Chapter 778: The Gray-Robed Man

As soon as Ding Huan entered the Dao Ruins, he summoned the Cosmic Cauldron.

The Dao Ruins were divided into two parts: one in the Three Gods Land, the other in the Dao Court.

The Three Gods Land and the Dao Court were split in half by the Eternal God's Deep Chasm.

The Eternal God's Deep Chasm, besides separating the Dao Court and the Three Gods Land, also connected to the Void.

When Ding Huan repaired the celestial rules of Blue Star Divine Land, he had no access to the Dao Court.

That meant the Dao Court's current celestial rules remained unchanged, capable only of birthing pseudo-saints with abysmal combat power.

Because in Ding Huan's eyes, the Eternal God's Wheel was his destined treasure.

So when Ding Huan constructed the Blue Star Divine Land's planetary defense array, he enclosed the entire portion of the Eternal God's Deep Chasm within Blue Star Divine Land inside the array.

But the Eternal God's Deep Chasm was simply too long; the Blue Star Divine Land's defense array could not protect it all.

Part of the Eternal God's Deep Chasm still remained within the Void.

Even if no one had cultivated the Eternal God's Deep Chasm, Ding Huan would have come immediately after repairing Blue Star Divine Land's celestial rules to cultivate it and claim the Eternal God's Wheel.

Otherwise, the Eternal God's Deep Chasm would be a flaw in Blue Star Divine Land.

Powerful beings could enter Blue Star Divine Land through the Eternal God's Deep Chasm.

How could Ding Huan, the one who repaired Blue Star Divine Land, allow such a massive vulnerability to exist?

In just a short time, Ding Huan arrived again at the Rebirth Swamp.

He had obtained many Luck Stones and one Rebirth Stone within the Rebirth Swamp.

But now Ding Huan would let no one take away any Luck Stone from here.

Previously, Blue Star Divine Land was shattered and its luck continuously dissipated.

Some luck, during its dissipation, fused with fragments of rules and condensed into Luck Stones.

Now that he had repaired Blue Star Divine Land, its luck would no longer dissipate; instead, it would absorb the vast luck of the Void and the heavens.

The Luck Stones scattered throughout the Dao Ruins would gradually dissolve and merge into Blue Star Divine Land as a whole.

Ding Huan did not enter the Rebirth Swamp.

Although the Luck Stones within the Rebirth Swamp had dissipated, many other treasures remained.

If someone could withstand the Law of Descent and the Rebirth Dao Law, they could still gain many valuable things by entering the Rebirth Swamp.

Putting away the Cosmic Cauldron, Ding Huan followed Shu Ziche's instructions and traveled along the edge of the Rebirth Swamp.

Indeed, after just over an hour, Ding Huan saw the end of the Rebirth Swamp.

What appeared to be an end was merely a vortex array gate.

This vortex array gate must have appeared later.

The Dao Ruins had always drawn seekers of opportunity; if such a vortex array gate had existed earlier, word would have spread long ago.

Ding Huan's divine sense settled upon the vortex array gate.

Emperor Hou Hen, the Master of Sword God Hollow, Pu Zhijian, and the Elder of Liyin Divine Valley, Shan Yichen, had all been sucked into this vortex array gate.

Ding Huan quickly confirmed that this vortex array gate carried spatial teleportation laws.

Moreover, this vortex array gate was a primordial treasure; once entered, it would teleport one to a specific location.

Ding Huan was just considering whether he could first cultivate this vortex array gate when suddenly a vortex suction pulled him.

The direction of the vortex suction was precisely the teleportation array gate before him.

Ding Huan offered no resistance; he surged forward with the suction into the array gate.

As soon as he stepped into the teleportation array gate, Ding Huan felt his body grow light, and his divine sense extended outward.

Indeed, the teleportation occurred above the Rebirth Swamp.

The familiar Law of Descent confirmed to Ding Huan that this was a teleportation to the location of the Eternal God's Deep Chasm.

The teleportation lasted only a dozen breaths, then Ding Huan landed.

He landed upon a vast, flat slab of gray stone.

The gray stone floated in the Void; as soon as Ding Huan stepped onto it, he knew he had not guessed wrong.

This was within the Eternal God's Deep Chasm.

In other words, had he not entered through the Dao Ruins, but instead followed the Eternal God's Deep Chasm upstream, he would have eventually arrived here.

The celestial laws here were deeply familiar to Ding Huan: the Law of Descent, the Law of Voidness, and various obscure killing laws.

Ding Huan looked toward the center of the giant stone.

There was a hidden array.

Indeed, from the previously empty center of the giant stone, a gray-robed man suddenly appeared.

The gray-robed man's skin and hair were also gray; he sat at the center of the gray stone as if he were part of it.

Ding Huan, who had fused billions of laws, knew without even fighting this man that he cultivated the Dark Law.

He had once merged with the Dark Law; it could not possibly hide from him.

From the ceaseless flow of Dao rhythm emanating from him, Ding Huan was certain this man was cultivating the Eternal God's Deep Chasm.

In fact, he was still cultivating it now.

Ding Huan's gaze shifted away from the man and fell upon the edge of the giant stone.

Dozens of cultivators lined the edge of the stone; some had become white bones, others were mere skin stretched over skeletons.

Ding Huan quickly spotted Emperor Hou Hen.

Emperor Hou Hen was far worse off than when he had been trapped in the Void Canyon; now he was nothing but skin clinging to his bones.

Fortunately, the man was still alive.

But he was barely clinging to half a breath; Ding Huan stood upon the gray stone, yet Emperor Hou Hen did not sense him.

Ding Huan's gaze moved from Emperor Hou Hen and then he saw Pu Zhijian; Pu Zhijian was still alive, but like Emperor Hou Hen, he was nothing but skin over bone.

As for the elder of the Departing Sound Divine Valley, Shan Yichen, Ding Huan did not see him.

Ding Huan could also guess that Shan Yichen had probably turned into bones, one of the skeletons right before his eyes.

Ding Huan had refined the core of the Eternal God Wheel, had also refined Wheel Kill, and was thoroughly familiar with every kind of law within the Eternal God Abyss.

He immediately understood what was going on.

To speed up the refinement of the Eternal God Wheel, the grey-robed man had gathered a pile of people to purify the laws of poison and the laws of depravity within the Eternal God Abyss.

In other words, even if the grey-robed man now released Emperor Hou Hen and Pu Zhijian.

Emperor Hou Hen and Pu Zhijian could no longer recover.

Their great Dao had long since been mottled into a complete mess by all kinds of laws.

"Eh!" Seeing Ding Huan still looking around, the grey-robed man gave a startled cry.

The cultivators he had teleported onto this grey stone should have reacted with terror first.

None of them dared to look around like Ding Huan.

"That's not right, you're not afraid of the laws of depravity?" The grey-robed man caught on.

Although this giant stone hovered above the Eternal God Abyss, the space was still filled with the laws of depravity and the poison of depravity.

The poison of depravity was merely a small part of the rules of depravity.

The rules of depravity were composed of billions upon billions of laws of depravity; the poison of depravity was only an extremely small portion of the laws that made up the rules of depravity.

Ding Huan had been teleported over for some time now, yet he had not been felled by the poison of depravity — that was not right.

"It was you who captured my friends, and then… left them here to be tormented?"

Ding Huan had originally wanted to say 'let my friends purify the mottled laws in the Eternal God Abyss for you,' but he changed his words at the last moment.

Before the fight, he could not let the opponent know he was very familiar with the Eternal God Abyss.

"You come here too…"

As he spoke, the grey-robed man raised his hand and grabbed at Ding Huan.

Ding Huan unhesitatingly summoned the Calamity-Breaking Blade and slashed out with one strike.

Boom!

Dao rhythm exploded; the grey-robed man's domain shattered in an instant, and the grey-robed man's divine essence hand seal was also torn into fragments by Ding Huan's slash.

On the surface, Ding Huan held the absolute advantage.

Ding Huan's heart, however, sank — no wonder he could not read this grey-robed man's strength.

This fellow was absolutely a powerhouse beyond the level of a Fifth-Turn Saint.

His slash just now had used seventy percent of his strength, while the opponent's divine essence hand seal had been a casual grab.

As for how much of his ability the opponent had used, Ding Huan could not tell at all.

He hoped the opponent had gone all out.

Ding Huan knew very well that, judging from the opponent's posture when striking and the fact that it was merely a single divine essence hand seal, it could not possibly have been a full-strength strike.

"Who are you?" The grey-robed man was even more shocked than Ding Huan.

This was the God-Forsaken Land; although the laws of heaven and earth of the God-Forsaken Land seemed to be slowly repairing, it was absolutely impossible for a true Saint to appear in a short time.

That casual slash from this youth just now was already the strength of a Second-Turn Saint.

Ding Huan had repaired the Blue Star Divine Land and had emitted a Dao sound.

But Ding Huan's Dao sound could not yet seep into the Eternal God Abyss.

The Eternal God Abyss was an illusion conjured by the Eternal God Wheel.

The Eternal God Wheel had split a complete God Realm into the Dao Court and the God-Forsaken Land.

No matter what state the Eternal God Wheel was in now.

The heaven and earth laws of the Eternal God Wheel were far, far higher than those of the Blue Star Divine Land.

Ding Huan had emitted the Dao sound through the heavenly Dao laws of the Blue Star Divine Land.

Naturally it would not reach the Eternal God Abyss.

So this grey-robed man did not know that the God-Forsaken Land had long since been repaired, and that one could now even prove Dao as a Saint.

Ding Huan did not answer the grey-robed man; his Saint domain extended, and the Calamity-Breaking Blade in his hand slashed out once more.

Endless killing intent was swept up by Ding Huan's Calamity-Breaking Blade; at this moment, the killing momentum of Ding Huan's Calamity-Breaking Blade was surging wildly.

A river of blades condensed out in the void; as the killing momentum gathered, the river of blades grew clearer and clearer, carrying with it a summons of death.

The grey-robed man's expression turned grave.

He spread his hand, and a huge wheel appeared in his palm.

The wheel was half black and half white, hovering in the void; like Ding Huan's Calamity-Breaking Blade, it too was madly gathering momentum.

Whether life force or death qi, any breath of life and death within the Eternal God Abyss would be swept away by this black-and-white wheel.

Ding Huan saw clearly that this black-and-white wheel was the very same vortex array gate that had teleported him here earlier.

Before the grey-robed man's black-and-white wheel could continue gathering momentum, Ding Huan's Calamity-Breaking Blade had already transformed into a river of blades and descended.

The river of blades nearly tore through space; streaks of killing intent and reincarnation intent fused together, transforming into a Yellow Springs river of blades that descended.

At this moment, everything beneath the Calamity-Breaking Blade seemed to become part of the Yellow Springs river of blades.

Any existence caught beneath this slash would be swept away by the Yellow Springs river of blades, and then torn into scraps by it.

Clearly, when the Calamity-Breaking Blade condensed the Yellow Springs river of blades, it had fused in endless laws of reincarnation.

Yet after the Yellow Springs river of blades descended, there was not the slightest chance of reincarnation.

This slash cut the Yellow Springs, with no reincarnation to be seen.

The grey-robed man gave a muffled grunt; even though he had not finished gathering momentum, the Yin-Yang Wheel was already blasted out.

Facing a killing divine art like the Yellow Springs Blade Seal, he did not dare to take it head-on.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The killing-Dao resonance exploded, and the yin-yang Dao laws shattered.

The violent life-and-death Dao resonance rebounded back, and Ding Huan opened his mouth and spat out a bloody arrow.

Yet his Yellow River of Knives was forcibly blasted apart by the opponent's yin-yang wheel.

"You actually don't fear the Law of Sinking!" The grey-robed man's lips overflowed with a trace of blood as he stared at Ding Huan in shock.

Ding Huan, on the contrary, let out a breath of relief. The opponent should be unable to move; otherwise, he wouldn't still be sitting there until now.