After the myth

Chapter 1034 The Dao Veins of the World of Gods
Ding Huan didn't care that he hadn't killed the Eternal Saint.

In his mind, the current Eternal Saint was no match for him.

Besides, this guy's path is flawed; who knows where he's hiding to lick his wounds.

"Wanrong, you take control of the Cosmic Pot." After Ding Huan summoned the Cosmic Pot, he handed it over to Shi Wanrong to control.

This is because Shi Wanrong was unable to depict the location of the Daoist vein cluster.

When she went there with Lei Hen and Geng Yuan, her mind was entirely on Geng Yuan, so how could she remember the rules of orientation?

However, Shi Wanrong was, after all, a True Saint at the sixth step of the Great Dao, so she could still find her way back to any place she had been before.

Therefore, the task of finding the Daoist lineage has now been entrusted to Shi Wanrong.

Even if Shi Wanrong controls the cosmic pot, the cosmic pot's speed is still extremely fast.

However, the world of gods is vast and boundless, and Shi Wanrong was also searching and sensing her location at the same time, which inadvertently wasted a lot of time.

It wasn't until five months later that Shi Wanrong made a decision.

She quickly wrote down the location and handed it to Ding Huan; with the location, things would be simple.

Ding Huan controlled the cosmic pot at a speed dozens of times faster. In less than a month, the cosmic pot stopped outside a thorny jungle where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was scarce.

The rules of heaven and earth in the thorn forest are very chaotic, and divine sense can only extend to a range of a hundred miles.

Even Ding Huan's divine sense could not cover one ten-thousandth of the entire thorn forest.

In other words, if you throw a saint without flaws into the deepest part of this thorny forest, whether he can come out is another matter entirely.

"Wanrong, do you think there's a Dao vein in this place?" After everyone got off the cosmic cauldron, Dihe was the first to raise her doubts.

The area around this thorny forest is devoid of spiritual energy, so how could there be any spiritual energy veins?

The Thick-Skinned God Emperor also looked at Shi Wanrong with some suspicion.

Why is the primordial energy of heaven and earth so scarce in places with primordial energy veins?
In the world of gods, the primordial energy of heaven and earth is actually very abundant.

Even if you just randomly choose a place to cultivate, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth will be more abundant than in this place.

“Wanrong is right, there is indeed a Dao vein here, but it has been dug up by someone.”

Ding Huan's divine sense does not rely on the rules of the outside world. Even in the chaotic jungle, the entire area within a radius of ten thousand miles is still under his divine sense.

The group entered the thorn forest.

Led by Ding Huan, they soon arrived at a place locked by a simple barrier.

This is between two huge thickets of thorns.

It looked no different from other places, but Ding Huan felt as if there was no barrier here.

“This is it,” Shi Wanrong said, pointing to the area between two thickets of thorns.

There is a long gray stone slab there, which is also the entrance to the barrier.

Ding Huan did not tear the barrier; his divine sense directly penetrated it.

Geng Yuan and Lei Hen are no longer here, but the aura of their Dao veins being drained still lingers inside.

At the same time, Ding Huan was certain that Lei Hen and Lei Chou cultivated the same lightning-attribute Dao.

Seeing Shi Wanrong's excited expression, Ding Huan said, "Geng Yuan is gone, and the Dao veins here have been drained. I didn't expect that Lei Hen could still set up a barrier."

Upon hearing that Geng Yuan had left, Shi Wanrong found herself completely unmoved.

She finally felt relieved and emerged from the immense pressure of that debt of gratitude.

"How could those two scoundrels have looted so thoroughly?" Emperor Thick Scar cursed.

He had already heard Shi Wanrong talk about her relationship with Geng Yuan along the way.

He knew more about the Lei family than Shi Wanrong did about what Ding Huan said.

Back then, Lei Hongji was no weaker than Mo Wuji.

I never expected that even though Lei Hongji was killed by Mo Wuji, his descendants could still cause trouble here.

Ding Huan scanned the area with his divine sense and then said, "There might still be a Dao vein here."

The reason he said there might still be a Dao vein was because his divine sense had already sensed several barriers, and these barriers were of a much higher level than those set up by Lei Hen.

If one is not a master of barriers, it would be very difficult to detect.

"Let's go check out another place."

Ding Huan led the group deeper inside.

The rules here are a bit chaotic, and the group isn't moving very fast.

Along the way, they passed several barriers that Ding Huan sensed with his divine sense, but Ding Huan did not stop.

He felt that even if there were Dao veins within these barriers, they wouldn't be very good.

A day later, Di He said with some worry, "Brother Ding, I have lost my bearings. If you leave me here, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out."

It sounds ridiculous that a Daoist sage at the eighth stage of the Great Dao says he is stuck in a thicket of thorns and can't find his way out.

And that is indeed the case.

Di He had attained the eighth step of the Daoist Sage, and even his divine sense could not discern directions in this thorny forest. An ordinary person would naturally be even more unable to discern directions.

The Thick-Scarred God Emperor didn't even want to say anything anymore, he just followed Ding Huan closely.

Dihe said that even if he couldn't get out, there would definitely be another chance to get out.

Once he's alone, he'll never be able to get out.

Shi Wanrong felt a lingering fear.

Fortunately, Lei Hen found a location that wasn't deep in the thorn forest; otherwise, she really wouldn't have been able to get out of this thorn forest.

"It's alright, everyone just need to stick close to me."

Ding Huan reassured everyone not to worry.

Divine senses were indeed in disarray within this thicket of thorns. Not only were they restricted here, but they were also interfered with by various laws once they were swept outwards.

It simply doesn't affect his divine sense.

His divine sense does not depend on the laws of external space or the rules of heaven and earth. Regardless of the rules of heaven and earth in the outside world, his divine sense will still sweep out in the same way.

At most, it's just a matter of being somewhat restricted.

After walking for another two days with a few people, they stopped at the outer edge of five large thickets of thorns.

"Are these the Five Elements Locking Array Flags?" Di He pointed at the five thickets of thorns with a puzzled expression.

"No, this is the entrance to the Soul-Locking Barrier. If you dare to attack, your soul will be locked inside these five thickets of thorns."

Ding Huan explained.

He had some doubts before: if there really was a Dao vein here, and it was locked by a barrier, was it man-made or naturally formed?

Ding Huan is now certain that it was definitely orchestrated.

The rules of the world in the realm of gods are stable, and there is no possibility that the world will collapse due to a lack of vital energy.

Therefore, there is no need to create various Dao vein seals.

I wonder who would set up a barrier here and bury some Dao veins in this thorny forest?
The barrier in front of us is of a very high level. Anyone who doesn't understand barriers will be trapped inside the Soul-Locking Barrier if they attack it.

For Ding Huan, this was not a difficult task.

He didn't even summon the array flags, but instead launched a forceful attack with the Breaking Calamity Blade.

With just three strikes, a passage appeared before everyone's eyes.

The barrier was torn apart by Ding Huan, and rich spiritual energy from heaven and earth overflowed.

So many Dao veins?

Thick-skinned God Emperor's eyes widened, and his heart pounded wildly.

His divine sense was filled with Dao veins, row upon row...

If he had so many Dao veins, he would have stopped doing those despicable things at the Gods' Merchant Pavilion long ago.

Ding Huan raised his hand and cast a Yuan Qi sealing barrier, and said with emotion, "I don't know where Lei Hen got the idea that there was a Dao vein in the Thorn Forest of the Gods World, and she even found one."

Shi Wanrong replied, "I once heard her tell Brother Geng that her spiritual root attribute has a natural affinity for Dao veins, making it easier for her to find them."

Ding Huan was speechless: "Only you and Geng Yuan would believe her statement."

Lei Hen must have a thunder spirit root; otherwise, the Lei family wouldn't have cultivated the Great Thunder Technique.

He had previously visited the place where Lei Hen was in seclusion, and it was indeed a remnant of the Daoist aura of the lightning attribute.

Does the Thunder Spirit Root have a natural affinity for Dao veins?
This is the funniest joke Ding Huan has ever heard.

"Let's go in and draw whatever we want, whatever we get."

After Ding Huan finished speaking, he was the first to enter the meridian cluster.

What he craves most now are various Daoist lineages.

Upon hearing Ding Huan's words, and seeing that Ding Huan had already begun to draw blood from the Dao Meridian, Di He and the others naturally did not hold back.

As the Dao veins were drained away one by one by the group, the area gradually became empty.

Although Ding Huan said that whatever amount of resources everyone took from the Dao Meridian would be theirs, both Dihe and Houhen stopped after they had drawn enough resources.

Shi Wanrong was a grateful person.

She smoked the least.

Ding Huan didn't finish extracting them either. He extracted nearly five thousand top-grade Dao veins, of which nearly a thousand were paired veins.

"Sect Master, aren't you going to finish drawing from here? There are still many high-grade and mid-grade ones left." Seeing that Ding Huan had left behind a bunch of Dao veins, Di He asked in confusion.

"That's settled then, let's go now." As Ding Huan walked out of the Dao vein cluster, he already had a general idea in mind.

These lineages were left behind by someone.

Why are there so few Daoist lineages in the world of gods?

It's obvious that most of them have been taken away and are concentrated here.

Just like when the vast universe was first created, there were piles of Dao veins.

The first person to appear in this universe was naturally the one who picked up so many Dao veins that his hands cramped up.

As for why these Dao veins were placed here, Ding Huan had a rough guess.

Just like the Dao vein he extracted in the Ten Thousand Dao Mountains before.

Although he extracted many Dao veins from the Wandao Mountains, their quality was not very good.

Even a high-grade Dao vein is inferior to a low-grade one in the world of gods.

It's not just that the primordial energy of heaven and earth is insufficient, but also that the principles of the Dao lineage are not perfect enough.

If his Dao veins were placed in a place where the rules of heaven and earth are complete, they would grow into top-grade Dao veins in perfect condition over time.

The Dao veins here were very likely planted and nurtured by someone else.

Because besides the top-grade Dao veins he took away, there were also a bunch of high-grade and mid-grade Dao veins that hadn't fully matured.

Most of the Daoist lineages have now reached a point where they are almost fully developed, but this has benefited him.

Ding Huan felt no guilt whatsoever.

This vein originally belonged to the world of gods. After those people finished eating the meat, they even hid the soup.

Just like the chaotic treasures he obtained, most of them contained bloodline principles.

This is a classic case of wanting to have your cake and eat it too.

Ding Huan wouldn't tolerate someone like that.

If those high-grade and mid-grade Dao veins hadn't been incompletely matured, he would have extracted them all.

"Should we go somewhere else to smoke?" Houhen rubbed his hands together.

"No need, we'll come back for more when we're done." Ding Huan was also worried that drawing too much might cause some problems.

Now that we have cultivation resources, we should naturally hurry up and improve our cultivation level.

(End of this chapter)