The First Immortal of Destiny

Shen Mo’s news of attempting to undergo tribulation to break through the realm was not made public, except to Zhao Lingyin.

In these three days, amidst the intense fluctuations of his aura, he busily prepared everything thoroughly, including gathering external aids for impacting the Formless Realm and making arrangements for the Red Flame Sect during his retreat. He even used the Gecko False Body to give Lady Scarlet of the LiMountain Elixir Sect a heads-up!

Afterwards, he entered the highest level and strongest prohibition retreat chamber in Guanyun Mansion, quietly waiting for the arrival of the enlightenment tribulation.

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"It’s here!"

The aura around Shen Mo surged violently. Suddenly, his spirit quivered as he sensed the aura of the tribulation coming.

In the next moment, dark purple thunder appeared above his head in the void, while a formless fire rose from the spring point at his feet...

This was the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation and Formless Fire Tribulation from the Three Disasters and Six Tribulations. The Heavenly Thunder could turn a Dao Body into charcoal, and shatter the soul into pieces; whereas the formless true flame would burn upwards relentlessly, burning through the lower dantian, through the middle Dantian, and through the cranial Mind Sea!

Shen Mo waved his hand, deploying the top-grade spiritual artifact, Green Cloud Umbrella, which was about to advance to a spiritual treasure. The True Intention of "Cycle of Life and Death" rippled forth, creating a small world for him.

The dark purple thunderbolts carrying the ultimate destructive force poured down like a thunder river, falling towards Shen Mo with unparalleled violent momentum. They were blocked by the Green Cloud Umbrella, with the destructive energy continuously converted into defensive power, making the treasured umbrella increasingly sturdy and mystical, rarely allowing any thunder to penetrate its defense;

Occasionally, a few dark purple thunderbolts struck Shen Mo. Given his already formidable physique, further bolstered by the Indestructible Body, they seemed insignificant, only leaving a few scorched lightning marks on his skin!

At the same time, a Jade Vase flew out from Shen Mo’s bosom, pouring out a celestial spring water with the color of jade and an extraordinary aura covering him from head to toe;

The formless tribulation fire, which was burning more and more fiercely, weakened instantly under the irrigation of this spring water until it was completely extinguished!

This spring water came from the peak of Jade Spring Mountain, called the Tribulation Crossing Jade Water. It can extinguish the tribulation true flame of the Heavenly Fire from the Divine Bridge Realm and above, which arises from the spring point at the foot and is difficult to suppress by ordinary means. It is an extremely precious Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, making Jade Spring Mountain famous for this spring water.

Shen Mo spent considerable merit and exchanged it for this portion of Tribulation Crossing Jade Water through the Taihua Mirror.

Ordinarily, he wouldn’t have used it so easily and would have tried to suppress the Formless Fire Tribulation by his means. However, to maintain his state and cope with subsequent tribulations, he spared no thought to the cost, using the celestial spring to extinguish the formless tribulation fire!

"The thunder and fire tribulations can’t harm me in the slightest, I wonder which tribulation comes next?"

Shen Mo put away the Jade Vase and channeled more mana into the Green Cloud Umbrella, muttering to himself.

Suddenly, he felt his mind become drowsy, falling into a state of oblivion, unaware of the descending danger... the "Confusion Tribulation" from the Three Disasters and Six Tribulations!

And these successive three tribulations were merely appetizers.

Shen Mo was unaware that this time, the Enlightenment Tribulation for advancing to the Formless Realm was a multi-layered catastrophe composed of the Three Disasters and Six Tribulations, the Inner Demon Tribulation, the Karma Outer Tribulation, and more.

Under the oppressive aura of the Confusion Tribulation from the Three Disasters and Six Tribulations, Shen Mo’s spirit sank into a dead silence, his aura weakened, even his Gecko False Body far away in Dayu Mountain’s LiMountain Elixir Sect fell into "slumber", motionless like a corpse!

Many years ago, when he and Jiang Lingfeng went to the distant sea of Burial Immortal to search for Yuan Chengshan, they encountered the Evil Spirit "Suspended Immortal Mountain", which descended silently in Shen Mo’s Mind Sea, appearing mysteriously without alerting the Death Jaw phantom in the Mind Sea, as if in a different dimension!

However, this Suspended Immortal Mountain, essentially an Evil Spirit, suppressed Shen Mo’s pure soil of Green Cloud Peak cultivated through the Great Sun Tathagata Heart Scripture; even the Scorching Sun Soul Phase illuminated by the Divine Soul Contemplation Scripture was repelled and obscured by the ten-thousand-zhang golden light on the Suspended Immortal Mountain.

At this moment, Shen Mo’s spirit was in Nirvana, his consciousness muddled, unaware of everything happening in his own Mind Sea.

His consciousness seemed to enter a mysterious place akin to Dreamland, but this time it wasn’t a dream woven by others, but a dream of his own;

Simultaneously, all the confusion, regrets, sadness, fear, and remorse he felt since birth and cultivation, things that were mere dust on the Path Heart Mirror, were amplified infinitely under the multidimensional tribulations, causing him to sink into it unable to extricate himself!

Tribulation Realm.

Shen Mo’s memories from past and present lives were suppressed by tribulation Qi, like the pure, unconscious three souls and seven spirits constantly reincarnating in one life after another!

The first life.

Shen Mo’s parents did not perish in the Linjiang Mountain Range but lived to over a hundred years.

And he did not awaken the wisdom of past lives, nor obtain the Destiny Panel. His talent was mediocre, and he never even cultivated to the Qi Gathering Realm despite his parents taking great care of him, constantly subsidizing him with painstakingly earned cultivation resources. Ultimately, he only reached the seventh layer of Body Tempering!

At over ninety years old, Shen Mo died of old age on a sickbed, devastating his parents, who in their grief, used evil magic to forcibly retain his dissipating three souls and seven spirits, feeding him with human blood. Eventually, he accompanied them in the form of a Soul Ghost.

However, it wasn’t long before things went awry.

His parents were arrested by the Riverside Sect’s Enforcement Hall and bargained a lifetime of guarding the Dark Crystal Mine to keep Shen Mo, who had become a Soul Ghost, safe. Within a few years, they succumbed to Gold Iron Demonic Qi invading their bodies and diseases, and both died. With Shen Mo in a dazed state without human blood nourishment, he became a vicious ghost, killing and drinking blood in the mines, endlessly wandering...

The second life.

The first twenty-eight years were the same as in reality, Shen Mo awakened to his past wisdom, got the Destiny Panel, and stood out at the Tianshan Grand Ceremony.

However, unlike in reality, he did not earn the favor of Zhou Shili, nor his protection. After the Tianshan Grand Ceremony, various malicious gazes in the Riverside Sect converged upon him, difficult to fend off both overt and covert attacks. Ultimately, he was forced into killing a Spirit Sea Realm elder who intended to seize his opportunity and fled the sect!

However, Zhou Shili, possessing peak Spirit Sea Realm strength, was ordered by the sect to hunt him down.

After half a year, finding himself at a dead-end and nearly at the end of his tether, Shen Mo allowed a Native Heaven Demon to corrupt him, becoming a Demon-corrupted cultivator, and ascending to Class III peak by consuming a massive amount of immortal and mortal sanguine food. But he was ultimately no match for Zhou Shili’s formidable skills, who killed him at the foot of Tianshan Mountain.

The third life.

In this life, the change was in Shen Mo’s relationship with Zhao Lingyin and Chen Mengze.

The prior experiences were the same as in reality; however, when Zhao Lingyin sought out the true identity of a mysterious Alchemist, Shen Mo and she missed each other. By a series of fateful coincidences, he eventually formed a Dao companionship with Chen Mengze...