It was only a short time before Di Jiu calmed down from his excitement. This was definitely not the star space where the new universe was located, if it was the star space where the new universe was located, then he should have sensed the new universe as soon as he came here, he had participated in the construction of the new universe.
The fact was that he had been here for so long and had not sensed anything, which meant that this was not the star space where the new universe was located.
Although he had no expectations in the first place, Di Jiu was still very disappointed in his heart, and he casually sacrificed the Heaven Opening Pen, which transformed into a spaceship in the void. After making an imprint in place, the Heaven Opening Pen carried Di Jiu swiftly into the starry sky.
After just half a day of flying through the starry sky, Di Jiu sensed that something was wrong. Although life could and should exist in this side of the starry sky, there was one extremely strange thing about it.
That was that after spending some time in this side of the starry sky, you could clearly feel that this side of the starry sky had a survival orientation.
It means that you can only follow the survival orientation of the starry sky, and if you deviate slightly, you will feel the oppression of the Great Dao. This suppression is brought about by the rules of the external universe. Even if you are only carrying out the circumference of the heavens yourself, as long as you are under such rules of the universe, you will be able to perceive that your dao is not smooth, and if you go on for a long time, your cultivation will definitely regress. If this suppression continued, it would even crush your own dao until it collapsed.
Di Jiu did not understand what was going on, anything could happen in the vastness, and he was not in the mood to find out why right now. Besides, there were countless strange situations in the vast expanse, and he couldn’t check over so many of them.
Since there was only one correct direction in this starry sky, it would be better to follow that correct direction. If there was really no way out, he still had a way back, at least he could still retreat back to the original medium universe.
In the blink of an eye, half a year had pa*sed, and Di Jiu could feel the presence of life in this side of the starry sky, but in half a year’s flight, he had never seen a single person, nor had he ever seen a single living planet. Even the few companions who had come with him at the beginning, he had not seen any of them.
Luckily, Di Jiu had anticipated this situation, otherwise, he wouldn’t have used the Heaven Opening Pen as a substitute. Therefore, Di Jiu was not in a hurry, he believed that as long as he was still in this side of the starry sky, he would definitely see life exist.
On this day, Di Jiu was sitting at the front of the Heaven-opening Pen, feeling the unfamiliar aura of rules in the starry sky while condensing his Dao Tree Dao Rhythm, when a shadow brushed against his Heaven-opening Pen from afar.
This was an acquaintance, and Di Jiu had just thought of this when the shadow that had brushed past him once again turned in a different direction and pounced on Di Jiu’s side.
Di Jiu simply stopped the Heaven Opening Pen, he had already seen who the person was, Yu Zhai Yi, who had entered the Gate of Life and Death with him.
Yu Zhai Yi was originally dressed in a messy outfit, now he was not even a mess anymore, his hair was charred black and there were some fire dao rules surrounding it, which seemed to still be burning his hair. His body was even more miserable, as it was burnt with fire, and the fire dao rules that surrounded him also did not dissipate. These fire dao rules that ravaged Zhai Yi’s body were obviously left behind by someone else’s divine ability.
“Really brother Di, you are fine …… is really good ……” Yu Zhai Yi saw Di Jiu stop, surprise voice came, followed without half hesitation rushed to the open sky pen airship.
Di Jiu opened the ban and Yu Zhai Yi landed on the deck of the Heaven-opening Pen airship.
As soon as he landed on the deck, Yu Zhai Yi bowed in excitement and called out, “Brother Di, help.”
Di Jiu’s eyes fell on the fire dao rhyme that was still ravaging Yu Zhai Yi’s hair, and with a faint smile, he raised his hand and dropped several rules on Yu Zhai Yi. The next moment, the fire dao aura burning on Yu Zhai Yi’s head disappeared, and even the fire dao destruction on his body also disappeared.
Only after the hidden danger on Yu Zhai Yi’s body was extinguished did Di Jiu say, “Fellow Daoist Yu, even if I hadn’t done anything, the fire dao rhyme left on your body wouldn’t have hurt you much, right?”
Yu Zhai Yi breathed a sigh of relief and subconsciously looked back before he took a long breath and said, “Brother Di, if I hadn’t met you, I would have died for sure.”
“No one came after you?” Di Jiu said in confusion.
Sensing that Yu Zhai Yi was still amazed, Di Jiu raised his hand and grabbed two stone piers and a small stone table, and took out two more wine gla*ses and poured Yu Zhai Yi a gla*s of wine before he said, “What is it? Sit down and talk, I believe no one will be able to hit my boat yet.”
Yu Zhai Yi was at least a fifth-step late-stage complete powerhouse, even if he had met something dangerous, he wouldn’t be scared like this.
Only after Yu Zhai Yi took a sip of wine did he settle down a little, “Thank you brother Di, we were tricked.”
Di Jiu raised an eyebrow, “What do you mean? Is this not the place to cross over to a higher cultivation level?”
Yu Zhai Yi shook his head, “No, this is indeed the place to cross over to a higher realm, but if we come here, we can only look for death.”
After saying that with a sigh not waiting for Di Jiu to ask again he continued, “This path is called the Path of the Great Road, and it is rumored that cultivators who walk to the end of the Path of the Great Road can basically cross into the ninth level of the God Realm, which is the ninth step ……”
Is there really a ninth step? Di Jiu frowned slightly, according to what he knew after he had integrated into the Avenue of Life and Death and condensed the fourth dao branch on the Dao Tree, it was almost impossible to cross over to the ninth step.
If he didn’t care about the Dao base and didn’t care about condensing the Dao branch, he should be able to cross over to the seventh step. But it would never be possible for him to enter the eighth step, let alone the ninth step. If he were to condense nine Great Dao branches and cross over to the peak, that would only be a theoretical possibility.
If he hadn’t met Ye Mo and Ning Cheng and obtained the Dao of All Creatures and the Dao of Returning to One, he would have been crushed by the Dao of Life and Death with his Dao of Rules alone, and at this moment he would have become the nutrients of other people’s Dao.
As for Byzantine Xiao and Scattered Crow, they are not people who have advanced through the Dao Tree, but through the years and their own perceptions of the Dao they are in, and who are constantly advancing with the help of new resources and new rules, they can only be stuck at the sixth step at most. Moreover, their sixth step is still a residual dao, and when the residual dao is cultivated to the end, not only will their divine abilities be disgusting, but they will also emit a disgusting aura themselves.
As for Bayjun Xiao and the others who wanted to go through the Heaven Taking Gate and then look for a higher level of advancement, that was just a dream. Even with stronger resources and rules, they would not be able to cross into the seventh step. This was because their Great Dao roots would not be able to withstand the seventh step.
“The path of the Great Dao?” Di Jiu didn’t quite understand.
After Yu Zhai Yi took another sip of wine and completely calmed down, he paused slightly before continuing, “After entering this starry sky, Brother Di should be able to feel that there is only one direction in this starry sky that you can walk in. If you take any other direction, you will immediately feel the suppression of your own dao, and it is not impossible for you to even collapse in the end.”
“That’s right, indeed.” Di Jiu nodded his head. Although he didn’t quite believe that this suppression would cause him to collapse, he didn’t try it either, so he had no way to refute it.
Yu Zhai Yi said, “The path of the Great Dao is a path that everyone takes, and by everyone I am talking about is not just us cultivators, but also includes all mortal people. But whether we are cultivators or mundane people, what we walk is just the path.”
Di Jiu’s eyes lit up and he seemed to have caught something.
Yu Zhai Yi continued, “The true meaning of the path of the Great Dao is not the path, but the Dao. So this path of the Great Dao is no longer a path when we walk on it, what we walk on is the Dao.
The universe we are in is just a medium universe in the infinite vastness, apart from the universe we are in, there are countless other medium universes and lower universes. The cultivators in those places are all the same as us, and when they reach a point where they cannot go any further in their cultivation, they all choose to come here to find a higher realm ……”
Di Jiu smiled and followed, “Our previous cultivation, or the life of a mortal, that was just the path we had to take in the path of the Dao. When we have brought the path to its end, we must then take the path of the Dao. And this path of the Dao is the future of the Dao that we have to pursue. It can also be understood as the end of the road as the Dao. Unfortunately, the superficial truth has always been around us or even on our lips, and it is only when we have reached this realm, this place, that we understand the meaning of these two words.”
After Di Jiu said these words, his heart was enlightened, his Dao rhythm of the Dao tree was even clearer and clearer because of his enlightenment, and the Dao branch went up another level, and at this moment he was at the fourth step of perfection. Who else can understand that the essence of the unusual two words, path, is not a path but a dao?
“Yes, that’s what it means.” Yu Zhai Yi said as he tapped the stone table.
After saying that, he let out another sigh, “Unfortunately, we simply do not have any chance to walk on this path of the Way of the Great Road.”