A master of comedy!

As Zhou Sheng entered a state of enlightenment on the altar, Jinse's eyes turned cold, and she immediately ordered martial law to be enforced. A large number of soldiers poured in, completely isolating the Tongtian Tower.

The cultivators of the Celestial Division almost all came out, standing in the direction of the stars in the heavens, holding array flags, while the central control of the main array was in the hands of the Old Man of Niushan, a master of array formations.

His personal bodyguards were Jinse, Yang Ying, Hongxian, and Yuzhensheng, the people he trusted most.

Although Zhou Sheng had said that there would be no unexpected events during this Fengshan ceremony, they still dared not be careless in the slightest.

However, as the power of time spread, they had to retreat, and only Yu Zhensheng, who had entered the Earth Immortal Realm, could remain unmoved.

Hongxian was originally prepared to tough it out, but when she found that a beard was starting to grow on her face, she was horrified. She used her Samadhi True Fire to burn the beard to ashes and then slunk away to the side.

The time did not last long. When the power of time became concentrated to a certain degree, Zhou Sheng seemed to break through an invisible bottleneck. His internal magical power surged wildly, and his essence, qi, and spirit gathered at the top of his head to form a flower.

An otherworldly aura, as if he had attained immortality, emerged, as if he were about to ride the wind and ascend to the ranks of the immortals at any moment.

But Yu Zhensheng tensed up, becoming extremely wary, and even used the blood from his middle finger to draw a third eye on his forehead, singing the song of Erlang Shen.

The Heavenly Eye opened, radiating brilliant divine light, taking in the entire surrounding area, not even missing the flapping of a fly's wings.

He knew that his disciple was about to enter the most difficult time, which was to undergo the seventh heavenly tribulation—the Yin Fire Tribulation.

The Taoist scriptures say, "The Yin Fire rises from the Yongquan acupoint, penetrates straight to the Niwan Palace, and turns the five internal organs to ash. Even a thousand years of Taoist cultivation can be completely destroyed in a single day."

The Yin Fire Calamity is one of the three calamities that makes countless powerful beings tremble at the mere mention of it.

In Journey to the West, even the Great Sage, who had achieved great spiritual cultivation, was very wary of it. The Bodhi Patriarch even personally warned him to be careful of the three tribulations: heavenly thunder, yin fire, and bi wind.

The original Buddha Mother of the Longhua Sect practiced the method of avoiding the three calamities because she was worried that she would not be able to successfully overcome the tribulation and that her thousand years of cultivation would be destroyed in an instant.

Jinse once frankly told that the Buddha Mother's true cultivation level was the Seventh Tribulation Realm. She had almost escaped death when she was undergoing the Yin Fire Tribulation, which left a deep shadow on her.

Therefore, even though she had accumulated enough, the Buddha Mother did not dare to try to overcome the Bifeng Calamity, which was ten times more dangerous than the Yin Fire Calamity, and instead specially cultivated the method of avoiding the three calamities.

Later, because she had been hiding for too long and could no longer avoid it, she preferred to risk her life to escape the calamity and live in seclusion rather than take the risk.

This shows just how dangerous and terrifying the Yin Fire Tribulation was, leaving an indelible shadow in the heart of a Seventh Tribulation Earth Immortal.

Zhou Sheng soon witnessed it.

At first, he only felt a burning sensation in the soles of his feet, but then the burning sensation became stronger and stronger, and in the end, even with his strong body, he felt waves of excruciating pain.

Wisps of pale golden flames rose from the Yongquan acupoint, heading straight for the Niwan acupoint, their domineering force burning the five internal organs along the way.

This is the Yin Fire Calamity, a terrifying flame that can completely disregard the strength of the physical body and specifically burn the internal organs, qi and blood, and primordial spirit.

If you cannot withstand or endure it, no matter if you achieve physical sainthood or possess supernatural powers, you will turn to ashes, your limbs and bones will become illusions, and you will not even have the chance to be reborn.

Even more terrifying, when Zhou Sheng tried to extinguish the flames with the power of time, he found that the flames were completely unaffected.

Even the long river of time cannot extinguish this bone-corroding, sinister fire.

As for Yu Zhensheng, the moment the Yin Fire appeared, he retreated a hundred feet, driven by an instinctive fear, as if he had encountered a natural enemy.

Even the red thread that could spew out Samadhi Fire evoked an indescribable fear.

The Yin Fire Calamity is specifically designed to burn immortals!

At this moment, Zhou Sheng remained calm. His golden core circulated in his dantian, stirring up a vast ocean of magical power that surged wildly towards the yin fire rising from the spring.

In just a short while, his legs were almost roasted. The 1,300 years of magical power did indeed play a significant role, suppressing the spread of the Yin Fire for a short time, but the flames were only hindered, not extinguished.

On the contrary, his magical power was being rapidly depleted.

Zhou Sheng chanted incantations and used sixteen water-based divine abilities from the Louguan sect in one go, but none of them could affect the Yin Fire. So he used twelve fire-based divine abilities, but they were also negligible.

Even more terrifying, as it burned, the Yin Fire even used magical power as fuel, and the flames intensified, quickly burning through Zhou Sheng's internal organs and reaching his Niwan Palace.

On the altar, under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Zhou Sheng was reduced to ashes.

What's amazing is that those terrifying Yin Fires, which could easily burn a sixth-tribulation Earth Immortal to death, couldn't even burn the wood on the altar, and easily extinguished after leaving Zhou Sheng's body.

"My disciple!"

"Brother Zhou!"

"Heavenly Venerable!!"

Countless people stared wide-eyed at this scene, shocked and unable to accept it. The invincible Zhou Tianzun in their hearts had just turned to ashes.

The people were deeply grieved, and many cried out, but some had a gleam of pleasure in their eyes, and could barely suppress the smiles on their faces.

They were all spies and assassins lurking here, especially the assassins, who originally intended to risk their lives to interfere with Zhou Sheng's breakthrough.

Unexpectedly, the arrogant Zhou Tianzun died so quickly.

This saves them the risk of taking action.

However, no one noticed that after Zhou Sheng turned to ashes, a long river of time emerged from the void, and a figure was vaguely seen flowing upstream within it.

Time rewinds to before the tribulation.

At this moment, the Yin Fire had just risen from the soles of his feet. A look of solemnity appeared in Zhou Sheng's eyes. Blocking the power of magic was a dead end. It was better to let it flow. This time, he was prepared to try to let go of the resistance and let it burn so that he could carefully comprehend the mystery within.

This would be considered insane for any cultivator, but it was perfectly applicable to Zhou Sheng.

After surviving six heavenly tribulations, his understanding of the Great Dao of Time became even more profound, and he was able to reverse time multiple times in a row. As for the loss of lifespan, a single immortal peach was enough to make up for it.

As for whether he would drain the goddess of the peach tree dry, Zhou Sheng decided not to consider that for the time being.

Of course, he could also use the Luoshu divination to calculate the method of transcending the tribulation, but that would consume too much energy, and repeatedly going back in time to comprehend the Yin Fire Tribulation would also be a rare opportunity.

During his second tribulation, he completely gave up resistance, allowing himself to be consumed by the flames. In the extreme pain, he relied on the Heavenly Escape Sword Intent to uphold his Dao Heart, remain clear-headed, and carefully comprehend the mysteries of the Yin Fire.

Before he was completely reduced to ashes, a thought struck him, and he vaguely touched that threshold.

Time rewinds once more.

During his third tribulation, Zhou Sheng no longer allowed the fire to burn unchecked. Instead, he combined his previous understanding with an attempt to manipulate the Yin Fire. He succeeded, causing the Yin Fire to change course and no longer head straight for the Niwan Palace. Instead, it burned out from the Shenmen acupoint, turning half of his body into ashes.

In fact, he could barely be considered to have successfully transcended the tribulation, but half of his body was destroyed and his strength was damaged, which was naturally unacceptable to Zhou Sheng.

Come again!

Without any hesitation, Zhou Sheng began his fourth tribulation.

This time, a realization dawned on him: he not only needed to successfully overcome the tribulation, but also to make good use of this power, turning it into a trump card! (End of Chapter)