Chapter 661: Not Even a Little Fortune

Mo Changcan pulled out a ring belonging to a Divine King, and his Array Dao skills were clearly strong—he shattered the ring's seals in a short time.

Ding Huan also precisely broke open the seal on the Jin Zunshen King's ring.

At this moment, Seeing Qu Yi was also helping to break the seals on the remaining rings; her Array Dao skill was no slouch—she shattered the seals of a Heavenly God cultivator's ring in an instant.

"Is this really a Divine King's ring?" Mo Changcan stared at the ring in his hand, his voice dull with disbelief.

Ding Huan was equally stunned.

He had assumed that Jin Zunshen King, who could pull out an entire True Spirit World for public use and was a Divine King of the Dao Xu Guild, must be immensely wealthy.

But inside the ring, he saw only a pile of Divine Crystals and a dozen vials of Divine Pills—combined, they were worth less than that golden mace.

"My ring doesn't have much either—just a few hundred thousand high-grade Divine Crystals and some Divine Pills."

As Ding Huan spoke, he wondered whether Jin Zunshen King had other spaces he hadn't discovered.

"I get it—their real treasures are all kept in their own worlds," Mo Changcan said, his tone brimming with disappointment.

Ding Huan suddenly realized: World Gods carve out their own worlds, and naturally store their best items there.

He looked at Mo Changcan in confusion: "Changcan, aren't you a World God? How are you only just remembering this now?"

Mo Changcan gave Ding Huan a withering look:

"When did I ever tell you I'm a World God? If I were a World God, would I be powerless against a mere Jin Zunshen King? Is his face whiter than mine?"

"You're not a World God?"

Ding Huan was utterly astonished—it was the first time he'd failed to perceive someone's true cultivation level.

Mo Changcan said: "I'm mistaken for a World God because of my cultivation method. Do you know that after the Great Cataclysm, the cosmic Dao's rules are incomplete?"

"What do you mean?" Ding Huan genuinely didn't understand.

Mo Changcan spoke calmly: "All cultivators, when advancing, have only nine layers per realm—early, middle, and late stage, three layers each."

"Actually, that's because the Dao's rules are incomplete. I'll tell you straight: the true number of layers is twelve."

"I cultivate the twelve-layer method, so even though I'm at the peak of the Divine Lord realm, others see me as a World God."

"Twelve layers?" Luo Huan'er's eyes widened.

She had always trained with nine layers—once she reached the ninth layer's peak, she prepared to ascend to the next realm.

Seeing Qu Yi opened her mouth but said nothing.

She too cultivated the twelve-layer method; she'd assumed it was just her sect's unique technique, never realizing the true Dao's method was twelve layers.

Mo Changcan's words made it clear he also cultivated the twelve-layer method.

Ding Huan's method, likely, was the nine-layer one.

Later, she would definitely give Ding Huan her method so he could also cultivate the twelve-layer system.

Mo Changcan continued: "Within every realm, there's also the Ultimate Realm—the tenth to twelfth layers. That's why I'm invincible at my own level."

Ding Huan had always cultivated the twelve-layer method, but he'd never known the tenth to twelfth layers were called the Ultimate Realm.

He glanced at Mo Changcan, thinking: You're really not humble.

"Looks like the next few World God rings won't hold anything valuable either," Mo Changcan said, disappointment in his eyes, yet his hands moved swiftly as he kept opening the World God rings.

Ding Huan also began breaking the seals on the rings.

Soon, all the ring seals were shattered.

Cultivation resources piled before them like mountains.

Among all the opened rings, the most treasures came from the Divine Lord rings.

Altogether, there were five hundred million high-grade Divine Crystals and one low-grade Divine Spirit vein.

There were also heaps of mid-grade and low-grade Divine Crystals—all of which Ding Huan and Mo Changcan found worthless.

Then came various materials and Divine Pills.

The best items weren't even from the rings—they came from the display cases in the guild shops.

Mo Changcan pulled out a jade slip and said: "This is a Poison-Neutralizing Method. Ding Huan, you've used poison before, right?"

"Since you specialize in poison, take this—it'll be useful."

Indeed, this jade slip was the most valuable among all the methods they'd found.

Ding Huan waved his hand: "Poison-neutralizing is useless to me. Keep it."

Mo Changcan laughed: "I fear no one will poison me—those who do are my friends. I'll give it to Seeing Qu Yi."

Of the five hundred million Divine Crystals, Ding Huan took two hundred million, Mo Changcan took two hundred million.

Seeing Qu Yi and Luo Huan'er each received fifty million.

The low-grade Divine Spirit vein, Ding Huan declined—he gave it to Mo Changcan.

Ding Huan took some Divine Materials—he needed them to forge Array Flags and Talismans.

The Divine King's artifacts, Mo Changcan refused—Ding Huan took them.

The rest of the materials, Divine Spirit herbs, Divine Pills, and so on—Ding Huan and Mo Changcan found them worthless and gave them all to Seeing Qu Yi and Luo Huan'er to split evenly.

The rings themselves were also divided equally among everyone.

"Sigh—I thought looting the Dao Xu Guild's shop would make us filthy rich, at least decently wealthy, but we ended up this poor," Mo Changcan sighed.

He knew their haul had nothing to do with the Dao Xu Guild itself.

"The Divine Crystals we got? Probably just from the Shopkeepers and clerks. We didn't even touch the Dao Xu Guild's real wealth."

Ding Huan was equally frustrated.

"What now?" Mo Changcan refused to give up.

Ding Huan said: "The Dao Xu Guild won't let us go, and we won't let them off either."

"But our strength isn't enough yet. I suggest we find a place to seclude ourselves and cultivate for a while."

"Brother Changcan, you should prepare to ascend to World God. My own level is too low, and Seeing Qu Yi and Luo Huan'er need to advance to Heavenly God too."

"We just divided up some Divine Character Stones; we can use them to advance to Heavenly God." Luo Huan'er said hurriedly.

Ding Huan said, speechless: "What's the use of those few three-star Divine Character Stones? Don't worry about the Divine Character Crystals — I have better ones."

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In Ding Huan's ring there were several five-star Divine Character Crystals, and even Divine Character Crystals surpassing five stars.

Mo Changcan hesitated, then said: "A truly good cultivation art doesn't need Divine Character Crystals to advance, alas…"

Although he and Ding Huan got along well, he couldn't casually take out such a cultivation art and hand it to Ding Huan and the others.

Besides, Ding Huan was already at the Divine Monarch realm — he had no use for Divine Character Crystals at all.

Ding Huan didn't ask Mo Changcan what cultivation art he practiced; he could guess that Mo Changcan's cultivation art was far from ordinary.

"This place is quiet — how about we build a few cave dwellings here and go into closed-door cultivation?" Ding Huan had a pile of questions to ask Seeing Qu Yi.

Mo Changcan sighed: "Cultivating here is fine, it's just that this Divine Domain lacks fortune. To cultivate here, you must have Fortune Stones to set up a grand array."

Ding Huan laughed heartily: "Have you forgotten why the Daoxu Merchant Guild put a bounty on me?"

"You can really walk through the Reincarnation Swamp?" Mo Changcan was extremely sharp — from one sentence of Ding Huan's he guessed the reason.

That meant Ding Huan had Fortune Stones on him, and the source of those Fortune Stones was the Reincarnation Swamp.

"Good, I'll set up the divine array." Ding Huan pulled out array flags.

"I'll help too — I can set up a fourth-grade divine array." Mo Changcan also hurriedly pulled out array flags.

Ding Huan thought to himself: as expected, capable people could be found everywhere in this universe.

He thought it was already pretty good for a Divine Monarch like himself to be able to set up a third-grade divine array, but Mo Changcan could set up a fourth-grade divine array.

Not only that, even Seeing Qu Yi could set up a third-grade divine array.

While setting up the array, Ding Huan paid attention to Mo Changcan's array-setting methods.

They were the same as his own — both self-contained systems, definitely not something that could be passed down by an ordinary master or sect.

After just a few glances, Ding Huan felt his array Dao level improving rapidly.

Several days passed. After Ding Huan and the others finished setting up all the protective arrays and spirit-gathering divine arrays, and implanted two divine spirit veins, Ding Huan had already become a fourth-grade divine array master.

One mid-grade divine spirit vein was implanted by Ding Huan; the other was a low-grade divine spirit vein — the one just divided to Mo Changcan.

"Haha, working with you is truly too pleasant. I'll find a place to go into closed-door cultivation and prepare to advance to World God." Mo Changcan saw Ding Huan take out two Fortune Stones at once to set up the array, and laughed heartily.

He was very satisfied.

He had already been preparing to enter Daoxu to advance to World God; he just hadn't expected his treasures to be swindled from him by the Daoxu Merchant Guild on Daoxu Street.

Truly, fortune and misfortune are hard to predict.

He had met Ding Huan — Ding Huan's character suited his temperament perfectly, and he had even been extremely generous in taking out two Fortune Stones.

If not now to advance to World God, then when?

Ding Huan said to Luo Huan'er: "Sister Huan'er, you go cultivate first. Once you reach the perfection of the God-Nurturing realm, don't advance — just come find me."

Luo Huan'er knew Ding Huan and Seeing Qu Yi had things to say to each other, so she hurried off to her own cultivation cave dwelling.

She felt deeply moved inside: if only she and her brother had met big brothers like Ding Huan and Mo Changcan earlier, how would her brother have needed to die in vain at the God-Gazing Stair Sea?

Seeing Qu Yi likewise had many things she wanted to say to Ding Huan, but now that she had been brought to his cultivation cave dwelling, she couldn't get a single word out.

"Big Brother Ding, you…" Seeing Qu Yi looked up and saw that Ding Huan's expression was very grave, as if she had committed some mistake.

Ding Huan hurriedly said: "Seeing Qu Yi, don't overthink it. I just saw that your array-setting methods looked very familiar, so I wanted to ask — where did you learn your array Dao?"

Ding Huan was truly a little uneasy.

When there were many people around earlier, he hadn't spoken up.

Seeing Qu Yi's array-setting methods came from the same source as the array methods he had obtained from the leather scroll.

With Ding Huan's current understanding of the laws of heaven and earth, and his application of various fundamental laws, he saw it at a glance.

Added to Seeing Qu Yi's astonishingly fast cultivation speed — reaching the Divine World in such a short time.

There were only two possibilities: first, Seeing Qu Yi had obtained the inheritance from the leather scroll; second, Seeing Qu Yi had met the dung beetle and cultivated the art it taught.

(Fellow Daoist, good night!)

(End of this chapter)