Chapter 467: Transformation!

Ao——

The flood dragon soared through the nine heavens, thunderbolts crashed down upon the world.

The transformation tribulation of the Cold Chant Flood Dragon was no small affair.

As a flood dragon, and furthermore one with a notably strong bloodline, the Cold Chant Flood Dragon lived up to Yunhe's years of painstaking nurturing.

Although it was merely a step from late third level to fourth level, for a demon beast this is the most crucial step.

Moreover, given the growth speed of demon beasts, especially flood dragons, without Yunhe's help the Cold Chant Flood Dragon would likely need at least a thousand years, or even more, to accomplish this step.

Heaven's way is fair; while it grants demon beasts long lifespans, it also somewhat shackles their cultivation speed.

This can be seen from the expressions of the two other poisonous flood dragons as they gaze at the Cold Chant Flood Dragon.

The time they spend at this stage is absolutely far longer than that of the Cold Chant Flood Dragon.

Yunhe's strength has already been deeply imprinted in its heart.

Actually, for him, when the Gold‑Eating Armored Beast breaks through to mid‑fourth level really doesn't matter much.

Otherwise, once the Heavenly Tribulation deems him to have also undergone its baptism, its intensity will surge geometrically; by then not only would the Cold Chant Flood Dragon be unable to survive the tribulation, but even Yunhe might not escape unscathed.

Yunhe's strength is formidable; ordinary late Nascent Soul cultivators or late fourth‑level demon beasts may not be his match, and unlike other cultivators he does not treat it as a mere tool—although he does need it to do some things, those are negligible, especially with a plentiful supply of precious elixirs at hand.

Although the Gold‑Eating Armored Beast had already survived the transformation tribulation and broken through to early fourth level, upon seeing the tribulation again it instinctively felt fear, thus retaining its true form.

At least eight tribulations undoubtedly, indicating the Cold Chant Flood Dragon's potential is quite impressive; its upper limit may not be confined to flood dragons alone.

For it, in the Eastern Border Cultivation Realm, there is no better choice than following Yunhe.

Gold‑Eating Armored Beast: '!!!'

Although the number of a demon beast's transformation tribulations cannot wholly define its strength or weakness, it can to some extent distinguish the beast's potential and bloodline quality.

Meanwhile.

Cold air rolled up layers of frost, the snow‑white flood dragon standing proudly in the void roared defiantly against the rolling tribulation clouds.

Heavenly Tribulation, whether Nascent Soul or transformation, even Yunhe now can only watch and cannot intervene.

"Not just seven?"

Boom!!

The seventh bolt of golden lightning struck down; the Cold Chant Flood Dragon, which had looked rather handsome a moment ago, was cleaved straight into the Cold Pool, accompanied by countless ice crystals scattering and melting.

If a fourth‑level early‑stage demon beast could break through to mid‑fourth level within five hundred years, who knows how many demon beasts would envy it.

It should also be given some pressure.

Splash——

Within the ink‑black clouds, a faint surge of lightning fluid could still be seen.

As for its combat power after breaking through to mid‑fourth level, that's hardly worth mentioning.

This is already the shortest time it can imagine.

Boil, boil soup?

Yunhe said nothing more, seriously watching the Cold Chant Flood Dragon undergoing its tribulation.

The Gold‑Eating Armored Beast originally had little hope of breaking through to mid‑fourth level, but after following Yunhe it felt it might still have a chance.

Yunhe's eyes lit up slightly.

"Gold Armor." Yunhe gave it a casual glance and asked lightly, "How much time is left until you break through to mid‑fourth level?"

The boiling surface of the Cold Pool broke open again, and the Cold Chant Flood Dragon, half its body already scorched, surged up into the air once more.

Five hundred years?

He couldn't help but chuckle lowly, "I'll give you three hundred years; if you can't break through, I'll turn you into soup."

Perhaps it's just that if the Gold‑Eating Armored Beast breaks through to mid‑fourth level, it could better help him refine some metals, but the effect would still be limited.

Boom!!

The suddenly blazing lightning was like a flash that tore through the black clouds, brilliant yet fleeting.

The commotion of the Cold Chant Flood Dragon's tribulation grew ever larger, even drawing many Nascent Soul cultivators to watch from afar.

Whoosh——

"Master."

Therefore, this transformation tribulation must be endured by the Cold Chant Flood Dragon alone.

Yunhe simply felt that the Gold‑Eating Armored Beast, since following him, had become lazy and grown plump.

Upon hearing this, the Gold‑Eating Armored Beast bared its teeth, for a moment not knowing how to answer.

The Cold Chant Flood Dragon, subjected to the tribulation's baptism, involuntarily let out a painful howl.

Seeing Yunhe leave the cave abode, the Gold‑Eating Armored Beast flashed over and respectfully came to his side.

But for Yunhe,

However, after the seventh tribulation passed, the tribulation clouds showed no sign of dissipating.

"It hurts so much!!"

Moreover, the Gold‑Eating Armored Beast now could never harbor even a trace of defiance or betrayal toward Yunhe.

Seeing Yunhe seemingly indifferent, it hesitated a moment, then ventured: ". About five hundred years?"

And the tribulation gave it no chance to catch its breath; after the lightning fluid coalesced, it came down without hesitation.

Eighth tribulation!

"Ao!!"

The Cold Chant Flood Dragon's body trembled slightly, then revealed extremely resolute eyes as it violently exhaled a gust of cold air, turning into myriad frost.

The white frost and golden lightning met, and the whole sky seemed to fall into a brief silence.

The next moment.

A tremendous roar exploded, and the mountain gate of the Ice Snow Pavilion trembled violently.

"Gloop—"

The Gold-devouring Armored Beast furtively swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

It had only just undergone the Six Paths Lightning Tribulation, yet it was still regarded as a demon beast with limitless potential, causing the entire Fan Jia to be excited beyond measure.

Eightfold Lightning Tribulation

Now it can naturally block it, but if it were the past version, it would probably have turned to charcoal.

"Not bad."

The Gold-devouring Armored Beast still didn't know how things turned out, but Yunhe nodded in satisfaction.

The tribulation clouds in the sky gradually dispersed, and the chaotic spiritual energy here also gradually stabilized.

However, the Cold Chant Flood Dragon that had been struck again into the Cold Pond did not appear, seemingly seriously injured.

"Done?"

The Gold-devouring Armored Beast couldn't help but ask.

Yunhe waved his hand, and a bottle of Elixir flew from his hand into the Cold Pond.

After a moment.

A snowy white little hand clung to the bank of the Cold Pond.

Soon after, a little girl who looked about eight or nine years old, wearing a snowy white crystalline long dress, with two small flesh horns on her forehead and her skin faintly showing a variegated scale pattern, climbed up excitedly.

When she saw Yunhe, her pair of eyes, which seemed to contain the vast starry sky, instantly brightened, and she lunged forward.

She hung onto Yunhe's neck.

"Master!"

This little girl who looked like a human child was none other than the Cold Chant Flood Dragon that had successfully broken through to the Fourth Level Tier and survived the Human-form Lightning Tribulation!

Beside them, the Gold-devouring Armored Beast watched the little girl clinging to Yunhe's neck, its heart pounding.

It felt that although the Cold Chant Flood Dragon had just broken through, it seemed no match for it.

"Just survived the tribulation, rest well." Yunhe said, waving his hand over his storage bag, and a black long spear appeared in his hand, "This shall be your gift for successfully breaking through to the Fourth Level."

Seeing that black spear, the Gold-devouring Armored Beast's eyes widened.

Black Flood Dragon Spear?

The Cold Chant Flood Dragon happily took the black spear and sweetly said, "Thank you, Master."

Having said that, it returned to the Cold Pond.

As Yunhe had said, although it had successfully broken through to the Fourth Level, the damage inflicted by the lightning tribulation could not be fully recovered in a short time.

Yao Shou Shijie

Hiss—hiss—

In a deep pool outside Cloud Sorrow Mountain.

A gigantic mysterious tortoise opened its eyes.

At this moment, its three monster cores were filled with pure demonic power, indicating that it could now attempt to break through to mid-Fourth Level.

If he hadn't been restraining himself, perhaps the lightning tribulation would have already descended.

Not far from him, in a space completely cut off from water flow, a huge grayish-white creature as thick as a person's arm was slowly wriggling.

"Almost at the end," Yunhe muttered.

Because of the three monster cores, the Demon Beast Body's accumulation of demonic power is much slower than that of the Cultivator Body, but even so, the Demon Beast Body already meets the conditions for breaking through to mid-Fourth Level.

If it weren't for the fact that breaking through to mid-Fourth Level would attract the lightning tribulation, which might cause the Corpse Soul Gu's transformation to fall short, Yunhe would have already made the Demon Beast Body break through.

Fortunately, after waiting so long, the Corpse Soul Gu has finally reached the end of its transformation.

Suddenly.

The wriggling grayish-white gu worm ceased movement, all sound vanished completely at this moment, the gu worm seemed to have lost its vitality, and it withered at a visible speed.

But Yunhe was not nervous; instead, his eyes gleamed faintly.

"Excellent!"

He raised his claw and waved it.

The motionless gu worm carcass before him directly vanished from his sight.

"The rest is up to the Cultivator Body; I should also find a place to prepare for breaking through to mid-Fourth Level."

After muttering to himself, Yunhe's body slowly sank into the water, then descended into the earth, and after a few more breaths, he indeed disappeared from this area.

Cultivation World

Inside the cultivation abode of the Ice Immortal Pavilion.

Yunhe, seated cross-legged upon the pure ice lotus, suddenly opened his eyes, and brilliant light burst from his pupils.

He flicked his sleeve, and a huge gu worm as thick as an arm appeared before him.

But at this moment the gu worm was already withered, all vitality seemingly completely drained.

But Yunhe seemed not to mind; he slowly stepped down from the lotus pedestal, formed hand seals with both hands, and simultaneously broke a cut on his fingertip, letting out a trickle of bright red blood.

He walked to the withered gu worm corpse, squatted down, and placed his palm upon its remains.

"Appear!"

He gave a low shout.

Mana surged like silk threads.

In the next moment.

On the withered corpse appeared some tiny movements.

Then it was seen that, where Yunhe's fresh blood had flowed, a creature as fine as a hair strand emerged, seemingly craving the fresh blood, or perhaps familiar with the scent of the blood and the mana within, it inched along the blood, the mana, and the wound, finally burrowing into Yunhe's hand.

Blood Covenant formed!

Hum—

That already withered corpse, after a gust of clear wind blew past, actually scattered like dust.

And in Yunhe's palm, traces of the Corpse Soul Gu wriggling appeared again.

Success!

Yunhe was overjoyed.

Even with his current cultivation base and strength, he could not contain the joy in his heart.

As for the Corpse Soul Gu's abilities and functions, there is no doubt for him.

This was merely the former Corpse Soul Gu; now the Corpse Soul Gu has completed its transformation, not only is its level higher, but its grade has also risen by a tier.

Done?

The external incarnation that noticed Yunhe's actions also awoke from cultivation.

"Fourth Level mid-stage." Yunhe looked at the gu worm slowly wriggling in his hand, conveying affection, and said slowly.

Although it had only risen from Fourth Level early-stage to mid-stage, the Corpse Soul Gu now gave him a vastly different aura compared to before.

The former Corpse Soul Gu's abilities possibly focused more on the 'corpse' aspect, while the current Corpse Soul Gu's abilities are closer to the legendary Soul Gu, one of the Ten Great Gu.

Of course, its previous abilities were not lost and have also been strengthened to some extent.

But the current Corpse Soul Gu can certainly be called the bane of divine souls and living souls.

Yunhe took out the sealed Splendid Scale Long Wave Sea Pearl and peeled away layer after layer of spirit talisman seals.

Old Devil Yun!!

As the spirit talisman seals were opened, the sound of wailing filled with resentment and unwillingness emanated from within.

Before Qi Lin Chang Lan could shout anything else, he horrifiedly discovered that his own divine soul was directly ripped out of the sea pearl.

You must know.

The divine soul and the sea pearl are originally one; condensing the sea pearl to a certain extent requires merging with the divine soul, so how could the divine soul be ripped out of the sea pearl against one's will?

Immediately afterward, he discovered the presence of the Corpse Soul Gu.

What is this?! No no!!!

Amidst Qi Lin Chang Lan's startled cries and roars, his divine soul was cleanly swallowed by the Corpse Soul Gu.

The startled cry came to an abrupt halt.

"Is this the current power of the Corpse Soul Gu? The divine soul of a Fourth Level late-stage Sea Clan cultivator can be freely drawn." The external incarnation said, somewhat surprised.

Yunhe smiled faintly, "Not just that."

Then he flicked his right finger lightly against that sea pearl.

The next second.

Hum—

The sea pearl, which had dimmed due to the divine soul being drawn out, actually brightened again!

More importantly.

The aura it emitted was almost exactly the same as when Qi Lin Chang Lan's divine soul existed before.

"This is." The external incarnation's eyes lit up.

The Corpse Soul Gu once had this ability, and it was precisely by relying on this ability that the former Yunhe could command Nascent Soul corpses.

However, back then the Corpse Soul Gu could only barely mimic the aura of a Nascent Soul early-stage cultivator, and it still carried some corpse qi, making it easy to detect; at most it could be used to control corpse refining.

But now.

The offspring gu produced by the Corpse Soul Gu not only closely mimicked Qi Lin Chang Lan's aura, but also contained no corpse qi whatsoever.

Based on this alone, it could possess and replace Qi Lin Chang Lan's existence.

"The Heaven Corpse Gu's ability to possess so many cultivators relies on this as well." The external incarnation said.

"Although not entirely, but close enough."

"If we could completely obtain Qi Lin Chang Lan's memories, could we not silently plant one of our own among the Sea Clan's high ranks?"

This idea of the external incarnation coincided with Yunhe's.

Of course, the specific execution is certainly not that simple.

Moreover, although the Corpse Soul Gu has successfully advanced, obtaining the complete memories of a Fourth Level late-stage cultivator is unrealistic, and it would also require a considerable amount of time.

"But what I am more concerned about now is" Yunhe's eyes flashed with light.

The external incarnation also seemed to think of something, looking at the gu worm in his hand and the floating sea pearl, couldn't help but exclaim: "That Abyss Clan corpse!"

That Abyss Clan corpse, which Yunhe had long obtained but had not yet figured out how to use, is a Fifth Level corpse.

(End of chapter)