Post-Mythical Era: I don't want to die in the third reincarnation
Chapter 576 - 569 Another Immortal Clan Wiped Out

"Teacher..." Two weak voices sounded.

Ding Huan saw Qian Xun Haoyi and Fan Qingsi.

Qian Xun Haoyi and Fan Qingsi had lost all their cultivation, their meridians shattered, and their dantians broken, but their seas of consciousness were intact.

Their vitality was still somewhat strong, indicating that Dean Gu Min hadn't completely mistreated them.

"Dean Gu, where is Ji Xing?" Ding Huan asked Gu Min.

Gu Min stepped forward with a guilty expression and said, "Ji Xing, being the mastermind, could not be saved from Yuan You. After his meridians and dantian were destroyed, he was expelled from the academy and then disappeared."

Ding Huan suddenly turned to the watching cultivators and said loudly, "Hand over Ji Xing, and I will only pursue the culprits, not implicate your Immortal Clans.

My words are valid for a hundred breaths. If no one hands over Ji Xing after that, don't blame me for being ruthless."

Even an idiot could tell Ji Xing had been taken away by someone.

The reason, naturally, was the Daoist Skill Manual.

Yuan You knew Ji Xing had the Daoist Skill Manual and also knew that if he threw Ji Xing out, someone would take care of him.

So he used another's hand to kill.

Unfortunately, regardless of whether he borrowed a knife, after dealing with Ding Huan's eight disciples, his fate was already sealed.

No one responded.

Ding Huan glanced at Yuan You's corpse, whose head had been blown off, and a small flame fell upon it.

Yuan You's primordial spirit watched helplessly as his body was destroyed.

His heart was full of unwillingness and fury.

His physical body, which he had cultivated to near perfection and was most proud of, was being burned right before him.

"To whom did you sell Ji Xing's divine skills?" Ding Huan asked Yuan You.

Yuan You ignored Ding Huan completely.

Ding Huan didn't ask a second time; he raised his hand, letting a ball of law flame fall onto Yuan You's primordial spirit, causing him to emit a chilling scream:

"Let me go, and I'll say anything you want."

The law flame burned his primordial soul, a pain so excruciating that no one could endure it.

Even though Yuan You was at the late stage of the Immortal Emperor realm, he couldn't withstand such terrifying pain.

Ding Huan stared coldly at Yuan You, "Back when I was still at the Eternal Desolation Divine Power Academy, you had already set your sights on me, hadn't you?"

Yuan You's primordial spirit was burning alive from the law flame. How could he manage to address Ding Huan's questions?

Gu Min, on the other hand, shivered in his heart.

He knew Yuan You had been planning to take action against Ding Huan.

Now he finally understood that Ding Huan's departure was voluntary to save the Academy from embarrassment. Otherwise, with Ding Huan's considerable strength, how could Yuan You have managed to deal with Daoist Ding?

A top-tier Daoist with foresight, empathy, and a willingness to sacrifice himself had been pushed to the opposition by Yuan You's own doing.

Now Yuan You had crossed Ding Huan's bottom line, truly reaping his just desserts.

Yuan You's death was deserved, and under his leadership, the Eternal Desolation Divine Power Academy could never prosper.

But even Ding Huan couldn't escape this time.

What Ding Huan had done had severely harmed the fundamental nature of the Great Dao Corridor's ten thousand laws, and the Celestial Supervision would never let Ding Huan go.

"The hundred breaths' time is up. Since no one is speaking, don't blame me for not showing mercy."

Ding Huan finished speaking, raised his hand, and produced a Dao Rhythm Sphere:

"This is a Dao Rhythm Sphere for an Immortal Emperor's advancement. Regardless of who you are, if you tell me Ji Xing's whereabouts, this sphere is yours."

To Ding Huan's surprise, still no one stepped forward to speak.

He saw a few cultivators hesitating, appearing as though they wanted to speak but quickly reconsidered.

Ding Huan sneered internally.

If this were in the Pangu Great World, someone would have stepped forward long ago.

The cultivators here were all too submissive.

Or rather, they had been domesticated into docility by the Great Dao Corridor's ten thousand laws, not daring to fight for their own path at all.

Ding Huan didn't continue asking. His divine will swept out overwhelmingly.

He was certain Ji Xing couldn't have left the Eternal Day Immortal City.

Since he couldn't have left Eternal Day Immortal City, it meant some family within the city must have captured Ji Xing to forcefully interrogate him for his divine skills.

At that moment, the entire Eternal Day Immortal City felt Ding Huan's vast, boundless divine will pressure, causing everyone's faces to pale in shock.

Searching an entire Immortal City wasn't merely a matter of having divine will that could cover the area.

Within Eternal Day Immortal City, there were countless families, Immortal Clans, and small Dao Academies with various forces in between.

And each of these forces had their own immortal arrays and restrictions. To have divine will penetrate these immortal restrictions without destroying the arrays was something normal divine will couldn't achieve.

It required more than just powerful divine will; it also required a strong attainment in the art of arrays.

Not even a common Immortal Emperor, let alone a perfected Immortal Emperor, could achieve this feat.

But Ding Huan could. His sea of consciousness was the Tao Universe, and his divine will was perhaps unmatched by even Master Jie Kuangren.

Moreover, Ding Huan's attainment in the art of arrays had reached the level of a second-level Divine Array Master. The immortal arrays in Eternal Day Immortal City, even the strongest of them, were no more than ordinary ninth-level arrays, and typically only sixth or seventh-level arrays.

Such arrays were nearly insignificant in Ding Huan's eyes.

In just the time of half an incense stick, Ding Huan's divine will fell upon the Pu Family's Immortal Clan.

In the Council Hall of the Pu Family Immortal Clan, a group of people was urgently discussing matters concerning Ji Xing.

Ji Xing, at this point, was covered in grey-brown filth and scars, imprisoned in a half-water dungeon, barely hanging on by a thread and on the verge of death.

The grey-brown filth came from the blood and dirt that had congealed on his body.

Ding Huan lunged out, and when he landed, he was already reaching for the Pu Family's Water Prison.

At the same time, his Bone Devouring Poison enveloped the entire Pu Family.

"Crack!" Under Ding Huan's hand seal, all of the Pu Family's protective arrays shattered like paper.

"Daoist Ding, show mercy. We saved Ji Xing and were just…" An elder of the Pu Family Immortal Clan rushed out.

But he stopped mid-sentence.

Because Ding Huan had already grabbed Ji Xing.

Ji Xing's limbs were barely hanging by the skin, his whole body was covered in scars, and there was even a bloody hole at his brow.

It was evident that the Pu Family had used some method to extract his memory.

A large crowd of onlookers swarmed in from all directions.

Seeing Ji Xing's miserable state, even an idiot could figure out what had happened.

Ji Xing had learned Great Divine Power techniques passed on by Ding Huan. The Pu Family had captured him merely to force him to reveal those divine techniques.

Ding Huan sneered coldly in his mind.

How hypocritical of the Great Dao Corridor's ten thousand laws.

It was utterly laughable; under the ten thousand laws, imprisonment and killing were grave crimes punishable by immediate death.

Yet it was merely a case of insufficient stakes; Ji Xing was a living example.

While everyone was still in an uproar, Ding Huan threw out a ball of flame.

The entire Pu Family Immortal Clan was instantly wrapped in this law flame, and the crowd could only vaguely hear cries for help from a distance.

Seeing this terrifying scene, the crowd instantly fell silent.

Yes, to the cultivators of the Great Dao Corridor, annihilating an entire clan with flames was terrifying.

The cultivators of the Great Dao Corridor were used to peace and following rules.

They had never witnessed such clan extermination events.

But soon, the crowd recalled other things Ding Huan had done.

This Daoist Ding not only exterminated clans but had just obliterated the Eternal Desolation Divine Power Academy with a single shot.

Then he killed twelve Immortal Emperors, half of whom were from the Celestial Supervision and one was the dean of the academy.

This was tantamount to single-handedly defying the Celestial Supervision. The eerie part was that no strong person had come to deal with Ding Huan as of yet.

Some people soon connected this with recent events, as the Celestial Supervision hadn't intervened.

From the drawing out of the demigod veins of the Heavenly Path Dao Academy and the Western Ruins Dao Academy, to the sudden disappearance of Jie Kuangren...

Everything seemed to carry an air of strangeness.

Perhaps the Great Dao Corridor was about to change.

Ding Huan looked at the crowd. He had initially intended to issue a reward: as long as anyone wiped out the Pu Family Immortal Clan's remnants, they would be rewarded with advancement slots.

But he thought twice and decided against it.

In the Great Dao Corridor, no matter what heavy rewards he offered, likely no one would dare do such a thing.

Even though the Celestial Supervision was now weak, the inertia of long-established thoughts wasn't easy to change.

When Ding Huan brought Ji Xing back to the Eternal Desolation Divine Power Academy, Yuan You had already been burned to death by the law flame.

Gu Min was still there with Qian Xun Haoyi and Fan Qingsi, waiting for his return.

"Help me find Zhuo Qi and Li Yunmu. I will wait for them at the Eternal Desolation Divine Power Academy," Ding Huan said to Gu Min.

"Yes, Daoist Ding. Rest assured, I will do my utmost to find them," Gu Min responded with a sigh of relief.

He most feared Ding Huan completely destroying the Eternal Desolation Divine Power Academy.

If Ding Huan truly intended to do so, he could only tell him that Yuan You was Yuan You, the Eternal Desolation Divine Power Academy was still the academy, and the two were not the same.

Fortunately, Ding Huan was rational enough not to destroy the academy.

After killing the dean and dozens of Immortal Emperors, Ding Huan did not leave; instead, he stayed at the Eternal Desolation Divine Power Academy, waiting for his other disciples.

Gu Min realized Ding Huan did not fear the Celestial Supervision, or rather, the Master of the Celestial Supervision, Jie Kuangren.

What he didn't know was that staying at the academy made Ding Huan even safer.

Jie Kuangren would never come here, and any other members of the Celestial Supervision who did would be walking into a trap.

Earlier, he had killed twelve Immortal Emperors, including Yuan You of the late stage. He hadn't even used his trump card.

Now that he was residing at the academy, with Ji Luo setting up a few Trapping and Killing Divine Arrays, any intruder was as good as done.

The last time he went into seclusion, he hadn't had Ji Luo set up any trapping and killing arrays. Otherwise, how would Jie Kuangren have injured him and got away?

This time, Ding Huan didn't choose his old spot. He directly set up camp on the highest peak within the academy.

This peak had a sign that read "Dean's Cultivation Grounds."

The dean, being Yuan You, now dead by Ding Huan's hand, meant this peak was naturally his.

Ji Luo was in high spirits upon hearing Ding Huan say they could seek out Xi Yuanhao to purchase the Nine-colored Void Lotus in a month.

Proactively, he began setting up all sorts of divine arrays for Ding Huan.

This included the Gathering Spirit Divine Array, Defense Divine Array, Trapping and Killing Divine Array, Hidden Spirit Divine Array...

He also knew Ding Huan planned to cultivate here for some time, probably not leaving until he reached the Immortal Emperor rank.

Moreover, upon obtaining the Nine-colored Void Lotus, he intended to go into seclusion to restore his physical body here.