Chapter 161: Drop the Immortal Aperture! Undergo the Heavenly Tribulation!

At this moment, dense swarms of Gu flew out from every corner of the Immortal Aperture, gathering into patches of dark clouds that hovered behind him, like soldiers awaiting inspection.

A hundred years had already passed within the Force Immortal Aperture; having swallowed Douluo Star and accepted the Soul Masters and Soul Beasts upon it, converting them to the Gu Master system, results had now been achieved.

Throughout the entire Immortal Aperture, hundreds of millions of mortal Gu had already appeared.

And Ye Ming was the god who controlled all of this.

Not a single native of Douluo Star was able to break through to Rank Five and achieve immortality. These people were merely tools he used to evolve Gu and increase his resources.

At this very moment, Ye Ming's physical body was like the Earth Spirit of a Blessed Land, moving as freely as a fish in water within the Immortal Aperture, yet he could not get out.

The Immortal Aperture itself, however, could communicate with the external Heaven and Earth Qi at any time to stabilize itself.

In fact, after Ascension to Immortality, the aperture transforms into an Immortal Aperture Blessed Land; because there are too many resources and the Immortal Aperture itself contains too little Heaven and Earth Qi, it naturally needs to absorb Heaven and Earth Qi every so often to stabilize itself.

Without Heaven and Earth Qi, the resources within the Immortal Aperture would become like trees without roots.

When a Gu Immortal undergoes a tribulation, they generally drop their Immortal Aperture into the external world so that a continuous supply of Heaven and Earth Qi can replenish the Immortal Aperture.

At the spot where Ye Ming had originally stood, he had completely vanished. The Immortal Aperture had dropped onto the crumbling ground of the outside world, shrinking into a tiny dot, entrusted to the Void, and was invisible.

The breeze that had originally been blowing outside was still blowing, and the Lava flowing on the ground had not even dried up.

There was no major change in the outside world, as if Ye Ming had never appeared at all.

However, the next moment, when Ye Ming actively opened the portal of the Force Immortal Aperture, everything was different.

In an instant, the world hummed and the mountains and rivers shook; countless Heaven and Earth Qi surged toward the Immortal Aperture portal like wind and clouds.

Soon, a massive amount of Heaven and Earth Qi had submerged this place. The breeze and the clouds were all converted into Heaven and Earth Qi.

The Immortal Aperture portal is the passage connecting the Immortal Aperture to the outside world. As it opened, Ye Ming's Immortal Aperture also connected with the outside, continuously drawing in Heaven and Earth Qi.

At this time, the Immortal Aperture was like a giant abyss, opening its maw and greedily devouring the Heaven and Earth Qi of the outside world.

The Heaven and Earth Qi filling the sky swarmed in, causing the entire Immortal Aperture world to emit a slight tremor. However, the degree of the tremor was small, and the Gu Masters within the Immortal Aperture did not notice it.

But Di Tian, Bi Ji, Zi Ji, and Shen Cui flew straight over, looking at Ye Ming with solemn faces.

Having lived in the Immortal Aperture for so long, Di Tian and the others had also experienced several Earth Calamities.

But they had never seen a spectacle like this before.

"Master, is there anything you need us to do?" Di Tian lowered his head slightly and asked Ye Ming with a face full of respect.

"There might be turmoil in the Blessed Land in a moment; you all disperse and suppress those Gu Masters who are acting up."

Ye Ming said casually, then dismissed them.

At this time, as the Immortal Aperture absorbed the external Heaven and Earth Qi, the Tributary of Time within the Immortal Aperture also began to merge into the external River of Time.

The flow of Time within the Immortal Aperture began to slow down significantly.

When an Immortal Aperture dropped between heaven and earth opens its portal and connects to the external River of Time, this situation of having the same Time flow as the outside world occurs.

In the Gu World, many Gu Masters, for the sake of their limited lifespan, also choose to drop their Immortal Aperture and shrink their physical bodies within it.

In the dark, a sense emerged in Ye Ming's heart, foretelling that the Heavenly Tribulation was about to arrive.

But as the Immortal Aperture landed and the flow of Time slowed down, the speed at which the calamity arrived also slowed.

The speed at which the Immortal Aperture absorbed Heaven and Earth Qi gradually slowed down; what was originally a whale-like gulping had now become a slow absorption.

The capacity of the Immortal Aperture is also limited.

Ye Ming was calm; after experiencing multiple Earth Calamities, he had his own set of experience for undergoing tribulations.

Seeing the Immortal Aperture's absorption of Heaven and Earth Qi slow down, he began to arrange his Gu in an orderly fashion.

He had already arranged some of the Gu within the Immortal Aperture in advance, but it was still not enough.

The Heavenly Tribulation is vast and mighty; one must treat it with twelve times the focus.

He frantically activated his Green Grape Immortal Essence, deploying all the Force Path Shajiao he had evolved during this period.

Before the Heavenly Tribulation descends, no one knows what form it will take.

Ye Ming could only use his Gu extensively, covering the world with sheer numbers to ensure the Blessed Land would not be destroyed by the Heavenly Tribulation.

After the dense swarms of Gu scattered, Ye Ming once again used his Green Grape Immortal Essence to activate the My Strength Immortal Gu.

Taking advantage of the time before the Heavenly Tribulation descended, he punched frantically, unleashing Force Phantoms of himself.

The Ten Thousand I Killing Move was very strong, especially as his own Force Dao Mark increased; the power this killing move could unleash was many times more formidable than before.

He had already absorbed five thousand Force Dao Marks from that Force Path Dao Mark Sealing Stone, and the number of Force Dao Marks on his body had already exceeded six thousand.

This number of Dao Marks was even greater than the number of Dao Marks contained on the body of an average Rank Seven Gu Immortal! Ye Ming did not fear a tangible Heavenly Tribulation; for such a tribulation, he could add the strength of the masses to his body and break it with a single force. It was the ethereal, mysterious, and unpredictable Heavenly Tribulation methods that required the most effort.

"Boom, boom!"

In the blink of an eye, thousands of Force Phantoms flew out.

After such a long period of accumulation, his Green Grape Immortal Essence had long since broken through the three-thousand mark, and he was completely unafraid of consumption.

The Heaven and Earth Qi continued to circulate, and the Ye Ming phantoms around him became increasingly numerous. In the sky, on the ground, and among the mountains, as far as the eye could see, it was densely packed with Ye Ming phantoms.

With Ye Ming's current strength, it was enough to maintain these phantoms for a day without them dissipating.

One day to undergo the Heavenly Tribulation was already completely sufficient.

When the number of Force Phantoms reached one million, Ye Ming sensed a limit in the dark; the Heavenly Tribulation was coming soon.

He activated his Gu, closed the Immortal Aperture portal, and waited quietly within the Immortal Aperture.

Taking advantage of this time, he carefully checked the Gu in his hands once more to prevent any accidents.

A moment later, the Heavenly Tribulation finally descended.

The Immortal Aperture began to shake, and countless Heaven and Earth Qi surged out from all directions and every corner.

This was the Heaven and Earth Qi contained within the Immortal Aperture; in the blink of an eye, the Heaven and Earth Qi collided with each other, forming boundless black clouds that filled the air.

Thunder flashed and wild winds howled; it was as if terrifying thunderous power was gathering within the clouds.

Ye Ming looked up abruptly, staring at the high sky of the Immortal Aperture.

"Boom!!"

Thunder rumbled, and a bolt of lightning carrying a cyan glow suddenly struck down toward the Immortal Aperture Blessed Land below! "A Lightning Tribulation?"

Ye Ming murmured, then shot into the sky, charging directly toward that cyan lightning.

Pushing out with one palm, the Force Dao Marks on his body seemed to flicker with a faint glow.

A Force Path Great Handprint appeared, grabbing that bolt of cyan lightning directly and crushing it to pieces in an instant!

Countless sparks of lightning diffused and exploded, yet they failed to harm Ye Ming in the slightest.

The cyan lightning shattered instantly, and the dense black clouds above churned violently, as if provoked by this strike from Ye Ming.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

Three more bolts of cyan lightning, each as thick as a water bucket, descended and slammed toward several mountain peaks within the Blessed Land.

With this kind of violent power, an ordinary Rank 6 Gu Immortal, without an Immortal-grade defensive Shajiao, could not withstand the strike of even a single bolt of lightning.

Ye Ming raised an eyebrow, and he unleashed a series of Myriad Self Great Handprints, directly intercepting the three bolts of lightning.

The Myriad Self Great Handprint, which gathered millions of Ye Ming's phantom images and was further empowered by over six thousand Force Dao Marks, had long since reached a terrifying level of unimaginable power.

"Crack!!"

The three cyan bolts of cyan lightning shattered instantly, and Ye Ming smiled indifferently: "There is no need for a Lightning Tribulation of this level to exist!"

Light flickered on his body, and he suddenly slammed a palm toward the dark clouds in the sky! A Myriad Self Great Handprint, a thousand zhang in size, emerged from the void and headed straight to slap the billowing dark clouds in the sky.

The entire sky of the Immortal Aperture seemed to be completely enveloped by this giant palm.

Lightning surged; as if sensing Ye Ming's provocation, the light of thousands of lightning bolts bloomed simultaneously, converging into a terrifying pillar of lightning that struck straight toward the giant palm.

The moment the palm collided with the pillar of lightning, it produced a light so dazzling it reached the extreme, covering the sky of the entire Immortal Aperture Blessed Land.

At this moment, the Gu Masters and Soul Beasts living in the Blessed Land only felt a burst of intense light erupting in the sky, blinding their eyes.

Just as they closed their eyes, a terrifying demonic sound like an explosion in the firmament rang in their ears; that was the earth-shattering sound wave produced when the palm collided with the lightning.

Countless Gu Masters had blood flowing from their ears, and many Soul Beasts were trembling in fear, prostrating themselves on the ground, not daring to look up at the sky again.

Even Di Tian and Shen Cui kept their eyes tightly shut at this moment, only daring to open them to look at the firmament after the intense light before them dissipated.

Above the firmament, the pillar of lightning formed by the convergence of Heaven and Earth Qi actually began to shatter inch by inch the moment it collided with the Great Handprint.

It was as if even the lightning that represented Heavenly Punishment could not stop the palm from enveloping it.

Below, Ye Ming stood in mid-air, his palm suddenly pressing downward.

Rumble! The thousand-zhang Great Handprint pressed down further, directly smashing the resisting pillar of lightning to pieces. Along with it, the rolling dark clouds that stretched for ten thousand li and covered the sky of the entire Blessed Land were also shattered.

At this moment, it seemed as if Ye Ming's Myriad Self Great Handprint was the Heavenly Tribulation, while the rolling black clouds were like the one undergoing the tribulation, being smashed by the Heavenly Tribulation.

The black clouds dissipated, and light was revealed in the sky once more.

This vast Lightning Tribulation, which would make people shrink back in fear, had actually been beaten to pieces by Ye Ming! Ye Ming, standing in mid-air, saw this scene, but his face remained without joy or sorrow. A once-in-a-century tribulation, and one produced by his Great Strength True Martial Body at that, could absolutely not dissipate so easily.

Sure enough, almost the instant the thick black clouds dissipated, three light gates flickering with white light appeared above the sky.

"Awoo!!"

A giant dragon, entirely cyan in color and a hundred zhang in length, suddenly rushed out from the white light gate and headed straight toward the Blessed Land in the distance.

With one opening of its large mouth, countless dense Heavenly Fires descended upon the world, as if to burn the entire Blessed Land to ashes.

"Ancient Desolate Beast Tribulation!"

(End of this chapter)