Chapter 2: The 49th Heaven Tribulation

  Zi Yun fought more and more horrified, Hong Jun's body seemed to have endless strength, and his physical body was extremely hard, no matter what method was used, he couldn't cause any harm to him.

  Hong Jun was also furious, but when he found out that Qi Yun couldn't harm him and his fear of the superior immortal lessened, he didn't defend against Qi Yun's piercing needles or treasured sword, instead attacking with all his might, each punch bringing wind.

  Neither of them was in a good situation, and after fighting for half an hour, Qi Yun suddenly felt a wave of fatigue. He only then realized that his true yuan consumption was too great, and he had very little left. It's likely that not only would he be unable to kill this person today, but he himself was also in danger.

  Hong Jun threw another punch at his head, and Qi Yun was no longer as agile as before. He dodged too late, and the iron fist hit him right on the forehead, knocking him out with a 'dizzy' sound.

  Watching Ziyun slowly fall, Hongjun let out a big sigh. The superior immortal was indeed harder to deal with than ordinary people. On the battlefield, against the enemy's top generals and masters, Hongjun could usually take them down in just a few rounds, but this time it took so much effort, and it was his first time.

  Looking at Qi Yun lying on the ground, Hong Jun felt anxious. Qi Yun had put herself in a dead-end situation everywhere, and according to Hong Jun's temperament, such a person absolutely could not be left alive. But facing Qi Yun, this sticky little woman, Hong Jun really couldn't bring himself to do it. To kill her wasn't an option, nor was sparing her life. Hong Jun picked up Qi Yun and quickly left the place of conflict, looking for a safe place to decide how to deal with her.

  On a desolate mountain over 600 miles outside the capital, Hong Jun found a clean cave and threw Qi Yun to the ground. He gathered firewood to start a fire and prepared to roast the rabbit he had caught along the way. Hong Jun was starving now, having fought for so long and run so far, his stomach had been protesting for a while.

  Heavily thrown, Qi Yun slowly woke up, dazed and confused, looking around. Hong Jun had just returned to the cave entrance with a bundle of firewood, saw Qi Yun wake up, and punched her on the head again. Qi Yun, who hadn't fully woken up yet, fainted once more. Hong Jun wasn't going to talk to this fierce woman until he was full, this was the best way to keep her quiet. Poor Qi Yun, this was the third time she had been knocked out by Hong Jun.

  Having eaten and drunk enough, Hong Jun took a rope from the storage ring and tied up Qi Yun, silently cultivating the Hong Jun Dao he had obtained from the Hong Jun Mansion. Every time he cultivated the Hong Jun Dao, it was the most comfortable moment for Hong Jun.

  Qin Shuang's soul was absorbed into the Sealing God List, and it had been in the nameless substance all along. The last true spirit in the Sealing God List had also disappeared. The nameless substance occasionally passed through the small human-shaped Qin Shuang, disappearing bit by bit within Qin Shuang's soul.

  Hong Jun's cultivation of Hong Jun Dao should be said to have not yet entered the gate, and the most important gray and nameless substance mentioned in Hong Jun Dao has not appeared in his dantian no matter how Qin Shuang cultivates.

  Qī Yún woke up again, his head dizzy and painful. He wanted to touch his head with his hand, but found that he was tightly bound and couldn't open his eyes no matter how hard he tried. Dazed, he saw Hóng Jūn sitting in meditation. Seeing Hóng Jūn in front of him, Qī Yún's mouth opened wide in surprise.

  Hong Jun's entire body emitted a faint blue glow, flashing on and off. Hong Jun appeared solemn and dignified in the blue light, with an air of a saint, completely different from his usual self.

  It was a long time before Ziyun remembered her situation and loudly called out to Hongjun. Hongjun was at a critical point in his cultivation and couldn't hear her words, ignoring her.

  After fighting with He Qi Yun, Hong Jun felt the most different in this cultivation. In a daze, it seemed like he had grasped something. Hong Jun felt that there was an unnamed substance everywhere around him, just like what was said in the Hong Jun Dao, but when he reached out to grab it, he couldn't grasp anything.

  Hongjun sat in meditation for seven days, and after seven days, Hongjun woke up leisurely.

  After waking up, Hongjun felt a kind of oppressive feeling in his heart.

  "One hundred and seven days!" Hong Jun suddenly jumped up, excitedly circling the cave quickly. One hundred and seven days later, Hong Jun's 49-day tribulation would arrive, and after passing this tribulation, Hong Jun could become a revered Supreme Immortal on the mainland.

  "It's actually going to be a tribulation! It's great!" In Hongjun's current memory, the Supreme is the highest existence. Now there are still 107 days left, and Hongjun will take this heavenly tribulation test. After passing the heavenly tribulation, Hongjun will also enter the ranks of the Supreme.

  "What's with the hundred and seventh day, hurry up and let me go, otherwise, otherwise my master will kill you!" Qi Yun saw Hong Jun wake up and hastily shouted, originally wanting to say that he would kill him, but thinking that he couldn't actually kill him, he hastily changed his words.

  "Princess Ziyun?" Hong Jun suddenly remembered that he still had a princess tied up.

  "Let me go!"

  "It's not hard to let you go, but you have to swear that from now on, you won't make things difficult for me again. Also, let the Crown Prince Song Fei return, if you can't do it, I'll kill you right now!" Hong Jun said viciously to Qi Yun.

  "I promise, I swear to never trouble you again. If I do, may I not die a good death! Let me go quickly, I've already sworn an oath!" Hong Jun's expression was terrifying, and Qi Yun didn't want to face him at all now.

  "Remember, also release Song Fei Taizi!" Hong Jun stepped forward and hit Qi Yun's head with two consecutive punches. Seeing that Qi Yun had completely fainted, he untied the rope and left this place.

  The top priority now is to find a place to hide, the Qi State cannot stay any longer. Hong Jun slightly changed his appearance and went to the Song State to look for a place to hide.

  In the endless wilderness, Hong Jun looked at the environment here with satisfaction. The surrounding area was quiet and uninhabited for hundreds of miles, making it an ideal place to survive the catastrophe. With more than two months left before the Heavenly Tribulation, Hong Jun reorganized the items in his ring. There were too many things in the ring, and most of them were only familiar but unusable to him.

  Everything in the ring was collected by Qin Shuang, and naturally, nothing that Qin Shuang collected was ordinary. The current Hong Jun can't use it yet.

  Every time Hong Jun is alone, he recalls his past memories. However, after the battle with the Wei Wang Chao, everything afterwards becomes a blur. No matter how hard he tries, it's as if his memory has been cut off at some point in between.

  Putting down his memories, Hong Jun still looked forward to the remaining two months of the 49-day tribulation. For any warrior on the Profound Dragon Continent, the ultimate dream was to become an Upper Immortal, and Hong Jun was no exception. What he didn't know was that it was during this very same 49-day tribulation that his father had become a Cultivator.

  Hong Jun was preparing to cross the calamity in the endless wilderness, but the entire Qianlong continent was turned upside down. Qi Yun reappeared in the Qi Dynasty and was still a princess of the Qi Dynasty. The other three dynasties soon realized that the whole event was a conspiracy by Qi Xuan Huang. On the surface, the three dynasties did not take any action against the Qi Dynasty, but secretly they united together.

  The Crown Prince of the Song Dynasty, Song Fei, is now being chased by Qi Xuan Huang and cannot be driven away, which makes Song Hui Huang so angry that he almost reinstates the crown prince.

  Time flies quickly, and the catastrophic disaster is approaching soon.

  Hongjun's feeling of oppression grew stronger, the clear sky began to wind up, and in the blink of an eye, the whole sky turned dark. A dark red calamity cloud appeared above Hongjun, and a dark red vortex appeared in the calamity cloud, swirling like a tornado.

  A fierce gust of wind arose, and purple lightning appeared in the whirlpool, with scattered electric lights filling the entire calamity cloud.

  A loud rumble, the first heavenly thunderbolt fell straight down, and Hong Jun hadn't even thought about how to deal with this heavenly thunderbolt before it landed on his body. The ground beneath Hong Jun's feet was smashed into a small pit, and he stood there dazed in the pit, staring up at the sky.

  "Is this the Heavenly Tribulation?" The heavenly thunder gave him a feeling that was not strong, his body just felt numb for a moment, and the thunder disappeared.

  "Who is crossing the tribulation?" In the endless desolate expanse of over 2,000 miles deep, the divine beast Fire Cloud Leopard discovered the abnormality in the sky and laughed as it flew over: "There's new Golden Elixir to savor, how dare you cross tribulation on my turf, haha!"

  Endless desolate border three thousand miles are the territory of Huoyun Leopard, a lower-level divine beast in the late Yuan Ying period. The monsters living here will leave if they pass through the tribulation. They all know that Huoyun Leopard loves to eat the golden elixir that has just passed through the tribulation.

  Hong Jun still didn't know that danger was approaching, and continued to stare at the sky, waiting for the next thunderbolt. Probably no one in the entire Dragon Continent had survived a calamity like Hong Jun did, standing still and unmoving, letting the thunderbolts bombard him.

  The second thunderbolt came with a dazzling purple light and slammed heavily on Hong Jun's head, causing his body to sink several meters downward. This thunderbolt was the same as the previous one; Hong Jun's clothes were shattered, but he didn't suffer any injury.

  "Haha, this tribulation is too easy!" After two bolts of heavenly thunder, Hong Jun's confidence greatly increased, his body didn't move at all, and he even smiled as he waited for the third bolt of heavenly thunder.

  Boom

  Even more intense purple lightning struck Hong Jun's body, and the place where Hong Jun stood was continuously struck by thunder, creating a deep pit of nearly ten meters. Hong Jun's body emitted electric sparks, but he still smiled as he looked up at the sky. Such thunder didn't even damage his skin, no wonder he was so confident.

  "This little guy won't be struck dead by heavenly thunder, will he?" Huo Yunbao had just arrived when he saw the third bolt of heavenly thunder pass by, and the deep pit left on the ground.

  "The tribulation clouds haven't dispersed, that little guy hasn't died yet, haha, unexpectedly a human, it's been ages since I've eaten a human's Golden Elixir. Today's luck is really good." Huoyun Leopard was waiting outside the Heavenly Tribulation for Hongjun to pass his tribulation. As soon as he succeeded in forming his Golden Elixir, Huoyun Leopard would rush in and tear Hongjun apart, eating his Golden Elixir and flesh body.

  The fourth heavenly thunderbolt was larger than the previous three, with a huge purple tail, like an angry giant dragon, opening its mouth to swallow Hong Jun whole, determined to bite him into powder.

  A loud rumble shook the forest, and Hong Jun's 49-day tribulation passed just like that. Throughout the entire tribulation process, Hong Jun didn't move at all. The four heavenly thunders only created a large pit on the ground and shattered Hong Jun's clothes, with no other effect. This is probably the most embarrassing tribulation in the history of Zi Xuan Star.

  The cloud of smoke dispersed, and Hong Jun patted the blackened soil that had splattered onto his body, then jumped down to the ground and changed into a new set of clothes.

  "Haha, human kid, not bad, you actually survived the 49-day tribulation. Now, obediently offer me your fresh Golden Elixir, and I, Fire Cloud Leopard, will let you die with a whole corpse!" Just as Hong Jun had jumped up, Huo Yun Bao flew over leisurely, teasingly staring at his prey in front of him.