Ding Huan had no idea that his Blue Star Sect had almost attracted a strong cultivator from the Ascension Realm.
As long as Pang Xiangxiang said a word to point out that Blue Star Sect was forcefully seizing loot, Qiao Sha only needed to send a True God Realm cultivator to easily crush Blue Star Sect.
But Pang Xiangxiang told the truth without giving Qiao Sha any excuse to act.
Even though Yi Jiang hated them so much he gnashed his teeth, he was helpless.
Not only had he failed to realize his wish to become the Yanyue Sect Master, but his plan to marry Han Xiaonu from the Luoshen Palace was also completely spoiled.
Qing Yu watched Pang Xiangxiang in a daze until she finished speaking and sat down, then she finally realized why Pang Xiangxiang had spoken up for Ding Huan.
In fact, by speaking impartially, Pang Xiangxiang was essentially helping Ding Huan.
Because Pang Xiangxiang wanted to pledge allegiance to Ding Huan now.
Should she stand up?
If she stood up for the Young Sect Master, would he spare her life and help her succeed in Foundation Establishment as he did with Pang Xiangxiang?
Pang Xiangxiang did not know Qing Yu’s thoughts. If she did, she could only speechlessly tell Qing Yu:
"When I was practicing Dual Cultivation with Wan Dao, he was the legitimate Young Sect Master with access to all the Sect resources, and he could get whatever he wanted.
Yi Jiang is just nothing now, let alone knowing if he can return to Yanyue Sect or not, how can you expect him to spare your life to help you with your Foundation Establishment?"
Unfortunately, Qing Yu could not comprehend this reasoning. While she could play her cards right and curry favor, she was merely showing a bit of cleverness.
So, she stood up:
"Senior Sect Masters, this junior was once Guan Pou’s personal maid, and I do know a thing or two about this Ding Huan..."
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At this moment, Ding Huan was standing again at the outskirts of Hidden Sword Mountain, where the poison fog seemed a little less dense.
As his Divine Will scanned Hidden Sword Mountain, his brows furrowed. He did not see Ji Xinting.
Wasn’t that guy supposed to be here, cultivating while keeping Hidden Sword Mountain safe for him? Why had he disappeared?
It seems this guy was unreliable.
Anyway, Ding Huan couldn’t be bothered to look for Ji Xinting. He went to where the Cosmic Vortex was located and reviewed every detail of his journey since creating the Great Universe Technique from the very beginning.
He then grabbed the Star Sky Spiritual Vein lying beneath him and infused his Divine Will into the vast Cosmic Vortex while starting the Great Universe Technique Circulation.
As a hundred Circulation Paths fused together through Divine Will with the Cosmic Vortex, Ding Huan sensed the breaths of the Cosmic Laws one after another.
At this moment, Ding Huan’s aura surged once more, as infinite Spiritual Energy was drawn in and merged with the Spiritual Energy of the Star Sky Spiritual Vein beneath his feet, which he then absorbed.
Twelve Star Mountains began to rotate slowly in his Dantian, like twelve orbiting planets.
As the aura around Ding Huan grew stronger, the rotation speed of these twelve Star Mountains increased.
The poison fog of Hidden Sword Mountain was also madly swirling towards Ding Huan, forming a massive vortex of Spiritual Energy around him.
Ding Huan faintly sensed the one hundred and first Circulation Path and without hesitation surged forward with the encompassing Spiritual Energy.
Boom!
A thunderous noise flashed in the sky, startling Ding Huan so much he nearly stopped the Great Universe Technique’s Circulation.
Previously, he had almost been killed by a thunderous noise when he had a revelation about the Great Universe Technique.
Why was this thunderous noise coming again today?
Before Ding Huan could react, a Thunder Arc slashed down from the sky.
Unable to evade, Ding Huan was struck on the shoulder by the Thunder Arc.
"Crack!" Ding Huan clearly heard the sound of his own bones breaking as an arm instantly lost its ability to move.
Boom, boom, boom! Several more blasts came from the sky, reaching him faster than the sound were three consecutive Thunder Arcs.
Ding Huan finally realized that he was undergoing a Heavenly Tribulation.
How could he dare be negligent at this time? The Separation Spear was summoned, forming myriad spear shadows into a curtain of spear layers.
Ding Huan knew very well that it would be difficult for these spear curtains to stop this wave of Thunder Arcs.
Crack, crack, crack!
The spear curtains shattered, and several weakened Thunder Arcs hit Ding Huan without obstruction.
Despite the Thunder Arcs being weakened by the spear curtains on impact, Ding Huan’s bones were still shattered, and his body was a bloodied mess.
Ding Huan didn’t dare to think about anything else; if he couldn’t get through this Heavenly Tribulation today, he might be killed by a Thunder Arc when advancing to the Star Realm.
At this moment, Ding Huan was frantically running the Great Universe Technique for Circulation while also dedicating a separate Circulation Path just for healing.
Once a separate healing Path was established, under the Great Universe Technique’s Circulation, Ding Huan’s body recovered at an extraordinary rate.
When five more Thunder Arcs fell, Ding Huan’s injuries had mostly healed.
However, Ding Huan felt no relief. The Thunder Arcs were getting stronger. If he continued to heal at this rate and with his current ability to withstand the Thunder Tribulation Arc, being killed seemed not impossible.
There’s a saying, "More haste, less speed." The more Ding Huan wanted to speed up his healing, the slower the healing seemed to become.
Boom, boom, boom!
Five consecutive Thunder Arcs fell, easily tearing through Ding Huan’s constructed spear curtain Defense, and even his Separation Spear was nearly blasted away by the Thunder Tribulation Arc.
Crack! Ding Huan’s skull was split open, his body was a blur of blood and flesh, and his bones were protruding.
Ding Huan, sitting slumped on the ground covered in blood, was still frantically running the Great Universe Technique.
Either he would pass through the Heavenly Tribulation, or he would die by it; he had no other choice.
If he gave up on advancing to the Star Realm and stopped running the Great Universe Technique, whether he had any chance of avoiding the Thunder Tribulation Arcs he did not know, but he knew it would be of no benefit to him.
Perhaps if he didn’t circulate the Great Universe Technique to break through to the Star Realm, the deadly Thunder Tribulation wouldn’t immediately stop.
Even if the Thunder Tribulation did stop, the next time he attempted to break through to the Star Realm, it might only be equivalent to cultivating the Little Universe Technique.
The sky above was brewing the next Thunder Tribulation Arc, and beneath the even more terrifying rumble, Ding Huan suspected that this time there would be even more Thunder Tribulation Arcs.
This was only the first wave of Thunder Tribulation Arcs.
He had never experienced a Thunder Tribulation, but that didn’t mean he hadn’t heard of it.
It was said that there were several waves of Thunder Tribulation, and if the later ones were stronger, how would he get through?
Boom boom boom!
The Thunder Tribulation Arcs did not stop falling just because Ding Huan had not yet decided how to defend against them; the arcs descended relentlessly, one after another.
At this rate, he was certain to die.
In his urgency, Ding Huan reached out and grabbed the iron pot to shield his head.
Crack crack crack!
The Thunder Tribulation Arcs blasted onto the iron pot, and to Ding Huan’s surprise, the pot blocked the arcs.
Then, he sensed the abundant spirit source.
Crack! Still, two arcs could not be blocked and once again struck Ding Huan’s body, blasting two clusters of blood mist from his back, even his internal organs were faintly visible.
Without a moment to think, Ding Huan frantically absorbed the abundant spirit source; his body’s aura surged upward.
A sound of shattering was heard, and Ding Huan felt the Star Mountain within his Dantian begin to collapse.
Yet Ding Huan wasn’t anxious, for as the Star Mountain collapsed, his cultivation soared wildly.
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Boom boom boom boom! As if sensing that Ding Huan was using the iron pot to block the Thunder Arcs, this time sixteen arcs descended.
With the experience of blocking arcs with the pot once before, Ding Huan quickly maneuvered the pot this time.
But there were twice as many arcs as before, and even with great caution, three more arcs struck his body once again.
Ding Huan collapsed to the ground, feeling the Thunder Tribulation still brewing in the sky; he felt a sense of despair.
When the next wave of Thunder Tribulation Arcs came, he was sure to die.
At this moment, Ding Huan could only frantically circulate the Great Universe Technique; there was nothing else he could do.
The only silver lining was that although the sixteen Thunder Tribulation Arcs left him nearly paralyzed, the strong and rich spiritual power also accelerated the shattering of his Star Mountain.
As the sky was still brewing the sixth wave of Thunder Tribulation Arcs, the Star Mountain within Ding Huan’s Dantian completely shattered and condensed into a vibrant star.
As the star was successfully refined, Ding Huan felt boundless vitality nourish every part of his body.
His flesh, which was on the brink of collapse, almost instantly recovered by more than ninety percent.
He had reached the Star Realm; at last, he had a bit of capital to stand in this world.
The sixth and seventh waves of Thunder Arcs descended one after another.
Instead of using the iron pot, Ding Huan grabbed the Separation Spear and fired.
The sixteen arcs caused no harm to Ding Huan and were easily shredded by the Separation Spear.
Ding Huan had no time to marvel at his sudden increase in strength but was instead stunned by the changes occurring in his body and Dantian.
According to his prior experiences, he should have been opening his one hundred and first Circulation Path.
But in reality, his Circulation Paths were gradually vanishing.
Let alone finding the Great Universe Technique Circulation of the one hundred and first path, even the hundred paths he had previously opened were gradually disappearing.
With each circulation of the Great Universe Technique, he lost one of his Circulation Paths.
Ding Huan was frightened; at this rate, would the Great Universe Technique he had created become useless?
But something even more shocking occurred.
His Sea of Consciousness suddenly expanded, and then the star from his Dantian actually projected into his Sea of Consciousness.
The star was an actual projection; his Sea of Consciousness, originally clean, suddenly had this star appear, as if a vast Chaos was slowly unfolding.
As the Great Universe Technique continued to circulate, his Circulation Paths kept vanishing, and around the star in his Sea of Consciousness, more and more small stars appeared.
When all the Circulation Paths he had painstakingly discovered vanished, twelve small stars had also formed around the star in his Sea of Consciousness.
While Ding Huan was still pondering what exactly was happening, the Thunder Tribulation Arcs in the sky descended once again.
Three consecutive waves of Thunder Tribulation Arcs, totalling forty-eight arcs, bombarded Ding Huan.
To Ding Huan’s delight, after these three waves of arcs, the twelve small stars around the large star in his Sea of Consciousness became even brighter and clearer.
Not only that, each of the small stars now had nine even smaller star grains around them.
Ding Huan stared at the scene within his Sea of Consciousness, dumbfounded.
In the Sea of Consciousness, a huge star was slowly revolving, with twelve smaller stars orbiting it.
Each of these twelve smaller stars had nine star grains revolving around it.
The scene in the Sea of Consciousness resembled a miniature star system.
The large star was a sun, the twelve small stars were planets, and the one hundred and eight star grains were satellites…
This was akin to restoring his body to him, and in his Sea of Consciousness, his Great Dao had independently constructed a miniature universe.
And the star in his Dantian was still there, but Ding Huan felt it was more symbolic, or perhaps a storehouse of True Yuan.
His Great Universe Technique had leveled up.
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