Just after a hundred years, Di Jiu saw a boulder platform again, and this time Di Jiu did not go up.
The reason for not going up to this boulder platform was to save time. Besides, the cultivators who could come here were obviously a cut above the people on the first platform, so it was better for him to be careful. Another one was that it was difficult to wait for the cosmic staircase after getting on the boulder platform, and it seemed much easier to wait for the next step on the cosmic staircase.
The appearance of this boulder platform was even more of a validation of Di Jiu’s view. He had not gone wrong, because according to the cultivator on the previous boulder platform, this kind of heavenly ladder knot was the most difficult to appear. Sometimes, cultivators travelling through millions of years while climbing the cosmic ladder might not even meet one. The fact that he had met the Heavenly Staircase Knot again in just a hundred years showed that the path was the right one.
Knowing that he was on the right path, Di Jiu’s confidence grew even more.
As century after century pa*sed, this was almost habit-forming for Di Jiu. Every century that pa*sed, he would pa*s through a Heavenly Stair Knot. By the time he pa*sed the fifth Heavenly Ladder Knot, Di Jiu wondered if he was spinning in the Cosmic Ladder. And those ladder knots he pa*sed through were the same ones he had first visited.
From the initial confidence of thinking he was on the right path, he now had some uncertainty in his heart and began to doubt whether he had made the right choice.
Nevertheless, Di Jiu resisted the idea of entering the Stairway Knot and decided that if he would still see the Stairway Knot in the next hundred years, he would go up and see if he was really spinning in place.
Another few decades pa*sed, and Di Jiu was in the process of climbing the cosmic ladder steps, but he waited until he saw a coloured cosmic ladder step with at least dozens of colours fused together.
Could it be that this cosmic ladder step was the end? He had to know that he had been consuming the cosmic staircase for almost a thousand years or so, but he had not met a coloured cosmic staircase either.
Whether it was or not, Di Jiu didn’t hesitate half-heartedly and rushed straight through.
“Ka-ching!” Di Jiu had just reached the halfway point when a coloured spatial arrow came tearing through the void and blasted at Di Jiu’s Void Mountain armour.
According to past experience, this spatial arrow would only pa*s through his Void Mountain armour at most. Therefore, Di Jiu did not worry much and still voyaged at full speed towards the Coloured Cosmic Steps. Even if this was the first time he encountered a coloured space arrow, so what!
Boom! Click!
Di Jiu then felt a force that was like a third-step powerhouse posting his body to explode on top of his armour, a terrifying dao rhyme ripped into it, his Void Mountain armour was directly torn apart and turned into countless shreds.
Di Jiu was horrified in his heart, the Void Mountain was an innate treasure, even if it was an innate treasure of a low grade, this was still an innate one.
How could an innate treasure not be able to stop a spatial arrow? It was directly destroyed, how strong was this one spatial arrow?
However, Di Jiu knew very well that this was not the time to consider these issues, once he delayed too long and the World Book was also torn apart, then he was afraid that he would have to wait for his death. Di Jiu casually threw the torn Void Mountain fragment into the ninth world, his body didn’t slow down at all.
Boom boom boom! Several more spatial arrows came tearing in one after another, these several spatial arrows blasted on the World Book and Di Jiu clearly heard the sound of paper and silk being torn apart.
Di Jiu’s heart sank, the World Book and the Void Mountain were different. The Void Mountain was dispensable to Di Jiu, but the World Book was a treasure that Di Jiu could not throw away.
Just as Di Jiu thought of this, there was another bang, and Di Jiu felt as if his sea of consciousness was about to be broken open, and an arrow of blood spurted out with his open mouth.
Following this, his cultivation level dropped wildly and his Dao rhyme became confused.
Even if he was torn into pieces, Di Jiu could not care less at this moment. With his divine transport technique activated, Di Jiu landed on the coloured cosmic staircase with almost instantaneous speed.
What made Di Jiu breathe a sigh of relief was that after he cast the last divine Thought Transport, he was finally not hit by the spatial arrow or the time blade again. Sometimes, luck was indeed a part of strength. With his last transport, he was lucky.
Walking in the void between these cosmic staircases, the rule evasion technique was really inferior to the divine thought evasion. This had taught Di Jiu the truth that in the endless universe, strength and weakness were all relative.
Even though he had landed on the steps of the Cosmic Staircase, Di Jiu’s heart was half-hearted. The Void Mountain had been torn apart by the spatial arrows, how could he walk the path behind him? Not only was the Void Mountain torn apart, the World Book was also torn by a few sheets of paper, but fortunately, the World Book was not badly damaged and had been repaired over.
“Huh!” Di Jiu’s gaze suddenly stopped as he looked ahead.
The rules in front of him were vast, and there was no longer that feeling between the Cosmic Staircase.
Was this crossing out of the Cosmic Staircase?
While Di Jiu was still thinking about it, a small ladder made of dao rhymes appeared in front of him, and the top of the ladder led to nowhere, beyond the reach of his divine mind and gaze.
Di Jiu had no choice but to step onto the rhyme ladder. As soon as he stepped onto this Dao Rhyme Ladder, Di Jiu knew that it was his own Dao Rhyme that had coalesced.
Could it be that when he was crossing the Cosmic Ladder, his own Dao rhyme was recorded by the Cosmic Ladder, and then a new small Cosmic Ladder was condensed here to send him up? Whether it was or not, he still had to go.
When Di Jiu reached the forty-ninth step, there was suddenly an empty space around him, and then Di Jiu was surprised to find himself in the middle of a chaos. It was really chaos, Di Jiu could not feel half of the rules of the universe. He even doubted his previous deduction that everything in the universe had rules, and the reason why he could not feel the rules was because he had not yet discovered them. However, in this place, it seemed that no rules could really be found.
When he looked back again, the Dao rhyme ladder that had come up had disappeared.
Even if Di Jiu was stupid, he knew that he had left the Cosmic Staircase and also left the Five Elements Universe.
When Di Jiu didn’t know which direction he should go, dozens of channel vortexes appeared in front of him. Each of these vortexes was of one colour, just like the various coloured boulders he had seen climbing the steps of the Cosmic Staircase before.
Which colour of pa*sage should he go to this time? Was it to find a pa*sage close to his own dao rhythm?
Di Jiu’s divine thoughts swept through, but his divine thoughts could not penetrate into the vortex of these pa*sages at all, so he could only use his gaze to check the colours of these pa*sages.
Apart from these pa*sageways with their own colours, the rest of the world was chaos. This chaos was not the void, not the starry sky, and not some cosmic outer space. To be precise, this chaos was more like some unexplored space.
Di Jiu stood where he was for a full hour hesitating, and in the end he did not choose any of the colour swirling pa*sages, but quickly vanish into the vastness of the chaotic space. If he did not know something, then he would not touch it for the time being.
Several days later, when Di Jiu’s divine thoughts swept out again, he could no longer see the dozens of swirling channels of various colours. The space he was in was becoming more and more chaotic, and the distance between his divine thoughts and his escape was getting shorter and shorter.
He couldn’t catch the rules of the chaos, but he cultivated the rule dao himself, so he could use his own rules to escape in a hurry.
As another few months pa*sed, the chaotic aura in Di Jiu’s place became heavier and heavier, making it difficult for him to advance even with the help of his own rules.
Di Jiu simply stopped, and he began to heal his wounds. This was a place to heal, so no one should come and disturb him.
Soon Di Jiu found that healing in this chaotic space was more effective than any other place. In three months’ time, Di Jiu, who had even had his sea of consciousness traumatised, had completely recovered.
Without his injuries, Di Jiu’s speed had accelerated a lot.
Ten years later, Di Jiu’s face was becoming increasingly ugly as he felt as if he was back in the middle of that constant climbing process between the steps of the Cosmic Staircase. During the climb of the cosmic ladder, he had to have at least one more goal.
In a place like this, he had no goal, no direction, and no space, no space, not even colour.
There is nothing, and if there must be something, it is endless chaos. No matter how far he went, no matter where he went, there was always chaos.