Chapter 17: The Ancient Plate's Compass

  Three people crossed the tribulation together, and a variant of heavenly thunder suddenly appeared. Hong Jun estimated that it was enough to compare with the full attack of a sixth-level immortal emperor or above. The space in the mortal world is not as stable as that in the fairy demon world. An immortal emperor can tear through the void of the mortal world. When Qin Yu made a move, he had torn through the space of the mortal world before.

  "Xiao Jun, how are you?" Gu Pan ignored his own injuries and hastily pulled Hong Jun up, Feng Xi did the same.

  After being hammered by the ancient disc several times, Hong Jun finally caught his breath. The skin on his body was red and swollen, the power of the Thunderbolt was a bit stronger, it could break through Hong Jun's defense and cause him harm.

  "What the f**k is this freaky thunder!" Hong Jun cursed loudly, jumping up and pointing at the sky as soon as he caught his breath.

  Hongjun was still able to scold people, Gu Pan and Feng Xi both smiled. Knowing that Hongjun was fine, they were once again shocked by his physical strength.

  "Xiao Jun, stop cursing and hurry up to prepare. There's still the heavenly thunderbolt!" Gu Pan shouted at Hong Jun, who was scolding the sky nonstop, reminding him that the heavenly calamity had not completely passed.

  Gu Pan finished speaking, and Hong Jun was about to scold him again but couldn't. The last bolt of heavenly thunder had fallen.

  This heavenly thunder is much weaker than the eighth heavenly thunder, and it's about the same as the first heavenly thunder. It seems that the Heavenly Tribulation has concentrated all its power on the eighth heavenly thunder. This last heavenly thunder is very ordinary.

  The lightning struck down. The three of them didn't feel anything and high-fived each other in celebration.

  "Father, mother, big brother, how did you come!" Hong Jun and Xiao Pan gave each other a high-five. Excitedly discovered that Qin Yu, Jiang Li, and Qin Si were all standing beside them with smiles on their faces. Happily ran over to them.

  "Get out of here. It's just a small catastrophe in the mortal world. You're so proud, our Qin family doesn't need a useless person like you!" Qin Si waved his hand. Hong Jun retreated several steps, unable to get close to Qin Yu, Jiang Li, and Qin Si, who were all sneering at him.

  "Big brother, it's not like that! I'm not complacent, I've been working hard all along. Father, you believe me, I absolutely am not a slacker!" Hong Jun shouted loudly. He looked at the three of them in horror as they turned their backs on him and ignored him.

  "Father, mother, elder brother. Xiaofeng is not a coward, you must believe me!" Hongjun was about to cry out, but the three of them slowly walked away into the distance, and in the blink of an eye they disappeared from Hongjun's sight, with Qin Yu's words still echoing over.

  "My Qin family's current cultivation is just as low as yours. Aren't you a waste?"

  "Father!" Hong Jun could no longer bear it and burst into loud sobs.

  "Xiao Feng!" Jiang Lan suddenly appeared here.

  "Grandpa Lan!" Hong Jun cried out to Jiang Lan.

  "Xiao Feng, I'm leaving. You should know yourself, in the Qin family, you are the worst one!" Jiang Lan's smiling face gradually turned serious. After saying that to Hong Jun, she also disappeared from there.

  "Xiao Feng! You've really disappointed me. After thousands of years, your cultivation hasn't improved at all. Instead, it's regressed so much. It seems you're truly useless. If I were you, I'd just take my own life!" This time, it was Zuo Qiulin who appeared, shaking her head at Hong Jun.

  "Zuo Qiulin said that I, Zhenwang, am so useless. Besides bringing shame to the Qin family, it's time for me to take my own life!" Hong Jun's eyes revealed a hint of despair as he stumbled and staggered aimlessly.

  Hong Jun's internal spiritual energy is becoming more and more dispersed. The yuan fetus also began to lose its shape, the Sealing God List, which had been quiet and still for a long time, suddenly shook slightly, and a small, straight line of unnamed substance in the dantian rushed directly into Hong Jun's brain.

  Boom

  Hong Jun suddenly woke up, scaring out a cold sweat. The 99th Heavenly Tribulation, the last heavenly tribulation's power was not in the heavenly thunder, but in the heart tribulation. Those things just now were all illusions. If it weren't for the reminder of the Sealing God List at the critical moment, Hong Jun couldn't bear to think about the consequences.

  With the help of the Sealing God List, Hong Jun was the first to wake up, and Gu Pan and Feng Xi still had painful expressions on their faces. Thinking about the illusion just now, it was really too scary. Hong Jun's mental cultivation was already very high, but he didn't expect that his heart demon would take advantage of his weakness and create a fake illusion that could deceive reality.

  After a while, Feng Xi also woke up. Tian Lei's heavenly tribulation was mostly borne by Hong Jun, whose heart demon had the greatest influence on him. Feng Xi and Gu Pan were relatively lighter.

  Not long after, Gu Pan also woke up and smiled at the two of them. He then closed his eyes again and began to meditate.

  "Xiao Pan, what's going on here?!" After the calamity passed. Hong Jun didn't expect that Gu Pan would sit up and resume his cultivation just like this.

  The ancient plate couldn't help but answer Hong Jun. After the heavenly calamity, the front of Gu Pan's primordial infant's compass had undergone new changes.

  The chaotic shapes in the compass all condensed together, getting thicker and thicker, absorbing the Xian Yuan energy produced by Gu Pan after his tribulation. As soon as one was born, it would be absorbed. Gu Pan was suffering unbearably.

  Hongmeng Space, under the Osmanthus tree. Hongmeng, Lin Meng and Qin Yu were there. The three of them sat beside a stone table, smiling as they observed a change in the Hongmeng Space.

  "Third brother, you've seen this ancient disc too. It's also going to connect to the Hongmeng Space. But its connection with you is different, it's actually through a compass, haha!" Lin Meng laughed. Everything that happens in the universe is naturally under Lin Meng's control as the ruler of the universe. The ancient disc's behavior was exactly what happened when the Hongmeng Space was opened.

  "Hong Meng's move is quite strange. Yet, it's just a ordinary technological planet's creation, but it's as if he's specially cultivating Hong Meng matter. How unusual! Unusual indeed, this little guy Gu Pan. He really makes me look forward to it!" Hong Meng nodded and chuckled lightly.

  "Except for San Di's apprentice, this is the second person connected to Hongmeng space. It seems that the fourth universe controller doesn't need several epochs of time and will appear soon. Qin Shitian and Gu Pan, who will it be? Really worth looking forward to!" Lin Meng was also very happy. San Di Qin Yu had just appeared not long ago. The fourth controller is about to appear soon."

  "Big brother, have you found out about that mysterious power inside Xiao Feng?" The last time Qin Feng's body had that strange power, even Qin Yu's Hongmeng spiritual energy couldn't get close. The three of them discussed it for a long time but couldn't come to a conclusion. In the end, Hongmeng went off on his own to research it.

  "Not yet. But that power is similar to the Hongmeng power. Qin Shuang, cultivate that material well. Future achievements shouldn't be worse than ours!"

  Zixuan Star. Gu Pan has been sitting for seven days already. No matter how Hong Jun and Feng Xi called, there was no response. For seven days, Gu Pan continuously absorbed external energy into his body to replenish the consumption caused by the Luopan's absorption, and the chaos in the Luopan became thicker and thicker, finally becoming a paste-like state.

  Hongmeng space, a sudden collapse of Hongmeng matter occurred somewhere, and a continuous flow of Hongmeng matter poured out from the small hole that appeared. Ancient disk, finally connected to Hongmeng space.

  After the connection between the Luopan and Hongmeng space was established, it no longer absorbed the spiritual energy within the ancient disk. It quietly floated in front of the ancient disk's primordial infant, with the material inside the Luopan resembling a black hole period similar to sticky syrup. The ancient disk's primordial infant curiously reached out to grab the syrup-like substance, but was met with a powerful backlash that almost injured it. Its spiritual awareness also couldn't reach inside the syrup.

  "Xiao Jun!" Gu Pan woke up. He was looking at Hong Jun's anxious gaze, and couldn't help but feel a little moved, though his tone didn't change.

  "Our Heavenly Lord, you've finally woken up. You scared us to death, didn't you know? Who would have thought it'd be like this? After crossing the calamity, you just sat down to cultivate again. I'm really afraid that once you sit down, it'll be another several tens of thousands of years. I'm afraid by then, both of us will have already ascended."

  "Thank you, Xiao Jun. I'm fine. Just a minor issue with my kung fu skills, but it's all good now!"

  "There are only two months left. We will ascend soon. It's good that Little Pan wakes up, otherwise Little Pan might ascend during cultivation and become the first person who doesn't know how to ascend, haha!" Gu Pan is fine. Hong Jun's tense mood also relaxed, and he couldn't help but start teasing Gu Pan again.

  On the Zixuan Star, Gu Pan and Hong Jun both had no one to miss. Two months were left. They quietly stayed in the Hongjun Mansion, waiting for ascension.

  Time passed very quickly. The three of them finally arrived at the day of ascension.

  Xianmo Demon Realm. A space tens of thousands of times larger than the mortal realm where Zi Xuanxing is located, apart from the flying immortals, demons and monsters, there are also the original inhabitants of this place, Dark Star Realm.

  Hongjun had long expected that after flying up, they would not be able to meet in one place, and had already made an appointment with each other. They were supposed to gather together in the Flowing Spring Star System of the Immortal Realm, but Hongjun never thought that his ascension site was actually in the Dark Star Realm.

  As soon as he flew up, Hong Jun was attacked by a metal beast. The environment here, combined with this metal beast, told Hong Jun that this was the Dark Star Realm his father had mentioned.

  A lone figure walks on this planet with a heavy heart. He is not from the Dark Star Realm, so why did he end up here after ascending instead of going to the Immortal Realm? If he were to meet someone from the Dark Star Realm, Hong Jun wouldn't even know how to explain his own identity.

  The Dark Star Realm is far from the Flowing Spring Galaxy. Hong Jun can't perform Void Teleportation yet, and can only leave through a transmission array. To use the transmission array, one must have a Dark Star Realm resident identity, which means owning an 'Identity Star Drill'. Hong Jun had heard his father talk about the Dark Star Realm when he was young. The person who granted the Identity Star Drill must be a resident of the Dark Star Realm. Qin Yu obtained the 'Identity Star Drill' by cultivating the Dark Star Realm's land skill. As for the Dark Star Realm's skills, Hong Jun doesn't know.

  Metal beasts have appeared here. This proves that this is the planet where the Dark Star Realm cultivators of the Golden Punishment Sect are located. And there must be people on this planet. Places without humans do not have such low-level metal beasts.

  Hongjun now regrets not learning the Golden Cang's cultivation method from his father earlier. When Hongjun was born, both of his parents were already at the Divine King realm, so it would be strange if he could still look down on the cultivation methods of this lower world.

  His father had learned the Golden Punishment Sect's cultivation method through Soul Search. However, Hong Jun had never looked at such a demonic cultivation method and naturally didn't learn it. Unfortunately, although Hong Jun's physical body was now strong, it was completely different from that of the people in the Dark Star Realm. He cultivated the Hong Jun Way, which had no similarities with the Golden Punishment Sect's cultivation method. As soon as he appeared in front of the people of the Dark Star Realm, his identity would be exposed.

  (End of Volume 2)