Chapter 862: Entering the Blue Star Sect

Could Yan Jiuyue's father be someone he knows?

That shouldn't be possible.

Ding Huan thought carefully and realized none of the people he knew could have founded a sect in the Great Universe.

And even if someone could found a sect, they would have to be extremely close to him.

Ding Huan really wanted to ask who Yan Jiuyue's father was.

But he knew it was pointless—he knew Yan Jiuyue would never tell him.

"Can you tell me about your adopted sister?" Ding Huan wanted to inquire about Jia Baihe.

Yan Jiuyue's expression turned cold: "You'll see her yourself—what's there to say?"

Ding Huan decided not to speak anymore.

The Great Universe had reformed, and teleportation arrays basically no longer existed.

Fortunately, the Blue Star Sect wasn't far from North Travel Heavenly City.

In just two days, Yan Jiuyue's flying artifact came to a stop outside the Blue Star Sect.

Ding Huan stepped down and stared silently at the three characters floating above the sect's protective array: "Blue Star Sect."

The Dao resonance emanating from these three characters was vast and mighty.

It was certain that someone with strength not inferior to Jiong had written them.

It was very likely a Dao Step Five master.

Even if Qing Sha, the Dao Ancestor, had abducted Jia Baihe, he would find a way to take her away.

And he would take the name "Blue Star Sect" for himself.

He absolutely could not let someone utterly unrelated to the Great Universe Dao establish the Blue Star Sect.

This wasn't just about his Dao legacy—it was about the safety of those around him.

If one day he left the Great Universe, those who inherited his Dao might arrive here and mistake "Blue Star Sect" for one he had founded.

Ding Huan believed the person who founded "Blue Star Sect" had nothing to do with him

because he felt not a single trace of Great Universe Dao resonance in those three characters.

It meant the one who founded "Blue Star Sect" had zero connection to him.

"Young Master."

"Sister Xun Lan…"

As soon as Yan Jiuyue reached the sect gate, several disciples stepped forward to bow respectfully.

Ding Huan glanced at the red-clad woman beside Yan Jiuyue, surprised to realize she was Xun Lan—so she too was a wedding companion.

Ding Huan was about to ask where Jia Baihe was when a loud, hearty laugh rang out.

Soon after, several people approached, led by a tall man.

Ding Huan didn't need to ask—he knew this man had to be Yan Jiuyue's father, and the founder of the Blue Star Sect.

His Dao resonance perfectly matched the three Dao-character inscriptions of "Blue Star Sect."

It meant those three Dao-character inscriptions were written by this man.

Yan Jiuyue's father chatted merrily with the several cultivators beside him, discussing something about Chaos.

"Father." Yan Jiuyue hurried forward to bow as she saw him approach.

The man nodded, then said with slight sternness: "What kind of behavior is this? Your wedding is imminent, yet you're still running all over the place. Can't you learn from your sister Baihe? She's so calm."

As he spoke, his gaze fell on Ding Huan. Ding Huan's appearance displeased him; he frowned slightly and asked: "Who are you?"

Ding Huan said nothing. Yan Jiuyue quickly replied: "He is Baihe's Dao partner…"

She didn't need to say more—her father understood.

Ding Huan was merely Jia Baihe's wedding companion.

He frowned slightly: "Jiuyue, have you asked Baihe?"

Though cultivators didn't care much about appearance, Ding Huan's looks were downright repulsive.

Worse, his cultivation level was equally pitiful.

A Third Turn Saint with such muddled Dao resonance—he was trash among trash in the Great Universe.

Yan Jiuyue hurried to say: "Baihe knows. She doesn't care. Besides, Baihe is only accompanying me as a wedding companion—afterward, she can do whatever she wants."

The implication was clear: Ding Huan was a temporary, disposable wedding companion for Jia Baihe.

Only she herself knew that Jia Baihe and this Ding Xiaotu could never be fake Dao partners.

No matter what, she would make sure Jia Baihe turned this fake pairing into a real one.

The man nodded and said nothing more.

It was just a wedding companion—Jia Baihe could make it real, or just pretend.

If she pretended, then after the wedding, they could simply drive this ugly man away.

He understood perfectly what Jiuyue meant.

After all, this was primarily Jiuyue's wedding, and since Jiuyue and Baihe were so close, Baihe naturally had to accompany her.

But Baihe was far more beautiful than Jiuyue—if she took an handsome Dao partner, Jiuyue's wedding might be overshadowed and become a laughingstock.

"Go settle in," the man told Yan Jiuyue again. "Remember, before the wedding, don't wander off."

Then he led the guests inside the sect, still chatting and laughing.

Yan Jiuyue turned to Xun Lan beside her: "Take Ding Xiaotu to his quarters."

Then she looked at Ding Huan: "Ding Xiaotu, my wedding is a major event for the Blue Star Sect. Before the wedding, you cannot leave your quarters even a single step.

If anything happens, don't say I didn't warn you."

With that, she turned and walked away.

Ding Huan knew any request would be Bai Da at this point; he came here to attend the wedding just to see Jia Baihe.

It was still because his strength wasn't enough—if it were, he'd simply wipe out this sect and take Jia Baihe away.

Yan Xunlan led Ding Huan past several main halls, then continuously bypassed dozens of mountain peaks, finally stopping at a stone valley on the sect's edge.

Ding Huan saw that there were indeed a few cave dwellings in this stone valley, but all of them were now empty.

It was probably because the Lanxing Zong had only recently established its sect and hadn't yet

recruited enough disciples to come here.

Ding Huan estimated that under these conditions, the Lanxing Zong would find it very hard to attract more disciples.

The Grand Universe's controls were so strict that external cultivators simply couldn't enter.

Those cultivators who entered here and had slightly stronger cultivation could find their own cave dwellings to close off and cultivate.

Those with weaker cultivation wouldn't casually join such a sect.

Yan Jiuyue's father's cultivation seemed decent—Fifth Step of the Dao.

At other places, such cultivation would have placed him among the pinnacle.

But here, in the Grand Universe, Fifth Step of the Dao still wasn't enough.

"From now on, you'll cultivate here. Go pick a cave dwelling for yourself," Yan Xunlan said, pointing to the cave dwellings in the stone valley.

Ding Huan quickly pulled out a ring and handed it to Yan Xunlan: "Sister Xunlan, may I ask, how is the sect master addressed?"

Yan Xunlan's gaze fell on the ring, and upon seeing it contained a supreme-grade spiritual vein, her expression finally softened slightly:

"The sect master of Lanxing Zong is Yan Zhuo the Sage, a powerful cultivator of the Fifth Step of the Dao and the founder of our sect.

Perform well, and you may yet cultivate the sect's Dao art."

She knew Ding Huan would be killed once used—this fact could not be revealed to him.

"Thank you, Sister Xunlan. May I ask where Jia Baihe resides?" Ding Huan quickly asked again.

Yan Xunlan gave Ding Huan a cold glance: "Don't get me in trouble. Just cultivate here quietly. Someone will come for you when the wedding arrives.

You'll have at most one year—close off here for a full year."

"Can I exchange communication beads with you, Sister Xunlan?" Ding Huan pulled out his communication bead, smiling broadly.

Yan Xunlan hesitated, then finally produced her own communication bead.

He gave her a supreme-grade spiritual vein—just telling him the sect master's name was too little.

The Grand Universe had just emerged from chaos, and good things were still plentiful.

This was true for the powerful, but for a cultivator like Yan Xunlan, a supreme-grade spiritual vein was quite valuable.

After seeing Yan Xunlan off, Ding Huan casually carved a cluster of trigger talismans outside the stone valley, then set up a simple defensive divine array before entering.

He chose a cave dwelling at the very back of the stone valley.

"Master Huan, I feel that woman named Yan Jiuyue isn't

up to good."

Yi Jie, who had dared not speak a word until now, cautiously spoke after Yan Xunlan left.

"You don't need to worry about these things. When I begin cultivating, you should seize the chance to cultivate too.

Your cultivation is still too weak—your heavenly talent ability won't work here."

Ding Huan patted Yi Jie.

Yi Jie's brain shouldn't be thinking about such problems.

As long as Yi Jie's cultivation improves, and if his Word-Bound-Dao ability truly can affect a Fifth Step of the Dao cultivator, he could forcibly take someone away here.

Yi Jie's ability was so powerful, but his cultivation was too weak.

Although Ding Huan had merely set up a casual defensive array outside the stone valley,

inside the cave dwelling, he layered one binding spiritual array after another.

This was his first time cultivating outside the Chaos since stepping out of it.

He wanted to know how the cultivation environment here differed from that within the Chaos.

Yi Jie had lost all desire to boast.

Master Huan now had to watch his step—its own status was naturally even lower.

Now that it had a chance to cultivate beside Master Huan, it still had to strive

to improve its own strength.

When Ding Huan began cultivating, he did not implant a spiritual vein or a Dao vein.

He wanted to first understand the quality of the heavenly qi here before choosing which qi vein to implant.

After just one Zhou Tian, Ding Huan felt surprised.

The heavenly qi here was not very dense.

But the heavenly rules here were absolutely the clearest possible.

Moreover, because these heavenly rules had just been forged, they still carried a trace of the primordial Dao rhythm of creation.

At this moment, Ding Huan finally understood the difference between cultivating here and cultivating within the Chaos.

The entire Grand Universe had just been born.

Thus, the heavenly rules everywhere were incredibly clear; for cultivators like him who practiced Grand Universe arts, it was even possible to peel back the layers and perceive the Dao origin of the heavenly rules.

This was something impossible to sense while cultivating in the Chaos.

No wonder the strongest cultivators were most numerous when the Chaos first opened.

Moreover, the strength of those cultivators at the Chaos's dawn far surpassed those who cultivated later.

The cultivation environment at the Chaos's dawn was simply too extraordinary.

In an environment where one could perceive the Dao origin within the heavenly rules, strength was inevitable.

Ding Huan simply implanted the entire half Dao vein into himself.

Half of it was left behind when he proved the Eternal Life Realm in Chaos; the full Dao vein was extracted from the Chaos zone severed from Qing Sha, the Dao Lord.

He needed to elevate his cultivation by one more level within this year.

As the Dao vein's primordial energy enveloped Ding Huan, his cultivation surged upward.

His divine essence strengthened every moment; his inner world underwent a fresh transformation with every completion of a Zhou Tian of his Great Universe Art.

After only half a year, Ding Huan ceased his cultivation.

It wasn't that his cultivation speed was too slow.

In fact, cultivating here was the fastest he had ever progressed since becoming a Saint.

Yet Ding Huan knew clearly: with his current cultivation pace, reaching the Yanjie Realm would take at least a hundred years.

He didn't have a hundred years.

So even though his cultivation was rising rapidly, it was still a waste of time to him.

Moreover, Ding Huan felt his primordial energy was insufficient.

Even though he possessed one complete Dao vein and half of an incomplete one.

And neither of these half or full Dao veins were low-grade; even so, they were still inadequate for him.

After activating his Great Universe Art, all his Great Dao law rivers surged wildly, devouring the primordial energy of heaven and earth.

If he had ten high-grade Dao veins, Ding Huan suspected he could leap from the Chuangdao Realm to the Yanjie Realm in less than ten years.

His insights were sufficient; what he lacked now was foundational accumulation.

He no longer had even mid-grade Dao veins, let alone high-grade ones.

The moment Ding Huan stopped cultivating, Yi Jie sensed it—it had never cultivated so freely before.

If Master Huan continued cultivating, Yi Jie believed that within half a year at most, it could ascend to the rank of Level Two Sacred Beast.

But Master Huan had stopped cultivating.

Yi Jie longed for Ding Huan to resume cultivation but dared not disturb him.

It had no idea that Ding Huan was already planning how to acquire some high-grade Dao veins.

He had half a year left before his wedding escort.

Ding Huan sensed the communication bead he had exchanged with Yan Xunlan—it was far away, located at the sect's center.

Yan Xunlan was probably living with Yan Jiuyue.

Yan Jiuyue and Baihe were sisters; naturally, they both resided at the very center.

Once he located Yan Xunlan's position, finding Baihe's residence should be simple.

After the wedding escort, if he confirmed it was Jia Baihe, then he would take Jia

Baihe would inevitably face Yan Zhuo.

Yan Zhuo's cultivation was at the Fifth Step of the Great Dao; with proper strategy, Ding Huan had a chance to escape him.

But he needed more safeguards.

He had no shortage of trump cards, including the Heaven-Earth Bow and the Evening Drum.

Yet he still felt it wasn't enough.

Ding Huan's divine sense settled upon the Eternal Divine Wheel within his world.

The Eternal Divine Wheel definitely contained the Dao consciousness of the Eternal Divine Saint.

That was why he had dared not use the Eternal Divine Wheel a second time.

With his current cultivation and strength, even if he couldn't fully activate the Eternal Divine Wheel, he should at least be able to unleash part of its power.

To use the Eternal Divine Wheel, he must purify the Dao consciousness left behind by the Eternal Divine Saint.

Ding Huan directly entered his own world.

Purifying the Eternal Divine Wheel here was dangerous, but he had few alternatives.

Once he erased the traces of the Eternal Divine Saint's Dao consciousness from the Eternal Divine Wheel, he would have a hidden trump card.

In his own world, Ding Huan gazed at the Eternal Divine Wheel, silently suspended in a corner.

He knew clearly that even after he had subjugated the Eternal Divine Wheel,

it remained a time bomb.

Fortunately, he had now reached the Chuangdao Realm; even if the bomb exploded, it could no longer tear apart his world as it once had.

Ding Huan stepped into the center of his cosmic world—the Chaos Law Sea.

To deal with the Dao consciousness on the Eternal Divine Wheel, his Chaos Law Sea was the safest place.

This Chaos Law Sea contained nothing but Chaos Laws.

To Ding Huan, this Chaos was no different from ordinary laws.

But to any foreign entity, this was pure Chaos.

Anyone trapped within his Chaos Law Sea would find escape nearly impossible.

Ding Huan had never been this cautious.

Even though he knew that even Qing Sha, the Dao Ancestor, would have to submit within his world,

he still chose to be cautious.

After all, the Eternal Divine Saint was unquestionably a top-tier giant among giants.

What if?

What if his cosmic world couldn't withstand the Eternal Divine Saint's Dao consciousness? Then he'd be doomed.

Sitting at the heart of his Chaos Law Sea, Ding Huan gestured, and the Eternal Divine Wheel appeared before him.

Ding Huan's divine sense settled upon the Eternal Divine Wheel.

Then his expression changed.

He had clearly cultivated the Eternal Divine Wheel, and spent considerable time doing so.

Now the seals within the Eternal Divine Wheel had grown blurry once more.

That meant the traces of his prior cultivation had vanished entirely.

What startled him was that although the traces of his cultivation of the Eternal Divine Wheel had disappeared, he could still effortlessly seize the Eternal Divine Wheel within his own realm.

As if the Eternal Divine Wheel were still a treasure he had cultivated.

Ding Huan's mind held only one thought: the Eternal Divine Sage was coming.

Ding Huan seized the Great Nirvana Stone—thankfully, the seals he had placed upon it still remained.

In his mind, these traces of Dao energy should have been left behind by the Eternal Divine Sage, Shen Huang.

When he first cultivated the Eternal Divine Wheel, he had detected no trace of Daoic imprint at all, and had found it strange.

Now he realized his earlier judgment might not have been correct.

These traces on the Great Nirvana Stone might not have been left by the Eternal Divine Sage after all.

Ding Huan stared at the floating Eternal Divine Wheel, frowning in thought.

For a long while.

The Eternal Divine Wheel, once cultivated, now had its seals blurred again, and his own marks had vanished.

That was not the most terrifying part—the most terrifying was that he had not noticed at once the disappearance of his Daoic imprint upon the Eternal Divine Wheel.

He only realized it when he pulled out the Eternal Divine Wheel again, which was utterly ironic.

Had his first cultivation of the Eternal Divine Wheel been false?

Ding Huan was certain it had not been false.

There was only one possibility: the Eternal Divine Wheel bore a Daoic imprint he had not detected, which had erased all traces he had left upon it.

Even though the Eternal Divine Sage was not present, he could still erase Ding Huan's Daoic imprint.

If the Eternal Divine Sage followed the Eternal Divine Wheel here, would Ding Huan even survive?

If he could not resolve the lingering Daoic imprint on the Eternal Divine Wheel, he could only choose to cast it into the Chaos and never touch it again.

But that was probably already too late.

Ding Huan calmed himself, gripped the Eternal Divine Wheel with both hands, and plunged entirely into his Chaos Dao Sea.

His Chaos Dao Sea harmed him not at all, but any other Daoic imprint, soul, or fragment of soul that approached would be submerged by the Chaos Dao.

The Great Universe Art Zhou Tian enveloped the Eternal Divine Wheel, and Ding Huan began re-cultivating the first seal.

This time, Ding Huan was extremely cautious, cultivating with excruciating slowness.

Even the tiniest Daoic pattern on the seal, he carefully perceived through the Great Universe Art Zhou Tian.

A month later, Ding Huan discovered seven subtle remnants of Daoic imprint within the first seal of the Eternal Divine Wheel.

The first time he had fully cultivated all the seals of the Eternal Divine Wheel, he had encountered no problems.

Although he knew the Eternal Divine Wheel bore Daoic imprints left by the Eternal Divine Sage.

Deep within his heart, a faint hope still lingered.

That his judgment had been wrong.

Now, problems had surfaced right at the first seal—Ding Huan's spine chilled.

It showed how ignorant he had been back then.

The ignorant are fearless.

Because of his ignorance, he had believed that once he took the Eternal Divine Wheel, it belonged to him.

Now he understood: until today, he had merely been a courier.

As his cultivation advanced, he would inevitably leave the low-level universe and enter the middle-level universe, even the high-level universe.

Thus, the Eternal Divine Wheel would follow him to wherever it was needed.

Ding Huan shuddered.

If he had noticed earlier that the seals he had cultivated on the Eternal Divine Wheel had blurred, how could he have cultivated so calmly?

As Ding Huan peeled away the subtle remnants of Daoic imprint on the Eternal Divine Wheel, he found that the more he peeled, the fainter the Daoic resonance became.

Perhaps before he could fully strip away these remnants, the Daoic imprint would once again seep deeper into the Eternal Divine Wheel's seals.

Sweat beaded on Ding Huan's forehead.

How arrogant had he been, to think he could cultivate the Eternal Divine Wheel merely after entering the First Turn Saint realm?

Worse still, he had fully cultivated the Eternal Divine Wheel in an extremely short time and sent it into his own realm.

Now, after a month of continuous cultivation, he had not even mastered the first seal.

Worse still, the Daoic imprints grew ever more beyond his control the more he peeled them away.

Ding Huan acted decisively—he opened his Chaos Dao Sea fully.

At this moment, it was not merely he within the Chaos Dao Sea.

Under the Great Universe Art Zhou Tian, his own Dao's Chaos Dao was drawn into it.

All the seal patterns on the Eternal Divine Wheel were completely enveloped by Ding Huan's Chaos Dao Sea.

As it was engulfed by boundless Chaos Dao, Ding Huan clearly felt the Daoic imprints on the first seal grow sharp once more.

Indeed, beneath his Chaos, even this Daoic imprint could not hold.

Fortunately, he had first forged his own Chaos Dao Sea before attempting to cultivate the Eternal Divine Wheel.

Otherwise, faced with this situation, he could only watch helplessly as the Daoic imprint sank once more into the Eternal Divine Wheel.

If the Daoic imprint vanished again after he discovered it, finding it again would be far harder.

Under the assault of his Chaos Dao, as he peeled away the first Daoic imprint, then came the second…

Before, when Ding Huan was within the first layer of restrictions on the Eternal God Wheel, he sensed seven obscure remnants of Dao intent.

After Ding Huan finished stripping away these seven remnants of Dao intent, he once again discovered seven more remnants of Dao intent traces.

Five months later, Ding Huan refined the first layer of restrictions on the Eternal God Wheel once more.

It was only a single layer of restrictions, yet he stripped out forty-nine remnants of Dao intent.

Ding Huan did not continue refining the second layer of restrictions on the Eternal God Wheel; he guessed that the remnants of Dao intent on this second layer of restrictions were more numerous than those on the first layer of restrictions.

of restrictions.

Although he had stripped out forty-nine remnants of Dao intent from the first layer of restrictions, he did not know whether there were even more obscure traces of Dao intent within.

As a companion groom, he was about to attend Yan Jiuyue's grand wedding.

This second layer of restrictions could only wait until he left this place, to find a quieter location to continue refining.

As for the Eternal God Wheel, Ding Huan did not take it out.

He still let it remain within his Chaotic Law Sea.

Regardless of how many traces of Dao intent the Eternal God Saint had left behind, and regardless of whether he had thoroughly stripped away these traces of Dao intent.

As long as the Eternal God Wheel was within the Chaotic Law Sea, those traces of Dao intent would be unable to break free.

If the Eternal God Saint's Dao intent could also break free from his Chaotic Law Sea, then he might as well choose reincarnation and stop fighting with the Eternal God Saint over the Eternal God Wheel, because he would be unqualified.