Truth and Falsehood

Taking a deep breath, Ye Chen raised his head to the sky. Once the Heavenly Lightning Tribulation passed, the Wind and Fire Grand Tribulation would come next.

The Wind and Fire Grand Tribulation had two layers of tribulation: the external tribulation and the internal tribulation. The external tribulation was gale winds slicing the body and heavenly fire burning it, while the internal tribulation was heart demons. When external and internal tribulations arrived together, anyone with insufficient willpower simply could not survive. Of those who failed their tribulations, half died beneath the Wind and Fire Grand Tribulation, while the other half died beneath the Soul Tribulation. Comparatively few died during the Heavenly Lightning Tribulation.

"First, I'll recover my True Essence."

When undergoing the Life and Death Tribulation, recovering True Essence was the least of one's concerns. The Origin Energy between heaven and earth was simply too dense, especially within the black hole that pierced through the Triple Heaven. It was practically an energy black hole. That Origin Energy had been compressed into liquid, then the liquid compressed into solid. As Ye Chen circulated the low-rank Heaven-class Azure Lotus Swordplay, vast and boundless Origin Energy poured down in an inverted funnel centered on him. By rough estimate, the concentration of Origin Energy in this area was at least a thousand times that of the outside world—if not higher.

"This feels incredible!"

Ye Chen had never accumulated True Essence so quickly before. The dense Origin Energy barely needed refining before it became his own True Essence. His previously exhausted True Essence recovered by ten percent in just a few breaths, then twenty percent, thirty percent... seventy percent, until it was completely restored.

Whoosh!

Just as Ye Chen fully recovered his True Essence, a bright whirlwind suddenly swept down from the black hole, blowing