Mountains and rivers collapsed and lightning raged.

The spiritual forbidden formations hidden in the mountains had long been shattered by the thunder, and the entire mountain range was shattered by the thunder clouds.

Liu Qingqing looked at the surrounding environment, a hint of amazement flashed in her eyes.

It’s not like she had never seen a Nascent Soul tribulation before, but she had never experienced such a terrifying tribulation.

When she was going through the heavenly tribulation that year, even with the protection of her senior brothers from the sect, the power of the heavenly tribulation she brought about was not even one-fifth of the power of the scene before her.

Even with such power, she still almost died from the heavenly calamity.

It took him more than ten years of recuperation to finally stabilize his Nascent Soul stage.

This also shows that the talents of those who are transcending tribulation here are outstanding in the world of immortal cultivation.

Looking at the broken earth around her, Liu Qingqing had no intention of getting closer. She knew that if she moved forward at this time, she would easily be misunderstood.

…

Inside the big pit in the center of the thunderstorm.

The Yin-Yang Nascent Soul flashed with spiritual light, and after circling outside Shen Lian's body twice, it was taken back into his Dantian.

Shen Lian squinted his eyes and quietly experienced the changes in his body.

At the fourth level of Nascent Soul Realm, one has the qualifications to be called the patriarch in the entire world of immortal cultivation.

His Nascent Soul was intertwined with black and white, absorbing the Yin and Yang energies from the sea of ​​​​Dantian, and building a new cycle of magic power with the main body.

The Nascent Soul Realm is far more mysterious than the previous three realms. First of all, the lifespan increases directly to three thousand years.

Overall, compared with the previous Golden Core Tribulation, although the nine thunder tribulations this time were more powerful, he was well prepared, as he only had one more foreign demon invasion.

The last, ninth thunder tribulation was extremely terrifying. Even though the physical cultivator had entered the fourth level after being baptized by the previous thunder tribulation, he was still severely injured by the last thunder tribulation.

Fortunately, after the thunder tribulation, the order of heaven and earth gave feedback, which not only repaired the injuries but also pushed the realm into the early Nascent Soul stage in one fell swoop.

Dharma cultivator, early Nascent Soul stage.

Physical cultivation, fourth level, lower grade.

Only the spirit body remained unchanged.

The mysterious creation that came from the baptism of thunder, after raising the realm of physical cultivation, did not lead to the improvement of the spiritual body.

After the baptism of the heavenly tribulation, the power of his soul increased by thirty-six thousand feet, which made Shen Lian's spiritual strength reach a terrifying thirty-four thousand feet.

"The authority of heaven and earth is granted to living beings."

In the big pit, Shen Lian squinted his eyes, recalling the process of overcoming the tribulation.

He did not think that he could have sensed the runes controlled by the foreign demons incorrectly; they were the manifestation of the rules governing the operation of heaven and earth.

But why was it controlled by foreign demons?

However, the seemingly unreasonable situation is somewhat reasonable if you think about it carefully. Now the world is in the midst of a catastrophe, and the monks are trying to fish in a dry pond in order to practice, and a crazy trend has emerged.

The order of heaven and earth grants authority to foreign demons, allowing them to block the path of continued improvement for cultivators, directly strangling the cultivators' path to advancement from the source. It makes sense, doesn't it?

As for the foreign demon's talk of leading him to heaven and contributing to the peace of heaven and earth, Shen Lian felt that the foreign demon was just trying to trick him into giving up resistance.

Later, the nine heavenly tribulations came one after another, which showed that the order of heaven and earth should still be normal in testing the cultivation realm of cultivators.

If the order of heaven and earth really wanted to destroy the world and start over, then there would be no need to go through so much trouble. It would be enough to just cause the sky to collapse and the earth to split.

The emergence of such an obviously contradictory scene can only mean one thing.

The order of heaven and earth is in this choice between destruction and tolerance.

On the one hand, it wants to kill all living things and recover itself, while on the other hand, it continues to maintain the order of the operation of heaven and earth and allow things to reproduce.

Thinking of this, Shen Lian spread his hands. What could he do?

The world has become what it is today, and it is not something that happened overnight, but has been doing so since the Middle Ages or even ancient times.

Generation after generation of cultivators have used a method of cultivation that is like fishing in a dried-up pond. They only consume energy without replenishing it. Even if the world is vast and the spiritual essences are countless, they will not be able to sustain it.

This method of cultivating immortals that only allows going out but not coming in is not very good. It is not a big deal for low-level cultivators, after all, their strength is low. However, high-level cultivators, such as the Nascent Soul and the Divine Transformation, already have the ability to go outside the world and give back to their own world of cultivation.

Born and raised here, it shouldn't be difficult to have the ability to go out and get some spiritual essence to give back to the hometown.

Why did it become like this?

"Oh."

At this moment, Shen Lian suddenly thought of the third-level star tree in his cave, which he had obtained in the market of Huo Qian Zhenren in Tianzhu Mountain. (Chapter 156) At that time, the roots of the star tree were broken, and the spiritual fruit was shriveled, and it was forcibly pulled down from the place where it grew.

Didn't the monk who took out the Star Tree know that he would destroy the Star Tree? Of course he knew.

But knowing is one thing, and how to do it is another.

The destroyed star tree can also be sold for some spirit stones, which is also one's own gain. But if one does not take them for the sake of protecting the star tree, then they will be given to others for nothing.

How to choose?

Naturally, he put the spirit stones in his pocket. As for the star tree being destroyed, let it be destroyed. It is better than not getting any spirit stones at all.

Shen Lian didn't laugh at others. If he didn't have the opportunity, he might have done something even more disgusting than this.

Everyone is like this, and this is how the world of immortal cultivation is.

Of course, not everyone is like this, for example, Fu Ding of Sanlin Temple, this man has an immortal demeanor, and he kills demons and defends Taoism.

But facing the overwhelming situation, with demons everywhere, how many demons can Sanlin Temple kill? It's difficult.

Shen Lian sighed. It was nothing more than a cause for every effect. What he encountered when he was undergoing the Nascent Soul Tribulation, other cultivators would also encounter in different ways.

No one can escape from the overwhelming trend.

"I feel so wronged. In ancient times, when everyone became immortal, it was not my turn. In the Middle Ages, when physical cultivation flourished, it was not my turn. Now, it is my turn when the heaven-sent killing calamity falls."

"Hasn't my cultivation as an immortal been in vain?"

"Hehe."

Immediately, Shen Lian exhaled violently, trying to spit out the blocked air in his heart.

But after spitting out a mouthful, he still felt uncomfortable.

It's really unfair! We were not there when it was time to eat meat, but now it's our turn to be executed by slow slicing. Who can we turn to for justice?

He summoned the Five Elements Ship and muttered a few words to the "Heaven and Earth" tablet on the ship.

"Every wrong has its perpetrator, you should kill those gods first. I'm only a Yuanying, so it's not my turn to queue up."

…

After a moment, Shen Lian flew into the air and suddenly felt the cool wind whistling around him.

He looked at his body and immediately took out a robe and put it on himself.

“Hehe.

Liu Qingqing covered her mouth and chuckled, not caring about the stunning glimpse she saw from a distance.

She moved lightly with lotus steps and said with a smile: "Yuxuan Sect Liu Qingqing congratulates Daoyou on your Yuanying Great Success. There is hope for you to become an immortal!"

Shen Lian came to the Western Continent to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, but he didn't just dive in without paying attention to anything else.

Before coming here, he also learned about the Western Continent, which was a bit worse than the Southern Continent as a whole.

In addition, there is no sect called Yuxuan Sect on the Western Continent, and there is no female cultivator with a Nascent Soul that looks like this.

There is none in the Central Continent either.

So, Shen Lian already had some guesses about the origins of this female cultivator.

However, this female cultivator had been very well-behaved since her appearance. She did not take advantage of him when he was undergoing the tribulation, and she was also polite after the tribulation. This left Shen Lian with a good impression of her.

He bowed to the female cultivator from a distance, "Thank you for your courtesy, fellow Taoist."

"May I ask your name, fellow Taoist? Which sect in the Tiannan Continent are you from?"

After saying a few simple words, Liu Qingqing began to ask.

"I am just a casual cultivator, without the protection of a sect. As for a Taoist name, I don't really have one. My name is Wang Teng, and you can call me Fellow Daoist Wang."

Shen Lian's expression was indifferent, but he was sensing Liu Qingqing's changes with his divine sense. He did not forget the unstable things outside the Tiannan immortal cultivation world.

This made Shen Lian a little confused. Is he someone who needs pity?

"It is truly not easy for Daoist friend to achieve Nascent Soul cultivation at the age of over 800 years old as a casual cultivator."

After listening to Shen Lian's story, Liu Qingqing showed a trace of emotion.

The fact that he reached the Nascent Soul stage at the age of eight hundred was naturally made up by Shen Lian. He would never dare to say that his life span was less than three hundred years and that he was a cultivator with five spiritual roots.

When Liu Qingqing arrived, he had just gone through the last thunder tribulation, so he did not realize that he had gone through the ninth thunder tribulation. He just felt that the aura of the thunder tribulation was so terrifying.

In addition, the five elements of spiritual power that were dissipating all around were filled with broken fragments of the five elements' formations.

It is normal for cultivators to set up formations to overcome tribulations, and cultivators, no matter what kind of spiritual roots they have, all have a special liking for formations that have all five elements.

At this moment, a sword light shot out from the distance.

On the spiritual sword surrounded by a ball of flames was a middle-aged man in red.

Seeing this, Shen Lian reacted instantly, "Fellow Daoist Liu, do you know this person?"

"Don't panic, my friend. The person coming is my sect leader, Senior Brother."

Even though Liu Qingqing said so, Shen Lian still stepped back and took a defensive stance.

"Congratulations to fellow Daoist on achieving Nascent Soul."

The red-robed monk crossed a thousand feet in one step and clasped his fists towards Shen Lian across the void.

"Yuxuan Sect's Zhou Changqing."

Shen Lian also bowed. Although Zhou Changqing was a cultivator in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, his spiritual power was no worse than Zhou Changqing's. After careful sensing, he found that Zhou Changqing did not have any unusual behavior.

The corners of Liu Qingqing's mouth moved quickly, and Zhou Changqing nodded after receiving the message.

"Fellow Daoist Wang is a casual cultivator?"

"Yes." Shen Lian nodded.

At this time, Shen Lian noticed that Zhou Changqing frowned, and there was a hint of consideration in his expression, as if he was making some decision.

"Since Fellow Daoist Wang is a casual cultivator without any sect or faction, are you interested in coming to my Yuxuan Sect?"

Zhou Changqing looked at Shen Lian as he spoke. He rushed here after receiving the message from his junior sister. After arriving here, he also checked out the surrounding environment.

He also had his own judgment in his mind. If Shen Lian was a cultivator from a local sect in the Tiannan Immortal Realm, it would be impossible for him to come to such a barren place to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

It is even more impossible that there is no protection from fellow monks.

"Invite me to join the sect?"

Hearing Zhou Changqing's words, Shen Lian was stunned for a moment.

What does this mean? "Fellow Daoist, what are the benefits of letting me join your sect?"

Shen Lian took a look at the two people opposite him. Apart from anything else, the impression these two people gave him after their appearance was indeed good. They did not have the attitude of taking advantage of others' misfortune.

"Um……"

When Liu Qingqing heard Shen Lian asking for benefits, she was startled and stared at Shen Lian.

"You."

Is a Yuanying so shameless? He has already started to sell himself before he even enters the door.

"Fellow Daoist Wang, you may not know that it is very dangerous outside. My senior brother invited you to join the sect for your own good."

Liu Qingqing felt a little resentful, but when she thought about it, the person in front of her had just passed the tribulation and was just a small golden elixir before. How could he know the dangers outside the continent.

The senior brother invited him to join the sect, which would not only allow the sect to have one more Nascent Soul cultivator, but also save his life.

When Liu Qingqing was about to elaborate, Zhou Changqing waved his hand and said first: "After Daoyou joined my Yuxuan Sect, you became equal to my brothers and sisters, and we are all Yuanying ancestors of the sect."

Zhou Changqing's tone makes people feel like they are in the spring breeze, and there is a lot of sincerity in his words.

"In addition, if you join our sect and formally worship the ancestor, you can choose any of the four-level spiritual vein caves in the sect. Your salary and the borrowing of sect classics will be the same as ours."

"As a casual cultivator, you should know the hardships of casual cultivators over the past few hundred years. My Yuxuan Sect has been passed down for 36,000 years. Although it is not one of those big sects, our ancestors have produced two great cultivators in the late Nascent Soul stage. The cultivation experience left by these ancestors will also be of great help to you in the Nascent Soul stage."

Shen Lian touched his nose. Nascent Soul cultivators are different. Someone came to invite him right after he advanced to the next stage.

"Well, can I ask how many immortal mountains our Yuxuan Sect has and where the immortality is?"

Shen Lian looked at the two people in front of him and had already made up his mind. Since someone invited him to go out and take a look, it would be nice.

It is better to be invited by Yuxuan Sect than to wander out by yourself and encounter other dangers.

"Puchi." Liu Qingqing covered her mouth and chuckled, "In addition to me and my senior brother, my Yuxuan Sect also has a Nascent Soul cultivator who is in charge of the sect."

"As for the sect's headquarters, it is far away in the Xuanyou Immortal Cultivation Realm."

At this point, Liu Qingqing's expression changed, "Daoyou, remember, after leaving the continent, never say that you are from the Tiannan Xiuxian Realm."

"Remember!"

"What?"

Shen Lian frowned.

…

Three days later, on a huge spirit boat in the void outside the Tiannan Continent.

"Thank you, Brother Zhou, for your help."

Shen Lian stood up and bowed to Zhou Changqing.

On the other hand, although Zhou Changqing accepted the gift, there was a hint of helplessness and a bitter smile on his face.

“Junior Brother Wang, remember, once you leave the continent, you must not say that you came from Tiannan Continent, otherwise my Yuxuan Sect may also be implicated.”

Zhou Changqing is a nice person.

After a few days of contact, Shen Lian made a judgment in his mind.

Just as Li Yang said before, the area near Tiannan Continent is indeed a hunting ground.

The so-called hunting ground is not just the Tiannan Immortal Realm, but like the Tiannan Immortal Realm, the outermost continent surrounding the entire Great Immortal Realm has been identified as a resource place by the central area of ​​the Immortal Realm.

The entire world of immortal cultivation can now be seen as three concentric circles. The most core area is the eighteen immortal cultivation worlds. Each of these eighteen immortal cultivation worlds has more than one god-transforming ancestor.

The second concentric circle consists of the three hundred immortal cultivation worlds, including the Xuanyou immortal cultivation world.

The third concentric circle is the immortal cultivation world on the edge of Tiannan.

According to Zhou Changqing, there was a fourth concentric circle a long time ago, and it was even outside the circle where the Tiannan Immortal Cultivation World was located.

Unfortunately, the world of immortal cultivation in this fourth concentric circle has long disappeared.

The overlord of Xuanyou Continent is the Xuanyou Clan, with the ancestor of the God Transformation in charge of the clan. Zhou Changqing and his sister came to Tiannan precisely on the orders of the Xuanyou Clan.

As for why he should listen to the Xuanyou clan, Zhou Changqing didn't want to listen, but the Yuxuan clan had been passed down in the Xuanyou continent for 36,000 years, with hundreds of thousands of disciples and followers, and involving hundreds of millions of mortals.

But after seeing that Shen Lian had just survived the tribulation, he still felt a little reluctant to take him back.

It was also Shen Lian's good luck. The Five Elements Immortal Palace was about to descend again, and many Nascent Soul cultivators stationed in the nearby area had left. Otherwise, Zhou Changqing would not have dared to pull Shen Lian into his own sect so blatantly.

“Junior brother, although we are all Nascent Souls, we are still ants in the eyes of the Spiritual Transformation.”

Liu Qingqing took a few steps forward and gently patted Shen Lian on the shoulder. In her opinion, Shen Lian was in a quite normal state. Anyone would feel sad if they knew that the local immortal cultivation world where they had practiced for hundreds of years had already been divided up by others.

"My brother and I have no other options. Over the years, we have secretly sent some good talents back to the sect, but it is ultimately a drop in the bucket and cannot counter the general trend."

"Are they really going to sacrifice all the living beings in Tiannan?"

"Junior brother, you have practiced for hundreds of years, why don't you understand? The vast Tiannan is so vast, how could it be destroyed? Firstly, the seven major sects of Tiannan will not be destroyed. Secondly, the spiritual tribe and the sea tribe of Tiannan also have a way out."

"Grass."

Liu Qingqing's words made Shen Lian curse in his heart.

So the unlucky ones are just ordinary creatures, right?

(End of this chapter)