Longzang

Chapter 379 A Word Tribulation

At this moment, Qingming was a scene of devastation.

When the giant flying boat emitted the unique signal of the Primordial Palace and landed at the flying boat field, all the cultivators of the Primordial Palace rushed over upon hearing the news.

It had been a long time since the sect's flying boat had been seen, and daily supplies relied entirely on the Hall of Merit. Now that a large flying boat had suddenly arrived, all the cultivators were very excited, feeling that the sect had finally remembered them.

When the airship's cabin door opened and Wei Yuan stepped out, the hundreds of people in the square were initially deathly silent, but after a moment, a thunderous cheer erupted!
The moment Wei Yuan's feet touched the earth, the entire Qingming seemed to come alive, sweeping away the gloomy atmosphere, and all things revived and flourished with vitality. All the plants and living beings cheered.

Throughout the new city, all the teenagers stopped what they were doing and looked in unison toward the direction of the flying boat.

Within the vast land, life and spirit were simultaneously revived. Various spiritual plants suddenly began to sprout on the fertile soil that was originally barren. Many puppet warriors began to shed their stone armor and regain their vitality, but they still lacked spirituality.

Deep within the black pool, a muffled, earth-shaking heartbeat began to emanate, indicating that a new, terrifying creature was being conceived.

Jade Mountain became transparent again, and the gates of reincarnation within the various realms slowly opened. Many vengeful spirits and ghosts that had been wandering in the realms suddenly found their way and came from all directions like moths to a flame, throwing themselves into the gates of reincarnation.

Among them, several thousand ghosts were exceptionally solid and heavy, carrying immense karmic burdens that caused the entire Black Pool's water to rise by one level!
These spirits harbor no resentment, but they possess an unimaginable obsession. It is this obsession that prevents them from reincarnating, from leaving the Azure Netherworld, and keeps them wandering within the realm.

At the moment of reincarnation, from their obsessions and remaining memories in their previous lives, Wei Yuan learned the identities of these wandering souls. They were all among the five thousand warriors who followed Cui Yu into battle and faced death with equanimity.

Their obsession was too strong; although they instinctively gathered near the Gate of All Realms, they hesitated to enter. Wei Yuan sent a thought to soothe all the wandering souls, and only then did they agree to enter the Gate of All Realms.

A moment later, one by one, people emerged from the pool. They had no cultivation and looked around blankly. Instinctively, they left Jade Mountain and came to the vast land. This world gave them an indescribable sense of closeness and attachment, as if they had returned to their homeland.

As the Azure Sky restarted and the vast land was activated, Wei Yuan's aura continued to rise, and his spirituality surged. A huge and ferocious illusory image of a Dharma body gradually emerged.

A terrifying pressure emanated from Wei Yuan, instantly covering an area of ​​dozens of miles around, causing everyone to tremble.

In a corner, a cat that had been lazily sleeping suddenly awoke with a start, its fur standing on end, growling as it backed away step by step. The snake, meanwhile, was coiled up in a ball. Only the old Taoist priest, who had drunk too much of his homemade medicinal wine that day, was somewhat drowsy; he opened his eyes briefly and then went back to sleep, and the snake couldn't drag him away.

Above Wei Yuan's head, a gigantic figure was faintly taking shape, enveloping the entire valley, and it looked as if the Dharma Image was about to take form.

However, Wei Yuan kept in mind the instructions of the two True Lords, Danming and Xuanyue. At this moment, he also vaguely felt that the timing was not right and the luck was not at its best. So he comforted Qingming and Wanli Heshan, and the boiling spiritual sea calmed down again. The huge Dharma image that stretched for dozens of miles in the sky was only one step away from taking shape, but it could only let out a deafening roar of unwillingness and slowly dissipate.

As the Dharma form dissipated, Wei Yuan's aura soared to an unprecedented height. With the help of Qingming, his divine sense instantly reached every corner of the realm, and he also saw the state of the entire realm after the Great Curse of Cause and Effect.

Nearly 50,000 people died in the entire Azure Netherworld; almost every household was draped in white mourning clothes. Besides the people, the Azure Pool water accumulated within the Azure Netherworld Boundary Stone turned into black, putrid water, and patches of grayish-black rotting earth appeared on the ground. All the spiritual plants and crops that once grew on these patches perished. These patches ranged in size from hundreds of feet to tens of miles, like black spots on the Azure Netherworld. Recovery will require a long time.

The Azure Pool turned into putrid water, drastically weakening the Wood element's ability to generate Profound energy, rendering it almost nonexistent. Ordinary people within the realm began to fall ill en masse; had it not been for Sun Yu's presence, a great plague would likely have already begun.

Before Wei Yuan, Sun Yu, Feng Tingyu, Cui Yu, Yu Zhizhuo and others all still had injuries. The Azure Flames brought by the Great Curse of Cause and Effect were not so easy to clear. It often took dozens of units of Dao power to extinguish one Azure Flame.

Looking at his fellow disciples from the Primordial Palace, at the people in the plaza, and at the entire realm, Wei Yuan's eyes welled up with tears. He took a deep breath, his voice echoing throughout the realm:

"I'm back!"

A cheer erupted within the realm! Every city was in an uproar! Thousands of cyan energies converged, instantly filling the sea of ​​consciousness! A bird's head emerged from the full moon, absorbing a wisp of cyan energy, and in the blink of an eye, a large amount of cyan fortune was generated again.

Wei Yuan paused for a moment, then continued, "From this moment on, this is our destiny land. We will live and thrive on this land for generations to come. No one and nothing can take this land from us—not alien races, not immortals, not even heaven and earth!!"

Wei Yuan's voice was like thunder, booming and echoing between heaven and earth. Suddenly, large patches of dark clouds gathered in the sky, spinning rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, they turned into a huge vortex with a radius of a thousand miles.

At the center of the vortex, an eye slowly opened. This time, the eye had no pupil, only overflowing purple lightning.

The last time the Great Curse of Cause and Effect appeared, it was the Eye of Cause and Effect of the Ancestral Witch's will, but this time it is the pure will of Heaven and Earth.

The cultivators of the Primordial Palace within the realm, along with some knowledgeable cultivators, and the gazes from outside the realm all shared the same astonishment: Wei Yuan had merely uttered a single sentence, yet it had attracted a heavenly tribulation? Could it be that this sentence, which subtly echoed the Great Dao, had transformed into something akin to a Buddhist vow?

In the Eye of Heaven, purple lightning flowed down, drop by drop, like the heavens weeping. Each drop of purple tear transformed into a bolt of purple lightning, striking directly at Wei Yuan's head. Wei Yuan stared at the enormous Eye of Heaven, sensing the cold, merciless will of heaven and earth, feeling the entire world's hostility and rejection. He truly couldn't understand why, in such a vast world, he had only been fighting for a place to live for mortals, and yet this had come to this.

At this moment, Wei Yuan suddenly recalled the time when he chased the light northward in the Liao Region and returned southward on the wind. Back then, the entire world seemed to be suppressing and rejecting him. He had asked Zhang Sheng this question then, and Zhang Sheng had given him the answer: If the world obstructs us, then we will change the world!
Perhaps there is a reason for everything, but Wei Yuan, being born as a human, felt that he should do his part for the human race.

Wei Yuan soared into the sky, rising a thousand feet high, and met the first bolt of purple lightning! This purple lightning was as powerful as the lightning tribulation during the tribulation of a Dharma Aspect cultivator, and each strike was enough to annihilate a Dharma Aspect cultivator.

As a bolt of lightning struck, purple lightning and flames ignited around Wei Yuan, causing him to plummet three hundred feet. Even the air he exhaled was filled with purple lightning!
Within the vast expanse of land, purple flames leaped everywhere, yet the inexhaustible spiritual energy and Dao power quickly extinguished the purple lightning. Wei Yuan steadied himself in mid-air and rose again, meeting the second bolt of purple lightning.

This time, Wei Yuan fell a total of 500 zhang.

However, he still took flight again, coldly staring at the Eye of Heaven and Earth, even though he knew it was useless. Heaven and Earth were high above and would not care about the thoughts of Wei Yuan, an ant, and would only pour down bolts of lightning.

Such is the world...

The angrier Wei Yuan became, the calmer he became, to the point that he almost became a world unto himself.

The third and fourth bolts fell in succession, but the lightning in the Eye of Heaven and Earth did not decrease in the slightest.

When the fifth bolt of purple lightning struck, Wei Yuan was struck down nine hundred feet, almost crashing to the ground. But he still managed to fly back up, albeit unsteadily, and returned to a height of one thousand feet.

The sixth bolt of purple lightning struck mercilessly! Yet the Eye of Heaven and Earth remained filled with lightning.

A sigh came from beyond the heavens: "...That's it."

The other person said, "Let's wait and see."

The rest of the towering will remained silent, simply watching everything unfold.

Seeing that Wei Yuan was powerless to resist, countless cyan energies suddenly appeared from the void, forming a cyan light screen above Wei Yuan's head, blocking the lightning tribulation!
The azure energy was ever-renewing, constantly disappearing and reappearing under the lightning.

At this moment, countless mortals within the realm put down their work, emerged from their homes, and gazed up at the figure in the sky who was defying the tribulation lightning. He had merely spoken a few words for mortals, and now he was to face heavenly tribulation? Were these nearly one million people in the Azure Netherworld all born to die?
"To hell with the heavens! You want us dead? I'll show you what life is all about!" Someone suddenly roared, and then the roars continued, until all the mortals in the entire realm were roaring in anger!

The thunder roared incessantly, and the azure aura surrounding Wei Yuan grew stronger and stronger. This was yet another instance, following the Great Curse of Cause and Effect, of humanity defying the will of heaven and earth. And this time, the azure aura was inexhaustible, refusing to yield!
The purple aura in the Heavenly Eye did not diminish in the slightest, and at this moment, Wei Yuan also noticed something was wrong.

Even if one is promoted from a high-ranking official to a high-ranking official, the heavenly tribulations are limited. The heavenly tribulations for different ranks are fixed. How could there be one like today that is endless and will not stop until one is struck to death?

Heaven and earth also have their own great principles, and it is precisely because they are devoid of emotion that they can follow these principles. But now, heaven and earth have broken their own rules.

All of Wei Yuan's anger and hatred erupted at this moment. With the Immaculate Pure Land in hand and the Crimson Night Immortal-Slaying Sword attached, he absorbed a bit of the aura from all the immortal objects to empower himself. Then, he gathered the great fortune of humanity in the entire Azure Netherworld with his spear and thrust it out. Man and spear became one, and in an instant, he rushed into that purple thunder eye!

This spear strike, named "Rebellion," was Wei Yuan's very first spear strike. The resolve to unleash this spear from that moment has never been forgotten!

The sky was cleaved open, and the leaden clouds and thunderbolts began to dissipate, while Wei Yuan fell to the ground engulfed in purple flames.

Everyone immediately surrounded him. Fortunately, aside from being charred black, Wei Yuan was probably still alive. His current accumulation of power was far beyond what an ordinary Dharma Aspect could achieve, and the unprecedented surge of human fortune this time had even surprised Wei Yuan.

The cultivators of Taichu Palace hurriedly helped Wei Yuan up, and then Wei Yuan suddenly saw Xu Wenwu. This guy was looking up at the sky, seemingly lost in thought, and Wei Yuan had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, Xu Wenwu said, "This heavenly tribulation isn't difficult to deal with. Let's set up a few lightning rods, and you can hide down there. What lightning could possibly strike you? Flying into the sky during a thunderstorm is just asking to be struck by lightning."

The cultivators of Taichu Palace, who had all read Xu Wenwu's information, were speechless for a moment.

Wei Yuan was in pain all over his body, inside and out, and was so angry he didn't want to speak. He secretly decided that if he ever encountered another heavenly tribulation, he would first tie this fat man to a lightning rod and sacrifice him to the heavens!

(End of this chapter)