Chapter 645: Where Darkness Lies

"Elder Lan, we must hurry and notify the Sect Master—ask the Sect Master to reconstruct Master Senior's body!" Hu Dongjian cried urgently.

The Sect Master he referred to was his Second Senior Sister, Bing Shuangfeng.

Lan Li shook his head: "Hu, my junior disciple, take your Senior Brother yourself to find a quiet place and reconstruct his body. Remember—not a word to your Second Senior Sister."

"Why?" Hu Dongjian stared at Lan Li, utterly confused.

After all, since Dan Jian's Senior Brother had only his Primordial Spirit left, no one was more anxious than his Second Senior Sister.

She not only brought Dan Jian's Senior Brother back from the most perilous Dao Xu, but spent every day searching for materials to reconstruct his body.

Lan Li said coldly: "In such a perilous place as the Dao Xu, our Sect Master, your Senior Brother Qi Xiao, and the Shao Sect Master all met with misfortune—only your Second Senior Sister returned, even bringing back the Shao Sect Master's Primordial Spirit."

He cultivated the Great Cosmos Art, and most of the spiritual insights he gained were worthy of appearing among the Three Thousand Great Dao.

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He tried to set up a Divine Defense Array, but quickly realized he couldn't even construct it.

Only after passing through this zone did things improve again.

The heavens and earth were shrouded in a gray haze, with no sun, moon, or stars.

Even the Great Calculation Art he had severed was not a problem of Dao law—it had been tampered with by someone's hand.

It seems I must still seek Divine Mu He, the more the better.

The woman was exquisitely beautiful, her green robe accentuating her gentleness.

If he had cultivated the Dark Law, or if the Dark Law had been integrated into his Sea of Consciousness's Cosmic Dao, would his spiritual sense be able to extend outward here?

But now, with this door appearing before Ding Huan, he was genuinely stunned.

In the Dao Xu, the laws of heaven and earth are blurred; it's strange if spiritual sense isn't suppressed.

"Strange…" the man muttered to himself.

More importantly, it wasn't just the door—on either side of it stretched even more ruined courtyard walls.

This darkness…

To his shock, after he activated the Light Array Disc, only a faint glow appeared before him.

Learning it won't harm you.

He'd been tricked.

Aside from Yi Jie's sluggish speed, this place simply had nothing valuable.

He couldn't sense his spiritual mark's location at all.

That is, even if he held a powerful light, it had no penetration ability—held in his hand, it emitted only a faint glow; once it left his body, he could no longer see anything.

Ding Huan was puzzled, yet he stepped through the door.

Ding Huan stopped. He had walked through the Dao Xu for nearly a month.

His body was Saint Body Level Two—if an ordinary cultivator entered, they'd likely be severely injured, wouldn't they?

During this month, he hadn't encountered any danger, but the deeper he went into the Dao Xu, the more his spiritual sense was suppressed.

When he opened his Spirit Eye, he could vaguely make out some shapes inside, but his Spirit Eye's level was too low to see clearly.

Ding Huan activated a Light Array Disc.

Lan Li nodded: "You understand. This matter has no evidence—I'm only speculating. I don't know what materials you used to reconstruct his body, or how you obtained them."

After you leave the sect, I'll go to the Dao Xu Street. If the Shao Sect Master regains his body, don't return to the sect immediately—go to the Dao Xu Street to find me."

The man, who had been hesitating, upon receiving a definite answer, seized the woman's hand, and both stepped through the door together.

"You mean…?" Even with his low emotional intelligence, Hu Dongjian finally understood now that Elder Lan had said so plainly.

In Ding Huan's mind, this place could not possibly be the Abyss of Chaos.

Half a stick of incense later, Ding Huan stopped at the corner of a massive boulder.

…

The woman murmured: "This is it. Many must know of this place and have entered."

Both men were severely wounded, bleeding profusely, lying together—their bones clearly shattered.

Ding Huan walked around them for about several dozen zhang, then saw a corpse.

Before Ding Huan now stood an ancient, weathered door; the stone's markings suggested it had endured countless years.

Indeed, every technique learned proves useful—he had spent all his effort on the Dao Xu Street to upgrade his Spirit Eye to Heavenly Eye Level Five, and now it was finally useful.

Ding Huan sensed—his marks on the man and woman were still undetectable.

He had obtained the Great Dark Art from Yue Xingtian, but that Great Dark Art was likely a copied version several times over—strictly speaking, it wasn't the true Great Dark Art.

So Ding Huan assumed the Dao Xu was simply a continent within the Void.

And all around was darkness.

Because the Dao Xu lies at the edge of the Divine Realm, upon entering, the laws of heaven and earth blur, the divine qi becomes patchy, and even cultivation becomes difficult.

"Yes, Elder Lan."

He threw the Light Array Disc on the ground—the faint glow vanished instantly.

Ding Huan extended his spiritual sense—and was stunned to find it could penetrate no more than half a meter.

He felt as if he'd fallen into a black hole—this…

There are too many places that suppress spiritual sense; the main reason is still the laws of heaven and earth.

Had he guessed wrong?

This door was clearly a relic left behind by countless ages.

Ding Huan's perception remained fixed on his spiritual mark—originally, after the two entered, he would judge their location by the mark's position. The man had a handsome face and tall stature.

If my guess is right, how could there be architecture—or an ancient door—in the Void?

Ding Huan didn't care about this.

This person hadn't fallen all that long ago — there was still a trace of Dao resonance lingering. Judging by the cultivation, it was probably at the Divine Monarch realm.

"Let's go, we're going in."

This situation was, most of the time, just like being in the void.

Ding Huan examined it carefully, yet could not make out a single clue.

Ding Huan circled around once more.

And that half-meter was still blurry — he simply couldn't see anything clearly.

Yijie had long since been tossed into the Five Elements World.

Everyone says there are Fortune Stones in the Dao Ruins. Ding Huan just wanted to ask — where exactly did people find those Fortune Stones?

This was clearly deliberate.

If he truly couldn't see a thing, he wouldn't dare move at all — who knew what his next step might land on? The ground seemed quite level; the thing he'd just crashed into appeared to be a massive pillar.

There was no way a teleportation array would send someone out and have them crash this hard.

Even though Ding Huan was less than two meters from them, the two of them still couldn't sense his presence.

A violent impact slammed into him — Ding Huan felt as if his entire skeleton was about to shatter.

Ding Huan stood up, and the pain on his body vanished.

Ding Huan sighed. If his Spirit Eye were now at Holy-Eye grade, there'd be no such thing as not being able to see clearly.

A powerful vortex force swept over — Ding Huan immediately knew he had been teleported.

"I received news that Divine Spirit Rice has appeared on Dao Ruins Street. This Divine Spirit Rice is a top-tier treasure for the entire God Realm, and for our Myriad Pill Divine Sect it is of the utmost importance.

To put it bluntly, he just didn't think much of it.

Where his line of sight reached, it was pitch black.

The first thing Ding Huan thought of was the Law of Darkness.

Ding Huan opened his Spirit Eye.

Ding Huan couldn't say what kind of region it was either. Once you entered such a region, your whole person felt as if your breath and vitality were being strangled — a suffocating sensation.

Do you think your Second Senior Sister is a Divine King? Or a God Merging-realm powerhouse?"

What he hadn't expected was that the moment those two stepped through this gate, they vanished without a trace.

"Yes, Elder Lan, I know what to do." Hu Dongjian said immediately.

Right now Ding Huan's Spirit Eye was a fifth-tier Heaven Eye — he could faintly make out a range of nearly two meters.

Ding Huan was just about to step through this gate when he sensed someone approaching.

With that bit of cultivation, it was nothing in Ding Huan's eyes. He very cleanly left a divine sense imprint on the two of them.

Only now did Ding Huan understand — when it came to Dao arts, whether good or bad, just learn them first.

Ding Huan wanted to enter his Five Elements World and then comprehend the Law of Darkness.

Still, the sound of that impact seemed to be something only he himself could faintly sense — it wasn't strong.

This man and woman walking together were indeed a fine match — a talented gentleman and a beautiful lady, very well paired.

But you must remember — in the God Realm, good body-shaping materials have practically vanished. Getting one means you definitely won't get a second."

He concealed himself without the slightest hesitation. In a place like the Dao Ruins, if Ding Huan wanted to hide, even a Divine King might not necessarily detect him.

In just half an incense stick's time, a man and a woman came walking over.

From the map, bearings, and some introductions Wen Jiyue had given him, this should be the entrance through that ancient, plain-looking gate.

So Ding Huan didn't really care much about this Great Darkness Art.

If this simpleton hadn't obtained the body-shaping material, Lan Li would absolutely not have said these words.

Ding Huan's divine sense swept in and was immediately blocked.

"Bam!"

"Shuangfeng, is this the place you mentioned?" The man pointed at the ancient, plain-looking gate ahead.

The woman was at the late Heavenly God realm; the man should be at the peak of the Heavenly God realm.

The woman, however, said: "Jiulin, nothing that happens in the Dao Ruins is strange. This gate hasn't appeared for long. I heard that Cosmic True Marrow has appeared inside — as for Divine Spirit Veins, those count as ordinary things…"

Ding Huan walked forward a few steps and saw that man and woman.

It wasn't just darkness — besides light being unable to extend, divine sense couldn't extend here either, and sound couldn't propagate. It was just like being within primordial chaos.

It's just that this continent had not yet been perfected within the long river of the vast cosmos's history, which is how a place like the Dao Ruins came to be.

Only in the Dao Ruins would one sometimes pass through some extremely bizarre regions.

This made Ding Huan breathe a sigh of relief.

"Cosmic True Marrow?" The man's excited voice was almost off-key. "Yes."

He discovered once again that he couldn't enter the Five Elements World either.

Fortunately he still had a bit of divine sense — his divine sense could sweep over to that Great Darkness Art he'd tossed into the Five Elements World.

The Spirit Eye could only vaguely see clearly within a two-meter range. For Ding Huan, this was only good enough to walk a few steps — far from enough to survive here.

He had to master the Law of Darkness first.

(End of chapter)