Chapter 2462 - 339: Nascent Soul Transformation

Pingyuan had come down to watch Yi Han undergo his tribulation, while the elders of Cangyan Sect were here to stop the fighting, afraid that while they were up there negotiating, the disciples down here, not knowing their limits, would start brawling again.

At one look at the way spiritual power was leaking from around Yi Han and Lin Qingwan, Pingyuan knew they were already at their limit, so he waved his hand and said, "Go find a place to face the tribulation."

Hearing him say that, Yi Han very straightforwardly grabbed Lin Qingwan’s hand and flew straight into midair, glanced around, then pulled her directly over to the ruins of a grand hall that had already collapsed.

This must have been affected during the fight, but the hall had been built from fine jade; even collapsed, it was still made up of large, smooth slabs of stone lying in heaps.

Yi Han felt the spiritual energy here was dense, and the place was spacious; because it had collapsed, the surroundings were empty, with no one around.

So he directly brought Lin Qingwan down, then took out from his storage the pair of meditation cushions they were most familiar with and found most comfortable, and set them down.

After thinking about it, he even took out the two lightning rods he’d been keeping.

But when he looked around, he found all around were whole, solid boulders, impossible to bury anything into the ground; for a moment he felt a bit depressed.

Xu Xian couldn’t stand it when he saw this, flew over and said, "You two hurry up and advance, I’ll bury them for you."

Yi Han handed the lightning rods to him, then sat down, facing Lin Qingwan. The two touched hands and immediately began circulating their spiritual power.

Xu Xian, at the side, circulated the spiritual power in his hands; a few swift swishes and he’d cut the stone blocks apart and was flinging them away at random.

The people of Cangyan Sect saw how they were treating the ruins of their grand hall like this, and their faces flushed red with anger.

Once Xu Xian had tossed everything aside, he used an earth-type spell to dig out two big pits, then buried the lightning rods down inside.

After burying them, he even used nearby stones to brace them in place, then finally flew off to join the crowd in watching the show.

Quite a few cultivators crowded over to watch the spectacle.

They had no choice; with the tribulation clouds slowly gathering in the sky, it was hard to pretend they didn’t see them.

Seeing Pingyuan appear together with the elders of Cangyan Sect at this time, they knew the fighting was probably temporarily over. But looking at how half of Cangyan Sect was now in ruins, anyone could guess they hadn’t gotten the better end of the deal.

Moreover, Yi Han and the others were undergoing tribulation right at the site of their original main hall. Although the Cangyan Sect elders looked ugly, they didn’t say a thing, so everyone knew their side had the upper hand.

They couldn’t spectate at the bigwigs’ negotiation table, but they could spectate here.

So everyone stared fixedly at Yi Han and Lin Qingwan.

As they watched, they realized something was off.

Someone asked in puzzlement, "Why are they sitting together?"

"They seem to be cultivating together, right?"

"They’re going through tribulation together too?"

"They’re husband and wife, right?"

"Even if they’re a couple, I’ve never heard of anyone facing the tribulation together, ascending to Nascent Soul together, have you? If they’re undergoing tribulation in the same place, who exactly do these tribulation clouds belong to?"

"They... don’t seem to be from our Ningwu Continent. They ascended from the lower realm. I heard the three of them ascended together, and brought three ghost cultivators with them."

"Why were three people able to ascend together?"

"That’s the lower realm’s Heavenly Dao’s business. Never heard of it, sure, but it’s not really related to us. What I care about is: does this mean up here we can also have two people pass a tribulation together? Won’t the Heavenly Dao just smite them dead?"

"Judging from the speed and scale of the tribulation clouds forming, it probably won’t smite them to death, right?"

"This looks only a bit bigger than when Lei Yuan underwent tribulation in the secret realm. I thought that was because Yi Han’s a sword cultivator. So it’s because the two of them are tribulating together?"

"Two people can’t undergo a tribulation together, can they?"

Everyone still couldn’t wrap their heads around it.

Pingyuan was also conflicted, and couldn’t help saying, "Why are they sitting together to undergo tribulation? They could separate a bit farther. If they anger the Heavenly Dao like this..."

Xu Xian and the others, very experienced, said, "They won’t. When they faced their Nascent Soul tribulation they did it together, and they’ve always cultivated together. Just treat them as one person."

Pingyuan was skeptical. "You can do that?"

The four of them nodded together.

Pingyuan looked at him suspiciously. "I’ve always had a question. If they can undergo tribulation and ascend together because they are one as husband and wife, can draw on heaven and earth through dual cultivation, and are a perfect match, then how did you end up undergoing tribulation and ascending together with them?"

Xu Xian spouted nonsense with a very serious face: "To answer Senior, I didn’t undergo tribulation together with them. I was on the other side taking my tribulation alone. I just had bad luck and happened to time it right in front and behind them, so we ascended together."

Pingyuan: "Really?"

Xu Xian, along with Qingfeng, Mingyue, and Bai Tong behind him, all nodded together and affirmed, "Yes."

Whether it was or not, it had to be.

If they found out he’d smuggled his way up, never mind what punishment there might be; just stating it openly would be a challenge to the Heavenly Dao. Xu Xian absolutely did not want to be blasted to death by lightning during his Deity Transformation tribulation.

He even wanted to do a few more good deeds before his Deity Transformation tribulation, give a bit more feedback to the Heavenly Dao, bribe it a little, so that when it zapped him during that tribulation it might show some leniency and give him a more normal lightning tribulation—definitely not a repeat of his Nascent Soul one.

That one could kill a man.

As they were speaking, Lin Qingwan and Yi Han drew on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Pingyuan instantly sensed something was off, turned his head to look at the two of them, and frowned. "Why do they have such a vast amount of spiritual energy in their bodies? What did they take?"

He assumed the reason they could reach Deity Transformation so quickly was because they’d consumed some heaven-and-earth treasure.

Xu Xian and the others spread their hands to show they didn’t know.

They really didn’t know, though they had their suspicions. They felt it was probably related to the broken sword in their hands, and not because they’d actually eaten something.

The more Pingyuan watched, the more wrong it seemed. He couldn’t help taking a step forward, but when he felt the Heavenly Dao’s pressure descend, he stopped again.

Something was off with Yi Han and Lin Qingwan’s situation. They clearly hadn’t absorbed much spiritual energy, yet spiritual power was leaking off their bodies. Judging from the circumstances, they were already undergoing Deity Transformation.

Lin Qingwan and Yi Han were indeed transforming. Their bodies already held plenty of spiritual power; the moment they circulated their technique, their spiritual power started moving. Before it had even completed one circuit, their seas of consciousness suddenly boomed and collided, then began expanding layer by layer. Their divine sense was refined bit by bit, their spiritual power draining rapidly, yet before it could decrease much at all, the immortal power in their dantian began circulating along with it. They hardly needed to draw any spiritual energy from outside; as long as this immortal power circulated, it was enough to expand and refine their sea of consciousness and divine sense.

In an instant, Lin Qingwan and Yi Han stepped into Deity Transformation. In their sea of consciousness, just like in their lower dantian, an identical copy of themselves appeared.

Only its eyes were open, and its spirit was no different from theirs. With a flicker of intent, Lin Qingwan understood: this was her split soul. As long as she wished, she could take it out, give it a body, and send it into the mortal world to temper itself...

It was a truly wondrous feeling.

But before they could savor it carefully, the immortal power in their bodies was still circulating, continually nourishing their upper and lower dantian, tempering the Nascent Soul in the lower dantian and the split soul in the upper dantian...

Meanwhile, spiritual energy continued to gather outside, and was being drawn into their bodies bit by bit as their technique ran.