Chapter 310: Achieved Fourth-level Beast!

Time, I don't know how long has passed.

The terrifying spirit qi vortex gradually dissipated, and the huge black turtle phantom in the sky also faded away.

But the terrifying beast aura that shrouded the entire Huanhu Dao and surrounding areas did not disappear with it.

It even became more terrifying and overpowering, pressing the beasts of Huanhu Dao and its surroundings so they couldn't lift their heads; even third-stage beasts trembled in fear, their legs shaking.

Hum—

Suddenly.

A demonic aura that had already reached fourth-level beast strength spread out, causing even third-stage beasts to involuntarily kneel.

What they knelt to was not merely the aura of this fourth-level beast, but also the near-instinctual suppression of beast bloodline.

Some weaker low-stage beasts, even those at the early-mid second stage, rolled their eyes, foamed at the mouth, and fainted outright.

"Success!"

Qing Yao and Bai Ning, who guarded Huanhu Dao, also lay prostrate on the ground, but sensing the change in aura, they glanced at each other, their eyes bursting with vivid delight.

Moreover, their own bloodlines were extraordinary, allowing them to clearly sense the change in Yunhe's bloodline concentration at this moment.

This time, the commotion of the breakthrough was so great it could be described as exaggerated to the extreme.

But such a commotion inevitably brought Yunhe unforeseen benefits.

"However, breaking through to fourth level is only the beginning," Qing Yao murmured.

Perhaps Bai Ning doesn't know what it will face next, but it still has a rough idea.

"Huh?"

Facing Bai Ning's gaze, Qing Yao lightly shook her head and did not say much more.

Even though what lies ahead may be hard to face, it believes Yunhe will surely pass through smoothly.

At the same time.

Inside the cave dwelling on Huanhu Dao.

In the already completely silent, dark cave dwelling.

The entire floor was covered with a large amount of gray-white powder, a thick layer nearly burying the whole cave dwelling.

These powders undoubtedly came from the spirit stones that had been drained of their spirit qi.

With so much gray-white powder, heaven knows how many spirit stones Yunhe consumed this time; if taken to the cultivation world, even a Yuan Ying cultivator who doesn't care much for spirit stones would be envious.

But within this cave dwelling, there was no trace of Yunhe to be seen.

Only in the spot where Yunhe had been before lay a huge dark-red sphere like an egg, resting quietly in the cave dwelling.

"Crack—"

Suddenly.

A crack appeared on the surface of this sphere.

Soon after, more and more cracks spread like a spiderweb.

Looking closely, one could see that this thick dark-red eggshell-like layer was actually completely congealed blood scab.

As the sphere broke, a small black-colored claw, resembling a dragon's claw by seventy to eighty percent, protruded from within.

Afterward.

Then came the second claw.

Clatter!

With both claws exerting force, they split the sphere in half, revealing the head of a black tortoise.

However, this tortoise head was also quite extraordinary, covered in glossy black scales and bearing three strange horns.

These three horns were not large; especially the pair at the back, which merely showed a bud, while the front one, within the black hue, faintly flickered with lightning arcs, hiddenly containing electric power, appearing quite extraordinary.

Step by step, the black-colored tortoise finally emerged from that blood scab sphere.

Its thick tortoise back resembled a miniature rugged mountain range, extraordinarily solid while also possessing the weight of mountains, sinking to tens of thousands of jin.

This emerging black tortoise was naturally Yunhe.

He slowly opened his eyes, a hint of dazedness flashing, but quickly regained clarity; a powerful demon sense swept over himself.

"Success! Fourth-level beast!"

"But his body has instead shrunk several times—is this being small and sharp?"

Yunhe couldn't help but mutter.

But he could clearly feel how terrifying the power hidden in his now seemingly smaller body was.

If his former flesh could be likened to a cat, then his monster form now is absolutely stronger than a fierce tiger.

"Monster form is only a part."

His demon sense looked inward; his monster form was strengthened by several to dozens of times, his meridians were extraordinarily broad, his fleshly control was meticulous—setting these aside for now, his demon sense swept over the qi sea dantian.

He saw.

In his dantian qi sea, expanded who knows how many times, lay three monster cores.

"Are these monster cores?"

Yunhe's eyes widened, showing a hint of astonishment.

Because he discovered that, in his qi sea dantian, the three monster cores, which originally differed only in the demonic qi they contained and were otherwise almost identical, had undergone a tremendous change.

A black tortoise, a dragon tortoise, and a giant ao—three vivid little turtles—were coiled within his qi sea.

"Monster core manifestation—is this monster core manifestation?"

Just as, after a cultivator successfully breaks through to Yuan Ying, their golden core shatters and condenses into an infant, a beast breaking through to fourth level may also have its monster core manifest as a small beast form.

However.

Not all beasts can manifest a beast form upon breaking through to fourth level, just as not all second-stage beasts condense into monster cores; this is the phenomenon of a fifth-level beast's monster core!

But unlike a second-tier beast that has condensed a demon core,

For a second-tier beast, condensing a demon core at most only helps when that beast breaks through to the third tier and condenses a demon core; during the second-tier stage, aside from a slight acceleration in demon power circulation, there is actually not much difference.

However, the phenomenon of a demon core transforming into form can bring considerable benefits to a demon beast, even supernatural abilities.

But Yunhe now has little time to examine the miraculousness of demon core forming, for soon he felt his mind becoming somewhat chaotic.

This change, however, is not a heart-demon tribulation.

It's not that demon beasts lack heart-demon tribulations; in fact, Yunhe had already experienced one earlier inside that blood-scab sphere.

But a demon beast's heart-demon tribulation is incomparable to a cultivator's; with his demon sense strength, it was shattered in an instant, causing him no effect at all.

The Heavenly Dao still observes rules when sending down tribulations.

Demon beasts are innately weak in spiritual intelligence and lack sufficient demon sense; if the Heavenly Dao were to impose heart-demon tribulations like those on cultivators, probably ninety-nine percent of demon beasts could not survive.

What now appears in his mind is a vast amount of knowledge, memories, and inheritances!

Quite obvious.

This time, after successfully breaking through to the fourth level, his bloodline, having undergone a baptism, also received great strengthening; the terrifying vast amount of spiritual energy exchanged brought not only the changes to his three demon cores and cultivation base increase, but also included a transformation of bloodline purity.

Breaking through a major cultivation realm, together with increased bloodline concentration, naturally comes with a large amount of inherited memories.

Moreover, this batch of inherited memories is not comparable to those Yunhe previously accepted.

Even with his willpower strength, he now feels as if his head is about to burst.

Those inherited memories, regardless of whether he can bear them, were forcibly shoved into his consciousness, rubbing back and forth.

After a while.

Only then did Yunhe finally let out a long breath, recovering from the memories that had been forcibly poured in.

I didn't expect to actually get a bit of all three directions.

Although he didn't examine them in detail, he still gave a rough look; the reason those inherited memories he just acquired are so numerous is entirely because he actually obtained three inheritances!

It is somewhat unexpected, but upon reflection it actually seems reasonable.

Of course.

For him, this is absolutely far more beneficial than harmful.

However, with such complex memories, he might need to spend a lot of time to go through them one by one.

Furthermore, he also needs to, according to his own needs, delete part of them, especially some historical memories, such as what that ancestor of the Xuan Gui clan did many years ago; such memories are not only too distant in time to be verified, but even if verified they would likely have no practical significance.

Now, there isn't much time left for him to browse these memories.

Because Yunhe has already felt a chilling gaze from somewhere, locking onto him.

Quite obvious.

His tribulation lightning for forming a human shape is coming!

But there is still some preparation time.

Yunhe's body surged with an extremely vigorous demon power; wrapped in it, his form flashed and he appeared above Huanhu Dao.

Upon seeing his appearance, the third-tier demon beasts guarding the island all showed great delight.

Although his appearance has changed considerably, there is no doubt this is their 'king'!

Moreover, he is the 'king' who has successfully broken through to the fourth level!

Noticing the gazes of Qing Yao and Bai Ning, especially the worry in their eyes, Yunhe gave a faint smile.

"This place is dangerous; stay farther away."

His words fell.

Bai Ning and the other demon beasts only felt a rather powerful force envelop them; in the blink of an eye, after their vision briefly blurred, they found they had already appeared outside Huanhu Dao.

They didn't even know what Yunhe had done to them.

And after they left, black clouds stretching thousands of miles had already gathered above Huanhu Dao.

That heavy, low-hanging black cloud is like a mountain pressing on the hearts of all demon beasts; even just lifting one's head to gaze upon it requires great courage.

But Yunhe, standing on the sun-basking platform of Huanhu Dao, stared directly at that cloud, watching the thunder slurry rapidly forming within, his eyes showing no trace of fear.

Even his face bore a hint of a smile.

"Very good, compared to the tribulation lightning of that old turtle Lu Shan Gui, its power is several times stronger."

No wonder that Lu Shan Gui fellow, when breaking through, his form tribulation lightning almost always struck before he could successfully reach the fourth level.

His tribulation lightning also differs greatly in the length of time it has accumulated.

Yunhe raised his head, gazing at the surging thunder slurry, calm and unafraid.

He slightly opened his mouth and spat out a heavenly canopy.

Heaven-covering canopy!

After a cultivator successfully passes the Nascent Soul tribulation, the bond with this treasure has already been severed, in order to prepare it for use by the demon beast body.

But for some reason, Yunhe looked at this heavenly canopy and his eyes showed a hint of contempt.

After playing with it a bit, he tossed it aside.

Boom!

It seems his words 'angered' the thunderclouds above, or perhaps the thundercloud had already successfully condensed; after a tremendous roar, the first tribulation lightning had formed.

Another difference from cultivators undergoing tribulation is.

Cultivators undergoing Nascent Soul tribulation always face nine strikes; the power varies slightly, but the difference is not particularly great.

However, for demon beasts undergoing form tribulation, the intensity and number of strikes are not fixed, but depend on the beast's strength, potential, and talent.

The stronger the tribulation lightning and the more strikes there are, the greater the demon beast's strength and potential, and the less the heavens and earth tolerate it.

Crack!

All of a sudden.

A bolt of lightning as thick as a grinding disc suddenly struck down, heading straight for Yunhe.

Seeing this heavenly thunder, the myriad demons on distant Huanhu Dao trembled in their hearts.

No matter which one of them, if they appeared beneath this heavenly thunder, they would likely turn to flying ash in an instant.

They couldn't help but worry as they looked toward Yunhe.

However, they saw.

Yunhe took a deep breath, his figure expanding at a visible speed, swelling in an instant to the size he had been before.

"Good timing!"

He let out a low shout, and his laughter spread across the entire Huanhu Dao region.

"It's merely the first heavenly tribulation bolt, yet its power and intensity are actually on par with the fourth tribulation bolt of Lu Shan Gui."

The next second.

He raised his head and opened his mouth wide.

"A mere tribulation of transformation—watch this venerable one swallow it!"

Immediately after.

Under the astonished and shocked gazes of all the demon beasts of Huanhu Dao, they personally witnessed that terrifying heavenly thunder that filled them with dread—actually being swallowed whole by Yunhe in a single gulp!

"Did he... eat it?" Bai Ning blinked her eyes, involuntarily looking toward Qing Yao, who knew more.

However, Qing Yao's gaze at this moment was also somewhat dazed, her eyes filled with bewilderment and shock.

"Can it still be like this?"

To be honest, this scene had long surpassed Qing Yao's expectations.

Moreover, on Huanhu Dao, Yunhe's figure continued to grow, and golden arcs of electricity leapt across his body.

Yet facing the gathering storm clouds, his aura grew ever more unstoppable, like a bamboo splitter.

Only two words were heard coming.

"Again!"

(End of chapter)