I Step into the Immortal Realm with My Nascent Soul

In the Human Realm, across the Four Great Continents, the heavens and earth were sealed. Endless tribulation clouds poured down like a mountain torrent, forming layer upon layer in the sky, some resembling mountain peaks, others like ocean tides. Within these surging clouds, lightning crackled with immense power, and an indescribable suffocation blanketed the vast land. Xiao Hua and his various clones were nearing the end of their tribulations.

Above the Western Paradise in the south, before the Buddha Kingdom's heavenly gate, bathed in Buddhist light, beneath layers of mountain shadows resembling Mount Sumeru, Xiao Hua's Sarira Clone, the Maitreya Buddha Lord, wore a faint smile. He raised his hand, produced the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, and with a wave, the myriad mountain shadows shattered. Buddhist light swept them away, falling onto the Maitreya Buddha Lord.

For a time, ten thousand Buddhas chanted, heavenly flowers rained down, Buddhist chants echoed, and heavenly dragons reappeared. However, strangely, as the Buddhist light landed on the Maitreya Buddha Lord, it split into two. With a "boom," one stream crossed the sky and fell directly onto Xiao Hua's head, who was undergoing tribulation in the West Sea!

Above the Thousand Demon Sacred Realm in the north, two distinct starry skies appeared. The first, at first glance, didn't seem like a starry sky; it contained no stars, sun, or moon. Instead, it held tens of thousands of various birds and beasts, their bodies shimmering with starlight, roaring madly. As they roared, the space distorted, and a faint bloody hue enveloped the surroundings. At this moment, the tribulation of Huang Tong, Xiao Hua's flesh and blood clone, was also nearing its end. The bloody phoenix egg he had transformed into touched the boundary of the realm. With a "boom," a bloody light pillar descended, covering the phoenix egg. Yet, bizarrely, another bloody light pillar, ignoring Huang Tong, descended directly onto Xiao Hua.

Within the second starry sky, countless stars shone brightly. Near each star, distorted star patterns twisted in a peculiar way. To the naked eye, it seemed as if the sun and moon shone together in every crease, but their light was obscured by the multitude of stars. At this moment, the star formed by Xiao Hua's flesh and blood clone, Phoenix Wutong, touched the realm's boundary. The Star Moon Light Pillar that guided the star suddenly split into two, just like the bloody light pillar, and rushed towards Xiao Hua in the distance!

High above the northwest of the Three Great Continents, a golden-yellow pupil, ten thousand miles wide, appeared – the Sky-Opening Eye of the Dragon Clan undergoing tribulation. Surrounding the eye, earth, fire, wind, and thunder erupted like a collapsing sky, engulfing a million miles of space! Within this space, earth, fire, wind, and thunder raged. The sky gradually steamed, losing its normal colors, becoming entirely golden. At this moment, the golden eye was opening, and the light cocoon of Dragon True Person, Xiao Hua's meridian clone, touched the realm's boundary. With a deafening "boom," the ten-thousand-mile-wide Heavenly Eye, its nine rings closing, unleashed a massive golden light pillar that pierced the realm's boundary and struck Dragon True Person. Similar to Phoenix Wutong and Huang Tong, the golden light that landed on Dragon True Person split into another beam, piercing Xiao Hua's physical body.

Above the Hidden Immortal Continent to the east, a colossal scroll ten thousand feet high, adorned with flashing sword light, hovered. Lightning flashed around the scroll, and the Five Qi True Thunder poured down like a heavenly river, forming a monstrous thunder tide that covered a million miles. Within the Five Qi True Thunder, billions of pillars of righteous energy descended, and five-colored auspicious clouds also filled the sky. A vast, supreme aura emanated from the scroll, enveloping the entire Hidden Immortal Continent. The scroll's entrance was bathed in golden light, and the descending clouds also wrapped around Wen Qu, Xiao Hua's Confucian Cultivation clone. As celestial music sounded, the scroll contracted, and Wen Qu's figure ascended into the scroll's entrance. With a "boom," a golden light as thick as ten thousand feet shot out from within the scroll, directly engulfing Wen Qu. Similar to Maitreya Buddha Lord and the others, the golden light spawned another beam, falling onto Xiao Hua's chest!

Above the Yilin Continent to the west, by the five-colored, star-shaped Immortal Realm Gate, thunder condensed into stars, dotting the sky. The power of each dot pierced through space, possessing the might to destroy heaven and earth. Xiao Hua's primordial spirit clone, Thunder True Person, transformed into lightning and broke free from the white light that seemed to kill all things. With a "boom," the Immortal Realm Gate released a guiding light. Without any surprise, a beam split off and shot into the West Sea.

High above the West Sea, outside another Immortal Realm Gate resembling thunder patterns, chaotic lightning flashed like crisscrossing paths, completely engulfing the sky. Beneath each streak of light was a thread-like gray-white mist. This mist also pierced through space and fell onto the West Sea, with each strand possessing the power to overturn mountains and seas. Xiao Hua had just activated his golden body and used Light Escape to break free from the white light when "boom, boom, boom..." light pillars descended from the Yilin Continent, the Thousand Demon Sacred Realm, the North Sea, the Hidden Immortal Continent, and other places, scattering across Xiao Hua's golden body. Furthermore, within Xiao Hua's light pillar, three more beams split off and fell towards the Xiaoyu Continent and the West Sea. Xiao Hua's Demon Lord clone, Shi, his bone clone, Celestial Being, and his Soul Cultivator clone, Witch Daoist, were also covered by these light pillars.

Where the light pillars passed, the space Xiao Hua occupied was completely sealed. The radiance was blindingly intense, making it impossible for anyone to see what was happening inside!

"What... what is going on?" Seeing that his golden body was immobilized, let alone his mana and flesh, even his thoughts felt frozen. Xiao Hua was greatly alarmed. However, as the light pillars connected and a unique space formed amidst the heavenly tribulation, Xiao Hua discovered that he and his clones were the only ones within this space; everything else in the world was shielded. A sense of foreboding arose in Xiao Hua's heart.

With a soft "swish," Xiao Hua felt a piercing pain deep within his soul, as if something extremely important was being split from his body. "Ah..." Xiao Hua cried out in pain, watching his Niwan Palace, wrapped in the Sarira, fly out of existence along a light pillar. Looking into the light pillar, he saw that within the Niwan Palace was the phantom of the Maitreya Buddha Lord!

"I... I understand!" Xiao Hua endured the sharp pain in his soul, gritting his teeth, and thought to himself, "This... this belongs to the Maitreya Buddha Lord. I... I have to give it to him!"

With another soft "swish," Xiao Hua felt his soul being sliced open again, his body being stabbed. His Middle Dantian, cultivated with Confucian energy, was violently torn apart, and his internal organs transformed into the phantom of Wen Qu, rushing into another light pillar.

Immediately after, Xiao Hua felt like a lamb on a chopping block. The mysterious dark clouds were sliced open, transforming into the phantom of the Witch Daoist. His meridians were cruelly extracted, becoming the dragon form of Dragon True Person. His bones, tempered into seven colors, were roughly ripped from his flesh, as crude as a Celestial Being, causing Xiao Hua such pain that he almost fainted. When his physical body transformed into the phantoms of Phoenix Wutong and Huang Tong, and his bloodline departed as the ferocious form of the Demon Lord Shi, an incomparably intense pain surged from his primordial spirit and mind, a torment a hundred times more agonizing than the tribulation itself!

"My... why is my tribulation so painful!" Xiao Hua whispered almost groaning. But this was not all. As Xiao Hua looked down, he suddenly discovered that his once majestic, ten-thousand-foot golden body was gone. Only a naked Nascent Soul stood there shyly!

"My heavens, how... how am I supposed to undergo tribulation like this??" Thinking of the many Supremes observing from the Four Great Continents, Xiao Hua felt like dying.

"Dust to dust, earth to earth, cause to cause, effect to effect. At the end of dust is the grave, at the end of cause and effect is rebirth..." At this moment, all his clones spoke in unison, "Thank you, fellow Daoists. Today we are complete. We shall reunite in the Upper Realm!"

Immediately, the myriad light pillars vanished, and the space formed by them shattered. As the light pillars retracted into Xiao Hua's body, they felt like a timely rain, washing away the pain of his torn primordial spirit, mind, and soul. Xiao Hua's heroic spirit surged, and he roared, "Good, good, good! Since this is the case, we agree to reunite in the Upper Realm someday, to conquer the path of immortality and tread upon the divine palaces!!"

After speaking, "boom, boom, boom..." Xiao Hua's Scattered Infant manifested, and lightning once again surged around him. His ten-thousand-foot Nascent Soul Dharma Body appeared, its aura no less imposing than his physical body! Who could possibly discover the trickery within?

Above Xiao Hua's head, the billions of runes now resembled butterflies, flapping their wings and returning to the edge of the massive portal. Amidst waves of rumbling sounds, the Immortal Realm Gate finally opened. Xiao Hua's figure, guided by the golden light, landed before the portal. Afterward, Xiao Hua glanced in the direction of the Imperial Thunder Sect, then towards the million Meng Mountains, bowed respectfully, and turned to enter the Immortal Realm Gate!

However, just as Xiao Hua's figure was about to be submerged in silver, a sudden anomaly occurred. "Rumble, rumble, rumble..." Nine layers of thunder abruptly appeared above the portal, transforming into nine-colored python-dragons, baring their fangs and claws as they lunged at Xiao Hua. This Nine-Colored True Thunder was ten times more ferocious than the previous tribulation lightning!

"This..." Xiao Hua was greatly alarmed. Without hesitation, he activated Thunderous Might. "Woooo..." Above Xiao Hua's head, similarly nine-colored lightning erupted, condensing in mid-air into a lightning formation resembling the Immortal Slaying Platform, which lunged at the Nine-Colored True Thunder!

It was precisely as Xiao Hua activated Thunderous Might that he suddenly realized that this nine-colored true thunder was by no means an anomaly, but rather due to his Scattered Infant! Previously, during his thunder tribulations, he had relied on his physical body and had not brought out his Scattered Infant. Now that his physical body had disappeared, he could only rely on his Scattered Infant to ascend to the Immortal Realm. However, his Scattered Infant had not yet truly undergone the baptism of Immortal Realm tribulation lightning! How could the Immortal Realm Gate allow him to enter?

Indeed, although Xiao Hua's Thunderous Might was formidable, the Nine-Colored True Thunder, forming abruptly at the Immortal Realm Gate, was far more powerful than Xiao Hua had anticipated. After annihilating Xiao Hua's Thunderous Might, it surged towards Xiao Hua like a tidal wave. "Damn it..." Xiao Hua cursed under his breath. If he had known earlier that his physical body would be taken away by Phoenix Wutong, he would have brought out his Scattered Infant long ago. Now, this Nine-Colored True Thunder was nine tribulation thunders mixed together striking him. How could his Scattered Infant possibly withstand it?

However, even if he couldn't withstand it, Xiao Hua had to. The immense power of the Immortal Realm's boundary pressed down on him, making it impossible to struggle. Only by enduring the baptism of tribulation lightning could his Scattered Infant be filled with Immortal Spiritual Energy, and only then could it survive in the Immortal Realm!

"Boom, boom..." The immense torrent of lightning engulfed Xiao Hua. Indescribable pain, extremely sensitive, emanated from the surface of his Nascent Soul. Moreover, the lightning waves were increasing, reaching a limit that Xiao Hua could no longer bear!

Just then, a faint voice echoed, "Hmph, truly useless..."

Although this voice sounded distorted like thunder through the Immortal Realm's barrier, Xiao Hua heard it clearly. The voice was incredibly familiar!

"Elder... Elder Xu?" Xiao Hua couldn't help but feel a warmth in his heart, recalling the day in the Star Moon Palace when Xu Zhi and the Star Moon Fairy (for the story of Xu Zhi and the Star Moon Fairy, please refer to my work "Exiled Immortal," Part Two) were leaving. Xu Zhi had said, "When you ascend, I will come to greet you..."

With a "swish," following Xu Zhi's voice, the Nine-Colored True Thunder, which was about to shatter Xiao Hua's Scattered Infant, suddenly vanished. Xiao Hua saw clearly that in the distance, a tall, silver figure was standing there. The silver figure was no longer as blinding as before. Xiao Hua recognized it clearly – wasn't it Xu Zhi?

Xiao Hua rejoiced and propelled himself forward, calling out, "Xu..."

However, as soon as Xiao Hua moved, a terrifying force from the realm's barrier surged, pressing his Scattered Infant firmly down. This barrier force also surged and overwhelmed Xiao Hua's consciousness, causing his vision to darken. But just before Xiao Hua fainted, he suddenly thought of something, and his expression changed drastically!

Xiao Hua's eyes snapped open. Looking at the smiling Xu Zhi, he shouted, "You... you're not Xu Zhi?"

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