Chapter 1: The Fall of the Sect Master

  As the 16th generation successor of Liandao Sect's Lianbao Pavilion, and also the only successor, Chu Yu was able to enter the late stage of Jie Dan in just 230 years since building his foundation, which can be considered as the number one person in the sect. Even if we look at the entire Zhongtu Xiu Zhen world, among the four major cultivators - Yao, Mo, Fo and Dao, it's likely that only a few can achieve such progress.

  But now Chu Yu is deeply regretful, regretting that he unknowingly took the step to impact the Great Supreme Realm, and regretting that he usually focuses on refining various powerful artifacts instead of cultivating and enhancing his own foundation strength.

  Generally, when a cultivator enters the late stage of Tribulation Crossing, it is equivalent to facing the last pass of ascending to the higher realm from the mortal world. Any cultivator in the late stage of Tribulation Crossing, whether they have been in this realm for a hundred years or have just achieved this realm, as long as they think they have the strength to pass the last test, can activate the heavenly phenomenon and summon the Heavenly Tribulation. If successful, they will enter the Mahayana realm and ascend immediately; if failed, there seems to be only one outcome - annihilation of both body and spirit!

  At this moment, the outcome of Chu Yutu's Tribulation has a 99% chance of being attributed to the latter. Even if he possesses six of the top ten artifacts in the Zhongtu Xiu Zhen realm, even if he easily repelled the external invasion of the Tribulation without losing any of his true yuan power, and even if he safely navigated the Heart Demon Tribulation using the Lianbao Pavilion's unique mental method "Hanying Dao Yin", it would all be in vain.

  "Damn it, you're jealous, outright jealous! I've been through the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation and the Five Realms Ten Directions Great Demon Heart Tribulation, but it's still not over? You're taking advantage of my unstable physical foundation, aren't you? And now you're unleashing the Great Annihilating Five Elements Divine Thunderbolt... This is ridiculous! This isn't a cultivator's tribulation, even a demonic head with ten evil deeds wouldn't have such difficulty. You want me to die? I, Chu Ye, won't let that happen..."

  In the process of a cultivator's tribulation, there are generally only two types of invading forces: external demons and internal demons. The external demon refers to the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation, which consists of three waves and nine transformations, aiming to test the cultivator's strength. Of course, this strength refers to comprehensive strength, including auxiliary objects such as magic treasures and spiritual elixirs. As Chu Yu possesses six of the top ten magic treasures, dealing with it is naturally easy and pleasant.

  And the inner demon is also known as the Five Realms Ten Directions Great Heavenly Demon Tribulation, mainly to test the cultivator's will to cultivate the Tao. Relying on the superior mind-guarding mysterious method of "Hàn Bīng Dào Yǐn", Chu Yu also resisted it without much danger.

  Generally speaking, the calamity will end here... There is only a very small probability that after this, another heavy tribulation will be triggered, which is not too difficult for cultivators to pass through - the Great Extinction of the Five Elements Divine Thunder.

  This great extinction of the five elements, divine power and thunderbolt, does not belong to external demon tribulation or internal demon tribulation. Once it descends, it will ignore any magical artifacts and formations and directly strike the physical body of the cultivator who is crossing the tribulation. As long as they can withstand it, they will successfully cross the tribulation.

  To say that if a few late-stage cultivators from the Zhongtu realm were pulled out, nine out of ten would dare to claim that they could absolutely withstand this Great Annihilation Five Elements Divine Thunderbolt. In the eyes of most cultivators, the threat posed by the Great Annihilation Five Elements Divine Thunderbolt cannot be compared to the previous two heavenly tribulations.

  As long as one's own true yuan force is strong enough, the physical body has been condensed and strengthened for more than ten years, it will be fine after a hard struggle, at most spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood.

  Unfortunately, Chu Yu was the only one among the ten who did not have the ability to resist. As a descendant of Lianbao Pavilion, which was good at refining artifacts, Chu Yu had no interest in cultivating himself since the day he entered the sect, let alone spending time strengthening his physical body.

  He devoted all his energy and mind to refining magic treasures and searching for rare materials, and in the past two hundred years, he had refined more than a hundred magic treasures with his hands. The most successful two of them even replaced the last two magic treasures in the original top ten list, Cheng Tian Chi and Shen Cang Jie, both ranked ninth and tenth respectively. As for other magic treasures, they were either given away or kept for himself, or used to exchange for things he needed for his cultivation with other cultivators.

  One thing that can be certain is that in the past two hundred years, any finished magical artifact produced by Chu Yu would be treated as a treasured artifact of the sect, even if it were the most inferior one.

  Chu Yu's achievements in the refinement of magical artifacts are undoubtedly immense. Among the sixteen generations of Grandmasters of the Refining Pavilion, except for the first generation founder who refined the Heaven's Heart Needle, which is currently ranked first among the top ten magical artifacts, he should be slightly stronger than Chu Yu in terms of refining techniques. The other fourteen generations of Grandmasters have difficulty matching Chu Yu's achievements in refining magical artifacts.

  At the moment when he couldn't resist the devastating Five Elements Thunder with his treasure, Chu Yu completely lost it. He regretted why he didn't take ten years out of his over 200-year-long cultivation to train his physical body. He regretted being too impulsive and not making thorough preparations.

  The dark purple giant's Five Elements Divine Thunderbolt didn't even bother to respond to Chu Yu's frantic curses, and with a loud "Boom", the deafening thunderclap completely drowned out Chu Yu's final hysterical curse of "I won't submit..."

  Everything returns to dust, the earth returns to the earth. On the vast mountain, more than a dozen top-grade treasures that shone with colorful lights suddenly flew away in all directions, losing their master's breath. Without an owner, they became ownerless objects. These extremely spiritual treasures disappeared in the blink of an eye.

  Not long after those magical treasures flew away, three flashes of light suddenly appeared from all around, and the colors of those lights were actually magic, Buddhism, and Taoism.

  "Who would have thought, who would have thought that he wouldn't be able to pass the heavenly tribulation... It's really a twist of fate...” A Taoist priest in a green robe with a pair of crescent-shaped eyes like small moons halted his movement in mid-air and sighed emotionally.

  "Amitabha Buddha, Chu Zong's mastery of this move is truly unparalleled. I fear that from now on, there will be no more suitable magical artifacts for us to wield in the Central Plains' Cultivation Realm." An old monk with a white eyebrow clasped his hands together in mid-air and sighed.

  "In the ninth month, a cow's nose, an old bald donkey with white eyebrows. Stop pretending to be hypocritical, just talking about useless and unhelpful things. Can you have greater losses than me? I spent 30 years collecting all the materials for the Five Heavenly Ghost Banner and handed them over to him for help in refining it. Now that Chu Yu is gone, I've lost everything."

  Jiuyue Zhenren and Bai Mei Dashi both turned their gaze to the middle-aged man with red hair and black robes, who was shouting. Jiuyue Zhenren smiled instead of getting angry: "Hearing you say that, I finally found a good sign that Chu Shi's body and spirit were destroyed after all. At least this world has one less poisonous magic treasure."

  "Hmph..." The red-haired, black-robed middle-aged man glared at Jiu Yue Zhen Ren with a fierce gaze, dropped a sentence and turned to drive away in a flash of light. "Today, the old ancestor is not in the mood to waste words with you two old things, seven years later, Kunlun's righteous and evil will settle accounts with you again."

  Seeing the black-robed middle-aged man disappear, Jiu Yue Zhen Ren bowed to Bai Mei Da Shi in the distance and said: "Master, I observed that the heavy yin old ancestor's body has nine yin demon energy, which is already showing signs of nearing great completion. However, Chu Shi Zhu has now been destroyed, and our Kunlun Sect entrusted him with the 'Demon-destroying Cauldron' which has vanished into thin air. The seven-year period will soon arrive, I still need to make further plans, so I bid you farewell."

  After the return gift, looking at the Kunlun School's Ninth Month True Person's golden escape light disappearing into the distance, the White Eyebrow Great Master shook his head and sighed, "Old Na is no exception either. The sacred relics of a hundred years of hard work were also scattered with the smoke of the Chu family's master, the will of heaven is obscure, Amitabha Buddha!"