The old man pointed to the end of the crossroad, “This way over, a candlemark’s journey to the wormhole. The wormhole guards are each district guarded for a month ……”
The old man paused here and looked at both Di Jiu and Zhuo Wujia, “It looks like you guys are smart enough not to join any power, but even so, it won’t be much better. You must also go to the wormhole at least once within four months, and at least three times a year.”
Di Jiu’s divine thoughts swept along the end of this crossroad, and just as his divine thoughts swept out of this large area of the workshop, he was stopped by a strong isolation spell formation, a spell formation that Di Jiu was sure he would not be able to break through even if he used the Law Formation Banner.
Retracting his divine thoughts, Di Jiu once again asked, “May I ask, do we have to join a power?”
The old man shook his head, “Not necessarily, you can choose your place of residence in any of the four districts, and you are considered to be a member of whatever district your place of residence is chosen in. At that time, the team leader of that district will come and arrange for you to go to the wormhole. At that time, you may not refuse, once you refuse, you will only die. Of course, if you are new to the wormhole and don’t know anything about it, you can go to some shops to buy wormhole information, there is only what you can’t think of, there is nothing you can’t buy.”
“May I ask if this is the Dao Realm?” Di Jiu saw someone coming over and sped up his speech.
“Of course it is the Dao Realm, but ……” Before he finished his sentence, the old man also saw someone coming over, he did not continue, but gave Di Jiu a hug, “Thanks a lot for the immortal crystals, goodbye. If you must stay, I suggest you stay in the East Zone ……”
After hastily leaving a sentence, the old man hastily turned around and left.
“Let’s go, let’s find a place to stay first.” Di Jiu didn’t continue to pull the old man, what he should know he roughly understood, for more detailed things, he could just wait for a while to purchase a few introduction jade slips.
“Going to the East District?” Zhuo Wujia looked at Di Jiu.
Di Jiu smiled faintly, “I plan to live in this place, you see there is a big lake in the far north, no one lives by that lake, I think it is suitable to live here. If you are willing, you can live with me, if not ……”
Without waiting for Di Jiu to finish his words, Zhuo Wujia immediately said, “Willingly.”
Having come in with Di Jiu until now, Di Jiu spoke and acted in a clear and organized manner, with absolute mastery, but at the same time not acting rashly.
Seeing Di Jiu and Zhuo Wujia heading to the direction of the lake at the very edge of the northern district, a man who was about to stop Di Jiu from speaking stopped instead, muttering in some disbelief, “This guy isn’t trying to choose a place to live by the Daoicide Lake, is he?”
“Why would this place be uninhabited?” As soon as Zhuo Wujia arrived at the lake, he sensed that something was wrong.
The Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi seemed to be more dense here than anywhere else, not only that, the environment here was also better than anywhere else, this kind of place should only exist for people to grab, by now no one was living here, it was obviously not right.
Di Jiu naturally also found it odd, apart from wanting a place with sufficient heaven and earth Yuan Qi, a cultivator would want a quiet environment to cultivate in. In this area of the market, there was really no better place to live than here.
Di Jiu’s divine thoughts instantly swept through the entire lake as well as the lake’s surroundings and found nothing, everything appeared to be normal.
“Let’s stay here first.” After Di Jiu finished speaking, he directly sacrificed a cave magic treasure.
There were too many people now, and there were divine thoughts observing him and Zhuo Wujia everywhere, so it wasn’t quite appropriate to use a dao pupil. After he had set the place up with a protective formation, he would definitely have to use his Dao pupil to check why no one had come to stay here until now.
Seeing Di Jiu sacrifice a cave magic treasure, Zhuo Wujia also sacrificed a magic treasure and then said, “I’ll go and set up a protective formation.”
Di Jiu had planned to set up the protective formation himself, his formation dao level had long surpa*sed that of a rank 9 Immortal Formation Emperor, since Zhuo Wujia wanted to set up a protective formation, he didn’t insist on setting it up himself, he just said while outlining the law formation flags, “Okay, you go set up the protective formation.”
Zhuo Wujia’s formation dao level was very good, and he was even able to set up a rank eight immortal formation.
Di Jiu didn’t modify Zhuo Wujia’s immortal formation either, he just used his divine thoughts to once again outline a backup Law Defence Formation on the periphery of the protective formation Zhuo Wujia had set up, it was a great formation that surpa*sed the level of a Grade 9 immortal formation, mainly in case of emergency.
Apart from that, the protective formation of his cave was also beyond the level of a Grade 9 Immortal Formation.
Just after the two had set up their protective formation, a middle-aged man arrived at the cave where Di Jiu was.
Seeing Di Jiu and Zhuo Wujia coming over, this middle-aged man cupped his fist with a smile on his face and said, “I am the team leader of the Northern District, Shen Changshui, first of all, welcome you two to settle in my Northern District, and congratulate you both on being able to ascend to the Dao Realm.”
“So it’s team Shen, please come in and have a seat in the cave.” Di Jiu said politely. He didn’t know how long he would stay here yet, and since he was the head of the team in the Northern District, it was natural not to make things too stiff.
This Shen Changshui looked very honest and simple, but Di Jiu would never believe that this guy was really honest and simple. First of all, let’s not mention that this guy had a faint aura of fury on his body, there was no telling how many beings he had to kill to cultivate this faint aura of fury. Just by virtue of the fact that this guy could become the head of the team in the Northern District, this was no simple matter.
Shen Changshui said with a smile, “You are welcome, fellow Daoist, I will simply say a few words and leave, so I won’t go in and sit down.”
Once he saw that Shen Changshui had no intention of befriending him, Di Jiu was too lazy to continue with his nonsense, “Team Leader Shen, please give instructions.”
Shen Changshui nodded, “Instructions don’t dare, after the two of you become the North Zone, you will have the responsibility of guarding the wormhole three times a year ……”
“How long is each guarding?” Di Jiu had not yet been to the wormhole, and in his mind, since it was guarding, it must be a dangerous thing.
Shen Changshui explained, “It’s best for the two of you to join a force, my Northern District has guarding responsibilities for three months each year. Together with the two of you, I have a total of 3,120 people in the Northern District. Each time the guarding is done, one third of the people go over. So that means each guarding time is about ten days. Of course, you can also guarding for a month in a row, putting three times together.
However, this is not a fixed number, once we meet too many insect tides, the rest of my men from the Northern District will have to go up there. Whether or not you have already guarded for the full month, you will have to go up there.”
“What if I don’t join the force?” Zhuo Wujia, who was on the side, asked.
Shen Changshui still said unhurriedly with a smile, “It’s fine if you don’t join the force, just give me your identity jade slips and I will arrange for you to go to the wormhole time on my side, as long as you have guarded for a full month a year.”
Di Jiu believed that the old man was at least right in one thing he said before, and that was that if a newcomer joined a power, if they couldn’t get something good out of it, they would be cannon fodder material. Di Jiu also knew that even if they didn’t join the forces, they were probably still cannon fodder material. A newcomer was just a newcomer and had no say in this place at all. Since they were all cannon fodder, there was no need to join a particular force.
Di Jiu took out his identity jade slip and handed it to Shen Changshui, “I have no intention of joining another force for the time being, this is my identity jade slip, please ask Team Shen to arrange it.”
Seeing Di Jiu take out his identity jade slip, Zhuo Wujia immediately also took out his own identity jade slip and handed it to Shen Changshui.
Shen Changshui did not find it strange, these two people must not know anything, which was why they chose not to join the forces. If the two knew a thing or two about this place, they would not have chosen to live by the Daoicide Lake. After recording the message of the two people’s identity jade slips, he left another voice transmission message before handing the identity jade slips to the two people, “When it is your turn to guard the wormhole, the identity jade slips will give the message ……”
After saying that Shen Changshui paused for a moment before continuing, “If it is unnecessary, the two of you should not live by the Daoicide Lake, this place is not suitable for living. Although my northern district is the weakest among the four districts, there are quite a few places to live.”
“May I ask Team Shen, why can’t I live by the Daoicide Lake?” Di Jiu asked in a hurry.