"Master, after I ascend to immortality, I hope you can protect the mortal realm for a thousand years and give Yu'er some room to grow."
Xiao Xuan stood under the flowering tree, gazing at the familiar mountain, his expression seemingly filled with emotion.
"You've chosen Yuanbao as your heir?"
"yes. "
"Why not 'the world is small'?"
“Yu’er… is more suitable.”
"good. "
Qin Shou nodded in agreement, then added, "When the world-destroying immortal calamity arrives, if it's impossible, you must preserve a sliver of hope for yourself. Your master doesn't want to lose another disciple while trying to save one."
"Master, don't worry. I have the Reincarnation Pagoda and the One-Life Reincarnation Seal protecting me; I won't die. The worst that can happen is I'll just have to cultivate again in another life."
Xiao Xuan has a good attitude.
Qin Shou felt somewhat relieved after hearing this.
The master and apprentice looked at the scenery on the mountaintop and both fell silent for a while.
As the sunset faded and night deepened...
The candlelight inside flickered, casting a swaying shadow on the window.
Xiao Xuan sat quietly by the bed, looking at the sleeping little chubby girl, recalling the scene from when he was a child, following behind her and calling her "Little Senior Sister" all the time...
"Dear Senior Sister, I must take my leave for a while."
Xiao Xuan reached out a large hand and gently stroked Yi Cheng's little belly, a gentle smile playing at the corners of his eyes as he said:
"My only wish for you, my junior brother, is that you be safe and sound year after year, and that you be joyful and happy year after year."
Squeak!
A gentle evening breeze caressed the windowpane.
A dazzling shooting star streaked across the deep night.
That night.
Xiao Xuan returned to the Vermilion Bird Divine Court.
He summoned Xiao Yu.
The father and son drank and talked under the moon.
"Father, you seem a bit strange today." Xiao Yu laughed, "I heard from Mother that you went back to the mountain. Perhaps you got another lecture from Grandmaster, hahaha."
"You little brat, you dare laugh at me?" Xiao Xuan laughed angrily, raising his hand to slap you, but then, remembering he was about to leave, he lowered it and said coldly, "Hmph, fine, I won't lecture you today. Today, my son and I will just have a chat and a heart-to-heart talk."
"No—" Xiao Yu's expression immediately turned serious. He decisively retreated a hundred meters, creating a great distance between himself and Xiao Xuan. He put his hands on his stomach and stared at Xiao Xuan with suspicion. "Father, don't be ridiculous. Your behavior today is definitely a trap you're setting for me."
Let me tell you, if you kick me again today for some fabricated reason, I'm going to run back to the mountain and complain to my master. Then I'll break all ten of my own ribs."
Xiao Xuan:? ? ? ?
"You little brat, I'll give you a good beating today, no excuse whatsoever!"
Xiao Xuan rolled up his sleeves and rushed over, unleashing a barrage of attacks on that chubby face.
"Do you submit? Do you submit?! Damn it! It's only natural for a father to beat his son, so what if Master comes...?"
Snap snap snap...
"Ahhh...that's right, that's right, this feeling is right, Father Emperor, I almost thought you'd been possessed, hahaha..."
Xiao Yu was already used to being beaten like this.
Anyway, I've complained to my third aunt many times, both openly and secretly, and my father has been beaten quite a few times.
Hmm... I'll go back tomorrow to see if Third Aunt has woken up yet, and then I'll file another complaint. This time, I have to make it really serious!
"Father, have you not eaten?! Ah! Harder! Just kill me already!"
"You son of a bitch...you unfilial son!!!"
......
The strange phenomenon in the sky above the Tianxuan Continent lasted for a long time.
At first, all living beings were filled with fear and could not find peace day or night.
However, as time went by, they found nothing else amiss, so they felt relieved and continued their previous lives.
Until ten years later.
The thunder vortex in the sky had finished brewing.
On this day, the entire sky was stained with ink, and streaks of black lightning, as thick as mountain peaks, bared their fangs and claws, surging and tearing at the human world.
In an instant, the scene was terrifying, like the end of the world, engulfing the entire Tianxuan Continent.
Phew!
The next moment.
A resounding cry of a Vermilion Bird's hoof echoed across the ancient Eastern Wilderness.
Following that, centered on the Nine Heavens Secret Cave, the first forbidden zone of the Eastern Wilderness, a Vermilion Bird pattern spanning hundreds of millions of miles of the Eastern Wilderness was drawn.
Boom!
The earth trembled violently, and an enormous, incomparable phantom of the Vermilion Bird soared into the sky. Its divine might was vast, and its body blotted out the sun, like a prehistoric behemoth emerging from chaos. It surged upwards, carrying endless divine fire, blocking the countless layers of lightning tribulations that were enough to destroy the world.
"唳——"
The divine bird spreads its wings, filling the universe.
The enormous Dharma body continuously resisted the lightning tribulation, creating a protective barrier for the billions of living beings below.
now.
All living beings beneath the Tianxuan Continent were watching this scene.
Some were terrified, some were nervous, and some were puzzled.
Historical records indicate that this world has experienced periods of decline before, but none of them reached the point of annihilation...
"This is the Immortal Tribulation that will destroy the world!"
On Turtle Mountain, Song Ningsheng stood beside Qin Shou, and the two looked up at the sky together.
With Qin Shou's keen eyesight, he could see through the layers of lightning tribulation and spot Xiao Xuan's figure struggling against it.
"Is the first tribulation lightning already this terrifying?"
The Qin beast murmured.
Three thousand bolts of lightning, each thicker than a giant mountain, fell from the sky like three thousand pillars of destruction reaching to the heavens and the earth, and this power continued indefinitely.
Three days later.
The phantom of the Vermilion Bird shattered, the first layer of the cataclysmic tribulation dissipated, and Xiao Xuan's body fell from the sky.
Boom!
Almost instantly, the second tribulation of lightning arrived.
It was even more vast than the first tribulation of lightning, with nearly ten thousand bolts of lightning descending upon the mortal realm.
In an instant, the universe shattered and the void vanished.
brush!
Meanwhile, in a valley on the Tianxuan Continent, Qin Beast's clone rose from the ground, its palm reaching the sky to block the vast lightning tribulation, while simultaneously extending a hand to catch Xiao Xuan's clone.
At this moment, above the Vermilion Bird Divine Court, Xiao Xuan took a step forward and came close, merging with his clone. After several hours of fusion, his physical body and soul reached a state of perfection. He then fled to the horizon and began his own tribulation to become an immortal.
Rumble!
The second cataclysmic event lasted for seven days.
Under the tribulation of lightning, Qin Shou's clothes were torn and his magic power was exhausted, but fortunately his physical body and soul were unharmed.
boom!
Next, the third tribulation of lightning will destroy the world.
Qin Shou's eyes narrowed slightly.
A full twelve thousand world-destroying lightning bolts.
boom!
The next moment.
Beneath the earth, a huge black coffin emerged from the ground.
The coffin covered the sky and sun, and six enormous figures stood on it.
"Xiao Xuan, never forget your promise to my Underworld. If you one day become an Immortal Venerable, you will surely go to the Fallen God Realm to retrieve my Underworld Lord!"
Deep, muffled roars emanated from the pitch-black ancient coffin.
Immediately afterwards, the six half-step Ghost Immortal powerhouses of the Underworld took action, constructing the Underworld Grand Array to resist the cataclysmic calamity.
Splash—
The thunderous roar lasted for a full eight days.
On the ninth day, the third cataclysmic event dissipated, the six great ghost immortals of the underworld perished, and the pitch-black ancient coffin devoured the remaining remnant souls, falling back into the underworld.
The fourth cataclysmic calamity, numbering twenty-four thousand.
The three sages of the Confucian Temple, along with seventy-two virtuous men, three hundred and sixty gentlemen, and a million Confucian scholars, constructed a magnificent array that summoned the image of the first sage of Confucianism, the Supreme Sage Teacher.
The Buddha statue is majestic and towering, covering the sky and the sun. It is hundreds of thousands of feet tall, and its aura is so powerful that it fills the universe, encompassing all the mountains, rivers and states.
Boom!
The Confucian sage's image, with its flowing robes, revealed a sun and moon hanging high in the blue sky, condensing boundless righteous energy and constantly eroding the tens of thousands of seemingly endless world-destroying lightning bolts in the heavens.
"This world-destroying lightning tribulation is truly terrifying!"
"If we forcefully resist, we fear we will end up like those ghostly immortals of the underworld, our souls annihilated."
"Damn it, Xiao Xuan never said that resisting this world-destroying calamity would put us at risk of death!"
"What... should we do?"
At this moment, in another dimension, the patriarchs of the ten great imperial clans all watched this scene with solemn expressions.
boom--
Ten days later.
The fourth cataclysmic event dissipated.
The Confucian Grand Formation collapsed, and the three sages, bearing all the backlash, passed away peacefully.
After a few breaths.
The fifth tribulation of lightning has arrived.
However, the grand formation of the imperial clans, which was supposed to be jointly constructed by the ten imperial clans, has yet to appear.
Only five figures appeared in the sky, summoning their clan's sacred artifacts to be the first to withstand the tribulation lightning.
However, the fifth tribulation was even more powerful. Although the ancestors of the five great imperial clans were also very strong, they were still somewhat inferior to the power of the Netherworld Grand Array unleashed by the six ghost immortals of the Netherworld.
Soon, the large formation that the five people had hastily built together began to crumble.
"Damn it, are the other five imperial clans going to break their promises?"
In the heavens, Xiao Xuan, his long hair disheveled, roared as he desperately resisted his tribulation to become an immortal: "Don't wait until I've completed my tribulation to settle scores with you!"
Then, all he got in response was silence.
Under such a combination of celestial tribulation and world-destroying tribulation, it is still unknown whether Xiao Xuan can survive.
"This is outrageous!"
Xiao Xuan roared in anger, but there was nothing he could do.
Just then, the five patriarchs of the great imperial clans who had resisted the tribulation of lightning were all exhausted. They had been clinging to life with their broken bodies and had chosen to sleep in order to counteract the erosion of lifespan by the years. They had only been awakened now because of the arrival of the end times and the invasion of strange forces. Those who agreed to help Xiao Xuan resist the world-destroying tribulation were all magnanimous people, but they were not true immortals after all. Even if the five of them joined forces, it would be useless. Under such a raging black tribulation of lightning, they did not have the will to die at first, and were quickly overwhelmed by the tribulation of lightning, their souls scattered.
"Ancestor!"
From the direction of the Imperial Clan, countless clansmen roared as they watched this scene unfold.
Buzz!
Just then, another strange phenomenon occurred in the North Sea. An old man's phantom appeared, riding a blue ox, dragging the entire North Sea Ruins, and taking over from the five imperial ancestors, crashing into the black lightning curtain.
However, this only reduced a small portion of the tribulation lightning's power.
"well…… "
"It's finally come to this!"
"Having overcome countless dangers, I still failed to achieve true immortality!"
In the direction of Beiju Luzhou, Luo Xihe sighed, his breathing technique resonating with heaven and earth. His body began to sublimate and burn, like a firefly, burning away all his potential in a few breaths in exchange for a brief stay on the path of immortality.
"Hahaha, life is about dying, so let's just die!"
Luo Xihe laughed loudly, carrying a gloomy purple moon on his back, and crashed into the layers of world-destroying calamity.
"We respectfully bid farewell to our ancestor!"
Behind him, the entire Luoshen Dynasty knelt in worship, their eyes filled with tears.
In the Northern Continent, countless sword cultivators wielded their swords, their voices ringing out in unison.
Ten days later, the fifth tribulation of lightning dissipated.
Immediately following, the sixth tribulation of lightning arrived as scheduled.
At this moment, Xiao Xuan had just completed his tribulation, his body enveloped in immortal light, and his entire life level had undergone a great leap.
He appeared beneath the cataclysmic event.
Ten thousand lightning bolts poured down like a vast ocean.
However, Xiao Xuan now possessed terrifyingly surging blood and qi, with all 108,000 acupoints in his body fully open, bursting forth with immortal light. Dozens of powerful techniques and spells bloomed and converged on his fists, allowing him to withstand the cataclysmic calamity and, incidentally, hone his immortal body.
Ten days later, his vital energy began to wane, but the lightning tribulation above his head had dissipated by more than half. Only then did he summon the Reincarnation Pagoda, his Dharma body reaching ten thousand feet tall, piercing the heavens and earth, rumbling and spinning, with the power of time flowing on the pagoda. In just a few days, the sixth layer of world-destroying tribulation above the sky dissipated.
However, Xiao Xuan did not retreat, but chose to continue resisting the seventh cataclysmic calamity.
He knew that the cataclysmic event would become increasingly powerful as it progressed, and the more he could withstand it, the greater his master's chances of victory would be.
He no longer had much strength left, but he had already planned ahead. He had absorbed half of the nation's fortune into his body. Although this would have a great impact on the empire, if the cataclysmic disaster could not be stopped, the lives of humankind would be shattered even more severely.
"Siwu, you may leave."
"Master, I can still hold on. Let me hold them off a little longer."
Xiao Xuan said firmly.
The seventh tribulation of lightning descended.
Xiao Xuan resisted for several days, and the lightning tribulation dissipated by more than half. However, Xiao Xuan's Dharma body was completely shattered, and both his physical body and soul were on the verge of being torn apart.
On Turtle Mountain, Qin Shou frowned deeply as he watched this scene. At the same time, a divine being emerged from within him, wearing a Celestial Emperor Bell on his head and Thunder Emperor Armor, wielding several celestial swords, and soaring across the sky. He cleaved the heavens with a single sword strike and said to Xiao Xuan, "Go then."
"Yes, Master."
Xiao Xuan glanced back at the mortal realm one last time. Before leaving, he unleashed several sword energies that struck the five great imperial clans, expressing his dissatisfaction.
Then it ascended to heaven.
Half a month later, the seventh cataclysmic event dissipated.
The eighth cataclysmic calamity arrives, and the supreme god is destroyed.
When the Qin Beast arrived in its true form, it was covered with 100,000 carefully prepared talismans, 3,000 large formations, more than ten immortal artifacts protecting it, and countless powerful techniques and spells, which barely managed to block the eighth cataclysmic calamity.
At this point, only one of the nine layers of world-destroying calamity remains.
However, at this moment, the entire world was already shattered, with countless large holes cracked in the sky, and endless black water poured down from the heavens, engulfing the human world.
These black liquids contain a strange power that erodes all the energy in this world. Even powerful beings who have transcended tribulation cannot repair the hole in the sky...
Boom!!!
The ninth cataclysmic tribulation surpassed all previous ones, with a full million lightning bolts that truly resembled the destruction of the world.
Qin Shou had already exhausted most of his magical power while resisting the eighth cataclysmic tribulation. Now he could only use all his means to resist it. However, after only a few dozen rounds, Qin Shou was bleeding from all seven orifices, his sea of consciousness was depleted, and even the immortal scriptures flowing on his body were collapsing and disappearing.
This ninth tribulation of lightning is truly terrifying.
In an instant, Qin Shou swallowed tens of thousands of pills and used the Chaos Immortal Scripture with all his might, transforming them all into power that flowed through his palms, supporting the vast sky.
At this moment, even with his unimaginably powerful physical body, he almost couldn't withstand the vast and boundless violent medicinal power.
Boom!!
At the same time, Qin Shou's Dharma body was expanding continuously. This was the first time he had exerted his full strength since entering the Immortal Path. He had no scruples and no way to scruples anymore. Previously, he did not go all out because he had not encountered anything that required his full strength, and because he was afraid of being detected and rejected by the Heavenly Dao of this place. But now he had no other choice.
They could only resist the rejection of Heaven's will while simultaneously resisting the cataclysmic calamity that would destroy the world.
Rumble!
In the blink of an eye, the immortal body grew to a million feet tall, reaching the heavens and the earth, and even opening up the passage between immortals and mortals.
In an instant, many powerful beings in this world whose lifespans were nearing their end, or who felt that this world was about to perish, saw this scene and ascended to the heavens, attempting to fight their way into the Immortal Realm.
Seeing this, the Qin Beast covered the sky with its palm, grabbed all these creatures, and devoured them with the Devouring Immortal Technique to replenish its own energy.
"Roar!"
He roared desperately, his million-foot-tall Dharma body shrouded in a hazy celestial light, with a million black lightning bolts swirling above it like giant dragons. His feet, which had been suspended in mid-air, were now forced to step onto the land of the Divine Continent. Countless mountains and rivers began to crumble inch by inch, volcanoes erupted, tsunamis filled the sky, and countless chaotic energies shattered the heavens and earth...
"Alas... this is the end of the world, a time of utter devastation!"
On the summit of Turtle Mountain, Song Ningsheng gazed at this scene and let out a heavy sigh.
Immediately, with a thought, an endless golden scroll unfolded in the void, extending outwards and continuously spreading out as if it had no end.
"With my current strength, I am still somewhat lacking in the ability to unite the Dao of the entire Tianxuan Continent. But now, there is no other way."
"Alas... if this continues, before this cataclysmic calamity ends, this world will be completely shattered."
rustling...
Just then, under the old mulberry tree, the huge golden cocoon turned into specks of golden light and slowly dissipated, revealing a snow-white, jade-like monk inside.
Having attained enlightenment for seven hundred years, he has already reached the level of a half-Buddha.
Even the old mulberry tree above his head was enveloped in a layer of Buddhist light, as if it possessed a spiritual aura.
"Amitabha Buddha, Benefactor Song, please allow this humble monk to lend you a hand."
The Holy Buddha drew a few strokes on the old mulberry tree with his fingers, then clasped his hands together, and his entire body burned into a golden relic, which flew into Song Ningsheng's brow.
"Thank you, Master."
Ultimately, Song Ningsheng chose to merge with the Divine Strategy, unite with the Dao of the Heavenly Profound Continent, and protect its mountains and rivers.
In an instant, the shattered mountains and rivers were enveloped in a faint golden light, and then slowly returned to their original state. This scene stretched endlessly until it covered the entire Tianxuan Continent.
One month later.
The Ninefold Cataclysm has finally come to an end.
Qin Shou was exhausted, and his Dharma body could no longer hold on. It slowly dissipated, and his whole body, covered in blood, swayed and staggered as he fell from the void.
On the earth, golden light converged into a giant energy hand that held up the Qin beast.
Qin Shou stood on the giant hand, supporting his body, and gazed calmly at the sky.
However, at that moment, something happened that broke his defenses.
After the nine tribulations dissipated, a tenth tribulation was born in the world in a very short time.
? ? ?
For a moment, Qin Shou was completely stunned.
Meanwhile, on Turtle Mountain, in a bamboo house, Yi Cheng, who was fast asleep, suddenly opened his eyes the moment the ninth cataclysmic event dissipated.
Her body floated uncontrollably into the sky, beneath the tenth tribulation of lightning.
"One orange!!!"
Qin Shou was stunned by this scene and shouted, "Come down quickly, don't go up!"
Rumble!
Just then, thunder roared, and a ray of light suddenly appeared from the pitch-black lightning tribulation, followed by two, three, four...
A moment later, the entire patch of pitch-black lightning transformed into a colorful burst of light, three thousand colors in total, like three thousand crystalline chains of different attributes rushing into Yi Cheng's body and being completely absorbed by the black hole-like golden core within her.
Boom—!!!
At the same time, beneath that black sky, a strange phenomenon seemed to appear.
The strange phenomenon was a chaotic void, where a chubby little girl's Dharma body burst forth from the heavens and earth, her large belly protruding. What was terrifying was that countless stars seemed to rotate within that belly, like a miniature universe, emanating a profound, terrifying, and mysterious aura...
"Roar~"
Ultimately, all these strange phenomena shattered into fragments amidst the roar of the 'giant' in the image.
"Master—Master! Why is the goose flying?"
Yi Cheng blinked her sleepy little eyes, rubbed them, and cried out incoherently before flying out of the sky.
[Qin Beast, congratulations! Your disciple, Yi Cheng, has successfully transcended his tribulation and advanced to the Great Ascension Realm (True Immortal). You are rewarded with a "Silver Fortune Card." Would you like to participate in the lottery?]
"Yi Cheng!!! Come back quickly!!!"
Qin Shou used his last bit of strength to reach out a large hand to try and pull Yi Cheng back, but his giant energy hand seemed to be transparent, passing right through Yi Cheng's body and unable to stop him.
"One orange! One orange!!!"
Qin Shou roared repeatedly, but to no avail. He could only watch helplessly as Yi Cheng disappeared behind the lightning tribulation.
Finally, having no other choice, he could only shout a few words:
"Yi Cheng, behave yourself in the Upper Realm, don't fight, and ask for food when you're hungry..."
"Wait for your master to come up and find you!!!"
......
......
"Master, it seems the goose had a very long dream?"
"Oh, how long is it?"
"The goose doesn't know, it's just very, very long."
"So what did you dream about?"
"The goose dreamt that Siwu was waving to it. The goose also dreamt that its senior sister was holding it and spinning it around among many flowers. She said... she said..."
"What did she say?"
"She said the goose has gotten fatter again, sigh..."
"How did you reply?"
"The goose says it misses her, goose, goose, goose, Master, isn't the goose clever?"
"Clever, very clever."
......
......
"Master, the goose went upstairs to play with my senior sister!"
"The Four Nothings are also on top."
"Huh! Then let's find Siwu first, and then take Siwu to find Senior Sister. Master, you need to take good care of Dabao at home."
"OK…… "
...
...
"Yi Cheng, Master also had a dream."
"What kind of dream did you have?"
"Master dreamt that you flew away, were abducted by human traffickers, and could never find your way home again."
"Master, no, the goose has found its way home."
"Really? "
"Really, really, Master, the goose is so smart now!"
"Hmm, that's smarter..."
Many years later, on the mountaintop, the immortal awoke from his dream.
The peach blossoms were still in full bloom that day, and the afternoon sun was shining brightly.
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