Chapter 320: Jiuyuan Star

Ding Huan released the thread of Shen Nian from Lou Yunsheng, and Lou Yunsheng dared not play any further tricks—he immediately pulled out a jade slip and carved a coordinate before handing it to Ding Huan:

"This is the true location of Jiuyuan Star…"

The Wenxin Array did not sound an alarm, clearly the coordinate he provided was correct.

Ding Huan tucked away the jade slip and sent a Shen Nian straight into Lou Yunsheng's mind sea, beginning the soul-searching.

"Ahh…" Lou Yunsheng let out a piercing scream:

"You broke your word—I gave you the location… and now you're searching my soul… Aah…"

The unbearable pain came, and Lou Yunsheng wished for death.

This time he was certain: Ding Huan didn't know how to search souls at all.

He only understood a little theoretical knowledge of soul-searching, but had no idea how to organize an opponent's mind sea.

Regret was too late.

"Is that so? When did I ever promise you could back out once I started soul-searching?" Ding Huan sneered.

At this moment, Lou Yunsheng had no strength left to respond—his mind sea had long become a slurry…

Ding Huan withdrew his finger; Lou Yunsheng's soul and spirit were utterly destroyed.

"How was it?" Jia Baihe asked.

Ding Huan casually snatched up Lou Yunsheng's ring and hurled a fireball at his corpse:

"This vile trash? Dying is too kind a fate for him."

He had extracted less than one percent of Lou Yunsheng's memories during the soul-search, but still learned some things.

As he had guessed, the planet where Jiuyuan Sect originally resided was called Qiyuan Starland.

The cultivation technique of Jiuyuan Sect was called Jiuyuan True Scripture.

This technique grew stronger the further one advanced; once the Immortal-Mortal Bridge was forged, it became peerless within the same realm.

But cultivating the Jiuyuan True Scripture required a furnace vessel: male cultivators needed a woman of exceptional quality as a vessel, and female cultivators needed a man of exceptional quality.

Think about it—in Qiyuan Starland, a planet teeming with cultivators, the most talented were naturally treasures of the major sects.

Jiuyuan Sect's actions enraged everyone.

Even so, this was not the main reason Jiuyuan Sect was driven out.

When Jiuyuan cultivators entered the Primordial Soul realm, they had to consume the Vitality-Enhancing Soul Pill, a pill that strengthened the soul; otherwise, they could not withstand the power of the Jiuyuan True Scripture.

The main ingredient of the Vitality-Enhancing Soul Pill was the soul of a top-tier spiritual root cultivator—when this practice became known, it enraged every sect and cultivator on Qiyuan Starland.

Thus, a thousand sects on Qiyuan Starland besieged Jiuyuan Sect, seeking to eradicate it.

Jiuyuan Sect was among the top two sects on Qiyuan Starland.

In that great battle, the major sects of Qiyuan Starland suffered countless casualties; Jiuyuan Sect lost ninety percent of its cultivators.

The survivors activated the sect's grand teleportation array and fled Qiyuan Starland.

After learning this information, Ding Huan finally understood why Lou Yunsheng was a master of array arts, especially skilled in setting up teleportation arrays.

If he and Jia Baihe simply rushed to Jiuyuan Star and released poison, they would not be able to wipe it out.

Only by severing Jiuyuan Star's teleportation array could they kill every Jiuyuan cultivator on the planet.

Similarly, Ding Huan now understood why Jiuyuan recruited top-tier prodigies from every planet.

It was entirely to manufacture Vitality-Enhancing Soul Pills and find furnace vessels.

The prodigies Jiuyuan recruited were first used as furnace vessels, and after being drained, their souls were reused a second time.

Anyone who joined Jiuyuan meant the beginning of a tragic fate.

Pitiful were the so-called prodigies of Sanzhongtian Starland—they risked their lives defending Jiuyuan, unaware that Jiuyuan was the one truly seeking their lives.

The most ironic thing in this world was precisely this.

Ding Huan came from Earth; he knew exactly how many such people existed.

"Then let's go to Jiuyuan Star right now."

Jia Baihe did not ask why—she only desperately needed to exterminate every single person on Jiuyuan Star, even a single Jiuyuan Star ant.

Ding Huan paused for a moment and said: "We cannot simply go there and release poison—it won't kill them."

"Why?" Jia Baihe wanted to prove to Ding Huan that her poison was useless against him, but against others, it killed as many as she wanted.

In the past, when they heard the name Poison Demon Jia Baihe, who didn't tremble in fear?

Ding Huan said: "Jiuyuan Star has a teleportation array—I fear that once they detect the poison, they'll teleport away immediately.

In the past, when they committed their heinous crimes on Qiyuan Starland, they escaped using this very method. We cannot let the same mistake happen again."

"Ahh…" Jia Baihe was stunned.

If there's a grand teleportation array, what's the point of killing?

If it were a sect, or even a ruined planet—like the ruined planet where Lou Yunsheng had secluded himself—they could seal the teleportation space with forbidden arrays.

Jiuyuan Star is a true living planet, and without asking, it was undoubtedly enormous.

How could one seal the teleportation space on a planet this large?

Ding Huan thought for a long while before saying: "I do have a plan…"

"What plan?" Jia Baihe asked urgently.

Ding Huan explained: "Even if Jiuyuan Star isn't as large as Sanzhongtian Starland, sealing it with arrays is beyond our capabilities.

If we could infiltrate Jiuyuan Star and locate its grand teleportation array…"

Ding Huan didn't finish—he shook his head.

Infiltrating a planet like Jiuyuan Star was far more difficult than merely hard.

Not just them—even the prodigies Jiuyuan recruited from Sanzhongtian Starland had no qualifications to enter Jiuyuan Star.

"This plan is good—you can disguise yourself as Lou Yunsheng…"

After speaking, Jia Baihe removed the mask from her face and handed it to Ding Huan: "Wear this—I'm certain no one will recognize you."

Ding Huan's heart stirred; he had just soul-searched Lou Yunsheng, and though he'd only obtained one percent of the information, every bit he gained was from Lou Yunsheng's most vivid memories.

If he could also alter his appearance to mimic Lou Yunsheng, then entering Jiuyuan Star might truly be possible.

"Alright, let's try it this way," Ding Huan said, then pulled out Lou Yunsheng's ring and swiftly pried it open.

"This bastard, sure enough, forged this ring from an entire planet," Ding Huan cursed.

This planet-forged ring wasn't quite on the level of the True Spirit World, but it was an excellent small world.

Soon, Ding Huan found a battle flag within the ring.

"Be careful—entering or exiting a planet like Jiuyuan Star likely involves aura identification," Jia Baihe warned, concerned Ding Huan hadn't considered this thoroughly.

Ding Huan chuckled: "Don't worry—if I can't even account for this, I shouldn't go to Jiuyuan Star at all. Stay outside and wait for my signal."

"No, I'm going with you—you search for the teleportation array, I'll set up the Dao Poison…" Jia Baihe said confidently.

After hearing Ding Huan's words and studying the poison mist of Cangjian Mountain, she was now gradually advancing along the path of Poison Dao's principles.

In fact, even before this, her poison had already formed its own system, cultivating a unique Poison Dao resonance.

"There's only one mask, and you have no identity—how can you enter with me?" Ding Huan asked, puzzled, looking at Jia Baihe.

Jia Baihe smiled sweetly, raised her hand, and pulled out a large jug: "This? You gave it to me once—it's a small world. I'll enter it, and you bring me in."

"Fine." Ding Huan didn't wonder why Jia Baihe trusted him so completely.

…

A month later, Ding Huan's iron pot halted beyond a certain planet.

Ding Huan didn't use his spiritual sense to observe the planet, yet the planet was hidden beneath layers of atmospheric strata.

These atmospheric layers blended seamlessly with the vast starry void—if one didn't know a planet lay here, one would pass right by without noticing.

"Is this a natural cosmic restriction?" Jia Baihe, having spotted the planet concealed within the layers, asked in surprise.

Ding Huan nodded: "Yes—this must be a natural concealment restriction of the cosmos. The Jiuyuan Sect really has talent—they found such a blessed land."

"Perhaps they long knew this planet existed, and when they had nowhere else to go, simply seized it," Jia Baihe said dismissively.

"Very likely. Now I'll go inspect the planet's exterior—you enter your small world."

"Alright." Jia Baihe didn't hesitate, stepping directly into her small world.

Ding Huan tucked away the iron pot along with the large jug, his spiritual sense settling upon the planet hidden beneath the natural restriction.

Soon, Ding Huan located four entry-exit points, based on the information he'd gleaned from soul-searching.

Jiuyuan Star's entry and exit points were separate.

That meant any Jiuyuan Star cultivator knew the entrance and exit were never the same.

If he rashly went to the exit, he'd likely be suspected.

But now Ding Huan changed his mind—he'd discovered the core of Jiuyuan Star's planetary protection array.

The core of a planetary protection array is the hardest to find; sometimes harder than setting up the entire planetary array.

Ding Huan was puzzled why he could find this core.

From the array's construction method, he was certain the array's designer was Lou Yunsheng.

He'd learned array patterns from Lou Yunsheng; when he verified them against this, they matched perfectly.

Placing the core of the planetary protection array outside the array itself, sealed with concealment array patterns—no one else would ever do this. Yet Lou Yunsheng did.

Clearly, Lou Yunsheng was wary of someone inside Jiuyuan Star—otherwise, even with his deep familiarity with Lou Yunsheng's array patterns, Ding Huan couldn't have found this core.

Of course, Lou Yunsheng was also supremely confident in his array patterns, believing no one could ever discover this core.

Ding Huan's spiritual sense swept out, pulling another yellow battle flag from Lou Yunsheng's ring.

This battle flag was the main flag controlling Jiuyuan Star's planetary protection array.

Now Ding Huan didn't need to enter through the array gate to reach Jiuyuan Star.

But he chose not to do so—instead, he began carving array patterns to sever teleportation.

With control of the core, he could effortlessly add a teleportation-severing restriction to the planetary protection array.

Since he no longer needed to search for the teleportation array, why waste time or risk danger?