Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1862: Chapter 598: Rapid Progress, Charging into the Tribulation Body (3)

Of course he couldn’t accept that!

From the mud slope to Redwood Ridge, from Mirror Valley Wuyuan to Longyou, from the Xing River North Bank to Dongchu, all the way to now, unifying the entire Southern Slope Territory and driving back the Feudal Towns…

If the rise of Great Xia were compiled into a thrilling tale, then Xia Hong would, without a doubt, be the sole protagonist of that story. Wood Puppet Monster, Mirror Immortal, He Yuanhun, Hou Hu, Li Tiancheng, Xiang Fuhai, Yang Fa, Yang Zhun, and all the other characters who had appeared before—no matter their strength, no matter their ultimate fate—were all destined to be mere foils in this tale.

Even if talent were set aside, just counting the experiences of these past years was enough for endless confidence to surge up from Xia Hong’s heart.

What’s a Tribulation Body Realm? Above that is the Venerable Realm, and then there’s the Great Saint Realm that Six Arms mentioned earlier—how many realms higher is that than the Venerable Realm?

If a single Tribulation Body Realm was enough to make him admit defeat, then how was he supposed to keep leading Great Xia forward in the Ice Abyss? How would he face those powerful, terrifying beings from the Dark Realm and the Saint Sun Realm?

“Not admitting defeat doesn’t mean I have to bash my head against the wall. I still have the Holy Tripod, my greatest trump card. Looking back on all my breakthroughs, whenever I reached my limit, it would provide assistance. This time should be no exception…”

Confidence was confidence, but faced with the unknown, Xia Hong still couldn’t help but feel a trace of awe. He quietly activated the Holy Tripod within his body, and only then did he completely focus his attention on the five Tribulation Qi Pearls inside his Golden Body.

Suddenly, as if recalling something, Xia Hong turned his head to look toward White Bone Mountain to the east, his brows knitting slightly.

“Five days ago, the Holy Tripod had a strange fluctuation. It seemed to sense a familiar aura. That’s never happened before. A familiar aura… In this Dark Realm, could there be something of the same origin as the Holy Tripod?”

This thought rose in his heart, and Xia Hong couldn’t quite stay calm.

The Holy Tripod was a system construct; if something truly shared its origin, then it most likely had something to do with the system as well.

But now wasn’t the time for him to worry about that. His only task at the moment was to seize these two chances to. As long as he broke through, he’d have more confidence when going to White Bone Mountain, and his hope of returning to the Ice Abyss would be greater.

Bang…

Having made up his mind, Xia Hong no longer hesitated. With a single thought, he directly crushed the five Tribulation Qi Pearls within his Golden Body, then swiftly tightened the Skin Membrane, sealing the Golden Body completely.

Boom…

From the moment he decided to attempt the, Xia Hong had already steeled himself mentally, fully aware that he was about to face extreme agony.

“Ah… huh… huh… huh…”

Yet when the Tribulation Qi truly exploded within the Golden Body, the ocean of Five Elements Tribulation Qi inflicted such ultimate torment on the Golden Body that it first transmitted into his flesh, then surged into his mind, and he dropped to his knees in an instant.

He really knelt—literally knelt!

He had been sitting cross-legged, but now he slammed to the ground, a howl of unbearable pain tearing from his throat as he clawed madly at his own chest. His entire body twisted and struggled on the ground, like a maggot being roasted by blazing fire, wretched to the extreme.

“Urgh…”

First, copious drool spilled from the corner of his mouth, and then it quickly turned into dense smoke carrying sparks. Blood mist was mixed into the smoke, clearly the high temperature inside him vaporizing his blood;

His eyes kept oozing a green fluid, obviously laden with vicious poison. Wherever it flowed, it corroded, and in no time Xia Hong’s face was utterly disfigured, completely unrecognizable from before;

He soon stopped vomiting and wailing, and instead began to cough violently. With each cough, yellow dust kept spouting from his mouth, as if someone had force-fed him a huge load of sand and gravel, quickly shrouding the area around his body in choking filth;

Before the coughing even subsided, fire-red metallic magma surged out of his nose, shot through with dense blood-colored veins—clearly his blood had been dragged out along with it;

Finally, it reached his ears. Liquid began to pour from both of Xia Hong’s ears. At first it was normal—just water—but gradually it was streaked with blood, and then it turned completely red, no different from fresh blood.

“Huh… huh… ah…”

Xia Hong’s low, suppressed screams quickly turned back into howls of agony. In the end he still couldn’t withstand this ultimate torment, and began shrieking miserably.