Chapter 429

Chapter 429 Returning to Xizhou, the old monk transcends the tribulation

“Xuankong Mountain.”

Lu Qing’s eyes flashed with a chill.

He had never forgotten the sect that had repeatedly sent assassins to assassinate him.

Previously, Xuankong Mountain had retreated into a secret realm, leaving him with no way to deal with them.

But now, he felt the time had come to settle the score.

As for the reason, besides his own entry into the Jindan realm…

With a thought, Lu Qing suddenly grasped a palm-sized, somewhat tattered, quaint silver boat.

Looking at the silver boat in his hand, a strange look crossed his face.

Over the past month, he had already sorted through the magical artifacts left behind by the gray-robed young fellow apprentice.

While those artifacts were good, few caught his eye.

The one that caught Lu Qing’s eye the most was, naturally, the silver boat known as the Void Flying Boat.

After all, his supernatural powers had revealed that it was a fragment of a Daoist artifact. Even damaged, its power was still comparable to that of a mid-grade spiritual artifact.

So, shortly after acquiring the silver flying boat, Lu Qing refined it.

It was after refining and testing it that Lu Qing discovered the extraordinary qualities of this rare treasure.

Its material was exceptionally special and indestructible.

Even with his current cultivation level, even with his utmost strength, he could hardly damage it in the slightest.

No wonder the gray-robed man had desperately tried to break into the flying boat.

Had he truly escaped, Lu Qing might not have been able to subdue him.

Furthermore, the flying boat’s material seemed incompatible with the human body. Even after refining and controlling it, Lu Qing couldn’t contain it within his body, and could only temporarily store it within his spatial magic weapon.

Even his supernatural powers couldn’t yet detect the flying boat’s composition.

It was unclear whether this would change as his cultivation level increased.

Besides its indestructibility and astonishing defense,

the silver flying boat had only two other features.

One of them was speed—incredible speed!

The silver flying boat’s speed was astonishing, surpassing even one-tenth of the golden flying boat Lu Qing had seized from the old monk on Xuankong Mountain.

And this wasn’t just the Silver Flying Boat’s limit, it was the limit of this small world.

When Lu Qing had just refined the Silver Flying Boat, he had tested its speed.

He had originally intended to test its speed limit.

However, as he continued to push the boat’s speed higher, he received a warning from the mysterious laws of the heavens.

If the boat’s speed continued to climb, it would exceed the limits of this small world.

At that point, he would be expelled from it.

It was then that Lu Qing realized that the speed of a small world had its limits.

However, pushing the Silver Flying Boat to this world’s limit would require a tremendous amount of mana.

Even with Lu Qing’s perfected Golden Core, it wouldn’t last long.

Besides its blistering speed, the Silver Flying Boat possessed an even more powerful ability:

Void Transmigration!

This ability not only allowed for spatial leaps, covering distances of tens of millions of miles in an instant,

but also allowed it to penetrate space, ignoring restrictions and spatial barriers, and travel freely.

This ability to transmigrate was the foundation of Lu Qing’s plan to settle the score at Hanging Mountain!

“Hanging Mountain, I want to see if your greatest reliance, the secret realm upon which your survival depends, can truly stop my Void Flying Boat.”

Lu Qing gazed westward, his gaze seemingly piercing space.

Half a minute later, a streak of light soared from the mountain, speeding westward.

…

In Xizhou, deep within the Lingshan Mountains, thunder rumbled. A vortex of gray tribulation clouds hung high in the sky, its mighty power permeating the air. A

powerful being was unexpectedly undergoing a tribulation here.

Within the periphery of the aura of the heavenly tribulation, several figures gazed nervously ahead.

They were several old monks in well-worn robes.

If Lu Qing were there, he would have recognized at a glance that one of them was the red-faced old monk who had narrowly escaped his fate.

“Elder Chixin, do you think Elder Jinzhong can successfully survive this tribulation?”

one of the monks asked, sensing the terrifying aura of the heavenly tribulation ahead.

“It shouldn’t be a problem. The abbot successfully overcame the tribulation yesterday. Elder Jin Zhong has his experience to share, and having observed yesterday’s tribulation, this one shouldn’t be difficult to overcome,”

the red-faced old monk said slowly.

His breath was steady and long, and it looked as if the severe injuries he had suffered from Lu Qingli’s fire cauldron’s devastating blow that day had fully recovered.

Hearing the red-faced old monk’s words, the other old monks couldn’t help but relax a little.

An old monk said with a smile, “Elder Chixin, after Elder Jinzhong has transcended the tribulation and achieved the Golden Elixir, it will be your turn. Of us, you currently have the most profound accumulation.”

The other old monks nodded in agreement.

Elder Chixin had been seriously injured last time, and it would have taken years for him to recover.

But then the abbot used the temple’s treasures to heal him.

Unexpectedly, not only did Elder Chixin recover, he also grasped the principle of “no destruction, no construction.” His cultivation advanced to a new level, and his accumulation deepened.

“I’m not in a rush yet. Let’s incubate for a while before considering transcending the tribulation.”

The red-faced old monk shook his head, indicating a lack of urgency.

He had only recently recovered from his injuries, so a hasty breakthrough through the tribulation wouldn’t be advisable.

Furthermore…

he had used this opportunity to grasp the principle of “no destruction, no construction,” the principle of life and death, and absorbed the temple’s treasure.

Now was the time to deepen his foundation and solidify his esoteric heritage.

Once he had completely digested and solidified all his gains from this time, transforming them into his own foundation

, he would be able to navigate the tribulation with greater confidence.

Even triggering red or even golden tribulation clouds wouldn’t be impossible.

The red-faced old monk gazed at the gray tribulation clouds in the sky ahead, a puzzled look in his eyes.

Ancient texts record that the power of the tribulation clouds during the Golden Core Tribulation differs depending on the color.

Similarly, the different colors of the clouds often indicate the potential of each tribulation seeker after achieving the Golden Core.

Gold is the highest, red is next, and gray is next.

Yesterday, when he presided over the tribulation, the clouds were pale red.

After achieving the Golden Core, one’s aura becomes incredibly powerful, with virtually no period of weakness.

Having witnessed this, the red-faced old monk naturally developed his own ambitions. How could he be content with only navigating the gray cloud tribulation?

“Once Elder Jin Zhong successfully transcends the tribulation, Xuankong Mountain will have two Golden Core Realm masters. By then, not only will the other three secret sites have to respect Xuankong Mountain as their leader,

but even those two mysterious Golden Core Realm masters who suddenly appeared in Zhongzhou won’t have to fear them!”

At this point, another old monk asked.

“Speaking of which, what are the origins of those two mysterious masters who suddenly appeared?

Could they really be aliens from outer space, as the abbot predicted?” another old monk wondered.

“No matter where they come from, they are definitely not good people.

As soon as they appeared, they destroyed several Zhongzhou sects and occupied several newly appeared secret realms.

It is obvious that they want to occupy the resources of the entire world for themselves. These two people are also our biggest enemies in unifying the world!”

“Yes, the two mysterious strong men have not appeared for more than a month.

They must have plundered the resources of those secret realms and went into seclusion to digest them.

When they appear again, they will definitely be more powerful. We can’t underestimate them!”

“It doesn’t matter. If they don’t go into seclusion, the host will not find a chance for them to come out to overcome the tribulation. After all,

there are only two of them, but I have a large number of people in Xuankong Mountain.

As long as we can successfully overcome the tribulation, there is no need to fear them.”

“Don’t forget that there is another person. Compared with others, that talent is the one we must kill in Xuankong Mountain!”

The red-faced old monk suddenly said, his tone full of hatred: “That mysterious man with a ghost face, even if you search all over the world, you must find him and kill him by slow slicing!”

“Yes, there is also that mysterious man with a ghost face!”

“If he isn’t executed, it won’t comfort the souls of the many disciples of Xuankong Mountain!”

“Once the abbot has stabilized his realm, we’ll immediately ask him to perform a deduction. I don’t believe that with his Golden Core cultivation and the power of his spiritual weapon, he can’t deduce the whereabouts of that mysterious ghost-faced man!”

the other old monks said in unison.

Their tones were equally cold.

Many of the Xuankong Mountain disciples killed by the mysterious ghost-faced man that day were his disciples.

How could such a deep hatred go unrequited?

Boom!

Just as the old monks were discussing how to find the mysterious ghost-faced man

, the vortex of tribulation clouds ahead began to slowly dissipate after the last thunderbolt struck.

The old monks’ faces suddenly lit up with joy.

“Elder Jinzhong’s aura is still there. He has successfully survived the tribulation and is about to achieve Golden Core!”

(End of Chapter)