Ding Huān nodded confidently and said, "As long as this vortex is indeed leading us to a more advanced starland, we will definitely meet again."
Galatea fell silent for a long time before saying, "Then I'll go first. Take care of yourself."
"Alright." Ding Huan didn't find Galatea's behavior particularly strange.
For Galatea, Ding Huan might be her only friend.
He not only helped Galatea eliminate the foundation of poison but also helped her perfect the path of poison. Anyone would be grateful to him.
Especially for someone like Galatea, who has no friends at all.
As he watched Galatea disappear into the vortex, Ding Huan threw out one array flag after another, intending to retrieve the life-death mirror.
Whether the space outside will disappear, and whether the monks inside will perish, is beyond his control.
The chance to survive is the same for everyone; some grasp it, while others do not. That's all there is to it.
As array flags kept falling, Ding Huan forcefully rolled up the life-death mirror and placed it in the iron pot.
The entire space was shaking and resonating, and Ding Huan could clearly feel the space being compressed and constricted.
Relief washed over Ding Huan as the vortex did not disappear.
Ding Huan didn't rush into the vortex at the first opportunity, instead, he began to set up a protective array.
He spent an entire day setting up a nine-level automatic repair protective array here.
Any cultivator who has reached the level of Earthly Transcendence can break through this protective array and then enter the vortex passage.
Cultivators below the Earthly Transcendence can only face the protective array and sigh in frustration.
Although Ding Huan didn't know if there was any danger in the vortex, he was certain of one thing: the survival chances for cultivators below the Earthly Transcendence who enter the vortex would not be very high.
After completing these tasks, Ding Huan implanted two high-quality spiritual veins once more before rushing into the vortex.
As soon as he entered the vortex, Ding Huan was the first to feel a faint energy of the heavens and earth.
The rules of this energy must definitely exceed those of the heaven and earth qi of the Third Heaven Starland.
This even made Ding Huan feel that if he found a place to practice here, he might be able to attain a higher realm.
Ding Huan slightly absorbed the qi of the heavens and earth here, immediately realizing that he had been thinking too much before.
The rules of the qi here are indeed higher than those of the Third Heaven Starland, but the qi is too faint. It's impossible to advance in cultivation under such faint qi.
It's unclear whether the previous Earthly Transcendence cultivators who came here had this feeling. If someone really wanted to attempt to break through the barrier between mortal and celestial realm here, they would certainly fail.
Moreover, it is not practical to cultivate here, as the vortex carries a strong impact force.
If one dares to cultivate here, they will soon be ejected from the vortex.
Ding Huan estimated that no one would dare to cultivate here, let alone anyone dared to stay here.
No one knows if they can come back after being ejected out.
Fortunately, the force of pushing outwards is not strong, and Ding Huan doesn't rush forward in haste. He moves forward calmly.
He has a premonition that he may have to stay here for a long time.
A month later, Ding Huan felt that even without the rest of the attacks, with such relentless vortex impacts, if the time were too long, no one would be able to hold out.
Even with his Dan Tian Xingchuan and Da Dao Tiandao in the Shijing, he's afraid he can't hold out for many years.
As for the others like Galatea, being able to hold out for a year would be considered quite good.
When Ding Huan felt uneasy, a place without vortex suction appeared in his spiritual consciousness.
Ding Huan immediately landed on it. As soon as he got on it, he felt that someone had rested here before.
This place indeed had no vortex suction and could also restore true essence and soul force.
Continuously using spiritual consciousness would damage the soul. Since there is a place to rest in this vortex channel, it's not a big deal.
It's best to have more such resting places, at least allowing everyone to catch their breath.
Scanning the platform with his spiritual consciousness, Ding Huan sensed at least a dozen spiritual consciousness imprints, one of which was left by Ji Gu.
Ding Huan understood why everyone left spiritual consciousness imprints here. It was to worry about there being no more places to rest in the future, as well as the inability to break through this vortex channel and return here for a rest.
Ding Huan estimated that this situation should not exist. If they were really unable to move forward, they could still use a flight artifact.
Who among the Earthly Transcendence cultivators doesn't have a few top-tier flying artifacts?
When Ding Huan left the resting platform and advanced again, he brought out the iron pot.
Ding Huan quickly realized that his idea was too naive.
When the iron pot was summoned, it seemed as if it had broken a heavenly law.
The vortex power, which was a hundred times more violent than before, directly struck the iron pot. In this situation, it's not just that there is no possibility of advancing, but also that the flight artifact will be torn apart in no time.
His iron pot wouldn't be torn apart, but it's hard to say for other flight artifacts.
Ding Huan quickly put away the iron pot and continued to fly cautiously forward with care.
Flight artifacts can't advance in this vortex channel. Even if they do, there are places to rest after some time.
This made Ding Huan suspect that this vortex channel was likely not naturally formed but was forcibly opened by a powerful being.
It's like he set up a protective array outside the vortex, allowing Earthly Transcendence cultivators to enter while blocking others below the Earthly Transcendence.
And the powerful being who opened this vortex channel also hopes that those who have the ability can cross the channel and enter a higher realm, while those without the ability don't even try to go up.
Realizing that the channel might be artificially constructed, Ding Huan deliberately slowed down his pace even more.
As he moved forward, his spiritual consciousness communicated with the iron pot in his Jishai.
He didn't know how long it would take to pass through the channel, so he didn't want to waste time on the journey. Continuing to refine the iron pot was what mattered most.
Time passed during this monotonous journey through the channel. Unlike ordinary cultivators, Ding Huan has Dan Tian Xingchuan and his spiritual consciousness is virtually endless.
So he doesn't need to rest.
It's just that because he is refining the iron pot, his speed is slower than others.
After a year, Ding Huan couldn't refine the next level of the iron pot's restrictions, so he simply stopped refining it.
He was going to continue refining the Zi Shou and the Life-and-Death Mirror next.
By all accounts, he should have refined the Life-and-Death Mirror first, as it is somewhat related to this vortex passage.
Ding Huan thinks that the Wu Gu drums are more beneficial to him. If he refines the Wu Gu drums to the same level of thirty-six restrictions, he believes that the combination of drum killing techniques and the Reincarnation Spear will make him very satisfied in battle.
Just as Ding Huan was about to start refining the Wu Gu drums, his spiritual consciousness swept over another resting platform.
Even though Ding Huan didn't need rest, he still stepped down onto the platform.
Ding Huan wanted to see if the others like Ji Gu had passed by. As long as they had, they would definitely leave some spiritual consciousness imprints.
As soon as Ding Huan landed on the platform, he knew that there had been a battle here before, and someone had perished.
Ding Huan was extremely sensitive to the resonance of the Taoist essence, and he immediately knew that the person who had perished here was one of the group from before.
What made Ding Huan feel relieved was that the person who had perished here was not someone he was familiar with.
After searching around, Ding Huan found several spiritual consciousness imprints, but didn't find any left by Ji Gu and others.
Ding Huan decided to wait for a while here.
Just in case Ji Gu and others haven't left yet, Ding Huan decided to wait here.
If he had known that the vortex channel was so flat, he would have invited everyone in as long as they could resist the vortex's impact force.
On the platform, Ding Huan did not continue refining his own treasures but instead took out the Di Ji Qian Er (Seventy-two Spectral Illusions) given to him by Old Six.
Ding Huan's spiritual consciousness penetrated into the Di Ji Qian Er, and after just a few pages, he felt that an odd number of Daoist techniques appeared in his memory - the thirty-six Thunderous Pillars Techniques and the seventy-two Spectral Illusions Techniques.
Ding Huan was shocked by the changes in the Tiangang Daozu techniques and Di Ji Huanzu techniques in his memories. He looked at the incomplete Di Ji Huanzu in his hand.
It's like heaven and earth apart.
Not only is the Di Ji Qian Er (Seventy-two Spectral Illusions) given to him by Old Six broken and full of holes, but it's also incomplete.
Ding Huan had always believed that Old Six's memory was incomplete, and with Old Six's personality, he wouldn't likely engage in such shady activities.
Now it seems to be a completely different matter.
The Di Ji Qian Er (Seventy-two Spectral Illusions) given to him by Old Six having some defects definitely wasn't caused by Old Six's memory being incomplete, but rather a mistake in the essence of Daoist techniques.
Such errors don't affect the cultivation of Daoist techniques, but leave huge potential risks.
It's like the idiom "covering one's ears to steal a bell"; such changes are very easy to see through.
Ding Huan furrowed his brow. Although he wouldn't be able to obtain the true Tiangang Daozu techniques and Di Ji Huanzu techniques without them, as long as he trained in the Di Ji Qian Er (Seventy-two Spectral Illusions) given by Old Six, he would still be able to discover the problems with it.
But Old Six doesn't have such delicate thoughts to do something like that.
Mo Huanping.
One hundred percent it's Mo Huanping. This woman is really cunning. He hopes that the move he left behind when he went to the Blue Star Sect can take care of Mo Huanping this time.
Ding Huan had memorized the true Tiangang Daozu techniques and Di Ji Huanzu techniques, so he couldn't possibly train in the Di Ji Qian Er (Seventy-two Spectral Illusions) given by Old Six.
On this platform, he decided to start studying the true Tiangang Daozu techniques and Di Ji Huanzu techniques.
Both branches are great Daoist techniques that can transform everything.
The Tiangang Daozu techniques are based on the Daoist laws of heaven and earth, focusing on the transformation of laws, which is easy to transform into a true essence. On the other hand, the Di Ji Huanhu Techniques are about "art" transformation based on yin and yang, five elements, nine palace eight trigrams. It focuses on the external form's imitation.
According to reason, his current cultivation level is unable to practice the Tiangang Daozu techniques.
However, his Great Universe Technique is about deducing the gene of all things in the universe, exploring the laws of all things, so he can practice the Tiangang Daozu techniques.
