Chapter 596: I Also Strip Away Yours

After carefully observing for more than half an hour, Ding Huan finally confirmed that he was not being watched by the owner of this space.

If anyone entered his space, he would certainly sense it immediately and investigate.

He had detected no anomalies whatsoever up to this point—there was only one possibility: the owner of this space had no time to care about him.

Under what circumstances would someone enter your space, yet the owner still have no time to care?

Only if the owner had lost consciousness or was deep in seclusion.

Ding Huan leaned more toward the idea that the space's owner had lost consciousness.

As for the owner's death, Ding Huan deemed it impossible.

If the owner of this space had truly perished, the space would have no vitality—only utter stillness.

Not just him—everyone here could sense it.

Though he had formed a direct judgment, Ding Huan still attempted to calculate—but in this space, he could calculate nothing at all.

If the owner of this space had lost consciousness, then the duration of that unconsciousness was his chance to survive.

With these speculations in mind, when Ding Huan sent out his divine sense again, he no longer moved with his earlier caution.

The level of this space was certainly higher than the True Spirit World of the Immortal Realm.

Ding Huan knew of a type of space called the Five Elements Space, which surpassed the True Spirit World.

Above the Five Elements Space lay the Chaos World, whose cosmic rules were even stronger than those of the Five Elements World.

The space he was in was very likely a Five Elements World; whether all five elements were complete, Ding Huan could not fully perceive—only faintly sensed an insufficiency in the fire primordial qi.

With his current strength, a forceful assault could not break this space.

Ding Huan ignored the cultivators kept within it and directed his Cosmic Cauldron to search the entire world.

After one day, Ding Huan saw neither Brother Pingwei, Emperor Jinhe, Wen Zhixi, nor others—but he gained a general understanding of this world's structure.

The central region of this world had more complete rules.

At the world's edges, all was darkness.

It must be the undeveloped portion.

This suggested the space's owner had not possessed this world for very long.

After searching, one area struck Ding Huan as strange.

That area seemed not to belong to this world—his Cosmic Cauldron automatically bypassed it.

His divine sense sweeping over it revealed nothing unusual.

Ding Huan halted and focused his Great Wilderness Eye upon this space.

Unfortunately, his Heavenly Eye was still only Level One—this was the result of barely surviving a near-fatal ordeal on the Gray Sea.

After losing the skin scroll's information, Ding Huan did not know what celestial treasures were needed for his Heavenly Eye to advance.

Otherwise, he might have found them on the Half-God Continent.

Even a Level One Heavenly Eye, once formed, still gave him a faint sense of a vague barrier.

Ding Huan guessed that within this barrier likely lay the space owner's place of existence.

His first priority now was to break through this barrier.

If the space's owner had truly lost consciousness, he had no objection to sending the owner into his own Cosmic Cauldron.

That way, I am in your space, and you are in mine—neither of us suffers a loss.

Ding Huan began setting up array flags, intending to use his array techniques to reveal this space.

Half a day later, the barrier before Ding Huan grew increasingly clear.

One day later, Ding Huan made the barrier before him completely distinct.

Though his cultivation was Immortal Emperor Seventh Layer, his array skill appeared to be that of an Immortal Array Emperor.

But Ding Huan, having trained beside Ji Luo, had long been exposed to Divine Arrays—and was even a Level Two Divine Array Master.

Thus, he recognized at a glance that the barrier's enchantment level was approximately that of a Level Three Divine Array.

Only because it was reinforced by the space owner's Dao rules did it appear so blurred and indistinct.

A normal Level Three Divine Array Master, unable to comprehend the space owner's Dao or touch its rules, might still be unable to open this barrier.

But Ding Huan was different—he cultivated the Great Cosmic Art, which specialized in studying all cosmic laws.

With the aid of the Great Cosmic Art, he quickly integrated all unfamiliar laws of this space into his own consciousness Dao-Cosmos.

A single cosmic rule is constructed from countless laws.

Once familiar with all these laws, even the most mysterious Dao rules would shed their outer layers, exposed to Ding Huan's perception.

The Level Three Divine Array took Ding Huan only two hours to completely shatter.

Ding Huan prepared himself—if all else failed, he would kill the space's owner outright.

When Ding Huan saw the scene before him, he froze.

It was a Heavenly Fate Divine Array covered entirely in array patterns, built from countless altars forming a strange closed loop.

The gentle lapping of Shenhe water against the altars made Ding Huan instinctively shiver.

This was not where the space owner resided—it was a grand array designed to siphon the cosmic fortune of heaven and earth.

Even a Bai Chi would know this array was siphoning the cosmic fortune of the Pangu Great World.

No wonder cultivation in the Pangu Great World always felt like something was missing.

Ding Huan's divine sense settled upon the Shenhe and the fortune-siphoning array—he sensed the Pangu Great World's cosmic fortune slowly seeping through, not violently.

Ding Huan did not believe the owner deliberately slowed the extraction—he believed the owner was now unconscious, causing the extraction to become sluggish.

This also explained why he had not sensed any fortune leakage in the Divine Source Region earlier.

After hesitating only a few breaths, Ding Huan seized a handful of array flags and hurled them wildly, beginning to inscribe array patterns.

This slowly seeping cosmic fortune from the Pangu Great World was very likely being used to heal the space's owner.

Once the master of this space wakes up, the Pangu Grand World will collapse in the first instant.

Ding Huan thought of cycle after cycle on Earth.

He thought of the collapse of the Nine Heavens.

Could it also be because its fortune was drained away by someone?

This method is truly far too vicious.

Having familiarized himself with the rules of heaven and earth here, Ding Huan used less than a single time-period to completely cut off the fortune from seeping in.

Two time-periods later, the fortune of this spatial realm, under Ding Huan's control, leaked out continuously like a breached sea.

Feeling the vitality of the spatial realm he was in dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye, Ding Huan rejoiced.

Let you drain fortune—I'll first strip the fortune out of your spatial realm before anything else.

One day later, Ding Huan began destroying this Heaven Fortune Divine Array and the altar here.

Completely stripping the fortune from this spatial realm would take far too long.

Ding Huan had no idea how this fellow had found this place to connect and then drain the Pangu Grand World's fortune.

But one thing he could be sure of: as long as the divine array draining fortune was destroyed, and the altar destroyed along with it,

no matter how heaven-defying the abilities of this spatial realm's master, he could not do it again.

Moreover, this spatial realm's master was very likely still in a coma.

Once this great array connecting fortunes was destroyed, the spatial realm he was in would very likely enter the vast void; as for where it ultimately ended up, Ding Huan had no idea either.

He still had one more thing to do next—find where the master of this spatial realm was hiding.

If it had been before, Ding Huan had still planned that if he found this comatose fellow, he would throw him into his own world and imprison him.

Now Ding Huan only wanted to punch this fellow to death with one blow.

Anyone who drains a realm's fortune—there isn't a single good one among them.

What Ding Huan did not know was that the moment he completely destroyed this Fortune Divine Array, the water of the Shenhe beneath the Divine Source Earth instantly seeped into the soil and vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.

And the Ascension Tower he had left in the Shenhe also became a mere ornament.

Ding Huan controlled the Cosmic Cauldron to search back and forth across this spatial realm no less than a dozen or so times; even the cultivators kept here to mine ore sensed Ding Huan.

He still had not found the location of a second hidden restriction, nor had he discovered where Wen Zhixi and the others were.

Several days later, Ding Huan stopped.

He now, on the contrary, did not have the despair and panic he had felt upon first entering.

The master of this space—he truly could not be found for the moment, but the master's situation now was certainly even worse.

This fellow relied on the heaven and earth fortune of the Pangu Grand World to heal his wounds; now that he had destroyed the fortune-draining divine array, and even returned the drained fortune of the Pangu Grand World, the master's injuries would certainly worsen.

So for him, time was, on the contrary, more abundant.

Ding Huan no longer searched like a headless fly as before; his current cultivation was still too low.

With his strength at Immortal Emperor Seventh Layer, plus his array-path methods capable of laying out a Grade Two divine array,

being able to find the fortune-draining divine array in this spatial realm was already a stroke of luck within a stroke of luck—and that was only because of his Great Wilderness Eye.

To find the hiding place of this spatial realm's master was probably not such a simple matter.

Nor could he rely on the Great Wilderness Eye to scan the entire space.

Not to mention his Great Wilderness Eye was only at Heavenly Eye Grade One—even scanning might not necessarily find it.

Even if it could be seen, scanning this entire spatial realm would be impossible without several hundred to a thousand years.

So Ding Huan decided to pull the firewood from under the pot.

Others couldn't do it because they didn't have the Three Thousand Great Daos.

Among his Three Thousand Great Daos, there were plenty of great Dao divine abilities for pulling firewood from under the pot.

He could likewise use the Fortune Stripping Art to strip all the fortune here away.

However, Ding Huan felt this method was slow to take effect.

Among the Three Thousand Great Daos there was an even more heaven-defying method—the Five Elements Stripping Art.

This itself should be a Five Elements world; if he stripped all the Five Elements from this world, what would happen to it?

Apart from collapse, Ding Huan could think of no second outcome.

Ding Huan began laying out the Five Elements Stripping Grand Array.

The Five Elements Stripping method of the Three Thousand Great Daos, combined with his Grand Cosmos Art—he would just see how long this world could hold out before collapsing.

Ding Huan had originally intended to strip one elemental attribute first, but after thinking it over, he decided to strip all Five Elements simultaneously.

If he stripped them one by one, the moment he stripped a single elemental attribute, it would thoroughly alert everyone here.

Stripping all Five Elements at once is like boiling a frog in warm water—by the time anyone notices, this world may also be on the verge of collapse.