Chapter 396: 396. Chapter 392: The Woman in the Myriad Void Marsh (Extra update eight for wandering all-in)

396. Chapter 392: The Woman in the Myriad Void Marsh (Extra update eight for wandering all-in)

Ding Huan stood in the wasteland, half-doubting whether a message sent from this place could actually be received in the Fourth Immortal Domain, or rather the Fifth Immortal Domain.

But according to the information he had obtained, if one died within the Myriad Void Marsh, the soul token left behind in the Fourth or Fifth Immortal Domain would indeed shatter. Moreover, right after entering here, messages could be sent out.

Whether it was true or not, Ding Huan no longer wished to care. The first thing he had to do now was survive here, and the second was to cross this Myriad Void Marsh.

One careless slip here could cost one's life. Setting everything else aside, when he had just entered the Myriad Void Marsh from that cosmic vortex and dropped down, he had nearly been swallowed by a mantis.

If he had still been unconscious at the time, he would already have become the mantis's meal.

And that cosmic vortex that led into the Myriad Void Marsh was definitely a super transmission vortex.

Ding Huan could imagine that out of ten thousand cultivators who entered the cosmic vortex, surviving even half would already be considered good.

Without a top-grade defensive treasure, entering here unscathed relied purely on luck.

By that reckoning, his luck was fairly decent — he had only encountered a single mantis demon insect that nearly finished him off.

Having landed in a stretch of wasteland, aside from being unable to draw on the immortal spiritual energy here for cultivation, Ding Huan had not yet discovered any other effects.

This wasteland absolutely could not be used for cultivation; one could not even use the immortal spiritual energy here to heal wounds.

The mottled Dao rhyme within the immortal spiritual energy here was far too terrifying.

An ordinary cultivator cultivating here might, in a moment of carelessness, be invaded by those mottled Dao rhyme auras, causing their cultivation to go awry. Qi deviation would be the mild outcome; the severe case might see them explode and perish.

If he wanted to cultivate here, he would have to modify his Great Cosmos Art Zhou Tian to strip away the mottled Dao rhyme from the immortal spiritual energy he absorbed.

Ding Huan summoned his iron pot, intending to use it to fly out of this place.

But the moment the iron pot was summoned, Ding Huan realized his thinking had been far too naive — flight was utterly impossible in this space.

The spatial rules were equally chaotic; moreover, there were even spatial dislocations.

If other things didn't particularly concern Ding Huan, the spatial dislocations truly made him calm down.

With his current strength at Jin Xian Second Layer, facing such spatial dislocations, once trapped within them, he would likely face a situation with no survival.

This stretch of wasteland should already count as extremely safe within the entire Myriad Void Marsh, yet Ding Huan still encountered all manner of accidents every single day.

Within this stretch of wasteland, as long as one didn't fly, spatial dislocations weren't encountered much — but those mantises would sneak out to ambush from time to time.

What surprised Ding Huan was that these mantises were basically all around First-Grade Immortal Demon Insects in strength, yet they were all extremely adept at camouflage.

They could not only camouflage themselves to look identical to the surrounding environment, they could even make their Dao rhyme aura camouflage itself to be identical.

If these mantises hadn't all been very low in cultivation, Ding Huan felt he really might have been outmaneuvered.

Even so, he still had to be extremely careful, spending nearly half a year to cross this stretch of wasteland.

In half a year, aside from his divine sense becoming more condensed, his cultivation had not grown in the slightest, nor had he picked up any heavenly materials or earthly treasures.

This was only because of the Great Cosmos Art he cultivated — the Great Cosmos Art Zhou Tian could directly strip away the mottled Dao rhyme laws within the immortal spiritual energy.

Otherwise, his cultivation wouldn't just fail to increase — it would weaken.

He couldn't keep going on like this. Ding Huan decided to first find a place to go into closed-door cultivation for a period.

He absolutely must not harbor the thought of hurrying and leaving the Myriad Void Marsh soon; if he had such a thought, he wasn't far from perishing.

He should establish a mindset that he would be trapped within the Myriad Void Marsh for a very long time to come — perhaps even forever unable to leave.

Since he would be here for a long time in the future, he had to make proper preparations to be able to cultivate here.

Once his mindset eased, Ding Huan no longer rushed to travel.

At the border with the wasteland lay some pitted and uneven marshlands.

Although this was only the edge, Ding Huan could guess that the moment one stepped into these marshlands, it would be swamp territory.

Compared to the wasteland zone, the swamp zone was certainly more dangerous.

The moment he stepped into this marshland zone, Ding Huan clearly felt the immortal spiritual energy here was even denser. Although the mottled Dao rhyme within the immortal spiritual energy hadn't changed, denser immortal spiritual energy was at least a good thing.

His Great Cosmos Art could strip away the mottled Dao rhyme from the immortal spiritual energy. Moreover, he could also set up law formation flags, and through the purification immortal array set up by those law formation flags, he could also strip away part of the mottled Dao rhyme.

In the wasteland zone, Ding Huan hadn't seen a single blade of grass or a single drop of water in half a year.

Now, beneath Ding Huan's feet, marshlands and green grass were everywhere, along with even some low-grade immortal spirit herbs.

This Myriad Void Marsh was indeed bizarre, as if every spot were a completely different independent star continent.

The marshland zone wasn't large; Ding Huan crossed it in the time it took an incense stick to burn, entering the swamp proper.

He quickly discovered that the swamp contained all kinds of natural trap formations. Sometimes what was clearly an empty patch of ground would, the moment one stepped on it, give way to a devouring black hole.

A single careless step could mean being swallowed by the swamp.

All sorts of poisonous insects also kept appearing, though fortunately these First-Grade Immortal Insects posed no threat to Ding Huan.

After walking for a month, Ding Huan stopped beside a pool.

Calling it a pool was really just a slightly larger stretch of marshland within this patch of swamp.

Ding Huan decided to cultivate here for a period. Whether or not he could step into Mystic Immortal, he still had several hundred thousand high-purity low-grade immortal crystals and several hundred thousand ordinary low-grade immortal crystals on him.

Confirming there was no danger at his location, Ding Huan only then carefully set up various defensive immortal arrays.

The Myriad Void Marsh jade slip Warm Immortal had given him described the swamp portion of the Void Marsh fairly comprehensively.

The gist was that one could not cultivate here — once one cultivated, all kinds of chaotic Dao rhyme would mottle one's own great Dao.

So after setting up defensive arrays and a gathering-immortal-spiritual-energy array, Ding Huan began setting up an immortal array to strip away the mottled Dao rhyme laws.

Ding Huan had set up arrays to condense immortal crystals before; now setting up this kind of array to strip Dao rhyme laws only took him a few extra days.

With all the immortal arrays set up, just to be safe, Ding Huan still added an extra Great Cosmos Art Zhou Tian while cultivating, mainly to strip the mottled Dao rhyme laws from the immortal spiritual energy.

Among those who dared to set up a gathering-immortal-spiritual-energy array and cultivate within the Myriad Void Marsh, probably only Ding Huan existed.

Once the Great Cosmos Art absorbed immortal spiritual springs without limit, the effect was astonishing. After only a dozen or so Zhou Tian cycles, Ding Huan's location was completely wrapped in immortal spiritual energy.

Whether the immortal spiritual energy carried mottled Dao rhyme or not, at this moment it was all swept up by Ding Huan's Great Cosmos Art.

Even Ding Huan himself hadn't expected that the immortal spiritual energy within the Myriad Void Marsh looked quite ordinary.

In fact, once he circulated the Great Cosmos Art Zhou Tian to cultivate, the boundless, limitless immortal spiritual energy came flooding in — more and more of it, denser and denser.

At this moment, Ding Huan was completely immersed in the joy of comprehending the Great Dao and advancing his cultivation.

In the Fourth Immortal Domain, although he cultivated, he always felt as if something were choking his throat; no matter how abundant the Immortal Spiritual Qi was, his cultivation never felt smooth.

When cultivating in the void, that choking sensation was gone, yet he always felt something was lacking, as if a breath were missing throughout his cultivation.

It was like constantly trying to climb upward while always stepping on cotton candy.

Now, he finally felt no constraints whatsoever; he merely furiously circulated the Great Universe Technique to absorb Immortal Spiritual Qi, furiously expanded his Sea of Consciousness Great Dao Universe, and strengthened the Star Immortal Essence in his dantian.

In three months, Ding Huan reached the third layer of Jin Xian.

One year later, Ding Huan broke through the Jin Xian Chu Qi realm and arrived at the fourth layer of Jin Xian.

Just as Ding Huan was joyfully absorbing Immortal Spiritual Qi to advance his cultivation, he suddenly felt his progress stall; the Immortal Spiritual Qi seemed somewhat insufficient, and he snapped out of that blissful seclusion.

He swept his divine sense outward and only then discovered that the million Immortal Crystals he had brought out had completely vanished.

Aside from over a hundred thousand of the most common lower-grade Immortal Crystals on his person, if he wished to continue cultivating here, he could only fully absorb the Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi within this place.

Ding Huan sighed; if only he had made more fortune in the Fourth Immortal Domain.

He never expected that the Immortal Crystals he had looked down upon in the Fourth Immortal Domain due to restrictions from the Heavenly and Earthly Rules would have such a great effect here, even causing his cultivation to be obstructed.

If the Immortal Crystals are gone, they are gone; as long as he walks out of the Hundred Million Void Marshes, what is there to fear regarding a lack of Immortal Crystals for cultivation?

Ding Huan retracted all his Immortal Arrays and was just about to continue forward when his divine sense unexpectedly swept up a human figure.

Someone else had entered the Hundred Million Void Marshes and actually survived to reach this marshland?

Ding Huan immediately walked a distance toward that figure; what shocked him was that it turned out to be a woman.

This woman had disheveled hair and was rushing frantically through the marsh with one foot sinking deep and the other shallow, as if something were chasing her from behind.

Her clothes were like tattered rags, hanging in fragments on her body, revealing her brown skin.

Ding Huan knew this color must have been dyed by the mud in the marsh and the blood on her body.

Ding Huan decided not to meddle in others' affairs; such things happened everywhere, and sometimes, if one meddles poorly, one only invites trouble upon oneself.

Very soon, Ding Huan sensed something was wrong; this woman was almost entirely naked from the waist up, yet she was still rushing frantically, paying no attention whatsoever to her lack of covering.

This woman's mind had clearly become troubled.

Judging by the direction in which the woman was rushing, she seemed to be coming toward him; Ding Huan was just about to step aside when he saw a pair of familiar eyes.

The color was completely unrecognizable on the woman's face, but Ding Huan recognized her eyes.

Immortal Lady Wen?

How could this woman possibly appear here?

That's right; this woman must also have wanted to come to the Hundred Million Void Marshes, otherwise, how could she possess a jade slip containing such a detailed introduction to the Hundred Million Void Marshes?