Ninth In the World

“Senior Sister Xitan, what does this old bark want to steal from you?” Di Jiu asked Tang Xitan as he pinched Xiang Mu’s neck.

“Tang Beiwei greets you, Senior Brother Di. This person wants to snatch the Nirvana Tree fragment I bought at the auction for a high price.” Tang Beiwei spoke hurriedly. She had heard Tang Xitan mention Di Jiu.

Now that Di Jiu was here, he was incomparably powerful. As he stood before her, he reminded her of her elder brother. They were the same type of person. Tang Beiwei was sure she had not misjudged him.

Xiang Mu knew that he could not survive by relying on himself now. He quickly looked at Ao Kui and Ji Lie before shouting shrewdly, “Daoist Ji, Daoist Ao, please assist me! I’m a member of the Hundred Clan Conference! This person also wrecked many things of the Dragon Clan…”

Xiang Mu was very aware of Di Jiu’s strength. Even though Di Jiu had easily restrained him, that was because he relied too much on his own domain and had been hit by Di Jiu when he had least expected it. If four or five late-stage Primordial Chaos experts teamed up against Di Jiu, he would not meet a good end. Even if they could not kill him, they would still seriously injure him and he would flee from danger.

Given Ao Kui’s summoning ability, it should be easy for four or five late-stage Primordial Chaos experts to respond to him and team up to deal with Di Jiu.

Ao Kui’s face turned very ugly. After living for so many years, how could he not see that as long as he joined forces with the remaining Primordial Chaos Sacred Emperors of the Dragon Clan and Ji Lie, they would very likely be able to seriously injure Di Jiu? But what would be the point of this? He was certain that he could not make an expert like Di Jiu stay.

If he could not make Di Jiu stay, injuring him seriously would be harming the entire Dragon Clan. How could Ao Kui do such a thing?

“Daoist Di, please show mercy. Xiang Mu is the Clan Leader of the Heavenly Purification Clan. Our realm is now facing a crisis…”

Before Ji Lie could finish, he saw a bloody mist explode. Xiang Mu, who was being pinched by Di Jiu, turned into nothing.

While he was speaking, Ao Kui’s perfected Primordial Chaos domain frantically spread out and a vast dragon prestige aura filled this space. In an instant, Di Jiu could feel his domain weaken and he could not even carry on.

So powerful! Di Jiu, who was shocked, realized how formidable a true perfected Primordial Chaos expert was. Compared to Ao Kui before him, Xiang Mu, who he had killed, had been nothing.

Di Jiu cupped his fists before Ao Kui. “Clan Leader Ao, I accidentally wrecked the Dragon Clan’s palace previously. I apologize for that and agree to compensate you. However, Ji Lie made a move on my friend, so I can’t just leave it that way. I can allow Ji Lie to leave the Dragon Clan. We’ll just go outside to solve the problem.”

As soon as Ao Kui demonstrated his strength, Di Jiu understood that if he wanted to deal with Ji Lie, he definitely could not offend Ao Kui. His current strength was still not enough.

Upon hearing Di Jiu’s words, Ao Kui was relieved. He knew very well that Di Jiu had intentionally broken the Dragon Clan’s palace and restrictions. It had not been accidental. Now, Di Jiu had offered an apology and said that he was willing to compensate them. He was giving face to the Dragon Clan. Unless it was a last resort, he would definitely not want to offend Di Jiu.

Di Jiu reminded him of someone. He reminded him of the Human Clan’s Ye Mo, who had also been at the Primordial Dao Realm back then and had suppressed Wen Deshui in the Dragon Clan. Wen Deshui was incomparable to Xiang Mu, and one could say that even a few Xiang Mus would not be anything for him. Di Jiu had just pinched Xiang Mu to death, just like Ye Mo had done at the time. Both of them were experts from the Human Clan.

The reason that he did not dare cut off his means of retreat was because he knew that Ye Mo had killed the five late-stage Primordial Chaos cultivators, who had teamed up. At the time, Ye Mo had also been a Primordial Dao Realm cultivator.

If he offended such an expert, the Dragon Clan would not benefit in any way. Worst-case scenario, he would even cause his clan to be exterminated.

“Since Daoist Di said so, if I insisted, it would seem like the Dragon Clan is petty.” Without hesitation, Ao Kui did what Di Jiu said. With his respect, some losses on the surface would not be considered much.

Di Jiu turned to Ji Lie and told him faintly, “Now, it’s our turn to settle the score. When you dealt with my friend, did you think that there was nobody in the Human Clan?”

Ji Lie gasped and slowly responded, “What are you going to do?”

He was really scared. Ao Kui evidently did not want to stand up for him. If he was facing this powerful Human Clan cultivator alone, he was afraid everything would lead to disaster.