Chapter 877: Derivation Realm

"So should we draw out the Dao veins here?" Gā Bǎihé asked.

"Of course we draw them out. The reason these Dao veins moved here on their own is that no one cultivates here and no one comes by.

Once we start cultivating here, the Dao veins will also drift away on their own."

Ding Huan said.

The Dao veins here had no formation binding them, so naturally they drifted freely.

If they didn't draw out the Dao veins here, nine or ten out of ten would drift away.

Ding Huan had come here precisely for the Dao veins—how could he let them drift away as they pleased?

Ding Huan and Gā Bǎihé split up to draw out the Dao veins.

The Dao veins here were simply too many, almost piled together.

In the space there were also Dao vein fragments ground up by the collision of various chaotic laws.

In just a few short days, Ding Huan had drawn out several thousand Dao veins.

Of every grade—Ding Huan didn't care what level the Dao veins were, he accepted them all.

Even Gā Bǎihé drew out several hundred Dao veins.

Going further out would bring them close to the space where shattered law streams and chaotic heaven-and-earth laws collided.

Ding Huan called out to Gā Bǎihé, who was still searching outward for Dao veins.

"Brother Ding, with so many Dao veins, if we don't draw them all out now, it'll be hard to get another chance like this in the future."

Gā Bǎihé was a little puzzled—Ding Huan had said exactly that earlier, and she agreed wholeheartedly.

Dao veins were simply too precious.

Even a sect like Blue Star Sect seemed to have only one Dao vein, and its grade didn't seem high either.

Ding Huan shook his head: "Dao veins are resources; we draw them out only for cultivation. Now that we have enough Dao veins, we should seize the time to cultivate.

I'll go cultivate in that chaotic space where shattered laws collide, and you'll prepare here to sever your Dao and re-prove it—no one can help you with that."

Going back into the chaotic law zone to draw more Dao veins would be a waste of time.

"But although the heaven-and-earth primal energy here is dense, the heaven-and-earth laws are too broken and tattered…"

Gā Bǎihé was a little worried.

Naturally, the more complete the heaven-and-earth laws, the better a cultivation site.

A place with shattered heaven-and-earth laws like this really wasn't suitable

for cultivation.

Let alone severing and proving the Dao?

In her thinking, once she and Ding Huan had drawn enough Dao veins, they could simply leave, find a good place, and go into seclusion.

Ding Huan slowed his tone and said: "For most cultivators, it is true that the more complete the heaven-and-earth laws, the better the cultivation.

I used to think the same, until I proved the Eternal Life realm—then I knew my view was wrong."

Gā Bǎihé stared at Ding Huan in astonishment. That the more complete the heaven-and-earth laws, the better the cultivation, was common knowledge—how could it be wrong?

"Bǎihé, if we want to transcend this heaven and earth, we must create our own great Dao. What I gave you is the Primordial Great Dao Art.

The meaning of the Primordial Great Dao Art is the beginning of chaos…

Think about it—at the beginning of chaos, when heaven, earth, and the myriad things had not yet formed, and the heaven-and-earth laws were not yet complete, how could one cultivate by relying on complete heaven-and-earth laws?

So I believe the 'primordial' in Primordial Great Dao refers not to the great Dao of the external universe, but to your own great Dao. It doesn't matter that the rules and laws here are shattered—as long as you can construct the great Dao rules that belong to you…

As for how to construct the great Dao rules that belong to you, remember that the Primordial Great Dao is absolutely your key to the door."

Ding Huan had already made it very clear.

Cultivating a great Dao art like the Primordial Great Dao was absolutely not about rote memorization or following the steps in order.

Rather, it was about starting from one's own Dao and condensing the great Dao rules that belonged to oneself.

At this point, Gā Bǎihé finally understood.

No wonder Ding Huan had never let her stay inside the world all along.

Not only that, Ding Huan had also deliberately taken her through the chaos for a month or two, explaining the relationship between chaotic laws and the great Dao at every moment.

It turned out Ding Huan had long planned to let her construct her own great Dao through the Primordial Great Dao.

Gā Bǎihé made up her mind—she absolutely could not let Ding Huan down.

"Brother Ding, I understand. Go cultivate. I won't come out of seclusion until I've proven my own great Dao." Gā Bǎihé's tone was firm.

In a place where strength was respected, one had to have one's own foundation of confidence.

The Primordial Great Dao was the foundation of confidence Ding Huan had given her.

And how to re-prove the Primordial Great Dao was the foundation of how far she could go.

In this place, no one could help Ding Huan.

Only by proving the supreme great Dao and surging in strength could she help Ding Huan stand firm in this universe world.

What Gā Bǎihé didn't know was that Ding Huan had never thought of staying in the greater universe for long.

His goal was to prove the Creation realm in the greater universe, then pass through the cosmic wall.

While perfecting his own universe world on one side, searching for the true cosmic center of this universe was Ding Huan's goal.

Ding Huan didn't wait for Gā Bǎihé to sever and prove her Dao, and entered the chaotic law turbulence alone to cultivate.

Gā Bǎihé's severing and proving of the Dao—everything he should do, he had done; from here on, it could only depend on her.

Staying by Gā Bǎihé's side now would actually be the worst thing.

In the endless space of chaotic law turbulence, Ding Huan felt the exhilaration of cultivation.

Dao vein primal energy was everywhere here; for Ding Huan, all he needed to do was comprehend and perfect his own law star river.

At first Ding Huan was still a little worried about Gā Bǎihé, but he quickly immersed himself in the perfection of his law star river.

In less than a hundred years, Ding Huan was delighted to discover that his Rule of Forgetting had formed a starry river.

This place was like the origin of the Rule of Forgetting, with countless fragments of the Rule piled together.

These billions of rule fragments were continuously peeled away by Ding Huan, then perceived and fused, finally condensing into his own Rule of Forgetting.

rule.

While Ding Huan perfected his Rule of Forgetting, Jia Baihe completely severed her original Dao.

Her original Dao was a hodgepodge.

Besides her own cultivation art, she had later practiced parts of Ding Huan's Little Universe Art.

After severing all her Daos, Jia Baihe finally understood the meaning behind Ding Huan's urging her to comprehend various rules.

After she comprehended her first personal Dao rule, the Zhou Tian of the Origin Dao was no longer the way originally recorded in the Three Thousand Daos.

At this moment, she finally constructed the prototype of her own Dao.

The Holy Dao, which previously required immense effort to find opportunities and resources to attain, now seemed simple before the Origin Dao after she built her Dao prototype.

She effortlessly re-attained the First Turn Saint realm.

While Jia Baihe was still marveling, she felt an endless torrent of heavenly and earthly Qi forming a vortex.

Jia Baihe immediately understood what was happening.

All these vortexes of Qi were swirling toward Ding Huan's location.

Ding Huan was about to attain the Realm of Manifesting a World.

Although the Dao veins here contained sufficient Qi for Ding Huan to attain the Realm of Manifesting a World, Jia Baihe still pulled out several high-grade Dao veins and arranged them.

Soon, Jia Baihe realized that Ding Huan's attainment of the Realm of Manifesting a World was also a tremendous opportunity for her.

Ding Huan's Zhou Tian of the Dao nearly covered this entire space; having just attained the First Turn Saint realm, if she cultivated within Ding Huan's Zhou Tian domain, she would soon enter the Second Turn Saint realm.

For Ding Huan, achieving the Realm of Manifesting a World in a hundred years was nothing surprising.

His world had always been different from others'.

His world had long been perfected into a universe.

Moreover, his universe had branched outward from his own Chaos Rule Sea as its center.

The Dao he attained in Manifesting a World was one he had already perfected.

He lacked only the foundational depth of the Dao.

In this place, he easily completed the accumulation and succeeded in Manifesting a World.

Yet after succeeding in Manifesting a World, Ding Huan did not stop cultivating—he continued refining his Dao universe.

He discovered that although this place was not Chaos, he could still perceive various fragmented Chaos Rules.

These fragmented Chaos Rules were entirely different from those he had perceived within the Chaos before.

As Ding Huan perceived more and more Chaos Rules,

the Chaos Rule Sea within his world continued to grow stronger.

After another thousand years passed, life first appeared in Ding Huan's universe.

Yi Jie stared blankly at a fish that had appeared in the lake before him—he had been cultivating here all along.

He also knew this lake had formed within Master Huan Ye's world.

Since entering Master Huan Ye's world, this lake had held no life.

Now that a fish had appeared, it meant Master Huan Ye's Dao had broken through again.

I really must work harder—if I don't, I won't keep up with Master Huan Ye's pace.

……

Outside the Ten Thousand Dao Mountains, Yan Zhuo stared at Yan Jiuyue, who stood before him, vacant and devoid of any spiritual aura, and trembled with rage.

Someone had searched his daughter's soul.

Yan Zhuo was, after all, a Fifth Step Dao cultivator, and even the founder of the Blue Star Sect.

Moreover, four members of his Blue Star Sect had voluntarily entered the Tianmeng Clan to gather intelligence.

Yan Jiuyue was one of those who had voluntarily entered the Tianmeng Clan.

Even Yan Zhuo himself now answered the call of Feng Yu, the Dao Ancestor, and came to the Ten Thousand Dao Mountains to fight the Tianmeng cultivators.

Isn't that a great sacrifice?

Yet the first thing he saw upon arriving at the Ten Thousand Dao Mountains was—

his daughter having her soul searched.

This person didn't just search his daughter's soul—he didn't even deign to kill her.

Such arrogance—what was Yan Zhuo even protecting here? What humanity?

Pah!

Without hesitation, Yan Zhuo picked up Yan Jiuyue and turned to leave.

"Lord Yan, where are you going?" asked a cultivator of the Fifth Step Dao, puzzled.

The war between humanity and the Tianmeng Clan had grown increasingly frequent.

Even the human Dao Ancestor Yi Qi had been wounded, so in the entire Grand Universe, all Immortal Dao cultivators were required to join the defense of the Ten Thousand Dao Mountains.

Yan Zhuo coldly said: "Have I not given enough to the human race of the Grand Universe? My two daughters and two sons-in-law all voluntarily entered the Tianmeng Clan to gather intelligence for humanity.

Even I myself came here to fight the Tianmeng barbarians.

Yet the first thing I see upon arriving at the Ten Thousand Dao Mountains is my daughter Jiuyue's soul being searched—and left carelessly abandoned here.

If this matter isn't properly addressed, I, Yan Zhuo, would rather die than die so humiliated."

The cultivator who asked Yan Zhuo sighed inwardly and fell silent.

He knew full well that only a Dao Ancestor could search the soul of a cultivator like Yan Jiuyue.

It could be seen that these Dao Ancestors of the great cosmos had never regarded the lives of people like them as worth anything at all.

Yan Zhuo very much wanted to take Yan Jiuyue and go find a few Dao Ancestors to confront, and he was also very clear that, with his current strength, going to confront them would be a dead end.

Others could all tell that his daughter had been soul-searched by a Dao Ancestor—could he not have seen it?

With Yan Jiuyue in such a state, it would be strange if Jia Baihe were doing well.