Chapter 103 - 100: Demon Heaven Tribulation! Thunder Tribulation!

Chapter 103: Chapter 100: Demon Heaven Tribulation! Thunder Tribulation!

In the Jianghu, whether it was using True Qi to freeze ice or ignite a fire, anyone whose Power had reached the Great Innate Realm could accomplish it.

This was because the Qi dynamics of the Innate Realm inherently involved the myriad changes of nature and the universe.

However, to manifest True Qi into a massive Flame Hand Seal spanning ten feet—such a technique could only be achieved by the Demon Sect’s Fire Worship Path!

"You dare talk about letting me leave!"

Yun Shouxuan turned her head, her crimson dress fluttering as killing intent surged in her eyes.

"You dare show off this meager fire technique before me? You must have a death wish!"

With a mere flash of her eyes, a slender, fair hand shot out from her bright red sleeve, striking out backward!

BOOM!

That seemingly ferocious and terrifying flame Palm Seal met Yun Shouxuan’s pristine palm. Upon contact, the air within a hundred feet of the sky seemed to be instantly flattened by her strike!

SWISH!

In the next instant, Tian Jingshui, who had unleashed the Flame Hand Seal, suddenly felt the heavens and earth switch places. Up and down inverted, and his surroundings warped into a terrifying, disorienting asymmetry where all sense of direction was lost.

It was as if he were stepping on the sky with his head pointing at the ground.

Everything in his world had turned upside down.

This abrupt warping of his familiar surroundings made his eyes widen instantly. The severe cognitive dissonance caused blood to rush violently to his heart, making him so nauseous he nearly vomited blood.

Tian Jingshui barely had time to think, "The Celestial Demon Aura! It distorts environmental perception!" before he sensed a terrifying surge of Qi Power converging onto a single pristine palm. Backed by a blur of vibrant red, it slammed toward him!

He tried to move, but the very air and environment felt like a thick quagmire!

Right at this moment...

CRACK!

From the carriage inside the manor, Long Zaitian’s highly magnetic, masculine voice rang out.

"Since it is I, Long, you wish to kill, why target someone else first?"

Accompanied by his dismissive, profound tone...

CRACK!

A surge of black Tribulation True Qi burst from above the carriage, instantly weaving several black streaks across the sky. These streaks seemed to harbor a power capable of changing the color of the heavens and earth.

BOOM!

In a split second, these Qi streaks arrived beside Tian Jingshui, converging into a thirty-foot-long True Qi Spear. With the speed of lightning, it pierced directly into Yun Shouxuan’s advancing palm strike!

BANG!

Their respective palm and spear strikes collided, the energies neutralizing each other.

Yun Shouxuan dove downward, expanding her Celestial Demon Aura.

"Since you’ve already made a move, why are you still hiding in the carriage? Stop being so pretentious and get out here!"

As she struck, Yun Shouxuan’s body moved like a crimson phantom through the sky. With a few rapid flashes, she appeared directly above the carriage roof and slammed her palm down!

"The Shifting Technique... You have certainly mastered it to perfection."

Inside the carriage, Long Zaitian slowly stood up. Facing the palm strike bearing down on him through the carriage roof, he made no defensive moves.

He merely straightened his posture.

As he stood tall, an aura spontaneously erupted from him—as if he were the master of all tribulations and disasters in the world. Endless black Tribulation Qi surged from within his body like a raging tide.

This was precisely the peerless Demon Skill of the Demon Sect, a technique whose mystical depth was no less than the Celestial Demon Strategy—the Demon Heaven Tribulation!

RUMBLE!

The moment their world-shaking Qi Powers clashed, the carriage instantly exploded into countless splintered wooden planks, sending smoke and dust billowing into the air.

Standing where the carriage once was, Long Zaitian finally revealed his true appearance.

Clad in luxurious robes, he possessed a tall and imposing physique. Despite being the Demon Saint of this generation and likely in his fifties or sixties, his skin was incredibly flawless and translucent. His eyes were dark and profound, perfectly complementing his eerily handsome and majestic demeanor.

Standing in place with his hands clasped behind his back, his surging True Qi swelled around him. It burned like a black Pill Furnace, forming a terrifying aura of energy that radiated in all directions. Yun Shouxuan’s descending palm strike was completely unable to pierce through his True Qi!

Yun Shouxuan felt a jolt of shock in her heart.

She had just secretly utilized the aura amplification of the Preaching Demon Gall, yet even with that, she still couldn’t break through the Tribulation Power of the Demon Heaven Tribulation!

"Is the 8th Layer of the Demon Heaven Tribulation truly this miraculous?" she thought, gliding backward to land on a rooftop thirty feet away, her expression grave.

Seemingly seeing through Yun Shouxuan’s thoughts, Long Zaitian stepped forward with his hands behind his back. His presence, as if linked to the disasters of heaven and calamities of earth, oppressively bore down on her.

"For so many years, the Demon Sect has always regarded your Celestial Demon Strategy as the orthodox canon. But how many know that this is simply because, over all these years, no one has ever cultivated the Demon Heaven Tribulation to the 8th Layer like I have?"

The Demon Heaven Tribulation was created by a peerless Ancestral Master of the Demon Sect who deeply understood its core nature. To be a Demon was to contest against the heavens for survival, treating every trial and tribulation of nature as a catastrophe to be overcome.

It had a total of nine layers.

They were divided into the Injury Tribulation, Poison Tribulation, Disease Tribulation, Soldier Tribulation, Water Tribulation, Fire Tribulation, Wind Tribulation, Earth Tribulation, and Thunder Tribulation, ultimately leading to the Heavenly Tribulation Realm, which was known as Great Success!

Every time one passed a tribulation, they would never again fear any disasters related to it.

RUMBLE!

Yun Shouxuan watched Long Zaitian approach with steady, heavy steps that seemed to suppress the heavens and earth. Faintly, even the clouds in the sky above were rumbling, as if... brewing lightning within.

Her expression changed drastically as she looked between the thunderclouds in the sky and Long Zaitian on the ground. "The Demon Heaven Tribulation... Could it be...?"

Long Zaitian’s aura skyrocketed into the heavens.

With a steady pace, he slowly spoke, "Sect Leader Yun, hand over the Preaching Demon Gall to me now. Not only will I not hurt you, but I will personally escort you back to the Celestial Destiny Palace."

Gazing at the sky, various thoughts flashed through Yun Shouxuan’s mind. She responded with a cold sneer, "Give the Preaching Demon Gall to you? What arrogance!"

Still maintaining his patience, Long Zaitian said indifferently, "In your hands, this Demon Gallbladder can at best be used as an auxiliary cultivation tool to help expand the range of your Celestial Demon Aura. That is nothing but a waste of a natural treasure. You cannot even unleash a tenth of its true potential."

"For thousands of years, the Demon Gallbladder has always been safeguarded by my Celestial Demon Sect," Yun Shouxuan retorted coldly. "We are the most familiar with it. Yet you dare to claim I can’t even utilize a tenth of its capabilities?"

Long Zaitian, however, lowered his eyelids and chuckled, "The most familiar... Heh..."

He continued mockingly, "Your Celestial Demon Sect has only existed for a few thousand years.

"Now... we are about to usher in an unprecedented era. When that time comes, everything in the world will drastically change. Even those who have vanished into history might reappear. Compared to all of that, the Celestial Demon Sect’s ancient records and orthodoxy that you rely on so proudly are nothing but a frog at the bottom of a well gazing at the sky."

Yun Shouxuan’s expression shifted in shock. "What on earth are you talking about?"

Long Zaitian’s gaze was profound. "A great era is descending upon us..."

But just as he was halfway through his sentence, Yun Shouxuan’s body transformed into a brilliant crimson meteor. She threw a punch directly at Long Zaitian. This punch concealed myriad variations, surprisingly containing some of the underlying charm of the Dao Yi Seal.

"Chen Canxuan’s Martial Arts?"

Long Zaitian’s expression changed slightly.

But it was only for a brief moment.

In the end, as Long Zaitian watched the punch descend from the sky, he merely sighed in his heart, "The strength of Martial Arts depends entirely on the one wielding them. You are not that dead man. Even if you’ve learned his Martial Arts, how much power can you possibly draw from them!"

As his thought faded...

CRACK!

A furious bolt of lightning struck straight down from the sky, slamming directly onto Long Zaitian. Yet, despite arcs of lightning and electrical serpents crackling wildly over his True Qi aura, his physical body remained completely unharmed. He simply raised a hand above his head and yanked, drawing the surging electricity from the lightning strike and converging it onto the True Qi Spear in his palm.

CRACKLE!

He thrust the thirty-foot-long spear, now wreathed in Celestial Thunder, straight upward to meet Yun Shouxuan’s diving punch!

The 8th Layer of the Demon Heaven Tribulation, the Thunder Tribulation!