Bay Hong’s face turned iron blue, hitting people without hitting their faces, this was a hit on the face of the Heavenly Gold Domain Master. In fact it wasn’t that he was generous enough not to look for Di Jiu’s trouble, but it was the same as what Mirage Mingzi had said, he had many sons, some of whom he had never even met since birth, let alone remember their names. If a concubine son was killed, his own men would go and finish off the enemy, where was the need for him to interfere?
It was only when he had recently left the prison that he learnt that the elders of the Intercepted Star Domain who had gone out to take revenge had not succeeded in doing so. Had the Heavenly Gold Domain Master not mentioned it, he wouldn’t have even remembered for a moment that his son’s killer’s friend was in Ascending Immortal City.
“That’s nothing for you to worry about, I will go and kill this Di Jiu myself when the Genius War is over.” Sectional Star Domain Lord Bay Hong’s voice was tinged with a chill, he was unable to help the Heavenly Gold Domain Lord, but the Heavenly Gold Domain Lord had a disciple called Lai He who had also participated in this genius battle. When the second round of the competition came, he would definitely ask his son, Bay Shao Xiang, to kill Lai He.
“What exactly is this Di Jiu’s origin?” Mei Bafan asked.
His son, Mei Zhiyun, had to win the first place in this True Domain Genius Battle, and even if that Di Jiu was not half a threat to Zhiyun, he had to find out what exactly this Di Jiu was becoming first.
Zhuo Changgeng took the initiative and said, “This person is heard to be the number one powerhouse in the Little Central World, and the only cultivator who was able to come back to life after falling on the Seed Cultivation Mountain, and then come down from the Little Central Star Seed Cultivation Mountain. My Zhuo family, Zhuo Wencheng, died at the hands of this man.”
“Di Jiu fell on the Seed Cultivation Mountain and eventually came back to life and came down from the Seed Cultivation Mountain?” Mei Bafan’s face changed a little.
He had been up to Mount Seed Cultivation, and at that time he had only reached the one hundred and third step before he hurried down. He was sure that if he dared to take one step further, he would definitely fall on the Seed Cultivation Mountain. He was also one of the very few cultivators who had made it off the Mountain of Seed Cultivation alive, but he knew very well how terrifying it was.
If he fell on Mount Seed Cultivation, it would be absolutely impossible for him to come back alive. If Di Jiu could come down from Seed Cultivation Mountain alive, even if Di Jiu could not compete for the first place in the Genius Battle, he would not let this person go because there must be a heavenly secret in Di Jiu’s body.
“Humph!” Mei Bafan snorted coldly, “This person has killed innocent people indiscriminately, my True Domain cannot tolerate him.”
“Domain Master Mei is right, this kind of person should be disqualified from participating in the True Domain Genius Battle and be taken down directly beforehand.” Zhuo Changgeng immediately added fuel to the fire.
“I think so too, trash like Di Jiu should be disqualified from participating in the True Domain Genius Battle.” Another man as thin as a bamboo pole said.
This was the family head of the True Domain’s Qu Qu family, Qu Li, who was still very scornful of Di Jiu in his heart; Di Jiu could kill Qu Jian, so his strength would definitely not be much weaker than his. Now that Mei Bafan had taken the initiative to be displeased with Di Jiu, how could he not add fuel to the fire?
All of them were clear about what Mei Bajie fan meant by those words just now, apart from wanting to level the way for Mei Zhiyun in the Grand Competition, he also coveted what Di Jiu was carrying.
Mei Bafan was used to being domineering in the True Domain, and now that he had spoken like that, no one stood up to refute it for a while.
Just as Mei Bajie was about to make a final decision and arrest Di Jiu, a middle-aged Confucian scholar with a somewhat clean-cut look suddenly said, “Master Zhuo and Master Li are wrong in what they say. The Genius Battle is about genius, not character. So far, only those who have violated the rules of the competition have been disqualified from participating. I have never heard of anyone being disqualified for killing an innocent person. If one were to take revenge on the geniuses participating in the True Domain Genius Battle with personal grudges, then there would be no point in the True Domain Genius Battle.”
Zhuo Changgeng gave a dry laugh, “What Lord An of the Domain said is true.”
Li Li also hemmed and hawed and did not speak again.
The most powerful forces in the True Domain were the Five Great Domains, and the one who had just stepped forward to speak was An Ling Zhou, the Domain Master of An Nong Domain, one of the Five Great Domains. The An Nong domain was the fifth least powerful of the five domains. Although An Lingzhou is stronger than Zhuo Changgeng and Li Li at the sixth level of the domain realm, he is far worse than Mei Bafan.
However, An Lingzhou did not like to rub sand in his eyes, and said whatever he had. Even if Mei Bafan’s face had turned dark at this moment, he still could not stop him from saying these words.
At this time, if Mei Bafan still wanted to arrest Di Jiu or else he would participate in the competition, he was explicitly telling others that he, Mei Bafan, was the only one in the Realm who could cover the sky. In fact, he, Mei Bafan, was not yet that capable.
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The first eight questions were all answers found in the world book, except for one of them, which he could do.
The ninth question was to write about where the beast spirit fruit grows and what its main use is.
This question was so out of the way that Di Jiu would not have known what it was if he did not have the World Book. The beast spirit fruit is a cut-off apricot that falls on a demonic beast after it has ripened. The truncated apricot has a characteristic that once it falls the flesh of the fruit will fall off automatically. The core of the fruit will attach itself to the demon beast and once it sprouts, then it will immediately start absorbing the demon beast’s essence blood.
By the time the demon beast notices that the kernels have sprouted on its body, it will already be dead. The flesh and blood of the demon beast will become nutrients for the kernel of the cut-off apricot, and when this cut-off apricot matures it will no longer be a cut-off apricot, but will become a beast spirit fruit.
The apricot is just an ordinary spirit fruit, but the beast spirit fruit is extraordinary, it is a ninth grade spirit fruit. This kind of fruit has an unbelievable effect, that is, after taking it, one can perceive the divine abilities or magic techniques of the demonic beasts that provide the beast spirit fruit with the opportunity to grow.
It is extremely difficult for the beast spirit fruit to meet the growing environment, so this fruit is also very precious. This fruit also has another characteristic, it must happen to fall on a demonic beast and germinate, if it is artificially interfered with, then it loses its spirituality and has no effect.
There were definitely many people who could not answer this question, but it was not difficult to beat Di Jiu.
After answering the ninth question, the tenth question seemed extremely simple: could the Daoist fire use the Earth Heart Inferno Crystal to advance to the ninth level. This question looked like it would definitely be possible, as Earth Heart Flame Crystal was a ninth grade flame material, and even the top flames could be advanced to the ninth grade with Earth Heart Flame Crystal.
However, Di Jiu knew very well that Dao Flames could not use Earth Heart Inferno Crystals to advance to the ninth level; if he wanted a Dao Flame to advance to the ninth level, he would have to use a natural flame or an Earth Flame Vein. He himself had Dao Flame and had also tried to advance with the Earth Heart Inferno Crystal.
When he used the Earth Heart Inferno Crystal to advance, his Dao Flame was still very low. Later, after his Dao Flame reached level six, although he did not have the Earth Heart Inferno Crystal anymore, because he had used it, Di Jiu knew clearly that the Earth Heart Inferno Crystal could not allow the Dao Flame to advance to level seven. It was impossible to even reach level seven, let alone level nine.
In just one incense burn time, Di Jiu finished all the questions. After he wrote down his name, he didn’t move again. In this kind of competition, there was no need for him to turn in his papers early as he wouldn’t get extra points for turning them in early.
The ranking of the results of some of the handed in papers has already appeared on the big screen of the Ascension Square at this moment. If you don’t know the topic, even if you sit for a year you still don’t know it.
On the huge results screen, in first place was Mei Zhiyun, with a score of eighty-seven, followed by a mark from Mei Yi domain.
In second place was Zhuo Wenshu, scoring seventy-three points and coming from the True Domain Zhuo Family.
In third place is Bai Xi Zhou, with a score of seventy-three points, from the Carmine Domain. The reason why the scores are the same and the rankings are different is because there are also factors such as the time of handing in the papers and age in the mix.
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Mei Bafan looked at the big screen of rankings from the hanging building and was satisfied in his heart. The written tests of the True Domain Genius Competition were all very difficult, and for Mei Zhiyun to get eighty-seven points was definitely considered first cla*s among first cla*s. Moreover, there was a difference of more than ten points between the second place and the first place.
“Haha, it looks like I did guess correctly, Mei Zhiyun is number one.” After saying this, Bay Hong dropped his gaze on the Heavenly Gold Domain Master, “Illusion Domain Master, didn’t you say that Di Jiu was very powerful? How come I haven’t seen his ranking?
The Heavenly Gold Domain Master said indifferently, “Maybe people haven’t handed in their papers yet.”
“This kind of topic will be a yes, and a no without turning in the paper is also a no.” Zhuo Changgeng didn’t know what was going on and actually dared to dislike the Heavenly Gold Domain Master.
Not only on the Hanging Building, the Ascension Square was even more heatedly discussed. The first place winner, Mei Zhiyun, in particular, had been turned out to be the subject of countless legends.
Xian then secretly sighed, Di Jiu’s strength was there, but this kind of comparison of knowledge was extremely unfair to Di Jiu. No matter how much a casual cultivator knew, it could not be compared to a large clan. What knowledge do they not have in the collection of scriptures of the big sects? Di Jiu was a casual cultivator, and I’m afraid that all his time was spent on finding cultivation resources and cultivating.
I could only hope that Di Jiu could pull back his score a bit in the second round, otherwise, the top three were somewhat difficult enough this time.
An hour pa*sed quickly, and Xigu Bo Yang, the city lord of Ascension City, suddenly said aloud, “The time for answering questions has come, whether you have finished answering the questions or not, stop continuing to write, and those who have not stopped by the time I finish this sentence, their results will be nullified.”
No one dared to ignore Nish*tani Bojan’s words, and only after seeing all the people stop moving their hands did Nish*tani Bojan continue, “Next, please ask all the participating geniuses to point and deliver their answer sheets, and later on everyone’s results and rankings will appear on the big display screen in the Ascension Square. Those with scores below five hundred are not eligible to participate in the second round, which will be held in three days.”