Chapter 156: Heavenly Tribulation

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"Brother Ning, this story of yours..."

After listening to the story, Nan Feng's expression was a bit strange.

Logically, there is no problem with the story Ning Fengzhi fabricated! But because the logic is too complete, it sounds too much like a story!

Reality does not have this kind of logic.

This kind of story is fine to fool children, but it's probably impossible to make a deep-thinking Tang San believe it.

"Of course, I also deliberately left some loopholes," Ning Fengzhi said.

"Tang San also indeed fell into my traps. He remained suspicious of my words. On the Power Clan side, Old Titan also, just as you thought, quietly told Tang San the truth he knew."

"In addition, within the Tiandou Empire, I also arranged another version of the story. Three angles, three stories—Tang San will get the answer I want him to know."

"Oh~" Nan Feng nodded.

"As expected of you, too insidious!"

"Elder Nan Feng is joking; in this regard, how can I compare to you," Ning Fengzhi laughed.

"Brother Ning is still humble."

"It is Elder Nan Feng who is humble."

"……"

Gu Rong looked strangely at Nan Feng and Ning Fengzhi who were yielding to each other.

What are you humble about? The dirtiest hearts on the entire continent belong to you two! Rumble!!! A terrifying spirit power impact suddenly erupted, followed by a terrifying frost aura. Nan Feng disappeared instantly, and Gu Rong picked up Ning Fengzhi and rushed toward the source of the impact.

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Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect back mountain.

Nan Feng and Gu Rong arrived almost one after the other, looking at the cliff that was almost frozen.

"What's the situation?" Nan Feng looked at the Ice Empress who was watching the show.

"That human who didn't know his own strength insisted on challenging Xue'er and was beaten," the Ice Empress said.

"Uncle Sword!"

"Don't move." Gu Rong stopped Ning Fengzhi.

"That sword person is breaking through."

What's the situation? They hadn't made progress for more than ten years, so how did this sword person take another step? Chaotic aura danced on the cliff top, and a sword momentum that seemed to break through something was accumulating on Chen Xin.

The Xue Di didn't disturb him, her ice sword shattered, and she silently retreated to the side.

After a while, Chen Xin opened his eyes, and a more sharp sword momentum rushed into the sky. At the same time, a pressure not weaker than the Ice Empress's erupted.

"This..." The Ice Empress was dumbfounded.

What the hell?

Humans are cheating like this? Soul beasts want to make this kind of breakthrough, they have to face a nine-death-one-life heavenly tribulation. With a base of hundreds of millions, and hundreds of thousands of years of hard cultivation and fighting, only a few can be born.

Humans break through after one fight? "Thank you." Chen Xin stabilized his aura, walked over, and bowed to the Xue Di.

"No need, this is your own ability," the Xue Di said lightly.

She cultivated day after day for tens of thousands of years, never slacking off. For tens of thousands of years, she lived in accumulating power to fight against the heavenly tribulation, but in the end, she was going to perish under the heavenly tribulation. And humans, after one sword, offset her tens of thousands of years of cultivation...

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"Are you jealous?"

Returning to the room, Nan Feng couldn't help but ask. The Xue Di rarely had emotional changes; she was almost always in this cold-as-frost attitude. But just now, seeing Chen Xin's breakthrough, like the Ice Empress, the Xue Di was a bit angry. The Xue Di nodded. "However, I'm used to it."

Tens of thousands of years of time, she had witnessed the ascension of two gods on the Douluo Continent, witnessed countless soul beasts perish under the heavenly tribulation, and witnessed countless clansmen who had exhausted their potential and were trapped in place.

Soul beasts don't have higher cultivation the longer they live; cultivation is cultivated. When a soul beast's cultivation can't keep up with its age, it will still die of old age. Most soul beasts spend their lives in confrontation with their lifespan, always worrying about whether their deadline will come tomorrow.

Having seen too much, she had long since lost her former unwillingness for these things.

Compared to the vast majority of soul beasts, she is considered lucky.

"Is the person you mentioned who can become a god those two women?" the Xue Di asked.

"Yeah." Nan Feng nodded and poured a cup of tea for each of them.

"Bibi Dong's god trial is more than half finished, but that thing of hers is a bit of a pit, and the progress is slow. Qian Renxue, although she hasn't started the god trial yet, her god trial is like taking a back door; just go."

"It just so happens that they are currently missing three and two spirit rings respectively. You guys can take a look, if you are willing, you can try."

"What about you?" the Xue Di asked.

"You are stronger than them, and your talent is higher. Why don't you try?"

"I don't have time," Nan Feng said.

"And my situation is special; it's not certain yet."

"If I survive, I will try."

If all his worries are just fighting with air, then after the Spirit Master Tournament plan ends, the first thing he wants to do is run to Sea God Island.

The Nine Heavens Mysterious Steps on Sea God Island are good things; they should be the cultivation place that improves the fastest for people with high talent on the Douluo Continent.

Of course, for ordinary people, that thing is hell.

"Survive?" The Ice Empress was stunned.

"Do you also have to cross the heavenly tribulation?"

"Heavenly tribulation..." Nan Feng nodded.

"Barely counts."

The Dragon Souls of the Ice Dragon King and the Fire Dragon King told him that the heavenly tribulation faced by soul beasts is a cosmic rule, unrelated to the God Realm. Before the Dragon God became a god, the heavenly tribulation already existed. When the Dragon God was still there, the soul beast clan benefited from the Dragon God's light, and their bloodlines were more powerful, so most of them could pass the heavenly tribulation.

But after the Dragon God fell, the bloodline power of the soul beast clan also weakened, even falling to the point of being a cultivation tool for humans today. Very few soul beasts can withstand the heavenly tribulation.

Even things like spirit rings were born under the influence of the Dragon God's bloodline. As long as the spirit rings are still there, the Dragon God can resurrect them.

At first, humans didn't need spirit rings to break through. It's just that the difficulty was extremely great, requiring them to accumulate enough power like soul beasts, face the heavenly tribulation, and break through step by step.

It's just that I don't know who started it, turning the spirit rings that carry the soul and cultivation of soul beasts into human cultivation auxiliary tools, allowing humans to break through cultivation bottlenecks more easily. Moreover, every fusion of martial soul and spirit ring energy gives birth to a special product—spirit skills.

Since the spirit ring cultivation method appeared, humans have become accustomed to relying on this means. Moreover, absorbing spirit rings also affects human martial souls.

The absorption of spirit rings is like drug addiction. Drug addiction leads to the human body no longer secreting dopamine, forming a dependence on drugs. If you absorb too many spirit rings, your martial soul will also get used to this rapid improvement.

If you take shortcuts too often, how could you be willing to return to the original long road?

After millions of years of evolution, human martial souls have formed a dependence on soul beast spirit rings. This cultivation method today is both natural selection and human choice.

"What exactly are you?" the Ice Empress asked in confusion.

"Why do you still have to cross the heavenly tribulation?"

"My heavenly tribulation is not an ordinary heavenly tribulation; it's a disaster from the sky," Nan Feng said.

"However, it's also possible that I'm thinking too much."

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