Chapter 589: Heart Evasion

Ding Huan did not continue cultivating, nor did he go out to search for Heng Luanner; he took out the Three Thousand Great Paths to see if any good evasion techniques were inside.

Unfortunately, Ding Huan had read the Three Thousand Great Paths several times over and found not even the Five Elements Evasion Technique.

The Three Thousand Great Paths could not possibly lack evasion techniques; the only possibility now was that all the good ones had been taken away.

Ding Huan sighed; it seemed he would have to research an evasion technique himself.

But then he remembered that the Great Cosmos Art and the Nirvana Scripture were both quite good—what if he could also develop a powerful evasion technique?

Many cultivators' survival evasion techniques are blood evasion or lifespan-burning evasion, or else Five Elements Evasion Techniques passed down through countless hands.

Ding Huan had never cultivated the Five Elements Evasion Technique, but he had heard of it.

This technique requires reliance on the Five Elements; without them, evasion becomes difficult.

He cultivated the Great Cosmos Art, which made him most sensitive to the genetic laws of all things in heaven and earth.

Ding Huan's mind stirred—he had also studied the Great Gene Art, and through it, he could effortlessly slay all life in a realm.

What if he oriented evasion toward genes…

Ding Huan shook his head; the vast universe contained infinite genes.

But when he cultivated the Great Cosmos Art, he had long ago defined genes as part of his own Dao.

All genes were a form of law.

The reverse, however, did not hold true—that is, not all laws were genes.

Therefore, if he wanted to align his evasion technique with genes, it would be better to align it with law.

Wherever cosmic laws existed, he could vanish instantly.

This kind of evasion technique would be absolutely powerful.

In the vast universe, were there places where no laws existed?

Ding Huan felt an inexplicable sense that such places must exist—and likely many of them.

And if someone sealed off the cosmic laws of a realm, would law-based evasion still work?

So this evasion technique still had flaws—it was not the ideal evasion.

Unless one day, with a single thought, new cosmic rules emerged, and new laws arose.

But by then, would he even need an evasion technique?

For rapid escape, he would still need Mind Evasion.

There should be cultivation methods for Mind Evasion, but Ding Huan did not possess any.

Shouldn't Mind Evasion be the strongest evasion technique?

What if he started with Mind Evasion?

Without a cultivation method for Mind Evasion, he would create one himself.

Hadn't he once had no body-refining technique either?

Now he had already reached the peak of the Immortal Body, and once he entered a higher realm and encountered its higher cosmic rules, his flesh would automatically ascend.

As Ding Huan thought of this, his mind wandered again.

Mind extension was controlled by consciousness—if he could vanish the moment the intention to flee arose, wouldn't the speed be faster?

Ding Huan was like this: once an idea appeared, he could hardly suppress it.

Though both "intention" and "mind" contained the character "nian," they were fundamentally different.

Mind had substance; intention did not—it was merely a flicker of thought.

Though this was a brain-based consciousness, Ding Huan decided to name the technique before he even created it.

He named it Heart Evasion.

Ding Huan had previously studied the skin-scroll's contents and encountered countless Great Dao techniques—he had never once seen anything resembling Heart Evasion.

If he truly created this Mind Evasion technique, he might well become the only cultivator in existence to possess Heart Evasion.

Thinking of it, he began to try; intention-based evasion was far more difficult than Mind Evasion.

Mind could serve as a vessel, but evasion through intention alone had no vessel—it was merely a concept.

Ding Huan wanted to know: could he vanish instantly without relying on Mind or Immortal Qi?

Ding Huan had progressed from initially relying on Mind, then on Immortal Qi, then on cosmic laws…

A month passed; Ding Huan could now instantly teleport within a small room using only intention, without any reliance on Mind or Immortal Qi.

With enough time, Ding Huan believed he could certainly develop the Heart Evasion technique.

Outside, the sound of the warship arriving at Yue Xingtian reached him; he knew he had to go out.

He lifted the cave's sealing formation and scanned with his Mind—the warship had just passed through the Void Plaza and plunged directly into a star-land blanketed in dull yellow.

The cosmic Qi here was weaker than in the Great Dao Corridor, but the cosmic rules were no weaker—they formed a complete star-land.

The cosmic rules carried a strange Dao resonance that made Ding Huan feel inexplicably uneasy.

"Ding Daoist." Heng Luanner's voice reached him immediately.

Following it, Ding Huan saw Heng Luanner waving at him, and beside her stood at least seven cultivators of Late Immortal Emperor or Peak Immortal Emperor rank.

The moment he emerged, all their Minds locked onto him.

Two of them stared at him with clear murderous intent.

Ding Huan did not need to ask—he could tell from the Dao resonance radiating from them that these two were from the same clan as Yuan Chihong.

Boom!

The warship crashed onto the plaza like a massive boulder.

Dust exploded into the sky.

Ding Huan had already seen that the plaza's surroundings were filled with people—no, the plaza's surroundings were teeming with powerful cultivators.

He saw the presence of the Ku Clan.

The unique Dao rhyme aura similar to Ku Wang's scattered out the moment it appeared, and was caught by Ding Huan.

In the middle of the crowd, a frail-looking man sat on a floating cloud platform, and behind his back were several colored Dao rhyme halos.

This Yue Xing Tian definitely has some connection to the Buddhist sect.

Ding Huan did not sweep with his divine sense. His gaze fell on this frail-looking man, and his brows twitched slightly.

This fellow is very strong — no weaker than Xie Kuangren.

In other words, this fellow may have surpassed the Immortal Emperor level and reached a new realm beyond Immortal Emperor.

According to the Pangu Great World's account, this would be the Quasi-Saint realm.

But according to Ji Luo's account, Ding Huan knew that what came after Immortal Emperor was not the Quasi-Saint realm — it was worlds apart from Quasi-Saint.

"Heng Luan'er, you schemed against my Ku Immortal Clan in the void, killing thirty-two Immortal Emperors and one hundred thirty-one Immortal Venerables of my Ku clan.

If you have no proper explanation today, my Ku clan will certainly erase the Heng Immortal Clan from Yue Xing Tian."

The one speaking was a handsome-looking young man.

A pitch-black longsword was slanted across his back, and Dao rhyme swirled endlessly around him. One glance told anyone this was no ordinary Immortal Emperor.

Logically speaking, the one who should have drawn Ding Huan's gaze was that frail-looking man, yet this handsome young man drew Ding Huan's attention even more.

On the surface, this handsome young man's cultivation was far inferior to the frail-looking man's.

Yet Ding Huan sensed that this fellow was the more terrifying one.

Does the Ku clan really have a powerhouse like this?

"Ku Immortal Lord, I will naturally give you an accounting for the Ku clan's matters shortly."

After Heng Luan'er answered this young man, she walked toward the frail-looking man seated on the cloud platform in the void and bowed deeply to the ground:

"Heng Luan'er of the Heng clan has failed the Immortal Lord's high hopes and was unable to complete the task the Immortal Lord entrusted. I beg the Immortal Lord to punish me."

The frail-looking man nodded: "Tell me the specifics, one by one."

Heng Luan'er said: "We should have found Light Bright Heaven, but we were unable to enter Light Bright Heaven…"

Hearing Heng Luan'er say they had found Light Bright Heaven, everyone looked at Heng Luan'er in astonishment.

Even that handsome young man of the Ku clan who had questioned Heng Luan'er earlier was staring at her in astonishment.

They really found Light Bright Heaven?

Heng Luan'er continued:

"Light Bright Heaven was occupied by a swarm of demon worms and renamed the Strange Worm Star Land. Before that, it had another name — Half-God Star Land…"

Ding Huan's heart jolted.

Did this woman come from Half-God Star Land?

Why bring so many powerhouses to Half-God Star Land?

And since when was Half-God Star Land called Light Bright Heaven?

"You should know my purpose in having you bring so many people, right?" the frail-looking man on the cloud platform asked in a mild tone.

Heng Luan'er answered even more deferentially:

"Reporting to the Immortal Lord, I know. It was to have us find Light Bright Heaven and immediately take control of it. But our strength truly could not take control of Light Bright Heaven…"

The moment these words came out, everyone in the plaza was stunned.

The strength on this warship could be said to take down any star land.

Yet now Heng Luan'er was saying they could not take control of Light Bright Heaven.

Even the frail-looking man furrowed his brow.

Heng Luan'er still spoke unhurriedly:

"Light Bright Heaven has endless demon worms. Even dealing with these demon worms, we could not do it."

"Don't we have Dao Pattern Immortal Cannons?" someone in the crowd said discontentedly.

Heng Luan'er was not flustered: "Even if we fired every single Dao Pattern cannon shell in the Dao Pattern Immortal Cannons, I'm afraid we couldn't blast to death even a hundred-millionth of Light Bright Heaven's demon worms.

And that's not the most terrifying part. In Light Bright Heaven there is a powerful Demon Worm King. That single Demon Worm King alone could easily crush and kill every Immortal Emperor powerhouse on our entire immortal ship."

This time even the frail-looking man on the cloud platform drew a sharp cold breath.

Crushing and killing every Immortal Emperor on the immortal ship — that strength was greater than his own.

"We tried for many days and found that with the strength on our Yue Xing Immortal Ship, we couldn't even approach Light Bright Heaven, let alone take it.

So we chose to withdraw. At that time we discovered another star land, called the Grand Dao Corridor.

The heaven and earth rules of the Grand Dao Corridor are no weaker than our Yue Xing Tian, but we likewise could not occupy the Grand Dao Corridor.

In the Grand Dao Corridor there is also an absolute powerhouse. He is called Xie Kuangren. This man's strength is probably not below the Immortal Lord's.

The cultivator army led by Xie Kuangren in the Grand Dao Corridor has been in standoff with Light Bright Heaven's demon worms for many years. If we were to force an attack, I'm afraid not a single one of us would escape.

After confirming we could not enter the Grand Dao Corridor, nor enter Light Bright Heaven, I discussed with Ku Feng and could only choose to control the warship and return to Yue Xing Tian first."

Hearing this far, Ding Huan understood two things.

First, when the warship beneath his feet had reached Half-God Star Land and the Grand Dao Corridor, he and the dung beetle had not even reached the Grand Dao Corridor yet.

Second, his Universe Pot was relatively fast. After cultivating in the Grand Dao Corridor and Half-God Star Land for so long, it could still catch up with this returning warship.

Fortunately, this fellow went to Half-God Star Land before he wiped out the worms.

If it had been later, Half-God Star Land might have been occupied by these people, and the forces on it would probably have been slaughtered to the last.

Ding Huan had originally only wanted to check on Yue Xing Tian's ascension situation, but now a killing intent rose in his heart — should he wipe out all these fellows?

(Fellow Daoist, good night. Begging for monthly ticket support!)