Ninth In the World

The Thunder Canyon that Geng Ji spoke of was at least 10,000 miles away from where Di Jiu was now. Di Jiu had thought that the Thunder Canyon must have been visible clearly from afar. It was only until he followed Geng Ji to the entrance of the Thunder Canyon that he realized that its entrance was filled with miasma.

“How did you find this place?” Di Jiu was speechless as he looked at Geng Ji. Wherever there was miasma, the levels of the spirit herbs, if there were any, wouldn’t be high. There would most likely be some special spirit herbs, many of them poisonous.

Geng Ji touched his head in embarrassment and said, “I sensed that there was something good inside, so I went in. After I went in, I found the Thunder Hammer.”

Di Jiu nodded. “That was no ordinary Thunder Hammer. I suspect that what was recorded on it was definitely not just the Thunder Sword that you spoke of. The pictorial figures of the meridians that you saw should be a superficial cultivation method. The real cultivation method was in that primeval language. Let me study this thoroughly before I impart it to you. Let’s go into the Thunder Canyon first.”

Although Di Jiu could read the primeval language, he couldn’t cultivate now because he didn’t understand the meaning behind it.

Geng Ji naturally took Di Jiu’s word for it and didn’t take any of this to heart.

Di Jiu didn’t know that the primeval language was a long lost language. He could learn it solely because he had the Book of the World.

Once Di Jiu and Geng Ji burrowed through the entrance covered with miasma, a series of thunder roars was heard. Di Jiu was shaken as he looked at the scene before his eyes—he almost couldn’t believe it.

This was a plain of thunder streaks, where endless thunder streaks struck from the skies before either blowing up or crashing into the surface of the ground.

He had never expected that there could be a place like this on the Small Central Planet. It looked like the entrance covered with miasma was a natural invisibility restriction, although he couldn’t tell.

“Brother Jiu, the thunder streaks at the outermost part of the Thunder Canyon are the weakest. The deeper inside you go, the greater the strength of the thunder streaks becomes. My cultivation is too weak, so I could only go in about 1,000 feet,” he explained hurriedly when he saw that Di Jiu was looking at the thunder streaks in a daze.

Di Jiu took out a ring and handed it over to Geng Ji. “Geng Ji, there are 10 supreme-grade spirit meridians inside, as well as a small section of Thunder Profound Meridian. A large part of the Thunder Profound Meridian was destroyed by me, but I’ll gift the little that’s left to you. This ring contains all kinds of advancement elixirs. Even though it is important to improve your cultivation level, you must learn the Spiritual Force cultivation technique and the Colossal Kun Body-Tempering Art. Only upon mastering the Colossal Kun Body-Tempering Art will you be able to venture deeper into the Thunder Canyon.”

The Thunder Canyon, which was overridden with thunder streaks, also had extremely thick Spirit Qi. Although Di Jiu had an immortal-like body, he couldn’t stay at the outermost part and cultivate like Geng Ji—he had to go deeper into the Thunder Canyon in order to cultivate.

“I know. I’ll stay outside to cultivate. When my cultivation level improves and my Tempered Body stage advances, I’ll go in and look for you, Brother Jiu,” Geng Ji said as he accepted the ring.

He knew very well what he and Di Jiu would be facing. If he didn’t work hard on cultivating on the Small Central Planet, once his strength was overpowered, he would likely be wanted dead when he left this place.

Di Jiu set up a Defense Array outside the Thunder Canyon before bidding farewell to Geng Ji and going deeper into the Thunder Canyon.

He believed that, thanks to the cultivating resources he had given, and based on Geng Ji’s potential and the fact that he had the Galaxy Art of the Galaxy Meridian, his cultivation speed wouldn’t be too slow. That small section of blue Thunder Profound Meridian would surely be of great help to Geng Ji. Although he had gotten it from that blue pond in the Sky Screen, he hadn’t known how precious this spirit meridian was before and had thus used it for cultivating.

He had only found out that it was a Thunder Profound Meridian after acquiring the Book of the World. Thunder Profound Meridians were as rare as Herb King Meridians and extremely useful to Thunder Spirit Root Cultivators like Geng Ji.

As Geng Ji had described, the deeper one went into the Thunder Canyon, the denser the thunder streaks were and the stronger they became.

Di Jiu was at the third-stage Life Tribulation Realm and had a robust, immortal-like body. Thus, although the thunder streaks were dense, he didn’t feel endangered.

Di Jiu stopped when he was about 100 miles in. The thunder streaks there were like the thunder streaks he had seen while transcending into the Life Tribulation Realm—they brought about streaks of blood as they slashed against his body. This was the best place for cultivating.

Di Jiu grabbed an array flag and prepared to set up a Dharma Array to protect the spirit meridian. He would take out the spirit meridian while he was cultivating. There were powerful thunder strikes here, so they would definitely shatter the spirit meridians when they struck.

Even though the spirit meridians could still be used for cultivating if they were shattered by the thunder streaks, Di Jiu didn’t plan on letting his spirit meridians get shattered. Thus, he intended to set up a Defense Array first to protect the spirit meridians.

The array flag landed right beside a huge purple rock the size of a grinding disc.

Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force scanned it casually and was immediately frozen by the purple rock. This was a Heavenly Purple Thunder Rock, which was classified as a top-notch blacksmithing material in the Cultivation World.

As Di Jiu opened his hands and held onto the Thunder Rock, profound thunder charms dominated the thunder rock. This was indeed a Heavenly Purple Thunder Rock. After he confirmed this, Di Jiu got excited.

He was not excited about the Heavenly Purple Thunder Rock, although any other cultivator would not have been able to sleep from the excitement of finding this rock. However, Di Jiu knew very well how the Heavenly Purple Thunder Rock had come about.

There was only one possible source. The Heavenly Purple Thunder Rock had been derived from the profound thunder charms in the Primeval Thunder Rock. In comparison to the Heavenly Purple Thunder Rock, the Primeval Thunder Rock was a real treasure.

In other words, the Primeval Thunder Rock wasn’t from the Cultivation World. However, Di Jiu believed that there was a Primeval Thunder Rock in the Thunder Canyon. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have found such a big Heavenly Purple Thunder Rock.

Di Jiu put the Heavenly Purple Thunder Rock into his ring and then continued searching the surroundings with his Spiritual Force. The thunder streaks in the Thunder Canyon were too dense and profound thunder charms dominated the entire area. Thus, Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force was kept within an area of only 10,000 feet. Even so, Di Jiu still managed to find over 100 Heavenly Purple Thunder Rocks of different sizes within a short span of time. The biggest one was the size of two grinding discs, and the smallest was only the size of an infant’s fist.

Di Jiu knew that, given his Spiritual Force and strength right now, searching for the Primeval Thunder Rock in this vast Thunder Canyon would be difficult. The most important thing to do now was hurry up and advance his cultivation.

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Di Jiu placed four supreme-grade spirit meridians around himself. As he felt the dense thunder streaks, Di Jiu seemed to catch a wisp of the feeling he had felt while cultivating amidst the Thunder Tribulation and circulating the Galaxy Art.

Actually, Di Jiu had walked into the wrong place. He had thought that cultivating with the spirit meridians in the spirit stone mine would be the best thing to do. However, once the Spirit Qi thickened to a certain extent, it didn’t matter whether it was piled on. The only advantage of cultivating in the spirit stone mine was that there was a Spirit Origin Law around, which could also be found in a complete spirit meridian.

Now, Di Jiu was cultivating with four spirit meridians. Even if he hadn’t had the thick aura of Thunder Origin brought on by the dense thunder streaks, his cultivation speed wouldn’t have been much slower than it had been in the spirit stone mine. Besides, he was now cultivating amid dense thunder streaks, so there was an addition of abundant Thunder Origin Spirit Qi that helped his cultivation progress improve at a breakneck speed.

Di Jiu had originally planned to attain the fourth-stage Life Tribulation Realm in a year, yet he had done so in merely two months.

There was another advantage to cultivating in the Thunder Canyon. Honing one’s Spiritual Force amid constant thunder strikes enabled one’s Spiritual Sea to keep getting stronger.

Half a year later, Di Jiu attained the fifth-stage Life Tribulation Realm and everything inside a circumference of about five kilometers was within the reach of his Spiritual Force. A year later, when Di Jiu attained the sixth-stage Life Tribulation Realm, he suddenly came to a realization. The dense strikes of the Thunder were no longer thunder streaks slashing against his body. It felt as if something new was sprouting in his consciousness.

Di Jiu immediately started to repeat silently the magic technique described in the primeval language on the Octagonal Copper Hammer. The magic technique that he hadn’t understood initially formed a whirl of Dao runes. Suddenly, Di Jiu recalled the meridian pictorial figure that Geng Ji had spoken of.

As Di Jiu was immersed in this realization, thunder streaks fell on him even more intensively. Even the thunder strikes coming from afar swept in, affected by Di Jiu’s consciousness.

Soon, Di Jiu was cocooned by thunder streaks, just like when he had been cultivating amid the Tribulation Transcendence. Meanwhile, the four spirit meridians that he had placed around him also increased the melting speed, making more and more Spirit Qi mix with the thunder streaks and then disappear on Di Jiu.

Di Jiu, who was immersed in this realization, wasn’t aware of the changes in his surroundings.

One day, one month, one year passed…

When the profound thunder charm had completely strengthened due to Di Jiu’s deductions and realization, an explosive thunder erupted in the depths of Di Jiu’s Spiritual Sea. Di Jiu suddenly opened his eyes and executed several hand seals.

Thanks to his hand seals, a pattern that was invisible to the naked eye appeared. Then, the pattern gradually grew clearer and transformed into a flash of thunder. Suddenly, an explosion was heard and a flash of thunder blew up in the sky.

Four large clear words immediately appeared in Di Jiu’s consciousness—Primeval Thunder Pattern.

This wasn’t a magic technique. It was a great divine power! However, he only knew the basics at present.

Di Jiu felt excited. He soon felt the Quintessential Essence reach the maximum limit in the galaxy meridian. Thanks to the Galaxy Art, a new acupoint meridian was opened up and his cultivation level increased from the sixth-stage to the seventh-stage Life Tribulation Realm.

Di Jiu wasn’t the happiest about advancing to the late stages of the Life Tribulation Realm. What he was the happiest about was the Primeval Thunder Pattern.

This was definitely a big killer weapon. Although it lacked a form or substance, once the thunder pattern exploded, no opponent would be able to escape.

Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force swept out directly over an area of nearly 50 kilometers.

He could now go even deeper. Without hesitation, Di Jiu put away the four spirit meridians, which had dissolved quite a bit, and entered the deeper part of the Thunder Canyon. If the supernormal ability Primeval Thunder Pattern had appeared there, the Primeval Thunder Rock could be there too.