Chapter 395: 395. Chapter 391: Departure

395. Chapter 391: Departure

Ding Huan had only been gone for about half a shichen when the Immortal Sect Sect Master Grand Assembly came to an end.

As the various major Immortal Sect sect masters walked out of the conference hall, the very first thing they learned was that Ding Huan had come.

That Ding Huan — the one for whom finding Immortal Spirit Spring Eyes was as easy and casual as eating and drinking — had arrived right under their noses. Not only that, Ding Huan had even completed a trade before leaving.

This news drove those Immortal Sect sect masters nearly mad. Dozens of Immortal Sect sect masters didn't even wait to attend the sect master trade fair before charging out of the Longevity Immortal Dao City, wanting to chase down Ding Huan.

The sect master of Lei Sword Immortal Sect, Lei Wu, was so furious his fists were practically squeezing water out.

He hadn't been mistaken — Ding Huan had indeed come from Void City to the Fourth Immortal Domain.

Since Ding Huan hadn't borrowed an Immortal Sect sect master's array token, that meant Ding Huan had mastered another method of entering the Fourth Immortal Domain.

After learning that Ding Huan could find Immortal Spirit Spring Eyes, he had been searching for Ding Huan's whereabouts all along.

After so many years, to have Ding Huan slip away right under his nose this time — it was truly too hard to swallow.

Reminding Shen Yi felt a secret dread in his heart.

He felt he had acted somewhat too temperamental in how he handled things. If he didn't change this, he might die because of it in the future.

The first time he lent his array token to Ding Huan — if Ding Huan had used it, today would have been his death day.

The second time, when he was about to bring Ding Huan to attend the Immortal Sect Grand Assembly — if Ding Huan had really come here with him, today he probably wouldn't have escaped either.

Not to mention anyone else — Lei Wu alone would not have let him off.

Letting out a long breath, Reminding Shen Yi clenched his fists. It was still because his cultivation was too low.

If his cultivation were no worse than Lei Wu's, even if he had lent the array token to Ding Huan, what could Lei Wu have done to him?

The sect master of Changyi Immortal Sect, Hu Hu Changlin, clearly knew how eager Lei Wu was to catch Ding Huan. In fact, he himself was just as eager to catch Ding Huan.

He felt Lei Wu was his best partner, so he walked over to Lei Wu's side:

"Sect Master Lei, that Ding Huan traded for a jade slip leading to the Myriad Void Swamp, which means he should be heading to the Myriad Void Swamp."

Lei Wu's eyes lit up at these words. This meant Ding Huan would definitely have to go to the entrance vortex of the Myriad Void Swamp.

Seeing that Lei Wu understood his meaning, Hu Hu Changlin lowered his voice: "From here to the Fifth Immortal Domain, everyone travels by teleportation array, and the teleportation array is right in this great hall.

Ding Huan naturally doesn't have the qualifications to use the teleportation array, so he can only travel by flying.

Even if Ding Huan has a mid-grade flying immortal artifact, for him to reach the entrance of the Myriad Void Swamp would take at least twenty to thirty years. We just need to…"

Lei Wu instantly understood. He laughed heartily and said: "Good, when the time comes we'll go together. Sect Master Hu, rest assured — he is the common property of our two Immortal Sects."

Hu Hu Changlin laughed heartily as well, exchanged a glance with Lei Wu, and did not continue discussing the matter.

Ding Huan having a mid-grade flying immortal artifact was impossible. No matter how capable Ding Huan was, at most he could only find a low-grade flying immortal artifact.

A low-grade flying immortal artifact would need a hundred years to fly to the entrance of the Myriad Void Swamp.

So they didn't need to rush. Even if they waited a few years before teleporting to the Fifth Immortal Domain, they could still intercept Ding Huan at the entrance of the Myriad Void Swamp.

As for whether Ding Huan's speed could possibly be faster than a high-grade flying immortal artifact?

They wouldn't even entertain the thought.

A high-grade flying immortal artifact?

How could that be possible? The entire Fifth Immortal Domain doesn't even know if it has a high-grade flying immortal artifact — how could Ding Huan possibly have one?

Besides, even if Ding Huan had a high-grade flying immortal artifact, getting from here to the Myriad Void Swamp would still take several years.

……

After Ding Huan refined the iron pot to its fiftieth layer of restrictions, the iron pot's speed surged up another notch.

Ding Huan sped up even more, striving to refine the fifty-first layer of restrictions.

Three months later, Ding Huan refined the fifty-first layer of restrictions, and his speed continued to leap upward.

Five months later, Ding Huan refined the fifty-second layer of restrictions.

Ding Huan felt that his iron pot's speed should now be faster than a high-grade flying immortal artifact, though he still found it a bit too slow.

When the tenth month passed and Ding Huan was refining the fifty-third layer of restrictions, his divine sense had already swept to the location of the Myriad Void Swamp's entrance.

A low-grade flying immortal artifact would need a hundred years to fly here; he had reached this place in less than a year.

This iron pot was tough as nails.

This place was locked down by layer upon layer of restrictions, but these restrictions served only as a warning, not as a blockade.

Outside the restrictions stood a tall stone stele, inscribed from top to bottom with the words "Entrance to the Myriad Void Swamp."

Ding Huan's gaze shifted away from the entrance of the Myriad Void Swamp and fell on a place farther away.

That should be the Fifth Immortal Domain.

Although Ding Huan had not gone to the Fifth Immortal Domain, he could guess that entering the Fifth Immortal Domain now would certainly be blocked by formations.

He had no interest in entering the Fifth Immortal Domain either.

The Fifth Immortal Domain's heaven and earth rules should be higher than those of the Fourth Immortal Domain — quite possibly similar to the relationship between the Triple Heaven Star Land's Ascension Realm and the Dao Cultivation Realm.

So what? If the Fifth Immortal Domain could step into a higher level, then so many people wouldn't be rushing into the Myriad Void Swamp one after another.

His gaze fell once more on the entrance of the Myriad Void Swamp. Ding Huan thought for a good while, and decided that before entering the Myriad Void Swamp, he would set up a monitoring array here at the entrance.

He didn't need to deduce it — he could guess that someone would come here to block him based on what he had traded.

After he entered the Myriad Void Swamp, he was very curious to know exactly who had come here to block him.

The monitoring array was laid entirely with third-grade immortal array patterns. Ding Huan believed that in the Fourth Immortal Domain, there should be very few who could surpass him in void law array patterns.

After finishing all this, Ding Huan finally stepped inside.

The moment he entered, there was a massive formation platform.

This formation platform was man-made. In front of the formation platform was an enormous cosmic void vortex.

Ding Huan took a deep breath, his divine sense connected with the iron pot, and then he plunged into this cosmic vortex without the slightest hesitation.

If he could not seek a higher Dao path, could not fulfill his own dream, then muddling through life in the Fourth Immortal Domain or even the Fifth Immortal Domain would be utterly meaningless to him.

The violent cosmic force swept over and slammed into Ding Huan. What relieved Ding Huan was that he did not feel any void dislocation or void blade edges.

At this moment, he was swept by the violent cosmic vortex force and hurled toward the depths.

Ding Huan had no ability to struggle within this violent cosmic vortex, which stirred a deep sense of powerlessness from the bottom of his heart.

When one's cultivation is low, whether before the strong or before nature itself, he is nothing more than meat on the chopping block.

To grow stronger — only by becoming stronger himself could he take control of his own fate and live for his own dreams.

He did not know how long had passed. Just as even Ding Huan's immensely powerful divine sense was about to be swept into unconsciousness by the vortex force, the vortex force finally vanished.

Ding Huan felt himself falling out of the void. Before he even landed on the ground, he saw a giant mantis opening its mouthparts and biting toward him.

The Samsara Spear was summoned, and in the blink of an eye Ding Huan blasted a spear strike into this mantis's eye.

With a shrill, miserable shriek, this mantis was actually not killed by Ding Huan's single spear strike; instead, it swiftly flew away and vanished.

"Plop!" Ding Huan fell to the ground, his whole body drained of strength.

Landing on the ground, Ding Huan was not the slightest bit disappointed. Because there was immortal spiritual energy here, and the rules of heaven and earth were not low — absolutely stronger than the Fourth Immortal Domain, and not by just a little.

The presence of immortal demon beasts here was the best proof.

Even if he could not walk out of this Myriad Void Swamp in the short term, he could stay here and cultivate.

Ding Huan's divine sense swept outward; the place he was in should be a stretch of wasteland.

His divine sense was partially restricted. With his powerful Sea of Consciousness Great Universe Dao, his divine sense now covered less than a hundred li.

An ordinary cultivator's divine sense probably could only sweep out a few zhang.

There were no spiritual plants in the wasteland; everywhere was a scene of desolation. Without the immortal spiritual energy, it would be little different from an apocalypse.

He just did not know where that mantis had appeared from earlier.

Ding Huan could not be bothered with these things; he decided to find a place to rest first.

After simply setting up a defensive protective array, Ding Huan circulated the Great Universe Art to cultivate.

After only one Zhou Tian, Ding Huan stopped cultivating.

He understood why the jade slip about the Myriad Void Swamp that Warm Immortal had given him explained that one could not cultivate here.

The Dao rhyme of the immortal spiritual energy here was more than just mottled? Even though his Great Universe Art could strip away mottled Dao rhyme laws, wanting to cultivate here was still a fool's dream.

If he forcibly cultivated, he could only continue to perfect the Zhou Tian of the Great Universe Art. Letting the Great Universe Art repeatedly strip away the mottled immortal spiritual energy here — this would no longer be cultivation, but a waste of time.

If it were a cultivator without the Great Universe Art who dared to forcibly cultivate here, there would only be two outcomes: first, qi deviation; second, cultivation growing worse and worse.

Ding Huan took out his own immortal crystals and circulated the Great Universe Art again. This time he finally breathed a sigh of relief. If he used the immortal crystals on his person, cultivation was entirely possible.

Ding Huan only restored some immortal essence and did not continue cultivating.

He walked to the place where the mantis had ambushed him earlier. The mantis was gone, but the lingering demon insect Dao rhyme aura on the ground still let him sense that this was an immortal demon insect.

Standing in place, Ding Huan frowned and fell into deep thought.

Since one could not cultivate in this place, and the immortal spiritual energy was mottled to such a terrifying degree, on what basis could that mantis cultivate? And its strength was even not bad.

There must absolutely be some secret here that he did not know, and this secret was something no cultivator who had ever entered the Myriad Void Swamp had discovered.