Ninth In the World
chapter-280

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The youth’s face grew cold. “The Yue Family is a True Dominion family.”

The middle-aged man quickly said, “Young Pavilion Lord, you haven’t been to the True Dominion. You are already considered to be independent. Plus, the Pavilion Lord didn’t decree that you have to return to the Yue Family. The Pavilion Lord will go to the True Dominion very soon. The Prophecy Island is flourishing now and doesn’t seem inferior to the True Dominion by any means. What I mean is that rather than going back to fight over the business with the other Yue Family descendants, it may be better to stay here and take charge of the Prophecy Pavilion.”

The youth’s face calmed down and he nodded at the middle-aged man. “Please go and take care of Di Di. Don’t let her come to any harm.”

“Why don’t I bring Di Di over to the Young Pavilion Lord and lock her here?” asked the middle-aged man in a flattering manner.

The youth snorted. “Idiot! Nobody would notice her if she was locked below the commercial building. Once you brought her here, my father would be the first to ask about her.”

“Yes, I get it.” The middle-aged man quickly backed down and sped away.

After the middle-aged man left, the youth frowned and muttered to himself after a long while, “It is very difficult to graft the Spirit Root. It may not succeed even in the True Dominion. However, I can use the Sacred Spirit Eyes first.”

He wasn’t worried that Di Di’s Sacred Spirit Eyes would be discovered. If Di Di had not attained the Essence Soul Realm after merely cultivating for a few years, thus prompting Manager Huang to draw some of her blood and test it, he wouldn’t have known that Di Di had the Sacred Spirit Eyes and the Heaven Spirit Root.

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“Ah Jiu, can we escape now?” When Di Di heard that Di Jiu hadn’t been captured, she immediately felt happy and wanted to leave this place right away.

Di Jiu snickered. “Of course we can leave. Before we leave though, I have to settle some scores with the Prophecy Pavilion.”

“Who are you?” asked the middle-aged man when he opened the restriction and saw an additional person in the room.

“My family has been captured by you!” Di Jiu looked at the middle-aged man who had opened the restriction as he answered in a cold tone.

Family? The middle-aged man immediately noticed that he could not detect Di Jiu’s cultivation level. However, Di Jiu didn’t look old. As he transmitted a beam of information, he stretched his hands out towards Di Jiu.

The middle-aged man quickly noticed that something was wrong. His hand slowed to a stop in mid-air before a Quintessential Essence hand seal grabbed his whole body. In an instant, he felt his dantian and Spiritual Sea shatter. He was now flying in the air.

What was the matter? The middle-aged man hadn’t managed to clear the doubts in his heart, when four sabers nailed him right on the huge signboard outside the commercial building.

Boom! The commercial building was completely blasted into pieces by Di Jiu.

“You must have a death wish…” A youth that had been on the upper level of the Prophecy Pavilion in the distance was the first to dash in. He had just flashed his Dharma treasure when a Quintessential Essence hand seal came grabbing at him.

The youth discovered in shock that he didn’t have any chance of hiding from the Quintessential Essence hand seal. Then, he suffered the same fate—his dantian was crushed, his meridians were torn up and his Spiritual Sea was shattered…

Four more sabers flew out and nailed him beside the middle-aged man.

Di Jiu didn’t kill the two men. Instead, he watched them being flung from a distance. They were the people whose aura he had sensed was stronger than Huan Mingzi’s.

Huan Mingzi didn’t feel comfortable enough to scan the area with his Spiritual Force. Di Jiu’s Spiritual Force had scanned over them a few times before the two of them had gotten near. In the end, he confirmed that his eyes were not fooling him. They were both hurt.

One of the men had stripes on his face, while the other was tall and thin. If the two of them were not hurt, Di Jiu guessed that they were both early-stage Domain Realm experts.

The man with the stripes on his face rushed crazily towards the youth who had been nailed on the signboard. Di Jiu would naturally not let him try to make a rescue. The Heavenly Aqua Saber turned into a flash of green flare and slashed over.

Boom! The stripe-faced man hastily boomed his fist towards Di Jiu’s Heavenly Aqua Saber. Suddenly, Quintessential Essence exploded. Di Jiu backed down a few steps, while the stripe-faced man lost the pink color on his face and backed down by more than 10 steps.

“Who are you?” The stripe-faced man stared at Di Jiu in astonishment. When had an expert like this come to the Small Central World? Even though he was hurt and had used his fist hastily, he was still a true Domain Realm expert. Although he was at the first-stage Domain Realm, he was still at the Domain Realm nonetheless.

Di Jiu laughed. “You don’t have to worry about who I am. You should worry about the Prophecy Pavilion instead. So what if it’s a ten-star sect? Let me see if I can destroy a ten-star sect today.”

The stripe-faced man didn’t have the time to save anyone else now. He just looked calmly at Di Jiu and said, “I think that you must be Young Master Red Embellishment. Am I right? The Prophecy Pavilion has no enmity against you, Daoist. Why did you suddenly destroy the Prophecy Pavilion’s shop and nail my son to the signboard?”

Di Jiu snorted coldly. “No enmity? My sister Di Di and my uncle Tian Ku were in reclusive cultivation on the island before they were dragged by the Prophecy Pavilion to the Prophecy Island and were locked up here. How can you still dare proclaim that there is no enmity? Aren’t you shameless, you old fogey?”

The stripe-faced man was in shock as he looked over to the youth nailed on the signboard by Di Jiu. Actually, he had no idea that such a thing had happened.

The youth quickly said, “Father, this man is spouting nonsense. If you had not rushed over in time, I would have lost my life. This man tore up my dantian and destroyed my Spiritual Sea…”

The stripe-faced man knew immediately that this was true. His rage boiled like a vast sea. Even though he was now the Pavilion Lord of the Prophecy Pavilion, he might not be able to find the perfect spirit herb to restore his son’s Spiritual Sea. The puny little Young Master Red Embellishment had dared cripple his son! So what if he was injured? If he didn’t capture the Young Master Red Embellishment and extract his soul, he would not be true to his name.

“Brother Ju, give me a hand and help me kill this fiend.” While he spoke, Yue Jian drew out the Condensed Ice Spear and pierced out with it.

The shadow of the spear immediately transformed into a domain and trapped Di Jiu within it instantly.

There had been no need for Yue Jian to ask. The tall, thin man took out his Dharma treasure and plunged at Di Jiu without hesitation. Although he was also injured, he was at the edge of attaining the Domain Realm. He believed that, no matter how strong Di Jiu was, he could only back down against Yue Jian’s domain. Even if Di Jiu could break out of Yue Jian’s domain, he would not be able to escape from his killer move.

However, he had just rushed out when a hoarse voice was heard. “Ju Miu, you had teamed up with Yue Jian to sneak up on me. Today, I—Chang Xiao—will not be sneaky about it. I will kill you honorably, you scum…”

As the voice trailed off, a rainbow that tore up the sky came crashing down. Before the rainbow landed, the killing aura had already gained control of the entire surrounding space.

Di Jiu’s heart trembled. He had wanted to try to block off the two injured Domain Realm experts. If he couldn’t, then he would just escape with Uncle Tian and Di Di.

However, he hadn’t expected that someone would help him. He knew Chang Xiao—he was the Head Pavilion Lord of the Prophecy Pavilion, who was rumored to be at the Domain Realm. Unfortunately, Di Jiu could also sense that this man was injured. It looked like the stripe-faced man was the Second Pavilion Lord of the Prophecy Pavilion, Yue Jian.

Chang Xiao was indeed very forbearing. He had actually hidden aside and waited for this chance to appear. When he saw that Di Jiu had come alone to challenge Yue Jian, he had drawn support from Di Jiu’s strength and struck too.

Now that Chang Xiao was handling Ju Miu, Di Jiu felt his hands and legs get totally freed up. Over 6,000 sabers blasted away, and the Nine-Nine Constellation Large Array was executed.

Even though the opponent was an injured Domain Realm Cultivator, he was still a Domain Realm expert. He, on the other hand, was only a first-stage True Form cultivator.

Boom, boom, boom! The saber array and Yue Jian’s domain collided. Amid booming sounds, Yue Jian’s domain was shattered inch by inch and a few dozens of sabers in Di Jiu’s saber array were torn up.

The saber array was a single body. If any of the sabers inside faced any problems, the power of the saber array would be affected tremendously.

Yue Jian snorted. When the spear slit down the torn rift in the saber array very precisely, Di Jiu was totally exposed to his killing intent.

Yue Jian laughed scornfully in his heart. Di Jiu had dared use the saber array, even though he had insufficient Spiritual Force? Regardless of whether this was a saber array, sword array or spear array, as long as one mastered it thoroughly, they would be far more powerful than anyone in the same class.

However, the more powerful this array was, the more loopholes it would have. The saber array also had a very big loophole related to the Spiritual Force. Once there was insufficient Spiritual Force, the loophole would show up in the saber array and would eventually come back to bite the user.

Even if Di Jiu was possessed by an expert, his Spiritual Force would not be very strong. However, he had dared use the level-nine saber array, even though his Spiritual Force was weak. The saber array even had some low-grade and middle-grade sabers. If this unstable saber array was torn up by his domain, only death would await Di Jiu, who had an inadequate Spiritual Force.

When he saw that Yue Jian had fallen for his trick and had gathered all his killing aura to attack the rift in his saber array, Di Jiu realized that he wanted to kill him with one strike.

He had lured him into believing that his Spiritual Force was inadequate and that he couldn’t control the level-nine saber array.

It was a pity that this old fogey was blind. When Di Jiu opened his hand again, the shattered sabers were suddenly restored.

A space-ripping green saber flare swirled out and the saber aura loomed over Yue Jian. The killing aura also surged forward without any hesitation.

When the killing aura of the Condensed Ice Spear was suddenly dulled, Yue Jian had a bad feeling. He suddenly recalled that the Young Master Red Embellishment was one of the top 10 people in the Five Continent Dao Pagoda. Possessed or not, Di Jiu had over 10 qualifying spots to enter the Small World Planet. Even if those spots were all exchanged for Spirit Stones, he wouldn’t have only low-grade Spirit Weapons left to use for the array flag of the saber array…

Boom! The Condensed Ice Spear’s killing aura dispersed and boundless saber intent condensed to form a vast saber aura that constrained him in mid-air.

This was bad. By now, Yue Jian had realized that he had been tricked by Di Jiu. Although he backed off like crazy, a green saber flare tore up the sky and gushed in towards him.

Yue Jian looked hopelessly at the green saber flare that was swirling in. How strong was his Spiritual Force? Even a level-ten Spiritual Force wouldn’t have been able to restore the shattered level-nine saber array completely in the haste of a battle, let alone strike back after restoring the saber array.