Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 1260: Chapter 683: Returning to Void Thunder Tribulation (Part 2)

However, the strange thing was that the old man’s exposed skin emitted a foul smell and faint blood light, clearly indicating serious injuries.

Behind him was a fragile and beautiful woman, holding a six or seven-year-old boy in her arms, with a trace of fear remaining on her face.

The woman occasionally looked back, seeming worried about something.

Only the boy, unaware of his surroundings, was peacefully asleep in his mother’s arms.

The white-haired old man did not hide his affection at all, frequently turning his head to look at the boy.

“Ancestor, we’ve been fleeing for half a year. Have we truly escaped our pursuers now?” The beautiful woman suddenly asked anxiously.

“Old Cang, the most skilled in tracking! Even though we haven’t seen any trace of pursuers for half a month, I cannot be certain if we’ve completely shaken them off. However…”

Just as the old man spoke halfway, the sky ahead suddenly changed.

A peculiar Phoenix abruptly entered a strange empty domain, and a layer of seven-colored light curtain emerged instantly from the surrounding void, with countless seven-colored rainbow lights swiftly entwining the demon bird and wrapping around the three of them layer by layer.

The white-haired old man’s expression changed dramatically, and an azure light erupted from his whole body, forming a blue field that temporarily repelled the seven-colored rainbow lights around.

However, the power of this seven-colored barrier exceeded the old man’s imagination, and the surrounding rainbow lights rapidly intensified, emitting a horrifying wave of law.

As the endless oppressive force grew, the Qingmu field was in imminent danger and almost about to collapse in an instant.

The white-haired old man’s cultivation was merely at the first or second layer of Divinity Transformation, hardly able to withstand a high-level prohibition array meticulously set by someone of Perfect God Transformation.

At this moment, a golden curved saber shot out from the void, gently slicing through the Qingmu field, splitting it in half and causing it to completely collapse.

The white-haired old man spurted out a mouthful of blood essence, unable to suppress the curse within him any longer. His entire body suddenly swelled with countless spots, with bizarre insects wriggling under his skin, furiously devouring his flesh.

The beautiful woman, witnessing this scene, was filled with despair, her hands trembling as she clutched her son tightly, awaiting her fate.

Sigh!

Just then, a soft sigh suddenly echoed in her ears.

Unbeknownst to them, a tall and handsome figure appeared beside the white-haired old man. It was Zhao Sheng, who had been in retreat for thirty years but was disturbed by the trio.

Zhao Sheng extended his right hand, placing it on the old man’s shoulder, sending streams of divine thought prohibition into his body, instantly imprisoning his primordial spirit and mana.

Then, with a casual wave, the surrounding rainbow lights vanished, and the seven-colored dome realm disappeared without a trace.

Seeing this, the beautiful woman’s face lit up with ecstatic joy as if saved from despair, but before she could speak, an irresistible force enveloped her entire body.

In an instant, the old man, woman, child, and the peculiar Phoenix were all flung a hundred miles away.

“The Heavenly Tribulation is imminent. I do not wish to stain my hands with blood. Begone at once!”

As the world spun and changed, a cold, indifferent voice surged into the minds of the white-haired old man and the woman.

The white-haired old man felt golden thunder light rapidly traversing his body, instantly eradicating the countless evil Ghost Gu within him, and the remaining curse power was swiftly obliterated in the thunder light.

The old man was overwhelmingly joyful, feeling completely invigorated as his primordial spirit and mana suddenly regained freedom.

Bang!

Simultaneously, a thunderclap resounded, and large clouds of black gathered in the dull sky out of nowhere.

In an instant, the entire heavenly curtain was shrouded in dark clouds, a terrifying aura of tribulation rapidly emanating from the depths of the clouds in all directions.

The white-haired old man looked up at the sky, turning deathly pale, realizing that the Heavenly Tribulation was imminent, and they had the misfortune of encountering a hermit expert about to undergo tribulation.

The next second, the old man cast a large amount of azure light, enveloping the woman and child, and transformed into an azure tunneling light, fleeing with all his might into the distance.

Zhao Sheng paid no heed to the three fleeing figures, suddenly sighed softly, and gazed upwards at the swiftly brewing Returning to Void Thunder Tribulation.

“…At the crucial moment of enlightenment, I’m unexpectedly interrupted. It seems everything is predestined by the heavens and cannot be forced. Well then, as it can’t be delayed much longer, there’s no time like the present. Today, I shall personally test the ‘quality’ of this Returning to Void Thunder Tribulation,” Zhao Sheng muttered to himself.

Before his words had fallen, his figure flashed and suddenly vanished into thin air.

In the next instant, within the depths of the tribulation cloud, appeared a perfect naked flesh body.

Facing the Returning to Void Thunder Tribulation, Zhao Sheng surprisingly made no defensive measures, choosing instead to confront the nine-layered thunder tribulation with his flesh, wholly exposed.

Roar!

Suddenly, a thunderous roar erupted from the tribulation cloud, only to see above Zhao Sheng’s head appeared a colossal creature completely covered in purple thunder scales, with a singular horn and single hoof—the nearly “real” Kui Niu Divine Beast.

Having achieved closure for thirty years and greatly advanced in his Daoist practice, he had once more refined the Kui Niu Treasure, successfully evolving his Will Dharma Form to the level of “Transforming Void into Reality.”

In a sense, the Kui Niu Dharma Form is like Zhao Sheng’s additional “flesh body.”

Once he breaks through Returning to Void, this Will Dharma Form can shed its void nature to become a true Returning to Void “avatar.”

The vast majority of Half-Immortal of the Void cannot condense such powerful “avatars” comparable to the main body, much less when the battle power of the Kui Niu Divine Beast far surpasses that of the same-tier human clan.

Not long after, a sky-shattering sound resonated from the distant high skies, followed by continuous rumbling, until the sky for tens of thousands of miles was suddenly filled with dense tribulation clouds. Boundless thunder from the Void Realm descended, accompanied by a rolling thunderous sound, rendering the entire world “silent.”

“What is that…”

Miles away, a bald old woman clad in the Ten Thousand Gu Taoist Robe gazed upon the surging tribulation cloud in shock, involuntarily crying out.

Behind her, strange flying birds fell to the ground like stones, wailing, soon splattering into masses of flesh.

“Thunder tribulation! A high-level cultivator is Crossing Thunder Tribulation! It’s curious why someone would choose this part of the Barbaric Wilderness for tribulation! It doesn’t seem like an ordinary thunder tribulation; judging by the grand scale, it’s likely a Returning to Void Thunder Tribulation!”

The bald old woman quickly fled to the rear, while escaping, her heart guessing with uncertainty and trepidation.

The entire heavenly curtain had turned as black as the bottom of a pot, as arcs of gold and purple danced and leaped within the clouds, the dull rumbling sound coming from those skies. And slightly below the black clouds, white hazy gales howled ferociously, continuously battering the mountain tops, causing rocks to shatter and trees to fly askew.