Yan Qianshan finally reacted, rushing over and anxiously shouting, "Qi Sha, are you crazy?"

Ding Huan coldly stared at Yan Qianshan, a powerful aura of killing intent overwhelming him.

Yan Qianshan shuddered, retreating several steps, feeling chilled to the bone.

Then he heard Ding Huan say indifferently, "This person dared to make a move before my World of Gods Trading Building auction, and even destroyed our auction's Protecting Array. How could I forgive that?

The building lord entrusted me with the task of guarding the World of Gods Trading Building. Unless I, Qi Sha, am dead, I will never let anyone provoke us.

I understand what you mean, let's discuss the specifics later. Although our World of Gods Trading Building is hospitable and entertains guests from all directions, it is not something to be bullied..."

Yan Qianshan was stunned. How could he not understand these words?

Was that his intention?

What he meant was that Qi Sha, daring to kill Ju Chen, wasn't that madness? If he wanted to die, he shouldn't drag the World of Gods Trading Building into it.

At that moment, Ding Huan's voice transmission reached his ears, "If you dare to utter another word or step forward, I guarantee Ju Chen's fate will be yours. If you have the guts, challenge me to see if I dare to kill you."

A chilling fear seeped into his bones.

Although Yan Qianshan fully understood Ding Huan's intention to make the World of Gods Trading Building back him up,

he did not dare to say another word.

He was one hundred percent sure that Qi Sha was genuinely daring enough to kill him.

The World of Gods Trading Building wasn't his, but his life was.

More than that, he never thought Qi Sha's strength could be this overpowering. Even though Ju Chen's Great Dao was unstable, Qi Sha couldn't possibly defeat him, right?

"Crack!" Ding Huan had already torn open Ju Chen's world.

"Qi Sha, my Gods Hall won't let you go, nor the World of Gods Trading Building..."

Ju Chen let out a final, crazed roar of anger.

Ding Huan completely ignored Ju Chen's impotent rage. After collecting everything from Ju Chen's world, he used a flame to utterly obliterate Ju Chen.

"Our World of Gods Trading Building has stood for so many years in the World of Gods, it's not something your threats can destroy. Try it, have your Gods Hall come at us, and see if I, Qi Sha, can't wipe out your Gods Hall's trash."

Following that, Ding Huan coldly addressed the crowd of onlookers, "This is the result of provoking our World of Gods Trading Building.

Our World of Gods Trading Building fares well through generosity but is not one to be bullied. Provokers will die."

After saying that, Ding Huan leisurely walked out of Tao City.

The cultivators on both sides quickly made way, even the City Lord of Tao City, who had just arrived, did not come out.

As the City Lord of Tao City, Lu Shiping knew very well that even though he was a true Saint of Laws, he couldn't afford to meddle or offend anyone.

It was only after Ding Huan left Tao City that transmission flying swords and law information were sent out one after another.

For the Holy Guardian Qi Sha of the World of Gods Trading Building to publicly kill a lord of the Gods Hall in Tao City was no small matter.

If not handled well, it might spark a bloody conflict between the two major forces.

Had this happened before Mo Wuji and Lan Xiaobu wreaked havoc in the World of Gods, the World of Gods Trading Building attempting to shake the Gods Hall would have been like an ant shaking a tree.

After the Gods Hall failed to encircle Mo Wuji and Lan Xiaobu, almost all the Saint of Words and Saint Wuque from the Gods Hall were annihilated.

Even several true Saints of Laws were severely injured and in seclusion recovering.

As for the Master of the Universe, unless it involved extermination, who would bother with such trivial matters?

So, though the Gods Hall was nominally first in the World of Gods, it couldn't even make it to the top ten in reality.

The World of Gods Trading Building couldn't make it to the top ten either, but in recent years, it had recruited a large number of talents, and its power had skyrocketed.

Given these changes, the World of Gods Trading Building was no longer at the mercy of the Gods Hall.

...

The Business Building Lord Ji Sixin received this news while having tea in Heart Sword Dao.

She was visiting the Outer Sect elder of Heart Sword Dao, Zhi Yuan, who was on the brink of retreating into seclusion to attempt ascension to the sixth step true Saint of Laws.

Technically, as a sixth step Saint of Laws, Ji Sixin didn't need to visit a fifth step Saint Wuque.

In fact, it should be the other way around, but Ji Sixin's humility and character earned her friends everywhere.

Every time she sensed a potential cultivator, she would visit them.

She never cared about losing face by visiting lower cultivation levels with her higher cultivation.

And most times, she was proven right.

After her visits, her hosts almost always managed to prove their Dao successfully.

Many Great Dao cultivators took pride in Ji Sixin's visit as a sign of their potential, as the Business Building Lord would not visit otherwise.

Among Ji Sixin's friends, there was even a seventh step Master of the Universe.

Believing Zhi Yuan had a significant chance of entering the sixth step Saint of Laws, Ji Sixin's early visit aimed to form a good relationship.

Once Zhi Yuan truly reached the sixth step, her future visits would be less impactful, even if he hosted her.

Now things were different.

Ji Sixin, as the Business Building Lord of the World of Gods Trading Building, a renowned visitor in the World of Gods, and a sixth step Saint of Laws, personally visited a fifth step cultivator.

This fifth step cultivator naturally felt flattered with both face and grace.

"The World of Gods Trading Building's Holy Guardian Qi Sha killed a sixth step powerhouse of the Gods Hall, Ju Chen, in Tao City over a Dao Pearl?"

After seeing this news, Ji Sixin felt her mind went completely blank.

Once she confirmed she hadn't misread it, cold sweat trickled down her back.

Immediately, she stood up to take her leave from Zhi Yuan.

The World of Gods Trading Building having such an incident might spell doom, erasing it from the World of Gods without proper handling.

Even she might face obliteration.

No matter how fallen the Gods Hall was, they still had seventh step Masters of the Universe.

Don't say she's only at the sixth step—even ten Ji Sixin wouldn't be able to survive a single slap from them.

After hastily leaving the Heart Sword Dao, Ji Sixin calmed down.

The situation had already unfolded, and now she should be thinking about how to handle the aftermath.

Qi Sha was a blade for her Gods Merchant House, and his position within the house was defined by her.

Because she understood clearly that Qi Sha's upper limit was no more than this.

Such a person could only be used as a weapon, merely serving to add a deterrent force to the Gods Merchant House.

As for status, Qi Sha wasn't worthy.

But how could Qi Sha have possibly killed a Great Dao sixth step?

Before Ju Chen evidenced the sixth step, she had heard some news; she had even planned to visit Ju Chen at the Gods Hall.

However, Ju Chen did not meet with her.

Ju Chen had always had business dealings with the Gods Merchant House, including his frequent utilization of the house to search for Dao pearls, something she also tacitly approved of.

As a Lord of the Gods Hall, how did Qi Sha manage to kill him?

Even after racking her brain, Qi Sha simply didn't have the credentials to kill Ju Chen.

This qualification wasn't about status, but Qi Sha's power simply didn't match up to killing Ju Chen.

Could she have misjudged?

No, ever since she established the Gods Merchant House, she had never misjudged.

When she first got the news, her initial reaction was to think of ways to detain Qi Sha and then obtain the understanding of the Gods Hall.

After calming down, she realized she might have been wishfully thinking.

The people of Gods Merchant House killed a Lord of the Gods Hall; handing over Qi Sha simply wasn't a straightforward solution.

Moreover, even if handing over Qi Sha could resolve the matter, the status of Gods Merchant House within the World of Gods could be erased.

If Qi Sha genuinely had the ability to kill the sixth step, and given that this matter couldn't be reconciled, why not directly oppose?

No matter how intimidating the Gods Hall was, it couldn't openly annihilate the Gods Merchant House now.

As long as she could find a Great Dao seventh step Cosmic Lord to counter the Cosmic Lord Lou Poyi of the Gods Hall, it would become feasible to peacefully resolve this affair.

Of course, the prerequisite was that the Gods Merchant House had to be justified in this matter.

Ji Sixin accelerated her pace, knowing she had to return to the Tao City of the Gods immediately to understand the details.

...

Ding Huan had long since been billions of miles away.

The World of Gods was vast and boundless, yet it had no land without an owner.

Almost every inch of territory had been divided among the various factions of the World of Gods.

However, many areas had been deserted for years.

Finding a place to close for cultivation was still relatively easy.

A month later, Ding Huan halted the Cosmic Pot.

This was a dry sea.

The seabed was riddled with massive cracks, with some extending tens of zhang wide and thousands of zhang deep. Scanning with divine will felt like looking into a canyon.

This reminded Ding Huan of the Four-layered Sea of the Ascension Realm.

The Four-layered Sea Canyon was also in a dry sea.

Except that these cracks truly formed from drying out, while the canyon in the Four-layered Sea connected to a higher plane.

The place had hardly any fluctuations of universal laws, according to Ding Huan's understanding, suggesting few had ventured here.

He simply chose an ordinary seabed fissure and stepped into the gap.

He decided to use this place to evidence the fifth step Wuque Saint.

He had never seen a Great Dao seventh step Cosmic Lord.

He had witnessed a sixth step True Principle Saint, and Ju Chen, even after stabilizing his cultivation, was just so-so in strength.

As long as he could reach the fifth step Wuque Saint Realm, he was sure he could take down a True Principle Saint.

After choosing a retreat location, the first task was to set up a barrier.

After discovering Blue Star Island, Ding Huan's understanding of barriers exceeded what it was before.

In just one day, Ding Huan had arranged a defense barrier for his temporary cave mansion.

An attack barrier was unnecessary, as it would require more time, and he would only be here for two or three years at most.

Once completed, Ding Huan began to tally his gains.

Ju Chen was in a different league from Qi Sha.

Qi Sha seemed impressive on the surface, but he only earned through hard-earned slaughter fees or savage fees.

Therefore, in Qi Sha's world, apart from acquiring some Dao crystals, Dao veins were rare.

Whereas Ju Chen was a Lord of the Gods Hall, his status was extraordinary.

Though Ding Huan had previously swept up all of Ju Chen's worldly possessions, he could still feel the overwhelming wave of primordial energy.

Upon reviewing his findings now, they indeed aligned with his expectations.

High-grade Dao crystals numbered at least around a hundred million.

There were fifty-seven high-grade Dao veins, and combined mid-grade and low-grade Dao veins were over twenty.

The top-tier Dao fruit trees numbered at least a thousand pearls.

He needed to identify each of those magical treasures individually.

The most thrilling discovery for Ding Huan was the Dao pearls.

He actually found seventeen Dao pearls.

Despite supposedly acquiring only eight Dao pearls, he had seventeen on his person.