Chapter 856: Eleven Transmutations, Sage

Standing before the territory she had severed from herself, Qingsha Daozu was far from as calm as she appeared.

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To carve out this chaotic zone, she had spent three thousand three hundred years.

When setting up the Cosmic Wall, she had invited several seventh-step Masters of the Dao to assist.

Because this chaotic zone was her own severance, every surveillance flag within it was placed by her.

As long as she wished, she could see every existence within this chaotic zone at any moment.

Now she was doing exactly that.

She cast down one master flag, and before her appeared a vast void surveillance screen.

When Qingsha Daozu saw that only a few hundred skeletal remains of soon-to-vanish cultivators remained in the chaotic zone she had severed — with not a trace of Ding Huan — she panicked.

This was impossible.

In her estimation, Ding Huan should have held out for at least half a month.

After half a month, Ding Huan's resistance would reach its limit, and at that moment, the chaotic qi would strip away all his Dao, filling the chaotic zone's heavenly and earthly Dao principles.

When a cultivator reaches the limit of life, in desperate survival, their Dao rhythm fully activates, maximizing the filling of the Dao River.

From the moment Ding Huan left the Great Cosmic Void Plaza until now, less than half an hour had passed — how could he have vanished?

Qingsha Daozu had never once considered that Ding Huan could escape this chaotic zone.

Not even Ding Huan — if she herself were bound by Dao threads and thrown in, she could only wait to die.

Could it be that her subordinate had not thrown Ding Huan in?

Qingsha Daozu sneered inwardly, then seized another flag and hurled it forth.

A surveillance image appeared before her.

In the surveillance image, Ding Huan walked into the chaotic zone himself, without the slightest hesitation.

He had not uttered a single word of pleading.

Qingsha Daozu immediately frowned.

Does this mean Ding Huan has a way to survive within the chaotic zone? Even a way to escape her severed chaotic zone?

How could that be possible?

That Ding Huan could survive briefly within the chaotic zone was not surprising to her.

What puzzled her was how Ding Huan, having clearly entered her severed chaotic zone, had vanished entirely.

This chaotic zone was carved out by her using a Cosmic Wall.

Artificially constructed Cosmic Walls are indeed inferior to those formed spontaneously by fragments of heavenly laws.

Even so, to pass through a Cosmic Wall in a short time, one's cultivation must surpass hers.

Or one could use a Cosmic Pearl.

Even assuming Ding Huan possessed a Cosmic Pearl,

With his cultivation and strength, it would take him years just to reach the Cosmic Wall.

In those years, countless Ding Huans would have been corroded by chaos.

No matter how hard Qingsha Daozu racked her brain, she could not fathom how Ding Huan had vanished.

…

As soon as Ding Huan burst through the Cosmic Wall, he knew he had made a mistake.

The boundless chaotic qi crushed down upon him; his bones shattered instantly, and his physical body began to collapse.

Worse still, his Dao began to disintegrate.

Ding Huan was terrified.

If this continued, what chance did he have to live?

He now realized that the chaotic regions he had previously visited — including the one Qingsha Daozu had severed — were utterly different from this true chaos.

No, this place was not even a true chaotic zone.

There were still scattered remnants of Dao principles here — likely left behind by Qingsha Daozu when she constructed the Cosmic Wall.

In this impure chaotic zone, he was already on the verge of annihilation — how could he possibly survive if he entered the true chaotic zone?

As his bones and flesh neared collapse, Ding Huan frantically activated the Great Cosmic Art, trying to draw the chaos into his Zhou Tian.

But the chaotic qi annihilated his Dao too swiftly — he could not maintain his Dao domain, let alone construct a complete Great Cosmic Art Zhou Tian.

He had barely escaped into the chaotic zone — how could he die here?

He immediately sought to enter his own Cosmic World.

Soon he realized: in this chaotic zone, he could not control his own Dao, nor could he enter his own Cosmic World.

This suppression by chaos left him powerless — he could only wait to die.

"Crack!" His sternum was crushed and snapped by the chaos.

The broken bone pierced his lungs, causing waves of suffocation.

This suffocation was not from the bone piercing — it came from the chaos's suppression.

All his techniques vanished as if erased within this chaotic zone.

Ding Huan's will strained to connect with the Life Tree.

As streams of vital energy, like clear springs, seeped into his body, his physical form finally stabilized and ceased collapsing.

His Dao also ceased being annihilated by the chaos.

But this was certainly not a lasting solution.

Ding Huan could feel the Life Tree's vitality rapidly withering — if this continued, the Life Tree would perish soon.

With the vital energy from the Life Tree, Ding Huan's Dao domain stabilized, and his Dao rhythm settled into calm.

The Great Universe Art finally incorporated Chaos, forming the first complete Great Dao Zhou Tian.

When Ding Huan felt the faint Chaos Dao law river appear within his Great Dao world, he nearly wept with excitement.

He was finally brought back to life.

The vitality of the Life Tree stabilized, no longer dissipating.

Yet the Life Tree, once ten thousand zhang tall, had now shrunk to a thousand zhang.

Its vitality had become withered and feeble.

It had only been a short time.

Ding Huan struggled to steady his spirit and mind.

He continued to comprehend and merge all the Dao laws within the Chaos...

Ding Huan slowly discarded all the mottled Dao laws; the Chaos Dao law river in his Great Dao world evolved from vague to taking shape.

Because of the Zhou Tian of the Great Universe Art, Ding Huan gradually regained control of his body.

The surrounding Chaos space grew increasingly empty as Ding Huan comprehended more and more Chaos Dao laws.

Ding Huan felt as if half his bonds had been loosened.

At this point, he could calmly enter his own cosmic world.

He would not avoid it at such a moment.

Having finally comprehended true Chaos Dao law and formed his own Chaos Dao law river, how could he miss such an opportunity?

Ding Huan stepped steadily into the depths of the Chaos.

As Ding Huan delved deeper into the Chaos, the mottled Dao laws around him grew thinner and thinner, until they vanished entirely.

He was completely enveloped by Chaos; all around him was nothing but Chaos qi.

Fortunately, he now possessed his own Chaos Dao law river; even surrounded by pure, unblemished Chaos, he could still carve out a free space of his own.

Having comprehended the Chaos Dao laws here, Ding Huan seemed to have become one with the Chaos.

The Chaos Dao law river within his Great Dao world evolved from an embryonic form to gradually perfecting, expanding continuously.

One after another, Chaos Dao laws were comprehended and merged by Ding Huan, strengthening and perfecting his Chaos Dao law river.

At this moment, Ding Huan felt as if he had been a lifeless seed buried deep underground, slowly sprouting, then bursting through the soil and feeling the first ray of sunlight, after which he began to grow wildly.

He vaguely understood that Chaos was no different from normal space.

The only difference was that few could comprehend the Chaos Dao laws within Chaos.

Just as mortals cannot breathe in deep water because they cannot understand the survival laws of that depth.

Ding Huan did not take out the Divine Vein.

The Chaos qi within Chaos was the purest.

Yet ordinary people could not even survive here, let alone absorb Chaos qi within the Chaos.

Ding Huan's ability to perfect his Chaos Dao law river within the Chaos had already given him the foundation to survive here.

Now he absorbed pure Chaos qi, its effect stronger than the Chaos Divine Vein.

What he was now absorbing was pure Chaotic primordial Qi, its effect even stronger than that of the Chaotic Divine Spirit Vein.

Ding Huan's disappearance was like a single drop of water falling into the ocean—leaving not the slightest ripple in the Great Universe.

Yet Qing Sha Dao Zu seemed to have gone mad.

To hasten the formation of her Zhoumu territory, she frantically threw various-attribute cultivators into it to fill the Dao law river.

The more cultivators she threw in, the faster the Dao laws in this isolated Chaos region perfected.

When the Dao laws of this Chaos region were fully perfected, the mottled Chaos qi would vanish, forming a true territory.

Qing Sha Dao Zu's madness was met with nothing but contempt from others; no one paid attention.

Jiong understood Qing Sha Dao Zu's intent—she wanted to enter the territory quickly to find Ding Huan's corpse.

When a cultivator of Ding Huan's realm perished in the Chaos region, his world would collapse.

No matter how Ding Huan's world collapsed, the Chaos Treasures would not be destroyed along with it.

Qing Sha Dao Zu wanted only the possible Chaos Treasures on Ding Huan's person.

After understanding Qing Sha Dao Zu's thoughts, Jiong immediately left the Great Universe again.

He had once been a Heavenly Emperor himself.

Qing Sha Dao Zu's madness clearly meant she had not caught Ding Huan.

If Qing Sha Dao Zu had not caught Ding Huan, she might one day think of him again—he would not wait for her to invite him for tea.

At this moment, Jiong suspected that Ding Huan was another cultivator who cultivated his own Great Dao.

The two individuals who had once thrown the Great Universe into chaos were both cultivators of their own Great Dao.

One of them had killed his son, Yin Yuan.

If such a person as Ding Huan cannot be killed, flee from him immediately.

For if Ding Huan ever attains Eternal Life, it will be a nightmare.

This was not told to him by others—it was his own experience.

This wasn't something anyone had told him; it was his own experience.

As Ding Huan grew increasingly accustomed to cultivating within the Chaos, his power surged wildly.

Ding Huan had assumed that when his Chaos Dao law river was perfected, he would attain the Eleventh Rebirth Saint Realm.

Even he himself had not expected that it was the Vitality Dao law river that perfected first.

He had been focused on comprehending, merging, and perfecting the Chaos Dao law river, yet before the Chaos Dao law river was complete, the Vitality Dao law river had already fully formed.

The Vitality Dao law river emitted a surging torrent of Vitality Dao rhythm, causing the Life Tree to surge once more.

The Law of Vitality's starriver spilled forth surging vitality dao resonance, causing the Life Tree to surge once again.

From a thousand zhang to ten thousand zhang seemed like only an instant, and after ten thousand zhang the Tree of Life still showed no sign of stopping, surging straight up to twenty thousand zhang, then thirty thousand zhang...

Until it reached a hundred thousand zhang.

The dense vitality added another embryonic Law Star River to Ding Huan's Great Dao Consciousness Sea...

Before Ding Huan could even sense what Law Star River this was, his cultivation shackles were torn open.

Vast Great Dao aura swirled around Ding Huan's body.

Billions upon billions of Laws manifested.

He was now an Eleven-Turn Saint.