Ninth In the World
Ninth In the World - Chapter 282: The Universe Membrane

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The flying boat was put under Tian Ku’s control. Di Jiu entered the boat’s cabin to refine the Quintessential World.

Because of the existence of the Golden Dao Law in his Spiritual Sea, Di Jiu was sure that even the Protectorate Lord of the True Dominion would not match his Spiritual Force.

After his Spiritual Force once again permeated the Quintessential World, Di Jiu understood what had happened. Yue Jian hadn’t completely refined the Quintessential World. He had only refined a corner of it, and his things were piled up in that corner.

Di Jiu’s standards when looking at things were no longer low. Even though Yue Jian had many things, including all kinds of spirit elixirs, spirit herbs, cultivation techniques, and Dharma treasures, Di Jiu didn’t take this to heart.

He was a grade-eight Elixir King and a top-notch Weapon King himself. Why would he care about these things? In Di Jiu’s opinion, the most valuable thing was the Quintessential World.

The reason Yue Jian had yet to refine the Quintessential World was that, firstly, his Spiritual Force was insufficient and, secondly, he had yet to recover fully from his injuries. Di Jiu was different. He wasn’t injured, and his Spiritual Force was far more superior than Yue Jian’s. Even the female cultivator who possessed the Quintessential World, but who had only her Principal Spirit left, had a much weaker Spiritual Force than Di Jiu.

When the restriction on the Quintessential World was pitted against Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force, it was like dried wood against raging fire—it just burned endlessly…

In only three months, the Quintessential World had completely presented itself in front of Di Jiu. Di Jiu actually sighed with emotion. This was a Quintessential World that had taken shape. Although it was still too small in comparison to the five continents, if Earth was placed in his Quintessential World, not even a shadow would be visible.

The Quintessential World didn’t have much. It only contained some sparse spirit herbs and the usual mountain ranges, rivers and seas. Its Spirit Qi was also ordinary. However, Di Jiu found this Quintessential World extremely stable.

He pushed everything in the Small World inside the Quintessential World, including the Rainbow Immortal Peach. Even though he had placed a few supreme-grade spirit meridians next to it, the Rainbow Immortal Peach had only managed to keep looking half-dead and half-alive.

Obviously, the Small World, which lacked Laws of Heaven and Earth, was not suitable for the existence of a spiritual object like the Rainbow Immortal Peach.

After the Rainbow Immortal Peach was transplanted to the Quintessential World by Di Jiu, it immediately showed signs of life. When Di Jiu planted another supreme-grade spirit meridian beside the Rainbow Immortal Peach, it began to emit an increasingly flourishing aura.

Di Jiu heaved a sigh of relief. It looked like the Rainbow Immortal Peach would continue to grow in the Quintessential World.

Was Di Di already at the fourth-stage Essence Soul Realm? Di Jiu was truly stunned when he saw her cultivation. Her cultivation improvement speed was faster than his, which worried Di Jiu somewhat.

“Ah Jiu, I am already at the fourth-stage Essence Soul Realm.” Di Di felt proud when she was called out by Di Jiu.

Di Jiu shook his head and said, “Di Di, your potential is too good. You have improved a little too fast thanks to the abundance of resources.”

“Is this bad?” Di Di asked, looking baffled. Under normal circumstances, the higher one’s cultivation was, the better it was.

“One’s cultivation is determined by their foundation, cultivation realm, state of mind and other factors. How many years have you been cultivating? If you do not have a stable state of mind, your foundation could crumble easily and cause Qi Deviation,” Di Jiu said with a straight face.

Di Di disagreed with him. “I don’t think my foundation is unstable. My state of mind is also good.”

Di Jiu hesitated for a while before he took out a ring, handed it to Di Di and said, “Refine this ring, Di Di. It is a Small World. Inside it are some elixirs that I have refined, some blacksmithing tools, and my insights into Array Dao. Whenever you stay in seclusion for a period of time, begin to spend some time on researching elixir arrays and blacksmithing Dao. This will help stabilize your state of mind.”

“Alright.” Di Di took Di Jiu’s ring and added after some thought, “Ah Jiu, address me as your elder sister in the future.”

“I know, Di Di.” Di Jiu pointed at the Small World. “This ring will completely disappear after it’s refined. Only you are able to see it. There are also some of my saber intent talismans inside it.”

Di Di had been about to act up. However, upon hearing that the Small World would disappear after it was refined, she immediately forgot what she wanted to say. She quickly lifted the Small World and permeated it with her Spiritual Force.

“Wait a while before you refine the Small World. I still haven’t imparted the Spiritual Force escape technique and the Spiritual Force Training Art to you and Tian Ku…” Di Jiu stopped Di Di, who had been ready to jump straight into refining the Small World, and took out a few jade slips again.

The Spiritual Force escape technique was a top-notch escape technique. He naturally imparted such cultivation techniques only to people who were close to him.

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Three days later, Di Jiu appeared at the outer perimeter of the Five Continent City. Di Di and Tian Ku were already cultivating in the Quintessential World. It was hard to cultivate in the Small World after all. Although the Laws of his Quintessential World were not as good as the Small Central World’s, they were sufficient to allow Di Di and Tian Ku to cultivate.

Besides, the Quintessential World was far stabler than the Small World, so it would not shatter easily. It also contained over 100 spirit meridians.

Di Jiu’s only reason for coming to the Five Continent City was the Five Continent Dao Pagoda. If he could enter the Five Continent Dao Pagoda, he would master the entire Foundation Order in there.

There wasn’t much time left before the Five Continent Dao Pagoda opened again. Ever since the Small Central Planet had closed, Di Jiu hadn’t seen Di Feixue. However, he knew very well that Di Feixue was no ordinary person. Di Feixue possessed the Five Continent Dao Inscription, so she would definitely take the Five Continent Dao Pagoda the next time it opened. If he didn’t get there ahead of time, he might not get another chance in the future.

Although she was also from the Di Family, Di Feixue was also a victim. Di Jiu didn’t harbor many good feelings for Di Feixue. This woman was a wolf in disguise and possessed far greater strength than any of her peers. She could have reached the first place on the Sea Roll, yet she had been forced to rank at number 23.

Di Jiu didn’t even bother disguising himself. Instead, he turned invisible by using his level-eleven Spiritual Force. Unless there was a top-notch True Form expert keeping an eye on him, it would be impossible for anyone to discover that he had entered the Five Continent City.

Once he entered the Five Continent City, Di Jiu sensed that there was something strange about the atmosphere there.

A few months had passed, yet everyone was still talking about the destroyed Mirage Sword Sect’s encampment on the Small Central Planet. Xiao Wu, the sect master of the Mirage Sword Sect, who had had the same fate as the Genesis Sect, had been killed publicly on the Small Central Planet Square. Gai Shu, the fourth-stage True Form Elder of the Mirage Sword Sect, and a few dozens of Mirage Sword Sect disciples had also fallen on the Small Central Planet.

Nobody saw who had done this, but there was a rumor that the culprit had been a bearded youth. This youth, who possessed great strength, was already a fifth-stage True Form expert. He had destroyed the Mirage Sword Sect’s encampment on the Small World Planet because Xiao Wu, the Sect Master of the Mirage Sword Sect, had offended him on two occasions. The first time had been when Xiao Wu had won the bid over a spot in the True Dominion Genius Tournament at the auction, and the second time had been when Xiao Wu had won the bid over the Embodiment of Truth Fern Fruit.

When he heard these discussions, Di Jiu was surprised. He didn’t feel good about the Mirage Sword Sect, neither did he like this bearded youth. Although he was not afraid of people provoking him, if he could shake off any relationships now, it would be naturally better.

The perimeter of the Five Continent Dao Pagoda was blocked by layers and layers of Dao runes that looked like a layer of colorless smog one could neither see nor feel.

If one was standing there, it would be difficult to even accurately locate the position of the Five Continent Dao Pagoda, let alone find its entrance.

Di Jiu was actually extremely happy. Once he walked to the edge of the Dao runes, he would feel the Foundation Order he had experienced before in the Five Continent Dao Pagoda. These Laws clearly formed a tier in Di Jiu’s consciousness, causing a blurry Dao path to appear before Di Jiu.

Di Jiu only took one step and disappeared into the colorless smog-like Law.

With every step he took, he could clearly sense the location of his next step. He took 90 steps in total before he stopped. He now faced a hazy, blurry Dao rune aura. He couldn’t work out where his 91st step should land at all.

This experience was indeed related to his climb to the 90th stage of the Five Continent Dao Pagoda. Di Jiu didn’t move carelessly. If it had been so easy to enter the Five Continent Dao Pagoda before it opened, it wouldn’t have still been around that day.

Di Jiu sat in the same spot. When his Spiritual Force landed on the deepest part of his Spiritual Sea, he immediately tried to move the Golden Dao Law in the small gray stone. The Golden Dao Law wasn’t considered his. Thus, if he didn’t use it now, it would expire and become useless.

What angered Di Jiu was that the Golden Dao Law didn’t budge, as if it didn’t sense that he was begging it to.

After trying repeatedly, Di Jiu became frustrated. The Golden Dao Law had anchored itself in his Spiritual Sea. Even though he was asking it for a little help, it wasn’t willing to move. This Golden Dao Law didn’t show the humility that living under someone else’s roof demanded.

Meanwhile, Spiritual Force swirled like crazy. Di Jiu might as well just force the small gray stone out of his Spiritual Sea and make it land on his hands.

The Golden Dao Law wasn’t his, but the small gray stone was something that he had picked up. Di Jiu had attained the first stage of the True Form Realm and come into contact with all kinds of Law earlier than any other cultivators. He vaguely sensed that the Golden Dao Law wouldn’t run away with his small gray stone. The small gray stone was his, so there would be consequences if it escaped with the small gray stone.

Once the small gray stone landed in his hand, Di Jiu vaguely felt the Book of the World move once.

The Book of the World was too vast, so Di Jiu hadn’t even finished reading the superficial information it contained.

When the Book of the World moved, Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force landed on it. What shocked him was that there was an additional page in the book now. This page, which was right before the page on the Creation Wood, only contained a huge blurry round disk.

Even though this was only a picture, the aura of the round disk was as vast as the entire chaotic universe.

Once Di Jiu thought of the chaotic universe, he saw an annotation at the bottom—”The Universe Membrane originates from chaos, creates hundreds of millions of cracks in the universe and helps all things prosper…”