Longzang

Chapter 578 Now that it's starting to look like something!

As time went by, the bell rang nine times again, and the second moment of enlightenment was opened to all living beings. This time, most people officially began their attempt to build their foundation.

Wei Yuan had already imbued everyone with azure energy, and in one go he used up ten thousand strands of ordinary azure energy, which made Wei Yuan quite reluctant to part with it.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth began to pour down from the sky, and some ordinary cultivators began to build their foundations by taking advantage of the fleeting moment of life.

At this moment, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in one corner of the training ground was extremely rich, and the energy was interconnected, layering together and becoming increasingly concentrated, until it eventually turned into misty water vapor.

The place was full of Xu family boys and girls, and about a dozen of the girls were heavily pregnant and about to give birth.

Wei Yuan was a little worried about them, so he gave each of them another boost of luck. Then he flew to the VIP area to see who was just one step away from success and gave them another boost of luck.

These VIPs have spent a lot of money, and Wei Yuan must increase their success rate in establishing their Dao foundations so that outsiders know that spending money really works in Qingming.

In the blink of an eye, the second instant of life ended, and three hundred out of ten thousand people formed the foundation of the Dao. Then, more than one hundred out of eight hundred young people formed the foundation of the Dao.

Next came a half-hour rest, followed by the final "Instantaneous Sentient Beings" session. At this point, the instructors began to aggressively promote the template Dao Foundation, and the students, having failed twice, recognized the reality that they were like rotten wood. They were already grateful that someone was willing to carve them, and they had no right to be picky.

Everyone hurriedly brushed up on their basic Dao knowledge, while Qingming dispatched all his reserve instructors, a total of 1,500 cultivators, to run around the field, answering questions and resolving doubts. In an instant, the entire training ground was like the night before a major exam in an outer world, bustling with chatter and noise. Everyone knew that the leap from carp to dragon gate was just a matter of moments.

A moment later, the third Instantaneous All Beings event began. Wei Yuan was concentrating on guiding the event when he heard Xu Wenwu beside him say, "How come not a single one of these tens of thousands of people can overcome the Heavenly Tribulation? This Enlightenment Conference is really as bland as water!"

This sentence came so unexpectedly that Wei Yuan didn't even have time to cover his mouth.

At this moment, the sky above the training ground suddenly darkened, and thick clouds gathered from all directions, constantly swirling and intertwining, quickly forming a huge vortex in the sky!

All the cultivators watching the ceremony trembled inwardly, as if they were facing an apocalyptic catastrophe. The aura of the heavenly tribulation made these rogue cultivators shudder, and some even collapsed to the ground, defecating and urinating involuntarily.

Xu Wenwu, oblivious to what had happened, looked up at the sky and said, "That's more like it! But..."

This time, Wei Yuan reacted quickly and covered Xu Wenwu's mouth.

He carried Xu Wenwu into the sky, looked around, and locked onto an open space next to the Xu family boys at the edge of the training ground.

In Wei Yuan's eyes, the whole world was gray and black, except for that place where five-colored mist surged, which was Xu Wenwu's auspicious place.

Wei Yuan instantly appeared, disregarding everything else. He grabbed half a straw mat from somewhere, spread it on the ground, pressed Xu Wenwu onto it, and shouted, "Calm your mind and prepare to undergo the tribulation!"

Only then did Xu Wenwu belatedly realize what was happening, exclaiming in shock, "This, this is my heavenly tribulation?!"

Wei Yuan remained expressionless and retorted, "Otherwise what?"

Xu Wenwu is probably used to arguing with people in the outer world, and he spends his days online giving advice on everything, even things that seem trivial, including the troubles that every rich person has to get rid of.

Then, when he arrived in this world, he continued to speak recklessly, which resulted in triggering his own tribulation for attaining enlightenment.

Moreover, under his words, the original ordinary Dao Foundation Heavenly Tribulation was directly upgraded by two grades. Wei Yuan looked at the tribulation clouds, which looked very much like the Unpredictable Heavenly River Waterfall Heavenly Tribulation, which resembled a storm.

Just now, Xu Wenwu shouted, "Let the storm rage on!" and then heaven granted his wish.

Wei Yuan moved with lightning speed, placing a bowl in front of Xu Wenwu, taking out seven or eight different medicine bottles, filling the bowl with pills, and then saying, "Swallow it!"

Xu Wenwu was shocked: "This is too much, I can't swallow it all..." Time is of the essence now, how can he afford to ramble on?
Wei Yuan grabbed him by the neck, channeled his magic power to open his throat and esophagus, forcing him to swallow a bowl of pills. Then Wei Yuan slammed Xu Wenwu to the ground to make sure he swallowed all the pills.

Xu Wenwu felt as if a raging fire had ignited in his abdomen, and his face instantly turned bright red.

Wei Yuan looked up at the calamity clouds again and knew that Xu Wenwu was doomed this time. Helpless, he gritted his teeth and cast the purple luck he had obtained from Zhu Yuanjin onto Xu Wenwu.

Xu Wenwu was truly unlucky, triggering a water-type heavenly tribulation, rendering Wei Yuan's pile of lightning rods useless. Come to think of it, ever since Wei Yuan invented the lightning rod, he seems to have never encountered a pure lightning tribulation.

In the blink of an eye, a torrential downpour began, and the sky turned completely dark, like the dead of night!

The torrential rain cascaded down like a waterfall, pouring down on Xu Wenwu. This water was from the Heavenly River, capable of eroding flesh and bone, and even grinding away at the very soul—it was incredibly potent. The medicinal power within Xu Wenwu surged, peeling away a layer of skin and flesh, only for it to immediately grow back. This process was excruciatingly painful, yet Xu Wenwu managed to endure it, which impressed Wei Yuan greatly.

Even in his dazed state, Xu Wenwu knew he was facing a life-or-death situation. He mustered all his willpower, desperately trying to stay alive under the Tianhe Waterfall.

Washed by the waters of the Milky Way, Xu Wenwu's soul slowly left his body, becoming transparent, as if something was hidden at its core. Before Wei Yuan could see clearly, a toad wreathed in purple light leaped out of Xu Wenwu's body and swallowed his soul whole.

However, the waters of the Milky Way instantly washed away half of the toad's body. The toad cried out in pain, but refused to spit out its soul. The purple light on its body counteracted much of the celestial water, but it still couldn't withstand the scouring.

At this moment, a small figure leaped out from Xu Wenwu's body—a little girl who was only two or three years old. Dragging a giant sword much larger than herself, she turned and, with a shout, unleashed a circular slash!

The sword energy surged like a torrent, flowing upstream in the Milky Way and instantly severing the entire Milky Way!
The Heavenly River was clearly not over yet, only temporarily halted. The little girl's figure disappeared from there, indicating that even with the nominal father-daughter relationship between Xu Wenwu and Xu Shiba, this was as far as he could go.

At this moment, the toad got a chance to catch its breath and quickly transformed. First, it put on a bulletproof vest and a helmet. Then, pieces of steel kept appearing in the void and gathered around it. Finally, it turned into a tank, and the toad crawled into the tank and closed the top cover.

Wei Yuan watched as if in a dream, until the Moon Laurel Immortal Tree stabbed him with its sword energy, and only then did he realize that he was not dreaming.

The Milky Way surged in again, and Xu Wenwu's chariot sank to the bottom.

Wei Yuan secretly realized something was wrong. Xu Wenwu had prepared a chariot, but he hadn't anticipated Tianhe's move to flood it with water.

Seeing that Xu Wenwu was about to perish, Wei Yuan gritted his teeth and threw down his last bit of celestial fortune. Then, thousands of bits of human fortune were poured onto Xu Wenwu without regard to cost!
As such a mixture of fortunes occurred, Xu Wenwu actually accepted them all, turning it into a hodgepodge of fortunes.

This tactic proved effective. Just when all hope seemed lost, the chariot miraculously rose from the bottom of the Milky Way to the surface, bobbing up and down on the water. Xu Wenwu took deep breaths, and the purplish-blue tinge on his face gradually faded.

He then opened his eyes and exclaimed, "I was suffocating! Luckily, this is an amphibious assault vehicle."

Wei Yuan glanced at Xu Wenwu, then at the sky. The sky gradually cleared, the tribulation clouds dissipated, and the long-awaited sunlight once again shone upon the world. His foundational tribulation had finally passed.

Xu Wenwu's tribulation was truly exaggerated. Only a few immortal foundations would be afflicted by heaven and earth during their breakthrough, resulting in a tribulation. Most of those tribulations were of low rank.

However, Xu Wenwu's tribulation was far more intense than ordinary immortal foundation tribulations, ranking only after Zhang Sheng and Wei Yuan. The fact that he survived such a tribulation can only be attributed to his incredible luck and life force. This, on the other hand, was something Wei Yuan had obtained by sacrificing countless amounts of his own fortune.

But Xu Wenwu's tribulation shouldn't have been like this. It was purely because this guy was too quick to speak that he ended up nearly dying himself and also consumed a large amount of Wei Yuan's luck. Especially the purple qi and the luck from beyond the heavens, those were things that could drive a young girl's yin and yang, but this chubby guy used them.

Looking at Xu Wenwu, Wei Yuan asked expressionlessly, "So your Dao Foundation is... an armored toad?"

Xu Wenwu was displeased: "Toad-type chariot!"

Thus, the chariot from the outer world appeared in this world for the first time in the form of a Dao Foundation.

(End of this chapter)