Chapter 433

432. Chapter 427: The Massacre

"So what are your plans now?" Hearing Ku Lu asked.

"What do you think?" Ding Huan looked at Hearing Ku Lu.

Hearing Ku Lu, worried Ding Huan might overthink it, hesitated, then said: "Logically, we should stay together—I've been here longer and know the place better.

But staying together makes us more dangerous, so I suggest we go our separate ways."

Ding Huan laughed: "Old Ku's right—I was thinking the same thing. After we split, we can each change our appearances to survive.

If one of us gets caught, at least the other won't be exposed, better than both of us getting cut down together."

"Good. Take this, Brother Zhang San. Until we meet again." Hearing Ku Lu pulled out a jade slip and handed it to Ding Huan—he truly admired Ding Huan.

Ding Huan had courage and strategy, and never dragged his feet.

Despite being a Da Yi Xian, Ding Huan was only a Jin Xian, yet Hearing Ku Lu felt during their escape, Ding Huan had done more than he had.

All Hearing Ku Lu had contributed was his familiarity with this place—that's all.

Watching Hearing Ku Lu leave, Ding Huan also chose a direction and departed swiftly.

His divine sense settled on the jade slip Hearing Ku Lu had given him; it described two places—the first was Tianjie.

Tianjie was the most famous street in the Heavenly Court; no one cared who you were there, nor did they check your identity.

The second was the Immortal Court Precinct, where one went to seek official posts or clerk positions—simply check the recruitment notices posted by various officials.

Although this information had already been in Wu Jian's Pangu World Orientation Crystal Ball, Ding Huan still felt grateful to Hearing Ku Lu.

He had the Pangu World Orientation Crystal Ball; otherwise, he'd have been completely blind.

Though he could find a place to close himself off for cultivation, setting up a Spirit Gathering Immortal Array was still dangerous—there were too many powerful figures here; if discovered, he'd never recover.

Without a Spirit Gathering Immortal Array, cultivation yielded little effect—even slight gains would draw suspicion.

After all, when he absorbed Immortal Qi with his Great Cosmic Art, the Qi surged in a vortex.

If anyone noticed, they'd come to investigate immediately.

After some thought, Ding Huan decided to head for Tianjie first.

From Hearing Ku Lu's words, rights were protected in Tianjie—no one randomly checked household registrations or the like.

Also, information flowed freely in Tianjie; he'd learn instantly if the Immortal Court Precinct was hiring.

In the Immortal Court, Ding Huan dared not take out his iron pot.

Here, Immortal Emperors were common, and perhaps even Pretender Saints stronger than them existed—he'd better keep a low profile.

Ding Huan summoned a low-grade flying Immortal Artifact, first inscribing it with several Level-Two Defensive Immortal Arrays, then adding a Concealment Array.

These meant nothing before true masters, but at least they gave him psychological comfort.

Ding Huan held a directional array map to Tianjie—it looked close, but when he actually set out, he realized how vast the distance was.

Riding the low-grade flying Immortal Artifact for five full months, he found he hadn't even covered one-tenth of the journey.

He realized he couldn't go on like this—it was wasting his time.

From the Pangu World Orientation Crystal Ball, he located the nearest place to him: Qianyuan Immortal Estate.

Ding Huan already knew from Immortal Court introductions that in the Immortal Court, any force—family, estate, Immortal Sect, or marketplace—

if it had any ability at all, usually had a teleportation array leading to Tianjie or directly to the Immortal Court Plaza.

So within the Immortal Court's territory, borrowing teleportation arrays was common.

Ding Huan went to Qianyuan Estate to borrow its teleportation array—he wasn't borrowing for free; he'd pay Immortal Crystals.

He had tens of millions of Immortal Crystals on him—he had no trouble paying.

According to the Pangu World Orientation Crystal Ball, the master of Qianyuan Immortal Estate was Lu Chongdao, a very kind man who also held a minor official post in the Immortal Court.

Qianyuan Estate's teleportation array was frequently borrowed by others.

So Ding Huan decided to go to Qianyuan Immortal Estate to borrow the teleportation array.

As soon as he reached the outer edge of Qianyuan Immortal Estate, he sensed something was wrong—the protective array was active, and faint traces of bloodlust drifted from within.

Something happened here—I should leave immediately.

That was Ding Huan's first reaction.

But Ding Huan soon realized it was already too late to leave.

The moment he entered Qianyuan Estate's territory, he'd become a suspect—what could he do?

The good part was he'd arrived in disguise, posing as a Confucian scholar visiting a friend; the bad part was no matter his current face, he'd likely still be traced back to.

Ding Huan sighed. Since he'd come this far, he might as well go in and take a look.

One shouldn't be too selfish—he'd come here happily, planning to borrow the estate's teleportation array.

Now that he'd discovered the estate was in disaster, he wanted to flee immediately and stay out of it—that would be unkind.

From the aura fluctuations, the people here had been killed very recently.

If he entered now, he might still find some crucial clues.

Passing through the array gate, he saw dozens of corpses lying on the ground.

All of them had been utterly annihilated—their divine souls torn apart by a terrifying killing Dao resonance.

Ding Huan grew even more cautious, his hand still gripping a Escape Talisman; if anything went wrong, he'd activate it immediately.

The Escape Talisman wasn't his own making—it was taken from Wu Jian's ring.

Stepping into the courtyard, the number of dead increased.

Ding Huan swept his divine sense inside—no living souls remained; the killer had clearly long since departed.

Too bad there was no surveillance array—if there had been, things would've been much easier.

Ding Huan's Great Calculation Art could only calculate the future; now he tried using it to deduce what had happened here in the past.

He was pleasantly surprised—the result was extremely hazy, but the Great Calculation Art still allowed him to perceive a blurred silhouette of the killer.

What a pity, this still isn't enough. There are only blurry figures—who would know who did it?

The Grand Divination Art is still very powerful; if he can't divine it, it's not a problem with the Grand Divination Art, but rather a problem with his own cultivation.

The Grand Divination Art divines the past and the future; it is absolutely a supreme divine ability.

When Ding Huan thought of this, his heart stirred.

Among the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Arts, there was a divine ability that could trace shadows back to their forms, and he had even cultivated it.

It's just that his cultivation was a bit low. He had cultivated this divine ability, yet he could not trace shadows back to their forms in places where the rules of heaven and earth were higher.

This divine ability was one of the Heavenly Gang divine abilities—Returning Heavens, Reversing Day. This divine ability could retrace all karmic events of the past.

He knew Returning Heavens, Reversing Day, and he also knew the Grand Divination Art.

No matter which divine ability it was, neither could let him retrace all the images of what had happened here at the Golden Immortal realm.

But he still had his own great Dao cultivation method. What he cultivated was the Grand Cosmos Art. The Grand Cosmos Art fused all laws and penetrated all things of the universe.

He vaguely felt that he could definitely use the Grand Cosmos Art to fuse the Grand Divination Art and Returning Heavens, Reversing Day together, turning them into a divine ability suited for his current realm.

Ding Huan knew the matter was urgent; every extra breath of time meant one less chance for him to retrace.

He immediately used the Grand Cosmos Art's Zhou Tian to link the Grand Divination Art and Returning Heavens, Reversing Day together. Various Dao rhymes and laws flooded into the cosmic great Dao of his Sea of Consciousness…

Boundless laws evolved within the galaxy of his Sea of Consciousness; in just a short time, an entirely new law-based divine ability took shape.

When Ding Huan employed this brand-new divine ability, he very easily retraced the images of the scene with perfect clarity.

How could Ding Huan let such a chance slip? He began recording from the outer courtyard, all the way until entering the inner courtyard…

The horrific scene in the inner courtyard made Ding Huan curse inwardly. This slaughtering bastard was truly vicious. Not a single woman or child was spared…

He also didn't know whether this bastard had worn a mask.

However, his new law-based divine ability could retrace the great Dao aura fluctuations of space. As long as this person appeared before him, a comparison of that great Dao aura would leave nowhere to hide.

After retracing and recording the entire process of the massacre that had occurred in this courtyard, Ding Huan swept his divine sense over the image crystal ball. If there were no problems, he prepared to leave.

But with that one sweep, he really did spot a problem.

In the image crystal ball, after the man in black killed everyone in the outer courtyard and entered the inner courtyard, a boy of only a few years old in the outer courtyard actually got up, and then voluntarily sank into the lotus pond.

Ding Huan landed at the edge of the lotus pond and swept his divine sense inside.

He immediately saw a concealment talisman in the lotus pond, and inside the talisman was that little boy from before, hiding within with a pale face.

Ding Huan condensed an immortal essence hand seal, grabbed the little boy out of the lotus pond, and set him on the ground.

"You…"

The little boy only managed to say one word before freezing, seeing that Ding Huan was not the slaughterer.

Ding Huan said, "I'm only passing through Qianyuan Immortal Manor. I originally planned to borrow the teleportation array, and discovered this place had its manor slaughtered. It seems you're the only one left alive. Do you know who did the killing?"

"I know. Thank you, Senior, for saving my life." The little boy hurriedly paid his respects.

"This isn't a place to stay long. Let's leave first and talk later." Ding Huan said.

"I'll take you to the teleportation array." The little boy said hurriedly.

Ding Huan shook his head: "I've also offended many people. If I leave through your manor's teleportation array now, then no matter where I jump to, I won't be able to clear my name."

"I can testify for you…" The little boy spoke with clear logic and was quite opinionated.

"Your testimony won't convince anyone. I'll leave first; once I've brought you to a safe place, we'll talk." After Ding Huan finished speaking, he grabbed the little boy and quickly departed.

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