Ninth In the World

Ren Hai opened the restrictions on Di Jiu’s ring. When he saw the scant high-grade Spirit Stones and middle-grade Spirit Stones, he almost threw the ring in his hand onto the floor in a fit of rage.

Fortunately, there was a Void Lattice Elixir in this ring, although it was useless to him. After all, it was a valuable elixir that could give a cultivator an opportunity to break through to the Void Spirit Realm.

Di Jiu possessed another ring that he failed to find. The real good stuff was in the other ring. He had to kill Di Jiu for daring to trick him into this bet.

Shu Haolan was feeling just as aggrieved. He had searched the entire Herald Night Lake, yet he had found nothing related to the Five Continent Dao Pagoda. It was unfortunate that he was unable to get close to the Herald Night Lake due to his cultivation level.

He had missed the news on the Book of the World a while ago and now he had missed the opportunity to obtain the Five Continent Dao Disc. The providence light was very important during cultivation. Shu Haolan believed that his luck had been very poor recently.

When he returned to the Five Continent City, he sensed immediately that his Void Lattice Elixir was no longer with Di Jiu. Instead, it was with Ren Hai.

He naturally knew Ren Hai, who ranked 106th on the Sea Roll. Ren Hai was a Pioneer Sea Realm cultivator. What use did a Pioneer Sea Realm cultivator have for this elixir?

Did Di Jiu suspect that there was something wrong with his Void Lattice Elixir? Was that why he had given it to Ren Hai?

Di Jiu had originally been removed from Shu Haolan’s list of suspects. He was only at the Essence Soul Realm after all and had indeed been to the Herald Night Lake before.

He had to interrogate Di Jiu and find out why he had not used the Void Lattice Elixir he had given him to break through to the Void Spirit Realm. He also needed to search Di Jiu’s soul to confirm the origins of the Five Continent Dao Disc. Shu Haolan did not care whether he had wronged Di Jiu and harmed his life.

In Shu Haolan’s eyes, Di Jiu was an ant.

As he left the Five Continent City, Shu Haolan sent out some news. He refused to believe that he could not catch up to a mere Void Spirit Realm weakling. Given his status as a Genesis Sect Master, once this news was sent out, he would immediately be able to find any traces of Di Jiu the moment that Di Jiu used any Teleportation Array. He was certain that Di Jiu would use a Teleportation Array. Di Jiu had purposely given the ring to Ren Hai. It would be strange if he did not use a Teleportation Array to escape.

“Hold up, Brother Haolan. There’s an urgent matter to discuss. This time, the few of us have agreed to go to the…”

Shu Haolan had disappeared before Yan Xueyi could complete his sentence. Before he left, Shu Haolan said, “I will be back soon!”

As he watched Shu Haolan leave so resolutely, Yan Xueyi could only sigh. He was also stuck at the sixth-stage True Form Realm, halfway to attaining the seventh-stage True Form Realm.

At first, as soon as the Five Continent Dao Convention had ended, everyone had agreed to head to the Desert River Forbidden Zone in search of opportunities to attain the late-stage True Form Realm. However, Shu Haolan seemed to have injured his head, as he had rushed off instead.

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Before Di Jiu left the Five Continent City, he had already made a detailed plan. However, he was still worried that Shu Haolan. That old fox would chase after him. Old people like him would rather kill an innocent than miss out on the opportunity to kill.

Di Jiu did not know that Shu Haolan had started to suspect him. After achieving large success with his Spiritual Force escape technique, he had never once thought of using the Teleportation Arrays. He was currently fleeing, not sightseeing. Besides, as he used the Spiritual Force escape technique repeatedly to flee, every time his Spiritual Force diminished, the newly-produced Spiritual Force would be slightly more condensed.

Di Jiu traveled urgently by using the Spiritual Force escape technique. Meanwhile, his Spiritual Force attained Level Eight and his cultivation level reached the second-stage Void Spirit Realm. After using the Spiritual Force escape technique for a little over 10 days, Di Jiu did not even know where he was himself.

The reason he stopped was because his Dao fire had started to pulsate again.

During the auction, he had seen the Shallow Fiend Flame when his Dao fire had pulsated. Thus, there could be a heaven earth flame pulsation this time.

Di Jiu was extremely excited. He had not been able to afford the Shallow Fiend Flame sold at the auction. If he encountered a Shallow Fiend Flame in the wild, he would be really lucky.

The Spirit Qi there was extremely thin. When his Spiritual Force scanned the area, no human traces were found. Di Jiu held the Dao fire in his hand. He could distinctively sense the pulsation of the Dao fire.

Five minutes later, he pinpointed a direction and swiftly headed over.

Di Jiu hypothesized that if this was really a Heaven-Earth Unique Flame, the surroundings would become hotter the further one walked. This theory was based on his experience back when he had been in the Sky Screen, where he had encountered that flaming mountain.

However, this time, the surroundings became colder. He had entered a snowy mountain ridge. After traveling through the three deep recesses of this snowy mountain for half a day, Di Jiu arrived at the foot of a snowy mountain so tall that one could not see its top with the naked eye.

This snowy mountain, which was located within the connected snowy mountain ridge, looked like a king among this stretch of short snowy mountains.

As Di Jiu stood at the foot of this unbelievably tall mountain, the Dao fire in his hand pulsated even more. Di Jiu was certain that residing in the deep recesses of this mountain was something the Dao fire needed.