Chapter 896 - The Way to Leave the Dao Abyss
Po Xu had also guessed that Yan Ji should have been reborn on the Mountain Gaze. He had actually planned to capture Yan Ji and force Ning Cheng to hand over his things.
After discovering that Ning Cheng was much stronger than him, he felt dejected and no longer took this matter to heart. When he’d realized that his things had not been taken by Ning Cheng, he’d no longer paid any attention to Yan Ji.
Although there were many cultivators on the square, nobody dared to covet Di Jiu’s things, even though they knew that Di Jiu had the Quintessential Essence of the Universe.
Di Jiu suddenly said with cupped fists, “Fellow Daoists, if anybody knows Yan Ji’s whereabouts, I will bring you along when I leave this place. Apart from that, I’ll also give you a supreme-grade divine spirit meridian and a nomological fragment.”
Although the cultivators there were all wealthy people, there were still a lot of supreme-grade divine spirit meridians. Besides, the most valuable thing around was not the supreme-grade divine spirit meridian that Di Jiu had taken out, but the Five-Element nomological fragment. As for leaving the place with Di Jiu, not many of them cared about that. Not everyone had realized that something was amiss like Yi Ji or was eager to leave this place.
Most importantly, Di Jiu’s request was too simple. They just had to tell him whether they knew where Yan Ji was.
After Di Jiu finished asking, Chu Manhe drew Yan Ji’s portrait in the void. However, nobody came forward to tell them anything about Yan Ji’s whereabouts in half a day.
Di Jiu looked at Chu Manhe and said, “Senior Sister Manhe, it looks like Yan Ji shouldn’t be here. Otherwise, someone would at least have known.”
“Could something have happened to her?” Chu Manhe asked, feeling a little worried.
Zuo Zhongren said, “No. I’ve always been in the Dao Abyss. If Yan Ji was here, I would definitely have heard of her name. In fact, I’ve never heard of Yan Ji.”
Chu Manhe was naturally fine with that, as she had always been in Di Jiu’s Quintessential World.
After Ye Yimo and Chu Manhe entered the Quintessential World, Di Jiu told Po Xu, Zuo Zhongren, Ye Yimo, and Ci, “We don’t know the way out of the Dao Abyss. I’ll walk first and the few of you will follow me. If anything happens, I will tell everyone.”
Yi Ji replied awkwardly, “I’ve yet to recuperate from my serious injuries. I’m afraid I will be a little slower.”
Di Jiu knew what Yi Ji was implying. He raised his hand to strike the area between Yi Ji’s eyebrows with a Dao rune.
He had injured the area between Yi Ji’s eyebrows with one saber move. If he didn’t help him, it would be very hard for Yi Ji to get rid of the corrosion of the saber intent Dao runes of his Heavenly Aqua Saber.
Upon seeing Di Jiu do that, Yi Ji was ecstatic. It was just like he had expected. After Di Jiu did that, the saber intent aura that was corroding his skin and Dao instantly vanished and the wound that could not heal itself very soon healed completely.
“Thank you, Daoist Di.” Itinerant Yi Ji bowed excitedly to thank him. Yi Ji had simply not imagined he would do such a thing. However, there was no psychological barrier for him now. Sometimes, when one was in dire straits, one would gradually get used to it.
Di Jiu gestured with his hand. Itinerant Yi Ji consciously followed Ci, knowing very well that he had the lowest status among them. Even though Ci had obtained Di Jiu’s friendship, nobody knew who Ci was.
At the moment, everyone on the square was looking at Di Jiu and the rest. They knew that Mercury was the only one who had managed to leave the Dao Abyss. Since Mercury was Ye Zifeng’s person, he didn’t want to work with Di Jiu and the rest. They couldn’t capture Mercury, no matter how powerful they were. All the cultivators on the square wanted to know how Di Jiu and the rest were going to get out of that place.
Di Jiu closed his eyes. He knew very well that he could choose any place as a starting point to leave the Dao Abyss. Therefore, he didn’t leave the square and he gained insight into the Dao Abyss’ void laws wholeheartedly. He was confident about leaving this place because he had climbed the Mountain Gaze. The Mountain Gaze was definitely out of the Dao Abyss, so that was akin to getting out once.
However, Di Jiu was somewhat afraid of the Mountain Gaze Peak. Thus, he chose to gain insight into the Dao runes on the Dao Abyss’ trading hall square. He believed that as long as he managed to gain insight, he could find a way out of a place like the Mountain Gaze and leave the Dao Abyss.
Di Jiu was not irrational enough to do this by force or escape out of that place on his own. He could not directly escape from this place at the moment. If he did, why would experts like Yi Ji and Ci choose to go out with him?