Chapter Eighty-six: Gathering of Heavenly Calamity

  A city in vain death, a chilling aura suddenly appeared out of thin air. The dark sky was turbulent with demonic clouds, as if a force was about to tear it apart. The heavens shook, and a blue lightning bolt burst through the clouds, twisting and changing.

  "What's going on?"

  Many monks in the inner city stopped in their tracks and looked up at the sky with a puzzled expression.

  "Heavenly calamity! This is a sign of the heavenly calamity's convergence." A senior cultivator pointed at the turbulent demonic clouds in the sky and exclaimed.

  "What? Heavenly Tribulation? Could it be that someone has obtained the treasure left behind by their predecessors and broken through to the realm of scattered immortals?" A cultivator looked greedily towards the front, in his senses, the heavenly tribulation was spreading out from the small house in front.

  "Where is the breakthrough of the Scattered Immortal, this is clearly the tribulation of the Scattered Immortal! When the Scattered Immortal breaks through the Great Boundary, it will bring down the Heavenly Tribulation!" The senior cultivator's face turned pale with terror as he flew away in the direction he came from. The cultivator with a greedy expression on his face also changed color and followed suit, flying away hastily.

  The Dispersion Tribulation, also known as the Heavenly Punishment Thunder Tribulation, is different from the Mortal World's purple lightning. The thunderbolts of the Dispersion Tribulation are sky blue in color. In the world of scattered immortals, this sky blue thunderbolt is called the Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder. The Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder has boundless power and its destructive force exceeds that of the purple lightning by tenfold. When a scattered immortal undergoes their tribulation, it's rare for anyone to dare observe from the sidelines, precisely because of the overbearing nature of the Heavenly Punishment Divine Thunder.

  Under the shroud of thunderclouds, it was a completely indiscriminate attack. Within a hundred meters of those crossing the tribulation, they would also bear the heavenly tribulation equivalent to that of the one undergoing the tribulation. Therefore, upon witnessing this scene, these two Qi Refining cultivators immediately turned around and fled in terror, fearing being affected by the thunderbolts.

  On a deserted street in the northern part of the inner city, two wandering immortals with extremely similar appearances stopped and gazed into the void.

  "It's a Loose Immortal Tribulation! Someone has actually broken through here and is impacting the Thunder Tribulation."

  "Is that person crazy? I don't know if after crossing the heavenly calamity, there will be a period of weakness..."

  Scattered immortals crossing the tribulation, which one is not careful and cautious. Those cultivators who have reached perfection basically never go out and move around, just in case the heavenly tribulation suddenly arrives and gives others an opportunity to take advantage of it. It's also because of this that among the scattered immortals who entered the City of Futile Death this time, their cultivation is mostly at the initial or middle stage, with only two at the later stage.

  "It's possible that person obtained someone else's treasure, causing their cultivation to increase explosively, and before they could suppress it, the heavenly tribulation was triggered."

  Two people exchanged a glance, and a hint of greed flashed in their eyes.

  The city faces southwest.

  In a dilapidated stone hut, a sinister Taoist held in his right hand a pulsating heart, from which fresh blood dripped down, and around him lay no less than ten corpses, their mangled bodies emitting a mist of blood that rose like fog and surged into his body.

  Compared to two hours ago, the aura of the mysterious Taoist has become even more powerful, with a bloody mist surrounding his body and a fierce energy soaring into the sky, like a demon emerging from the underworld.

  "Oh? The Nineteen Scattered Immortals' Calamity? How interesting, how interesting..." The eccentric Taoist turned his head back, gazing into the void with a hint of an eerie smile on his face.

  Pfft...

  The five fingers closed together, and that throbbing heart suddenly burst open, turning into a bloody mist that merged into his flesh.

  "It's almost done, I estimate that killing twenty more people will be enough......" As he spoke, the strange Taoist silently walked towards the direction where the sensed crowd was most concentrated.

  The bloody fog is getting thicker...

  ......

  "Damn it, wasn't it said that there was a treasure left by an ancient master in this broken city? I've been searching for so long, how come I haven't seen anything!" Huangfu Ming looked at the thunderbolt in the sky with even more anger.

  He escaped from the control of Wuyuan Sanren and then lurked in the gray fog. Until recently, when the Stone Man broke open the city wall of the inner city, he infiltrated the inner city.

  What made him feel disappointed was that in the inner city, there was no treasure at all. The place recorded on the treasure map turned out to be a place of absolute darkness and death. If he hadn't had some strange encounters in his early years and understood the subtleties, he would have been reduced to a withered bone by now.

  "No matter what, I absolutely cannot return empty-handed this time. My heavenly tribulation is less than twenty years away, and if I don't find a way to break through during this period, I'm dead for sure......" A resolute glint flashed in Huangfu Ming's eyes as he gazed at the center of the heavenly tribulation. "Heavenly Tribulation, since someone was able to break through their cultivation and trigger the heavenly tribulation, they must have gained a lot of benefits. Whether or not it's the tomb of the Yellow Spring Old Immortal, it's worth risking everything for."

  Thinking of this, Huangfu Ming's swift steps flew towards the center of Lei Jie.

  During the flight, the aura on Huangfu's body became increasingly faint, and finally almost returned to stillness. This is a kind of hidden breath technique, similar to Dingyan's Turtle Breathing Technique.

  Reincarnation

  Ding Yan waved his sleeve and withdrew the talisman array.

  "Unexpectedly, after infusing the Xianyuan power, the lotus leaf peach has undergone such a transformation, bringing my cultivation to perfection and even attracting the heavenly tribulation." Although he hadn't gone out, Ding Yan's immortal sense had already detected everything that was happening outside.

  In his perception, most of the monks escaped from this area, only a few people not only did not leave but also approached this area, probably those who wanted to take advantage of the situation.

  "The Yī Jiǔ Sǎn Xiān Jié shouldn't be a problem for me now... but those juniors who want to take advantage of me..." Ding Yan's mouth curled up into a cold, cruel smile.

  Practiced for a thousand years, the number of people who died at his hands is unknown.

  The passage of time, people's hearts gradually cool down, and with it comes a kind of indifference, a kind of apathy towards life.

  In Ding Yan's heart, he had long forgotten the countless years ago when he was also impulsive and cried out for injustice in this world. However, all these sharp edges have been ground down by time. What remains is only an obsession, a pursuit of the immortal way.

  This is also why, after rebirth, Ding Yan did not go to indulge in pleasure, because deep down in his soul, he had already forgotten what pleasure was, leaving behind only a lonely heart...

  The green-clothed girl looked at him with a curious expression, and Ding Yan stood up and walked towards the back of the Wheel of Rebirth.

  Here, since it is the place where Huang Quan Old Immortal sat and became a Buddha, that Undust Elixir must also be here. That kind of top-grade spiritual elixir which can help him comprehend the next realm is absolutely the most precious treasure for Ding Yan, even more precious than the Huang Quan Treasure Classic, and it's even related to whether he can pass through the seven Dispersed Immortal Calamities in the future.

  Behind the statue is a small Zen room for people to sit quietly.

  Ding Yan walked in and immediately saw the huge ancient painting hanging in the house.

  A nameless Taoist sat on top of a mountain of corpses, gazing into the distance with a melancholy face. His empty eyes were filled with confusion, as if he had lost himself...