From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 249: Tribulation and Heavenly Punishment

Early in the morning of the Waking of Insects Day, the five members of the Yao family rushed to Jishuitan. Yao Jihua even came two days in advance and set up a formation to gather purple energy.

Yu Shuyang was not worried. Compared with the White Crow Ghost Immortal and the heavenly punishment, he was more concerned about his junior brother Li Taiping's cultivation tribulation.

At dawn, Li Taiping finally emerged from under the Jishuitan. The body of the Si beast had changed greatly, and it was no longer the shape of a domestic cattle.

Although it still has four hooves and one horn, its body shape is becoming more and more like a rhinoceros, and its body is extremely strong, surpassing that of an ordinary elephant.

The cowhide all over the body turned snow-white again, and fine black cow hair grew on the cowhide, making it look a bit like a yak on the snowy boat.

Yu Shuyang did not go forward to disturb them, but followed the Yao family and sat quietly in the purple bamboo forest, watching Yao Jihua gather the morning light, mixed with the magic rhyme of the purple bamboo forest, and refine the magic to form a piece of purple sesame.

It can be said that Yu Shuyang watched the whole process of casting spells. After all, he also practiced a method of using the Earth-Moving Golden Lotus, and planted three nine-petal golden lotuses in his spiritual heart.

Just wait for the golden lotus to bloom, and then absorb the golden light of Yin De all over your body. Later, you will be able to cast some Yin De spells through the nine-petal golden lotus.

The purple aura of fortune and virtue and the golden light of hidden virtue both belong to the way of the five virtues. Although the principles of the great way are different, the magic spells of the five virtues are the same, which is to gather them and refine them into a Taoist magic weapon.

Just as Yu Shuyang told his disciples a few days ago: the metaphysical is the Tao, and the physical is the tool.

At the moment, Yao Jihua absorbed the purple energy of blessings and virtues into the heart of Lingtai, and turned it into a purple sesame field. It can only be regarded as the initial form of refining the purple energy.

Therefore, when Yu Shuyang was in Qingxu's dream, he used purple energy to refine the true form of yin and yang, which lured Yao Jihua out of the dream to capture him.

Yu Shuyang was watching the spell being cast when he heard a loud thunderclap in the sky. He turned around to look at his junior brother Li Taiping and saw that he had already sensed the thunder and started to overcome the tribulation.

After the goblins become intelligent, if they want to practice cultivation they have to go through nine tribulations, namely three disasters, three tribulations and three tribulations, which correspond to luck, destiny and tribulation respectively.

On this day last year, Yu Shuyang heard thunder in Taiping Lake and endured the tribulation of cultivation. Now it is the turn of his junior brother Li Taiping.

The three tribulations of cultivation are heavenly tribulations, and they also form the foundation for cultivating immortals. One has to rely entirely on one's own will to bear them, and outsiders cannot interfere, just like a bird pecking through an eggshell.

"Little Taoist priest, come and look at the round mirror."

Yao Jihua held out a jade basin, and drew the purple air to gather in the basin and reveal its shape. At the same time, she absorbed the calamity energy of the four people of the Yao family, as well as Yu Shuyang, and threw them directly into the basin.

Then the shadows in the basin began to appear, just like a shadow play. From the appearance of the city of bones and skeletons, it could be seen that this was an isolated garden.

Then a huge monkey flew out from the solitary garden. The monkey had red hair all over its body but a big white face, and held a one-foot-long thigh bone in each hand.

This ghost monkey is the goddaughter of the White Crow Ghost Immortal - Sister Hui, and is also the good sister of the former Tiger Mountain Island owner, Tiger Woman. Today is the day she breaks through to the fifth level.

There are three important stages in the practice of the Nine-Level Immortal Ascension Method. One is the ninth level at the beginning of practice, which requires one to go through nine levels of tribulations. The other is the fifth level for becoming an immortal.

To break through the fifth level, one must experience lightning and fire, which is the so-called "thunder tribulation". Many monsters cannot survive this and even die tragically under the lightning and fire.

For example, Madam Wushuang of Xiyufudi, her father, Little Blue Dragon of the South China Sea, was struck to ashes by a thunderbolt when he was breaking through to the fifth level.

The last node is the second grade, the fifth grade, the fourth grade, and the third grade, which have experienced thunder tribulation, fire tribulation, and wind tribulation respectively. The true body of the big monster has changed from acquired to innate, and the immortal energy it has bred will be used to build an immortal foundation.

It also happened today. Li Taiping passed the tribulation by hearing the thunder, which was considered as the tribulation before breaking through the ninth level. The big horse monkey, the night ghost, and Sister Hui were passing the tribulation before breaking through the fifth level to become an immortal.

The White Crow Ghost Immortal in the Solitary Garden is waiting to gather the power of the four night ghosts and prepare to break through the second-grade immortal foundation tribulation.

Then the giant monkey walked out of the solitary garden, shook its body and turned into a giant ape five meters tall. This was the Zhuyan method practiced by Sister Hui.

Zhu Yan is naked and white-haired. His appearance foreshadows that there will be war in the world. He is a first-class ferocious beast.

The giant monkey night ghost is a nightmare that scares people, and it also practices the method of war and evil beasts. It can be said to be extremely vicious and cannot be tolerated by the way of heaven.

Ever since Sister Hui's soul turned into a night ghost, she has never left Guyuan City. Now without the protection of the blessed land, dark clouds gathered in an instant.

I saw the dark clouds as black as ink, mixed with purple lightning and green light, and then there was a rumbling sound of thunder, as if dozens of war drums were beating.

"Red City Thunder Drum? I'm afraid this Night Ghost won't be able to break through to the fifth level."

Yu Shuyang turned his head to look at the monster that was talking, and saw a big bull head stretching out. It was his junior brother Li Taiping.

"Junior brother, have you broken through the three tribulations?" Yu Shuyang asked with a little excitement and anticipation.

Li Taiping nodded at the ox head and said, "I have already established my foundation and settled my profound acupoints. I only have difficulty sensing the calamity energy, and I have no difficulty in transcending the calamity.

Let's watch the Night Ghost transcend the tribulation first. Maybe he'll reveal the Thunder Drum and we can learn a thing or two about thunder magic."

The five people and two monsters all turned around to look at the jade basin. When the heavenly thunder calamity was unleashed, thunderclouds usually appeared, and it ended after nine thunders and five thunder fires.

This Chicheng Thunder Drum is not ordinary. It is a magical weapon of the Jade True Thunder God. It has a total of thirty-six heads, and is a magic weapon that can refine the sound of thunder into a real shape.

Yuzhen Leishen was born into the human race. He is the Heavenly Thunder God among the Shinto gods. He is also a celestial god along with wind, rain, thunder, lightning, sun, moon and stars.

The purple lightning thundercloud and the green light thundercloud transformed into cloud platforms, each with a drum stand revealed on it, and a thunder drum could be vaguely seen on it.

The jade basin could not reveal the true shape and rhythm of the magic, so Yu Shuyang opened the pupils on his forehead and used the technique of collecting wind and observing qi, performing the method of seeing the sky and hearing the earth.

As a gust of spring breeze blew directly to the solitary garden deep in the desolate sea, through the two cloud platforms manifested by thunderclouds, he finally caught a glimpse of the true shape of the thunder drum.

The two thunder drums are not physical objects, but two thunder drums manifested by the heavenly tribulation using the law of thunder, similar to the method of making a shadow appear.

The drum is in the shape of a Jian drum, in red and black. One side of the drum is decorated with five thunder snakes holding their tails, while the other side is decorated with nine thunder rocs spreading their wings.

The drum body is not the jade drum as rumored, but an iron drum and a bronze drum. In front of each drum stand stands a strong man in golden armor, holding a drumstick in each hand.

The Lei Peng bronze drum was struck first, and the drum vibrated like thunder in the clear sky. The Purple Lightning and Green Light Cloud Platforms dropped a purple and green thunder along with the sound of the drum.

As the purple-green thunder fell from the cloud platform, it turned into a three-foot-tall thunder eagle and flew straight towards the five-foot-tall Zhu Yan's head.

Zhu Yan stretched out his hand to block, but Lei Peng passed by him sideways, and his two lightning claws pierced his skull. There was an explosion, and Zhu Yan's head shattered like a watermelon falling to the ground.

Yu Shuyang thought Ye Gui was dead, his tribulation over, when he saw a black light fly out from the depths of the desolate sea and land on Zhu Yan. Zhu Yan, who was five meters tall, seemed to shrink to four meters. His head, which had shattered like an exploded watermelon, grew back intact.

Although Zhu Yan had lost his head, he was a transformed night ghost and would not die for a while. He was healed by the evil spirit of the sword and the weapons, so he naturally came back to life.

This was also the technique that the White Crow Ghost Fairy had specially chosen. She gathered the four nightmare night ghosts and tried to cultivate the authority of the ghost lord. Naturally, she knew that it would become increasingly difficult for the subsequent night ghosts to break through the fifth level.

Yu Shuyang's divine eyes could directly see the laws of the Tao. After looking at Zhu Yan a few times, he understood the mystery.

The Heavenly Tribulation sensed that Sister Hui was not dead, and seemed to be enraged. The Five Snake Iron Drum and the Thunder Eagle Bronze Drum were struck at the same time, and a ball of purple and green lightning fell on the cloud platform.

The purple and green thunders transformed into a fire snake and a thunder eagle respectively. This time, the thunder eagle flew like an arrow and flew straight towards Zhu Yan's chest. Its two claws pierced through his bones and then it exploded.

The fire snake fell and hovered on Zhu Yan's corpse. Its scales shook and dropped balls of moon-yin fire. This fire was refined from the dead fire of the underworld and the light of the moon. It dissipated to a little bit of the skin and flesh, directly burning life.

In just a breath of time, the four-meter-tall Zhu Yan's flesh and blood were burned to ashes, leaving only a pile of white bones.

At this time, seven black air flew out from the depths of the desolate sea. When they landed on the white bones, they gave birth to internal organs, flesh, blood, and skin.

The four-zhang-tall Zhu Yan shrank to ten zhang again. Yu Shuyang could feel through his divine pupils that Zhu Yan was still under the spell of a substitute.

Just now, Lei Peng blew up Zhu Yan's heart, and then the fire snake burned his Yin life and ghost life to ashes. From the outside, it looked like his flesh and blood were burned to ashes, but in fact, his life was completely wiped out.

Zhu Yan escaped the disaster by dying for the dead, which completely enraged the thunder tribulation. The copper and iron drums were struck twice each, and two balls of purple and blue thunder fell from the cloud platform.

As the two fire snakes appeared, Yu Shuyang suddenly had an epiphany. The five fire snakes on the thunder drum were clearly the Five Ding Yin Fires.

That is: Ding Chou longevity fire, Ding Hai soul fire, Ding You spirit fire, Ding Wei disaster fire, Ding Si dangerous fire.

The Xuanwu Turtle Book in Yu Shuyang's mysterious acupoint was running rapidly, and he used the Five Ding Thunder and Fire Rhythms to complete the true form of the Yin Fire Black Snake.

Now that we have the three fire rhymes of Ding Chou, Ding Hai and Ding You, we can try to complete the head or tail of the snake. As the saying goes, a snake cannot survive without a head, so Yu Shuyang will complete the head of the black snake first.

The laws of heaven and earth were running non-stop, and a big bulge appeared on the body of the headless and tailless black snake, as if the snake was shedding its skin. As the bulge split open, the head of the black snake was revealed.

At this time, the eyes of the black snake were covered with skin. This was a sign of shedding, and also because the snake's body was incomplete, so the eyes could not be exposed.

However, the black snake has special magical powers when blindfolded. Yu Shuyang deduced and completed the Yin Fire Black Snake by using the Black Water Black Snake's cultivation method, which includes a magic weapon - the Beitian Soap Carving Flag, which can obscure the world and block the skylight.

The blindfolding of the black snake involves a magical power, which is the hazy universe. Earlier, Yu Shuyang understood the hazy universe as the universe being turned upside down, but now he realized that he was totally wrong.

The so-called hazy universe is to use the mutual generation of yin and yang. The fresh wind and turbid air between heaven and earth combine into clouds, thereby blurring the yin and yang of heaven and earth and using the black law to cover the light of the sky.

Yu Shuyang had completely comprehended the Black Water Mystic Snake's technique. He was only waiting for the two fire techniques of Dingwei and Dingsi, then he looked around and continued to stare at Zhu Yan.

Here, Zhu Yan was blown to pieces by two thunder eagles. Two fire snakes were circling in the air, one burning the heavenly soul and the other burning the earthly soul, trying to erase all traces of Sister Hui.

All living beings in the world have three souls and seven spirits. Among them, the heavenly soul and the earthly soul are often outside, and the heavenly soul is in the starry sky and the Milky Way, influencing the fortune and destiny. Sometimes it will also be contaminated by the power of the stars, that is, the star gods enter the life.

The earth soul sinks into the Nine Netherworlds. Therefore, after death, when one turns into a ghost, they all go to the Nine Netherworlds. This is when the human soul's life span is exhausted and it seeks the earth soul's life span.

After the dead soul turns into a ghost, the earth soul becomes the earth spirit, just like the seven spirits in the body of the living in the past, but there is only one earth spirit, and the ghost has no eyes, ears, mouth, nose and touch.

Therefore, living again after death means losing many of the good things in life.

The heavenly and earthly souls of Sister Hui, the big monkey and the night ghost, were completely exhausted, and the cloud platform and thunder drum in the sky were about to disappear.

This made Yu Shuyang very anxious. He was still waiting for the two fires of Dingwei and Dingsi, and he didn't believe that it would end like this.

As he expected, he saw two lamp bowls flying out from the city of bones and skeletons. Both were in the shape of golden tigers holding lamps, and landed on Zhu Yan's head and feet respectively.

Although Zhu Yan's body had been blown into pieces by the two thunder eagles, the lantern bowls still found their heads and feet and fell down.

This Golden Tiger Holding a Lamp is also called the Golden Tiger Chasing Life. According to ancient legend, within seven days after a person's death, the Golden Tiger Chasing Life can be performed to extend the life of the deceased soul.

Yu Shuyang had heard of this magic in his previous life. The golden tiger seal of the early Taoist master was specifically used to perform this magic.

However, as the ghosts and gods of the underworld returned to their positions, the barrier between life and death became larger and larger. It became a luxury to cast the Golden Tiger Chasing Life. Therefore, this method became an open secret spell in the world of Fuli.

Then the golden tigers held the lamps and emitted light, and seven black lights fell into Zhu Yan's body. Then a two-meter-tall naked white-headed ape stood up again.

Lei Jie felt Sister Hui's breath again, and this time the thunder drum exploded directly, enveloping the entire cloud platform and transforming into two fire snakes and five thunder rocs.

The two fire snakes were a hundred times larger than before, as if they were two mountains floating in the sky. The Dingwei fire snake gave off a sense of disaster reborn, while the Dingsi fire snake exuded a tremendous power.

Disaster fires and dangerous fires will reduce fortune and good luck. Even if they are demon immortals who have cultivated for the fifth rank or above, if their fortune and good luck are reduced, they will suffer from killing disasters, death disasters, and even the five declines of immortals.

Zhu Yan was entangled into a ball by two fire snakes as big as mountains, and five thunder eagles exploded inside. When the thunder and fire dissipated, not a single ashes was left.

Seeing this, Yu Shuyang didn't bother to watch what happened next, so he dispersed the spring breeze and stopped the wind-gathering and qi-observing technique.

Now that the Five Ding Fire Snakes' rhymes are complete, the Yin Fire Black Snake can be completed. He must devote his mind to the mysterious acupoint, and the Black Snake will begin to shed its skin from head to tail.

The true form of the Yin Fire Black Snake was completed and was displayed by Yu Shuyang from the mysterious orifice. At this time, the Five Dings in the Solitary Garden were filled with fire energy. If one could go over and gather energy, it was possible that the Five Dings Yin Fire could be refined at once.

Before he could drive the snake to the orphanage, he heard a loud shout from beside him, saying, "The monkey is not dead, look."

At this time, Yu Shuyang had already dispelled the spring breeze and had no choice but to look at the jade basin. He saw the Fire Duck Fairy walking out of the lonely garden. He actually had a big belly, as if he was pregnant.

As it turned out, he was indeed pregnant, because he came to the place where Zhu Yan had just stood, screaming in pain.

Then it laid a one-foot-long white duck egg. Not long after, the Fire Duck Fairy hit its head on the white duck egg and died.

The duck egg underwent a blood sacrifice by a demon fairy, and it broke out of the shell directly, turning into a bird with black feathers all over its body, sharp eyes, a small head, a big body and thin legs. This is the underworld bird Youchang, and it is also the phoenix bird representing the north.

As soon as the Youchang bird broke out of its shell, it rushed directly into the White Bone and Skeleton City. At this time, several golden lights appeared in the sky and all fell on the Guyuan City.

(End of this chapter)