Di Jiu had been to the Taiji Realm once before, and when he came to it again this time, he was also stunned. His divine thoughts swept out, and a small portion of the area covered by his divine thoughts was obscured by blackness.
Di Jiu cultivated the Great Dao of Rules, and as soon as his divine thoughts swept out, he immediately knew that the Broken Void Daoist Monarch must have guessed correctly that it was most likely the Dark Daoist Monarch who was up to no good. Other people’s divine thoughts could not sweep in, but Di Jiu’s divine thoughts could clearly sweep into this dark mist. Although his divine thoughts were also at the edge of the black fog, he could already see that this black fog was a rule.
Di Jiu had not been exposed to the darkness rule, but he could also sense that it was a brand new rule, which should be the darkness rule that the Broken Void Daoist Monarch was talking about.
“Sovereign Di, give us your command, even if we are told to all follow you immediately and rush in, we won’t frown.” Seeing Di Jiu standing on the periphery of the black fog and observing, Ren Jixie Fury patted his chest and said.
At this moment, the news about Di Jiu wanting to establish a sect in the Taiji Realm and then set up a Dao Court to destroy the black fog had long spread throughout the Taiji Realm. Countless cultivators rushed this way, no one was willing to give up their homeland, and since there was a capable person standing up to lead everyone to save the Taiji Realm, naturally no one would be left behind.
As Di Jiu looked at the steady stream of cultivators coming, he took a step into the void and said aloud, “Fellow Daoists of the Taiji Realm, we must go in and get rid of this black fog, but before we get rid of it, I want to set up a blocking guard formation at the edge of the black fog. Don’t let the black fog continue to corrode the areas that are not yet in question, so I need some formation masters to come along and help.”
“Patriarch Di, I’m afraid this won’t work, this black fog even if it is a good divine formation, I’m afraid it won’t be able to stop it ……” Patriarch Hei Yi of the Tai Formation Sect stepped forward and said with some trepidation and anxiety.
He was worried that setting up such a great formation would require a lot of manpower and material resources, and it was likely that the black fog would have swept through the entire Taiji Realm before this formation was finished.
Di Jiu waved his hand, “Don’t worry, I have a solution.”
As Di Jiu was speaking, thousands of divine formation masters had already stepped forward, and more cultivators were taking out materials.
Di Jiu opened his hand in the void and a burst of Dao rhyme fluctuated in the air, followed by four formation flags that tore through the void space and landed in his hand.
The Darkness Daoist was definitely extraordinary, and Di Jiu decided to use the Five Flags of Heaven and Earth to suppress the spread of this black Qi.
Di Jiu’s methods were far stronger than those of Ren Jisha and the others, but the Dao rhythm fluctuations of the four Five Square Flags he retrieved still allowed Ren Jisha and the others to feel that what Di Jiu had just grabbed back from the void was not an ordinary thing.
However, with Di Jiu’s strength and ability, no one dared to pry into what treasures Di Jiu had just retrieved. Instead, the many formation masters did what Di Jiu instructed them to do in an orderly manner.
As they watched Di Jiu keep instructing the many formation masters to set up formation flags at various locations, and then he himself kept dropping formation flags, some people began to believe that it was really possible for Di Jiu to stop the black mist from dispersing out.
In just a month’s time, Di Jiu, with the help of many formation masters, had completely blocked the black mist with the help of four five-sided flags laid down by the divine formation.
Before Di Jiu set up the protective formation, the black fog was spreading every moment, and this spreading made the Taiji Realm less and less habitable.
Now, after Di Jiu had set up the protective formation, the cultivators on the periphery of the formation could only see the black fog rolling around the edge of the formation and even rushing upwards, but they were unable to break out of the formation.
“Patriarch Di, it’s really blocked.” Several of the formation masters who had worked with Di Jiu to set up the protective formation were excited and said. In just a month’s time, Di Jiu’s strong formation knowledge had convinced them long ago. Now Di Jiu had stopped a problem that the Taiji Realm had been unable to solve for many years with a protective formation, making it impossible for this black fog to continue corrupting the Taiji Realm.
“Patriarch Di, whatever we have to do next, just give us orders.” Sovereign Fang Jianxi of the Sacred Dao Sect of the Divine Embrace River said excitedly as he stepped forward.
He was considered the only remaining Harmonious Dao cultivator in the Taiji Realm, and it was he, too, who had not yet recovered from his injuries due to the black mist.
Not only Fang Jianxie, but all the cultivators were staring at Di Jiu eagerly at this moment. Di Jiu had stopped the black fog from spilling out as soon as he arrived, so it was clear that this was a real skill. Before Di Jiu, there had been quite a few Hedao cultivators who had come here, but none of them had ever been able to stop the black mist from spilling out, most of them had fallen in the black mist or were seriously injured because of it.
Di Jiu said gruffly to the crowd, “I have decided to go into the black mist to take a look. If the protective formation I have set up has not collapsed, then it means that I am safe and sound. Once the protective formation I have set up collapses, everyone will run their own way.”
The protective formation Di Jiu had set up here used four Five Square Flags, if something happened to him, the Five Square Flags would definitely not be able to stop this dark rule fog. As long as nothing happened to him, this dark mist, no matter how strong it was, would not be able to break through his protective formation.
“Sovereign Di, we’ll go in with you.” Hearing that Di Jiu was going to enter the black fog alone, a large number of cultivators immediately stood out and called out.
Anywhere, in any realm, there were cultivators who were not afraid to die.
Di Jiu once again clasped his fist and said, “Thank you all, if I were to fall in the black mist, even if more people entered this time, they would all end up falling inside. In that case, there is no need to hurt more innocents If I can solve the problem inside here, then there is even less need for everyone to accompany me inside.”
After saying these words, Di Jiu did not hesitate to take a step into the black fog. The tumbling black fog instantly wrapped around Di Jiu’s figure, and there was no more news of Di Jiu.
All the cultivators outside were silent, although many cultivators had entered the black fog before Di Jiu to search for the root cause, but in the end, they did not come out. But what made them different from Di Jiu was that they were all originally the patriarchs of the major sects in the Taiji Realm, or the dominant lords of the Taiji Realm. It was the first time that a cultivator like Di Jiu, who originally had nothing to do with the Taiji Realm, had entered the black mist for the sake of the Taiji Realm in such a righteous manner.
Unfortunately, if Di Jiu could not get out, the Taiji Realm would be destroyed. Otherwise, they would have to erect a huge statue of Di Jiu in the Taiji Realm.
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As soon as Di Jiu entered the black mist, he felt like he had been splashed with ink, and there was an unspeakable uncomfortable feeling all over his body, and all the space seemed to not belong to him anymore.
Outside, his divine thoughts could still penetrate some distance, but when he really entered the black fog, Di Jiu immediately felt that his divine thoughts could no longer penetrate out. No matter how strong his divine thoughts were, as soon as they penetrated out, they were immediately swallowed up by the rules of darkness and disappeared without a trace.
The discomfort of being in such a place was like having a pair of eyes staring at him in the darkness all the time, yet he did not know exactly where those eyes were.
Almost at the same time as Di Jiu opened his Dao pupils, a black needle several feet long shot over from the distant depths of darkness. At the time Di Jiu’s Dao pupil saw this black needle spike, it had already shot at Di Jiu’s chest.
Boom! A dull sound came out, even though the black needle was strong, when it hit Di Jiu’s flesh, it collapsed into countless dark dao rhyme rules at this moment.
Di Jiu snorted coldly and simply stopped advancing, as the Rule Circumference began to operate frantically. The other party was using his darkness dao rhyme to refine the Taiji Realm, and he would refine the other party’s darkness dao rhyme.
For others this was difficult, for Di Jiu it was merely refining another new heaven and earth rule. To him, there were only benefits without any disadvantages.
As soon as the Rule Circumference began to operate, the next moment the dark rules around Di Jiu immediately took on countless basic laws, and Di Jiu was surprised to find that his cultivation level began to rise. Ever since his cultivation reached the Perfection of Mixed Origin, he had not made any further progress, and now that the Perfection of Mixed Origin cultivation began to slowly rise, did this mean that he was about to succeed in merging with the Dao?