This jade slip was locked by a ban, and one had to break the ban to see the contents.
As Di Jiu was at least a level 5 formation master, the level 5 restriction on this jade slip did not stop Di Jiu for long.
In just half a day’s time, Di Jiu opened the jade slip ban and saw the contents inside. To Di Jiu’s surprise, this divine ability jade slip was actually not much mutilated, at least he could learn this divine ability according to what it said on the jade slip.
Half an hour later, Di Jiu put down the jade slip somewhat helplessly.
He didn’t learn this divine ability because he felt that it was a chicken rib divine ability that didn’t have any use at all. No wonder this divine ability jade slip was hanging in the Qi family merchant building to be sold.
If it was a way to restrain one’s own vitality, it would still be of some value. If he were to fall, what use would it be to help the tree disciple gather up his life to protect it?
The tree brother would die just the same.
When Di Jiu wanted to put away this jade slip, he suddenly remembered something. Back then on the Fairy Star, he had obtained a fragment of a magic treasure.
He felt a subtle fluctuation of vitality on that magic treasure fragment, but he was never able to find out what it was. Later, when he succeeded in building his foundation and progressed in his formation dao, he also tried to penetrate the fragment with his divine thoughts, but apart from the weaker fluctuations of vitality, he still could not find the reason.
Could it be that the faint vitality fluctuations on that treasure fragment were masked by the vitality astringent divine ability? Because of the long period of time, something had gone wrong with this divine ability, which had allowed him to sense this leaked vitality?
Once he thought of this, Di Jiu, who originally had little interest in this divine ability, immediately began to study this magic treasure fragment.
In case his guess was correct, how powerful should something that was concealed on a magic treasure by someone using a divine ability be?
When Di Jiu got serious, there were simply not many people who could match the speed of learning. After a few days had pa*sed, Di Jiu was primed to begin. After half a month had pa*sed, Di Jiu was able to evolve this divine ability. His means were still slightly crude, it just took time to slowly build up.
Just like his Peak Gathering and Wave Fury, as his cultivation progressed, he had a completely different effect every time he performed them.
Di Jiu learnt Vitality Convergence purely for the sake of studying the fluctuations of vitality on that magic treasure remnant. After he had initially mastered this divine ability, he naturally did not go deeper into it and the first thing he did was to take out that magic treasure remnant.
Some things feel like a piece of paper when you understand them, and a mountain when you don’t. This was how Di Jiu felt right now, every time he took out this magic treasure fragment before, he could not see anything at all except for his divine thought penetration.
This time, after he held the magic treasure remnant in his hand again, he immediately felt the traces of the means of life convergence. Just as he had guessed, this magic treasure fragment had been used to conceal something by means of the astringent means of living energy. Because of time and the rest of the reasons, the divine means had traces and the astringent’s vitality leaked out and was discovered by him.
Di Jiu began to strip away the traces of the mutilated divine means, his cultivation level was only Foundation Establishment, plus the divine means of life astringency had just been learnt. It took a full three days before Di Jiu completely stripped away the astringent divine ability to conceal life.
A similarly broken forbidden system appeared in front of Di Jiu. If this forbidden system was not broken, Di Jiu estimated that even if he could set up a level 9 forbidden system now, he would not be able to open it.
It was just that this forbidden system was now so broken that it only took Di Jiu half a day to break the forbidden system and a black beetle only the size of a pea appeared in front of Di Jiu.
When he saw this insect, Di Jiu was really disappointed in his heart.
He thought it was something remarkable being so discreetly concealed, but it turned out to be just a sh*t-shell.
Di Jiu was sure he was right, it was a sh*tcracker. Six legs, with a head as sharp as a spike, and a horn, and a black armour on its body.
What was this if not a sh*t-shell boy?
The breath of the sh*t-shelled man was extremely weak, as if it would dissipate at any moment. Di Jiu held the remnants of the magic treasure in his hand for a while, hesitating, not quite sure if he should throw away this sh*t-shell.
It was only logical that someone had hidden this beetle so carefully, this beetle should not be as simple as a sh*t-shell.
Di Jiu also knew that there were really many such boring people in the cultivation world, and it was not impossible for someone to conceal a sh*t-shell beetle like this.
“Shu Di, take a look at what kind of bug this is?” Di Jiu called out the little tree root.
Little Shugen stared at this beetle for a while too, and once Di Jiu saw the expression on this Little Shugen’s face, he knew that Little Shugen didn’t recognise what kind of bug it was as well. He was about to ask Little Tree Root to move aside when Little Tree Root said curtly, “Big brother, it’s just giving a drop of blood, this bug is just weak and dying now. Give it a drop of blood, if it’s useful, keep it, if not, throw it away.”
To Shu Di, this was not a big deal at all. When the boss fought with people, he didn’t know how many drops of blood he had to lose when he was wounded, so what was the point of hesitating over a mere drop of blood.
Di Jiu’s heart moved, if it could be solved with just one drop of blood, then it really wasn’t a big deal. If this was really a sh*t-shell, it would certainly not be able to absorb his blood, or if it could, there would be no way to give him information ……
Nope, this is definitely not a sh*thead. How long does a sh*thead live? The worm on this magic treasure remnant didn’t know how long it had been leaking life, and now there were still some life fluctuations, so it was evident that it was more than countless times stronger than the life of a sh*thead.
Di Jiu directly dropped a drop of essence blood onto this beetle, and in just an instant, his drop of essence blood was absorbed by the beetle to the hilt.
The beetle’s aura became a little stronger, an aura of longing was caught by Di Jiu. It looked like the beetle still wanted blood.
Di Jiu smiled coldly in his heart, even if it wasn’t a sh*thead, he wouldn’t want to drink his second drop of blood.
Perhaps he didn’t wait for what he needed for a long time, but Di Jiu’s divine thoughts suddenly caught a hint of a familiar aura.
Was this an attempt to recognise himself as master? The reason why Di Jiu was familiar with this aura of acknowledgement was because he had felt it in Shu Di’s body.
But to take a beetle as a pet, Di Jiu was really a bit reluctant, not to mention that this beetle looked so much like a sh*thead. Not only would it not be able to help him in the future, he would also have to bear the bad reputation of taking a sh*thead as a pet.
Perhaps it was because he did not feel Di Jiu’s intention to take him as a pet, and there was a hint of loss and sadness on the beetle.
Di Jiu immediately pounced on this loss, the same kind of loss he felt back then when he tested several times without martial roots, and the same kind of loss he felt when he was rejected by Zhen Man.
With a sigh, Di Jiu struck a divine thought mark over, just as if he was in the same boat.
Sure enough, when he felt Di Jiu’s divine thought imprint, the beetle immediately rejoiced. Di Jiu dug up a bit of green vitality and threw it to Shu Di, “You take this beetle to the Spiritual Medicine Garden, I’ll be leaving here soon. Remember to raise this beetle well, if the beetle dies, I’ll find you to settle the score.”
“Don’t worry big brother, I will definitely do a good job on this.” Although the tree brother was patient and lonely, that was because it was a tree before. Now that it had transformed into a tree spirit and followed Di Jiu to see more of the flowery world, it stayed inside the Spiritual Medicine Garden every day, and its heart had faded out to a bird.
Now it has an additional beetle, so at least it has someone to talk to.
Di Jiu’s luck was obviously not always good, and this time, apart from a useless divine ability called ‘Vitality Astringent’, nothing more was gained.
It was time to go to the Sky Curtain. Di Jiu collected all the jade slips that he had finished examining and disguised himself as a disciple of a cultivation family.
Where the Heavenly Curtain was and how to get to it, Di Jiu didn’t know half of it.
He wasn’t worried, now that the Heavenly Curtain was being talked about everywhere, he could buy a brief jade slip about the Heavenly Curtain by looking for a random place.
Although the Rongbian Market was small, there were also such jade slips for sale. After buying a few jade slips about the Heavenly Curtain, Di Jiu left the market.
At the exit of Rongbian Square Market, Di Jiu found a group message.
Before Di Jiu could look at this group message carefully, a young man wearing a white cultivator’s uniform walked up to Di Jiu who was reading the message and cupped his fist, “Friend do you want to go to the Sky Curtain?”
“That’s right, I do want to go to the Sky Curtain.” Di Jiu nodded his head, he could see that this young man was just a cultivator at the second level of Foundation Establishment.
The young man said, “My friend should know that the boat tickets to the Sky Curtain are extremely expensive and the large rooms are not affordable for an ordinary cultivator to rent alone. Not only are the bunkhouses unsafe, they also have no **. Why don’t you come with us, friend, and we can share a large room, so that we can take care of each other.”
“Which other people are there?” Di Jiu asked.
The young man in white pointed to a man and two women standing not far away and said, “There’s also Senior Sister Bing, Senior Sister Qi Shallow and Senior Brother Wang, my name is Zheng Fei Sheng.
Di Jiu felt to that Senior Sister Bing was a little familiar, it was as if he had seen her somewhere before.