Ninth In the World

Panda Novel

There was a total of 114 people, including Di Jiu, in the City Lord Manor of the Starry Sky Immortal City.

Di Jiu sat on the seat of the City Lord in the City Lord Manor while Mo Yuxuan sat next to him like his shadow. She would follow Di Jiu, no matter where he went.

Unlike in the past, she frowned as if she was thinking about something recent. However, she would stare blankly every single time she was about to recall something.

Other than Mo Yuxuan, everyone else, including Di Jiu, was filled with excitement and joy. Only Qu Tong had sort of expected this. No one else had ever imagined that the Starry Sky Immortal City would become a place they would long for day and night.

Although everyone was emotional, no one spoke, as they were all waiting for Di Jiu to speak.

Immortals or not, they all believed that being able to find a place to live peacefully was the greatest blessing.

Di Jiu calmed down and said, “First, I would like to congratulate 63 of our fellow daoists for attaining the Immortal Realm without any casualties. The daoists who have not sensed the Thunder Tribulation will attain the Immortal Realm sooner or later, as long as they remain in the Starry Sky Immortal City.”

The chances of being killed by the Thunder Tribulation were low, and given the extremely strong foundation of every cultivator in the city, there was a 100 percent success rate. Even Qu Tong, who had already attained the Immortal Realm, felt the Thunder Tribulation once again and transcended the Tribulation to make up for the previous one he had missed.

Everyone knew that Di Jiu was the reason they could attract the Thunder Tribulation. Everyone wanted to go up to Di Jiu and thank him, but there were rules in the Immortal City. All the cultivators there knew that Di Jiu was very particular about the laws of the Immortal City.

“Next, I’m going to announce the law system the Starry Sky Immortal City is going to enforce.”

The crowd went silent when it heard Di Jiu talk about the system. Di Jiu had always been extremely strict about the laws, even before they had come to the Starry Sky Immortal City. Even though they had not cared much about the laws in the past, they were just as particular as Di Jiu about the laws now.

Whoever dared ignore the rules or violate them would be chased out of the city.

Di Jiu nodded. He was worried that some cultivators would do whatever they wanted because they were now Immortals. In the past, that would have been fine, because they had been independent cultivators. Nobody would care, as long as one did not jeopardize the interest of the experts in the Immortal World.

However, throughout history, few independent cultivators had made outstanding achievements. Over-achieving cultivators typically came from big sects or big families, or at least had a great master.

Unfortunately, things were different now. The Starry Sky Immortal City was newly-established and the light from providence in the Immortal World had just started to gather, so there was no tolerance for cultivators who wanted to do as they pleased.

Di Jiu took out a jade slip that contained the laws of the Starry Sky Immortal City and said loud and clear, “Everyone has a jade slip of the Starry Sky Immortal City and has read it. I will repeat myself. In order to live and cultivate in the Starry Sky Immortal Protectorate, first, everyone must follow the rules. Otherwise, you will be punished. Second, every cultivator will have an identity jade card that they will use to travel in and out of the city. Without the identity jade card, you are not allowed to enter the Starry Sky Immortal Protectorate and you are not a cultivator of the city.”

Di Jiu had mentioned these two points long ago, so nobody expressed any opposing views.

Di Jiu then added, “Third, everyone must pay a certain amount of taxes in order to live and trade in the Starry Sky Immortal City. The taxes collected will be used to develop the city and given to cultivators who serve the city. Fourth, there will be a reward system and everyone’s contribution will be recorded on their jade card. Everyone here has contributed to the construction of the city, so you will all get 100,000 contribution points.”

Most of the cultivators did not care much about the contribution points. This was insignificant as long as they could cultivate in the Starry Sky Immortal City. Although the contribution points could be exchanged for goods in sects and were even better than Immortal Crystals, what goods would be available in the Sunset Immortal World?

“Fifth, if the Starry Sky Immortal City is attacked by external powers, everyone here will be obliged to go all out to protect the city. Sixth, anyone who knows the whereabouts of the Five-Element Flag can come and get their reward. Seventh…”

After he had announced more than ten rules, Di Jiu finally asked, “Does anyone have any objections?”

Yan Xiaosha was the first to stand up. “City Lord, I think that having these rules is a good idea. I have no objections.”

Why had the Immortal World faltered? This was because there were too many selfish cultivators around. Everyone believed that they were the best in the Immortal World and killed when they were challenged. What had been the outcome, though? The Immortal World had faltered and corpses lay all over the place. Therefore, Yan Xiaosha agreed with Di Jiu that there had to be rules.

Everyone else stood up and supported Di Jiu without any objection.

“Good.” Di Jiu understood everyone’s way of thinking, as it had taken them great effort to live in the Starry Sky Immortal City. Who would destroy a precious home without any reason?

“Next, I’m going to appoint the personnel. I will serve as the City Lord of the Starry Sky Immortal City. Qu Tong will be the first deputy City Lord, who will be in charge of the affairs of the city. The second deputy City Lord will be Yan Xiaosha, who will be responsible for protecting the city. The third deputy City Lord will be Qin Fujian, who will take care of the guilds in the city. Liu Yuxin will be the law master of the city, and Bei Chutai will be the deacon of the City Lord Manor…”

Although there were only over 100 cultivators, Di Jiu wanted the city to have a structure. In the future, anyone who wished to enter the Immortal City would have to pass the examination array.

Di Jiu did not want to let go of the position of the City Lord, not because he liked the position, but because he had to occupy it. He could not let his mind rest, no matter who took over the Major Five-Element Array. He did not believe that anyone else would use the Floating Flame Flag and the Seven-Star Aqua Flag as the foundation of the array.

“City Lord, I once thought that I would never be able to feel the real aura of the Immortal World ever again, but today I felt it in the Starry Sky Immortal City. The Starry Sky Immortal City made me want to live once again. As long as I am still alive, I will never allow anyone to destroy the peace we have in the Starry Sky Immortal City.” Yan Xiaosha was the first to defend Di Jiu once again.

Yan Xiaosha was more sentimental than the other cultivators.

Only when one had once had something could one understand the pain of losing it. The rest of the cultivators had come from the Cultivation World, so the Immortal World had been in this dilapidated state the moment they had arrived. Therefore, they did not yearn for the true Immortal World as much as Yan Xiaosha did.

Yan Xiaosha, who had been cultivating in the Immortal World for a long time, cherished what he had lost more than anyone else.

Di Jiu spoke after everyone had expressed their views. “I believe that the Starry Sky Immortal City will be a very valuable land in the future. You all built this place, so you will have one chance to choose the cave abode you want to live in before the newcomers arrive.”

The Starry Sky Immortal City had been built by everyone. Hence, all of them knew that the place nearest to the Sky Bamboo River was the best. The City Lord Manor was next to the river, so everyone chose the houses near the Sky Bamboo River.

…

More than a billion Li away from the Starry Sky Immortal City, a middle-aged cultivator with messy hair and torn clothes stood in front of a huge wall.

Actually, the wall was more like a Sky Wall. The slanted wall reached for the sky, so the Spiritual Force could not even detect its top or its edges. There was an extremely depressing, frightening feeling at the bottom of the wall.

The middle-aged cultivator wanted to touch the wall with his hands, but he was pushed away by an enormous force before he could even walk close to the wall.

“Maybe this is the Sky Wall separating the Sunset Immortal Protectorate and the Newborn Immortal Protectorate. I never imagined that I, Xian Ze, would be able to walk here one day,” the middle-aged man murmured.

He was Xian Ze, who had wanted to come to the Immortal World with Di Jiu. However, he realized that he had over-imagined things the moment they had reached the Immortal World.

In his opinion, the Immortal World was a beautiful place filled with spiritual and magical aura. He wanted to find an Immortal from the Polar Night Continent, so he most likely would not have to make much effort other than spending some time to get to that place.

In fact, what he saw in the Immortal City was relentless battles. There was no warmth, no life-force, nobody in this land…

His cultivation was so low that some cultivators did not even want to refine his Blood Essence. Refining a level-five True Form Realm cultivator like him would make no difference.

Xian Ze wandered in the Immortal World. He had sent countless messages to Di Jiu because he wanted to find him. However, the Immortal World was too big, so he had not been able to find Di Jiu despite meeting a few cultivators.

Maybe he would spend his entire life walking in the faltered Sunset Immortal Protectorate until he died. Then, he would fall in the dilapidated Immortal World and his body would be discarded in the wilderness like all the other corpses.

Xian Ze sighed. He had heard of the Newborn Immortal Protectorate, but even if he found the Sky Wall surrounding the Newborn Immortal Protectorate, he would not be able to enter the city.

A corpse landed from the sky as Xianze was about to turn around.

Bam! The corpse, which landed about 10 meters in front of Xian Ze, was a bloody mess.

Xian Ze took a few steps back helplessly and looked up at the boundless Sky Wall.

Bam! Bam! Bam! More and more corpses landed from the sky as Xian Ze retreated a few hundred feet.

The corpses filled the place where Xian Ze was standing very quickly. “The Newborn Immortal Protectorate. He he…” he murmured.

Even though he had not been to the Newborn Immortal Protectorate, he had already guessed what was happening there. It could be what had happened a very long time ago in the Sunset Immortal Protectorate.

If murder was taking place everywhere, maybe history was repeating itself.