Chapter 122: Cave Heaven Realm!

Lu Chen sat cross-legged, a Nine Abyss Reverse Life Pill slowly hovering in his palm.

The other few women had already left the room, while Huang Jingxuan and Qin Yan stood respectively on his two sides.

"This pill..." Looking at the pill in Lu Chen's hand, Huang Jingxuan felt doubtful, "Isn't this the demon pill prepared for cultivators who cannot break through to the Cave Heaven Realm, the Nine Abyss Reverse Life Pill?"

With Lu Chen's talent, isn't he thinking of condensing a powerful multi-aperture Cave Heaven?

Why must he go against the norm?

Her eyes showed surprise.

On the other hand, Qin Yan seemed already accustomed to it.

As long as it's Lu Chen, no matter what strange thing he does, it's not surprising.

Before Huang Jingxuan could react, Lu Chen's surrounding spirit and slaughter qi instantly swept out.

"This aura! It even makes me somewhat unable to breathe!"

You should know, Lu Chen's current cultivation is only at the Condensed Spirit Perfection stage.

And Huang Jingxuan is already at the Dao Comprehension Mid-stage; the gap between them need not be elaborated.

Yet with such a gap, Lu Chen's full release of the pressure from his realm actually left her somewhat breathless.

A glance at Qin Yan beside him showed the same strained, enduring expression.

Before she could think further, Lu Chen had already swallowed the pill.

【Detected pill, Nine Abyss Reverse Life Pill!】

【Original effect: A Condensed Spirit Perfection cultivator taking it has a small chance to break through to the Cave Heaven Realm, but also a huge chance to perish because of it. The pill contains many special medicinal substances that will severely affect the sea of consciousness, even causing the divine sense to become confused and fall into madness. Even if the breakthrough succeeds, only a single-aperture Cave Heaven can be opened.】

【Reversed effect: After a Condensed Spirit Perfection cultivator takes it, there is a high probability of breaking through to the Cave Heaven Realm, and also a tiny chance to thereby ascend to a higher realm. The pill contains many special medicinal substances that will greatly enhance the sea of consciousness, making the divine sense clear and entering the sage state. Even if the breakthrough succeeds, only a ten-aperture Cave Heaven can be opened.】

"Ten-aperture Cave Heaven!"

Within a cultivator's body, the apertures related to divine sense and the sea of consciousness total nine, so the levels of opened Cave Heaven are divided from one aperture to nine apertures.

No one has ever heard of a ten-aperture Cave Heaven.

As he was thinking, a strange enlightenment entered his mind.

He instantly realized where this so-called tenth aperture actually is.

The tenth aperture, related to heaven and earth, is a void aperture called the Heaven-Earth Aperture.

The Heaven-Earth Aperture is not an actual aperture inside the human body, but a void aperture born from resonance with heaven and earth.

One who opens this aperture can beforehand perceive the power of heaven and earth, and in the Cave Heaven Realm can draw upon the power of a region of heaven-and-earth law.

Moreover, this aperture, in future higher realms, can also help the aperture-opener more quickly master more heavenly and earthly power.

"I see......"

As Lu Chen was speaking, the spirit and slaughter qi within his body intermingled, gradually forming a special vortex.

Under the effect of the Nine Abyss Reverse Life Pill, the vortex gradually surged toward his nine internal apertures.

"This......"

The next moment, a faint light slowly blossomed from the center of Lu Chen's brow.

"The first aperture actually opened this quickly?"

The speaker was not Lu Chen, but Huang Jingxuan beside him.

She and Qin Yan are both cultivators who have experienced the aperture-opening stage, and they both know very well how difficult it is.

Most people, during the aperture-opening stage, will allocate several days or even over ten days.

Some people even spend months.

And they had never heard of anyone who, from attempting a breakthrough to opening the first aperture, took only a few dozen breaths.

"Master is so amazing......"

As Huang Jingxuan's thought just arose, the next moment she saw a second aperture's faint light appear on Lu Chen's body.

Immediately followed by the third, then the fourth.

"Four apertures?!"

Her sea-of-consciousness Cave Heaven is a four-aperture Cave Heaven.

Back when she opened her apertures, she actually spent a full ten days.

"Is there a fifth aperture?"

Huang Jingxuan faintly felt anticipation.

At this point she no longer cared why Lu Chen, after taking the Nine Abyss Reverse Life Pill, could open an aperture above two apertures Cave Heaven.

Indeed, as her words fell, the fifth aperture soon lit up.

Immediately after came the seventh, then the eighth aperture.

When the eighth aperture lit up, the entire Ziyu Palace suddenly shook violently.

Huang Jingxuan and Qin Yan's gazes suddenly shifted, and they quickly released their divine sense to seek the cause of the trembling.

Without looking, one wouldn't know; but upon looking, they were startled.

The originally bright sky was suddenly covered by endless dark clouds.

Terrifying lightning flickered within, with thunder rolling.

"Is someone undergoing tribulation?"

Huang Jingxuan stared blankly for a moment.

How could anyone possibly be undergoing tribulation in the sect at this time?

She suddenly thought of something, and hastily turned her gaze toward Lu Chen.

"Could it be that the master deliberately attracted the heavenly tribulation early?!"

Such a situation has been recorded once in the sect's annals.

There once was a genius cultivator who, at the Cave Heaven Late Stage, attracted the heavenly tribulation that only appears when breaking through to the Enlightenment Dao Realm.

If he survived the tribulation, he could then ascend smoothly and advance vigorously.

Unfortunately, he ultimately died in the lightning tribulation due to insufficient preparation.

"That cultivator, even at the Cave Heaven Late Stage, was struck dead by the lightning tribulation, Master..."

Huang Jingxuan said, and the ninth aperture at Lu Chen's heart slowly lit up.

At that moment he also knew the lightning tribulation had appeared.

But it wasn't something he felt himself; it was the Empress who told him.

"You've been playing with the Heavenly Dao all the time; today it finally found a chance to strike you—you'd better be careful."

What the Empress said were those heavenly dao blessings that Lu Chen had previously attracted.

Those blessings can be sensed by the Heavenly Dao, but they are merely the original rule of heaven and earth; even if it knows, it cannot affect them.

But this tribulation is different—the will of heaven and earth can increase the lightning tribulation's power.

"Don't worry, there's no problem."

Lu Chen had this confidence.

As he spoke, a phantom aperture suddenly condensed in the void above his physical body.

The next moment, the aperture gradually emitted light.

"This is... the tenth aperture?"

"How could it appear here?"

Huang Jingxuan looked puzzled, but at this time she paid more attention to the lightning tribulation.

"You all leave first, get out of the hundred‑li radius!"

At the same time she sent a mental message to the elders, ordering them to bring nearby disciples to evacuate immediately.

While the tribulation was still forming, she immediately gathered many objects capable of resisting the lightning tribulation from the sect's treasure vault, from the elders' hands, and from her own.

"Master, these items can help resist the lightning tribulation—remember to use them!"

After doing that, she was the last to retreat from the lightning tribulation's area.

She and all the other women actually just wanted to accompany Lu Chen.

But if they stayed nearby, they would only make the lightning tribulation more violent.

So they could only hurry away.

Soon, the lightning tribulation gradually condensed.

At that moment, Huang Jingxuan discovered that Lu Chen had actually not used those objects for resisting the lightning tribulation.

She had just prepared to re‑enter the lightning tribulation area to remind Lu Chen.

The next moment, endless lightning thundered down!