After Di Jiu left the Spirit Stone Mine, he turned back and could not see that concealment spell formation trace at all. Although the concealment spell formation had been split by him, it had recovered itself again.
More than two years had pa*sed since Di Jiu had entered the Little Central Star plus the time he had spent in seclusion, and a lot could really happen in more than two years.
When he first came in there were high grade spirit gra*ses everywhere, he could no longer see them, even grade four and five spirit gra*ses rarely appeared, let alone grade eight and above.
Looking for treasures should be done before it’s too late. He had been in seclusion for two years and now he didn’t even have much soup left.
Taking out his communication beads, he did not receive any message from Geng Jie and the others.
After choosing a direction, Di Jiu hurriedly evaded for three or four days one after another, but he did not find any high grade spiritual herbs. There were signs of excavation everywhere. It looked like every time the Little Central Star opened up, it was a bandit’s visit to the village.
On the fifth day, Di Jiu finally saw a living person. The man was extremely fast and looked as if he was fleeing.
Di Jiu landed directly in front of this person, “Friend wait ……”
The cultivator who was in a hurry to escape was startled by Di Jiu and hurriedly sacrificed his magic treasure. When he realized that it was Di Jiu, he was relieved and put away his magic treasure and said with a hug, “Wu Qi has met Young Master Red Ta*sel.”
Di Jiu didn’t know Wu Qi, and seeing that the other party knew him Di Jiu didn’t feel strange. At least he was a figure on the Five Continents Dao Ranking and was once ranked among the top 100 on the Sea Ranking. In addition, he was wanted by the Kun Clan, so it would be strange if the other party did not know him.
He also said with a clasp of his fist, “Daoist friend Wu Qi, have you seen some of my friends?”
Since Wu Qi knew him, it meant that he should have seen him with Geng Ji and the others.
Wu Qi hesitated for a moment, then suddenly gritted his teeth and said, “Young Master Red Ta*sel, two of your friends are now being held by Yue Henghe, saying that they are waiting for you to go and replace them.”
Di Jiu’s face sank, Yue Henghe was an existence he knew, ranked second on the Tripod Ranking, an inner sect elder of the Kun Sect, and was heard to be at the ninth level of strength of the Multiplying Tripod. The reason why Yue Henghe was able to enter the inner sect elder of the Kun Sect with a Multiplying Ding cultivation was because he also had another status, the second in the Ding Ranking.
“May I ask fellow Daoist, where are those two friends of mine?” Di Jiu asked again.
“In the Seed Cultivation Mountain.” Wu Qi hurriedly said, “It’s in turmoil there now, and I escaped from there.”
After saying this, Wu Qi did not wait for Di Jiu to ask further questions, he directly took out a jade slip and handed it to Di Jiu and said, “Young Master Hong Ying, this jade slip is the route I just carved to Seed Cultivation Mountain. Please don’t tell Yue Henghe that I have leaked this matter. That Yue Henghe is vengeful, and I am worried that he will not let me off the hook when I get out.”
“Thank you very much.” Di Jiu took the jade slip and thanked him, after his divine thoughts swept the jade slip he added, “You don’t have to worry, that Yue Henghe won’t have a chance to go out.”
Bidding farewell to Wu Qi, Di Jiu didn’t delay half a second and directly vanish to the Seed Cultivation Mountain. He and Kun Zong were now at the end of the road, so there was no need to hide it.
With the route map, it only took Di Jiu a few minutes to land outside the Seed Cultivation Mountain. In front of him was a mountain that towered so high into the clouds that you could not even see the top. Di Jiu was amazed to find that this mountain peak was filled with cultivators ……
This thought only flashed for a moment before Di Jiu’s heart was cold. It was true that there were cultivators everywhere, but apart from a very few of them still moving, most of these cultivators were lifeless. Just like the name Seed Cultivation Mountain, they were all planted on the mountain, all motionless.
Di Jiu’s gaze moved away from the mountain full of cultivators and landed on a flat boulder at the foot of the mountain. There was a pillar on the boulder and there were indeed two cultivators tied to the pillar.
What puzzled Di Jiu was that he did not recognise either of these two cultivators.
Apart from these two tied up cultivators, there were nearly a hundred people on the boulder. Unlike what Wu Qi said, there was no chaos here. Di Jiu didn’t doubt Wu Qi’s words, because there were bloodstains all over the boulder and even some broken limbs, so it should be that the melee had just ended.
Some of the cultivators on the boulder were still looking at the Seed Cultivation Mountain, and seemed to be leaping to get up the mountain.
This made Di Jiu a little puzzled, so many people had died on Seed Cultivation Mountain, so there was obviously something odd going on, why were they still thinking of going up?
“Young Master Hong Ying is here.” Before Di Jiu even landed on the boulder, someone noticed.
Because of Di Jiu’s arrival, it was some of the cultivators who were leaping to go up that stopped. They were curious to know what would happen to Di Jiu after Kun Clan’s Yue Henghe had tied up Di Jiu’s friend.
Di Jiu had challenged Jin Xun of the Sea Ranking before, and now Di Jiu was facing Yue Henghe of the Ding Ranking.
“To actually let me not see you for two years, you do have some skills.” Di Jiu had just walked up to the boulder platform when a young man dressed in white came over.
“You are Yue Henghe?” Di Jiu knew that Yue Henghe was ranked second on the Ding List, but this was the first time he saw him.
“That’s right, I’m Yue Henghe, these two are your friends, right?” Yue Henghe pointed at the two cultivators tied to the pillar.
These two cultivators were a man and a woman, in fact Di Jiu didn’t know any of them.
Seeing that Di Jiu didn’t say anything, Yue Henghe smiled, “No wonder you were able to squeeze Senior Brother Ju speechless with a few words, and had to take out your own gongfa to give to others. With this steadiness of yours, it’s worthwhile for me to stay here and wait for you.”
Di Jiu knew what Yue Henghe meant, the two cultivators tied to the pillar were both locked by the seventh level ban, if he went to save them without knowing this locking ban, he would only let the two cultivators disintegrate directly, and even their original spirit might not be left intact.
However, Yue Henghe did not know that the reason why Di Jiu did not make a move was not because of steadiness, but because he simply did not know these two tied-up cultivators.
“Do I know you guys?” Di Jiu asked as he looked up at the tied up man and woman.
Before the man could say anything, the woman hurriedly said, “Young Master Red Ta*sel, I’m sorry, we borrowed your name for a bit and pretended to be your friends who were tied up here.”
Di Jiu was a bit speechless, were these two people douchebags? Posing as their friends and being tied up? Both he and Kun Zong were drawing a blank, this kind of impersonation was likely to be killed, did these two not know that?
Yue Henghe sneered and stared at Di Jiu, he didn’t believe the words of this man and woman and Di Jiu.
Di Jiu suddenly transmitted his voice, “You were chased here and then had no way to escape, which is why you posed as my friends and were arrested by Yue Henghe?”
The two people who were tied up were both shocked in their hearts, they were locked by the forbidden system, yet Di Jiu could transmit sound to penetrate the forbidden system, without even letting Yue Henghe know, what kind of divine thoughts was this?
But the two of them then nodded their heads in a hurry and said, “Yes, yes.”
Yue Henghe frowned a little, these two nodded their heads and said yes, obviously they had heard something. As strong as Di Jiu was, he should still be less than the Multiplying Tripod Realm. Since he was not at the Tripod Realm, his divine thoughts would definitely not be able to penetrate his forbidden voice transmission without him noticing.
Di Jiu didn’t care, these two had thought of this way to use him for a while, they were also smart. He would not take it personally and certainly would not take the initiative to save these two people.
Yue Henghe stared at Di Jiu and said, “Young Master Hong Ying, I am curious to know why you are clear that Senior Brother Ju Qi has the technique to condense his divine thoughts?”
When Di Jiu said that there was a friend of his in the Kun Clan who had spied on Jiu Qi taking the Scorching God Gra*s, Yue Henghe absolutely did not believe him. Others didn’t understand the Kun Clan, but how could he not?
After coming out of the Five Continents Dao Tower, Jiu Qi had crossed over to the Cultivated Tripod Realm, and Jiu Qi was not an ordinary Cultivated Tripod Realm. If someone could hide and observe while Jiu Qi was taking the Scorching God Gra*s in seclusion, then this cultivator was at least at the Multiplying Tripod Realm or above.
He had asked Jiu Qi, and the only two times Jiu Qi had taken the Scorching God Gra*s outside was also at the Qingjun Mountain, the holy place of cultivation of the Kun Clan. Jiu Qi had just crossed into the Multiplying Ding and was only an outer sect elder, so Jiu Qi did not know that all elders above the Multiplying Ding of the Kun Clan would leave an image to report when they entered the Qingjun Mountain.
After the incident of Di Jiu’s accountability to Jiu Qi happened, he immediately asked Jiu Qi when he entered the Qingjun Mountain twice, and then transferred the images before and after, and in fact there was no other cultivator above Cultivation Tripod entering the Qingjun Mountain on those two occasions.
Since that was the case, either Jiu Qi was lying or Di Jiu was lying.
The only possibility was that Di Jiu was lying.
Since Di Jiu was lying, what made him wonder was, why would Di Jiu know that Jiu Qi had the technique to quench his divine thoughts?
In Yue Henghe’s guess, it was very likely that Di Jiu also possessed such a gong method, which was why Di Jiu guessed the purpose of Ju Qi’s collection of the Scorching God Gra*s.
Di Jiu guessed that Yue Henghe was somewhat suspicious of him, now he was not afraid at all, his hand opened and the Tian Sha Blade fell into his hand, he looked at Yue Henghe coldly and said, “Your Kun Clan suspected me of killing Shu Hao Lan before, and Jiu Qi dealt with me at Little Central Star, and now you have arrested my two friends. It looks like your Kun Clan has deceived me into being a casual cultivator, since that’s the case, let’s come and see if you can kill me and my friends.”