Ninth In the World

After the introductory chapter was limitless material knowledge.

In this book, there was no distinction between spirit herbs, ores, and other materials. Everything in the Book of the World was considered part of the universe.

This book had any information one needed, including information on one of the most inconspicuous grasses in the world and a handful of ordinary dirt.

Fortunately, the contents of the book were hierarchical, so it moved from a low level to a high level. The book did not explain the distinction between low level and high level, but Di Jiu guessed that it was based on the distribution of Spirit Qi, hardness, and so on.

According to the Book of the World, all matter was tangible, but different tangible matter abided by different laws, be it high level or low level.

Di Jiu had seen many kinds of jade slips about spirit herbs, and medicinal materials. However, when he started to study this book, he realized that what he had known before had simply been basic knowledge.

Di Jiu was eager to read the contents of this book. His mental strength was strong, so he could read very fast, yet after a few days, he was still on the first page.

If he had not come across the Violet Aqua Sand in the Book of the World, he would have kept reading without a pause.

When he saw the book’s introduction on the Violet Aqua Sand, Di Jiu was suddenly wide awake.

As Di Jiu was about to give up, he suddenly saw the golden lightning in the gray stone inside his sea of knowledge break out in some mysterious golden patterns. Di Jiu could not understand any of these patterns. He could only vaguely feel that they were also some kind of heaven and earth laws.

The endless golden patterns almost caused Di Jiu’s sea of knowledge to explode. How could Di Jiu refine the Book of the World? He quickly used the Galaxy Manual to cultivate. He could only hope that these golden patterns would move from his sea of knowledge to his galaxy meridian through cultivation.

The Spirit Qi there was sufficient, so he had not been able to cultivate at all earlier. However, thanks to the golden pattern law, Di Jiu could now absorb this rich Spirit Qi and quickly complete the first cycle of Qi Circulation.

Then, Di Jiu was able to absorb increasingly more Spirit Qi, which caused his cultivation level to also improve rapidly.

In just two weeks, Di Jiu had attained the peak eighth-stage Foundation Establishment Realm and caught a clear aura law. This aura law could be felt through the boundless golden patterns in his sea of knowledge. While Di Jiu felt it, his cultivation level entered the ninth-stage Foundation Establishment Realm without any obstacles.

Then, Di Jiu was surprised to discover that he had captured one of the hundreds of millions of laws in the first page of the Book of the World and understood it completely.

There seemed to be a vague connection between him and the book now.

Refining the Book of the World did not just involve refining its restriction, but gaining insight on its boundless laws.

Even if Di Jiu had understood this truth, without the gray stone, he would not have done such a boring thing. However, as long as he continued to cultivate, he would get the opportunity to gain insight on the second aura law through the golden patterns of the gray stone.

Now that he had been given a direction, Di Jiu sank into a routine of cultivating while also gaining insight from the laws inside the Book of the World.

The book, which had originally been like stagnant water, now kept emitting heaven and earth laws thanks to Di Jiu’s constant insight.

Dozens of cultivators who were gaining insight through other means experienced a moment of enlightenment because of these heaven and earth laws. Everyone was currently being enlightened, so even if Di Jiu entered the book unknowingly, no one would find out.

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Six months later, when Di Jiu grasped the ninth law of the first page of the Book of the World, the vagueness between him and the book suddenly disappeared. Di Jiu immediately made a surprise discovery. A half-open book was suspended in his sea of knowledge.

Was this the Book of the World? When Di Jiu opened his eyes, the Book of the World beside him had disappeared.

Di Jiu knew that he had not refined book. He had only grasped nine out of the billions of laws on its first page, so he only had a feeling, not a thorough understanding.

Was this what it had taken for the Book of the World to become his?

In just a short period of time, Di Jiu had already gained some vague understanding. The Book of the World had not appeared in his sea of knowledge because he had refined it or thoroughly understood its laws, but because he had the gray stone and the golden lightning. Thanks to these two, the book had voluntarily appeared in his sea of knowledge.

The clear law aura and the strong flow of his Quintessential Essence made Di Jiu feel like he would experience an imminent breakthrough.

Di Jiu knew that this was not an illusion. In six months, his cultivation level had perfected the Foundation Establishment Realm, while he had also been constantly gaining insight on different kinds of laws. Even though he had not understood any of them until now, he was still about to enter the Golden Core Realm.

Di Jiu looked at the remaining dozens of cultivators, who still had their eyes closed and had not realized that the book had disappeared. Then, he stood up and left quickly.