System: After the fortune telling, my cultivation level skyrocketed.

"What exactly is going on?" Jue Wuqing scratched his head vigorously, desperately flipping through the memories left by his original self in the Immortal Ancient Library, but after searching through all the records, he could not find any matching heavenly tribulation phenomena, and the doubts in his heart grew stronger.

One breath, five breaths, ten breaths...

As time slowly passed, the figure of the bald quasi-emperor began to fade away, as if it were gradually disappearing.

An absurd yet incredibly clear thought sprouted in Jue Wuqing's heart: if Chen Xuan could not reappear before the illusory image of this Immortal Ancient Quasi-Emperor completely disappeared, it would truly mean that he had failed his tribulation and perished completely!

The illusory image of the quasi-emperor continued to fade until it became almost transparent and difficult to see with the naked eye.

Just as Jue Wuqing and the others were completely plunged into despair—

wow——

Within the void where Chen Xuan had been annihilated, circles of pale golden spatial ripples suddenly spread out.

At the center of the ripples, Chen Xuan's figure slowly materialized. He was panting heavily, his face as pale as paper, and his divine power was almost exhausted, but his eyes were wide open, filled with the palpitations of surviving a calamity.

The bald quasi-emperor's phantom glanced at Chen Xuan one last time, a barely perceptible ripple seeming to flash in its eyes, before completely dissipating into the void.

At the same time, the dark red tribulation clouds that had obscured the entire Xuanxiao Star for several days finally began to slowly dissipate, revealing the bright and clear Supreme Taiyin Star in the sky. The moonlight, like water, poured down, nourishing this ravaged void.

"Holy crap... Is this the power of the Eternal Time Great Dao activated by a half-step Extreme Dao Emperor Weapon?" Chen Xuan slumped in the void, still shaken, his back already soaked with cold sweat.

He knew all too well the danger he had just faced—if he hadn't remained vigilant and truly believed he had been killed, he would have been utterly destroyed and doomed forever.

That wasn't a physical annihilation, but a time-based annihilation!

With the help of the power of the peak tower, the bald quasi-emperor directly erased him from the current point in time, plunging him into another cycle of eternal time.

Once he believes in the cycle of reincarnation that it is his reincarnation after death, all the causes and effects, all traces of existence in this life will completely disappear.

Fortunately, just before he was obliterated by the Great Dao of Eternal Time, he saw the entire nine-story tower and had a premonition in his heart that this was a deadly trap set up by that quasi-emperor using the small tower, not a real obliteration.

It was this unwavering belief that allowed him to maintain his true self through the eternal cycle of time, ultimately finding his way back and breaking through this seemingly inescapable trap.

"Damn it! This is my final tribulation lightning strike?" Chen Xuan cursed, his tone filled with lingering fear and a hint of relief. "What divine lightning destroying the physical body? This is a death trap that attacks the mind!"

Despite his complaints, Chen Xuan dared not delay for even a moment.

He immediately closed his eyes and sat cross-legged in the void—after the dead end of his Dao heart just now, the long-suppressed inner demon tribulation could no longer be suppressed and descended with a roar!

From the appearance of the bald quasi-emperor to the "annihilation" of Chen Xuan, and then to his re-emergence, the quasi-emperor's dissipation, and the retreat of the tribulation clouds, the entire process was as fast as lightning, taking only a few breaths.

The group of Jue Wuqing and others in the distance finally reacted, gasping in astonishment and secretly clicking their tongues in disbelief.

They didn't understand the bizarre killing and rebirth just now at all; all they knew was that Chen Xuan had survived a seemingly hopeless situation!

"He survived? He really survived the final tribulation of lightning?" a True Immortal elder asked in a trembling voice, his eyes filled with wild joy.

"Not yet." Jue Wuqing slowly shook his head, his gaze fixed on Chen Xuan, who was sitting cross-legged in meditation, his expression solemn. "He is about to undergo the tribulation of his inner demons. This is the final and most dangerous trial."

"Sect Master, as long as Chen Xuan can overcome his inner demon tribulation, our Heartless Holy Land will surely be able to rise to become the number one holy land in the Flame Dragon Realm by taking advantage of his momentum!" another True Immortal Elder said excitedly.