Chapter 777: Seven Realms Seal

Even with the help of the Yongshen Wheel's core, refining the prohibitions within Wheel Slaughter was no easy task.

On the surface, Yongshen Peak appeared utterly tranquil; only when one began refining it did one realize how perilous Yongshen Peak truly was.

Each prohibition contained boundless, endless killing energy.

One misstep, and not only would he fail to refine Yongshen Peak, but the Dao rhythm of the Great Cosmos Art would be torn apart by the peak's killing energy.

Then he would forever be unable to escape Yongshen Peak.

Ding Huan carefully peeled away the sinking laws and void laws surrounding Yongshen Peak, along with various obscure killing laws.

Days passed one after another.

Ding Huan was not in a hurry.

He knew such things could not be rushed.

As long as Yongshen Peak had not been refined by the other party, he still had a chance.

Once Yongshen Peak was refined by the other party, he would have no choice but to flee as far as possible.

One year, ten years…

In the thirty-fifth year, Ding Huan peeled away all killing laws and void laws surrounding Yongshen Peak and found the first prohibition of the Yongshen Wheel's Wheel Slaughter.

Ding Huan was immensely grateful he had refined the Yongshen Wheel's core first; otherwise, finding this first prohibition would have taken at least a hundred times longer.

With the help of the Yongshen Wheel's core, he had managed to locate the first prohibition of Wheel Slaughter within just a few decades.

Now that he had found the first prohibition, what followed would be easier.

For the Great Cosmos Art, any complex celestial law or artifact Dao rhythm was no problem.

Others who found the first prohibition of Wheel Slaughter might still need a thousand or even a hundred years to peel away the artifact Dao rhythms surrounding the prohibition and refine its first layer.

For Ding Huan, it was merely a matter of completing one Zhou Tian of the Great Cosmos Art.

Under the Great Cosmos Art, all artifact Dao rhythms surrounding the Yongshen Wheel's Wheel Slaughter prohibition were slowly peeled away, then refined and fused…

Within a few months, Ding Huan refined the first prohibition.

With the first prohibition refined, Ding Huan advanced like a bamboo shoot splitting open, then the second, the third…

Ding Huan also moved forward continuously within Yongshen Peak; each time he refined a layer of prohibition, he advanced a step further.

When Ding Huan reached the one hundred and eighth prohibition, he was blocked.

What blocked him was an infinite, intricate web of reincarnation laws.

He stood once again at the very spot where he had first climbed Yongshen Peak.

It was here, once before, that he had been halted.

Later, he had still managed to cut through the Reincarnation Wall with the Yellow Springs Seal from the Seven Reincarnation Seals and found the path to the peak's summit.

But today, he was not trying to force his way to the summit—he was here to refine it.

Faced with the vast, intricate reincarnation laws, Ding Huan could not refine the one hundred and eighth prohibition.

Ding Huan did not draw his Pojie Saber from his back.

He was not breaking through a trial—he was refining.

But it did not matter; he still had the core of the Yongshen Wheel.

He himself had also touched upon reincarnation laws to some degree.

In this boundless expanse of reincarnation laws, Ding Huan calmed his mind and began slowly perceiving and refining these vast reincarnation laws, peeling them away one by one.

At first, Ding Huan merely perceived the hundreds of millions of reincarnation laws.

After peeling away and fusing countless reincarnation laws, Ding Huan saw a realm.

Was this a glimpse of the Reincarnation Realm?

No—this was a pure world of killing; Ding Huan realized a world of infinite, endless killing Dao rhythms.

Ding Huan was filled with excitement; he knew he had gained another opportunity.

While refining the one hundred and eighth prohibition of Wheel Slaughter, the boundless killing Dao rhythms within Wheel Slaughter allowed him to perceive the fifth seal of the Seven Reincarnation Seals: Seven Realms Seal.

At first, when he saw the fifth seal, Seven Realms, he thought the seven realms meant the Human Realm, Immortal World, Demon Realm, Beast Realm, and so on.

Now, having realized this world of killing Dao rhythms, he understood that the first realm of the Seven Reincarnation Seals was the Killing Realm.

When the Seven Realms Seal was activated, it manifested as a world of killing.

As long as an opponent was trapped within this killing world, he held absolute advantage.

Ding Huan continuously perceived and peeled away the reincarnation laws and killing Dao rhythms within the one hundred and eighth prohibition of Wheel Slaughter.

He perceived the second realm of Seven Realms Seal, then the third, the fourth…

The second realm was Life.

At first, Ding Huan was deeply confused; the Seven Realms Seal was a killing technique among the Seven Reincarnation Seals—why was there a Life realm?

As his perception deepened, Ding Huan finally understood.

The Life realm in the Seven Realms Seal was not ordinary vitality—it was the realm of intent.

After being trapped and slain within the Killing Realm, if a powerful cultivator escaped the killing realm, he would enter the Life realm.

The Life realm represented peace and tranquility; to survive within it, one must not act rashly, nor leave carelessly, or else one would be trapped in the third realm, the Death realm.

Any cultivator trapped in the Life realm by the Seven Realms Seal would likely not wish to remain there indefinitely; upon realizing this, they would immediately flee.

Thus, they naturally entered the third realm—the Death realm.

If one truly remained motionless in the Life realm, what difference would it make from being dead?

The Death realm was not merely filled with killing energy—it was saturated with death laws.

Ding Huan's Dao rhythm surged, his hands formed seals, and he unleashed the Death realm space.

The Death realm was filled with all manner of killing laws and poison Dao laws.

As Ding Huan sensed the aura of the Death realm, he finally understood why he had never perceived the Seven Realms Seal before.

Because his Death Dao was not strong enough.

Now that he had refined the hundred-and-eight prohibitions of Lun Sha, he comprehended the true Void Dao, and the Sunken Dao had also reached great completion—this was how the Dead Realm of the Seven Realms Seal was formed.

If the opponent was truly powerful and could break through the hundred million killing laws of the Dead Realm, they would directly enter the Sunken Realm.

Before the hundred million Sunken Dao laws of the Sunken Realm, how many could break through?

After sinking comes the Annihilation Realm.

After the Annihilation Realm comes the true Void Realm.

Once entered, everything turns to nothingness.

So this was the Seven Realms within the Wheel of Reincarnation Seal.

That is to say, two different people cultivating the same Seven Seals of Reincarnation might comprehend entirely different Seven Realms.

He, by refining Lun Sha, comprehended the Sunken Dao and the Void Dao.

Therefore, his Seven Realms formed the Sunken Realm and the Void Realm.

If another person cultivated the Seven Seals of Reincarnation, the Seven Realms they would comprehend would be an entirely different Killing Dao Realm.

Think about it—someone who does not dissolve even within the hundred million Sunken Dao Realms and the hundred million Void Dao Realms, how strong must they be?

Even if the opponent could break free from the Void Realm, there remains the seventh realm: the Great Reincarnation Realm.

At this moment, Ding Huan clearly understood that the fifth seal, the Seven Realms Seal, and the sixth seal, the Great Reincarnation Seal, were connected.

If the first six realms within the fifth seal, the Seven Realms Seal, cannot bind the opponent, then enter the sixth seal: the Great Reincarnation Seal.

The Great Reincarnation Seal is the seventh realm within the fifth seal.

This seal can be used alone, or combined with the first six realms of the fifth seal.

After learning this, Ding Huan furiously stripped away the hundred-and-eighth prohibition law of Lun Sha from the Eternal God Wheel.

This single prohibition law was composed entirely of various Reincarnation prohibitions.

This was not merely about refining Lun Sha—should he wish to strengthen the Great Reincarnation Seal, the more Reincarnation laws he fused and comprehended, the better.

As Ding Huan comprehended more and more Reincarnation laws, he grew ever more grateful for the Great Cosmos Art.

Without the Great Cosmos Art, comprehending such complex and vast Reincarnation laws would certainly not take just a day or two.

As Ding Huan finally comprehended the last Reincarnation law, the hundred-and-eighth prohibition suddenly cleared.

Ding Huan's vision went blank, and then everything atop Eternal God Peak lay bare before his eyes.

He had finally refined the Eternal God Peak formed from Lun Sha.

He spent less than fifty years refining the first hundred-and-seven layers of prohibitions.

But refining the hundred-and-eighth layer took more than fifty years.

To Ding Huan, it was worth it.

Not only because he had comprehended the fifth and sixth seals within the Seven Seals of Reincarnation.

More importantly, he had fused a hundred million Reincarnation laws—this was the foundation of the Dao.

Ding Huan's spiritual sense immediately sought the floating black stone atop Eternal God Peak.

That black stone contained the Essence of the Cosmos.

Originally, he had only taken eighteen drops of the Essence of the Cosmos; now that the Eternal God Peak was his, wouldn't he be able to take as much Essence of the Cosmos as he wanted?

Soon, Ding Huan was stunned.

Not only was the Essence of the Cosmos gone—the black stone that held it was gone too.

Ding Huan sighed. Indeed, perfection was unattainable.

He had roughly understood what had happened.

That black stone was never part of the Eternal God Wheel.

Rather, because the Eternal God Wheel was here, the black stone holding the Essence of the Cosmos chose to remain atop Eternal God Peak.

Not only had the black stone chosen to remain where the Eternal God Wheel was, even the Cosmic Core he had obtained had remained here because the Eternal God Wheel was present.

Now that he had refined Eternal God Peak, the black stone naturally sank into the cosmos, seeking a new place to rest.

As for those Void Nirvana Gold, it was likely left behind by the previous owner.

Once he understood, Ding Huan felt no great disappointment.

Such a treasure as the Essence of the Cosmos—gaining a dozen or so drops was already unexpected fortune; who could expect to gain a whole mortar-full?

Feeling the power of Lun Sha from the Eternal God Wheel, Ding Huan did not immediately retrieve Lun Sha.

He did not even retrieve Lun Sha, nor did he take back the Eternal God Wheel's core he had refined—he left both within the Eternal God Abyss.

He had refined both items, imprinting them with his Dao mark.

Even a Nine-Turn Saint could not take them from him.

Now he had two choices: first, use the Eternal God Wheel's core and Lun Sha to begin refining the Eternal God Wheel.

His second choice was to not refine the Eternal God Wheel now, but instead seek out the one hiding deep within the Dao Ruins, refining the Eternal God Wheel.

Ding Huan chose the second.

If he now refined the Eternal God Wheel formed from the Eternal God Abyss, as soon as he constructed the Zhou Tian of the Great Cosmos Art, the other would surely sense it.

Once sensed, he would have no control over what followed.

So he left the core and Lun Sha here, and went himself to find the one refining the Eternal God Wheel.

If the core and Lun Sha remained here and were discovered, perhaps he could still launch a surprise attack.

As for the possibility that the opponent might steal the Eternal God Wheel's core and Lun Sha, Ding Huan was not worried at all.

If what he had refined could be stolen so easily, then his Great Cosmos Art was garbage.

(Comrade, good night!)