Ninth In the World

“We’re done for!” thought He Tai and company, who were waiting outside, when they saw the terrifying spatial lunges.

He Tai thought that the space in front of him seemed like an extremely effective machine that kept stirring. Any Spiritual Force that permeated it disappeared in an instant.

The abandoned Spirit Stone mining hole was reduced to nothing, and so was the Vile Soul Valley.

Qin Yin, Jing Moshuang and Wei Shanshan looked at the chaos in front of them dumbfounded. They had been excitedly preparing to cultivate when they had seen the blue light again. Now, both the blue light and the Vile Soul Valley had disappeared. The space the disappeared Vile Soul Valley had occupied was surging chaotically. Any Spiritual Force that entered was exterminated immediately. Under the circumstances, it would indeed be a miracle if Di Jiu survived.

Little Tree looked at the surging space in a daze. Although it could sense that Di Jiu was alright, it could also sense that his life was hanging by a thread. Di Jiu could die at a moment’s notice.

Little Tree attempted to stretch out a tree root into this chaotic space. However, the moment the root entered the space, it was immediately sliced into nothing by the numerous spatial blade flares.

He Tai fell to his knees on the ground. He came from Earth, so he was more concerned about sentiment than the majority of the cultivators in the Cultivation World. Di Jiu had saved his life a couple of times and even given him the slot to enter the Sky Screen. He felt a deep sense of regret that Di Jiu had died in the Vile Soul Valley while saving him.

The fact that he’d wanted to tell Big Brother Di Jiu to save Ceng Beizi and Yu Jie was laughable. Why couldn’t they think of ways to save Big Brother Di Jiu instead of ways to ask him to save them?

“I’m sorry for implicating you,” muttered Jing Moshuang as she sat down listlessly. She should not have agreed when Qin Yin had said that she knew Di Jiu’s whereabouts and Wei Shanshan had suggested asking Di Jiu for help.

Qin Yin also felt very upset, yet not to the extent that Jing Moshuang did. She had always been suspicious of Di Jiu for helping her because of the fact that he had robbed an Itinerant Cultivator, as well as what he had told her back then. She reached out with her hand, held Jing Moshuang upright and said, “Moshuang, I heard that Senior Brother Di Jiu knew you before he entered the sect. Was it because of you that Elder Yu accepted Senior Brother Di Jiu?”

After falling silent for about 30 seconds, Jing Moshuang said slowly, “Now that you mention it, I’m actually still considered his wife…”

When she heard Jing Moshuang say that she was Di Jiu’s wife, Qin Yin was stunned. Even He Tai, who had been blaming himself for this, looked up at Jing Moshuang in shock.

The reason he had met Jing Moshuang was because he had heard her say that she was a disciple of the Galaxy Sect. That was why he had approached her, become her friend and grouped up with her at the last minute. It was because both of them had mentioned Di Jiu.

However, he had never heard before that Jing Moshuang was Di Jiu’s wife, even though he knew the most about Di Jiu’s origins out of everyone there. Di Jiu had come from Earth like him, so even if he had a wife, she should be on Earth, not on the Polar Night Continent.

Jing Moshuang had a kind heart. Otherwise, she would not have been pierced by the Vile Soul Thread while trying to save Qin Yin who was practically a stranger to her.

She would not have brought this up if Di Jiu had still been alive, as she had not taken their marriage seriously.

Now that Di Jiu was dead though, she felt that she owed him too much. She could not find any other way to repay him other than to admit to their marriage and become his widow.

“He was a good person. He didn’t do anything I didn’t like after we got married…” Jing Moshuang stopped talking.

Even though she and Di Jiu had lived together for some time, she knew very little about him. She had only really understood Di Jiu when she had gone back to the sect the second time. She had gone out of her way to know more about him after discovering that he had helped her stop Ouyang Tao. However, she had not seen Di Jiu again until now.

“You two were married?” Qin Yin looked at Jing Moshuang in disbelief.

Although Jing Moshuang was pretty, no matter how pretty she was, she had evidently been disfigured in the past.

Qin Yin wanted to ask if Di Jiu had married Jing Moshuang before her face had been disfigured, but she knew that it would be a very rude question.

Di Jiu had saved her several times, so she was grateful. However, she still knew all about his conduct. He was a bully that liked pretty ladies. She would not turn a blind eye to Di Jiu’s character simply because he had saved her.

When she had been young, her father had told her that the most important aspect of a person was their character. Their success was secondary. She had thought about this for a very long time, yet when Di Jiu had later said that he was no longer interested in her, she had suspected that he was playing a cat and mouse game with her. Otherwise, his actions before and after would not quite make sense.

Jing Moshuang nodded her head silently. She was extremely upset about Di Jiu’s death. If anyone had asked who she owed her life to, she would have said that it was Di Jiu.

Even her own parents had not cared about her ever since she had been born. She had been born at the wrong hour and brought bad luck to the Jing Family, which had also caused the doom of her second aunt and uncle.

Due to her beautiful looks, after some discussion, her father and some Elders of the Jing Family had decided to let her atone for her crimes. Marriage would be used as a method to allow the Jing Family to gain some profit.

At first, they had promised her to the descendant of a noble family, but she had threatened to take her own life. In the end, that noble descendant had said furiously that he did not want her anymore, but had not taken revenge on the Jing Family.

Jing Moshuang’s father had been so angry that he had suspended her in the air and beaten her until she had been about to die. Jing Moshuang’s lifeforce was powerful, so she had recovered after a few months. The second time, the Jing Family had promised her to a general from the Eternal Fortitude Country. This time, Jing Moshuang had disfigured her own face.

Thanks to her disfigured appearance, the general had not wanted to marry her anymore. Enraged, Jing Moshuang’s father Jing Yao had agreed to the Zhong Family’s marriage proposal. Zhong Hetian was a nobody in the Zhong Family, which was already much weaker in position than the Jing Family, so instead of having a conventional marriage, he had married into the Jing Family.

However, Zhong Hetian had only cared about immortal cultivation and been completely uninterested in Jing Moshuang. In the end, Di Jiu had landed in Zhong Hetian’s lap and been used as a replacement son-in-law.

Jing Moshuang had treated her marriage to Di Jiu as a fraud, which had served her well. Even if Zhong Hetian had not used Di Jiu as a replacement, she would not have spent her life with him. She had always been waiting to begin the Immortal Sect Ascension.

As first, she and Di Jiu had been nothing but strangers. However, thanks to an unexpected twist of fate and luck, they had both entered the Galaxy Sect after she had taken Di Jiu to the Lonely River City. Then, Di Jiu had helped her out a few times before ultimately dying in the Vile Soul Valley that day. Therefore, she felt that she owed Di Jiu the most in her life. She would be unable to repay this debt even if she had many more lives.

Although she knew that she was disfigured, now that Di Jiu had died, he would not look down on her because of her ugly appearance. The moment she said that she was Di Jiu’s wife, she decided to never marry anyone else or search for a cultivation partner again.

“Don’t be upset, Moshuang. Just remember that Senior Brother Di Jiu saved your life. That’s what I’m doing. Although his character was a bit…” Qin Yin had originally planned on comforting Jing Moshuang, who had also saved her life.

Although she was grateful for Di Jiu, who had saved her life a couple of times, she believed that Jing Moshuang’s merit was worth her gratitude even more.

Regardless of whether this had been a cat-and-mouse game, Di Jiu’s motive for saving her had been obvious: he’d wanted to capture her attention. However, Jing Moshuang had really risked her life to save Qin Yin, something that Qin Yin was aware of. Jing Moshuang had had no ulterior motive for saving her. Therefore, she was a truly kind-hearted person.

Before Qin Yin could finish her sentence, He Tai stared angrily at her and said, “I admit that you are the most beautiful woman I have seen in my life, Qin Yin. However, your words and your appearance don’t match up. Big Brother Di Jiu saved you. It’s alright if you didn’t want to repay the favor, but how could you judge his character? I must truly have been blind to have an acquaintance like you. I have known Big Brother Di Jiu for many years. When he saved me in the past, I looked down on him. However, he was too magnanimous to hold my doubts against me. He saved me again and accepted me as his friend. How dare a selfish woman like you think so highly of herself!”

“My Big Brother saved you multiple times, woman!” Little Tree said disdainfully. “Are you just displeased that he was married and did not actively ask you to share a bed with him? In that case, I shouldn’t have let him save you. Sharing a bed with him was something you should have fought for yourself. Or were you waiting for him to ask you?”

It was uncertain whether Little Tree’s speech was helping or harming Di Jiu.

Even Jing Moshuang frowned. She knew very well that Di Jiu had saved them, yet Qin Yin seemed like a kind person. Why would she say such hurtful things? Big Brother Di Jiu had not done anything wrong. Even if he had though, one should not say anything bad about him after he’d died in the Vile Soul Lake in order to save them.

Qin Yin’s face was pale as she was about to bite open her lips. When she saw Jing Moshuang frown, she took a breath and said slowly, “I’m also very grateful to Senior Brother Di Jiu for saving me. I would not hesitate to offer my life in exchange for his if I had to. However, ever since I was young, my father always told me that different issues should be treated separately. The fact that Big Brother Di Jiu saved us does not change his character.”

Jing Moshuang could not take it anymore. She retracted her eyes from the surging spatial wind blades, looked calmly at Qin Yin and said, “Senior Sister Qin Yin, Di Jiu was my husband. If he didn’t do anything to you, I think that you should not speak ill of him, even if he is no longer in this world.”

Qin Yin took a breath again. “Before entering the Sky Screen, my Master asked me to wait for him in the Sky Screen Card Hall because I had incurred the wrath of certain people. Di Jiu brought an Itinerant Cultivator placing jade card to the hall to exchange it for a Sky Screen card. He had not participated in any battles between Itinerant Cultivators in order to obtain this card, so he had obviously seized it from another Itinerant Cultivator. I didn’t take this lying down. Instead, I reprimanded him. Although he said some offensive words to me, I controlled myself and did not pay attention to him. Later on, I found out that he was Di Jiu, the very man who had robbed several branches of the Qi Family’s Commercial Buildings.”

Jing Moshuang knew that Qin Yin would not lie. However, before Qin Yin could continue speaking, He Tai laughed coldly and pointed at her. “You’re indeed thinking too highly of yourself, Qin Yin. Big Brother Di Jiu would never seize someone else’s placing card. You didn’t have to find such a self-righteous excuse for not showing any gratitude. Even if this was true, what would it have to do with your debt to him?”

“I’m telling the truth. Whether you believe me or not is up to you,” said Qin Yin coldly.

He Tai ignored Qin Yin and instead told Jing Moshuang, “It’s true that Big Brother Di Jiu brought a placing jade card to exchange it for a Sky Screen card, Sister-In-Law Moshuang. However, he did not seize it. I gave it to him.”