Stealthily cultivating in the chaotic world of demons and martial artists
Chapter 282 - 281 Heaven Tribulation (Seeking Monthly Tickets)_1

Chapter 282: Chapter 281 Heaven Tribulation (Seeking Monthly Tickets)_1

Fang Xi initially didn’t continue on the path of Qi and Blood Martial Arts due to concerns like these.

Those who create new systems, although they seem glorious, are actually facing a darkness ahead, filled with thorns.

With just a bit of inattention, one could stray onto the wrong path, and it might even become irreparable!

"All things carry yin and embrace yang, to mix these energies to achieve harmony..."

Zhang Mingding, however, seemed not to notice the regret in Fang Xi’s tone. Instead, his eyes were unfocused, muttering this phrase, and then they suddenly lit up, "I understand now... Thank you, Sect Leader, for the guidance... This Immortal Martial Path, the Qi Blood Holding Pill Skill... has finally reached perfection."

As for his own Taoist Path, Zhang Mingding didn’t seem to care much anymore.

"Well, as long as you’re clear about it... What about the Monster Tree?"

Fang Xi asked.

"About that... I indeed know some..."

Zhang Mingding’s joy gradually faded from his face, replaced by a hint of fear: "I know the Sect Leader has been paying attention to that Monster Tree, so I also sent people to investigate the related news... Fifty years ago, we found clues and located the Demon Realm where the Monster Tree resides..."

"At that time, I had already succeeded in forming the Blood Pill and condensed the ’Pill Power,’ believing myself to be invincible in the world, capable of going anywhere... But as a result, I was blocked outside the Monster Tree’s Demon Realm..."

A look of shock appeared on Zhang Mingding’s face: "However... I observed the Demon Realm from the outside for three years and confirmed that the Monster Tree had grown to its limit, and could even become a great harm to this world... And it was on that day that I witnessed the process of the Monster Tree’s disappearance..."

"Oh?"

Fang Xi’s interest was piqued: "Tell me more about it... Never mind, let’s go back first, and you will cooperate with me later on, I want to see it myself!"

After advancing to Core Formation, and employing the soul-related Secret Skills from the Kuyong Skills, along with the willing cooperation of the practitioner involved, Fang Xi felt that his Divine Consciousness should be strong enough to view the entire memory sequence.

...

Wu Jing.

Over the past hundred years, Martial God Sect had already moved beyond its previous rough style.

It was more splendid and magnificent, like a royal palace!

The pit that formed when Zhang Mingding broke out of the underground chamber was as if ignored.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Two streaks of light descended beside the large pit in mid-air, it was Zhang Mingding and Fang Xi, who wore a green mask.

"Vice Sect Leader!"

A few Martial Gods approached and saw Fang Xi beside Zhang Mingding, all with a hint of doubt.

"This is ’Mr. Mu,’ I’ve greeted the Sect Leader about him before, that’s all..."

Zhang Mingding said with a smile: "Prepare the best room for Mr. Mu, besides... I hereby grant the ’Martial God Order’ to him, all the secrets of Martial God Sect are open to Mr. Mu!"

The stationed Martial Gods looked at each other and then bowed deeply: "At your command!"

Now within Martial God Sect, Zhang Mingding’s word was law.

"You rest well first. I don’t need to prepare a guest room for me, just take me directly to the archives and library..."

Fang Xi, with his hands clasped behind his back, looked around the entirely new Martial God Sect with interest.

He felt quite a sense of the Sea of Changes.

"If that is so, Mr. Mu, please do as you wish... I still need to rest for one night to compile the concepts from tonight into a volume, and then I will ask for your guidance!"

Zhang Mingding smiled in response, leaving with a limp.

"What? Aren’t you leading the way?"

Fang Xi looked at the Martial Gods and suddenly smiled.

"Please!"

The several Martial Gods immediately bent their noble backs.

’Who says from the outside that the Martial Gods are always brutal and unpredictable? They seem quite easy to deal with...’

Fang Xi nodded, a slight smile appearing beneath the mask.

...

Several days later.

He was in the library, closing the last book: "So it turns out... so much has happened over these hundred years..."

"Zhang Mingding, after ascending to Martial Immortal, can even confront the Demonic Beasts themselves... He has indeed unraveled quite a bit, worthy of a look..."

Fang Xi stretched, walked out of the library.

Outside, there waited a tall, long-legged maid dressed in a purple ruqun: "Servant Han Yue greets Mr. Mu... Whatever instructions you have, please tell this servant, the Sect Leader has already ordered that all of your demands must be met."

Han Yue had rosy lips and white teeth, a truly breathtaking beauty.

"Oh?"

Fang Xi took an interested look and lifted her chin, gazing at her face for a moment.

This woman was naturally beautiful, but for some reason, upon seeing her, a round and plump face flashed through Fang Xi’s mind.

"What is your relationship with Han Fatty who, over a hundred years ago, monopolized the business of Monster beasts in the capital of Ding State and occasionally dealt in the black market?"

Fang Xi suddenly asked.

"My ancestral home is indeed in Tri-element City, and among my ancestors, there seems to have been such a person..." Han Yue looked up, her expression also showing confusion.

"I see... then never mind, you may go."

Fang Xi waved his hand: "I will surely speak well of you in front of Sect Leader Zhang later."

...

After sending away the bewildered maid, Fang Xi went straight to Zhang Mingding’s residence.

The man was just holding a box, as if intending to leave.

When he saw Fang Xi, he promptly bowed: "I have just finished organizing the Way of the Martial Immortal, and wanted to submit it for Mr. Mu’s review..."

"Oh?"

Fang Xi then opened the box and saw the thick manuscript within.

Some parts were old, while others appeared to be recently added.

His reading speed was very fast, with Divine Thought assisting him, it was even more terrifying than speed-reading.

He browsed through it and could not help nodding: "After your revision, if one is lucky enough to successfully form a core using the Qi Blood Holding Pill Skill, there’s already a fifty percent chance of forming a ’Living Pill’..."

"Only fifty percent?"

Zhang Mingding was greatly shaken.

"Getting half is already not bad..."

Fang Xi thought of the Immortal Cultivators in the Southern Wilderness Cultivation Realm.

Qi and Blood Martial Arts was very easy to master quickly with little demand for resources. If this form of Martial Arts were introduced into the Cultivation World, it would surely be eagerly pursued, and it might be that body cultivators would dominate after a thousand years or so.

Unfortunately, he was too lazy to get involved in such matters.

Even he himself had no plans to continue on the path of Qi and Blood Martial Arts.

Although this Martial Arts did not conflict with the methods of Cultivation, the lack of subsequent development was a huge problem.

’Before finding a path to Long Life and power better than Cultivation, it’s best to focus on one path to avoid interference.’

’However, it can be used to mass-produce subordinates at the almost-third-order rank?’

Fang Xi fell into deep thought, and his gaze made Zhang Mingding feel a chill in his heart.

"Alright... You’ve had a good rest, are you ready?" He looked at Zhang Mingding again and asked.

"Please proceed, Mr. Mu."

Zhang Mingding chuckled bitterly, knowing he had no room to resist...

...

Inside the dark chamber.

"Stay calm and relaxed, open your mind, and recall those memories one by one..."

Zhang Mingding sat cross-legged, facing Fang Xi.

The words from Fang Xi’s mouth seemed to possess some magical power, loosening Zhang Mingding’s mind.

His eyes were vacant, and his face even showed a trace of fear as he recalled those moments...

A yellow and a green radiance emerged in Fang Xi’s eyes, piercing straight into Zhang Mingding’s pupils.

’Martial Arts doesn’t cultivate Divine Consciousness, this person’s Divine Consciousness is far inferior to mine, and certainly can’t block the Secret Skill.’

He thought, and his Divine Consciousness, far exceeding that of an ordinary early Core Formation cultivator, directly entered Zhang Mingding’s Sea of Consciousness.

And then...

A segment of memory appeared before Fang Xi.

What he saw was a vast Demon Realm that blocked out the sun!

This Demon Realm was so widespread that it had already far exceeded the extents of a city and given enough time, might even devour all living beings in Great Liang!

’I’ arrived at the Demon Realm and used the Qi Blood Holding Pill to strike at the periphery of the Demon Realm.

But alas...

The dazzling Blood Dragon roared into the outskirts of the Demon Realm, only to be engulfed and consumed by strands of black mist...

’This Ancestral Demon Tree... indeed has grown again...’

Seeing this, Fang Xi couldn’t help but sigh internally.

The scene shifted to three years later.

Above the sky, dark clouds gathered densely, suddenly lightning bolts of piercing white emerged, striking down on the Monster Tree!

Cack!

Countless dazzling Thunder Lights, like Flood Dragons, tore through the pitch-black Demon Realm, revealing the largest Demonic Tree at the center.

’No... This doesn’t seem like ordinary lightning...’

’But... Heaven Tribulation?!’

Fang Xi murmured to himself.

Whether it’s Cultivators or Monster beasts, when advancing to the fourth-order Nascent Soul level, they all face the test of heaven and earth! Or rather... an obstacle!

Such a Heaven Tribulation was naturally far more terrifying than any lightning technique, powerful enough to completely obliterate even a Cultivator with Perfect Core Formation!

The Thunder Light stripped away layers of the Demon Realm, reaching the Ancestral Demon Tree’s true body!

On the Demonic Tree’s trunk, a twisted human face appeared, weeping blood tears...

Cack!

One after another, the thick branches were struck by the Heaven Tribulation lightning, falling to the ground and turning to ash.

This scene made even Fang Xi’s eyes twitch.

He asked himself, with his current Divine Skills, if he were to face such a Thunder Tribulation, surely he would have no chance of survival!

’The Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation is actually so terrifying?’

’No wonder even in the ancient times, a Yuan Ying True Monarch was a great master of Divine Skills...’

Fang Xi talked to himself.

He had a rough understanding.

The Demonic Tree was likely at the peak of the third-order, or even about to break through to the fourth, and then it attracted the ’Heaven Tribulation’ of this world!

’So Great Liang also has Heaven Tribulation?’

’The so-called Heaven Tribulation is the world not allowing too powerful an individual to emerge...’

’Perhaps... the previous demons all perished because of this reason, after growing strong to a certain extent, they fell to the Heaven Tribulation?’

’It seems the power of the Heaven Tribulation in the Da Liang World is abnormally strong... Those who undergo the tribulation mostly don’t survive?’

’Good thing I thought of using the Treasures of All Heavens to hide when I face the Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation in the future... Now it seems, luckily I haven’t put it into practice... otherwise, it might have backfired and doomed me instead!’

The Da Liang World does not allow the existence of fourth-orders!

If someone comes here to avoid their tribulation, only to encounter an even stronger Thunder Tribulation, it truly would be bringing disaster on oneself...

If other worlds are not explored thoroughly, they might have the same pitfalls!

Boom!

In the end, purple lightning accompanied by specks of gold transformed into an extraordinary Purple Gold Bicolor Thunder Tribulation, amidst the lightning, there seemed to be odd Silver Seal Scripts, thunderously descending.

Bang!

Amidst the thunder fire, the main trunk of the Demonic Tree was fiercely struck by the bicolor thunder, turning into a charred stump...