Chapter 863: Just a Delivery Person

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

His divine essence strengthened every moment, and his inner world underwent a fresh transformation with each completion of a Zhou Tian of the 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 that, at this rate, it would take at least a hundred years for him to reach the Boundary Expansion Realm.

He didn't have a hundred years.

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

Moreover, Ding Huan felt his cultivated qi was insufficient.

Despite having one complete Dao vein and half of an incomplete one here.

And these one-and-a-half Dao veins weren't even low-grade—they were still inadequate for him.

After activating his Great Universe Art, all his Great Dao law rivers seemed to go mad, sweeping up primordial qi from heaven and earth.

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

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

He didn't even have any mid-grade Dao veins left, let alone high-grade ones.

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

If Master Huan continued cultivating, Yi Jie believed that within half a year at most, he could enter 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 still had half a year before his wedding escort duty.

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, so they naturally both resided in the very center.

Once he found Yan Xunlan's location, locating Baihe's residence should be simple.

After the wedding escort, if he confirmed it was Jia Baihe, then taking her away would inevitably bring him into conflict with 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 Daoic consciousness of the Eternal Divine Saint.

That was why he had dared not use it a second time so far.

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 a portion of its power.

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

Ding Huan directly entered his inner 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 Daoic consciousness from the Eternal Divine Wheel, he would have a new 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 assimilated the Eternal Divine Wheel,

it remained a time bomb.

Fortunately, he had now reached the Dao Creation 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 Chaotic Law Sea.

To deal with the Daoic consciousness on the Eternal Divine Wheel, the Chaotic Law Sea was the safest place.

This Chaotic Law Sea contained nothing but Chaotic 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 Chaotic Law Sea would find it nearly impossible to escape.

Ding Huan had never been this cautious before.

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

he still chose to be cautious.

After all, the Eternal Divine Saint was unquestionably a top-tier powerhouse.

What if?

What if his cosmic world couldn't withstand the Eternal Divine Saint's Daoic consciousness? Then he'd be in dire straits.

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

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

Immediately, his expression changed.

He had clearly assimilated this Eternal Divine Wheel before, spending considerable time on it.

Now, the seals within the Eternal Divine Wheel had grown blurry again.

In other words, all traces of his previous assimilation had vanished entirely.

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

It was as if the Eternal Divine Wheel were still a treasure he had cultivated.

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

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

In his mind, these traces of Dao rhythm must have been left behind by the Eternal Sage Shen Huang.

When he had first cultivated the Eternal Divine Wheel, he had detected no trace of Daoic intent at all, and he had found that 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 Sage after all.

Ding Huan stared at the Eternal Divine Wheel floating before him, frowning in deep 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 the Daoic imprint he had left on the Eternal Divine Wheel had disappeared, and he had not noticed it at once.

He only realized it when he pulled out the Eternal Divine Wheel again—this 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 carried a Daoic intent he had not detected, which had erased every trace he had left upon it.

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

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

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

But that was probably already too late.

Ding Huan forced himself to calm down, gripped the Eternal Divine Wheel with both hands, and plunged his entire being into his Chaos Dao Sea.

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

The Great Cosmic Art Zhou Tian wrapped around 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 Cosmic Art Zhou Tian.

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

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

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

Deep within his heart, a faint hope still lingered.

That his judgment had been wrong.

Now, problems appeared right at the first seal—Ding Huan's spine turned cold.

It showed how ignorant he had been.

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 deliveryman.

As his cultivation grew stronger, he would inevitably leave the low-level universe and enter the mid-level or even 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 intent on the Eternal Divine Wheel, he found that the more he peeled, the fainter the Dao rhythm became.

Perhaps before he could fully strip away these remnants, the Daoic intent would seep deeper into the seals once more.

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 world.

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

Worse still, the Daoic traces 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.

Beneath the Great Cosmic 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 they were engulfed by boundless Chaos Dao, Ding Huan clearly felt the Daoic traces on the first seal grow sharp once more.

Indeed, beneath his Chaos, even this Daoic intent could not withstand.

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 traces sank back into the Eternal Divine Wheel.

If the Daoic traces were discovered, then sank back into the Eternal Divine Wheel again, finding them again would be far harder.

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

Previously, Ding Huan had sensed seven subtle remnants of Daoic intent within the first seal of the Eternal Divine Wheel.

After peeling away these seven remnants, he discovered seven more traces of Daoic intent.

Five months later, Ding Huan once again cultivated the first seal of the Eternal Divine Wheel.

Merely one seal—he had peeled away forty-nine remnants of Daoic intent.

Ding Huan did not continue refining the second seal of the Eternal Divine Wheel; he suspected that the residual Daoic traces on the second seal were greater than those on the first.

make more.

Although he had stripped away forty-nine residual Daoic traces from the first seal, he did not know whether more hidden Daoic traces remained within it.

As a wedding attendant, he was about to attend Yan Jiuyue's wedding.

The second seal could only be refined later, after he left this place, in a quieter location.

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

He left it resting within his Chaos Law Sea.

No matter how many residual Daoic traces the Eternal Sage had left, no matter whether he had fully stripped them away,

as long as the Eternal Divine Wheel remained within the Chaos Law Sea, those Daoic traces could not escape.

If the Eternal Sage's Daoic traces could escape from his Chaos Law Sea, then Ding Huan might as well choose reincarnation—he had no right to contend with the Eternal Sage for the Eternal Divine Wheel.