Chapter 362: 362. Chapter 359: The Fourth Immortal Realm

362. Chapter 359: The Fourth Immortal Realm

Liu Yinyu showed no mercy; a blade of light slashed through the air, followed by a fireball that obliterated Mo Huiping.

She didn't burn Mo Huiping outright with the fireball—that was already giving her face.

"Greetings, Supreme Elder," Liu Yinzhu hurried forward to pay her respects.

Liu Yinyu nodded and pulled out a crystal ball.

"This is the crystal ball left by the Sect Master; I have never activated it."

"The Sect Master only told me that if Mo Huiping arrived at the sect and seized control of all senior elders and the Sect Master, I was to activate this crystal ball."

Everyone understood Liu Yinyu's implication: if Mo Huiping had been killed by Liu Yinzhu before seizing control of the sect, there would be no need to activate the crystal ball.

Liu Yinyu activated the crystal ball, and Ding Huan's image appeared in the void.

All present bowed deeply: "Greetings, Sect Master."

Ding Huan sighed: "Liu Yinzhu shall step down from the position of Sect Master and become the Second Supreme Elder of the sect, entering seclusion for deep cultivation. The new Sect Master shall be Seeing Yan Mei."

"Yes," Liu Yinzhu bowed in response.

She sighed inwardly, but she knew she had been too indecisive in handling Mo Huiping.

If she had acted decisively when Mo Huiping first entered the sect, she would have been trapped and killed in the sealing array—how could she have reached the main hall?

Though severely wounded, Seeing Yan Mei hurried forward and said: "Yes, Seeing Yan Mei will not disappoint the Sect Master's expectations."

Ding Huan continued: "Liu Yinzhu and Liu Yinyu are likely blood relatives—this is certain. The two elders should communicate and learn more about this…"

Liu Yinzhu was stunned—she and Palace Master Liu Yinyu were blood relatives?

The message was extremely brief, merely announcing two matters before ending.

Yet Blue Star Sect erupted into activity: Seeing Yan Mei, as the sect's third Sect Master, naturally required a grand investiture ceremony.

For the new Blue Star Sect Master's ascension, not only did every sect master from the Dao-cultivation realms come, but every sect master from the Ascension Realms arrived as well.

Blue Star Sect once again gained great renown across the Threefold Heaven Star Continents.

…

Ding Huan guided the spaceship through this void for nearly a year.

During that year, he refined the Mirror of Life and Death to thirty-six sealing layers.

Unlike his mere brute-force breakthroughs when refining the iron pot and the Evening Drum,

while refining the Mirror of Life and Death, Ding Huan faintly sensed the Life Dao rhythm and Death Dao rhythm within it were extraordinary—if he could comprehend their Dao principles, it would become an ultimate weapon.

But when he reached the thirty-sixth sealing layer, further refinement became nearly impossible, and his insight into the Dao principles halted.

With no more treasures to refine, Ding Huan was at a loss for what to do.

It wasn't that he refused to cultivate—he discovered after trying that the faint traces of immortal qi in this void were utterly unsuitable for cultivation.

Or rather, this meager immortal qi couldn't even sustain his normal consumption.

Another year passed, and Ding Huan began to suspect whether he had truly reached a realm higher than the Threefold Heaven Star Continents.

He stood aimlessly before the spiritual artifact spaceship, gazing at the boundless void, wondering if his arduous journey away from the Threefold Heaven Star Continents had been right.

He had no idea where the spaceship was headed.

Or rather, wherever the spaceship went, he went too.

One day, while his spiritual sense wandered through the void, he spotted a small meteorite bearing a tender sprout.

Ding Huan thought he had misseen it; he strained his spiritual sense to observe—yes, it was truly a sprout.

This void held no life at all; how could a spiritual plant sprout from such faint, nearly nonexistent immortal qi?

Ding Huan immediately guided the spaceship to land beside the sprout, swept his hand, and drew the sprout into his palm.

No—this sprout's immortal energy was incredibly dense. How was this possible?

In a void so thin it barely had any immortal qi, how could such a sprout brimming with heavenly energy grow?

Ding Huan pinched the sprout—and was even more stunned. The sprout was as hard as steel.

Was this a material or a spiritual plant?

Regardless, Ding Huan removed the meteorite beneath the sprout and placed it inside a jade box.

No sooner had he stored the jade box than his spiritual sense detected a spaceship.

Finally, people! Normally, Ding Huan might have hesitated—but now he desperately wanted to ask someone where this realm was.

As Ding Huan's spaceship neared the void vessel, the cultivators aboard spotted him.

Ding Huan scanned them with his spiritual sense—their strongest cultivator was only at the Immortal Bridge realm. Most were Earth Immortals, even some Mortal Immortals.

Among such cultivators, he should have a chance to escape.

Thinking this, Ding Huan bowed and called out loudly: "Greetings, fellow cultivators aboard! I've lost my way—could I join your vessel?"

Several cultivators on the ship's bow stared at Ding Huan; upon hearing his words, they exchanged glances, then turned to confer among themselves.

Ding Huan frowned—he realized he couldn't understand their language.

Though he couldn't understand them, after deliberating, they opened their ship's protective array.

After boarding, Ding Huan bowed and said: "Zhang San greets you all—I've lost my bearings in the void…"

A man launched into a rapid stream of unintelligible speech.

Ding Huan looked confused: "Sorry, I don't understand your language—do you have a language jade slip?"

Cangyu was the universal language of the cosmos; these people weren't speaking Cangyu—was this another universe?

Hearing Ding Huan didn't understand them—and even asked for a language jade slip—they erupted again in rapid, incomprehensible speech.

Ding Huan immediately constructed the Great Cosmic Technique: Zhou Tian. Clearly, they had no intention of giving him a language jade slip—so he would perceive their language himself.

After reaching the Star River realm, any Dao rhythm or law existing within the cosmos, if he could perceive it, he could add it to his Star River.

Any language, too, was a form of heavenly Dao principle.

In just one Zhou Tian cycle, the other side had already grasped the laws of his language.

"This kid's cultivation is average, yet he actually comes from the Immortal Realm."

"Not necessarily—many of our people speak Cangyu outside too. Who can tell?"

"Let me see what he's carrying…"

Ding Huan heard this and knew the other side was about to break the seal on his ring—he stayed still.

His ring's seal was terrible; inside were only a few thousand Spirit Stones, no Spirit Veins, just worthless trinkets.

Anything slightly better was all inside the iron pot.

Sure enough, the next moment, the other's divine sense forcibly seeped into his ring.

This made Ding Huan furious inside—these Wang Ba bastards, what's the difference between this and robbery?

"Hmm, his ring contains a Void Immortal Spirit Bud—double-budded at that. This kid's luck is truly good. We've searched the Void for years and only found dozens of these buds."

"Tell him he got lost, give him a Jade Slip of the Fourth Immortal Realm's direction, and buy that Void Immortal Spirit Bud off him."

"Better just kill him."

"Not worth it for just one Void Immortal Spirit Bud. Who knows if this guy really comes from the Immortal Realm? What if someone follows him—we can't afford to offend them…"

"This guy definitely doesn't come from the Immortal Realm—otherwise he wouldn't be unable to understand Void Speech. I suspect he's from a Dao Cultivator's realm. But the things he carries aren't worth killing him for."

"Right, this guy doesn't have anything good on him."

Hearing this, Ding Huan grew even more puzzled—these Wang Ba bastards understood his words.

He now realized the iron bud he'd been searching for in the Void was a Void Immortal Spirit Bud.

Perhaps they'd finished discussing it; a man with colorful tattoos stepped forward and said to Ding Huan: "Brother Zhang, are you heading to the Fourth Immortal Realm?"

He spoke in the exact same Cangyu dialect Ding Huan had used.

These Wang Ba bastards could indeed speak his language.

"No, I want to go to the Fifth Immortal Realm—do you have a direction Jade Slip?" Ding Huan didn't know if the Fifth Immortal Realm even existed.

He assumed that if there was a Fourth Immortal Realm, there must be a Fifth.

When Ding Huan mentioned the Fifth Immortal Realm, no one showed surprise.

Ding Huan silently thought: So the Fifth Immortal Realm really exists.

"We don't have language Jade Slips, but it doesn't matter—we can still communicate," said the tattooed man with a smile.

Ding Huan didn't answer—he knew the other side had more to say.

Sure enough, the man continued: "It's too far and too hard to reach the Fifth Immortal Realm from here. But if you're going to the Fourth Immortal Realm, we do have a direction Jade Slip."

"But this direction Jade Slip isn't cheap—it requires Immortal Crystals to buy. How many Immortal Crystals are you willing to pay?"

Ding Huan shook his head: "I've used up all my Immortal Crystals. I only have some Spirit Stones left."

"Hehe." The tattooed man chuckled: "Spirit Stones? We wouldn't even bother picking them up off the ground. How could you trade Spirit Stones for a Void direction Jade Slip?"

"I do still have one Void Immortal Spirit Bud. Trading just one for a direction Jade Slip feels too much of a loss."

Ding Huan said honestly.

"Besides the Fourth Immortal Realm's direction Jade Slip, we'll throw in one Immortal Crystal as well. How about it?" said the tattooed man.

Ding Huan frowned slightly—judging by their tone, these people had clearly come searching for Void Immortal Spirit Buds.

He calculated quickly and realized that if he refused, it would mean a major battle.

Ding Huan sighed. Why bother?

He didn't want to fight these people before even entering the Immortal Realm.

He didn't know the true value of the Void Immortal Spirit Bud, but he guessed it was far more than what they were offering.

Wanting to see, he still pulled out the Void Immortal Spirit Bud: "Fine, deal."

One Void Immortal Spirit Bud was exchanged for one direction Jade Slip to the Immortal Realm and one Immortal Crystal.

Ding Huan knew he'd been greatly cheated, but he didn't care—not because he didn't know the true value of the Void Immortal Spirit Bud, but because reaching the Immortal Realm mattered more to him now.