Ninth In the World

The Immortal City underwent great changes every single day as more than 100 cultivators built the city with a common goal and plan.

The cultivators building the Starry Sky Immortal City had seen too many Immortal Cities. Those Immortal Cities had been at most castles because a beginner-level Fortune Gathering Immortal Array could not set a large Immortal City.

However, the plan of the Starry Sky Immortal City revealed that it was not just an Immortal City, but a little Immortal Protectorate. Even a real Immortal City before the emergence of the Sunset Immortal World had not been as huge as this.

Countless streets with widths ranging from a few feet to ten feet cut across the city in an extremely organized manner. The city was a concentric circle with the City Lord Manor situated at its heart. On the two sides of the streets were commercial buildings, cave abodes, and inns.

The City Lord Manor, which was the center of the city, occupied the largest amount of space.

Apart from the typical buildings, buildings such as guilds, elixir associations, weapon associations, and array organizations were also established. There was also a supreme court and an Immortal City administration office.

Actually, everyone questioned the use of the Immortal City, even though it was being built because no Fortune Gathering Immortal Array could cover a place that was this big.

However, everyone was convinced by Di Jiu’s ability. Since he was the City Lord and he had given these instructions, they would just do as he said.

Given his competence, Di Jiu was definitely not an idiot. Since he was not stupid, it was evident that this new City Lord had his own plans in mind.

Di Jiu devoted all his time and effort into the Array Dao after handing over the responsibility to build the city. He researched the Array Dao under the Sky Bamboo River, which was just next to the clear spring.

By the clear spring, Di Jiu could feel the nomological aura of the Immortal World clearly. With the help of the Book of the World and the Golden Dao Law, his research advanced by leaps and bounds, as though he was a stranded fish being put back into the water.

As City Lords, Zheng Sanxing and Gai Jinxuan had collected abundant resources. Di Jiu gave the common materials to Liu Yuxin and her team and asked them to build the city while he kept the precious materials.

The most important part of the city was now in his hands. The Starry Sky Immortal City would be a white elephant if he did not set up a top-notch Defense Array.

After half a year, Di Jiu’s Quintessential Essence had transformed into Immortal Essence. Although his cultivation level remained at the fourth-stage Perfected Immortal Realm, he could refine top-notch low-grade immortal weapons.

As far as array formation techniques were concerned, he could now create a peak level-three Immortal Array on his own.

Being able to create such an array formation was considered incredibly impressive in the Sunset Immortal World.

However, Di Jiu was not satisfied because he needed at least a level-four Immortal Array. He would refine array flags and deduce Dharma Arrays every day.

Another six months passed. When Di Jiu scanned the Starry Sky Immortal City by using his Immortal Force, he realized that more than half of it was completed. The layout of the city was exactly like he had planned.

The Immortal City was extremely big. It had taken more than 100 Domain Realm experts more than a year to build half of it.

Half a year ago, Di Jiu had been able to create a peak level-three Immortal Array effortlessly. However, he now remained stagnant and stuck at creating the same arrays.

This was not because he did not know enough about array formations or had not received sufficient help while learning the array formations. He had the Book of the World, the Golden Dao Law and the Immortal Array techniques, which Qian Fenghua had taught him.

The class of Di Jiu’s flame was to blame. No matter how strong his Dao fire was, it was a flame from the Cultivation World.

According to the Book of the World, the better the flame, the more cautious one had to be while cultivating it.

There were many materials that could help flames from the Cultivation World become Immortal Flames. However, Di Jiu did not want to cultivate his Dao fire simply by using materials.

The Book of the World mentioned that a truly powerful flame had to transform into an Immortal Flame by using nirvana techniques. Di Jiu had no choice but to let his Dao fire go through nirvana if he wanted his fire to be more powerful.

Di Jiu was delighted when he saw the message on his communication pearl. When he used his Spiritual Force, he saw that Qu Tong and Bei Chutai had returned with someone he did not know.

“Wait for me here. I’ll go out for a while,” Di Jiu said immediately to Mo Yuxuan, who was next to him.

After staying at the immortal spring for a year, Mo Yuxuan had started to be more independent. Although Di Jiu told her to wait by the spring, she stood up as if she had not heard him. Therefore, Di Jiu had no choice but to bring her along.

“Senior Brother Di, I did not know that the Immortal City was already so majestic. This is definitely a good place.” Bei Chutai approached Di Jiu joyfully the moment he saw Di Jiu coming.

“City Lord, you did not deceive me indeed. This is the most beautiful Immortal City I have ever seen!” Qu Tong exclaimed as he looked at the embryonic form of the city.

Di Jiu passed a jade card and a jade slip to Qu Tong and said, “Qu Tong, you will be the deputy City Lord for the time being. Follow the instructions on the jade slip. This jade card is the commanding card of the deputy City Lord.”

Qu Tong returned the jade card to Di Jiu immediately. “City Lord, you can’t do this. I have not done anything. How could I be the deputy City Lord? No one would listen to my instructions.”

Di Jiu put the jade card in Qu Tong’s hands once again. “Without you, even if we had been able to build the Starry Sky Immortal City, it would not have been built here. You are a lucky man, and our city needs great luck. In addition, you are at the Perfected Immortal Realm, so you are worthy of being the deputy City Lord.”

Qu Tong did not reject Di Jiu’s offer again after hearing what the latter said. Although he had not known Di Jiu for a long time, he knew that Di Jiu was different from the cultivators he had met in the past.

After Qu Tong left, Di Jiu smiled at Bei Chutai and said, “Chutai, when the Immortal City is complete, you will be the law enforcement officer of the city. Therefore, you need to be familiar with the laws of the city. Who is this daoist?”

Di Jiu gave Bei Chutai a jade slip before his eyes landed on the cultivator that had arrived with Bei Chutai. That cultivator was extremely handsome, and his long hair made him look suave. He was definitely not any weaker than Zheng Sanxing, yet Di Jiu sensed that he was another fake Golden Immortal.

If he had some ulterior motive or was hiding his cultivation experience, Di Jiu would chase him away.

Actually, when the cultivator’s Spiritual Force landed on Di Jiu, Di Jiu realized that he had been wrong. That guy was far more powerful than Zheng Sanxing.

The fellow’s Immortal Essence had condensed impressively, so it appeared to be even more powerful than Di Jiu’s.

Bei Chutai accepted the jade slip and said immediately, “Senior Brother Di, this is Senior Brother Yan Xiaosha. If he hadn’t saved me, I would have been dead. We were only able to return to the Starry Sky Immortal City quickly thanks to Senior Brother Yan’s flying Dharma treasure.”

“Thank you, Daoist Yan.” Di Jiu cupped his fists and expressed his gratitude.

Yan Xiaosha also cupped his fists and said, “I heard from Daoist Bei that you want to build a harmonious Immortal City where there is no suppression and uncontrolled murder. Hence, I came with Daoist Bei. Based on what I see now, the Immortal City is really majestic. I’ve never seen a city this big.”

“Daoist, I presume that you are not a cultivator from the Sunset Immortal Protectorate?” Di Jiu said suddenly.

Di Jiu could feel that perhaps ten Zheng Sanxings added together would still not compare to Yan Xiaosha. However, he did not fear Yan Xiaosha. His Starry Sky Immortal City was complete, so Yan Xiaosha would not pose a threat to Di Jiu, even if he was a real immortal master. Although he was a peak level-three array master, he believed that he could set up a level-four Immortal Array with the help of the Floating Flame Flag and the Seven-Star Aqua Flag.

Yan Xiaosha was a little sorrowful. “After the Immortal World faltered, chaos reigned everywhere. The entire Immortal World was filled with murder and mad destruction. Hence, people escaped to the Newborn Immortal Protectorate.”

“Why didn’t you go there?” Di Jiu knew that Yan Xiaosha was a true immortal, so fake immortals like Zheng Sanxing were nowhere near his level.

Bei Chutai, who understood the situation as well, looked at Yan Xiaosha in shock. “Senior Brother Yan, you are an Immortal?”

In fact, all the immortals in the Sunset Immortal Protectorate were from the Cultivation World. Even though they had attained the Perfected Immortal Realm or the Golden Immortal Realm, they were all fake immortals.

Yan Xiaosha had to be a real immortal if he had existed before the Sunset Immortal World had formed.

Yan Xiaosha shook his head and spoke after quite a while. “What is the difference between going up and staying here? I’ll just get to see the horror of the Sunset Immortal World once again after some time. I have had enough of it and I do not want to go through the same thing again. In fact, there are some people like me. We are all disappointed and we are hiding in certain places in the Immortal World.”

Di Jiu could feel that Yan Xiaosha did not want to go to the Newborn Immortal City due to other reasons.

“The Starry Sky Immortal City is almost ready. I’m not sure whether Daoist Yan is willing to help defend the Immortal City.” Di Jiu did not ask about Yan Xiaosha’s cultivation experience because he felt that Yan Xiaosha was at the Immortal Lord Realm.

Yan Xiaosha did not answer Di Jiu’s question directly. Instead, he asked him, “Daoist Di, your city is really huge and I can feel that there is an aura of new life here. Even if I were to defend the Starry Sky Immortal City, I’m afraid that I would not save it. In addition, I cannot protect the city all day.”

Di Jiu nodded. “I am planning to set up another array. However, I do not have a type of Immortal Flame. Hence, the Defense Array I have created now is rather low-level. I will upgrade it when I attain the Immortal Flame.”

“You are also an Immortal Array Master?” Yan Xiaosha was shocked. In his opinion, Di Jiu would be really impressive even if he was just a level-one Immortal Array Master.

“Yes, I am an Immortal Array Master,” Di Jiu answered.

Yan Xiaosha opened his palm and a light blue flame hopped on it. “I happen to have a level-four immortal flame. I will lend it to you for the time being.”

“Is this the Sangharama Flame?” Di Jiu looked at the flame excitedly.

“Yes, is this of any help to you?” Yan Xiaosha smiled.

Di Jiu said immediately, “Yes, thank you, Daoist Yan.”

Even though Yan Xiaosha was more powerful than Di Jiu and the latter could not steal his flame, the act of lending someone else his own flame revealed that Yan Xiaosha was an upright person.

Di Jiu was confident that he could upgrade the Defense Array of the Immortal City by one or two levels with Yan Xiaosha’s flame.