Chapter 418: Sixth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation

The Sixth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation is quite special and is also known as the World-Extinguishing Heavenly Tribulation. This is because when cultivators are below the Sixth Grade, they are all cultivating within the world where they were born; they are the children of that world. The Thunder Tribulation they undergo is the world's test for them, as well as the fortune bestowed upon them, allowing their bodies to be tempered and become more powerful.

Cultivators below the Fifth Grade generally do not leave the world of their birth. When they die and their spirits dissipate, it is a case of dust returning to dust and earth returning to earth; all the energy they absorbed returns to the world, realizing the conservation of energy and the operation of reincarnation.

However, after the Sixth Grade, cultivators are like children growing into adults; they must evolve their own worlds, which is equivalent to splitting from the family to live on their own.

Where does the energy for a cultivator to create a world come from? A large portion is plundered from their original world, which is a form of robbery against the Creator of that original world.

Unless the cultivator wishing to advance to the Sixth Grade is the biological offspring of the original world's Creator, no Creator is willing to let others plunder their resources.

Therefore, the Sixth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation is extremely terrifying; it is meant to smash the Sixth-Grade cultivator's World Prototype into fragments, forcing them to abandon their unrealistic delusions and honestly remain a Fifth-Grade cultivator.

On the hilltop where Meng Yifan was located, dark clouds churned, forming an expressionless human face. In its left eye was the Greater Yang, and in its right eye was the moon. When it inhaled, a gale arose; when it exhaled, wind and thunder moved. Its expression alone could influence the climate of the heavens and earth.

It was the master of this world, the Creator of this world. All living beings were its subjects, all were its children, and they had to obey its commands.

If the sovereign wants the subject to die, the subject must die.

If the father wants the son to perish, the son must perish.

That human face in the sky looked at Meng Yifan as if it were a high and mighty god looking down upon an ant on the ground.

Although this ant was stronger than other ants, it was still an ant.

A terrifying pressure enveloped Meng Yifan, wanting him to crawl on the ground, kowtow in worship, and give up on undergoing the Sixth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation.

Meng Yifan withstood the pressure, held his head high, and stared straight at the human face in the sky.

If it were any other cultivator undergoing the Sixth-Grade Thunder Tribulation, they might truly be pressed down to the ground. Even if they barely resisted this pressure, they would become terrified, their strength would be greatly reduced, and it would be very difficult to survive the subsequent Thunder Tribulation.

However, Meng Yifan was different. He had fused with the Five Elements World Source, his body had been tempered by He Dongliu's secret techniques, and with the enhancement of the Game Panel, he had already become a Sixth-Grade High cultivator.

Furthermore, in terms of his Divine Soul Origin, Meng Yifan was a person from Earth; he did not belong to the living beings born in this world. There was no fear of the Creator of the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty World in his Divine Soul Origin. In his heart, the Creator of the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty World was merely a more powerful cultivator; the two were equals, so why should he fear it?

Meng Yifan had the Game Panel in his hands, and his strength could continue to improve rapidly. Perhaps it would not be long before he could develop his own world to be a match for the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty World, or even surpass it.

By that time, the Creator of the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty World would have to treat Meng Yifan as an equal and call him brother. Moreover, the Creator was not present in person right now; it was merely a face formed by the rules of heaven and earth. It was acting on behalf of the Creator to maintain the world's operation, and restricted by the rules, the strength it could exert was not great.

"Kneel down at once! I shall spare your life!" the face in the sky roared. The sound was like thunder, the firmament shook, the air was compressed, and a tangible pressure descended from the sky, as if a pair of giant hands were forcibly pressing down on Meng Yifan's shoulders, demanding he kneel and kowtow for mercy.

Meng Yifan's body shuddered, and he activated the Five Elements World Origin, forming a Five Elements Protective Barrier outside his body. That tangible pressure was directly blocked out.

It was as if the two-meter radius around Meng Yifan was another world, not under the control of the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty World's rules.

The human face in the sky was thoroughly enraged. It wanted to unleash a monstrous fury to destroy this stubborn fellow.

The human face opened its blood-red maw, and a tornado gushed out. In an instant, a gale raged between heaven and earth, filled with dense Wind Blades. The surrounding mountains were like paper before this gale, ground into fine powder upon the slightest contact.

Meng Yifan knew from the memory fragments of He Dongliu that a Sixth-Grade cultivator's tribulation was divided into three stages: the first was the Heavenly Wind Tribulation, the second was the Heavenly Fire Tribulation, and the third was the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation.

This first Heavenly Wind Tribulation was already so terrifying. An ordinary Fifth-Grade Peak cultivator would not only have their body sliced into powder under such a Heavenly Wind Tribulation, but even their Divine Soul Origin would be blown away into nothingness.

Facing such a terrifying Heavenly Wind Tribulation, Meng Yifan was completely unafraid. The barrier formed by the Five Elements Origin was as solid as metal, hard-countering the Wind Blades circling around him.

One second, two seconds, three seconds—time passed bit by bit. After one minute, the energy of that Heavenly Wind Tribulation was exhausted and dissipated between heaven and earth. Although the light of Meng Yifan's Five Elements Protective Barrier had dimmed somewhat, it remained tightly impenetrable, guarding him.

This was mainly because, unless the Creator of the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty arrived in person, the rules operating between heaven and earth could not be changed.

Although the Sixth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation was terrifying, its energy intensity was only at the Sixth-Grade Initial-Level. It could not raise the tribulation to the Seventh-Grade level just because Meng Yifan had Sixth-Grade High strength and the help of powerful World Power.

He Dongliu had once been an Eighth-Grade Peak cultivator; the Five Elements World he left behind had such a profound foundation that Meng Yifan's current strength, even among Sixth-Grade cultivators, belonged to the very peak. It was almost impossible for the Sixth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation to destroy him.

The human face in the sky opened its mouth again, and a scorching flame gushed out. In an instant, the world became like a furnace, and tongues of flame swirled around Meng Yifan, wanting to refine him into charcoal.

"You have fire, I have water. Water overcomes fire. Watch my Water-Type World Power extinguish your Fire Tribulation!" Meng Yifan shouted loudly, exerting his full strength to drive the Water Element World Source at his kidneys. Streams of deep blue Water-Type World Power rushed out, manifesting into a Water-Element Divine Dragon that pounced toward the Fire Tribulation.

Water can extinguish fire, and fire can also boil water dry; it all depended on whether the fire was stronger or there was more water. In an instant, water and fire power collided around Meng Yifan's body, causing steam to rise and clouds and mist to swirl.

One minute later, the flames around Meng Yifan were all extinguished, and he easily passed the second Fire Tribulation.

The human face in the sky was furious beyond measure and began brewing the third Thunder Tribulation. However, Meng Yifan smiled contemptuously, soared into the sky, and mobilized the Nine-Element World Power. Fusing the nine elements into one, he pointed forward, and a chaotic burst of energy shot into the sky, striking the center of the human face's brow.

"Boom—!" With an explosive sound, the nine-element energy detonated, blasting a basketball-sized hole in that human face. The third Thunder Tribulation had not yet descended before it exploded inside the human face's mouth.