Boom!
In a certain secret realm, a four-clawed dragon coiled in mid-air, with dense lightning bolts overhead, covering an area of millions of miles.
This is the Heavenly Tribulation of the Divine Emperor.
The Divine Emperor's Heavenly Tribulation covers an extremely large area, generally exceeding one million miles. Even in the desolate region, few secret realms are as large as this.
However, the alliance of various races did not want Lu Tao, as well as powerful figures such as Sect Master Luo and the Human Emperor, to know that they were helping all the God Kings to complete their tribulations and become half-step God Emperors.
Therefore, they could not allow all the God-Kings to complete their tribulations at the same time, so they had to let Ao Yu go first.
At this time, most of Ao Yu's Divine Emperor Tribulation had already passed.
The tribulation of the Divine Emperor for any living being, even if its foundation is not deep, takes more than a day to pass, and for those with a deep foundation, it takes more than two days.
"Unfortunately, although the tribulation is about to end, I will not be able to become a God Emperor."
"Yes, otherwise, with Brother Ao's strength, he would definitely be able to survive the tribulation and become a God Emperor."
"God Emperor, I wonder what realm that is. I hope that we can glimpse it in our lifetime."
...
"Alas, I don't know why there is a boundary wall in my desolate region, which prevents us from advancing even if we have the ability to become God Emperors after the tribulation. It's really hateful."
"Boundary wall... Alas, this thing blocks our path to martial arts and extinguishes the hopes of so many prodigies."
"I don't know if this boundary is natural or the work of other beings."
Who knows?
...
The powerful god-kings of the alliance of races were both happy for Ao Yu and saddened by his situation, and then filled with anger.
The existence of the boundary wall can be said to have directly severed the martial arts path of countless geniuses.
How many God-Kings have reached perfection since ancient times in the desolate region?
Without exception, even the most talented of these powerful individuals eventually die of old age in the desolate region or the boundary wall, unable to escape the cage of the desolate region.
"The boundary... perhaps only Lu Tao has the potential to truly leave the desolate region."
At this moment, among the powerful figures of the alliance of races, many god-kings had the same thought in their minds.
Ever since the Heavenly Frog discovered the cooperation between Sect Master Luo and Lu Tao through the rules of cause and effect, this idea has been constantly surfacing in the minds of many God Kings.
The Chaos Realm is an existence that has never appeared since ancient times.
If even such a prodigy cannot escape the desolate region, then no living being will be able to leave this place.
Unfortunately for them, they had already become enemies with Lu Tao.
Moreover, they are mortal enemies.
Although they suffered the greatest losses, while Lu Tao actually suffered virtually no losses, they also knew that this grudge was difficult to resolve.
perhaps.
Before taking action against the human race, some of their races might have been able to resolve their hatred with Lu Tao, but after nearly wiping out the human race, such a possibility has become extremely slim.
Otherwise, many of their strongest members would be willing to set aside their hatred and choose to cooperate with Lu Tao.
Just to escape the wasteland.
In fact...
Many powerful figures in the alliance of races knew that when they failed to detect Lu Tao through their eyes and thus deduced that Lu Tao had comprehended the Chaos Domain, they should have guessed this.
But at that time, they were blinded by anger, hatred, and the Hunyuan Kung Fu.
I never even thought of these things.
Or rather, even if they had thought of it, their long-standing arrogance and pride would not allow them to set aside their dignity to beg for Lu Tao's forgiveness and thus cooperate.
"well!"
Thinking of these things, many god-kings couldn't help but sigh silently.
After countless years, a prodigy who had comprehended the Chaos Domain finally appeared in the Desolate Region, but they had already offended him long ago.
That's just fate!
But as cultivators, even if they believe in fate, they still have to defy destiny.
Therefore, all they can do now is try every means to seize all the opportunities Lu Tao has, or enslave him so that Lu Tao can lead them out of the wasteland.
With this in mind, their resolve grew stronger, and their gazes toward Ao Yu, who was undergoing tribulation in mid-air, became fervent.
Boom!
Endless lightning bolts rained down, striking the dragon, which was thousands of feet long.
He cleaved Ao Yu, leaving him covered in blood, and he tumbled and convulsed in mid-air.
This is the terror of the Divine Emperor's Tribulation. Even though Ao Yu had refined many defensive divine artifacts, he could not withstand the power of the tribulation.
"The thirty-first lightning tribulation has passed, Brother Ao can feign death and escape."
The assembled God-Kings, all at the peak of their power, stared intently at Ao Yu, knowing that he was about to feign death and escape.
Given Ao Yu's resources, his tribulation would most likely consist of thirty-two lightning strikes. If he were to completely overcome these tribulations, he would face obstacles when advancing to the God Emperor realm.
Not only will they fail to get promoted, but they will also inexplicably fall from grace.
This has happened countless times over the years.
No living being has ever broken it.
"Aww!"
Sure enough, half an hour later, when the final bolt of lightning struck Ao Yu, the four-clawed dragon in mid-air was knocked to the ground by the lightning.
at the same time.
The divine aura and vitality emanating from his body vanished completely in that instant.
It was as if he had died from the lightning tribulation.
Buzz!
The will of heaven and earth sensed all of this and slowly dissipated.
None of the god-kings moved; they waited quietly.
Because they know that although the heavenly tribulation has dissipated, if Ao Yu's aura suddenly reappears at this moment, it will cause the heavenly tribulation to instantly reappear, thus completely obliterating him.
Time passed slowly, and it wasn't until a quarter of an hour later that Ao Yu's presence reappeared.
As everyone expected, the heavenly tribulation did not occur again.
Buzz!
In that instant, Ao Yu's enormous true dragon body coiled up, completing the final step of his transformation to advance to the half-step God Emperor realm.
Its already powerful aura continued to rise, leaping towards the level of a half-step Divine Emperor.
Congratulations, Brother Ao!
"Congratulations, Your Excellency!"
When Ao Yu underwent his transformation, all the other god-kings congratulated Ao Chen.
Ao Chen couldn't help but smile at this moment, for the True Dragon Clan had finally produced a half-step God Emperor.
With Ao Yu's understanding of the rules, after advancing to the half-step God Emperor realm, even if he is no match for the Emperor, he can at least be on par with Sect Master Luo and Sect Master Nie, and may even be able to defeat them.
"Master Jie, you will be the first to undergo your tribulation."
Ao Chen looked at Jie En, who was already fully prepared and was the second God-King to complete his tribulation.
"Um!"
Jie En nodded solemnly.
The powerful figures waited quietly, waiting for Ao Yu to complete his transformation.
Suddenly, at that moment, a cry of surprise rang out from among the gods, "What?"
"What's wrong?"
Ao Chen, Hun Tian Beast, and other powerful figures all turned their gazes in that direction.
A golden lion at the early stage of God-King level said almost blankly, "Your Majesty, our clan has suddenly received news from the lower realm that Lu Tao..."
What happened to Lu Tao?
For some reason, upon hearing the name Lu Tao, Ao Chen, Jie En, Yan Zhi, and other powerful figures felt a jolt in their hearts and an inexplicable sense of foreboding.
They spread the word that Lu Tao had neglected the human race. Could it be that Lu Tao had resolved the issue so quickly?
But that shouldn't be the case either.
Even if Lu Tao bestows a divine vein, it would only be a low-grade divine vein. Such a divine vein would only have a limited effect on improving the spiritual energy of the entire planet. With just one, it would certainly be difficult to salvage Lu Tao's image.
His faith must have been affected.
As for mid-grade divine veins, they never even considered them.
There aren't even ten thousand mid-grade divine veins in the entire desolate region, so Lu Tao naturally couldn't produce any.
Glug!
The golden lion swallowed hard before replying in astonishment, "Lu Tao not only descended to the mortal realm, but he actually... bestowed upon those planets divine veins that were of the highest quality!"
"What?"
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
"How could it be a top-grade divine vein? Even the desolate region doesn't have such a divine vein, how could Lu Tao possibly have it?"
"Exactly, it's a joke. To possess a top-grade divine vein and then give it away as a reward? Isn't that just plain insane?"
Almost all the powerful god-kings loudly refuted this.
It wasn't that they didn't believe the golden lion; it was just that its words were too outrageous.
A top-grade divine vein—this was something they wouldn't even dare to dream of.
In the desolate region, not even a high-grade divine vein has ever appeared, let alone a top-grade one; it's simply absurd.
This made many powerful gods laugh in anger.
The demonic bull said speechlessly, "The beings of the lower realms are ignorant and must have mistaken a low-grade divine vein for a top-grade one."
Something's not right!
The mountain-climbing beast shook its head and pondered, "If it were a low-grade divine vein, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth that it disperses throughout the entire planet should be enough to make those martial gods unable to distinguish it. Perhaps it is a mid-grade one."
"But ten thousand mid-grade divine veins..." The Hun Tian Beast hesitated.
"We don't need 10,000, just a small number will do."
The mountain-climbing divine beast said in a deep voice, "After all, as long as the news that Lu Tao bestowed a top-grade divine vein spreads throughout the starry sky, the things we spread will have no impact on Lu Tao's faith, and may even make countless beings believe in him even more."
"This method is not bad, but in time the lie will be exposed, so we don't need to worry about it," the pangolin added.
The other powerful figures nodded in agreement, relieved.
At this moment, Ao Chen suddenly looked at the Heavenly Frog and said with a solemn expression, "Brother Frog, could you please take a look?"
"this……"
Many of the god-kings were slightly taken aback upon hearing this.
Ao Chen's actions, seemingly cautious and showing no disrespect for Lu Tao, actually gave them the impression that Ao Chen had been driven a bit neurotic by Lu Tao.
The idea of a top-grade divine vein is so obvious that it's obviously fake, you don't even need to think about it.
Ao Chen even made the Heavenly Frog waste its power of rules to check.
It's really...absurd.
"good!"
Although the Heavenly Frog did not believe that Lu Tao could produce a top-grade divine vein, it could not refuse Ao Chen's order. It directly used its pupils to unleash the rules of cause and effect.
Ten breaths later, the Heavenly Frog finished its inspection with a blank expression.
Such an expression caused all the powerful God-Kings to change their expressions drastically, and Ao Chen hurriedly asked, "Brother Frog, what was the result?"
"call……"
Tianwa took a deep breath, his face still showing deep shock, and said, "Then what Lu Tao bestowed wasn't a top-grade divine vein!"
Even after hearing this, the kings of the gods remained unmoved, for they all knew there was more to come.
Otherwise, the Heavenly Frog wouldn't have such an expression.
Sure enough, the Heavenly Frog continued, "But what he bestowed was a superior-grade divine spiritual vein!"
Before the God Kings could even react in shock, the Heavenly Frog added, "And the number exceeds ten thousand!"
Hiss!!
All the god-kings couldn't help but gasp.
In that instant, even powerful beings like Ao Chen, Jie En, Yan Zhi, and Mo Niu, who were at the peak of the God King realm, were shocked into losing their composure, their faces blank and filled with disbelief.
The speculation that it was a top-grade divine vein and the confirmation that it was a high-grade divine vein are two completely different things, and the latter shocked them even more.
At this moment, the entire secret realm fell into complete silence.
Glug! Glug!
In the silence, the sound of swallowing saliva suddenly rang out one after another.
Many of the lower-ranking god-kings were somewhat embarrassed when they realized what was happening, but none of them mocked them.
Those are ten thousand top-grade divine veins; anyone would be tempted.
Even if it's a God-King like Ao Chen, Hun Tian Beast, or Pang Shan Divine Beast, who have reached the pinnacle of their powers, they would still pay any price to snatch it even if it only has one high-grade divine vein.
Not to mention ten thousand.
What does it matter if one swallows saliva out of mere greed?
"How is this possible?"
At this moment, even Ao Chen murmured in disbelief, unable to believe it was real.
Despite Lu Tao's repeated defies of its understanding, which had long since made it accustomed to Lu Tao's extraordinary abilities, the appearance of these ten thousand high-grade divine veins still shocked it to the point of losing its composure.
"how so?"
"Ten thousand top-grade divine veins? Where did Lu Tao get such resources from?"
"Could it be from that secret realm? But that divine altar secret realm can only accommodate low-level beings, and it doesn't improve their talent or comprehension much. How could it possibly possess a high-grade divine vein?"
"How could this be true?"
Many powerful god-kings were on the verge of collapse at this moment.
Many of these races only possess low-grade divine veins, not even mid-grade ones, yet high-grade divine veins have appeared in the lower realm.
What they find even more unacceptable is...
All of these divine veins were given away by Lu Tao.
Lu Tao gave away a full ten thousand top-grade divine veins so easily?
Earlier, they thought that Lu Tao was generous enough to give the secret realm to his elders for refinement, but now they realized that they had underestimated Lu Tao.
What kind of person could bestow ten thousand superior divine veins upon a mere believer?
In any case, they would never give it away.
Don't even mention ten thousand, not even one!
How could Lu Tao have given away something that even the Desolate Region doesn't have? It's a top-grade divine vein.
Some of them cannot understand or accept it.
This feeling is just too painful.
It's absurd that Lu Tao bestowed upon those ants in the lower realm what even powerful gods like them could not obtain.
"If I also believe in Lu Tao, will I also be able to obtain a superior divine vein?"
Almost subconsciously, many god-kings had this thought in their minds.
But this idea was nipped in the bud as soon as it emerged.
"A top-grade divine vein..."
Ao Chen looked up at the sky, his gaze unfocused and complex. He took a deep breath, turned to the Heavenly Frog, and asked, "Brother Frog, when you checked the secret realm last time, did you see any information about a superior-grade divine vein?"
The Heavenly Frog shook its head and said, "No, there are no high-grade divine veins in the secret realm, not even divine veins."
"So, these divine veins were all obtained by Lu Tao himself, but..."
Ao Chen's eyes were filled with confusion. "But where could he get such divine veins? Ten thousand of them! Even in other realms of the God Realm, it wouldn't be easy to gather so many high-grade divine veins."
"Is it possible that Lu Tao is a God Emperor from another domain, or even a Saint Realm expert reincarnated?" a God King speculated.
"He shouldn't be!"
Immediately, a god-king shook his head in rebuttal.
This speculation was actually put forward by them before.
But they themselves denied it.
after all.
The desolate region is a cage. No matter how many times a powerful being reincarnates, it is difficult to escape this place when his cultivation level is low. If his enemies find out that he was reincarnated in the desolate region, wouldn't he be trapped like a turtle in a jar?
Ao Chen and the others did not believe that a powerful figure like the God Emperor could not freely enter and leave the desolate region.
and.
Lu Tao only succeeded in advancing to the True Marrow Refining stage by relying on the Desolate-Rank cultivation technique brought by the human gods of the God Realm. From this point, it is almost certain that Lu Tao is not a reincarnation of a powerful being from the God Realm.
Unless he sealed his memories before his reincarnation, which is almost impossible.
But if they are not reincarnations of powerful beings from the divine realm, then where do these divine veins come from?
Lu Tao's other extraordinary actions could all be explained by his extraordinary talent, but the appearance of the divine vein had nothing to do with talent at all.
It is said that there is an opportunity to have ten thousand high-grade divine veins in the desolate region. There has been no sign of it for countless years. But when it appeared, it was just right that Lu Tao encountered it and obtained it.
They don't believe it!
What a coincidence!
Moreover, this is only what Lu Tao bestowed; there are probably many more divine veins that he didn't give away.
After all, who would bestow most of their opportunities upon believers?
More will definitely remain.
With the arrival of the Buddha, the number of divine veins in Lu Tao's possession will undoubtedly become even more terrifying.
What angered and terrified many of the god-kings even more was that Lu Tao was able to descend to the mortal realm so easily. Last time, when Lu Tao descended to the mortal realm through a divine statue, he was only using formations and secret techniques to create a martial god. They could accept that.
This time, however, it wasn't just Lu Tao who descended to the mortal realm; he also brought the Divine Vein and disciples of the Immortal Sect with him.
This is unacceptable to them.
This means that Lu Tao can easily travel between the upper and lower realms. Even if he is trapped and unable to defeat them, Lu Tao can leave the God Realm and return to the lower realm, and his safety is not a concern at all.
and.
The small world in Lu Tao's hand, containing three thousand Daoist principles, was of extremely high quality; even the boundary membrane between the two realms could not stop it.
Thinking of these things, many god-kings couldn't help but feel their scalps tingle.
The atmosphere at the scene was very somber and oppressive.
Just as the gods were discussing, Ao Yu also completed his transformation and successfully advanced to the level of a half-step god-emperor. Originally, this was a joyous occasion and worth celebrating.
As a result, they felt no joy whatsoever.
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