One domain after another flashed past Joe Di’s divine sense. While dodging the endless wind blades in the void, he searched for the correct direction to advance.
Joe Di did not find the direction to the Yalen Continent, but to his surprise, he found the direction to the Central Realm. As he rushed madly toward the Central Realm, another domain with a familiar aura appeared at the edge of his divine sense.
A seventh-grade spirit pill? Joe Di wasn’t good at alchemy, but his eye for quality was top-notch. As soon as he held the pill, he recognized it—this was definitely a seventh-grade spirit pill, and it even looked like a Vitaldew Pill.
"Thank you." Joe Di didn’t hesitate and swallowed the pill directly. The moment he did, he knew he'd guessed right—it really was a Vitaldew Pill.
"Even after taking the Vitaldew Pill, your injuries haven’t healed? Why can’t I sense your cultivation level? If you’re still hurt, I have more pills here," Joanna Brooks continued.
Sure enough, after swallowing the Vitaldew Pill, it immediately turned into a stream of spiritual liquid. Joe Di’s severely injured body and bones rapidly recovered, and in no time, his body was almost fully healed. Only his sea of consciousness would take longer to recover.
“Hm?” The moment Joe Di vanished, the figure stopped. Compared to Joe Di, he moved much more easily in the void rift. At this moment, he stared at the spot where Joe Di disappeared and murmured, “Was that Mindshift?”
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"Bang!" Joe Di landed on the ground, kicking up a cloud of sand and gravel.
His sea of consciousness, which had been torn apart by the Lethe Bridge not long ago, was ripped open once again. Joe Di gritted his teeth against the pain in his sea of consciousness and body as he reattached his severed leg.
He had now experienced the terror of passing through the void domain. Unless there was a special reason, he would never use the Realm-Splitting Talisman again until he was strong enough.
If not for his tenth-level divine sense, it wouldn’t have been just a leg—he would have been ripped in half. That spatial distortion had clearly aimed to tear him apart, but his tenth-level divine sense sensed it in advance and saved him once again.
Once or twice might be luck, but if this kept happening, he would die sooner or later. If his body were ever destroyed in a void rift and only his spirit remained, Joe Di had no idea what he could rely on to survive.
He had no idea how much time had passed before the roar of a fiend beast startled Joe Di awake. He struggled to his feet, his severed leg still not recovered. His sea of consciousness was still split open, and his bones were covered in cracks.
Joe Di still let out a sigh of relief—at least he had managed to keep his life.
He wanted to extend his divine sense to find out what kind of fiend beast was roaring, but this time his divine sense was in even worse shape than when he landed in the Boundless Thousand Mountains.
"Are you alright?" Standing outside the sand pit created by Joe Di’s crash was a plain-looking woman dressed in black. She looked down and asked him.
Joe Di’s divine sense was gone, so he couldn’t tell her cultivation level, but he could sense the blood energy on her. The fiend beast that had been roaring earlier was likely killed by this woman.
The woman in black nodded. "True enough."
After saying those words, she flicked her hand, and a black ribbon wrapped around Joe Di, lifting him out of the sand pit. She then took out a pill and handed it to Joe Di, saying, "Here, this is for you."
A seventh-grade spirit pill? Joe Di wasn’t good at alchemy, but his eye for quality was top-notch. As soon as he held the pill, he recognized it—this was definitely a seventh-grade spirit pill, and it even looked like a Shenglin Pill.
"Thank you." Joe Di didn’t hesitate and swallowed the pill directly. The moment he did, he knew he'd guessed right—it really was a Shenglin Pill.
A seventh-grade Shenglin Pill was one of the finest healing medicines. With his severe injuries, how could Joe Di refuse such a pill?
Sure enough, after swallowing the Shenglin Pill, it immediately turned into a stream of spiritual liquid. Joe Di’s severely injured body and bones rapidly recovered, and in no time, his body was almost fully healed. Only his sea of consciousness would take longer to recover.
"Hmm, you’re a body cultivator and rarely use pills to break through, right? Your talent must be top-tier." The woman in black was surprised to see Joe Di make such efficient use of the Shenglin Pill.
Joe Di stood up and cupped his fists. "Thank you, Senior Sister, for the pill. My talent is alright—it's just that I usually don't have many spirit stones and can't afford pills, so I make the most of their effects."
This woman in black could casually produce a seventh-grade spirit pill, showing she was either wealthy or of noble birth. Now that Joe Di’s injuries were healing, he could faintly sense that her cultivation was stronger than his.
"My name is Joanna Brooks. Why are you in the Desolate River Forbidden Zone? With injuries like yours, if you hadn’t met me, you’d have been eaten by sand fiends by now," the woman in black said.
Joe Di was guessing that the woman had disguised herself, but when he heard this was the Desolate River Forbidden Zone, he quickly asked, "This is the Desolate River Forbidden Zone?"
Joe Di had been in the Central Realm for some time now, so he knew about the Desolate River Forbidden Zone. Even True Transformation cultivators who entered its most dangerous parts faced certain death.
"You didn’t know this was the Desolate River Forbidden Zone? How did you get here?" the woman in black asked in surprise.
"I was being hunted and escaped here," Joe Di replied, deliberately leaving out the Realm-Splitting Talisman. He was only at the Sea-Breaking stage. If someone at his level could use a Realm-Splitting Talisman, it would definitely raise suspicion.
"Even after taking the Shenglin Pill, your injuries haven’t healed? Why can’t I sense your cultivation level? If you’re still hurt, I have more pills here," Joanna Brooks continued.
Joe Di waved his hand. "No need. I’m at the fourth level of the Sea-Breaking stage, and my injuries are still healing. My cultivation method is rather peculiar—when I’m badly hurt and not recovered, you really can’t sense my level."
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Joanna Brooks clapped her hands. "Not bad, you’re already at the fourth level of the Sea-Breaking stage. Impressive, impressive. I actually need your help with something… Oh, I still don’t know your name."
"My name is Joe Di. What do you need help with?" Joe Di asked casually.
Joanna Brooks lowered her voice. "I found something valuable in the Desolate River Forbidden Zone, but I can’t get it alone. Once you’ve recovered, help me out. I’ll share some with you."
Joe Di could only reply, "Let’s talk after I recover. I need to heal first."
Joe Di’s divine sense hadn’t recovered, so he didn’t dare agree to anything. He reluctantly pulled out a spirit tool dwelling from his ring, entered it, took out a black Scorchgod Grass and swallowed it, then began circulating Divine Sense Forge.
A day later, Joe Di’s sea of consciousness recovered, and he revealed his cultivation at the fourth level of the Sea-Breaking stage. He then stepped out and put away the dwelling.
Only now did Joe Di see clearly—Joanna Brooks was actually at the early Tribulation King Stage. Someone at that stage, saying she was only at the fourth level of Sea-Breaking, was simply…
"You recovered your cultivation so quickly! I guarded you for a whole day," Joanna Brooks said, as if Joe Di hadn’t noticed her effort.
"Senior Sister Joanna, thank you for the pill. But my cultivation is too weak—if I go with you to the Desolate River Forbidden Zone, I’m afraid I won’t be much help." Right now, Joe Di just wanted to leave as soon as possible.
Joanna Brooks frowned. "You’re really ungrateful—I gave you a seventh-grade spirit pill and guarded you, and all I ask is a little help, plus I’ll share the rewards…"
Joe Di didn’t reply. He still had enough spirit stones for a seventh-grade pill and planned to return it to Joanna Brooks later. As for protection, his dwelling was only a low-grade spirit tool, but inside it was a ninth-level defensive array. Whether Joanna Brooks guarded him or not made no difference.
Seeing Joe Di silent, Joanna Brooks continued, "The Desolate River Forbidden Zone is vast. The place I found is a top-tier Spirit Herb Garden—not only are there various ninth-level spirit herbs, but also Ten-Thousand-Year Stone Bamboo Essence. Now that you’re at the fourth level of Sea-Breaking, let me tell you: if you want to break through to the Cauldron Lord Stage, you’ll have to go in. There’s Kunlord Mushroom inside, the main herb for the Kunlord Pill. You’re from the Central Realm, so you should know Kunlord Mushroom is extinct here."
Hearing Joanna Brooks, Joe Di guessed she probably wasn’t from the Central Realm. Still, her offer was tempting—what he lacked most was a large quantity of top-tier spirit herbs.
Lately, he’d come to realize just how valuable top-grade pills were. With them, he could heal while staying in the void, instead of always having to find a place to recover after getting badly injured.
If he wanted top-grade pills, he probably couldn’t afford to buy them. He had to become a seventh-grade Alchemy King himself. For most, that would be a joke—but Joe Di knew he could do it, mainly because of the golden lightning he possessed. That lightning seemed to be a terrifying law; whenever he encountered problems in alchemy, he could use it to comprehend the rules of pill refinement.
"Besides, my cultivation isn’t much higher than yours—I’m only at the seventh level of the Sea-Breaking stage. Resources are something you have to find for yourself; nothing just falls from the sky," Joanna Brooks added as Joe Di hesitated.
Joe Di sneered inwardly. Seventh level of Sea-Breaking? That was probably her cultivation decades ago. For a Tribulation King Stage cultivator to claim she was only at the seventh level of Sea-Breaking… If Joe Di were wary of her, he might have found an excuse to leave already.
"How will we split it?" Joe Di wasn’t bothered by Joanna Brooks’s lie; he was too interested in those ninth-level spirit herbs.
Hearing Joe Di, Joanna Brooks knew he was tempted. She said boldly, "Just help me out a bit, and I’ll give you twenty percent."
Joe Di replied coolly, "Either we split it fifty-fifty, or we each go our own way."
"Are you crazy? I found the place, and you, a mere fourth-level Sea-Breaking cultivator, want a fifty-fifty split?" Joanna Brooks stared at Joe Di in disbelief.
Joe Di chuckled. "You’re not much higher than me—just seventh-level Sea-Breaking, right?"
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