Chapter 695

Seeing Ji Luo quickly discarded these thoughts, for Ding Huan's cultivation was far too tumultuous.

At this moment, why hesitate when he should seize the opportunity to cultivate?

Emperor Hou Hen watched helplessly as the divine spiritual energy beside him was swept away by Ding Huan, letting out a long sigh.

If Ding Huan firmly refused to trade with him, he truly had no recourse.

Ding Huan's cultivation was simply too tumultuous.

This terrifying method of sweeping up divine spiritual energy, he himself could not match.

This time, Ding Huan was too close, so Emperor Hou Hen planned to cautiously probe Ding Huan's cultivation method with his divine sense.

Here, divine sense was blocked.

Yet Emperor Hou Hen did not know how many aeons he had been trapped here—his divine sense extended far beyond Ding Huan's.

Soon, Emperor Hou Hen's expression changed.

He sensed a vast cosmic qi, carrying the boundlessness of emptiness and the depth of starry skies.

Is this a grand Dao art that fuses the cosmos?

Emperor Hou Hen attempted to activate the Zhou Tian technique, hoping to perceive the Dao rhythm within Ding Huan's path.

After only half a Zhou Tian, he joyfully sensed a Dao rhythm of breaking free from restraint.

Emperor Hou Hen strained desperately to complete this Zhou Tian—if he could finish the first one, he might break free from the first layer of sealing runes binding him.

Yet after that half Zhou Tian, his Dao rhythm was locked by the surrounding sealing runes, utterly unable to complete the full cycle.

Emperor Hou Hen sighed; though disappointed, he was not surprised.

For so many years, he had endured this—if he could have circled Zhou Tian, he would have broken free long ago, would he still be waiting today?

He looked at Ding Huan, now entirely shrouded in starry divine spiritual energy, and realized he must act.

Back then, when he followed Luo Xu the Saint and cheered him on, what benefits did he gain?

Not a single benefit—he did all the hard, tiring, dirty work himself.

He did not know what had become of Luo Xu, but even if Luo Xu had risen to greatness, he likely would not remember Hou Hen ever serving him.

Besides, helping Luo Xu the Saint was not even adding flowers to brocade.

If he did not go it alone, he might as well find someone and offer them coal in the snow.

This Ding Huan seems to have extraordinary potential—if he now cultivates a good relationship with him, and this man is grateful, will Hou Hen still be forgotten in this void divine chasm like today?

Thinking this, Emperor Hou Hen's gaze fell upon Seeing Ji Luo.

This fellow is definitely an ancient one who remade his body.

The ancient one's cultivation is weak, his strength is weak, yet his vision is sharp—he became friends with Ding Huan.

Ding Huan even saved Seeing Ji Luo; if I befriend him now, logically he would never forget me.

Besides, even if he is a Bai Yanlang, I lose nothing.

How many years has he been trapped here?

He cannot escape anyway.

Once he understood what he must do, Emperor Hou Hen immediately began dismantling all the Shu Ling Divine Arrays and seals.

As Ding Huan cultivated the Great Cosmos Art, even with countless Shu Ling Divine Arrays and seals, his speed of sweeping up divine spiritual energy was like the Yangtze and the Great River.

Now that all Shu Ling Divine Arrays and seals had been removed by Emperor Hou Hen, the divine spiritual energy Ding Huan swept in became even more vast and overwhelming.

Ding Huan felt his divine yuan skyrocketing—the divine spiritual energy rushing toward him faced not the slightest obstruction, and he immediately understood.

So this old bastard has finally come to his senses—he's destroyed the Shu Ling Divine Arrays entirely.

That's more like it—if we're cooperating, why be stingy?

You give nothing, yet expect nothing in return.

Now that Emperor Hou Hen has removed the Shu Ling Divine Arrays, I owe him a favor.

Since this old bastard is so moved, I'll lend him a hand later and help him remove those sealing runes.

Originally, he planned to reach World God Level Twelve in five years; because of Emperor Hou Hen's generosity, Ding Huan ascended from World God Level Eleven to Twelve in just over two years.

Watching Ding Huan's aura surge wildly in the distance, Emperor Hou Hen grew even more certain—he had not misjudged; this Ding Huan would never be ordinary.

Such a Dao art, such cultivation speed, and such terrifying spiritual energy absorption…

Add to that his understanding of array arts—this is truly limitless.

He then turned his gaze again toward Seeing Ji Luo.

Seeing Ji Luo cultivated behind Ding Huan, relying on the divine spiritual energy Ding Huan absorbed, achieving twice the results with half the effort.

Soon, Emperor Hou Hen's eyes showed disdain.

This fellow possesses the Three Thousand Great Dao arts, hoards countless techniques, yet his Three Thousand Great Dao arts have truly chosen the wrong master.

If he weren't cultivating beside Ding Huan, his progress would be pitifully slow.

He's a cultivator who remade his body—what a waste of starry divine spiritual energy, pah!

In the fifth year, Ding Huan's aura suddenly surged wildly, terrifying energies coalescing in the void.

Seeing Ji Luo, already at the peak of World God, panicked and immediately halted his cultivation, retreating swiftly.

"Ding younger brother, that's not fair! You should've warned me before your Tribulation Crossing! This sudden Tribulation Crossing is trying to kill me, isn't it?"

Seeing Ji Luo's discontented voice rang out.

Had he not noticed in time, being caught in Ding Huan's Lei Jie would have killed him today.

Ding Huan ignored Seeing Ji Luo; in truth, he didn't understand what was happening—he had never attempted to break into the Divine King realm, so why had the Lei Jie come?

Since the Lei Jie had arrived, he had no choice but to undergo the Tribulation Crossing.

Emperor Hou Hen sensed the changes in the void's rules with astonishment—this didn't look much like a Divine King Lei Jie at all?

Crack!

The first lightning arc finally crashed down.

Even Emperor Hou Hen was stunned—he was certain this was not a Divine King Lei Jie; this Lei Jie bore a faint resemblance to the aura of primordial chaos opening, something he had never encountered before.

Moreover, the lightning arcs were black.

Boom!

Ding Huan punched straight at the Lei Jie. Bang! Blood mist exploded—his arm was reduced to shredded flesh and bone; with just one punch, all the flesh on his arm was obliterated.

His hand bones were shattered, appearing horrifically mangled.

Ding Huan was blasted backward, stunned as he sensed the second wave of Lei Jie arcs forming in the vast void.

What is going on?

His body was so formidable, yet it couldn't even withstand this single lightning arc?

Fortunately, his body regenerated at an astonishing speed; guided by the Nirvana Art, the flesh on his arm rapidly restored.

Emperor Hou Hen, watching Ding Huan's Tribulation Crossing up close, could only groan and press his palm to his forehead.

He had seen fools before, but never one as foolish as Ding Huan.

Can you punch a Lei Jie head-on?

Even if you block the lightning arc, it only makes your own Tribulation more violent.

Had he misjudged him earlier—is this guy an idiot?

What surprised him was that this truly wasn't a Divine King Lei Jie.

In one look

A Divine King Lei Jie must stir the Dao rhythm of a Divine King—he felt no trace of Divine King Dao rhythm in this Lei Jie, only the birth and formation of a boundless universe.

Ding Huan was equally stunned; his world, long since blurred beyond recognition, finally cracked open.

His suspicion had been correct—after absorbing Star Spirit Qi to cultivate, his world had grown unstable.

It wasn't just unstable—it had grown increasingly blurred as his cultivation neared Divine King.

Now, it had shattered completely.

Boom boom!

Two more lightning arcs crashed down.

Without hesitation, Ding Huan activated the Great Universe Art and the Nirvana Art, unleashing two more punches.

Crack! His hand bones shattered again.

This time, prepared, Ding Huan's injuries weren't worse than before—in fact, his recovery accelerated dramatically.

Infinite Dao qi and Dao rules flowed into Ding Huan's own Dao rhythm.

Ding Huan saw it clearly now—his world, formed upon ascending to World God, had split open completely.

Yet this shattered world did not disintegrate; instead, it gradually merged with his consciousness Dao universe.

What is going on?

Ding Huan knew well—his consciousness Dao universe was, in essence, merely a mental space, capable of holding only supreme treasures.

Mostly primordial treasures, like the Cosmic Cauldron and the Mirror of Life and Death.

Ordinary objects could not be stored within this mental space.

But the world he formed upon ascending to World God was a real space.

Now, this real space was cracking—and slowly merging into his mental space?

Before Ding Huan could grasp this truth, the third wave of Lei Jie arcs crashed down.

Three thick black Lei Jie arcs hurtled toward Ding Huan's crown, their momentum as if the entire primordial universe were descending.

Emperor Hou Hen stared, frozen.

"Nine-Nine Overlapping Lei Jie?" Emperor Hou Hen murmured.

He had heard of this Lei Jie, but never seen anyone undergo it.

Because this wasn't a cultivator's Lei Jie at all.

This was the blocking Lei Jie formed when a post-primordial world emerged.

The Nine-Nine Overlapping Lei Jie begins with one arc in the first wave, two in the second…

Until the ninth wave, nine arcs descend.

Many misunderstand the primordial world.

In truth, primordial worlds are not only those naturally existing within chaos—there are two kinds.

One is formed naturally by cosmic Dao rules within the boundless void.

The other is a post-formation primordial world, also called a post-primordial world.

A small world, after absorbing sufficient heavenly and earthly rules, can form a True Spirit World.

True Spirit Worlds have ranks; the highest rank, after integrating the Five Elements, can form a Five Elements World.

A Five Elements World is essentially the ultimate limit of a self-formed world.

As for its growth—such as integrating other elemental laws—it still remains within the Five Elements World category.

But if a Five Elements World exists within the boundless primordial chaos, it may, over time, absorb primordial Dao rules and form a post-primordial world.

Yet such formation occurs within the boundless primordial chaos, taking eons to slowly evolve.

How could he truly witness a Nine-Nine Overlapping Lei Jie—and that this Lei Jie was forming a post-primordial world?

Something still felt off.

Though both post-primordial worlds and primordial worlds carry the word "primordial," they are worlds apart.

A primordial world has no rules whatsoever—all laws are absent.

But a post-primordial world must gather myriad Dao laws—beyond the Five Elements, wind, thunder, ice, even darkness and others must be fused.

How did Ding Huan form the post-chaos world?

(End of chapter)