When he entered the Void Vortex, Di Jiu had already planned to be trapped in it for thousands of years or even longer.
To Di Jiu’s surprise, as soon as he entered, he immediately felt a strong pulling force coming from him, and then it was as if his whole body had lost control and was thrown out.
The first thing Di Jiu wanted to do was to enter the ninth world, but then he realised that he could not enter at all, and his divine thoughts could not be stretched out either. This was not the first time Di Jiu had encountered this kind of thing, and he was very calm. With the strength of his physical body, there were really very few void forces that wanted to tear him apart.
Boom! In a short time, Di Jiu was thrown to the ground, smashing the hard ground into a huge deep crater.
This surprisingly resembled a natural teleportation formation in general, but Di Jiu knew that this was not a teleportation formation, this was most likely a dimensional rift. This kind of dimensional rift formed by a void vortex was completely different from the void vortexes he had seen before.
Soon Di Jiu realised that his worst fears had arisen. The rules of heaven and earth in this place were something he had never seen before, and they were also completely different from the rules of heaven and earth in the universe that he normally understood.
Here, his divine essence and divine thoughts were directly bound, and he was unable to move at all. Not only that, he could not even communicate with his own Sea of Consciousness and the Ninth World.
The panic was only short-lived before Di Jiu calmed down. He was different from other cultivators. Once other cultivators encountered such a situation, they could only resign themselves to their fate and were afraid that they would never be able to leave this place in their lifetime.
The most important thing was that his rule dao did not depend on the divine mind and the sea of consciousness to exist. His rule dao relied on his consciousness to exist, and as long as his consciousness was still there, he could reconstruct to adapt to the rules of heaven and earth here, and then find his divine mind and divine essence again.
“Boom!” Di Jiu had just finished organising his thoughts when another bang boomed not far from him.
Di Jiu stopped instead, he knew who the person who fell in this time was, it was that smug woman.
If Di Jiu was afraid of the other party before when everyone’s divine dao was present, then now Di Jiu was really not afraid of this woman.
Compared to Di Jiu, Cao Xi’s physical body was obviously not as strong. As she struggled to get up from the ground, she was covered in wounds from the void tearing all over her body, but fortunately it was only a dimensional rift, there was no spatial dislocation or tearing, and it hadn’t torn her clothes off.
Cao Xi wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and looked at Di Jiu who was standing not far away staring at her, “Why aren’t you running away? Since you’re not running away, let’s go with me.”
Di Jiu held his arms and said indifferently, “Do you think I need to run away? Can you pluck a hair off my head or can you move a toenail?”
Without Di Jiu’s explanation, Cao Xi already understood, and her face turned a little pale. Her divine Daoism had likewise disappeared without a trace. It was obvious that the strength and weakness had changed places. If it was said that before, Di Jiu was the target of her pursuit, then now she was a fish in Di Jiu’s hands.
Cao Xi’s heart was obviously extraordinary, she quickly understood her situation and said in a lighter tone instead, “Di Jiu, your qualifications and gong methods are extraordinary, and your evasion techniques are even more powerful than I have ever seen before. If I’m not wrong, you should have used the rules of the universe to vanish away. This kind of evasion technique, even that guy back then might not necessarily possess it. Perhaps you have some opportunities, but I have to admit that you are a genius.”
Di Jiu laughed, “I know I am excellent, I don’t need you to praise me.”
Cao Xi sighed, “If you can follow the right path and do less killing, you may not be unable to break through the Way beyond the Dao in the future.”
Di Jiu waved his hand, “You don’t need to talk to me about the Way, I know how to walk my own path, I don’t need you to instruct me. I am just warning you about two things, firstly, stop being so self-righteous. I am not the Ten Thousand Poisonous Daoist Monarch you speak of either, but the Ten Thousand Poisonous Daoist Monarch is a friend of mine. He did me a favour by exterminating the Extreme Shellfish Heavenly Sea. So, if you want to settle scores, it is right to look for me.
But before you settle your score for the Extreme Shellfish Heavenly Sea, you should make it clear that the Extreme Shellfish Heavenly Sea has exterminated countless living planets and killed countless cultivator lives in the universe over the years. If you avenge the Extreme Shellfish Heavenly Sea, you are aiding the tiger and are just as much of an executioner ……”
“Fellow Daoist Di, there is no time for revenge, I am not trying to kill you, I just want to take you away to wear down your killing nature. If everyone is vengeful, then the whole universe will be filled with killing and blood everywhere, where will there be a pure land? Where would there be peace?” Cao Xi obviously did not agree with Di Jiu’s words.
Di Jiu laughed, “I remembered an allusion to my old family, there were two people, one was called Hanshan and the other was called Goude, one day Hanshan asked Goude: ‘If someone in the world slanders me, bullies me, insults me, laughs at me, belittles me, despises me, loathes me, and deceives me for no reason, what shall I do? ‘”
Cao Xie was somewhat surprised that Di Jiu could say such things, and she too was puzzled and asked, “Then how will Gatherer answer?”
Di Jiu said, “Goude replied, ‘You might as well bear with him, humble him, let him be, avoid him, be patient with him, respect him, ignore him, and in a few years’ time, you will see him.'”
Cao Xie clapped his hands, “This man Gao De has great wisdom, he is really worthy of my study, a good answer, really good. Daoist Di, you have such a high person in your hometown, and you know his wisdom, why are you not learning anything?”
Di Jiu sneered, “If I had learned it, I would have been in reincarnation by now, no, I am not in reincarnation, I don’t even have a chance to be in reincarnation. My humility, patience and respect are for those who deserve my humility, deserve my patience and deserve my respect. As for Jubei Tianhai, I only have to beat him, do away with him, exterminate him, and that’s all.”
Cao Xi frowned once, seemingly a little uncomfortable by Di Jiu’s hostility.
Di Jiu, however, did not bother to continue talking nonsense with Cao Xi, turned around and left. Cao Xi had been chasing him for so many years, although he was uncomfortable in his heart. However, this woman Cao Xi was not a ruthless person, she just acted with a code that was too speechless.
It wasn’t until Di Jiu walked out a good distance that Cao Xi came to her senses and hurriedly caught up with Di Jiu, “Fellow Daoist Di, wait ……”
“What else is going on? Could it be that you have taken a fancy to me and want to double up with me?” After being chased for more than a hundred years, although Di Jiu does not care about this woman anymore, his heart is ultimately a little uncomfortable, and a sneer is inevitable.
Cao Xi said indifferently, “If you want me to do these things, then you can just kill me, or I can fall on my own.”
“Not interested.” Di Jiu turned around to leave again.
Cao Xie asked behind Di Jiu, “Fellow Daoist Di, now that you and I are unable to exercise our Dao, you can obviously restrain me easily, so why don’t you restrain me or even just kill me to end the trouble?”
“Haha ……” Di Jiu laughed loudly and turned to Cao Xie, “That’s your code of conduct, a woman like you who is so high and proud that you don’t eat the fires of the world, naturally when your power is strong, then use your power to purify the the entire universe as your mission. Anyone who is not your opponent, you can crush him and impose your will.
I, Di Jiu, have my own code of conduct. I fight and kill and have some hostility from time to time, just for the sake of the people around me to live a little better and to pursue some of the things outside my body that I like. I am stronger than you now, yet I don’t necessarily have to do things the same way you do, I must restrain you so that you will do as I say without resistance and without reason.”
Speaking here, Di Jiu stared at Cao Xie’s eyes, “In a word, we are not the same people.”
Cao Xie fell silent and after a while suddenly said, “Didn’t you just warn me about two things? What about the second thing?”
“I don’t quite want to talk about the second thing, just can you stop following me now?” Di Jiu laughed and once again walked away.
Cao Xi seemed to not understand the meaning of Di Jiu’s words as he still followed, “Fellow Daoist Di, do you think I was wrong to chase after you? Or do you think that a planet where a family like the Extreme Shellfish Heavenly Sea is located should be exterminated?”
Di Jiu looked at Cao Xie somewhat helplessly, “Then I’ll tell you another story from my hometown.”