Refining the Mountains and Rivers

Outside the arena, in the camp of Radiance Temple’s supporters.

A cultivator’s eyes surged with a strange halo of light. He saw Qin Yu being swallowed up by darkness. He clenched his fists beneath his sleeves and quietly cursed beneath his breath.

Those bastards!

When it concerned the Chaotic Sky Chronicle, the Dark Parliament would always take things incomparably seriously. Naturally, a great figure would personally arrive to monitor and attend to any changes in the situation. This cultivator was one such puppet who was being controlled.

Things were starting to veer out of control. What just happened would surely be blamed on the Dark Parliament. There would be no way to soothe their relationship with Ning Qin.

And Ning Qin’s mysterious background and strength likely represented great troubles. Although the Dark Parliament didn’t necessarily fear this with their strength, if things were noisy enough then the entire Dark Parliament might be pulled out from the shadows and exposed to the sunlight.

This was the most problematic issue of all!

…

Dark Parliament Headquarters, deep within the dim hall.

The closed doors suddenly flew open and three fiery figures were sent soaring out.

Bang –

Bang –

Bang –

They crashed into the floor. The flames that formed their bodies instantly paled.

“Cough!” Someone violently hacked out a cough, followed by painful breathing sounds. “We actually failed. That is truly unexpected.”

It was Senator Lone Mountain. His flame-formed eyes weren’t flustered, but instead excited.

This madman!

Limitless darkly cursed, his expression growing cloudier. “Ning Qin has to be hiding a great secret on his body. I fear things will become troublesome for us.”

Oriole screeched, “How could he possibly block that!”

The power of darkness deep in the headquarters’ halls needed at least three Senators to activate it.

Through the countless years since they had been formed, the Dark Parliament had encountered critical dangers several times before. But by relying on this card, they had been able to turn misfortune into fortune.

Even existences that had truly stepped into the Divine Dao realm had no strength to fight back after being swallowed up by the darkness.

Limitless unhappily looked over. This crazy neurotic woman really couldn’t be depended on. “There’s no reason to say such meaningless things anymore. The question is what do we do now?”

Before they started, Oriole had guaranteed that if a problem occurred, she would shoulder all consequences.

Oriole was silent for several breaths of time. Then she said, “Even if I take responsibility for what happened, do you really think you can completely disconnect yourself from this?”

Limitless coldly said. “What are you saying?”

Oriole lightly responded, “It’s simple. The moment we chose to take action, we became a whole that could no longer be divided.” She swept her eyes over Limitless and Lone Mountain. “But you don’t need to worry. It was indeed the three of us who did this, but Ning Qin doesn’t know so he will blame the entire Dark Parliament. If he has no background then there won’t be any problems. And even if he does have some great background, even if we must face oppression from the outside, the Dark Parliament simply needs to face it wholeheartedly. Sage will have no chance to vent his anger on us.”

Limitless coldly snorted. He had actually been tricked by this woman. The feeling wasn’t good at all.

Lone Mountain coughed twice. “I’m looking forward to what will happen next.” His figure started to fade away, “Moreover, in some way, this is a good thing, right?”

If Ning Qin tore apart any sense of cordiality with the Dark Parliament, then it meant that victory or defeat in the arena finals no longer mattered. In other words, even if the Hidden Fog Sect captured the position of leader, the Dark Parliament could still try to size the Chaotic Sky Chronicle.

…

The battle between the phoenix luan and dark star ice serpent reached a superheated phase.

Radiance Temple’s spirit beast had been hiding its true strength, and it clearly possessed a secret technique that was able to drastically increase its strength for a brief period of time. Facing the dark star ice serpent’s attacks, even though it was at a disadvantage it still maintained a near-perfect defense.

Snow and ice covered the martial field and blue winds roared throughout the arena. Wind sabers tore through space, the sounds of splitting air echoing everywhere.

The Radiance Temple Master clenched her teeth in hate. She had seen everything that had happened to Qin Yu just now. Those people must have made their move. But what a pity they had failed and hadn’t been able to kill that person, otherwise the ensuing battle would have been much easier.

She looked up at the phoenix luan. Although it didn’t appear to be exhausted, Bei Qing knew that the duration of its secret art was already more than half expended.

It seemed they could only use the hidden card they had been given!

A light flashed in her palm and a translucent black jade talisman appeared. Bei Qing hesitated for a moment before crushing it in her hands.

On the field, the phoenix luan suddenly screamed out loud. Black dots suddenly appeared on its feathers. Then, as if being dipped in ink, the darkness spread at an astonishing speed, soon covering the entire phoenix luan.

Tiny blood vessels blew up in the phoenix luan’s eyes, causing them to turn blood red. Its cries grew increasingly anxious and pained.

Hu –

Black flames erupted without warning. They spun around the phoenix luan and enveloped it. Then, the aura it released began to rise at an incredible pace. Soon it crossed some sort of limit. Then the skies above the arena started to darken at a speed visible to the naked eye!

“Heavenly tribulation!”

It was unknown which cultivator cried this out in alarm. But next, both inside and outside the arena, the complexions of the watching cultivators began to change. They looked up at the pitch black skies, panic slowly appearing in their eyes.

“It’s breaking through the dao and entering the Divine!”

“This is heavenly tribulation from breaking past the Great Dao boundary and touching the Divine Dao!”

“Hurry and leave! Don’t get drawn in, otherwise you’ll lose your lives!”

Cultivators started to turn and flee. They all wished they could grow another pair of legs as they scurried away like their lives depended on it.

These people were all cultivators whose cultivation bases had reached bottlenecks and they could cause heavenly tribulation to fall at any time. Because they weren’t confident they could survive yet, they forcefully suppressed their cultivations so that the heavenly tribulation would arrive later.

But now, their cultivations were beginning to stir because of the aura of heavenly tribulation in the atmosphere. If they didn’t leave quickly then their own heavenly tribulations might descend beyond their control. At that time, they wouldn’t be able to cry even if they wanted to!

As they ran out, they secretly clenched their teeth. None of them were ready for heavenly tribulation. First they had to consider all aspects of their lives and make sure everything was settled, and then invite their good friends, teachers, Elders, and others to stand guard in case anything happened. Who just crossed tribulation randomly?

That was simply illogical!

These people flew several miles away. When they felt the restless cultivation bases in their bodies calm down, it was only then that they let out long sighs of relief.

How lucky. At least they had managed to escape!

But now, in the pitch black skies, the tribulation clouds had finished forming. With a deafening peal of thunder, bolts of thunder loudly crashed down. There were so many and they were so crowded that it was like a rainstorm. Lightning flooded everyone’s field of vision to the point that they couldn’t clearly see the situation.

This heavenly tribulation obviously wasn’t normal. Many of those present were figures with considerable levels of cultivation, and they had experienced heavenly tribulation more than once or twice and had a rich breadth of experience. Ordinary heavenly tribulation went from weak to strong and the amount of tribulation thunder was limited. It would basically fall in cascading waves.

It was the first time many people had seen this sort of rainstorm-like heavenly tribulation. However, it didn’t take long for them to receive an answer.

“Demon tribulation! The phoenix luan has demonized!” The cultivator who shouted out loud was a white-haired old man. Two young people stood behind him. The old man immediately turned around and flicked his sleeves, curling up the two youths as he fled.

Everyone’s eyes widened. When they looked up at the heavenly tribulation once more, fear rose in their eyes.

Demon tribulation was a kind of heavenly tribulation. It was especially cast down for demonized creatures. Its power was mind-bogglingly great. Its goal was not to test a being’s cultivation, but to openly and nakedly try to murder them.

Those that were demonized were loathed and hated by the heavens and earth. They would have to withstand a bombardment of thunder that reduced their body and soul to ashes. But if a demonized being was powerful enough and survived the demon tribulation, then they would receive an astonishing increase in strength.

In this world, there was once a terrifying existence that had survived demon tribulation without dying. Its mind was invaded by killing intent and it turned into a monster that only knew death and slaughter. Following that, it set off a storm of blood and carnage.

In the end that demonized being was slain, but countless people had been dragged into the grave with it. Amongst them were hundreds of thousands of powerful cultivators as well as countless common cultivators and common citizens.

What was only recorded in various historical records was now occurring right in front of their eyes. How could the cultivators present not be terrified? It was fine if this phoenix luan died to the demon tribulation, but if it survived then everyone here was in for a spell of bad luck. There was even a chance they would all be killed and swallowed up.