Ninth In the World

“If you are fine, then Pang Fan must be safe too, right?” Yu Jie, who was reminded of Pang Fan, felt a little remorseful for causing his disappearance by making him and Di Jiu go to the first garrison. Now that she knew that Di Jiu was an expert, she believed that Pang Fan was fine.

“Pang Fan is fine. You have to take this pill first. It will help your broken legs heal.” Di Jiu took out another pill and handed it to Yu Jie. He knew in his heart that both Pang Fan and He Tai were fine.

Yu Jie did not hesitate. However, as soon as she swallowed the pill, she looked at Di Jiu in confusion. “You know how to heal broken bones too?”

Di Jiu ignored Yu Jie and reached out to hit the acupuncture points on her legs. Yu Jie’s broken legs were much worse than his. Her blood had also been drained after she had broken them, so she’d had no chance to recover. Under the circumstances, she would not have been cured even if she had gone to the best orthopedic hospital.

Yu Jie was lucky she had met Di Jiu, who had cultivated the Major Conduit Internal Records and thus was able to easily cure her broken legs. He had also attained the sixth-stage Qi Refinement realm now, so he was a step away from attaining the seventh-stage Qi Refinement realm. This kind of strength, in combination with his medical skills, made it easy for him to treat Yu Jie.

Thanks to the regular strikes of Di Jiu’s hands, the bones and veins inside Yu Jie’s broken leg were quickly connected. Her speed of recovery was almost visible with the naked eye.

Yu Jie’s mouth was open. She had completely forgotten about her state and all the questions she’d wanted to ask.

She could now clearly feel a warm sensation leave her broken bones. Her originally numb, broken legs were starting to regain some feeling.

What kind of medical skill was this? She had already thought that Di Jiu’s martial art dao was very powerful, but now she realized that his medical skills were even more powerful.

“Alright, you have to take a break for a while. You should be able to walk on your own again soon.” Di Jiu stopped administering calculated strikes. Ever since his cultivation level had improved, he had been able to join broken bones without much effort, so he did not even need a stabilizer.

Yu Jie stared at Di Jiu dumbly. She was grateful to him for saving her from that torturous loneliness before she could die. She supposed that her soul would probably have remained tormented if she’d died after her blood had been completely drained by that tree root.

As soon as Di Jiu saved her, she felt a sense of relief. She knew that she would not have had the courage to live otherwise anyway, so she did not mind that he had seen her in such an embarrassing state. Her clothes had been completely torn apart, her legs had been broken, and her blood had been drained for so long that it had been almost impossible for her to recover.

Yu Jie, who used to be as thin as a matchstick, would not accept spending the rest of her life in a wheelchair. She had been drained by that tree root until she had been left with no bones, so even if she recuperated in the future, she would not go back to the way she used to be before this incident.

She did not intend to keep on living after such a blow.

However, now that Di Jiu had treated her broken legs, she was certain that they were completely healed.

She was able to move her toes flexibly again, and she even believed that she could stand up if she wanted to.

“Are your medical skills so strong?” Yu Jie murmured as she finally came back to her senses and looked at Di Jiu. It was unclear whether she was speaking to him or to herself.

Di Jiu took out one of his shirts and threw it at her. “I don’t have any women’s clothes, so you’ll have to make do. Your test trial must have ended already. What were you doing here?”

Yu Jie, who had initially not wanted to keep on living, did not care if Di Jiu saw her without any modest clothes on. Now that he had cured her legs, her desire to die had vanished and been replaced by a strong will to live. As soon as she felt the desire to survive, she experienced some subtle psychological changes.

Not caring whether her current body was worth seeing, she quickly grabbed Di Jiu’s clothes and put them on.

Di Jiu was half a head taller than her, so the shirt looked baggy on Yu Jie, who was very thin.

As soon as she put on the clothes, Yu Jie started acting more naturally. She suddenly sighed and said, “Many changes took place here. Vice Principal Wu Cheng’s prediction was right. Many powerful monsters entered the safe test trial area. Nearly 20 people were lost during the first 10 days of the trial. 20 days later, 10 more people died at the second garrison. When I proceeded to the third garrison to cultivate, I received a distress signal from a genius student…”

When she saw the doubt in Di Jiu’s eyes, Yu Jie explained, “Si Ta was the squad leader of Elite Class No. 5 and the most talented student of the class. While he was at the second garrison, he crossed the Earth Tier Level. He was the only student in Elite Class No. 5 to enter the Earth Tier Level.”

“Where is Si Ta?” Di Jiu asked. Si Ta sounded like the name of a foreign student.

Yu Jie sighed again before she said, “When I saw him, he was in almost the same state you found me in. Si Ta was hanging up by a tree root, possibly drained of all his blood. I wanted to save him, but my legs were broken and two tree roots restrained me. When his blood was completely drained, he was thrown there by the tree root…”

Yu Jie pointed at the place where the bones were piled up before she added, “After the tree roots dropped Si Ta, they hung me up and started to suck my blood.”

Di Jiu’s expression changed, and he immediately said, “If that’s the case, then why did you still ask for help?”

This place was so terrible that even if Wu Cheng rushed there, it would be a dead end.

“I did not press the signal for help.” Yu Jie finally understood how Di Jiu had found her. She suddenly realized that she had still been holding on to the locator while Di Jiu rescued her.

It was no wonder he had seemed so displeased. If she had used the locator to bring him to such a dangerous place, then she might as well have led him to his own death. Yu Jie would never have done such a thing, even if she’d wanted to live, which she hadn’t. What she had feared was not death, but the process of dying slowly from blood loss.

Di Jiu finally realized that this must have been the tree root’s work. The Tiny Treant in the depths of those tree roots had become a spirit that tried to attract people and absorb their blood.

“I understand. I have to go in and check it out.” Di Jiu had long disliked the Tiny Treant, but based on his medical experience, that rich vitality was very important to him.

He noticed that Yu Jie was frowning slightly. She was still unable to walk, so it would not be appropriate to leave her alone there.

“Would you like me to wait for you here?” Although Yu Jie was afraid to be alone, she could not allow Di Jiu to carry her all the way. She could also see that Di Jiu was reluctant to carry her.

Di Jiu hesitated before he said, “Alright.”

If the roots attacked Yu Jie, he should be able to come back quickly and rescue her, as the distance was less than a kilometer. Yu Jie was also a powerful Earth-Tier Warrior, so even though she was extremely weak now, she would be able to withstand an attack for a few minutes.

As soon as Di Jiu left, Yu Jie sighed. She believed that the fact that she and Wang Chuantian had abandoned Di Jiu and Pang Fan had made Di Jiu look down on her.

Di Jiu had walked less than 10 meters away, when a dozen tree roots rolled towards him frantically. It seemed like those tree roots had not attacked Di Jiu only because he had not attacked them either. The tree roots naturally did not want to anger a powerful guy like Di Jiu if he did not choose to attack them first.

Now that Di Jiu wanted to enter though, would it make sense for them to keep still?

Di Jiu’s kitchen knife slashed with countless saber shadows, his saber strike instantly spreading throughout the tree root space below.

Di Jiu cut off about eight tree roots, causing the red-green liquids from the roots to splash everywhere.

Suddenly, more tree roots came forward. Several of them, which had come from huge depths, had a very strong, bloodthirsty aura.

Boom! A severed tree root unexpectedly threw itself onto Di Jiu’s kitchen knife. The root was thrown around by Di Jiu’s saber strike whirlpool and turned into a slag. Di Jiu was also pushed a few meters away by this powerful force before he landed beside Yu Jie again.

“Are you okay?” Yu Jie asked with concern when she realized that Di Jiu had been repelled by those powerful forces. If anything happened to Di Jiu, she would definitely die.

“I’m fine, but these tree roots are very powerful. It seems like I was wrong. The closer I get to the inside, the greater the resistance of the Tiny Treant will be!” As Di Jiu was speaking to Yu Jie, his eyes fell on the surrounding roots.

He had thought that, even if he tried to find the Tiny Treant directly, the roots would not cause any harm to Yu Jie so soon. However, he had changed his mind now. If one of the severed roots threw itself at Yu Jie, it would smash her to a pulp.

In order for Yu Jie to stay there, Di Jiu had to kill all the surrounding roots.

His mental strength touched the dense tree roots. After contemplating it for a while, the kitchen knife in his hand slashed down with a roaring saber flare.

The flare turned into a saber strike, which momentarily formed a saber strike dimension that transformed into a saber intent with a majestic spreading aura. The powerful, terrifying saber strike seemed to announce that anything that dared try to block it would be turned to dust.

Di Jiu gave it his all this time. He just would not accept that he could not defeat a Tiny Treant. The move he used was the fourth saber move called the Wind-Rustling Move.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! A burst of banging sounds was heard as the tree roots were consecutively blasted by Di Jiu’s saber strike, which acted like fire meeting dry wood. Once things were set into motion, there was no going back.

Yu Jie shuddered. As she stared at the saber flare in the sky, she could clearly feel its dreadful killing intent. The killing intent seemed eager to move forward and kill anything that dared stand in its way. She could also sense a type of saber strike in this saber intent that could not be restrained anymore. Their surroundings suddenly became much colder.

What kind of saber move was this? Yu Jie was stunned. She was certain that even Principal Zeng Dongling could not have cast such a terrifying saber intent.

She had been wrong once again. Di Jiu’s knife must have been even more powerful than his medical skills. Where had such a formidable young man come from? How come she had never heard of him before?