Assassination Is Also a Kind of Inheritance

Heavenly might, endless violet lightning, thunderlight—layer upon layer piled atop the condensed black clouds, unimaginably thick and heavy.

Li Tianwei felt the heavenly might above him. That was all he felt.

It looked rather grand in scale, but in Li Tianwei's eyes, it was nothing much.

It had not even met his expectations.

According to his previous calculations, he possessed a Heavenly Spirit Root, exceptional comprehension, a Fusion Golden Core, and Hundred Intentions upon him.

His heavenly tribulation should have been something never seen since time immemorial. Its power went without saying—it had to be unprecedented, with none before and none to come after.

How could this heavenly tribulation look only slightly more intimidating than Qin Yueying, a cultivator at the peak of the Nascent Soul realm?!

"No, perhaps this is only the beginning. The farther a heavenly tribulation goes, the stronger it becomes."

Li Tianwei had already talked himself around.

Lan Yu, who had rushed over in haste, saw the Golden Core tribulation before him, and his face turned utterly black.

"Th-this, this is the Nine-Five Supreme Heavenly Tribulation. Isn't this supposed to be a Divine Transformation tribulation?"

"This aura is definitely that of the Nine-Five Supreme Heavenly Tribulation, but its scale looks no more than that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator breaking through to Golden Core."

Lan Yu found it hard to imagine what sort of circumstances would make someone breaking through from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core undergo such a tribulation. Had he offended the heavens? Or were his sins so monstrous that this was not a heavenly tribulation, but heavenly punishment?!

Lan Yu remembered that when he had broken through from Nascent Soul to Divine Transformation, his Divine Transformation tribulation had been several levels inferior to this.

If he encountered the Nine-Five Supreme Heavenly Tribulation, he likely would not endure even the first wave. Forget about reaching Divine Transformation.

As his divine sense swept outward, Lan Yu saw the figure at the center of the heavenly tribulation.

When Li Tianwei had reached the top of the Heart-Questioning Stairway, Lan Yu had competed with the other elders for him. Naturally, he recognized him at a glance.

"As expected. But this is a heavenly tribulation—how much can I really help?"

Lan Yu looked at the Nine-Five Supreme Heavenly Tribulation overhead and could not help sighing.

The power of a heavenly tribulation rose according to the strength of any cultivator who interfered. If he, a Divine Transformation cultivator, entered it, the Nine-Five Supreme Heavenly Tribulation might rise several more levels.

Just as Lan Yu was thinking, Elder Fu Zhen arrived from behind, holding the Heavenly Repelling Mirror and flying through the air.

Treasure light filled the sky, and a heavy, crushing pressure arrived along with the power of laws.

"Elder Fu Zhen of Baiyuan Sacred Land."

Lan Yu immediately sensed Elder Fu Zhen's arrival, and his expression changed abruptly.

Without needing to think, Lan Yu knew who Elder Fu Zhen had come for.

"Fu Zhen, does your Baiyuan Sacred Land wish to go to war with our Lingxu Sacred Land?"

Lan Yu immediately pointed at Elder Fu Zhen and shouted.

Elder Fu Zhen did not care what Lan Yu shouted. He had come with only one task: kill Li Tianwei and completely cut down this prodigy.

In recent years, Lingxu Sacred Land had been too prosperous. Whether it was resources, those Secret Realms, or the Immortal Ruin, Lingxu Sacred Land had taken the largest share—and in some cases, swallowed everything alone.

Such conduct had caused the resources of the other three great sacred lands to shrink by an unknown amount over the past thousand years.

If another prodigy like Li Tianwei appeared, would Lingxu Sacred Land not lord it over them for several thousand more years?

This absolutely could not be allowed to happen.

"Heavenly Repelling Mirror, reflected illusion, man gradually drifts..."

Elder Fu Zhen chanted the incantation and moved toward Lan Yu.

Because of the heavenly tribulation, Xu Yuqing and Ming Yin did not rush to attack. They waited for the right moment while gathering the power of laws.

The Nine-Five Supreme Heavenly Tribulation before them had also shocked the two of them. A Golden Core tribulation possessing such might made it easy to imagine just how terrifying Li Tianwei's talent was.

Previously, the three great sacred lands had joined forces in every sort of operation to kill Bai Muxu, yet not a single one had succeeded.

When Bai Muxu formed his Golden Core, they had dispatched Nascent Soul cultivators. When he reached the Nascent Soul realm, they had dispatched Divine Transformation cultivators. Under all sorts of circumstances, they had still failed to kill him.

Now, they had crossed two major realms and dispatched Divine Transformation cultivators directly.

To prevent an accident like Bai Muxu's from happening again, Xu Yuqing and Ming Yin used the time Li Tianwei was undergoing tribulation to gather power.

They continuously constructed and layered all kinds of spells and laws. To kill Li Tianwei, the two of them joined forces, combining their strength to unleash power beyond their own realm.

They intended to kill him in one strike, ensuring Li Tianwei had not the slightest possibility of survival.

With Bai Muxu as a lesson from the past, the pressure naturally fell upon Li Tianwei.

If Li Tianwei knew, he would probably sigh. This was inheritance.

As for Li Tianwei, he was wholly focused on dealing with the heavenly tribulation and knew nothing of the situation between Lan Yu and the other three Divine Transformation cultivators.

Divine Transformation cultivators were, after all, great cultivators whose Divine Souls roamed outside their bodies, whose Yang Spirits left their shells, and who controlled laws.

They were already entirely different existences from Nascent Soul cultivators. The gulf between the two was even greater than that between Foundation Establishment and Nascent Soul.

Rumble...

Heavenly tribulation lightning flickered, the pressure of heaven and earth revealed itself, and threads of oppression bore down upon him.

An aura of destruction filled the air. Layer after layer of black clouds stacked atop one another, with no bottom in sight.

Upon sensing Li Tianwei's aura, they immediately poured down.

Rumble...

Lightning exploded. Strangely, the heavenly thunder that should have appeared transformed into a unique phenomenon.

Heavenly Fire Lightning, rain-infused electricity, rolling celestial clouds—the strange power of erosion descended.

Even the chaotic energy around the Taixu Forbidden Land instinctively moved aside, as though it had sensed the most dangerous power in the world.

The vast heavenly might, though it was merely a Golden Core tribulation, still gave these Divine Transformation cultivators immense deterrence.

Much less Li Tianwei, its target. Surging power came crashing toward him.

Feeling that power, Li Tianwei immediately revealed his own strength.

His Golden Core emerged, and faint fusion power surged forth. A scorching aura, as though a great sun had descended in person, shrouded the area.

His aura flowed in reverse, and an inexplicable gravitational fluctuation caused the power of heaven and earth to be sucked back toward him.

"Come!"

Li Tianwei charged forward. Even he had no clear idea just how powerful he had become.

In any case, in order to create an environment within his body that could sustain fusion, he had carved Hundred Intentions upon his Golden Core, making it like a star.

Every one of these enhancements was unprecedented.

The vast, terrifying heavenly tribulation descended and struck Li Tianwei directly.

Such energy fluctuations made Lan Yu and the other three Divine Transformation cultivators repeatedly turn their eyes toward it.

"I actually felt a trace of threat."

As the heavenly tribulation's energy scattered, Ming Yin and Xu Yuqing, who were gathering power, both grew solemn.

Although they had taken Li Tianwei seriously, he was only at the Golden Core stage. They had already treated him with the strength they would use against cultivators of the same realm.

Yet faced with this eruption, they understood clearly just what kind of monster stood within that heavenly tribulation.

The two no longer held back. They began driving the laws, even taking pills from their storage rings to strengthen themselves and erupt with even greater power.

Who could have imagined that two Divine Transformation cultivators would face a cultivator undergoing a Golden Core tribulation with such an attitude?

In the Cultivation World, ranks were sharply divided. A Golden Core cultivator might not glimpse a Divine Transformation cultivator even once in their entire life.

Yet beings like that were forcing Divine Transformation cultivators to meet them with their full strength.

One could well imagine how completely this defied common sense.

As for Li Tianwei, this was probably normal. Otherwise, would he not have cultivated his Golden Core for nothing? It was merely the treatment reserved for a protagonist prodigy.

In other novels, Golden Core cultivators even killed immortals. Could he not even handle a Divine Transformation cultivator?