Chapter 607: 606. Chapter 601: The Seal of the Human World

606. Chapter 601: The Seal of the Human World

Compared to the Heavenly Palace, the Divine Sword Manor appeared impoverished.

Now that the Divine Sword Manor had been destroyed, it was utterly ruined.

Beneath the flames, some remains of corpses still lingered.

As for its immortal spirit vein, it had long been completely drained.

Zhuo Yao stepped onto this ruined land and could no longer hold back—he knelt on both knees, tears falling like rain.

The Divine Sword Manor had been passed down for countless years, yet it was destroyed by Zhuo Yao himself.

Yan Qi's eyes were also red-rimmed; she still forced back her grief and led Ding Huan to a set of stone steps:

"Ding Huan, this is where Baihe perished. Stay here for a while—I'll go check on the other disciples of the manor."

After Yan Qi left, Ding Huan closed his eyes; his spiritual sense had already locked onto everything within a hundred zhang.

An entire hour passed before Ding Huan opened his eyes—he was certain that Baihe would reincarnate.

He felt deep gratitude toward Zhuo Yao and Yan Qi.

When Baihe perished, Chong Dong Zi clearly intended to obliterate her soul entirely.

Yet Zhuo Yao and Yan Qi, at the cost of the Divine Sword Manor's destruction, preserved Baihe's path to reincarnation.

Whether Baihe would remember Ding Huan after reincarnation did not matter much to him.

In his heart, Baihe's life had already been bitter enough.

Though she had once been called the First Poisonous Demon, in truth, Baihe had never harmed a single innocent person.

The people she killed were all those who had schemed against her or harmed her.

He only hoped that after reincarnation, Baihe would never again suffer such misery as in this life.

Ding Huan asked Zhuo Yao for ownership of this land and erected a reincarnation tomb for Baihe, hoping her next life would be peaceful.

…

After Zhuo Yao returned, the Divine Sword Manor was quickly rebuilt.

A few disciples who had escaped gradually returned to the Divine Sword Manor.

The news that the Lord of the Divine Sword Manor had returned and destroyed the Heavenly Palace spread rapidly across the Chaos Star Continent.

The Heavenly Palace was a renowned great immortal sect of the Chaos Star Continent.

By destroying the Heavenly Palace, the Divine Sword Manor gained immense fame from this single battle alone.

Ding Huan did not leave immediately; instead, he chose a place within the Divine Sword Manor to enter seclusion.

He stayed at the Divine Sword Manor for two reasons: one was to help stabilize the sect.

The second was to study the Seven Seals of Reincarnation here.

No one disturbed Ding Huan, yet the immortal spiritual energy leaking from the half-god vein he had implanted filled the entire Divine Sword Manor with thick, lush heavenly and earthly spiritual energy.

To prevent his Dao aura from leaking out, Ding Huan specifically set up the Hidden Spirit Immortal Array before taking out the beast shell of the Seven Seals of Reincarnation.

The first time he brought out the Seven Seals of Reincarnation, his spiritual sense could not perceive anything—even if he forced it, the vision remained blurred.

This time, as his spiritual sense penetrated again, he was delighted to find he could now sense the boundless divine Daoic consciousness within.

As his spiritual sense seeped deeper, he perceived the Dao traces of each of the Seven Seals of Reincarnation.

First Seal of Reincarnation: The Human World. Second Seal: The Unfixed. Third Seal: The Yellow Springs. Fourth Seal: Life and Death. Fifth Seal: The Seven Realms. Sixth Seal: The Great Reincarnation. Seventh Seal…

There was no trace of Daoic consciousness.

At first, Ding Huan thought the beast shell had aged too long, causing its Daoic resonance to fade and the divine Dao traces to vanish.

Even after he activated the Great Cosmos Art and established a Zhou Tian with the beast shell, he still could not perceive any Daoic resonance of the Seventh Seal.

Although Ding Huan had not yet cultivated the Seven Seals of Reincarnation, upon seeing the Sixth Seal, he vaguely felt that the Great Reincarnation Seal was likely the final one.

He did not know whether the Seven Seals of Reincarnation was a naturally formed Dao art after the creation of heaven and earth, or a Dao art written by later generations.

If it was written by later generations, it was very likely the Seventh Seal had not yet been created.

If it was a naturally formed Dao art after the creation of heaven and earth, the absence of the Seventh Seal was strange.

Yet in Ding Huan's view, the Seven Seals of Reincarnation were most likely a naturally formed heavenly Dao art that emerged after the separation of heaven and earth.

Letting go of his thoughts, Ding Huan's hands began forming a series of intricate divine seals.

One seal followed another; at this moment, Daoic resonance swirled around him, as if forming the embryonic shape of an entirely new mortal world.

As Ding Huan continued forming the hand seals, this mortal world grew increasingly refined, as if countless laws of human existence were gestating within it.

Born in this mortal world, dying in this mundane realm—since one is but a fleeting guest in this world, why cling to its splendor?

Seal formed—the human world completed.

I am the sovereign; life and death rest upon a single thought.

Boom!

The Seal of the Human World descended.

Countless laws shattered; this splendid human world instantly became a blood river of hell.

At this moment, Ding Huan understood.

He had once manifested a crude form of the Seal of the Human World—when he severed Chong Chong Shenjin's arm and slew the man behind him with Dahan Yi Dao.

That strike of his was incomplete; its flaw lay in its excessive sharpness, losing the peace and splendor of the Human World.

The Seal of the Human World was, in fact, a divine art combining artistic conception and slaughter.

He had slashed forth a thousand blooming blades, their petals dazzling the eyes.

Had his strike been more tranquil, had artistic conception and slaughter fused completely, he would not have severed only Chong Chong Shenjin's arm—but his head.

Ding Huan opened his hand; his long blade once again gathered its killing intent, blades blooming like flowers across space, as if in full splendor.

We both dwell within this world…

In that instant, Ding Huan himself nearly lost himself beneath the dazzling, flower-like blade blossoms.

All the beauty of mortal life was contained within that instant.

The long blade descended!

The blade blossoms exploded, transforming into infinite killing blade rays that tore apart the entire mortal world.

Truly, "A thousand guests drunken with flowers of the mortal realm, one blade chills fourteen provinces."

"Boom!" The protective array cracked open layer upon layer, shattering in an instant.

The mortal world vanished; the blade blossoms shattered.

Ding Huan raised his hand and scattered hundreds of array flags; the shattered protective array restored itself in the blink of an eye.

So this is the mortal world.

Let you become a mortal beneath the blade, let you become a mortal soul.

……

The Chaos Star Continent originally had no immortal sects or Dao courts.

The reason immortal sects and Dao courts were established was said to be because the Dao Ancestor came here, debated the Dao for a hundred years, then guided his disciples to establish immortal sects and Dao courts to control the entire star continent.

Even so, the immortal sects and Dao courts of the Chaos Star Continent were far inferior to the Dao Courts of the Pangu Great World, in scale, system, and completeness.

In fact, this Dao court couldn't even compare to the Dao Corridor's Immortal Surveillance Office.

The Immortal Surveillance Office at least controlled the Dao Corridor's immortal army.

In the Dao court, there were only two Star Lords and seven Domain Lords.

And that was it.

Of course, the errand runners beneath the Domain Lords didn't count as part of the Dao court.

They were merely the Domain Lords' disciples or external clerks of the Dao court.

Yet the Dao court's main hall was remarkably grand.

It stood atop the highest immortal peak of the Chaos Star Continent: Nine Ruins Immortal Peak.

Nine Ruins Immortal Peak consisted of nine immortal peaks; the tallest was the cultivation hall of the First Star Lord, Song Chengdao.

Following this pattern, the second tallest peak was naturally the cultivation hall of the Second Star Lord, Wu Hanchan.

The reason the Dao court had so few members was mainly because the Second Star Lord Wu Hanchan was too dominant.

Whatever Wu Hanchan decided, no one on the entire Chaos Star Continent dared oppose him, nor could anyone oppose him.

In most cases, the Second Star Lord Wu Hanchan never needed to act.

Wu Hanchan rarely acted because when he did, he wouldn't reason with you.

Either he crushed you outright, or he erased you outright.

Wu Hanchan's arrogance was known throughout the Chaos Star Continent.

Since the First Star Lord Song Chengdao entered seclusion, virtually all major affairs of the Chaos Star Continent Dao court had been controlled by Wu Hanchan.

As for minor matters?

There were no minor matters on the Chaos Star Continent.

If the Dao court didn't intervene, it wasn't a matter at all.

Think about it—if Ding Huan hadn't intervened to destroy the Heavenly God Palace,

the annihilation of the Divine Sword Manor wouldn't have counted as a matter on the Chaos Star Continent.

Wu Hanchan handled matters with brutal simplicity; no one ever fell into his hands a second time, because those he dealt with never lived to make the same mistake again.

Wu Hanchan's arrogance and dominance meant he never went to the cave where Song Chengdao was in seclusion.

But today, it was as if the sun had risen in the west—Wu Hanchan had come voluntarily to Song Chengdao's seclusion peak.

"Hanchan?" Song Chengdao, seeing that the one knocking on his cave's forbidden seal was Wu Hanchan, was utterly astonished.

He knew better than anyone how arrogant Wu Hanchan was.

He would never seek advice or assistance from others on matters of Dao or anything else; for Wu Hanchan, asking others was humiliation.

Had it not been for Song Chengdao's own promotion, Wu Hanchan would have considered the position of Second Star Lord itself a disgrace.

"Wait—you're injured?" Song Chengdao had been wondering why Wu Hanchan had come, but upon seeing him, he immediately noticed Wu Hanchan was wounded.

And the killing Dao resonance left on Wu Hanchan's forehead still lingered.

Because the killing Dao resonance remained, Wu Hanchan's forehead continued to bleed.

Wu Hanchan nodded: "I encountered a powerful one, and we clashed."

"Did you kill him?" Song Chengdao suddenly felt uneasy.

Someone who could leave such a wound on Wu Hanchan's forehead was certainly no ordinary person; if Wu Hanchan had killed him, it would be a terrible waste.

Wu Hanchan smiled bitterly: "Brother Song, if I could have killed him, I wouldn't be here."

Hearing this, Song Chengdao was even more shocked—was there someone on the Chaos Star Continent Wu Hanchan couldn't defeat?

"You're not his match? You fled back?"

Wu Hanchan shook his head: "Hard to say. In terms of immortal energy, I'm no weaker than him; my divine techniques are even slightly stronger. But I have a premonition—if I continue fighting him, I will die."

"Tell me in detail," Song Chengdao's expression grew grave.

Wu Hanchan did not conceal anything—he recounted how Ding Huan destroyed the Heavenly God Palace and how he had intervened.

Upon hearing that Ding Huan had destroyed the Heavenly God Palace only because the latter had first annihilated the Divine Sword Manor, Song Chengdao exhaled in relief.

"So today you came to me because…"

Song Chengdao left the sentence unfinished; he knew Wu Hanchan would understand.

Indeed, Wu Hanchan nodded: "Yes—if you, I, and Ding Huan join forces, we can definitely go."

Song Chengdao suddenly rose: "Let's go—together, to the Divine Sword Manor, to pay our respects to this friend Ding."

(Good night, fellow cultivator; could you spare a Moon Ticket?)