Ninth In the World

Chapter 916: Waiting to Be a Captive

This was the first time Di Jiu was hearing that, so he didn’t have many thoughts about it. He only found it somewhat strange.

Cao Xi explained, “There isn’t any connotation to being ‘neither a Dao nor a person’. It means what it seems to mean: that a true Dao cultivator is not the Dao that we understand. A true Dao cultivator is not a person either.

“You should know that I, Du Bu, and some almighty cultivators who obtained the opportunity of the heaven-opening universe are not considered pure humans. We have been condensed from the essence of the heaven-opening universe. We have a Dao body, so how could ordinary human cultivators be compared to us?”

Di Jiu didn’t have any special thoughts about this at first. However, since Cao Xi had explained it like that, he found her words somewhat strange.

Cao Xi carried on. “It is an ordeal to take pity on somebody because the cultivators of one’s generation have worked hard to cultivate. In the end, the cultivators who have a true Dao body will still look down on them, keep them under their control, and be superior to them. This is because, no matter how human cultivators cultivate, they can’t surpass a Dao body from the true heaven-opening universe. Therefore, it’s hard for them to surpass cultivators who are not human.

“This is why we take pity on human cultivators. The reason I can understand this is that after I was reborn, I was born into this universe as a human cultivator.”

Di Jiu frowned. He vaguely sensed that there was some other meaning behind her words. However, his cultivation level and Dao were insufficient, so he couldn’t completely understand this sentence.

“Daoist Cao, if you find the missing half of your Primordial Dao Law and I reach the third step, what do you think our chances of beating Du Bu if we work together will be?” Di Jiu finally couldn’t help asking what he was thinking.

He was not the most worried about other people now, but he was worried about Du Bu, whom he had never met but had heard of.

Cao Xi went silent. After half an hour, she slowly said, “None.”

Di Jiu felt uncomfortable. Indeed, Du Bu was formidable. However, after Di Jiu reached the third step, he still wouldn’t have any chance of beating Du Bu?

As if feeling that they had talked too much, the tall and robust man behind Di Jiu raised his hand to slap him. Even if Di Jiu lost all his cultivation, he still wouldn’t be someone anybody could slap. When that huge man tried to slap him, Di Jiu’s figure flashed and the slap ended up missing him.

Since the robust man had not managed to slap Di Jiu, he felt furious. As he was about to make a move, a sudden intense fighting sound was heard from a distance.

Four people immediately rushed over, leaving one person to capture both Di Jiu and Cao Xi in each of his hands as he rushed over.

Very soon, Di Jiu saw what was happening up ahead. Two groups of armies were frantically fighting on a battlefield. The battlefield was filled with bloody mists that were flying everywhere as people were constantly killed.

Di Jiu saw roughly that this was a war and there were at least thousands of people on the battlefield. He actually despised this robust man. Since this was a battle with tens of thousands of participants, wasn’t it suicide to be rushing over?

Unfortunately, Di Jiu had yet to set up complete laws, so he couldn’t understand the words there. Otherwise, he would have asked this blockhead to step back and wait for the battle to be finished first.

“Pfft!” A stone arrow shot over from afar and pierced the area between the eyebrows of the robust man who had Di Jiu and Cao Xi, making blood explode. The man fell to the ground and threw Di Jiu and Cao Xi far away.

Di Jiu quickly broke free from the ropes. Without needing him to help her, Cao Xi immediately did the same.

“Let’s quickly leave. Don’t sigh. Although you’re really formidable and have been chasing me everywhere, aren’t you also hiding from Du Bu?” When he saw Cao Xi sigh, Di Jiu couldn’t help but attack her verbally. He’d thought that she didn’t have that capability, yet she wanted to do something within her capabilities.

Cao Xi sighed. “Why are such things happening everywhere? They killed each other. It’s an ordeal to take pity on someone…”

Without needing Di Jiu to explain this time, she seemed to have realized that there was nothing else she had understood about these words.

Upon hearing that, Cao Xi blushed a little and said, “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have chased after you. You were right. I must not judge a book by its cover.”

Di Jiu had run far away, but Cao Xi rapidly followed him to leave this battlefield.

Both Di Jiu and Cao Xi had lost their cultivation. After all, they were experts and cultivators with a powerful physical body. Given their speed, they soon bypassed the battlefield.

A huge city appeared before them. Actually, it was a stone city. All the visible places in this city were made of stone. At the top of the stone city were a few words carved into huge stones. Unfortunately, Di Jiu didn’t recognize any of the words.

“Let’s go. We’ll enter the city,” he said as he pointed at the wide-open city gate in the distance.

Cao Xi looked at Di Jiu in confusion. “One of the two armies on the battlefield was clearly from this stone city. If the army representing this stone city loses the battle, won’t we be held captive again?”

There was something else she didn’t say, which was that if the stone city won the battle, they would still be held captive.

Di Jiu chuckled and said, “So be it. I don’t care. If you care, you can leave first.”

Di Jiu really didn’t care who held him captive. Since there were many people in this stone city, the Heaven Earth Law was clearer. For example, the writing and language were clearer as well. Only a place with such a clear Heaven Earth Law could allow him to figure out the language and writing there as soon as possible before he figured out what kind of place he was in.

Now that Di Jiu had insisted on entering the city, Cao Xi could only follow him inside.

The stone city’s gate was full of alarmed people who scrambled all over the place or gathered to discuss something nervously. However, there wasn’t anyone strong or young like Di Jiu among these people. Those people were probably on the battlefield.

Nobody cared about Di Jiu and Cao Xi’s arrival. Not everyone there was tall, so the two of them did not stand out much.

If Di Jiu had known the language they spoke there, he would have asked these people questions. Since they believed that they might not beat the other party, why weren’t they closing the city gate and hiding in the city to guard it instead?

Very soon, Di Jiu understood what was going on. This was a stone city. Besides a few stone words on the stone wall, there was nothing to guard the city. This wall was probably just meant to assure the people.

As he walked into the crowd, Di Jiu used his consciousness continuously to understand the Heaven Earth Law there. At the moment, he couldn’t use his Spiritual Force and Divine Essence. He could not even connect with his Spiritual Sea. Using his consciousness to set up his Foundation Orders would be fine, but it would also be too slow.

In that case, he would rather understand the Foundation Orders there first. Everything was difficult in the beginning. As long as he obtained some Spiritual Force and set up his own Heaven Earth Law, he would be restored to his original state faster.

Sharp shouting voices were heard before Di Jiu saw countless people rushing into the city. Even though he didn’t understand their language, he could only sigh and say, “The soldiers of this stone city have lost the battle. The other party will very soon occupy this place.”

Another thing that Di Jiu didn’t understand was why the people of this city were not fleeing since the army of the stone city had lost the battle. Instead, they were hiding aside in fear while waiting to become the other party’s captives. The people outside also wanted to flee into the city. Were they crazy? Di Jiu didn’t really believe that these people were thinking the same way he was.

In less than one hour, a group of tall soldiers that looked like wolves rushed into the city.