Chapter 406: One Dead, One Fled

Indeed, after locating traces of Shidao Silver, the Great Universe Technique swiftly stripped away its Dao rhythm and principles.

At this moment, Ding Huan's aura surged wildly; under the enhancement of the Dao Fruit, his understanding of Shidao Silver's Dao rhythm and principles grew ever clearer.

Soon, a new principle appeared in his consciousness' Great Universe River of Stars—this was the Shidao Silver's Parasitic Devouring Dao Principle.

Although Ding Huan could not yet manifest this principle to confront enemies, now that it existed within his river, with his cultivation advancing, wielding it against foes would merely be a matter of time.

The Great Universe Technique's Zhou Tian spun celestial qi, propelling Ding Huan from Jin Xian Fourth Layer into Jin Xian Fifth Layer.

Finally rid of the Parasitic Devouring Dao Rhythm of Shidao Silver, Ding Huan was elated; equally joyful was the fact that his river now held the Parasitic Devouring Dao Principle.

Compared to the Ten Thousand Toxins Principle, this Parasitic Devouring Dao was the true ultimate weapon.

Many poison-affiliated cultivators were extremely familiar with Poison Dao principles; those with stronger cultivation could even become immune to all ten thousand toxins.

Many were immune to ten thousand toxins, yet truly none were immune to ten thousand principles.

Moreover, even if one were immune to ten thousand principles, they might still not withstand the terrifying devouring of the Parasitic Devouring Dao.

The moment Ding Huan ceased cultivation, Wen Zhixi knew—she immediately turned to him: "Brother Ding, how are you?"

Ding Huan nodded: "I'm fine. Where are those two?"

"They haven't arrived yet. Do we wait here, or return to the Marsh?" Wen Zhixi asked softly.

"Wait a bit—they'll definitely come." Ding Huan said.

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"Yi Ge, could Wen Zhixi have known about the Marsh Tide here all along?" Fu Shuangping's face was filled with fury after escaping the Marsh Tide.

Ku Tingyi thought for a long while before replying: "Unlikely. If you hadn't insisted on going to the Marsh, they would've been the ones to encounter the Marsh Tide there."

Fu Shuangping snorted: "What? Are you blaming me?"

Ku Tingyi quickly waved his hands: "No, I just think these two have better luck."

Fu Shuangping angrily hurled the remaining celestial crystals in her hand to the ground: "Wang Ba, you made the Old Lady lose one of her escape forbidden patterns."

Fu Shuangping grew angrier as she spoke.

Ku Tingyi dared not respond—he understood what she meant.

The escape forbidden pattern Fu Shuangping mentioned was one left by her ancestors, three in total; they had already used one, and now another was gone.

That meant Fu Shuangping now had only one escape forbidden pattern left.

"Ping Mei, let's head to the Dry Marsh now—they've likely been severely wounded." Ku Tingyi didn't want to listen to Fu Shuangping's complaints any longer.

If not for his constant dependence on this woman and his fear of her ultimate weapon, he would've kicked her to death long ago.

"You just want to go after that Wen woman." Fu Shuangping sneered at Ku Tingyi.

Ku Tingyi quickly shook his head: "If you dislike that Wen woman, I can kill her—just for her celestial crystals."

Fu Shuangping grinned viciously: "Why kill her? The Old Lady wants to see what kind of trash this woman really is."

With these words, Fu Shuangping's spiritual sense settled into her ring.

She had intended to retrieve new clothes, but the moment her spiritual sense touched the ring, her expression changed.

"Ping Mei, what's wrong?" Ku Tingyi stared at Fu Shuangping—he knew this look meant something major had happened.

"Did you take my golden Dao Fruit?" Fu Shuangping's eyes turned icy as she fixed Ku Tingyi with a stare.

Ku Tingyi frowned: "Ping Mei, how could I take your things? Your belongings are in your ring—what He Deheneng do I have to open your ring?"

Fu Shuangping froze at Ku Tingyi's words.

Right—if Ku Tingyi could break into her ring, then his array art must be stronger than hers.

In truth, when Ku Tingyi first arrived at the Myriad Void Marsh with her, he was merely at the Immortal-Mortal Bridge realm.

Later, he followed her to cultivate; as for array art, he never even had the chance to touch it—how could he possibly break into her ring?

Besides, her spiritual sense could easily penetrate Ku Tingyi's ring—if the Dao Fruit were in his ring, she would've detected it immediately.

"Someone stole something from your ring?" Ku Tingyi also sensed something was wrong.

Fu Shuangping nodded: "The golden Dao Fruit left to me by my ancestors, meant to be delivered to a certain place—it's gone."

"I'm certain Wen Zhixi took it. That woman must truly be skilled in array art—otherwise, how could she have survived here?"

Ku Tingyi didn't know if Wen Zhixi had taken the Dao Fruit, but now he had to insist it was her—if Fu Shuangping suspected him, it wouldn't be good.

Fu Shuangping stared at Ku Tingyi: "I have no patience left. Go find that bitch now. When you see her, strike immediately. If you recover the Dao Fruit, I'll let you keep this woman for a while."

"Fine." Ku Tingyi nodded without hesitation.

The two swiftly charged toward Ding Huan and Wen Zhixi.

"They're coming." Ding Huan deactivated his concealment array but left the celestial vein untouched.

With a celestial vein here and Ding Huan having removed the concealment array, Ku Tingyi and Fu Shuangping weren't blind—they saw Ding Huan and Wen Zhixi from afar.

"You still have a celestial vein?" Fu Shuangping stared wide-eyed at the celestial vein on the ground.

Wen Zhixi answered calmly: "Yes."

"Didn't you say the elder took the celestial vein?" Ku Tingyi blurted out.

Wen Zhixi replied coolly: "Who said there can be only one celestial vein here?"

Ku Tingyi suddenly reached out to seize the celestial vein.

Ding Huan activated the Wheel of Rebirth Spear at nearly the same moment and thrust it forward.

Wen Zhixi assumed Ding Huan was targeting Ku Tingyi—until she saw clearly that his Wheel of Rebirth Spear was aimed at Fu Shuangping.

Wen Zhixi immediately summoned her longsword and slashed toward Ku Tingyi.

Since Ding Huan was dealing with Fu Shuangping, she couldn't let Ku Tingyi interfere with his attack.

Neither Ku Tingyi nor Fu Shuangping expected Ding Huan, seated on the ground, to move.

Not only could he move—his strength seemed formidable.

The moment Fu Shuangping saw Ku Tingyi act, she snatched out a red thread.

This was a forbidden artifact of her Fu family. Not to mention Ding Huan and Wen Zhixi, even if a Grand Unity Immortal or a Grand Luo Immortal were here, this red thread of hers could still set up a net of heaven and earth, binding everyone present.

The value of this forbidden artifact was inestimable; logically, it should not have been used on Wen Zhixi and Ding Huan.

She was worried about the "what if."

What if Wen Zhixi and Ding Huan got away and lost that Dao Fruit? Then even dying ten thousand times would not be enough.

So she would rather waste such a precious thing, using this forbidden artifact to lock down these two people, than have any "what if" situation occur.

But the moment she had just summoned the forbidden artifact and had not yet fully activated it, she sensed a breath of death shrouding every ounce of her vitality.

Fu Shuangping was greatly shocked. In her haste she did not even think about the Dao Fruit, and hurriedly activated her last life-escape forbidden rune.

At the same moment her forbidden rune activated, she finally remembered the matter of the Dao Fruit.

"Puh!" A spray of blood exploded on her arm, and immediately afterward she was swept away by the life-escape forbidden rune.

The severed limb of one of her arms and that red-thread forbidden artifact were left behind on the spot.

Boom! Ku Tingyi's magic treasure slammed into Wen Zhixi's long sword, splashing out streaks of lingering Dao-rhythm radiance.

After just a single exchange, Ku Tingyi knew he was no match for Wen Zhixi.

Only now did he discover that Fu Shuangping had actually fled on her own.

Not only had Fu Shuangping fled, Ding Huan was actually unharmed.

Before he could withdraw, Ding Huan's Reincarnation Spear swept over carrying an endless killing momentum.

Ku Tingyi felt his domain shattering inch by inch; his entire person was locked down by Ding Huan's killing momentum and he simply could not escape.

Ku Tingyi's soul nearly fled his body—this Ding Huan was actually even stronger than Wen Zhixi.

He couldn't even beat Wen Zhixi; how could he deal with Ding Huan?

And at this very moment Fu Shuangping had still fled on her own, without even giving him a word of notice.

"Hold on, I'm willing to surrender…" Ku Tingyi didn't even know what words he should say to preserve his life, and even the words of surrender came spilling out.

"Puh!" Ding Huan didn't even need to use a divine ability; his Reincarnation Spear simply tore through Ku Tingyi's brow and blasted his head into a cloud of blood mist.

"This guy's strength is really weak." Ding Huan sheathed his Reincarnation Spear and sighed.

Wen Zhixi knew Ding Huan was stronger than her, so she wasn't surprised that one spear from Ding Huan had blown apart Ku Tingyi's head.

She merely smiled and said: "These two people most likely cultivated in the Myriad Void Marsh. They probably never even entered the Immortal Domain.

The immortal spiritual energy here for cultivation is mottled beyond compare; for him to have cultivated to Mysterious Immortal is already a rare innate talent."

Ding Huan nodded; Wen Zhixi's words were indeed not wrong.

To be able to cultivate to mid Mysterious Immortal in this place—how could that be described as merely rare innate talent? Here, this was absolutely a freak.

With a single sweep of his will, Ding Huan grabbed Ku Tingyi's ring over, and his divine sense broke through the ring's restrictions in a trice.

"This guy is really poor; there's nothing at all inside the ring. All the good stuff is with Fu Shuangping." Seeing the contents of the ring, Ding Huan couldn't help but grumble.

"The Myriad Void Marsh never had any heavenly materials or earthly treasures to begin with, and they cultivated inside it; it being normal that there are no good things." Wen Zhixi said.

Ding Huan walked over and picked up that red thread.

"This is a top-grade forbidden artifact…" Wen Zhixi's gaze fell on the red thread in Ding Huan's hand, and her expression shifted slightly.

Not long ago she herself had used a forbidden artifact—the Soul-Locking Explosive Needle.

If Fu Shuangping had activated this forbidden artifact just now, they probably would have been able to do nothing but be at others' mercy.

Wen Zhixi looked at Ding Huan, her heart filled with admiration. As expected, every time Ding Huan made a move, he had a purpose.