Post-Mythical Era: I don't want to die in the third reincarnation-Chapter 357 - 352: Where the Immortal Fate Lies

"Sect Master Ding, I was controlled by Wu Zhanxia and couldn't make my own decisions. For the sake of our many years of friendship, please let me go this once."

Seeing Ding Huan had killed Wu Zhanxia, Mu Chengzi became panicked.

Ding Huan said coldly, "After you schemed against Xun Daoist and Ji Daoist, we no longer had any friendship."

"You knew?" Mu Chengzi stared at Ding Huan in shock.

He had felt something was off before, but it didn't seem likely that Ding Huan would know about it.

He quickly realized that now was not the time to worry about these matters; saving his own life was what mattered most.

"Sect Master Ding, I know where Wu Zhanxia's Immortal Artifact is..."

Before Mu Chengzi could finish speaking, Ding Huan had already cleaved a blade light through Mu Chengzi's brow, simultaneously throwing over a ball of fire.

"Ding Huan, spare me once..." Mu Chengzi was still screaming with all his might; he truly did not want to die.

In his view, if Wu Zhanxia just triggered the Domain of that Immortal Artifact to control space, combined with his own ambush, Ding Huan was guaranteed to die.

Who could have known that Ding Huan would not only survive but also kill Wu Zhanxia?

Regardless of how much Mu Chengzi didn't want to die, his Divine Soul was extinguished by Ding Huan's flames.

"Greetings, Sect Master Ding..." Those Earth Immortal cultivators who hadn't attacked came forward to pay their respects after seeing Ding Huan kill Wu Zhanxia in this place.

In their view, Immortal Valley was about to get a new Valley Master.

Ding Huan's Divine Will swept out; besides the nine people they had just killed, there were only fifty-four Earth Immortal Perfect cultivators and three Immortal cultivators left.

"Bai He, you first withdraw the poison." Ding Huan gestured to Jia Baihe.

Jia Baihe had no objections to Ding Huan's words, raising her hand to roll up, the Poison Dao Rules she had released were once again taken back by her.

Only now did those Earth Immortal cultivators who had narrowly escaped death gaze at Jia Baihe with fear.

They had been poisoned without realizing it.

Such a method of administering poison was truly terrifying. Some people who had arrived later had already guessed who Jia Baihe was.

That was Jia Baihe, the First Poison Demon of Triple Heaven Star Land, who was known for stopping infants' night cries.

If it weren't for Ding Huan's mercy, they would all be dead by now.

"Why are there only these people left? I remember there were over ninety people when I left?"

A frail man stepped forward and said, "Deep within Immortal Valley, there is a misty entrance. Wu Zhanxia said that this place is a passage to the Immortal Realm.

Therefore, he would take two cultivators in each year, but those he took almost never returned."

"Ji Gu, you lead the way; we'll take a look." Ding Huan said to Ji Gu beside him.

While he was dealing with Wu Zhanxia earlier, Mu Chengzi had a chance to harm him a second time.

However, as Mu Chengzi recovered from the Dusk Drum Sound and prepared to make a move, Ji Gu acted before Mu Chengzi, striking Mu Chengzi with a severe blow.

Despite all these people being Earth Immortal Perfect cultivators, Ding Huan admired Ji Gu the most.

Intelligent, decisive, and knew what to choose.

"Okay." Ji Gu had previously sneaked in several times; this was the first time coming openly.

Ji Gu led to the deepest part of Wu Zhanxia's Cultivator Avenue District.

This place was Wu Zhanxia's forbidden area, where no one was allowed near without Wu Zhanxia's permission.

For Ji Gu to have managed to come here a few times and even record video in a Crystal Ball, she indeed had some skills.

After an incense stick's time, Ji Gu stopped at the entrance shrouded in mist:

"This is the place. This mist only dissipates on nights with a full moon, revealing bamboo groves. That's when I recorded the video with my Crystal Ball."

Wu Zhanxia did not allow anyone to approach here before, but Ding Huan had no such prohibitions.

So when Ding Huan and the others arrived, almost everyone still in the valley came over.

After hearing Ji Gu's words, Ding Huan said to everyone,

"Everyone, this mist is somewhat strange. I plan to observe here for some time; there are only a few days left until the full moon night.

After the full moon night, everyone can come over, and those willing to enter can join me. Those who don't want to can do as they please."

"Thank you Sect Master Ding." Several Earth Immortal cultivators were quick to express their gratitude.

Actually, having lived here for so long, many had guessed there might be Immortal Fate within, but this was Wu Zhanxia's territory. Without Wu Zhanxia's consent, nobody could come over.

In the past twenty years or so, Wu Zhanxia did indeed take one or two people here each year, but the people he brought almost never had the chance to survive, nor did anyone reveal what was truly inside.

Ding Huan set up a defensive formation at the entrance enshrouded in mist. He could only sense that Wu Zhanxia's Immortal Artifact was here, but the exact location required further searching.

As for whether the Immortal Artifact was Wu Zhanxia's, Ding Huan still had some doubts. If it belonged to Wu Zhanxia, his Immortal Artifact would definitely be kept close at all times.

Even if it couldn't be kept at his side, it had to be summonable at any moment.

In fact, when Wu Zhanxia was killed, he wasn't able to summon the Immortal Artifact to his aid.

To enter this mist-filled bamboo forest, first locating that Immortal Artifact was necessary.

Ji Gu and the others didn't disturb Ding Huan, but Ji Gu, concerned for him, also went into closed-door cultivation not far away.

The rest chose spots and awaited the arrival of the full moon night outside the bamboo forest.

Ding Huan didn't rely on the Great Universe Technique to deduce the location of the Immortal Artifact at first; he began using the Big Calculation Skill.

Soon, Ding Huan knew he couldn't deduce anything. In his divination, it was all blank.

This could only mean that the thing he wanted to deduce was too high-level for him to figure out.

It must be at least an Immortal Artifact, as only treasures of a higher grade than Immortal Artifacts would be beyond his predictive abilities.

Since he couldn't deduce it, Ding Huan could only continue to refine the Dusk Drum.

Initially, Ding Huan didn't pay much attention to the Dusk Drum, but after it saved him several times, its importance in his mind soared.

Five days later, after Ding Huan had refined the twelfth layer of prohibition on the Dusk Drum, it was able to remain in his Sea of Consciousness.

Just like an iron pot, it orbited within the Great Dao Universe of the Sea of Consciousness, as if it were a star within the Tao Universe.

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Ding Huan understood that the grade of the Dusk Drum must be very high, at least higher than an Immortal Artifact.

He had an Immortal Artifact on him, the Fei Yan Sword.

He had refined the Fei Yan Sword, but it could not enter the Sea of Consciousness.

Only Magical Treasures that can enter the Sea of Consciousness, like the iron pot and Dusk Drum, possess inherent Great Dao Rules.

One can see two moons in the Triple Heaven Star Land, and these moons have an uncanny synchronization, becoming full at exactly the same moment.

At the bottom of the Four-layered Sea Canyon, one could not see the moon, but the moonlight on the night of the full moon could reflect in.

On the night of the full moon, Ding Huan had also retracted the defensive formation.

At this moment, not only Ji Gu, Cang Yongqian, and others had come over, but also every single person in the canyon, tallying each one, not a person was left behind, all stood at the entrance of this bamboo forest.

Among those who came here, except for some who had entered by mistake, most were Earth Immortal Perfect Cultivators seeking their Immortal Fate.

Those with lower cultivation had long since been unable to survive.

Ding Huan was the first to enter the bamboo forest, closely followed by Ji Gu, Jia Baihe, Cang Yongqian, and others.

Some of the cultivators who were originally here hesitated for a moment but also followed Ding Huan into the bamboo forest.

With someone leading the way into the bamboo forest, the others also hurriedly followed, and in the blink of an eye, all the cultivators in the canyon had entered the bamboo forest following Ding Huan and the rest.

"Is this Immortal Spiritual Energy?" A cultivator excitedly exclaimed as they entered the bamboo forest.

Not just him, everyone felt a special kind of Spiritual Energy, which was clearly of a higher level than the Daoist Rhythm outside, though it was much too faint.

This higher level was not in terms of concentration but in the higher level of Daoist Rhythm.

"Indeed, it's Immortal Spiritual Energy. There is Immortal Spiritual Energy here, yet Wu Zhanxia hasn't advanced to the Immortal Bridge Realm over such a long period, truly a fool," Qi Yonghan couldn't help but curse.

He had been here for hundreds of years, and Wu Zhanxia was too selfish. Why couldn't they enter the bamboo forest when one could sense the Immortal Spiritual Energy inside?

If you, Wu Zhanxia, cannot comprehend the Immortal Bridge Realm from this level of Immortal Spiritual Energy, maybe others could?

The bamboo forest seemed vast, but Divine Will couldn't penetrate it.

Even with Ding Huan's strong Divine Will, it could only permeate a range of thirty feet.

The deeper everyone went, the more they inexplicably felt panicked.

Despite this, not one person chose to retreat.

Having come this far, no one was willing to fall behind.

After two hours, Ding Huan stopped.

It wasn't that he didn't want to move; there was simply no path ahead.

In front of everyone lay a pile of insect corpses the size of small hills.

In front of the insect corpses was a massive black hole vortex.

This black hole vortex looked somewhat like a Cosmic Vortex, but Ding Huan knew it wasn't one.

A Cosmic Vortex contained the breath of a vast Cosmic Starry Sky, whereas this vortex contained the kind of Immortal Spiritual Energy mentioned before.

It was a kind of Primordial Qi of Heaven and Earth that was higher in level than Spiritual Energy.

The only drawback was that it was extremely faint, so faint that one wouldn't sense it without careful attention.

Ding Huan's gaze fell upon these insect bodies, and the corner of his eye twitched slightly; this was the third time he had seen these insects.

The insects had hard bodies and six legs, with colors ranging from grayish-white to black. They had antennae on their heads and sturdy mouthparts.

The first time he saw these bugs was in the Spirit Origin Valley of the Heaven-Splitting Battlefield; the second time was at Hidden Sword Mountain.

The bug from Hidden Sword Mountain was immense; it's still in his ring now.

And here, there was a pile of these bugs.

"Ding Huan, this vortex could well be the Immortal Fate that Wu Zhanxia spoke of. He probably didn't enter because going in means certain death," Ji Gu slowly said.

Ding Huan took out several Array Flags and tossed them down, and soon a fog-ridden river appeared beneath the massive mouth of the vortex.

Those who were not familiar with Ding Huan instinctively kept their distance from him.

After arriving here, they had only seen the massive vortex and piles of insects; they had not noticed the fog-ridden river beneath the vortex.

Not only did Ding Huan know about this river of fog, but he also exposed it using an Array.

"What is that thing?" someone asked, pointing to a giant gray cauldron in the middle of the river beneath the vortex.