Chapter 886

The sunlight was perfect!

He Pingsheng lay on a chair behind the counter, eyes closed, studying the 【Heavenly Talisman Dao Treasury】.

Unconsciously, he could now draw fifth-rank talismans!

At that moment, a rustling sound reached his ears.

"Feng Wu… tell me, Miss… what exactly do you attain when you attain enlightenment?"

Luo Bingyao's voice was soft, yet piercing.

He Pingsheng couldn't help but hear it.

Feng Wu replied respectfully: "What one attains in enlightenment is the ultimate truth of heaven and earth!"

"Oh…" Luo Bingyao said: "So it's the greatest principle in all of heaven and earth!"

Feng Wu said: "Yes!"

"I get it!" Luo Bingyao added: "Yesterday, while I was attaining enlightenment, I suddenly realized…"

"Huh?" Before Luo Bingyao could finish, Feng Wu asked: "You were busy in the shop all day yesterday, running around with me—when did you even attain enlightenment?"

"That's none of your business!" Luo Bingyao said: "I attained it, and that's that… what are you going to do about it?"

"Uh… alright!" Feng Wu dared not retort: "Please instruct me!"

Luo Bingyao said: "Yesterday, inspiration struck me—I attained a great truth… this truth says… those who appear gentle, kind, petite, and pitiful… must never be trusted!"

"They're likely bound by karmic debt!"

"The purer they look, the more depraved they are!"

Pfft…

At the counter nearby, He Pingsheng spat out the spiritual tea he'd just sipped, then burst into coughing.

"Master…" Luo Bingyao skipped over, quickly patting his back with her small hands: "See? I told you… watch out for karmic entanglement!"

He Pingsheng glared at her: "If you've got something to say, say it. If you've got a fart to let out, do it—don't talk in riddles here!"

"Hehehehe… Master, you're so smart—you knew right away I was talking about you!" Luo Bingyao stopped patting, turned her head around, and stared straight at He Pingsheng: "That Qing Yu—I knew she had ulterior motives. Who would abandon being a Princess of the Qilin Clan just to become someone's mount?"

"How low can you get?"

He Pingsheng's face darkened: "Don't talk like that. You're a girl—don't spout vulgar words so carelessly. Don't you know propriety?"

"Hmph…" Luo Bingyao said: "Isn't that unreasonable?"

"What's unreasonable?" He Pingsheng said: "Earlier, I was going to kill that brat Qing Qi's true body and trap his soul, forcing him to be my mount. He refused to submit, even at the cost of his life—then we reached an agreement: he gave me a Qilin as a mount!"

"Isn't that Qing Yu?"

"It's not as bad as you think!"

"Besides, Qing Yu and I both signed the Master-Servant Slave Seal—what scheming could there be?"

Luo Bingyao looked wounded: "It's just a mount, right? I could be one too… why choose her?"

He Pingsheng's face darkened: "Don't talk nonsense—you're my disciple, your status is noble. How could you possibly be a mount?"

"Stop talking nonsense!"

"Gulpgulp…" He Pingsheng quickly drank two sips of spiritual tea: "Hu Chen is about to cross the Mahayana Tribulation. Come, let's go watch—also lend him protection."

"He's nearly ready."

Luo Bingyao lowered her head: "Oh."

He Pingsheng reached out, grabbed Luo Bingyao's hand, and instantly teleported beyond the Imperial City.

Three more teleports later, they finally arrived at a place far from the city.

Here, endless barren mountains stretched for ten thousand li, utterly uninhabited.

Hu Chen sat cross-legged atop a mountain peak.

Beside him, in the empty air, stood an old man with snow-white hair.

The old man was He Pingsheng's Wood Aspect.

"How much longer?" He Pingsheng asked his Wood Aspect.

The Wood Aspect replied: "Almost there—another one or two hours should do it."

At this moment, Hu Chen was adjusting his state.

Indeed, two hours later, as the sun set beyond the western hills, Hu Chen suddenly opened his eyes.

His usual lazy, disrespectful expression vanished, replaced by an unprecedented seriousness.

He pulled out the supreme-grade Great Creation Pill and swallowed it whole.

"Boom…"

Immediately, dark clouds gathered in the void, silver lightning crackling within, twisting like silver dragons and serpents.

One after another!

Line after line!

Black ink-like clouds multiplied.

The lightning grew brighter.

At a certain moment, nine heavenly thunderbolts, like nine silver dragons, descended simultaneously from the dark clouds, striking Hu Chen's head.

"Hahahaha…"

Facing the tribulation thunder, Hu Chen laughed heartily!

Then calmly welcomed the heavenly tribulation.

"Master… I'm finally reaching Mahayana Emperor Realm!"

"Master… can you see me from beyond?"

"Your most despised disciple… is about to reach Mahayana Emperor Realm… Hahahaha…"

"Wu…wu…"

"Master… it's my fault you died."

"If not for me… how could you have died?"

"Wu…wu…"

Boom boom boom…

The second tribulation thunder fell.

Hu Chen still used no defense—he received the heavenly lightning with his body alone.

Third wave!

Fourth wave!

Fifth wave!

Sixth wave!

To He Pingsheng's shock, this man was enduring the Seven-Nine Heavenly Tribulation.

The final, seventh wave struck, splitting Hu Chen's skin open, loosening his Dao roots.

Fortunately, the Creation Immortal Light descended once more!

After absorbing the Creation Immortal Light, Hu Chen stabilized his cultivation foundation.

At that moment, behind Hu Chen, a colossal giant, ten thousand zhang tall, suddenly appeared.

The giant merely flicked his sleeve, unleashing a vast Mahayana Emperor Realm power that surged across heaven and earth.

In that instant, night turned to day.

Countless living beings across the billions of miles of land all looked up toward this direction.

Even in the distant Divine Thunder Imperial City, cultivators stared in excitement toward this realm.

Though they couldn't see the details, many knew someone here had broken through.

And it was a breakthrough to Mahayana Emperor Realm.

Divine Thunder Imperial Palace!

A woman in green robes suddenly lifted her head, gazing toward He Pingsheng's direction: "Heavenly phenomena of a Mahayana Emperor breakthrough?"

"Someone has entered Mahayana now?"

Since the Divine Thunder Demon Emperor departed, this palace had lain abandoned for some time.

The new Demon Emperor had just arrived and now witnessed the Mahayana breakthrough phenomenon.

She stepped out of the palace, took two or three more steps, and arrived in the very void where He Pingsheng stood.

Boom…

He Pingsheng's gaze swept over her—he saw she was a Mahayana Emperor Realm, Level Eleven cultivator—and immediately went on high alert, waving his hand to summon the Primordial Purple Gold Staff.

The woman glanced at He Pingsheng's staff, then said: "You're He Pingsheng?"

He Pingsheng didn't answer, only nodded.

"Friend He, rest easy—I came with no ill intent. I merely wished to see who was undergoing Mahayana Tribulation here."