Outer Void.
Amid the vast, hazy expanse, starlight glimmered faintly.
The enormous cloud sphere burst apart with a roar. The heavenly might faded, revealing a figure at the center of the Dao Tribulation.
Pei Ling's black robe fluttered as he stood upon the void.
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As control of his body returned, Pei Ling nodded slightly. He had now passed seventy-two Dao Tribulations; nine more remained until the Eighty-one Tribulations.
Looking back over his entire Tribulation Crossing stage, the first forty-eight Heart Demon Tribulations had all been his own heart demons.
But starting with the forty-ninth Heart Demon Tribulation, the ones he truly faced were the Heart Demon Tribulations of his... beauties.
Up through the sixty-third Dao Tribulation, there had been fifteen Heart Demon Tribulations in all, for fifteen beauties...
Senior Sister Li, Qiao Ciguang, Si Hong Qingyan, Yan Minghua, Wenren Lingshe, Si Hong Miaoli, Su Xirou, Meng Hongxuan, Hua Yurán, Hua Niannu, Hua Guirong, Hua Shaoyan, Hua Jilian, Hua Manjin, Hua Jiaoying...
Basically, all his Dao Companions and furnace cauldrons whom he had cultivated with or picked had been among them. Only Hua Ruodie, Hua Youfang, and Hua Shue had been left out.
The sixty-fourth Heart Demon Tribulation had been Master Yao Qingying.
The sixty-fifth Heart Demon Tribulation had been Hua Ruodie.
The sixty-sixth Heart Demon Tribulation had once again been Master Yao Qingying.
The sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth Heart Demon Tribulations had been Hua Youfang and Hua Shue...
Apart from Master Yao Qingying's Heart Demon Tribulation, which he had faced twice, he had faced every other beauty's Heart Demon Tribulation only once.
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