Chapter 805: The Shattered Void of a Mid-Grade Universe

Xing Jia and Min Yuan nearly beat their chests to pieces, assuring Ding Huan they could rest easy.

If they ran into Elder Yi Shang and Jia Baihé, they would give their lives to help.

At this moment, all they could think about were the vast heaven-and-earth rules of the mid-grade universe, and stepping easily onto the great Dao of the Immortal Saint…

Ding Huan sent his divine sense into the Eternal Life Grand Talisman.

The Eternal Life Grand Talisman had not yet been activated when the golden radiance flared violently, instantly forming a halo of light.

Ding Huan signaled Xing Jia and Min Yuan to enter the golden halo of the Eternal Life Grand Talisman, and at the same time activated the Eternal Life Grand Talisman.

The golden halo seemed as though it would tear a whole realm apart; the surrounding spatial rules crumbled one after another, and the next instant the Eternal Life Grand Talisman wrapped around Ding Huan and the other two and vanished without a trace.

Wrapped by the Eternal Life Grand Talisman, Ding Huan had just sent his divine sense out when he felt a wave of dizziness wash over him.

Even though he was a Second-Turn Saint, he could no longer stay conscious.

This was also because the Eternal Life Grand Talisman was his own possession.

At this moment, Ding Huan could only circulate the Grand Cosmos Art, forming a Zhou Tian between himself and the Eternal Life Grand Talisman.

Even if he passed out, he could not lose control of the Eternal Life Grand Talisman.

He did not know how long it had been when the Zhou Tian cycle of his Grand Cosmos Art stirred the intent within his sea of consciousness, and Ding Huan woke up.

He felt himself spinning in the void, as if about to come to a stop.

Yet under his divine sense, Min Yuan and Xing Jia had long since vanished.

Ding Huan knew these two fellows must have been flung out during the transmission.

This was already within his expectations.

This kind of transmission from a low-grade universe plane to a high-grade universe plane was absolutely not as gentle as a transmission between planes of the same grade, and certainly not as smooth as a transmission between domains.

He could only hope the Eternal Life Grand Talisman had truly transmitted them to a higher-grade universe plane, and that Xing Jia and Min Yuan had arrived at a high-grade universe plane as they wished.

Ding Huan finally brought the Eternal Life Grand Talisman to a halt, and the very first thing he did was send the Eternal Life Grand Talisman and the Talisman Dao Laws into his own great Dao world.

This place was a stretch of cosmic void.

The moment Ding Huan's divine sense swept outward, he immediately knew this was absolutely not a low-grade plane universe.

The void rules here were clearly far, far higher than those of a low-grade plane universe.

Even the heaven-and-earth rules of Dun Yi Shen Jie could absolutely not compare with this place.

Ding Huan's heart leaped with joy—had he truly arrived at a mid-grade universe plane?

He did not believe he had been transmitted to a high-grade universe plane.

Let alone the fact that the Eternal Life Grand Talisman had no talisman spirit; even if it had one, it probably would not have transmitted him directly from a low-grade universe plane to a high-grade universe plane.

Ding Huan cautiously tried circulating the Grand Cosmos Art.

When the first Zhou Tian passed, Ding Huan's heart instantly sank.

He had indeed arrived at a mid-grade universe plane, but an ominous premonition had arisen in his heart.

Because within the cosmic rules he sensed, there were not only the heaven-and-earth Dao Laws of the cosmic void, but also the heaven-and-earth rules of broken star continents, and endless fragments of shattered laws.

What this implied, Ding Huan already vaguely guessed in his heart.

It was that nearly all the star continents of the mid-grade universe plane had been destroyed by the Calamity of Measurement, and those countless star continents and planets had been ground into rubble by the Calamity of Measurement.

The heaven-and-earth rules had been torn apart, so within this vast stretch of cosmic void there were no complete heaven-and-earth rules, nor any complete void Dao Laws.

Everything was shattered heaven-and-earth laws.

These shattered heaven-and-earth laws were what remained after the destruction of those endless star continents and planets by the Calamity of Measurement.

Apart from himself, probably no one else in this void could cultivate and advance.

He was different—even if the heaven-and-earth laws were shattered.

As long as he kept fusing these law fragments into his own river of law stars, his Grand Cosmos Art would condense out a complete great Dao Law belonging to him.

The only difference was that the time needed for cultivation had grown longer.

Moreover, from now on, his cultivation would not only be related to the heaven-and-earth primal energy, but also to the fragments of heaven-and-earth laws contained within the void.

Only in places where the heaven-and-earth primal energy was dense, and where the fragments of heaven-and-earth laws in the void were concentrated, would his cultivation progress speed up.

Ding Huan sighed—cultivation after the Calamity of Measurement actually meant collecting and fusing endless law fragments.

Did this not mean that in the future, only his Grand Cosmos Art, or a Gong Fa similar to the Grand Cosmos Art that could fuse fragments of heaven-and-earth laws, would be able to cultivate and advance?

Ding Huan recalled Min Yuan's old lair from back then—that Void Rule Island.

With countless star continents shattered in the mid-grade universe plane, such rule islands should exist, right?

Back then he had looked down on Min Yuan for cowering inside a single Void Rule Island, yet now he himself was longing to find such a rule island.

If he could find such a rule island, the time needed for his cultivation would be greatly reduced.

Ding Huan was not the type to blame fate and resent heaven.

After learning that this universe plane likely had no star continents, Ding Huan simply took out an ordinary low-grade flying divine artifact.

He had no direction, and did not know how he should go about searching for Jia Baihé.

All he could do now was cultivate on one side and search on the other as he drifted through the void.

For him, cultivating in the void meant collecting, comprehending, and fusing the endless shattered heaven-and-earth laws of the mid-grade universe's star continents.

After fusing these shattered heaven-and-earth laws, he would use the Grand Cosmos Art to derive a complete great Dao Law belonging to himself, and construct heaven-and-earth rules of his own.

This method of cultivation made it unnecessary to bring out the Universe Cauldron. If someone were to see the Universe Cauldron, it would only cause unnecessary trouble.

Ding Huan arranged a pile of top-grade divine spirit veins along with several Chaos divine spirit veins and Starry Sky divine spirit veins on the low-grade divine artifact flying ship.

Ding Huan first set up a monitoring divine array on the flying ship: as long as it encountered something like a star continent or a Void Rule Island, it would automatically alert him.

So he would not miss it while in closed-door cultivation.

Apart from that, Ding Huan only set up some simple defensive restrictions on the flying ship before he began comprehending the endless fragments of heaven-and-earth laws in the void.

Right now he had a cultivation goal but no direction to head toward, so he could only choose to raise his own cultivation first.

When Ding Huan's Great Universe Art began to circulate, and the dense primordial qi of heaven and earth enveloped him, fragment after fragment of shattered laws was continuously comprehended by Ding Huan.

Within the river of laws in Ding Huan's Great Dao World, the law fragments comprehended and fused by Ding Huan grew ever more numerous.

As time slowly passed, a third river of laws in Ding Huan's Great Dao World began to vaguely take shape.

Although Ding Huan had comprehended countless law fragments of medium universes, and had also condensed river after river of Great Dao principles belonging to his Great Universe Art.

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Yet his third river of laws was formed from condensed fragments of spatial laws.

In the blink of three hundred years, the third river of laws in Ding Huan's Great Dao World finally took complete form; a river of laws composed of spatial law fragments shone brilliantly and clearly.

The river of spatial laws stretched across Ding Huan's Great Dao World, adjacent to the river of temporal laws, filling it with the boundless aura of the Great Dao of Space.

Ding Huan had a feeling that he could seemingly grab any region of space at will and then control it within his hands.

This feeling of controlling space was truly excellent.

The Great Dao World and the perceptible world that truly existed expanded once again.

A Third-Cycle Saint.

What excited Ding Huan was not that he could control space and had entered the Third-Cycle Saint realm.

It was seeing that beyond the rivers of temporal and spatial laws, aside from the already formed river of fire-attribute laws, four other rivers of laws were vaguely taking shape.

Those were the rivers of laws of the four attributes: metal, wood, water, and earth.

Although they had not fully formed, the clear attribute Dao-essence indicated that the formation of these four rivers of laws was merely a matter of time.

Indeed, cultivating to the extreme means presenting one's complete Great Dao within one's own world.

Ding Huan slowly exhaled a breath; he did not know if others were like this, but his Great Universe Art was exactly like this.

Ding Huan closed his eyes, feeling the various rivers of laws rapidly forming within the Great Dao sea of consciousness, and sank once again into the cultivation of fusing various law fragments through the Great Universe Art.

The laws within the rivers of laws continuously expanded, increased, and perfected, and Ding Huan's cultivation base rose accordingly.

He was now collecting and fusing broken fragments of the laws of heaven and earth, and the difficulty of advancing had clearly increased.

At first, Ding Huan had thought it best to find a slightly more complete Void Star Continent.

Even on a broken Star Continent, cultivating there would be faster than collecting and fusing broken fragments of the laws of heaven and earth in the Void Universe.

After Ding Huan entered the Third-Cycle Saint realm, his thoughts changed.

He could be certain that advancing by fusing law fragments in the Void as he was now would definitely make his strength superior to cultivating on a Star Continent with fixed laws of heaven and earth.

He absorbed various law fragments and ultimately derived his own Great Dao principles.

But cultivating within a Star Continent of fixed rules meant that the laws of heaven and earth comprehended and fused were dominated by that rule-bound Star Continent.

Just as Quan's strength in Dun Yi Shen Jie was greater than in other places.

Because Quan's Great Dao was proven in Dun Yi Shen Jie, so his Great Dao principles perfectly matched the laws of heaven and earth of Dun Yi Shen Jie.

Within this Void Universe, who knows how many fragments of the laws of heaven and earth from broken Star Continents remain.

That is to say, the law fragments of the Void Universe are the great mixture of the laws of heaven and earth after the shattering of billions of Star Continents.

Cultivating within this Void Universe, fusing the endless law fragments from Star Continents of all universes, and then deriving the Great Dao principles of his Great Universe Art.

His strength would absolutely be greater than cultivating on some fixed Star Continent.

This was his misfortune, and also his opportunity.

The drawback was that it consumed too much time.

Now that he had arrived in the Void of this medium universe plane, there was no direction to speak of.

What difference was there between rushing in haste and rushing while cultivating?

Calming his mind, everything became natural and reasonable.

Until the monitoring array he had set up gave him new feedback, as if he had encountered a Star Continent.

Ding Huan immediately stopped cultivating.

Whether it was a broken Star Continent or a complete Star Continent, as long as it was a Star Continent, there might be people.

If there are people, one can ask some questions.

Ding Huan waved his hand, retracted all the Divine Spirit Veins, and swept his divine sense outward.

It was indeed a Star Continent...

More precisely, it was a boundless desert.

There was no Star Continent in the Void; it was merely a single desert floating in the Void.

It must be that the Star Continent where this desert was previously located was destroyed by a Great Calamity, leaving only this desert behind.

The fact that this desert could remain intact in the Void of the universe for such a long time without dispersing must have a reason.

(End of this chapter)