Golden Immortal

"Nine-Nine Tribulation...!"

Bright Rabbit, Little Purple, and Little Blue stared at the enormous Tribulation Cloud, as if the heavens themselves were about to collapse.

Then they heard what Qi Ying had said, and their legs turned to jelly on the spot.

They were already stammering so badly they couldn't get a word out.

In all their years, they had never seen a tribulation so vast!

Back when they broke through from Mystic Immortal to Golden Immortal,

they had faced a mere Three-Nine Tribulation. The Tribulation Cloud had only been a dozen li across, and the lightning bolts it unleashed had been no thicker than their wrists.

And even then, they had nearly been struck to the point of wishing they were dead.

But now...

A Tribulation Cloud stretching more than a million li...

Purple lightning dragons a hundred zhang thick and over ten thousand zhang long...

At that moment, Qi Ying finally fell to his knees before Li Xuan in his heart.

He finally understood. The person before him was a true great one!

A great one just like his grandfather, Prime Kirin!

Seeing them trembling all over like sieves,

looking as if they'd been scared out of their wits,

Li Xuan only smiled. "That thing isn't striking you. What are you afraid of? If you're worried about getting caught in it, then go watch from farther away."

At Li Qing's words, the four felt as if they had been granted a pardon.

They immediately fled down the valley, trembling and stumbling through the air.

Only after they had escaped several thousand li did they feel a little more at ease.

Meanwhile, Li Xuan looked up at the Tribulation Cloud and rubbed his chin, muttering, "I just got through a Three-Nine Tribulation. How come this spectacle looks like I'm about to attain the Dao?"

Li Xuan was honestly a little confused.

He could only assume the Heavenly Dao was targeting him.

What living being had ever faced a Transformation Tribulation more formidable than the Three-Nine Tribulation?

What living being had ever faced a tribulation upon reaching Mystic Immortal more formidable than the Six-Nine Tribulation?

Besides, other people didn't face any tribulation at all when they reached Mystic Immortal.

And now, he had reached Golden Immortal.

But was this thing really a Three-Nine Tribulation for a Golden Immortal?

Its power was practically on par with the Nine-Nine Tribulation!

The Heavenly Dao was openly trying to kill him!

"Being a cheat really is intolerable to the heavens... Sigh..."

Li Xuan grumbled, then sneered at the sky. "When I reach Grand Unity Golden Immortal, you'll probably bring down the whole Nine-Nine Tribulation and its endless Purple Firmament Divine Thunder, won't you?"

BOOM!!

As if enraged by Li Xuan's contemptuous attitude, the Tribulation Cloud roared again.

The enormous, snarling purple lightning dragon that had been gathering strength for some time—thousands of zhang long—

came crashing down!

In an instant, it seemed as though the whole world had turned purple.

Thousands of li away, Qi Ying, Bright Rabbit, Little Purple, and Little Blue watched as a purple river of heaven poured down into Mount Taixuan.

They were so horrified that they went numb, their eyes wide with shock.

How terrifying...!

Great one...

Will he be all right...?

Qi Ying's face had gone completely pale. His grandfather, Prime Kirin, had told him that when he faced the Nine-Nine Tribulation to become a Quasi-Saint, he had survived by the narrowest margin!

As for the summit of Mount Taixuan...

"Put your back into it! Come on, harder! Did you come here without eating again?"

Inside the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform, Li Xuan lounged on the lotus platform with one leg crossed over the other.

He watched the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder crash down again and again, finding it utterly tedious.

So tedious. So boring.

Li Xuan shook his head and sighed.

The Tribulation Cloud was thoroughly enraged by his words, and suddenly roared again.

This time, nine lightning dragons of equal size came howling down at once!

For a moment, even the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform began to shake.

The hazy barrier around it seemed on the verge of giving way.

Li Xuan jolted upright and sat up, stretching his neck to peer around with a tense expression.

But he saw that the lotus platform had only trembled slightly; nothing else was wrong.

"Heh, heh, heh, heh~."

Li Xuan gave an awkward chuckle, then reached out and stroked the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform. "I believe in you! You're the strongest! You're the greatest defensive treasure in the world!"

The Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform naturally gave him no reply.

He slumped back lazily and rolled around on the lotus platform, cackling. "That's right! That's right! I'm the greatest defensive treasure in the world! You lousy tribulation lightning! Bring it on!"

Rumble! Crash!

The tribulation lightning howled, all nine bolts striking at once with tremendous force.

Even though the Thirty-Six Grade Creation Green Lotus Platform had neutralized ninety-nine percent of their power,

the remaining destructive force still shook Mount Taixuan. The mountain's body collapsed in places and suffered considerable damage.

But the mountain was anchored by its ley lines, and ninety-nine percent of the force had been neutralized at its source, so it did not fall apart.

The river of Purple Firmament Divine Thunder poured down for half an incense stick's time before finally beginning to weaken.

The Tribulation Cloud, which had spread across a million li, had consumed most of its energy.

With no energy left, the Tribulation Cloud let out an unwilling roar, then slowly dispersed.

The sky grew bright once more.

For the first time, Qi Ying, Bright Rabbit, Little Purple, and Little Blue felt that

sunny weather was so beautiful!

At the summit of Mount Taixuan, Li Xuan sat cross-legged. Countless rules all around him nearly took on solid form as they frantically poured into his body.

Deep in his dantian, that speck of golden light kept growing!

From the size of dust, to a grain of rice, to a mung bean, to a soybean!

And at last, it grew to the size of a goose egg!

The Golden Core radiated a deep, reddish-gold light.

Countless inscriptions and the truths of the Great Dao were etched across its surface.

It looked profoundly mysterious and wondrous!

After more than two hundred thousand years of cultivation and comprehending a Chaos secret art like the Profound Creation Marvelous Art,

Li Xuan had finally condensed a Golden Core of his own!

From then on, his lifespan would be endless.

Unless he perished in a tribulation or was killed by someone,

he could live forever.

A reddish-gold Golden Core as large as a goose egg, containing the rules of the Great Dao—

if another Golden Immortal saw it, their eyes would surely bulge out of their head.

Other people's Golden Cores were, at most, the size of a peanut.

Though they were also golden all over, they were a bright yellow and perfectly round.

And they certainly had no inscriptions or marks of the Great Dao engraved on them.

Only a Primordial Golden Immortal at the peak of his realm, on the verge of breaking through to Quasi-Saint, would understand what this Golden Core was!

It was a Dao Pill!

With this pill, one could break through and enter the Dao—this was called the Quasi-Saint Dao Fruit!

Li Xuan knew nothing about any of this...

He assumed it was normal, that everyone's Golden Core was the same.

He thought he was only strong within this tiny patch of land inside the grand formation.

Outside of it, he was nothing...

And why were his tribulations different from everyone else's?

He was a cheat, after all. It was only natural for the Heavenly Dao to target him.

Li Xuan understood. He understood completely...

"Ding."

"Choice System generated."

"Choice One: Go to the Primordial Wilderness and stop the Dragon and Phoenix clans from leading the birds and scale-armored tribes into battle. End the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity. Reward upon completion: ten thousand years of cultivation at one hundred times the speed, the Divine Ability: Mind Reading, and the Innate Supreme Treasure: Five Directions Banner."

"Choice Two: Go to the Primordial Wilderness and intensify the conflict between the Dragon and Phoenix clans, pushing the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity into its final battle. Reward upon completion: fifty thousand years of cultivation at one hundred times the speed, the Divine Ability: Mind Reading, the Divine Ability: Indestructible Vajra Body, and the Innate Supreme Treasure: Pangu Banner."

"Choice Three: Go to the Primordial Wilderness and watch the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity until it ends. Reward upon completion: ten thousand years of cultivation at twenty times the speed and the Divine Ability: Samadhi True Fire."

"Choice Four: Continue cultivating for thirty thousand years, until the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity has ended completely. Reward upon completion: a thousand-year cultivation experience scroll."

Upon reaching the Golden Immortal realm, Li Xuan once again heard the system's choice prompts.