Chapter 410: The Immortal Realm with Complete Rules

Ding Huan said gloomily: "We were four in total; now only the two of us remain, and I'm severely injured."

He wasn't lying—those other two probably couldn't even cross the billion-virtual-swamp marshes.

Without Ding Huan needing to explain, his pale face and listless aura clearly showed he was severely injured.

"Didn't you get too close to the Gray Sea's Life-Death Mist Realm and get lost inside? Gray Sea Crystals are valuable, but you shouldn't venture too near the mist boundary." The female cultivator exclaimed in shock.

Almost no one survives being swept into the Life-Death Mist Realm—that's common knowledge. Every cultivator who comes to Ban Ting Sea knows this.

Ding Huan nodded: "Yes, my two companions were lured by a Gray Sea Crystal, got pulled in by accident, and never came out. I tried to rescue them but was backlashed by the Life-Death Mist."

"Now we can't even return. Our directional array map was with my companions…"

At this point, the hope in Ding Huan's eyes was obvious to anyone who wasn't a fool.

"You only have one directional sphere?" The female cultivator stared at Ding Huan in disbelief.

Ding Huan nodded awkwardly and said apologetically: "We never expected something like this to happen. Could this senior sister lend us a directional sphere?"

The female cultivator sighed, sympathetically pulled out a directional sphere, and tossed it to Ding Huan: "Here, take it."

"Thank you, senior sister." Ding Huan bowed quickly in gratitude.

"Forget it, just be careful yourselves. But your flying artifact is too weak—you'll need half a year to cross Ban Ting Sea." The female cultivator waved her hand.

The four of them controlled their flying vessel and swiftly approached the Life-Death Mist Realm.

"Can't even afford a single directional sphere? Sigh." The female cultivator inside the vessel still sighed.

Honestly, she'd seen plenty of poor cultivators—but Ding Huan, who dared to seek Gray Sea Crystals at the Life-Death Mist Realm yet was this destitute? She'd never seen the like.

Another man in the vessel spoke coolly: "Qing sister, you must have misjudged them—I don't think they're unable to afford a directional sphere…"

"Then what? They're riding a flying spiritual artifact—they're clearly poor free cultivators," Qing sister immediately retorted.

The man shook his head: "I can't explain it, but if it weren't impossible to survive the Gray Sea, I'd almost think they came out of it."

"Hah! That's pure fantasy," the other two cultivators in the vessel couldn't help laughing.

Come out of the Gray Sea?

Not even Ding Huan and Wen Zhixi, two minor Jin Xian, could survive entering the Gray Sea—let alone a true Immortal King.

…

"Ban Ting Sea and the Gray Sea should be the same sea, just connected, with the Life-Death Mist Realm separating them," Wen Zhixi said.

"That's probably right, Zhixi. Our flying artifact is too slow, and my iron pot isn't convenient to pull out…"

Before Ding Huan finished speaking, Wen Zhixi smiled faintly and raised her hand, summoning a flying vessel: "This is my father's flying artifact—a lower-grade immortal artifact."

"This is nearly a mid-grade immortal artifact. You pilot it across Ban Ting Sea—I need time to heal."

"Rest easy. I'll handle everything else."

Wen Zhixi knew how Ding Huan had endured the past year—she even suspected that even if her father were still alive, he couldn't have crossed the Gray Sea.

Ding Huan still trusted Wen Zhixi—when something had to be done, she would risk life and death to do it.

In most matters, she was rational and never acted recklessly.

As Wen Zhixi piloted the vessel across Ban Ting Sea, Ding Huan began examining his injuries.

His spiritual sense was overexerted, his soul sea damaged, and his immortal energy extremely weak.

Had he not possessed the Soul Sea Great Universe, he would have died long ago in the Gray Sea.

Within his Soul Sea Great Universe, the stars were dim, the cosmic laws in the star rivers no longer clear, and even the Star Bridge blurred.

Ding Huan swallowed a vial of Void True Essence and began practicing the Great Universe Art again.

This isn't as good as a hundred-million-year Sea Marrow for healing, but it greatly aids spiritual sense.

After just one Zhou Tian, Ding Huan knew this place was truly the Immortal Realm.

Though the heavenly immortal qi was thin, it carried not a single speck of corrupted dao rhythm—cultivators could practice freely here, sensing no restrictions from heavenly rules.

Ding Huan was injured only because his spiritual sense had been overused, damaging his Soul Sea Great Universe.

Now, with the Great Universe Art active and the heavenly rules clear, his recovery was swift.

As his Soul Sea Great Universe slowly healed, Ding Huan discovered his spiritual sense had grown more than several times stronger than before.

This was undoubtedly the result of a year of continuous spiritual sense usage.

A year of constant spiritual sense use had indeed damaged his Soul Sea Great Universe—but it had also forged his spiritual sense to greater strength.

Half a month later, Ding Huan's soul sea fully recovered, and the stars storing his immortal energy in his dantian returned to their original state.

He sent out his spiritual sense and found Wen Zhixi had halted the vessel.

Beyond his spiritual sense lay the shore.

It wasn't strange that Wen Zhixi stopped here—she wasn't the only one halting here.

Some even stood on their flying vessels to trade.

"Big Brother Ding, you're better!" Seeing Ding Huan emerge, Wen Zhixi beamed—she'd been waiting for him to heal.

Ding Huan nodded: "First, hide your vessel. It's too conspicuous here."

Wen Zhixi knew her vessel was of high caliber here. Fortunately, her cultivation level was also high, so no one dared approach to question her.

She retracted the vessel, and Ding Huan and Wen Zhixi stepped onto the shore, walking through the air.

"Big Brother Ding, though the immortal qi here isn't dense, if you set up a good Spirit Gathering Immortal Array, you could manage to cultivate—far better than the Fourth Immortal Realm," Wen Zhixi said after sensing the surroundings.

Ding Huan's spiritual sense swept out and found a seaside marketplace not far away.

It was normal the marketplace had no shielding barriers—but what puzzled him was that it had no Spirit Gathering Immortal Array either.

Then his spiritual sense reached farther—he was a Jin Xian of the fifth layer, yet his spiritual sense was far stronger than even a Da Yi Xian's.

Wherever his spiritual sense reached, there were temporary cultivation caves left by cultivators in the wilderness—all without a trace of a Spirit Gathering Immortal Array.

Ding Huan didn't believe no one here knew how to set up a Spirit Gathering Immortal Array.

If so, then the absence of any Spirit Gathering Immortal Array here meant something was wrong.

"Zhixi, I didn't notice any gathering-immortal arrays here. Let's go to the market and ask around first." Ding Huan trusted his own judgment.

This seaside market didn't have many people; most of the cultivators were True Immortals and Jin Xian, with even some Earth Immortal cultivators.

From this one could tell that the resources of Half-Ting Sea were very scarce.

Entering the seaside market, the roadside stalls were all selling low-grade healing and poison-cleansing immortal pills.

Or else some run-of-the-mill cultivation methods and refining materials.

As for the specialty of Half-Ting Sea and the Grey Sea, the Grey Sea Crystal, you couldn't see any of it here.

"Big Brother Ding, look at this Peng Hai Immortal Tower — they have a gathering-immortal array." Wen Zhixi had finally spotted her first gathering-immortal array.

Ding Huan had also seen it. When his divine sense swept over earlier, only a handful of merchant halls in this market had shielding arrays.

This Peng Hai Immortal Tower was one of the ones with a shielding array; the gathering array was set up inside the shielding array, so he hadn't seen it earlier.

From this one could see that the other merchant halls with concealment restrictions also had gathering-immortal arrays.

"Let's go in and take a look." Ding Huan led Wen Zhixi into Peng Hai Immortal Tower.

A clerk immediately came up to greet them: "What might the two Daoist friends need?"

Ding Huan said: "Greetings, senior brother. We've just come out for trial training. Not long ago we offended a senior, all because we hadn't paid much attention to the various immortal sect rules before.

Fortunately that senior didn't hold it against us. I now want to buy a jade slip of trial-training experiences from seniors — do you happen to have one here?"

"Ha ha, we have plenty of those."

After speaking, the clerk took out a jade slip and handed it to Ding Huan: "This notebook not only contains the key points for moving about in the immortal sects, but also the locations where some heavenly materials and earthly treasures are produced. It'll cost you just two low-grade immortal crystals."

Just as Ding Huan was about to take out immortal crystals, his heart stirred — his immortal crystals had rule restrictions; if he took them out, it would show that he and Wen Zhixi weren't people from this immortal domain.

He quickly took out a top-grade flying spiritual artifact and handed it to the clerk, saying: "I've run out of immortal crystals on me. Can I use this as collateral with you?"

The clerk frowned, his gaze swept once over Ding Huan's top-grade spiritual artifact, and he said flatly: "I'll need two of them before I can exchange one jade slip with you."

Seeing that Ding Huan couldn't even produce two immortal crystals, the clerk's attitude was clearly not as warm as before.

Ding Huan's divine sense, without the slightest hesitation, broke through the simple restriction on the jade slip in the clerk's hand, and immediately copied all the contents inside.

All of this was done in an instant; the clerk didn't notice anything at all.

Ding Huan could be certain that his top-grade flying spiritual artifact could easily be exchanged for a hundred jade slips like this.

Even if this were the Immortal World, and top-grade spiritual artifacts weren't worth much, it shouldn't come to not being able to trade for a single jade slip.

Since this clerk was fleecing customers like that, then he needn't bother being polite.

"In that case, forget it." Ding Huan put away the flying spiritual artifact and quickly walked out of Peng Hai Immortal Tower with Wen Zhixi.

The clerk couldn't be bothered to call Ding Huan back. Although a top-grade flying immortal artifact exchanged for a single notebook was more than enough, a mere spiritual artifact — he still didn't think much of it.

"Take a look at this." Ding Huan took out a jade slip and handed it to Wen Zhixi.

He had just roughly scanned the contents of this jade slip he had inscribed.

The name of this immortal domain was very plain — it was simply called the Great Immortal Domain, and it had another name: Gu Gu Xian Domain.

In the Great Immortal Domain, only immortal sects, clans, qualified groups, or individuals were qualified to set up gathering-immortal arrays.

Otherwise, privately setting up gathering-immortal arrays in the wild violated the regulations of the immortal domain.

Another bizarre immortal domain — Ding Huan felt a bit helpless.

So if one wanted to freely set up gathering-immortal arrays, one would have to join an immortal sect, or join some organization.

Of course, there was another situation in which one could set up a gathering-immortal array — going to the demon-race area of the Great Immortal Domain.

But setting up an immortal array in the demon-race area — the moment the gathering-immortal array was set up, it would probably become a snack for the immortal demon beasts, wouldn't it?

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