After returning to the cave, Di Jiu began to rearrange various types of protective formations.
The outermost was the cave protection formation of the Five Continents Pavilion, and after this protection formation, Di Jiu had arranged a trigger formation. Anyone who came here, even if their divine thoughts swept over, he would be able to detect it at first.
After the trigger formation, Di Jiu arranged a level four protective formation. In the room where he was in retreat, Di Jiu once again set up two protective formations, one was a hidden breath formation and the other was a defence formation. These two were the spell formations that really worked, all of them were level nine.
Now Di Jiu was thinking that there was no harm in being careful, if he hadn’t been careful a few days ago, he might have drunk Kun Zong’s Uncle Hao Lan’s footwash.
With an estimated five or six months to go before the end of the Five Continents Dao Tower, Di Jiu was pressed for time. He needed to study the World Book, he needed to learn the Great Sword Formation Duel, and it would be best to change this Great Sword Formation Duel into the Great Blade Formation Skill. On top of that, he also needed to start learning alchemy.
Initially, Di Jiu did not think that the Dao of Dan was worthy of his study, so he let Shu Di study it. Now that Shu Di was not out in the canopy, it became difficult for him to want pills. This made Di Jiu wake up to the fact that only the skills he mastered himself were the means that belonged to him, even if Shu Di was his pet, what Shu Di knew did not mean he would.
Luckily, the knowledge of the Dao of Dan that Shu Di had learnt, as well as some alchemy tips were all in the small world, and with the large pile of spiritual herbs he had with him, plus this knowledge of the Dao of Dan, he should be able to learn with half the effort.
After confirming that his cave was foolproof, the first thing Di Jiu did was to infiltrate his entire mind into the World Book.
The World Book had only entered his consciousness of its own accord because of the grey stone in his consciousness, and had not been refined by him. Now that Di Jiu easily had free time, he planned to try to continue refining the World Book.
Di Jiu knew that refining the World Book was not about refining the prohibitions, but about sensing the endless rules within it.
When Di Jiu’s divine thoughts landed on the World Book again, he could no longer pounce on a single rule in it, except for the still vast and boundless cosmic aura.
Di Jiu secretly sighed in his heart, it looked like he had not guessed wrong, the fact that he was able to pounce on the World Book rules and let the World Book enter his sea of consciousness was not his ability at all, but the ability of the little grey stone, or the World Book had entered his sea of consciousness of its own accord.
Now he could only honestly learn the knowledge in the World Book and not think about refining it.
The World Book contained all things in the universe, with an endless variety of them. At first, Di Jiu just read them one by one. After a few days had pa*sed, Di Jiu noticed the difference, although he could not sense the rules in the World Book. Yet, he could look at the things in the World Book according to the rules he understood.
The basic laws he had perceived in the Five Continents Dao Tower were of great use at this moment when he was reading the World Book.
The endless material knowledge, the visions of heaven and earth, and everything in the universe all turned into a torrent of knowledge that was hungrily absorbed by Di Jiu. As Di Jiu absorbed more and more things, a golden stirring in the grey stone deep in Di Jiu’s sea of consciousness produced circle after circle of dao patterns, and these dao patterns increased the speed at which Di Jiu absorbed the knowledge of the World Book and sensed all things in the universe.
In the blink of an eye, two months had pa*sed, and Di Jiu had absorbed so much that his head was aching to crack before his divine thoughts came out of the World Book.
In two months’ time, Di Jiu had only checked a skin of the World Book, and hadn’t even finished reading a hundredth of the basic part. At this rate, the contents of the World Book were not something that could be read in the short term.
To Di Jiu, what he understood was not only the ten thousand things in the universe, because with the help of the dao patterns in the grey stone, he understood the materials and spiritual medicines he had read even more deeply.
At this time, if he was given enough materials, Di Jiu was confident that he would soon cross over to the rank of a fifth-ranked master smith.
It didn’t matter if he didn’t have any materials above the fifth grade, he still had a pile of spiritual herbs, and he could use them to learn alchemy during the time until the end of the Five Continents Dao Meeting.
Previously, Di Jiu had also studied alchemy, but the most he could do was to refine a first-grade spirit pill.
Now after reading the World Book for a few months, Di Jiu had a completely different feeling when he took out the spirit herb for refining the Qi Gathering Pill again. Holding this spirit herb in his hands, he could even clearly feel where the most valuable part of this spirit herb was, and how to bring out the maximum medicinal properties of this spirit herb.
That feeling could not be said, but it could just be felt. Di Jiu guessed that this should be the spirit herb rule of this one spirit herb.
According to the world book, anything in the universe, had rules. Spiritual herbs were also just a species in the universe, so naturally they also had their own rules.
His realm was too low, so he could only sense such rules vaguely, but could not clearly pounce on them. This kind of sensing was already very impressive to him, allowing him to easily and simply increase his success rate in refining pills, and also allowing him to refine pills of a higher quality.
It was conceivable that when he could refine higher-grade, high-quality pills, he would no longer be short of spirit stones to use. There is a saying in the cultivation world that if you want to be rich, you don’t choose the weapon path but the dan path.
In other words, alchemists and weapon refiners are both extremely rich, but unfortunately, after so many years of refining, he was only a fourth-grade weapon master, so he was still too far from being rich.
On the contrary, his formation dao had crossed into the ninth rank, and if his refining level kept up, he could just as easily refine a few top-notch formation plates to go to the auction. Unfortunately, his refining level could not keep up, and now he could only refine a level four array disc at most.
A mere level four array plate to take to the auction, Di Jiu really had no interest in it.
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Three or four months pa*sed in a flash, and now the people in the Five Continents Square were getting more and more. Today was even more crowded because today was the time for the Five Continents Dao Tower to close.
All the cultivators who had entered the Five Continents Dao Tower would be transported out today. So although there were many people in the Five Continents Square, a mile around the Five Continents Daoist Monument was still extremely empty.
All the cultivators who had been teleported out of the Five Continents Dao Tower would appear around the Five Continents Dao Monument.
When a red sun appeared directly above the Five Continents Dao Monument, a light appeared on all levels of the Five Continents Dao Tower, and following these lights, one by one, cultivators were transported out and landed on the Five Continents Square.
The ranking on the Five Continents Dao Tablet had already been established, and in first place was the genius disciple of the Purple Thunder Sect, Mu Qisha, who had ascended to the ninety-sixth floor of the Five Continents Dao Tower. In second place was the Void Sword Sect’s genius disciple, Yan Tashan, who had ascended to the ninety-fifth floor of the Five Continents Dao Tower. In third place was Yan Tao, a genius from the Sea King Palace, who ascended to the ninety-third floor. In fourth place was Di Fei Xue of the Di Clan, ascending to the ninety-first floor.
Di Jiu ascended to the ninetieth floor and came in tenth place.
“The Five Continents Dao Meeting is over, and Young Master Red Ta*sel is still among the top ten.” Some cultivators who knew Di Jiu were already excitedly shouting out when they saw the ranking of the Dao Tablet.
“Just take a look at the potential list, the potential list released by the Tian Ji Pavilion has Young Master Red Ta*sel in the top ten as well, and he is ranked ninth.”
Hearing these words, everyone around turned their gazes to the Potential Ranking that was erected not far away. Sure enough, the ninth place on the Potential List was none other than Di Jiu.
Both the Five Continents Dao Ranking and the top ten of the Potential Ranking had Di Jiu’s name, even though Di Jiu had only been on the Five Continents Dao Tower for a few months, his fame had become even greater instead.
Han Qing Yi, who was carrying a green sword, saw the ranking and said indifferently, “You didn’t even make it into the top ten.”
Standing beside her was none other than Ji Hongchuan who had been kicked out by Di Jiu, he frowned and stared at the name of the Five Continents Dao Tablet, then slowly said, “Senior sister, I suspect that his kick involved the Space Law ……”
Han Qing Yi sneered, “Do you know what the spatial laws are? Even in the True Domain where geniuses gather, no one has heard of anyone who can sense the spatial laws, you say that a mere early stage of the Void God realm has sensed the spatial laws and can still fuse them into a divine ability. You were born to exist for the sword, and after failing, instead of going to make excuses for yourself, you find ways to round out your sword dao.”
How Di Jiu climbed up to the ninetieth floor of the Five Continents Dao Tower was not very clear to Han Qing Yi, but she was sure that Di Jiu could not have touched the spatial laws. Before entering the Immortal Realm, every cultivator who could touch the laws of space was an eternal legend from the distant past.
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What Di Fei Xue didn’t expect was that just as she landed next to the Five Continents Dao Tablet, Pang Bu Fan, the City Lord of Five Continents City, appeared in front of her and said with a smile, “Congratulations to your virtuous niece for crossing into the fourth of the Five Continents Dao Tower.”
“Lord Pang City, what are you?” Di Feixue looked at Pang Bufan with some confusion and disbelief.
It was true that she had climbed to the ninety-first floor of the Five Continents Dao Tower, but last time she had climbed to the ninetieth floor and was still third. This time, although there was one more layer, the ranking on the Dao Tower Tablet had become the fourth, so what was there to congratulate?
“Virtuous niece Feixue, Sovereign Xiao, Palace Master Ao, Sovereign Yan and Sovereign Shu are all waiting for you na.” Pang Bufan said with a smile.
Di Feixue said in astonishment and uncertainty, “The patriarchs of the four great sects? What are they waiting for me for?”
There were five nine-star sects in the Little Central World, and now the patriarchs of four sects were waiting for her, a cultivator of the Sea Pioneer Realm, what did this mean? If there was a first cla*s saying that she was the first place, now she was the fourth place ah.
“Pang City Master, what does this mean?” A middle-aged man walked over and asked with some frown.
Pang Bufan knew the man coming, the number one powerhouse of the Di family, Di Xiaoying, a complete strength of the Robust Life realm. It was really because it was too difficult to cross over to the True Transformation now, otherwise Di Xiaoying might have crossed over to the True Transformation realm long ago.
Pang Bufan hurriedly said, “It’s just for Xian niece Fei Xue to answer a few questions, it’s nothing major.”
In fact Pang Bufan knew the reason, after Di Jiu and the others were transported out from the ninetieth floor, the first person to ascend to the ninetieth floor afterwards was not the first three, but this fourth one, Di Feixue.
According to Di Jiu and the others, there was a Five Land Dao Disc on the ninetieth floor, and they had brought Di Feixue there to check if the Five Land Dao Disc was on Di Feixue’s body.