Ninth In the World

Di Jiu didn’t know that Han Qingyi had suspected him of having the Book of the World. If he had known, he would have felt severely maligned. The reason he had become both an Array King and an Elixir King wasn’t really the Book of the World. The main reason was the golden Dao Law in his Spiritual Sea. This also had something to do with Qian Fenghua and Ji Ming. Qian Fenghua had imparted Array Dao to him, and Ji Ming had imparted alchemy to him.

At the moment, Di Jiu was completely focused on his goal. By using the Tribulation Convergence Elixir, he had to break through to the Life Tribulation Realm as fast as possible.

Four hours later, Di Jiu re-entered the spirit stone mine. He had never planned to take away the spirit stone mine. However, now that he wanted to reach the Life Tribulation Realm, this was the most suitable place to do so.

Di Jiu’s favorite cultivation method was to madly absorb the Spirit Qi during Tribulation Transcendence. The bigger the Tribulation Thunder, the faster his cultivation speed would be.

After exiting the Small Central World, Di Jiu would very soon be joining the True Province Genius Tournament. Thus, he hoped to improve his strength as much as possible on the Small Central Planet.

He wanted to join the True Province Genius Tournament, not only because he wanted to deal with the geniuses of the True Province, but also so that he would be able to handle the experts of the True Province. He had to be wary of both the Skygold Domain Lord, who had always had some suspicions against him, and the support behind Han Qingyi.

Di Jiu believed that Han Qingyi’s supporters would not harbor thoughts against him after his identity as an Elixir King had been exposed. As long as he was threatened, he had to have the ability to defend himself. In Di Jiu’s opinion, it would be ideal if he attained the True Form Realm after leaving the Small Central Planet.

After finding a good place for Tribulation Transcendence in the spirit stone mine, Di Jiu snappily took out two supreme-grade spirit meridians. Then, he set up an offensive saber array in the center of the Tribulation Transcendence. Once the Thunder Tribulation struck, he would activate the offensive saber array to attack the streak of Thunder Tribulation.

While anyone else would have hoped for the streak of Thunder Tribulation to be weak during the Tribulation Transcendence, Di Jiu hoped that it would be strong. The stronger it was, the better.

What was the matter? Di Jiu frowned at the sky, which had calmed down. He didn’t understand what had happened.

However, he calmed down very quickly. Although he was disappointed, he also knew that such shortcuts were only temporary. Without the Thunder Tribulation, his cultivation speed slowed down quite a bit. Fortunately, it was still faster than that of the people outside.

He had come to the Small Central World with only two goals. The first was to find high-level spirit herbs and attempt to become a Grade-Nine Elixir King. Although he had yet to become a Grade-Nine Elixir King, there was no need to get anxious—it would only be a matter of time.

His second goal was to work hard to improve his strength. He had entered the Small Central Planet at the third-stage Ekayāna Tripod Realm and was now already at the second-stage Life Tribulation Realm. Although his cultivation level had improved greatly, this was not enough.

Di Jiu didn’t leave. Instead, he chose to continue his reclusive cultivation there.

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The Small Central Planet wasn’t small. As the spirit herbs that could be found on its surface were gradually taken away, more and more cultivators entered reclusive cultivation just like Di Jiu.

Geng Ji also wanted to find a place for reclusive cultivation. However, before that happened, he had to find Brother Jiu. During his first year on the Small Central Planet, he had already perfected the nine stages of the Void Spirit Realm. Without the Spirit Rive Elixir, he would not be able to enter the Pioneer Sea Realm.

Brother Jiu had told him before that it would be better if he advanced without the use of an elixir. However, he had no way of even coming into contact with the cultivation barrier of the Pioneer Sea Realm without using an elixir. Thus, he had no choice but to look for Di Jiu. He believed that Di Jiu could help him resolve all the cultivation-related problems he had.

After wandering around on the Small Central Planet for more than a year, Geng Ji had still not heard any news related to Di Jiu. He currently stood next to an almost dried-up swamp with a level-three Metallic Lotus Flower in the middle.

The Metallic Lotus Flower, which was of a very low class, didn’t have much use. If it had been outside, some cultivators might have dug for it. However, on the Small Central Planet, not even the poorest cultivators would enter a swamp to dig for a level-three Metallic Lotus Flower. Only Geng Ji would do something like that.

Geng Ji didn’t have a concept of bad and good. He had heard Di Jiu say before that if he saw a spirit herb, he should get it first, regardless of how good or bad it was, and deal with it later.

Therefore, when Geng Ji saw this Metallic Lotus Flower, he entered the swamp without hesitation and dug it up.

When Geng Ji dug up the Metallic Lotus Flower, he was nearly stunned. There was another spirit herb underneath the Metallic Lotus Flower. Geng Ji recognized this spirit herb— it was the Spiritual Sea Fruit. The Metallic Lotus Flower had formed a natural invisibility restriction that had wrapped around the Spiritual Sea Fruit. If the Metallic Lotus Flower had not been dug up, the Spiritual Sea Fruit wouldn’t have been found.

Geng Ji was really excited that he had actually found a Spiritual Sea Fruit on the Small Central Planet. Many cultivators would choose this fruit if asked which was the most valuable level-six spiritual object.

The Spiritual Sea Fruit was the only spiritual fruit that could rival the Spirit Rive Elixir in terms of effect. It could give a cultivator at the Void Spirit Realm a very high chance of attaining the Pioneer Sea Realm. In terms of value, the Spiritual Sea Fruit was over 10 times more valuable than the Spirit Rive Elixir.

The Spiritual Sea Fruit could not only increase a cultivator’s chances of advancing to the Pioneer Sea Realm, but also expand the cultivator’s Spiritual Sea. The key was that it was a natural spiritual fruit.

Geng Ji had been eager to attain the Pioneer Sea Realm for a long time. On the Small Central Planet, Pioneer Sea Realm cultivators were considered to have above average strength. If he could attain the Pioneer Sea Realm, he could go to more places.

Therefore, when he got the Spiritual Sea Fruit. Geng Ji couldn’t wait any longer. He consumed the fruit right away.

Geng Ji had a pure Thunder Spirit Root, so his potential was innately great. On top of that, he had also wandered around the Void Spirit Realm for a year or two. As soon as he swallowed the Spiritual Sea Fruit, he could feel the cultivation barrier of the Pioneer Sea Realm summon the Thunder Tribulation.

Although Geng Ji’s Thunder Tribulation was not as frightening as Di Jiu’s, it was still much more powerful than an ordinary cultivator’s. Fortunately, his cultivation technique had improved thanks to Di Jiu, who had used the golden Dao Law before. Thus, even though the Thunder Tribulation was powerful, it didn’t cost him his life.

In only a few days, Geng Ji had overcome the Thunder Tribulation and attained the first-stage Pioneer Sea Realm. Meanwhile, he had stabilized his cultivation.

A small section of a green spirit meridian showed up at the position of Geng Ji’s Tribulation Transcendence. Geng Ji was preparing to leave when he noticed this spirit meridian.

The green spirit meridian emitted a Spirit Qi with a strong medicinal fragrance. Geng Ji was no fool. He could tell that this was no ordinary spirit meridian. It was also easy to guess how this spirit meridian had gotten out. The Small Central Planet had natural restrictions all over the place. One of them had probably been struck open by the Thunder Tribulation and let a spirit meridian out. This was nothing strange.

“Herb King Meridian?” a surprised voice asked before a fair-skinned man sped towards Geng Ji. Before the man could reach him, a Dharma treasure had already been flung at Geng Ji.