Chapter 947: Chaos Dao Secret

Ding Huan named this Void Island Blue Star Island, and the cultivation peak they chose he named Jiuzhou Peak.

Jia Baihe, Guan Huan, Qiao Qianhe, and Geng Yuan each sought out locations to establish their cultivation caves.

Even Yijie found a place to build a cave, vowing he would break through to the Sacred Beast tier and become a Cultivated Sacred Beast.

After cultivating for a while, Ding Huan discovered that the external laws surrounding the Immortality Dao Secret stone tablet given by Geng Yuan still had not been reversed and decoded.

He felt somewhat frustrated—he had thought it would take no more than ten days or half a month to reverse-decode the laws, yet now two months had passed.

This showed his understanding of reverse-decoding magic treasure laws was still inadequate.

Fortunately, he had not forcibly torn open the outer layer of refined laws on the stone tablet, or else the tablet would surely have been destroyed.

He simply handed the control jade token for Blue Star Island's outer barrier to Jia Baihe, while he himself wandered around Blue Star Island.

With his current comprehension of the Dao and his realm, the Creation Dao rhythm of Blue Star Island could still offer him some assistance, but this assistance was no longer crucial.

He told Jia Baihe and the others he would wander here for a while, then leave.

Although Blue Star Island was not the first Ding Huan discovered, it was the first he opened.

Besides Dao veins, it contained vast quantities of rare materials and Dao fruits.

Ding Huan had mostly left these things untouched.

Only when encountering Dao veins did he extract some.

He would take only extremely rare Dao fruits.

Blue Star Island was never large, and even if Ding Huan slowed his pace, within a month he had thoroughly toured the entire island.

On this day, after touring the whole of Blue Star Island, Ding Huan stopped beside a withered tree.

In Blue Star Island, such withered trees were everywhere.

Ding Huan stopped at this particular withered tree because there was a fluctuation of magic treasure energy here.

Ding Huan's own Chaos Law Sea was refining Chaos treasures, so at a glance he recognized that a magic treasure was forming within the withered tree.

Because Blue Star Island was a Creation Void Island, it contained many natural magic treasures.

But ordinary magic treasures were beneath Ding Huan's notice; he often couldn't be bothered to collect them.

Although the magic treasure within this withered tree was sealed by natural prohibitions, Ding Huan could still sense a faint aura of slaughter and destruction.

Ding Huan raised his hand and seized the withered tree, then cast dozens of hand seals.

In an instant, the withered tree split open, revealing a long halberd in Ding Huan's hand.

A primordial treasure?

Ding Huan was extremely surprised—a primordial magic treasure had hatched within a Void Island.

The halberd was entirely black, radiating a powerful Devouring Dao rhythm.

It must have been that after Blue Star Island was condensed by Chaos, a top-tier Chaos material fell upon a Dao tree.

Then this Chaos material devoured the Dao tree, and under various Creation Dao principles, it eventually evolved into this halberd.

My Break-Catastrophe Blade is still evolving; this halberd can serve as a temporary weapon.

Ding Huan immediately began refining the halberd; this unrefined magic treasure was swiftly absorbed, its halberd pattern settling onto Ding Huan's wrist.

"From now on, call it Devouring God Halberd."

He was going to the Gods World, to shatter its rules, which meant eliminating

those beings in the Gods World.

This halberd embodies the Devouring Law—Devouring God Halberd is the perfect name.

He tallied his gains: eight high-grade Dao veins; he had taken not a single low-grade Dao vein.

A few Dao fruits, and the Devouring God Halberd.

His spiritual sense sank into the Chaos Law Sea.

The outermost layer of refined laws on the Long Yuan Dao Secret had finally been stripped away, revealing a more primitive, irregular stone fragment.

Ding Huan reached out and seized the stone in his hand.

The stone bore no characters; his spiritual sense sank into its interior.

"Chaos Dao Secret."

Another Dao Secret, yet the Chaos Dao Secret was incomparably stronger than the Long Yuan Dao Secret—no less potent than the Primordial Dao Secret.

It merely emphasized different aspects.

Blue Star Island was now saturated with Creation Dao rhythm and Chaos energy; for Geng Yuan to resume cultivation with the Chaos Dao Secret was perfectly suited.

Ding Huan thought of "perfectly suited," and a subtle thought stirred within him.

Geng Yuan was a Chaos Dao Body, a rarity of ten thousand years.

Why was Geng Yuan a Chaos Dao Body?

Could it be that because Geng Yuan's father obtained the Chaos Dao Secret but did not know how to use it, and spent every day studying it, he inadvertently influenced the next generation?

That was how Geng Yuan became a Chaos Dao Body.

Regardless, a Chaos Dao Body cultivating the Chaos Dao Secret was simply perfect.

…

Geng Yuan's cave on Jiuzhou Peak.

Although he had carved out his own cave here, Geng Yuan had no mood to cultivate.

He had no cultivation technique.

If he continued with the Long Yuan Dao Secret, he could have already begun cultivating—why wait until today?

He was waiting for the technique Brother Ding had promised him.

But Brother Ding had not mentioned it, and Geng Yuan did not dare to press him.

Just as he was idly passing the time, the cave's prohibitions were triggered.

Geng Yuan leapt to his feet and rushed out to dismantle the cave's sealing array, and right away he saw Ding Huan standing outside his cave.

"Big brother…"

Geng Yuan excitedly rubbed his hands—he was certain Ding Huan had come to deliver him a cultivation technique.

Otherwise, Ding Huan would have long left Blue Star Island; why wait until today?

"Here, take this." Ding Huan handed Geng Yuan the stone in his hand.

Geng Yuan took the stone, bewildered: "What is this?"

His spiritual sense landed on the stone, and the next instant he blurted out: "Chaos Dao Scripture?"

His eyes were now filled with uncontrollable excitement.

Even before he began cultivation, a deep longing stirred in Geng Yuan's subconscious—a craving to immediately begin practicing the Chaos Dao Scripture.

This was undoubtedly the most perfect Dao technique for him; he couldn't fathom where Big Brother Ding had obtained it.

"Yes, this is the technique I'm giving you. How do you feel about it?" Ding Huan asked.

"Big brother, this technique feels tailor-made for me—as if it was created just for me. I will cultivate it, and I will surely return it to you one day."

Ding Huan waved his hand: "This is the Chang Yuan Dao Scripture your father left you. The version outside was merely a decoy—I stripped it away, leaving only the Chaos Dao Scripture."

"So it's yours. You don't need to return it to me. Focus on your cultivation—I'm leaving here for a while."

With that, Ding Huan didn't wait for Geng Yuan's thanks—he turned and swiftly departed.

There was one more thing he didn't say.

He suspected Geng Yuan's very existence might be tied to the Chaos Dao Scripture.

These were only his guesses—he dared not speak them outright, and could only wait for Geng Yuan to find the answers himself someday.

…

Three days later, Ding Huan controlled the Cosmic Cauldron far away from Blue Star Island.

He had two urgent tasks ahead.

First, enter the World of Gods and find a way to validate the Fifth Step of the Dao. Second, collect every single Dao Pearl and Dao Pillar of the Dao Disc.

Perfect his own Dao Disc.

He absolutely could not let the scroll's owner act first.

In addition, he'd casually inquire about the whereabouts of Mo Wujie and Lan Xiaobu.

If he could help them, he would act without hesitation.

The World of Gods had too many powerful beings; he doubted he could establish himself there alone.

Even though Geng Yuan claimed the strongest beings in the World of Gods were only Dao Seventh Step Cosmic Masters,

Geng Yuan believed it, and most others believed it too.

Ding Huan did not believe it at all.

He had not yet reached that level, but if he had surpassed Cosmic Master status, he wouldn't have left his seclusion so casually.

Wouldn't it be better to find a quiet place, continue his seclusion, and study his own Dao?

Once one comprehends a Dao beyond the Seventh or Eighth Step, what else could possibly distract them?

Don't even mention the Eighth Step—didn't even the Cosmic Masters of the Seventh Step remain in seclusion?

Hadn't the World of Gods Temple nearly been destroyed by Mo Wujie and Lan Xiaobu, its very boundaries on the verge of being torn open?

Would the Seventh Step Cosmic Masters have emerged then?

So Ding Huan concluded: there were certainly beings in the World of Gods stronger than Cosmic Masters—not merely the Cosmic Masters Geng Yuan claimed were the strongest.

If it weren't so implausible and unlikely, Ding Huan would suspect the World of Gods harbored a supreme elder.

This being was the master of all rules, seated at the center of the World of Gods—the heart of Chaos.

His reason for this suspicion was his own Chaos Law Sea.

To others, the Chaos Law Sea was a forbidden zone, utterly inaccessible; yet Ding Huan could sit within it, refining his Chaos Laws and forging his own Chaos artifacts.

If the entire World of Gods and all the boundless universes beyond it were merely universes constructed by his Dao realm, then the presence of a supreme elder at its Chaos core would be no surprise.

Of course, this possibility was vanishingly small—even nonexistent.

The Cosmic Cauldron moved swiftly; after half a year, Ding Huan halted it.

He saw a familiar face.

It was a woman, her aura withered, her Dao resonance chaotic, nearly at the point of death.

He remembered her name was Chang Ru—she had once refused to accompany Wen Zhifa to kill him, then voluntarily requested to leave midway.

Her excuse was to go to the city governor's mansion, but in truth, she didn't want to kill him.

"Hello, Chief Chang. What a small world—wherever you go, you meet someone you know." Ding Huan's Cosmic Cauldron halted before Chang Ru, his tone as if speaking to an old friend.

Startled, Chang Ru suddenly realized a spaceship had stopped beside her.

"You're…"

The moment she saw Ding Huan, she recognized him—he was the Ding Huan she had claimed to be searching for before Qi Sha.

She had never intended to find him—yet here he was, appearing before her.

"That's right, I'm Ding Huan. Were you looking for me?" Ding Huan asked.

Chang Ru hurriedly said: "I'm not looking for you—leave quickly! Qi Sha of the Divine Commerce Tower is after you—if he catches you…"

"Heh, I knew I wasn't mistaken in you. Good thing I reacted in time. Since I began my path, no one has ever slipped through my grasp. 【117】 If I don't kill you, my Dao may never be perfected…" A mocking voice echoed, and a figure suddenly appeared before Chang Ru.

"If I don't kill you, my great Dao of slaughter probably won't be able to reach perfection..." a mocking voice rang out, followed by a figure abruptly appearing before Chang Ru.

"Qi Sha…" Chang Ru's body turned icy.

What luck? Just moments ago, it was Qi Sha's underlings chasing her—now Qi Sha himself had come.