[Nine Lives]' First Reward, the Titan Giant Ape Arrives!

A wave of immense pain instantly flooded Lan Lingcang's nerves. Naturally, he was unable to withstand this Heavenly Tribulation.

Under the might of the heavens, his body was mercilessly torn apart and scorched by lightning. In the span of an instant, every trace of life within him was completely erased.

With a dull bang, Lan Lingcang's aura was utterly cut off, and he plummeted heavily downward.

However, at the very instant his life force completely vanished, the Hextech glow representing [Nine Lives] suddenly blazed brightly.

One of the lives in [Nine Lives] was directly deducted and consumed.

The tribulation clouds above, which had still been raging moments ago, seemed to judge that their target had died and that the laws of heaven and earth had fulfilled their task. They began to slowly disperse into the sky.

Immediately afterward, the power of rules gained by consuming that life instantly enveloped the falling Lan Lingcang.

Lan Lingcang, who had been grievously wounded, bereft of life, and charred black all over, was nourished by this power. Every wound healed in the blink of an eye, the scorched marks faded away, and his body regained its lustrous glow.

After expending that life, Lan Lingcang revived on the spot and instantly returned to his absolute peak!

"Hiss—"

"I came back to life. Nine Lives is great and all, but damn, that hurt way too much!"

Lan Lingcang truly still felt lingering fear. He had genuinely died just now, and if possible, he never wanted to experience that kind of pain a second time!

On a mountaintop not far from the Blue Silver Ancestral Land, Bi Ji quietly watched the scene in the distance.

She had originally come merely to observe.

If this newly born Blue Silver Emperor had been lucky enough to barely survive the tribulation but ended up gravely wounded and near death, she could have stepped in to heal him.

Yet now, she had witnessed with her own eyes how the fatal injuries on his body had instantly recovered after the Lightning Tribulation dissipated.

This deeply shocked her, sending ripples through her usually tranquil beautiful eyes.

"How... how is that possible?"

Bi Ji inwardly marveled. Was the Blue Silver Emperor's recovery ability really that monstrous, that powerful?

Even her Emerald Swan clan could not achieve such an instant revival from death.

Beside Bi Ji stood another figure radiating a mature, charming aura—the Hell Demon Dragon King, Zi Ji.

Although Bi Ji's cultivation was very high, she was not skilled in battle. She was merely a powerful healing-type Soul Beast.

Though she could attack others with her immense spiritual power, it was still best to have someone accompany her when she traveled, just in case.

When Zi Ji saw Lan Lingcang recover in an instant, a flicker of interest flashed through her narrow eyes.

Her red lips parted as she said softly, "This newly advanced Blue Silver Emperor seems to be hiding quite a few secrets. He is rather interesting. Bi Ji, should we go up and say hello?"

Bi Ji recovered from her shock and gently shook her head.

"No need. He has only just advanced, and he has just undergone a trial of life and death. His clansmen should be celebrating for him now, so it would be inappropriate for us to disturb them."

"If he survives in the future and has a chance to reach the level of a two-hundred-thousand-year fierce beast, we will meet sooner or later."

After speaking, Bi Ji gave Lan Lingcang's direction one deep look, then signaled Zi Ji to leave with her and return to the core region.

At that moment, the atmosphere in the Blue Silver Ancestral Land had shifted from despair to revelry.

Old Blue Silver King had personally witnessed the entire process.

At first, when he saw Lan Lingcang falling while grievously wounded and on the verge of death, he had truly thought the hope of the Blue Silver Clan was over.

Yet in the next moment, their new emperor was floating in midair completely unharmed. It was practically a miracle!

Old Blue Silver King was filled with awe and trepidation. He hurriedly prostrated himself respectfully on the ground and cried out excitedly, "Congratulations, Your Majesty! Congratulations on successfully passing the Heavenly Tribulation! May Your Majesty live for countless ages!"

The countless other Blue Silver Grasses within the Blue Silver Ancestral Land also swayed wildly in the wind with excitement.

The entire Ancestral Land became a sea of deep blue joy. Every subject was happy and proud of their new emperor's advancement.

Looking at his incomparably excited clansmen below, a gentle smile curled across Lan Lingcang's lips.

He softly told Old Blue Silver King to rise. Then, with a thought, the Blue Silver Domain instantly spread outward and covered the entire Ancestral Land.

With a light wave of his right hand, he transformed the vast and pure life energy within his body into a rain of light that filled the sky.

This gentle energy precisely fell upon the ordinary Blue Silver Grasses of low cultivation in the Ancestral Land, nourishing their origins.

Watching his clansmen grow increasingly thick and upright beneath the nourishment of that energy, Lan Lingcang nodded in satisfaction.

"With this cleansing of energy, our Ancestral Land should be able to produce a few more Blue Silver Kings in the future. Then I will have a few more helpers as well."

Afterward, Lan Lingcang also learned what reward he had received for losing that life.

The life and combat experience of a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!

For Lan Lingcang, this was actually quite a good reward—better than he had expected.

After all, in Hextech, the reward for losing the first life was only two gold coins and a one-cost card.

Before transmigrating, he had merely been an ordinary college student.

To put it in the words of an online saying, he had been a clear-eyed yet foolish college student...

Although he knew the plot well, that was one thing; the fact that he lacked life experience was another.

Moreover, the current story took place before Tang San was born, so most of the plot he knew was now useless.

Opportunities aside, of course.

There were some opportunities that could strengthen him, and he absolutely had to seize them.

He was a Soul Beast now. Those opportunities could not be handed over to human Soul Masters.

Therefore, this reward for his first lost life was genuinely quite good.

After receiving this infusion of experience, Lan Lingcang's gaze gradually became deep and sharp.

"Kid, were you the one undergoing tribulation here just now?"

At that moment, a huge figure appeared before the Blue Silver Ancestral Land.

The Titan Giant Ape, Er Ming!

His rough voice made all the other Blue Silver Grasses in the Blue Silver Ancestral Land tremble.

Even Old Blue Silver King, an eighty-thousand-year Soul Beast, could not help but want to kneel beneath the might of the King of the Forest.

This was not by his own will, but the suppression brought by bloodline and strength.

Lan Lingcang's eyes narrowed slightly. He spread his domain, and only then did the suppression on the clansmen in the Blue Silver Ancestral Land dissipate.

Er Ming looked at the solid blue figure before him and said, "Interesting. I have never seen Blue Silver Grass survive a Heavenly Tribulation before. How about you and I have a fight?"

"I am bored stiff in this forest. I do not even have a single opponent to spar with."

Lan Lingcang chuckled. "Are you sure? Isn't there an elder brother of yours named Sky Azure Bull Python beside you? Why not go spar with him?"