In the World of Gods, a significant incident occurred.

The entrance Protecting Array of the World of Gods was completely breached, and moreover, the barrier of the World of Gods was also torn apart.

Only because the barrier of the World of Gods can automatically recover, did it not spiral out of control.

Otherwise, billions of cultivators from the outside world would flood into the World of Gods, spreading throughout the vast and boundless land.

How could one possibly gather all these people at that time?

Strangely, no one knows what truly happened.

Because no Seventh Step expert stood out to stop it.

Secondly, all the cultivators present at the time were annihilated, with no survivors.

Not only that, but those who were annihilated turned into dust in the Tao World, with even their souls unable to survive, let alone being reborn.

Every Monitoring Array Pattern was also reduced to nothingness.

When Jian Zhen heard about this, he was slightly taken aback.

Is Ding Huan truly that ruthless?

He actually silenced everyone?

If so, why didn't Ding Huan completely open the barrier, only opening it halfway and leaving it there?

This matter seems peculiar.

Whatever Ding Huan intends to do, this matter has nothing to do with him.

What he needs to do is quickly enhance his strength.

As for who becomes the Alliance Hierarch of the Holy Dao Alliance, whoever desires it can take it; from now on, Jian Zhen will only pursue the Great Dao.

...

Ding Huan swallowed a drop of Cosmic Essence, but his injuries were far from simple blood and flesh loss and bone fracture.

It was the invasion of the Killing Dao Rhythm.

As long as the terrifying Killing Dao Rhythm within him is not completely removed, he cannot recover.

The usefulness of the Cosmic Essence became negligible.

Theoretically, even if the Cosmic Essence restores all his flesh and blood, the Killing Dao Rhythm would devour it again in the next moment.

Fortunately, the Cosmic Essence could still help accelerate the recovery of his Divine Will.

Confirming that no one came here, Ding Huan began to operate the Great Universe Technique.

Although the surrounding Heaven and Earth Laws were not particularly dense, they still allowed him to recover part of his Divine Will.

As long as he recovered part of his Divine Will, he quickly switched to a safer place for prolonged seclusion to heal.

Merely after one circulation, Ding Huan stopped.

He felt something amiss with the Heaven and Earth Rules.

However, his Great Universe Technique differed from other cultivation techniques; more precisely, the cultivation of the Great Universe Technique was connected with the world's Heaven and Earth Rules he was in, yet did not directly rely on these rules for enhancement.

Ding Huan tried a common cultivation technique.

After the first circulation, he immediately felt his Taoist Rhythm being corroded...

Corroded might not be the right term; when he conducted Circulation Cultivation using the Heaven and Earth Rules, his Daoist Rhythm was naturally weakened, then his cultivation declined, and his Great Dao grew weak.

It sounded peculiar, but it was indeed the case.

Generally, cultivating naturally improves one's cultivation, but here, not only does it not improve, it decreases cultivation.

If one continues to cultivate here long term, wouldn't the Great Dao Foundation collapse completely? Even the Tao World might be annihilated?

Ding Huan did not understand what exactly this was about.

However, his Great Universe Technique remained unaffected.

No matter how corrosive the Heaven and Earth Rules are, they are beneficial in front of the Great Universe Technique.

His Great Universe Technique only focused on understanding and integrating the endless laws in the Vast Universe, and these endless Heaven and Earth Rules would eventually become a part of the Law Star River in his Tao World.

Simply put, it is about collecting the Heaven and Earth Laws he never encountered before.

Through the Law Star River within his Tao Universe World, he constructed his own endless Great Dao Rules and the Law of All Things.

Thus, for him, the rarer and more unusual the Great Dao Rules and the Law of All Things, the more useful they were.

Under the Great Universe Technique Circulation, Ding Huan also figured out the rules constituting this fog, which was actually a kind of Corrosive Dao Rhythm Law.

The entire Fog Realm was surprisingly Corrosive Heaven and Earth Laws.

Luckily, there truly was no one here.

Ding Huan was out in the wild, without any Protecting Array, without any disguise.

Healed for a full ten years here and didn't see a soul.

After ten years, Ding Huan's body was still in ruins, and his eyes were still hollow.

The only benefit was that he could stand, and his Divine Will could extend a bit.

In those ten years, he had not been able to remove a trace of the Killing Dao Rhythm inside him.

Ding Huan stood up and decided to find a more secluded place to heal.

Removing the Killing Dao Rhythm within was not only a matter of his life; it related more to his exploration of the profound mysteries hidden in that insoluble Hand Seal.

Perhaps the owner of the Hand Seal would never have thought that the Killing Dao Rhythm left behind would reveal his Great Dao secret.

Because indeed, no one could do that.

Ding Huan cannot do it now, either.

Ding Huan believed in his heart, he could eventually do it.

His Great Universe Technique was all about decrypting the origin of the Heaven and Earth Rules and seeking the source of the Law of All Things.

If not, he would not have been able to reverse engineer the Chaos Treasure and separate the initially implanted Bloodline Dao Principle from the Chaos Treasure.

If he couldn't find out the Great Dao mystery of the Killing Dao Rhythm, there would be only one possibility.

It is that the opponent's Divine Power Hand Seal contained no rules and did not harbor any magical laws.

In Ding Huan's mind, this is absolutely impossible.

His Great Universe Technique relies on the Law of All Things; in the construction system of the Great Universe Technique, the universe is composed of endless laws.

These laws can form various Heaven and Earth Rules, the Dao Principles of All Things, such as the Dao Principles of gold, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, thunder, ice, darkness, and light, etc.

But the formation of the universe cannot be without laws.

Law is just the foundation, the origin of the formation of all things.

A month later, Ding Huan stopped at the perimeter of a giant tree root.

The giant tree had long since withered.

In this Fog Realm, there are spirit plants, though Ding Huan encountered very few.

As he walked forward, all he saw was various kinds of fog, and now he couldn't see anything.

Relying on his sense of Heaven and Earth Rules, he knew even with perfect eyesight, he wouldn't be able to see far here.

Moreover, his Divine Will was greatly restricted.

The various plants able to survive here are strange and have resistance to the poison fog and the corrosion rules of heaven and earth.

The tree root before him spans about ten miles in radius, he had no idea how long it's been dead.

The tree body had long disappeared, leaving only this giant tree root.

Complex roots extend from the ground, intertwining to form a dense root nest.

The outer layer of the protruding roots still bears the remnants of a natural restriction.

Ding Huan stepped among the tangled roots, walking inward until he discovered a makeshift cave mansion.

Is there someone here?

There was no Dao Rhythm fluctuation around, Ding Huan probed with his Divine Will.

The restriction of the cave mansion was already broken and in ruins.

Inside lay a skeleton.

Indeed, someone had been retreating here for cultivation, though he didn't know for how long, eventually turning himself into a skeleton.

Ding Huan instinctively swept his hollow eyes over himself.

He wanted to laugh self-deprecatingly.

He was even worse off than the skeleton.

At least the skeleton was intact, while all his bones were shattered.

Due to being overly cautious over the past ten years, coupled with the severe corrosion of the Killing Dao Rhythm, his recovery was extremely slow.

With a sigh, Ding Huan did not enter the skeleton's cave mansion but instead rebuilt a small cave mansion not far away.

Only then did he begin to set up barriers.

Without barriers, he dared not implant Dao Veins; without implanting Dao Veins, trying to separate the Killing Dao Rhythm corroding his life force with the Primordial Qi here would be a pipe dream.

After spending half a month, Ding Huan arranged seven chained barriers before beginning to implant the Dao Veins.

He implanted ten high-grade Dao Veins and one top-grade Dao Vein.

The top-grade Dao Vein was traded to him by Jian Zhen.

As for the black and white pair of veins, he was reluctant to use them.

After completing this, Ding Huan finally started healing.

Under the Great Universe Technique, the dense Primordial Qi was extracted by Ding Huan, and at this moment, everything became clear.

The lingering Killing Dao Rhythms were gradually separated by Ding Huan and then sent into a dedicated barrier.

Initially, Ding Huan was only separating the Killing Dao Rhythms for separation's sake.

As time gradually passed, Ding Huan's Great Universe Technique finally sensed a different Taoist aura.

Without hesitation, Ding Huan constructed several reverse law barriers.

This was his method of reversing the laws of Chaos Treasure within the Chaos Law Sea.

It was also his greatest gain after losing the Eternal God Wheel.

When Ding Huan captured a Dao Thought amidst this: "Chaos Supreme Dao, begins with nothing...," he was somewhat stunned.

Isn't this his own Dao?

The reason he always felt his Great Universe Technique was extraordinary was that he created the Great Universe Technique before he even achieved Foundation Establishment, from nothing into existence...

No, accurately speaking, his Dao shouldn't be considered from nothing into existence.

He created the Great Universe Technique after reaching the twelfth layer of Qi Cultivation and then established it through Foundation Establishment.

Additionally, his Dao Thought was not beginning with nothing; the Great Dao emerges from nothing to being, aiming for the pinnacle.

His Dao Thought was to forge a supreme foundation before being able to forge the supreme Great Dao.

Otherwise, the Great Dao would ultimately collapse.

The deep foundation theory is quite reasonable for Earth People, but back then, how much did he actually know?

With his current understanding, forging a supreme foundation is not the only approach to establish a supreme Great Dao, and it may not even be entirely accurate.

Ding Huan worked hard to dispel these miscellaneous thoughts and once again comprehended the Killing Dao Rhythm he had separated.

From nothing to existence, to the extremity of the Great Dao, this is almost non-existent and impossible.

Yet there was someone who accomplished it, and with a single long-distance hand seal, almost killed him.

Ding Huan couldn't extract any more useful information from the Killing Dao Rhythm, though he could still make guesses.

This supreme being was likely a creature born with extraordinarily high intelligence, who then utilized their innate advantages to create this supreme Great Dao.

No human cultivator could accomplish this.

Asking someone who has never cultivated, or even an infant, to create a supreme Great Dao?

Perhaps the Taoist Ancestor had a slim chance because the Taoist Ancestor was born of chaos, possessing intelligence at birth.

Therefore, to accomplish this, it must be a Chaos Creature born at the opening of the Chaotic Universe.