<h4>Chapter 266: The Herb King Meridian</h4>
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Di Jiu didn’t know that Han Qingyi had suspected him of having the Book of the World. If he had known, he would have felt severely maligned. The reason he had be both an Array King and an Elixir King wasn’t really the Book of the World. The main reason was the golden Dao Law in his Spiritual Sea. This also had something to do with Qian Fenghua and Ji Ming. Qian Fenghua had imparted Array Dao to him, and Ji Ming had imparted alchemy to him.
At the moment, Di Jiu waspletely focused on his goal. By using the Tribtion Convergence Elixir, he had to break through to the Life Tribtion Realm as fast as possible.
Four hourster, Di Jiu re-entered the spirit stone mine. He had never nned to take away the spirit stone mine. However, now that he wanted to reach the Life Tribtion Realm, this was the most suitable ce to do so.
Di Jiu’s favorite cultivation method was to madly absorb the Spirit Qi during Tribtion Transcendence. The bigger the Tribtion Thunder, the faster his cultivation speed would be.
After exiting the Small Central World, Di Jiu would very soon be joining the True Province Genius Tournament. Thus, he hoped to improve his strength as much as possible on the Small Central.
He wanted to join the True Province Genius Tournament, not only because he wanted to deal with the geniuses of the True Province, but also so that he would be able to handle the experts of the True Province. He had to be wary of both the Skygold Domain Lord, who had always had some suspicions against him, and the support behind Han Qingyi.
Di Jiu believed that Han Qingyi’s supporters would not harbor thoughts against him after his identity as an Elixir King had been exposed. As long as he was threatened, he had to have the ability to defend himself. In Di Jiu’s opinion, it would be ideal if he attained the True Form Realm after leaving the Small Central.
After finding a good ce for Tribtion Transcendence in the spirit stone mine, Di Jiu snappily took out two supreme-grade spirit meridians. Then, he set up an offensive saber array in the center of the Tribtion Transcendence. Once the Thunder Tribtion struck, he would activate the offensive saber array to attack the streak of Thunder Tribtion.
While anyone else would have hoped for the streak of Thunder Tribtion to be weak during the Tribtion Transcendence, Di Jiu hoped that it would be strong. The stronger it was, the better.
Once everything was ready, Di Jiu adjusted himself and popped two Tribtion Convergence Elixirs into his mouth at the same time. When he had attained the Ekayāna Tripod Realm, he had learned that one Tribtion Convergence Elixir wouldn’t bring about the Thunder Tribtion.
Di Jiu had nned to swallow the two Tribtion Convergence Elixirs first, feel for the Life Tribtion Realm, and then take four more Tribtion Convergence Elixirs to bring about the Thunder Tribtion in one shot.
However, he hadn’t expected that after he swallowed two Tribtion Convergence Elixirs, they would form a Spirit Origin that felt like two vast rivers gushing down. Nobody else would have been able to handle that frightening aura of spirit energy. The concentration of the spirit energy of the Life Tribtion Realm Dao Runes in the body felt like a roaring river—if it could not find an exit, it would tear and crush Di Jiu’s meridians.
At the prospect of such a dramatic effect, Di Jiu didn’t dare swallow the third Tribtion Convergence Elixir. He just madly circted the Gxy Art. The gxy meridian quickly swept away the two streaks of frightening spirit energy formed by the Tribtion Convergence Elixir and attacked the cultivation barrier of the Life Tribtion Realm.
Just this once, Di Jiu came into contact with the cultivation barrier of the Life Tribtion Realm. He sighed silently— this was indeed an excellent elixir. Although he was someone who had immense difficulty trying toe into contact with the next realm, he could easily touch the Life Tribtion Realm after consuming two Tribtion Convergence Elixirs. It looked like the Creation Cauldron could perform alchemy that defied thews of nature.
Di Jiu, who had been sitting in the spirit stone mine, suddenly saw two more supreme-grade spirit meridians by his side. When he touched the entry barrier of the Life Tribtion Realm, the gxy meridian swept up the almost concrete Spirit Qi. In an instant, Di Jiu boomed down a giant thunder streak.
It wasing. The well-prepared Di Jiu used all his might to circte the Gxy Art and absorb the Spirit Qi.
Boom, boom, boom! As the first wave of thunder streak came down, Di Jiu activated the offensive saber array.
Judging by Di Jiu’s original rhythm of Tribtion Transcendence, his first wave of Thunder Tribtion would consist of nine strikes, the second wave would consist of 18 strikes, and so on and so forth, until the end of the ninth wave.
Although Di Jiu had yet to attain the Life Tribtion Realm, his offensive saber array had already initiated an attack against the Thunder Tribtion streak. This provocation immediately made the roaring in Di Jiu’s head get stronger and stronger. His Thunder Tribtion lost its rhythmpletely. As endless thunder streaks formed continuously, there was no distinction between the first and the second wave.
Di Jiu considered himself lucky. If it hadn’t been for his immortal-like body, this frightening Thunder Tribtion would have been head-numbing to watch.
The Thunder Tribtion was frightening, and its effects were very obvious. Meanwhile, Di Jiu’s cultivation improved by leaps and bounds. It almost felt like the Thunder Tribtion could sense that Di Jiu was making use of it. When the continuous strikes of the Thunder Tribtion couldn’t do anything to Di Jiu, it suddenly became even thicker.
Crack! Di Jiu’s body was finally torn by the thickened Thunder Tribtion streak, revealing a wound while his skeleton cracked. Almost at the same moment, Di Jiu broke through to the Ekayāna Tripod Realm and attained the first-stage Life Tribtion Realm. The extremely concentrated spirit energy finally found a way out and Di Jiu’s cultivation level advanced.
Di Jiu, who had been worried, immediately swallowed a few more elixirs. He started executing saber arrays like crazy while using all his might to absorb the Spirit Qi.
The continuous thick Thunder Tribtion streaks engulfed Di Jiu. If there had been any onlookers looking at the Thunder Tribtion, they would have fainted from fright.
There were no traces of Di Jiu in those thick Thunder Tribtion streaks. If it hadn’t been for the existence of a Spirit Qi whirlpool in the center of this dense thunder streak, nobody would have believed that there was a living person amid this Thunder Tribtion.
After attaining the Life Tribtion Realm, the sight of Di Jiu absorbing the Spirit Qi became even grander. Di Jiu, who was already in the spirit stone mine, now had twoplete supreme-grade spirit meridians. He was in a world entirely made up of pure, dense Spirit Qi. Thanks to the addition of the distinct Heavenly Dao Laws and the raging Thunder Tribtion, he broke through to the second-stage Life Tribtion Realm in an extremely short time.
Di Jiu was exhrated. He was sure that this ongoing trend would definitely help him attain the fourth-stage Life Tribtion Realm during this round of Thunder Tribtion.
He had only entered the Small Central a little over two years ago. Thus, there were still more than seven years to go. Perfecting the Life Tribtion Realm wouldn’t pose a problem.
What disappointed Di Jiu was that as soon as he broke through to the second-stage Life Tribtion Realm, the Thunder Tribtion suddenly dispersed. Even though the Spirit Qi was still surging like crazy in the surrounding area, Di Jiu no longer sensed the delightful feeling of cultivation. The next realm became blurry. Only time would ultimately make the next realm clearer.
What was the matter? Di Jiu frowned at the sky, which had calmed down. He didn’t understand what had happened.
However, he calmed down very quickly. Although he was disappointed, he also knew that such shortcuts were only temporary. Without the Thunder Tribtion, his cultivation speed slowed down quite a bit. Fortunately, it was still faster than that of the people outside.
He hade to the Small Central World with only two goals. The first was to find high-level spirit herbs and attempt to be a Grade-Nine Elixir King. Although he had yet to be a Grade-Nine Elixir King, there was no need to get anxious—it would only be a matter of time.
His second goal was to work hard to improve his strength. He had entered the Small Central at the third-stage Ekayāna Tripod Realm and was now already at the second-stage Life Tribtion Realm. Although his cultivation level had improved greatly, this was not enough.
Di Jiu didn’t leave. Instead, he chose to continue his reclusive cultivation there.
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The Small Central wasn’t small. As the spirit herbs that could be found on its surface were gradually taken away, more and more cultivators entered reclusive cultivation just like Di Jiu.
Geng Ji also wanted to find a ce for reclusive cultivation. However, before that happened, he had to find Brother Jiu. During his first year on the Small Central, he had already perfected the nine stages of the Void Spirit Realm. Without the Spirit Rive Elixir, he would not be able to enter the Pioneer Sea Realm.
Brother Jiu had told him before that it would be better if he advanced without the use of an elixir. However, he had no way of evening into contact with the cultivation barrier of the Pioneer Sea Realm without using an elixir. Thus, he had no choice but to look for Di Jiu. He believed that Di Jiu could help him resolve all the cultivation-rted problems he had.
After wandering around on the Small Central for more than a year, Geng Ji had still not heard any news rted to Di Jiu. He currently stood next to an almost dried-up swamp with a level-three Metallic Lotus Flower in the middle.
The Metallic Lotus Flower, which was of a very low ss, didn’t have much use. If it had been outside, some cultivators might have dug for it. However, on the Small Central, not even the poorest cultivators would enter a swamp to dig for a level-three Metallic Lotus Flower. Only Geng Ji would do something like that.
Geng Ji didn’t have a concept of bad and good. He had heard Di Jiu say before that if he saw a spirit herb, he should get it first, regardless of how good or bad it was, and deal with itter.
Therefore, when Geng Ji saw this Metallic Lotus Flower, he entered the swamp without hesitation and dug it up.
When Geng Ji dug up the Metallic Lotus Flower, he was nearly stunned. There was another spirit herb underneath the Metallic Lotus Flower. Geng Ji recognized this spirit herb— it was the Spiritual Sea Fruit. The Metallic Lotus Flower had formed a natural invisibility restriction that had wrapped around the Spiritual Sea Fruit. If the Metallic Lotus Flower had not been dug up, the Spiritual Sea Fruit wouldn’t have been found.
Geng Ji was really excited that he had actually found a Spiritual Sea Fruit on the Small Central. Many cultivators would choose this fruit if asked which was the most valuable level-six spiritual object.
The Spiritual Sea Fruit was the only spiritual fruit that could rival the Spirit Rive Elixir in terms of effect. It could give a cultivator at the Void Spirit Realm a very high chance of attaining the Pioneer Sea Realm. In terms of value, the Spiritual Sea Fruit was over 10 times more valuable than the Spirit Rive Elixir.
The Spiritual Sea Fruit could not only increase a cultivator’s chances of advancing to the Pioneer Sea Realm, but also expand the cultivator’s Spiritual Sea. The key was that it was a natural spiritual fruit.
Geng Ji had been eager to attain the Pioneer Sea Realm for a long time. On the Small Central, Pioneer Sea Realm cultivators were considered to have above average strength. If he could attain the Pioneer Sea Realm, he could go to more ces.
Therefore, when he got the Spiritual Sea Fruit. Geng Ji couldn’t wait any longer. He consumed the fruit right away.
Geng Ji had a pure Thunder Spirit Root, so his potential was innately great. On top of that, he had also wandered around the Void Spirit Realm for a year or two. As soon as he swallowed the Spiritual Sea Fruit, he could feel the cultivation barrier of the Pioneer Sea Realm summon the Thunder Tribtion.
Although Geng Ji’s Thunder Tribtion was not as frightening as Di Jiu’s, it was still much more powerful than an ordinary cultivator’s. Fortunately, his cultivation technique had improved thanks to Di Jiu, who had used the golden Dao Law before. Thus, even though the Thunder Tribtion was powerful, it didn’t cost him his life.
In only a few days, Geng Ji had ovee the Thunder Tribtion and attained the first-stage Pioneer Sea Realm. Meanwhile, he had stabilized his cultivation.
A small section of a green spirit meridian showed up at the position of Geng Ji’s Tribtion Transcendence. Geng Ji was preparing to leave when he noticed this spirit meridian.
The green spirit meridian emitted a Spirit Qi with a strong medicinal fragrance. Geng Ji was no fool. He could tell that this was no ordinary spirit meridian. It was also easy to guess how this spirit meridian had gotten out. The Small Central had natural restrictions all over the ce. One of them had probably been struck open by the Thunder Tribtion and let a spirit meridian out. This was nothing strange.
“Herb King Meridian?” a surprised voice asked before a fair-skinned man sped towards Geng Ji. Before the man could reach him, a Dharma treasure had already been flung at Geng Ji.