Ninth In the World

Boom! Boom! The sound of thunder rumbling woke Di Jiu from his stupor. When he woke up, he saw that Qian Fenghua was undergoing his Immortal Emperor Thunder Tribulation some distance away.

Di Jiu let out a sigh of relief. His cultivation level had stabilized at the seventh-stage Immortal Emperor Realm, but he had a feeling that his true cultivation had surpassed that. The reason it had stopped increasing was because of the plane he was in. It was not because of this that the Heaven Earth Law was incomplete, but because something unexplainable was repressing the increase of his cultivation level.

“Di Jiu, thank you so much. I don’t know when I would have attained the Immortal Emperor Realm if it hadn’t been for you.” Qian Fenghua, who had successfully completed his Tribulation Transcendence, walked over excitedly.

He had long lost any desire to live on when he had been confined in the underground of the Polar Night Sky Market. It was unexpected that he would attain the Immortal Emperor Realm so shortly after Di Jiu had saved him. This was the most extraordinary event he had ever experienced in his life.

Di Jiu was about to reply when he suddenly sensed Black Fire’s anxiety. Black Fire was his beast companion, which carried Di Jiu’s contract seal. Di Jiu would immediately sense it when Black Fire encountered a life-threatening situation. The person attacking Black Fire was no one ordinary considering Di Jiu’s reputation in the Four Major Immortal Continents.

Di Jiu took out a locale ball for Qian Fenghua as he informed him anxiously, “I own an establishment called the Peace Hotel in the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City. You can head over there, Master. I need to leave and deal with something urgent.”

With that, Di Jiu disappeared from the range of Qian Fenghua’s Spiritual Force.

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On the Demonic Clothing Mountain peak, Black Fire was pinned onto the void by a long black nail. The entire Demonic Clothing Mountain peak was silent except for the sound of blood dripping.

Zhangsun Huang was in a similar state, except for the fact that he was pinned onto the ground.

Upon hearing that, Zhangsun Huang shuddered in excitement. He wanted to lift his head to take a good look at Big Brother but he could not move a muscle due to the two black nails pinning his body.

Fang Feilou had suffered at Di Jiu’s hands but he too knew how formidable Di Jiu was.

Now that Di Jiu had arrived, he hastily lowered his head. Earlier, he had used his silver tongue and a pile of treasure to bribe the black-robed man into letting him off this once. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that this was why the black-robed man had yet to attack him. He was still unsure as to whether the man would attack him later.

He certainly could not show that he was well-acquainted with Di Jiu, as this would offend the black-robed man. The man’s oppression was simply too great. No matter how powerful Di Jiu was, he would still be inferior to this black-robed man.

“You are Di Jiu?” asked the black-robed man coldly as he stared at Di Jiu. His powerful domain had already locked the surrounding space, so Di Jiu would not be able to escape regardless of how formidable his escape technique was.

Di Jiu knew that the black-robed man had not come from the Immortal World the moment his eyes landed on him. The fluctuations of the man’s aura were similar to Zhong Ao’s.

The black-robed man before him was much more powerful than Zhong Ao, who had gotten injured and lost his physical body then. If this encounter had occurred before Di Jiu had attained the Immortal Emperor Realm, he knew that he would have been no match for this man. Now, however, he was not afraid of the black-robed man, for he sensed a restricting Heaven Earth Law aura on him. This meant that the man was most likely carrying a nomological talisman.

“That’s right, it is I.” Di Jiu did not use his domain to repress the man’s domain, yet his nomological array flags dotted the surrounding space. With a lift of his hand, he took away the black nails on Black Fire and Zhangsun Huang’s bodies.

“Eh?” exclaimed the black-robed man in disbelief when he saw how easily Di Jiu had been able to remove the nails. This stunt showed that Di Jiu had mastered the law of the void as well…

It was simply unheard of for a weakling who had yet to even fully form their Dao to understand the law of the Immortal World’s void. Even a pig would not believe that Di Jiu didn’t have any secrets.

“Not bad, not bad…” The black-robed man tried to grab Di Jiu.

The surrounding space of this plane disappeared, transforming into the black-robed man’s absolute space. At the moment, everyone else within this space could sense the prowess of the black-robed man’s attack, even though they were not the actual target. They believed that they would not be able to do anything but wait for their death if they were in Di Jiu’s position.

Fang Feilou wiped his forehead. The reason he had been able to survive to this day was definitely not because of how powerful he was but because of how sharp his judgment was. Upon comparing the Di Jiu of the past and the black-robed man of the present, he believed that his judgment was accurate. The black-robed man was unbelievably powerful, so Di Jiu would not be able to escape from him.

Di Jiu might be able to catch up to the black-robed man after a few more years. Now, it would only be wishful thinking to believe so.

Di Jiu grunted and took a small step. He unsheathed the Heavenly Aqua Saber, which transformed into a several-thousand-feet-long blue saber flare.

Everyone else in the vicinity only saw Di Jiu take a small step away before the isolated space created by the black-robed man disappeared. Then, their surroundings returned to their original state.