Chapter 1019: Lightning, Come! I Want to Transcend the Tribulation!

Xu Que was now in the Four Great Continents, and one could say he was without a single relative or friend!

First, Su Ling'er, Lady Ya, and Xiao Rou had entered the Southern Continent Secret Realm, after which the entire secret realm vanished. To this day, there was no news of them, and even Xu Que could not figure out where they had actually gone.

However, that was Zixia Fairy's territory. Plus, Duan Jiude had also said that it was very likely Zixia Fairy knew of some upheaval in the Four Great Continents and had therefore moved the secret realm away. Xu Que was actually quite at ease about it.

Following that, he had inexplicably lost ten years of time. After emerging from the Buried Immortal Valley, Liu Jingning and Jiang Hongyan had also left. Even Er Gou and Duan Jiude, and even the Sect Master of the Bliss Sect and the others, had run off as well; not a single one had stayed behind.

Walking along the road, Xu Que felt unusually lonely!

The Four Great Continents were so vast, yet he truly couldn't find many people he could hang out with anymore!

"Ah! I miss Er Gou, I miss Old Man Duan!"

Xu Que shook his head and sighed, feeling deeply emotional.

Without the two of them staying by his side to be scammed by him, it was truly lonely and desolate!

However, for the time being, he still had to seize the time to sprint toward the peak of the Great Vehicle Stage, transcend the Ascension Tribulation as soon as possible, and rush to the Immortal Realm!

Currently, the fastest way to level up was killing!

But now, the experience points required to sprint from the sixth level of the Great Vehicle Stage to the peak of the Great Vehicle Stage were terrifyingly high. The Four Great Continents were now left with only a group of Void Refinement and Body Integration stage cultivators; he was afraid he would have to kill tens of thousands of people to gather enough experience for one small realm.

The problem was, there weren't many Body Integration stage experts left in the Four Great Continents at all, and running to the Xuanzhen Continent was simply too time-consuming!

Therefore, in the final analysis, he could only honestly go into closed-door cultivation right now; efficiency and speed would actually be the highest that way!

But as for cultivation...

"It seems I have to go fish for more heavenly materials and earthly treasures first and refine some pills. Otherwise, relying solely on spiritual energy and spirit stones, the speed is too slow!"

Xu Que rubbed his chin, lost in thought.

He had constructed the most perfect cultivation method, but for so many years, he had been too lazy to even pick up other people's belongings when killing them; many precious medicinal herbs and treasures had been thrown to Er Gou and the others.

After all, his own experience points came easily, and equipment was supplied by the system; picking up so many things couldn't compare to what the system produced!

But now, he finally realized how precious those spirit herbs were!

However, no matter how precious it is, it is not impossible to obtain!

"With so many enemies, just looting one family will surely be enough to gather them!"

Xu Que raised the corners of his mouth, his gaze falling into the distance, feeling that the entire Four Great Continents was his own treasure vault!

That very day, Xu Que set off for the Northern Sea, wandering toward the main tribe of the Heavenly Horned Ox Clan. Unfortunately, this clan had long since been scared into seclusion, and there wasn't a shadow of a person to be found.

But Xu Que still dug three feet into the ground of their ancestral site, and as a result, he actually dug out their ancestral treasure vault.

Clearly, this tribe retreated in a great hurry back then, leaving behind countless precious heavenly materials and earthly treasures in their treasury that they had no time to take away; they have not even dared to return to retrieve them to this day, likely hiding in some place isolated from the rest of the world.

Xu Que naturally didn't stand on ceremony and took everything in one pot, cleaning the entire vault out completely. In the end, he even left behind a needle and a thread, carving the words "Xu Que of the Exploding Heaven Gang was here" on the wall of the vault!

Following that, this fellow wandered over to the Eastern Wasteland and turned the Bai Family upside down as well.

Following that, he ran all over the mountains and plains, digging through almost every major family and faction that had colluded with the Three Great Academies, not letting a single one off!

In just two short months, the entire Four Great Continents became panic-stricken once again. Everyone knew that the Great Demon King Xu Que had returned, and they even shortened his title to Old Demon Xu!

But no matter how helpless they were, Xu Que eventually returned fully loaded and went straight into the Buried Immortal Valley, finding a quiet place to begin his closed-door cultivation.

After all, no matter how vast the Four Great Continents are, or even with the nine great forbidden lands, the place with the densest spiritual energy is undoubtedly the Buried Immortal Valley!

Xu Que was bold and meticulous. Knowing that the woman's divine soul couldn't possibly emerge again, he simply moved back here and even ran openly onto the altar, setting up one Juling Array after another!

There was no help for it; among the Four Great Continents and the Xuanzhen Continent, this was the only place left with the most concentrated spiritual energy.

He even split off a portion of his divine soul and handed it over to the system for trusteeship, refining all pills related to cultivation according to the pill formulas!

After everything was prepared, Xu Que took out all the top-grade spirit stones he had on him, as well as the spirit crystals he had extorted and swindled from the experts of the Three Great Academies, piling them up in front of him like a mountain.

Afterward, he took out bottle after bottle of pills as well.

Finally, he was able to enter a state of closed-door cultivation with peace of mind!

On the vast mountain peak, Xu Que sat cross-legged on the altar, his eyes tightly closed, the center of his brows shining brilliantly, flashing with golden light!

After the Juling Array was activated, the spiritual energy, which was already dense in the four directions, suddenly surged over entirely.

"Boom!"

A massive vortex seemed to form above Xu Que, crazily absorbing the spiritual energy, which was then continuously compressed and converged toward him!

The bottles of pills on his body flew up one after another, hovering in front of him.

Every time Xu Que opened his mouth slightly, a pill would automatically fly out and enter his mouth, dispersing within the surging spiritual energy and transforming into powerful medicinal strength that impacted all the major meridians throughout his body!

The True Essence within his body also gradually became more solid and dense, and his meridians and roots were undergoing a qualitative change as well.

Xu Que remained completely immersed in his cultivation; the spirit stones before him turned into ash one after another, and the pills also disappeared one by one.

One month...

Two months...

Half a year...

A year passed.

All the top-grade spirit stones Xu Que had taken out were completely consumed, and more than half of the spirit crystals were gone!

As for the medicinal herbs he had spent months scavenging, they were also entirely used up after being refined into pills!

Yet Xu Que still did not stop; he directly brought out that Imperial Physician Heavenly Book Stele and continued to remain immersed in his cultivation state!

Although obtaining this Imperial Physician Heavenly Book Stele was not necessarily a good thing!

But since he had already become the inheritor, it was impossible for Xu Que to just hold onto it without refining it. Moreover, this thing was of great help to the divine soul. Taking advantage of this closed-door cultivation, Xu Que decided to kill two birds with one stone, improving his realm and divine soul together to make them perfectly compatible with himself!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Under the operation of the Ancient Five Elements Art, spiritual energy surged crazily into his body, triggering bursts of muffled sounds, as if thunder were constantly rolling and surging through his meridians, eventually transforming into Five Elements True Essence that gathered in his dantian!

He possessed five Heavenly Spirit Roots; this physique was seen as a waste by outsiders, but if supplied with a continuous stream of massive resources, it was simply a divine body!

His five types of spirit roots destined him to require five times more spiritual energy than others, but the results after cultivation would be countless times more powerful than others!

The Imperial Physician Heavenly Book Stele also released strands of invisible runes. They looked chaotic and obscure, difficult to understand, but after being imprinted into his mind, they formed a divine soul technique, as if it were innate—a skill gifted by the heavens!

With his realm and divine soul promoting each other, Xu Que progressed extremely quickly, his strength climbing without interruption!

Time flies like a shuttle!

In the blink of an eye, two years passed in a hurry!

Xu Que had exhausted his greatest efforts, with the help of high-grade Juling Arrays, tens of millions of top-grade spirit stones, dozens of spirit crystals, and thousands of nine-star pills!

On this day, he finally broke through the final barrier!

"Crack!"

A crisp sound came from his dantian, as if a boulder had split open, like a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon, radiating new life!

Massive Five Elements True Essence surged out from Xu Que's dantian, permeating his entire body, and his whole person radiated a blazing brilliance, his aura towering!

Great Vehicle Stage Peak, achieved!

Two years of time, consuming countless treasures, finally helped him reach this step!

This speed was absolutely inconceivable to outsiders; even incredibly powerful factions, if they could produce so many heavenly materials and earthly treasures, could not possibly do it as fast as he did!

But Xu Que's talent was formidable, with his Five Elements Heavenly Spirit Root physique, plus his Dao Rhyme was completely self-comprehended, opening up a new Great Dao, allowing him to move forward smoothly without the obstruction of bottlenecks!

All of this was a matter of course, but the most critical factor depended on him self-destructing his cultivation back then, transforming into a mortal to start over, relying entirely on self-cultivation to lay a powerful and solid foundation!

Boom!

Finally, accompanied by a wave of air sweeping out in all directions, Xu Que suddenly opened his eyes!

In this instant, he appeared very calm and peaceful, his eyes without a ripple, like an ordinary, plain mortal.

But the next moment, when he stood up and faced the surrounding mountains, a supreme, majestic aura, dignified without anger, permeated the entire place!

Inside and outside the Buried Immortal Valley, all living things were disturbed; crawling insects and fierce beasts all sensed a heavenly might, one after another kneeling on the ground in terror, bowing their heads in submission!

Xu Que stood tall at the peak of the mountain, his hands behind his back, his robes fluttering, his gaze looking into the distance, never once looking up at the firmament.

Suddenly, he slowly raised his hand, pointing toward the sky, and in an overbearing posture that brooked no refusal, he shouted loudly: "Thunder, come! I want to undergo the tribulation!"

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