Chapter 813: Crossing Da Lun Mountain

Is this really the kind of massive peak I have to cross?

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Ding Huan stared at the towering peak, its summit unreachable even by his divine sense; after a moment's hesitation, he decided to first set up a teleportation array.

Not only must he set up a teleportation array, but he must place it in a hidden location.

To ensure his teleportation array would be more stable.

Ding Huan didn't just use top-grade materials—he still used a primordial treasure as the array's core.

He didn't know if this teleportation array would ever work, but what if it did?

Previously, in the Dream Desert, it was because he had pre-set a teleportation array that he had easily escaped the Dream Desert.

Meng Chuan Nü had only been able to leave the Dream Desert by cooperating with him.

In Ding Huan's eyes, no matter what he did, he must always plan his escape route first.

Unless there was truly no escape route left to choose.

This was his possible escape route; Ding Huan spent a full month to complete setting up this teleportation array.

Though he didn't know if this teleportation array would work, after completing it, Ding Huan felt considerably lighter.

This was the difference between having an escape route and having none.

After concealing the teleportation array's location with a concealment barrier, Ding Huan directed the Cosmic Cauldron toward the mountain range that blocked his path like a colossal dragon.

Even within the Cosmic Cauldron, Ding Huan remained extremely cautious and careful.

There had simply been too many dangers before.

Indeed, after only two peaceful days, on the third day's arrival, Ding Huan sensed a tremendous sense of peril.

Ding Huan's divine sense surged wildly into the Cosmic Cauldron, trying to make it dodge.

Boom!

Despite Ding Huan having directed the Cosmic Cauldron away from the space ahead, a deafening roar still struck, nearly shattering the vessel.

Even Ding Huan standing atop the Cosmic Cauldron felt violent shaking.

Ding Huan immediately halted the Cosmic Cauldron.

A deep groove appeared on the rear of the Cosmic Cauldron.

The intense aura of temporal laws made Ding Huan realize the Cosmic Cauldron had nearly been torn apart by temporal displacement.

If spatial displacement drove all cultivators to despair, temporal displacement might not even leave time for despair.

Ding Huan hadn't expected to encounter temporal displacement at all.

Around his Cosmic Cauldron was the defense array he had set up—a defense array containing not only spatial dao patterns but also temporal dao patterns.

However, whether spatial or temporal dao patterns, all were his own insights.

Fortunately for these, otherwise his Cosmic Cauldron would likely have been ripped apart.

Time can corrode all existence.

Even if his Cosmic Cauldron were stronger, before endless, rapid time flow and conflicting temporal layers, it would still fail to hold.

Though the Cosmic Cauldron was damaged, it could still fly, but Ding Huan was unwilling to use it further.

He sent the Cosmic Cauldron into his own world and extended his divine sense outward.

If the Cosmic Cauldron fell into temporal displacement, he couldn't escape either.

If so, it was better to use his Heart Dash for peace of mind.

With his own Heart Dash, even if he encountered danger, he could evade it instantly.

Without the Cosmic Cauldron, Ding Huan dared not use his Heart Dash to full capacity; his speed immediately slowed.

Ding Huan's mind remained calm—he had once spent centuries calmly absorbing law fragments within the Void Canyon.

This journey was merely slower; it wouldn't make him anxious.

Time flowed away as Ding Huan traveled.

During the ascent of the massive peak, Ding Huan encountered temporal displacement more than once.

Thanks to his preparedness, he avoided all these displaced spaces.

Besides temporal displacement, there were spatial displacements, chaotic law zones…

There were no longer things like the black insect swarms that inspired dread.

These spatial displacements, temporal displacements, and chaotic law zones were merely to be avoided.

There were also teleportation spaces—if one failed to recognize them and stepped in, the next moment one might be transported anywhere.

Fortunately, within Ding Huan's Dao World, the spatial law river had long taken shape.

Moreover, the spatial dao principle had also formed.

All teleportation spaces were crystal clear under Ding Huan's divine sense.

He always managed to avoid these dangers in time.

Thirty years later, Ding Huan stood atop the peak.

At the summit, he saw a stone tablet inscribed with three characters: Da Lun Mountain.

Behind the Da Lun Mountain tablet was a small natural stone pool, its edge lined with over a hundred gray spiritual plants.

These spiritual plants stood less than half a meter tall, entirely gray-white, with only seven leaves from base to tip.

They resembled the Seven Realm Flowers—seven flowers versus seven leaves.

Each leaf bore intricate dao patterns, complex and profound, arranged in perfectly regular spirals, as if meticulously carved by hand.

Ding Huan could not determine the rank of these plants, but from their dao resonance, he sensed a hint of reincarnation energy.

Their rank exceeded that of ninth-grade divine herbs.

Ding Huan had no qualms—he harvested all the mature plants into his own world.

After searching everywhere again, there was nothing of value here except some bones that had not yet fully disintegrated.

Before descending the mountain, Ding Huan set up another teleportation array.

He did not yet know what kind of place he was about to go to, so he had to secure an escape route.

The descent took less time, but still consumed over a decade of Ding Huan's life.

As soon as he burst out of Daelun Mountain, all instability in space and time seemed to vanish completely.

The chaotic law space was gone; all heavenly and earthly laws had stabilized.

Ding Huan exhaled in relief—this was finally a place suitable for cultivation.

He had ample cultivation resources; all he needed was a stable location to seclude himself and break through to the Eternal Life Realm.

He summoned a top-grade flying divine artifact, but his travel speed slowed considerably.

Several months later, Ding Huan's spiritual sense finally spotted the figures of cultivators.

Although there were only three cultivators, Ding Huan's heart still surged with excitement.

In the past thousand years, he had encountered only one living person—Meng Chuan Nu.

To Ding Huan, Meng Chuan Nu was still a revenge machine with little emotion, so he had little to say to her.

Arriving here, he felt the surrounding vitality and the complete heavenly and earthly laws.

Added to seeing a few living people, Ding Huan finally felt as if he had returned to the human world.

His spiritual sense revealed two women and one man—the man was a World God, while the two women were both at the early stage of Divine King.

Ding Huan concealed his own cultivation to the early stage of Divine King and stepped forward proactively.

"Greetings, fellow cultivators. I accidentally entered a teleportation space and was transported to this place, losing my way for a time. May I ask—is there a marketplace nearby?"

Ding Huan stepped forward and bowed respectfully.

The three were startled by Ding Huan's sudden appearance.

When they saw that Ding Huan was merely an early-stage Divine King, they all relaxed.

Accidentally entering a teleportation space near the foot of Daelun Mountain was not unusual.

One of the women said: "The nearest Daelun Marketplace is several years' journey away. I have a directional orb—I'll give you one."

The woman generously pulled out a directional orb.

Ding Huan quickly thanked her and accepted it.

These three had traveled so far to come here—they must be searching for something.

After bidding farewell to the three, Ding Huan walked away before summoning the Cosmic Cauldron.

The Cosmic Cauldron had sustained some damage, but it still functioned.

For a treasure like the Cosmic Cauldron, as long as it was kept close, minor damage would slowly repair itself over time.

The woman had said it would take years to reach the marketplace; Ding Huan reached it in just a few days, his spiritual sense sweeping over the Daelun Marketplace.

This was still without him pushing his full speed—if he had gone all out, he could have arrived in less than a day.

Before entering the marketplace, Ding Huan sensed something was off.

The star continent he stood on was either a mid-tier law universe or a high-tier law universe.

Combined with the completeness of its heavenly and earthly laws,

Shouldn't sages walk everywhere and Eternal Life cultivators be as common as dogs?

Yet within and around the marketplace, he saw not a single sage, let alone an Eternal Life Sage.

The strongest cultivator here seemed to be a pseudo-sage on the verge of First Transformation.

Beyond that, the Combination God stage was considered powerful.

Divine Kings and World Gods were the most numerous, with many Divine Lords scattered about.

Was this truly a mid-tier law star continent?

Ding Huan no longer dared hope it was a high-tier law star continent.

As Ding Huan still pondered, a blade slash suddenly descended.

While Ding Huan was still puzzled, a slash of blade light suddenly cleaved down.

The blade slash exploded.

In his spiritual sense, the four characters "Daelun Marketplace" were torn apart into fragments by the slash.

Not only that, the marketplace's gate tower was shattered by the same blow.

Immediately, Ding Huan saw a Divine King cultivator fall from the void, his body split cleanly in two.

Blood stained the ground.

Before the Divine King could recover, a burst of flame landed on his severed body—and in moments, he was reduced to nothingness.

Ding Huan's spiritual sense clearly saw the attacker was also a Divine King.

He was a Divine King at the peak, one step away from entering the Combination God stage.

He wore a Jin Yi, radiating intense killing intent—he clearly had done this many times before.

Moreover, he had shattered the marketplace gate, killed a Divine King, burned the corpse, and left without the slightest reaction.

No one in the Daelun Marketplace seemed surprised, and few even watched.

Only after the Jin Yi Divine King departed did two attendants in marketplace attire arrive.

They swiftly cleared the mess at the marketplace entrance and repaired the gate tower.

Watching the "Daelun Marketplace" characters restored to perfect condition, Ding Huan was truly astonished.

Could it really be done like this?

Looking at the four characters "Great Wheel Market Town" as good as new, Ding Huan was truly impressed.

It could even be like this?

How powerful must the background of this Jin Shan Divine King be?

No wonder there are so few people in this Da Lun Bazaar; if he had lowered his cultivation,

he wouldn't dare stay here.

Doesn't the bazaar's owner know that if things continue like this, fewer and fewer people will come?

Ding Huan shook his head in silence and walked toward the Da Lun Bazaar.

He planned to inquire about the specific situation of this star continent, then find a place to seclude himself and ascend to the Eternal Life Realm.

As for finding Meng Chuan Nu and helping her fight Hui Zhi, Ding Huan had never considered it.

His coming here was solely because Meng Chuan Nu had brought him to the edge of the Cosmic Wall.

Of course, if Meng Chuan Nu found him, he would honor their prior agreement and join forces with her.

But only on the condition that he could step into the Eternal Life Sage Realm; otherwise, forget it.