Invisible Security Guard
Chapter 696 - 695: 9 Big Fetus Breaths

Chapter 696: Chapter 695: 9 Big Fetus Breaths

At the most critical moment, just as the nine Blood Beads were cracking and about to explode, Yusuf Zuck stuffed the last Golden Core into his mouth.

The Golden Core is a product born of tribulation; it’s well-known that in order to achieve the Golden Core, one must endure a kind of heavenly tribulation. Cultivators refer to this heavenly tribulation as the Four Nine Heavenly Tribulation, a kind of mandated ordeal. If you can overcome this ordeal, you can solidify the pill; if you fail, you die.

This is why it is called the Four Nine Heavenly Tribulation—because at that time, thirty-six heavenly punishments will appear, and thirty-six is referred to as "Four Nine."

This is also the first ordeal that seekers of the Dao must face, and it is said that as one progresses, the number of tribulations increases.

Those who have survived such tribulations will have their human pills in their bodies cleansed by heavenly punishments, turning them into a golden color, possessing strange and unpredictable powers of heaven and earth. The Golden Core is a threshold, a major hurdle in cultivation. There might be many Golden Pill Monks, but few have a Golden Core because those thirty-six tribulations are extremely terrifying.

Yusuf Zuck even heard that inside the Golden Core contains a type of energy that can annihilate the spirit soul. The Black Jiao told Yusuf Zuck that human pills could be consumed, but Golden Cores should not be ingested recklessly, because many people who did swallow a Golden Core recklessly had their spirit souls shattered, and without a soul, one simply dies.

No one knows why this happens, but many claim that after Golden Pill Monks survive the tribulation, in addition to the pill becoming golden and possessing the power of heaven and earth, they also possess a force of the spirit soul that is equally mysterious and unpredictable.

After Yusuf Zuck swallowed the Golden Core that had been cleansed by the heavenly tribulation, the situation inside his body was far more than just a rumbling explosion—it was because the energy was too vast and overpowering, and all of it converged towards the Dantian, as if it, too, wanted to blast the Dantian apart.

Of course, in addition to the endless energy, the Golden Core truly released an unknown force that was invisible and intangible, somewhat like Divine Sense, which emerged out of thin air, and then rushed towards his mind, seemingly wanting to strangle his soul.

"Boom—" When that spirit soul power rushed into his mind, an even more peculiar thing happened. The nine Blood Beads, which were about to explode, seemed to sense danger and threat and stopped beating simultaneously, then, when they suddenly contracted, nine purple light arrows shot towards the incoming spirit soul power.

And, as if it had divine foreknowledge, the spirit soul power could also sense danger. When it detected nine rays of light rushing out, it actually contracted backward!

Nine rays of purple light relentlessly pursued it.

"Pfft—" That force burrowed into Yusuf Zuck’s Dantian and then dissipated into nothingness, as though it had never existed before!

But in reality, it was just a ’Dao Thought,’ not a consciousness, but a force of the Dao remaining within the Golden Core from the heavenly tribulation!

The nine rays of purple light also rushed into Yusuf Zuck’s Dantian. However, while the Dao Thought disappeared without a trace, when the nine rays of purple light rushed in at that moment, they crazily absorbed all the energy within Yusuf Zuck’s Dantian.

It was an automatic absorption, all energy entering into the nine rays of purple light!

Within just three breaths’ time, Yusuf Zuck suddenly opened his eyes, because the Blood Beads stopped beating, all the violent energy in the Dantian was gone, and nine purple lights rhythmically bounced.

This was the damn Foetal Respiration, Yusuf Zuck had reached the realm of Foetal Respiration, the Small Fetal Breathing Realm, and his whole body stabilized!

"Can it be?" Yusuf Zuck swallowed, as the nine rays of purple light entered the Dantian unintentionally, and then, the violent energy from several human pills combined with a Golden Core fused with them to form a Small Foetal Respiration.

And this Foetal Respiration was purple; others’ Foetal Respiration was just a light, but his was purple light!

"What now?" Yusuf Zuck didn’t know what to do, he became unsettled, was he supposed to form nine pills, birthing nine infants?

However... however... how could that be possible? He had heard of twins, triplets, even quadruplets or quintuplets, but nine at once—that’s a pig!

But... he really had become a pig, with nine Fetal Respiration lights formed, and damn it, they were Purple Fetus; this was something he couldn’t change.

"Damn it, never mind, nine it is. I’m not someone who can’t afford it!" Yusuf Zuck glared, as long as his head didn’t explode, and the Blood Beads were still there, he didn’t care how many pills he solidified or how many infants he bore. What he relied on now was the Power of Blood Beads, and the reason for cultivating was to prevent himself from exploding.

"Whew—" He took a deep breath, then stood up, his lower body naked, his upper body clothes were also torn, and the Broken Black Blade was missing. He looked very miserable, even more so than a beggar.

"There’s something strange about this cave!" Yusuf Zuck glanced around; except for that tiny hole, there were no other passages. Yet, there was an ancient well here?

There were no doors, just burrows made by animals, but how could there be a dried-up well here? Had humans come here before? But how did they enter, after all, there is no entrance or exit!

"No, that’s not right, there is an entrance—it’s this well!" Yusuf Zuck walked over to the well and looked down. It was pitch-dark, but he was certain there was no water inside the well, as there was no dampness or moisture.

The cave walls around were smooth, not something that could have been carved out by animals but by someone who crawled out of this well and created a round hole here.

"Where does this well lead to?" Yusuf Zuck observed his surroundings carefully and concluded that no one must have been here for a long time. The ground was all dust and soil, with no footprints or traces of human habitation.

He pondered for a moment, then extended his Telekinesis into the well.

A bizarre scene occurred; he couldn’t use Telekinesis inside the well.

"Then I’ll just have to go down and see for myself." Yusuf Zuck decided to descend, perhaps even find a treasure—who would dig a well here for no reason? There must be a secret.

Having decided to explore, he simply jumped in.

Of course, he descended slowly, floating down, rather than dropping straight to the bottom.

The well was very deep; he estimated the time, and after about ten minutes he finally reached the bottom. For such a ten-minute journey, it must have been hundreds of miles, right?

Which meant that the bottom of this well was a hundred miles deep underground.

Upon reaching the bottom, it was pitch-black; he couldn’t see anything, nor could he use Telekinesis, and he didn’t even have a firestarter on him, so he couldn’t see a thing.

He felt around in the dark, but the walls around him were solid, without even a crack.

"There’s something under my feet." He then reached towards the ground because something was pressing against his feet. At the same time, he finally touched something at the bottom of the well—icy cold, bone-chillingly cold, like some kind of metal object, connected together in links!

"What is this?" Yusuf Zuck felt around but couldn’t figure it out. However, this metal object was very heavy and thick.

"I’ll go up, make a fire, and then come back down to look!" After thinking, Yusuf Zuck jumped back up, crawled out through the small opening, and gathered some dry branches and soft dry grass to bring back inside with him.

After descending back to the bottom of the well, he started to make fire in the primitive way, drilling wood for fire. It was something he had seen on TV survival channels before—just generating sparks from friction and then igniting the dry grass.

Soon, the bottom of the well was lit, and with the help of the flames, he finally saw what those links were.

It was a chain, a massive chain thicker than his waist, buried chains at the bottom of the earth, and he was right at one end of it.

After digging a bit more, he found something that looked like a pillar, and the chain was tied around this pillar!

"Where does this chain lead to? And what is it locking?" Yusuf Zuck was shocked. A chain as thick as his waist, buried a hundred miles deep underground—what secret might be attached to this chain?

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PS: Five Chapters at once.