Chapter 453: 452. Chapter 447: Ding Huan's Prediction

452. Chapter 447: Ding Huan's Prediction

"Yes." Luo Yu responded.

With such ironclad evidence before them, and Lord Wu Chengxing unable to defend himself, his coming to pronounce judgment became simple.

He looked toward Lord Wu Chengxing and said:

"Lord Wu Chengxing, you slaughtered the entire household of Qianyuan Immortal Manor without cause. In accordance with Article Thirty-Two of the Nine Court Immortal Laws, you are stripped of your Lord rank and fined one cup of Earth Core Block Liquid. All spatial items on your person are to be compensated to Qianyuan Immortal Manor."

After speaking, Luo Yu faced Great Emperor Wushang and said: "The above is the pronouncement of judgment. I ask the Great Emperor to decide."

The Immortal Court Treasure Hall fell silent once more—this was likely the harshest punishment.

Earth Core Block Liquid was no good thing; it was a deadly poison.

This poison could cause the physical body to collapse, the consciousness sea to turn void, and the primordial soul to dissipate—virtually incurable.

Even an Immortal Emperor who took it would, without the corresponding antidote, essentially face a single word: death.

And the corresponding antidote existed only as Void Golden Rain.

There is no rain in the void, let alone golden rain.

In fact, there really was one kind of golden rain in the void—a liquid formed when a void supreme treasure called the Rootless Golden Mushroom matured to its utmost limit and then disintegrated.

The reason it was not called Rootless Golden Mushroom Liquid was that the liquid had to form from its own self-disintegration; any human intervention rendered it ineffective.

Just thinking about the difficulty of collecting this Rootless Golden Mushroom liquid was enough to make one's scalp tingle.

So once one was poisoned by Earth Core Block Liquid, and without someone like Ding Huan's Great Universe Art and poison-resistant genes, one was essentially beyond cure.

Since the founding of the Immortal Court, such a heavy sentence had never been passed on an immortal official of a Lord's rank.

Such a heavy sentence this time was truly because the evidence presented by Emperor Pingwei was too conclusive—previously, no one had been able to produce such conclusive evidence.

"Lord Wu Chengxing, do you accept the judgment?" Great Emperor Wushang looked toward Lord Wu Chengxing. He did not alter the sentence, only asked Lord Wu Chengxing.

Lord Wu Chengxing's face turned pale. He slowly removed his ring and handed it to Emperor Pingwei, saying in an uneasy, anxious tone: "Changyi accepts the judgment."

Emperor Pingwei's heart sank. The moment Lord Wu Chengxing said those four words, it meant this judgment would be useless against Lord Wu Chengxing.

In other words, Lord Wu Chengxing possessed an immortal item that could counter Earth Core Block Liquid.

As a law official, one could not alter the judgment after pronouncing it.

Only when the other party objected could the sentence be changed.

Now that Lord Wu Chengxing accepted the judgment, it meant he, the law official, had failed.

His divine sense fell into Lord Wu Chengxing's ring. The immortal crystals in the ring numbered over a hundred million, and there were quite a few good items.

Yet Lord Wu Chengxing's signature dharma treasure and top-tier treasures were not among them.

Clearly, this ring was not Lord Wu Chengxing's primary ring.

Not only did Emperor Pingwei and Luo Yu realize their judgment was improper—everyone in the Immortal Court Treasure Hall knew Emperor Pingwei's judgment against Lord Wu Chengxing had a problem.

If Lord Wu Chengxing truly could not resist Earth Core Block Liquid, a figure like Lord Wu Chengxing would absolutely have erupted and fled. Regardless of success or failure, no Immortal Emperor would simply submit to capture like this.

"Good. Someone, bring the Earth Core Block Liquid." Great Emperor Wushang said calmly.

A cup of Earth Core Block Liquid was brought up. When the crowd scanned it with their divine senses, it was indeed the deadly poison Earth Core Block Liquid.

Lord Wu Chengxing took the cup and drained it in one gulp, then said to Great Emperor Wushang: "Great Emperor, I need to find a place to pass through these final moments."

"Go." Great Emperor Wushang nodded.

He also knew Lord Wu Chengxing would not die. Since the judgment had already been pronounced, he could only follow the judgment.

There was no such thing as failing to kill the criminal and then bringing another cup.

If a law official failed to kill a criminal with ironclad evidence, that was the law official's failure—the sentence would absolutely not be changed.

Watching Lord Wu Chengxing's disappearing back, Emperor Pingwei Luo Yu's heart also calmed.

At this moment, he only admired Ding Huan.

Now he was one hundred percent certain that Ding Huan had long known Lord Wu Chengxing would not die. Since Lord Wu Chengxing would not die, Ding Huan staying here to serve as law official was seeking death.

He, Luo Yu, was a Great Emperor and could sentence Lord Wu Chengxing to death—but Ding Huan could not.

Ding Huan could pronounce a death sentence on Ying Fang, but he could not pronounce a death sentence on powerful figures like Buyue and Changyi, because that would be cutting off his own future path.

"Great Emperor..." Xiu Xu was about to step forward.

Great Emperor Wushang stood up, waved his hand and said: "Today's court session ends here. All immortal ministers, disperse on your own."

After speaking, he departed in haste, not willing to linger even a moment.

Having just received news that Lu Renjia had not been caught, he was in a very foul mood.

Having been delayed here for so long, where was the time to waste words over Xiu Xu's son, a mere Banner-Bearing Immortal?

Xiu Xu's eyes were blood-red, yet he dared not speak further.

He stared fixedly at Lu Chongdao's back, already hating Lu Chongdao to the bone in his heart.

Had it not been for Lu Chongdao delaying so long, Ding Huan would have stepped forward to work on his son Xiu Lun's case the moment he arrived, and by now Xiu Lun's revenge would already have been exacted.

In his eyes, how could the massacre of Lu Chongdao's entire household compare to the life of his son Xiu Lun?

The court officials in the Immortal Court Treasure Hall departed one after another with greetings. Xiu Xu clenched his fists—he would definitely seize that ant Ding Huan.

Once he caught this ant, he did not believe he could not strip away this ant's soul.

He would refine Ding Huan into a human puppet, to serve as law official for his son's case in the future.

"Haha, Emperor Pingwei, if Immortal Friend Ding goes to Tianwei Mountain, you must invite me over to your place for a few drinks." Emperor Jinhe was the first to come up and exchange pleasantries with Pingwei.

Then Southern Dao Lord, Eastern Dao Lord, Ji Mi, and others came forward one after another to exchange pleasantries with Emperor Pingwei and inquire about Ding Huan.

Ji Mi in particular was eager to bring Ding Huan to the Immortal-Demon Battlefield—his urgency was even greater.

No matter how Ji Mi inquired, he could not learn where Ding Huan had actually gone, and in the end could only give up helplessly.

A full hour later, the crowd gradually departed.

"Emperor Pingwei, Fellow Daoist Ding likely calculated all this long ago." Only when no one was around did Helian Aodong speak.

She had heard Lu Chongdao say that the reason for choosing Great Emperor Pingwei as law officer was Ding Huan's idea.

That would mean Ding Huan had foreseen the outcome in advance, and then left first.

Pingwei nodded slightly: "Fellow Daoist Ding is no ordinary person. His leaving early was to protect himself. He must have guessed that even with such ironclad evidence he couldn't kill Wu Chengxing Jun, so he simply left first and that was that.

Aodong, you and Chongdao take Busu and come with me to Tianwei Mountain. Qianyuan Immortal Manor cannot be returned to. That Wu Chengxing Jun is a sinister and ruthless man, who repays the slightest grudge, and absolutely will not let the two of you off."

"Yes, I'm just a little worried about Fellow Daoist Ding Huan." Helian Aodong was still weighed down with worry.

There was also a pang of guilt—Ding Huan had put in so much effort for her, and now she hadn't even had the chance to give Ding Huan the immortal crystals as thanks.

Pingwei laughed heartily: "Set your minds at ease. With Fellow Daoist Ding Huan's abilities, and having left so far in advance, he absolutely cannot be found by Wu Chengxing Jun.

Moreover, Wu Chengxing Jun must now purge the poison, and won't dare go after Ding Huan for a short while."

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Ding Huan had naturally calculated that Wu Chengxing Jun would not die.

He couldn't deduce it, but he could sense it. After cultivating the Great Divination Divine Ability for so many years, some things don't need to be deduced—he can simply perceive them.

Since Wu Chengxing Jun couldn't be killed, how could he possibly continue to stay in the Immortal Court's Treasure Hall?

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Staying here would be the same as letting people keep an eye on him.

Great Emperor Pingwei's place wasn't good to go to either. Once he went to Great Emperor Pingwei's Tianwei Mountain, it would probably be very hard to leave, and even the identity of Lu Renjia might be exposed.

Great Emperor Pingwei may be a decent person, but in the cultivation world, what can't happen?

The meaning of having a backer is simply that no one dares to deal with him openly in front of people—that's enough.

Everything still has to rely on oneself. Only when one's own strength is powerful is that the hard truth.

So after Ding Huan left the Immortal Court's Treasure Hall, he immediately altered his own Dao aura, then took a teleportation array and went far away.

His first move was not to find a place in the Immortal Court to go into closed-door cultivation, but to transform into an inconspicuous loose cultivator, and with extreme decisiveness left the Immortal Court, returning to the Gu Gu Xian Domain.

Entering the Immortal Court is very hard; wanting to leave the Immortal Court is far too easy.

Last time he entered the Immortal Court, it was to escape the pursuit of Du Yue Xing Jun.

Now he heard that Du Yue Xing Jun had made a mistake and was temporarily locked up, so naturally he hurried to leave the Immortal Court.

Du Yue Xing Jun would definitely be fine in the end, but that wasn't his concern. His primary task now was to quickly raise his strength.

Ding Huan had originally wanted to choose the Immortal Abandonment Land. Others cultivating in the Immortal Abandonment Land would be affected by the mottled Dao rhythm, but he wouldn't be.

Considering that Immortal Emperor Du Yue might go to the Immortal Abandonment Land again, Ding Huan simply chose another place—the immortal gate ruins of the Thirty-Third Path.

The Gu Gu Xian Domain is different from the Fourth and Fifth Immortal Domains.

Good places in the Gu Gu Xian Domain are everywhere—the prerequisite is that you have to be qualified to set up a Gathering Spirit Immortal Array.

Ding Huan is now the Immortal Court's First Law Officer. Although it's a nominal post, in the Gu Gu Xian Domain he is still high and mighty.

He can set up Gathering Spirit Immortal Arrays at will.

For Ding Huan, the qualification he obtained to set up Gathering Spirit Immortal Arrays was not for openly setting up Gathering Spirit Immortal Arrays.

This qualification was merely his fallback. Once his Gathering Spirit Immortal Array was discovered by someone, no one would dare do anything to him, and he could calmly change locations and continue setting up Gathering Spirit Immortal Arrays to cultivate.

The Gu Gu Xian Domain has a pile of powerhouses. What if they discovered he had set up a Gathering Spirit Immortal Array and came after him—would he still be able to cultivate?

If he were killed by someone, there'd be nowhere to go cry out for justice.

Ding Huan had already refined his Iron Pot Restriction to the sixtieth layer. In just over three months, Ding Huan had returned to the immortal gate ruins of the Thirty-Third Path.

Coming to the Thirty-Third Path again, the desolation here remained as before.

Perhaps because too many immortal gate disciples had been killed here, once one entered, there was a chilling, eerie feeling.

Ding Huan paid it no heed at all. He went straight to the depths of this immortal gate ruin.

Finally, he stopped outside a dilapidated bamboo hut.

One had to admit this bamboo was quite remarkable. After more than a thousand years of history, although broken down and collapsed, it had not rotted.

This place gave Ding Huan an indescribable feeling—without any reason, it was simply that cultivating here was best.

Ding Huan decided to set up concealment array patterns outside.

Even if he wanted to set up a Gathering Spirit Immortal Array, he had to first set up a Concealment Immortal Array.

He absolutely could not let people casually see that someone was cultivating here.

This broken-down bamboo hut also needed to be cleared and rebuilt.

The moment Ding Huan planted the first array flag, he sensed something was off—was there someone here?

Ding Huan then confirmed he hadn't seen wrong—there really was someone here.

Because the surrounding space had law ripples—this was the trace of someone having cultivated.