We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real?

A basin in the outskirts of Qin Kingdom’s imperial capital.

This place was remotely located with low terrain, surrounded on all sides by mountain peaks, and was also a natural formation that gathered spiritual energy.

For Xiao Mo, this was an excellent place to undergo tribulation to enter Nascent Soul.

Among cultivators, there was a saying, “Only by forming a Golden Core do you become one of our kind.”

Additionally, among cultivators there was another saying, “Only when you break the core to form Nascent Soul do you become an immortal.”

In the understanding of most cultivators, Nascent Soul was already the end of a cultivator’s path.

So achieving Nascent Soul meant becoming a true immortal.

After all, Nascent Soul realm cultivators could already establish sects and be addressed as “Ancestor,” while Golden Core realm cultivators were at most at the elder level in most sects.

Although Qin Kingdom fought great wars with various nations, and on the battlefield there were not only Nascent Soul realm cultivators but even Upper Three Realms cultivators. However, these cultivators were all cultivated with the full national strength of various nations. An entire country didn’t have many of them.

For the seven great nations like Qin Kingdom, Nascent Soul realm cultivators numbered no more than thirty.

Especially Upper Three Realms cultivators, their numbers were even fewer.

Among the seven great nations, each country possessed no more than ten Jade Simplicity realm cultivators. Immortal realm and Ascension realm cultivators were even more scarce.

Most Upper Three Realms cultivators would only be requested by their nation’s ruler to take action during wars requiring full national strength.

Moreover, most would only engage in one-on-one combat with enemy Upper Three Realms cultivators. If they could avoid going deep into the battlefield, they would try not to.

After all, places like battlefields carried too much karma. Not many cultivators wanted to become too entangled with it.

If during tribulation later, the Heavenly Dao saw your karma was not light and sent you two extra lightning tribulations, that wouldn’t be worth it.

Of course, for someone like Xiao Shi, a Jade Simplicity realm frontier commander, he didn’t care at all about so-called karma.

For such people, if karma came, then so what? It was merely a matter of breaking through it with blade, sword, and spear. However, regarding entering the Upper Three Realms, Xiao Mo currently didn’t have many thoughts.

For now, he would first pass this Nascent Soul tribulation.

After Xiao Mo set up the formation in the basin, he checked whether the pills he brought were complete.

Especially pills that replenished blood energy.

For martial cultivators, pills that replenished blood energy were extremely important.

After confirming everything was foolproof, Xiao Mo began his tribulation.

With a thunderous roar, dark clouds instantly covered the sky above, lightning and thunder tearing through the firmament.

Standing outside the valley, Qin Siyao watched everything happening in the distant sky, tightly pressing her thin lips together. Her small hands were clenched into delicate fists. She looked extremely nervous, as if the young woman herself were undergoing tribulation.

At the same time, gusts of strong wind blew toward the imperial city.

Many common people in Qin Kingdom’s imperial capital raised their heads, looking toward the direction outside the city.

In the imperial palace, the Qin Kingdom’s ruler raised his head, gazing beyond the imperial capital.

“Your Majesty, this is…” Empress Shi walked to the Qin Kingdom’s ruler’s side.

“I wonder which cultivator is undergoing tribulation outside the city.” The Qin Kingdom’s ruler stroked his beard with a slight smile.

“Rumble!”

A bolt of lightning fell from the sky, striking toward Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo held his long spear and thrust it out.

“Roar!”

Spear energy transformed into a dragon.

A silver giant dragon pounced toward the lightning tribulation.

The silver giant dragon completely swallowed the lightning tribulation.

The Heavenly Dao seemed to feel it was being provoked. The thunder in the sky grew even stronger than before.

“Boom!” Another thunderclap struck down. This thunderclap contained heavenly might, as if wanting to smash Xiao Mo to pieces.

Xiao Mo showed no fear, still enduring the lightning tribulation head-on.

One strike.

Two strikes.

Three strikes.

The power of each lightning tribulation exceeded the previous one.

After nine consecutive lightning tribulations struck down, the heavy clouds in the sky gradually dispersed. Only then did Qin Siyao breathe a sigh of relief.

These past days, Qin Siyao had also read many books about Nascent Soul realm tribulation and knew that Nascent Soul realm was divided into two parts.

One part was the heart tribulation.

One part was the lightning tribulation.

Although martial Dao cultivators didn’t need to pass through the heart tribulation, how could the lightning tribulation be easy?

Nascent Soul lightning tribulation had five to nine strikes.

Based on each person’s talent and realm strength, the Heavenly Dao would give different degrees of tests.

Now Xiao Mo had already endured nine lightning tribulations. It should be over.

Just as Qin Siyao was about to go congratulate Xiao Mo, Huasheng grabbed Qin Siyao’s wrist, “Princess, please wait a moment.”

“Sister Huasheng, what’s wrong?” Qin Siyao asked curiously.

“Princess, please look.”

Huasheng furrowed her brow and pointed upward.

Qin Siyao raised her head to look, only to see that the thunder clouds that were about to dissipate were condensing again, and becoming even thicker.

“What exactly is this…” Qin Siyao’s eyes trembled.

That terrifying pressure made it difficult for even Qin Siyao to breathe.

“This is the legendary Ten String Tribulation.” Huasheng’s gaze focused, sensing this pressure that seemed capable of devouring heaven and earth.

“Ten String Tribulation?” Qin Siyao had never heard of it.

“I only heard about the Ten String Tribulation when I was young, when the clan leader mentioned it. Legend says this tribulation only existed during the age of divine beings, when heaven and earth’s spiritual energy was most abundant.

Whenever a heaven’s chosen one from the human race or demon race formed Nascent Soul, the Heavenly Dao would impose the most stringent test, which was this Ten String Tribulation.

Young Master Xiao is afraid…”

“No!”

Qin Siyao clenched her fists tightly, interrupting Huasheng’s words.

“Xiao Mo won’t have an accident. He will definitely succeed. He promised me!”

In the sky above, the lightning tribulation was still gathering momentum, building up without striking.

And at this time, some Nascent Soul realm and Upper Three Realms consecrated cultivators from the imperial capital came to the area outside the basin.

They sensed the Dao resonance caused by the Ten String Tribulation, hoping to comprehend something from it.

At the same time, they were extremely curious whether the other party could successfully pass the tribulation.

Unfortunately, because of the formation and the obscurement of the lightning tribulation, they couldn’t see the man’s appearance and couldn’t witness the true face of this heaven’s chosen one.

And just as the thunder grew louder and louder, as if about to shatter mountains and rivers.

In an instant, the thunderous sound in the sky suddenly disappeared.

The entire world suddenly became incomparably silent, as if all things including time had been frozen.

“BOOM!!!”

Three breaths later, the thunderous roar spread again.

The layered clouds broke open. A woman knelt sitting on the clouds, a qin zither on her legs, looking down at Xiao Mo.

Like a deity gazing down at an ant but Xiao Mo knew this was not a deity.

Deities had disappeared countless years ago.

This woman was merely the manifestation of the great Dao!

“Zheng!”

The zither sound rang out.

The zither sound transformed into thousands of troops and horses, killing toward Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo showed no fear, charging alone up into the sky, slaughtering among the thousands of troops and horses.

The next moment, the zither sound changed again. This time, ten thousand great demons joined the battlefield.

Ten breaths later, the zither sound changed again. Ten thunder-formed flood dragons bit toward the man who didn’t know his own mortality.

The zither sound changed for the fourth time. The lightning tribulation transformed into golden light falling down, covering the thunder-formed humans, demons, and flood dragons. Their blood energy became even more violent, as if they truly existed in the world but Xiao Mo continued to kill toward that “divine maiden.”

The divine maiden’s zither sounds grew more urgent. The assault of thousands of troops and horses became even more fierce!

The zither sound changed ten times in total.

The final time, ten deities stood high above, gazing down on all living beings. Divine might pressed on Xiao Mo’s shoulders and resonated for thousands of miles.

“Dong!”

In Qin Kingdom’s imperial capital, the city protection grand formation activated on its own, dissolving this divine might manifested by the great Dao but outside the imperial capital, except for Qin Siyao and the Upper Three Realms cultivators, everyone else couldn’t help but kneel down, bowing with their heads to the ground.

The divine might manifested by the great Dao was like a great mountain, making it hard for Xiao Mo to breathe yet Xiao Mo still raised his head, straightened his back, and charged toward that qin zither woman.

The ten “deities” made their move.

Their figures dissipated, transforming into a golden long spear, stabbing toward Xiao Mo’s heart.

Xiao Mo knew he couldn’t dodge, but he had never intended to dodge.

Xiao Mo used all his spiritual energy to hurl the long spear in his hand!

The long spear transformed into silver-white flowing light, breaking through the sky from below to above, colliding with that golden long spear.

Violent spiritual energy ripples thunderously dispersed.

Thunder struck down everywhere. Mountain peaks were shattered by thunder, broken stones rolled, the earth shook.

A full twenty breaths passed before the thunder disappeared. The black clouds slowly dispersed. Everything returned to calm.

Only the man’s several hundred zhang tall Heaven and Earth Law Form slowly rose from among the mountains, gazing down at the imperial capital.

“This is, the Frost Prince!”

“The Frost Prince is undergoing tribulation!”

“Has the Frost Prince reached Nascent Soul realm?”

“The Frost Prince isn’t even thirty years old yet, right? Such a young Nascent Soul realm cultivator, I’ve never heard of one.”

“Truly worthy of being the Frost Prince!”

“Although I can’t become his principal wife, if only the Frost Prince could take me as a concubine…”

In Qin Kingdom’s imperial capital, everyone who saw this Heaven and Earth Law Form knew the Frost Prince had broken through to Nascent Soul.

“This youngster always brings surprises.”

In the imperial palace, the Qin Kingdom’s ruler smiled with satisfaction, withdrew his gaze, and returned to the imperial study.

“Congratulations to the Frost Prince!”

Outside the basin, all the cultivators bowed in salute.

They never expected it would be the Frost Prince undergoing tribulation here.

“Everyone is too kind.” Xiao Mo’s Heaven and Earth Law Form returned the salute with a bow.

The next moment, Xiao Mo’s Heaven and Earth Law Form dissipated into points of light.

He took one step out, leaving the basin and walking before the woman who had been thinking of him constantly.

“You broke through?” Qin Siyao’s eyes curved.

“Mm, I broke through.” Xiao Mo nodded, “I made you worry just now.”

“I wasn’t worried at all. I just knew you would definitely break through.” Qin Siyao smiled gently, “However, I also need to cultivate diligently. You’ve already formed Nascent Soul. I should at least form my Core. Otherwise, when the time comes, my lifespan won’t be enough to stay by your side, and other women will take advantage of the opening.”

“Setting aside whether other women will take advantage of openings, with your talent, Siyao, entering Nascent Soul isn’t difficult. It’s just that you’re usually too lazy.” Xiao Mo smiled and flicked Qin Siyao’s brow.

“I’m not lazy. I just don’t like cultivation…” Qin Siyao touched her brow.

“What do you mean you don’t like cultivation.” Xiao Mo helplessly shook his head, “Haven’t you thought about reaching Ascension? Setting aside other matters, Ascension realm lifespan is tens of thousands of years.”

“If you enter Ascension, I’ll also work hard to enter Ascension.” Qin Siyao hugged Xiao Mo’s arm.

“What if I don’t enter Ascension?” Xiao Mo asked with a smile.

“If you don’t enter Ascension, then naturally I won’t either.”

Qin Siyao gazed into her beloved’s eyes with a sweet smile.

“What does tens of thousands of years of Ascension lifespan matter?

If there were no you. Even if I had ten thousand years of life, what meaning would it have for me?”