Chapter 907: How the Cosmic Wall Came to Be

"You..." Jiong finally sensed something was off.

Looking at Ding Huan's cultivation, it seemed to be at the Creation realm, yet also seemed utterly ethereal and elusive, at a realm he couldn't perceive.

Regardless, a few thousand years... no, it should be over ten thousand years.

So what if it's been over ten thousand years?

Even if it were a hundred thousand years, Ding Huan still couldn't possibly have stepped into the Creation realm, could he?

Back then, from stepping into the Eternal Saint realm and then cultivating to the Seventh Step of the Great Dao, it took him a total of two million and sixty thousand years.

He was a genius, so his cultivation speed was faster than most people.

So no matter how much of a genius Ding Huan was, in his heart it was impossible for him to be at the Creation realm.

Stepping back ten thousand steps, even if Ding Huan were at the Creation realm, he shouldn't be enough to look at in front of him.

Ding Huan sighed: "Old Jiong, you're like Wang Xiao'er celebrating the New Year—getting worse year by year. The last time I saw you, your Great Dao Fifth Step was still passable.

Now your Dao rhythm is scattered, your Great Dao is obscure—clearly you're about to fall to the Fourth Step. Look at yourself, you really deserve it. Who told you to do so many bad things?"

After speaking, Ding Huan's domain spread out to blanket the sky, and immediately bursts of Dao rhythm and law-tearing sounds exploded.

Jiong was shocked to discover that his own domain, under Ding Huan's domain, couldn't even hold out for a few breaths before being torn apart entirely.

At this moment, this patch of space was no longer his domain, but Ding Huan's.

As long as Ding Huan wished, he could kill him at any time.

At this moment, even if Jiong were Bai Chi, he knew Ding Huan had truly surpassed the Creation realm, his cultivation having advanced to a realm he didn't even know.

Jiong tried frantically burning his own Great Dao rhythm, but no matter how he struggled, he could only slowly move his body.

Wanting to break free of Ding Huan's domain space and escape was simply a fool's dream.

Moreover, even if he broke free of Ding Huan's space, outside there were still the restrictions of the Cosmic Pot that he couldn't tear open either.

"You're already at the Great Dao Seventh Step?" Jiong stared at Ding Huan in disbelief.

In one or two ten-thousand years, from a cultivator who hadn't even proven the Eternal realm, to stepping into the Great Dao Seventh Step—even dreams aren't made like this.

Even if Ding Huan had recovered his cultivation, it couldn't have been this fast.

Ding Huan said lightly: "Your understanding of the Great Dao is still stuck on whoever takes bigger strides is stronger.

Not just you—even Jing Xizhen, that Great Dao Eighth Step, works under me. Ling Zhuzhen calls me brother. So where do you rank? How dare you covet the things on me?"

Ding Huan's words struck Jiong's mind like a thunderclap.

He was certain that something had happened in the greater universe that he didn't know about.

Jing Xizhen he naturally knew—the Dao Ancestor of the Weiju World.

Ling Zhuzhen in the greater universe he knew—the one thrown by Dao Ancestor Zihe to guard the city gate.

He posed no threat to him whatsoever.

But no matter how down-and-out Ling Zhuzhen was, he had once been a Dao Ancestor.

From the meaning of Ding Huan's words, had Ling Zhuzhen turned his fortunes around?

And Jing Xizhen had also returned to the greater universe? Even at the Great Dao Eighth Step?

Even with frantically burning essence blood and Dao rhythm unable to break free of Ding Huan's domain, Jiong knew his strength and Ding Huan's were on entirely different levels.

He knew today he was undoubtedly going to die.

Earlier he had still been somewhat panicked and uneasy, but after knowing he was undoubtedly going to die, he actually became much more carefree:

"Brother Ding, I coveted the things on you, and falling into your hands I deserve it. Don't blame me for being greedy—put the things on you on anyone, and they'd probably be greedy too.

You kill me and I won't blame you. Can you tell me what exactly happened? Why didn't Dao Ancestor Qingsha make a move against you?"

Ding Huan becoming so powerful must have been something that happened later.

There was probably some fortuitous encounter in there.

Dao Ancestor Qingsha not making a move against Ding Huan—that wasn't right.

That woman's greed—even if Ding Huan escaped, she would hunt him to the ends of the earth.

"Because I slaughtered her, and I slaughtered Jie Kun too. Not only that, I also wiped out the Tianmeng Clan beneath the Ten Thousand Dao Mountain Range.

The reason Jing Xizhen came back to join me is that I am the sole Dao Master of the greater universe's Dao Court."

Every one of Ding Huan's words struck deep into Jiong's mind like a great hammer, dazing him until his head was woozy.

After a good while he calmed down a bit: "Ding Huan, I was once a Heavenly Emperor of a realm too. Can you spare me once? I'm willing to hand over my soul imprint."

Ding Huan said coldly: "What do you think?"

Sparing him—that was absolutely impossible.

For someone who wanted his life, he had never once thought of forgiveness.

Let alone Jiong being a Fifth Step whose Great Dao was about to fall—even if it were the Eighth Step, Ding Huan wouldn't think of taking the other's soul imprint.

"Can you open my world?" Jiong's tone carried strong unease.

"That's right, I can easily tear your world apart." Ding Huan didn't even bother to comfort Jiong.

"Good." After Jiong finished speaking, he actually directly opened up his own world, then severed his own vitality and tore apart his own divine soul.

"Master Huan, this guy self-destructed." Yijie looked at Jiong with some contempt.

Whether you can win or not, you still have to fight a bit—what are you self-destructing for?

It didn't know that Jiong couldn't even break free of Ding Huan's domain space—what would he use to fight Ding Huan?

Ding Huan raised his hand and swept away everything in Jiong's world; he didn't stop this guy from going to reincarnation.

If he wished, even if Jiong self-destructed, he could still stop the other from going to reincarnation.

Now the other party handed over everything and chose to self-destruct.

It was only to obtain a reincarnation.

After so many years of wandering, there were some good things in Jiong's world, but cultivation resources were almost gone.

Ding Huan didn't mind — what he lacked least right now was cultivation resources.

"Baihe, keep going — how much farther?"

For Ding Huan, killing Jie had only been a casual effort.

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If he hadn't run into the fellow this time, once he went to higher-level places, he wouldn't have remembered this guy at all.

Jia Baihe looked around, took out a directional sphere and compared it: "It should be around here somewhere…"

Having said that, she seemed to notice something, shot out of the Cosmic Cauldron, landed at a certain position, and then closed her eyes.

Ding Huan understood too: "No wonder Jie was wandering around here — there really might be a living star-continent here…"

Jie had been able to find this place entirely by virtue of his Great Dao experience.

Jia Baihe could find this place because, apart from having been here once, she relied on her intuition.

She had a Dao Body and was extremely sensitive to such void-life star-continents or places with similarly hidden vitality.

Ding Huan could find this place because he had sensed that the Heaven and Earth laws here differed from those elsewhere.

The Heaven and Earth laws here were not merely void laws — there was also a kind of vitality-aura law.

If there were no living things here, no vitality aura could possibly be spilling out.

Sure enough, not long after, Jia Baihe opened her eyes and looked at Ding Huan excitedly: "Big Brother, it should be right around here.

Back then Elder Yi Shang and I were teleported here; after I was injured, I was saved by my adoptive father.

At the time I didn't find out Elder Yi Shang's whereabouts — I suspect Elder Yi Shang fell into some void rift and has been trapped there ever since."

"Your guess is correct — let me handle it, I'm sure I can find her." Ding Huan put away the Cosmic Cauldron, and with Yijie, also stood in this stretch of void.

He could now even set up barrier arrays; if a void rift was truly hidden here, he would certainly be able to find it.

Ding Huan wasn't boasting — in only half an incense stick's time, he had located the position.

It wasn't a natural prohibition, nor a void rift — it really was a barrier array.

When the Eternal Grand Talisman's talisman spirit had teleported Elder Yi Shang and Jia Baihe over back then, it had broken open the barrier array.

This caused Elder Yi Shang to fall into the barrier array, while Jia Baihe remained outside it.

When Yan Zhuo discovered Jia Baihe, the barrier array had automatically repaired itself, and Jia Baihe hadn't noticed Elder Yi Shang falling into it.

Fortunately, although this barrier array was decent, it hadn't been formed for all that long. Ding Huan spent half a day and opened the barrier array.

"Baihe, come in with me. Yijie, you follow too."

Seeing Ding Huan enter the barrier array.

Jia Baihe and Yijie hurried to follow.

"This isn't some star-continent…" The moment Jia Baihe came in, she realized this was still void.

It's just that this stretch of void was blocked off from the outer void by the barrier array, and very few people had ever come here.

Ding Huan felt an extremely familiar sensation.

The two of them walked through the void for less than a single time-period before Ding Huan understood why he had that familiar feeling.

Blocking their path was a Cosmic Wall.

This Cosmic Wall's grade was higher than any Cosmic Wall he had ever seen before.

"Cosmic Wall?" Jia Baihe had never seen a Cosmic Wall, but she had heard of them.

Ding Huan stepped forward and landed at the edge of the Cosmic Wall.

The Cosmic Wall was like an invisible ripple, blocking him.

Around him were endless, boundless law fragments.

"A Cosmic Wall — that probably isn't a good thing." Ding Huan's tone was somewhat low.

He had always assumed before that Cosmic Walls formed naturally within the vast void.

After a Cosmic Tribulation, endless law fragments ran rampant and piled up in the void.

These law fragments, through the accumulation of time and the impact of Dao resonance, gradually formed Cosmic Walls.

The law fragments left after a tribulation in low-level cosmic planes formed low-level Cosmic Walls.

In places like a Grand Cosmos, the law fragments left after a tribulation formed higher-level Cosmic Walls.

The place Jing Xizhen had told him about — that was one where he would have to pass through a high-level Cosmic Wall.

The law fragments here, and the pattern by which the Cosmic Wall formed, this

clearly bore traces of human action.

If his guess was really correct, then this place was the origin point where Cosmic Walls formed.

After the Cosmic Wall formed here, it then slowly extended outward.

In the process of extending, the Cosmic Wall would fuse with the endless law fragments in the void, naturally continuing to perfect itself.

This was also why, the first time he saw a Cosmic Wall, he had assumed it was a product of the post-tribulation void — naturally formed from shattered laws in the void.

Just like natural prohibitions and barrier arrays.

What he had seen was the Cosmic Wall after it had perfected itself.

Yet the origin of the Cosmic Wall was something someone had constructed here through Great Dao means.

Why would someone want to do this?

And what was the purpose of building Cosmic Walls within the vast void?

"Big Brother, I can sense Elder Yi Shang's aura here — she must have been here." Jia Baihe's tone was somewhat excited.

Ding Huan set aside his thoughts: "You lead the way — let's find Elder Yi Shang first; we'll talk about the rest later."