Chapter Nineteenth: The Crimson Lotus Tribulation

  A 5,000-word big chapter, brothers ask for collection and red tickets...

  Wang Qian was completely unaware of what was happening outside, and he had now reached the most critical step.

  For two years, he had been cultivating day and night, either tempering his bones and marrow or refining his blood. He was meditating to recover his divine soul. After a long time, he not only mastered the Nine Turns Body Tempering Technique but also reached the most difficult step of the first turn.

  What's even more frightening is that his soul realm has now reached the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment stage, just one step away from breaking through to the Divine Soul Realm of the Primordial Spirit, where his soul would materialize and he would set foot on the path of enlightenment to the Three Thousand Great Daos.

  "Finally, I've reached the last step. Since the ancient times, few have successfully cultivated the first turn of the Nine Turns Body Refining Technique and entered the realm of the second turn. Now, I'm going to see what secrets this second turn holds!"

  With a sigh, Wang Qian's divine consciousness was like the most precise detection instrument, scanning from his skin, meridians, bones to bone marrow, inch by inch, and all the secrets in his body were revealed without exception.

  A stream of golden red blood flowed through his meridians, the pale blue meridians were like a complex heavenly road, unobstructed and emitting a faint cyan glow. The bone marrow throughout his body had almost been completely refined, emitting a golden divine light. Only at the top of his head, where the hundred convergences meet, was there still a small amount of pure white jade-like bone marrow that had not been refined.

  Wow!

  Wang Qian took a deep breath, and the surrounding spiritual energy, dense and thick, formed a shocking cyan spiritual night. A drop of it poured into his head, and his hands slowly formed an extremely mysterious seal. A cyan light flowed through his body, and in the blink of an eye, a small Zhou Tian circulation was formed. The twelve regular meridians and the eight extraordinary meridians were all connected, and then slowly gathered at the Bai Hui point.

  At this moment, Wang Qian's spirit was more concentrated than ever, but his hands were still slowly drawing a mysterious arc, outlining the profound aura that surrounded him.

  At this moment, the hundred refinements are complete, and the last bit of bone marrow is being tempered to produce the final drop of new blood. This is truly a heavenly transformation, a mysterious gate. If someone were to interrupt his cultivation at this juncture, the surging blue divine light throughout his body would suddenly shatter his heavenly spirit. Not to mention immediate death, but even severe injury could occur, and it might instantly withdraw all the vital energy from his body, rendering the Great Cycle of Life and Death useless, directly transforming him into a zombie-like state, with consequences too horrific to contemplate.

  "Renew your spirit and change your vital energy, ask about the Tao of Heaven, all in one move!"

  Wang Qian's expression was icy cold, his massive divine consciousness power surged and churned, tightly controlling every green light beam. Countless green light beams continuously converged and merged, finally forming a mysterious symbol. It was unknown what kind of text it was - heavenly script, demonic script, divine script, immortal script - among the billions of texts in the world, none could compare to this symbol's profound mystery. It seemed to be an interpretation of the Tao, with a primordial aura circulating within.

  Strands of white bone marrow are continuously refined, gradually dyeing into gold, noble, ancient, gorgeous, and all sorts of beautiful words cannot describe its splendor.

  After an unknown period of time, Bai Hui's bone marrow was finally fully refined.

  A clear and loud sound, like the great bell of Hongzhong, resonated through Wang Qian's soul, making his entire being feel refreshed, as if he was about to ascend to heaven, transcending the mundane world and entering the realm of immortals.

  When the hundred converge into one, the marrow is washed and the blood refined, transforming the acquired into the innate, penetrating the bridge between heaven and earth.

  Buzz!

  Wang Qian's body emitted an incomparably resplendent blue divine light, an ancient color, like the vast heavens and great dao, all sorts of wondrous sounds came rushing forth.

  One step out, Wang Qian had already passed through the stone cave, and all the obstacles in front of him were crushed. The next moment, he appeared in front of the stone cave.

  At this moment, Yunluo and Zhouqing's eyes fluttered, and a figure appeared in front of them. Wearing a green robe with long hair scattered, an aura of ancient ferocity made the two feel oppressed, and they unconsciously retreated to the edge.

  Wang Qian didn't mind these, looked up at the sky, and his heart was racing.

  "It's indeed a transformation of the universe, after this turn, the heavenly tribulation arrives, if you pass it, you'll become an immortal, but if you don't, you'll just be a pile of yellow earth. The Heavenly Way is vast and boundless, and it's completely emotionless and fair!"

  He sighed inwardly, but his face was calm and showed no tension at all.

  At this moment, the entire Yunling Peak shook, and the originally clear sky suddenly became turbulent with spiritual energy, gathering into a dark and oppressive cloud, rumbling loudly, with lightning flashing like dragons.

  It's been ages since I've seen such a massive disaster.

  Yunlu and Zhou Qing stared at the sky in shock.

  In the blink of an eye, the sky turned dark, as if doomsday had arrived. The entire Qingyun mountain range was startled.

  The first to arrive was Yun Shan, the master of this place. With his cultivation at the Yuantai realm, he felt a sense of oppression and looked up at the sky with a solemn expression.

  It's not just Yunling Peak, at this moment, in the Qingyun mountain range, countless lights are flashing, and a divine rainbow is shocking the sky. One after another, brilliant rays of light come from afar, either flying with swords, riding on air, or driving magical treasures. These people are all extraordinary cultivators, with the lowest being foundation-building disciples, and many middle-aged and elderly Taoists have an aura that is calm and turbulent, like a deep pool or a prison, unfathomable. At first glance, they are the kind of characters who are elders.

  "Heavenly Tribulation? What kind of Heavenly Tribulation is this? Could it be the Primordial Tribulation?"

  "No, the source of this heavenly calamity is that young man in green clothes. What kind of cultivation method did he practice to trigger a heavenly calamity after reversing the natural order?"

  One by one, the elders, core disciples, and true transmission disciples were all discussing and speculating, guessing countless outcomes.

  Yunshan Elder, as Wang Qian's master and a local snakehead, had arrived early, but even he didn't know what was happening to Wang Qian.

  Wang Qian no longer had the energy to pay attention to what was happening around him, even if it was a landslide or tsunami, nothing was more important than getting through this calamity, which was a matter of life and death.

  Rumble!

  The originally dark and ominous clouds turned a deep crimson under the intervention of the Heavenly Dao, with countless scarlet lightning bolts roaring out and emitting an aura of massive destruction.

  "This is Chiyan's Tribulation Cloud!"

  "How long has it been since we last met? This is a legend recorded in ancient books!"

  "Good, very good, our Qingyun Sect has also produced a monstrous disciple!"

  Those knowledgeable elders, each living for hundreds or thousands of years, have accumulated knowledge that is no joke. Some can recognize at a glance the crimson tribulation cloud in the sky as the legendary Crimson Tribulation Cloud, which is much more formidable than ordinary thunder tribulations.

  Crack!

  The void was torn apart, almost without warning, not giving people time to react. A water bucket thick red electric snake slithered down and fiercely chopped towards Wang Qian's head.

  Suffocating, enormous.

  At this moment, even if Wang Qian was extremely careless and calm, it would be useless. He couldn't help but curse in his heart, this thunder calamity was too strange and too powerful. Before it had even descended upon him, he felt as though his body was going to be torn apart.

  "Drink! Ordinary for the ordinary, reverse for the immortal, all of you, shatter for me!"

  Wang Qian angrily shouted, without dodging or evading, but there was no way to dodge or evade, the heavenly tribulation only targeted those who were crossing the tribulation.

  In a flash of blue light, his upper body was completely shattered, revealing his bare upper body. The muscles on his arms were twisted and flashing with a blue glow. His hands flipped over, unleashing infinite power, fiercely slapping the air, creating countless ripples, distorting and terrifying. A pair of blue palms, a red flash of lightning, collided in an instant.

  Collapse!

  Thunderous strings shock!

  Wang Qian's entire body was instantly blown away, his hands covered in blood, with golden red blood flowing out, and his jade-like skeleton exposed, looking as miserable as possible.

  A bolt of lightning scattered, he only felt his brain buzzing, unable to hear anything, his body numb and tingling, threads of red lightning snakes constantly flowing through him, a massive destructive force rampaging inside his body, as if a beast of destruction had burrowed into his own flesh.

  Collapse!

  Not giving him time to rest, another crimson electric snake slashed down again. Wang Qian didn't even have time to react before he was knocked to the ground once more, his body covered in blood, his bones cracking with fissures.

  In my heart, I cursed the thunderbolt without stopping. This thunderbolt was too terrifying and didn't give people any time to rest. The time difference between the first and second bolts was almost non-existent, not even giving you time to catch your breath. How ruthless is that?

  The elders around also changed their faces, and Yunshan was even more frightened. As for Wang Qian, this disciple, he was still very satisfied with him. His cultivation was hardworking, and his natural talent didn't need to be said. He could cultivate the extremely difficult Nine Turns Body Refining Technique, so his natural talent was naturally not to be mentioned. If something unexpected happened to him, Yunshan didn't know if he would ever get another disciple as good as this in his lifetime.

  Wang Gan felt a pang of regret in his heart. Although the Nine Turns Body Refining Technique was a top-notch ancient cultivation method, it didn't have any decent attacking moves to speak of during the first turn. As a result, he had to rely solely on his powerful physical body to charge through the tribulation, without even having a single magical treasure to aid him. It was truly pitiful.

  "You want my life? How is this possible, I haven't even returned to my hometown, I haven't even reached the peak to take a look, how can I die under such trivial tribulation!"

  Wang Qian's heart was furious, his vast spiritual power spread out, covering the sky and earth, directly and overbearingly absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

  Wow!

  A fierce gust of wind swept through, and the wandering spiritual energy between heaven and earth was instantly gathered together, forming a green mist that was absorbed by Wang Qian in an instant. The powerful marrow shook, creating new blood, and the shattered skin and bones were restored at a ferocious speed under the nourishment of the spiritual energy.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!

  One bolt after another of crimson lightning struck down violently on Yunling Peak, and Wang Qian could no longer care about anything else. He stood firmly on the ground, constantly absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to restore his constantly shattering physical body. As for the heavenly thunder, it was even more frantic and explosive, the scene was shocking and thrilling to the extreme.

  At this moment, countless people in the Qingyun Gate are watching this terrible heavenly calamity, and it is estimated that no one's heavenly calamity has attracted so much attention since the opening of the sect.

  Roar!

  A loud roar, Wang Qian's heart was suffocated, this heavenly calamity didn't give him any time to rest, not even a moment to attack, all he could do was keep getting struck and then absorb spiritual energy to recover his body, although it wouldn't take his life for the time being, but this feeling was too unbearable.

  Half a minute passed, the crimson cloud clusters on the horizon gradually shrank, and Wang Qian had already taken eighty heavenly thunderbolts in a row. His whole body was covered with dark clouds, like charred wood, miserable to the extreme, but his life energy became more and more vigorous.

  The thunderstorm finally paused for a moment, Wang Gan's whole body trembled, he raised his head to look at the sky, and his heart became increasingly uneasy, as if being stared at by a peerless ferocious beast.

  "Nine is the ultimate number, this Scarlet Thunder Tribulation, could it be the 81 Heavenly Thunders of the Nine-Nine?"

  As soon as this guess emerged, Wang Gan felt that it should be so, and all the hairs on his body stood up.

  No way, in the void above, that one vast calamity cloud, if it were to condense into a single bolt of lightning, how terrifying would that be?

  In one breath, all of Wang Qian's injuries were fully recovered, his skeleton was even more tenacious, and his blood energy surged like a dragon, but this still couldn't bring him any sense of safety.

  Nowadays, he can only struggle on, if he doesn't struggle, he will die, but if he struggles through, he can survive.

  Simple and unadorned truth, yet it thoroughly explains the difficulties of the immortal path.

  Collapse!

  The fierce wind raged, the red clouds churned, and the oppressive atmosphere made it hard to breathe.

  The void collapsed in a large area, and a giant red electric snake with lightning-like electricity all over its body rushed forward violently.

  The entire Cloud Spirit Mountain echoed with Wang Qian's mournful and stern roar. His huge hand covered the sky, like a giant axe, like a divine whip, wildly slashing and chopping. The red electric snake was also incredibly powerful, raising its head and roaring, thundering loudly, countless lightning flashes formed a domain of wild thunder and lightning. Wang Qian had completely disappeared from everyone's line of sight, thoroughly submerged in a sea of red clouds, vaguely visible was a huge crimson electric snake bellowing.

  "It's too cruel! This isn't a heavenly calamity, it's simply not giving people a way to live!"

  "As expected, it's indeed the Red Lotus Karma; this calamity is too frightening, and this disciple is in danger!"

  Yun Shan didn't say a word, his face was gloomy and he was also furious in his heart. He knew the cultivation method of Wang Qian, and he had also guessed how difficult it was to cultivate this method. But seeing today's thunder tribulation, he realized that what he thought was still too optimistic.

  Zhou Qing was stunned, and he also had high hopes for his junior brother Wang Qian. Although the two didn't have much communication, their relationship was indeed close. However, now that Wang Qian was completely overwhelmed by Lei Jue, Zhou Qing felt that things were going to end in disaster rather than fortune.

  "Senior brother, how can Wang Qian junior brother have such a severe heavenly tribulation? And he's only a postnatal cultivator who advanced to prenatal, it's so dangerous, will he be able to survive?"

  Yunlu's pair of clear black and white eyes, no longer had the cunning smile of the past, only a solemn expression, and a sharp pain suddenly rose in her heart.

  Wang Gan's body was in the midst of a thunderbolt, and he only felt countless lightning bolts surging into his body. Even with a large amount of spiritual energy, it would be impossible to recover for the time being.

  He coughed up a large amount of blood, his whole body was shattered, and his mind was dazed by the thunderbolt.

  "No way, I won't die! Nine Revolutions of Body Refining, Second Revolution, Endless Sea of Suffering, Open!"

  At this moment, Wang Qian went crazy. Absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth alone could no longer satisfy his needs. With a wave of his hand, a pile of spirit stones appeared in front of him, which was exactly what he had won from Zhang Long's gamble. In an instant, countless palms were slapped out, and this pile of spirit stones turned into powder. A thick spiritual energy emerged, and with one mouthful, it all entered his body.

  Collapse!

  As if a loud bell rang out in his heart, at this moment of life and death, Wang Qianfu made a breakthrough again. In the boundless dantian, what was originally a piece of darkness suddenly burst forth with infinite green light. In the blink of an eye, the surging energy finally broke through the seal of the dantian, opening up a small area of ??the bitter sea. Although it was only a palm-sized void, it contained a rich green light. In the blink of an eye, a green pool appeared.

  This is Wang Qian's bitter sea, also known as the elixir field of Daoist practitioners. The second turn of the Nine Turns Body Refining Technique is to open up the bitter sea within oneself after reversing one's innate nature, and use it to transcend the mundane world.

  This step is extremely dangerous, and originally it could only rely on time to constantly polish its own vital energy until the vital energy was abundant, in order to open up a sea of suffering. However, Wang Qian almost succeeded in a desperate situation, breaking through the caldron and sinking the boat, finally achieving success in one move and cultivating his own sea of suffering.

  After a breakthrough in the bitter sea, he immediately underwent an earth-shattering change. A stream of green water gushed out from his dantian, flowing instantly throughout his body. All his wounds, shattered bones, and lost vital energy were restored.

  And for the first time, he had a means of attack, the Bitter Sea Seal!

  With both hands forming a seal, a green glow enveloped his palms as he slapped them heavily onto the Red Practiced Electric Snake that was continuously attacking him.

  Once he attacks, Wang Qian will not stop until the end, using his own strong physical strength to continuously attack and defend, like an ancient god opening up the sky, in a world of thunder and lightning, freely wielding his power.

  Knock, knock!

  Each time he attacked, a large number of electric snakes were scattered, and with one mouthful, they were all swallowed into his abdomen, transformed into the power of the Bitter Sea.

  Fierce and violent, once the bitter sea is opened, Wang Qian's combat power greatly increases. Each time he kills, there are tens of thousands to hundreds of millions of pounds of force, endless and continuous, countless thunderous powers are scattered and then refined.

  This was a terrible superposition, the Red Electric Snake grew weaker and weaker, while Wang Qian became stronger and stronger. Under this consumption, in less than half an hour, the endless red thunderclouds gradually thinned out and finally disappeared without a trace.

  Whoosh!

  The power of the Sea of Suffering surged, and in almost no time at all, Wang Qian appeared before the crowd on Yunling Peak. His body was already shrouded in a green robe that was woven from his own power of the Sea of Suffering. Although it wasn't a defensive treasure, its defensive capabilities were extremely good. Ordinary pre-heavenly cultivators without special means would not be able to break through it.

  After the Red Lotus Immortal Tribulation, Wang Qian's Nine Turns Body Refining Technique thoroughly entered the second turn level, and even opened up his own bitter sea. Not even he himself was very clear about what level his current strength had reached.

  Without being noticed by the crowd of onlookers, he took a step forward and arrived in front of Yun Shan, effortlessly, as if he had shrunk the distance to just an inch.

  "Master!"

  Yun Shan nodded slightly, his expression also extremely excited. Earlier, he almost thought that Wang Qian would fall in the thunder tribulation, but unexpectedly this kid actually made it through, and looking at the aura on his body, it was obscure and difficult to discern, even a great master like himself who had reached the Yuan Tai realm couldn't clearly judge it, apparently having passed through the thunder tribulation and obtained enormous benefits.

  "Wang Qian, you're great! You were actually able to pass through the Red Lotus Immortal Tribulation. Your future achievements will surely be boundless."

  Yun Shan was extremely delighted, his disciple had thoroughly made a name for himself in Qingyun Gate, displaying his extraordinary talent, and would certainly be noticed by the higher-ups, with a possibility of becoming a true transmission disciple in the future, how could he not be delighted.

  Once he got excited, he took Wang Gan on a tour, introducing him to the elders of the sect, core disciples and true transmission disciples.

  After this series of events, Wang Gan felt overwhelmed. He was originally just an outer sect disciple, and even though he had become a disciple of Yun Shan, due to his cultivation level, he wasn't considered a true inner sect disciple. Now that his cultivation had broken through, he hadn't even had time to fully absorb the experience before Yun Shan took him to pay respects to many prominent figures in various sects.

  Those elders, core disciples, and true transmission disciples were also looking at him with a face full of surprise, various emotions such as admiration, jealousy, even hatred, extremely complex emotions, making him very unaccustomed.

  After a long while, the Cloud Spirit Peak finally calmed down, leaving only the four of them.