Ten Thousand Tribulations Sect.

Blood Cloud Peak.

"Damn it! Damn it!"

"Just what in the world happened?!"

"Half my lifespan is gone! Gone!"

Blood Cloud Master’s Nascent Soul had awakened. His current state meant that his true body had been destroyed after he went to steal Su Qing’s Thunder Technique.

It had simply died.

This was the most terrifying possibility.

And so, he wracked his brain, trying to figure out what on earth had happened.

"Blood Infant Technique!"

The blood-colored Nascent Soul slowly let out a bloody mist, which condensed into a new Blood Cloud Master.

Blood Cloud Master hadn’t died.

"The Blood Pool." The first thing Blood Cloud Master did was go to his Blood Pool on Blood Cloud Peak to absorb blood and continuously recover.

Around the Blood Pool were dozens of cultivators’ bodies, forced by some Secret Technique to constantly produce blood for him to absorb.

It was an extremely bizarre sight.

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Su Qing returned to the Sect.

He reverted to his lazy demeanor. His Cultivation, still suppressed by the God Demon Transformation Skill, had risen from the Foundation Establishment Eighth Layer to the Ninth-Layer Foundation Establishment.

His Body Refinement Technique ran automatically, and his Visualization Technique performed Visualizations on its own.

Then there was the Quenching Pill Technique, which required hardly any of Su Qing’s attention.

At this point, Su Qing was basically liberated.

Su Qing felt he could synthesize his Visualization Technique even further, but after a moment’s thought, he gave up on the idea.

It would already take a very long time to master the current Visualization Technique to the Perfection realm.

If he synthesized it again, he would have to restart his Cultivation of the Visualization Technique from the Mastery Level.

So, Su Qing went back to upgrading his Synthesizer.

Even though it now took a long time to upgrade the Synthesizer by a single level.

But it didn’t matter.

It was already more than enough for his current needs.

’Mutation is a good thing.’

’It’s just that I still haven’t gotten many physiques yet.’

’If I could synthesize all nine physiques into a single one, I wonder how powerful it would be.’

Su Qing pondered this question.

However, it wasn’t long before Su Qing stopped focusing on it.

...

[Synthesis successful: Evolution triggered]

[Unknown Magic +3: Using God Demon True Essence, summon a colossal Great Sun to cause the Erosion of Mountains and Burning Sea.] 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

"Rename to God Demon Summoning Day."

"Extract."

Su Qing obtained the magic—or perhaps it was better to call it a spell that was already like a Divine Technique.

Its foundation had been a simple Fireball Technique, and now it had become God Demon Summoning Day.

As for why Su Qing didn’t use Standardization, it was because Standardization was a total rip-off.

...

[Synthesis successful: Evolution triggered]

[Unknown Magic +3: Using God Demon True Essence, concentrate the Eye of God Demon Illusion-Breaking to see through most beings in a Spiritual State.]

"Rename to God Demon Illusion-Breaking Eye."

"Extract."

He had obtained another powerful magic.

Su Qing couldn’t help but feel happy.

Another half a year passed.

A fiery red beam of light shot into the sky from Luo Lanxin’s residence.

Within the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sect’s Pocket World, it condensed into the form of a cyan-blue Phoenix.

’Golden Core Realm?’

’Breaking through to the Golden Core Realm so quickly? This junior sister really is something special.’

After all, right now, Liu Linlin was still at the Fifth-Layer Foundation Establishment.

Liu Linlin’s Cultivation speed was the most normal.

His own and Luo Lanxin’s Cultivation speeds were on a completely different level.

After the Phoenix phenomenon appeared, Su Qing began to act as her Guardian Dao.

All the Spiritual Qi on Cold Extremity Peak began to rapidly fly toward Luo Lanxin’s residence.

’This is...?’

Su Qing frowned. Luo Lanxin was a Demon Cultivator.

She shouldn’t have a Spirit Root in her body at all.

Generally speaking, since she cultivated to the Golden Core with Essence Blood, she shouldn’t need to create a scene of devouring Spiritual Qi like a whale.

Moreover, the Spiritual Qi on Cold Extremity Peak wasn’t nearly enough for Luo Lanxin to absorb.

"Junior Brother," Liu Linlin said, rushing over.

Su Qing gave her a look, signaling her to be calm.

"Junior Sister is breaking through to the Golden Core. Senior Sister, you should go back for now. I feel like something is wrong. I’ll be her Guardian Dao," Su Qing said to Liu Linlin.

The Phoenix in the sky showed no signs of dissipating, continuing to devour Spiritual Qi.

[Synthesis successful...]

[Synthesis successful...]

...

[Synthesis successful: Evolution triggered]

[Unknown Spirit Stone: Contains enough liquid Spiritual Qi to fill a Pocket World]

Su Qing extracted it.

The moment he placed it in his hand, Su Qing could feel just how heavy the Spirit Stone was.

It was tiny, but it weighed at least a million jin.

No wonder he hadn’t been able to pick up the unknown Spirit Stone back then.

As soon as this Spirit Stone appeared, Su Qing placed it on the ground at Luo Lanxin’s door.

The Spiritual Qi within the Spirit Stone was continuously absorbed, and the flow of Spiritual Qi from Cold Extremity Peak toward Luo Lanxin’s residence slowed.

Su Qing had Liu Linlin go back first.

He stood guard himself.

But then, he saw a familiar shadow appear in the sky.

’Blood Cloud isn’t dead? Impossible!’

Su Qing remembered killing him with two sword strikes back then. He never expected him to still be alive.

Su Qing snorted coldly and flew up.

He blocked Blood Cloud Master’s path.

"Blood Cloud Master, you’re actually still alive?"

"What business brings you to my Cold Extremity Peak?"

Within the Ten Thousand Tribulations Sect, Su Qing couldn’t easily make a move. After all, if sect members fought amongst themselves, the Divinity Transformation Grand Elder would intervene and suppress them.

"Su Qing!" The moment Blood Cloud Master saw Su Qing, he knew his assumption had been wrong.

Blood Cloud Master had thought Su Qing was the one breaking through to the Golden Core, which was why he had to come and sabotage it.

But he never expected Su Qing to appear directly in front of him.

Looking at Su Qing’s icy gaze, Blood Cloud Master felt a chill run down his spine.

’He’s clearly only at the Ninth-Layer Foundation Establishment, so why does he give off such a terrifying feeling? Was it really him who killed my true body back then?’

"Hahaha, Nephew Su Qing, I just saw the strange phenomenon on Cold Extremity Peak and thought I’d come act as a Guardian Dao for you," Blood Cloud Master said with an awkward laugh. He could hardly admit he’d come to sabotage the breakthrough, could he?

"I should hope so. Right now, Blood Cloud Master is not exactly welcome on Cold Extremity Peak." Su Qing was not the least bit afraid.

’The Blood Cloud Master before me is no match for me at all.’

’I’ve already made my position crystal clear. If Blood Cloud doesn’t leave, he can’t blame me for drawing my sword again.’

’Nascent Soul Realm cultivators really are something else, with so many ways to save their own lives.’

Blood Cloud Master smiled warmly. "Since my help isn’t needed, I won’t disturb you any longer, Nephew."

Blood Cloud Master retreated.

Su Qing’s forceful attitude made the other Nascent Soul Realm experts who had sensed the disturbance on Cold Extremity Peak feel rather puzzled.

Su Qing silently scanned Cold Extremity Peak with his senses.

Then he descended and resumed his watch.

「Half a month later.」

Su Qing was dumbfounded.

What in the world was going on with his cheap junior sister?

Breaking through to the Golden Core had actually consumed two of the unknown Spirit Stones.

The first one was completely absorbed in just three days.

This had forced Su Qing to synthesize another Spirit Stone for her, one filled with enough liquid Spiritual Qi to fill a Little World.

And just like that, twelve days had passed.

Fortunately, the second Spirit Stone hadn’t been fully absorbed yet.

But what Su Qing found very strange was that the Phoenix in the sky now enveloped all of Cold Extremity Peak.

Following a phoenix cry that shook the heavens and the earth, the Phoenix vanished.

Tribulation clouds for a Thunder Tribulation appeared in the sky, with lightning constantly weaving through them.

"A Thunder Tribulation!"

"What the hell? Just what did this cheap junior sister do," Su Qing sighed.

He silently flew up.

’A Thunder Tribulation for a breakthrough to the Golden Core Realm. Unbelievable. Truly unbelievable.’

’This junior sister of mine has some real skill.’

Su Qing watched in silence, as the Thunder Tribulation had already locked onto his junior sister.

Just then, Luo Lanxin also flew out, not wanting to undergo the Crossing the Thunder Tribulation inside her own home.

She glanced at her senior brother, a flicker of doubt in her eyes. ’Where did all that Spiritual Qi for my breakthrough come from?’ She clearly remembered that when she was forging her Celestial Fire Spirit Root, a sudden abundance of Spiritual Qi had appeared for her to absorb. Based on her understanding of Cold Extremity Peak, that should have been impossible. She had even been prepared to spend half a year absorbing the Spiritual Qi on Cold Extremity Peak just to make her breakthrough.

...

The Thunder Tribulation descended.

Luo Lanxin began to endure the Thunder Tribulation.

...