If the largest trial site for low-level cultivators in the Northern Region State was the Marsh Sea Forest, then the largest trial site in the entire Extreme Night Continent was the Million Heavenly Ruins.
The Million Heavenly Ruins was in the Eastern Region State, but the cultivators who came here to try out were not just cultivators from the Eastern Region. Most of the cultivators from the entire Extreme Night Continent would try out at the Million Heavenly Ruins, and even Golden Dan cultivators would enter the Million Heavenly Ruins in search of cultivation resources.
The reason why the Million Sky Market was so famous was because it was close to the Extreme Night Continent’s largest battlefield, the Extreme Night Sky Market.
It was rumoured that a long time ago, the Extreme Night Continent belonged to the Sheyan Star Continent. For reasons unknown, the Sheyan Star Continent suddenly split into two halves. Half of these two halves were the Extreme Night Continent and the other half was called the Half Curtain Continent.
After the split between the Extreme Night Continent and the Half Curtain Continent, an immense Heavenly Ruin was formed in the middle. Every few years, the heavenly ruins would automatically connect. At this time, the cultivators of the Extreme Night Continent and the cultivators of the Half Curtain Continent would definitely have a big battle here.
The reason for the great battle was simple: the middle of the connected Heavenly Ruins were all spirit veins and spirit stone mines. On top of that, there are also precious top-grade smithing materials and some naturally refined high-level magic treasures.
The Sheyan Star Continent had existed for an unknown number of years, and cultivation resources were already in short supply. Once such spirit veins and spirit stone mines and natural magical treasures appeared, cultivators from both continents would fight desperately for them.
After grabbing the spiritual stone mines and veins and those natural ones, the two continents would naturally split apart again, with the original Heavenly Market remaining in the middle.
Some of the cultivators who came to participate in the battles in the Extreme Night Sky Market would naturally head to the Million Sky Market in search of cultivation resources when they were not fighting.
The Marsh Sea Forest was considered large, and dropping the Marsh Sea Forest inside the Million Heavenly Ruins would probably just occupy a corner.
There are not only forests and swamps inside the Million Heavenly Ruins, but deserts, gobi, mountains and even volcanoes and glaciers …… Apart from the absence of the sea, the landforms here are all there.
Originally, there was an open-air market on the outskirts of the Million Heavenly Ruins, called the Border Market Market. Because there were so many cultivators coming here, over time, this market was upgraded to Bianxu City.
At this moment, outside the Bianxu City, two veiled women were looking in amazement at a notice outside the city walls.
The portrait on the notice was very clear, and it was also written very clearly that Di Jiu and Geng Jiehua, who had robbed the Qi family’s commercial building, were wanted. Anyone with accurate information about these two sent to any of the Qi Family’s merchant houses could be rewarded with 100,000 lower-grade spirit stones, 50,000 medium-grade spirit stones and ten third-grade spirit pills (you could ask for a Foundation Establishment Pill).
If you can catch Di Jiu and Geng Hastily Flower, as long as they are alive, you can be rewarded with 100,000 medium-grade spirit stones, one million lower-grade spirit stones, and you can ask for Foundation Establishment Pills and Pui Zhen Pills.
The Foundation Establishment Pill was extremely scarce, and the Pui Zhen Pill was even more valuable as it was the spirit pill needed for a successful Foundation Establishment cultivator to cross over to the Golden Dan realm. This kind of prize would probably be found even if it was a needle in the sea.
Both women also knew how terrifying this kind of reward was, and after seeing this news, they looked at each other but did not say anything.
Half an hour later, in a simple cave at the very edge of the Border Market City, the woman dressed in grey removed her sarong, still with some disbelief in her eyes, and said, “Sister Yu, I can’t be wrong, that wanted one is Di Jiu?”
The other woman who was called Sister Yu also removed her veil, if Di Jiu was here, he would definitely be able to recognise the two, these two were none other than Yu Jie and Zeng Bei Zi who had come from Earth like him.
Both of them had good qualifications. On Earth they had always cultivated martial arts, but only after they arrived here did they start to cultivate truth.
Now that it had been almost two years, Yu Jie’s cultivation level was the sixth level of Qi cultivation and Zeng Bei Zi’s was the fifth level of Qi cultivation. Together with the fact that they had both been cultivating martial arts, their combat power was even more powerful than the average late Qi cultivation.
Yu Jie said in a deep voice, “This should be true, back in the Fairy Star, Di Jiu was very mysterious and very powerful. He was the one who saved me down in the beginning, and now that I’ve come to this place, I reckon he’s even more like a fish out of water. It’s just that he even dares to rob the Qi family merchant house, he simply doesn’t want to die.”
“I still owe him something, I really don’t know how I can help him.” Zeng Bei Zi had always felt guilty in her heart towards Di Jiu.
Yu Jie said, “He also saved my life, but we definitely can’t help him at this level of cultivation. If you want to help him, you have to at least build a foundation. There is an ice river inside the Million Heavenly Ruins, and there are ice ling lotus flowers inside that ice river, and this kind of lotus flower is even more effective than the Foundation Building Pill in building the foundation. Let’s cultivate for a while longer and when we reach the late stage of Qi cultivation, why don’t we go to that ice river and try our luck?”
“Isn’t it said that very few people who go to the ice river can come back? Even if there are some who can come back, it’s hard to get ice ling lotus.” Zeng Bei Zi was a bit hesitant.
Yu Jie, however, said, “Bei Zi, we haven’t found a suitable clan to join so far. I’ve heard that clans rarely recruit disciples here, so if we were to go looking for a clan to join, we would have to be delayed on the road for at least a year or two, and that’s not counting the dangers. If we build our foundations, then we can leave the Million Heavenly Ruins whenever we want. If we can’t build our foundations, we’ll just be waiting to die here. What difference does it make if we die a few days earlier or a few days later?”
When the Fairy Star Square was breached by the demonic beasts, Yu Jie had looked at it completely.
One always had to die, and it was better to die in fear than to simply and decisively do what one wanted to do.
“Sister Yu, I’ll listen to you.” Zeng Bei Zi immediately decided to listen to Yu Jie. If she couldn’t build the foundation, she would have one less day to live. I heard that after building a foundation, one’s life expectancy could increase by a hundred years, reaching beyond two hundred years. Perhaps when the day came, she could really return to Earth for a look.
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“Pfft! Pfft! Poof!” The long blade in Di Jiu’s hand turned into a twisted blade aura and blasted at a peak Tier 2 swamp lion.
A blood aura exploded on the swamp lion, and the swamp lion erupted with a miserable scream as it turned around to flee. Only that it had just taken a few steps before it fell to the ground, its life gradually dissipating.
Di Jiu was overjoyed, that slash just now was his fifth slash. This fifth slash was the same as the fourth Feng Xiao slash, without the help of Di’s seven slashes. However, his fifth slash was instead with the help of his second fist, Tao Ru Rui, which he had comprehended a few months ago.
When his second fist blasted out, it was as if the fist formed continuous waves. His fifth slash, on the other hand, was transformed into the same wave of slashing patterns as the waves, and it was not the process that really hurt.
When a wave hits a reef, it is bound to break apart and turn into countless tiny waves. After his fifth slash struck his opponent, it exploded in the same way as a wave hitting a reef, exploding into countless slashes. These blade maces exploded directly in the opponent’s body.
Just like the swamp lion just now, his slash did not kill the swamp lion when it struck it. But after this slash exploded at the marsh lion’s wound, the countless slash qi directly tore through the marsh lion’s flesh and veins, leaving the marsh lion dead. This is what makes the fifth slash so powerful.
In the future, this blade would be called the Cracking Blade, and Di Jiu was more and more glad that he had made the decision.
Six months ago, he decided to walk out of the Swamp Sea Forest with Geng Jie and Shu Di. Along the way, they didn’t know how many demonic beasts they had killed. In six months’ time, Geng Ji had crossed into the third level of Foundation Establishment. And he was now at the peak of the third level of Foundation Establishment, just one step away from crossing over to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment.
The sound of thunder kept coming from afar, and Di Jiu knew that it was the demonic beasts that Geng Ji had attacked with his thunder sword.
“Geng Jiab, end the battle early, let’s find a place to rest for the night and continue our journey tomorrow.” Di Jiu estimated that in another month or two, they would be out of the Marsh Sea Forest.
With this speed of their trials, by the time they walked out of the Swamp Sea Forest, they would all probably cross into the middle stage of Foundation Establishment. It was Shu Di who would also cross into the middle stage of the second level demonic beast.
Geng Ji had just answered when the two of them felt a trembling under their feet.
“Big brother, I have an ominous feeling ……” Shu Di looked at the vibrating ground with some concern.
Di Jiu’s divine thoughts swept out, and when he saw clearly what was going on, his scalp also tingled.
The endless swamp lions seemed to have gone crazy and charged towards the direction where the three of them were.
“Geng Jie, hurry and retreat to my side.” Di Jiu shouted wildly.
He had read in the jade brief of the Marsh Sea Forest that the Marsh Lions in the Marsh Sea Forest would occasionally riot en ma*se, and once they met such a ma*s riot, almost no cultivator could survive.
Di Jiu and the three of them had been in the Marsh Sea Forest for two years, and this was the first time they had encountered such a swamp lion ma*s riot.