The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 252 - 237 Lei Kun’s High Hopes for His Son_1

Chapter 252: Chapter 237 Lei Kun’s High Hopes for His Son_1

The journey is long and arduous.

This Cloud Sail belonging to Lei Kun drifted through the sea of clouds day and night, heading towards the Xuan You Continent.

Pang Jian settled down peacefully.

Sometimes Lei Kun would call him out, and the two would drink together on deck, accompanied by the evening glow or the stars and moon.

But most of the time, he spent cultivating in his guest room.

He focused his mind and will, trying to control as much Divine Sense as possible at the same time.

According to the "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell", the sign of perfection in the mid-stage of the Hollow Profound Realm was being able to skillfully control every strand of Divine Sense.

Now, he could only activate about a dozen strands of Divine Sense with a single thought.

He still remembered that when the Dragon Fish released by Ye Fei invaded his Sea of Consciousness, he could only gather the few strands of Divine Sense closest to the Dragon Fish.

He could not, in an instant, gather all his Divine Sense in one place to avoid being hunted by the Dragon Fish.

Once he could control all of his Divine Sense, he would be able to cultivate some Soul Skills that operated with Divine Sense, which could produce many exquisite changes, like Spiritual Power, to sever foreign soul entities.

Pang Jian, having a clear direction for his cultivation, spent his days on Lei Kun’s Cloud Sail mastering his Divine Sense.

Whenever he cultivated for too long and felt mentally and spiritually exhausted, he would swallow a few Calming Pills to recuperate.

That day.

Pang Jian, who could now manipulate over thirty strands of Divine Sense at once, saw a flash of strange light from the Ghost Altar beside him, and soon a piece of paper floated out.

"Pang Jian, I killed that Hollow Profound mid-stage Divine Guard. I’ve broken through my realm and am now in the Hollow Profound Realm, and I’ve even refined my Divine Sense!"

The familiar handwriting appeared on the paper.

Pang Jian’s lips curled slightly as he wrote a line of words below the note and sent it back, "Congratulations, but remember to return my Black Iron Mountain."

A moment later, another new piece of paper flew in.

"This object suits me well; I’ll return it later. From the dead opponent, I learned that there is an even stronger Divine Guard nearby. Without Cao’s Black Iron Mountain, I wouldn’t have stood a chance at victory."

Dong Tianze, who was communicating in real time, did not fully activate the Ghost Altar and was not standing upon it.

It seemed that he was not yet ready to face Pang Jian, so he only communicated through the paper notes.

Pang Jian frowned and sent back another note, "Are you trying to swindle my Black Iron Mountain?"

"It’s not swindling, it’s borrowing! I still need to refine my Divine Sense and have no time for your chatter, so I’ll talk to you later."

The response from Dong Tianze came quickly.

Pang Jian snorted, thinking this kid was becoming shameless, daring to hold onto his Black Iron Mountain and not return it.

However.

Thinking that he would become a powerful force behind Pang Lin in the future, Pang Jian decided not to quarrel too much with him.

Knowing that Pang Lin was the Heaven Phoenix’s inheritor and that there was a dispute over the Great Tao with the Old Thunder Dragon from the Dragon Cave, Pang Jian had started to prepare for future challenges.

Dong Tianze was someone he knew thoroughly, someone he believed could assist Pang Lin in the future, which was why he was willing to offer his help.

The sky was filled with the evening glow.

"Luo Yuan, come out and have some drinks."

Lei Kun, on the deck, took out tables and chairs from his bracelet and set up the braised meats and cooked food.

After taking out two jars of green flower wine and seeing that Pang Jian had not yet come out, he shouted again, "Mastering the Divine Sense is not something that happens overnight, come out and eat something."

"Coming."

Pang Jian pushed the door open and went downstairs.

"You could just jump out the window, why bother with all that trouble?"

Lei Kun said strangely.

"Jumping out the window is too impolite. On Elder Lei’s Cloud Sail, I would rather walk a bit more."

Pang Jian explained.

He was too lazy to repeatedly disassemble and assemble the Ghost Altar every time he jumped through the window, as it would be left in an open state and easily noticed.

"Haha, I don’t have that many stupid rules," Lei Kun said with a grin. Before Pang Jian could join him, he tore open the seal of the wine jar and poured two large bowls of wine.

"Old Lei, we want to drink too."

"Master, let us come out too, let us join Brother Luo for a drink?"

"Lei the old tiger, all you know is how to enjoy yourself, you don’t care for us at all!"

From the open window of the lower floor cabins, came the disgruntled voices of the beautiful women.

"What business do housewives have at the table? I haven’t starved you; just eat something in the room," Lei Kun laughed and scolded.

As Pang Jian sat down, Lei Kun raised his cup to drink, while telling Pang Jian about the news he had heard recently.

"Luo Yuan, while you were cultivating in your room a while ago, I went down to a Fragment Land to chat with someone familiar."

"I heard that various Forbidden Lands and Spiritual Lands in the major worlds have been experiencing strange occurrences lately. I don’t know what’s going on with the world, even a few of the old Holy Lands in the First Realm have seen terrible omens appear."

"..."

Knowing his temperament, Pang Jian intermittently flattered him, which left Lei Kun red-faced and eager to continue recounting in detail.

He kept pouring wine for Pang Jian.

But what he knew wasn’t much; he couldn’t tell Pang Jian exactly what had happened in those Forbidden Lands and Spiritual Lands.

From his words, it seemed that the Filth Alien Power from the Fifth Realm was seeping upwards, causing a massive change in the entire Purgatory World, which made many Forbidden Lands and Spiritual Lands in the First and Second Realms exhibit abnormal phenomena.

Regions closer to the "Boundary Wall" and "Mysterious Fog" experienced even more strange and abnormal events, leaving the great Sects of the Upper Realm and the Upper Upper Realm struggling to cope.

"Frequent omens, changes between heaven and earth..."

Pang Jian slightly furrowed his brow.

He naturally thought of that formidable Different Kind from the spatial rift in the Cloud Thunder Forbidden Zone, comparable to a level ten Thunder Dragon.

"I heard there’s a problem with the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar," said Pang Lin.

Lei Kun continued, "And the Heaven Phoenix that could repair the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar was long ago treated like a disposable tool and killed by the combined forces of the True Gods from the First Realm and Old Thunder Dragon."

"After the fall of the Heaven Phoenix, no one was able to fix the faulty Heavenly Tribulation Pillar."

"In such a situation, even if we kill the ferocious beasts and alien races that are flooding into the Fourth Realm, more will come. This won’t fundamentally solve the problem."

Lei Kun revealed the hidden truth.

Pang Jian was stunned.

After pondering for a moment, he took the initiative to ask, "Is it possible for the person who inherited the Heaven Phoenix legacy to repair the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar in the future?"

Lei Kun said solemnly, "There should be such a possibility."

Pang Jian’s eyes grew more intense with peculiar color.

According to that white crane, it was Pang Lin’s innate Thunder Vortex that caused the disintegration of the Heaven Phoenix’s carcass when she was leaving the Fourth Realm.

Then, she was pursued by a section of the Divine Bone containing the Heaven Phoenix’s legacy, which ultimately bestowed upon her a mysterious inheritance.

For her, having acquired the Heaven Phoenix legacy, to repair the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar in the future, she would have to cultivate to an extremely high level.

Perhaps Divine Enthronement!

Could it be that the fallen Heaven Phoenix, harboring deep-seated hatred for the Thunder Dragon and wishing for the death of the domineering Old Thunder Dragon, chose Pang Lin, who was born with the Thunder Vortex, to pass on her legacy?

If Pang Lin cannot achieve the True God realm, inheriting the Heaven Phoenix Divine Bone may not necessarily enable her to enter the Fifth Realm and repair the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar.

Meanwhile, any being from the Purgatory World who attempts to ascend to the True God realm via the Thunder God’s Path has to eliminate Old Thunder Dragon first.

Would the magnates from the First Realm, to ensure the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar is successfully repaired, protect Pang Lin from Old Thunder Dragon?

Thinking this through, Pang Jian suddenly felt that if the reality was indeed so, the Heaven Phoenix’s scheme was thorough.

Maybe even the sudden abnormality of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar was related to the Heaven Phoenix being killed by the Human Race and Thunder Dragon.

"No wonder Pure Land has not announced Pang Lin’s existence to the public, probably to avoid provoking Dragon Cave prematurely."

Pang Jian thought to himself.

"Cough, Luo Yuan..."

Lei Kun suddenly lowered his voice, looking somewhat embarrassed as he said, "In about ten days or so, we’ll arrive at the Xuan You Continent, and I have a somewhat presumptuous request."

"Please speak, Senior Lei!"

Pang Jian’s expression was solemn, feeling goodwill toward this face-conscious individual cultivator.

"My son, now only about ten years old, is currently in the Meridians Channeling Realm. Later on, once he succeeds in Marrow Cleaning, I’m thinking of trying to send him to a sect in the Upper Realm for cultivation."

"Could you perhaps put in a good word for me?"

Lei Kun’s expression was gloomy, and he sighed, "Back at Cloud Thunder Forbidden Zone, because I am an individual cultivator, I was relentlessly attacked by people from the Demon Sect, Black Valley, and Sky Water Swamp. My cultivation level was clearly above theirs, but I... I really didn’t dare to fight back!"

"I don’t want my son to end up rootless and bullied like me."

"Luo Yuan, I will definitely hone the boy well in the coming years. I know that Sword Tower has a limited number of spots for external disciples each year, so I hope..."

Lei Kun pleaded as a father yearning for his son’s success.

"As long as your son’s talent isn’t too poor, I’m willing to extend a helping hand and do my best to secure a place for him as an external disciple."

Pang Jian gave his solemn assurance.

He was thinking... even if he didn’t have much influence, he could still use Qi Qingsong.

Lei Kun hadn’t acted against him in Yuanmang Forbidden Land alongside Jiuyuan, and in Cloud Thunder Forbidden Zone, he even gifted him a Spirit Sword.

Recently, he had also taken advantage of Lei Kun’s hospitality, eating and drinking without cost.

Both emotionally and rationally, if he could help Lei Kun, he would try to do so.

"Luo Yuan, I toast you with a jar!"

Lei Kun, excited and with a face flushed red, took out another jar of wine and stood up to start gulping down the alcohol.

...

Half a month later.

Lei Kun’s Cloud Sail finally arrived smoothly at the Xuan You Continent, appearing in the sky above Camel Ridge Mountain.

"Luo Yuan, this is a docking area. Huh, many people from the Lower Realm families have been arranged on the barren Camel Ridge Mountain."

The Cloud Sail had not yet descended when Lei Kun, standing at the front of the ship, glanced down and saw that simple towns had been built and many visitors from the Lower Realm of extremely low cultivation level were present.

"Luo Yuan, I am different from those individual cultivators. There is no need for me to linger at the docking area below."

"I have an estate near Cloud Sky City, and I am friends with the City Lord. You can accompany me as a guest to Cloud Sky City."

He lowered his voice and said quietly, "My son, and the woman who bore him, are also in Cloud Sky City."

As he spoke, he turned to glance at the cabins, grumbling, "A bunch of useless waste, roaming the Fragment Lands in the Third Realm with me every year, and not a single one other than his mother is worth a damn. I can afford to raise more kids, damn it!"

In his heart, the woman who bore him a child was the one he had to treat with genuine care.

"Dingling!"

A jangling sound suddenly came from the Sword Command hanging at Pang Jian’s waist.

Holding the Sword Command in his palm, Pang Jian coughed lightly, and Lei Kun tactfully stepped back.

"Pang Jian, where are you now?" came a familiar yet somewhat foreign female voice.

It wasn’t Qi Qingsong!

Pang Jian was taken aback and didn’t respond immediately. Instead, he probed, "Who are you?"

The other party replied, suppressing her anger, "Back in Bagua City, you ate and drank at my expense. Have you forgotten me already?"

"Ah!"

Pang Jian was shocked, feeling his scalp tingle all of a sudden.

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