MTLNOVEL Chapter 845: No Escape
In the beginning, Ding Huan wasn't very concerned. In his opinion, at most half a year's time, the Cosmic Pot would definitely be able to shake the pursuer off.
So Ding Huan did not frantically push the Cosmic Pot.
As long as he could ensure the opponent remained outside his Divine Will range.
Ding Huan believed that with the strength of his Divine Will as a ten-turn Saint, even those Creation Saints of the Little Heavenly Ruins might not be stronger than him.
Being outside his Divine Will's range should be relatively safe.
Indeed, as Ding Huan had foreseen, he felt the opponent continuing to pursue him, yet posed no threat.
Although Ding Huan couldn't see the opponent's Flying Treasure, he believed that if there were any threat, he would sense it.
After nearly three months of fleeing, Ding Huan no longer focused constantly on how far the pursuer was from him.
His Divine Will fell upon his Cosmic World.
Due to the formation of the Light Law Star River, his Great Dao World became more perfect.
This also made his Cosmic World clearly structured, thus perfecting the Reincarnation Law Star River.
The Life Tree in his world now exceeded ten thousand feet.
The exuberant life aura satisfied Ding Huan greatly.
Although he has not yet stepped into the Creation Dao Realm, he believes that not all Star Land rules capable of birthing Creation Dao Realm Saints are necessarily more perfect than his Cosmic World.
While Ding Huan was still indulging himself, his heart suddenly jumped, and an instant surge of unease occurred.
Without hesitation, he burned Essence Blood to steer the Cosmic Pot, simultaneously burning a Chaos Divine Spirit Vein.
The Cosmic Pot, already fast, stirred up whirlpools of Law in the Void, almost disappearing instantaneously.
Only the direction had deviated.
At the same moment, a giant hammer shadow descended in the original direction of Ding Huan's Cosmic Pot.
The hammer shadow nearly tore a range of several million miles of the Void apart.
Countless Cosmic Laws shattered; nearby planets would surely shatter.
If Ding Huan's Cosmic Pot hadn't changed course, it would have been under this hammer now.
Beneath this hammer, even if the Cosmic Pot didn't shatter, Ding Huan's physical body would have fragmented.
Even though Ding Huan's Cosmic Pot had already veered off course.
The disturbance from the shattered Void Universe Rules still had a substantial impact on the Cosmic Pot.
Fortunately, the Cosmic Pot was fast enough, and Ding Huan stabilized it, disappearing again into the Endless Void in no time.
"That damned sly fox." Ding Huan cursed.
He thought he was safe; yet that sly creature was brewing such a move.
His mastery of the Great Dao had matured significantly after becoming a ten-turn Saint.
Otherwise, even a slight delay, and his Cosmic Pot would have been in jeopardy.
His opponent lulled him into complacency, waiting months before suddenly acting, showing great patience.
At this moment, Ding Huan dared not do anything else.
He drove his Cosmic Pot desperately to flee swiftly.
Regardless of how close or far that old scoundrel was, he first sought to escape the opponent's perception range.
Ding Huan's actions evidently alerted the pursuing fellow.
Hammer shadows kept blasting the space behind the Cosmic Pot.
Luckily, the Cosmic Pot was fast enough, though several times the shattered fragments of Cosmic Void Law affected its speed.
Ding Huan quickly controlled the Cosmic Pot again.
After only three months, Ding Huan sensed something amiss.
The opponent surely couldn't catch up now.
This pursuer undoubtedly harbored ill intent, apparently driving his Cosmic Pot towards a fixed position.
No way.
Immediately, Ding Huan controlled the Cosmic Pot to change direction.
Sure enough, upon changing course, hammer shadows from the Void slammed down.
Just a few hammer blows brought Ding Huan back to the original path of advancement.
Ding Huan's heart sank.
This fellow couldn't catch up, yet was maneuvering him into a specific location.
He must not let the opponent succeed.
To avoid influence from that giant hammer shadow, he needed to further accelerate the Cosmic Pot to escape the pursuer.
One top-grade Divine Spirit Vein after another was laid upon the Cosmic Pot by Ding Huan; as long as the Cosmic Pot didn't stop, the Divine Spirit Veins would continue burning.
The violent and rich Divine Spirit Qi burned, combined with Ding Huan's unreserved drive of the Cosmic Pot.
The Cosmic Pot's speed increased to yet another notch.
The pursuer seemed aware of Ding Huan's intentions, and likewise increased speed.
In his view, Ding Huan's method of burning Divine Spirit Veins and even burning Divine Essence couldn't last long.
Thus, his speed not only didn't lessen but increased continually.
One year, two years...
When ten years passed, Ding Huan's Cosmic Pot hadn't slowed and perhaps even slightly sped up.
Ding Huan thought by this time anyone would have given up.
Indeed, he felt himself getting increasingly distant from the pursuer; surely he would shake them off soon.
In truth, the pursuer was quite impressed, never having seen someone like Ding Huan endure as such.
Burning Divine Spirit Veins was barely acceptable, but burning Divine Essence and Dao Rhythm for a short time is one thing.
To continue burning Divine Essence for ten years is simply unheard of.
Even the most capable would have to falter.
Ding Huan was indeed dumbfounded; he stopped the Cosmic Pot.
It wasn't that he didn't want to escape; it was because he encountered the Cosmic Wall once again.
Ding Huan had passed through a Cosmic Wall once before.
That time, he passed through the Cosmic Wall and entered the Little Heavenly Ruins, gaining immense benefits.
Because in the Cosmic Wall, he comprehended perfect various Heaven and Earth Laws.
But facing this Cosmic Wall, Ding Huan only needed to sweep it with his Divine Will to know that he absolutely couldn't pass through it.
This Cosmic Wall was not something he could penetrate.
Back then, he used the means of mutually counteracting laws to pass through the Cosmic Wall of the Little Heavenly Ruins.
Yet the Dao Principles composing the Cosmic Wall before him were almost perfect to the extreme.
He didn't need to try; he knew that no matter what law he used to counteract, he couldn't penetrate even a fraction.
It wasn't that his methods were ineffective, but his cultivation was too shallow.
If he could pass through this Cosmic Wall, the other side would definitely be a High-level Universe.
Ding Huan sighed and put away the Cosmic Pot.
He knew he couldn't leave.
Sure enough, after just a few breaths, a figure landed opposite Ding Huan.
This guy was of medium height with a head of blue hair.
Ding Huan's gaze swept across the gray eyes of the opponent, which appeared just like those of a blind man, giving a deeply uncomfortable feeling.
The Dao Rhythm around this guy was quite strange, with Light Law Dao Rhythm as well as other Law Dao Rhythms.
But his cultivation was too low to discern them for the time being.
One thing Ding Huan could be sure of was that this guy's cultivation definitely surpassed the Fourth Step of Dao.
"A puny Nine-turn Saint, you're quite the escape artist. Can you escape from my grasp?" The gray-eyed man mocked after sizing up Ding Huan.
Ding Huan replied neither humbly nor arrogantly, "I am not acquainted with you, sir. Why have you pursued me for more than a decade?"
Though he spoke like this, Ding Huan knew his chances of survival were slim.
This guy was deeply cunning, still an old schemer.
While fleeing before, he judged the opponent's goal correctly but misjudged the opponent's methods.
This guy indeed wanted to force him to escape in a specific direction, so when that big hammer struck around the Cosmic Pot in the void, it was methodical.
Ding Huan only realized now that the direction this guy wanted him to escape to was the Cosmic Wall.
Previously, it seemed like he was trying to stop him from escaping in other directions, but it was actually a ploy to let him escape a certain way.
He fled for over a decade and still didn't discern the opponent's methods.
In the end, he was forced to the edge of the Cosmic Wall.
"Did you take the Light Law?" The gray-eyed man disregarded Ding Huan's words and asked again.
"Yes." Ding Huan admitted without hesitation.
He suddenly felt that perhaps this Light Law might save him.
"Show it to me." The gray-eyed man demanded as if it were expected.
Ding Huan calmly said, "I am already prepared to self-destruct, so any threat from you means nothing to me."
"Heh, do you think I can't open up your world?"
The gray-eyed man chuckled, his tone even more mocking.
A world of a mere ant not at the Eternal Life Realm in the Great Dao World, he could still open it.
"Oh, then give it a try." Ding Huan said and remained still.
He knew that moving was pointless.
Now he just needed the opponent to attempt to open his world, to have leverage to continue negotiating.
Sure enough, the gray-eyed man's domain immediately locked the space where Ding Huan was located.
Then, strands of Dao Rhythm Law began to strip away at Ding Huan's Great Dao World.
This area's Space Rules became chaotic.
Ding Huan sighed inwardly.
He had always been the one stripping away others' worlds, and today it was his turn to have his world stripped. Indeed, weaker cultivation meant nothing.
A whole day later, the gray-eyed man's eyes showed solemnity and even withdrew his Dao Domain.
"Your world is indeed strange; I can't strip it now."
The gray-eyed man was deeply shocked inside, feeling that Ding Huan's Great Dao might not be inferior to those of two others.
Otherwise, how could there be such a flawless, perfect Great Dao World?
If it were someone else, even if he couldn't strip their world, he could find some clues.
In Ding Huan's world, after stripping for a whole day, he didn't even know what Great Dao Ding Huan was cultivating.
Upon hearing the opponent say it couldn't be stripped, a Dao Principle suddenly appeared before Ding Huan.
However, this Dao Principle immediately vanished after appearing.
"It really is the Light Law." The gray-eyed man's eyes flashed with a trace of eagerness.
Now he was more eager not for the Light Law itself, but for Ding Huan's Great Dao.
Back when his son was killed, though his cultivation was stronger, he couldn't do anything to the opponent because the opponent cultivated their own Great Dao.
The strength of the Great Dao was astonishing.
Ding Huan was slightly puzzled inside.
Shouldn't this guy be showing excitement?
After all, this guy was very eager for the Light Law.
And there were fluctuations of the Light Law Dao Rhythm around him.
Why only a bit of eagerness?