Chapter 929: Ding Huan

Ding Huan sat in his own world for half a month, trying every method he could think of.

Attribute law opposition, integrating various material properties through Grand Void Flame, Great Cutting Technique…

Yet none of it affected the Eternal Divine Wheel in the slightest.

Moreover, after these attempts, Ding Huan clearly felt his compatibility with the Eternal Divine Wheel had diminished.

Clearly, a Chaos Supreme Treasure like this possessed its own perception.

Of course, this perception was not self-awareness.

True top-tier Supreme Treasures never allowed their users to forge sentient spirit-souls within them.

Unless the master was perfectly attuned to the treasure, and absolutely certain the spirit-soul would not devour its master or cause trouble during battle.

After all, treasures are external objects; most masters prefer not to condense spirit-souls into them.

If you need a sentient being, better to raise a beast companion.

After exhausting countless methods and still failing to resolve the Eternal Divine Wheel's issue, Ding Huan realized he had taken the wrong path.

All the methods he used were either gentle approaches or extreme destruction.

If neither path worked, why not try a third?

What's that saying again?

To untie a knot, find the one who tied it.

What is the condition for a Chaos Supreme Treasure to achieve immortality?

To coexist with Chaos, or to precede Chaos…

Regardless of which, one point remains unchanged.

That is, a Chaos Supreme Treasure arises solely because of Chaos.

Within Chaos, these treasures fused the primordial laws of heaven and earth, forming their unique shapes.

That makes it simple: let the Chaos Supreme Treasure return to its original state within Chaos.

The Eternal Divine Wheel is powerful, isn't it? Then let it return to its original form within Chaos.

The companion treasures, Wheel Kill and Wheel Heart, would also return to their original forms within Chaos.

Let Chaos tear apart, annihilate, and erase all connections among these three.

Since it is Chaos, the Chaos at the center of the universe is most suitable—only there does true Chaos exist in its purest state.

But this presents three immense difficulties. First, the Chaos at the universe's center has existed for an unknown length of time.

Yet the Eternal Divine Wheel was forged from the primordial Chaos laws of the beginning of Chaos.

No matter how pure the Chaos at the universe's center, it will never again produce the primordial Chaos laws of creation and dissolution.

Thus, placing the Eternal Divine Wheel into the universe's center Chaos may not restore it to its original state.

It's like a material that requires ten thousand degrees of heat to melt.

You used ten thousand degrees to melt the material and forged it into a treasure.

Now you wish to revert the treasure back into the material, but you only have five thousand degrees of heat.

That is clearly impossible.

Moreover, reverting is far harder than forging.

You don't need heat above ten thousand degrees—you must not fall below it.

The second difficulty is even greater.

Ding Huan ran all over the place for the Eternal Divine Wheel, refining one thing after another—was that easy?

He even nearly died in the process.

Now you want him to send the Eternal Divine Wheel back into Chaos to revert it?

Does he expect to retrieve the reverted Eternal Divine Wheel later?

Sending it into Chaos is equivalent to losing it forever.

So even if someone conceived this method, no one could carry it out.

The third difficulty: are the Chaos laws forming the Chaos treasure exactly opposite to those needed to dismantle it?

Of these three, most people could only manage the second.

Fine, just abandon the Eternal Divine Wheel and toss it into Chaos.

But there was one exception—this exception was Ding Huan himself.

His Chaos Law Sea was the origin of the universe's Chaos; he could even re-derive all Chaos laws from scratch within it.

From the primordial Creation Law, to Chaos Law, to all Great Dao laws…

Since he could re-derive the entire process of Chaos law formation within his Chaos Law Sea,

He could also reverse the process of Chaos law dissolution within it.

Ding Huan exhaled deeply and without hesitation cast the Eternal Divine Wheel, along with Wheel Kill and Wheel Heart, into the deepest depths of his Chaos Law Sea.

Simultaneously, he initiated the reverse transformation of his Chaos Law Sea's Chaos laws.

Whatever way the primordial Chaos laws had formed, now undo them the same way.

Ding Huan stared at the Eternal Divine Wheel.

Ten days passed, and Ding Huan's eyes gleamed.

He clearly saw Wheel Kill beginning to decompose into laws.

That is, under the reverse transformation of the Chaos laws in his Chaos Law Sea, the laws composing Wheel Kill were splitting apart and dissolving into his Chaos Law Sea.

His Chaos Law Sea formed according to his will and Great Dao.

Any law he wished to retain could transform into various attribute laws and enter those law-rivers.

Any law he did not need automatically vanished and was annihilated within his Chaos Law Sea.

That is to say, given enough time, the Eternal God Wheel, Wheel of Death, and Wheel Heart will revert to their original states within the chaos of his Chaos Law Sea through the inverse transformation of Chaos Law.

The state they were in before the Eternal Sage acquired them.

But this time span is likely an astronomically large number.

That doesn't matter—he has the Time Law River.

In his own world, he is the master; the Time Law River can be structured into various time barriers, time law worlds…

Wouldn't it suffice to wrap the Eternal God Wheel, as it decomposes within the Chaos Law Sea, in a time barrier?

One day outside, ten thousand years inside—wouldn't that work?

He isn't cultivating; this accelerated time flow has nothing to do with Dao rhythm changes.

As long as the Chaos Law Sea continues to decompose the Eternal God Wheel's laws, that's all that matters.

After casting the Eternal God Wheel into his Chaos Law Sea to undergo inverse transformation, Ding Huan, still uneasy, tossed the Eternal Life Talisman into the Chaos Law Sea as well.

Not only the Eternal Life Talisman—he wrapped it in a pile of time barriers too.

He refused to believe that, amid the inverse transformation of his Chaos Law Sea, neither the Eternal God Wheel nor the Eternal Life Talisman could revert to their pre-refined states.

His Chaos Law Sea may not match the primordial chaos of the universe at its inception.

Primordial Chaos.

But one thing the external universe cannot match.

That is, every Chaos Law within his Chaos Law Sea is under his control—he perceives every change at all times.

Moreover, he can alter the Chaos Laws at any moment according to the process of inverse transformation.

After speaking with Che Hongzi, he resolved to ensure all laws and Dao principles in his world evolved from within himself.

These laws naturally encompass all laws within the Chaos Law Sea.

As the Eternal God Wheel underwent inverse transformation within the Chaos Law Sea, Ding Huan observed for several months within his own world.

Only when Guan Huan called out to him, saying they had reached the Cosmic Wall, did Ding Huan eagerly cease his observation.

He was truly excited.

For during the inverse transformation of his Chaos Law Sea, not only had the Wheel of Death and Wheel Heart begun decomposing their laws and gradually returning to their primal states.

Even the Eternal God Wheel itself had begun decomposing its own laws.

Only the speed of decomposition was slow.

If this alone was enough to delight Ding Huan.

What made him feel this retreat had yielded immense gains was that he could also collect the laws released by the decomposing Eternal God Wheel.

Before the Eternal God Wheel encountered its first refiner, it too had been forged from fused Chaos Laws.

These laws were the most fundamental laws constituting the artifact—the very foundation—and thus the hardest to decompose.

But Ding Huan had no need to decompose these laws; if he did, it would mean destroying the Eternal God Wheel entirely.

What Ding Huan sought to decompose were the artifact laws formed during the Eternal Sage's refinement.

When a primordial artifact first forms, upon encountering its first refiner, its own laws fuse with the refiner's blood essence and Dao rhythm to form an entirely new artifact law.

This first-refinement law—born from the fusion of the refiner's Dao rhythm and blood essence with the artifact's laws—is considered part of the artifact itself.

Thus, no matter how a second person handles it, these laws cannot be separated.

This is the origin of the saying that primordial artifacts recognize only one master.

Ding Huan, disregarding all honor, used inverse Chaos Law to revert the artifact to its primal state—effectively stripping away the artifact laws forged jointly with its first refiner.

If Ding Huan could choose the precise moment to retrieve the Eternal God Wheel before the Chaos Law Sea stripped away its original primal laws, he could obtain the Eternal God Wheel in its original state.

Moreover, the artifact laws Ding Huan stripped away could be reused.

If Ding Huan fused these laws into a brand-new artifact, he might ambush the Eternal Sage.

Imagine Ding Huan using his own Eternal God Wheel against the Eternal Sage—only with a fake Wheel of Death and fake Wheel Heart.

As long as these fake Wheel of Death and Wheel Heart contained the artifact laws he had stripped away, it would suffice.

When the Eternal Sage sensed the blood essence and Dao rhythm laws of the Eternal God Wheel belonging to him, and prepared to use them to scheme against Ding Huan—

That would be the moment Ding Huan turned the tables on the Eternal Sage.

Just thinking of it filled Ding Huan with satisfaction.

You, Eternal Sage, love sneaking attacks, don't you?

Then let you, Eternal Sage, learn what true betrayal from within feels like.

Ding Huan left his own cosmic world, but a thread of divine awareness remained within the Chaos Law Sea.

He had to watch constantly, lest his Chaos Law Sea strip away the Eternal God Wheel's original primal laws.

That would truly render the Eternal God Wheel useless.

From the fact that his Chaos Law Sea could strip away the Eternal God Wheel's artifact laws, Ding Huan knew his Chaos Law Sea could destroy a primordial artifact.

"Ding Huan, we've reached the Cosmic Wall—I can't pass through it." Guan Huan grinned, pointing at the Cosmic Wall ahead.

He genuinely admired Ding Huan.

To control the Cosmic Cauldron and pass through such a Cosmic Wall—what depth of understanding of cosmic laws must one possess?

Once in the World of Gods, he would definitely learn from Ding Huan.

His own Dao foundation was still too weak.

"I'll handle it." Ding Huan's divine awareness wrapped around the Cosmic Cauldron; the Cauldron passed through the Cosmic Wall effortlessly, as if entering a place of nothingness.

To Ding Huan, the Cosmic Wall—a construct built from cosmic laws—could be entered or exited easily, provided one understood the laws of all things thoroughly.