Jiu Di

**Zhou Luojiu**, more commonly known as Grand Empyrean **Jiu Di,** is one of the oldest Grand Empyrean's of the Immortal Astral Continent, being around during the Celestial Ancestor's time. He is known for being extremely picky with recruiting Empyrean Exalt's and Ascendant Empyrean's, only taking in those he personally deems worthy.

Currently, he ties with Lian Daozhen as the strongest Grand Empyrean on the Celestial Clan's side, after Gemini's soul split.

It is later revealed that Hai Zi is his daughter and that he was a part of a massive coup orchestrated by the Celestial Clan's Imperial Teacher, who was actually merely a pawn as Hai Zi was the real Imperial Teacher.

## History

He was born around the time the Celestial Ancestor and Ancient Ancestor were still alive. At the time of their disappearance, he was an Empyrean Exalt.

Because he was around during the era of the Celestial and Ancient ancestor's, he is aware of the Half Heaven Trampling and Heaven Trampling realms, the level above Grand Empyrean.

At some point in time he formed a very strong relationship with the Mourning-Death Clan. It was due to their help that he became Grand Empyrean and also why he never had to worry about maintaining his longevity through reincarnation like the other Grand Empyreans. In order to repay them, he took a role in the plot to free the clan from their servitude to the Imperial Family. As part of this plot, he married and had a child with one of the last remaining members of the Mourning-Death Clan to bypass the restriction placed upon all members of the clan when they are born. This child was Empyrean Exalt Hai Zi.

### Book 12

He initially dismisses Hai Zi's suggestion of recruiting Wang Lin, but reconsiders after seeing him pass the 13th palace of the Empyrean Exalt Trial.

When Dao Yi and Wu Feng offer their recruitment terms to Wang Lin, he arrives after and stated that if he chose to follow him, he would guarantee him entry to the Immemorial God Realm and act as his Dao Protector when the realm opens so that he could become a Grand Empyrean. He is displeased when Gemini shows up shortly after and Wang Lin chooses her over him, due to having a connection to the Cave World which he did not.

When Wang Lin is ambushed by the Celestial Clan's Imperial Teacher, he saves Hai Zi from Wang Lin's Slaughter Clone.

During Wang Lin and Gemini's battle with Lian Daozhen and the Imperial Teacher, he intervenes along with Dao Yi and Wu Feng. He states the truth behind the Mourning-Death Clans plot to regain their freedom from the Imperial Family, acknowledging his role within it. Hai Zi, who had at that point regained her memories reveals that the entire plan revolved around Lian Daozhen coveting the power of the Celestial Ancestor's head and trying to inherit his power. However, even if he had not, the Mourning-Death Clan had a back up coup utilizing the 72 foreign beasts sealed within the Immortal Astral Continent, which would have forced Lian Daozhen to attempt to inherit the power anyway in order to seal the beasts back up lest the Celestial Clan fall into chaos.

However, the plan wasn't as gracious as it seemed as Jiu Di had no intention of actually letting Lian Daozhen inherit the Celestial Ancestor's power. Instead, he planned on maintaining the balance of power between the Celestial Grand Empyreans by splitting the Celestials Ancestor's head and dividing it's parts amongst them. He offered the eyes to Gemini which would have allowed to her permanently fuse back into her original form as well as increase her power, the ears to Wu Feng which would allow him to reach the peak of his martial dao, the skull to Dao Yi so he could fully unite his soul with his body, and the brain for himself (likely so he could find out how to access the Heaven Trampling Bridges in the Ancestor's memories).

Jiu Di states that the time of the Celestial Ancestor and Imperial Family was over and that the Celestial Clan needed change. He also admits that the only reason he was even given a choice was that he feared the balance of power between the Celestial Clan and Ancient Clan should they lose a Grand Empyrean. Unfortunately, he had miscalculated Lian Daozhen's character as he decided to self-detonate and release the Ancestor's curse upon all of them.

Being the next strongest Celestial Grand Empyrean, he deals with the curse much better than the others. However, when it is discovered that Wang Lin actually survived and snatched the Celestial Ancestor's head and Lian Daozhen's soul away from them he becomes enraged. He offers Wang Lin protection once more when the Immemorial God Realm opens in exchange for the head, but Wang Lin refuses. Due to the curse, he tries to intimidate Wang Lin, but fails and begrudgingly relents. However, when Wang Lin said that he would also be taking Lian Daofei away as well, he warns that he would risk accelerating the curse to stop him if he tried. This was because without Lian Daozhen to hold back the 72 Beasts the Celestial Clan sealed away, they needed Lian Daofei to act as a substitute. When Wang Lin reluctantly agrees to this Jiu Di and the other Celestial Grand Empyrean's forcibly raise Lian Daofei's cultivation to Grand Empyrean and seal him into a mountain to hold back the 72 Celestial Beasts. Before parting ways, he warns Wang Lin that the next time they meet he had better be a Grand Empyrean lest a calamity await him in the future if he was not.

### Book Thirteen

He looked on in shock from Mount Emperor when the Grand Empyrean suns aligned together to signal the birth of a new Grand Empyrean, which turned out to be Wang Lin. While he was not entirely surprised that Wang Lin became a Grand Empyrean he was baffled by the speed of which he did so (around 100 years), especially when he noticed that he had also refined the Celestial Ancestor's head as well.

When Wang Lin crossed the Second Heaven Trampling Bridge and covered the entire Celestial Clan with his divine sense, causing the 72 Foreign Beasts to cry out in fear within their seals, Hai Zi informs him that the beasts were restless due to feeling the presence of Heaven Trampling power. immediately recognizing the significance of this Jiu Di started to panic. For the first time ever since he became a Grand Empyrean he rushed out of Mount Emperor and bowed within the sky, beseeches the mysterious individual and states his real name, **Zhou Luojiu**.

Sensing a battle between Gu Dao and an unknown cultivator, he rushes out with the rest of the Nine Suns to investigate. When they arrive, the battle was already over and he suggests to the other eight Grand Empyrean's that they pool their energy into his spell, which would allow them to turn back time and view the events that had transpired. He is shocked to discover that Wang Lin had actually defeated Gu Dao and was now the strongest being in the Immortal Astral Continent. Immediately thinking back to the powerful divine sense he felt from before, he speculated whether it could have been Wang Lin.

1. ↑ Chapter 1993
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1995