txolops Chapter 168 Tribulation
Chapter 168 Tribulation
Li Jieqing was always cautious and prudent.
Even though he was compiling his own methods for creating a form of malevolent energy that only a Golden Core True Monarch could bestow, he was still subconsciously underestimating himself and failing to associate the malevolent energy within his body with the false spiritual malevolent energy bestowed by a Golden Core cultivator.
So his progress in cultivation has been stuck here.
"Since refining the Blood Fiend, I have acted entirely according to my will. If I combine it with the Devouring Spirit Fiend, it will surely succeed!"
"The only question is, once the supernatural power is created and revealed to the world, whose target should it be directed at?"
"It would be best to point directly at Taihuangtian and stay with the golden body of Taiping Sword, but unfortunately Taihuangtian cannot sense it except when the Invisible Heavenly Sword is used."
"Secondly, I'm directly pointing to Heaven and Earth. I rescued the Soul Devouring Fiend from the Blood Heart Sect's prison and am using it as a partner. I hope Heaven and Earth won't mind."
"If none of these work, then just point the finger at me!"
Li Jieqing laughed heartily, and the miasma in his eyes completely disappeared, restoring his clarity.
The source of the Blood Fiend is him, just as the Seventy-Two Fiends originate from Heaven and Earth, and the False Spirit Fiend originates from the Golden Core True Lord. They are extremely similar in many ways.
Other Foundation Establishment cultivators could only use a portion of the power of the fake spirit essence after refining it, but he could use the full power of the blood essence, just like the fake spirit essence was in the hands of its master, a Golden Core cultivator.
Just keep practicing!
If we fail, we can regroup and find another way.
The real reason for leaving Xiaoxin Island was to be free from constraints and to do whatever I wanted!
A new blank jade slip was placed in front of him, and Li Jieqing probed it with his divine sense to record the opening chapter of his newly compiled Blood Fiend Devouring Fiend Combined Refinement Divine Power.
At the same time, the magical power restrained a wisp of Devouring Spirit into the body, officially integrating it into the body's circulation, completing one cycle, and reaching the dantian.
After three years of studying countless words on the stone tablet, the confusion before me regarding the Foundation Establishment realm has been cleared, and a new journey of cultivation begins!
Outside the quiet room.
The yellow worm continued to dig diligently underground, burying itself in its work, eating and compacting the black soil and rocks it unearthed. It was so engrossed in digging that it was oblivious to the world around it.
The cave gate remained closed for a long time.
……
Time flies, and ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Foundation Establishment cultivators generally have a lifespan of 360 years, while those who specialize in cultivating life and nature can have an even longer lifespan.
During this long lifespan, a large portion is typically spent in seclusion and ascetic practice.
It's either about absorbing evil spirits to cultivate supernatural powers, or absorbing vital energy to cultivate magical power; the two complement each other.
The monks were quite pleased with this.
"A dream spanning millennia, what year is it tonight...?"
On this day, the gates of the Black Mountain Cave were opened wide.
Li Jieqing walked out and went straight to the foothills outside. He glanced at the surrounding sky, then put his hands behind his back and rode the wind to the top of Black Mountain.
After ten years of cultivation, the Devouring Spirit Fiend has been completely refined into his body, and has been combined with the Blood Clan's Blood Fiend several times.
The path of cultivation is nothing more than seizing the creation of heaven and earth, harmonizing the dragon and tiger within the body, distributing yin and yang, and transforming them for one's own use.
This is true both when refining Qi and when building a foundation.
Although the process of combining these two evil energies was occasionally fraught with difficulties, and a considerable amount of time was spent trying to calm the conflict between the Devouring Spirit and Blood Evil energies, the most suitable opportunity for combining the two evil energies was eventually found.
Li Jieqing's prediction was correct. With the help of his own blood essence, whether it was refining the Devouring Spirit Essence into his body or combining it with other cultivation methods, his cultivation was much easier than that of other Foundation Establishment cultivators.
The speed at which he successfully absorbed evil spirits within ten years and whose supernatural powers were about to be fully developed was already astounding.
At the summit of Black Mountain.
Li Jieqing's figure quietly passed through the swarm of bats and stood there.
The two main streams of malevolent energy within the body rotate in turn, and through the perfect regulation of magical power, they occupy one side of the dantian, ready to merge at any time and truly manifest as supernatural powers.
However, Li Jieqing did not rush to make a move. He simply rested on the mountaintop for a while to maintain his best condition.
He has lived in Black Mountain for more than ten years, and few foreign monsters have set foot here. He is very safe here.
After a while, Li Jieqing opened his eyes and took out the Taiping Sword with his right hand to respond to the Taihuangtian.
This Supreme Emperor Heaven is still faintly located above heaven and earth. If the combined cultivation of divine powers can point to that place when they are born, there should be many benefits.
pity……
Li Jieqing held the sword for a moment, then shook his head and put it down.
As expected, ever since the Taiping Sword's golden body ascended to the Taihuang Heaven, he has been unable to control the golden body except through sensing, and he really doesn't know how to direct his newly refined supernatural power there.
If it can't be done, then it can't be done!
The two streams of malevolent energy within Li Jieqing's dantian immediately activated, swirling and converging towards each other. His magical power moved and manipulated the malevolent energy within them, gradually bringing the two swirling entities together, like a yin-yang symbol.
When the internal and external forces are connected, and the malevolent energies begin to unite.
A thunderclap boomed atop the mountain.
In an instant, dark clouds gathered!
When malevolent supernatural powers emerge, calamities inevitably follow. Those who can evade them gain the approval of Heaven and Earth; those who cannot will see their powers crumble!
Even as lightning struck, Li Jieqing did not stop refining his supernatural powers; ten years of cultivation had been for this very moment.
A crimson and gray-white Tai Chi symbol rose from above his head, expanded, and shone into the thunderclouds in the sky.
This was a projection of a scene within his dantian.
Because the gaze of heaven and earth is here, the vital energy manifests, and heaven and earth interact to form this.
This was a projection of a scene within his dantian.
Because the gaze of heaven and earth is here, the vital energy manifests, and heaven and earth interact to form this.
Above Li Jieqing's head, the Tai Chi diagram formed by the combined Blood Fiend and Devouring Fiend was spinning faster and faster, and the two were about to completely merge into one.
Just then, a bolt of blue lightning struck down, hitting the Tai Chi diagram.
This lightning strikes specifically at those who attempt to whitewash their supernatural abilities.
Due to the interaction of Qi, the trend of the merging of evil Qi within Li Jieqing's dantian was interrupted, and there was even a faint tendency for it to separate again.
"I didn't get struck by lightning when I broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage, but I got struck by lightning when I was refining a divine ability... Luckily, it wasn't me who got struck."
Li Jieqing stared at the blue lightning in the sky, speechless for a moment.
This is the gaze cast upon us by heaven and earth; it is truly terrifying!
However, the very fact that calamity has befallen this place also demonstrates that the Blood Heart Grotto is indeed extraordinary.
Li Jieqing had some doubts about whether he was transported to another real world when he was swallowed by the Crimson Kun, and not just a small space inside the Crimson Kun's belly that was similar to the inside of a jade bracelet, but only expanded countless times.
Above the sky, another bolt of azure lightning struck down, shattering the Tai Chi diagram into pieces.
The two streams of malevolent energy within Li Jieqing's dantian were thus completely separated.
Among them, the Blood Fiend was still stable, but the Devouring Spirit Fiend, which Li Jieqing had condensed for ten years and thought he had completely suppressed, suddenly became unstable and showed signs of reviving and autonomously absorbing life force.
"God willing!"
When the Azure Thunder arrived, Li Jieqing's will within the Devouring Spirit Fiend was shattered, and Heaven's Will regained control of the Devouring Spirit Fiend.
This will of Heaven has no intelligence; it is the natural order, or perhaps it is the instinct of the Devouring Spirit.
The essence of the Devouring Spirit is to devour vital energy into the body!
"Isn't ten years of accumulation enough...?"
Li Jieqing mobilized his divine sense and magical power to refine the unruly Devouring Spirit Demon once again, restoring it to calm.
Within his dantian, unless he deliberately indulged himself, how could he allow the refined object to run rampant?
The only problem lies outside.
The heavens and earth seemed to resonate with each other, casting their gazes as if they completely disapproved of this new supernatural power.
Li Jieqing watched as the Taiji diagram above his head dispersed and disappeared, and the azure lightning also gradually faded away. Sensing this interaction between heaven and earth, he gained a great deal of insight in a short time.
Ten years of hard work can never compare to experiencing something firsthand.
"The interaction between heaven and earth recorded on the stone tablet is thus: the microcosmic orbit within the cultivator's body, and the macrocosmic orbit outside heaven and earth!"
"Again!"
Li Jieqing chuckled softly, and the two streams of malevolent energy within his dantian merged back together.
This time, without needing the interaction and guidance of heaven and earth, he raised his hand, and a Tai Chi diagram interwoven with crimson and gray appeared in his hand.
Looking down upon one's own microcosm from the perspective of the Great Heavenly Cycle, or projecting one's own microcosm onto the Great Heavenly Cycle, with both sides being completely open and honest with each other, this is the interaction between Heaven and Earth.
Or perhaps, this is a communion between heaven and man!
Li Jieqing followed the natural way and made further progress in his cultivation of the Foundation Establishment realm.
"go!"
Li Jieqing raised his hand and waved it, causing the Taiji diagram in his hand to rise and expand once more, revealing itself to the world for observation, seeking recognition.
Then, a flash of blue thunder rose again, flickering among the clouds.
The majestic power of the heavens once again pressed down on the summit of Black Mountain.
Before the thunderclap could strike, Li Jieqing raised his Taiping Sword high and shouted, "Slash!"
The golden statue of Taiping hangs in the sky, and invisible sword energy falls like rain.
If you can't get approval by begging, then try flipping the table!
Above Black Mountain, the tribulation cloud was struck by an invisible sword aura. The tribulation cloud was invisible, and so was the invisible sword aura. Under the continuous onslaught of the sword aura, the tribulation cloud immediately dissipated.
However, before Li Jieqing could even smile, an even more violent bolt of azure thunder resounded from the heavens, tearing through the scattered tribulation clouds below.
The act of challenging the heavens is not something that a Foundation Establishment cultivator can accomplish.
"The matter cannot be reversed; conserve your magical power to maintain the microcosmic orbit."
Above Li Jieqing's head, the crimson and gray-white Tai Chi diagram had merged into one, transforming into a crimson halo that hung above Black Mountain, its ends connected.
The combined power of heaven and earth has been successfully refined, and this evil energy divine ability can be considered to have been born.
But even though the supernatural power has been revealed, the azure thunder will still descend.
Before Li Jieqing could investigate further, he held the Taiping Sword behind his back and, with a wave of his hand, grabbed the crimson halo image before the blue lightning struck down above his head.
After those so-called supernatural powers were revealed, they pointed towards heaven and earth, and towards the inner landscape of the Golden Elixir.
Before officially undergoing his tribulation, Li Jieqing couldn't understand it, but now he does. This crimson halo is his divine power imagery. Raising it to heaven and earth means pointing towards heaven and earth, allowing him to borrow the power of heaven and earth. By projecting it into the outer realm of a Golden Core cultivator, he can borrow the power of heaven and earth by using the inner realm of the Golden Core cultivator.
Judging from the aggressive approach of this new wave of azure lightning, it's clear they don't intend to acknowledge the crimson halo as a forced intruder.
The more Li Jieqing knew at this moment, the less willing he was to follow the guidance of those methods of combining evil spirits and project the crimson halo onto which Blood Heart Sect Golden Core cultivator was still alive in the dark.
He had no such plan before the tribulation, and he has even less of one now.
So, we have no choice but to try one last method.
Li Jieqing grabbed the crimson halo, raised his hand, pressed it against his heart, and inserted it into the opened ventricle.
How is the blood evil that arises from the heart chamber different from the false spirit evil that arises from the inner vision of the Golden Elixir?
He wanted to see if hiding here could keep him in the dark!
The azure lightning from the heavens fell upon the summit of Black Mountain, and just before it touched Li Jieqing's head, it dissipated with a roar because he had lost the ability to sense otherworldly supernatural powers.