Chapter 400: The Terrifying Immortal Zone Beast

When Ding Huan concealed his form and approached the waterfall, he immediately sensed something was wrong.

There must be an extremely pure immortal spirit source beneath this waterfall—could that immortal spirit vein lie right below it?

Ding Huan pressed against the massive rock, his entire body's Dao rhythm and aura nearly identical to the rock's. His spiritual sense carefully seeped into the rock, and his spirit trembled slightly.

This was certainly no ordinary rock—it was a magical artifact.

Ding Huan dared not recklessly probe with his spiritual sense; instead, he skillfully constructed a Zhou Tian using the Great Cosmos Art.

As the Zhou Tian's Dao rhythm flowed over the rock, Ding Huan felt a powerful surge of furious killing intent. Alongside this intense fury, there was another potent killing Dao rhythm.

Ding Huan had previously interacted with Wen Zhixi; upon sensing this furious aura, he knew it must have been left behind by Wen Zhixi's father, Wen Saint Luo Xu.

If so, then the other killing Dao rhythm must have been left behind by that Immortal Zone Lord.

Based on his experience, Ding Huan quickly deduced the exact situation.

If he wasn't mistaken, this massive rock was Wen Saint Luo Xu's Jiulun Seal.

Such a huge Jiulun Seal left here—if Wen Zhixi couldn't sense it, that would be strange.

Though Wen Saint Luo Xu didn't know why he perished here, a sliver of his obsession still lingered within the Jiulun Seal.

So when that Immortal Zone beast tried to subjugate the Jiulun Seal, it was blocked by this sliver of furious obsession.

After all, Wen Saint Luo Xu's strength far surpassed that of the Level Four beast, so the beast had never been able to subjugate the Jiulun Seal.

As time passed, Wen Saint Luo Xu's obsession weakened, while the beast's repeated attempts to subjugate it eventually carved out a space within the Jiulun Seal and left behind its own killing Dao rhythm.

One can imagine that whenever the Immortal Zone beast had free time, it would enter the Jiulun Seal and use its killing Dao rhythm to grind away Wen Saint Luo Xu's lingering obsession.

From initially being unable to penetrate, it had now established a space within for itself.

If things continued this way, within no more than a few years, Wen Saint Luo Xu's obsession in the Jiulun Seal would be completely worn away, and the Jiulun Seal would become the beast's possession.

Ding Huan had originally planned to set up trapping and killing array patterns all around, but upon learning of the Jiulun Seal, he immediately changed his mind.

Fortunately, the Immortal Zone beast had not entered the Jiulun Seal today, allowing him to carry out his plan.

His spiritual sense avoided the beast's killing Dao rhythm and began subjugating the Jiulun Seal.

Indeed, as soon as Ding Huan's spiritual sense started subjugating it, that powerful obsession surged directly toward his spiritual sense—the killing aura aimed to sever and cut off his spiritual sense.

Ding Huan sent a message: I am Wen Zhixi's friend, come with her to deal with the Immortal Zone beast. Zhixi is lying in wait outside—if you don't let me subjugate the Jiulun Seal, she is in danger.

As soon as he sent this message, Ding Huan felt the obsession's killing intent weaken considerably, though it still remained.

Ding Huan sent another message: Zhixi told me her mother's last fragment of soul might be here, so even though she knew there was a Level Four beast here, she still intended to act.

After this message was sent, Ding Huan clearly sensed the obsession withdraw.

It must be that only Wen Zhixi and her father knew about her mother's last fragment of soul.

Ding Huan subjugated the first layer of seals on the Jiulun Seal at maximum speed.

After subjugating the first layer of seals, Ding Huan did not continue subjugating the remaining seals; instead, he cleanly set up trapping and killing array patterns outside the space left by the Immortal Zone beast's killing Dao rhythm.

One after another, Ding Huan laid down trapping and killing array patterns; when he reached the third Killing Array, his array tier rose to Level Four.

The heavenly rules here were indeed different—his Void Array patterns could rise to Level Four, proving he had advanced to Level Four Immortal Array Master.

Advancing to Level Four Immortal Array Master meant he could also ascend to Grand Yi Immortal here.

Now that he was a Level Four Immortal Array Master, Ding Huan continued laying Level Four trapping and killing immortal array patterns.

After completing all of them, Ding Huan withdrew his spiritual sense and continued setting up trapping and killing array patterns around the stream.

Previously, he could only lay Level Three trapping and killing immortal arrays, so his chances were slim.

Now that his array art had advanced to Level Four Immortal Array Master, his chances greatly increased.

In Ding Huan's plan, he intended to first lock the Immortal Zone beast's cave with a Killing Array—this beast surely trained inside its hut; if he could lock the hut, he'd already succeeded halfway.

Ding Huan's plan was sound, but the moment he laid down a single array pattern outside the Immortal Zone beast's hut, a furious roar erupted.

Bad—Ding Huan instantly realized the Immortal Zone beast was a coward; it had constructed a multitude of spiritual sense marks in the space around its cave.

This wasn't simple—without knowledge of space arrays, leaving spiritual sense marks in space was extremely troublesome, requiring reconstruction every one or two days.

Otherwise, these spiritual sense marks in the void would dissipate and vanish.

This Immortal Zone beast was clearly the strongest in this region, yet it still went through such trouble—how afraid of death could it be?

After the Immortal Zone beast roared, all the beasts training outside rushed frantically toward Ding Huan.

Ding Huan knew he had been careless; he instantly activated the teleportation array pattern, his Wheel of Rebirth Spear whipping up a curtain of spear blades.

This time, Ding Huan held nothing back—he knew that if he showed even a hint of carelessness, he might perish today.

When the Immortal Zone beast had charged out, Ding Huan suspected he'd been wrong—it was no ordinary Level Four immortal beast.

The spear curtain surged wildly with killing intent; all the killing aura in this swamp space was drawn into the Wheel of Rebirth Spear, and under the spear's intent, the killing force surged uncontrollably.

Ding Huan had never felt such a frenzied killing intent—his intent coalesced beneath the spear curtain into near-solid form, becoming a dazzling, ultimate killing spear light.

At that moment, the Immortal Zone beast had already punched straight toward Ding Huan's skull.

Ding Huan's coalesced killing spear light flickered beneath that punch—but failed to explode.

Ding Huan's eyes were bloodshot, his immortal energy surging wildly.

Even so, his spear light still could not burst forth—the pressure from the beast's punch was simply too terrifying.

This was a battle of entirely different tiers.

He was certain—the Immortal Zone beast was infinitely close to Level Five, though not yet stepping into Level Five, it had reached Level Four's peak.

Ding Huan spat a jet of blood; his Dao Universe in the spiritual sea spun desperately, boosting the spiritual sense on the Wheel of Rebirth Spear higher and higher.

At the same time, the immortal energy within Ding Huan's dantian star surged like a dam breaking, pulled by Ding Huan to burst through the suppressed spear light on the Wheel of Rebirth Spear.

Unfortunately, when the power gap reached a certain point, no matter how frenzied Ding Huan became, he still could not unleash the killing spear light already gathered on the Wheel of Rebirth Spear.

Ding Huan could even feel death drawing near—his domain shattered inch by inch beneath the beast's punch.

"Crack!" Ding Huan's bones began to break; the killing spear light wrapped in his Wheel of Rebirth Spear was on the verge of collapsing.

All of this happened in an instant.

Under the frenzied flow of immortal qi, blood seeped from Ding Huan's eyes; he knew he could not retreat.

If he showed even a fraction of hesitation, this Immortal Marsh humanoid's punch would reduce him to shattered pulp.

But if he did not retreat, and this humanoid's punch shattered the killing spearlight he had gathered, he would still meet only death.

At that moment, Wen Zhixi's figure appeared not far from Ding Huan.

Wen Zhixi lacked Ding Huan's battle experience, but she knew exactly what she must do at this moment.

She had barely appeared when the soul-locking explosive needle she had already prepared shot forth.

Even this Immortal Marsh humanoid had not anticipated Wen Zhixi suddenly appearing beside Ding Huan; by the time it reacted, her soul-locking explosive needle had already pierced its body.

A violent surge of death energy exploded—immediately, the punch aimed at Ding Huan weakened; the humanoid frantically gathered its immortal qi to force out the terrifying death energy within.

After her ambush succeeded, Wen Zhixi was still elated—but the next instant, she froze in shock.

Her soul-locking explosive needle would not detonate; instead, it was encased by the humanoid's immortal qi and was about to be forced out of its body.

Her scalp prickled; she had imagined every possibility, but never this: the humanoid was this terrifying.

She had teleported in suddenly, launched her ambush, and the needle had pierced its body—yet it could not lock its soul or trigger an explosion.

It's over—this was Wen Zhixi's only thought.

In that instant, she instinctively surged her divine sense in a frenzy, refusing to let her soul-locking explosive needle be blasted out of the body.

As for thought, her mind was utterly blank.

Because the other humanoids had surged forward, and she had no capacity to resist.

The moment Ding Huan saw Wen Zhixi arrive, joy surged in his heart; he desperately gathered immortal qi and divine sense.

When he saw her soul-locking explosive needle strike successfully but fail to detonate immediately, he knew Wen Zhixi could not trigger it.

The immortal qi he had gathered had now reached its peak.

The immortal qi reinforcing the Wheel of Rebirth spearlight on the humanoid had noticeably weakened under the influence of the soul-locking explosive needle.

Ding Huan did not hesitate—he burned more of his essence blood; under the surging tide of immortal qi, his Wheel of Rebirth spearlight finally exploded.

The next instant, endless spearlight brimming with killing intent shattered forth.

Ninth Strike, Fourth Spear: Starfall Sky.

Gathered as one spearlight, scattered as a sky of stars.

Among the countless stars, a spearlight of blinding brilliance streaked straight for the humanoid's third eye.