Ninth In the World

Boom! Boom! Boom! More than 10 thunder streaks landed on Di Jiu’s body. Di Jiu, who was already burnt by the flame, could no longer feel any pain. However, he could hear the sounds of his bones cracking.

Di Jiu suddenly collapsed on the floor. The frightening thunder streak attacks started to ravage him. When his spine was broken, the rest of the bones in his body also started to break.

Di Jiu’s heart sank before he frantically started circulating the Galaxy Art to attain the Essence Soul Realm.

He knew very well that he could die there. However, he would still have a chance of surviving if he broke through to the Essence Soul Realm in time. Meanwhile, Di Jiu craved for a body-tempering cultivation technique even more. He would not have been in such a sorry state if he’d had one.

The Essence Soul Realm barrier vibrated continuously under Di Jiu’s relentless attacks. Before Di Jiu could manage to break through to the Essence Soul Realm completely, a second wave of thunder streaks was generated in the sky. Soon, it landed.

More than 10 thunder streaks engulfed Di Jiu once again. Di Jiu lifted his head and looked at the thunder streaks in despair. He had never seen a thunder streak before, so he did not know if the Thunder Tribulation of the Essence Soul Transcendence was this scary.

However, he was certain that even if he survived being burned by the Golden Core Quintessential Flame, he would most likely not be able to survive these terrifying thunder streak attacks.

Little Tree trembled as it looked at the thunder streaks. Although it had seen people undergo an Essence Soul Tribulation Transcendence before, it had been a nebulous big tree back then.

Based on its memories, no one’s Tribulation Transcendence had been as scary as Di Jiu’s. It suddenly recalled that those had been 3-9 or 4-9 Thunder Tribulations, which meant that there had been nine thunder streaks at a time with three to four times average. It had even seen a 1-9 Thunder Tribulation, which meant that things had been alright after nine thunder streaks had landed.

The more than 10 thunder streaks were unable to cause him more damage after he had attained the Essence Soul Realm. Instead, they could only shatter his newly-healed bones to a greater extent. However, his healing capability was so impressive that he would heal very fast.

So long as his flesh remained intact, Di Jiu would not die.

Several dozens of thunder streaks engulfed him, splattering blood around once more. Di Jiu’s skin was eroded quite a bit by the Thunder Tribulation, while the rest of his bones were mostly broken. Although his state seemed alarming, his Essence Soul Realm was more condensed now, so even though his injuries appeared to be worsening, they actually were not.

The Spirit Qi of the blue spirit meridian was endlessly being absorbed by Di Jiu as his aura continued to rise.

Boom! A ninth Thunder Tribulation wave landed, hitting Di Jiu with nine thick thunder streaks. Di Jiu’s Essence Soul cultivation was very strong now. Therefore, besides breaking two of his shoulder bones and making him spit a fountain of blood, they did not cause much damage to him.

Di Jiu let out a sigh of relief. He had predicted that when this Thunder Tribulation ended, this inhumane torture would finally stop. Despite being covered in injuries and having 70 percent of his bones break, he was still alive.

Di Jiu frantically circulated the Galaxy Art to stabilize his cultivation and heal. Meanwhile, rays of Spirit Rain gathered on top of Di Jiu and landed on him.

The healing capabilities of this Spirit Rain were more effective than any Spirit Elixir. Di Jiu’s skin healed rapidly and his bones reconnected. He recovered as fast as he had gained these injuries during the Tribulation Transcendence.

Two hours later, Di Jiu’s injuries had fundamentally been healed. Suddenly, Di Jiu was shocked to discover that the Golden Core Quintessential Flame engulfing him had disappeared.

In its place was a cooling sensation that helped his bones and injuries heal through the Galaxy Art.

As a black flame floated in his starry sky meridian, Di Jiu felt happy. Could this be a Dao fire? Had he unintentionally condensed a Dao fire? The color was not right, though. There had been no black flame mentioned in the jade slip. However, there was a tinge of blue in the center of his black flame.

This was not right. Where was the frosty blue pearl?

Di Jiu discovered that the blue pearl he had sent into the starry sky meridian had disappeared. He quickly guessed what had happened. The blue pearl must have merged with the flame. Otherwise, the black flame in his starry sky meridian would not have had a tinge of blue and frost.

When he stretched out his hand, a flame appeared on his palm once more. This flame, which was red and significantly weaker than the black flame in his starry sky meridian, was his Essence Soul Quintessential Flame.

The black flame within his starry sky meridian was undoubtedly a Dao fire. Di Jiu put away his Essence Soul Quintessential Flame as the black flame appeared on his palm with a mental order.

This flame belonged to Di Jiu. He could clearly sense that the black flame contained a boundless galaxy aura that had to be a result of his Dao Art. Although he had cultivated the Galaxy Art, his insides had transformed into a galaxy. He could not be wrong. This had to be the Dao fire he had condensed.

His Thunder Tribulation seemed to comprise of two Nine-Nine Thunder Tribulations, so it was highly likely that one of them was related to the Dao fire. His Dao fire was newly-condensed, which was why he had suffered through one Nine-Nine Thunder Tribulation. Fortunately, he had managed to break through to the Essence Soul Realm in time. Otherwise, he would have died.

Although this Dao fire was a trap that had almost killed him, he had finally obtained a flame that belonged to him.

As he looked at the flame in his hand, Di Jiu suddenly remembered that he was supposed to come up with a name for it.

Black flame, black starry sky…

Other flames brightened up the world by creating light, yet his flame was black in color. How could he create light?

The line of a poem suddenly emerged from his memories: The dark night gave me black eyes, but I use them to seek the light

The Dao fire he had condensed was indeed black in color, but this would not prevent him from creating a world of light by using it. Perhaps one day his flame would transform into a vast, boundless starry sky. From now on, this flame would be called Luminous Starry Sky.