Chapter 288: Red Lotus Tribulation Flame

The Red Lotus Hellfire Tribulation, just like the Annihilation Thunder Tribulation from moments ago, is also a fusion of dual tribulations.

It's just that many people didn't recognize the previous thunder tribulation; after all, thunder is thunder, with only a slight difference in color, lacking the distinctiveness of this Red Lotus appearance. Yet the Red Lotus Hellfire Tribulation is extremely well-known, simply because it is beautiful.

Very few heavenly tribulations look this beautiful. The wrath of Buddha and Demon, giving birth to its death prison from the lotus throne, hence called Red Lotus Hellfire.

The reason it is also a dual tribulation is that, besides normal scorching flames, it also contains an extremely clear meaning of judgment and condemnation.

It deems your demonic intent deep, thus requiring judgment and purification.

However, based on experience, not everyone who encounters this tribulation is an irredeemably evil demon disciple; often, it is good people who have done some wrongs who are more likely to encounter this tribulation than truly irredeemably evil ones.

Truly evil ones usually face other types, where the meaning of annihilation is stronger than the meaning of judgment.

Giving you judgment means they believe you can still be saved.

Thus, this tribulation did not give people the impression of "this is an evil person"; instead, they all whispered: "Does that mean his nature is good? But what wrong did he do to cause this?"

A'nuo poked his head out from behind the mountain of books.

Ye Tinglan lowered her head; Bai Mao gazed intently.

In everyone's heart, the wrongs he committed were different.

A'nuo truly witnessed his darkest and most ferocious period; how many demonic acts did he commit, let alone one or two? And having forgotten his disciple for his master's wife, encountering this tribulation is no surprise; the heavens have eyes, see if you dare forget your disciple again!

Ye Tinglan felt he had lingering feelings for Yuan Muyu, who adopted him; this violated human ethics and deserved this tribulation. But this was mostly Yuan Muyu's fault... how old was he then? Yuan Muyu, are you human?

Du Gu Miss Qingli felt it was unclear what human ethics he had violated; wasn't his master his Mr.? Wasn't this a proper case of a disciple attacking his master?

Then the three of them reached a consensus that he was no good, flirting everywhere.

Hmm, this tribulation fire is right; judge him severely!

"If my trivial matters require judgment and purification... then what were you doing all this time?" Within the tribulation fire, Lu Xingzhou spoke softly: "In Danxia Mountain, where bullies ran rampant and villagers died unjustly, where was your judgment? In Menggui City, where infants were refined into ghosts and ten thousand households wailed, where was your purification?"

As he spoke, his hands moved lightly within the flames, bringing forth heavy afterimages, as if forming a magical seal.

Remnant clouds suddenly appeared in the sky, as if the tribulation fire manifested in the heavens, trapping the setting sun within it, similarly forming a shape of flames becoming a prison, only this time imprisoning the sunset.

The magical seal transformed into a palm, slowly slapping down toward the ground.

Seemingly a gentle movement, yet his long hair suddenly danced wildly, his sash snapping, looking like a god or a demon within the fire prison.

In the eyes of onlookers, it seemed as if the sky full of rosy clouds descended to envelop, forming a new prison outside the Red Lotus, trapping the Red Lotus within an even greater tribulation fire.

"I am merely crossing a minor heavenly tribulation, yet you are judging me? What's this... do you think I am easier to bully? Well, sorry, I don't buy that." As he spoke, the red clouds gradually tightened, the Red Lotus seemingly plucked into the palm of a giant flame hand, struggling and swaying.

"It should be you... who comes to taste my furnace fire, to see what shape I can refine you into?"

"Boom!" The Red Lotus Hellfire and Lu Xingzhou's image of the Flame Prison and Setting Sun collided, yet the former was completely suppressed, transforming even more into a flame seed shaped like a Red Lotus, swaying in his palm.

"Flame seed!" An elder cried out in shock: "He has refined the heavenly tribulation into a flame seed!"

"The Red Lotus Tribulation Flame originates from this; he is not the first to do so." Ye Tinglan spoke softly, love unmistakable in her eyes, concealed only by lowering her gaze: "But those who can succeed are as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns throughout history."

There was another thought unspoken in her heart—actually, Lu Xingzhou should never have been a supporting character; his desire for dominance was extremely strong, wanting to make heaven and earth his alchemical furnace, wanting to use his alchemical fire to refine the universe. How could such a person ever be content to remain a supporter?

As for matters between men and women, due to the romantic mood, he was quite willing to eat soft rice and play the role of a little puppy; even so, he often revealed, "I don't eat soft rice." If you truly mistake his romantic mood or concession and treat him forever as a little puppy dependent on you, then you are wrong...

"Suppressing the heavenly tribulation into a flame seed might be possible, but subduing it? Can he really succeed in subduing it?"

"Anyway, with my strength below breaking the third grade, I definitely cannot do it."

"Regardless of whether he can subdue it, judging solely by this second heavenly tribulation, he has actually already finished crossing it. Even if he cannot subdue the flame seed, he can hand it over to someone else to deal with."

"Then why hasn't it ended yet? Is there a third tribulation?"

If others had a triple tribulation, although rare, it wasn't unseen; Du Gu Miss Qingli had one.

But if Lu Xingzhou had another, that would be very strange.

Because his first two tribulations were both dual overlapping tribulations; appearing to cross two, they actually counted as four tribulations, which already exceeded many people's understanding. If another comes, a fifth tribulation, that is unheard of. If this final one is also a dual overlapping, it would be a sixth tribulation; throughout history, no one has ever heard of any madman crossing six tribulations during the minor Ascension Tribulation. This isn't the Ascension Tribulation; is it really necessary?

Ye Tinglan watched the Red Lotus Tribulation Flame seed struggling in Lu Xingzhou's palm and said softly: "Can't you all see? He is already crossing the Heart Demon Tribulation."

The elders' expressions were horrified: "Is there truly a fifth tribulation? Perhaps even a sixth?"

Ye Tinglan gazed intently and shook her head slightly.

Heart tribulations are the most impossible for others to observe; she could only judge that it had already begun, but it was also difficult to judge what type it was or whether it was dual.