Chapter 346: Heavenly Tribulation Attracts Cattle

Xu Qing was very satisfied with the shadow's promotion.

The secret technique transformed after fusing with his own body made him even more shocked.

This could basically be seen as a trump card, having similarities to the secret technique unfolded by the Red Woman he encountered back then.

It was just that the Red Woman summoned a battle soul into her body, while Xu Qing transformed himself into a pure and ultimate body-tempering cultivator.

"Now, the life lamps and poison on me are no longer secrets, so my first secret right now is the existence of the shadow, and the Red Woman's weapon also gave me a basis."

"Once the shadow is exposed in the future, I will use this method to cover it up, so it won't attract too much attention."

"And the second secret is the Nine Springs and this secret technique of the shadow. The former is fine; for the latter, I need to think of a plausible incantation to chant during battle, so I can cover it up, and it can also play an unexpected role at some moment in the future."

"The third secret is the technique I possess to generate strange substances."

"Finally, the fourth secret is still the purple crystal."

Xu Qing sorted out his mind. After his heart became increasingly stable, his gaze swept over the coffin-shaped shadow.

"I wonder what shape the shadow will change into next time it promotes?"

In Xu Qing's view, the shape formed by the shadow this time must have more wonders, but now was not the time to inquire, as the shadow did not describe many things very clearly.

At this time, Xu Qing thought of the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor, so he looked over.

The current Jin Gang Sect Ancestor was very miserable.

His body was trembling, and countless lightning bolts permeated his entire body. As they wandered continuously, they would occasionally drill into his body. With them going in and out, the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor would sometimes be unable to help but let out miserable screams.

But the Ancestor wanted dignity.

Amidst this intense pain, he saw the shadow's provocative gaze and Xu Qing's expectant eyes. These immediately caused madness to appear in the Ancestor's eyes.

He was now a lightning spirit, and originally needed a period of nourishment before he could gather a heavenly tribulation of spirit-to-soul transformation to attempt to withstand the baptism of the heavenly tribulation.

But now, he couldn't care about these. With the rapid progress gained from devouring the mirror artifact spirits, he mobilized all his lightning power, let out a shrill roar toward the sky, formed seals with both hands, and pointed upward.

"Tribulation, come!"

The next instant, countless lightning bolts erupted from the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor's body, forming dazzling light that charged directly into the soil above.

The lightning drilled out along the soil, forming countless arc-shaped electric lights in the canyon outside, finally gathering into a thick lightning river that rushed toward the firmament.

The black clouds in the firmament roared, actually being pierced through by the river formed by the lightning. Amidst violent rolling, an earth-shattering clap of thunder suddenly exploded amidst the clouds and mist above.

Following the rumbling echoes of the sound, strands of red lightning wandered within the clouds and mist, quickly condensing together to form a red thunderbolt.

It seemed to carry a certain sense of extremity, falling abruptly.

It rushed toward the earth, toward the canyon, toward the cave deep underground.

It came with a boom.

At the same time, within this Sword Forbidden Land, in a jungle some distance from where Xu Qing broke through, the Captain was fleeing madly at an astonishing speed. Wherever he passed, cold air dissipated, causing everything behind him to be frozen.

His face was flushed, his eyes carried light, and neurotic laughter emanated from his mouth. He held a red fruit in his hand, and while laughing, he took a big bite.

"Good stuff, good stuff, an incomparably holy fruit born amidst extreme strange substances and evil. This thing is born in adversity and must be extraordinary. I smelled it from far away just now, hahaha... I'm going!"

Amidst this laughter, a piece of ghostly light suddenly flew out from behind him, arriving in an instant like a sharp blade, sweeping across. Trees shattered instantly upon touching it.

At this moment, it was approaching and looked like it was about to slash onto the Captain, but he twisted his weird body and dodged it rapidly, yet a portion of his hair was still cut off.

It could be considered as having passed right by his scalp.

The Captain took a breath, threw the fruit into his mouth, and swallowed it. While accelerating his escape without looking back, he suddenly saw the lightning in the firmament far away and heard the faint thunder, his eyes lighting up again.

"Another treasure? Should I go or not? It's a bit dangerous behind, especially since their patriarch seems to be about to wake up because I stimulated him. Too stingy."

While speaking, the Captain hesitated, but finally gritted his teeth fiercely and changed direction to rush over.

He felt that if he let it go like this, he would definitely regret it later.

Since that was the case, he would go and take a look. As long as he was fast enough, maybe he could kill two birds with one stone.

As for the patriarch of that clan, he had felt it before; the other party obviously had old injuries, and it wasn't that easy to wake up.

Moreover, there were some restrictions set up by the ten thousand clans there, which seemed to be to prevent the other party from escaping.

"Could it be one of the subordinates who once followed the Forbidden Land Emperor out? As a result, they were all suppressed by the ten thousand clans of Fenghai County. Although they escaped back and have been recuperating, they were still chased by the ten thousand clans and had restrictions added, making this forbidden land like a prison?"

"Sword Forbidden Land, Prison Land?"

The Captain was lost in thought. He thought of another name for this forbidden land. While running, he took out another red fruit and took a bite.

Behind him, the earth shook, trees collapsed, and a group of giants with six arms were taking big steps, chasing with anger.

These giants were each about ten zhang tall, with cyan skin and huge ears. The most eye-catching thing was their earlobes.

A large number of bells were tied there, emanating crisp sounds.

It was as if they had grown together with them; the previous ghostly light was emanated by the bells.

These people were precisely the special clan born within the forbidden land.

At this moment, each of them carried madness and killing intent in their eyes, chasing continuously. Among them, there were more than a dozen whose cultivation was at the Golden Core Realm.

Even more astonishing was their ancestral land behind them, which was where the Captain had run out from. At this moment, a breath of revival faintly emanated.

It was as if a great cultivator was waking up.

While the outside was chasing and killing madly, inside the canyon, Xu Qing was focused on gazing at the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor.

He saw countless red lightning bolts carrying a sense of extremity appearing abruptly from the soil, rushing straight toward the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor amidst the roaring.

The Ancestor's body trembled, letting out shrill screams. Countless red lightning bolts enveloped him, continuously destroying his own body while actually stimulating the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor's spirit body, causing it to rapidly sprout a large amount of red light.

His body was transforming from an artifact spirit into an artifact soul.

This light permeated the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor's riddled body, making him look extremely miserable and on the verge of death.

Yet, this red lightning actually made all the eyes on the little shadow shrink, revealing heaviness.

But soon it reacted, feeling that this was not good, so it resumed its contempt.

Xu Qing also saw the extraordinary nature of this red lightning. When brilliance appeared in his eyes, the lightning faintly dissipated. The screams in the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor's mouth turned into low roars, and the madness in his eyes became even more intense.

He had successfully survived this first wave of heavenly tribulation. At this moment, he sat cross-legged rapidly, continuously circulating the red light in his body to prepare for the next wave of heavenly tribulation.

It was just that his current body was extremely weak and tottering; the difficulty of surviving the second heavenly tribulation was extremely great.

As Xu Qing pondered, the firmament roared again, as if roars were emanating. Then, more blood threads permeated within the clouds, and the second heavenly tribulation descended abruptly.

Countless red lightning bolts formed blood-colored thunder, falling again, piercing through the earth, and looking like they were about to explode on the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor.

The Jin Gang Sect Ancestor opened his eyes, and just as despair appeared in his eyes, Xu Qing moved.

His body stepped out, arriving above the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor in an instant, and he pressed his right hand upward.

Immediately, his two canopies were revealed, and the exterior transformed into a Heavenly Palace, blocking the lightning.

Amidst the roaring, Xu Qing's body shook.

He felt the sense of extinction emanating from the sense of extremity contained within this red lightning, and also felt the confrontation between his own canopies and it in the dark, continuously canceling each other out.

He also tried to absorb it, but couldn't; there was no method of containment.

"This heavenly tribulation red thunder destroys the soul and cuts off the body."

"You Lingzi's promotion is a bit interesting."

Xu Qing muttered. This way of artifact spirit promotion was something Xu Qing had only seen on the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor.

At this moment, seeing that the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor had recovered a bit, Xu Qing pondered and lowered his head to look at the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor.

"Do you still want to continue?"

"Master, I..."

The Jin Gang Sect Ancestor just wanted to say he couldn't do it anymore, but after noticing the contempt and hostility in the little shadow's countless eyes on the side, he gritted his teeth fiercely and let out a roar.

"I can!"

Xu Qing nodded and retreated his body, no longer blocking the red lightning that had already been canceled out by more than half by him.

Thus, the next instant, the lightning fell abruptly, rushing straight toward the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor.

The Jin Gang Sect Ancestor roared, gritting his teeth to face it.

Following the explosion of the lightning, his body trembled even more, his own self became dim again, and his body was dissipating. It seemed that even like this, he could not withstand it.

The feeling of death surfaced in his heart.

The Jin Gang Sect Ancestor let out a miserable laugh. In this life, he had been steady, doing things cautiously. If he provoked an enemy, he would attack with all his might and destroy them at any cost; if that didn't work, he would rather relocate the sect to avoid them.

Even if he encountered them again and faced life and death, he would grit his teeth and solve it himself first, even if he had to kneel as a slave, he would do so without hesitation, all for the sake of living.

But now, he was in despair.

Amidst this despair, amidst the permeation of the lightning and his own dissipation, the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor let out a mad, miserable laugh.

He was not reconciled, and he suddenly had intense regret.

What he regretted was not attempting the breakthrough.

What he regretted was why he didn't fight more when he was young.

In his early years, for the sake of living, he didn't dare to fight for resources at the risk of his life, and couldn't open his life fire quickly.

He could only fantasize through those storybooks that he was the protagonist, fantasize that he was the other party, starting from the ordinary, until the peak of the blue clouds.

"I, You Lingzi, am also a person with aptitude!"

The Jin Gang Sect Ancestor raised his head, looked at Xu Qing, and spoke miserably.

"Demon Head Xu, I, You Lingzi, am also a person with opportunities!"

"Old Demon Xu, I, You Lingzi, am not born to be a slave!"

"How did it... become like this."

At this moment, recalling the past, he felt unreconciled, and then his emotions fluctuated violently, permeated by despair, madness, and regret. Especially feeling that he was about to die, many things he couldn't say, he didn't care about anymore.

This despair, due to the arrival of death, turned into extremity.

This madness was the same, and regret was even more so.

Xu Qing looked at the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor, sighed in his heart, and was about to take action to try to resolve it for him.

But just at this moment, at the moment when the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor's emotions were at the extreme before death, those red lightning bolts in his body actually paused completely.

After this pause, they seemed to resonate with the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor to a certain degree, as if they met the... conditions for containment.

Thus, in an instant, these lightning bolts gathered directly in the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor's body. After wandering for a circle, they caused all the places where the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor's body had dissipated to grow back.

But it was red!

At this moment, seventy percent of the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor's body was blood red, and the remaining thirty percent was normal, which meant his promotion was seventy percent complete.

Thirty percent was spirit, seventy percent was soul.

The heavenly tribulation dissipated.

The promotion was both a failure and a success.

The Jin Gang Sect Ancestor was stunned, lowered his head to look at his body, and confusion appeared in his eyes.

Then it turned into ecstasy, but the next instant, he thought of his previous roars, his face turned pale in an instant, his mind was incomparably nervous, his body trembled, and he raised his head to look at Xu Qing with trepidation, revealing an expression uglier than crying.

"That... Master, just now it was actually required by the cultivation technique; it was the most critical step in the breakthrough, and it had to be said like that..."

"Actually, the time the little one has followed Master is the happiest time of my life."

"Master... you must not take it seriously."

On the side, the shadow revealed a sinister smile, its body shaking back and forth as if shaking its head. ===== CHAPTER 347 =====