Chapter 535

534. Chapter 529: Rainbow Cloud Child

"What realm?" This time, Qi Ning and Chi Feitao asked simultaneously.

Even Chi Feitao's tone was more urgent.

He was about to break through the Immortal King realm and enter the next level.

If anyone else said this, he would sneer—but the Grand Immortal Supervisor was no ordinary person.

Ding Huan shook his head: "I don't know, but I won't ascend to Immortal Emperor within the Pangu Great World."

Ding Huan spoke the truth; he had previously sensed that something was missing between Immortal King and Immortal Emperor, though he wasn't certain.

Now he was certain: a missing realm truly existed. If he ascended to Immortal Emperor while still at the Immortal King level, he would inevitably be one tier weaker than others.

Even with the Great Cosmos Art, he could not fabricate the Dao rules between Immortal King and Immortal Emperor out of nothing.

Only upon reaching a star continent where such a realm's rules truly existed could he perceive the missing realm's Dao rules and integrate all necessary cosmic laws.

Moreover, Ding Huan was certain that proving the Dao to become a Pretender Sage was impossible within the Pangu Great World.

Again, it was due to a missing realm.

Originally, Wu Chang Emperor believed that consuming more Immortal Spirit Rice could compensate for the missing Heavenly Dao rules of the Pretender Sage level.

Now Ding Huan was certain: that was utterly impossible.

Only if the Immortal Spirit Rice grew on a star continent where Pretender Sages existed was there a sliver of possibility, since it carried a trace of that star continent's cosmic rules.

The Pangu Great World never had the cosmic Dao rules for the Pretender Sage realm—how could Immortal Spirit Rice grown here ever give birth to a Pretender Sage?

"Huan-ge, do you have a better plan?" Qi Ning asked urgently.

Chi Feitao held his breath, listening to what Ding Huan would say.

He vaguely knew what Ding Huan would do—he was more concerned with whether he himself should follow the Grand Immortal Supervisor.

Ding Huan spoke slowly: "The Dao Ancestor knew the cosmic Dao rules of the Pangu Great World were incomplete, so he left this world."

"So I plan to finish matters here, then depart from this dimensional plane at the same place the Dao Ancestor left, seeking star continents with more complete rules."

After the Chaos Cataclysm, the Chaotic World split into three parts.

The first part was the Nine Heavens.

The cosmic rules of the Nine Heavens seemed complete, but clearly had flaws.

Otherwise, the Nine Heavens could never have shattered repeatedly under successive cataclysms, finally leaving only four heavens fused with the Dao Ancestor's treasure, forming the Cosmic Disc that departed from its original cosmic location.

The second part was the Pangu Great World.

The Pangu Great World's flaw was obvious: it lacked cosmic Dao rules.

When the Dao Ancestor returned to the Pangu Great World the second time, he stayed only briefly before leaving.

Ding Huan guessed the Dao Ancestor likely went to search for the third world that emerged after the Chaos Cataclysm's shattering.

The Dao Ancestor might have intended to use this third world to repair the Nine Heavens and reconstruct the mythic universe of Huaxia legends.

At least in that mythic universe, cosmic Dao rules were perfectly ordered.

Whether the Dao Ancestor could find that third world, or whether he could fuse it with the broken Nine Heavens—

Ding Huan had decided to follow the Dao Ancestor's footsteps in search of it.

Once, Ding Huan left Earth to seek the legends of Huaxia immortals and gods, following the footsteps of ancient Huaxia immortals.

Now he had another reason: to follow the Dao Ancestor in search of a complete Dao world.

No matter how powerful his Great Cosmos Art was, he could not create something from nothing.

To build a complete Dao system for the first time, he must go to a universe with perfected rules to perceive Dao principles and integrate all cosmic laws.

Once his Dao rules were fully perfected, even if the entire universe collapsed, he could reconstruct his own Dao universe.

No longer dependent on external sources.

"Huan-ge, I'll follow you always," Cang Diyi said without hesitation.

Qi Ning took a deep breath: "Huan-ge, I want to go with you too."

Chi Feitao remained silent; he believed Ding Huan's words, but he didn't have to follow him.

Unlike the others, he knew the direction Ding Huan intended to go.

That direction was the very one he had given Ding Huan—his own master had departed from that same place.

So he could leave from that place whenever he wished.

As for where to go after leaving, Ding Huan didn't know either—and perhaps he could even find his master.

Seeing Chi Feitao say nothing, Ding Huan said: "You're welcome to come with me, but I must leave this dimensional plane and travel to lower realms to handle some matters."

"But my cultivation has reached Immortal King—if I enter a lower realm, I may be suppressed by cosmic rules, even reduced to dust." Qi Ning's tone held concern.

Ding Huan waved his hand: "That's no concern—I can seal your Dao rhythms, locking away your Dao."

Ding Huan believed that as a Level Nine Immortal Array Emperor and creator of the Great Cosmos Art, he could certainly accomplish this.

He himself had no worries—his mind-sea's Great Cosmos Universe feared no cosmic rule suppression.

"Huan-ge, if we go to Changyi Continent, we must pass through several cosmic vortex mouths—nine out of ten chances we'll die." Cang Diyi reminded.

He mainly didn't want Xue Xiyun to follow them—she was young and low in cultivation.

If anything happened to Xue Xiyun, he would be unable to face her sister.

"Master Chi, aren't you returning to the Pangu Great World?" Ding Huan turned to Chi Feitao.

Chi Feitao immediately understood Ding Huan's meaning: "Yes. Why not let me take Xiyun-sister? I guarantee I'll bring her safely to the Pangu Great World."

"Then go with the Multiverse Trading Guild to the Pangu Great World," Ding Huan said, still wary of Jia Buqin.

If you travel with the Multiverse Trading Guild, even if you meet Jia Buqin, he won't dare do anything.

"My guild's Director Qian will return to Luxing Immortal Continent soon—he'll continue on to the Pangu Great World afterward. You could go with him," Qi Ning suggested.

"It's settled then. Qi Ning, we'll rest at the Multiverse Trading Guild for now. When Director Qian arrives, I'll speak to him and arrange for you to leave the guild."

"Many thanks, Brother Huan."

Qi Ning was overjoyed; she had actually meant the same thing.

As an elder who had stayed in the Myriad Realms Commerce Guild for hundreds of thousands of years, her cultivation to Immortal King had all relied on the resources of the Myriad Realms Commerce Guild.

When it came time to leave, she naturally couldn't do it in secret—at the very least she had to make things clear with the Myriad Realms Commerce Guild, explaining why she wanted to leave.

……

While Ding Huan remained in closed-door cultivation at the Myriad Realms Commerce Guild's Luxing Immortal Continent headquarters, Luxing Immortal Continent completely blew up.

The number-one immortal clan of Luxing Immortal Continent, the Ancient Jia Immortal Clan, had finally enraged a certain powerful cultivator by forcibly seizing his dharma treasure.

This powerful cultivator acted decisively and without hesitation, uprooting the entire Ancient Jia Immortal Clan and wiping them out to the last.

Afterwards, the second immortal clan of Luxing Immortal Continent, the Jin Immortal Clan, also incurred the wrath of this powerful cultivator because they cultivated vicious techniques, capturing people and bringing them into the Jin Immortal Clan to strip away their divine souls for cultivation.

This powerful cultivator charged into the Jin Immortal Clan and slaughtered them clean; from then on, the Jin Immortal Clan also vanished from Luxing Immortal Continent.

Now this powerful cultivator was in closed-door cultivation at the Myriad Realms Commerce Guild. It was said he was waiting for the Ancient Jia family's late Immortal Emperor Jia Buqin to come—as soon as he killed Jia Buqin, this senior would leave Luxing Immortal Continent.

These rumors spread across all of Luxing Immortal Continent in the blink of an eye, and indeed the Ancient Jia family and the Jin Immortal Clan had been wiped out.

So after learning that Ding Huan was in closed-door cultivation at the Myriad Realms Commerce Guild, for a period of time, almost every day people came to kneel and give thanks to Ding Huan outside the Myriad Realms Commerce Guild.

It was simply because the innocent cultivators the Ancient Jia family and the Jin Immortal Clan had harmed on Luxing Immortal Continent, and the immortal sects they had destroyed, were far too many. These people did not dare make a sound, did not dare seek revenge, and could only swallow their anger.

Fortunately, heaven had eyes—at long last a powerful cultivator had come to Luxing Immortal Continent, and this powerful cultivator had uprooted those two disgusting clans.

No matter what came after, at least for now Luxing Immortal Continent no longer had these immortal clans that refused to reason in the slightest.

This time Ding Huan used a top-grade immortal spirit vein, but he had only just advanced to Immortal King second layer, and still needed to stabilize his cultivation in the short term.

So after nearly three months of closed-door cultivation, Ding Huan had not broken through to Immortal King third layer, but his cultivation had become far more condensed than before.

That day, Ding Huan was still in closed-door cultivation, preparing to charge at Immortal King third layer, when the cave dwelling's restriction was tapped.

It must have been that Immortal Emperor from the Myriad Realms Commerce Guild, Steward Qian, returning.

Ding Huan rose and came out of seclusion.

Steward Qian had returned, and he was also planning to leave Luxing Immortal Continent.

This place, Luxing Immortal Continent—even its Heaven and Earth Rules were inferior to those of the Pangu Great World; staying here was truly a waste of time.

"Brother Huan." Standing at the door was Qi Ning.

"Is Steward Qian back?"

Qi Ning shook her head: "No, it's a woman who's come looking for you. She says she has something very important."

Ding Huan was puzzled in his heart—a woman here looking for him? Since arriving here he had never gone out at all, and he certainly didn't know any woman.

His divine sense swept outward, and he saw a woman wearing an ordinary cultivator's robe sitting uneasily in the Myriad Realms Commerce Guild's reception hall, somewhat nervous.

This woman was not from Luxing Immortal Continent, but from the Nine Heavens.

As long as Ding Huan swept his divine sense once, he knew he absolutely could not be mistaken.

He was now extremely sensitive to Heaven and Earth Rules and the laws of all things; from the Dao resonance fluctuations on this woman's body, he knew that this woman had once cultivated in the Nine Heavens for a very long time.

"I'll go see her. You go on with your business." Arriving outside the reception hall, Ding Huan gestured to Qi Ning that she didn't need to go in.

"Shi Cai greets Senior, Senior." Seeing Ding Huan come in, this woman hurriedly stood and bowed.

Ding Huan gestured for her to sit and said: "My name is Ding Huan, I'm from the Pangu Great World. I'm quite sure I've never met you—what business do you have with me?"

Shi Cai said carefully: "This junior knows that the Heaven and Earth Rules of this universe are flawed, so I came specifically to tell Senior that you cannot advance to Immortal Emperor here."

"You know I'm not an Immortal Emperor?" Ding Huan looked at Shi Cai in puzzlement.

The other's cultivation was at most only a Great Luo Immortal; it was quite unlikely she could see through his cultivation.

Still, Shi Cai's Dao resonance was condensed—she was absolutely not something an ordinary Great Luo Immortal could compare to.

Shi Cai said respectfully: "This junior comes from the Nine Heavens. Originally I was only a child-attendant, named Colorful Cloud…"

Ding Huan immediately understood: "You're Lady Shiji's disciple, the Colorful Cloud Child-Attendant—the one who went missing?"