Ninth In the World

“Big Sister Ziyu, this is not what it seems. I have never left the Wang Chuan Mountain Range ever since Big Brother left. You are the first person I have seen since he left.” Nong Xiuqi panicked, as she considered her honor more important than her own life.

There was no way she could reclaim her innocence should Di Jiu hear of this matter.

Shen Ziyu saw how sincere Nong Xiuqi was and suddenly recalled that a warrior would need more than 10 months to get pregnant.

“Xiuqi, don’t panic. It is extremely hard for warriors to get pregnant. The symptoms would usually take one year to show. You are a cultivator, so perhaps the logic is the same…” Shen Ziyu did not finish her sentence. It was understandable that it would take a year, but she couldn’t understand. After all, it had taken more than two years to occur.

Nong Xiuqi suddenly thought of something and took a dozen jade slips out of the ring.

These jade slips had been left behind by Di Jiu and each and every one of them contained enormous amounts of information. She had previously been in constant seclusion and had not had the time to read them.

Nong Xiuqi rapidly scanned the jade slips with her Spiritual Force before throwing them aside when she was done reading them.

Stunned, Shen Ziyu stared at Nong Xiuqi. She had heard before that jade slips could record information. However, based on her understanding, one jade slip could record large amounts of information. Most of the time, the information recorded was larger than the information a book contained. How could Nong Xiuqi possibly read all the information within the jade slip with a glance?

Were cultivators really so formidable?

Nong Xiuqi ignored Shen Ziyu’s expression as she flipped through the jade slip anxiously. Soon, her eyes turned red and teared up.

“What’s wrong, Xiuqi?” Shen Ziyu quickly rushed to Nong Xiuqi’s side and supported her.

Nong Xiuqi put down the jade slip and caressed her flat stomach. “I’m really pregnant. On the jade slip, it is stated that it is extremely difficult for cultivators to get pregnant. Many people stop cultivating for a period of time in order to get pregnant. The child is only born after several years or, in most cases, more than a decade later.”

Nong Xiuqi suddenly felt that the distance between her and Di Jiu was not so wide after all. There was finally something connecting the two of them together.

Shen Ziyu did not doubt Nong Xiuqi’s words. She did not think much of cultivators, but she now yearned to become a cultivator herself. She no longer wanted to practice ancient martial arts.

“Nong Xiuqi, you are pregnant. You should take good care of your body.” Shen Ziyu was happy for Nong Xiuqi, for the latter would no longer be alone like her.

“Yes.” Nong Xiuqi had a very gentle expression on her face as she fondled her flat stomach. “I sense that he will be extraordinary.”

Her words were not simply born from her love for her unborn child. They were based on an intuition that her child would be incredible in the future.

Unfortunately, her mother was no longer around. Otherwise, she would surely have been very happy that her daughter was with child.

…

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Nine coarse thunder streaks landed again. Di Jiu closed his eyes in despair, not because he was not able to survive this wave of Thunder Tribulation streaks, but because this was his last wave of Thunder Tribulation streaks.

However, he had failed to rip apart the shackles of the Immortal Emperor Realm and was still at the Immortal Supremacy Realm. This meant that he had survived the Thunder Tribulation, but his strength had remained stagnant. After this wave landed, he would no longer be able to sense the barrier blocking the Immortal Emperor Realm.

Crack! Crack! Crack! Di Jiu’s bones once again shattered and blood and bits of his flesh flew out.

Sometimes, one’s state of mind was extremely important. He anxiously wanted to transcend his Immortal Emperor Thunder Tribulation and return to Nong Xiuqi’s side. He kept thinking about Nong Xiuqi, not the black Reincarnation Bridge.

His Immortal Emperor Thunder Tribulation had failed. Just like when his Alchemy Dao had failed, he could not find the reason he had failed.

The Immortal Emperor Thunder Tribulation was successful and he had survived it. Nothing had gone wrong, but he had still been unable to break through the barrier of the Immortal Emperor Realm. Worse, he was unable to sense the barrier anymore.

After the last wave of Thunder Tribulation landed, Di Jiu collapsed before he had the chance to put the Primeval Thunder Rock into his ring.

Di Jiu lost his unconsciousness as the Nomological Qi Circulation was still slowly circulating.

Some silk threads suddenly appeared around him, enveloping him and the Primeval Thunder Rock.

The threads increased in number, forming a large cocoon.

This happened in the void outside the low-level plane. If it had occurred in the Immortal World, all experts knew that the low level enveloping Di Jiu would have been made of abstruse Heaven Earth Laws.

Di Jiu did not break through to the Immortal Emperor Realm after completing the Tribulation Transcendence. Instead, he was enveloped by some kind of Heaven Earth Law that was shaped in the form of a large cocoon as he seemed to hibernate.

Regardless of whether Di Jiu had successfully completed his Tribulation Transcendence, it was very impressive that he was able to merge his Dao law with the Heaven Earth Law to create and form a large cocoon.

…

A strangely-shaped flying boat had stopped several kilometers away from where Di Jiu was undergoing Tribulation Transcendence.

Around eight people were seated inside the cabin of the flying boat, all of them staring anxiously at the huge screen before them.

“The violent spatial thunder fluctuation has ended,” stated the bearded middle-aged man sitting at the head of the group the moment Di Jiu’s Tribulation Transcendence ended.

“Captain, what do we do now? Do we still follow the original plan and head into this new galaxy?” asked a teenager.

The middle-aged bearded man called Captain turned his head, his gaze sweeping across the masses before he announced, “We intended to head into this galaxy to find possible life on a planet. Now, however, I think that we should abandon our original plan and not head over.”

“Why is that?” someone inquired.

The captain lowered his voice before saying, “Based on the violent spatial thunder fluctuation and life-force fluctuation, my guess is that someone is undergoing Tribulation Transcendence. This means that we have discovered life on a planet, which could be… No, it is definitely a cultivation planet. These cultivators are very scary, as you must know. They are normally able to kill off an entire planet. If we headed over, we would not be colonizing the planet but entering the wolf’s den.”

“I agree with the Captain.”

“I agree as well…”

A few more people expressed their agreement.

The captain then added, “We must also advise the higher-ups to abandon this mission. When we head back, we will say that it is a useless, abandoned planet.”

After discovering that the place they were headed to could be a cultivation planet, everyone quickly reached a consensus and nodded their heads solemnly.

The select few who wanted to head to a cultivation planet did not dare to speak up at this moment. Furthermore, they had long ago passed the age when they could start cultivating.

…

“This is an Immortal Stone…” Shen Ziyu stared dumbfounded at the Spirit Stone Nong Xiuqi had taken out. She had seen such a thing before. It was a treasure coveted by every warrior. The reason so many warriors attained the Connate Realm was because of the Immortal Stones obtained on the Fairy Planet.

Nong Xiuqi giggled. “Big Sister Ziyu, this is not an Immortal Stone, but a high-grade Spirit Stone. I used high-grade Spirit Stones like this when I first started cultivating. Spirit Stones can be categorized into low-, middle-, and high-grade Spirit Stones. The Spirit Stones Big Brother gave me were all high-grade.”

Actually, Di Jiu had not had any low-grade or middle-grade Spirit Stones with him. Other than the high-grade Spirit Stones, he had owned immortal crystals and had given Nong Xiuqi a portion. However, he had forewarned her to use Spirit Stones of the worst quality first and slowly upgrade from there. She should not use immortal crystals of too high a grade to cultivate when her cultivation level was low. The only exception was if her cultivation level was stuck.

Shen Ziyu took a deep breath. Looking at Nong Xiuqi, she said, “Thank you, Xiuqi, for allowing me to get to know a whole new side of the world. Otherwise, I would still have been a frog in a well.”

Nong Xiuqi fondled her stomach subconsciously again. “Big Brother is the one who brought me into this new world. What I’m doing is teaching you what Big Brother taught me.”

Shen Ziyu nodded her head but did not comment any further on this matter. She had not learned about cultivation directly from Di Jiu, but she was still indebted to Di Jiu. In a way, she had been taught by Di Jiu as well.