Time flies, the sun and moon pass by, and three thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Hu Le was practicing magic in the palace.
In the depths of his mind, he sensed an aura of decay descending from the sky and enveloping him.
In his perception, this energy came from nothingness, invisible and intangible, yet it truly existed and there was nowhere to escape it.
An aura of decay enveloped him, and his face aged imperceptibly, emanating an aura of decay.
He knew that the first of the five tribulations of decay in the heavens and man, the tribulation of lifespan, had already arrived.
As the aura of corruption accumulated on him, his hair turned gray, and his face became covered with wrinkles.
As the stench of decay dissipated within the hall, the tables, beams, and pillars began to rot away little by little, as if they had withstood the erosion of millions of years in an instant.
The river of time flowed behind Hu Le, brushing over him and constantly taking away his lifespan.
He could clearly feel that his lifespan was disappearing like a dam breaking. In the darkness, he could see the end of the river of time, a peaceful place where there was no life or death, and where time and space stood still.
As his lifespan continued to slip away, the vitality within him rapidly dissipated.
This was a calamity sent down by the Heavenly Dao, which could not be avoided. He adjusted his mind to a state of neither sorrow nor joy, letting the river of time wash over him and continuously take away his lifespan.
In the blink of an eye, his lifespan had reached immeasurable eons.
Once this calamity arrives, for countless beings in the world, apart from the immortal and indestructible Primordial Saints who will exist for all eternity, even those at the level of Great Luo Golden Immortals, only death awaits them.
Even if someone escapes the calamity of death, or even the final calamity of the destruction of heaven and earth, they will ultimately not escape the calamity of dying of old age.
The immeasurable eons will be the end of heaven and earth and all living beings. Since everything ends, it must include the lifespan of all living beings.
Immeasurable calamity energy rose from the depths of Hu Le's spiritual platform, transforming into a streak of light that swept towards his primordial spirit.
He knew this was the final test.
Under no circumstances should you be struck by this immeasurable calamity.
Otherwise, once tainted by even a trace of calamity, even if one barely survives this period of declining lifespan, one will inevitably be forever plagued by calamities, with no hope of ever escaping them...
In the darkness, he sensed the approaching calamity, and he quickly transformed his primordial spirit into light and fled, thus avoiding the onslaught of the calamity.
However, this attack had barely ended when the next wave of calamity swept in.
He activated his primordial spirit and dodged again in a flash.
However, this calamity seems to be endless; as soon as one calamity is over, another one follows closely behind.
In the blink of an eye, he had dodged eight scourges.
At this moment, his mind suddenly became clear. Nine is the extreme of numbers. As long as he can avoid it one more time, the immeasurable calamity energy brewing deep in his Purple Mansion Spirit Platform will disappear, and he will have passed this test of heaven and man.
As this thought arose in his mind, the last and most concentrated calamity energy had already locked onto the location of his primordial spirit, transforming into an invisible force that swept over him.
Sensing the presence of the invisible calamity, he leaped into the void, dodging the onslaught, and shouted, "My lifespan is now complete!"
The immeasurable calamity energy receded like a tide in the next instant.
Arriving suddenly, retreating just as abruptly.
In a short while, a golden bell rang loudly above Penglai Immortal Island, celestial music filled the air, and the sky shone brightly, casting down boundless auspicious light and auspicious energy into the Lingyun Palace.
As Hu Le sat cross-legged on the cloud bed, bathed in auspicious light, his originally aged face began to look young again, as if the power of time was constantly receding from him.
As the celestial music faded and the auspicious light and auspicious energy disappeared into nothingness, Hu Le regained his original appearance, still as young and full of vitality as ever.
Hu Le sat on the cloud bed, suppressing his joy at having survived the tribulation. After a slight sense of awareness, his mind suddenly froze.
Before the five signs of decay in the gods.
He could still sense the existence of his own lifespan. At that time, even though his lifespan was like the ocean, seemingly endless, he could still feel its existence.
But after this ordeal, he could no longer sense the existence of his lifespan.
It was as if he himself no longer had the concept of lifespan.
At that moment, he finally realized.
This is true immortality!
Since lifespan has disappeared, there is no longer any need for the quantifier of age.
The river of time washes away everything, and from then on, it could no longer take away his lifespan.
It is inherently empty, so how can it be said to exist?
...
The first tribulation of the Five Decays of the Celestial Beings passed without incident, but Hu Le dared not be careless at all.
This is only the first hurdle; the trials to come will likely become increasingly difficult.
After all, the Great Luo Dao Fruit is not so easy to verify.
There are countless cultivators and Qi refiners throughout the entire prehistoric world, but how many are there actually Great Luo Dao Lords?
Whether in the past, present, or future, how many people will fall on the path to attaining the Great Luo Dao Fruit?
It could be said that the path to attaining the Great Luo Dao Fruit was already paved with corpses, and he didn't want to become one of them due to a moment of carelessness...
The strange phenomenon that had just occurred naturally alarmed everyone on the island, but once they saw that it was happening behind Lingyun Palace, almost everyone gave up on paying attention.
As the master of Penglai Island, Hu Le is someone that most people wouldn't dare to meddle in.
Only a few of Hu Le's disciples, relying on their close relationship, came to Lingyun Palace to request an audience. Hu Le had just survived the Heavenly Tribulation and was in a good mood, so he let them in.
The four entered the hall and, led by Guan Kong, bowed to Hu Le in greeting.
Hu Le ordered them to stand up and swept his divine sense over them.
Over the years, Guan Kong had already used the Innate Ren Water Pearl to condense a mouthful of water-elemental profound energy, which was now being used to impact the next acupoint of the five internal organs.
Yuan Huang's cultivation has also made great progress over the years, and the Three Flowers are almost ready to be successfully condensed.
As for Kongkong'er and Jingjing'er, they were in the same boat, their internal magical power was extremely abundant, and they were about to be qualified to break through to the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top realm.
"Why aren't you cultivating properly in the back mountains? What brings you here?" Hu Le asked with a smile.
"My disciples just noticed some unusual phenomena here, so they came to greet their teacher," Guan Kong replied with a smile.
Yuan Huang, standing to the side, also said, "Could it be that Master has made a great breakthrough in his cultivation? Or has he cultivated a supreme divine power?"
Upon hearing this, Kongkong'er and Jingjing'er looked at their teacher with curiosity.
Hu Le shook his head and chuckled, but his questions were not answered. "Why are you asking so many questions? Do you think you can interfere with your teacher's affairs?"
It wasn't that he wanted to keep it a secret from his disciples; it was mainly because their cultivation was still shallow, and the matter of the Five Signs of Decay of Heaven and Man was too far removed from them. Even if they knew, it would only add to their troubles...
"This disciple dares not."
Yuan Huang wasn't afraid of Hu Le's reprimand. She smiled and apologized, but it didn't seem very sincere...
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