Chapter 2098 - 2094: Cataclysm of the Heavenly Tribulation

With Sun Ning’s support, Li Zhaojun felt she was one step closer to the Array taking shape.

Li Zhaojun discussed the matter of the Array with Sun Ning in detail. Since Sun Ning truly couldn’t leave again, Li Zhaojun had her go straight upstairs.

Only then did Sun Ning realize that Li Zhaojun intended to set the Array up inside one of the hotel rooms, likely also to avoid drawing attention.

After Sun Ning went upstairs, Li Zhaojun still had to see the next person. In her view, this person also qualified to enter the Array—Ping Han.

As for Ping Han and Wu Ding, Li Zhaojun could only go into the Pan Gu Secret Realm to invite them in person. After all, the two women were no longer on Earth; they were the only two members of the Array that came from the Pan Gu Secret Realm.

Moreover, Li Zhaojun planned to see Sang Yuan once, and by the way have Sang Yuan prepare one or two helpers for her. That way she could not only make up the numbers, but have a few extra people, also to prevent any deviation from occurring in the Array.

When Li Zhaojun entered the Pan Gu Secret Realm and arrived at Heavenly City’s Hundred Immortals Building, Wu Ding and Ping Han were in the middle of cultivation. Since time in the Pan Gu Secret Realm flowed much more slowly than outside, Wu Ding and Ping Han felt they hadn’t seen Li Zhaojun for several days. When they saw her, they were inevitably a bit surprised.

"Yun Zhao, you came to see me... does that mean the Heavenly Tribulation has already begun?" Wu Ding looked at the pitch-black sky outside, thunder rolling, and asked.

Li Zhaojun said, "Isn’t that already obvious? Master Wu Ding, I know you and Ping Han both want to help Ye Fan. Come to Earth with me. On Earth, the Array has already begun to take shape. I believe this Array is the best help for Ye Fan. As long as you can join it, that will be the best answer you can give him!"

"So I don’t even have the right to choose anymore, is that it?" Wu Ding asked.

Li Zhaojun glanced at Ping Han beside her and said, "If you two don’t want to help Ye Fan, then I won’t say a word. This Array can only help him if the hearts that enter it are sincere. If you don’t really want to help him, then my coming to you is in vain no matter what I do. You understand that, don’t you?"

Wu Ding looked at Ping Han and said, "Ping Han, what do you think?"

With both of them looking at her, Ping Han couldn’t help lowering her head, a bit shy as she said, "As long as I can help Alliance Hierarch Ye... I’m willing to do anything!"

"Good." Wu Ding spoke very calmly. "Since Ping Han has agreed, I’ve no objections either. Yun Zhao, you can lead the way. We’ll go to Earth first. As for how to construct this Array, that’s your business. What I can do is follow your instructions and pour my strength into the Array."

Li Zhaojun looked gratified and said, "Master Wu Ding is Ye Fan’s senior sister after all, still taking such care of him. Let me thank you on his behalf first."

"I don’t need your thanks. I even know that in Ye Fan’s heart, I’m just an ordinary woman. I used to be his senior sister, but our Tianxuan Sect truly did many things that wronged him. Being able to do something for him now... I feel I can finally face my own heart." Wu Ding’s tone held a trace of bleakness as she spoke.

Smiling, Li Zhaojun led Wu Ding and Ping Han out of the Pan Gu Secret Realm. The three of them arrived together in Hua Hai City, heading toward the hotel where they planned to construct the Array.

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When wind and cloud converged, the sea surged to the heavens.

Inside the Pan Gu Secret Realm, a great calamity had already erupted. Amidst the fierce tempests, the coastal folk suffered first, then regions close to the inland.

Ye Fan himself had no energy to manage any of this. He still had to deal with the Heavenly Tribulation. Before it descended, the only thing he could do was help Lan Jing raise her cultivation even a tiny bit further.

"Sigh! Let’s treat this as cramming at the last minute. Lan Jing, the Heavenly Tribulation is already very close. Can you feel that immense pressure inside your body?" Ye Fan asked.

Lan Jing was quite curious, but shook her head and said, "Why can’t I feel it? Ye Fan, are you saying... I’m still not focused enough?"

Ye Fan said, "You don’t feel it probably because the Heavenly Tribulation mainly targets Spiritual Energy. The power you cultivate doesn’t contain any Spiritual Energy. The strength in your body might even have a certain affinity with the Tribulation, so instead of feeling oppressed right now, you feel strangely at ease. As for me... I can feel a very powerful force forming in my body... One side is intense pressure, while the other feels like a kind of longing. It both suppresses and ignites my strength. That contradiction is what troubles me."

Lan Jing nodded and said, "Ye Fan, everything you say must be right. I’ll just follow your lead."

Ye Fan didn’t continue helping Lan Jing cultivate, but took her to the edge of Heavenly Peak Mountain. Looking at the clouds above Heavenly Peak Mountain, he sighed softly. "I thought Heavenly Peak Mountain could evade the Heavenly Tribulation, but now it seems the Tribulation’s power affects it greatly as well. I don’t know where Pan Gu and Fu Xi are now. The two of them should be the main ones suppressed by the Tribulation. All of this is born because of them. After all, the two of them are existences that can’t be surpassed in the cultivation world."

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At this moment, out in the universe, Pan Gu had already been surrounded by the power of the Heavenly Tribulation.

Countless white light points appeared around Pan Gu. Each white point was a powerful attack, seemingly generated out of thin air.

The white points shot rapidly toward Pan Gu’s body. Every strike made it increasingly difficult for him to cope.

"Damn it, the Tribulation has only just begun and I’m already at the eye of the storm. I’ve no idea where Ye Fan and Fu Xi have gone!" Pan Gu was deeply vexed. He’d thought he could hide so that the force of the Tribulation would bypass him, but its power was practically omnipresent, leaving him nowhere to flee.

Pan Gu kept fighting against those white points, and the power of the white points was steadily growing stronger.

These forces surged at Pan Gu from all directions. He wanted to dissolve them, but it seemed almost entirely ineffective.

"No, if this goes on, my arrogance really might get me killed!" Pan Gu himself felt stretched to the limit. "If I don’t destroy these forces, there’s only a dead end waiting for me. How could I accept that?"

Pan Gu drew a breath, and his figure suddenly entered the Pan Gu Secret Realm.

Immediately, the white points followed, charging in as well, but much of their power was diminished in the void.

Even so, the white points still attacked deeper into the Pan Gu Secret Realm, and the Secret Realm itself was soon enveloped by the immense power of the Heavenly Tribulation.