Chapter 646 Netherworld Seal
The two World Gods who were planning to negotiate with Yi Qi about forming a team stopped in their tracks upon seeing Ding Huan's fierce demeanor.
Ding Huan's gaze fell upon them, and they instinctively turned around.
In fact, even for a Heavenly God Realm Practitioner like Ding Huan, who might hail from a Great Sect, forcing him would not bring them any psychological pressure.
But who knew Ding Huan would play the fool to catch a tiger, his cultivation appearing weak, yet his combat prowess was absolutely at the mid to late Divine Monarch Realm.
Ding Huan continued to swiftly move forward.
However, there were simply too many cultivators at the edge of the Reincarnation Swamp. It was only half a month later that Ding Huan found an unpopulated area.
Seeing no one around, Ding Huan set up several monitoring array patterns at the edge and placed some marks of Divine Will before leisurely diving into the swamp.
Even without a wooden ship, with his understanding of the Descent Law, he wouldn't sink into the Reincarnation Swamp.
For convenience, Ding Huan nonetheless summoned an Unsinkable Divine Wood Ship.
Standing on the ship, Ding Huan wielded his Divine Essence, propelling the Unsinkable Divine Wood Ship through the Reincarnation Swamp like an arrow.
To avoid detection, Ding Huan controlled the Unsinkable Divine Wood Ship to delve into the swamp for three days before he started searching for his objective with peace of mind.
At this distance, even a Divine King could not use Divine Will to detect him.
Ding Huan's Divine Will scanned the area and in less than an incense stick of time, he sensed a Dao Rhythm fluctuation.
He immediately approached, his sight falling on nothing in particular.
However, his Divine Will captured a spherical object, and Ding Huan reached out to seize this ball-like item.
Held in his hand, it was like a small volleyball.
An indescribable comfort surged through him. Was this a Luck Stone?
Colorless, tasteless, yet tangible.
It contained an aura of Heaven and Earth Rules, and emitting this aura seemed to grant the heavens' favor.
Ding Huan was no stranger to the concept of luck.
In his Life and Death Mirror, he had also absorbed some Immortal Realm luck.
The luck congealed into a tangible form, turning into a spherical Luck Stone—this was indeed something he had neither thought of nor seen before.
Ding Huan took out a Jade Box, placing the Luck Stone inside and imposed a restriction on it.
The Luck Stone was a treasure coveted by all, a frenzied object on Dao Ruins Street the moment it appeared.
With this Luck Stone in hand, he could establish a sect.
Even if not founded a sect, he could set up a Gathering Spirit Divine Array in the wild and cultivate as long as he had the Luck Stone.
Acquiring a Luck Stone significantly boosted Ding Huan's confidence.
The Unsinkable Divine Wood Ship beneath him advanced slowly, while his Divine Will left no spot unchecked.
On the fourth day, Ding Huan found the second Luck Stone.
On the seventh day, Ding Huan found the third Luck Stone.
Yet, the Divine Muhe he most desired remained elusive.
As Ding Huan found more and more Luck Stones, he distilled his experience.
The direction the Descent Law moved was where the Luck Stones appeared.
Apparently, any cultivator about to find a Luck Stone had to confront the Descent Law beforehand.
Ding Huan muttered in exasperation—how was anyone supposed to play like this?
Besides someone like him, unafraid of the Descent Law, who wouldn't meet their doom upon encountering it?
Three months later, Ding Huan had harvested thirty-seven Luck Stones.
Ding Huan grew more anxious; he couldn't afford to spend all his time here. His purpose was to find Divine Muhe.
Without Divine Muhe, no amount of Luck Stones would have been worthwhile.
That day, Ding Huan's Divine Will, as per usual, searched through the swamp when he suddenly sensed a different Dao Rhythm fluctuation.
This fluctuation felt familiar, as if he'd encountered it before...
Ding Huan swiftly maneuvered the wooden ship to the source of the Dao Rhythm, revealing a small natural Concealing Restriction.
Though it was a very small natural Concealing Restriction, it still took Ding Huan half a month to open it.
Upon breaking the restriction, another stone appeared within.
This stone was not a Luck Stone but an oval, half-gray, half-white stone.
Ding Huan raised his hand and grabbed the stone.
A vast aura of the Great Dao surged forth, and before his eyes appeared a vision from his past life, controlling the fifth star plummeting into that ocher abandoned planet...
The familiar Dao Rhythm, just as before, seemed like reincarnation...
Ding Huan suddenly drew his long blade, unleashing a massive Sword Light.
With that strike, all paths of reincarnation were seemingly severed; the sword mark in the void resembled a hanging river of death, carrying a Dao Rhythm of stillness and annihilation.
The strike cut the springs of the Yellow Spring River, severing reincarnation.
Under this strike, all reincarnation vanished.
Boom!
The vast Sword Light extended into the Sword Gorge by ten thousand spans, its killing Dao Rhythm continually extending with the lingering Yellow Spring River in the void...
A single stroke severed the Yellow Spring River, leaving no trace of reincarnation.
Standing on the Unsinkable Divine Wood Ship, Ding Huan's spirit soared.
He had comprehended the Netherworld Seal, one of the Seven Seals of Reincarnation, all thanks to a single stone.
Collecting the blade, Ding Huan laughed heartily.
Even if he failed to find the Divine Muhe, this journey would be worthwhile.
Looking at the stone in his hand, though he didn't know what it was, it enabled him to sever reincarnation with a single stroke, comprehending the Netherworld Seal.
This was undoubtedly something related to reincarnation.
Sealing the stone, Ding Huan sent it into his Five Elements World.
It's time to leave.
Wealth is endless, having enough is good.
If I can't find the Divine Muhe, so be it. I'll look for it after I advance to the God Monarch Realm.
Ding Huan turned around, preparing to leave.
In that instant, he sensed the aura of the Divine Muhe.
It reminded Ding Huan of a line of poetry: In a sudden turn... amidst the dim lights...
Indeed, fate is a mysterious thing.
Ding Huan scanned the area with his Divine Will and saw three Divine Muhe growing in the grass.
He scanned the surroundings again with his Divine Will, confirming there were no issues.
Why hadn't he noticed these three Divine Muhe earlier?
Ding Huan pondered for a while without understanding, perhaps it was just the illusionary nature of divine items?
Cautiously, he collected the three Divine Muhe and summoned the Cosmic Pot, preparing to leave quickly.
Hesitating for a moment, he put the Cosmic Pot away.
He couldn't just leave like that.
Before obtaining the Luck Stones, he wasn't too concerned.
Now with thirty-seven Luck Stones in hand, Ding Huan understood that, while Luck Stones could be found in many places in Dao Ruins,
the Reincarnation Swamp was an unsearched territory.
If news of his presence in the Reincarnation Swamp spread, the entire Divine World would likely become his enemy.
Moreover, many had seen him encounter the Descent Law in the Reincarnation Swamp and still manage to emerge.
It was only a matter of time before the news spread.
He needed a reason, an explanation for why he could traverse the Void Swamp.
Ding Huan sighed; there was only one solution, and that was to craft an ancient talisman.
A talisman that allows movement in the Reincarnation Swamp, yet with a time limit.
Fortunately, he never abandoned his talisman-crafting skills.
Although he hadn't crafted a Divine Talisman before, learning it wouldn't be difficult for him.
For him, it was simply a matter of crafting several more.
The materials for crafting this Divine Talisman couldn't be Immortal Materials, and he didn't have much Divine Materials on him.
Moreover, using Divine Materials seemed inappropriate; the best would be to use something beyond both Immortal and Divine Materials...
Ding Huan's gaze fell on the partial tree root he had split from in the Immortal Realm.
This tree root was undoubtedly divine; it would be used to craft an ancient talisman.
The segment of tree root he harvested was sizable, with the piece he cut being ten thousand feet long.
Ding Huan raised his hand to cut a segment of the root, then summoned the Void Flames.
The Void burned the root slowly, so Ding Huan tossed in a Fire Origin Crystal.
Back in the Immortal Realm, it wasn't that the Void couldn't upgrade to Divine Flame, but it was limited by the Heaven and Earth Rules.
Now, after just an incense stick's worth of time, the Void had already become a level-one Divine Flame.
Ding Huan threw in a few more Fire Origin Crystals.
The Void engulfed the Fire Origin Crystals, and its aura surged wildly.
Half a month later, the Void advanced to a level-three Divine Flame.
However, the mottled aura of the Fire Origin Crystals was overwhelming, and continuing further would require much more time.
Ding Huan decided it was sufficient, as long as he could craft an ancient talisman to get through.
If he were truly to be hunted by the entire Divine World, he accepted it.
Time slipped by as Ding Huan continued to craft talismans.
Three months later, Ding Huan easily crafted a level-four Divine Talisman.
A talisman incorporating the Time Law, Descent Law, and Space Law was crafted by Ding Huan.
The Time Law was incorporated for deceit.
The talisman had to appear as though it had existed for hundreds of years.
Even a Divine King, without mastering both the Descent Law and Time Law, wouldn't be able to tell the talisman was freshly crafted.
Crafting the talisman wasn't enough; it also needed to be used over time.
Ding Huan carefully timed this.
It coincided with when he had, under the watch of many, controlled the Unsinkable Divine Wood Ship out of the Reincarnation Swamp.
After use, the ancient talisman's talisman text in Ding Huan's hand visibly dulled.
Even a Heavenly God Realm Practitioner could immediately see this talisman had been recently used.
Now he could leave.
Ding Huan summoned the Reincarnation Pot, inscribing new Law Array Patterns on the Cosmic Pot, ensuring the Descent Law could no longer affect him.
The Cosmic Pot activated, and almost instantly, Ding Huan exited the Reincarnation Swamp from where he entered and then disappeared.
A few Heavenly God Realm Practitioners seemed to sense something, instinctively looked up, but found nothing.
The Cosmic Pot was simply too fast, and with Ding Huan's cultivation level now, controlling the Cosmic Pot, even ordinary Heavenly God Practitioners would find it hard to notice.
Three days later, Ding Huan stopped.
What initially took a few months to travel to the Reincarnation Swamp of Dao Ruins, this time only took three days to return to the place where he once cultivated with Wen Ji Yue.
This place was quiet, and Ding Huan decided to enhance his Illusion Eye to the highest level of the Heavenly Eye here.
(Fellow cultivator, good night!)