Ninth In the World

This woman, who had only been left with a Principal Spirit, might be suffering from mysophobia. She left Di Jiu inside the Spirit Baptism Pith pool for a few hours without touching him.

Due to the effects of the Spirit Baptism Pith, a fuzzy shadow of Di Jiu’s ninth pattern circle started to form in his Spiritual Sea, making Di Jiu feel extremely delighted.

The hardest aspect for a cultivator to improve was their Spiritual Force. Usually, when a cultivator’s cultivation level improved, it did not mean that their Spiritual Force would improve as well. Most cultivators’ Spiritual Force was one or two levels lower than their cultivation level. For example, a normal True Form cultivator’s Spiritual Force would be at level 7 or 8. If one’s Spiritual Force and cultivation level were at the same level, they could be considered a top-notch expert.

Di Jiu was only at the initial stage of the Void Spirit Realm, so his Spiritual Sea and Spiritual Force were both at the eighth level. In addition, because he was cultivating a spiritual art, his Spiritual Force was even more condensed. This was very rare. It could be said that Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force was stronger than most True Form cultivators’.

Di Jiu suspected that this woman had a Spiritual Force higher than level 10. After all, despite having such a strong Spiritual Force, he still felt powerless in front of her. She needed his Spiritual Sea because her own Spiritual Sea was shattered. It was not hard to imagine how powerful her Spiritual Force would be if her Spiritual Sea was not shattered.

The strength of her Spiritual Force made Di Jiu question whether his Split-Wave Saber Move would be able to hit her. After a lot of consideration, Di Jiu decided to play it safe. The Jumbo Footprint was ineffective against this woman, yet because of it, Di Jiu was able to vaguely touch the border of the spatial order. If he struck with a trace of spatial order, no matter how strong her mental strength was, even if she sensed his ambush, his saber move should not miss its target.

When he saw that the woman showed no signs of dragging him out after waiting for a few hours, Di Jiu decided that he might as well keep floating in the Spirit Baptism Pith pool to continue improving his Spiritual Sea and Spiritual Force. In the meantime, he was also simulating his saber move.

After two more hours, he felt a wave of energy dragging him out of the Spirit Baptism Pith pool.

While he was still in the air, Di Jiu realized that an opportunity had presented itself to him. He did not dare release his Spiritual Force. This woman was only a Principal Spirit, and his Spiritual Sea must have been shattered. If he had released his Spiritual Force, she would probably have found out about his state.

When the Principal Spirit appeared in front of him, Di Jiu gathered almost all his Spiritual Force and Quintessential Essence, adding Dao fire to the Heavenly Aqua Saber, which became a green flare as he slashed at her.

There was a trace of spatial order within this saber swing. Meanwhile, the green flare ignored the spatial distance between Di Jiu and this woman. Di Jiu was delighted. He had managed to cast the spatial order he had comprehended during the Jumbo Footprint! As long as this saber swing connected with its target, she would definitely be heavily wounded and her Spiritual Force would weaken endlessly.

When facing someone with only a Principal Spirit, the first step was to make their Spiritual Force weaken.

It did not matter how fast Di Jiu’s sneak attack was. In the eyes of this woman, it was as slow as a baby learning how to speak.

“Not bad. There’s still this move… In that case, you might as well die…”

Even before the Principal Spirit had finished her sentence, she was shocked to see the green flare connect with the top of her head.

“That’s impossible!” the woman screamed in disbelief.

It was impossible! Although she had no body, her mental strength was extremely strong. A weakling like Di Jiu, no matter how strong, could never have broken through her spiritual defense and caused any harm to her.

In other words, even though she had stood there motionlessly and let Di Jiu strike first, Di Jiu could never have touched her with his sneak attack. The truth was that she had no idea how Di Jiu’s saber had been able to break her spiritual defense.

“Argh!” A shrill scream suddenly rang out. Di Jiu’s Heavenly Aqua Saber connected directly with the top of the woman’s head. As her Principal Spirit was being cut into two, it burned with Dao fire. Despite the strength of her determination, this pain was unbearable for the woman.

Boom! After slicing the woman’s Principal Spirit into two, the Heavenly Aqua Saber left a mark on the solid floor.

The saber intent of the Split-Wave Saber Move, which contained a heavenly flame, raged on the Principal Spirit that was sliced into two.

Crack! In the end, one half of the Principal Spirit, which could not take the burning sensation of the Dao fire, disappeared into thin air. Meanwhile, the other half shrank to about 10 percent of the original Principal Spirit due to the terrible effect of the saber intent and the Dao fire and retreated to a corner of the house.

At first, Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force could not scan this shadow. However, it was now clear as day in his Spiritual Force. It had no way of hiding.

“You can see me?” the woman screamed in horror as she watched Di Jiu pouncing towards her again.

She had to be afraid. Di Jiu could see her hiding spot now, which meant that his Spiritual Force and Spiritual Sea were at least above level eight. Thus, they had to be highly concentrated.

What was even scarier was the spatial order that Di Jiu knew. Initially, the woman had had no idea how Di Jiu had managed to break through her mental defense. However, she now knew very well that Di Jiu had made contact with a trace of spatial order.

This was something very harrowing to her. It was widely-known that, even in the immortal realm, very few top-notch experts had the chance to get in contact with a spatial order. Di Jiu was not even very cultivated, yet he had managed to contact a spatial order.

Unless he had an epoch-making spatial order treasure, it would have been impossible for him to make contact with a spatial order…

The thought of Di Jiu possessing such an epoch-making space law treasure had the woman shuddering in excitement. If she could get her hands on such an item, it would be worth getting slashed by Di Jiu. She knew very well how important such a top-notch, priceless treasure was to a cultivator, as she had one of her own.

“If you let me off just this once, I’ll give you everything. I have another Quintessential World with uncountable top-notch treasures inside, including the priceless treasure that I use to condense a real body. I’ve hidden all these level-eight spirit herbs and level-nine refinement materials somewhere…” the Principal Spirit said hastily.

She knew in her heart that Di Jiu would never let her off. If he would just wait a bit more, she would be able to activate the killing array by using the array flag in her hands to kill him. The Level-Ten killing array was already higher than the Cultivation World of the Array Dao Fan Tao. Even though Di Jiu was a Level-Nine Array King, he would not survive it.

“You have a Quintessential World?” Di Jiu asked suddenly.

Success! The Principal Spirit breathed a sigh of relief as she said with conviction, “Yes, I…”

She barely said two words before Di Jiu’s Heavenly Aqua Saber came slicing down on her again like a green flare.

“You can’t kill me. You will regret it if you do!” the Principal Spirit cried out in horror. She did not expect that Di Jiu would even want the Quintessential World. Her Spiritual Force had already scanned the Small World that Di Jiu possessed after all. Her Quintessential World could be 100 million times better than his Small World. Plus, she was not lying to Di Jiu. She really did have a Quintessential World.

“Ah!” The second strike of the Heavenly Aqua Saber hit the top of the Principal Spirit’s head. The difference was that the Dao fire this time burned even more fiercely, totally engulfing the Principal Spirit shadow.

“I’ll regret it if I don’t kill you.” Although Di Jiu also wanted the Quintessential World urgently, he had not been driven blind by his desire. This was not his turf after all. It was the Principal Spirit’s turf. Even before she had appeared, she had teleported him there with ease. It would not be too hard for her to kill him if she wanted to.

At first, she’d thought that he was only a weakling. That was why he had survived so far.

If his opponent had made such a mistake once, would he make the same mistake again?

Thanks to the Dao fire, the Principal Spirit burned to ashes, leaving a dark red array flag behind.

Would his Dao fire allow the Luminous Starry Sky and this array flag to actually stay intact? When Di Jiu picked up the array flag, an expansive aura came over him. He had seen many treasures before, so he knew immediately that this was no ordinary array flag.

Di Jiu tried to let his Spiritual Force permeate the array flag, but he soon found out that his Spiritual Force simply could not permeate it. As he was holding the array flag in his hands, he finally saw the ancient words on it.

Floating Flame Flag…

Di Jiu was shocked. He initially thought he had been wrong. However, a second thorough look confirmed that this was indeed the Floating Flame Flag.

He had seen this flag before. During his previous life on Earth, this had been a legendary treasure. The flag was a supreme-grade, connate spiritual treasure that could control the South. This, along with the Wu Ji apricot yellow flag, the treasured green lotus flag and the plain cloudy world flag were the four directional flags of the world.

If he had actually managed to get hold of such an item, could the other three flags really exist?

As he put the array flag into his Small World, Di Jiu silently thanked his luck. Luckily, he had not been blinded by greed. The woman was obviously buying time so she could kill him by using this array flag.

If he had been greedy, he would have been dead by now.

Now that the Principal Spirit that had wanted to kill him was dead, this place was safe. Di Jiu, who was in no rush to burn his way out of the geocentric pattern gold house anymore, took out a bunch of spirit stones and set up a Spirit-Gathering Array on the edge of the pool. Then, he entered the pool on his own, consumed a Roast Divine Herb and started to temper his Spiritual Force.

There had to be a Dharma Array in this sealed house. It was just that his Spiritual Force was too low to sense it. Now that his Spiritual Force was about to break through to the ninth level, the Roast Divine Herb he had might help him cultivate his Spiritual Force and Spiritual Sea to level nine.

Di Jiu was experienced in condensing his Spiritual Force with the Roast Divine Herb. After consuming the Roast Divine Herb, the forging spiritual art started to temper his Spiritual Force and Spiritual Sea.

Using the Roast Divine Herb to temper his Spiritual Force in the Spirit Baptism Pith made Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force improve by leaps and bounds. His Spiritual Sea started to expand as well. In a short five-day span, after 97 Roast Divine Herbs, his Spiritual Force broke through to the ninth level.

Now that there was another pattern circle in his Spiritual Sea, when he scanned the house with his Spiritual Force, nothing was hidden anymore.

There was an invisibility array at the corner of the house, with a sealing restriction array inside it.

Di Jiu breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he could see the arrays, he could go out. He refined a space jade bottle, filling it with the Spirit Baptism Pith, then started to throw array flag after array flag.

Half an hour later, a door appeared in the sealed house.