A chill swept over him, and the snow-covered mountains all around drifted into view.
Pei Ling had returned to the empty valley on the border between the Innate Religion and the Tower of Reincarnation.
The moment he appeared, his Spiritual Sense swept in every direction. Detecting nothing amiss, he gave a slight nod.
With a casual gesture, he set up another illusion array to conceal his tracks, then fell into thought.
Forty-nine Tribulations, sixty-four Tribulations, eighty-one Tribulations... These were the divisions within the Tribulation Crossing stage!
Founding Patriarch "Fu Qiong" was also at the Forty-nine Tribulations, yet his cultivation had already entered the Mahayana stage. With Pei Ling's current cultivation, even looking directly at him would require unleashing all his strength to withstand the harmless pressure the patriarch ordinarily gave off.
What was more, just now, he had merely spoken the Founding Patriarch "Fu Qiong's" Honorific Title, and the patriarch's gaze had immediately fallen upon him. Even the Lesser World known as Lesser Freedom Heaven, completely independent of the Panyai Realm, couldn't stop it...
The Forty-nine Tribulations—after entering the Mahayana stage, they were already this terrifying!
And the Sixty-four Tribulations... His master had said that among the Nine Great Sects, there were no Founding Patriarchs who had ascended. There were no more than a handful of Sixty-four Tribulations. His master accounted for one of them, but who were the others?
As for the final Eighty-one Tribulations, judging from his master's words, not one of the Nine Great Sects had anyone at that level now!
Even among the Founding Patriarchs who had already ascended, only those of the Nine Great Sects had reached that level...
"Once I reach the peak of the Dao Integration stage and start breaking through to the Tribulation Crossing stage, I must use the system!"
"The system