Chapter 932: The Great Dao Pan

When Ding Huan began refining the abacus bead, he realized it could not be refined.

Through the Zhou Tian of the Great Cosmos Art, Ding Huan sensed clearly that the abacus bead was indeed a chaotic supreme treasure.

This chaotic supreme treasure was the Great Dao Pan.

The Great Dao Pan governs all paths of existence, calculates all trajectories, and plans all futures.

To describe the Great Dao Pan in one word: it's insane.

What exactly was the origin of the scroll's owner?

How could he obtain such an absurd treasure?

If the Vast Cosmos had ten chaotic supreme treasures, wouldn't the Great Dao Pan rank first?

Even surpass the chaotic supreme treasures?

Chaotic supreme treasures are the highest-grade treasures in the Vast Cosmos; no one has ever heard of anything surpassing them.

If this abacus bead is one bead of the Great Dao Pan, then under no circumstances can it return to the scroll's owner.

The abacus beads of the Great Dao Pan cannot be refined individually; to refine them, one must first possess the Great Dao Pan.

Forget it—since it can't be refined, it won't go back to the scroll's owner.

Ding Huan tossed the abacus bead aside and reached out to grasp the massive stone.

The Great Cosmos Art immediately formed a complete Zhou Tian with the stone.

Just one Zhou Tian, and Ding Huan's eyes widened.

This massive stone was the Great Dao Pan?

Wait…

Ding Huan realized he was momentarily stunned.

How could a chaotic supreme treasure as outrageous as the Great Dao Pan be casually discarded by the scroll's owner as a cultivation furnace's guiding stone?

Not only that—he let those cultivation furnaces live freely atop the stone?

Something's off—this Great Dao Pan has never been refined.

That means, if he could refine it, Ding Huan would be its first-ever master.

How is that possible?

Ding Huan halted further refinement of the Great Dao Pan via the Great Cosmos Art—it was too surreal.

The Vast Cosmos has endured countless eons; how could a primordial chaotic supreme treasure like the Great Dao Pan remain undiscovered—and unrefined—by anyone?

Conspiracy—this is definitely a conspiracy.

But no matter what conspiracy, he wasn't afraid—he had the Chaotic Law Sea.

If needed, he'd just squeeze the Chaotic Law Sea tighter, carve out space for the Great Dao Pan, and keep stripping its treasure laws.

If he couldn't find the reason, couldn't he simply strip all the Great Dao Pan's laws and restore it to its original state?

To prevent any mishaps, Ding Huan seized the Great Dao Pan and the abacus bead and stepped into his Chaotic Law Sea.

Since there was a conspiracy, he'd refine the Great Dao Pan within the Chaotic Law Sea—he refused to believe anyone could outmaneuver him in his own Dao realm.

The Zhou Tian of the Great Cosmos Art continued to connect with the Great Dao Pan; after a day passed, Ding Huan's expression grew strange.

Because the Great Dao Pan truly had never been refined.

Had the scroll's owner found the abacus bead but failed to realize this stone was the Great Dao Pan?

That was impossible.

With the scroll's owner's transcendent abilities, he couldn't possibly have missed a supreme treasure like the Great Dao Pan.

If he hadn't found the Great Dao Pan, he couldn't have cultivated beside it using furnace vessels.

If he had found the Great Dao Pan, why not refine it immediately, instead of leaving it exposed for others to dwell upon?

Ding Huan stopped focusing on refinement and began examining every detail and origin of the Great Dao Pan's laws.

He wasn't afraid of spending time—he still had vast distances to the Cosmic Wall and endless time to explore.

A year later, Ding Huan was certain: the Great Dao Pan had never been refined, and it had once nurtured a supreme Dao technique.

That technique was the Great Calculation Art.

As for other techniques, Ding Huan might not fully understand them.

But the Great Calculation Art—he had studied it properly, taught to him by that very scroll.

Now Ding Huan understood: what he'd learned wasn't even minor Calculation Art.

The scroll's owner was cunning to the core—he had manipulated Ding Huan, needed him as a furnace, yet hoarded Dao teachings like a miser.

Only when Ding Huan desperately needed the technique, or when he himself had gained some insight, did the scroll offer a tiny morsel.

Even that morsel came with severe restrictions.

Ding Huan cursed inwardly.

If he hadn't sensed the scroll's treachery and decisively severed all Dao techniques and arts learned from it,

He would have been trapped by the scroll's avatar in that canyon last time.

Though later, he had obtained partial content of the scroll from Seeing Qu Yi.

Clearly, the scroll content Seeing Qu Yi obtained was far weaker than his own.

Continuing to refine and study the Great Dao Pan, Ding Huan gradually reached a conclusion.

That the scroll's owner had first acquired not the Great Dao Pan, but the Great Calculation Art.

Then the scroll's owner suffered an accident, so he sent one of his avatars with the Great Calculation Art to seek the Great Dao Pan.

With the Great Calculation Art derived from the Great Dao Pan, that avatar naturally found the Great Dao Pan hidden deep within the void.

That avatar was the gray-robed man who had fought him in the canyon—and was driven off by his Eternal Divine Wheel.

Fortunately, the fellow never obtained the Great Dao Pan—if he had, his Eternal Divine Wheel couldn't have driven him away.

Looking at the massive stone in his hand, Ding Huan sighed deeply.

If he hadn't suddenly felt something unusual about this stone,

he might have missed the Great Dao Disc.

Isn't Lei Chou himself an example of someone who ignored the Great Dao Disc?

As for why the avatar of the parchment's owner failed to refine the Great Dao Disc, Ding Huan now understands perfectly.

That gray-robed avatar simply couldn't refine it.

The Great Dao Disc is unlike other treasures—it must gather all the Dao Beads and Dao Pillars to become a single whole.

These Dao Beads and Dao Pillars are like the beads and rods of an abacus—all part of the Great Dao Disc itself.

This differs from the companion treasures of Chaos Supreme Treasures, because the Great Dao Disc, Dao Beads, and Dao Pillars are one unified entity.

Though he had not yet refined the Great Dao Disc, Ding Huan could sense through the stone in his hand that it took an eight-sided form.

One hundred and eight Dao Beads and eighteen Dao Pillars.

Ding Huan could not refine the Great Dao Disc either.

Even with the Great Dao Disc in hand, he couldn't—unless he gathered all one hundred and eight Dao Beads and eighteen Dao Pillars.

The gray-robed man in the Void Abyss surely possessed more than one Dao Bead.

He had only taken out one, surely studying some method to refine the Dao Beads first, then the Great Dao Disc.

But he'd been frightened off by Ding Huan's Eternal God Wheel, and never even had time to retrieve that single Dao Bead.

Logically, the man possessed fifth-step Great Dao power, had obtained a Dao Bead, and knew the Great Dao Disc's location.

Why didn't he take the Great Dao Disc, instead leaving it hidden in this corner of the Void beyond the Grand Universe?

Why use ordinary cultivators as crucibles, fusing their essence-blood and Dao rhythms to enhance his power?

Logically, couldn't he simply inform his true self and carry these items to find him?

Isn't that exactly what Ding Huan himself had done—taken the Great Dao Disc away?

Unless… that avatar had developed self-awareness and refused to submit to its true self.

The reason the gray-robed man hadn't taken the Great Dao Disc was likely because he was researching how to refine it through his avatar alone, claiming it for himself.

Such things were common.

This was why Ding Huan always looked down on those who endlessly cultivated external avatars.

They looked impressive and were powerful in use.

But if even one avatar went wrong, it could cause catastrophic consequences.

If the gray-robed man truly was a separate-consciousness avatar of the parchment's owner, that would be good for Ding Huan.

Ding Huan sealed the Great Dao Disc and the single Dao Bead within his Chaos Law Sea.

No matter whether his guess was right or wrong, the parchment's owner would never obtain the Great Dao Disc.

Once it was in his hands, it was his.

Even if he couldn't use it, he could simply toss it into the Chaos Law Sea, reverse the Chaos Laws, and dismantle the treasure's laws.

So what if the parchment's owner possessed Great Calculation Art?

Could he possibly calculate Ding Huan's existence?

From the Great Dao Disc, Ding Huan also sensed that Great Calculation Art could only calculate all things within the universe's rules.

Ding Huan cultivated his own Grand Universe Art, deriving his own laws of all things, constructing his own Great Dao principles.

In simple terms, his Dao lay outside the universe.

He himself had used the Grand Universe Art to leap beyond the universe's rules.

If so, how could the Great Calculation Art—born within the universe—calculate him, Ding Huan?

Unable to refine the Great Dao Disc, Ding Huan simply cultivated within his own world, refining his Cosmic Law River.

He was now in the accumulation phase; once he gathered enough, after reaching the Island of Gods, he could find a way to enter the Fifth Step of the Great Dao.

…

Time slipped by, and a thousand years passed; Ding Huan halted further refinement of his Law River.

Within his Chaos Law Sea, the Wheel of Annihilation had returned to its most primal state.

The former Eternal God Peak had become a dull, gray stone.

Yet its aura flowed, brimming with infinite Chaos Dao rhythm, testifying to its former greatness.

Ding Huan opened his palm, and the Wheel of Annihilation appeared in his hand.

When the Eternal God Sage refined the Eternal God Wheel, he had turned this stone into

the Wheel of Annihilation.

He had fused his own essence-blood and Dao rhythm entirely into the treasure's laws.

Looking at the gray stone in his hand, Ding Huan chuckled inwardly.

If he didn't let the Eternal God Sage wash his feet in this stone, he'd have wasted all these years for nothing.

This Wheel of Annihilation had been decomposing laws within his time barrier—outside, a thousand years had passed; inside, tens of millions of years had passed.

His gaze fell again on the Wheel Core.

The former Watch God Stair Sea had also completed its law decomposition.

Even Ding Huan hadn't expected the Eternal God Sage to be so creative.

For the Wheel Core before him was clearly a single law.

He had once fused this law—the Law of Descent.

Impressive, Ding Huan marveled.

Many of his abilities had incorporated the Law of Descent.

If he hadn't condensed his own Sinking Law Star River, able to casually evolve his own Sinking Dao Laws.

Then in the future when meeting the Eternal God Saint, he wouldn't need to fight—he'd already be half defeated.

Now the Eternal God Saint could only watch him use the Sinking Law to sink them.

The Eternal God Saint used the Sinking Law condensed with Chaos to construct his Eternal God Wheel's core.

Yet he, Ding Huan, could construct his own Sinking Law Star River, evolving his own Sinking Dao Laws.

With such a comparison, why would the Eternal God Saint use the Sinking Law to suppress him?