Chapter 227 - 255: Swallowing the Thunder Tribulation, Entering the Dragon Mansion, Slaying the Powerhouses
Within the range of his Divine Thoughts,
powerful figures with formidable auras were entrenched throughout the Sun and Moon Sect, like gods and demons.
Among them were several powerhouses whose auras surpassed the Dragon Mansion Realm. Clearly, these were Demon Dao ancestors of the Nine Tribulations Realm.
’Their efficiency isn’t bad.’
Su Bai withdrew his gaze and let out a soft chuckle.
’This Ming Luo Ancestor is such a good guy!’
’Knowing I was short on Experience Points, he hurriedly gathered so many Demon Path Powerhouses for me from all over.’
’If I wipe them all out in one fell swoop, my Experience Points gains will soar!’
"Let’s go. We’ll find a tavern and have a seat."
Ignoring the hostile stares from all around, Su Bai led the immensely pressured Mu Yu and Xu Ningxiu into a tavern.
And when Su Bai and his companions entered the tavern,
the patrons inside, who had been drinking and chatting idly, suddenly paled and scattered in an uproar. They were like little bugs scurrying away after a floorboard is lifted, as if fleeing the plague itself.
Su Bai, however, paid them no mind and casually found a table to sit at.
’I haven’t had a decent meal this whole journey.’
So, he called for the waiter and ordered one of every fine dish the tavern had to offer.
When the waiter served the dishes, his legs were so wobbly he could barely stand, his expression one of utter terror.
’His trembling is actually a little comical.’
Before long, all the food had been served.
At the table,
seeing Su Bai start to eat without a care in the world, Mu Yu and Xu Ningxiu decided they might as well stop worrying and eagerly began to enjoy the delicious food.
"There might be a small interruption in a little while."
"The two of you stay here in the tavern. Don’t go outside."
At a certain moment, Su Bai sensed a powerful aura. He slowly rose to his feet, glanced at his two companions, and gave this simple instruction.
"Alright!"
Though they didn’t fully understand, the two nodded quickly in agreement.
Su Bai walked to the window alone. His gaze turned toward the Sun and Moon Sect as he murmured in a low voice.
"The Void Realm, is it..."
「Meanwhile, at the Sun and Moon Sect.」
Inside a cyan-colored pavilion,
the Red-clothed Ancestor, whose aura seemed a notch stronger than before, sat drinking tea with a relaxed smile on his face.
The next moment, he sensed Su Bai’s gaze and looked in that direction.
Their gazes seemed to transcend the limits of distance, slowly meeting.
And after sensing Su Bai’s aura,
the smile on the Red-clothed Ancestor’s face slowly faded, his expression growing solemn.
Beside him, the Ming Luo Ancestor’s expression also darkened.
His mind was racing, though his thoughts were unreadable.
「Back in the tavern.」
Su Bai withdrew his gaze and muttered to himself.
"Perfect. My Cultivation has reached the limit of the Dao Palace Realm."
"I might as well break through right here."
With that,
Su Bai stepped into the air and vanished from the tavern in an instant.
BOOM—
In the next breath, a violent roar suddenly thundered in the ears of everyone in the city!
"What’s going on? How did the sky suddenly turn dark on such a nice day, and with such loud thunder?"
"I don’t know! Just a moment ago, I looked at the horizon, and it was a clear, sunny day. It changed in an instant!"
"Weird! Oh well, let’s hurry up and find some shelter from the rain!"
On the city streets, some ordinary people who were out and about looked up at the sky in surprise. After a brief exchange, they hurried off to find shelter, assuming it was about to rain.
But the expressions of some powerful individuals with non-trivial Cultivation changed drastically!
’Someone is Crossing Tribulation and Breaking Realm.’
Inside a tavern, a middle-aged Swordsman in a Black Robe spoke with a grave expression.
Crossing Tribulation and Breaking Realm!
For High Realm Martial Artists, this was not particularly unusual.
But such terrifying tribulation clouds, which blanketed almost the entire Canglan City, were clearly beyond his expectations.
In his view, this person was likely breaking through the bottleneck of the Nine Tribulations Realm, preparing to cross the Thunder Tribulation and enter the Void Realm!
BOOM—
As he was lost in thought, a deafening roar came from high above the clouds!
WHOOSH!
One figure after another transformed into brilliant streams of rainbow light, soaring up from within the Sun and Moon Sect and landing deep within the clouds.
There was a middle-aged man wielding a giant black sword and wearing a cyan Daoist Robe, a torrent of cyan energy swirling around him as he stood in the clouds with a grim expression.
There were several white-haired old men in Red Robes bright as fire, sitting together and exuding a horrifying aura.
Their roiling auras of Demonic Qi intertwined, becoming almost tangible, creating a terrifying vision of a surging Blood Sea behind them.
Among them, the Red-clothed Ancestor standing at the very front had the most formidable aura.
It was simply unfathomable!
His gaze fell upon the location of Su Bai’s tribulation, his eyes profound.
The Ming Luo Ancestor stood beside him, and his expression sank upon seeing the scene before him.
"This man... he’s actually Crossing Tribulation and Breaking Realm!"
’Before this breakthrough, his strength was likely already on par with my own.’
’After breaking through, won’t he be even stronger?’
However, before he could snap out of his shock, he saw the Red-clothed Ancestor beside him slowly raise his right palm.
Then, he thrust it forward.
BOOM!
A scorching red glow suddenly blossomed in the sky, illuminating the heavens and the earth like a blazing sun!
Everyone narrowed their eyes slightly.
Within that intensely hot red light, a colossal palm that seemed to span the entire sky surged forward, carrying with it a tidal wave of Demonic Qi.
It shot toward the location of the tribulation at extreme speed.
Lifelike crimson qilin beasts coiled around the fingers of the colossal palm, roaring ceaselessly as if in congratulation or celebration.
Under the pressure of such a terrifying palm, even the vast and majestic black tribulation clouds seemed to falter for a moment.
A large patch of dark clouds was instantly dispersed!
BOOM!
But facing the Red-clothed Ancestor’s domineering palm, Su Bai merely glanced at it and sent out a palm of his own!
In an instant, another golden sun rose into the sky. The image of a Golden Dragon soaring and a crimson Phoenix crying out seemed to echo through the heavens.
The roar shook the heavens!
In everyone’s line of sight, the two blossoming suns—one gold, one red—
collided with a thunderous crash in an instant!
TSSSS!!
Countless fine arcs of lightning sparked and scattered from the point of impact!
The tribulation clouds in the sky instantly dissipated by more than half. Infinite light and shadow intertwined deep within the firmament, and the terrifying aura that leaked out caused even the Nine Tribulations Realm powerhouses present to feel suffocated!
An incredibly blinding light enveloped the area, making it impossible to see anything clearly.
CRACK!
Immediately after, everyone heard the sound of finger bones shattering, and their vision was filled with a rain of blood that blotted out the sky.
While they were still in a daze,
they saw the Red-clothed Ancestor, who was standing in the clouds, withdraw his right palm with a dark expression. Blood-stained white bones were clearly visible.
A mangled mess of flesh and blood!
"The Red-clothed Ancestor... was defeated!?"
The Ming Luo Ancestor’s eyes went wide in an instant, a tempest raging in his heart.
’But he hasn’t even finished Breaking Realm yet!’
While he was still dumbfounded,
the colossal golden palm in the sky rapidly expanded, completely covering the entire expanse of tribulation clouds.
Then, it clenched into a tight fist!
Infinite lightning, along with a massive amount of tribulation clouds, was gathered into its palm!
Su Bai stood in the clouds, forcefully activating his Immortal Golden Body. A hundred-zhang-tall Golden Shadow appeared behind him, radiating a surging golden light as it let out a long cry!
Then, to the utter shock and horror of the onlookers, this hundred-zhang Golden Shadow took the infinite lightning and tribulation clouds...
and swallowed them in one gulp!
RUMBLE—
Tempered by the countless bolts of the Thunder Tribulation,
Su Bai’s aura surged explosively!
A brilliant gate of alternating gold and purple light, radiating the auspicious presence of dragons and phoenixes, formed within his Dantian Qi Sea.
It broke through the endless waves,
and slowly began to rise!
VMM!!
When the Dragon Gate fully emerged, clouds and mist instantly swirled behind Su Bai, and Immortal Qi began to spread.
Golden True Dragons coiled and roared from within the mist, raising their heads and extending their claws.
Crimson divine Phoenixes also cried out from within the Immortal Qi, their calls shaking the eight directions!
Before the stunned faces of the crowd, the phantom of a Dragon Gate of immeasurable height appeared from within the immortal mist, standing tall in the highest heavens.
It was like an Immortal mountain.
A single wisp of its aura could crush the ages!
At this very moment,
Su Bai, having crossed the tribulation and broken through his realm, had finally entered the Dragon Mansion!
"Suppress!"
In a trance...
the crowd only heard an indifferent voice fall from the sky.
WHOOSH!!
The next instant, streaks of deep red Karmic Fire plummeted from the depths of the clouds, as if the Immortal Gods had unleashed their wrath, hurtling toward the crowd below!
"Not good!!"
The Ming Luo Ancestor and the others were horrified. They hurriedly used all sorts of techniques, trying to fight off the assault of the Karmic Fire.
But now that Su Bai had broken through to a new Realm, the power of the Karmic Fire he wielded had surged dramatically, rivaling the true Karmic Fire of heaven and earth.
"AHH!!"
A Nine Tribulations Realm ancestor from the Sun and Moon Sect had no time to escape before he was devoured by the Karmic Fire. After letting out a single, wretched scream, he vanished from the sky.
It was as if the Karmic Fire had incinerated his body completely, turning him to ash.
"Damn it!"
The Ming Luo Ancestor cursed under his breath. He quickly took out a black fragment, intending to activate it and escape.
But in the next moment, his pupils contracted violently!
A golden palm had appeared above his head, though he didn’t know when.
It descended upon him!
The Ming Luo Ancestor let out a despairing roar, but before the golden palm even reached him, his body had already crumbled.
Ultimately, he too vanished into the sky.
Two or three breaths later, Su Bai extended his right palm and suppressed the entire group of fleeing Demon Path Powerhouses, sealing them within his Dharma Tripod Prison!
Then, his gaze fell upon the Red-clothed Ancestor.
The latter’s eyes darkened. He took a deep breath, and fine crimson flames erupted from his body, taking the form of crimson qilins.
They stomped through the eight directions, roaring at the sky!
Immediately after,
red lotuses bloomed across the sky.
Dyeing the heavens blood-red!
He stared intently at Su Bai.
He lightly raised his right palm and thrust it forward!
Between his fingers, a crimson glow swirled, and Demonic Qi shot to the heavens!
Su Bai gave him a single glance.
He extended his right hand and pressed his palm forward.
BOOM—
As the roar sounded,
in a single instant, bone and blood exploded, the red lotuses shattered, the Demonic Qi vanished, and the world became clear once more!
The Red-clothed Ancestor stumbled back several steps in the sky.
He spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood, and his body suddenly ripped apart.
On his chest, a golden Palm Seal had pierced straight through!
It was a striking sight.
"Such heaven-sent talent... unseen in a million years..."
The Red-clothed Ancestor closed his eyes, bowed his head, and sighed.
BOOM!
Then, his physical body disintegrated in the sky.
It turned into wisps of red light.
His Divine Spirit was annihilated!