Everyone from the forces of the three provinces was seized by an absurd thought.
Chaos Nascent Soul?!
Ye Xuan stared blankly at the three colossal Human Dao Sages. They were exactly the same as the ones outside Great Yan Imperial City back then.
Before setting out for Bianhuang City, Ye Fan had repeatedly reminded him to keep an eye on Azure Prefecture's prodigies.
By Ye Fan's estimation, the person who had summoned the three Human Dao Sages last time would definitely come to compete for the secret realm. When that time came, they had to recruit him at all costs.
But now, they had found him?
Recruit him? How were they supposed to recruit him?
Taking a deep breath, Ye Xuan's eyes flashed with intense resentment. He immediately contacted the Blood Demon Race in his heart, telling them to arrange manpower outside. The moment Ye Yu left the secret realm, they were to kill him on the spot.
With the attention of three Human Dao Sages, a Heavenly Revelation Nascent Soul, and a talent score of nine hundred levels, any one of those was enough to make the Blood Demon Race pay a tremendous price to strike by force.
Not to mention that Ye Yu had already been placed on the Devil Race's kill-on-sight list.
"Go on, be arrogant! Laugh while you can! The moment you leave the secret realm will be the moment you die!" Ye Xuan said through gritted teeth.
Ye Qingshuang, meanwhile, looked at Ye Yu within the pillar of light, her eyes full of confusion. It seemed that she truly did not understand her younger brother well enough.
At that moment, Ye Yu, standing within the spiritual radiance, was equally astonished as he watched the three pillars of light gradually merge into his Nascent Soul.
The quality of the Nascent Soul abruptly rose at that moment, and it had already begun to faintly emit an aura of chaos.
Did condensing a Chaos Nascent Soul require first receiving the blessings of the Human Dao Sages?
Or was it the Small Cauldron?!
As the thought fell, a streak of white light pierced the heavens!
The three Human Dao Sages opened their eyes at the same moment and raised their heads to look at that white light. Then, before everyone's shocked gazes, they slowly dropped to one knee.
The sages were paying their respects?! What was going on now?!
In an instant, Ye Yu felt a holy power envelop his entire body. At the center of that white radiance, he seemed to see a great cauldron, with the light emanating from within it.
Just as Ye Yu wanted to get a clearer look, the white light, the sage phantoms, and the great cauldron vanished at the same instant.
The entire secret realm returned to its previous state, as though nothing had happened.
Those outside the secret realm looked at one another, completely unable to understand what had just occurred. What had happened? Just what quality was Ye Yu's Nascent Soul?
Before anyone could sort out their thoughts, a muffled rumble of thunder sounded within the secret realm.
Qin Wushuang's expression immediately turned incomparably grim. The excitement from Ye Yu condensing a Heavenly Revelation Nascent Soul vanished in an instant.
Everyone had been drawn in by the strange phenomenon and forgotten one thing.
The Nascent Soul Tribulation!
Only those who had survived the Nascent Soul Tribulation knew how terrifying it was.
The Nascent Soul Tribulation was a heavenly tribulation aimed at the Nascent Soul. The higher the Nascent Soul's quality, the more terrifying the heavenly tribulation that descended.
An Earth Fiend-grade Nascent Soul Tribulation required the aid of at least ten Nascent Soul Realm experts to overcome. As for a Heavenly Revelation-grade Nascent Soul Tribulation, no one knew.
Because no one present had ever witnessed one.
The many experts could feel the horrifying fluctuations within it merely by seeing a corner of the Nascent Soul Tribulation through the Sky-Gazing Mirror, much less those inside the secret realm—and Ye Yu, who stood at its very center.
"Hehe, so what if it is a Heavenly Revelation-grade Nascent Soul? I refuse to believe that this little bastard can survive it!" Ye Fan sneered.
It was hard to imagine those words coming from a father.
Yet everyone present knew in their hearts that Ye Yu's chances of surviving this Nascent Soul Tribulation were infinitesimal.
At the foot of the mountain, Ye Xuan watched the scene with delight on his face. It seemed the Devil Race would not even need to make a move.
Only Ye Yu, looking at the pitch-black thunderclouds overhead, revealed an excited expression. He immediately formed hand seals with both hands, and arcs of electricity flashed across his body.
Illusory Dragon Wind Lightning Body!
Crack!
A golden heavenly bolt crashed down, as though splitting the entire sky in two. Boundless lightning power poured unceasingly into Ye Yu's body.
The Illusory Dragon Wind Lightning Body operated madly, swallowing the terrifying heavenly might that others feared so deeply like a whale gulping down water.
But gradually, Ye Yu realized something was wrong. The power of this golden heavenly lightning far exceeded his expectations. Even the Illusory Dragon Wind Lightning Body could not absorb it all.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Explosions rang out without end, and the entire secret realm trembled. The earth crumbled, mountains collapsed, and even cracks appeared on the Ascending Heaven Staircase.
Violent lightning power coursed wildly through Ye Yu's body. A layer of pale golden patterns began to emerge across his skin—the sign that the Illusory Dragon Wind Lightning Body was about to break through to the fifth level.
"Aah!!!" After a long while, Ye Yu could not help roaring. Just as he was about to use the Small Cauldron, a spatial rift suddenly appeared behind him.
Then, a huge hand reached out and dragged Ye Yu inside.
The next moment, the tribulation clouds dispersed, and the terrifying heavenly might vanished without a trace.
Qin Ruoxian stared blankly at the empty Ascending Heaven Staircase. Her entire body went weak, and she dropped to her knees. Ye Yu's figure was no longer there.
Ye Xuan and Liu Ruyan burst into wild laughter.
Ye Qingshuang's expression was complicated as she murmured, "You're still so stubbornly strong..."
Outside the secret realm, Qin Wushuang's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. In contrast, Ye Fan laughed aloud. To him, this was the best possible outcome!
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. You little fellow really do know how to make trouble." Within a pitch-black palace, an aged voice rang out.
Suppressing the pain, Ye Yu stood up and looked around. Taking a deep breath, he said, "Thank you, Senior."
"You needn't thank me. If I had let you keep going like that, even the Sacred Pill Sect's final barrier would have been shattered." As the voice fell, an old man's figure appeared before Ye Yu, sizing him up from head to toe.
"May I ask which eminent senior of the Sacred Pill Sect you are?" Ye Yu asked.
A look of desolation crossed the old man's face. Gazing at the ruined palace, he said bitterly, "I am a sinner. How could I be called some eminent figure? This old man is Dan Chenzi."
Ye Yu was startled. Dan Chenzi was recorded in ancient texts as the Sacred Pill Sect's last sect master, as well as the most extraordinarily gifted figure in the sect's long history.
A Grade 8 Alchemist with Void Refinement cultivation, he had once dominated an era.
"Senior Dan Chenzi, may I ask what exactly happened to the Sacred Pill Sect back then? Was it related to the Nine Nether Blood Spring?" Ye Yu pondered for a moment before asking.
Upon hearing this, Dan Chenzi turned around and gave Ye Yu a surprised look. "You even know of the Nine Nether Blood Spring? Your guess is correct. The root of it all was the Nine Nether Blood Spring."
With a sweep of Dan Chenzi's hand, the palace floor abruptly split apart, and a dense, foul, bloody stench erupted from below.
In the blink of an eye, a blood pool hundreds of zhang wide appeared before Ye Yu.
It was precisely the Nine Nether Blood Spring Ye Yu knew so well!
"Young man, I have a stroke of fortune to offer you. Do you want it?" Dan Chenzi suddenly turned to look at Ye Yu and asked.
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