Chapter 585: 584. Chapter 579: Shell-Breaking Divine Beast

584. Chapter 579: Shell-Breaking Divine Beast

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 wound—his dantian split open—he fully healed in less than half a month.

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

He joined the search for heavenly treasures.

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

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

This was because the Semi-God Star Continent had been occupied by demonic insects for countless years, and demonic insects had no need for such herbs to repair their divine souls or flesh.

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

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

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

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

It wasn't that he didn't want to collect more—it was that Zuo Shanwei had already become an Immortal Emperor; if he wasted too much 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; the Ten Thousand Laws of the Dao Corridor were no longer respected as before.

Sometimes, establishing rules takes many years, but destroying them takes only a short time.

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

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

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

One could say he was waiting for the Immortal Inspectorate to come after him, yet the Immortal Inspectorate didn't even stir.

Not only did they fail to hunt him down, not even a wanted notice was issued.

Afterwards, Ding Huan grew even more arrogant: 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 after this, 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 kick the Immortal Inspectorate.

After Ding Huan left, the Dao Corridor began seeing vendettas and preemptive strikes.

And still, the Immortal Inspectorate did not intervene.

This further caused the collapse of order to come crashing down.

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 who violated the Ten Thousand Laws of the Dao Corridor was executed.

Even Immortal Clans that broke the Ten Thousand Laws were not spared.

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

Logically, the Immortal Inspectorate's Immortal Army was meant to fight the Void Demonic Insects; if all of it was pulled into the Dao Corridor and the insects breached the protective array, what then?

In the past, this had never happened.

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, and now the entire continent was filled with heavenly treasures.

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

But the Dao Corridor was not easy to leave; the best way was to join the Immortal Army.

Unfortunately, the Immortal Army was no longer accepting new members.

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 also stopped 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 already possessed were 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 herbs.

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 arrived on the Semi-God Star Continent recently, and the number was still growing.

With Ji Xing and the others having gathered so many valuable items, newcomers would naturally target them.

Fortunately, Ji Xing had experience; as soon as he sensed intruders, he returned immediately to Ding Huan's seclusion.

"Master, I gathered a pile of good stuff…" Ji Xing immediately moved to pull out everything.

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 receiving ten nine-color Void Lotus plants and three five-color Soul Grasses, Ding Huan 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 taking their items and sending out the True Spirit Worlds, he immediately urged Ji Xing and the others to raise their cultivation.

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

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 Shanyi's cultivation speed; with that kid's pace, he was surely at least Immortal Emperor Level Four by now.

With Zuo Shanyi'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 Shanyi not know?

With Zuo Shanyi's habit of stripping every last bit of value, if he learned of Half-God Star Continent and didn't come to plunder, then he'd been mistaken.

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

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

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

Ji Luo would likely emerge soon.

Ding Huan took out the Life-Death Mirror—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 stood a woman; Ding Huan guessed she must be Quan Er, the other of Xie Kuangren's two bodyguards.

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

Ji Xing's three disciples and Ji Luo required immense Immortal Spirit Qi to restore their bodies, so even though Ding Huan wasn't cultivating, the Immortal Spirit Qi vortex 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, letting 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 it firsthand.

When Master Xie encountered that Worm King, they'd helped him.

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

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

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

They didn't know Ding Huan used Gene Annihilation Law and a Level-Three Trapping Death 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 to see a man with goat-like whiskers and pea-sized eyes walking 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 this—I'm a looks guy.

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

Ji Luo, having reshaped his body, could have chosen any handsome form—he'd picked this. Ding Huan was stunned.

"You know nothing…"

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

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