Chapter 706: Ding Huan Sets a Trap

Ji Luo grinned and said, "Brother Ding, does this count as us helping the God Race?"

"The major divine gates and factions of the God Race have mostly been wiped out. This Ru Yue Divine Horn, though, should have some good stuff inside. Come on, let's go in and take a look."

By the time Ding Huan finished speaking, he had already walked into the Ru Yue Divine Horn.

As for the God Race, he truly didn't care.

As long as he was willing, he could casually bestow some God Race gene slaughter laws, and the God Race would be wiped out even more thoroughly than now—saying not a single chicken or dog would be left wouldn't be an exaggeration.

As the few of them walked into the Ru Yue Divine Horn, what greeted their eyes was a massive Divine Spirit Marrow Pool.

All the buildings around the Ru Yue Divine Horn had been completely leveled, leaving only this Divine Spirit Marrow Pool in the center.

"No wonder those two fellows wanted to cultivate here. This stuff is great." Emperor Hou Hen sighed.

"Should we also cultivate here for a while?" Ji Luo felt a bit itchy at heart and looked toward Ding Huan.

Ding Huan likewise wanted to cultivate here for a period.

This Divine Spirit Marrow Pool was of an extremely high grade, and the concentration of Divine Spirit Marrow was also quite excellent.

If he cultivated here for a year or so, he might be able to step into the late-stage Divine King.

And this kind of Divine Spirit Marrow had one biggest taboo: transfer. Once transferred, nearly sixty percent or more of the divine spiritual energy would be lost, and the effect would also diminish greatly.

Thinking of this, Ding Huan nodded: "Then let's cultivate here for a while, but I need to rearrange the protective formation from the God Race to the Human Race."

"Let me help you." Emperor Hou Hen was likewise a top-tier divine formation master. Although his current level had dropped sharply, helping Ding Huan set up formations still wasn't much of a problem.

"No rush, let me first study these jade slips."

Ding Huan raised his hand and rolled out a pile of jade slips.

Without exception, all of these jade slips were obtained from the Sun Quan World.

Some questions Sun Quan was unwilling to answer, so he could only search for answers from these jade slips.

These jade slips were quickly sorted by Ding Huan.

Jade slips on alchemy, formations, artifacts, and talismans would be classified as the most valuable category in an ordinary cultivator's hands, but in Ding Huan's case, they were all discarded junk tossed aside.

Map jade slips were listed by Ding Huan as important items.

Jade slips introducing the Dao Court, sect introductions, and regional notes—things ordinary cultivators didn't care about—were listed by Ding Huan as priority reading material.

Ding Huan checked the jade slips one by one, and finally found an introduction to the route from the Dao Court to the God Realm.

There was one thing Zhong Zhihe hadn't lied about: crossing the Eternal God Abyss between the Dao Court and the God Realm required the aid of a flying treasure above the Pre-Heaven level; otherwise, it couldn't be crossed.

What Sun Quan and Zhong Zhihe hadn't revealed was that crossing between the Dao Court and the God Realm wasn't possible at just any place or any time.

To cross the Eternal God Abyss, there was only one chance per month—the day of Extreme Yang each month.

The crossing point of the Eternal God Abyss could only be chosen at the Crescent Arc Apex.

Ding Huan immediately began setting up a teleportation formation; he had to go see what the situation at the Eternal God Abyss was like.

After the teleportation formation here was set up, Ding Huan brought out the Cosmic Cauldron and swiftly headed toward the Eternal God Abyss.

A full three days passed before Ding Huan finally arrived at the edge of the Eternal God Abyss.

Ding Huan had previously traveled from the Lower God Land to the Middle God Land, and from the Middle God Land to the Upper God Land, and had seen the First God Gorge and the Second God Gorge.

Now seeing the Eternal God Abyss, he could only say that whether it was the First God Gorge or the Second God Gorge, they were nothing compared to the Eternal God Abyss.

There was no mist swirling above the Eternal God Abyss, but no matter how strong one's divine sense was, once it entered the Eternal God Abyss, it could no longer sense any aura or any existence within.

That endless black abyss was like the mouth of a demon, giving one an extreme sense of unease.

This was completely different from the void. In the void, one could sense that kind of spatial aura, not an emptiness aura.

And in this Eternal God Abyss, all one could sense was an endless black hole and void.

Standing at the edge of the Eternal God Abyss, there seemed to be a pulling force that made one unconsciously approach the abyss and then enter it.

Ding Huan controlled the Cosmic Cauldron along the edge of the Eternal God Abyss for one hour, and finally saw the Crescent Arc Apex.

Every part of the Eternal God Abyss was as smooth as if cut by a knife, perfectly flat. From afar, it looked like a gray line dividing the black hole and the shore.

Yet this Crescent Arc Apex was like a half-moon arc drawn outside this gray line, and this half-moon arc formed a dock of moderate size.

So this was the place to cross the Eternal God Abyss.

There were still more than ten days until the day of Extreme Yang. Ding Huan decided to give the fellows from the Dao Court a good show.

Time was ample, so a Level-8 Killing-Trap Divine Formation was a must.

Level-8 Annihilation Divine Formation, Level-8 Soul-Locking Divine Formation…

Only after all these arrangements were complete did Ding Huan begin setting up the teleportation formation.

Ding Huan estimated these divine formations would be used for a very long time, so he expended great effort.

Formations that could normally be set up in half a day, he took over ten days to complete.

Even for a Level-8 divine formation, he wanted to set it up to perfection.

After the teleportation formation was set up, Ding Huan then sent messages to Emperor Hou Hen and Ji Luo.

In just over a dozen breaths of time, Emperor Hou Hen and Ji Luo walked out from the teleportation formation.

"Brother Ding Huan, are you sure those people will come out from here?" Emperor Hou Hen looked at the various great formations Ding Huan had set up and asked somewhat uncertainly.

However, he was quite admiring of the teleportation formation Ding Huan had set up.

For such a long-distance teleportation formation, Ding Huan seemed to set it up without expending much effort.

"Don't worry, I've long since read those jade slips. This is the Crescent Arc Apex of the Eternal God Abyss," Ding Huan said confidently. "When will they come over?" Although he had only cultivated in the Divine Spirit Marrow Pool for a few days, Ji Luo was already thinking about the Divine Spirit Marrow Pool at the Ru Yue Divine Horn.

"According to the introduction on Sun Quan's jade slip, they'll come over tomorrow."

Tomorrow was the day of Extreme Yang, so Ding Huan believed they would come over tomorrow.

"Still following the previous tactic, take out one first?" Emperor Hou Hen looked at Ding Huan.

Ding Huan shook his head: "If I'm not mistaken, the person coming this time should be a small ant with ordinary cultivation. The reason I called you both here is just in case."

In Ding Huan's thinking, the person coming tomorrow should be the one sent to bring Sun Quan and Zhong Zhihe back to the Dao Court.

After all, neither Sun Quan nor Zhong Zhihe had any innate flying magic treasures on them.

Calling Emperor Hou Hen and Ji Luo over was precisely because he worried his own judgment might be wrong — what if a whole bunch of powerful cultivators showed up?

Getting his judgment wrong at other times wouldn't matter much, but this place couldn't afford a misjudgment. Once someone escaped back to the Dao Court, he'd lose his one-month cultivation opportunity.

Ding Huan had experienced the Divine Marrow Pool at Ruo Yue Divine Horn. Cultivating there for a month might well more than double his strength.

Having killed two God-Unification-realm experts from the Dao Court, neither Emperor Hou Hen nor Ji Luo much cared how strong the newcomers were.

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A day passed, and a flying shuttle appeared within the divine sense of the group.

Ding Huan hadn't been wrong — the people from the Dao Court had indeed come today.

The shuttle landed, and a cultivator whose cultivation was only at the World God realm took out a transmitting flying sword.

But the very next instant, his entire body was seized by a hand seal and hurled to the ground.

"You all..."

The World God cultivator stared in shock at Ding Huan and the others standing before him, unable for the moment to grasp what was happening.

"Old Hou, you go question this guy. I'll handle this flying magic treasure."

Worried this Qiankun Shuttle might return to the Dao Court, Ding Huan immediately set about breaking its restrictions.

But very soon Ding Huan discovered that all the restrictions on this Qiankun Shuttle were ninth-tier divine restrictions. With his current ability, breaking them open was certainly possible.

However, the moment any of these ninth-tier divine restrictions were touched, the person who had inscribed them would sense it.

Now that it was in his hands, Ding Huan had no intention of losing it again.

Ding Huan began inscribing teleportation array patterns.

An hour later, with a sweep of his hand, Ding Huan forcibly sent this Qiankun Shuttle into his own Sea of Consciousness Universe.

When he had spare time, he would study this Qiankun Shuttle slowly.

"How did it go?" Having stowed the Qiankun Shuttle, Ding Huan was in excellent spirits.

Another innate treasure acquired — and one that was an innate flying magic treasure at that.

"Didn't get anything out of him. This guy knows very little; he's just a tool sent to pick someone up," Emperor Hou Hen replied.

"Then let's head back and cultivate. I feel that with a bit more effort, I'll soon be able to break through into the God-Unification realm," Ji Luo said, rubbing his hands together, looking rather eager.

His cultivation was too low right now. Emperor Hou Hen not thinking much of him was one thing, but he even felt that Yi Jie's gaze at him carried a hint of disdain.

If he didn't work hard to raise his cultivation and quickly advance to the God-Unification realm, Yi Jie's cultivation might catch up to his any day now.

Ding Huan looked at the various divine arrays he had set up, and after a while said, "I still need to set up a new grand array."

"What array?" Emperor Hou Hen immediately asked.

"A teleportation array."

"You mean to teleport everyone coming from the Dao Court to Ruo Yue Divine Horn?" Emperor Hou Hen guessed Ding Huan's idea almost immediately.

He felt this idea was not bad.

"No. I plan to teleport everyone coming from the Dao Court to Yong Shen Deep Abyss."

Ding Huan inwardly muttered — teleport them to Ruo Yue Divine Horn? What are you thinking?

If everyone was teleported to Ruo Yue Divine Horn, wouldn't that mean he couldn't cultivate there anymore?

With his current strength as a second-layer Divine King, going to the Dao Court to speak his mind would probably still not carry enough weight.

Ruo Yue Divine Horn had a top-grade Divine Marrow Pool. If he implanted another top-grade Starry Sky Divine Spirit Vein there, it would be just right for raising his cultivation.

Emperor Hou Hen's eyes lit up — why hadn't he thought of that? His previous thinking had still been too conservative.

Given Ding Huan's level of array dao, setting up a teleportation array here to send everyone from the Dao Court to Yong Shen Deep Abyss was really not all that difficult.

He only needed to set up array patterns that activated the teleportation array the moment anyone stepped onto the crescent arc's apex.

Ji Luo chuckled inwardly to one side.

He secretly thought that only Brother Ding Huan could come up with such a scheme to trap people. Lucky for him he was now on Brother Ding Huan's side — otherwise he'd be sold off and still be counting the money.

Another day passed, and only then did Ding Huan, Emperor Hou Hen, and the others return to Ruo Yue Divine Horn.

To be safe, Ding Huan not only set up a teleportation array at the crescent arc's apex, but also used Sun Quan's twelve Coffin Nails as the array's foundation.

This teleportation array was nearly equivalent to a ninth-tier divine array.

Moreover, this teleportation array activated the instant one landed. Ding Huan was confident that even if a true ninth-tier divine array expert came, by the time they realized the situation, they'd already have been teleported to Yong Shen Deep Abyss.

Unless the opponent's level of array dao completely overwhelmed his array methods — but Ding Huan felt that even if the Dao Court had such a person, they wouldn't possibly send them here.

(Fellow daoists, good night!)

(End of chapter)