“Fellow Daoist Tentpole, does climbing the Cosmic Staircase have any effect if you’ve been walking behind someone for a while?” Di Jiu had walked behind Lone Stepper for a long time, if this still had an effect on him, he wouldn’t just let Lone Stepper off the hook.
Tentpole looked at Lone Stepper, although he knew that he would offend Lone Stepper if he said it, but as long as he recovered from his injuries, Lone Stepper shouldn’t be able to help him.
“Sage Di, if the number of cosmic stair steps walked is not half of the total, then it has no effect. As far as I know, this heavenly ladder knot should be the first knot of the cosmic ladder, and it is estimated that only a third of the journey has been taken.” Tent Pei explained. He guessed that Di Jiu should have followed the Lone Stepper.
Di Jiu put his heart down, if there was any influence, he would not hesitate to finish off the Lone Stepper, even if he was seriously injured.
After knowing that Di Jiu was not an easy master, no one came to disturb Di Jiu again. Di Jiu found a place to sit down near the boulder. It was indeed good to cultivate here, but it was more important for him to leave the Five Elements Universe and go to the third step of the Dao.
There wasn’t a frugal guy here, and the closer he was to the boulder, the sooner he would rush up the cosmic ladder once it came over. So a part of his divine mind was constantly watching the vast emptiness on the periphery.
The Lone Stepper was very upset in his heart, he had not really brought Di Jiu here to help him to prove his third step, he wanted Di Jiu’s Reincarnation Bridge. However, now that Di Jiu was getting stronger and stronger, as well as knowing about his ultimate plan, it gave him a feeling that his bamboo basket was empty. Not only that, it also made him give away the existence of the Cosmic Ladder.
No matter how reluctant he was, he had to cross into the third step first.
After seeing Di Jiu find a zone near the edge of the boulder to cultivate, Lone Stepper let out a long sigh in his heart, he knew what Di Jiu meant and that it would make it more difficult for him to travel to the Cosmic Staircase step.
After hesitating for a moment, Lone Stepping Man simply walked towards the centre of the boulder. With his strength, as long as he cultivated here for a period of time, when he had reached the second step of perfection, no one here would be his opponent. At that time, there would be no loss in competing for the Cosmic Ladder Steps. Going to fight for it now was basically not much of a contest.
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Di Jiu didn’t have to wait long, in just seven days, the universe dao around Di Jiu suddenly changed, from empty to a vast dao aura that filled the endless universe.
All the people began to cultivate frantically, and Di Jiu likewise began to cultivate. He had felt the difference after just one weekday before, and now he was going to cultivate here for some time, not knowing what difference it would make.
After one circumference, the surging Dao rhythm aura bulged around his body, even if it was the Rule Dao he was cultivating, it was the first time that Di Jiu could so clearly pounce on the subtle changes in his Rule Dao under the circumference. Based on such subtle changes, Di Jiu could even deduce his own divine ability at will.
Di Jiu did not bother to deduce his own divine powers, which were of secondary importance to him, unless they were the kind of supreme divine powers. To him, it was more valuable to condense his own Dao Dao rhythm. Compared to those powerful people, he was still a little short of that. Once his Dao Dao Rhyme had been condensed to a certain level, his Three Sheets of Age Machine could slash out five slashes in a row.
If all five slashes of the Ages Three Sheets Machine came out at the same time, it would not be a wave of slashes, but a continuous wave of combined slashes, which was more than twice as powerful.
Apart from Rong Yang Yan, who was still swaying around the periphery of the boulder, the boulder was quiet and every one of them was cultivating frantically.
This magnificent aura of cosmic dao lasted for seven days before that dao rhythm abruptly dissipated. All the people started chatting with each other again, but Di Jiu was excited in his heart. In seven days, his Dao rhyme had solidified a great deal more than before. If he had taken the time to cultivate step by step, it would have taken at least hundreds of years. And here it only took seven days.
Although his cultivation could not be raised, as long as it lasted for some more time, he would definitely slash out the fifth slash. When the fifth slash appeared, there would be no one on this boulder who would be his match.
This time it was after six days that that cultivation aura descended once again. Di Jiu continued to cultivate frantically, but this time it was only for six days.
After a long time, Di Jiu had sort of summed up the pattern. After a few days of rest, he could cultivate for a few days.
Day after day, year after year. It had been nearly a hundred years since Di Jiu was trapped on this cosmic staircase boulder. At first Di Jiu was a little anxious, but as time was slowly consumed by cultivation, Di Jiu simply settled down. This kind of thing was not something that he could influence, and being anxious was not half as useful. He was not strong enough yet. Perhaps one day, he could influence such things, but not now.
On that day, the Dao rhythm aura on the boulder had just filled through, and Di Jiu’s divine thoughts, which had been locked in the outer void, suddenly pounced on a stone, an earthy yellow stone.
The cosmic staircase appeared, and Di Jiu rushed towards the earthy yellow stone almost as fast as he could vanish.
Di Jiu was fast, and there were several guys on this boulder who were not half as slow as Di Jiu. The reason they were one step slower was because Di Jiu had been at the edge when he was cultivating, and they were near the middle of the boulder when they were cultivating. Even though this distance was small, it was clearly highlighted among the strongest.
“Kid, you have a lot of guts. This Saint has waited for so many years and you want to grab the Cosmic Stair Steps as soon as you arrive. Hey, is it great to come from the Ninth World? You can bully Tent Pei, but if you want to bully this saint, you are still a bit short of it. Eat this saint’s fist first ……” A man with a long beard and white skin saw that Di Jiu’s speed was even before his, and he was immediately upset, and as he spoke, he blasted his fist at Di Jiu, not caring at all that both he and Di Jiu were in the vast emptiness of the cosmic staircase He did not care that he and Di Jiu were both in the vast emptiness of the cosmic staircase.
By the time the bearded, white-skinned cultivator blasted at Di Jiu, three people had already followed suit and rushed towards the new earthy cosmic staircase.
There was no telling whether this thing was true or not, and even if Di Jiu really did have the Dao of Honour, they might not be able to grab it. But this cosmic ladder step was something they had to step on, not stepping on the cosmic ladder was the same as waiting for death here.
Di Jiu was just as clear that this battle was very important to him. Once he showed any semblance of being able to be bullied, I was afraid that the result would be a flurry of others.
In fact, Di Jiu was not wrong in guessing that although there were only five people rushing towards the cosmic staircase steps, there were around twenty people waiting at the edge of the boulder, almost a third more than here, and these people were obviously waiting for their chance.
Letting the endless spatial arrows and spacetime blade auras cover him, Di Jiu did not even resist or dodge, not to mention the spatial arrows he did not dodge, the bearded cultivator’s punch he did not dodge or block either. The only thing he did was to offer up the Heavenly Shao Blade with all his might, and with a single slash, the three machines of the ages!
The blade’s aura formed a blade curtain and rolled down, the blade curtain instantly turned into a blade wave, going 90,000 miles in one go.
Even in the middle of the vast cosmic staircase where the Cosmic Staircase was located, the waves of sabre power formed by the Three Sheets of Age Machine rolled up with a rolling roar.
Apart from the bearded, white-skinned man, the three people following behind them all subconsciously paused. They had seen this slash of Di Jiu’s, waves of 90,000 miles, and once they were swept away by the waves, the consequences would definitely not be too good. Tent Pei was an example of this.
Boom! This punch from the bearded, white-skinned man and in the countless spatial arrows blasted at Di Jiu’s body, even with the Void Mountain and World Book to resist, Di Jiu was still spurting out a fresh blood from the Dao Rhythm backlash, the Dao Rhythm instantly dissipated a lot, so it was evident that he was not lightly injured. However, Di Jiu knew very well that, in spite of taking this punch, he had seized the first opportunity. The three machines of the age were based on the first opportunity. If he let his opponent’s attack get up, there would be no way for his three Zhang Qi to form a continuous wave of blade power.
Seeing that Di Jiu was actually fine even though he had taken a punch from himself, and that he did not see Di Jiu resist the terrifying spatial arrow as well as the time blade aura, the bearded, white-skinned man knew that Di Jiu must have top-notch defensive armour on him.
He also knew that Di Jiu’s slash was meant to take the lead, which is why he took his punch in a desperate attempt. It was a pity that he knew a little too late, he should have known that he was going to do something ruthless. Now he could only sacrifice his own phase-less streamer.
When he saw Di Jiu’s slash, he had studied it specifically. If he wanted to deal with Di Jiu, he had to take the first opportunity and then block Di Jiu’s blade wave, and his punch was the one that took the first opportunity. Unfortunately, Di Jiu had to throw his sword even though he was injured, so he could only sacrifice the Phantomless Streamer after his punch.
But it didn’t matter, as long as he blocked this wave of Di Jiu’s blade, then in an instant it was Di Jiu’s disadvantage, and at this time he could definitely crush Di Jiu with his full power. In his opinion, the fact that Di Jiu did not continue to blast Topman earlier was not because Di Jiu had shown mercy, but because Di Jiu’s blade wave could only go as far as the fourth blade wave came, and there would not be any higher blade waves.
The bearded, white-skinned man had not thought wrongly, the only thing he had not expected was that in just about a hundred years, the power of Di Jiu’s slash had become another level stronger.
Boom boom boom! The continuous waves of sword power blasted against the Phaseless Streamer, stirring up a terrifying explosive sound.
The bearded, white-skinned man was obviously much stronger than Tent Pei, and his Phantomless Streamer was also extraordinary, so even though Di Jiu’s waves of sabre power were bigger, and the waves of sabre waves were more terrifying, they could not cross the half-step lightning pool of the Phantomless Streamer.
Di Jiu’s heart sank as he knew that he could not yet execute his fifth blade. If this guy used the Phaseless Streamer to block his Three Changing Machines of the Ages, then it would be absolutely impossible for him to dominate the Cosmic Steps today.
Thinking of this, Di Jiu didn’t hesitate half a second longer and grabbed out his Heaven Opening Pen. His Heaven Opening Pen was not for casting Heaven Opening True Words, his Heaven Opening True Words were limited by the rules of the universe and should not be able to deal with this bearded man. Di Jiu sacrificed the Heaven Opening Pen and cast out the Second Machine of Ages while the blade wave of the Three Machines was still raging.
What the Heaven Opening Brush splashed out in the void this time was not a word, but a painting, a curved bow to be exact. The curved bow hovered in the sky, and between Di Jiu’s open hands, Dao rhythms flowed, and a long arrow of emptiness that had gathered endless years of killing intent was placed on top of this curved bow.
Two machines, weaving life and death together, looking back, pulling the bow north to shoot the wolf in the sky.