Half a month had pa*sed and Di Jiu still hadn’t found a good opportunity.
Di Jiu didn’t dare to cultivate much and could only stay inside the Sky Ridge Rest Building to study the Dao of Formation. When he was in the Fairy Star, Di Jiu could actually be considered a Level 4 Formation Dao Master. It was just that he hadn’t made many formation flags and his entry into the fourth level of formation dao was only theoretical.
In these few years, Di Jiu had spent almost every time he fought against the enemy in the midst of setting up various formations, and already had his own understanding of formations. Apart from the initial formations, he was no longer bound by what he had learned in any of the formations he had set up, and had added his own modifications to each of them.
Di Jiu’s dao level was already at the peak of level four, and he could break through the threshold of level five dao masters at any time, and with this half month of diving and research, his dao level had crossed into level five without any hindrance.
In the past year, Di Jiu had studied no less than a thousand jade slips related to the Dao of Formation, and he had even learnt that there were very few level seven Dao of Formation masters in the entire Extreme Night Continent. Even Level 6 Formation Masters were a rare breed. He was already at the top of the Extreme Night Continent in terms of the Dao of Formation when he was able to cross the rank of a Level 5 Dao of Formation Master.
When he was in the Ji Kingdom, apart from cultivation, there was no one who could match him in learning other things. However, Di Jiu knew very well that the main reason why his Dao of Formation had reached its current height in just five or six years was probably not because of his natural learning ability, but because it had something to do with that grey stone.
According to his understanding of the Dao of Formation, the vast majority of people would not even be able to cross over to the rank of a Level 4 Formation Master in their entire lives, and these people all had a life expectancy of at least two hundred years or more.
No matter how smart he was, he wouldn’t be smarter than all the people in a continent.
“Ninth Brother, we’ve found our chance.” Geng Ji’s excited voice came from the doorway.
“That Yuan Soul of the Qi Clan is gone?” Di Jiu asked as he stood up in delight.
To them, the only chance to snatch the Qi Family Merchant House in North Ridge City was for the strong Yuan Soul of the Qi Family Merchant House to leave the place.
Geng Jie affirmed, “Yes, that Yuan-Soul powerhouse has definitely left. The Extreme Night Continent opened the Heavenly Curtain and many strong people went there, and I saw that Yuan-Soul strong person leave Northern Ridge City with my own eyes.”
“What is opening the celestial curtain?” Di Jiu asked in confusion.
During the time he was studying the Dao of Formation, it was Geng Jiab who was out spying for news.
Geng Jiab said with slight excitement, “I only just learned about it, rumour has it that there is a most mysterious secret realm in the Extreme Night Continent, and this secret realm is the Heavenly Curtain. Many people say that the Heavenly Curtain isn’t actually in the Extreme Night Continent, and the opening time is also not fixed. That’s why every time the Heavenly Curtain opens, it is a carnival day for all cultivators in the Extreme Night Continent. You know why there are so many Yuan-Soul cultivators in the Qi Family Merchant House, right? Almost all of the Qi Family Merchant House’s Yuan-Soul cultivators came out of the last Extreme Night Continent’s Heavenly Canopy.
There are countless cultivation resources inside the Heavenly Curtain, and countless treasures that others would only dream of grabbing.”
“So when was the last time the Heavenly Curtain was opened?” Di Jiu suddenly wanted to go to the Heavenly Curtain even more in his heart, compared to dealing with the Qi Family Merchant House here, the Heavenly Curtain was where he should go ah.
“It was five hundred and seventy years ago, I heard that the age of a cultivator entering the Heavenly Curtain had to be less than a hundred years old. It’s a pity we didn’t have the chance to enter.” At the end of his sentence, there was a clear hint of resignation in Geng Jie’s tone.
Di Jiu asked in confusion, “Why can’t we go in? It’s not like the canopy belongs to any family, isn’t it true that anyone who meets the requirements can go in?”
“No.” Geng Jie shook his head, “There are hardly any casual cultivators who enter the Sky Curtain, and if there are, they are all very few. Most of those who enter the Sky Curtain are disciples of clans, and before entering the Sky Curtain, the major clans will have a competition, and those who participate in the competition are all genius disciples of the major clans. Based on the competition, the number of people from each major clan entering the Heavenly Curtain will be determined.”
Di Jiu finally understood why Geng Jie said that they were not qualified to enter the Heavenly Curtain, they were casual cultivators and were not qualified to represent their clan in the competition at all.
“Whether we can go or not, after we take out the Qi Family Merchant House in North Ridge City this time, we’ll go to the Heavenly Curtain and take a look.” Di Jiu immediately made up his mind, if he couldn’t go in such a place, he wouldn’t even feel free in his heart.
“Good, where Brother Jiu goes, I will go.” Geng Jiuzhi said excitedly, under Di Jiu’s influence, he had long since ceased to be the innocent teenager he was back then. It would be strange for him not to want to go to a place like the Sky Curtain where everyone wanted to go.
“You should learn more about talismans, you’re the slowest in progress. I’m going to set up outside the Qi family merchant building now.” Di Jiu said as he gave Geng Jiab a pat.
He had drilled in the Dao of Formation and was now a Level 5 Formation Master. Shu Di drilled in alchemy, and with the practice of countless low-grade spirit herbs, he could now barely refine second-grade spirit pills. Only Geng Ji was the slowest, apart from his fast cultivation speed, he was now barely able to refine first grade talismans after using a large amount of materials.
“Ninth Brother, I’m not that material.” Geng Ji rubbed the back of his head with some embarra*sment.
“I’ll go first.” Di Jiu didn’t care how much Geng Ji’s talisman refining level had improved, it was just that he had always practiced the art of
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The Qi family merchant building in North Ridge City was indeed majestic, and because of the divine mind isolation, Di Jiu turned around for a while before he circled around to check out the Qi family merchant building here.
This was the largest commercial building he had ever seen, as ordinary commercial buildings bought spiritual herbs and sold pills and magic treasures on different levels at most. The Qi Family Commercial Building here was on a different floor.
The floors for selling pills are all related to pills, while the floors for selling magic treasures and magical techniques each have their own corresponding floors. Apart from that, there are also leisure floors and various types of Qi family cultivation caves.
All these floors are linked together by suspended corridors high in the sky, making it look similar to a mega commercial centre on Earth. There are places for you to spend your money and places for you to relax.
Di Jiu was now a Level 5 Formation Master, and after observing the circle, he began to quietly set up the Trap and Kill Formation and the Burst Formation.
The original protective formation of the Qi family merchant building was a level five, so Di Jiu didn’t just set up a random burst formation and forget about it this time, as he had done before. He was going to spend a few more days to set up a real level five trapping and killing formation and a level five bursting formation. Anyway, all the formation flags were materials provided by the Qi Family Merchant House, so he didn’t feel any pain at all.
Di Jiu had just concealed himself and set up several formation bases when a cold laugh rang out behind him.
Di Jiu was frightened and rushed forward a few dozen meters before he subconsciously turned back. He didn’t even need to sweep out his divine thoughts, but in front of him stood a scruffy guy with messy looking hair.
This guy not only had messy hair, his clothes hadn’t been changed in a long time and even smelled rancid. This guy also had a stooped back and looked like he was at the end of his rope.
Di Jiu didn’t dare to treat this guy in front of him as being at the end of his rope because he couldn’t see this guy’s strength at all. With his current insight, he could sense even if a successful Jindan cultivator was in front of him. Since he couldn’t see or sense the strength of this fellow in front of him, then this fellow must be a Yuan-Soul or even a strong person above Yuan-Soul.
“You’ve got a lot of guts, taking out several branches of the Qi Family Merchant House in a row, and you still dare to put your mind to the Qi Family Headquarters Merchant House in North Ridge City of the Northern Region State. Hey, hey, hey …… you are one of the most daring guys my old man has ever seen ……”
Di Jiu’s heart sank, and he then felt his scalp tingle a little, subconsciously backing up, his heart flashing through countless ways to escape. He soon discovered with despair that none of his methods could escape from the eyes of the hunched-over old man in front of him.
“You don’t need to think about escaping, if you escape in front of me, then I might as well close my eyes and bury them straight.” The rickety-waisted old man seemed to sense Di Jiu’s thoughts and once again said disdainfully.
Di Jiu had only one regret in his heart at this moment, he actually did not understand the importance of an escape evasion technique until today. After today, if he was still alive, he would let go of everything no matter what and go in search of an escape technique.
“I wonder who senior is? The junior doesn’t understand what senior is talking about.” Di Jiu clasped his fist, knowing that his denial would be useless, he still did not want to admit down.
The rickety-waisted old man waved his hand, “You don’t need to care what kind of person I am, I’m sure it’s just that I don’t show up, and when your trap-kill formation and burst formation are set up, you’ll just be serving food when you enter the Qi Family Merchant House. You are really ignorant and fearless, do you know how many Golden Dan guards there are in the Qi Family Merchant House? Not only that, there is also a Yuan Soul sitting here, you actually dare to come here to make a move, don’t you think you’re just an old man who has fallen off and thinks he’s lived too long.”
After saying this, the rickety-backed old man laughed heatedly again, “You should be glad that you moved four Qi family merchant buildings all within a month, if you had moved a fifth Qi family merchant building behind you, you would have long since lost your little life doing ignorant and fearless things here.”
“So it was you.” Di Jiu finally understood who the guy who had impersonated him and robbed the other three Qi Jia merchant houses was.