Chapter 6: Heavenly Tribulation

  The Great White Turtle indeed had a good temper, and if the other dragon clans saw this, they would absolutely not be able to accept it. After all, it was truly the son of the True Dragon. In the Nine Provinces' vast lands, let alone being the son of the True Dragon, even a demonic beast with just a hint of dragon clan bloodline did not have a good temper. Especially when an ant-like human child called him "Old Turtle".

  "Old Turtle, have you seen your mother? What does the True Dragon look like? Is it like you or like the pictures in books?" Cold Cloud was still just a young man after all, and his curiosity led him to have an extraordinary interest in the legendary dragon.

  However, with Cold Cloud's words, a hint of desolation actually flashed in the eyes of Da Bai Gui, "No, our dragon clan never personally nurtures its offspring, unless the offspring is a pure-blooded true dragon, and I am not!"

  Facing the dejected Da Bai Gui, Leng Yun habitually patted Da Bai Gui's head, but suddenly he thought of the big black turtle outside. This time if he left, it would be unknown when he could return, and the big black turtle was exactly Da Bai Gui's son. "We are about to leave Man Long Hu, can you see Xiao Hei?"

  Facing the cold cloud's request, Bai Hu's eyes seemed to have some abnormalities, but she shook her head and said: "It should not have been born, it was born because of you, and it will die because of you. It has nothing to do with me anymore. Moreover, when it was born, it was a disaster, a great calamity. I have already helped him bear the heavenly punishment for his birth, but I cannot take on his future sins. So, from now on, he can only bear his own sins, and everything about him has nothing to do with me. I also cannot see him again."

  "Ah!" Facing the white turtle's words, Leng Yun didn't quite understand, but even if he only understood a little, he still broke out in cold sweat. Especially when it came to bearing his sins, that really gave him a fright. "His sins will be borne by me, what does this mean?"

  "Do you still remember things from nine years ago?"

  Facing the question of the big white turtle, Leng Yun nodded directly. Nine years ago, he was only three years old, but that year's events were really too memorable, so even though he was very young at the time, he still remembered some things clearly. He recalled that in that year, the children on the island were searching for turtle eggs on the rocky beach as usual, and he found a turtle egg the size of a chicken egg, but it was black and somewhat strange. Perhaps because it was too ugly or too strange, when he handed this turtle egg to his older brother Leng Song, Leng Song unexpectedly didn't want it and instead told him to throw it away. However, in the end, Leng Yun didn't listen and decided to roast it and eat it. As for what happened afterwards, Leng Yun was somewhat at a loss.

  He only remembered that he had gathered some dry firewood and grass on the beach, built a nest for the turtle eggs and burned them for a while. To his surprise, the eggs hatched, and just as the little black turtles crawled out of the eggs, the sky above the island suddenly became windy and cloudy, followed by thunder and lightning. The water level of the Dragon Lake, which had not changed for thousands of years, dropped rapidly by nearly three zhang (a unit of length). Then, a giant white turtle appeared, but soon, under the gaze of Leng Yun, countless lightning bolts fell from the sky and struck the giant white turtle. At that time, the young boy who was picking up turtle eggs on the rocky beach ran away in all directions, while Leng Yun, either being extremely brave or frightened into stupidity, watched everything unfold before his eyes.

  Finally, the white turtle was struck by lightning and left on the verge of death, with countless cracks all over its shell. Later, Leng Yun called two brothers, plus a group of children on the island, and it took them two days to slowly move the white turtle into the lake that had receded nearly three zhang.

  "Nineteen years ago, that was the year of my millennium calamity. To cope with the heavenly calamity, I had to concentrate my mind and respond carefully. And yet, in that same year, I don't know how you found him, who should have been impossible to hatch. Even now, I still can't understand why he, a dead egg, could come back to life, and inexplicably became your destined demon beast. According to reason, without my intervention as his mother, the two of you shouldn't have been able to form a destined soul bond! Not to mention that his dragon tribe bloodline had already become extremely diluted!"

  When the white turtle said this, countless puzzled expressions flowed out of her eyes. This was also the reason why she opened her mouth to speak before Leng Yun left. After all, when Leng Yun walked away, no one knew if he could come back or how many years it would take for him to return!

  "Do you still remember the situation at that time? How did you hatch him?"

  Facing the problem of the big white turtle, Leng Yun sank into deep thought, but in the end he still shook his head. He really couldn't remember the detailed situation at that time. He only remembered that he had found some dry firewood and grass on the beach, then used some broken stones to build a small stove and put the turtle eggs on it. This was not a difficult task for the children on the island, they often did this when roasting fish by the lake.

  The white tortoise did not ask any further, she actually knew that at the time, Cold Cloud was only a little over three years old and it was impossible for him to say anything. She could only attribute it to fate, perhaps only fate could explain why an egg she had given up on would come back to life, and still be a thousand-year-old disaster beast.

  "Bring out your spatial pouch!"

  Leng Yun hastily took out the Qiankun bag from his bosom and handed it to the mouth of the giant white turtle. The giant white turtle did not take the bag, but instead carefully examined it before spitting out a light ball the size of a chicken egg in pale gold color. As the light ball entered the damaged Qiankun bag, the originally eye-catching crack at the opening of the bag surprisingly disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye. Leng Yun was almost stunned by this change.

  "I don't understand the spatial structure of your human world's bag, so I can only repair it and not make the space inside bigger. Also, since I used dragon energy to restore it, people without dragon energy will not be able to open the seal on the bag's opening in the future."

  "Dragon's Breath?" Leng Yun was taken aback, "Could it be that this bag can only be opened by Xiao Hei from now on?"

  The white tortoise gazed at Leng Yun for a moment, but its eyes were somewhat strange. After a while, it spoke in a low voice: "He is your destined demon beast, so you naturally have his aura on you."

  It seems that Da Bai Gui is unwilling to continue speaking, his head withdraws again and his eyes slowly close once more. "Let's go."

  As soon as the Great White Turtle spoke these two words, although Leng Yun was unwilling to leave so quickly in his heart, he still stood up helplessly. However, just as he walked into the outer corridor, the voice of the Great White Turtle suddenly came again from behind him: "Our dragon tribe's demon beasts need to undergo a small heavenly tribulation every two hundred years, and a great heavenly tribulation will appear once every thousand years. As a disaster beast, the power of the heavenly tribulation he bears will be more than double that of an ordinary heavenly tribulation. If you don't want to die, then cultivate well and make preparations to withstand the heavenly tribulation."

  "Heavenly Tribulation? What is Heavenly Tribulation?" Leng Yun's knowledge of cultivation mostly came from the books brought back by the white-haired old man, but those books didn't mention anything about Heavenly Tribulation.

  "That time I was struck by lightning nine years ago was a heavenly calamity!" The speed of the white turtle's speech was very slow, but to Leng Yun's ears it was like a thunderclap on a clear day. His mind immediately conjured up the scene of that silver snake dancing wildly and crazily bombing the white turtle, especially the miserable state of the white turtle after the lightning had passed. Leng Yun did not think he could withstand the impact of countless heavenly thunders like the white turtle.

  However, it was clear that the Great White Turtle understood Leng Yun's thoughts. "Don't worry, the heavenly tribulations you may encounter will be far less than last time. The 81 heavenly thunder tribulations I experienced nine years ago were largely due to my own thousand-year heavenly tribulation, but more so because of his birth. Ordinary small heavenly tribulations are mostly three tribulations, and great heavenly tribulations are only nine tribulations."

  Leng Yun finally let out a long sigh after hearing this, if he were to encounter the same heavenly thunderbolt as nine years ago with Da Hei Gui, they would definitely be struck until nothing was left, "How many bolts of lightning will Xiao Hei's future heavenly tribulation have?"

  "His little heavenly tribulation should be six paths, and the great heavenly tribulation is eighteen paths. However, the specific number depends on his cultivation at that time and the amount of yin evil energy he carries."

  Xiu was familiar with this word, but what was called "Yin Sha Qi" made Xiu somewhat perplexed. "What is Yin Sha Qi?"

  "When you truly start cultivating, you will naturally understand what is meant by 'yin evil energy'. However, remember that the heavenly tribulation is not just limited to appearing every 200 or 1,000 years. Its function was originally not for testing us demon beasts, but rather it follows the Heavenly Dao rules to cleanse the world of yin evil energy. As long as the yin evil energy reaches a certain level, the pure yang heavenly thunder will appear and destroy it, and this is the heavenly tribulation in the Heavenly Dao rules."