Digging to the root, slashing against the origin, ceaseless until death!
Tribulation is merciless to those who interfere, even more so than to the Divine Beasts undergoing it. For Su He, Tribulation is a test with a glimmer of survival. For Feng Yiju, it's divine punishment! Without defying the heavens, there is no escape from death.
Lightning orbs pour down like rain, following an invisible connection, striking directly at the unseen domain where a cultivator's life star resides.
Humans, beasts, demons… nothing can withstand.
Only life stars remain.
Those who have taken the first step in opening the heavens, their Divine Sense and soul essence are in the midst of forming their life stars. Amidst the void, lightning orbs emerge, thunderously striking a life star.
In this silent place, the explosion of a lightning orb is soundless, without bright light, yet the life star shatters, cracks, and turns to ash, scattering away.
This is the life star of a cultivator who has at least reached the second step of Traverse Heaven, whose origin has been slashed in reverse, leading to silent obliteration.
The cultivator attempting to form his life star for the first time is terrified.
This is a short and stout middle-aged cultivator, a supreme being in a minor world, who today has broken through to the second step of Traverse Heaven and has come here to form his life star, only to witness such a shocking scene.
Before he can recover from his astonishment, he sees seven beams of starlight coming from elsewhere, attempting to gather the scattered star dust and reform the life star, even projecting starlight into the real world, trying to resurrect Feng Yiju.
But at this moment, Feng Yiju, who had been toyed with and pursued by the Xuantian Sect Leader, lets out a miserable laugh as he is obliterated by a lightning orb, which doesn't stop there but follows the invisible connection to strike his life star.
One avatar… two avatars…
The avatars with combat power are destroyed, and the rest, be they commoners or nobles, can't even struggle before being pulverized by the Tribulation that appears in an instant.
These avatars, without combat power, had their life stars formed by special methods.
Eight Tribulation strikes, one after another, surge in. At the same time, they bombard all of Feng Yiju's life stars.
Lightning strikes the stars, turning them into a sea of smoke.
There is no sound, yet the spectacle is incredibly grand.
The short and stout cultivator forgets to form his life star, staring dumbfounded at everything, his heart in turmoil.
Below, where the Tribulation is taking place, a translucent Feng Yiju appears above the ashes, looking up in a daze.
Half-resurrected, eight life stars… all blown up.
The Dragon Turtle did it!
He said he would kill him, and he truly did.
Feng Yiju looks up at Su He, feeling that his unformed body is decaying. Death, now truly upon him, brings no panic or fear.
He laughs softly, looking at Su He: "I'm dead, but the power of this Tribulation has been increased several times by me. How will you cross it?"
The ashes of seven avatars and the clouds that split them did not dissipate but converged here.
Now, the entire sky is roiling with Tribulation clouds, and within them, the Thunder Pool explodes.
Feng Yiju laughs loudly: "To perish together with the Dragon Turtle, Feng Yiju's life is complete!"
He has been a disciple, wielded the Sect Leader's power, led Qing Yuan to stand tall in Dongyun, brought down the Dragon Turtle clan, what more could he ask for?
But he hears Su He coldly laugh on the other side: "You must be dreaming."
Stubborn to the end! Feng Yiju is about to retort when outside the Tribulation clouds, space tears open, and the cry of a phoenix is heard as an Ice Phoenix emerges.
Feng Yiju looks at the enormous Ice Phoenix that obscures the sky, stunned. Is this another backer here to support the Dragon Turtle?
Such a being could surely forcibly stop this Tribulation!
"You must be dreaming…"
"You must be dreaming…"
The mocking laughter of the Dragon Turtle echoes in his mind, slapping his face. Feng Yiju is stunned, suddenly feeling like the biggest clown in the world.
He struggled for three hundred years, yet he couldn't compare to a turtle born with it!
He laughs loudly, tears streaming down.
"In the next life, I won't be human!" Feng Yiju laughs miserably as a lightning orb falls, and in an instant, his apparition turns to ash.
Before dying, he hears Su He's voice: "Wishful thinking. Under the Tribulation, soul and spirit are annihilated, scattered to the winds, there is no next life!"
Feng Yiju opens his mouth as if to speak, but before a word escapes, he turns completely to ash.
His world explodes, and the treasures stored within scatter to the ground.
Dice spin down, not yet landing on the treasures when the Tribulation lightning orbs explode.
In an instant, the treasures turn to ash. Gone without a trace.
The disposal of evidence is a bit too quick, the dice hovering in mid-air pause, then earnestly continue to fall.
Ashes ×38
The dice disappear, satisfied.
Su He: "…"
The appearance of the dice means Feng Yiju is thoroughly dead.
Outside the Tribulation, the Ice Phoenix looks over, watching Feng Yiju obliterated under the Tribulation, and immediately becomes furious: "Audacity!"
This human dares to meddle in the little bird's Tribulation, is he seeking death? If you die, your entire clan will be exterminated! The Ice Phoenix cries out, its cold aura spreading, instantly freezing thousands of miles.
"Senior, please calm down!" Liuru's voice comes quickly: "Senior, be careful not to affect the Tribulation!"
This sentence is more effective than any persuasion. The Ice Phoenix's aura vanishes instantly, withdrawing all its power, fearing even the slightest impact on the Tribulation.
She turns to look at the white snake: "Little Liuru, what are you doing here?" If Liuru is here, how could she allow someone to interfere with the little bird's Tribulation?
Liuru is Ji Feixue's close attendant, and Ji Feixue is quite familiar with her, having been friends for tens of thousands of years.
"Greetings to senior Phoenix Ritual!" The white snake transforms into a human form, and Liuru says to the Ice Phoenix: "Senior, please seal this place first, so that no one can probe. Su He's Tribulation must not be detected."
Although she doesn't know why, Liuru remembers the toad's serious instructions before leaving. The princess is currently untraceable, but with the Ice Phoenix's arrival, it's just as well.
"Right, right! No probing." The Ice Phoenix nods in agreement, spreading its wings to isolate the entire Tribulation area, preventing any detection.
After isolating it, it reacts, looking at Liuru: "Why no probing?"
And…
"Su He?" The Ice Phoenix utters in confusion, the name sounding familiar.
Liuru sighs softly, sending a thought over. She doesn't understand the specifics either, only passing on what she knows.
Anyone who has reached a certain realm can sense the strong blood connection between senior Phoenix Ritual and Su He's second body. Considering the history of the Phoenix Clan, it's not hard to deduce that Su He's second body is the direct grandson of this senior.
The direct grandson is actually a Dragon Turtle, how will this senior accept it?
Su He flaps his wings, feeling the sealed Tribulation area. Although it was just a fleeting glance, the strong connection of blood has already been clearly transmitted.
It must be the mother of the peacock in the prison ghost space, a legend of the Phoenix Clan, a contemporary of the Ancestral Wild Phoenix.
There are two Ice Phoenixes in the Phoenix Clan, the other still young.
This senior's arrival is probably not due to the Orient Loong God's contact but likely because she sensed the aura of her blood descendant.
Su He takes a deep breath, thinking about how to face her later.
At the same time, he thinks of a way to move Heng Gua into his second body.
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It takes a while for Phoenix Ritual to come back to her senses. She can't describe her feelings, the strong joy now overtaken by shock and a bit of awkwardness.
The Subdue Demons section is too annoying. The first body, the second body, even if there are more, there is no distinction, all are the main body!
At this moment, the little one showing the Dragon Turtle's body is indeed a genuine Dragon Turtle, and when showing the peacock's body, he is her genuine grandson.
Saying the Dragon Turtle cultivated a second body to become a peacock isn't wrong. Conversely, saying the peacock has a Dragon Turtle body is also correct.
How is she to deal with this? The Ice Phoenix looks at the sealed Tribulation area, feeling both joy and heartache.
She slowly turns her head, looking at the Flying Boat where Yaya sleeps—there's no more wind.
"So… this is my great-granddaughter?" The giant Ice Phoenix is stunned for a long time before excitedly crying out: "No wonder I felt so close as soon as I arrived."
That Feng Yiju, letting him die under the Tribulation, really let him off easy!
She tilts her head, looking at Yaya, puzzled. Isn't the bloodline from the Dragon Turtle's body? Why does she also feel a blood connection?
The enormous Ice Phoenix gently flaps its wings, rapidly shrinking, transforming into a peacock and landing on the Flying Boat. Its crown feathers slowly come together, looking at Yaya and softly saying: "Little one, such fusion of origins is difficult to perfect!"
Tearing off the original origin and patching it up again, just like Ge Hong and the others cut off the origin and gave it back to Yaya, is hard to fit perfectly.
Su Huanian immediately looks over: "Senior, please advise."
The Ice Phoenix looks at her, making a sound filled with affection: "Call me grandma!" A mother should protect her child like this; that's a qualified mother.
Unlike her! When her daughter was in the egg, she failed to protect her. Three thousand years ago, she didn't protect her well, leading to her daughter's obliteration.
If she could be like Su Huanian, would her daughter still be soaring in the sky now?
"It's a pity, Su He passed the Dragon Turtle bloodline to Yaya. If it were my Phoenix Clan's origin, I could use the Phoenix True Fire to perfectly fuse Yaya's origin. Now, it must be the old fellows of the Dragon Turtle clan who take action. Su He is crossing the Tribulation, and yet no one from the Dragon Turtle clan has come?"
She looks around, not seeing any Dragon Turtle, about to curse, when suddenly she looks up, and in a moment, two claws tear open space, and a huge snake head emerges, followed by its dragon head.
A Dragon Turtle wrapped in lightning breaks through space, its body flickering with electricity, a Thunder Snake on its back.
The Dragon Turtle, Cyan Thunder!
The snake on its back no longer has wings, its color matching the turtle's shell, wrapped around it, giving a sense of swiftness and ruthlessness.
A strong Dragon Turtle aura hits her face.
The Ice Phoenix's crown feathers tremble. Is this thunder? Thunder doesn't cultivate an inner world, and wasn't considered powerful among the Dragon Turtle clan, but now, sensing it, the Ice Phoenix feels as if facing the Ancestral Wild Phoenix and Old Red.
Old Red is the name temporarily taken away because of his playful nature.
The Ice Phoenix utters in confusion, not having seen this little one for ten thousand years, and now he's become so powerful! Is it because of the added snake? Has he cultivated some special Dharma body?
But… why is there an egg smell, like a little turtle just hatched from an egg?
Was he incubating turtle eggs before coming? Do turtle eggs need to be incubated now?
Thunder emerges from the void and lands beside the Flying Boat, nodding to the Ice Phoenix: "Senior Phoenix Ritual, long time no see!"
Why Phoenix Ritual has come here, he roughly guesses.
His little turtle brat sure knows how to stir things up, actually creating a peacock second body. The two clans have something to argue about now!
The toad's frantic shouting in the Mountain and Sea Mysterious Realm made everything clear.
The other Dragon Turtles haven't hatched yet. Cyan Thunder is different; he isn't fusing with the Teng Snake for the first time. Before the Seven Extremes Secret Realm, he had already fused with the Teng Snake with Bailings' ten thousand years of preparation, just not perfectly. Re-eggifying and remaking himself, he's several times faster than the other Dragon Turtles.
When the toad shouted, he was hatching. After hatching and understanding the situation, he hurried over without time to clean up the mess.
Several flashes of lightning pass over his body, erasing the scent left in the egg, also landing beside the Flying Boat.
He tilts his head, looking at the Flying Boat.
He also looks at Feng Yaya inside the Flying Boat. The Dragon Turtle aura on her is so strong it can't be dispersed. From any angle, she's a small humanoid Dragon Turtle.
I wonder if the next time the Demon Morphing Fruit descends, finding her a top-tier fruit could really turn her into a Dragon Turtle?
The problem Phoenix Ritual can see, Cyan Thunder naturally also notices. It's not hard to solve; the method Bailings left for egg transformation and Teng Snake fusion can perfectly solve it.
But such egg transformation, a Dragon Turtle only has one chance in a lifetime. If it's used on Yaya now, once she truly becomes a Dragon Turtle in the future, she won't have the chance to cultivate the true Basalt body.
Cyan Thunder hesitates for a moment, then looks up at the Tribulation, only to see the clouds rolling, being rapidly absorbed. It seems Su He has found a way to move Heng Gua into the peacock body, and can smoothly cross the Tribulation.
At this moment, someone sneakily probes with a sliver of Divine Sense, but is met with a cold snort from Cyan Thunder. Following the Divine Sense, he strikes at the origin.
Behind the void, a muffled grunt, a cry of an ape.
"Old Glutton! Tired of living, are you? Dare to probe again, and I'll exterminate your Glutton clan!" Cyan Thunder roars angrily.
Behind the void, Glutton remains silent.
Phoenix Ritual, however, has an even worse temper, chirping, and spitting out a mouthful of Phoenix True Fire, striking directly at the void. Her Phoenix True Fire, unlike Phoenix Ritual's that burns everything, is ice blue, freezing even space where it passes.
The wild ape cries in pain, then screams in terror, weakening and fading away.
Inside the seal, Su He flaps his wings, floating in mid-air, Heng Gua appearing above his head like a whirlwind, rapidly absorbing the Tribulation.
This isn't a Tribulation of two worlds merging, but the power of the Tribulation has been supercharged by Feng Yiju's several avatars, and the world's origin is still abundant.
But Su He's brow furrows tightly; he finds his Subdue Demons section has mutated!
A normal Subdue Demons section has no connection between each body. It's like having several game accounts; although they're all you, logging into a warrior means you're a warrior, logging into a mage means you're a mage.
But between Su He's first and second bodies, after being struck by a lightning orb, there's a certain connection!
Normally, Su He should show his turtle body, release Heng Gua, then show his peacock true body to receive Heng Gua.
But in a critical moment, a lightning orb falls, and instinctively, he calls upon Heng Gua, and the thought alone causes Heng Gua to emerge directly from the peacock body.
Then there's a certain connection between the peacock and Dragon Turtle bodies, even to the point of saying they are fused together. Su He doesn't quite understand the specifics yet.
But as the Tribulation progresses, this connection becomes more and more apparent.
Heng Gua rises, swallowing the third Tribulation entirely, then reverses and begins to devour the clouds. This time, Su He completely lets go, forced to withstand a lightning orb, already the limit for the peacock body. The rest must be devoured by Heng Gua.
The peacock body is too weak to withstand such Tribulation. Heng Gua, like a gourd, continuously devours the clouds.
In just half a day, the oppressive Tribulation clouds have all disappeared. Su He closes his eyes to introspect, his head, wings, heart, liver, spleen, stomach…
Everything is fine, a complete little Weakling.
Looking further down, Su He is stunned.
A lone realm bead floats, with sparse mountain and river shadows on it…
This isn't the new realm bead formed by the peacock true body; it's the Dragon Turtle's realm bead!
The Dragon Turtle true body and the peacock true body share the same realm bead!
His consciousness enters the realm bead, and inside, a newly opened world floats quietly, Mount Tai, the Heaven-Opening Pen…
The last illusion is shattered; it's the Dragon Turtle's realm bead!
Su He takes a deep breath, a question in his heart.
Sharing a realm bead, what about the True Blood? The Dragon Turtle body produces turtle essence outside the realm bead; surely the peacock body can't use turtle essence!
Su He exits the realm bead, observing carefully. The Tribulation has passed, and Heng Gua is releasing the origin to help the peacock body grow.
Outside the realm bead, drops of golden phoenix essence condense.
The realm bead here condenses phoenix essence.
Su He shows his Dragon Turtle body, introspects again, and turtle essence condenses outside the realm bead.
Quite user-friendly!
Just missing a bonus. Cultivators with the Subdue Demons section, when showing their human body, can cultivate in the background with their beast body. He can't do that now; the realm bead is too busy. To cultivate phoenix essence, he must show the peacock true body; to cultivate turtle essence, he must show the Dragon Turtle body.
Cultivation progress ÷2
Cultivation difficulty ×2
The Dragon Turtle has its advantages, and the peacock has its own. He doesn't know what inheritance the peacock has, and it's not good to observe directly now.
The second body is a peacock, and he doesn't know how the Dragon Turtle and Phoenix Clan will view this issue. He'll meet the elders of both sides before deciding.
Beneath the Dragon Turtle, waves churn, and he emerges from the Tribulation area, looking up to see the mountainous body of Cyan Thunder, overjoyed.
During the Tribulation, Phoenix Ritual isolated the area, and Su He didn't know Cyan Thunder had hatched and arrived Leaping onto the Flying Boat, Yaya's body has solidified, and she's awake, the feeling of blood connection transmitting over.
Su He laughs heartily.
Seeing him, Feng Yaya is even happier: "Big Turtle, ah…" She doesn't finish calling him 'Dad' before she's stunned, tilting her head to look at Cyan Thunder's mountainous body, then at Su He's two to three Zhang long turtle body. Pouting, she thinks for a moment, then calls out to Su He: "Little Turtle!"
The scene erupts into laughter.
Su He is taken aback, then grinds his teeth in frustration. The little girl is rebelling!
Cyan Thunder's laughter is so loud it scatters the clouds above, and after laughing, he says to Su He: "Bring out that turtle egg from Bailings."
Having nothing to do for half a day, he had the toad recount Su He's experiences over the past year and a half, leaving out no detail. He's genuinely curious about how this little turtle managed to open the heavens and create a second body in just a year and a half.
Naturally, he also knows about the Bailings turtle egg.
The chance of hatching a Dragon Turtle from a turtle egg is almost impossible, even harder than a common grass turtle evolving into a Dragon Turtle. It's better to use it to help Yaya integrate her origin, which has a better chance of creating a true Dragon Turtle.
Su He, not understanding why, complies. The external space shakes lightly, and the turtle egg floats above the Flying Boat.
Cyan Thunder exhales gently, and Yaya's body instantly becomes ethereal, turning into a bolt of lightning that enters the turtle egg.
Su He has seen this lightning form many times. Yaya's consciousness is like this, and the origin she revealed when she was ethereal was the same.
Beside him, Cyan Thunder suddenly freezes, exclaiming in shock: "Little Clown!"
Phoenix Ritual also exclaims in surprise: "A reincarnated soul beast? This lightning-shaped soul beast is exactly like the one belonging to Phoenix Ritual's little one—Bailings' soul beast?"
Phoenix Ritual was beaten countless times by Bailings, yet he admired Bailings the most, even choosing a soul beast that looked exactly like his.
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