Chapter 699: The Great Battle of Those Years

Ding Huan brought out the Universe Pot, and Ji Luo immediately landed on it: "Brother Ding, I finally get to sit on your pot again."

Emperor Hou Hen stared at Ding Huan's Universe Pot in shock; he had never seen a Universe Pot before, but he had seen the world.

This is definitely a Pre-Heaven Treasure…

No, this is probably even a little stronger than a Pre-Heaven Treasure.

No wonder Ding Huan talks about Pre-Heaven Treasures all the time — he has one himself, so ordinary treasures really might not catch his eye.

"Old Hou, are you coming up or not? If you're not, I'm going to shut the restrictions."

Seeing Emperor Hou Hen still examining the Universe Pot below, Ding Huan urged him impatiently.

He didn't seem like a heartless, ungrateful sort either — as long as he had helped someone, there was always some lingering affection.

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Ku Xin Ren finally sobered up a bit; hearing Emperor Hou Hen's words, he sneered: "Saint? That bastard Luo Xu can live till today, huh."

Emperor Hou Hen thought of how Ding Huan had unraveled the restrictive runes on his body in less than a year, and added to that how Ding Huan had burst out of the Void Abyss in less than a single hour.

Ku Xin Ren's Primordial Spirit turned toward Ding Huan.

"Brother Ding, this is the Void Abyss — can you get up from here?" Emperor Hou Hen automatically upgraded "little brother" to "brother."

Ku Xin Ren said bitterly: "I'm absolutely not lying. When Tai Luan made his move against Emperor Heng Zuo, that bastard Luo Xu ambushed me, and the physical body I had finally recovered was completely destroyed…

Then start cultivating from scratch, and once you reach a certain level, you can burst out of this Void Abyss.

The four Saints joined forces with so many Dao Lords, Wanderers, and God Emperors to deal with him, and still had no chance of winning…

The Universe Pot only took an instant to once again enter the space where Tree Ancestor was in closed-door cultivation.

Apart from a very few people who can do this, most who fall into the Void Abyss can basically only stay down here forever.

Now his divine sense once again spread out to blanket the sky and earth; he discovered that there really was a dark-attribute aura here, and it wasn't a Divine Spirit Vein.

There are no normal rules of heaven and earth here; every rule is self-formed.

Ding Huan gestured for Ji Luo not to speak — he too had just thought Emperor Hou Hen's perception was very strong.

"Big Brother Heng Zuo?" Emperor Hou Hen exclaimed in surprise.

He truly didn't understand what Ku Xin Ren meant — Luo Xu was not only a Saint, but the foremost Saint.

You actually weren't willing to participate… wait, why wasn't Emperor Heng Zuo willing to participate either?"

"You… you're Emperor Hou Hen?" The remnant soul finally recognized the fellow in front of it.

Once he advances to the God Merging Realm, he'll mock this old fellow a few more times.

In Emperor Hou Hen's view, this was a guaranteed-win situation; to rather seek death than participate — that didn't make sense.

The next instant, a blurry figure shot out: "Who dares to make a move against me, Luo Xu?"

Ji Luo immediately spoke up — a dark-attribute Divine Spirit Vein was extremely valuable, and he didn't want this broken God Emperor to get it.

Look one by one!

He was about to mock him a few times, but then remembered he wasn't yet a match for Hou Hen, and forcibly swallowed the rest of his words.

Someone actually snatched Ku Xin Ren's Disk of Years, and Ku Xin Ren didn't even dare try to snatch it back.

Emperor Hou Hen frowned: "Dark Dao Lord, even if Luo Xu wanted to deal with someone, he had Saint Tai Luan by his side — would he still need you and Emperor Heng Zuo to help?"

Ding Huan gradually understood in his heart — this Ku Xin Ren probably wasn't lying; that one dark Dao Rule had been killed by him.

He didn't dare stay here alone any longer.

Emperor Hou Hen drew in a cold breath: "Dark Dao Lord, this doesn't really seem like your style. Saint Luo Xu led so many powerhouses — isn't this a guaranteed win?

That fellow is simply too terrifying. If you find someone Ku Xin Ren is unwilling to deal with, that's him. You know my Disk of Years, right? It was snatched away by that person, and I didn't dare take it back — do you understand now?"

In fact, when he had fallen, he had already fused with the vast majority of the spatial laws within the Void Abyss; this time going up was only because he didn't want any problems, which was why he was being a bit more cautious.

Emperor Hou Hen stood dazedly sensing the void around him, still in a dumbfounded state.

Heng Zuo was also one of the Twelve God Emperors, considered his old big brother — ranked third among the Twelve God Emperors.

The Universe Pot activated and hovered at the position of a hundred zhang; it could go no higher.

He had always assumed that was the consciousness produced by the dark Dao Rule, but now that he thought about it, it didn't seem quite right.

If anyone dared to snatch Ku Xin Ren's Disk of Years, then even if Ku Xin Ren had to reincarnate ten times, he would not give up his plan to snatch the Disk of Years back.

The reason he hadn't sensed it before was that his cultivation wasn't enough. This remnant soul reminded him of that sliver of consciousness that had awakened within the dark-attribute Divine Spirit Vein — the one he had killed — somewhat similar.

"Ku Xin Ren, did Saint Luo Xu offend you?" Emperor Hou Hen waited until Ku Xin Ren had tired himself out cursing, then asked a question.

"Coming." Emperor Hou Hen hurriedly rushed onto the Universe Pot.

Luo Xu?

"Old Hou, you wouldn't be saying there's a dark-attribute Divine Spirit Vein here, would you? This place was discovered by Brother Ding — even if there is a dark-attribute Divine Spirit Vein, it belongs to Brother Ding."

This old fellow Hou Hen isn't as easy to talk to as Brother Ding — getting beaten up would be a bad deal.

If a dark Dao Rule really had produced a consciousness, how could it be trapped in a place like this? Emperor Hou Hen raised a hand and grabbed onto the remnant root that Tree Ancestor had abandoned.

Moreover, Ding Huan didn't need to create his own cultivation method — he only had to fuse with all the laws of heaven and earth within this Void Abyss, and he could burst out of this place. What he was worried about now was whether Ding Huan could actually leave this Void Abyss.

The reason one cannot rise out of the Void Abyss is that the Great Dao laws a cultivator practices cannot be used here.

Ku Xin Ren let out a helpless sigh: "You haven't seen the person Luo Xu wants to deal with. The reason Heng Zuo and I were unwilling to participate is that we knew Luo Xu simply had no chance of winning.

The Great Desert Dao Lord, one of the Four Great Dao Lords, was also there; among the Twelve God Emperors, Emperor Ming Yue, Emperor Tao Tie, and Emperor Gui Gu were also there.

Ji Luo didn't care.

Ding Huan stared at this remnant soul in surprise — about to die, and still this arrogant?

Even Meng, one of the Three Wanderers, was there, and there were heaps of those Regular Gods and Duty Gods too — I'm too lazy to name them all."

Ding Huan suddenly extended his domain, locking down Ku Xin Ren: "Old thing, who are you talking to? Did you eat your manners?"

Ding Huan had already begun, through the Great Universe Art Zhou Tian, to comprehend all the laws existing within space.

That's all it took?

No matter who was killed, it could not have been Luo Xu who was killed.

Emperor Hou Hen sighed; for Ding Huan to be able to control this cauldron to come within a hundred zhang range was already extremely remarkable.

Emperor Hou Hen fell silent.

After Emperor Hou Hen and Ji Luo walked out of the Cosmic Cauldron, Ding Huan raised his hand and put the Cosmic Cauldron away.

Emperor Hou Hen said coolly: "Dark Dao Lord, you don't even dare to show your name? Others may not recognize you, Bitter-Person, but in my Emperor Hou Hen's eyes, your petty weight amounts to nothing at all."

Bitter-Person finally let out a breath: "That Wang Ba bastard summoned us to deal with an extremely terrifying existence. Heng Zuo and I were unwilling, so he immediately struck out to kill us…"

However, going up further would be very difficult.

The Dark Dao Principle awakening a sliver of consciousness was probably also related to this Bitter-Person. It's just that the Dark Dao Principle had only just awakened a faint consciousness and had not yet reached an accord with Bitter-Person before he turned it into a Dao Principle Crystal.

Having no cultivation resources was one thing, but what if one day that Luo came here again—wouldn't he just be waiting to die?

How terrifying must this person be? He had been trapped in the Void Deep Ravine for countless ages. Could it be that in this great battle Luo Xu truly lost? Otherwise, why could he sense not a single bit of news?

He was very clear about what the Disk of Ages meant to Bitter-Person.

"Kid, you took my dark-attribute Divine Spirit Vein, now it's time to return it to me, right? If it weren't for me holding off the Divine Race Tree Ancestor here, do you think you'd have it so easy?"

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One shichen later, Ding Huan began to inscribe array patterns.

Emperor Hou Hen furrowed his brow: "Bitter-Person, what do you mean?"

"There's the aura of a dark attribute here." The moment Emperor Hou Hen came out, he immediately cried out in shock.

In other words, to go up from the Void Deep Ravine, one must create a set of cultivation techniques that conform to every rule within this void.

Soon the Cosmic Cauldron transformed into a streak of shadow and shot out; in the blink of an eye, it had charged out of the Void Deep Ravine and arrived in the void.

"What do I mean? That bastard Luo Xu deserves a terrible death—he's treacherous and cunning, vicious and ruthless, and a saint? Ptooey, he doesn't even qualify…"

Ding Huan cultivating the Grand Cosmos Art and fusing billions of laws belonged to that extremely rare group of people.

"Tch…" Seeing Emperor Hou Hen looking like he'd never seen the world, Ji Luo gave a tch.

Once the thing was taken by Ding Huan, when Ding Huan cultivated in the future, staying by his side to cultivate would let him share in the glory.

Emperor Hou Hen, however, did not go disturb Bitter-Person's cursing; he too wished Luo Xu a terrible death, he just didn't dare to curse it out loud.

Although he had been trapped in the Void Deep Ravine for so long because he was locked by Luo's restrictive patterns, in fact even if he hadn't been locked, leaving the Void Deep Ravine would probably have been very difficult for him.

Let alone Luo Xu himself—even Luo Xu's name could not be casually invoked.

In his heart he became all the more determined to follow this Brother Ding. This Brother Ding didn't seem deeply experienced in the world, and wasn't as treacherous as fellows like Luo Xu and Ti Fo.

Everything had been taken by Ding Huan; if he stayed here, he'd still have to take the blame for Ding Huan.

Emperor Hou Hen gave a chuckle: "You've got some nerve, daring to impersonate even a saint's name. You've got guts."

If it weren't for the fact that I had a strand of Dark Dao Principle by my side, and used the Dark Dao Principle to escape with my nascent soul, I'd have been done in by that little bastard long ago."

Bitter-Person laughed coldly: "You overrate Luo Xu's nerve. At the time, not only was Saint Tai Luan by Luo Xu's side, Saints Qing Yuan and Ti Fo had also fallen in."

Bitter-Person, like a shrew, began to curse up and down the street.

Ding Huan secretly thought, this old fellow's perception really was no joke.

He had taken away this dark-attribute Divine Spirit Vein goodness knows how long ago, yet this old fellow could still sense it.

To be precise, this was a remnant soul.

Bitter-Person was startled and hurriedly looked toward Emperor Hou Hen: "Emperor Hou Hen, you wouldn't just stand by and watch an old friend get bullied, would you?"

Emperor Hou Hen was clearly at the God-Merging realm, so Bitter-Person assumed from the start that Ding Huan was Emperor Hou Hen's follower.

With Emperor Hou Hen as his backing, two dark Divine Spirit Veins—he only needed one, and the other would be given to Emperor Hou Hen as payment.

But the Dark Dao Principle and the Grand Darkness Art he had to take back.

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