I'm caught in the cycle of endless competition, you're waiting for me in the apocalypse.

"Ah Jun, go and hold off Wei Xi and the others. Once you deal with this ghost, they will stop."

"Yes, Master!"

Kui Jun quickly transformed his spiritual power into ropes, trapping Kui Xi and the other ghosts inside, rendering them unable to move.

Seeing only a ghostly figure still leaping around on the field, An Xin raised the corners of her mouth and said, "Hey~ I thought it would be much faster, shall we have a race?"

Just before the ghostly figure appeared, An Xin used a spatial teleportation to arrive at the ghostly figure's inevitable path and intercepted him with A Ye.

Undeterred, the ghostly figure sped up, relentlessly traversing the formation. But each time, An Xin easily intercepted it!

Only when the ghost's spiritual power was exhausted did An Xin, out of boredom, grab him and throw him to Wei Jun.

"Make him break the puppet spell on the girls!"

As soon as An Xin spoke, Ghost Shadow reached out and slapped his forehead.

Kui Jun was caught off guard and deeply impressed by his spirit of self-sacrifice.

An Xin came to Wei Jun's side, glanced at him, and said, "He helped the villains destroy the world. He wasn't a loyal follower at all; he was brainwashed. He died stupidly, and his death is no loss!"

They seized the ghost's soul and bound it to Kui Xi. An Xin looked around and, finding no more troublesome ghosts, calmed down and consulted with Di Ting in her sea of ​​consciousness.

"Little Jiu, what kind of formation is this? How come even your adopted older brother can't break it?"

"I just checked, and these arrays are all ancient arrays. There are trapping arrays, spirit gathering arrays, evil gathering arrays, soul-binding arrays, isolation arrays, and one array that hasn't been activated yet!"

"But Xiao Jiu, aren't the formations you mentioned things we've all seen before? Are they really that hard to break? Even I, your older brother who can set up formations with a wave of my hand, can't break them?"

"Firstly, some of the formations are hidden under the prayer altar; secondly, these formations are ancient formations, using different methods of depiction, and they are all interconnected, making them difficult to decipher!"

"Damn it! Let's destroy the prayer altar first, at least to expose the formation below!"

An Xin acted immediately, having Kui Jun lead the trapped ghosts into the light-based shield of the witches. She then channeled spiritual power into A Ye's blade, boldly hacking at the prayer altar with each strike.

Everyone, including the ghosts, was stunned by An Xin's aura and stopped what they were doing, waiting for her to dismantle the prayer altar.

Everyone seemed to see hope, but Quan Shaohua, standing on the sidelines, remained detached and unmoved.

As An Xin chopped, she collected the fragments into her Qiankun World, and the array diagram hidden beneath the stage slowly emerged.

"Haha, that's wonderful, Goddess! You really helped me! See the formation below the stage? It's filled with your spiritual power! Thank you so much!"

A ghostly laugh echoed as Quan Shaohua cast five ghosts into the five colorless spirit stones on the outermost edge!

"The souls representing the five kinds of greed have been placed in! The formation is officially activated, and you humans and ghosts will become powerful nourishment for the formation, enough energy to destroy the boundary!"

"Damn, so that's where you were waiting! No wonder you wanted to catch ghosts with different desires: wealth, lust, fame, food, and sleep!" An Xin pointed at Quan Shaohua through several arrays. "Quan Shaohua, once I get out of here, I'll tear you to pieces and rid the world of this scourge!"

"Haha, well, we'll have to wait for you to come out, won't we?"

Just as Quan Shaohua was rambling on, Di Ting said in his sea of ​​consciousness, "Xin Xin, we can do it when the two worlds open up..."

An Xin's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she immediately dropped a bombshell on Quan Shaohua: "Didn't you want to open up two worlds? Let me tell you, I've been holding back from upgrading all this time. When the spiritual energy of the Spirit Realm connects the two worlds, it will attract my Golden Core Tribulation. Let's see if this formation can block it!"

Upon hearing this, Quan Shaohua's face immediately fell: "You're lying to me, you're lying to me, aren't you?"

An Xin scoffed dismissively, taking out a small portion of colored spirit stones from her Qiankun World. (Even this small portion was only a small portion of the spirit stone mountain; you must know that Granny Wu had also stored all the spirit stones they had collected in An Xin's Qiankun World! The situation simply didn't allow for a large accumulation of spirit stones within the formation.)

Sitting cross-legged on the spirit stone, An Xin closed her eyes and circulated the spiritual liquid within her body.

At this moment, it was like a colorful tornado, with five-colored spiritual energy flying out from the spirit stone, vying to enter her body along with the whirlwind generated outside her body due to the circulation of spiritual liquid.

Those inside and outside the formation could only see five-colored spiritual energy forming a tornado that enveloped An Xin.

"boom--"

A muffled rumble of thunder came from afar, followed by thunderclouds rapidly forming at the boundary between the two realms.

The area of ​​the thundercloud expanded rapidly, and its thickness increased at an incredible rate.

Upon seeing this scene, Xie Zian panicked: What kind of tribulation cloud is this, a Golden Core cultivator? It's probably trying to kill everyone here.

What he didn't know was that An Xin's Golden Core Realm was about to become the Perfect Golden Core Realm, and the tribulation lightning that came was several times more terrifying than ordinary tribulation lightning!

Another point is that he underestimated his own potential as a Nascent Soul cultivator. During his time there, An Xin's tribulation lightning multiplied exponentially!

An Xin absorbed the five-colored spiritual power with complete concentration, compressing the five elemental forces into the spiritual liquid and gathering it on her spiritual platform. With the rotation of Yin and Yang energies, it slowly formed a seven-colored spiritual liquid, which was then rotated and compressed into a seven-colored elixir.

Just then, a terrifying thundercloud was about to arrive, and the ghosts inside the yurt trembled with fear. Not a single ghost remained to watch from the outside.

Quan Shaohua looked up at Lei Yun, completely stunned.

Kneeling on the ground, he muttered to himself, "Did God make a mistake? Was I wrong? No, it's not over yet. I will surely become the king of the new world, hahaha..."

His laughter was filled with so many emotions, but at that moment no one cared whether he lived or died!

Everyone looked up at the calamity clouds, where a terrifying purple-gold shimmered within the dark clouds, accompanied by deafening thunder. Even the thunder's might couldn't describe the scene.

A bolt of lightning struck An Xin directly, but it was easily neutralized upon touching the array.

An Xin continued to absorb, comprehend, and compress the spiritual liquid. Meanwhile, the tribulation clouds above her head were brewing a second tribulation lightning bolt!

"Lord of the World, will Xinxin be alright?" Li Qingchuan helped Qi Mingxuan to Xie Zian's vicinity.

"We don't know, we can only wait for now! If the formation is to be destroyed, our level will be the first to be damaged."

Wei Ran and Gu Shuohan also arrived to join the others, and together they looked at the calamity clouds.

The other ghosts who had already formed a master-servant contract felt their bodies brimming with power and sat cross-legged on the ground.

"Click——"

The second bolt of lightning was three times thicker than the first, striking so hard that it shook the formation and caused the five greedy ghosts to wail.

"Boom—Crack—"

The third bolt of lightning struck, nine times more powerful than the second. It instantly shattered the first array.

"The Golden Core Tribulation consists of three stages. Although this power is several times stronger than that of an ordinary Golden Core Tribulation, fortunately, we managed to get through it without any major dangers!"

As soon as Xie Zian finished speaking, he discovered that the tribulation clouds had not disappeared, but had become even thicker, seemingly brewing an even more fatal blow.

"Oh no, is it because of me?" Xie Zian leaped away at top speed, shouting, "Get out of here, the farther the better, or you'll all get caught in the crossfire!"

Upon hearing this, the people and ghosts in the outer circle rushed off into the distance.

In just a few breaths, the tribulation lightning struck down with 27 times the power of before. At this moment, all that could be seen was purple-gold lightning enveloping the entire prayer platform, crackling and popping, like a purple-gold passage.

"Pfft!" Quan Shaohua spat out a mouthful of blood, kneeling and unable to escape the range of the lightning strike.

"How could this be..." Before he could utter the last word, Quan Shaohua died with his eyes wide open.

"Crack, crack, bang..."

After a series of teeth-grinding cracking sounds, all the formations were utterly powerless in the face of the lightning tribulation that could be described as divine punishment!

Because she hadn't truly been baptized by the lightning tribulation, An Xin was still absorbing the remaining spirit stone energy to strengthen and perfect the quality of her golden core.

Kui Jun looked up and saw that the tribulation clouds didn't seem to have left. Just in case, he carried the witch on his back, along with the two inheritors, and dragged Kui Xi and the other ghosts away, all the while shouting for the ghosts inside the yurt to run out.

As if sensing something, the tribulation clouds seemed to thin, and the lightning brewing within them did not strike down for a long time.

An Xin looked inward and saw that the golden core was about to take shape. His joy was evident on his face, and he continued to form the core without stopping.

A few breaths later, the tribulation lightning descended, but it was only similar in energy to the third lightning bolt. An Xin was waiting for this opportunity, so she leaped up and faced the lightning.

Like a rebellious child, rising up against the thunder and lightning to declare his success!

An Xin's hair stood on end amidst the lightning, and faint arcs of electricity flashed around her, as if she were resisting or seeking resonance.

An Xin was still tempering himself in the lightning, while a wisp of soul that had just drifted out of Quan Shaohua's body was looking around. Its chaotic state made it sluggish, and it was eventually struck by the remaining lightning, its soul scattered.

An Xin had already achieved a perfect Golden Core and was still tempering her body in the tribulation lightning, entering the Blood Refining Realm.

Just as she flew down from the sky to await the rain of calamity, a suction force came, and five-colored spiritual energy continuously flew from all parts of the world and surged toward An Xin.

An Xin was completely stunned, having no idea what was going on! She only felt her whole body brimming with energy.

Just moments later, she felt an excruciating pain, as if she were about to explode.

"Ouch—it hurts... Xiao Jiu... what happened?"

"Xinxin, I don't know why all the five elements are drilling into your body. Quickly sit down and meditate, circulate your golden core, and see if you can compress this spiritual energy."

"Okay...I'll give it a try!"

An Xin diligently guided the spiritual energy to swirl and compress around the seven-colored golden elixir. Due to the rapid increase in energy, her body surface was torn apart from the inside out.

"Uh-"

A series of extremely painful screams came from mid-air. The people who had returned to their original positions looked up in confusion, only to see that the sounds were coming from the colorful tornado in mid-air...

The multicolored tornado—wasn't that the scene that appeared when An Xin absorbed the five elements? Now that she's already overcome her tribulation, why is she still absorbing?

What's the deal with these five elements coming from all directions?

Others might not know, but how could Xie Zi'an, who had already partially assimilated with the space, not know?

He stumbled and ran to where An Xin was, shouting, "Xin'er—stop absorbing! You've almost absorbed all the world's primordial spiritual energy! If this continues, you'll explode and die!"

An Xin wanted to answer him that she didn't want to absorb it, but she was powerless to do anything about it! Besides, she was in so much pain that she couldn't speak.

And so, An Xin's body cracked open, only to be healed by her own light energy. After countless times, her body refinement broke through, and she reached the Qi Refining stage.

"Xinxin, quickly adjust your breathing and find your own Qi. If your own Qi Sea is generated, you can internalize more external spiritual power."

An Xin felt less pain in her body and immediately began practicing according to Di Ting's method.

Soon after, the falling spiritual rain further facilitated her body tempering.