The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 250 - 235 Catching a Free Ride_1

Chapter 250: Chapter 235 Catching a Free Ride_1

"It’s the Cloud Sail of that Spirit Condensation Realm Individual Cultivator."

One of the Disciples of the Demon Sect watched as Lei Kun’s Cloud Sail departed and said in a deep voice, "Luo Yuan, because he practiced the Thunderbolt Sword Spell, escaped the water’s surface before all of us. He was with that Individual Cultivator before, so they must have left together. I suspect... that White Crane was slaughtered by him."

His complexion was gloomy, showing great displeasure.

They had worked together to chase and kill White Crane for so long, all three parties suffering heavy losses.

In the end, they hadn’t gotten anything, and naturally felt dejected and dissatisfied.

Lu Xiangyi, observing the disciples coming from the three factions and noting that only about a dozen were left, said sadly, "Dozens of us entered the Cloud Thunder Forbidden Zone, and we didn’t find any serendipitous treasures, but almost all of us perished."

The rest also sighed and lamented.

Suddenly, Ye Fei from Black Valley spoke up, "If White Crane is dead, it must have been at Luo Yuan’s hands."

"Ye Fei..."

An older practitioner of the Demon Sect, who had a late stage Hollow Profound Realm cultivation but was still only an outer sect disciple, voiced his doubts, "After you lost the Purple Crystal Pagoda, why did you suddenly fall silent and hastily put away the Dragon Fish Mirror? What exactly did you discover?"

Lu Xiangyi also looked towards Ye Fei.

"I can’t say the specifics."

Ye Fei hesitated for a moment but still shook his head and sighed, "All I can tell you is that this Luo Yuan is of significant origin, not the kind of outer sect disciple from Sword Tower that you imagine."

"And also..."

After briefly pausing, he spoke again, "Recently, in the Third Realm, Pang Jian, whose infamy has spread far and wide, slew several Spirit Condensation Realm cultivators in succession, shocking the Sword Tower completely. This Pang Jian is a disciple chosen by Qi Qingsong for the Sword Tower, and he has not yet been recorded in the Sword Tower’s register."

"I can candidly tell you, this Pang Jian is no match for Luo Yuan; the two are not on the same level at all," declared Ye Fei.

Upon hearing this, the crowd by the lakeshore was astounded.

After coming down from the Second Realm in the Landscape Spiritual Boat, they were sick of hearing Pang Jian’s name. Every cultivator from the Third Realm they encountered recently was talking about him.

With Hollow Profound Realm cultivation, he was executing Great Cultivators of Spirit Condensation Realm, and multiple ones at that.

They were also shocked and deeply remembered this name, considering him a rising star destined to shine in the Sword Tower, and also to shine in the Second Realm.

Unexpectedly...

Ye Fei outright determined that such a Pang Jian was not as good as the little-known Luo Yuan, even stating they were not on the same level.

"I’m really very curious, what kind of anomaly did you observe in Luo Yuan’s Sea of Consciousness with the Dragon Fish."

Lu Xiangyi’s almond-shaped eyes flashed with an inquisitive glow.

"Not to be spoken."

Ye Fei mysteriously shook his head.

His odd behavior and these peculiar words caused the surviving disciples of the three sects to remember another Sword Tower disciple named Luo Yuan, in addition to Pang Jian.

...

Above the vast sea of clouds.

Pang Jian withdrew his gaze, no longer looking at the Cloud Thunder Forbidden Zone that seemed to sink deep into the sea of clouds, and turned back to express his regret, "In the end, that White Crane managed to escape."

"A White Crane that can speak must be an extraordinary natural variant, and its master is certainly incredible."

Lei Kun, who had herded all the captive birds back to the first-tier cabin, smiled and consoled him, "Maybe, failing to catch up and kill it is actually a fortunate thing for you."

The two chatted casually.

Lei Kun told Pang Jian that he had a secret little haven in Cloud Sky City on the Xuan You Continent and that he intended to go home for a visit this trip.

In that little haven that none of the women in the back cabin knew about, lay his most precious son.

And the woman who had borne him a son.

He maneuvered this Cloud Sail, carrying women whose lives he did not concern himself with, coming and going within the Xuan You Continent and the surrounding numerous Fragment Lands.

Ultimately, most of the gains from his travels were secretly handed over to his son and that woman.

Lei Kun, aware of the limits of his talent and achievements, was wholly intent on his son succeeding.

"For a parent, hoping for a child’s success is only natural," privately reflected Pang Jian.

Afterward.

Pang Jian listened as Lei Kun spoke of obtaining a legitimate Thunder Spell from the Black Thunder Pavilion of the past and wanting to use heavenly thunder to refine his Spiritual Soul.

But he feared he couldn’t withstand it and dreaded accidentally destroying both body and soul, hence asking Blood Moon to refine a new body for him.

Pulling the heavenly thunder to refine the soul," pondered Pang Jian in surprise.

As the sky grew dark, the two, who had been chatting leisurely on the deck for a while, ceased their conversation.

Lei Kun set Pang Jian up in a guest room on the second floor, then entered the first tier cabin to entertain each of his voluptuous women in turn.

Standing in the spacious and tidy room, breathing in the scent of sandalwood, Pang Jian pondered for a while then began to take out the materials for constructing the Ghost Altar from his ring.

Knowing that Lei Kun would not enter without knocking, Pang Jian confidently started building the Ghost Altar.

"Whoosh!"

A paper filled with curses and foul language fell into his hands.

"Pang Jian, you killed Elder Lou of my Yin Spirit Temple! How dare you have the face to bring his relics to me in exchange for Spirit Jade?"

"Pang Jian, we at the Yin Spirit Temple will never let you off! From now on, I will never respond to you again!"

"You dare to treat me like a fool and deceive me! Next time we meet, it will be either your death or mine!"

"..."

The palm-sized paper was filled with Dong Tianze’s angry, frantic scribbles.

Pang Jian could easily imagine that Dong Tianze’s face must have been contorted with rage while writing the note, in a state of frenzy.

"Divine Guards will always be loyal to the one who inherits the Heaven Phoenix, so you are one of Pang Lin’s Protectors."

Pang Jian murmured to himself, now seeing Dong Tianze with a different mindset.

He felt that the bloodthirsty and crazed man was no longer so unreasonable; instead, he found him slightly endearing.

This deranged character, if he became the strongest godhood and stood firmly behind Pang Lin forever...

With this thought in mind, Pang Jian took out a piece of paper, wrote four words on it, and tossed it towards the Ghost Altar.

He was unclear about when Dong Tianze would respond to him, but he was not in a hurry to put away the Ghost Altar, choosing instead to sit quietly beside it and reflect on himself.

The trip to the Cloud Thunder Forbidden Zone had added a Thunder Vortex to his Spiritual Sea, and his stagnating realm had finally broken through.

He also clearly realized that if he encountered a bottleneck that he couldn’t break through no matter how hard he tried, he could find a new source of power by exploring other paths.

"Hu!"

A barrel of fifth-level Thunder Snake beast blood from Jiuyuan was taken out from his bracelet, which he poured into his mouth.

Soon, a substantial amount of Blood and Flesh Essence Energy, along with strands of faint electricity, began to emanate from his organs.

The Blood and Flesh Essence Energy was directed by him towards the Creation Divine Pool.

The hair-like thin lightning was absorbed through the "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell"; soon it was sucked into the Thunder Vortex within the Spiritual Sea, becoming bursts of lightning within the vortex.

"One must first form the vortex, then gather the thunder and lightning. Relying on crystal stones containing thunder and lightning, or beast blood like that of the Thunder Snake, is insufficient to condense a Thunder Vortex within my Spiritual Sea."

"In the future, a new source of power must also rely on some oddities between heaven and earth."

Pang Jian pondered thoughtfully.

With a flicker of his mind, he communicated with the Sapling of Cloud Marsh and the Mysterious Turtle from the Panshi Fragment Land.

Both had consumed a lot of energy during the prolonged battle with the White Crane and had recently become somewhat languid.

The Mysterious Turtle fell into a brief hibernation; that piece of floating Fragment Land had now come to a halt beneath the thick sea of clouds.

The Corrosion Boundary Vine stopped nourishing the Wood Tribe’s people with Life Vitality for the time being, halting its growth as well.

"You’ve both worked hard."

Thinking this, Pang Jian peered into the Fifth Realm’s Rebel Kid.

Through the eyes of the Rebel Kid, he saw that skeletal ships crafted from the bones of giant beasts were flying from the land where the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar stood, heading into the depths of the clouded sky.

The skeletal beasts, which looked utterly different from the Flying Spirit Artifacts of the Upper Realm, had their heads and hearts aflame with eerie Demon Fire.

Warriors from the Heaven Clan, Devil Scale Tribe, and Ghost Sect, the Wood Tribe, along with Cyclopes, stood on the bodies of the skeletal beasts, looking up in panic and restlessness at the sky.

In the sky of the Fifth Realm, there existed a thick sea of clouds similar to that in the sky of the Fourth Realm, though the Fifth Realm’s sea of clouds was pitch black.

As the skeletal ships finally entered the sea of clouds connecting the Fifth and Fourth Realms, the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar supporting Bagua City suddenly emitted a dazzling azure light.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!"

Beams of azure divine light, akin to Divine Weapon Sharp Blades, suddenly jetted out from the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar.

The sky trembled, and waves of brilliant light undulated outwards, causing several skeletal ships to shatter violently.

Those skeletal ships directly struck by the divine light, the majority were instantly obliterated, but a third managed to withstand the blasts.

Upon those surviving skeletal ships, alien warriors who were lucky enough to live cheered excitedly.

In the desolate wilderness littered with countless skeletal remains, roars erupted from the Heaven Clan, Devil Scale Tribe, Wood Tribe, Ghost Clan, and Cyclopes like a flash flood bursting forth.

"We made it!"

"A batch has successfully ascended to heaven!"

"How many years has it been? We finally sent a part of our people to the Upper Realm under the diminished might of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar!"

"..."

Warriors from the five tribes knelt on the ground, praying to an unknown God Spirit, gazing at the skeletal ships fading from view.

They had crafted a total of eighteen skeletal ships, twelve of which were to share the burden—those twelve contained special Spiritual Material from the Third Realm, which would provoke the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar to emit world-ending divine light whether or not there were living beings inside.

The remaining six ships, carrying warriors from the tribes, were constructed from an abundance of Gold Friday Stone, Sun Essence Stone, and even rarer metals of unparalleled solidity.

Additionally, arrays designed to dampen the might of the azure divine light were spread across the ships, enabling those six ships to withstand the assaults.

"The power of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar has indeed weakened!"

The elder of the Wood Tribe, Mu Yuan, no longer aged and decrepit, but a woman dressed in a green robe, exclaimed with surprise to Yu Xin, "Before, there were additional divine lights that would specifically target the strong and lock on each powerful lifeform to strike. This time, those traces of divine light that could have activated did not succeed."

Yu Xin, excitedly said, "It’s the rare Spiritual Material that fell from the Upper Realm; they helped the mighty Demon Instruments and Evil Artifacts of the tribes confuse the Divine Script Runes within the pillar."

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