Look What I Found! A Giant Cocoon!

"No, I can't enter the Netherworld now!" The cross-dressing cultivator panicked.

He summoned his Golden Scissors and stopped his descent. Then, while he was still in the passage to the Netherworld, he desperately drove his Dharma Treasure back toward the Present World.

But he had forgotten that something even more terrifying awaited him there.

The Heavenly Tribulation for a Fifth-Grade cultivator was already gathering its strength...

He fought his way back to the Present World, where the merciless Fifth-Grade Heavenly Tribulation awaited him!

Elsewhere, in the void, Song Shuhang had already withdrawn the Golden Lotus projected from his chest.

Guoguo, Shi, and Zhu all stared enviously at his chest—who would have thought the lotus Senior Brother Shuhang projected was so powerful? It had reached straight into the passage to the Netherworld to pursue the cross-dressing cultivator.

Guoguo was just about to ask Song Shuhang what technique had produced that projected lotus.

Suddenly, Song Shuhang pitched forward and collapsed.

"Senior Brother Shuhang!" Shi and Zhu cried out anxiously.

Ye Si paused for an instant, then smiled gently. She turned Song Shuhang over so he lay flat on his back. "Don't worry. Shuhang's fine. He just ate too much... He'll be all right in a little while."

As Song Shuhang's Spirit Ghost, she could sense that he was in good condition. Nothing was wrong with him.

As she spoke, down in the passage between the Netherworld and the Present World, the cross-dressing cultivator emerged again.

"Damn it! Who ruined my plans? I'll wipe out your entire family!" he roared.

But the moment he emerged, flames welled up beneath his feet... They became lotuses that enveloped him, burning his body from the outside in. At the same time, golden heart-fire ignited in his Heart Aperture and burned him from the inside