.

Arc after arc of lightning nearly completely enveloped Ding Huan's entire person; as for his vitality, it could no longer be sensed at all from outside.

Almost at the same moment Ding Huan's Star Change Lei Jie descended, Fu Qijian's true essence finally slammed into the shackles of his Earth Immortal cultivation, followed by thunder roaring in the sky as nine arcs of lightning smashed down violently.

What Ding Huan was undergoing was the Star Change Lei Jie; what Fu Qijian was undergoing was the Earth Immortal Lei Jie.

But viewed from afar, the might of the two men's Lei Jie did not seem to differ by much.

This was almost the easiest Lei Jie Ding Huan had ever undergone; the thirty-six arcs of lightning merely tore the skin on his body and blasted apart seven or eight of his bones.

For an ordinary cultivator, this would be a serious injury.

For Ding Huan, an injury like this during his Tribulation Crossing really counted for nothing—one full cycle of the Grand Cosmos Art and he was completely recovered.

After the thirty-six arcs of Lei Jie came another eighteen arcs of Lei Jie.

The moment the eighteen arcs of Lei Jie slammed into Ding Huan, his Dao domain rapidly took shape under the cycles of the Grand Cosmos Art.

At this instant, Ding Huan felt that within the space of his perception, every inch belonged to him.

Even if an Earth Immortal stood on his turf, he could lock them down with his star domain.

If Fu Qijian hadn't still been crossing his tribulation, Ding Huan would absolutely have extended his star domain to see just how vast it was and how strong.

But if he did so right now, it would be the same as raising the difficulty of Fu Qijian's Tribulation Crossing.

Streams of spiritual essence were absorbed by Ding Huan; with his star domain formed, the spiritual essence he drew in came from virtually every direction.

And Fu Qijian, affected by the spiritual essence Ding Huan had stirred up, saw his cultivation rise even faster.

When the fourth wave of nine lightning arcs came crashing down, Fu Qijian—blood-soaked and blackened by the arcs—finally broke through the Earth Immortal shackles and advanced into the Earth Immortal realm.

"Eh, two people crossing tribulation at the same time? And one of them is crossing the Earth Immortal tribulation? As for that other little fellow—what kind of Lei Jie is that? True God realm? No, Earth Immortal realm? Doesn't quite seem like it either…"

At this moment, not far from where Ding Huan and Fu Qijian were crossing their tribulation, a man with disheveled hair stopped to watch.

Soon his gaze shifted away from Fu Qijian and landed on Ding Huan.

Fu Qijian cultivated the Sword Dao—though strong, it hadn't caught his eye.

It was Ding Huan who made him more and more astonished the longer he looked.

Ding Huan's Tribulation Crossing was as simple as eating or breathing—nothing like other cultivators, who nearly had to leave their old lives behind and pull out every trick they had.

Ding Huan not only let the Lei Jie fall on his body, he even circulated his cultivation art to use the Lei Jie to raise his strength.

This kind of method—Shan Beishu really was seeing it for the first time.

At first, although Shan Beishu was amazed, he didn't think it all that extraordinary.

But when he sensed the cultivation art Ding Huan was practicing, that vast, smoke-like ocean of Dao aura made some of his own hazy Dao insights suddenly clear in an instant—and he was stunned.

What kind of cultivation art was this?

Shan Beishu even closed his eyes, carefully letting his divine sense seep to the edge of Ding Huan's domain.

Then he felt as though he stood within a vast cosmos, letting the Dao of the universe wash over his soul and body.

Even without circulating his own cultivation art through a cycle, he felt his cultivation continuously rising.

Shan Beishu knew that spying on someone with divine sense while they cultivated was an absolute taboo.

Yet he couldn't hold back.

This was simply a heaven-sent opportunity; if he missed it, he likely wouldn't get a second one in his entire life.

Ding Huan's Lei Jie had just ended, and he was circulating the Grand Cosmos Art to stabilize his star domain and raise his strength.

The moment Shan Beishu's divine sense seeped to the outer edge of his star domain, Ding Huan sensed it.

Ding Huan didn't mind—he was different from others.

Normally, if one's cultivation art was seen by someone else, it would be a life-or-death matter.

His art was self-created; no one could perceive the mysteries of the Grand Cosmos Art beneath his Grand Cosmos cycles.

What others could sense was only their own Dao.

Just as Fu Qijian, within Ding Huan's Grand Cosmos Art, perceived the profound Dao laws of the Fu Xu Seven Swords.

So Ding Huan went on cultivating exactly as he would have.

He couldn't even be bothered to send a divine sense warning to Shan Beishu.

As long as it didn't affect him, letting others benefit—wasn't that fine too?

Shan Beishu naturally realized that Ding Huan hadn't taken his spying to heart; while his admiration and gratitude toward Ding Huan grew, he sped up the refinement of his own Dao cultivation art.

"Hahaha…"

Fu Qijian's loud laughter came over, and Ding Huan also stopped cultivating.

He knew Fu Qijian had finally crossed past the Earth Immortal realm and stepped into Earth Immortal.

Earth Immortal—a realm even Fu Qijian's own master had never reached; now Fu Qijian had surged ahead and truly set foot in the Earth Immortal realm.

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