Was this someone who had crossed into the third step?
At this moment almost the entire cultivators of the Great Dao Abyss thought that someone had reached Mount Wang and had crossed into the third step.
The Broken Void Daoist Monarch who had been pinned to the Great Dao Abyss felt a roar in this void and sighed, he knew that Di Jiu had no chance.
Daoist Monarch Broken Void had never been to Mount Wang, he thought that once he reached Mount Wang, then he would definitely be able to reach the top of Mount Wang. How long had Di Jiu been away? Even if he was fast, he wouldn’t be able to reach the top of Lookout Mountain. It would be impossible to get from the Great Dao Abyss to Mount Lookout without a few hundred years.
Unfortunately, no one had been able to go to Mount Hope to see what was going on, and if they had, all the people of the Great Dao Abyss would have flocked there long ago.
At the foot of Lookout Mountain, Du Zichen looked up at the top of Lookout Mountain in shock, he was almost 90% sure that it was Di Jiu who had merged with the Dao. Others thought that someone had crossed the boundary of creation at Mount Hope and stepped into the third step. He was even more certain that this kind of Dao rhythm rolling around and the void resonating was not someone crossing the third step on Mount Wang, but Di Jiu Hedao.
It was just that what puzzled him was that with his understanding of the rules of the Five Elements Universe Heaven and Earth, he was actually unable to sense Di Jiu’s dao direction.
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Di Jiu raised his hand in the void, and the substantial space seemed to be in the palm of his hand. He knew very well in his heart that the dao he had merged was different from the dao others had merged. Even if other people knew the means to merge their own dao, they would not be able to merge their dao like he did. Building one’s own laws is not something that anyone can do.
His strength was rising every moment after he merged his Dao. Every time he built a basic law, his strength rose a little, and every time he built a cosmic rule, the Dao rose another level.
Di Jiu raised his head and the top of Mount Lookout was right in front of him, he could even cross into the peak of Mount Lookout with just one step.
If it was before he had merged with the Dao, Di Jiu would not have hesitated to take this step. But now, Di Jiu did not hesitate to turn around and walk down Lookout Mountain.
The Dao he cultivated longed for him to go up, and as long as he reached the top of Lookout Mountain, he would gain another ascension and might even cross into the middle stage of the Harmonious Dao. There was something he desperately needed at the top of Lookout Mountain.
But there was a strong rejection of his own rules that he had constructed himself, as if the moment he went up there, the laws he had just constructed himself would be swallowed up. The basis of his merging dao was the laws he had constructed himself, and when such laws were swallowed up, his dao would naturally disintegrate, and then he would have to merge again according to the five elemental universe’s rule dao.
Di Jiu decided that it was better to trust his own original heart, the law he had just constructed himself was his new dao direction, and that was equal to his own original heart. If that was the case, why go to the top of Mount Hope to burn his own dao and merge the rule dao in the Five Elements Universe?
He would come to the top of Mount Hope, but not now, he would come back to the top of Mount Hope when he had the strength, or even when he felt he could.
Seemingly sensing that Di Jiu was turning around and leaving, a burst of dense creation aura suddenly erupted from the top of Mount Hope. This aura of creation had almost formed into substance, even making Di Jiu feel that as long as he rushed up into that aura of creation, his Dao would all come to fruition, and then he would easily complete his Dao and cross over to the third step.
Even if he controlled his cultivation and did not go up, he would still reap countless things he needed in that almost substantial breath of creation, whether it was divine abilities or a deeper understanding of the rules of the universe.
There were times when Di Jiu almost turned his head and rushed up, and Di Jiu knew very well that that was not his true heart. The reason why he wanted to turn his head and rush up was because of the influence of his current rule dao. The rule dao he was cultivating now was still the rule dao in the Five Elements Universe, and once he rushed up there, he would have completely perfected the rule dao in the Five Elements Universe.
Perhaps it was a little too much to say that he would become a slave to the Rule Dao of the Five Elements Universe in the future, but Di Jiu was certain that he would never be able to break free from the Five Elements Universe again. The aura of creation at the top of Mount Hope could affect his Rule Dao, what about the future? When all was said and done, he was still too deeply influenced by the Ninth Dao Rule during the early days of his Rule Dao. There was nothing he could do about it; without the Ninth Dao, he would not be standing here today, nor would he be qualified to stand here.
Only when he had completely constructed his own rules of heaven and earth in the future and formed the beginnings of his world would he have the chance to be unaffected and then come back here.
“Ka-ching!” What shocked Di Jiu was that when he tried to rush down the Lookout Mountain from, his Dao rhythm aura was no longer under his control, instead, a Rule Dao circumference formed around him, which echoed with the creation aura at the top of the Lookout Mountain, seemingly pulling him up to the top of the Lookout Mountain in a hard and fast manner.
Di Jiu was horrified, he had felt after his merging that if he wanted to break free from the Five Elements Universe, he would have to change his rule dao. In fact at this time, he merely thought that he was better off cultivating the rule dao in the Five Elements Universe than building his own rule dao.
It was only now that Di Jiu understood that his own rule dao actually had such a terrifying effect when facing the Dao Rhythm of Creation of the Five Elements Universe.
That was because his rule dao was derived from the Heaven and Earth rules of the Five Elements Universe, and since it was derived from the Heaven and Earth rules of the Five Elements Universe, his rule dao rhythm would naturally be attracted now when facing the highest level of the Dao Rhythm of Creation in the Five Elements Universe. This was nothing, except that his rule dao rhyme was actually trying to forcibly change his will, which was just a little too terrifying.
Thinking of this, Di Jiu turned around and walked towards the top of Lookout Mountain.
The moment he turned towards the top of Lookout Mountain, Di Jiu immediately found that all the rule dao rhythms he cultivated were even more active, and the feeling of bondage disappeared. Instead, it was replaced by a feeling of pleasure and elation.
With a sinking feeling in his heart, Di Jiu took a small step towards the top of Lookout Mountain before instantly turning around and activating his divine thought evasion technique to the extreme.
Soon Di Jiu found that as he moved further away from the top of Lookout Mountain, the resistance of the rule dao rhyme became weaker. A few days later, Di Jiu switched to the Rule Vanishment Technique and hurriedly vanish down the mountain at an even faster speed.
Originally, Di Jiu was thinking that he had just merged with the Dao, so should he find a Dao Rhyme Pool of Creation on Mount Wang to solidify his cultivation. After he felt the effect of the top of Mount Wang on his rule dao, Di Jiu completely extinguished this idea and decided to wait until he had completely built his own rule dao in the future before he came back here.
In just a few months’ time, Di Jiu landed at the foot of Lookout Mountain once again. In this place, he could no longer feel any influence.
“Ah Jiu, congratulations, you’ve succeeded in merging with the Dao in just a short time.” Just as Di Jiu landed at the foot of the mountain, Du ZiChen’s congratulatory voice came over.
Followed by a grey-clothed Du ZiChen appeared in front of Di Jiu.
Di Jiu clasped his fist and said, “Thank you so much for reminding me of Zichen and helping me merge with the Dao.”
Du ZiChen looked at the top of Lookout Mountain, “Ah Jiu, after I have re-entered the third step, we will go out together and make a break for it.”
Di Jiu smiled and said, “Zichen, I’m afraid that your master Du Bu won’t let me go, aren’t you worried that it will be difficult for you to follow me along?”
Du Zichen laughed, “Ah Jiu, you also underestimate me, Du Zichen. I, Watts Trace, have my own code of conduct in any place and at any time. Enough of these words, I am also going up the mountain, so I will say goodbye today, see you later.”
Di Jiu took out a jade bottle and handed it to Du Zichen: “Zichen, you are an ancient powerhouse, you have seen as many good things as an ox, I am late in my journey and I don’t have anything good on me. The stuff in this bottle is considered something of some value to me, so I’ll give it to ZiChen.”
Du ZiChen didn’t even half-excuse himself and didn’t ask what it was, he took the jade bottle and said, “Then I won’t be too polite.”
Di Jiu clasped his fist and with another flash of his body, he had already rushed out of the foot of Lookout Mountain.