Ninth In the World

Chapter 641: Bleak Business

Many cultivators had gathered at the Void Screen Pier.

Half a day ago, a cultivator called Xue Yu had been thrown into the Void Ocean by the Surplus Ocean Elixir Dispensary’s Ang Yuan, who had not allowed Xue Yu to come up to the shore. After experiencing one hour of purgatory torture, Xue Yu had vanished in the Void Ocean.

One hour later, Xue Yu’s friend had come. This friend of his was an absolutely ruthless person. Not only had he torn the arrest warrant on him outside the Dark Red Sacred Dao City, but he had also destroyed the Surplus Ocean Elixir Dispensary and killed their Primordial Dao expert, Hai Mu. He had then captured the Young Pavilion Lord Ang Yuan.

Even a fool would know that Di Jiu wanted to take revenge for his friend Xue Yu and was going to treat Ang Yuan the way he had treated Xue Yu.

As expected, this was appropriate retribution. However, this retribution came too quickly.

“Brother Di, Ang Yuan forced Brother Xue into the Void Ocean here,” Ding Chi said as he pointed at the edge of the Void Screen Pier.

Di Jiu nodded and threw Ang Yuan into the Void Ocean casually.

Once he entered the Void Ocean, Ang Yuan’s heart sank. Di Jiu stood at the Void Screen Pier and clearly did not want him to climb ashore.

A few hours ago, he had done what Di Jiu was doing. He had not expected that a few hours later, it would be his turn.

Regret was pointless. The ocean water was ice-cold and seemed the same as ocean waters from somewhere else. Ang Yuan had an uneasy feeling.

He could no longer bear the torture of awaiting death. He was a half-step Primordial Dao expert. When his father came back this time, he would definitely give him the Heaven Essence Dao Pills. If he died or even waited for death like this, how could Ang Yuan bear it?

Many cultivators were watching from the shore. Ang Yuan had thrown many people into the Void Ocean, but today was finally his turn. Some cultivators were secretly discussing Di Jiu. Who was this foreign newcomer? To be frank, Di Jiu was really arrogant even though this was his first time in the Dark Red Sacred Dao City. There was nobody like him.

However, Di Jiu was lucky, as almost all the Dark Red Sacred Dao City’s Primordial Chaos Sacred Emperors and half-step Primordial Chaos experts had gone to the Dao Fruit Pagoda in the Void City by now. Otherwise, how could a foreignl Primordial Dao cultivator be so arrogant?

Ang Yuan suddenly shouted, “City Lord Ji, please save me! You are very good friends with my father and the Surplus Ocean Elixir Dispensary’s Head Pavilion Lord and Second Pavilion Lord… If you save me, my father will definitely not forget when he returns from the Void City…”

Di Jiu, who allowed Ang Yuan to speak, was not even surprised.

In the Dark Red Sacred Dao City, he could definitely sense when his life was threatened. Now that his life was not threatened at all, it meant that this place was safe.

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In a cave abode beside the Dark Red Sacred Dao City’s Lord Manor, a lean, tall man frowned. He was the Dark Red Sacred Dao City’s Deputy City Lord, Ji Lu, who was also the person Ang Yuan appealed to for help. He naturally could hear Ang Yuan’s voice but did not want to go out.

He did not know Di Jiu’s background, but if he had been listed as wanted by Jiang Dai and was still safe and sound, how could he be a simple person? When Jiang Dai had issued the arrest warrant, he’d known very well that City Lord Dao Chuanxun had approved it.

According to the City Lord, Jiang Dai was a ruthless person with unlimited potential. In Ji Lu’s opinion, the City Lord seemed to have made a mistake about this.

Even though he did not know whether Jiang Dai had potential or was a ruthless person, Di Jiu was absolutely a ruthless person and his potential was definitely not poor.

Based on his words and actions, he knew that Di Jiu had destroyed the arrest warrant on him outside the Dark Red Sacred Dao City with one saber move. He had then destroyed Jiang Dai’s territory and waited for Jiang Dai outside. Would such a person be afraid of Jiang Dai? He did not fear Jiang Dai and would not fear the Surplus Ocean Elixir Dispensary either.

He was not aware of Jiang Dai’s strength, but he certainly knew that the Surplus Ocean Elixir Dispensary could not contend against Jiang Dai.

Ang Yuan was still shouting, so Ji Lu stood up. He did not plan to save him but he decided to meet this Di Jiu. It would take at least 100 years before the three Pavilion Lords of the Surplus Ocean Elixir Dispensary returned. Then, he would have something to say.

One hour passed very quickly. Everyone saw Ang Yuan vanish in the Void Ocean without a trace.

Upon seeing that, Di Jiu got rid of his resentment, stood up, and said with cupped fists, “Fellow Daoists, I plan to practice alchemy in the Void Ocean for some time. Of course, if any Daoists need me for blacksmithing purposes, you can also find me. When it comes to alchemy, I only refine divine pills and Dao pills higher than the Dao Transformation. I will not receive any divine pills lower than the Dao Transformation. If you really need me, the things that you take out must satisfy me. As for blacksmithing, I only refine divine weapons above the middle grade.”

Di Jiu’s words were like a bomb thrown into the crowd. He would only refine divine pills and Dao pills higher than the Dao Transformation. How terrifying was this?

The Dark Red Sacred Dao City indeed had good stuff often. However, no matter how many good things there were, they had very few Alchemy Masters. As a result, they could not turn these things into elixir pills.

The most powerful Alchemy Master in the Dark Red Sacred Dao City was only an Alchemy Master who refined Primordial Dao Divine Pills into Dao pills. There was only one Dao Birth Alchemy Saint in the Dark Red Sacred Dao City nobody had heard of and no Dao Transformation Alchemy Saint.

Di Jiu’s words became the topic of many cultivators’ discussions very soon. Di Jiu was surely a swindler, and his goal was obviously to cheat everyone out of their top-notch divine spirit herbs and blacksmithing materials.

It made no sense for Di Jiu to say that he could refine divine weapons at or above the middle grade, not to mention that a Dao Transformation Alchemy Saint was a legend.

An Alchemy Saint above the Dao Transformation or a Divine Weapon Master? Who was he trying to deceive? Di Jiu also had previous convictions. Before going to destroy the Surplus Ocean Elixir Dispensary, he had exhorted two Heaven Essence Fruits from them.

The Heaven Essence Fruit was a Primordial Dao fruit that was enough of a treasure to refine Heaven Essence Dao Pills. Even one was earth-shaking enough, so what about more of them? Di Jiu clearly wanted to kill Ang Yuan and was just making up excuses.

Di Jiu now said that he was a top-notch Alchemy Saint and a Divine Weapon Master. This was the same as dealing with Ang Yuan. Di Jiu could kill Ang Yuan, so who would still dare to go against Di Jiu?

Di Jiu was unaware that what he’d told Ang Yuan had become an obstruction to his Alchemy and Weapon Pavilion.

At the moment, he had already opened an Alchemy and Weapon Pavilion at the original location of the Surplus Ocean Elixir Dispensary. In Di Jiu’s opinion, once his Alchemy and Weapon Pavilion was open, many cultivators would come forward to find him for alchemy and blacksmithing purposes right away.

Di Jiu was disappointed and confused. Even though his Alchemy and Weapon Pavilion had been open for a few hours, nobody had come over. Could the Void Ocean’s cultivators not lack divine pills, Dao pills, or even any kind of Dharma treasure? When he’d said that, a lot of people had heard him.

“Brother Di, Dark Red Sacred Dao City Lord Ji Lu has come to pay you a visit.” As Di Jiu was puzzled over why he had no business, Ding Chi came in and told him that the City Lord was there.

Di Jiu scanned the place with his Spiritual Force and immediately saw Ji Lu. He was a late-stage Primordial Dao Sacred Emperor who did not pose a threat to Di Jiu.

The City Lord had come personally, which was not easy for Di Jiu to grasp. He took the initiative to walk out and said with cupped fists to Ji Lu, who stood at the entrance, “City Lord Ji has personally come. I am panicked. City Lord, please have a seat inside.”

Although he said that he was panicked, he did not seem that way.

Ji Lu seemed completely unbothered by Di Jiu’s words and did not seem to mind that this place used to be the Surplus Ocean Elixir Dispensary’s territory. He laughed and said with cupped fists, “Daoist Di is so talented. You are one of the most genius cultivators I have seen. Even if other people do not believe you are an Alchemy Saint, I believe you very much.”

Di Jiu silently thought, “If you believe me, then take out the Dao fruits. I will help you with alchemy, okay? Who doesn’t know how to say that?”

Di Jiu was not in the mood to talk nonsense with Ji Lu. If nobody came for alchemy, he would make use of the Void Ocean to enter reclusive seclusion for some time. He had to reach the late-stage Dao Transformation before he left this place.

He had heard that the experts who went to the Void City would only return decades later. There was no need for him to worry. Right now, he should be improving his strength.

Ji Lu was not polite. After he sat down, he said, “Daoist Di, I came here to tell you two things. I had nothing to do with Jiang Dai hanging up your arrest warrant in the Dark Red Sacred Dao City…”

Di Jiu smiled slightly but did not say anything. Regardless of whether this matter had anything to do with Ji Lu, he did not care. As long as Ji Lu did not join forces with Jiang Dai and attack him, that was nothing. Before this, Ji Lu had not known who Di Jiu was.

Upon seeing that Di Jiu had a calm expression on his face, Ji Lu understood that Di Jiu should be an extremely practical person. He thus added, “You should know that the few Pavilion Lords of the Surplus Ocean Elixir Dispensary and some experts from the Dark Red Sacred Dao City went to the Void City. Compared to the Void Ocean, the Void City is a truly treasured land. There are many experts in the Void City, and there is a rumor that the peak of our Dao cultivation is not Dao Integration. There is also a third step…”

“Third step?” Di Jiu suddenly stood up. He had worked so hard to advance for the sake of the second-step Primordial Dao. He was now only a first-step Dao Transformation cultivator. He had yet to attain the Primordial Dao, yet he had just heard that a third step existed.