"Ding Huan, I know you must have some disagreements with the Zongzhu's handling of Dong Liang's injury and the issue of Gonghua."
The Zongzhu is also at a loss. We and the Jiu Yin Gate are bound to have a conflict, and Dong Liang and Gong Hua are the two strongest Zhen Dan elders in our sect."
"Liu Yinzhu accompanied Ding Huan out, speaking with a tone of guilt."
She was aware of Ding Huan's nature. Being hard-faced by others, and in a situation where he had the upper hand, the Zongzhu merely punished him with three cups of wine.
It would be a miracle if Ding Huan were satisfied with such a punishment.
Ding Huan said indifferently:
"I would never dare to express dissatisfaction with the Zongzhu's handling of sect affairs. In fact, I need to seek the help of Sister Yinzhu."
Liu Yinzhu naturally did not believe Ding Huan's words. Qing Yu has been scheming against Ding Huan, and Ding Huan will scheme back if he has even a bit of an opportunity. How could he not be mindful of it?
Now, as Ding Huan said so, she had no choice but to follow his words:
"There's no need to be so formal with me. Just speak up."
Ding Huan held up the jade badge of a guest elder in his hand:
"Sister Yinzhu, I have ten thousand contribution points. I want to exchange them for something. Can you take me?"
Ding Huan refused the identity of the Zongzhu successor. However, he needed an identity to obtain the contribution points badge. In the end, he could only get this jade badge as a guest elder.
Liu Yinzhu would naturally not refuse such a small matter.
"The surrounding resources of Zixia Valley are rich, so although the actual strength of Zixia Valley is not particularly impressive, there are still quite a few good things in the sect's warehouse."
Ding Huan followed Liu Yinzhu to the Resource Exchange Hall, where he was amazed by the abundance of materials. How could there be so many?
One piece of Huan Yuan Stone costs five contribution points, one coin of pure gold is worth ten contribution points, and a section of the ten-thousand-year-old iron tree root costs fifty contribution points...
"Give me one hundred purple lightning crystals and one thousand Huan Yuan Stone... Di Tie, you also take them, with five hundred of them."
"To have the antlers of a second-level double-horned leopard, twenty pairs are required. Does Huangyuan Gengjin also exist? I'll take ten pieces..."
Seeing Ding Huan being indifferent and wanting everything, even Liu Yinzhu was taken aback, not to mention the steward in charge of the exchange.
She only realized when she saw Ding Huan almost use up all the ten thousand contribution points, exchanging all kinds of materials along the way. In her heart, she secretly wondered if Ding Huan was about to leave.
" What are you going to do with all the materials you're exchanging, Ding Huan?"
Liu Yinzhu completely doesn't understand Ding Huan's intentions. The materials Ding Huan is exchanging range from level one to level four, covering everything.
If it weren't for the rarity and high price of level five materials, she suspected that Ding Huan would even want to exchange level five materials.
Ding Huan said awkwardly, "I haven't made much progress in my cultivation, so I want to learn about alchemy and the like."
Ding Huan exchanged ten thousand contribution points without the slightest hesitation.
This was earned through the trade of his saving Gu Mo's life. It belonged to him.
Liu Yinzhu knew that Ding Huan was a level one array master, and now that Ding Huan wanted to learn alchemy as well, she couldn't help but suppress a sigh with her hand over her forehead.
Fortunately, Ding Huan did not exchange for spiritual medicines to make pills, otherwise, she might have immediately advised him against wasting his time.
From the fact that Ding Huan has exchanged all his contribution points, it can be seen that he has no intention of living in Zixia Valley for a long time.
She was indeed not wrong about Ding Huan. After the Zongzhu imposed the penalty of three cups of wine, Ding Huan became very disappointed with the Zongzhu.
...
"Brother Huan, someone attacked our protective formation today. Who is calling you to do something with Uncle Jia?"
As soon as Ding Huan returned to the Dawn Peak, Yan Mei came over eagerly to inquire.
"Someone in Zixia Valley wants to kill me. You must work hard to improve your strength, we may leave here at any time." Ding Huan expressed his own judgment.
"Ahh..." Yan Mei was a bit panicked, as having someone wanting to kill them in the sect meant that they could not leave the sect?
"Don't worry, the person who wanted to kill me has been put under house arrest. Although they could come out at any time, just to make a show of it, they'll be confined for at least a year."
Ding Huan knows that Yan Mei is a bit of an anxious person.
Yan Mei immediately said, "Can we leave right now?"
Ding Huan shook his head:
"If we leave now, that's suicide. You just need to focus on your cultivation, and don't worry about anything else."
Gong Hua and Dong Liang's so many accomplices are now definitely targeting him. If he dares to leave Zixia Valley now, he will be surrounded by Zhen Dan elders in the next moment.
It's safe to stay on Dawn Peak for at least a year or so.
It's hard to say after a year. According to Ding Huan's judgment, neither Dong Liang nor Gong Hua are supposed to be banned from the ruins for three years.
Even if they are officially banned for three years, they have opportunities to escape at any time.
As long as they can come out, Gong Hua will definitely try to find and eliminate him on Dawn Peak as soon as possible.
With Gu Mo's character, if Ding Huan was killed, it would be no more than a penalty of one cup of wine for Gong Hua, and a little food would be given to Gong Hua as well.
"Brother Huan, I'll go and practice right away." Yan Mei didn't dare to waste any time and rushed to close the door.
Seeing Yan Mei go to practice, Lao Liu also grew anxious. It couldn't base itself and just wait here.
"Brother Huan, what should I do?" Lao Liu is worried and is pulling his ears and twisting his face.
In Xifeng City, it was boasting and forgetting everything. Now, without the opportunity to boast, it could only think about condensation again.
Ding Huan gave Lao Liu a pat on the head:
"You continue to seek opportunities for condensation, don't be afraid of failure. When my cultivation improves further, I will help you solve this problem."
Lao Liu's inability to condense is not a matter of ability, but of talent.
"Yes, Brother Huan," Lao Liu said with joy.
In its understanding, Ding Huan's strength is average, but he has many good ideas.
Otherwise, as one of the wise and martial primates of Chaos Four, how could it serve as Ding Huan's beast companion?
After Lao Liu and Yan Mei went into seclusion, Ding Huan began to study array patterns.
Ding Huan had already reached the level of a second-level array master, but he couldn't set up a second-level array because he didn't have an artifact flag before.
Now that he has himself forged the artifact array flags, Ding Huan easily set up a second-level array.
After becoming a second-level array master, Ding Huan did not modify the protective array outside of Chao Xia peak, but instead placed a trigger array along the edge of the protective array.
If someone enters the Dawn Peak, he is bound to notice it.
After completing these tasks, Ding Huan continued to set up a second-level killing array, stealth array, and defensive array outside of his own cave.
After a few days of completing the layout of such arrays, Ding Huan continued to study alchemy.
Ding Huan has average talent, but he has an excessive amount of knowledge about pills, artifacts, talismans, and arrays in his mind.
With Ding Huan's frantic research, these knowledge about alchemy were quickly linked together by him.
Two months later, Ding Huan was able to refine a mid-level three-grade artifact.
Being able to refine mid-level three-grade artifacts is enough for Ding Huan.
He continued to study array patterns.
In the short term, he definitely cannot break through to the Star Cloud realm. To survive, he must rely on arrays.
Gu Mo's way of dealing with things is to connive at Gong Hua and Dong Liang Shuang.
Gong Hua and Dong Liang Shuang's arrogance has nothing to do with the leadership of Gu Mo, the Zongzhu, but also because there is a Heheming-level He Chao Lao behind them.
After the fifth month had passed, Ding Huan could easily set up level three arrays, and he had even forged a pile of level three array disks.
Ding Huan very much wants to continue learning about the setup of level four arrays, but he is also very clear that he cannot set up a level four array in the short term.
Unless he can break through the Star Cloud realm, or study array law for more than ten years.
After changing all the protective arrays at his residence and using a stealth array to lock them, Ding Huan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Now, even if Gu Mo or Dong Liang Shuang come to him, he doesn't fear them.
During this period, Gu Mo was busy trying to regain the Zixia Valley's Ziyuan Zhongshan, and had no time to come and find him.
Liu Yinzhu is Gu Mo's capable assistant, and naturally, she was also very busy.
Ding Huan decided to take this opportunity to practice for a while.
With such good conditions on the Dawn Peak, he had been spending half a year practicing alchemy and setting up arrays, which was indeed a bit of a waste.
As soon as Ding Huan began to practice, Yan Mei and Lao Liu sensed it.
Ding Huan gathered the dense celestial energy, which rolled over in a swirling manner, covering the Dawn Peak once again in just a short period of time.
Fortunately, there's a stealth array protecting here, so the scene of spiritual energy surging outside is not visible.
Feeling his cultivation rapidly rising once again, Ding Huan muttered to himself, what's so bad about having average talent? He has the top-tier cultivation method.
Moreover, he is a gene root, which can't be considered average talent, right?
Such dense celestial energy being gathered up, Ding Huan is one hundred percent certain that there is a spiritual vein beneath the Dawn Peak.
As for what grade the spiritual vein is, he doesn't know, and he doesn't need to know.
Within ten days, Ding Huan's fourth group of star clouds solidified into shape, and the embryo of the fifth group of star clouds appeared.
Several months later, Ding Huan had solidified his tenth group of star clouds.
This made Ding Huan feel a bit uneasy. It seemed as long as he kept absorbing the celestial and terrestrial Qi, he could continuously refine new groups of star clouds within his dantian.
According to the nine being the extreme number, after solidifying nine groups of star clouds, he should seek to breakthrough to the next realm.
However, Ding Huan soon became calm again.
For most cultivators, condensation is the later stage of refining essence and vitality, while the true Dan realm is the beginning of refining qi and deifying the soul.
From condensation to true Dan, even the most talented cultivators need about ten years or so.
If we take away the time he spent on Earth to gain knowledge of the spiritual arts.
Then how long has he been practicing now? Only a little over a year, how could he breakthrough to the next realm so quickly after breaking through the Star Cloud realm?
Continue refining the star clouds.
As time goes on, when Ding Huan solidifies twelve groups of star clouds, he feels that he can no longer condense a thirteenth group of star clouds.
Is twelve the extreme number for the stage of star clouds in the grand universe art?
If that's the case, then he needs to continue to deduce the cultivation techniques after the star clouds.
Calculate it, he has been here for over a year and a half.
But why hasn't Gu Mo come yet? Does he have a mistake in judgment?
As Ding Huan was thinking, he felt the protective array of Dawn Peak being disturbed.
Someone has come.
Very soon, Ding Huan's mind energy saw Liu Yinzhu rush in with urgency.
"Ding Huan!" Liu Yinzhu and Ding Huan were old friends; there was no need to notify him in advance when coming here.
When Ding Huan came out, Liu Yinzhu looked a bit haggard, and his cultivation hadn't improved much.
This made Ding Huan very reflective, as he believed that such sect affairs should be handed over to the elders who initially supported Gu Mo.
Gu Mo has burdened all the sect affairs on Liu Yinzhu, which left Ding Huan utterly speechless.
Liu Yinzhu is currently at the best time for his cultivation to progress, so it's too much for him to be busy with everyday matters and not close himself off to cultivate.
Do you really need Liu Yinzhu to personally run things? Why not just find someone else?
"Yin Zhu, come in and sit down," Ding Huan invited Liu Yinzhu into the guest room and had her sit down.
When Liu Yinzhu saw that Ding Huan's cultivation didn't seem to have increased much, she wasn't sure about it in her heart.
After all, when Ding Huan reached condensation level, she didn't see it either. The higher Ding Huan's cultivation, the more difficult it becomes to discern from the surface.
"Ding Huan, I came today to tell you to be careful. I think Dong Liang Shuang and Gong Hua are going to come out soon."
Liu Yinzhu was also very helpless.
The sect leader has to rely on the power of these two elders, and she can't say anything. After all, her strength is not strong enough.
To her surprise, upon hearing her words, Ding Huan showed no surprise at all but instead said:
"Is it going to be a war with the Ji Yu Pavilion?"
That's it for today's update. Good night, friends! I'd appreciate a little moon ticket support!
