Ninth In the World

Di Jiu put the City Lord Manor under the care of Xian Ze before he left the Starry Sky Immortal City with Mo Yuxuan. Zhuo Wenshu stayed behind in the City Lord Manor too. Firstly, she could help Xian Ze manage the City Lord Manor. Secondly, it was much better to cultivate there than in any other place.

On top of this, he separately invited Jing Luowen, Lu Xikun and over 10 other cultivators that would help manage the Starry Sky Immortal City and its auxiliary city for a lengthy discussion.

Although he had built the Starry Sky Immortal City for the Immortal World, he wanted to take care of the people who had been with him as well. To be specific, he reminded them to treat cultivators from the True Dominion nicely and inform Xian Ze immediately if any came. Especially if his sister, Di Di, or his friend, Geng Ji, came.

Only Jing Luowen knew where he was going. Even Lu Xikun didn’t know. Lu Xikun only knew that Di Jiu would be trying to save people in the Immortal World. He didn’t know that Di Jiu was planning to leave the Immortal World for the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City.

Di Jiu also got an important piece of news after he had a long discussion with Lu Xikun and the others.

Not every top-notch sect had followed the Radiant Fortune Immortal Sect to the Newborn Immortal Protectorate. Some sects had sealed off themselves before the sunset came.

A portion of the sects that had sealed off themselves had had their Defense Arrays broken down and their sects destroyed. Another portion of them had gone missing after they had sealed off themselves, as nobody could locate them anymore. One such example was the most famous Array Dao sect in the Immortal World—the Eternal Truth Array Sect. Immortal Supremacy experts existed in each of these sects.

In view of these stability issues, Di Jiu left another array flag for activating the Floating Flame Flag for Qu Tong. As for Jing Luowen, he only allowed her to control the large array of the Starry Sky Immortal City.

Di Jiu had left the array core flag of the killing array with Qu Tong because he knew very well that Jing Luowen was too soft-hearted.

Di Jiu couldn’t pin high hopes on someone who wanted to instill peace and order in the Immortal World solely based on ideals and feelings. Whilst it was a touching act that the Buddha had sliced off his own flesh to feed the eagle, this wasn’t the approach that Di Jiu wanted to take. Such an approach had caused Jing Luowen to be the sole surviving member of the Virtuous Nirvana Sect. She was like a commander without soldiers. Jing Luowen, as well as the sect masters before her, had to bear a large part of the blame for the Virtuous Nirvana Sect’s predicament.

A sharp saber had to build order in the Immortal World. Di Jiu had already forged that saber. However, he wouldn’t have Jing Luowen wield it.

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Seven days had passed since Di Jiu had left the Starry Sky Immortal City. He didn’t rush on the way. Instead, he flashed a flying boat made of middle-grade immortal weapons and put Black Fire and Little Tree in charge of it. He, on the other hand, stayed inside the flying boat and cracked a pile of rings.

Looking for a spirit herb suitable for Mo Yuxuan was a long process that couldn’t be rushed.

He had to ensure that he had the strength to defend himself before he entered the Gigantic Tripod Immortal City. He had obtained so many rings so that he could build a strong foundation for his cultivation. The Gigantic Tripod Immortal City existed in the void. It would definitely be difficult to obtain cultivating resources in the void.

Di Jiu started to feel awe for the sects’ wealth as he continued cracking ring after ring. However, maybe because the Newborn Immortal Protectorate lacked immortal crystals, or because it had insufficient Immortal Spirit Qi, very few immortal crystals could be found in the sect masters’ rings. On the contrary, there were piles and piles of various high-level immortal spirit herbs and blacksmithing materials.

Apart from the above, Di Jiu also came across all kinds of Dharma treasures, cultivation techniques and supernormal ability jade slips in the rings, as well as different types of miscellaneous treasures.

Di Jiu was the most satisfied with Yi Zhen’s ring. He found more than 10 million high-grade immortal crystals, half a middle-grade immortal spirit meridian, as well as a Heavenly Mutable Sutra jade slip in it. This ring had to be the cornerstone of the Radiant Fortune Immortal Sect. Di Jiu didn’t have the time to cultivate now, but he was very attracted to this supernormal ability.

There was a total of nearly 100 million high-grade immortal crystals in all the rings, more than 10% of which came from Yi Zhen’s ring. In addition, there was also a total of 40 to 50 million middle-grade and low-grade immortal crystals.

On top of all this, Di Jiu also found four Small Worlds, one tattered Quintessential World and various kinds of immortal herb gardens.

Di Jiu moved all these things into his Quintessential World. Regrettably, he didn’t manage to find any information on the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City in Yi Zhen’s ring.

According to Jing Luowen, only the Heavenly Fortune Immortal Sect and the Virtuous Nirvana Sect knew about the Gigantic Tripod Immortal City.

It was a pity that he had killed Yi Zhen and could therefore not check with him.

The flying boat, which set up the Minor Five-Element Array, could be used for cultivating now. It took Di Jiu four whole months to ascend from the peak eighth-stage Perfected Immortal Realm to the ninth stage. He decided to stop cultivating because the speed was really slow and concentrate on alchemy instead.

Two more months passed. Although Di Jiu had already exhausted a huge portion of immortal spirit herbs, he was still unable to produce Grade-One Immortal Pills of the lowest class.

This stirred up some emotions in Di Jiu. He was sure that if he had still possessed the Golden Dao Law, he would have been able to refine some Grade-One Immortal Pills and become a Grade-One Immortal Alchemy Master already.

What a pity that the Dao law didn’t belong to him. That streak of Golden Dao Law had forsaken him after he had used the Universe Membrane fragment to transcend his body into nirvana.

Although he possessed the Book of the World and had gained insight into all kinds of Foundation Orders, as well as transcended his body into nirvana with the Universe Membrane fragment before, he still lacked that streak of Golden Dao Law, whose effects were far-fetched. Luckily, Di Jiu had a healthy state of mind and knew that all he needed to do was gain a rudimentary mastery first. His alchemy practice would be much smoother in the future after he learned how to refine Grade-One Immortal Pills.

After half a year’s journey, Di Jiu reached the perimeter of the Great Sky Wall Array.

He had no means of breaking down the Great Sky Wall Array. This array hadn’t solely been set up with Yi Zhen’s abilities. Yi Zhen and his followers had been able to make the Great Sky Wall Array perfect because the Sky Wall was, in itself, top-notch. After Yi Zhen and the others had entered the Newborn Immortal Protectorate, they had ridden on the foundation of the Sky Wall to perfect the Great Sky Wall Array.

Now, the Great Sky Wall Array was tattered. Nearly 10 million cultivators were leaving the Newborn Immortal Protectorate for the Starry Sky Immortal City every day.

When Di Jiu had passed by the Sky Wall on his way from the Sunset Immortal Protectorate to the Newborn Immortal Protectorate, he had brushed shoulders with many people. However, nobody had cared about Di Jiu. Some of the cultivators had also been returning to the Newborn Immortal Protectorate after going to the Sunset Immortal Protectorate, just like Di Jiu.

Di Jiu didn’t care about the cultivators who were heading to the Starry Sky Immortal City either. After all, the Starry Sky Immortal City was under the control of Jing Luowen, Lu Xikun and the others. Moreover, cultivators were supposed to be shifting over from the Newborn Immortal Protectorate anyway.

Although 10 million was a large number of cultivators, it was still a far cry from the prosperous situation that the Immortal World had experienced previously. It was less than 0.1% of its previous population.

Di Jiu passed through the tattered Great Sky Wall Array and entered the Newborn Immortal Protectorate.

The Newborn Immortal Protectorate was in a torn, tattered state too. It was no better than the Sunset Immortal Protectorate. When Di Jiu moved forward, he discovered that only some portions could support cultivation.

The Thunderous Floating Island wasn’t well-known in the Newborn Immortal Protectorate. People knew about it only because the Newborn Immortal Protectorate was really small. The Thunderous Floating Island was always filled with thunder streaks and it had neither Immortal Spirit Qi nor immortal spirit herbs. Thus, naturally, nobody paid any attention to it. Everybody only treated it as a forbidden zone.

The Newborn Immortal Protectorate was a tiny dot compared to the Sunset Immortal Protectorate.

It only took Di Jiu three days to reach the Thunderous Floating Island and finally appreciate why it was called that way.

He could see very clearly huge clouds of thunder streaks lingering in the air when he was still more than 100 miles away from the Thunderous Floating Island.

In the center of the boundless thunder streaks, there vaguely seemed to exist a small island that was suspended in mid-air. This small island still existed despite the many years the thunder streaks had been striking.

Di Jiu hesitated for a while. He knew that he wouldn’t be helping Mo Yuxuan to find a means to survive if he continued to carry her into the Thunderous Floating Island. He would instead be sending her to her doom more quickly.

Di Jiu decided to put Mo Yuxuan in his Quintessential World. However, he had to obtain her permission in order to do so, as she was still alive. How was he going to get her to agree now that she had lost her ability to manage herself?

Even though Di Jiu knew that he would be invading her privacy, he had to permeate Mo Yuxuan’s Spiritual Sea with his Spiritual Force. He could only put Mo Yuxuan into his Quintessential World by using this method.

Mo Yuxuan’s Principal Spirit, which was in her Spiritual Sea, had already lost all its vitality and sunken into a deep sleep. Her Principal Spirit seemed to sense it when Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force permeated it, as it quivered momentarily.

Di Jiu sighed. Mo Yuxuan had no secrets to hide from him. Although he couldn’t retrieve her memories, he could see very clearly her cultivation techniques, body, and everything else she possessed.

Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force didn’t stay in Mo Yuxuan for long. He immediately exited after he sent Mo Yuxuan into his Quintessential World.

Di Jiu stepped over the border of the Thunderous Floating Island after instructing Little Tree to take care of Mo Yuxuan.

Di Jiu didn’t dare to rush into the Thunderous Floating Island, as even Lu Xikun had nearly lost his life there. He had dared to step over the border because he was a Tempered Body cultivator who had attained a Nirvana Immortal Body.

Even an Immortal King might not have a body as strong as the Nirvana Immortal Body. Moreover, Di Jiu had the Universe Membrane fragment, so he could transcend his Tempered Body into nirvana. He wouldn’t say that he was the only one in the entire universe who had used the Universe Membrane fragment to transcend their body into nirvana. However, he was sure that there was less than a handful of such people.