Ninth In the World

At the moment, Di Jiu already stood in the middle of the lake but his entire body was not submerged in the lake. Endless spirit currents permeated his body and changed his physical body, muscles, and bones. Even his blood was slowly being changed.

 This Body-Tempering Lake was definitely a top-notch place. As he wondered whether to take away the Body-Tempering Lake, he realized that the more he circulated the Colossal Kun Body-Tempering Art, the weaker the spirit current in the Body-Tempering Lake became.

 Di Jiu could immediately sense that there was a limit to the spirit current in the Body-Tempering Lake. Since he had now entered the lake and absorbed it very quickly, he had caused this spirit current, which could change one’s physical body, muscles, and bones, to weaken.

 Di Jiu was not the only one to meet this problem. The other cultivators did as well. They could clearly sense that after Di Jiu had come in, the Body-Tempering Lake’s effects had weakened and they kept getting weaker and weaker.

 Nobody dared to provoke Di Jiu. Some cultivators would rather leave the Body-Tempering Lake, so they quickly left.

It was because Di Jiu was so powerful. If they could bear to leave the Body-Tempering Lake, they would have done so earlier. Since the Body-Tempering Lake had weakened now, what was the point of staying there?

 Di Jiu, who had also stopped cultivating, had seen what was going on. There was a pearl that was about to disperse under his feet. The reason that the Body-Tempering Lake could change a cultivator’s Tempered Body, blood, muscles, bones, and meridians was because of this pearl. With his addition to the lake, the lake kept becoming smaller and smaller. As a result, the lake was gradually going to become useless.

 As Di Jiu was about to take out the remaining pearl scraps to have a look, they vanished.

 Although this was somewhat regrettable, Di Jiu did not mind. He had obtained what he should have. Regardless of the Nirvana Black Metal Stone or the inside of the Body-Tempering Lake, he had gained a lot.

 At the same time, she knew very well that if Di Jiu’s Dao meridian was revealed, endless people would probably chase after him right away.

 “Thank you.” Di Jiu was very satisfied deep down, so there was a hint of excitement in his tone.

 Back then, Xu Baishang had given him a low-grade Dao meridian at best. Di Jiu was sure that this was a supreme-grade Dao meridian, as he could sense it the moment he took it out.

 A supreme-grade Dao meridian was very good news both for him and the Creation Wood.

 “Not bad. Follow me from now on.” Di Jiu patted Lightning’s head. It had contributed twice. If it was not for Lightning the first time, he could not have perfected his Reincarnation Wooden Bridge or gone through his Dao Birth successfully. How could he have changed his flesh and blood and obtained the Nirvana Black Metal Stone without it the second time? These things aside, he had also obtained a complete Dao meridian, which he had wanted the most.

 “Junior Sister Yu, I’m leaving. We’ll meet again.” Di Jiu could not wait to analyze the Dao meridian.

 Yu Qianxi hurriedly stopped him and responded, “Senior Brother Di, I really want to invite you to the Vast Ruins.”

 “I’m sorry. I don’t have any intention of going there now.” Di Jiu apologized.

 He had just come back from the Vast Ruins. Even if he wanted to go there once again, it would only be after his cultivation level reached the late-stage Dao Transformation.

 Di Jiu did not know how strong his combat power was now. He had purposely let Piao Hui use the spatial domain to lock him previously because he had wanted to see how far he could go with a Dao Birth cultivator. He had not expected that Piao Hui would be too poor and he would not get anything out of him.

 If Di Jiu could do that, he indeed had the qualifications to face a second-step expert. If he had been unable to win and escape, he would not have done things so secretively.

 “Senior Brother Di, I know you just came from the Vast Ruins. If you listen to me and still don’t want to go, I won’t say anything else.” Yu Qianxi glanced at Di Jiu, sounding very sincere.

 Di Jiu could only reply, “Tell me.”

 Even though she knew that nobody else would come, Yu Qianxi still set up a noise isolation restriction. “Senior Brother Di, on the third level of the Vast Ruins is a Dao fruit forest with many Dao fruit trees. Those Dao fruit trees have been there for many years, and the Dao fruits on those trees are worth an inestimable price…”

 Di Jiu stared at Yu Qianxi in a daze. There were Dao fruit trees in the Vast Ruins? Shouldn’t it be hard for a Dao fruit tree to survive in the Vast Ruins?

 If there were really Dao fruit trees, Di Jiu had to go. Why were there so few Alchemy Deities and Alchemy Saints in the Dao World? Because there were not many Dao fruits in the Dao World. An Alchemy Saint was an Alchemy Master who could refine Dao pills. If there were no Dao fruits, how could they become an Alchemy Saint? How could they refine Dao pills?

 Upon seeing Di Jiu’s doubts clearly, Yu Qianxi added, “What I said is true. Only I know about this.”

 Di Jiu calmed down and asked as he looked at her, “Junior Sister Yu, I’m only an Itinerant Cultivator. I’m not close to you. Why do you want to team up with me? I think many experts are more powerful than me in the Vast Pure Sacred Sect that you come from. Isn’t that right?”

Yu Qianxi bowed before Di Jiu. “Senior Brother Mo mentioned that you are the cultivator with the strongest survival capability in the Vast Ruins. That’s why I came to find you. It’s just that I didn’t know who you were all along. Now, I’m even more sure that you are the person I’m looking for. If I have to state a reason, I have two of them. First, we are both first-step cultivators. Second, another cultivator would certainly have silenced me immediately after obtaining the Dao meridian. However, you didn’t kill me. I did not even sense any killing intent. Therefore, I think that you are the friend who is most worthy of teaming up with me.”

 There was something else that Yu Qianxi would not say. No matter how strong Di Jiu’s cultivation level was, if a first-step cultivator wanted to kill her but failed, she would have sufficient techniques to escape.