Chapter 933: Old Schemers

Watching the still-decomposing Eternal Divine Wheel, Ding Huan felt deeply satisfied.

The laws fused with blood essence and Dao rhythm on the Eternal Divine Wheel gradually dissolved within his chaos, revealing faint outlines of its original state.

From afar, it looked like a phantom ring.

Calling this thing the "Eternal Divine Wheel" isn't right—once it fully returns to its primal state, I'll just name it the Void Ring or Cosmic Ring instead.

Was "Eternal Divine Wheel" just the name the Eternal Sage gave his treasure based on his own title?

It's invalid here.

Ding Huan was pleasantly absorbed in thought, about to resume his seclusion, when he sensed something amiss.

His divine perception immediately fell upon the Eternal Life Talisman.

The talisman's treasure laws had fully decomposed; a single primal leaf now appeared before Ding Huan, and before that leaf floated a bloodline Dao rule.

This bloodline Dao rule had nearly fused with the most primal leaf of the Eternal Life Talisman.

Had he not fully decomposed the Eternal Life Talisman, Ding Huan estimated he wouldn't have noticed its flaw until at least the true Seventh Step—or even the Eighth Step.

Only by specifically studying the Eternal Life Talisman could he have spotted the issue.

Ding Huan stared at this bloodline Dao rule and nearly cursed aloud.

The first owner of the Eternal Life Talisman was just as despicable.

He'd actually thought the fellow was a noble soul beyond base desires, only to find he was no better than the rest.

He'd just buried his scheme deeper.

He'd tampered with it even before the Eternal Life Talisman had formed as a treasure.

Ding Huan raised his hand and bound and imprisoned that bloodline Dao rule.

Stripped of the talisman's treasure laws, the primal leaf of the Eternal Life Talisman gradually dissolved into nothingness under the reverse chaos laws.

Ding Huan paid no attention to how the Eternal Life Talisman turned to nothing.

He didn't keep the leaf.

It was just an ordinary leaf, at most infused with a touch of primordial opening aura.

It paled in comparison to his Life Tree's leaves.

His Life Tree possessed noble bloodline and had undergone the very process of his world's formation.

It, too, was infused with primordial opening Dao rules.

He had already mastered every step of this treasure law reversal process.

If he wished, he could generate such a supreme treasure within his chaos sea using just a single Life Tree leaf.

It would simply take a great deal of time.

He could accelerate the decomposition of chaos treasures and primordial opening supreme treasures within a time barrier.

But generating a chaos treasure? That method wouldn't work.

Because time acceleration cannot achieve Dao rhythm transformation.

It's merely time acceleration.

When decomposing treasures, there's no need to care about the state of the laws or Dao rhythms, or whether they're damaged.

With sufficient time, the reverse chaos laws alone can complete the process.

Condensing a chaos treasure requires step-by-step stacking of Great Dao laws—it cannot be rushed.

Ding Huan turned his gaze once more to the Eternal Divine Wheel.

In just a few years, the Eternal Divine Wheel would complete its law decomposition.

His original plan was to re-refine the Eternal Divine Wheel once it returned to its primal state, transforming it into a Void Ring or some other treasure.

The Eternal Life Talisman had given Ding Huan a warning.

Could the Eternal Sage have done the same as the first owner of the Eternal Life Talisman—seizing control of the Eternal Divine Wheel?

Immediately, Ding Huan realized such a possibility was vanishingly small, nearly nonexistent.

The owner of the Eternal Life Talisman could do that because he added his bloodline Dao rule while the talisman was still just a leaf.

At that time, the Eternal Life Talisman was far from becoming a primordial opening supreme treasure—it was merely an ordinary leaf.

If the Eternal Sage wished to do the same, he would have had to send his bloodline Dao rule before the Eternal Divine Wheel became a treasure.

Isn't the Eternal Sage the ancestral patriarch of the Divine Clan?

Even the ancestral patriarch of the Divine Clan doesn't possess such an impossibly long lifespan.

It's highly unlikely he could have sent his bloodline Dao rule while the Eternal Divine Wheel was still an ordinary object.

Could he possibly have known this ordinary thing would one day become a heaven-defying chaos supreme treasure?

Not everyone can play the long game like that.

So the Eternal Sage merely added his bloodline Dao rhythm during the refinement process, after the Eternal Divine Wheel had already become a chaos supreme treasure, forming his own treasure law.

Once he stripped away the Eternal Sage's bloodline Dao rhythm, the Eternal Divine Wheel would become ownerless.

Watching the still-decomposing Eternal Divine Wheel, Ding Huan made his decision—he wouldn't keep it.

Even with a one-in-a-billion chance, he refused to gamble.

Chaos treasures are valuable, but not worth risking even a one-in-a-billion threat.

Let the Eternal Divine Wheel keep decomposing—until it fully returns to its original, pre-treasure state.

As for his Void Ring, he would condense it himself from his chaos sea.

So what if it takes longer?

He didn't care.

Whenever it's ready, he'll use it.

He could also condense the Eternal Life Talisman himself.

Ding Huan opened his hand, and a leaf from the Tree of Life landed in his palm.

Ding Huan sent the Tree of Life leaf into his Chaos Law Sea, where strands of Chaos Law wrapped around the leaf, beginning to refine it into his own artifact.

It would be better if he could re-derive the Eternal Life Rune; if not, it didn't matter.

Either way, he could replicate every step of the Eternal Life Rune's derivation within his Chaos Law Sea.

As for the Void Ring he wanted.

There was no rush now; he would wait until the laws within the Eternal Divine Wheel in his Chaos Law Sea had fully decomposed, returning it to its pre-artifact state.

Then he would replicate the entire formation process of the Eternal Divine Wheel within his Chaos Law Sea.

He had lost the Eternal Divine Wheel and the Eternal Life Rune.

Ding Huan felt no great sorrow.

Instead, he began using the Great Cosmos Art to derive Chaos Law unique to his own Dao.

Previously, he had worried that introducing new Chaos Law into his Chaos Law Sea might destroy the Eternal Divine Wheel within it.

But now he no longer wanted the Eternal Divine Wheel, so destruction didn't matter.

All he needed was to keep expanding his Chaos Law Sea.

This was the essence of having no desires, hence no cravings.

Indeed, as Ding Huan began strengthening his Chaos Law Sea's Chaos Law, he clearly felt his strength surging upward.

His cultivation advancement was far faster than when he had absorbed the Dao Veins to bolster his Dao Qi.

Ding Huan became lost in this rapid growth of cultivation and power, forgetting the passage of time.

Before he knew it, centuries had passed.

Until Ding Huan sensed the Eternal Divine Wheel had fully decomposed into its most primordial state before becoming an artifact.

It was a Ring Bamboo.

The Ring Bamboo was entirely purple, its form bizarre — forming a closed circle.

Ding Huan paid no attention to the purple Ring Bamboo.

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Instead, he fixed his gaze on the Bloodline Law strand encircling it.

A thousand camels galloped through his mind.

He was utterly speechless.

He had been certain the Eternal Divine Wheel could never have had Bloodline Law infused into it before becoming an artifact — yet here it was.

He'd hit odds of one in a hundred million.

If he had rushed to claim the artifact the moment it returned to its primordial state, he'd still be drinking the same foot-washing water.

These old schemers, these Wang Ba bastards.

Heavenly treasures should belong to whoever claims them.

But what did these bastards do? The moment they saw something, they imprinted their bloodline onto it…

He thought he was already dishonorable — but these old schemers were even more dishonorable than he was.

No, he was dishonorable, but at least he had some limits.

These bastards had none at all.

Long before any artifact took shape, they'd already embedded Bloodline Law into ordinary objects.

Were they casting a wide net, or had they identified certain things destined to become Chaos Supreme Treasures and planted Bloodline Law accordingly?

Ding Huan raised his hand and drew the lone Bloodline Law strand from within his Chaos Law Sea before him.

After stripping away so much of the Eternal Divine Sage's residual Dao rhythm and Law.

Ding Huan looked at the Bloodline Law strand and knew it had nothing to do with the Eternal Divine Sage.

In other words, even if he later gave the Eternal Divine Wheel to the Eternal Divine Sage, the Sage would still have to drink this bastard's foot-washing water.

Whoever left Bloodline Law on the Eternal Divine Wheel before it became an artifact was undoubtedly an ancient schemer from the dawn of creation.

Ding Huan hesitated, then sealed the Bloodline Law strand with prohibitions and barriers.

These bastards left Bloodline Law behind — as long as they weren't dead, they'd come knocking someday.

Fortunately, he possessed the Gene Assassination Law.

This Bloodline Gene Assassination Law had to be arranged.

Otherwise, who knew when someone might come to his door and bully him into submission?

Having stored away the Bloodline Law strand, Ding Huan turned his gaze to the purple Ring Bamboo.

The purple Ring Bamboo was clearly an ancient relic, appearing extraordinary.

Otherwise, it could never have formed the Eternal Divine Wheel, a Chaos Supreme Treasure.

If he placed it within his Chaos Law Sea and followed his understanding of how Chaos Artifacts formed, there was a high chance he could create a new Chaos Supreme Treasure.

But after enduring the step-by-step scheming of these old plotters, Ding Huan had completely lost interest in the Ring Bamboo.

He let Chaos continue to decompose it.

How you came into this world, vanish from my Chaos Law Sea the same way.

As for the Void Ring, he would form it from his own materials.

Ding Huan's divine sense swept over his Dao Tree Garden.

He immediately seized the Nine Dao Bamboo of Creation.

The Nine Dao Bamboo of Creation could not be inferior to the purple Ring Bamboo — this was something every cultivator dreamed of, capable of forming nine great Dao paths.

Ding Huan felt no regret; he planned to use the Nine Dao Bamboo of Creation to forge his own Chaos Supreme Treasure within his Chaos Law Sea.

As for the Bloodline Law strand, Ding Huan chuckled inwardly.

He disdained using such a thing to add to the Opening Heaven Nine Dao Bamboo.

A magic treasure formed within his Chaotic Law Sea, and he still had to be so careful as to mark it just to find it back.

Then what was the point of his Chaotic Law Sea forming at all?

Only those with no real ability would use bloodline laws to cast a wide net and catch as many fish as possible.

Little did they know that although such a method was formidable, once it encountered someone like him, it was just putting a shackle on oneself.

If they didn't come looking for trouble with him, fine; but if they dared seek trouble with him, then let them try the bloodline slaughter gene.