#574 - God is unfair

Jun Wuxie finally stopped hearing the voices of those middle-stage Half-Saints outside.

He immediately felt a lot more "peaceful."

Although thunder rumbled here, and the sounds of Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Swords and Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Spears never ceased, from time to time there were also miserable screams of Half-Saints dying.

But he felt that these sounds were much more beautiful than those noisy mouth cannons.

The Heavenly Tribulation continued until the afternoon, and within the area covered by the lightning tribulation, there was no other sound except the sound of the Heavenly Tribulation.

The middle-stage Half-Saints of the Four Supreme Sovereigns had not heard screams for almost half an hour.

They knew that their people were completely finished, and the hands behind their backs were clenched into fists, their fingertips almost digging into their flesh.

Their foreheads, temples, and necks throbbed with veins, the muscles on their faces twitched fiercely, and their eyes were terrifyingly gloomy.

"This is already the seventh wave of Heavenly Tribulation, and the Heavenly Tribulation is already in its later stage. Fellow Daoist, are you going to take action or should I?"

The middle-stage Half-Saint of the Ancient Phoenix Sect said to the Half-Saint powerhouse from the Pure Sky Sect beside him.

His eyes burned with terrifying crimson flames, two ancient phoenixes circled in his pupils, and crimson light overflowed from his eye sockets.

"Of course, I will!"

The Pure Sky Sect Half-Saint gritted his teeth. He knew the consequences of taking action, and he might be liquidated by the Military Saint.

But at this moment, his anger had already burned to the limit!

Even if he was to be liquidated by the Military Saint, today he would also suppress and kill that hateful brat here, so that he would be completely destroyed, completely disappear from this world, and not even a trace of soul light would be left.

As for the Soul Hunting Hall wanting his soul, don't even think about it!

He disagreed!

Because, only by completely killing his soul light can he be sent to the Yellow Springs forever, never to be reborn!

"Then you have to start preparing. It is best to completely seal off this tribulation area, so that he will be a turtle in a jar, unable to escape!" The Ancient Phoenix Sect Half-Saint continued to remind: "Also, that kid has a very good relationship with the Xuanyuan Clan. The Xuanyuan Clan's rune attainments are extremely deep, and some people in the clan can make invisibility talismans. That kid should have the invisibility talisman given by the Xuanyuan Clan. Unless he has special pupil techniques, otherwise he needs the soul perception of a Great Heavenly Realm to see through it!"

"Fellow Daoist said so, it seems that you should have been prepared for a long time?" The Pure Sky Sect Half-Saint glanced at the Ancient Phoenix Sect Half-Saint and said: "Fellow Daoist knows about this, and I also know about it, so I brought special things. He has the invisibility talisman given by the Xuanyuan Clan, and it is also difficult to escape my Dharma Eye!"

As he said that, he spread his palm, and a bead appeared in his palm.

The bead was filled with white light, but there was an eye-like object inside, blooming with dazzling purple brilliance.

"This is the Purple Mansion Saint Pupil?"

The pupils of the Ancient Phoenix Sect Half-Saint shrank slightly.

This thing is a treasure, known as being able to see through the illusions of the world, making all illusions, invisibility techniques, blinding techniques, etc. nowhere to hide.

Legend has it that countless years ago, a peerless genius with the ancient god bloodline of the Purple Mansion Dao Body fell at the end of the great world, and his clan members took out his eyes that had cultivated the Purple Mansion True Pupil and refined them into a pair of treasures.

Later, the family of the Purple Mansion Dao Body was destroyed in the torrent of the great world, and a pair of Purple Mansion Saint Pupils disappeared from then on, not knowing where they were lost. Later, the Pure Sky Sect obtained one of them.

That peerless genius with the bloodline of the Purple Mansion Dao Body was a supreme existence in the Half-Saint realm, the pinnacle of the Heavenly Realm. The treasure refined from his eyes naturally possessed unique abilities.

"With this Purple Mansion Saint Pupil, that kid will have nowhere to hide!"

The Ancient Phoenix Sect Half-Saint smiled coldly.

"I will pull out the bones from his body, piece by piece, and make him wish he were dead!"

As the Pure Sky Sect Half-Saint said, he took a step forward and disappeared in place.

He walked along the edge of the Heavenly Tribulation area, and there were runes condensed with majestic true energy lingering between his palms, constantly hitting them into the ground and the void.

At this time, Jun Wuxie was sitting in the central area of the tribulation lightning, enduring the endless thunder punishment that bombarded his body.

He did not actively resist the lightning tribulation, allowing it to kill him.

Although the lightning tribulation was powerful and caused great damage to the flesh, at the same time, such order lightning contained traces of true lightning power, which had a very good effect on quenching the flesh and condensing blood energy.

Moreover, in the process of quenching himself, the true lightning patterns in his body were also undergoing transformation.

Those patterns gradually became clear, and the number of patterns was increasing, making his resistance to lightning increase little by little.

However, he deliberately controlled the true lightning patterns, not allowing it to release the strongest resistance effect, because he needed these tribulation lightning to quench himself. If the resistance effect was too strong, the quenching effect would be greatly reduced.

Basically, he maintained the limit that his body could bear.

Although his body was covered in blood and flesh was constantly exploding, and his bones were constantly shattered by the lightning tribulation, he could completely recover with the operation of life essence and the use of life spirit milk.

This continued until dusk.

The eighth wave of lightning tribulation was also basically coming to an end.

As the tribulation transcender, Jun Wuxie had a mysterious connection with the lightning tribulation. He vaguely felt that this tribulation was about to end.

There should be only the last wave, which is the ninth wave.

But this ninth wave, before it arrived, made his heart palpitate.

This feeling was extremely dangerous, like smelling the breath of death.

"If I hadn't taken the Lightning Tribulation Fruit, I'm afraid my life would be unpredictable. This tribulation of the three realms accumulated to cross over is really not something that people can do. At that time, I hadn't taken the Lightning Tribulation Fruit yet, and Ye Qingxue asked me to cross the tribulation of the three realms together. Did she really believe that I would not die, or did she already calculate that I would take the Lightning Tribulation Fruit?"

Thinking of Ye Qingxue, Jun Wuxie felt angry.

That woman was simply ruthless!

She actually destroyed the only bond between him and Nannan, the only mask that carried memories!

"Ye Qingxue, you wait, when I am stronger than you in the future, I will have to beat you until you cry!"

Whenever he thought of the scene that day, he felt a sense of suffocation.

Rumble!

The lightning tribulation in the sky continued to bombard down, Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Swords, Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Spears, Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Cauldrons, Heavenly Tribulation Lightning Mountains, and other forms, overwhelmingly bombarded him.

These did not make him feel terrified. What made him terrified was the aura that was brewing in the thick tribulation clouds.

For some reason, he always felt palpitations in his heart, as if there was great terror.

What exactly is brewing in those tribulation clouds?

At this time, suddenly, the lightning tribulation actually stopped briefly.

After those transformed tribulation lightning bombarded down, no more lightning tribulation fell from the tribulation clouds.

However, Jun Wuxie felt more and more dangerous, making his heart palpitate.

He stared at the tribulation clouds in the sky. After thinking about it, he prepared to change the area to cross the tribulation.

He predicted that he might be miserable after crossing the tribulation. At that time, he would be very weak, and there were still two middle-stage Half-Saints outside watching him, waiting for the Heavenly Tribulation to disappear before killing him.

"I have to go deep into the Dragon Ridge Mountains. I hope I'm lucky and can find an area with an extremely strong field..."

Thinking like this, he withdrew his gaze from the tribulation clouds, turned on the Primal True Eyes, and looked in the direction of the depths of the Dragon Ridge Mountains.

With this look, his pupils shrank involuntarily.

"What is that person doing?"

He saw that middle-stage Half-Saint of the Pure Sky Sect was constantly hitting runes into the ground and the void.

"That guy is... setting up a barrier. He wants to trap me here and catch me in a jar?"

After looking at it a few times, he immediately understood his purpose.

Fortunately, he discovered it in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

If he was really trapped here and couldn't get out, facing a middle-stage Half-Saint, it would be fatal!

It's just that the middle-stage Half-Saint is destined to fail.

"Want to trap me? It's not that easy!"

He sneered, the runes under his feet flickered, and he rushed towards the depths of the Dragon Ridge Mountains like a golden streamer.

Suddenly, the ten thousand layers of tribulation clouds in the sky moved with him.

The area covered by the Heavenly Tribulation instantly moved away from the previous area, making the Half-Saint's efforts fall short.

Even, he did not expect Jun Wuxie to move suddenly. At that moment, he was almost covered by the scope of the Heavenly Tribulation, and he was shocked into a cold sweat.

"Damn it, damn brat!"

The Half-Saint was very unwilling, and cursed loudly, without the image of an old Half-Saint.

Jun Wuxie's moving speed was very fast, thousands of times the speed of sound, thousands of miles in an instant, moving with the heavy tribulation clouds in the sky, rushing towards the depths of the Dragon Ridge Mountains.

The Pure Sky Sect Half-Saint's eyes were森冷, and he quickly chased after him.

Jun Wuxie sped all the way, and he didn't know what area he had come to. Anyway, he was frantically heading towards the depths.

Along the way, he searched for the field with his divine sense and Primal True Eyes.

Until the tribulation clouds in the sky slowly cracked open, his heart jumped violently, and he suddenly stopped.

There was still no terrible killing field here, but there was a mysterious field like the tribulation area.

It can protect the mountains and can also greatly affect people's divine sense perception.

Jun Wuxie tried it, and his divine sense perception here could only reach hundreds of miles.

You must know that he has the soul realm of the Half-Saint peak!

He vaguely saw that at the end of the crisscrossing mountains in front, there was a very strange mountain, gray, and the sky above the mountain was filled with thick gray clouds, even from a long distance, it made people feel gloomy and terrifying.

But he has no mind to think about other things now.

The clouds were slowly cracking, and the aura that made his heart palpitate became stronger and stronger, making the hairs all over his body stand on end.

His eyes stared at the clouds.

At this moment, suddenly, a figure surrounded by lightning walked out of the tribulation clouds, holding a lightning spear, like a thunder god descending.

His pupils shrank violently. The humanoid tribulation lightning was exactly the same as him!

The humanoid lightning tribulation, with lightning spears intertwined in his hand, walked towards him from the nine heavens.

Immediately following, another humanoid lightning tribulation emerged.

Two, three…

Jun Wuxie couldn't help but start counting, and with each count, his face darkened a bit.

By the end, he felt a strong urge to curse!

“I XX!”

He ultimately couldn't restrain himself; at this moment, nothing could better express his feelings than a string of profanities.

Damn it, a full nine humanoid tribulation lightning figures, each with the exact same appearance and build as him.

Having experienced something similar before, he was very clear that this was the Heavenly Dao's order, using its lightning power to manifest these figures based on him, the tribulation's target.

In an instant, he summoned the Primordial Sword Embryo, his expression solemn, fully prepared!

Nine!

Under normal circumstances, he would have considered himself doomed.

However, under the lightning tribulation, there was a glimmer of hope.

Because these were all humanoid tribulation lightning figures, their bodies were entirely composed of condensed lightning power, and he possessed an extremely strong resistance to lightning power, which was his only confidence!

Rumble!

The first humanoid tribulation lightning figure moved, and with that movement, thunder cracked the sky, shaking mountains and rivers!

Wielding a lightning spear, it charged forth, fiercely and unmatched.

The lightning spear pierced through the void, its martial intent like an endless barrage of weapons, causing the void to completely collapse, and even the ground and mountains, protected by a powerful field, trembled violently.

“Damn you!”

Jun Wuxie wanted to vomit blood. Just like the formation beneath the Cliff of Certain Death, it had even simulated his martial intent, and there were nine of them right from the start, utterly insane!

“Come on, you bastard Heavenly Dao, if I don't die this time, I will become a legend of the future!”

His fighting spirit instantly surged. Although trapped in a desperate situation, if he could endure until the Heavenly Tribulation's order ended without dying, he would benefit immensely.

At that time, he would surely break through his limits, and it would be a tremendous breakthrough, a quantum leap!

In this world, who could fight against nine versions of themselves?

Even with the True Lightning Mark!

Clang!

The Primordial Sword Embryo hummed, its sword intent splitting the sky.

He met the attack head-on, sword energy traversing thousands of miles, clashing with the humanoid tribulation lightning figure.

Almost instantly, the other humanoid tribulation lightning figures arrived.

Nine figures attacking him alone.

The divine swiftness runes beneath his feet flashed frantically, shuttling between heaven and earth, striking at nine powerful enemies, striving to prevent them from surrounding him.

But to his dismay, the opponents also used Instantaneous Movement. Before long, he was surrounded by nine humanoid tribulation lightning figures.

In such a battle, front, back, left, and right, it was impossible to defend against everything.

In an instant, golden blood blossomed on his body.

Fortunately, the attacks of these humanoid tribulation lightning figures were all lightning power, and the damage to him wasn't fatal, but it still made him extremely uncomfortable, covered in wounds.

He could only try his best to avoid vital points, adopting a strategy of trading injuries.

There was no other way, because the opponents also possessed perfect combat awareness, exactly like him.

During this fighting process, in one life-or-death moment after another, he actually discovered that his self-proclaimed perfect combat awareness wasn't truly perfect, still having flaws.

Each time he discovered a flaw, it came at the cost of blood.

After a brief exchange, his body was already riddled with holes, his entire person resembling a sieve.

He had to take a moment during the battle to reach for the jar, gulping down its contents.

The blood of a half-sage entered his mouth, the fishy smell pungent, but it contained powerful vitality, instantly surging throughout his body, assisting his own life essence, and having the effect of life spiritual milk, frantically repairing his physical wounds.

To drink these few mouthfuls of half-sage blood, he was pierced by more than a dozen spears, one of which nearly pierced his head.

“Again! Kill!”

He roared, his golden blood energy surging to the heavens, like a raging humanoid beast. The angle and trajectory of each strike of the Primordial Sword Embryo were perfect, unleashing sword energy like the Immortal Execution, obliterating the eight wastelands, colliding with the lightning spears of the humanoid tribulation lightning figures, the sounds of clashing metal ringing out.

Although his physical body was riddled with holes, dripping with blood, his fighting spirit had been boiling all along, his will never wavering.

Those rare and hard-to-find resources transformed into life energy within his body, nourishing and repairing his flesh and blood, replenishing the consumption of his blood energy.

…

At the same time, the Immortal Execution Sword Sect of Great Zhou.

Heavenly Sword One and the Phoenix Empress stood atop a certain mountain peak within the sect, quietly watching the distant sky.

“There's something wrong with the Heavenly Dao of this universe.” A trace of anger appeared on the Phoenix Empress's face as she said, “Bullying Wuxie like this, it's clearly trying to erase him. Should we destroy the Heavenly Dao?”

“It's not worth it. Destroying the Heavenly Dao would require using power far exceeding what the Heavenly Emperor's order allows, and that would suffer the backlash of the Heavenly Emperor's order.” Heavenly Sword One shook his head, his voice slightly cold, “The Heavenly Dao's will is unjust. It wants to eliminate strong enemies for the Chosen of Destiny. But at the same time, it's also wary of something, so it's using the tribulation to erase Wuxie.”

“Indeed, it's wary of something, otherwise it wouldn't have waited until today. I guess it should be that princess from back then?” The Phoenix Empress's eyes flashed with crimson light as she said, “Half a year ago, in the ancient town of Binhai, the Sage of Arms appeared, her aura…”

Heavenly Sword One nodded lightly and said, “That's right, it's her, that person's daughter, and also the person who helped me when Jing Tian and the others dug up my grave in the forbidden area behind the mountain.”

“That little fellow Wuxie, the existence behind him, two Heavenly Emperors… and also has a deep connection with that person…”

“Therefore, we don't need to worry. The person valued by two Heavenly Emperors, and even more so the successor chosen by that person in the dark, how could he possibly die young? We don't need to interfere in his affairs. Let him face it himself. More tempering is a good thing, so that he can constantly break through his own limits and ascend to higher realms.”

“I naturally know, I'm just a little angry, unable to bear the Heavenly Dao targeting him. When I get angry, I want to kill the Heavenly Dao. During the great war back then, I shattered countless multiverses, and the aftermath shook countless universes' Heavenly Daos to death. Killing one more isn't much, it's just a thought.”

Hearing this, Heavenly Sword One pinched the Phoenix Empress's delicate nose and said, “You, you haven't changed after so many years, still the same as when you were a small cultivator, even more violent than me, who cultivates the sword of slaughter. This isn't a multiverse that hasn't produced a Heavenly Emperor. Once we act, the Heavenly Emperor's order will be revived, and the consequences will be serious.”

“It's been many eras since you pinched Huang'er's nose like this.” The Phoenix Empress looked at Heavenly Sword One with gentle eyes, then a smile appeared on her face as she reached out and pinched his cheeks, pulling them to the sides, “It's also been many eras since Huang'er pinched your face, hee hee.”

“Cough, mind your image, you're a powerhouse at the Universe Emperor realm, the master of a forbidden zone!”

Heavenly Sword One's expression straightened, then his eyes softened as he embraced her, sighing, “You've been too lonely these eras…”

…

Deep within the Dragon Ridge Mountains.

Lightning clouds layered upon layers, a dark and oppressive expanse.

Jun Wuxie fought with the nine humanoid tribulation lightning figures in the sea of lightning, incomparably tragic.

He had already lost count of how many spears he had been pierced by, thousands or tens of thousands?

He had no concept, only knowing that the wounds on his body were repaired only to be newly added, constantly repeating.

By now, he already felt his body becoming somewhat heavy.

His entire person was dyed golden with blood, and the hand gripping the Primordial Sword Embryo trembled due to arm spasms.

The bodies of the nine humanoid tribulation lightning figures had dimmed a lot compared to the beginning.

Two of them were almost so faint that they were barely visible.

Their attacks were no longer as fierce as they were at the beginning.

After several hours of fierce fighting, Jun Wuxie's vision was somewhat blurred, golden blood flowing down from his hair, covering his face.

Huff!

He gulped down several mouthfuls of half-sage blood, then breathed heavily, secretly accumulating strength, while the humanoid tribulation lightning figures were also brewing.

“Kill!”

At the same time as the humanoid tribulation lightning figures launched another attack, he charged forward with the sword embryo in hand, taking the initiative to attack!

In the instant he charged out, his body split into eight clones, each attacking a different target.

This was a secret technique he had comprehended during the battle!

One person splitting into eight clones, plus the true body, making a total of nine.

Nine being the extreme number, he called it the [Extreme Killing Technique], meaning the extreme killing technique comprehended when breaking through his own limits!

His true body was locked onto the two humanoid tribulation lightning figures that were so faint they were almost about to disappear.

He originally thought that as long as he persisted, the lightning tribulation would naturally dissipate when the time came.

He didn't expect that after several hours, the lightning tribulation showed no signs of dissipating.

He then knew that this final wave of lightning tribulation could only be considered passed if he killed them all, otherwise it would be a failed tribulation, and in that case, he would die and disappear, buried in this place!