Chapter 378: With Movement, Comes Silence
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Di Jiu looked at the cup of Immortal Spirit Tea, which contained only one tea leaf, placed in front of him. The tea leaf was something he had just refined. The same applied to the cup, which was an immortal jade cup that contained his Foundation Order Dao runes.
There was only one tea leaf inside the teacup, and it looked as though it was within a flouris.h.i.+ng world after it had been soaked in hot water. In this world, the complete silence was replaced by the sound of all beings in the awakening world.
The birds in the wild were singing and the fish in the pond were bubbling. The sounds of unknown insects crawling by in the gra.s.s became distinct as well.
This cup of tea no longer held dead silence, but the quietness of the awakening world. Only when there was movement in this world and sound was created as a result would true silence be born. True silence was curated from noise, and not from the quietness of the dead.
Di Jiu let out a sigh of relief, for he finally witnessed the silence within the tea leaves he was refining.
He had yet to drink the tea, but he already felt calm, as if he had distanced himself from the mundane cultivating process and the noisy universe.
Di Jiu lifted the cup and took a sip. The moment the tea touched his tongue, he felt as though he had become one with the surrounding natural universe starry sky.
After he drank the mouthful of tea, he felt something that did not belong to his body burst out.
This was the foul Qi created from cultivating, as well as some elixir poison…
Following that sensation, he felt an even quieter peace. His cultivation level experienced no increase, but Di Jiu sensed that he did not need to cultivate before he would be able to make a breakthrough.
A natural Dao technique was the true natural Dao. Di Jiu dredged up the tea leaves within the cup and murmured, “This is the Immortal Spirit Tea I was looking for. From now on, this will be called…”
This should be called the Starry Sky Tea, given the fact that it was able to let the drinker become one with the universe starry sky and sense the Peacefulness Dao of the vast nature. Moreover, this tea was refined using the Luminous Starry Sky.
The Starry Sky Tea was not high-level, for drinking it would not enable the cultivator to increase their cultivation level, nor did it contain much spirit energy. On the contrary, it would allow the cultivator to sense the peace of nature and merge with the universe. It could even let the cultivator remove the elixir poison and stabilize their foundation by gaining insight into the Tea Dao.
Items with true value might not necessarily be top-notch treasures. Value was often born from ordinariness.
Di Jiu had originally intended to start up the Immortal Spirit Tea business after the Immortal Spirit Tea Tree in the garden bore fruit. Now, however, a cup of Immortal Spirit Tea only required one tea leaf, and the age of the leaf itself did not matter. This implied that he could start the Immortal Spirit Tea business now.
This was good news for his plans to establish himself in the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City.
Just as Di Jiu was pondering how he could proceed with this business, he received an SOS on the room’s communication pearl from Little Tree.
With a lift of his hand, Di Jiu put away all his items and rushed out of the store.
The place where this incident had happened to Little Tree was not far away. Something had happened to both Little Tree and Mo Yuxuan.
By the time Di Jiu arrived at the scene, he found Mo Yuxuan pinned to a stone pillar located beside a store by a spear. Little Tree was kneeling at the entrance of this store. One of its arms had been chopped off and its stump was still bleeding blue blood.
Di Jiu grabbed the spear and made several hand seals that landed on Mo Yuxuan’s body. Then, he placed a Thousand Mortal Elixir into Mo Yuxuan’s mouth.
“Eh!” exclaimed a long-haired girl in surprise when she saw that Mo Yuxuan was fine after Di Jiu pulled the spear off her body.
The spear had not been randomly pinned on Mo Yuxuan. Instead, restrictions had been placed on it, so that Mo Yuxuan would definitely die should the spear be moved.
The Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City would immediately capture Di Jiu should Mo Yuxuan be killed. The reason for that was because Di Jiu had dared to kill in the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City. She had not expected that Mo Yuxuan would still be alive after she was saved, which signified that her plan had failed.
Di Jiu ignored that young lady. He once again grabbed hold of Little Tree’s broken limb and helped connect the two parts together. At the same time, he removed the restriction placed on Little Tree.
“You are courageous and capable,” said the young lady coldly with a snort. She did not take any action despite seeing Di Jiu save the two of them.
“Big Brother!” shouted Little Tree anxiously when it saw Di Jiu. “They are simply too shameless.”
“What happened? Why did Junior Sister Mo have to come here with you?” asked Di Jiu calmly. If it was Little Tree who had caused this trouble, he would restrict its limbs. However, in Di Jiu’s opinion, Tiny Tree Root was not an ignorant and arrogant fella. It was even more impossible for it to cause trouble in the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City.
The Thousand Mortal Elixir was a grade-four immortal pill. Di Jiu let Mo Yuxuan consume a nine-patterned Thousand Mortal Elixir. These people had pinned Mo Yuxuan to the wall with the intention of letting Di Jiu kill her once the spear was pulled out of her body. Now, however, Di Jiu had pulled out the spear with ease. With the help of the grade-four Thousand Mortal Elixir, Mo Yuxuan had fully recovered.
In fact, Mo Yuxuan herself did not know what had happened either. She could only stand beside Di Jiu and wait for Little Tree to reply.
Following Di Jiu’s arrival at the scene, Little Tree felt relieved and hastily said, “Big Brother, I was cultivating within the store. However, upon thinking that we intended to start up a business in the near future, I came out to take a walk and observe how other people manage their business. When I arrived at the store’s entrance, I noticed that there was a big crowd gathered here. There seemed to be a last-minute auction. I squeezed into the crowd and discovered that the item on auction was a Glazed Heaven Immortal Fruit…”
Upon hearing all this, Di Jiu realized that the situation was not good.
As expected, Little Tree added, “I’d only heard of the Glazed Heaven Immortal Fruit. I had never seen it before. Just as I was about to head up to take a closer look, someone pushed me from behind suddenly. I accidentally knocked against the white jade box containing the Glazed Heaven Immortal Fruit and the box was flipped over. The immortal fruit fell to the ground and turned to dust…”
Di Jiu knew very well that someone had purposely sabotaged Little Tree.
There were indeed such last-minute auctions on the streets. Many stores had organized such auctions before, as such activities could increase a store’s popularity and also increase the value of the items being auctioned.
However, the Glazed Heaven Immortal Fruit was an extremely valuable grade-seven immortal spiritual fruit. The Glazed Heaven Immortal Fruit was a treasure that could be used to refine the Glazed Heaven King Elixir. The Glazed Heaven King Elixir was a grade-seven immortal pill that could be consumed by Zenith Heaven Immortals to attain the Immortal King Realm. Such an immortal pill was priceless.
Even if the immortal fruit was not refined into a Glazed Heaven Immortal Pill, direct consumption of it would lead to a one percent success rate of the Zenith Heaven Immortal becoming an Immortal King.
The Glazed Heaven Immortal Fruit had to be kept inside a jade box, as it would turn to ashes and become nothing once it came into contact with the surroundings.
Would such a treasure be auctioned in such a manner? There was no way that was possible. Furthermore, even if there was a last-minute auction, a restriction would definitely be cast on it so it would not have flipped over when Little Tree had knocked into it.
As expected, Little Tree continued. “This woman said that she was the one who had put the Glazed Heaven Immortal Fruit up for auction. I needed to compensate her with 10 million Liberal Points for destroying her Glazed Heaven Immortal Fruit…”
Di Jiu drew a cold gasp of air. He would not have been able to gain 10 million Liberal Points, even if he had sold himself.
“I could not pay that amount, so she made me call my master over. I didn’t dare directly call you over. Hence, I sent a message to Elder Sister Mo. When Elder Sister Mo came, before she could speak, this woman pinned her to the stone pillar with the spear…”
Tiny Tree Root might be brave and fearless, but it was still feeling very uneasy at the moment.
Mo Yuxuan, who was standing by Di Jiu’s side, said, “I knew that you were in seclusion and dared not disturb you. I thought that it was only some small matter, which was why I came to question Little Tree about it. However, I had not expected that when I came here, I would get pinned to the stone pillar before any words were exchanged.”
Di Jiu’s gaze landed on the long-haired young lady as he asked calmly, “Are you the one who pinned my friend to the stone pillar?”
The young lady grunted coldly. “That’s right, it was me. If you don’t compensate me with 10 million Liberal Points today, don’t even dream of…”
Before she could complete her sentence, she sensed the a.s.sault of a piercing killing intent. Frightened, she hurriedly attempted to take out her Dharma treasure.
Unfortunately, this killing intent was far too violent, so she did not even have the opportunity to take out her Dharma treasure. A spear sliced through the s.p.a.ce and pierced her chest, pinning her to the stone pillar where Mo Yuxuan had been pinned earlier. Blood flowed down the handle of the spear and dripped onto the ground below.
How could this be possible? The long-haired young lady looked at Di Jiu in terror. Di Jiu was evidently an Immortal Lord like her, yet she was not able to put up a fight against him.
“You must have a death wish if you dared to attack me!” screamed the long-haired young lady like crazy.
Several figures rushed out of the store and surrounded Di Jiu before the young lady even sent out a message.
Di Jiu ignored everything that was happening and immediately activated the alarm on his identification card.
“How dare you kill people in the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City!” accused a middle-aged man who had rushed out of the store. He would have attacked Di Jiu, were it not for the fact that he could not kill him.
“Are you blind? Which eye did you use when you saw me kill someone?” said Di Jiu coldly.
He would not take this bullying att.i.tude lying down, regardless of whether he was able to successfully establish himself in the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City.
“What happened?” A frosty voice was heard before a gray-robed man appeared before everyone.
Di Jiu let out a sigh of relief. This was a late-stage Zenith Heaven Immortal. His guess was right. So long as this was not an Immortal King, it would be alright. The gray-robed man was wearing the deacon uniform of the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City, so he had to be the one Di Jiu had called out to.
“Deacon Lu, not only did this person not compensate others for destroying their treasures in the Gigantic Tripod Liberal Immortal City, but he also suddenly attacked Sect Master Huang’s beloved daughter Huang Quan and pinned her to the pillar.” When the deacon arrived, the middle-aged man who had come out of the shop complained before Di Jiu could even begin to do so.