Ninth In the World

A few more months passed before Di Jiu stopped.

A huge mountain peak had appeared beside his Spiritual Force. In all these decades in the Vast Ruins, Di Jiu had yet to see a true mountain peak.

In the Vast Ruins, dull gray Gobis, deserts, basins, and many more kinds of scenery were present everywhere. Regardless of whether the sight included water or mountains, Di Jiu had never seen anything like this before.

If it had not been for the water-element nomological fragments here, Di Jiu really doubted that the Five-Element Beasts would have managed to survive.

Even though the Five-Element Beasts were cultivated demon beasts, they could not always be short of such a thing as water.

Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force landed on his ring and the materials in it piled like a mountain. He decided to search for a cave abode on that mountain peak before he entered seclusion for some time.

Ever since his cultivation had reached this level, it seemed to have sunk into a bottleneck. Without any special external forces, he definitely could not attain the Dao Birth Realm in a short time. As a result, his most important goal now was blacksmithing.

Given his current strength, he would not have any problems dealing with an ordinary Dao Birth expert. So what if it was a stronger Dao Birth or even a Dao Transformation expert?

Since Di Jiu had a lot of techniques, who would care about even more techniques? He still had the strongest divine power, the Saber Array. Since his strength had risen too quickly, he had not used the Saber Array yet.

After coming to the Dao World, it was vital to possess a valiant Saber Array. When he really met an expert he could not beat, he could use the Saber Array and his nomological array to assist him. Once the Saber Array was out, it would certainly be much more formidable than him setting up nomological arrays all of a sudden.

Since he could not rapidly increase his cultivation level, he had to increase his Array Dao level.

When Di Jiu deviated from the location where the fragmented laws concentrated, the surrounding Five-Element Beasts decreased. After wandering in the Vast Ruins for a long time, he knew that not only were there Five-Element Beasts, but there were also some nomological whirlpools.

If one accidentally entered a nomological whirlpool, one would only face death. Although Di Jiu had the Ninth World, losing his life after entering a whirlpool was out of the question. However, he felt that it would be better to be more careful. He would not use his Spiritual Force escape technique as much as possible when he did not need to use it.

Since Di Jiu was not far from the mountain peak, even though he did not use his Spiritual Force escape technique, he arrived under the mountain peak in just half an hour.

Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force scanned one round of the mountain peak and immediately found out that there were some people in seclusion in this mountain. These people’s thoughts had to be similar to his. As for how many people there were, Di Jiu was uncertain. However, he did not mind. This mountain peak had a circumference of dozens of kilometers. Thus, he would not be affecting anyone by entering seclusion here.

After two hours, Di Jiu had set up a cave abode in a remote area of this mountain peak. He had also set up Concealment Dharma Arrays outside the cave abode.

His Array Dao level had already reached the level-two Divine Array Master. Thanks to his refined array flags and nomological array flags, he set up some Concealment Arrays and Defense Arrays. Only an Array Dao Master whose Array Dao far surpassed Di Jiu’s would be able to see through all this.

Di Jiu had set up tight protection around the surroundings of his cave abode, only leaving the Surveillance Array and the Warning Array outside. He then entered his Ninth World to start learning about blacksmithing.

…

Cultivation knew no time, and neither did blacksmithing.

Most of Di Jiu’s materials came from the Vast Ruins, apart from some rare blacksmithing materials he had obtained between the Two Realms.

The materials from the Vast Ruins basically contained elemental laws. Generally speaking, materials with elemental laws were particularly precious.

However, if all the materials contained elemental laws, they would not be considered precious. Ordinary Dharma treasures contained a main material and later tempered with materials of the elemental laws. If all of them were elemental law blacksmithing materials, it would be akin to lacking a core.

However, Di Jiu did not care, as all he refined were sabers. These sabers were used in his Saber Array with the Heavenly Aqua Saber being his main saber. The countless materials of elemental laws were divided by Di Jiu. Since he was studying blacksmithing, he would naturally start with the lowest level of materials.

From the supreme-grade immortal weapons to the divine weapons, and then to the low-grade divine weapons…

Three years later, Di Jiu had managed to refine low-grade divine weapons. Five years later, he had managed to refine higher grades of low-grade divine weapons.

Not only had Di Jiu refined a higher grade of low-grade divine weapons, but they also had distinct five elements. Based on the elements of the materials he had obtained, he individually refined a saber weapon of the five elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. Unfortunately, he did not have any Wind, Thunder, or Ice materials. Otherwise, the saber weapon that he had refined would definitely have included these three elements.

A low-grade divine weapon with elements was more useful than an ordinary one, as the saber that he had refined was used to set up the Saber Array.

As the mountain-like materials were constantly refined by Di Jiu for five years, they turned into nothingness. The low-grade divine weapon long sabers that he had accumulated had almost reached 10,000. Each of these low-grade divine weapon long sabers carried its own elements.

Five years passed before Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force landed outside his cave abode. The restrictions that he had set up were left with no traces.

He cultivated the Nomological Dao, and his Array Dao set up technique was also based on the surrounding Heaven Earth Law formation.

The fragments of Heaven Earth Law were also a kind of law. The biggest advantage of this Array Dao set up technique was that he could become one with his surroundings.

Even without the blacksmithing materials, Di Jiu did not plan on going out. His cultivation level was at the late-stage Dao Modeling, but it was very hard for him to successfully go through the Dao Birth in the Vast Ruins.

Di Jiu longed to obtain a few pieces of nomological fragments in the Vast Ruins the most. Even though they did not seem useful to him, the nomological fragments were priceless. If he could obtain some pieces, there would be a reliable source of future cultivating resources.

As long as he did not perish in the Vast Ruins, this could be considered the safest place. In that case, he had to make use of this place to the fullest.

After he was done refining all the saber weapons, Di Jiu once again took out a pile of divine spirit herbs. Most of them had been exchanged at the Lackluster Ocean, except for those he had reaped.

Now, he wanted to use these alchemy materials to become a Dao Modeling Alchemy Deity.

The reason that a top-notch Alchemy Master was even scarcer than a Blacksmithing Master was because all sorts of treasures were getting less and less.

Based on the Nomological Dao, anything in the world could be refined into weapons of a high or low grade. Even a low-level refined Dharma treasure could allow a blacksmith to constantly improve.

However, the alchemy law was different. Without a high-level treasure, it was hard to improve one’s alchemy level.

Even sects could not spend too much treasure to train an Alchemy Master. If an Itinerant Cultivator wanted to become an Alchemy Master, it would be even harder.

When Di Jiu had been at Honeycomb Beach, the reason that Ji Mi had dared to make a move was because he was a low-level Dao Modeling Alchemy Deity. Even though he had the lowest rank among the Dao Modeling Alchemy Deities, Ji Mi had a certain prestige in the Lackluster Ocean Divine City.

Ji Mi had attacked Di Jiu in the Lackluster Ocean back then. However, if they had been in the Lackluster Ocean Divine City, many cultivators would have helped Ji Mi.

Di Jiu took out the Gigantic Cosmic Cauldron. It was unlike any ordinary cauldron, as it was full of the five elements. Since he respected the Creation Cauldron, he no longer used it. At first, he had thought that he would not encounter a cauldron that would match the Creation Cauldron. However, the Gigantic Cosmic Cauldron seemed similar to the Creation Cauldron or maybe even stronger.

The reason that the Creation Cauldron was strong and good at refining pills was because it had been refined by Creation Wood. It was a waste to use wood to refine elixir pills. By relying on the Creation Cauldron’s aura to strengthen the Elixir Qi, it would vanish between the universe sooner or later.

However, the Gigantic Cosmic Cauldron law was different. It transformed everything and was born with the intention of Yin and Yang for the sake of refining everything in the world.

Di Jiu threw the divine spirit herbs into the Gigantic Cosmic Cauldron and did not start refining the Dao Modeling Divine Pills. Since he did not know much about elixir formulas, he wanted to start by extracting low-level divine spirit herbs.

…

Meanwhile, in the First Evolution Dao Sect.

The expression of a woman in a gray hemp garment skirt looked very ugly as she walked out of the sect hall. She was the First Evolution Dao Sect Spring Evolution Valley Master, An Tuning.

There were not many Alchemy Deities in the First Evolution Dao Sect. However, in the Dao World Elixir River Competition, the Sect Masters had designated her to be in charge this year. She was certain that this was definitely a plot by Rain Evolution Peak’s Wang Teng. No matter how capable she was, she was going to lose face this time.

However, she had to go. An Tuning sighed. She just had to do her best. If it was really impossible, she would lay low in the Spring Evolution Valley. At most, she would give up some sect resources.