Di Jiu pinched two crumpled coins and walked towards the Eastern District.
Just as Fei Yue Lan had said, once Di Jiu entered the boundaries of the East District, he clearly felt a sense of dilapidation. Di Jiu deliberately looked for an extremely shabby looking hotel on the outside, and he planned to stay for one night before leaving.
He would leave Dai Cheng City at dawn to head for the Forgotten River Temple in the Forgotten River Mountain Range, which had what he needed underneath, and he would collect the Reincarnation Bridge while he healed at the Forgotten River Temple.
The name of the inn was very personal, it was called the Roadway Inn.
Di Jiu had just walked to the entrance of the inn when a person rushed in, if not for Di Jiu’s extremely quick reaction, this person would have directly crashed into Di Jiu.
“I’m sorry.” The person who rushed in was a woman who looked middle-aged already, and after she hastily said something to Di Jiu, she walked briskly to the front desk of the hotel.
The woman’s hair looked a little withered and was tied in a knot very casually. The dust on her face was obvious, and the corners of her clothes still bore traces of dried blood. A scimitar was stuck in her back.
But Di Jiu knew very well that this woman had disguised herself. She was not very old, and was even young.
“Check in a single room for me, I’ll stay for one night.” The woman took out a piece of identification and handed it to the attendant at the front desk.
Di Jiu looked at it, the document wasn’t an ID card.
“Three hundred and seventy and a deposit of five hundred.” The attendant’s voice was monotonous.
“Here.” The woman took out a few coins and handed them to the fellow, who quickly checked her in.
As she picked up the door card, she seemed to remember something and turned back and started to look at Di Jiu.
Di Jiu’s clothes looked somewhat vintage, and his body was covered in dried blood, and the wounds on his face and arms had not even been completely jade boxed.
In fact Di Jiu’s outfit wasn’t that outlandish, many martial artists liked to wear retro clothes when demonic beasts were rampant on Earth.
Di Jiu was no longer in the mood to check in, he was sure that Fei Yue Lan also knew that he couldn’t get accommodation for a hundred dollars, which was why he was too embarra*sed to say more and turned around and left.
This hotel was obviously poorer, a poorer hotel, and an average room cost three hundred and seventy, and crucially, there was a five hundred yuan deposit, and he only had two crumpled tickets on him. Besides, he didn’t have any documents on him.
With a sigh, Di Jiu turned around and left. He decided it was better to leave Dai Cheng City, and if there was no way to take a car, he would walk all the way there.
The only thing he didn’t lack was time, and how long he walked on the road didn’t matter to him.
“Wait ……” What puzzled Di Jiu was that when he was ready to leave, the middle-aged woman who had checked in actually called out to him.
Di Jiu looked back at the woman and asked in confusion, “You’re looking for me?”
“I’m really sorry for almost bumping into you just now.” The woman apologised once again.
Di Jiu knew that the other party must not have come for this sentence, if it was an apology, she had already apologised just now.
“It’s nothing, you didn’t bump into me either.” Di Jiu shook his head.
The woman smiled slightly, revealing white teeth that did not match the appearance of her face, “Just now I saw that you seemed to be staying at the hotel, why didn’t you stay there again?”
“I found out that I lost my documents and I didn’t have enough money, so I had to stop staying at the hotel.” Di Jiu told the truth.
“Then where are you going?” The woman asked in amazement.
Di Jiu hesitated for a moment and asked, “I want to go to Luojin City in Nanjiang Province, do you know a place to take a bus here? How much is the bus ride?”
The woman sighed, “Luojin is not close to here, if you don’t even have money for a hotel, you don’t even have enough money to go to Luojin. The train will cost thousands of dollars to get there, and you’ll need an ID too.”
“So expensive?” Di Jiu secretly said, back when he was on Earth, the high speed train from Luojin to Dai Cheng City was only a few hundred dollars for an unusual seat.
However, the woman said, “This is considered the cheapest, there are many fierce beasts along the way, and the train needs special guards to travel.”
Di Jiu frowned a little, he really couldn’t figure out why there were suddenly so many more powerful beasts, even demonic beasts, on the earth.
“It is dangerous for you to leave Dai Cheng City now, at night, it is almost impossible for people to live outside Dai Cheng City. If you don’t mind, why don’t you stay in a room with me and I’ll change to a bigger room.” The woman’s words surprised Di Jiu a little.
He didn’t know this woman at all, so why did she ask him to share a room?
While Di Jiu was still hesitating, the woman had already changed to a bigger suite at the front desk, the deposit became one thousand, and the price for one night became seven hundred and three.
“Come on, let’s go up together.” The woman said with a smile as she raised her room card to Di Jiu. And the waiter at the front desk acted as if she didn’t see it, as if this kind of thing was too uncommon.
Di Jiu nodded after a slight hesitation, “Then thank you very much.”
Staying inside the inn was always safer than outside. At least he could devote himself to stripping the Nei Poison Dao pattern from his body without having to divert any of his mind to other things.
……
The suite that the woman checked into was not very big, but it did have two rooms.
As soon as Di Jiu followed the woman into the room, the woman locked the door behind her and then said to Di Jiu, “My name is Nong Xiuqi, and you?”
“My name is Di Jiu.” Di Jiu said casually.
Nong Xiuqi had obviously never heard of this name and said again, “Brother Di, did you suffer your injuries in the Great Half Bend Fierce Beast Area? I heard that a demonic beast came to Great Half Bend recently, and even Xuan level martial artists were killed by that demonic beast. You must be careful if you go to the Great Half Bend’s ferocious beast area in the future.”
“I know, it’s just that I don’t know you at all, why do you want to help me?” This was the question Di Jiu wanted to ask, he didn’t quite believe that everyone was so hospitable now. Can one casually invite a strange man to stay with them?
Nong Xiuqi bowed to Di Jiu before saying, “Earlier I rushed into the Roadway Inn because I had met someone I was afraid of in Dai Cheng City. Later on, I remembered that at that time, with the speed I had, an ordinary person would definitely not be able to avoid it, even a peak Yellow-ranked powerhouse would not be able to avoid that hit from me. And yet, Big Brother Di easily avoided that collision of mine, so it was clear that Big Brother Di was at least a Xuan level martial artist ……”
After Nong Xiuqi said this, she herself felt that something was wrong. If Di Jiu was really a Xuan level powerhouse as she guessed, why would he be so down on his luck that he didn’t even have money to stay in an inn?
Only then did Di Jiu understand why Nong Xiuqi wanted to help him. One Nong Xiuqi had disguised herself, and at this age plus looking average, a strong man like himself would naturally not be able to look at him. The second was that Nong Xiuqi suspected that he was a Xuan level martial artist, and the other party wanted to ask him for advice on some martial dao issues.
Di Jiu had to say, “I am not a Xuan level martial artist.”
Nong Xiuqi herself reacted, if Di Jiu was a Xuan level martial artist, he definitely wouldn’t be poor like this. Di Jiu was able to avoid her, it was likely that he had very fast reflexes, this or it was just a talent.
Seeing that it was the other party who misunderstood, Di Jiu smiled and stood up, “It seems that you misjudged, in that case ……”
Without waiting for Di Jiu to finish his words, Nong Xiuqi hurriedly said, “Brother Di, it’s also dangerous for you to go out now, since the rooms are booked, you can stay here for one night and talk about going out tomorrow.”
“Thanks a lot.” Di Jiu nodded his head and didn’t refuse again.
Di Jiu was not a Xuan level martial artist, Nong Xiuqi’s interest was greatly reduced at once, she went back to her room, locked the door behind her and never heard another sound.
As for where Di Jiu came from and where he was going, she didn’t care at all and it had nothing to do with her anymore.
Di Jiu likewise returned to his room and began to strip the poisonous dao patterns from his body with all his might. Now that he didn’t have any disturbance and was not on guard, after the Rule Circumference was running, Di Jiu immediately felt a slight difference.
Originally, his Rule Circumference and the Poison Dao Pattern were merely holding each other, but now his Rule Circumference could already slowly peel off the Poison Dao Pattern that had invaded his body. It was indeed a mistake to lose a fraction of a millimetre. Just because he had removed some of his guard, there had been a qualitative change.
This made Di Jiu thank Nong Xiuqi, if he could cultivate in this place for three days, he would be able to use some of his divine thoughts.
Before Di Jiu noticed, eight hours had pa*sed and Di Jiu finally peeled off the first trace of poisonous lines. There were thousands and thousands of poisonous lines in his body, and since he had stripped the first trace, it meant that what followed was no longer desperate for him.
“Ka!” Even though the sea of consciousness was still in a cracked state, Di Jiu touched his own sea of consciousness, and a trace of his divine thoughts penetrated out, and a hundred meters in circumference finally became clear. Di Jiu was pleasantly surprised, what he thought would take three days had been done in just a few hours.
A man in grey was taking a step up from the back of the inn to the third floor, then once again to the fifth floor, coming straight to the room he was in.
This was definitely an earth level powerhouse, Di Jiu frowned slightly, he didn’t know any powerhouses ah? Why was the other party coming to deal with him at night?
Soon Di Jiu reacted, the other party should not come to deal with him, but with Nong Xiuqi.