Chapter 148: Kidney Water Qi Reverses to Innate, Heaven and Earth Send Down Calamity to Create Fortune

The path of the Inner World.

This was the path Fang Longye had once again chosen for himself.

In the Honghuang world, it could not be said that no one had walked such a path.

After all, since the opening of Honghuang, countless years had flowed by; every kind of idea had been thought of by someone, and they had acted upon it.

There was even no lack of powerful beings who had looked back to "add a layer of armor" for themselves.

But this path was not held in high regard by people.

The reason was that once a cultivator ascended to Golden Immortal, they could naturally use their own Dharma principles as a foundation to open up a Grotto-Heaven world.

There was nothing strange about it at all.

Even the operation of opening a world within one's own true body was not something no one had practiced.

Still, that same point: Honghuang was too vast and too ancient. What kind of wild idea had not been thought of or practiced? Could it be that no one had thought of using a world's ascension to provide feedback to oneself to raise one's cultivation? Of course, someone had thought of it, and there was even no lack of figures who had successfully attained the Great Vehicle through this.

The key was that this method did not possess universality.

Cultivating a world to evolve and ascend was too difficult; it required too many resources, and the effort expended outweighed the gains. For most ordinary cultivators, it was better to just ascend their own cultivation! As long as one's cultivation ascended, one could naturally open up a higher-level world.

How did that saying go? One who could open up a Great Thousand World was not necessarily a Great Vehicle. But a Great Vehicle could certainly open up a Great Thousand World.

For most people, cultivation was the foundation of everything. Once the cultivation was there, one had everything.

Fang Longye understood all of this.

However, while others naturally lacked the energy to manage multiple things at once, he was not necessarily the same. Resources were just resources; he believed his future self would certainly not lack them.

And look, by opening up a Grotto-Heaven that was just a step away from a Small World in advance, the effect was immediate.

Dao practice, origin, Dharma power, and essence, Qi, and spirit all surged again. Fang Longye even doubted whether there was any difference between him now and a Golden Immortal. With his current strength, if the previous Juyang Laoxian came over, he could even trade a few blows with him.

Fang Longye felt a sense of doubt: was there still a need for him to pursue the Five Qi in the Chest to Reverse Innate? Steadying his mind, Fang Longye suppressed the urge to go all out and ascend directly to Golden Immortal.

He persuaded himself: "It's just that last little bit. If I really give up, it would truly be a pity. Anyway, my combat power has increased, so whether I am a Golden Immortal or not doesn't really matter."

The Canghai Map had such a background; although it was not an Innate Spiritual Treasure, that was only because it lacked the Innate Undying Spiritual Light unique to Innate Spiritual Treasures.

Relying on its origin from the Dinghai Divine Pearl, it still possessed a bit of Innate Qi.

He saw the Five Qi in his chest surging and flowing; white, cyan, black, red, and yellow, the five colors were distinct, like five divine dragons baring their fangs and brandishing their claws.

It was just very obvious that the cyan, red, and yellow colors were slightly dim, and the divine dragons they transformed into were not as clearly scaled as the white and black ones, appearing almost substantial.

Clearly, the water Qi in Fang Longye's kidneys had also followed this transformation to Reverse Innate.

Of the Five Qi in the Chest, two had already been Reversed to Innate.

It could be said that he was basically just that one last bit away.

Because, for the remaining liver wood Qi, heart fire Qi, and spleen earth Qi, the wood Qi and earth Qi could be solved by running to Wuzhuang Guan to beg for a Ginseng Fruit plus a strand of Innate wood Qi.

It meant he was just missing the Innate fire Qi. Wasn't that just a matter of one last bit? If it weren't for the fact that the Innate water Qi in the Canghai Map that hadn't yet regressed to post-innate was indeed not much, he wouldn't say he could gather them all just by relying on his Golden Finger, but he would at least be able to exchange for the Innate fire Qi.

Boom—

While he was pondering, Fang Longye's origin, bloodline, physical body, Grotto-Heaven... and so on, all divided up the origin of the Canghai Map until it was exhausted.

It was at this moment that a thunderclap suddenly exploded in the void, deep and deafening.

Then, thunder gradually emerged, appearing out of thin air within the Sumeru Space covered by the secret chamber.

It hung above Fang Longye.

"Thunder Calamity?"

Fang Longye's expression changed. He first flashed out of the palace and arrived atop a Cloud Cliff.

As he moved, the thunder breeding above his head naturally shifted with him. Intertwining in the clouds above the mountain peaks, it revealed scale-like patterns, dense and horizontal; just one look was enough to make one fearful.

Transmitting his voice to stop the two women, Qingli, from coming forward, Fang Longye looked at the thunderclouds above his head. More and more thunder was gathering, like ten thousand dragon shadows crisscrossing.

"This is my first time undergoing a Thunder Calamity~"

Fang Longye thought to himself; the transformation calamity and immortality calamity he had once expected had turned out to be non-existent.

He had originally thought that if he were to undergo a Thunder Calamity, it would probably be when he Reversed to Innate or when he achieved Golden Immortal and faced the Three Calamities.

Yet he had not expected that at this neither-here-nor-there moment, a Thunder Calamity would come instead.

"Is it because I opened a Grotto-Heaven in my body, or because my bloodline underwent a transformation?" Fang Longye frowned, calculating with his mind, and the result left him between laughter and tears.

It was neither.

The reason was actually that he had destroyed the 'Canghai Map', erasing the only trace of the Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Dinghai Divine Pearl, left in the world.

It was equivalent to him being the one to shovel the last bit of dirt to bury the Innate Spiritual Treasure, the 'Dinghai Divine Pearl'.

"This can be blamed on me too?" Fang Longye was between laughter and tears.

Destroying an Innate Spiritual Treasure would indeed be rejected by the world, causing a Calamity to descend. Because every Innate Spiritual Treasure carried the world's fortune and was cherished by the world.

On this point, Fang Longye, who had practiced the secret technique 'Yin and Yang Great Vehicle Dragon Transformation Scripture', naturally had some understanding. This was also the difficulty of the final hurdle of this secret technique.

But the 'Canghai Map' was already a remnant of the Dinghai Divine Pearl; that destroying it could still cause the world to send down a Thunder Calamity was something Fang Longye had not expected.

Between the black clouds, baleful energy surged, and a fierce, violent aura covered the sky and earth. Vaguely, it seemed one could hear the beating of heavenly drums from the unknown, the sound rapid and containing the aura of death.

"Every grievance has its perpetrator, every debt has its debtor. If you really want to blame someone for this, you should look for that big shot Randeng; he's the real culprit!"

Fang Longye stared at the black clouds above his head and complained helplessly.

Looking closer, thousands of thunderbolts came from the depths of the black clouds, gathering together, fine scales intertwining.

Countless dragon bodies, python shadows, human forms, and so on, in a thousand postures, were hard to see in their entirety, but in the glimpses of scales and claws, destruction surged and swept through the air.

However, having said that, Fang Longye did not have much resentment.

He clearly understood that the bulk of the so-called sin and punishment had already been borne by the big shot Randeng when he absorbed the essence of the Dinghai Divine Pearl to open up the Twenty-Four Heavens.

And what he was facing now was merely the bit of backlash from the world caused by erasing the last trace of the spiritual treasure, the Dinghai Divine Pearl, remaining in the world.

Compared to the backlash from the world brought about by the big shot Randeng directly destroying a top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure, it was not worth mentioning.

Here, a point must be clarified: Innate Spiritual Treasures are immortal and indestructible. As long as the Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light within is not damaged, even if they suffer the heaviest of blows, and even if their origin is exhausted, they can eventually recover one day.

However, the method of the big shot Randeng is equivalent to draining the pond to catch the fish, directly extracting the Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light within the Innate Spiritual Treasure entirely.

Under such circumstances, let alone the Dinghai Divine Pearl, even an Innate Supreme Treasure would have no reason to survive.

It is precisely because of this that it would invite the backlash of Heaven and Earth.

As for the slight damage to spiritual treasures during ordinary struggles, they can recover on their own after being left to rest for a period of time, which naturally does not fall into the category of Heaven and Earth descending a Calamity.

Fang Longye shook his head, cast aside these thoughts, looked at the thunder dancing all over the sky, and laughed: "Very well, this allows me to experience a thunder tribulation in advance."

Previously, by a stroke of luck, he had experienced the thunder tribulation of that little bird Yun Ting, but the target of that was, after all, Yun Ting.

No matter how much Fang Longye bore the pressure for her through the secret art of Dual Cultivation, he was merely an external object and could not truly comprehend the real risks and pressure within it.

Before, he had always felt a slight regret, but now it was fine; he had encountered it himself.

Fang Longye stood tall and upright. The pale electric light streaked straight across, illuminating his figure. His expression was calm as he devoted himself to observing the thunderbolts.

The Heavenly Dao wields thunder to punish all things. If there is any violation of the rules, the Aura is pulled, and the Tribulation arrives of its own accord.

In this aspect, it perfectly matches the saying, "Heaven and Earth are not benevolent; they treat all things as straw dogs."

Under the operation of Heaven and Earth, there is no distinction between good and evil, only the original heart. As long as the rules are triggered, it is naturally recorded in the heart of the "Dao"; Heaven and Earth will not remain indifferent just because your Merit and Luck are profound.

At most, during the process, a cultivator can rely on Merit and Luck to offset a certain amount of disaster; wanting Heaven and Earth to go easy from the very beginning is impossible.

Previously, what Fang Longye had calculated—relying on his own profound Merit and Luck to make Heaven and Earth show leniency while Reverse Innate—was merely the wishful thinking of the ignorant.

With a dragon's roar, Fang Longye shook his body and transformed into the appearance of a dragon-headed human, ten thousand zhang tall, with boundless fierce might.

Seven-colored halos condensed and flowed around him, bright flames circulating and illuminating all directions, reflecting half of the void obscured by thunder with colorful halos, contending with the black clouds of thunder filling the sky.

His entire Aura surged and crisscrossed, like the earth splitting and the sky collapsing, like mountains calling and seas roaring.

It caused the thunder clouds to vibrate, and the lightning surged over in layers like waves, striking the protective divine light that Fang Longye had spontaneously formed.

It emitted a crackling sound like night rain tapping on a window, one sound after another, making one's scalp tingle.

Dissipating everything.

"Mastering Five Thunders!"

Fang Longye's mind stirred. He waved his left palm, hooked the thunder, and kneaded it into a thunder pellet. Swallowing it, he felt a sour and refreshing sensation; it was exceptionally delicious!

His eyes lit up, and he immediately opened his blood-red maw, charging straight at the thunder above the black clouds to bite it.

Like a long whale sucking water, he swallowed a large expanse of thunder.

"Hiccup!"

Fang Longye let out a satisfied burp, feeling the changes in his own Bloodline, lively and agile.

The dragon kind is naturally suited to wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, and he had also cultivated the 'Mastering Five Thunders' divine ability. With such majestic thunder essence entering his belly, digesting it truly brought great progress.

Of course, it was not without a price. Fang Longye looked at a wisp of gray Qi within his own sea of consciousness, which contained the overbearing nature of destroying all things, filling him inside and out.

"Tribulation Qi!"

These thunderbolts were, after all, not ordinary wind and rain thunder, but disasters descended by Heaven and Earth, naturally accompanied by Tribulation Qi.

Fortunately, he was not without means to resolve it. A stream of Yin and Yang Two Qis circulated, transforming into a Taiji Yin-Yang Fish pattern that hovered.

'Inverting Yin and Yang' was activated, and in just a moment, this wisp of Tribulation Qi was worn away completely.

Inverting Yin and Yang can make Heaven and Earth lose their order and the sun and moon lose their regularity; it is like saying to invert right and wrong and confuse black and white. It is called the Divine Prison Heavenly Tribulation, the inn of all things, and the overturning of the universe.

When this divine ability is cultivated to an unfathomable level, once activated, the universe is overturned, Tribulation Qi grows in clusters, and in an instant, it can brew a great Calamity that sweeps across Heaven and Earth.

Although it is not a divine ability of the disaster path, it is better than a divine ability of the disaster path; what did a tiny bit of Tribulation Qi count for?

Just as Fang Longye finished dealing with the bit of dust on his body and wanted to eat another "big meal,"

he discovered that the thunder clouds were changing. The thunder filling the sky surged and finally transformed into a thunder dragon that crossed the void, so huge it was unimaginable.

Thunder Qi condensed into water, and as a sheet of thunder water rippled, the giant dragon poked out its head, moved its dragon body, and came with bared fangs and brandished claws. Dragon scales the size of millstones were mottled upon it, presenting an ancient bronze color, with light halos flowing and endless vitality.

The power of destruction grew greatly.

In an instant—

Accompanied by thousands of thunderbolts, the thunder dragon rushed to Fang Longye's front in a flash and attacked his head with one bite.

Fang Longye dodged, but under the might added by Heaven and Earth, his movements were sluggish, and his left shoulder was bitten by the thunder dragon.

Then half of the dragon's tail wrapped around, coiling onto Fang Longye's ten-thousand-zhang Dharma body, constantly binding and fiercely strangling.

Fang Longye felt a sharp pain, and the ferocity in his Bloodline immediately surged. Not to be outdone, he hugged the dragon body tightly with both hands, opened his blood-red maw, and bit straight into the thunder dragon's head.

Regardless of the other's struggle, like sucking blood, he continuously absorbed the thunder tribulation essence within.

'Mastering Five Thunders', 'Inverting Yin and Yang',... various divine ability changes. As the thunder tribulation entered his body, it did not stir up any waves. After removing all hindrances, it transformed into rich Creation Vitality, nourishing his true body.

Ang, ang, ang—

The giant dragon formed by the thunder tribulation seemed to truly have intelligence. After being bitten by Fang Longye, it let out bursts of dragon roars as if in pain.

Above the dragon's mouth, it exerted more and more force, and the dragon tail coiled around him was equally taut, strangling fiercely! It refused to relax in the slightest.

At the same time, the dragon scales all over its body opened completely, like knives and swords, containing the irreversible destructive Aura within the Heavenly Tribulation.

With the posture of destroying everything, it shot through heavily, annihilating the layers of spatial barriers deriving around Fang Longye.

Every strike hit his true body hard. Although it could not pierce through because Fang Longye's true body was formidable, it was like a needle hidden in cotton, slowly invading.

Tribulation Qi gathered and condensed within his body, eroding and annihilating everything it passed. Fortunately, with a thought from Fang Longye, various divine abilities operated, and he ground it away completely.

In the stalemate, the balance slowly shifted toward Fang Longye.

He saw his gaze pierce through ten thousand miles, not yielding an inch. Gradually, the thunder dragon could not resist, its might retreated, and it was swallowed by him in one gulp.

Then, with one inhalation, the thunder filling the sky was swallowed up by him.

Such an act seemed to be sensed by the high and lofty Heaven and Earth, which was enraged and brewed an even greater thunder tribulation.

Of course, this was all a cultivator's illusion; the operation of Heaven and Earth does not rejoice in things, nor does it grieve for itself.

It was impossible to be provoked by such an act, and even more impossible to violate the rules out of anger and bring down more Thunder Calamity.

But it was very clear that Fang Longye had not yet passed this Calamity.

As time passed, the power within the thunderclouds was indeed increasing step by step, and the power of destruction grew immensely.

Thunder Calamity filled the sky, lingering without descending, until it finally accumulated to a certain degree, suddenly shifting to condense into a figure of a Thunder God, unimaginably large.

It had wings growing from its ribs, stepped on a Kui ox, and held a precious hammer in its hand, upon which lightning-like patterns appeared, with strings of lightning spawning and striking downward.

After this true god of thunder appeared, its momentum was far superior to an ordinary Golden Immortal, its awe-inspiring divine might arrogant and peerless.

Fang Longye summoned his Panlong Spear, with various Spirit Treasures above his head, his ten-thousand-foot-tall Dragon-Headed Human Form looking even more like a true god born of heaven and earth than this true god of thunder.

"Kill!"

Fang Longye stood in the void, twirled his spear, the aura of divine balefulness surging at the spear tip, and immediately twisted his body to soar upward, plunging into the thunderclouds.

He began to fight with the true god of thunder derived from this Thunder Calamity, battling incessantly.

This bout of fighting and killing even caused heavenly blood to fall into the void, in large, vast patches.

"What kind of Thunder Calamity is this? Young Master hasn't even achieved the Golden Immortal realm yet, so how could he attract a Thunder Calamity?"

"I am not sure either. I have looked through the Longgong classics, and the Thunder Calamity faced by Golden Immortals is completely different from the one Master is facing now."

Qingli and Ao Ying hid among the mountains, gazing at the clamorous thunderclouds above the void, their beautiful eyes filled with worry.

Although they each activated the detection-type divine abilities they were proficient in, they still could not see the specific situation inside the thunderclouds, hearing only thunderclaps, lightning flashes, dragon roars, and the angry bellows of a giant, all in a chaotic mess.

And, visible to the naked eye in the void, flesh and blood that seemed substantial kept falling.

Only, after falling, it would immediately dissipate.

After a long wait, finally, in the eyes of the two women, the black clouds that had filled the surroundings for so long receded.

The thunder and lightning were pulled aside like a beaded curtain, and a ten-thousand-foot-tall deity with a Dragon-Headed Human Form, surrounded by halos of light, revealed its figure.

Then, with a shake of its body, it transformed into the human form of Fang Longye, and with a step, he arrived before them.

An Aura far more powerful than before his seclusion rushed toward them, causing the two women's minds to sway.

Fang Longye's face was full of joy, and with a voice filled with excitement and happiness, he gave the order: "Make preparations! Today, I, your Young Master, want to drink to my heart's content!"

(End of this chapter)