Chapter 858: The Unbelievably Powerful Yi Jie

Ding Huan drew out Po Jie Dao and slashed once.

Even here, in the heart of chaos, the blade's momentum tore a river of light like a silken banner, as if carrying its own domain of slaughter.

The chaos split apart, a thousand-li chasm torn open beneath Po Jie Dao.

Because this slash carried Ding Huan's Dao of slaughter, after cleaving the chaos, the chaotic qi merged with his slaughter blade momentum, forming countless blades of slaughter crystal.

The blade intent within the chasm continued to tear apart the newly split chaos rift.

Though this single slash had only opened a thousand-li gap, Ding Huan knew that even Ke could not have achieved this here.

This was chaos.

Every step forward in chaos was excruciatingly difficult, let alone slicing through it for a thousand li with one blow.

At this moment, Ding Huan's heart surged.

The gloom from being dragged here by Ke vanished entirely.

Next, he would find Deng and deliver this bastard one slash.

He was still no match for Jiong, but Jiong's Dao was certainly flawed.

Even if Ke had re-cultivated the Path of Light, his power would still be a notch lower.

Intercept.

So what if he wasn't Jiong's match? Could Ke possibly block him?

At least let him deliver this bastard one slash and relieve his inner frustration.

A fifth-step cultivator with a flawed Dao—he simply didn't believe Ke could stop him.

Originally, Ding Huan thought that even if he entered the Dao Creation Realm, he'd still fall short of Chang Yun, Chen Chi, and others.

Now, Ding Huan no longer thought so.

He had truly entered the Dao Creation Realm and gained a clearer understanding of his own Dao's power.

Ding Huan believed that if he faced Chang Yun now, he could kill the old bastard with one slash.

This wasn't confidence—it was intuition granted by his Dao.

He could leave now, but he'd need to alter his appearance first.

He wasn't afraid of Jiong, but against that woman, Qing Sha, he was still far behind.

That woman's cultivation was vastly stronger than Jiong's, and her Dao had no obvious flaws.

With his current strength, facing her would likely leave him unable to escape unscathed.

After a moment's hesitation, Ding Huan still stored Po Jie Dao within his world.

He had always carried Po Jie Dao on his back; if he still carried it now, Qing Sha, the Dao Ancestor, would surely take special notice.

Just as Ding Huan prepared to leave chaos and seek a territory within the greater universe to further strengthen himself, he suddenly felt a ripple of Dao rhythm within his world.

Ding Huan's divine sense descended into his world.

He immediately discovered that Yi Jie had ascended to Sacred Beast.

Because he had attained the Eternal Dao Creation Realm, Yi Jie had sensed the opportunity to become a Sacred Beast.

Probably crushed too long by Er Gou, Yi Jie had finally broken through his bloodline shackles and become a Sacred Beast.

Ding Huan was very satisfied.

Because his own cultivation had continuously risen, the Dao rules within his world had also continuously improved and advanced.

Each time he attained a breakthrough, the Dao principles within his world became extraordinarily clear.

Yi Jie, because of the perfection of Ding Huan's Dao world rules, had steadily climbed in cultivation alongside him.

It was as if he ate the meat, and Yi Jie still managed to sip some broth.

Otherwise, Yi Jie would never have seized this opportunity.

Now, Yi Jie had seized the chance of his master's attainment of the Eternal Realm and successfully shattered his bloodline shackles.

"Master Huan, my bloodline has broken its shackles—I'm a Sacred Beast now, 【42】 Hahaha…" Yi Jie laughed wildly.

"Hahaha..." Yijie was laughing wildly.

He was thinking of Er Gou.

These years, it was only because he followed Master Huan that he had reached Sacred Beast.

Even if Er Gou was at the peak of Divine Beast, he'd never reach Sacred Beast.

Er Gou had oppressed him for so long; now the tide had turned—it was his turn to crush Er Gou.

No matter how mighty Er Gou was, he was still just a Divine Beast.

Though Yi Jie was extremely proud, Ding Huan found the whole scene deeply odd.

Because after ascending to Sacred Beast, Yi Jie hadn't changed much—he was still a pig.

Hmm… should say, a fatter pig.

"Yi Jie, you used to have four Divine Beast horns—you looked somewhat imposing. Now you've regressed into a real pig."

Ding Huan couldn't help speaking.

"Master Huan, look."

As Yi Jie spoke, four ferocious, killing intent-filled beast horns appeared above his head.

Had Ding Huan not seen it himself, he'd never have believed a pig could radiate such overwhelming killing power…

No—he shouldn't call this thing a pig. It was Zhuo Dun.

Yi Jie was a Divine Beast; now his bloodline had evolved into Sacred Beast.

This was due to the influence of his world's Dao principles; outside, this Zhuo Dun would have struggled immensely to reach Sacred Beast.

"Good. Will you continue to seclude yourself, or come out with me?" Seeing Yi Jie still had his trump card, Ding Huan was quite satisfied.

"Master Huan, I can't seclude myself anymore—I'm a Sacred Beast now, time to go out and sweep…"

Before Yijie finished speaking, Ding Huan appeared beside it and slapped its head: "Go out and behave yourself, or you'll stay here forever."

"Yes, Master Huan." Yijie's head drooped.

It was deeply resentful—it had finally ascended to Sacred Beast rank and wanted to show off outside.

But Master Huan wouldn't let it show off—wasn't that suppressing its nature, forcing it to live in fear?

If you lack strength, you live in fear—that's fine—but now it had power that reached the heavens, yet still lived in fear? It couldn't swallow this indignity.

But staying inside was even worse.

Here, you could only cultivate in seclusion; you couldn't even find someone to chat with—who would want this?

Ding Huan chuckled: "You're just a newly ascended Level One Sacred Beast. Anyone outside could slap you dead with one hand."

Yijie mumbled: "Master Huan, if you won't let me be arrogant, I'll just tuck my tail. Why say such obviously false words?"

"What?"

It had seen too many of those outsiders.

Min Yuan was pretty good, wasn't he?

But now, in its eyes, he was nothing special.

Hmm, it had a decent relationship with the Great Sage—so it wouldn't be punished.

Ding Huan ignored the thing.

Yijie's ascension to Sacred Beast was no more than equivalent to a First-Transformation Sacred Sage.

In the Grand Universe, he himself had once achieved Tenth-Transformation, yet still got bullied.

Never mind Yijie, this creature who ascended to Sacred Beast in his world.

Once this thing goes out and meets the real强者, it'll probably tuck its pigtail… and behave like a proper pig.

Seeing Ding Huan say nothing,

Yijie felt triumphant.

Obviously, Master Huan was in the wrong—he knew his words were lies and couldn't fool it.

Ding Huan retracted his Dao Veins and prepared to leave this chaos.

"Master Huan, is this chaos?"

Yijie even forgot to ask whether what Ding Huan had just retracted was the Dao Veins—it stared in astonishment at its surroundings.

Just now, its divine sense had swept through—it was certain, this was chaos.

"Correct. So stick close to me. If you get swallowed by chaos, don't blame me for not warning you." Ding Huan said, then walked toward the chaos.

How could Yijie dare to slack off even slightly?

It knew clearly—though it was now terrifyingly strong, once engulfed by chaos, it would still die.

Yet why did it also feel a strange longing to step into this chaos?

This was contradictory.

After following Ding Huan into chaos, Yijie discovered that no matter where Master Huan went, chaos could not engulf him.

And behind Master Huan, space would form—so long as it stayed within that space, it remained unharmed.

This made Yijie's inner restlessness grow—it realized it truly longed to walk into chaos like Master Huan, to taste the chaos energy.

But it was afraid.

It had heard from ErGou how terrifying chaos was—enter it, and you die.

Was it because it had reached Sacred Beast rank that it no longer feared chaos?

After all, it was a powerful Sacred Beast, not a weakling like ErGou—should it try?

Yijie glanced at Ding Huan, who kept walking ahead, hesitated for a long while, then abandoned the idea.

It was certain—if it truly dared to enter chaos, Master Huan would very likely not save it. This was intuition.

The chaos here was not pure; Ding Huan had already judged this was not true chaos.

Even so, Ding Huan still could not extend his divine sense here.

Unlike others, he possessed the Chaos Law Sea.

So he could sense direction here—at least he wouldn't stray and enter deeper chaos.

One man and one pig—better said, one man and one beast—traveled through this chaos for nearly a year.

Ding Huan stopped. He saw the Cosmic Wall.

He didn't know how many had built Cosmic Walls within this chaos.

But he was certain this Cosmic Wall before him was the same one that had once trapped him—the one built by Dao Ancestor Qing Sha.

The Cosmic Wall that once took him time to pass through was now, in his eyes, nothing but a pile of laws he could shatter with a single gesture.

Ding Huan did exactly that.

Seeing Ding Huan reach out toward the Cosmic Wall, Yijie swallowed the words it had been about to say.

It wanted to tell Ding Huan it suspected it could survive in chaos—even absorb chaos energy to cultivate, with even better results.

But after hesitating, Yijie swallowed the words.

Go.

It knew well—if it could improve its cultivation, Master Huan would do anything.

If it said that, Master Huan might just leave it here to cultivate in seclusion again.

How could that be allowed?

"Crack!" The Cosmic Wall blocking Ding Huan shattered into infinite law fragments under his palm.

The Cosmic Wall collapsed with a roar.

Infinite chaos energy surged into the space previously blocked by the Cosmic Wall.

Ding Huan watched as row upon row of celestial and terrestrial spirit plants were destroyed by Chaos, and he felt deeply satisfied.

The spirit plants here were all objects of astonishing value.

But Ding Huan didn't care for them.

Because the vast majority were in their juvenile stage.

He wasn't strong enough to kill Qing Sha, the Dao Ancestor, so he'd take a little interest first.

When Chaos had fully engulfed this territory, Ding Huan raised his hand and forged several hand seals, then pulled up a Dao vein from below.

This Dao vein had surely been planted here by Qing Sha, the Dao Ancestor, to nurture these celestial and terrestrial spirit plants.

But now it was his.

Dao veins were exceedingly rare.

He had obtained one when he attained the Eternal Life, Creation Dao Realm.

Back then, the Dao's principles were clear, so he sensed the location of the Dao vein he needed.

Yet in the past year and more, he had encountered not a single Dao vein.

Now, Qing Sha, the Dao Ancestor, had compensated him with one.

"Let's go, we'll leave from somewhere else," Ding Huan said, stowing the Dao vein and without hesitation re-entering the Chaos.

He had destroyed a territory formed by Qing Sha, the Dao Ancestor, using the lives of cultivators to fill the Dao River.

Now, if he left from here, wouldn't that be like hanging a sign that reads "The silver here is mine"?