Shrouding the Heavens: Starting by joining the Holy Land of Yao Guang

Chapter 176 Exclusive to Prodigies
Standing in the sky, Li Yao looked at the Nine Nether Demon River pressing in from all sides and sighed in his heart: "It seems that even with divine restrictions and ten times the battle power, it is still impossible to reach the battle power of a Great Completion King?"

He had never really understood his own combat strength, because at his level, there were hardly any opponents left in the world.

Now, after fighting against the Dark Night King, a figure who dominated the world four thousand years ago, he finally understood his true strength.

It is stronger than a typical Dao-Slaying Realm cultivator, but it is still some distance from a Great Completion King. Even with the addition of Divine Restriction and ten times the combat power, there is still a gap.

That's normal, really. He's only at the fifth minor stage of the second level of immortality, and there are still more than ten minor stages between him and the Great Completion King.

Moreover, the Dark Night King is a royal being who has lived for over four thousand years on his own, so he is not someone to be trifled with.

"Fortunately, I still have a trump card, otherwise I would have had to rely on the Xingzi Secret to escape." Li Yao breathed a sigh of relief.

"Boom!"

The world suddenly darkened, darker than the darkness brought by the Nine Nether Demon River.

A terrifying destructive force instantly emerged, like the wrath of heaven and earth, threatening to overturn the entire world.

"Pfft!" The Dark Night King spat out a mouthful of silver blood, and the Nine Nether Demon River was instantly shattered.

Lightning is the most domineering force in the world, naturally restraining darkness. When endless lightning suddenly appeared in the Nine Nether Demon River, the collision between the two caused the Dark Night King to suffer a backlash.

"Thunder Tribulation, you brat!" The Dark Night King's expression changed drastically. He no longer cared about his injuries and quickly transformed into a streak of darkness to flee.

The Heavenly Tribulation is the most special tribulation in this world, and only one can overcome it. If someone other than the one undergoing the tribulation appears during the Heavenly Tribulation, that person will suffer the tribulation.

"Don't go! Lightning tribulation is a good thing, don't you want to enjoy it?" Li Yao invited enthusiastically, and chased after him using the Xingzi Secret Technique.

The Night King was frustrated; he was fast, but he couldn't shake off the person behind him.

Li Yao's mastery of the "Xing" character technique has already surpassed the ordinary and reached a state of sainthood. His current speed is comparable to that of a Grandmaster.

He could even go faster, but divine power restricted the effectiveness of the Xingzi Secret Technique.

At this moment, the rolling sea of ​​lightning struck the Dark Night King, tearing his skin and causing blood to splatter. However, he could not put up any resistance and had to suppress all his aura, not even daring to use his divine power, allowing the lightning to attack him.

This is only because the Dark Night King Body has an unparalleled advantage in concealment. If it were another Great Completion King, he would probably have already been locked onto by the Heavenly Tribulation.

This sense of frustration was something the Dark King had never experienced in his thousands of years of reign.

"How can this brat be so fast? And how can the power of a lightning tribulation at the second level of the Immortal Platform be so exaggerated?!" Dark Night King cursed inwardly.

As a Great Perfection King, even his physical body was as if it were forged from divine iron. Relying solely on the power of his physical body, he was capable of crushing even a second-level Immortal.

Logically speaking, a lightning tribulation at the second level of the Immortal Realm should have had little chance of harming him, and even if it could, it wouldn't have been too serious. However, Li Yao's lightning tribulation was too exaggerated, exceeding the scope of the second level of the Immortal Realm. Relying solely on his physical strength, he simply couldn't withstand the devastating force of the lightning tribulation.

With the four-colored immortal furnace above his head, Li Yao seemed to have transformed into an emperor of thunder, using his own heart to represent the heart of heaven, and letting his divine thoughts enter the sea of ​​thunder for his own use!
"when!"

A bell rang out from the sea of ​​thunder, and a large, chaotic bell materialized, formed entirely from chaotic lightning, with many patterns on it, all imprinted with the laws of heaven and earth.

The Heavenly Tribulation contained countless Dao traces, which were immediately imprinted on it. The great bell became even more dazzling, as tall as a small mountain. With a great tremor, the sound traveled for hundreds of miles, instantly suppressing the Dark Night Monarch.

"when……"

The bell tolled, its sound grand, lofty, and profound, touching the soul like the resounding of a great bell. A sense of peace filled the world, yet the lightning flashed even brighter.

Especially inside the great bell, the Night King was being violently struck by electricity, his body emitting white smoke, almost scorched, and nearly shattered. He was in excruciating pain all over his body.

Without using divine power, one cannot withstand the tribulation of lightning; if one uses divine power, one will be locked in by the heavenly tribulation, thus bringing down one's great calamity.

This is a vicious cycle, and the Night King is completely helpless, not knowing how to deal with this predicament.

After trapping the Dark Night King, Li Yao stopped paying attention to him and focused on undergoing the tribulation of lightning. Every now and then, he would harness the lightning to strengthen the power of the Chaos Bell.

"what……"

The piercing screams, accompanied by the roar of thunder, echoed throughout the sky.

Only when the sea of ​​lightning dissipated and the humanoid lightning appeared was the Dark Night King finally freed from his predicament.

Li Yao no longer had the energy to pay attention to the Dark Night King; the human lightning bolt prevented him from being too distracted.

The Night King seized the opportunity and immediately slipped away.

This time, it really gave the Dark Night King a psychological trauma. These geniuses are truly unreasonable. While others are cautious when undergoing tribulation, they treat the lightning tribulation as a weapon, not afraid of bringing a great calamity upon themselves and both of them perish together.

What he didn't know was that this was also why Li Yao hadn't pushed him too far. If he really made the Dark Night King see no way out, and then unleashed the Golden Mace and summoned the Great Emperor's Calamity, then not only the two of them, but the entire Big Dipper would be finished.

Throughout the entire ordeal, Li Yao only dared to injure the Dark Night King, but never to the point of killing him, thus allowing the Dark Night King to always hold onto hope.

……

To the west of the divine city, there is Hualong Pond.

The place is peaceful now, because without the Imperial Weapon to restrain the Hengyu Furnace, no one in the shadows dared to attack the underground palace.

In the milky white pool water, Jiang Taixu's vitality grew stronger and stronger, like a tree that was about to wither but sprouted new buds, visibly regaining its vitality.

Outside the underground palace, many powerful figures sensed this change and were all extremely anxious.

"What's going on? Why hasn't that fellow Daoist wielding the Emperor Weapon made a move yet?"

"I don't know. That person's identity is mysterious, and I don't know which force he belongs to."

"If this continues, Jiang Taixu will truly be fully revived. At that point, even having an imperial weapon will be useless."

The powerful figures in the shadows communicated telepathically, all expressing extreme anxiety.

Meanwhile, inside the underground palace, the Jiang family members were also on high alert, awaiting the arrival of a thunderous strike.

Everyone knew that since that person had already launched an attack with an imperial weapon, it certainly wouldn't be a half-hearted effort.

"Brother Taixu...Brother Taixu..."

Suddenly, a voice as ghostly as a demon echoed throughout the divine city, and everyone heard it.

The ghostly voice was incredibly elusive, shifting left and right, up and down, rapidly approaching the Dragon Transformation Pool. Everyone's expression changed. "Who is that!?"

Calling Jiang Taixu "brother" suggests that he is probably not much younger than Jiang Taixu, making him a living fossil from four thousand years ago.

"brush!"

With a flash of light, an old woman with a wrinkled face appeared in the arena. Her body was hunched over, her white hair was disheveled, and she was leaning on a cane. She looked like she could barely walk, but her speed was astonishing.

“Brother Taixu, thousands of years have passed, and I have finally seen you again. But time has passed too long, and I have grown old. I really don’t want you to see me like this.” Fairy Caiyun’s aged face was covered with tears.

"Fairy Caiyun?!" someone exclaimed from the shadows, recognizing the newcomer as an ancient monster from four thousand years ago.

"So it was you, you old monster, still alive in this world?!" Fairy Caiyun stared at a void, somewhat incredulous.

The person in the shadows wasn't particularly outstanding; under normal circumstances, they shouldn't have lived this long.

"Don't look at me like that. I don't have such heaven-defying strength. My physical body is indeed dead, only my consciousness is still alive." An old man appeared in the void and admitted that he was a living dead.

The old man swayed, and it seemed that even standing was a great effort for him, but no one dared to underestimate him.

From the conversation just now, it can be seen that this person is from the same era as King Jiang.

"This is……"

People noticed that the old man's body was shrouded in black mist, but it was not divine power, but rather a strong morale.

Everyone was shocked and puzzled. With such a strong aura of death, this person should have been dead long ago, so how could he still be alive and kicking?

Even the old man's body reeked of decay; the stench carried on the breeze, making one want to vomit.

"Your body is already dead, so how are you still alive?" Fairy Caiyun asked in confusion.

"Besides ancient sages and some people with strong physiques, who else in this world can live for four thousand years?" the old man asked tremblingly.

He shook his head with difficulty and said, "Four thousand years of immortality is a legend. Even the most supreme saints will pass away. The fact that I can live this long is also an accident."

"How did you do that?" Fairy Caiyun asked, puzzled.

"Years ago, Jiang Taixu was arrogant and looked down upon the world. I and two other friends were being chased and, in our desperation, accidentally stumbled into the Undying Mountain. In the mountain, we mistakenly ate a Yinming Grass..."

"What?!" Everyone was shocked.

The Yinming Grass is just a legendary thing, said to grow in the Yellow Springs and cannot be seen in the human world.

"I must say, the Undying Mountain is truly a desolate place where no living being can survive. We were lucky to escape from there, and now that I think about it, it can be considered that we were blessed by the heavens." At this moment, two more old monsters appeared, each one more sinister than the last.

Long ago, these three were chased into the Undying Mountain by Jiang Taixu. They survived by sheer luck and unexpectedly discovered a Yellow Spring Pool, where they picked a rare herb.

They thought it was a divine medicine, so they shared it. But after eating it, their bodies actually rotted and emitted a corpse-like aura, just like the living dead.

However, they did not die. The Yinming Grass was an extraordinary herb with a toxin that caused decay, but it also contained the essence of immortality, combining two completely opposite medicinal powers.

Their spiritual consciousness increased several times over, but their physical bodies deteriorated rapidly, their vitality dissipated, and they emitted the smell of corpses and decay.

Of course, their bodies were not completely necrotic; they retained a bit of vitality, preventing their physical bodies from completely collapsing.

The powerful ancient corpses in front were driven by them to test the strength of the Jiang family.

"Senior, come in quickly!" The Holy Master of the Jiang family transmitted his voice, telling Fairy Caiyun how to enter the Great Emperor's array.

Although Fairy Caiyun was powerful, she was in poor condition and her life was nearing its end. She could not possibly withstand the combined attack of the three old monsters.

"brush"

With a flash of light, Fairy Caiyun entered the array and immediately arrived at the Dragon Transformation Pool. She nearly convulsed as she fell into the pool, her hands trembling as she approached Jiang Taixu.

“Brother Taixu…” Tears streamed down her face. Jiang Taixu of the past was so full of vigor and spirit, but now he was in such a miserable state.

"Senior, do not worry. The Divine King Ancestor has a divine medicine in his body, so there will be no major problems," the Holy Master of the Jiang family comforted him.

Fairy Caiyun nodded, also sensing the condition within Jiang Taixu's body; like a withered tree sprouting new buds, its vitality was gradually increasing.

"My friend who secretly wields the imperial weapon, Jiang Taixu's life force is rapidly recovering. Please show yourself, or all our efforts will be in vain!" an old monster shouted, his voice shaking the divine city.

They finally couldn't sit still any longer. After a careful examination, they realized that if they didn't interrupt him, Jiang Taixu would recover in no time.

"What? There's someone like that in the shadows?!" Even the Holy Master of the Jiang family was a bit of a headache, saying, "He must be controlling the Great Emperor's Holy Weapon and fighting against the Hengyu Divine Furnace."

The three old monsters stared coldly at Jiang Taixu in the Dragon Transformation Pool and said, "Four thousand years of hatred is not something that only the three of us remember."

"Hmph, stop shouting. Your secret friend isn't coming. You'll all die here today." Fairy Caiyun stared sharply at the three old monsters outside the Imperial Formation.

"Did you meet the person in the shadows, senior? Who is he?" Jiang Yun asked hurriedly, his expression changing.

"A terrifying person. I encountered him outside the Holy City, but fortunately, the Holy Lord of Yaoguang intervened and saved me, allowing me to escape..."

Fairy Caiyun truthfully recounted her experiences outside the Holy City, including the identity of the Dark Night King and the fact that the imperial weapon he used originated from an ancient clan.

"It's him!" Everyone was shocked. They never expected that the one who secretly wielded the imperial weapon to fight against the Hengyu Furnace was one of the twin kings who dominated the Central Plains four thousand years ago.

"He has the imperial weapon of an ancient clan, what about the Holy Lord Yao Guang?" Ye Fan asked hurriedly, feeling somewhat worried.

Fairy Caiyun shook her head. "I don't know either. When the Holy Lord Yaoguang sent me out of the Dark Night World, I didn't know what was going on inside. But the Holy Lord Yaoguang told me that he was going to undergo a tribulation. When the tribulation came, no one would dare to attack or kill him during the tribulation."

Everyone was stunned upon hearing this, but then they immediately understood. When the Heavenly Tribulation descends, no one except the one undergoing the tribulation can make a move. This move is unsolvable, and even the Dark Night King is helpless against it.

"Heavenly tribulations can be played in this way?!"

Ye Fan's eyes lit up. He had a premonition that when he broke through to the Four Extremes Secret Realm, he would also face a Heavenly Tribulation. If he could drag his enemies into the Heavenly Tribulation, wouldn't he be able to suppress and kill all the heroes without lifting a finger?

"Hmm, no, does that mean there are no Imperial Weapons hidden now?!"

The Jiang family members reacted, exchanged glances, and then looked at the three old monsters outside the underground palace with dangerous glints in their eyes.

(End of this chapter)