Ninth In the World

After leaving the Ninth World, Di Jiu took out a pile of Divine Essence Pills and increased his strength in a frenzy.

 However, the speed of his upgrade was simply too fast. No matter how many Divine Essence Pills and supporting elixir pills he consumed, his cultivation did not increase much. Another year passed and Di Jiu received Yu Qianxi’s message.

 Sighing, he put the array flags away. He had spent a little over one year in seclusion, but his cultivation level had not increased at all, although his Divine Essence had become slightly more condensed.

 “Senior Brother Di, thank you for waiting for me for a few years.” After searching the Vast Ruins for a few years, the veil she wore to obscure her face was long lost.

 Di Jiu was impressed by her beauty. However, judging by Yu Qianxi’s disappointed expression, Di Jiu knew that she had failed to gain insight into what she had been seeking.

 “It’s nothing. Furthermore, I have gained quite a bit over the past few years. Let’s go. We can head to the second level now,” replied Di Jiu as he waved his hand dismissively.

 He had indeed gained much over the past few years. He had become a Primordial Dao Alchemy Deity in addition to leveling-up the Heavenly Aqua Saber into a middle-grade divine weapon.

 Simply based on his status as a Primordial Dao Alchemy Deity, he would have access to an unlimited amount of cultivating resources in the Dao World. Of course, this was provided that he did not offend Jiang Dai.

 Yu Qianxi bowed before Di Jiu and said with some embarrassment, “Senior Brother Di, a Senior Sister from my sect called Wen Xi-er met her doom in the Vast Ruins. Previously, my sect sent out many people to find her body to no avail. If possible, I wish to search the second level as well.”

 A violent roar startled Yu Qianxi out of her musings. She felt despair when she saw the incoming dense wave of Five-Element Beasts.

 They were really unlucky. It was common to encounter Five-Element Beasts in the Vast Ruins, but there would only be 100 to 200 of them on the first level. On the second level, the most they would encounter was 10 of them. The wave of Five-Element Beasts before her included at least 10,000.

 She could still have turned around and escaped if this had happened elsewhere. However, that was now impossible since this was the Vast Ruins. Yu Qianxi looked at Di Jiu. She knew that this had nothing to do with Di Jiu’s strength, as their luck was simply terrible to say the least.

 “Are you not worried?” asked Yu Qianxi, her face deathly pale. She discovered that Di Jiu looked very calm and was drawing something in the air by using his finger.

 The laws here were far too fragmented and chaotic. Thus, she was completely unable to sense what Di Jiu was drawing in the air.

 Boom! She heard an explosion before she could receive a reply from Di Jiu. Then, the whole space shook.

 Yu Qianxi stared dumbly at the tens of thousands of Five-Element Beasts, which were blocked by a Defense Array Di Jiu had set up unknowingly.

 What stupefied her was the fact that Di Jiu rushed out of the Defense Array, unsheathing the saber weapon on his back. Then, he leaped into the Five-Element Beast swarm.

 Piercing screams could be heard. Yu Qianxi only saw glistening saber flashes that dispersed thereafter within the beast crowd.

 “What kind of supernormal ability is this exactly?” Yu Qianxi murmured as she stared at Di Jiu’s saber flare in complete astonishment.

 In order to test the Heavenly Aqua Saber he had recently refined, Di Jiu chose to not even use the Primeval Thunder Pattern. He was highly satisfied with the powerful saber. He would have no problem dealing with the Five-Element Beasts, no matter how many of them came his way, much less if a mere 10,000 of them attacked.

 When other people were in the Vast Ruins, they would tread carefully in fear of accidentally being sucked into a fragmented nomological whirlpool. Di Jiu was not concerned about that, however. He cultivated the Nomological Dao, so such a situation could not possibly occur. Even if it did, he would still be able to escape and avoid being pulverized like other cultivators given his current strength.

In other words, no one else possessed a greater capability to survive within the Vast Ruins.

 Yu Qianxi finally understood that the Defense Array setup was not meant for the two of them. It was for her only. He would not have needed a Defense Array if he had been alone.

 “So powerful!” Yu Qianxi did not know that Di Jiu was not afraid of this nomological fragment. Therefore, the impression he gave her could be summarized into two words: so powerful.