Post-Mythical Era: I don't want to die in the third reincarnation

Meng Zhongqi saw that Xin Chuan's gaze had already fallen on Chang Danyi, and he transmitted his voice to Meng Zhongqi:

"Sect Master, this Chang Danyi is a friend of Ding Huan. She joined our Hundred River Immortal Path together with Ding Huan."

Meng Zhongqi saw that it was Yan Yuefang and slightly furrowed his brows.

The strength of Shuangzi Mountain was superior to that of Hundred River Immortal Path, and he needed to understand why Chang Danyi was following Yan Yuefang.

"Mr. Yen, who is this?" Meng Zhongqi took the initiative to approach Yan Yuefang and inquired with a cupped fist salute.

Yan Yuefang replied indifferently, "She is my disciple. What about it, does Master Meng recognize her?"

Meng Zhongqi laughed heartily, "Not at all. I just noticed that despite her young age, she is already at the True Immortal Realm, her talents are indeed first-class."

Yan Yuefang said to Chang Danyi, "Dan Yi, let's go. It's unlikely that the shop owner Ding will return anytime soon. We should head back to the Immortal Sect first."

"Yes, Master." Chang Danyi had not wanted to stay here any longer, hoping that Ding Huan would not come back.

It would be best if Ding Huan went to Shuangzi Mountain to find her, so then she could expose the vile faces of these people to him.

Seeing Chang Danyi and Yan Yuefang leave, Meng Zhongqi ultimately chose not to reveal their secret.

Chang Danyi did not know Ding Huan's whereabouts, and her presence here was surely to wait for him. Revealing this would bring him no advantage; instead, it could offend both Ding Huan and Shuangzi Mountain, which did not align with his interests.

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At this moment, Ding Huan was setting up a huge Concealing Immortal Array deep within a mountain range far from Moon Invitation Immortal City.

He had one million five hundred thousand High Grade Immortal Crystals and several hundred thousand Low Grade Immortal Crystals on him, and he planned to cultivate here for a while.

As long as he had a smidgen of cultivation resources left, he would not go out to do business; this was Ding Huan's philosophy.

Immortal Crystals should be used while they're hot and never be left lying around for too long.

The outer perimeter was established with Low Grade Immortal Crystals, while the inner circle was piled with High Grade Immortal Crystals, forming a Gathering Spirit Immortal Array.

Ding Huan was in the midst of the Immortal Crystal pile, refining Immortal Essence and operating the Great Universe Technique.

Streams of Immortal Spiritual Energy from the Immortal Crystals were being drawn away by Ding Huan.

Whether it was High Grade or Low Grade Immortal Crystals, all the Mottled Dao Rhythms were filtered through the circulation of the Great Universe Technique, and Ding Huan's cultivation was soaring by leaps and bounds.

Ding Huan intended to break through to the Golden Immortal Realm. His Great Universe Technique Circulation took the Tao Universe as its foundation and all living things as the Dao Rhythm Laws. As long as his cultivation was sufficient, he could comprehend newer layers of Taoism.

What Ding Huan did not expect was that, after cultivating to the ninth layer perfection of the True Immortal Realm, he did not attract Heavenly Tribulation but stepped directly into the True Immortal Tenth Layer.

This made Ding Huan realize that his Great Universe Technique was different from the common Tao Techniques.

Conventional techniques consider nine as the limit, whereupon reaching the ninth level, it signifies the beginning of the next realm.

However, within his Sea of Consciousness Dao Universe, aside from the Main Star, there were twelve star systems.

This clearly meant that his technique and the foundational Dao of the mainstream techniques were completely different; perhaps his Great Universe Technique needed to be cultivated to the twelfth layer.

With an additional Immortal Spirit Source purification in the cycle of the Great Universe Technique, Ding Huan's cultivation speed was actually faster.

In less than two years, Ding Huan's cultivation reached the True Immortal Twelfth Layer.

He decided to challenge the Golden Immortal Realm and once he reached it, he would earn some more Immortal Crystals.

Resolved to go into deep seclusion, Ding Huan was completely enveloped by the rich Immortal Spiritual Energy, which he was absorbing entirely, transforming it into Immortal Essence.

In the Fourth Immortal Domain, even a Sect Master might not be able to afford such a luxurious method of cultivation, using only High Grade Immortal Crystals to absorb Immortal Spiritual Energy—who could be so wealthy?

Another year passed by, and Ding Huan's cultivation reached perfection at the Twelfth Layer.

Ding Huan had prepared to challenge the Golden Immortal Realm; however, he simply could not sense the constraints of the Golden Immortal cultivation.

For several months he made no progress and, finally, Ding Huan stopped cultivating.

It was not a problem with his Great Universe Technique; rather it was that when cultivating with the circulation of his technique, he simply could not feel the higher-level Heaven and Earth Rules.

Without sensing those higher-level rules, how could he break through to a higher realm?

Speaking of breaking through, he couldn't even come close to touching it.

And it likely wasn't a matter of lacking a foundation.

After practicing here for three years, Ding Huan was in no hurry to leave.

He simply started to refine his iron pot and, a month later, Ding Huan had refined the pot to forty-nine layers of Prohibition. When he confirmed that the pot could not be further refined, he decided not to close off any longer.

The scarcity of Immortal Spiritual Energy here didn't matter much, but if the Heaven and Earth Rules were lacking, then he could only refine Magical Treasures during his seclusion.

He must find an Immortal Sect and inquire whether it was possible to break through to the Golden Immortal Realm outside of the sect.

Breaking through to the True Immortal Realm here couldn't prove anything in fact; even within the Taoist Realm it was possible to break through to the True Immortal Realm.

The only difference was that in the Taoist Realm, one would ascend immediately after breaking through to the True Immortal Realm.

No sooner had Ding Huan stepped out of the mountains and was about to summon his iron pot than he saw a Cultivator hurrying over.

Ding Huan was puzzled; he had spent a considerable amount of time in the Fourth Immortal Domain.

Apart from his encounter with Yan Yuefang, Ding Huan had never seen a lone cultivator in such desolate mountains and forests.

When Ding Huan spotted the cultivator, the cultivator clearly saw Ding Huan too.

He actually recognized Ding Huan, "Could it be Mr. Ding?"

Ding Huan immediately thought of the Immortal Sects that were looking for him, recalling that he had set up a Monitoring Array in Moon Invitation Immortal City.

A group of people wanted to confine him and then specifically search for Immortal Spirit Source for those Immortal Sects.

"Indeed, I am Ding Huan," Ding Huan couldn't be bothered to hide his identity.

To Ding Huan's surprise, the cultivator immediately exclaimed loudly, "Mr. Ding, two of your friends came to Void City asking about you.

As a result, Crazy Wu found out and took them captive, saying if you don't come to Void City the next time he returns, he will kill your friends."

"When did this happen?" Ding Huan frowned.

He thought of Moon Invitation Immortal City where those fellows also wanted to find his friends. Capturing his friends and then waiting for him to appear.

These people really had no scruples.

"Over a year ago, they should be fine now because Crazy Wu only returns to Void City every three years," the cultivator replied.

"Thank you. How did you get in here?" Ding Huan thanked the cultivator with a clasped fist.

The cultivator smiled awkwardly, "I was recruited by an Immortal Sect to refine ore, but they found my ore refining impure and slow, and simply drove me out.

I had nowhere to go, and I couldn't bear to leave the Immortal Domain, so I chose to wander around.

When I really can't manage anymore, then I'll leave the Immortal Domain."

Ding Huan took out a Storage Bag, "Here are some Immortal Crystals for you, thank you for passing on the message to me."

Inside the Storage Bag were ten thousand Low-Grade Immortal Crystals, which were truly of no use to Ding Huan.

"Thank you, thank you..." When this cultivator reported to Ding Huan, he had hoped Ding Huan would give him some benefits.

He didn't expect that Ding Huan would really do so.

After Ding Huan left, he scanned the Storage Bag with his Divine Will, and when he found that it actually held ten thousand Immortal Crystals, he almost fainted.

Even if he had refined his hands to the bone in the Immortal Sect, dreaming of producing ten thousand Immortal Crystals was just that, a dream.

"Impressive, no wonder even Chang Danyi would follow him," the cultivator muttered to himself, and then quickly picked a direction and dashed off.

He must find a place to seclude himself and attempt to break through to the True Immortal Realm.

Ding Huan didn't leave the Immortal Domain right away; he knew well that leaving the Fourth Immortal Domain was easy, but returning would be difficult.

He held a Jade Scroll, which introduced some Immortal Sects in the Fourth Immortal Domain, and he needed to make a transaction with one of them.

Half a day later, Ding Huan had locked on to an Immortal Sect: The Immortal Essence Alchemy Dao Sect.

It was a sect devoted to cultivating Immortal Spirit Grass and refining all kinds of Immortal Pills.

The Sect Master, Shen Yi, was a Late-Stage Profound Immortal cultivator and a Third-level Immortal Alchemist.

The Jade Scroll spoke favorably of Shen Yi, and furthermore, as a Profound Immortal, he was not necessarily capable of killing him instantly.

The main thing was that the Immortal Essence Alchemy Dao Sect was not too far from his current location—it would take at most seven or eight days to reach.

Therefore, Ding Huan decided to head to the Immortal Essence Alchemy Dao Sect.

Because the iron pot had been refined to the forty-ninth level of prohibition, Ding Huan only took three days to stop outside the Immortal Essence Alchemy Dao Sect.

Even though the Fourth Immortal Domain was part of the Immortal Realm, Ding Huan felt this Immortal Realm was no different from a prison.

Because under normal circumstances, there were very few cultivators wandering outside the Immortal Sects.

The ones wandering outside were mostly Loose Cultivators with nowhere to go, just like the cultivator he had met earlier who was expelled by an Immortal Sect.

The true Immortal Sect Disciples mostly stayed within their sects to cultivate, only leaving the Immortal Sect when absolutely necessary.

The Immortal Essence Alchemy Dao Sect was no different, with its Protecting Array tightly sealed, not a single person outside.

Ding Huan knocked on the Immortal Sect's prohibition, as a courtesy to signal his visit.

Soon, a disciple in the True Immortal Realm appeared before Ding Huan, eyeing him with curiosity, "Fellow Daoist, may I ask who you are?"

Ding Huan clasped his fist and said, "I come seeking Sect Master Shen Yi."

The True Immortal disciple sighed, "I'm sorry, our Sect Master is very busy and I need to close the Immortal Sect if there is nothing important."

In his eyes, Ding Huan was at most a minor cultivator of the Immortal Bridge Realm, speaking arrogantly about seeking an audience with the Sect Master.

If just anyone could come to seek the Sect Master, the Sect Master would be run ragged.

Ding Huan smiled and said, "Just tell him Ding Huan is here, I believe your Sect Master will definitely want to meet with me. Of course, if you don't wish to report this, I'll leave immediately."

Ding Huan? This True Immortal disciple had never heard of this person.

"Please wait here, I'll go and report," Seeing Ding Huan seem quite confident, speaking in a calm and composed manner, he was indecisive.

Of course, he wasn't actually going to report to the Sect Master, but to the Steward; any specific matters would be managed by the Steward.