Chapter 810

Meng Chuan Nü stood in place, muttering to herself for a long while, before finally accepting that the Great Dream Desert was no longer hers.

All the countless years of effort she had poured in were now for someone else's benefit.

After a long silence, Meng Chuan Nü said: "Divide control of this flying treasure with me—we'll go find the complete Star Continent now."

Ding Huan had no hesitation—he immediately transferred control of the Cosmic Pot to Meng Chuan Nü.

Any void direction Meng Chuan Nü walked through could be recorded by the Cosmic Pot's monitoring array.

Meng Chuan Nü's mood was clearly poor; she only knew how to force the Cosmic Pot into reckless forward motion.

Although the Cosmic Pot wasn't hers, her cultivation level surpassed Ding Huan's.

Now, though she controlled the Cosmic Pot slower than Ding Huan had, the difference wasn't great.

Ding Huan didn't know how Meng Chuan Nü sensed the Great Dream Dao, but after the Cosmic Pot flew continuously for over three months, he stopped caring about her altogether.

The Cosmic Pot moved too fast, and with Meng Chuan Nü inside it, Ding Huan couldn't cultivate comfortably.

He simply returned to the inner cabin to study array arts.

The Cosmic Pot flew for nearly a hundred years before Ding Huan felt it come to a stop under Meng Chuan Nü's control.

Ding Huan stepped out of the Cosmic Pot and found Meng Chuan Nü had halted it beside a wall.

Is this the Cosmic Wall?

Ding Huan knew of the Cosmic Wall, but he had never seen one as vast and boundless as this one before.

No one knew how far this wall extended on either side, or how high or low it reached.

Not only could his divine sense not detect its limits, it couldn't even penetrate its composition.

"This is the Cosmic Wall," Meng Chuan Nü pointed at the vast, boundless gray wall before them.

After nearly a hundred years of flight, she still could not let go of her resentment toward the Great Dream Desert.

"How was the Cosmic Wall formed?" Ding Huan asked.

He was certain the Cosmic Wall wasn't naturally occurring—but how could such a wall spanning an entire universe come into being?

And why did it form at all?

Meng Chuan Nü shook her head: "No one probably knows how the Cosmic Wall formed. At least, among the people I know, no one understands its origin."

"I only know that after every Cosmic Cataclysm, a Cosmic Wall forms…"

Ding Huan's heart stirred.

He recalled the fragments of Heavenly and Earthly Laws piled up in the Void Canyon.

Could the formation of the Cosmic Wall be related to these Law fragments?

"The cosmic plane we're in likely has no complete Star Continents left. Even if any exist, they're only shattered Star Continents."

"Within such shattered Star Continents, one can at most attain the Ninth Transformation Holy Sage. Just like my former Great Dream Desert…"

At the mention of the Great Dream Desert, Meng Chuan Nü's killing intent surged uncontrollably again.

This time, she regained calm quickly: "So to attain Eternal Life Holy Sage, one must cross the Cosmic Wall."

"Is Guan Zhi on the other side of the Cosmic Wall?" Ding Huan looked at Meng Chuan Nü.

He suspected she had come here not because of any感应 of the Great Dream Dao, but because she knew the Cosmic Wall's location.

Meng Chuan Nü affirmed: "Yes, he is definitely on the other side of the Cosmic Wall."

"Can you sense the Great Dream Dao through the Cosmic Wall?" Ding Huan's tone was full of doubt.

Meng Chuan Nü froze, then realized she had slipped up—she smiled awkwardly: "I know the Cosmic Wall's location."

"To sense the Great Dream Dao, you must cross the Cosmic Wall."

Ding Huan chuckled: "So you've been guarding against me, afraid I'd learn the Cosmic Wall's location, which is why you didn't let me control my own flying treasure."

He had known this woman was always wary of him.

Meng Chuan Nü showed no shame: "I spent countless efforts, energy, and time to find the Cosmic Wall. If you want the directional Jade Slip, you can trade something with me."

Ding Huan sneered: "So will I also need to trade something to learn how to cross the Cosmic Wall?"

His Cosmic Pot had already marked every void coordinate along the way.

Even if Meng Chuan Nü dumped him back in the Great Dream Desert, he could find his way here again.

This time, Meng Chuan Nü shook her head: "No need for that—we already agreed when we partnered: I'm responsible for taking you to a higher-level universe."

"But how do we cross the Cosmic Wall? And after crossing, can we return?" That was Ding Huan's real concern.

After seeing the Cosmic Wall, Ding Huan was certain that Elder Yi Shang and Jia Baihe, even if they reached this cosmic plane, would be unlikely to cross it.

"There are many ways to cross the Cosmic Wall, but we can only use one."

Hearing this, Ding Huan was puzzled.

There were many ways to cross such a Cosmic Wall? He found it hard to believe.

Meng Chuan Nü didn't wait for him to ask—she continued: "The first method is brute force: if your cultivation reaches a certain level, you can tear open the Cosmic Wall and travel back and forth freely."

"To the Eternal Life Holy Sage realm?" Ding Huan asked uncertainly.

He was still far from the Eternal Life Holy Sage realm, yet he could vaguely sense that even reaching it might not be enough to tear open the Cosmic Wall.

Meng Chuan Nü chuckled: "It's stepping beyond the Ninth Step of the Dao."

Ding Huan fell silent.

The Ninth Step of the Dao was not the Ninth Transformation Holy Sage.

He knew the first step into the Cosmic Dao was the Eternal Life Holy Sage realm.

Only after becoming a Ninth Transformation Holy Sage could one possibly enter the First Step of the Dao—the Eternal Life Holy Sage realm.

Even when Xing Jia was at his peak, he had no资格 to step onto the Ninth Step of the Dao.

Let alone step beyond it.

Clearly, though "brute force breaks all Dao," actually cultivating to the point of tearing the Cosmic Wall was unrealistic for all cultivators.

"Is there another way?" Ding Huan pulled his thoughts back.

"Yes, the second method is to pass through the Cosmic Wall using a treasure. Several treasures can pierce the Cosmic Wall, the most famous being the Seven Realms Stone and the Eternal Life Talisman."

Upon hearing "Eternal Life Talisman," Ding Huan knew the woman from Mengchuan was referring to the Eternal Life Talisman he carried—the one that had lost its talisman spirit—not the one he had taken from Jueyue.

He did possess an Eternal Life Talisman, but his lacked a talisman spirit.

Ding Huan fell silent, losing all interest in asking further questions.

The woman from Mengchuan continued: "We can only use the third method: wait for the moment when the Cosmic Wall's rules reorganize, then use the Cosmic Pearl to tear open the wall and enter."

"The Cosmic Wall usually appears before and after a Great Calamity, and over time, it reorganizes due to various causes—that is what we call the reorganization of the Cosmic Wall's rules…"

As Ding Huan listened to the woman from Mengchuan's explanation, his inner certainty that his guess was correct deepened.

The so-called Cosmic Wall was formed after the Great Calamity by the fusion of infinite shattered Heavenly and Earthly laws with the laws of empty space and the cosmos—perhaps even fragments of the Great Calamity's laws…

"What is the interval between these reorganizations?" Ding Huan asked.

The woman from Mengchuan shook her head: "It's uncertain. Sometimes only a dozen years, sometimes hundreds, even thousands of years."

"How do you know when the Cosmic Wall's rules have reorganized?"

The woman from Mengchuan pulled out a pearl. The pearl appeared colorless; had Ding Huan not swept his spiritual sense over it, his eyes would have missed its existence entirely.

"Is this the Cosmic Pearl?" Ding Huan asked, surprised at where this woman had obtained it.

The woman from Mengchuan replied: "Yes. When the Cosmic Pearl changes color, the Cosmic Wall's rules are about to reorganize. If it turns white, the wall is easiest to break through; if it turns pitch black, it becomes difficult."

"Without a true great master, only the Cosmic Pearl can sense whether the Cosmic Wall's rules have reorganized."

"So what we must do next is wait here, correct?"

"Precisely. I have the Cosmic Pearl, so we have the right to wait here."

Ding Huan naturally understood the implication in her words.

That is, should they ever pass through the Cosmic Wall, all credit would belong to the woman from Mengchuan.

Because the Cosmic Pearl was hers.

This was part of their agreement: she would bring Ding Huan into the higher-level cosmic continent, and he would help her kill Hui Zhi.

"Fine. When the Cosmic Pearl changes color, wake me. I'll sense the Cosmic Wall."

After speaking, Ding Huan sat down against the Cosmic Wall.

If the Cosmic Wall truly was connected to the shattered laws of Heaven and Earth, then it might hold great benefit for him.

Perhaps, after comprehending and integrating the Cosmic Wall's rules to a sufficient degree, he could even pass through it using the Great Cosmic Art.

From start to finish, the woman from Mengchuan had only spoken of how to enter the Cosmic Wall—never how to exit it.

Yet he had clearly asked.

Clearly, exiting the other side of the Cosmic Wall was even harder than entering.

After all, the woman from Mengchuan possessed only one Cosmic Pearl; once used here, she would have none left for the return journey.

The woman from Mengchuan glanced at Ding Huan, seated near the Cosmic Wall as if about to sense its Dao principles, and a faint sneer curled her lips—yet she said nothing.

This was the first time she had ever seen someone attempt to comprehend the Cosmic Wall's rules.

If the Cosmic Wall's rules could be comprehended, the Cosmic Wall would have ceased to exist long ago.

Ding Huan was deeply disappointed. Normally, when his Great Cosmic Art Zhou Tian rotated, it could draw any existence into itself.

But the Great Cosmic Art Zhou Tian treated the Cosmic Wall as if—

It did not exist.

In other words, if the Cosmic Wall were a treasure, he lacked even the资格 to refine it.

The Great Cosmic Art was created by Ding Huan.

From its inception to now, the Great Cosmic Art had been refined continuously alongside his own growth.

Since the Great Cosmic Art Zhou Tian could not perceive the Cosmic Wall's existence, he would revise the Great Cosmic Art.