Ninth In the World

Di Jiu held a tattered jade slip in his hands. This jade slip was only a travel note, not an array formation jade slip.

The cultivator who had left the note had recorded that he had once seen the Heavenly Fire Spirit in the Sky Screen Pit.

Di Jiu immediately recalled that he had been to the Sky Screen before. It was a dilapidated planet in the Cultivation World that had later become a mystic area. The Sky Screen Pit described in the travel note was probably not the Sky Screen that he had been to previously.

However, what had intrigued Di Jiu were not the words “Sky Screen”, but “Heavenly Fire Spirit”.

According to the Book of the World, the Heavenly Fire Spirit, which was formed by the condensation of the purest fire elements in the universe, could make all flames transcend nirvana and turn into immortal flames.

Although his Dao fire had yet to be turned into an immortal flame, this wasn’t because he didn’t have the materials to do so. In fact, Di Jiu had already amassed most of the materials to advance to the immortal flame. He even had two Planetary Core Rocks, including one that had been used to upgrade the Sangharama Flame. Thus, he still had one left.

He had yet to upgrade his Dao fire because he wanted his Dao fire to transcend nirvana first before upgrading it.

Di Jiu had to take a trip to the Sky Screen Pit. Therefore, he raised his hand and sent a message to Yan Xiaosha.

Yan Xiaosha’s cultivation had been at the peak Immortal Lord Realm. After the sun had set in the Immortal World, his cultivation level hadn’t advanced anymore. This was because there was no way of feeling the Immortal Spirit Qi to cultivate in the Sunset Immortal World. Thus, his cultivation level had dropped to the late-stage Immortal Lord Realm before he had come to the Starry Sky Immortal City.

Di Jiu was even surer that the travel note hadn’t lied. It had been recorded that all kinds of Heaven-Earth Unique Flames appeared endlessly in places where there was Heavenly Fire Spirit.

“Give me the location of the Sky Screen Pit, Xiaosha. I want to go and take a look.” By now, Di Jiu was determined to go to the Sky Screen Pit.

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Xian Ze mustered the courage to stop a few cultivators in their tracks. For many years now, he had been puzzled by seeing many cultivators head in the same direction.

In the past, he hadn’t seen any cultivators for a few years. However, a lot of them had suddenly appeared, all of them heading in the same direction.

He had to summon his courage to ask in order to find out why those cultivators were headed in the same direction.

Xian Ze had stopped three cultivators, two males and one female. He believed that all three of them were most likely experts who had perfected the Domain Realm. None of them were any weaker than Mei Bashan, whom Di Jiu had killed previously.

“What is the matter?” asked a male cultivator straightforwardly as he stared at Xian Ze. His tone was cold.

Xian Ze quickly bowed and said, “Sir, I’ve noticed that many of you are heading in the same direction. Can I know why?”

The female cultivator laughed as she said, “Okay, we can tell you. It is because a Starry Sky Immortal City has appeared in the Sunset Immortal Protectorate. One can cultivate in this Immortal City and even experience the Tribulation Transcendence and become a Perfected Immortal!”

So, this was why! Xian Ze wasn’t overly happy about it, as there were many Immortal Cities in the Immortal World. Besides, most of them supported cultivating. He wouldn’t be allowed into the Immortal City even if he went. He knew that all the Immortal Cities required either immortal crystals or a billion high-grade Spirit Stones to allow one entry.

“You should be relieved. I heard that City Lord Di of the Starry Sky Immortal City doesn’t like too many killings. That’s why Big Brother Wan didn’t bother killing you,” said the tall, thin cultivator walking on the extreme side coldly.

Xian Ze’s heart twitched. City Lord Di? He suddenly recalled Di Jiu. Could City Lord Di be Di Jiu?

It was no wonder that he felt so. In the past, when everybody had thought that Di Jiu’s cultivation was weak, he had killed two Domain Realm experts of two large sects in the Galaxy Master Sect.

Just when he had thought that they needed to tone down and be humble in the True Dominion, Di Jiu had killed the top expert of the True Dominion, Mei Bashan. Nobody in the entire True Dominion had dared to say anything about it. They had even followed the rules that Di Jiu had laid down for holding the next True Dominion Genius Tournament.

Thus, it wasn’t strange that a man as talented as Di Jiu would build an Immortal City in the Immortal World. Besides, that man had mentioned that City Lord Di didn’t like killings. Di Jiu was exactly the kind of person who would kill only if he was provoked.

“Seniors…” Just as Xian Ze was about to ask for the full name of City Lord Di, the three individuals walked far away.

Xian Ze had finally found a new purpose. He had to take a look at the Starry Sky Immortal City and see if the City Lord of the Immortal City was Di Jiu.

Just as Xian Ze was thinking about this, a distressed figure dashed over from afar.

“Zhuo Wenshu!” Xian Ze recognized the cultivator when he saw her dashing over. However, Zhuo Wenshu was very different from the way she had been when she had participated in the True Dominion Genius Tournament. Zhuo Wenshu was in a state of distress.

“Senior Xian!” Zhuo Wenshu called out happily when she saw Xian Ze.

When she had first seen Xian Ze, he had been at the fifth-stage True Form Realm. Since then, many years had passed and she had already advanced to the fourth-stage Domain Realm. Xian Ze was, however, still at the fifth-stage True Form Realm.

She addressed Xian Ze as Senior because she had sensed that Di Jiu had always treated Xian Ze as one too.

“Sorry, Zhuo Wenshu. I was the one who blocked your way,” said Xian Ze guiltily as he looked at the red-haired cultivator chasing after her.

After spending so many years in the Immortal World, he no longer cared about dying. However, Zhuo Wenshu was in her prime. She would have a future different from his, even in the Sunset Immortal World. It would be a true sin if he caused Zhuo Wenshu to die there.