Di Jiu had teleported from the small central world, and he knew very well how difficult it was to teleport between the two continents. The teleportation array of these two realms was something that even he could not set up. Moreover, he was sure that when he had teleported over, the Little Central World Teleportation Formation already had a record of his aura. He could teleport back again and let him take Hai Hong to teleport to the Little Central World, that was obviously unrealistic.
Thinking of this, Di Jiu simply said straightforwardly, “Fellow Daoist Hai, I teleported over from the Little Central World because I possess a special identity. How about this, I’ll wait here for three months, and when that powerful person who recruits genius disciples from the Little Central World comes over, I’ll ask him if there’s another way.”
Di Jiu had put Di Di in this place and had to take care of Hai Hong. No matter what, he had to return the favour to Hai Hong. He reckoned that the reason why Hai Hong was nice to him was because he wanted to go to the Little Central World.
“In that case then, thank you very much, Fellow Daoist Di.” Hai Hong hurriedly stood up and bowed to thank him.
If it was an ordinary matter, he wouldn’t be so insensitive as to ask Di Jiu to stay here and wait for three months. However, travelling to the Little Central World was too important to him, and even with a thick skin, he could not refuse.
While the two were just talking, Xunyi, who had gone out earlier, had already returned and handed a jade talisman and a map jade slip to Di Jiu, saying, “Senior, the cave has been searched for, this jade talisman is the cave owner’s deed talisman, so he can enter it at will. This jade slip is the location of where the cave is located.”
“Many thanks.” Di Jiu took the two items and stood up, Di Di’s cultivation level was too weak and he hurriedly had to go to his retreat to cultivate, he also had to set up some means around the cave.
“In that case I won’t bother fellow Daoist Di much, if there is anything that I, Hai Hong, can help with, Daoist Di just give me an order.” Hai Hong also stood up and prepared to see Di Jiu off.
Di Jiu once again clasped his fist and said, “Thank you very much, Daoist friend Hai, I have one more thing to ask. I have a friend called Qu Xiaoshu who used to live in Pearl City, but his family moved away after my family’s accident. Please help me to find out where the Qu family has moved to.”
“The matter is easy on the ears, I will tell you as soon as I have information.” Hai Hong said in a big way, this matter was indeed not a big deal to him.
He was the head of the Starry Star Guild, and the entire empire of the Yaren continent had to look up to him.
Di Jiu thanked Hai Hong once again before he led Di Di out of Hai Hong’s cave.
Even though Di Jiu had the location of the cave, Hai Hong still sent Xunyi to take Di Jiu and Di Di to the cave before leaving.
Di Jiu said it was a temporary cave, but the cave given by Hai Hong was still not small. The cave was hundreds of square metres in circumference and included a small courtyard, in the middle of which was a small garden of spiritual plants. The spiritual gra*ses in the garden were all newly transplanted, although they were not of a high grade, they were all medium grade spiritual gra*ses that nourished the body.
“Di Di, I will set up some trapping and defensive formations in this cave when the time comes, this trapping formation records your breath, you can enter and exit as you please. Anyone else who enters or leaves will have to go through your consent. Whether the trapping formation attacks or not, you just need to inject your intention into this jade token.” Di Jiu took out a new jade token and handed it to Di Di.
The original defensive formation level of this cave was really too low, so he naturally wouldn’t want it.
“Ah Jiu, is the place you are going to very far away?” The more she cultivated, the more Di Di knew how weak she was. She knew that if she couldn’t improve her strength as soon as possible, she was afraid that she would drag Jiu down with her. She was also worried about Di Jiu, there should only be two of them left in the Di family now, siblings.
Di Jiu nodded, “Yes, I will go and look for Uncle Tian first, and then I will also make a trip back here. Three months later, I will go to a very far away place.”
Di Di didn’t continue to ask Di Jiu where she was going, when the astral chakra formed inside her, she had an underlying feeling that in the future, she belonged to the vast cosmic void just as much.
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A day later, Di Jiu left Starheng Cultivation City. He had set up all the spell formations in the cave where Di Di was, which also included a level four spirit gathering formation. Di Di’s cultivation level was too weak, so if he set up a level nine spirit gathering formation, he was afraid that it would attract the wrath of the people.
What he left behind for Di Di was not only cultivation resources and his perceptions of cultivation, but also ten Blade Talismans, each of which had his divine image left behind.
With Di Jiu’s cultivation level at the Sea Pioneer Realm, he was not yet able to do this, but in addition to his cultivation level at the Sea Pioneer Realm, he also possessed ten levels of divine thoughts. The divine image condensed by the tenth level divine thought was even clearer than the divine image condensed by a cultivator of Transformation Truth.
After leaving Xingheng Cultivation City, Di Jiu once again returned to the border of Ji Kingdom. Qu Xiaoshu was difficult to find, but Tian Kui was not difficult to find. Tian Kui was a general, so he was bound to be at the border of Ji Kingdom.
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Ji City, the largest city in the north of Ji Country. If you go further north, you will be in the land of the Western Conquering Kingdom.
At this moment, Ji City reveals an aura of grey and decay everywhere, as if the end is coming. Only a few people occasionally appear in the streets of the vast city, and even those who do occasionally appear in the streets have wooden faces and dull eyes.
Inside the dilapidated city lord’s mansion, a medium-sized man with a bearded face sat on the main seat. One of his arms was still hanging by a bandage around his neck, and his body was bloodied in armour.
“Boom boom!” The sound of cannon fire came from outside the city, shaking the crumbling city lord’s mansion with falling mud and crumbs.
A tall, brawny man standing on the left said angrily, “According to the Luyuan Empire’s war code, no explosive-based heat weapons are allowed to be used. These b*****ds from the Western Conquering Kingdom, dare to use cannons openly, we must report to the Empire ……”
There were at least a dozen people in the City Lord’s residence, and no one picked up on this statement. The Luyuan Empire did have this code, and the Ji Kingdom was naturally strictly abiding by it, not daring to overstep it by half. But the fact that the Western Conquering Kingdom dared to use cannons was clearly the default of the Luyuan Empire. If the country had dared to use the cannon, the next moment the Luyuan Empire would have sent the emperor** to suppress it. Now that the West Turkic Kingdom is using cannons against them, the Luyuan Empire is not even seen to speak up. It is evident that there is a difference in the status of countries that are also affiliated to the Luyuan Empire.”
“Marshal Tian, at this rate, once we wait for them to blast through the city walls, we won’t even have a chance to resist in the future.” Sitting next to the slag-bearded man was a middle-aged man with a somewhat white complexion.
Tian Shuai stretched out his fist and threw a punch on the coffee table, or maybe he had pushed too hard and blood oozed out from his broken arm again.
After smashing this fist, he stood up, “I, Tian Kui, was originally a guard of the Di family, which was destroyed by Wu Bahu, but unfortunately I was not able to kill Wu Bahu to avenge the general, but was suppressed in Ji City by the joint forces of the Western Conquering Kingdom and Wu Bahu. I brought everyone to this path, I am the one who has wronged everyone.”
“Brother Tian, what’s the point of still talking about this. From the time I entered the Jiyuan army to follow Brother Tian, I folded Meng, I have not put this life of mine at heart.” The tall, brawny man said in a rough voice.
“That’s right, Marshal Tian, do as you wish, there is not a single coward in my Jiyuan Army.” The rest of the men all said with excitement.
Tian Kui clenched his fist hard, “In that case, let’s open the city gates and kill them just like yesterday.”
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When Di Jiu arrived, he was seeing cannons bombarding Ji Cheng. He was a little surprised, but he knew very well that Ji did not allow the development of heat weapons, not only Ji, but also other countries. Not to mention the use of cannons to bombard the city.
When he was in Pearl City, Di Jiu still didn’t quite understand why they didn’t develop heat weapons, but now he was naturally clear. That was definitely not some rule that the empire had come up with, it must have come from the cultivation sects. These clans were also worried that mortals had developed thermal weapons to such an extreme that a single cannonball could destroy a clan.
Then Di Jiu saw Tian Kui, who was wounded and rolled up in bandages, rushing out of the city gates with a group of fallen soldiers. Di Jiu was furious, these b*****ds dared to use hot weapons to bully Uncle Tian.
Seeing the gates of Ji City open, the Western Conquering Kingdom stopped its artillery bombardment and a red-clad general rushed towards Ji City with tens of thousands of men, apparently not taking Tian Kui’s ruined soldiers into account and wanting to take over Ji City in one fell swoop.
Di Jiu saw that Tian Kui’s men were only about 10,000 at most, and their morale was clearly inferior to that of the soldiers of the Western Conquering Kingdom, so it looked like Tian Kui was going to put up a fight this time.
Without waiting for the two armies to collide, Di Jiu raised his hand and swept out a true essence. The true essence turned into a fierce wind, which directly swept the red-clothed general in the front into the air. The wind did not stop there, but stretched out on both sides and swept up the large group of soldiers at the front, before falling into the crowd like dumplings.
The range of the gale Di Jiu’s rolled up was so large that even against a Foundation Establishment cultivator I’m afraid it wouldn’t work, but to these mortal troops it was a disaster. This was because Di Jiu did not care to kill these mortal soldiers, otherwise, his Heavenly Curtain Blade could sweep away all charging soldiers. A random formation of swords could also be killed cleanly.
The charging formation was immediately disrupted when Di Jiu rolled up like this. More soldiers even saw their commander being swept up in the air. With this terrifying image in their consciousness, even the most desperate soldiers did not dare to go forward. As soon as the front retreated, tens of thousands of men immediately burst into chaos, trampling on countless others.
The formation was already in disarray, so there was no need to fight at all.
Tian Kui had planned to fight to the death, he had no intention of staying alive, otherwise, if he charged out of the city gates like this, the other side would definitely not give him the chance to set out a charging formation and would tear his army apart.
But what could he do if he didn’t charge out? The other side had used cannons and the walls were no longer half as useful. Instead of staying in the city and dying, he could rush out and fight for his life. At least some of them would be able to escape in the chaos and not all of them would have to wait for death in the city.
Tian Kui, who was waiting to die, had no idea that before the two armies had even come together, the West Turkic Kingdom would be in chaos itself. Tian Kui had been following Di Shirt to the east and west since he was thirteen years old and had been guarding the frontier for decades, so how could he not know what to do at this time?
He reacted at the first moment and shouted loudly in excitement, “Western Turk’s b*****ds have lost, the Diyuan army charge with me, kill these b*****ds!”
“Kill! Kill! Kill! ……”
It only took a few minutes for the tens of thousands of Diyuan troops to change from low morale to a fierce tiger inside a cage, and tens of thousands of Diyuan troops swarmed towards the collapsing Western Turkic army.