The Legend of the Great Desolation: I Am the Fortress

Chapter 151 Wait Another Five Hundred Years
Early morning hours.

"Uncle Master."

"Uncle Master."

"Master."

Amidst a chorus of respectful voices, Lei Zhan arrived at the foot of the Xieyue Sanxing Cave on Fangcun Mountain and stood quietly beside the mountain road.

Without saying a word, with eyes slightly closed, he naturally blends into the surrounding world.

It seemed as if Leizhan was a part of the world.

"Strange!"

"Strange! Uncle Master is standing at the foot of the mountain... Is he waiting for someone?"

"Who is Uncle Master waiting for? In the entire Fangcun Mountain lineage, apart from the founder, who else is worthy of Uncle Master personally welcoming?"

"The other uncles all have extraordinary status and strength, but I've never heard of any of them welcoming me like this."

"Indeed. Perhaps, Grandmaster is comprehending something? This method of naturally blending into the world... at the very least, one must have a profound understanding of the Dao to be able to do so, right?"

"This? Now that you put it that way, it's true!"

“Hiss! After more than twenty years on the mountain, Master Uncle’s strength has become increasingly unfathomable. Even now that he has returned to his Void Body, I feel as if Master Uncle Yin Yue is standing before me!”

In the early morning, there were disciples who were cleaning the mountain road, and there were also disciples who were passing by. They all felt extremely strange when they saw Lei Zhan standing by the road at the foot of the mountain.

However, during the years that Ju Huaxian was reincarnated, Lei Zhan's second soul spent twenty years in meditation on the Flower and Fruit Mountain, and this original body also spent twenty years on the Fangcun Mountain.

Over the past twenty years, the disciples of the Fangcun Mountain lineage have grown to respect Bodhi Patriarch, the youngest disciple.

……

Lei Zhan stood beside the mountain road with a leisurely gaze, a pot of wine in his left hand, gazing at the mortal world below Fangcun Mountain through the endless clouds, his heart very calm.

He was waiting, waiting for someone to come.

Wow.

At the foot of the mountain shrouded in endless clouds and mist, a crack suddenly appeared in the space, and two figures immediately walked out of it.

One in a gold robe, the other in a green robe. Both were young men.

"Tsk." Leizhan picked up the wine jug and drank the still mellow wine comfortably, then he withdrew his gaze.

"Hmm? Senior Leizhan?" Ju Hua blinked, looked at the black-robed Leizhan in front of him, and then glanced at the gold-robed Leizhan beside him.

The two are exactly the same. The only difference is the slight difference in their temperament and the color of their robes.

"The one next to you is just an incarnation of a trace of divine power from my second soul." Lei Zhan smiled, and with a thought, the incarnation of a trace of divine power from my second soul that was following Ju Hua immediately dissipated.

The reincarnated Ju Hua was just an innate being, so Lei Zhan naturally couldn't let any innate being enter the space tunnel, especially since this space tunnel led to the Xieyue World.

In this passage, even a tiny amount of power that overflowed was enough to make Ju Hua's body, soul, and even his spirit all be annihilated into nothingness by the distorted time and space.

"A trace of divine power incarnate?" Ju Hua immediately understood.

With the vast amount of information passed down by Lei Zhan in his mind, he naturally knew that powerful gods and demons who practiced physical cultivation could create an incarnation with just a trace of divine power.

"Come with me." Lei Zhan nodded and smiled, then turned around and took Ju Hua along the rugged mountain road and walked up the mountain.

Just like when Leizhan first joined Fangcun Mountain and Jiang Jun did the same.

……

time flies.

Leizhan stayed on Fangcun Mountain, cultivating in peace and quiet. He also took time to instruct the reincarnation of his master, Juhua, in his cultivation.

Every year he would come out of seclusion to listen to Patriarch Bodhi's teachings, and during this time he would also meet with many fellow disciples.

On Fangcun Mountain, life is comfortable and leisurely.

……

Three hundred years later.

In front of the Fairy Palace.

"This Ju Hua, when he first came up the mountain, he was just an innate creature, right? How could he challenge a ninth-order puppet?"

"Yes. It's truly incredible! Watching him fight against the ninth-level puppet, from what I can tell from his swordsmanship, he's at least mastered eight or nine principles!"

"Seven or eight? I saw fifteen!"

"This, this! Fifteen? And there's also the Sword Path and the Source Water Path..."

"This Ju Hua... I remember it was Junior-Master who brought him up the mountain. It's only been three hundred years, and he's already so strong!"

"The people Junior Master brought back are naturally extraordinary!"

All the disciples of the Fangcun Mountain lineage gathered in front of the open space surrounding the Immortal Palace. As they spoke, they subconsciously glanced at the two figures at the front of the crowd.

There, Lei Zhan and Jiang Jun also cast their gazes towards the center of the open space.

In the center of this open space, Ju Hua, dressed in a green robe and holding a long sword, was fighting with a ninth-level puppet.

The fight between the two was extremely fierce.

a long time.

"Ju Hua, wins!"

Jiang Jun walked forward with a smile, and with a wave of his hand, he collected the jade puppet with nine rings on its right arm.

More than twenty years ago, Yin Yue and Lei Zhan's second soul went down the mountain one after another.

Of the many disciples of Patriarch Bodhi, only the eldest brother Qiaofu, the second brother Ji Dian, Silver Moon Celestial God, and Jiang Jun were still on the mountain. The next were Leizhan and Wangshu.

The Silver Moon God has gone down the mountain. Among these disciples, only Jiang Jun is suitable to temporarily replace the Silver Moon God to guard the Fairy Palace.

"Jiang Jun, the True Immortal." Ju Hua bowed respectfully. "Alright. We are not outsiders." Jiang Jun smiled. "Go ahead. Defeat the ninth-level puppet, and you can choose any magic or secret technique from the ninth floor of the Immortal Palace."

"Yes." Ju Hua nodded with a smile on her face. She glanced at Lei Zhan who was standing not far from Jiang Jun, and then walked towards the Palace of Immortals.

"Junior brother, has Ju Hua fully awakened the memories of his past life?" Jiang Jun turned to look at Lei Zhan and said, "In just three hundred years, it's extremely rare for someone to comprehend more than ten Daos."

"Yes." Lei Zhan nodded and smiled, "My master, when he was practicing Qigong and breaking through to the Earthly Immortal level, he already had complete memories of his past lives. With the accumulation of two lives, his understanding of the Tao is indeed extraordinary."

In this life, Ju Hua is still practicing body and qi training as a god and demon.

Three hundred years of practice on the Fangcun Mountain allowed the immortal Juhua to cultivate his Qi to the level of a terrestrial immortal, while his divine and demonic body training also reached the level of perfect primordial spirit.

It was also in this year that his memories of his past life were completely awakened.

"Just now, when I saw his swordsmanship, there was still the shadow of Yuanshui Avenue. Both avenues are very profound..." Jiang Jun seemed to have thought of something, with a teasing look on his face.

"Junior brother, when are you going to overcome the heavenly tribulation? Your reincarnated master has already reached the level of an earthly immortal. Don't let him overcome the heavenly tribulation and become an immortal before you!"

"Hahaha." Leizhan also laughed, "Almost there! Almost there."

Leizhan's gaze was a little vague. In his purple palace space, there was a black bead the size of a baby's fist with starlight dots on it.

In this bead, a galaxy vaguely emerges.

"After three hundred years of accumulation, I've almost gathered a third of the energy in this black bead." Lei Zhan muttered to himself, "It's almost there!"

When the energy of the black bead is fully accumulated into a brilliant "galaxy", it will not be long before Leizhan overcomes the heavenly tribulation.

And now, almost one third of the time has passed since that thousand-year promise.

While Lei Zhan was waiting for his master, Patriarch Bodhi, to help him resume his Dharma, he was also waiting for the energy in the black beads to slowly accumulate.

During these three hundred years, although Lei Zhan did not use the black bead's ability to gain sudden enlightenment, his understanding of the Tao continued to grow.

Among them, the fastest progress was in the art of guns.

Three hundred years had passed, allowing him to fully comprehend the great way of the spear, and also to realize the first level of the original power of the spear.

As for the other avenues, they have not yet realized the original power.

But the Great Dao of Cause and Effect has also reached the level of the Great Dao.

……

Time passed like the sands of the Ganges, and another two hundred years passed.

On Fangcun Mountain.

A portable immortal residence.

In a large hall, Leizhan and Wangshu sat opposite each other around a table.

On the table stood a pot of fragrant tea. Two teacups were filled with tea, and wisps of steam were rising from them.

Wangshu, dressed in a snow-white dress, sat casually, with a picturesque smile. She looked at Leizhan and said softly:
"Leizhan, I, too, am about to endure the heavenly tribulation."

"I want to survive the heavenly tribulation?"

Lei Zhan's face was filled with solemnity. "Do you want to wait a little longer? Your bloodline is extraordinary. Although you have cultivated the Eight-Nine Profound Arts, the more evil the heavenly tribulation is, the more exaggerated and outrageous it will be."

Leizhan felt a little worried.

Although Wangshu has not practiced as many top-notch techniques and secret arts as him, his opportunities and luck are not inferior to those of other disciples of Daozu.

You have to know that with a father who is a Taoist ancestor and a master who is the top Bodhi ancestor in the Three Realms, how weak can this final heavenly tribulation be?
Moreover, it was the original body that was undergoing the tribulation. The dragon clan, who were gods and demons who practiced both body and qi training, were no different from those gods and demons born from heaven and earth who were undergoing the tribulation.

"Wait? I don't want to wait anymore." Wangshu shook his head.

"I have a feeling that this period of time is the best opportunity for me to overcome the tribulation. If I miss this opportunity, I may have to wait for a hundred years."

"I'm not like you. Even if the heavenly tribulation is extremely powerful, it will only reach the peak of ninety-nine thunder tribulations. And I have also cultivated the Eight-Nine Profound Art to the sixth level, which can also increase my confidence."

"That... is fine." Lei Zhan nodded. "After more than five hundred years, your spatial power and mental strength have reached the second level. Even if I were to overcome the Heavenly Divine Tribulation, if it were the Nine-Nine Thunder Tribulation, the three realms of wind, fire, and thunder would be nothing to you."

"Yes! As long as it's the Nine-Nine Thunder Tribulations, I'm not afraid. Furthermore, my understanding of the Dao has also improved significantly. This is all thanks to Master's teachings over the past five hundred years..."

Leizhan nodded, and Wangshu also smiled.

"For me, if my master didn't give a sermon every year, and if that sermon didn't save me nearly a hundred years of hard training, under normal circumstances, I would probably choose to settle down a little longer and wait slowly."

Lei Zhan understood. The Heavenly Tribulation was a huge mountain standing in the way of many immortal cultivators.

Once you get through it, you will be free and at ease from now on, and will no longer suffer from the three disasters and nine calamities.

If you can't make it, you will die.

A few days later.

Above a wilderness, Wangshu, dressed in a snow-white dress, stood in the air.

There was a large, thick, dark cloud overhead.

Endless dark clouds covered all areas, and the endless pressure made people feel frightened.

And around here, Lei Zhan, Jiang Jun, Ji Dian, and several disciples of Fangcun Mountain were all there. Even Sun Wukong followed his junior sister back to Fangcun Mountain when he heard that she was going to survive the heavenly tribulation.

"Looking at this thunder tribulation, it should be just the Nine-Nine Thunder Tribulation." Lei Zhan looked at the tribulation clouds in the sky from afar and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as the Pure Yang Golden Lightning does not appear in the end, with the power of the Eight-Nine Profound Art, he can withstand most of the heavenly thunders in front of him with his physical body alone.

"Junior sister, you are a god and demon who is refining your body. If this thunder tribulation is only the nine-nine thunder tribulation, it is indeed not difficult." Sun Wukong also looked into the distance, scratched his head, turned to look at Lei Zhan, with curiosity in his eyes.

"Junior brother, your original body and secondary soul are both in the stage of returning to the void. Have you decided when to transcend the tribulation?"

"Me?" Lei Zhan shook his head and smiled, "Wait another five hundred years."

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(End of this chapter)