Once all seven puzzle arrays are set up, everyone stands at the edge of the protective array, waiting for Miaohe's command, and then charging into the puzzle array to seize the true spirit world.
Xuan Chengzi transmitted to Ding Huan: "Wait a moment, follow me closely. If anyone tries to interfere with me, help me block them."
It is obvious that Xuan Chengzi only sees Ding Huan as able to block one person for him.
"All right, Uncle, you can go ahead and take the true spirit world. The rest is up to me." Ding Huan gave a decisive promise.
"The contest begins." With Miaohe's command, twenty or thirty people surged into the interconnected maze of arrays.
As soon as Ding Huan entered, his spiritual consciousness immediately detected that everyone was busy setting up various death traps, and even the killing array had appeared.
One after another, the array flags were laid out in the hall, making people dizzy.
In fact, it's much more difficult to lay another trap on top of someone else's established maze.
Either the effect is weakened, or it's just for someone else's wedding clothes. If the array-making skill is a bit poor, it may not even be able to be set up.
What shocked Ding Huan more was that he saw a guy in a frenzy setting up a fourth-level strangling array.
What a cunning fellow. A level-four strangling array can easily kill the majority of people here.
It's not necessary to set up a level-four strangling array to seize the true spirit world. Shouldn't it be a level-four bounding array? This guy is definitely no good.
Ding Huan quickly discovered that the guy who set up the level-four strangling array was the worst guy he had previously thought, from Xian Wu Palace.
At first, this guy looked extremely honest, and he set up a barely passable level-two maze upon entering.
There were also Xian Zongmen disciples who had previously set up a level-two death trap. Upon entering, they followed the same pattern with a level-three trap and killing array as their first priority.
Ding Huan was speechless. This way of seeing things, Xuan Chengzi is ranked sixth, or even seventh.
"Puff!" A burst of blood mist exploded, and Ding Huan saw that the pale-faced cultivator from Xian Wu Palace had killed a disciple from Yi Hai Palace, yet his expression remained unchanged.
This guy really is shameless.
He deliberately sets up a concealment array when killing, so that no one knows who did it.
Ding Huan remembered well that before the contest, everyone agreed not to kill each other. Now, it's not a matter of not killing at all, but rather not killing too few.
If someone is killed in the maze, everyone knows about it, and the crowd becomes even more frenzied.
Another disciple of the Tian Xuan Sword Path was locked in place by the pale-faced cultivator from Xian Wu Palace using an array, and the pale-faced cultivator showed no mercy at all.
After locking in the disciple of the Tian Xuan Sword Path, the pale-faced cultivator used a concealment array to lock his own space, and directly struck the throat of this disciple with his long sword.
This is definitely not obstructing opponents, but a deliberate killing.
Ding Huan coldly smiled in his heart, thinking that this guy wanted to kill everyone he wanted to kill and then let others take the blame.
Without hesitation, Ding Huan cast several arrays out, very decisively breaking through this guy's concealment array.
As the pale-faced cultivator from Xian Wu Palace sliced the throat of the disciple of the Tian Xuan Sword Path, the space around him became clear completely.
"Cheng Qingyun, do you dare to die, and you dare to kill my Tian Xuan Sword Path disciple?" Fan Zhi was enraged. He attacked this pale-faced cultivator named Cheng Qingyun with his treasure.
"Cheng Qingyun, was it you who killed Zhao Aiting from my Yi Hai Palace just now? Your Xian Wu Palace is really shameless. Every time the garbage comes out from your Daoist sect. It was the same a thousand years ago, and it's still the same now. Go to hell."
With the angry shout of a man from Yi Hai Palace, his treasure followed his rage as it thundered towards Cheng Qingyun.
Cheng Qingyun's face turned even paler, and a trace of fear appeared in his eyes.
How could that be possible?
He had clearly set up a concealment immortal array, and it was a level-four one. Who could break through his level-four concealment immortal array here?
There must be top-level array experts here. He dared not stay any longer and continued to charge forward.
First, let's seize the true spirit world.
Ding Huan knew that these level-three and level-two death traps were not enough to challenge Cheng Qingyun, but how could he let this guy get hold of the true spirit world and the spirit crystals?
Without hesitation, Ding Huan set up several transient disappearance arrays to block Cheng Qingyun, and then quickly charged into the maze himself.
These level-three traps are just like not being there for Ding Huan.
In just a few steps, Ding Huan reached the center of the great array, swept up all the spirit crystals, and then grabbed the true spirit world.
Ding Huan wouldn't give up the spirit crystals, but he couldn't take the true spirit world.
If you have thoughts about this thing, the trouble will definitely increase.
After doing all this, Ding Huan returned to Xuan Chengzi's side. Whenever someone set up a maze to block Xuan Chengzi, Ding Huan immediately intervened and blocked it.
At the same time, Ding Huan occasionally threw out array flags to help Xuan Chengzi break the arrays.
Xuan Chengzi was very satisfied with Ding Huan's performance.
At this moment, as the array patterns that Ding Huan had set to block Cheng Qingyun disappeared, Cheng Qingyun's speed increased.
Along the way, with just a few dozen array flags, Ding Huan could break through level-three death traps. For level-two death traps, they didn't even have to break through them; they could simply cross over them.
As a level-four immortal array master, the level-two and level-three captivating and killing arrays posed little hindrance to him.
In just half a joss stick of time, Cheng Qingyun had fallen to the center of the hall. When he realized that there was nothing in the center of the hall, sweat appeared on his forehead.
He had offended two cultivation halls and killed two people, but he had gotten nothing in return.
Ding Huan saw Cheng Qingyun reach the center of the hall, immediately joining the ranks to break through the arrays.
With the help of Ding Huan, a dozen or so people quickly reached the center of the hall.
If there had been no event where Cheng Qingyun killed people, this matter might have ended here.
First, it's Cheng Qingyun's.
Now that Cheng Qingyun has killed two people, several cultivators from the Tian Xuan Sword Path and Yi Hai Palace have surrounded him and begun to attack.
Ding Huan patted Xuan Chengzi and pointed to the thing under Xuan Chengzi's feet, saying, "Uncle Xuan Chengzi, take a look. Is this the true spirit world? I saw it when they were fighting, and it suddenly appeared."
Ding Huan's words were probably unbelief, but Xuan Chengzi's excited face turned red.
He grabbed the true spirit world with one hand, laughing heartily, "Hahaha, Qingxu Dao has obtained the true spirit world! Hahahaha..."
Ding Huan was very helpless, this pig.
He cannot take it, but Xuan Chengzi's take has no effect at all.
This fellow has publicly come out.
However, since everyone has agreed, it's probably not possible to take it away from Xuan Chengzi. After all, the true spirit world cannot belong to Xuan Chengzi anymore.
If he were Xuan Chengzi, he would definitely put away this true spirit world and hand it over to the Daoist sect once they found out about him.
The cultivation hall would definitely offer many compensations to him in return.
This guy can indeed get some benefits, but it's too few.
Another very small possibility is that the Daoist sect fails to find any trace on Xuan Chengzi.
Because the first person to reach the center of the hall was Cheng Qingyun, everyone would only suspect Cheng Qingyun.
Of course, this possibility is not very large, as Cheng Qingyun cannot escape.
Ding Huan did not take the true spirit world away because the possibility of him privately swallowing it was very small.
The cultivators around had already noticed that the true spirit world had indeed been taken by Xuan Chengzi, and they all stopped their search.
Only the center of the hall was still in a fight.
Boom! Wave after wave of sword qi shot up into the sky, causing the entire hall to be blasted apart.
Even with the protective arrays here, they couldn't withstand such fierce attacks from these guys.
Snap!
The window of Geng Ku Dao finally collapsed.
Several powerful cultivators rushed over, and as they hadn't even reached yet, they roared furiously from a distance, "Who dares to cause trouble in my Geng Ku Dao?
The group of people in the fight suddenly calmed down. In addition to the stains of blood all over the hall, there were also two dead bodies, and everywhere was in chaos.
Ding Huan secretly admired Cheng Qingyun. This guy was surrounded by five or six people, but he only sustained injuries and even his bones were not broken. He really has some skills.
Seeing Xuan Chengzi, who was still excited and out of control, Ding Huan did not bother the guy and carefully retreated.
At this time, everyone's attention was either on Xuan Chengzi's true spirit world, a group of fighting people, or the strong cultivators who had come from Geng Ku Dao.
No one noticed Ding Huan quietly leaving.
...
Ding Huan immediately rushed out of the Geng Ku Dao City after leaving Geng Ku Dao.
Half a day later, Ding Huan had returned to his original appearance and calmly entered the Daoist city.
After returning to the Daoist city, Ding Huan rushed to the Gen Ku Fang Market at once.
Indeed, outside the market, Ding Huan saw a huge square with more than ten large halls that were temporarily constructed above it.
Ding Huan sent a message to Tao Xiaomei.
Interestingly, he hasn't received a reply from Tao Xiaomei.
What's wrong?
Can Tao Xiaomei really just leave over a thousand spirit stones?
He sent several more messages, but still haven't received a response from Tao Xiaomei.
Ding Huan swept his mind out, quickly finding Tao Xiaomei.
Tao Xiaomei was in the fourth room 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 there were actually three people in Tao Xiaomei's shop, besides Tao Xiaomei herself.
Such a shop could indeed accommodate four people, but it was somewhat crowded.
By all rights, since he had given Tao Xiaomei fifteen hundred spirit stones, Tao Xiaomei would at least tell him if she were to rent the shop with someone else.
Ding Huan came to Tao Xiaomei's shop outside and waved away all the shields and restrictions with his hand, saying, "Tao sister, why would there be so many people here?"
"Big Brother Ding, they occupied my shop. This matter has nothing to do with you. I will find a way to repay your spirit stones..."
Before Tao Xiaomei could finish her sentence, a handsome man stood up and waved his hand, saying, "Get out of here."
Ding Huan didn't move, and Tao Xiaomei was hit by the blow and knocked into the array behind her shop.
"Are you here to help Tao Xiaomei repay your spirit stones?" The man, with a sidelong glance at Ding Huan, looked fierce and seemed ready to strike.
"What's going on, Tao sister? Speak up. Can one's rental of a shop here be stolen? If there are regulations against stealing shops, then I'll report this to the local law enforcement."
Ding Huan didn't pay attention to him, and he simply looked calmly at Tao Xiaomei.
Tao Xiaomei shook her head: "It was my fault. I borrowed their spirit stones, and they only seized my shop after that."
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Chapter 413: Using Brute Force to Overcome Brute Force
"Then you should give the shop to them and leave first," Ding Huan said helplessly.
Now he truly understands the difference between a free cultivator and a cultivator of a sect.
This shop costs only 3,000 spirit stones per month, which is middle-grade spirit stones. If converted to top-grade spirit stones, it's only 30 coins.
Just now, when he was in the Geng Ku Dao Hall, the spirit stones that the disciples of Daoist sects used to fight with were all one thousand coins at least, and they were top-grade spirit stones.
"I haven't paid back the spirit stones, and they caught me," Tao Xiaomei wanted Ding Huan to help her, but she knew that this request was too much.
"Not to mention whether Ding Huan will help her, even if he does, he wouldn't have enough spirit stones."
And now she had already brought trouble to Ding Huan. Ding Huan broke through the array restrictions here, and these people would definitely demand a large sum of money from Ding Huan.
She was too familiar with Dong Han's character. Even though he's not speaking now, she's sure he's just waiting to do something mean.
"How much did you borrow from them?" Ding Huan asked.
Tao Xiaomei said, "I borrowed one thousand six hundred middle-grade spirit stones."
Ding Huan widened his eyes: "One thousand six hundred middle-grade spirit stones? Can't you pay it back?"
Tao Xiaomei may be poor, but she definitely has 1,600 lower-grade spirit stones on her body.
Tao Xiaomei's face was filled with bitterness: "When I borrowed it, it was one thousand six hundred. Now it's become sixteen thousand. I've paid them six thousand middle-grade spirit stones. Now I still owe ten thousand."
If it's not paid back in time, it may be impossible to pay them back forever after a while."
Ding Huan took a deep breath, "This is not usury, this is atmospheric layer usury."
Seeing Ding Huan's shock, Tao Xiaomei sighed and said:
"Because I owe them spirit stones, according to the regulations of the Gen Gu Fang Market, they have the right to occupy my shop. As long as I haven't paid back the spirit stones, they also have the right to detain me."
"I wanted to send you a message, asking you not to come over, but they took away my ring."
"Return Tao Xiaomei's ring to her, and I'll take on her debt," Ding Huan said slowly as he looked at the handsome cultivator.
The handsome cultivator laughed, "You just broke our shop's protective array, according to the regulations of Gen Gu Fang Market, we need you to compensate us with ten thousand spirit stones."
"Ding Han, I also have a stake in this shop," Tao Xiaomei said angrily.
Ding Huan waved his hand, smiling as he looked at Dong Han and said, "That's fair; anything that complies with the rules should be compensated. Should you return the ring to Tao Xiaomei first?"
Dong Han laughed and didn't even bother to acknowledge Ding Huan.
Ding Huan couldn't retrieve Tao Xiaomei's ring, so he directly broke open Dong Han's ring with his mind and swept it around, failing to find the jade tablet containing the regulations of Gen Gu Fang Market.
He decided to break into the rings of several cultivators in neighboring shops with his mind and finally found a jade tablet containing the regulations of Gen Gu Fang Market in one cultivator's ring.
This market is really strange, and it's really regulated that as long as you owe someone spirit stones, even if you're running a stall in Gen Gu Fang Market, your creditor can seize your stall and even steal your ring.
So, even if you rent a large stall here, your creditor can still take away your stall and detain you.
Ding Huan was filled with admiration. Such regulations haven't caused the market to collapse, indicating that there are truly many people coming to the Gen Ku Dao City.
Ding Huan quickly finished reading the regulations, and he made up his mind.
He looked at Tao Xiaomei and asked, "Where did you rent your stall?"
"I rented it from the Rental Office of Gen Gu Fang Market," Tao Xiaomei quickly answered.
"Then what about the array law tablet of me and Zhixi?" Ding Huan asked this in a transmission.
Tao Xiaomei didn't catch on and said casually, "It's in my ring."
Almost immediately after Tao Xiaomei spoke, Ding Huan kicked out.
"A crunch!" The sound of bone fragments cracking was unpleasantly audible.
When the cultivators in the other shops realized that it was Ding Huan who had kicked Dong Han away, he lifted his feet again and kicked away Dong Han's two companions.
"Report to the market law enforcement..." Dong Han's face turned pale as he let out a shrill scream.
If he knew that Ding Huan was so strong, he would definitely be more careful.
Before he could report to the market law enforcement, Ding Huan took another step forward, and his foot landed on Dong Han's chest. Soon after, a series of tearing pains came.
Dong Han looked at Ding Huan in terror, "You've damaged my meridians..."
Ding Huan smiled and said, "It's not quite right."
Then he lifted his foot again and kicked Dong Han's forehead, causing Dong Han to feel dizzy. His eyes no longer showed terror but despair.
Ding Huan has also destroyed his sea of consciousness. It's no different from killing him. That's why Ding Huan said he didn't say it all earlier. It seems that the devastating harm to him hasn't ended yet.
The other two saw Ding Huan's prowess and that Dong Han couldn't even fight back. They dared not hesitate and had already triggered the market alarm on their identity badges.
But before the market law enforcement arrived, Ding Huan followed suit and destroyed the seahorse and meridians of these two people.
Not only that, but Ding Huan also took away all the rings from these people.
The cultivators around the stalls looked on in horror, this person was ruthless.
This is a method that kills one thousand while damaging oneself eight hundred, and when the market law enforcement comes, this person is doomed.
Dong Han lay despondently on the ground. If he had known that Ding Huan was such a hothead, even if he had to demand spirit stones from Tao Xiaomei, he would never have come to this place.
Dong Han might have even chosen not to borrow the spirit stones in the first place if he had known that Ding Huan was such a ruthless person. They made their fortune by borrowing spirit stones from weak cultivators, not from Tao Xiaomei, who had Ding Huan as a friend.
Tao Xiaomei was utterly stunned. It wasn't until Ding Huan had rendered three people incapacitated that she came to her senses and cried out anxiously, "Big Brother Ding, let's go quickly!"
Swish! Two figures landed at Ding Huan's side, a man and a woman.
Ding Huan saw that they were two middle-level cultivators and felt that the strength of this market was just so-so.
Why aren't they sending someone of higher-level like Da Yixian? What can they do as middle-level cultivators?
"What's going on?" the woman asked coldly.
Dong Han's eyes were full of ashes, with no intention to answer.
Ding Huan said proactively, "They seized my stall, and I taught them a lesson according to the market regulations. It's not too harsh."
Ding Huan's words finally woke Dong Han up, and he shouted in a crying voice with red eyes, "It was their debt of spirit stones to me that we were collecting. They didn't have spirit stones to return, so I occupied the stall."
"This person, who is stronger than me, actually ruined my sea of consciousness and meridians."
"Can that be?" the female law enforcement officer stared coldly at Ding Huan.
Ding Huan looked at Dong Han, "I didn't know you before, how could I owe you spirit stones?"
"I meant Tao Xiaomei." Dong Han decided to drag someone as a buffer even if he died.
Ding Huan said lightly, "Tao Xiaomei owes you spirit stones, you should find her. Why did you break the restriction of my stall and occupy the positions of my friends and me?"
"This stall is rented by Tao Xiaomei," Dong Han immediately countered.
Ding Huan looked at the female law enforcement officer and said, "This stall is rented by Tao Xiaomei, me, and Wen Zhixi. They want to occupy Tao Xiaomei's stall position, and I have no objection."
But they're taking over my position, and I don't owe them any spirit stones."
Hearing Ding Huan's words, the woman immediately took out a communication pearl and said, "Check who rented the stall number 176 in Zone C?"
The woman's communication pearl lit up quickly, and the voice followed: "The lessee of stall number 176 in Zone C is a party of three, Tao Xiaomei, Ding Huan, and Wen Zhixi. Tao Xiaomei is the substitute applicant."
Ding Huan spread his hands: "You see, you've also heard, this stall is indeed mine. They're seizing my stall, so I have the right to handle them."
The female law enforcement officer nodded, "You're right. You have the right to take action. You three can leave now."
These three have had their sea of consciousness, dantian, and meridians destroyed, and their rings have been seized. There's nothing they can compensate with, so just let them go.
"No, he also ruined my stall's protective array. So he owes me spirit stones, and since he owes me spirit stones, I have the right to occupy here." Dong Han saw that Ding Huan had nothing to do, so he immediately got angry.
Ding Huan laughed and said, "The mind is a good thing, but you don't have it. You first seized my stall's position, and then I was taking it back."
How can you twist the sequence of events in your mouth? Then I can also say that you will owe me a life tomorrow, what do you think?"
Dong Han felt a chill. He doesn't have the qualification to talk with others here now.
"Get out of Gen Gu Fang Market, or face death without mercy." The male law enforcement officer snorted coldly.
Dong Han and the others dared not utter a word. They knew that outside the immortal city, it was a one-way street to death. Yet they had to leave Gen Gu Dao City.
Seeing the three people limping away with broken meridians and sea of consciousness, the other cultivators around them secretly sighed and admired Ding Huan's ruthless cultivation methods.
It's a dead end, yet he managed to turn it around according to the market rules.
Of course, the premise is that his strength can overpower Dong Han and the others.
"Ding Master, you actually drove them away..." Tao Xiaomei excitedly said.
Driving them away is one thing, but more importantly, she knew that there would be no one asking for debts from her anymore.
Ding Huan lifted his hand and put up all the defenses and shield restrictions of the stall, then gave all the rings in his hand to Tao Xiaomei, "One of them is yours, and the rest are for you. There's nothing I want."
"Thank you, thank you, Master Ding." Tao Xiaomei bowed deeply in gratitude.
"We're all friends, this little thing isn't worth mentioning." Ding Huan said indifferently.
"Big Brother Ding, I don't see Wen sister. Why?" Tao Xiaomei asked again.
Ding Huan didn't hide it: "Zhixi has joined the Yaochi jade maiden sect, and she won't have many chances to come out anymore."
"Ah..."
Tao Xiaomei gasped in shock, and her eyes were filled with disbelief.
The Yaochi Jade Maiden Sect is notorious for being difficult to join, and Wen Zhixi was still a solitary cultivator.
For a solo cultivator to be able to join the Yaochi Jade Maiden Sect, it was like dreaming for her.
After a while, Tao Xiaomei finally came out of the shock and looked at Ding Huan, "Master Ding, what are you planning to do in the future? Will you also join a Dao Sect?"
Ding Huan shook his head, "I'm not very talented, so I won't join a Dao Sect. I haven't decided where to go yet, and I'm at a loss."
Ding Huan came to the Gen Gu Immortal City mainly to accompany Wen Zhixi. Now that Wen Zhixi has joined the Yaochi Jade Maiden Sect, he has to think about his own future path.
"Ding brother, if there's no good place to go, why not wait until the Dao Discussion Conference is over and go with me to the spirit and demon battlefield. It's faster to get resources there, and the essence of immortals is more concentrated than here." Tao Xiaomei said.
(Combine the two chapters into one. Wishing all fellow cultivators a happy National Day and everything goes smoothly!)
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(The end of this chapter)
