Ninth In the World

“Brother Di…” Once Ding Chi came out, he knew that this place was not the Dark Red Sacred Dao City anymore.

Di Jiu said, “We’ve left the realm of the Dao World, and this place is very likely a realm with a similar level to the Dao World…”

“Is it the realm of the Void City?” Ding Chi asked excitedly.

Di Jiu nodded. “According to Xu Baishang, this is the realm of the Void City. I’m not very sure. Since I need to enter seclusion for some time, Lightning and you will control the flying boat. As for directions, I don’t have any right now.”

Di Jiu believed that his current late-stage Dao Transformation strength was somewhat weak. Since he had found the Void City, he would be able to see the Void City sooner or later. Therefore, he was not in a hurry. He just had to work hard to improve his strength.

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After handing the flying boat to Lightning and Ding Chi, Di Jiu immediately boarded the flying boat and entered seclusion. He knew that Jiang Dai had not come here yet, so he did not have to worry about Jiang Dai chasing after him to kill him. His priority now was to raise his cultivation level.

Just as Di Jiu had expected, Ding Chi also wanted to enter seclusion alongside him. The Divine Spirit Qi on this flying boat was really rich. He was now at the late-stage Dao Birth, so if he wanted to reach the perfected Dao Birth quickly, he would have to make full use of his time.

If Ding Chi went into seclusion, only Lightning would be controlling the flying boat. Fortunately, Lightning was now a level-two divine beast. Its cultivation level was on par with a Dao Birth expert. Furthermore, Lightning loved controlling the flying boat and flew at a great speed in the void.

The first thing Di Jiu did when he was in seclusion was refine the Yin-Yang Taijitu that was Jiang Dai’s Dharma treasure. Since he had the time now, he naturally would not leave it in the ring.

When Di Jiu started refining the Yin-Yang Taijitu, he knew how ruthless Jiang Dai was. Not only had the Yin-Yang Taijitu been refined by Jiang Dai, but every layer of restriction had a pile of Spiritual Force imprints left by him.

Jiang Dai’s restrictions and imprints were evidently good. Di Jiu was sure that if he refined the restrictions of the Yin-Yang Taijitu like a normal Primordial Dao Realm cultivator, he would need at least hundreds of years. If an ordinary Dao Transformation cultivator refined it, they would probably completely refine it in tens of thousands of years. Even if they managed to do so, the imprints left behind by Jiang Dai might not necessarily be discovered and removed.

Jiang Dai was unlucky to have met Di Jiu. As far as the Array Dao was concerned, his Array Dao surpassed Jiang Dai’s. As far as Dao runes were concerned, he cultivated the Heaven Earth Nomological Dao. Thanks to his Nomological Dao, any imprints were transient unless an imprint did not have any laws. However, everything in the world had laws. Something without laws could not survive.

Jiang Dai had left many imprints on the Yin-Yang Taijitu, which showed how important it was to him.

Di Jiu spent a year on the first restriction on the Yin-Yang Taijitu, a month on the second restriction, and three days on the third restriction.

Likewise, he spent one year and five months to completely refine a connate treasure with 108 restrictions.

When Di Jiu had thoroughly refined the Yin-Yang Taijitu and completely controlled it, he then understood what this Yin-Yang Taijitu represented.

Not only was the Yin-Yang Taijitu the best defensive Dharma treasure, but it was also a top-notch offensive Dharma treasure. It disregarded the Five-Element Yin-Yang and gave birth to all living things in the world…

Di Jiu opened his palm and the Yin-Yang Taijitu floated above his head. He then suddenly thought of something. If the Yin-Yang Taijitu was used for defense, could it deal with an ordinary Primordial Chaos expert?

Di Jiu very soon gave up this impractical idea. Since his cultivation level was still far to a certain degree, it could not be complemented by a Dharma treasure. Otherwise, he could have just taken out the Reincarnation Wooden Bridge instead of the Yin-Yang Taijitu.

He had not taken out the Reincarnation Wooden Bridge in any battles yet, not because it was not powerful but because he was not powerful. Once he revealed this, he would not have any peace despite being a late-stage Dao Transformation expert.

Di Jiu had always had an indistinct feeling that, even though it seemed that he had completely refined the Yin-Yang Taijitu, it was not completely refined yet. There was a limit to his current strength, so he could not capture any remaining restrictions on the Yin-Yang Taijitu.

He put away the taijitu and continued blacksmithing. After wiping out the Surplus Ocean Elixir Dispensary, Di Jiu had obtained the rings of Ang Yuan and a Primordial Dao cultivator.

There was nothing much in the Primordial Dao cultivator’s ring. However, Ang Yuan had many good things in his ring. There were all sorts of divine spirit herbs and a pile of blacksmithing materials.

Di Jiu’s current Alchemy Dao had reached the Primordial Dao Alchemy Deity and Dao Transformation Alchemy Saint. Thus, he was not very interested in the divine spirit herbs. Even if he refined all of them into elixir pills, he could not raise his Alchemy Dao level. At the moment, his priority was blacksmithing. He could only refine middle-grade divine weapons now and almost refine high-grade divine weapons.

Now that he had so many blacksmithing materials and did not need to enter reclusive cultivation anytime soon, he naturally would not let this chance slip away.

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Di Jiu entered seclusion for blacksmithing while Ding Chi entered seclusion to raise his cultivation level. Lightning was controlling the flying boat like a fly and kept bumping into things in the void. Fortunately, it still had good intuition. Even though it did not know anything about directions, it did not control the flying boat into the void whirlpool or the void rift.

Time flew very quickly in the void. By the time Di Jiu refined the first high-grade divine weapon, it had been a decade since Lightning had started controlling the flying boat into the void.

After a decade, Ding Chi’s cultivation level has been stabilized at the late-stage Dao Birth. Unfortunately, Di Jiu did not cultivate. Even though Ding Chi’s cultivation level rose steadily, he was still much slower compared to his cultivation speed in the Dark Red Sacred Dao City.

Di Jiu finally stopped blacksmithing and used up all the materials he had. This was simply because there were too many kinds of materials in Ang Yuan’s Quintessential World. Plus, he had some Five-Element materials. Therefore, he could become a true Divine Weapon Grandmaster in a decade.

Di Jiu scanned the boat with his Spiritual Force and saw that Ding Chi was in seclusion and Lightning was controlling the flying boat at a great speed in the void.

In over a decade, Ding Chi had not improved much. However, Lightning seemed to have undergone many changes.

The Surveillance Array showed that in the ten years that Lightning had controlled the flying boat, there had been no ordinary flying boats or cultivators. There had been nothing else besides some void beasts and void chaos.

The universe was vast, and so was the void in the universe.

Di Jiu shook his head and did not change the middle-grade flying boat into a high-grade flying boat. Without a goal, it did not matter whether he changed it.

There were no directions in the void and he had done what he ought to do. Apart from cultivating, there was nothing else he could do. He would just let Lightning fly the flying boat at will.

Di Jiu set up some Dharma Arrays and took out the supreme-grade Dao meridian in the Ninth World before starting to cultivate.

Before Di Jiu had cultivated, Ding Chi had entered reclusive cultivation for more than 10 years but had made few improvements. Thanks to Di Jiu’s cultivation, Ding Chi could immediately sense the Heaven Earth Law becoming clearer. His understanding of the Dao force also instantly grew clearer, while his stagnant cultivation level started rising.

Ding Chi was ecstatic, as he knew that Di Jiu had started cultivating. This time, he needed to seize this chance and reach the perfected Dao Birth.

Di Jiu did not care much about flying in the void. During his frantic Nomological Qi Circulation, his surrounding Divine Spirit Qi whirlpool once again took form. Apart from that, a huge Divine Spirit Qi whirlpool also formed outside the flying boat.

He had come out of seclusion in advance previously because Xu Baishang had come. Nobody could disturb him this time, so Di Jiu would not stop increasing his strength.

Under normal circumstances, he seldom used elixir pills. At that moment, however, Di Jiu swallowed them. Using elixir pills to raise his cultivation level would be faster. However, there were many disadvantages to doing so. Those divine pills had a more obvious elixir poison.

The divine pills that Di Jiu refined were basically seven-patterned or even better. Nevertheless, it was not a particularly good thing to use so many of them.

For the sake of raising his cultivation strength to the Primordial Dao Realm as soon as possible, he did not care so much.

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One day, Lightning controlled the flying boat disorderly in the void as usual. A black flying boat suddenly appeared in Lightning’s Spiritual Force, going in the opposite direction. When their flying boat brushed past, that flying boat suddenly caught up.

Lightning had followed Di Jiu for a long time. Thus, it knew very well why that flying boat had caught up. It was simply because the Divine Spirit Qi on the flying boat that it was controlling was so rich that a layer of Divine Spirit Qi enveloped the flying boat.