Ninth In the World

Xian Ze took a step and landed on the Immortal Ascension Array. Then, he placed the golden jade card into the indent next to the array. Di Jiu saw the array spinning instantly before golden flares wrapped around Xian Ze. A mysterious, esoteric space law aura started fluctuating. Di Jiu tried to feel the aura, but the Spiritual Sea had the tendency to break apart the moment he used his Spiritual Force.

Di Jiu stopped using his Spiritual Force quickly. By the time he took another look at the hexagonal teleportation platform, the gold colors on it had disappeared. Xian Ze had also disappeared without a trace.

Di Jiu felt a sense of relief, as Xian Ze had most likely teleported.

Di Jiu noticed that the Immortal Ascension Card had disappeared from the indent. Therefore, he went to the platform and placed his card into the indent.

The golden flares appeared once again. Di Jiu really wanted to find out what was happening by using his Spiritual Force, but he immediately felt extremely dizzy. He could not even stay conscious for a second under the circumstances.

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Bam! A massive force against slammed Di Jiu’s body, throwing him at least ten feet away before everything stopped.

Fortunately, Di Jiu was strong, so he only suffered some minor external injuries.

Di Jiu got up hurriedly and confirmed that Xian Ze was not around him. It seemed as though the Immortal Ascension Array teleported people at random. There was no specific destination.

Di Jiu was dumbfounded when he took a clear look at what was around him.

Is this the Immortal World?

Di Jiu rubbed his eyes and used his Spiritual Force to scrutinize the place for a long while. He still thought that this place was the Immortal World.

The Spirit Qi there seemed to have a higher grade compared to that in the True Dominion. However, it was not as suitable for cultivation. The Spirit Qi there was messy, which made it unsuitable for cultivation. After some time, this place made people feel irritated and insecure.

The whole place was desolate. Other than a few common plants that did not have a name, there was a lack of vitality in the surroundings. In other words, it seemed as though this place was declining.

Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force was a bit suppressed there compared to the True Dominion. However, he could still use his Spiritual Force within 1,000 Li. Unfortunately, Di Jiu only saw bones scattered around and maroon soil when he scanned the place using his Spiritual Force.

The wind carried the awful stench of blood, and Di Jiu was sure that the maroon soil was soaked with blood.

There was only destruction, defeat and desolation. There was not a single person or vitality in the vicinity.

“Is this really the Immortal World?” Di Jiu asked himself once again. If the Immortal World was really like this, no one would want to go there. This place seemed more like hell than the Immortal World.

Di Jiu took a few steps and picked up a bone randomly. His heart sank when he saw the patterns and color of the bone by using his Spiritual Force.

The aura of the bone was much greater than the Domain Realm experts’ in the Cultivation World. The bone had a light gold color that suggested that it had not belonged to an ordinary cultivator. If it had not belonged to an ordinary cultivator, it must have belonged to the experts in Immortal World.

This place was really the Immortal World.

Di Jiu gasped. He had never expected the Immortal World to be like this.

At the moment, Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force remained vigilant of the surroundings and focused on one direction. He had to find someone to ask about the situation, no matter what.

A month went by. Di Jiu did not know how far he had walked, but his Spiritual Force still could not find anything other than desolation. Apart from blood stains, broken treasure and white bones, there seemed to be nothing else around.

He seemed to be the only person in the world.

Broken treasures and gloomy wind... Vast deserts and sunsets... This was a land of wreckage with not a single soul.

Di Jiu had never felt so lonely and empty, even though he had been in seclusion for years. When he looked up at the vast galaxy, he saw a faint red glow that radiated from the sun as emptiness and loneliness filled his heart.

He could not help but feel lonely when he was the only person in the entire world. That was the law of Heaven and Earth after all.

Two more months flew past. Di Jiu continued searching, as he was desperate to find someone. In three months, he did not see anything other than bones and desolation.

A year later, he stood beside the shoreline of a sea that had dried up. He was no longer walking.

There was an inverted stone pillar at the shoreline with the following three words on it: Thearch Robe Sea.

The bottom of the sea appeared the same that he had seen along the way. There were broken treasures around, yet even though the corpses of the immortals had started rotting, there was not a single scavenger crow in sight.

Even though this place was the Immortal World, it was a hell that Di Jiu dreaded. This was not his first time seeing such things. In the past year, he had encountered countless wrecked Immortal Cities. All the Immortal Cities had had one thing in common—they had been full of dead bodies and bones and completely silent.

These dead bodies had neither been eaten by demon beasts nor been killed by natural disasters. They had been killed in wars.

Di Jiu turned around slowly after staring at the dried sea for a long time. His footsteps were heavy, as this was the first time he had lost his sense of direction.

Not only did he lose sense of where he was, but he also lost his sense of cultivation.

Those immortals had clearly died during a chaotic battle. “What is the purpose of life?” Di Jiu thought.

Was it about searching for eternal life when one was alive? Was it about fighting like crazy for cultivating resources after one had discovered the path of cultivation? Or was it about killing everyone else around after advancing to a higher level?

What was the purpose of life if one was all alone in the world?

Di Jiu stood at the same place. He was unable to control his mind as countless questions swarmed it. Some questions had answers, while others did not.

Time flew past.

One day, one month, one year...

This world was so miserable, desolate and lonely...

Yes, he had chosen immortal cultivation, eternal life and power. However, he had not done so to become a lonely immortal. He had not become strong because he wanted the world to be filled with dead bodies and chaos.

There were too many selfish people and individuals who abused their power in this world. Their selfishness had brought devastation and desolation to the world...

Could one do whatever one wanted just because one was powerful? Did this mean that a strong person did not have any restrictions?

Di Jiu had seen many places, but there had been law and order even in the Pearl City of the Ji Nation, where experts were highly respected. He had liked the Earth the most because the social order there was very clear. Some conflicts and injustices that took place were just the tip of the iceberg, as people did not dare behave unscrupulously at will. Di Jiu needed the same order and stability there.

He wanted a free place without bloodshed and cruelty. Freedom had to coexist with law,. These two concepts were neither conflicting nor contradicting.

There were laws in the universe. Everything had its own order. Why did humans not want to conform to such laws when it came to them?

This was not the world Di Jiu needed!

This was not why he had chosen immortal cultivation!

Since there were no laws around him and the world he was in was full of murder and cruelty, he would set the rules and prevent such crimes from happening.

If he did not want murder and cruelty in this world, if he wanted to set rules...

What did he have to do?

After thinking for a year, Di Jiu looked up. His eyes were full of determination. If he wanted to do these things, he needed to start with killing.

He had to start with killing to set rules...

It didn’t matter whether people killed to set their own laws. Di Jiu had to kill to create laws suitable for the entire Immortal World.

Many faint Dao engravings swirled around Di Jiu like layers of silkworm cocoons that he could barely see.

Other than when he looked up to decide what was the law he had to set for the world, Di Jiu stood still. He did not move anymore for an entire year. Only the Dao engravings that were hard to control by the Spiritual Force continued to expand.

10 years, 50 years, 100 years...

100 years flew past like a brief second. Amid the piles of dead bodies in the dried sea was a figure that stood still.

The surroundings remained deadly still as the motionless figure collected dust. It was like a statue or a dead body that had been there for a long time.

The motionless statue was like the space of 10,000 feet around it. It encompassed both the Foundation Order and the Starry Sky aura. It was just like the galaxy and stars Di Jiu had encountered in the Starry Sky Meridian during cultivation. However, this Dao rune galaxy was completely condensed with Dao force.