Ninth In the World

The Herald Night Lake was not too far away from the Twilight City. The four of them talked as they traveled. Two days later, Fu Che stopped. “This place is the outermost area of the Herald Night Lake. We can already see the Herald Night Lake. However, Brother Di is not familiar with this place. Let me explain first.”

During the past two days, everyone had gotten familiar with one another. Fu Che had even started to directly address Di Jiu as Brother.

Di Jiu was not paying attention to Fu Che’s words. Instead, he was looking at the scene in front of him, dumbfounded. This was not really a lake. It was more like a humongous round mirror standing erect.

If it was affected by gravity, the lake water would not be vertical. However, the lake before his eyes seemed vertical, although it was a little foggy and indistinct.

This was not right. They were standing at most 1,000 feet away from the lake. One should be able to see clearly by using one’s eyes, so why was everything still so blurry?

Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force swept out. When it came into contact with that huge lake’s surface, he sensed pain from his Spiritual Sea, as if an invisible big hand was about to tear apart his Spiritual Sea. Di Jiu spat out a mouthful of blood and quickly pulled back his Spiritual Force.

“How did it feel, Brother Di? Did your Spiritual Force feel ready to be torn apart mercilessly? Did your Spiritual Sea seem about to explode?” asked Fu Che after Di Jiu spat out blood.

Di Jiu immediately understood that Fu Che and company had known beforehand that one could not permeate the lake with Spiritual Force. Although they had known what would happen, they had not informed him in advance.

Fu Che, who sensed Di Jiu’s displeasure, smiled and told him, “I know that you are not pleased with me, Brother Di Jiu. I didn’t inform you that one could not extend their Spiritual Force out here because I wanted you to give it a try.”

“It’s completely different. The Roast Divine Herbs obtained from inside the Herald Night Lake have red roots, so one of these herbs equals two regular herbs. If a Roast Divine Herb is completely red and has even one leaf, it is the equivalent of 10 herbs. It’s said that the Roast Divine Herb can move. Once it has matured to a certain age, it can automatically move to the center of the Herald Night Lake,” explained Fu Che.

“Shall we enter now?” asked Di Jiu as he looked at the patch of green in front of him.

From where they were standing, the shore of the Herald Night Lake seemed to be covered in green, so it felt as if they were standing on a grassy plain.

“The sky is turning dark and the Spiritual Force compression is more intense when one enters the surroundings of the Herald Night Lake,” Fu Che said gravely. “I suggest that we leave tomorrow. Here is a small booklet on the Roast Divine Herb. Please take a look at it, Brother Di.”

“Alright.” Di Jiu took the small booklet. He was also planning on checking the Book of the World at night to see what the Roast Divine Herb was.

A lot of cultivators had come to the Herald Night Lake to search for the Roast Divine Herb, yet no one noticed that Di Jiu and his team set up a simple Invisibility Array.

The Invisibility Array and Defense Array outside their encampment were set up by Bei Shitao. Fu Che did not ask Di Jiu if he had studied array formation. In his opinion, Di Jiu would not be better than Bei Shitao, even if he knew about array formation. Di Jiu was really young. Plus, he had been in reclusive cultivation at a remote place for a long period of time. He had to be a hardworking cultivator, so if he had been older, he could have possessed average array formation skills. Younger cultivators, however, needed time to cultivate and definitely did not possess high array formation abilities.

In Di Jiu’s opinion, Bei Shitao’s array formation was not bad. He had set up level-three Dharma Arrays after all. Di Jiu did not think that his array formation talent was much stronger than Bei Shitao’s. Even if it was slightly stronger, there would not be a difference between Level Nine and Level Three. The reason he had become a Level-Nine Array King was 90 percent due to the gray stone in his Spiritual Sea.

Fu Che and the rest of the team would most likely be outside battling, so they had their own cave abode. Di Jiu had recently refined a few simple low-grade Spirit Weapon cave abodes.

Thus, when he saw Fu Che and company take out a supreme-grade Dharma Weapon cave abode, that was what he took out as well.

Di Jiu started to set up various Defense Arrays inside his cave abode. He also set up a Level-Nine Invisibility Array and a Level-Nine Aura-Binding Array at the same time.

The Book of the World was very important to him, so he only dared read it in his Spiritual Sea. He dared not just casually expose its aura.

When the Defense Array was set up, Di Jiu immediately entered the Book of the World.

The Book of the World was a boundless sea of knowledge. Di Jiu had always wanted to spend some time looking through it, but he had unfortunately constantly been on the go. Therefore, he’d not had the time to do so.

Di Jiu skimmed through various materials and spiritual herbs. Two hours later, his Spiritual Force stopped. He had seen the Roast Divine Herb.

The Roast Divine Herb usually grew beside Force Crystals and came in three colors. The blue ones were Level-Three spiritual herbs that were three inches tall, leafless and covered with blue spirit patterns. The red ones were Level-Six spiritual herbs that were six inches tall and covered with red spirit patterns. Finally, the black ones were Level-Nine spiritual herbs that were nine inches tall with three black leaves covered with black spirit patterns…

There were really black Level-Nine Roast Divine Herbs? It seemed that even Fu Che was not aware that the Roast Divine Herb could be black.

Di Jiu was increasingly curious about the Roast Divine Herb. His Spiritual Force immediately landed on the introduction of the functions of the Roast Divine Herb in the Book of the World.

The Roast Divine Herb could expand one’s Spiritual Sea and condense and strengthen one’s Spiritual Force…

Di Jiu was stunned when he read this. Ever since he had started learning about spiritual herbs, this was the first time he’d read about any spiritual herbs that could expand one’s Spiritual Sea and condense and strengthen one’s Spiritual Force. If such a spiritual herb existed, wouldn’t it be long gone?

Even a True Form Realm Cultivator would seize such a spiritual herb. He finally understood why the Five Young Masters wanted this herb.

When he exited the Book of the World, Di Jiu was still unable to calm down. He had the urge to immediately rush into the Herald Night Lake and search for the Roast Divine Herb.

He was still unsure about how strong his Spiritual Force was. However, he was certain about the extreme importance of the Roast Divine Herb. If his Spiritual Force could be strengthened to the maximum, perhaps one day even True Form Realm Cultivators would be no match for him.

He had to obtain the Roast Divine Herb.