The Grand Dean's Fortuitous Encounter

"This is the fourth time..." Ma Feifei looked at the torrential rain, utterly speechless.

The three beams of light Minimize at a visible rate, so there was no need for Ma Feifei to run into the Bookstore and sense the increase or decrease in energy on the Four Spirit Pillars.

Even the onlookers noticed the problem, watching with puzzled expressions as the originally thick beam of light slowly shrank.

Ma Feifei was speechless. If things continued like this, he'd be done for before he even survived the fifth Memory Tribulation.

"Grand Dean, can you please pull yourself together? It's all in the past, why are you so hung up on it?" Ma Feifei sighed. This was a tribulation! It wasn't child's play; it could cost lives!

"Even if you don't care about your own life, you should at least think about my reward..."

"Boom!"

Before Ma Feifei could finish speaking, another rumble of thunder sounded in the sky, followed by a bolt of lightning striking down...

"Whoosh!"

The blood rain that was gradually receding suddenly filled the entire world again, and it was even heavier than before!

"Holy crap!" Ma Feifei looked up and saw that the scene in the movie was the breakup between Cang Lan and Cang Xiong, father and daughter. The sky in the background was also pouring rain, with lightning and thunder, as if it was grieving for the breakup between the father and daughter.

In the story, Cang Xiong was extremely furious at Cang Lan's actions and was about to kill Cang Lan on the spot. Just as the palm strike was about to land, the flute in Cang Lan's hand suddenly burst into a huge green light, directly turning Cang Lan and the mermaid in his arms into a green light and sweeping them away, disappearing without a trace.

From then on, it became a foregone conclusion that Cang Lan and Cang Xiong would sever their father-daughter relationship. As a result, Cang Lan left Lan City and never set foot in the city again.

"Buzz~~"

Suddenly, the background in the sky went completely dark, and everything disappeared.

"What's going on?" The onlookers below looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Is that all?" one of the cultivators asked, puzzled.

"That can't be right! There should be more to come!"

"Yes! I'd like to see how the Grand Dean cultivated from an ordinary person to the Peak of the Ninth Stage of Spirit Saint in less than a few hundred years," one cultivator said.

His words were agreed upon by most cultivators; the cultivation path of Grand Dean Cang Lan was a mystery to everyone on the Azure Dragon Continent.

Five hundred years ago, when Cang Lan entered Vast Academy with great force, her cultivation had already reached its peak. She directly ascended to the position of Grand Dean Vast Academy with her overwhelming power, which caused a sensation at the time.

Therefore, everyone is very interested in what happened to Cang Lan during the time between leaving Lan City and entering Vast Academy.

"It's over, it's over." Unlike the onlookers, Ma Feifei's heart sank when he saw this. The Tribulation Book World had gone black, which meant that Cang Lan had failed his tribulation?

Subconsciously, Ma Feifei glanced at the three beams of light and noticed that they were rapidly shrinking until only a thin line remained.

"My dear daughter, as long as the pillars of light continue to connect, Tribulation Book World still exist?" Ma Feifei asked Liuli, who was standing beside her.

As Liuli was looking around, Ma Feifei's question made her turn her gaze to the three slender beams of light.

"Yes, as long as the Four Spirit Pillars of Destiny remain, the Tribulation Book World will still exist." Liuli then pointed to the blacked-out Tribulation Book World and continued, "However, the Tribulation Book World is extremely unstable right now and could disappear completely at any moment."

Hearing this, Ma Feifei breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the Tribulation Book World hadn't disappeared, there was still a chance. If the Tribulation Book World were to disappear completely, that would be Nightmare.

"Is there any way to consolidate this Tribulation Book World?" Ma Feifei asked Liuli, still somewhat unwilling to give up.

Liuli shook her head and said, "No, once the Tribulation Book World is activated, everything depends on the person undergoing the tribulation; no one else can help."

The so-called tribulation is a process in which a cultivator undergoes a transformation. At this time, all external help is futile and will not only fail to help, but will also cause the cultivator's mind to become unstable, which is counterproductive.

"Actually, the fact that she was able to hold on until now with only the energy of three spirit pillars proves that Sister Cang Lan's Dao heart is still very stable," Liuli said.

According to previous calculations, the energy contained in the three spirit pillars is only enough to last until the end of the fourth tribulation. If it cannot survive the fifth tribulation, then the energy of the Three Spirit Pillars will be completely exhausted, and the Tribulation Book World will naturally disappear as well. In this case, Cang Lan's tribulation will be considered a failure.

Now that five tribulations have passed, the fact that the Tribulation Book World still exists is enough to prove that Cang Lan's Dao heart is still very stable.

"So what do we do now? Can the Tribulation Book World still light up?" Ma Feifei asked, looking at the pitch-black Tribulation Book World.

So far, he has survived five Memory Tribulation. Only the last and most crucial tribulation of the Six Stages of Life and Death remains. If he can overcome this one, it will mean that Cang Lan will completely step into the Immortal Realm.

Become the first cultivator on the Vast Continent to openly step into the Immortal Realm!

"Probably..." Liuli said uncertainly.

"Buzz~!"

Just then, the Tribulation Book World suddenly trembled slightly, and the originally pitch-black Tribulation Book World instantly became bright under this slight tremor.

"It's out!" A commotion arose in the crowd as the cultivators looked excitedly at the Tribulation Book World.

At this moment, the background of the Tribulation Book World is a calm river, with rippling blue waves, clear yet without any depth.

"Where is this?" one of the cultivators asked, frowning.

"Could it be Qiong Sea?"

"No, this is a river."

"It's the Luo River!" In mid-air, a powerful figure exclaimed in a deep voice, his face showing shock.

"Luo River!" Everyone exclaimed in surprise.

The Luo River one of the nine ancient ruins, and also the most mysterious of them all, because no one has ever been able to come out of it alive.

"Luo River?" Ma Feifei, on the rooftop, frowned when he saw the river. He took out the flute that Cang Lan had given him earlier, along with her last words.

"If Lan doesn't make it out alive, please, shopkeeper, throw this flute into the Luo River, okay?"

"This Luo River must have some connection with her, right?" Ma Feifei thought silently, stroking the old flute.

"Look! What's that!" Suddenly, a cultivator pointed at the Tribulation Book World and shouted.

Startled awake, Ma Feifei looked up and saw a green light plummeting into the Luo River.

"Bang!"

The Luo River splashed, and the green light vanished.

"Splash splash~~"

The Luo River was blasted open, creating a small splash, but the water quickly receded, and everything returned to calm as if nothing had happened.

At this moment, everyone frowned, because they all understood that the green light was the same green light that had previously swept up Cang Lan and the mermaid.

Now that the green light has fallen into the Luo River, it also means that Cang Lan has fallen into the Luo River!

"The Grand Dean actually fell into the Luo River!" a cultivator exclaimed in disbelief upon witnessing this scene.

What kind of place is Luo River? It is known as the most mysterious place on the Azure Dragon Continent. Among the nine ruins, Luo River is an uncontrolled area, which can be visited by anyone. However, Luo River is also the least visited of the nine ruins.

The fundamental reason is that the Luo River is a place where there is no chance of survival if one goes there.