Purple Sky Thunder Tribulation

That night.

Mount Taixuan was ablaze with lights.

Qi Ying worked hard to fan the Qilin True Fire, his eyes full of satisfaction.

Little Purple, Little Blue, and Bright Rabbit kept brushing Li Xuan's secret sauce over the enormous skewered dragon, which had already been stripped of its scales, hide, and tendons, and had its bones removed.

The Primordial Wilderness was vast. The area around Mount Taixuan alone stretched for thousands of miles, giving Li Xuan more than enough room to find countless spices.

The aroma spread a hundred miles in every direction. Before long, countless beings from around Mount Taixuan had gathered.

But these beings had little intelligence. They were all ordinary creatures.

After all, those with intelligence had fled in fright when Li Xuan underwent his Grand Unity Mystic Immortal tribulation. Then, after sensing the stronger and denser spiritual energy outside,

they naturally realized that they could cultivate far faster out there than within Mount Taixuan.

So they never came back.

Li Xuan paid no attention to them, and neither did Little Blue, Little Purple, or Bright Rabbit.

"Here, here! You have to brush on extra sauce here. This is where the stinky tendon was. It's been removed, but without a heavy dose of seasoning, the smell won't be covered up!"

"And here! This needs to be roasted properly! Qi Ying, put your back into it! These are the kidneys! Dragon kidneys! Roast them well done. I want to eat them!"

"Heh heh heh... This is good! Bright Rabbit, have some. It'll help you keep your skin beautiful."

"L-Lord... can we eat this...?"

Bright Rabbit stared at the slender dragon's penis, over a meter long, her face bright red...

"This is the good stuff... Hahahaha!"

Li Xuan's teasing laughter echoed across Mount Taixuan.

A Grand Unity Golden Immortal's body remained tough even after death.

But it was dead, after all. It was just meat, unable to circulate its blood, spiritual energy, or cultivation to strengthen itself.

So its defenses weren't much better than an ordinary Heavenly Immortal's.

Thus, under the roasting of Qi Ying, a Golden Immortal who wielded Qilin True Fire,

three hours later, a secret-recipe roasted dragon, nearly ten thousand zhang long, was ready before them.

"Come on, come on! Let's eat! Let's eat! Hahaha!"

Li Xuan wasted no time. He tore off a huge piece of fragrant meat and began wolfing it down.

Little Blue, Little Purple, and Bright Rabbit exchanged glances.

Then they cautiously picked up a piece of meat and put it in their mouths. After chewing a little, their eyes lit up.

They chewed faster, then abandoned all pretense and devoured the meat.

Qi Ying's face was pale. Wielding Qilin True Fire for three hours had drained most of his vitality.

But seeing his great enemy Golden Dragon's corpse right in front of him, turned into a feast, filled his heart with indescribable satisfaction.

Then he heard Li Xuan's words. Without a second thought, he bit down viciously, savoring the pleasure of revenge!

The four of them ate their fill, caring about nothing else.

After a few bites, Li Xuan grinned and tore off a strip of dragon meat about two hundred zhang long. He tossed it down the mountain, letting the creatures below cheerfully divide it up.

A ten-thousand-zhang Golden Dragon, carved up among five people—or rather, shared as a meal.

Bright Rabbit, Little Purple, and Little Blue managed only a few hundred jin each before they couldn't eat another bite.

The abundant spiritual energy and nourishment poured into them like an overflowing river and sea. They immediately found a spot to sit cross-legged and began cultivating, absorbing it and turning it into their own strength.

Qi Ying was worthy of his direct Qilin bloodline. He was probably the only true pureblood Qilin left in the Primordial Wilderness.

Fueled by hatred, he ate a full two thousand jin before he finally couldn't manage any more. Then he found a spot and sat down to cultivate as well.

As for what remained...

Li Xuan felt that although the spiritual energy entering his body produced heat, it was pitifully little, so he kept eating...

Of the ten-thousand-zhang Golden Dragon, a full nine-tenths of the roasted meat went into Li Xuan's stomach.

Only then did Li Xuan feel truly full, along with a satisfying sense of his cultivation flowing smoothly.

He felt he was about to break through!

A breakthrough from Grand Unity Mystic Immortal meant becoming a Golden Immortal!

Li Xuan gently closed his eyes and entered meditation on the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform.

The sun rose and the moon set.

In the blink of an eye, another thousand years passed.

"Ding."

"Completed the choice to continue cultivating for ten thousand years. Reward: Innate Spiritual Treasure—White Jade Ring; one thousand years of cultivation experience."

A notification suddenly rang in his ears.

That sound seemed to act like a switch.

His cultivation, which had remained at level ten of Grand Unity Mystic Immortal for over a thousand years, finally stirred—and advanced another step!

Within Li Xuan's body, boundless rules surged and intertwined in his vast sea of qi!

At the same time, the sky shook. What had been clear and cloudless turned dark with rolling clouds and swirling purple light within a few breaths!

The Golden Immortal Tribulation!

Known elsewhere as the Three-Nine Tribulation!

When a Primordial Being cultivated to become a Golden Immortal, they fused the rules of the Primordial Wilderness into their body.

Combining them with their soul and essence, they condensed a Golden Core!

With this Golden Core, a being's ability to commune with the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, as well as absorb spiritual energy, increased a hundredfold, even a thousandfold!

That was why Grand Unity Mystic Immortals were nothing but ants in the eyes of Golden Immortals.

They simply weren't on the same level.

And now, Li Xuan was about to truly step into the ranks of Golden Immortals!

The Three-Nine Tribulation's boundless might and terrifying pressure sent the beings throughout Mount Taixuan into a panic once more. Without a second thought, they fled in every direction.

It seemed that once again, many beings who had gained intelligence would never return.

But everyone had their own ambitions, and the same was true of living beings. How could Li Xuan force them to stay?

The rules within him grew ever denser, taking on a tangible form. They twisted and gathered, each one like a winding dragon.

At the same time, the Profound Creation Marvelous Art arranged those countless rules, fusing them fully with Li Xuan's blood essence and binding them to his soul.

Gradually, a dazzling point of light began to form in his sea of qi!

Above, the Tribulation Cloud finally finished gathering. It stretched for hundreds of thousands of miles, covering the entire sky.

"We met again after only a few thousand years, Tribulation Cloud. What game do you want to play this time?"

Li Xuan looked up at the sky, the corner of his mouth lifting as he spoke calmly to himself.

RUMBLE!!

Thunder roared, shaking the earth.

The sound jolted Bright Rabbit, Little Purple, Little Blue, and Qi Ying out of their deepest meditative states!

After eating so much Golden Dragon meat and cultivating for over a thousand years,

all four of them had gained several levels. Qi Ying had reached level ten of Golden Immortal and seemed on the verge of breaking through to Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

But at that moment, not one of them showed the slightest joy at their sudden increase in strength.

They stared at the sky, their eyes filled with terror, their bodies trembling uncontrollably!

What kind of tribulation was this!?

Black clouds covered the sky, with a dense purple mass a thousand miles wide at the center!

Qi Ying came from a great family. Though he had never seen such a Tribulation Cloud, he had heard of it!

His face pale, his voice trembling, he spoke one word at a time: "Th-This... this is the Purple Sky Thunder Tribulation... the Nine-Nine Tribulation... My grandfather passed this tribulation to become a Quasi-Saint..."