Chapter 175: Selfless Devotion of Ding Huan

Having decided to follow Ding Huan, Yan Mei would come over to ask him various questions whenever he saw Ding Huan was alone.

After a long time, Ding Huan simply handed over the hunting task to Yan Mei.

Every time before Yan Mei went out, he would just ask Ding Huan which direction he should go and how far he could walk at most.

Ding Huan has been in a very good mood recently. He has learned how to remove simple restrictions and can also impose restrictions at will.

It was not until this moment that he realized that it took him more than a month to build his star house because of the restrictions.

That month or so was just to wear away the restrictions. As for the iron pot, since he couldn't open it, it meant that the restrictions inside were higher than those in the Star House.

It cannot be put into the star house, which also means that the rules of the iron pot are higher than those of the star house.

These are not what Ding Huan is considering. What he is most worried about now is his own star house.

There were no restrictions on his star house, and any expert could just scan him with his mind.

As long as you pay attention to the Star House and let your divine sense penetrate into his clothes, you can know that the Star House is a large space.

Fortunately, Qu Yueshan still had some dignity in front of Elder Gu and Elder Liu and did not use his spiritual sense to spy on his entire body.

Elder Liu and Elder Gu would never do such a despicable thing.

Once you walk out of the Dahe Canyon and meet all kinds of people, I can’t say what will happen.

If he put a ban on the Star House, there would be no problem as long as other people couldn't get in with their spiritual thoughts.

After all, he has many protective magic weapons with forbidden effects, so it is normal for him to wear a protective pendant.

Because of this worry, Ding Huan studied the ban almost day and night.

When he developed the first defensive ban, he put it on his star house.

Once a skill is triggered, the knowledge points in Ding Huan's mind will be activated.

After the group had been walking in the Dahe Canyon for another half a month, Ding Huan would occasionally lead the way into the mountains and forests, then wander around and return to the main road.

But no one questioned it. Wherever Ding Huan went, everyone followed.

Everyone admired Ding Huan very much. They had been walking for such a long time but had not encountered any sky cave traps or even a group of monsters.

It seemed as if these dangers deliberately avoided people like them.

In half a month, Ding Huan's restriction level was raised to level two.

His star house restriction was also upgraded to a level two restriction.

Ding Huan was certain that the level 2 he thought of this time should be the level 2 of this world, and not the fake level 2 he thought of before.

The problem with the Star House made Ding Huan urgently need to improve the level of restrictions.

Now his restriction level has reached level two, and his formation level has also improved.

Although he couldn't set up a second-level formation yet, Ding Huan believed that as long as he had the formation flags, he should be able to set up a first-level defense formation and a simple first-level attack formation.

Every time Elder Gu set up the formation, Ding Huan watched from the side.

He could now see that Elder Gu's level of formation skills was only at the level of setting up a second-level formation.

As long as some time passes and he is able to refine a real formation flag, it would be easy for him to surpass Elder Gu.

Gu Youchang had a good impression of Ding Huan, so every time he set up the formation, as long as Ding Huan was watching on the side, he would give some advice.

In his opinion, even if he gave Ding Huan a jade slip of formation, it would take Ding Huan ten or eight years to enter the gate of formation.

In fact, Ding Huan never came to ask him once after obtaining his formation jade slip. He knew that it would take Ding Huan eight or ten years to set up a first-level formation.

Without a master's guidance, this time would probably have to double.

He also did not remind Ding Huan that since Ding Huan was not selected as a disciple, his spiritual root aptitude must be not good enough.

Since my spiritual roots are not good enough, it would be nice to become a formation master.

In the future, as long as I become a first-level formation master, at least I will have something to eat.

Because she didn't want to introduce Ding Huan anymore, Liu Yinzhu rarely came to find Ding Huan to say anything recently.

She still admired Ding Huan very much in her heart. Since Ding Huan took the lead, the team has not lost any members.

In fact, even Elder Gu cannot see through the second-level restriction of the Star House at a glance.

But Ding Huan had a strong sense of crisis. He felt that he was not safe yet. He had no way to deal with his low cultivation level. After all, he had not found the way to build the foundation yet.

If someone discovers the secret from his star house, he deserves to die.

With this awareness in mind, Ding Huan was thinking about various issues related to the prohibitions even while he was on the road.

"Friend Ding, you can't go any further." Liu Yinzhu stopped Ding Huan who was thinking in time.

"What's wrong? Elder Liu?"

Ding Huan asked casually, and then he discovered the problem. There seemed to be no road ahead, but a swamp.

Looking ahead, the swamp stretched out on both sides with no end in sight.

On the opposite side, one seems to be able to see the faint shadows of the mountains and forests.

Liu Yinzhu looked at Ding Huan in silence. This guy led the way without looking at the road? They had obviously reached the Lost Swamp, so they had to explore the way.

"Fellow Daoist Ding, this is the Lost Swamp ahead. Every year, one in ten new disciples fall into the Lost Swamp and can never get out."

Elder Gu also came over with a serious tone. Under normal circumstances, it would not be a big deal for several sects to join forces to cross the Lost Swamp.

This is an abnormal situation. There are only thirteen new disciples left in Yanyue Sect. There are five new disciples left in Zixia Valley. As for Shuanghun Sect and Tianqi Sect, there is only one new disciple each.

"Please help me solve my doubts, the two elders." Ding Huan clasped his fists and said sincerely.

Liu Yinzhu had no choice but to say:
"There are places in the Lost Swamp where you will die if you step into them, so new disciples are always needed to explore the way. Normally, most sects will wait after arriving here.

Wait for all the major sects to gather together, and then form teams to enter the Lost Swamp. Generally, every hundred people will form a team and move forward..."

Ding Huan said he didn't understand.

Gu Youchang added:

"That is to say, after we find a new path, it will be no problem for a hundred people to pass through in a row. If there are more people, we must find a new path."

"Why? Hasn't the road been explored? Can't others just follow them?" Ding Huan was puzzled.

Liu Yinzhu sighed, "This Lost Swamp is very strange. Not only can we not fly over it, but even the explored road conditions will change after more than a hundred people walk over it."

"Then who should die and explore the way?"

Ding Huan's current position in the team is second only to the two elders, so no one found it strange when he asked this question.

"The possibility of death while exploring the path is only 50%. If you survive, the resources will increase dramatically after you return to the sect." Liu Yinzhu continued to explain.

Ding Huan looked at Gu Youchang with a strange expression:
"Elder Gu, when the sect recruits disciples, does my qualification mean I am not even qualified to be a pathfinder?"

Gu Youchang smiled bitterly. He knew that once he said this, Ding Huan would be able to understand everything.

Liu Yinzhu also sighed, this Ding Huan is simply a spirit, is he really a young chef?
Every time the sect recruits disciples, it will recruit a few disciples whose qualifications are not particularly outstanding, with the purpose of exploring the way in the Lost Swamp.

The situation this time was special. Not only were there no sects gathering here, but by the time the several sects arrived here, most of their disciples had died.

No sect chose Ding Huan, which means that Ding Huan’s qualifications were not even good enough to be recruited by a sect to explore the way.

Ding Huan naturally knew that he was not qualified. The reason he said this was to tell Gu Youchang and Liu Yinzhu that he was not unqualified, but just had low qualifications.

"Then I have another question. Did you also need to explore the way when you came here?"

Ding Huan was thinking, if someone came over to explore the way, who would be the one to die?

Elder Gu explained, "Twice a year, some safe areas appear in the Lost Swamp, and you can go directly there without having to explore. This is also the reason why the Taoist world recruits disciples in the mortal world twice a year."

"So that's how it is." Ding Huan understood.

Liu Yinzhu's tone became much lower:

“Elder Gu, we are able to come here this time, and even have several disciples alive. I am afraid we are the luckiest among all the disciples we have recruited in the mortal world.

Other sects, I’m afraid…”

Liu Yinzhu didn't say anything else, and everyone understood what she meant.

Their team had Ding Huan leading the way. The people from other sects would have died either from the Hanba Poison or from the mouths of the Foot-Swallowing Zombies.

This journey is so dangerous that even if other sects are not completely wiped out, it is estimated that there will be only a few left.

Ding Huan was shocked, because he knew that Qi Xinyue was also going to come to the Taoist world, and that Lou Buzhi and Kuqi, whom he knew, were also going to come to the Taoist world.

"Fellow Daoist Ding, what do you think?" Liu Yinzhu looked at Ding Huan.

In fact, Yan Mei is the best candidate to lead the way, but Yan Mei and Ding Huan have been very close recently, and she doesn’t know Ding Huan’s attitude.

Ding Huan was in no mood to care about this, but asked anxiously:

"Two elders, do we have to take our path to go from the mortal world to the Taoist world?"

Gu Youchang shook his head:
"That's not necessarily true. It's true that you have to go through the Great Valley Canyon to get from the mortal world to the Taoist world. There are seven roads from the Great Valley Canyon to the Lost Swamp, and we only took one of them."

"Then will other sects that walk to the Lost Swamp from other roads also meet here?" Ding Huan asked again.

"No, the Lost Swamp stretches for billions of miles, and there is no end at all. But one thing is that if they enter the Lost Swamp from other places, they will also have to send people in to explore the way."

This time it was Liu Yinzhu who helped answer.

Ding Huan breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

"Elder Gu, Elder Liu, I'm just a cook. Let me explore this path."

Ding Huan knew that the two elders wanted Yan Mei to explore the way, and even if Yan Mei himself wanted to explore the way, he had no choice.

Unexpectedly, Ding Huan wanted to explore the way at this time.

"Fellow Daoist Ding, this is not a joke." Gu Youchang was not willing to see Ding Huan die in the Lost Swamp.

Ding Huan sighed, then clasped his fists to everyone:

"Everyone, you all have qualifications and are about to become new disciples of the sect. You may even become the backbone of the sect in the future.

Being able to come here shows that you all have great luck. I have low qualifications and I am a cook, so this job of exploring the way is left to me.

As long as I live, I will not let a man with a bright future die in the Lost Swamp."

Ding Huan would never do good things without leaving his name.

The purpose of saying these things is not to sound high-sounding, but to hope that these people will have some conscience and not send his news to the Shuanghun Sect in time after they arrive at the sect.

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