After all seven traps were set up, everyone stood at the edge of the protective array, waiting for Mo's command to rush into the trap and seize the True Spirit World.
Xuanchengzi communicated with Ding Huan: "Follow me, if someone tries to stop me, you should help me stop them."
Clearly, in Xuanchengzi's eyes, Ding Huan can only help him block at most one attack.
"Okay, master uncle, you can rest assured. I will handle the rest while you take on the True Spirit World." Ding Huan promised decisively.
"Competition begins." With Mo's command, two or three dozen people rushed into the trapped array, one after another.
As soon as Ding Huan entered, his spiritual awareness swept over to see everyone setting up various traps and even a deathly array emerged.
Array flags were set up one after another in the hall, making it hard to tell which is which.
In fact, setting up another array on the basis of other people's arrays is much more difficult.
It's either that the effect is weakened or that it's like making a wedding dress for someone else. If one's level in array techniques is slightly lacking, it might even be impossible to set up an array.
What even shocked Ding Huan was that he saw a person going crazy and setting up a fourth-level killing array.
How treacherous the guy is! A fourth-level killing array can easily kill most of the people here.
Is it really necessary to set up a fourth-level killing array for seizing the True Spirit World? Why not set up a fourth-level cultivation array? This guy is definitely no good.
Ding Huan quickly found out that the guy setting up a fourth-level killing array was the one he thought was the worst, from Xianwu Palace.
At first, this guy appeared rather naive, and he set up a barely passable second-level trapping array.
There were also Xianzong disciples who had set up a second-level deathly trap array earlier. Upon entering, they led with a third-level trapping and killing array.
Ding Huan was speechless. This way, Xuanchengzi was ranked sixth, or even seventh.
"Puff!" A cloud of blood exploded, and Ding Huan saw that the pale-faced cultivator from Xianwu Palace had already killed a disciple from Yihai Palace, yet there was not even a hint of change on his face.
This guy is really too shameless.
He even intentionally set up a concealing array while killing, so that no one would know who did it.
Ding Huan remembered clearly that before the competition, everyone had agreed not to kill each other. Now it's not about not killing, but about not killing enough.
When someone was killed in the trap, it was already known to everyone, and the crowd went even more crazy.
Another disciple from Tianxuan Sword School was locked by the pale-faced cultivator from Xianwu Palace using an array, and the pale-faced cultivator showed no mercy at all.
After locking the disciple from Tianxuan Sword School, he locked his own space with a concealing array and directly cut towards the disciple's throat with his long sword.
This is definitely not to block opponents, but to kill.
Ding Huan smiled coldly in his heart, thinking that this guy wants to kill everyone he wants to kill and then let others take the blame?
He threw out several array lines without hesitation, decisively breaking the guy's concealing array.
As the pale-faced cultivator from Xianwu Palace's long sword sliced through the throat of the Tianxuan Sword School disciple, the space around them became completely clear.
"Cheng Qingping, you're courting death, you dare to kill my Tianxuan Sword School disciple?" Fan Zhi was furious. His magical treasure rushed towards the pale-faced cultivator named Cheng Qingping.
"Cheng Qingping, did you kill my colleague Zhuo Aiting from Yihai Palace just now? Your Xianwu Palace is really shameless. Every time the garbage comes out of your Xianmen. It was like this over a thousand years ago, and it's still the same now. Go to hell!"
With the angry shout of a man from Yihai Palace, his magical treasure followed and rushed towards Cheng Qingping.
Cheng Qingping's face turned even paler, and there was a trace of fear in his eyes.
How is that possible?
He had clearly set up a concealing divine array, a fourth-level concealing divine array, yet no one here could break it.
There must be top-level array masters here. He dared not stay any longer and wanted to rush forward.
First, let's get the True Spirit World.
Ding Huan knew that the third and second-level deathly traps arrayed by Cheng Qingping were not enough to worry him. However, he could not let the True Spirit World and the divine crystals fall into his hands.
Without hesitation, he laid down several array lines that could disappear at any moment to block Cheng Qingping. He quickly rushed in himself.
To Ding Huan, these third-level trapping arrays were as if they didn't exist.
Just a few steps, Ding Huan rushed to the center of the array, picked up all the divine crystals, and then grabbed the True Spirit World.
He would not hand over the divine crystals, but he couldn't keep the True Spirit World.
Once one has set their heart on this thing, trouble is sure to follow.
After doing all these, Ding Huan returned to Xuanchengzi's side. If anyone set up a trap to block Xuanchengzi, Ding Huan would immediately step in to stop them.
He also occasionally threw out array flags to help Xuanchengzi break through the arrays.
Xuanchengzi was very satisfied with Ding Huan's performance.
At this moment, the array lines blocking Cheng Qingping by Ding Huan disappeared, and Cheng Qingping's speed increased.
Along the way, it only took dozens of array flags to break a third-level trap array, while second-level deathly trap arrays were even simpler; you could just cross them without breaking them.
As a fourth-level divine array master, these second- and third-level trapping and killing arrays would not pose much of an obstacle to him.
In just half a pillar of incense, Cheng Qingping had fallen to the middle of the hall. When he saw that there was nothing in the middle of the hall, sweat broke out on his forehead.
He offended two Daoist sects and killed two people, but he ended up with nothing.
Ding Huan saw Cheng Qingping arrive at the center of the hall and immediately joined the effort to break the array.
With Ding Huan's help, several people were able to quickly reach the center of the hall.
If it hadn't been for the incident where Cheng Qingping killed people, things might have ended here.
The first count goes to Cheng Qingping.
Now that Cheng Qingping has killed two people, several people from Tianxuan Sword School and Yihai Palace are surrounding Cheng Qingping and attacking him.
Ding Huan slapped Xuanchengzi and pointed at the foot of Xuanchengzi, saying, "Uncle Xuanchengzi, take a look at this. Is it the True Spirit World? I saw it jumping out when they were fighting just now."
Ding Huan's words were something even ghosts wouldn't believe, yet Xuanchengzi was so excited his face turned red.
He reached out and grabbed the True Spirit World, laughing loudly, "Ha ha, my Qingxu Dao has obtained the True Spirit World, ha ha ha..."
Ding Huan was very helpless, this pig.
It doesn't matter if he takes it, but it makes no difference if Xuanchengzi takes it.
However, this guy openly took it out.
However, since everyone had agreed, it is probably not possible to take it from Xuanchengzi's hands. But the True Spirit World can no longer belong to Xuanchengzi.
If he were Xuanchengzi, he would definitely keep the True Spirit World and hand it over to his sect once they find out about it.
The Daoist sects will definitely give him many benefits to compensate for it.
Now that this guy can indeed gain some benefits, the amount will be significantly less.
There is also a very small possibility that the sects won't trace it back to Xuanchengzi.
Because the first one to reach the middle of the hall was Cheng Qingping, everyone will only suspect him.
Of course, this possibility is not very likely, as Cheng Qingping cannot escape.
Ding Huan did not take the True Spirit World because the possibility of privately appropriating it was very small.
The surrounding cultivators have already discovered that the True Spirit World was indeed taken by Xuanchengzi, and they have all stopped searching and continued on their way.
Only the middle of the hall was still in battle.
Boom! Swaths of sword aura shot up, smashing the hall into ruins.
Even if there were protective arrays here, they couldn't withstand such attacks from these guys.
Click!
The windows of the Enduring Immortal Building were finally shattered.
Several strong cultivators rushed over, their voices echoing even before they arrived, "Who dares to cause trouble in my Enduring Immortal Building?"
The fighting group had all calmed down, the hall littered with bloodstains and two corpses, the rest in chaos.
Ding Huan secretly admired Cheng Qingping, thinking that he was injured by half a dozen people yet only sustained injuries, not even fracturing any bones. This guy really has some skills.
Watching the excited Xuanchengzi, Ding Huan didn't disturb him and carefully retreated outside.
At this moment, everyone's attention was either on Xuanchengzi's True Spirit World, a group of people fighting, or on the strong cultivators from the Enduring Immortal Building.
No one noticed Ding Huan's quiet departure.
...
Ding Huan quickly left the Enduring Immortal Building and rushed out of the Enduring Immortal City.
Half a day later, Ding Huan had returned to his original appearance and calmly entered the Immortal City.
After returning to the Immortal City, Ding Huan rushed to the Genuine World Market immediately.
Indeed, outside the market, Ding Huan saw a huge square with more than a dozen temporary pavilions erected above.
Ding Huan sent a message to Tao Xiaomei.
What was strange was that he didn't receive any response from Tao Xiaomei.
What's happening?
Tao Xiaomei isn't going to leave just for 1,500 spirit stones, is she?
He sent a few more messages, but still no response from Tao Xiaomei.
Ding Huan decided to extend his spiritual awareness, and soon he saw Tao Xiaomei.
Tao Xiaomei was in the fourth stall of the fourth room in the back of the third temporary hall. Her face was pale, and she had bloodstains on her body, indicating that she had been injured.
What surprised him was that, in addition to Tao Xiaomei, there were three other people in the stall.
This type of stall can indeed accommodate four people, though it's a bit cramped.
In theory, since he gave Tao Xiaomei 1,500 spirit stones, she should have told him if she wanted to rent the stall with others.
Ding Huan approached the stall where Tao Xiaomei was staying and waved away all the barrier restrictions with a flick of his hand, "Tao sister, how can there be so many people here?"
"Big Brother Ding, they're occupying my stall. This has nothing to do with you, and I'll figure out a way to return your spirit stones..."
Before Tao Xiaomei could finish her sentence, a handsome man stood up and waved his hand, "Get lost."
Ding Huan did not intervene, and Tao Xiaomei was knocked into the protective array behind the stall by the wave.
"Are you here to help Tao Xiaomei return the spirit stones?" The man narrowed his eyes at Ding Huan, his expression fierce, as if he would strike Ding Huan at any moment.
"What's going on, Tao sister? You better explain. Can people really take away your stall here? If there are rules against this, I'll have to report the enforcers here."
Ding Huan did not pay attention to the guy. He just calmly looked at Tao Xiaomei.
Tao Xiaomei shook her head, "This is all my fault. I borrowed their spirit stones, so they seized my stall."
