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Meanwhile, the mid-stage Qi Refinement realm cultivator who followed him reacted by grabbing a long saber and conjuring several sword flares in Di Jiu’s direction.

Di Jiu was unsatisfied with the long saber. If it were not in his hand, he would have almost taken Qi Shao’s life with that sneak attack. As long as Qi Shao was restrained, it would not take much effort to kill everyone else.

Unfortunately, the long saber could not show the full extent of the Wind-Rustling Move, so Di Jiu was in a passive position after his sneak attack failed.

However, he did not care about the guy about to attack him from behind. If he did not kill Qi Shao as fast as he could, he would definitely die. Thus, he would rather risk getting injured by that guy.

After making this decision, all Di Jiu had to do was avoid the attack and gather the Quintessential Essence on his back. When a Quintessential Essence shield was formed on his back, the long saber in his hand conjured a saber flare whirlpool and pushed it towards Qi Shao again.

When Di Jiu’s sneak attack was successful, Qi Shao withdrew a huge axe. Meanwhile, the Tiny Treant moved along with the mid-stage Qi Refinement realm guy attacking Di Jiu from behind.

Its hands, which were basically two large vines, unceremoniously locked onto Qi Shao, who had been about to attack Di Jiu. Before Qi Shao could use the giant axe, his weapon was trapped inside the vines.

Geng Jihua was the only one who did not react, both because his cultivation level was low and because this was the first time he had encountered such a situation. While everyone else was taking action, he just stood there like a fool.

“Good job!” Di Jiu shouted before the whirlpool saber flare rushed towards Qi Shao’s head without reservation. He only needed the Tiny Treant to restrain Qi Shao for a moment.

When the Tiny Treant wrapped its roots around Qi Shao, Qi Shao knew that this was a bad move. The huge axe in his hand turned into two sharp blades that destroyed the roots around his body.

Bang! Bang! The tree roots snapped immediately, making the Tiny Treant wilt.

However, the time it had bought Di Jiu was enough. His whirlpool saber flare slammed against Qi Shao’s head, splitting it like a watermelon torn apart by a blade.

Bang! Another bone-breaking sound was heard as two bloody fogs exploded behind Di Jiu. Di Jiu’s back was torn open by the mid-stage Qi Refinement realm cultivator so that even his bones could be seen clearly.

Fortunately, Di Jiu had avoided the main attack quickly and covered his back with the Quintessential Essence. Otherwise, the saber could have cut him apart.

Geng Jihua finally reacted. He was about to rush forward and attack the mid-stage Qi Refinement realm cultivator, when Di Jiu turned back with a whirlpool of Saber Qi and killed him easily.

Then, he grabbed the cyan life-force the Tiny Treant had given him from the storage ring, took a bite, and threw out dozens of wind blades.

The two guys about to rush over were torn apart by the wind blades, while everyone else quickly got on the ground and stopped moving.

It was shocking for them that someone would actually dare rob the Qi Family’s Commercial Building.

Di Jiu did not care, though. He just grabbed Qi Shao’s and the mid-stage Qi Refinement realm cultivator’s rings and immediately moved both of his hands. The items on the shelf and those locked inside the jade cabinet were all captured by the ring.

It took Di Jiu less than two minutes to gather everything on the first and second floor.

“Go!” he called out to Geng Jihua and the Tiny Treant when he had taken away everything. Then, they all rushed out of the Marsh Ocean Town.

Someone had actually dared rob the Qi Family’s Commercial Building! Even if there were any cultivators who were better than Di Jiu, they did not step forward to stop him.

Di Jiu had stolen a lot of things, including a tree spirit that everyone envied. However, every town resident knew very well that if they tried to stop him, they would not gain anything.

Any things that they snatched from Di Jiu would still need to be returned to the Qi Family’s Commercial Building. In the unlikely event that something was missing, they would be held accountable for it. Thus, they were happy that the building had been robbed by someone else.

Almost half the business in the Marsh Ocean Town was conducted by the Qi Family’s Commercial Building, so the other businesses did not dare voice their dissatisfaction. Instead, when Di Jiu and the others escaped from the town, they would secretly catch up with them and get rid of Di Jiu.

…

When they escaped the alleviating restriction of the Marsh Ocean Town, Di Jiu boarded a flying boat and started speeding up.

Even though no one had stopped him from robbing the Qi Family’s Commercial Building back in town, he did not think that no one would follow him outside the town either.

As soon as Di Jiu boarded the spaceship, his mental strength detected that more than one person had followed him out of the Marsh Ocean Town. Di Jiu was not worried about being caught. His flying dharma flying boat was a top-grade dharma weapon and his mental strength was more powerful than the average cultivator’s, so unless his opponent’s cultivation level exceeded his greatly, no one would catch up with him easily.

Di Jiu did not guess wrong. Two hours later, when his flying boat flew into the Marsh Ocean Forest, his mental strength did not detect anyone following him.

“It’s my fault that you got injured, Brother Jiu…” Geng Ji had been blaming himself ever since they had left the Marsh Ocean Town.

Brother Jiu and the Tiny Treant had both been working hard, while he had just been standing there like a fool. If he had been smart, maybe he would have been able to hold back the guy behind Brother Jiu.

Although Di Jiu’s injury looked terrible, it was actually recovering quickly. Even if Di Jiu had not consumed the cyan life-force, his injury would still have healed very fast. However, the cyan life-force helped him recover even faster.

Unfortunately, the Tiny Treant, which had been cut by an axe, remained wilted.

“It’s not your fault. You will understand when you participate in a fight. Qi Shao’s axe is really good. You could use it after refining it. When we reach the Marsh Ocean Forest, big fights will become a part of our routine,” Di Jiu comforted Geng Jihua casually.

They had no way of returning to the sect or going back to the Marsh Ocean Town like other cultivators anymore. Di Jiu himself did not know how long they would have to stay in the Marsh Ocean Forest.

…

While Di Jiu and Geng Jihua entered the Marsh Ocean Forest, the entire Marsh Ocean Town was in chaos. The Qi Family’s Commercial Building had been robbed, and Qi Shao, who was the real owner of the building, had been killed on the third floor…

Even the entire Polar Night Continent, let alone a small town like the Marsh Ocean Town and the Qi Family’s Commercial Building, had not experienced such a thing before.

When the Golden Core Protector of the Qi Family’s Commercial Building, Wan Ling, heard the news and rushed over, he found Qi Shao’s body inside the destroyed building.

As he looked at this unbearably shameful scene, Wan Ling’s face was almost white. He felt like his neck was being squeezed by something that made it difficult for him to breathe.

He was not angry, just afraid. As a foreign protector, he had allowed the Qi Family’s Commercial Building to be robbed and the descendant of the family to be killed. Meanwhile, nothing bad had happened to him. Wan Ling was unable to bear the consequences of this incident.

He tried to calm himself down before he turned to a few Foundation experts who were also on the scene. “Go to the Marsh Ocean Forest immediately. The two of them will not get far from the forest.”

No matter how this ended, Wan Ling knew that he had to arrest the perpetrators as soon as possible. Perhaps this way, he would still have a glimmer of life left.

The protection of the Qi Family’s Commercial Building had always been his easiest job. He had never expected that there would be a breach there.

…

“Crap, we have to hurry down. We can’t control the flying boat inside the forest…” The flying boat had been flying for a long time, when Di Jiu took out the jade slip about the Marsh Ocean Forest. After viewing the jade slip, he realized that he had done something stupid. He could not fly inside the Marsh Ocean Forest.

The Tiny Treant, who was controlling the spaceship, said, “I know, Big Brother, but I have a natural instinct. I know which side is dangerous and which side is…”

Bang! The Tiny Treant had not finished its sentence, when a twisting force shattered the stern of the ship.

Di Jiu had no time to talk. He immediately grabbed Geng Jihua and the Tiny Treant and jumped in the air. Fortunately, the flying boat was not particularly high at the moment and Di Jiu’s Quintessential Essence formed a shield outside his body, so even though he did not know how to use a wind-stopping spell, they still landed safely on the ground.

“What is going on, Big Brother?” The Tiny Treant panicked when it saw their flying boat disappear without a trace.

“We were lucky,” Di Jiu said. “One can’t fly in the sky above the Marsh Ocean Forest, yet we were actually flying for a long time before something happened to us. There are saber flare spaces all over the sky above the forest. There is also the Space Ocean and some strange monsters…”

Even an accidental meeting with such a monster could turn one into ashes.

“What is the Space Ocean?” Geng Jihua grabbed the giant axe that he had not refined yet.

“I don’t know. I only know that anyone who falls into the Space Ocean will get shattered by space power,” Di Jiu said. This was what he had just read in the jade slip.

“I thought that we were safe. My intuition was wrong, but fortunately, Big Brother reacted in time,” the Tiny Treant said, looking kind of embarrassed.

“Your intuition must be the reason we were able to fly for such a long time without any accidents. What we just encountered was most likely a saber flare space. Fortunately, the saber flare space was twisted from the side, which helped us escape. I am afraid that we are not deep enough into the Marsh Ocean Forest. The Tiny Treant shall lead the way. We will keep going deeper.”