Chapter 267 - In Big Trouble
Chapter 267: In Big Trouble
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Although Geng Ji wasn’t the scheming sort, he was experienced with wars. When he had initially started out cultivating as a nobody, he had followed Di Jiu everywhere to provoke the Qi Family’s Commercial Building. He had been through countless battles, always between the weak and the strong.
Thus, now that someone had sneaked an attack on him, he wasn’t the least bit afraid. He immediately took out his ax and flung it.
When Bai Wufang saw that Geng Ji had dared use the gigantic ax against his Falling Rain Whip, he smiled coldly. A mere cultivator who had recently attained the Pioneer Sea Realm, and whose cultivation may not even have been stabilized yet, had dared take on him—a third-stage Pioneer Sea Realm cultivator. Wasn’t this practically suicide?
So what if he was being a bastard? By laying his hands on the Herb King Meridian, Bai Wufang would show the descendants of the Interstellar Domain that even a bastard could be a really powerful man.
Boom! When the gigantic ax and the Falling Rain Whip clashed, a violent Quintessential Essence swept in. Bai Wufang, who felt as if his dantian didn’t belong to him anymore, spurted out a mouthful of Blood Essence.
This was impossible. How could a nobody who had just entered the Pioneer Sea Realm have a fight with him, a third-stage Pioneer Sea Realm cultivator, and walk away unharmed? Instead, Bai Wufang had vomited blood, even though he had actually been cultivating the Bai Family’s cultivation technique, which was considered a top-class cultivation technique in the True Province.
Geng Ji didn’t care what Bai Wufang thought. The gigantic ax transformed into an ax shadow and swept towards him. Meanwhile, he opened his arms and slashed with a few Thunder Swords.
Boom, boom, boom! The Falling Rain Whip blocked off Geng Ji’s ax shadow once again. Bai Wufang knew in his heart that his abilities couldn’t match up to Geng Ji’s. Geng Ji’s Quintessential Essence was so dense that it seemed even stronger than a late-stage Pioneer Sea Realm cultivator’s. He needed to use other methods to get the Herb King Spirit Meridian.
Bai Wufang had just thought of this, when a number of Thunder Swords slashed down. One of the Thunder Swords pierced his shoulder and dispelled any thought of escaping.
What was in front of him now was a number of supreme-grade spirit meridians and a spirit stone mine.
Suddenly, Geng Ji recalled the Herb King Spirit Meridian he had. He quickly took out the Herb King Spirit Meridian and flung it onto the floor. “Brother Jiu, I got this Herb King Spirit Meridian. Please take a look at it.”
A strong spirit herb aura was emitted from it. Di Jiu, who immediately felt the benefits of the Herb King Spirit Meridian, knew that there was no way of quantifying its value.
“Good stuff! You are lucky you found a Herb King Spirit Meridian!” Di Jiu praised him.
With this Herb King Spirit Meridian, his cultivating speed would increase yet again.
“Brother Jiu, I think I have gotten into trouble.” Geng Ji pointed at the Herb King Spirit Meridian and said, “When I first found this Herb King Spirit Meridian, I just experienced the Tribulation Transcendence and advanced to the Pioneer Sea Realm. Then, a man called Bai Wufang saw this spirit meridian and tried to kill me so he could steal it. Thus, I killed him instead. It was only afterward that I heard the man say that he wasn’t of ordinary origins. I…”
Di Jiu patted Geng Ji. “Killing him was the right decision. Never mind what his origins were. If someone wanted to kill you, what was there to consider? Now tell me, what were the guy’s origins?”
“He said he came from the Interstellar Domain of the True Province. According to him, he was the son of the Domain Lord of the Interstellar Domain.”
As soon as Geng Ji said this, Di Jiu drew a gasp of cold air. He didn’t know how formidable the Interstellar Domain Lord was, but he had seen the Skygold Domain Lord before. The Skygold Domain Lord could send a sixth-stage True Form cultivator flying with just a slap. No matter how inferior the Interstellar Domain Lord was, he couldn’t be much weaker than the Skygold Domain Lord.
Geng Ji had indeed gotten into big trouble—much bigger than the trouble Di Jiu was in.
“What should I do, Brother Jiu?” Geng Ji, who saw that Di Jiu was frowning, realized that things could not be simple.
Di Jiu laughed. “What’s there to be afraid of? We brought down the Qi Family’s Commercial Building when we were just at the Qi Refinement Realm. No matter how far we are from the Interstellar Domain Lord, we can’t be much further off than we were back then. There are still seven years to go before we leave the Small Central Planet. Let’s stay here to cultivate. I don’t believe that the Interstellar Domain Lord can do anything to us right now.”
Di Jiu had sensed dangers lurking all around him all this while. Now that Geng Ji had caused an even bigger crisis, he felt even more anxious to improve his cultivation level. Geng Ji’s potential was not any worse than his. He was at the first-stage Pioneer Sea Realm now. After a few more years of cultivating, Geng Ji would most likely attain the Life Tribulation Realm too.
“I can’t cultivate here, Brother Jiu. I have found a good place that’s more suitable for my cultivation,” said Geng Ji hurriedly.
“What kind of place is that?” Di Jiu looked at Geng Ji doubtfully. Was there any place better than this? This spirit stone mine had supreme-grade spirit meridians and an additional Herb King Meridian. Di Jiu didn’t believe that there could be a better place to cultivate than this.
“It’s a Thunder Canyon,” Geng Ji said. “I perfected the Void Spirit Realm in that Thunder Canyon. It’s a pity I didn’t have the Spirit Rive Elixir, or I would have continued cultivating in it.”
Di Jiu hesitated for a while before he said, “Then let’s go there and cultivate together. Before we do this, let me teach you a few cultivation techniques to protect your own life. There is the Spiritual Force Escape Technique, the Spiritual Force Training Art and the Colossal Kun Body-Tempering Art.”
Although the Spirit Qi was strong in the spirit stone mine, Di Jiu felt that cultivating there was too boring. He had improved his cultivation level purely for the sake of improving it.
He could now absorb the Thunder Origin. Along with the abundant spirit meridians on him, cultivating in the Thunder Canyon could ignite his potential even more.
“Brother Jiu, I have something here that can be acquired from the Thunder Canyon. Please take a look.” Geng Ji took out an Octagonal Copper Hammer.
Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force couldn’t permeate the Octagonal Copper Hammer, which meant that it was excellent. His gaze then fell on the surface of the Octagonal Copper Hammer, which was full of engraved words…
“This is a primeval language…” Di Jiu was much more educated than Geng Ji. Thus, the moment he saw the words on the hammer, he recognized this primeval language. This was exactly the same primeval language described in the Book of the World.
“What is a primeval language, Brother Jiu? I have only followed the direction that the Quintessential Essence flowed in the meridians to cultivate. I was able to condense the Thunder Sword. It was by using the Thunder Sword that I killed Bai Wufang,” Geng Ji said, sounding puzzled.
Although Di Jiu knew that this primeval language was a type of cultivation technique, he was not sure if it was a supernormal ability or a magic technique. When Di Jiu heard Geng Ji say that he had produced a Thunder Sword by following the direction of the Quintessential Essence’s flow in the meridians during cultivation, he was dumbfounded. These were supposed to be words that described a magic technique of the Thunder Faculty. How had they become a pictorial figure for cultivating?
Di Jiu forsook his past knowledge on primeval words and forced himself to look at this as a pictorial figure. Indeed, he soon sensed the guidance of the Quintessential Essence’s flow.
“Where did you get this, Geng Ji?” Di Jiu was sure that this Octagonal Copper Hammer was no ordinary object.
“It came from the Thunder Canyon,” answered Geng Ji.