Chapter 548: 547. Chapter 542: The Immortal Realm with Complete Rules

547. Chapter 542: The Immortal Realm with Complete Rules

Ding Huan ignored Ji Luo; he knew Ji Luo was a Primordial Spirit, and though hidden within the Heaven and Earth Balance, if swept out of the Cosmic Cauldron by this vortex, death was certain.

The Cosmic Cauldron differed from the Chaotic World; no matter how powerful the Cauldron, its opening side could not escape the influence of the Cosmic Vortex.

Ding Huan did not know if the Cosmic Cauldron had a lid, but he knew he must not let the Cosmic Vortex affect Old Ji.

So he stood at the Cauldron's rim, continuously carving defensive array patterns.

The Cosmic Vortex was too powerful; all the defensive array patterns Ding Huan carved were ninth-rank peak Immortal arrays.

Array patterns of this rank formed ninth-rank defensive Immortal arrays, which should have been extremely strong in defense.

Yet here, even ninth-rank Immortal arrays could only hold for a dozen breaths at most.

Once such a defense shattered, Ding Huan had to immediately carve another.

It wasn't that Ding Huan didn't want to carve Divine arrays; if he had Divine array flags, he could have formed a first-rank Divine array.

But he had no array flags, and Ji Luo, hiding inside the Heaven and Earth Balance, dared not emerge.

He had never encountered the rules of Divine arrays; these rules were clearly one level higher than Immortal World rules.

No matter how skilled Ding Huan was in array art, he could not carve Divine arrays.

At first, the tearing force of the Cosmic Vortex was too fierce; after sweeping away the Cauldron's protective array, it nearly dragged Ding Huan away too.

Fortunately, Ding Huan was at the peak of Immortal Body cultivation; after the protective array was torn away, he barely stabilized his form and avoided being swept off.

After Ding Huan established his defensive Immortal arrays, they bought him a dozen breaths.

As soon as those dozen breaths passed, the defensive array was torn apart again, and Ding Huan had already carved the second defensive Immortal array.

Thus, Ding Huan continuously carved void Immortal arrays to form defensive arrays, while the Cosmic Vortex relentlessly tore away each one he set.

A fragile balance had barely formed.

As time passed, Ding Huan's speed in carving Immortal arrays grew faster and faster.

Gradually, he began carving two defensive Immortal arrays before the void vortex could sweep away just one.

Ji Luo finally dared to step out and assist Ding Huan in setting up the great defensive array.

Ji Luo used array flags, so the array he formed was a Divine array.

As soon as this Divine array appeared, both Ding Huan and Ji Luo became far safer.

"Hehe, only our teamwork barely held it together—this dung beetle is definitely dead." Ji Luo, sensing no danger, began chattering again.

Ding Huan also hoped Zuo Shanwei would die, but he vaguely felt it wouldn't be that easy.

After being tossed and rolled by the terrifying Cosmic Vortex for over three months, the Cosmic Cauldron suddenly burst free and slammed into a glacier.

Extreme cold surged over them; Ji Luo immediately dashed back into the Heaven and Earth Balance.

Even Ji Luo's Primordial Spirit could not withstand this extreme cold.

Though Ding Huan's Immortal Body was perfected, he clearly felt fine bloodlines cracking across his skin; the terrifying cold seeped into those cracks, and within moments, fine fissures spread across them.

Any ordinary cultivator here would have turned to ice sculpture in an instant, even frozen into nothingness.

Ding Huan activated the Nirvana Technique; the cracks covering his body vanished instantly.

He swiftly controlled the Cosmic Cauldron and shot out of this icy mountain range at top speed.

"Good thing you're a body cultivator; otherwise, even if we broke free, we couldn't have escaped these ice mountains."

"That dung beetle, no matter how strong, would die the moment he stepped out of here," Ji Luo said with relief.

Ding Huan sighed: "This guy really is a curse that lives a thousand years—he's not dead, and he's now moving farther away from us."

Ding Huan couldn't understand how Zuo Shanwei could still survive in such extreme cold.

Was this guy also a body cultivator? Had he even reached ninth-rank Immortal Body?

Hearing the dung beetle was still alive, Ji Luo cried out: "Chase him now! If we don't kill this thing, I won't be able to sleep!"

But Ding Huan did not immediately reply; instead, he exclaimed in delight: "Old Ji, don't you feel it? Aren't the Heavenly and Earthly rules here complete?"

When the Cosmic Cauldron first crashed into the glacier, Ding Huan had faintly sensed the completeness of the local Heavenly and Earthly rules.

Now that they'd left the icy wasteland, he was certain he hadn't been wrong.

The realm the Cosmic Cauldron had passed through the Cosmic Vortex to reach wasn't just more complete in Heavenly and Earthly rules than the Pangu Great World—it was also richer in Heavenly and Earthly Immortal Qi.

Ji Luo immediately stepped out of the Heaven and Earth Balance and sighed: "It truly is complete. I never imagined an Immortal Realm with such perfected rules."

Ding Huan suspected this might be the third portion formed when the Chaotic World first split.

This was the third existence, apart from the Nine Heavens and the Pangu Great World.

Subconsciously, Ding Huan felt his theory was wrong.

If the third world's rules were this perfected, why had the Dao Ancestor chosen the Nine Heavens?

And why had the Dao Ancestor never found this place?

He was certain the Dao Ancestor hadn't found it, because he sensed no trace of the Nine Heavens' aura here.

The Dao Ancestor had merged with the Heavenly Dao; if he had found this place and realized it was the third portion of the Chaotic World,

He would have fused the broken Nine Heavens with this realm into a single new Immortal Continent.

Ding Huan accelerated the Cosmic Cauldron: "After we kill the dung beetle, I need to cultivate here for a while—I won't leave until I've reached true Immortal Emperor."

Ji Luo said: "Do you know why I sighed just now? Because you probably won't be able to cultivate quietly here to Immortal Emperor."

"What do you mean?" Ding Huan asked, puzzled.

Ji Luo said: "Though this realm's Heavenly and Earthly rules are complete, it has been bound by a Divine-grade treasure: the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Cover."

Seeing Ding Huan's confusion, Ji Luo continued:

"I've seen the Heaven and Earth Qiankun Cover before; as soon as I arrived, I sensed its aura.

This treasure locks this star continent, forbidding cultivators from advancing casually.

The moment you reach the threshold of advancement, this treasure will bind you—and instantly, someone will know you're ascending, then come to stop you, and killing you wouldn't be surprising."

This proves one thing: this star continent is under someone's control.

So if you want to advance your realm on this star continent, you must obtain the permission of the person who controls the Heavenly Dao Heaven-and-Earth Shield, otherwise you cannot advance."

Hearing that someone controlled a realm of heaven and earth and forbade others from cultivating and advancing sounded utterly absurd and ridiculous.

Ding Huan was not surprised.

Not to mention others—he himself had done the same thing back on Earth.

He had laid down a gene-blocking law on Earth, so no fierce beast could advance.

It was just that, because he had obtained the Three Thousand Great Daos, his methods were more formidable than this one using a divine artifact to block the Dao.

"Forget it, if we can't cultivate here we'll just change locations. I refuse to believe that across the entire immortal-domain universe, only this one star continent has complete rules."

Ding Huan could only comfort himself this way.

This wasn't really comfort either—he truly did have his own method.

What he cultivated was the Great Cosmos Art, so he didn't necessarily have to advance here.

For him, as long as he could comprehend and merge with the heaven-and-earth rules here, he could complete the realm laws he was missing from cultivating elsewhere.

That way, after he left this place, he could still advance.

And he would advance by relying on the Dao cosmos rules of his own Sea of Consciousness.

Ji Luo chuckled: "I'm afraid we can't leave."

Ding Huan looked at Ji Luo in confusion.

Ji Luo explained: "This place is locked by the Heavenly Dao Heaven-and-Earth Shield. Although I've never gone out, I know you can't get out from anywhere else here.

The fact that we got in was sheer luck upon luck. If we want to get out, we can only go back out through the place we came in.

Getting in through that place was already a narrow escape; getting out… sigh…"

Ding Huan fell silent. Even with his Soul-Devouring Realm Ring, he couldn't tear open the realm space locked by the Heavenly Dao Heaven-and-Earth Shield.

Thinking of this, Ding Huan simply sped up the Cosmos Pot again: "Drink today while the wine is here, grieve tomorrow when tomorrow comes—let's deal with the dung beetle first."

"Haha…"

Hearing Ding Huan's words, Ji Luo burst into laughter: "Not bad, let's deal with the dung beetle first, grieve tomorrow when tomorrow comes."

"Brother, can you transform into something else? I can't use the Cosmos Pot anymore." Ding Huan had long sensed Zuo Shanyi stop.

He must have run into something to stop like that; otherwise the other party wouldn't have halted.

With such complete heaven-and-earth rules here, the strong must be as numerous as cattle hairs. Once someone discovered his Cosmos Pot, he'd have to flee again.

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"Watch me." Somehow Ji Luo did it—his Heaven-and-Earth Scale had already transformed into a ring.

Ding Huan grabbed the ring and looked at it. It still looked like the Heaven-and-Earth Scale, just bent over.

"Wear it as a ring on your hand." Ji Luo's voice came through.

Ding Huan wasn't surprised; his Cosmos Pot could likewise transform into a shuttle shape.

Only this kind of transformation couldn't increase the speed.

He put on the ring, stowed the Cosmos Pot, and his figure flickered rapidly. In less than one incense stick's time, he stopped.

He saw Zuo Shanyi—Zuo Shanyi had been stopped outside a market town by two people, seemingly being questioned about something.

Ding Huan had already seen that the ones questioning Zuo Shanyi were two Great Luo Immortals.

With Zuo Shanyi's ability, killing these two Great Luo Immortals would be utterly easy.

Ding Huan also knew why Zuo Shanyi didn't dare act—several powerful divine senses swept past from time to time.

Ding Huan was certain that those divine senses had also detected him.

This kind of divine sense was incomparably stronger than that of the demon race Celestial Emperor Peng Xueshan.

Ding Huan secretly grew wary in his heart. These might be true Immortal Emperors; there might even be Qu-Saints who surpassed Immortal Emperors here.

Just as Ding Huan thought of this, he heard Zuo Shanyi point in his direction and say:

"Look, my junior brother is here. My master and I were both accidentally poisoned, and my junior brother and I are in a hurry to go to the market town to find an antidote immortal pill."

Has this guy taken the wrong medicine?

Ding Huan thought to himself, and his divine sense also swept into the market town.

Soon Ding Huan's expression turned very unsightly. He understood why Zuo Shanyi was so brazenly unafraid.