Chapter 945: The God-Killer from the Gods Trading Tower Has Arrived

Geng Yuan froze, then immediately realized.

Ding Huan going to the Gods World would never quietly join a Dao sect.

If Ding Huan does what Mo Wujie and Lan Xiaobu did, anyone who gets close to him dies.

"Focus on your cultivation. With your talent, once you find the latest Void Island, you can sever your Dao and re-establish yourself as a Saint of Utterance in a short time."

Ding Huan patted Geng Yuan on the shoulder and offered a word of comfort.

Geng Yuan sighed: "Big Brother, I'm not worried about my talent—I know even if I sever my Dao and attain cultivation, I'll likely only become an ordinary Wuque Saint."

How could a Chaotic Body be an ordinary Wuque Saint?

Ding Huan looked at Geng Yuan in confusion.

Once a Chaotic Body attains Dao, its combat power far surpasses that of ordinary Dao-attaining cultivators.

In Ding Huan's view, talent is extremely important in the Dao.

Ru Jia Baihe has an Immortal Spirit Body; after attaining Dao, her talent upgraded to a Saintly Spirit Body.

But even that still falls short of a Chaotic Body.

In the path of cultivation, besides talent, Dao techniques are equally important.

So he had Ru Jia Baihe sever her Dao and re-attain the Origin Dao.

Of course, this only applies to ordinary cultivators.

There is another kind of person who transcends talent and Dao itself.

That is someone like him, who, upon first encountering the Dao, crafted his own Grand Universe Art based on personal insight and intuition.

And through this Grand Universe Art, he forcibly carved out a path so obscure it could not be more obscure.

Ding Huan wasn't familiar with Lan Xiaobu's technique, but after hearing Guan Huan mention Mo Wujie, he suspected Mo Wujie was the same as him.

Mo Wujie's Mortal Dao was probably similar to his own Grand Universe Art.

He broke into a completely new path despite not having extraordinary talent.

The reason Geng Yuan said that even after severing his Dao he'd only become an ordinary Wuque Saint is likely because his technique is inadequate.

"What technique are you cultivating?"

"It's the ancient Dao technique called Changyuan Dao Jue, from Tingdao Mountain."

Changyuan Dao Jue?

Ding Huan heard the name and immediately felt it was unimpressive—ancient Dao technique?

"Could you let me see your technique?"

Geng Yuan didn't care—he pulled out a stone tablet made of some unknown material and handed it to Ding Huan.

Ding Huan took the stone tablet.

Before his divine sense even scanned inside, he knew something was off.

Before he deconstructed the Eternal God Wheel and the Eternal Life Rune, he might not have realized what was wrong.

Now he was certain the stone tablet had been tampered with.

The outermost layer of the stone tablet was an artificially constructed Dao law.

Similar to the method of the Eternal God Saints—fusing their essence blood and Dao resonance into the artifact's laws to create a new layer of laws.

This stone tablet was clearly the same.

Ding Huan tossed the stone tablet into the Chaotic Sea to reverse-deconstruct its laws.

Seeing Ding Huan put away the stone tablet, Geng Yuan didn't care.

He already knew its contents—Ding Brother could take it if he wanted.

Besides, he thought the stone tablet passed down by Tingdao Mountain was just average—his father treated it like a treasure, but he didn't find it valuable at all.

"When did your father give you this stone tablet?" Ding Huan asked, his divine sense scanning the stone tablet within the Chaotic Dao Sea—his current understanding of the Dao and cultivation level.

Combined with his Time Barrier, the outermost layer of laws on the stone tablet would be fully deconstructed in no more than ten days within the Chaotic Dao Sea.

After all, it wasn't an artifact, nor did it carry any top-tier Dao resonance.

Just a stone tablet technique.

If not for fearing damage to the tablet, Ding Huan could now directly strip away the external cultivation laws with his own power.

"After my father attained the Creation Realm, he gave me this stone tablet. He said it was useless to him now and told me to inherit it."

"That's because after your father attained the Saint of Utterance, he realized the Changyuan Dao Jue on this tablet couldn't support his further cultivation."

I've never been to your Tingdao Mountain, but the fact that the Gods Palace covets it means Tingdao Mountain is an excellent place.

For such a place to pass down only the Changyuan Dao Jue is far too lacking.

Ding Huan had just examined the Changyuan Dao Jue—it was decent, but not worthy of his attention.

Geng Yuan's father gave him the Changyuan Dao Jue tablet upon reaching the Creation Realm—he likely couldn't detect the tablet's flaw.

"I know," Geng Yuan said, his tone deeply disappointed.

He truly knew his technique was inadequate.

Precisely because of this, he admired Lan Xiaobu and Mo Wujie, respected Ding Huan, and was willing to follow him.

"Don't worry—your stone tablet has an issue: there's an artificially constructed layer of Dao resonance on its exterior."

"I'm peeling away these Dao resonance laws to see if there's a new discovery. If not, I'll teach you a Dao technique."

Ding Huan possessed three thousand Dao techniques, many vastly superior to Changyuan Dao Jue.

Given Geng Yuan's character, teaching him a Dao technique was acceptable.

"Thank you, Big Brother!" Geng Yuan beamed.

He knew Ding Huan's Dao techniques were extremely powerful—if he could switch to Big Brother's technique, he'd definitely have a chance at revenge.

…

Wangshen City.

A multitude of spacecraft flew in from the direction of the Gods' World and plunged directly into Wangshen City.

The rule forbidding flight within Wangshen City seemed meaningless to these spacecraft.

Cultivators inside and outside Wangshen City watched this scene in astonishment, unaware of what had happened.

One thing they could be certain of was that each of the approaching spacecraft carried a true Liyan Sage.

Moreover, when those Liyan Sages disembarked and entered the Gods' Commerce Tower, their entire beings radiated a powerful aura of slaughter.

"What's going on? Liyan Sages from the Gods' World never come to places like Wangshen City—why so many all at once?"

"Are you only seeing the Liyan Sages? I saw a Wuque Stronghold."

"Has something happened? Such a commotion."

"I know something about it…"

"Quick, tell us…"

The onlookers in the distance buzzed with speculation; everyone wanted to know what had occurred.

Hearing that a thin cultivator knew the reason, they all gathered around him.

It wasn't that they enjoyed gossip—

but if anything touched them, they had to flee immediately.

Surviving in the Void City beyond the Gods' Island was never easy; one misstep, and your life might be lost here.

In the eyes of the powerful from the Gods' World, their lives were expendable, unworthy of mention.

The thin cultivator lowered his voice: "More than ten days ago, an enforcer of the Gods' Commerce Tower was slain. Word is, the killer was a young newcomer."

"Enforcers in the Gods' Commerce Tower aren't that important—why send so many strong ones here?"

"You don't understand. Do you know what happened with Mo Lan? They too had just arrived on the outskirts of the Gods' World.

At first, the Gods' Palace didn't even notice them. But when they learned these two had killed Gods' Palace disciples, they immediately sent forces to eliminate them.

What was the result? Over eighty percent of the Liyan Sages and Wuque Sages died. If three Cosmic Masters hadn't appeared in succession, could they have been killed?"

"Exactly. The Gods' Commerce Tower fears a repeat of that incident. Even if it's just a lowly enforcer, he's still one of theirs.

Anyone who dares kill a Gods' Commerce Tower member shows no respect for the Tower."

…

In the grand hall atop the Gods' Commerce Tower in Wangshen City, a man with a dark face and phoenix eyes sat at the head.

The numerous Liyan Sages sat on either side.

Today, twelve Liyan Sages had come from the Gods' Commerce Tower.

All associates, clerks, and enforcers involved in the Wen Yi incident stood upright. Even guests who had merely happened to be present in the Tower when it occurred were dragged here.

Including the city lord of Wangshen City and the party involved, Li Yue, who stood below.

The city lord of Wangshen City had always been a lofty figure in Wangshen City, yet here he could only stand with a humble, slightly bent posture.

No one dared speak, for they knew who sat at the very top.

Qi Sha, the greatest assassin of the Gods' Commerce Tower, a Wuque Sage of the Fifth Step of the Dao.

Qi Sha lived up to his name—he cultivated through slaughter. Not only was he the greatest assassin of the Gods' Commerce Tower, but throughout the entire Gods' World, he was infamous for killing.

Under him, every matter had only one outcome: death.

There was no such thing as imprisonment or detention.

Chang Ru, one of the two enforcers who had arrived earlier, was as pale as paper.

She truly regretted leaving too late.

Long before, she had planned to leave the Gods' Commerce Tower, but had never found a suitable opportunity.

Moreover, she despised many things here and saw no future—so she refused to continue selling her life here.

Yet before she could leave, this incident occurred.

"Who hasn't arrived yet?" Qi Sha's voice sounded as if it came from hell.

A long-haired man hurried forward and bowed deeply: "Respected Elder Qi, only Peng Zhonghai, the Third External Affairs Elder of Wangshen City, has not come.

After that day, Peng Zhonghai claimed he had long been stuck at the Sixth Step of the Dao and left to seek opportunity to break through to the Seventh Step—he has not returned since."

The long-haired man speaking was Shi Gongbian, the city lord of Wangshen City, whose strength was at the Eighth Step of the Dao, similar to Jing Xizhen.

Yet he knew well that if a fight broke out, he was no match for Qi Sha before him.

Qi Sha was a true Wuque Sage—Fifth Step was Fifth Step.

His Eighth Step was attained beyond the center of the universe, heavily diluted.

Not everyone could be like Lan Xiaobu or Mo Wujie, those prodigies who defied heaven.

Qi Sha glanced at Shi Gongbian and ignored him.

He knew he could kill Shi Gongbian, but it would take effort—Shi Gongbian was no ordinary man.

"Who was the first to witness this incident? Step forward and recount it."

Qi Sha's tone was calm, yet all here knew that before he left, at least a pile of corpses would remain.

Li Yue stepped forward and bowed respectfully: "I handled this matter. I saw Ding Huan outside the city…"

Li Yue's voice trembled as she spoke—she knew she was dead.

She only hoped that when Qi Sha killed her, he would grant her a chance at reincarnation.