Ninth In the World

Another month passed before Di Jiu finally managed to completely finish repairing the Defense Array. Then, he left the Search Lake.

Di Jiu had originally intended to leave a backdoor in this Defense Array, as he was worried that someone would be forced to retrace their steps even though he had made so much effort to cross the Search Lake. This was because the Defense Array was preventing them from leaving the Search Lake.

Di Jiu was able to exit the Search Lake only because the Defense Array had been previously incomplete. Now that he had repaired the hold in the Defense Array, other people would have no choice but to turn around even if they transversed the lake.

Doing this would indeed render a portion of the cultivators who had successfully transversed the Search Lake unable to leave the lake. This was unfair to them. However, Di Jiu quickly changed his mind about this matter. He felt that there was no such thing as fairness in the world. If he left a backdoor behind, in the future, someone might discover the defect in the Defense Array. Should that happen, all of Di Jiu’s efforts over the few years would be wasted.

After all, not everyone would have the same intentions as him: to protect the Dao World’s Defense Array and keep it intact.

Thus, he decided to not leave a backdoor. When the Defense Array was repaired, only Di Jiu would be able to freely pass through. Everyone else needed to leave the Dao World through the real exit of the Defense Array.

Di Jiu, who was in a jolly mood, left the Dao World’s Defense Array. He even called Lightning out to let it control the flying boat.

Lightning could go wherever it wanted to. What he needed to do now was stabilize his cultivation. In any case, there was no specific location of the Void Ocean, so he wanted to stabilize his cultivation level before doing anything else.

He took out a pile of Divine Essence Pills and another pile of Dao pills used by Dao Transformation cultivators. There were indeed many cultivating resources to be found in the Void Ocean, but he did not believe that these resources were easily obtainable. He needed to become stronger in preparation for that.

Right now, he was unafraid of Primordial Dao cultivators. However, he knew very well that his current strength was insufficient to battle with Jiang Dai. That day would most likely come only when he attained the Primordial Dao Realm.

The people gathered there were not surprised by this turn of events. It was normal for one to die when they stayed in the Void Ocean for more than an hour. Anything else would be abnormal.

Ding Chi’s heart sank, as he had similarly sensed that his friend had died. Now, he could not protect himself, much less his friend.

“Let me see if anyone dares to bring you up, punk,” said Ang Yuan frostily as he stared at Ding Chi in the water and chuckled.

Ding Chi did not reply, nor did he attempt to make a fool of himself by trying to get back to the shore. He knew that his death was imminent. In the Dao World, he would have brought up the name of the Great Buddha Mountain, but this was the Dark Red Sacred Dao City by the Void Ocean. Such an act would be laughable there.

This made him really desperate. The Great Buddha Mountain had lost two Primordial Chaos experts because it wanted to protect him. He had yet to exact any revenge, yet here he was, being kicked by someone into the Void Ocean. How could he be willing to resign himself to his fate?

Ang Yuan walked to the edge of the Void Screen Pier, bent down and looked at Ding Chi, who was submerged in the ocean water. He was about to mock the man when a sword came flying from the sky.

After he grabbed the flying sword, Ang Yuan’s Spiritual Force landed on it. Then, he immediately turned and swiftly left the place, ignoring Ding Chi, who had landed into the ocean.

Upon seeing that Ang Yuan had left, Ding Chi hastily climbed out of the ocean water and dashed toward the city gates of the Dark Red Sacred Dao City.

He would die if he remained in the Dark Red Sacred Dao City any longer. There was still a chance of survival if he left the city now.

Ding Chi rushed out. No one stopped him either.

…

Di Jiu made Lightning stop the flying boat. He had just come out of reclusive cultivation, and his cultivation level had stabilized to the early-stage Dao Transformation Realm. He sensed an imprint aura the moment he came out. He had interacted with Xue Yu before, so he knew that this imprint had been left behind by Xue Yu when he scanned it with his Spiritual Force.

Di Jiu was extremely grateful for Xue Yu, who had found the Void Ocean and left behind his imprint aura where the Void Ocean was located. The man had been worried Di Jiu might miss it.

Di Jiu really might have missed the location of the Void Ocean without Xue Yu. After the discovery of the imprint, Di Jiu controlled the flying boat and quickly entered the Void Ocean.