Chapter 583: 582. Chapter 577: The Breath of Opening Heaven

582. Chapter 577: The Breath of Opening Heaven

The Thief Immortal Insect dies immediately upon approaching a Semi-God Star Continent.

The Dao Corridor is barely holding itself together.

For a time, the vast Star Continent occupied by Ding Huan and the others fell utterly silent.

With no one to disturb him and four Semi-God Veins supporting him, Ding Huan recovered quickly.

Such a grievous injury—his dantian cracked open—Ding Huan fully healed in less than half a month.

He did not continue cultivating, nor did he interfere with Ji Luo's flesh restoration.

He joined the search for celestial treasures.

In just one month, Ding Huan extracted seven Semi-God Veins and obtained two Nine-Colored Void Lotus plants and one Five-Colored Soul Grass.

The Five-Colored Soul Grass is a top-tier immortal material for repairing the divine soul, slightly more valuable than the Nine-Colored Void Lotus, primarily due to its extreme rarity.

This is because the Semi-God Star Continent had been occupied by demonic insects for countless years, and demonic insects require none of these materials to repair their divine souls or flesh.

Thus, these top-tier immortal materials had been preserved.

Countless other top-tier immortal materials for repairing the dantian, meridians, and soul sea were collected.

All of these immortal materials were transplanted by Ding Huan into his True Spirit World.

After a month, Ji Xing and the others were still gathering celestial treasures, but Ding Huan chose to return and resume his seclusion.

It wasn't that he no longer wanted to collect—they were too many—but Zuo Shanwei had already become an Immortal Emperor; if Ding Huan wasted more time gathering materials, his cultivation gap with Zuo Shanwei would only grow wider.

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After Ding Huan left the Dao Corridor, its order abruptly began to decay.

Killings became commonplace, and the Ten Thousand Laws of the Dao Corridor were no longer respected as before.

Sometimes, rules take years to form, but only moments to destroy.

During this period, Ding Huan and Zuo Shanwei had committed too many violations of the Dao Corridor's Ten Thousand Laws.

Yet the Dao Corridor's Immortal Inspectorate showed no response whatsoever.

Worse still, after destroying the Eternal Wasteland Divine Arts Academy, Ding Huan cultivated there for one or two months—this was tantamount to spitting in the Immortal Inspectorate's face.

One might say he was waiting for the Immortal Inspectorate to come after him, yet the Immortal Inspectorate didn't even let out a single sound.

Not only did they fail to pursue Ding Huan, they didn't even issue a single wanted notice.

Afterward, Ding Huan grew even more brazen: he eradicated the Pu Immortal Clan and then directly attacked the Mu Immortal Clan.

The Mu Clan was one of the top three families in the Dao Corridor; their patriarch, Mu Congdao, was even the Chief of the Immortal Inspectorate.

Even so, the Immortal Inspectorate still did not intervene.

Then rumors spread that someone had stolen the Immortal Inspectorate's Semi-God Veins, causing its prestige to plummet to rock bottom.

It seemed anyone could now kick the Immortal Inspectorate.

After Ding Huan left, the Dao Corridor saw the rise of vendettas and preemptive strikes.

And still, the Immortal Inspectorate did not intervene.

This further caused the collapse of order like a mountain falling.

Just as everyone believed the Dao Corridor would return entirely to the age of the strong devouring the weak—

The Immortal Inspectorate moved.

This time, the Immortal Inspectorate deployed not only two Protectors, Ji Yi and Quan Er, but also the Immortal Army.

Anyone in the Dao Corridor who violated the Ten Thousand Laws was executed.

No Immortal Clan that broke the Ten Thousand Laws escaped.

The Dao Corridor's order restored swiftly, yet the mobilization of the Immortal Army against major factions and clans left everyone deeply puzzled.

Logically, the Immortal Army was meant to fight the Void Demon Insects—why deploy it entirely within the Dao Corridor? If the demonic insects broke through the Dao Corridor's protective array, what then?

In the past, such a thing had never occurred.

Six months later, an even more astonishing piece of news reached the Dao Corridor.

All the demonic insects on the Alien Insect Star Continent had been slaughtered clean; now, celestial treasures were everywhere across the Alien Insect Star Continent.

At this moment, nearly every Immortal Clan or faction wished to send people out of the Dao Corridor to search the Alien Insect Star Continent for treasures.

But the Dao Corridor was not easily exited—the best way was to join the Immortal Army.

Unfortunately, the Immortal Army was no longer accepting recruits.

The Immortal Inspectorate's prestige slowly rebuilt itself; some Immortal Clans and factions paid enormous prices to curry favor with the Immortal Inspectorate, hoping to send people out of the Dao Corridor into the Semi-God Star Continent.

Ji Xing and the other two had also ceased gathering treasures.

They had collected for several months, yet had barely covered one ten-thousandth of the Semi-God Star Continent.

But for them, the treasures they possessed were already more than enough.

Upon sensing others arriving on the Semi-God Star Continent, Ji Xing immediately ordered Fan Qingsi and Qian Xunhaoyi to stop gathering immortal materials.

They returned at once to Ding Huan's seclusion cave.

"Back already? Go cultivate," Ding Huan said, pleased to see Ji Xing and the others.

If they hadn't returned, he would have had to go fetch them.

Tens of thousands of people had recently arrived on the Semi-God Star Continent, and the number was still rising.

With Ji Xing and the others possessing so many valuable items, newcomers would naturally not let them go unchallenged.

Fortunately, Ji Xing had experience—he returned to Ding Huan's seclusion cave the moment he sensed intruders.

"Master, I gathered a pile of great treasures…" Ji Xing immediately moved to lay out everything he had collected.

Fan Qingsi and Qian Xunhaoyi also looked excited; their expressions made it clear their haul was no less than Ji Xing's.

Ding Huan stopped them from pulling out their treasures: "Keep the Semi-God Veins for yourselves. Leave me some materials for flesh restoration."

Ji Xing directly pulled out six nine-color Void Lotus plants and seven Mist Jade Immortal Fruits.

Fan Qingsi and Qian Xun Haoyi also produced items no less than his.

After Ding Huan received ten nine-color Void Lotus plants and three five-color Soul Grasses, he took out three pearls and handed them to the three, saying:

"I won't take your things for free—these are three True Spirit Worlds. Though low-grade, they're more than enough for growing these immortal herbs. One each for you."

The three, who had been about to refuse, immediately snatched them upon hearing "True Spirit Worlds."

They had too many valuable items and desperately needed such worlds.

"Hurry and cultivate. If your cultivation doesn't rise here, your possessions will be death warrants."

Ding Huan didn't know how long he could stay here; after receiving their items and sending out the True Spirit Worlds, he immediately urged Ji Xing and the other three to boost their cultivation.

After the three left, Ding Huan still didn't cultivate—he waited for Zuo Shanwei to arrive.

Over the past half year, he had reached the peak of Immortal Sovereign Level Twelve.

He was ready to ascend to the Immortal Emperor realm at any moment.

Ding Huan knew Zuo Shanwei's cultivation speed; with that kid's pace, he was at least Immortal Emperor Level Four by now.

With Zuo Shanwei's arrogant behavior, once he reached Immortal Emperor Level Four, he would absolutely shatter the Great Dao Corridor's protective array.

Even the Immortal Army of Half-God Star Continent knew about it and came here—how could Zuo Shanwei not know?

With Zuo Shanwei's habit of stripping every passing goose of its feathers, if he learned of Half-God Star Continent and didn't come to plunder, then he'd been blind.

Ding Huan hadn't ascended to Immortal Emperor precisely to save the Lei Jie for this dung beetle.

He also intended to use this time to fully refine the Mirror of Life and Death.

As for Ji Luo, he'd been in seclusion for half a year. Even if he needed to perfectly fuse his physical body with the Dao, this long time was more than enough.

Ji Luo would likely emerge soon.

Ding Huan took out the Mirror of Life and Death—he had just refined it to the ninety-second prohibition layer when the protective array was attacked.

Ding Huan's divine sense swept out and found it was Ji Yi.

Beside Ji Yi was a woman; Ding Huan guessed she must be Quan Er, the other of Xie Kuangren's two bodyguards.

To lure Zuo Shanwei here, Ding Huan hadn't even set up the Hidden Spirit Immortal Array.

Ji Xing's three disciples and Ji Luo required immense Immortal Spiritual Energy to restore their physical bodies, so even though Ding Huan wasn't cultivating, the vortex of Immortal Spiritual Energy above his protective array was clearly visible.

Ding Huan selected a high-grade Immortal Artifact spear from his ring and stepped out of the cave.

"You?" Seeing Ding Huan emerge, Ji Yi's expression changed slightly.

Had he known Ding Huan was cultivating here, he would never have attacked the protective array.

He'd simply assumed this place definitely held more than one Half-God Vein, and the cultivation aura wasn't strong.

"Ding Huan?" Quan Er had never seen Ding Huan in person, but she'd seen his portrait many times.

Ding Huan stared at the two before him:

"Your Master Huan wiped out every single Immortal Thief Worm here and let you in to plunder. You don't even thank me—and now you're blasting my cave? Heh…"

Ding Huan's domain surged out—he'd test these two Immortal Emperor Peaks today.

"Immortal Master Ding, there's been a misunderstanding…" Ji Yi hurriedly explained.

Even Quan Er's face darkened upon hearing that Ding Huan had eradicated all the Immortal Thief Worms here.

Other Thief Worms were one thing—but here there was a Worm King, and she'd witnessed that creature firsthand.

When Master Xie encountered the Worm King, they'd assisted him.

All three of them attacked together, and the Worm King effortlessly crushed them.

Had it not been for the Immortal Army's suicidal charges, Master Xie might never have escaped this star continent.

Yet Ding Huan slaughtered every Thief Worm on the continent—and then killed the Worm King. Even if both of them combined forces with Xie Kuangren, they wouldn't be his match.

They didn't know Ding Huan had used Gene Annihilation Law and a Level Three Trapping and Annihilation Divine Array.

Otherwise, Ding Huan would have died here too.

"Hahahaha…" A wild laugh cut through Ji Yi and Quan Er's unease.

Ding Huan turned and saw a man with goat-like whiskers and pea-sized eyes step out.

"Old Ji?" Ding Huan called out, uncertain.

"That's right—I, Ji Luo, am alive again, Hahahaha…" Ji Luo laughed, his goat whiskers quivering violently, utterly absurd.

Ding Huan stared blankly at Ji Luo: "Old Ji, don't expect me to call you 'Big Brother' looking like that—I'm a looks guy.

I genuinely can't understand your taste… no, you don't even have taste."

Ji Luo could've chosen any handsome form when remaking his body—this choice left Ding Huan stunned.

"You know nothing…"

Ji Luo had barely spoken four words when his expression changed—he shot forward in a frenzy.

Ding Huan also sensed the primordial opening aura—he immediately summoned the Cosmic Cauldron, moving even faster than Ji Luo.

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