Eternal God Emperor: Only I Am Emperor One

Chapter 171 Physical Tribulation
"Is she really not afraid of death? She actually dared to go deep into the Sword Tomb."

Di Yi was slightly taken aback, but without hesitation, he immediately chased after them.

Yinghuo's infiltration of the Sword Tomb must be for something big; if we lose track of her, the consequences are unknown.

Outside the Sword Tomb, Di Yi wasn't confident he could defeat her, but once inside, he could borrow the power of the founder of the Sealed Heaven Sword lineage, making it relatively easy to deal with Yinghuo.

Yinghuo is fast, but fortunately not fast enough to leave Di Yi behind. The Path of Flowing Light is one of the Seventy-Two Supreme Sacred Paths because of its unparalleled speed.

Ten breaths later, the Azure Feather Sword Saint and Shi Qiankun arrived at the edge of the Sword Tomb together.

Shi Qiankun, draped in a talisman robe and covered in thousands of runes, hovered above the black plain, his gaze fixed on the Sword Tomb: "The person who fought with my friend Di Yi is likely to have reached the fifty-third level of spiritual power. Could he be in danger?"

The Azure Feather Sword Saint released his Holy King's Holy Thought in an attempt to lock onto Yinghuo's aura, but he failed.

"The newcomer possesses a treasure crafted by a Great Sage of Spiritual Power, yet he managed to evade my detection. Fortunately, this is the Sword Tomb, where the Holy Soul of the Six Meridians Ancestor resides. Even if the Blood Emperor were to arrive, he wouldn't be able to cause any significant trouble."

"Hahaha, is that so? Today I will test what kind of skills the swordsman has that even the Blood Emperor doesn't put him in his eyes."

Above the array of the Ancient Prison Suppressing Clan, a demonic cloud covering tens of thousands of miles appeared, and a twelve-zhang-tall figure of an Undying Blood Clan emerged from the demonic cloud.

Upon seeing this, the Azure Feather Sword Saint's expression changed instantly. He used his divine sense to communicate with the ancestors of the Zhutian Sword lineage and said to Shi Qiankun beside him, "Clan Chief Shi, the Demon Heaven Blood Emperor has made a move, and the Azure Heaven Blood Emperor is probably outside the Sword Tomb. You should quickly gather the members of the Zhenyu Ancient Clan and ask the Flying Feather Sword Saint and the Canglan Martial Saint to return to their aid."

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Yinghuo's goal was clear: to get close to the Netherworld Dungeon, then activate the treasure bestowed by the Lord of the Undying Temple to contact the King of the Underworld.

Only by understanding Hades' current situation can the Undead Blood Clan devise the most suitable rescue plan to help him escape his predicament.

The deeper one goes into the Sword Tomb, the stronger the power of the sword rules in the world becomes, and the strength of other cultivators, including those with spiritual power, will be suppressed.

Within the Sword Tomb lies a realm belonging to the sword, where no other holy path is permitted to claim supremacy.

The Path of Flowing Light was also suppressed, but fortunately, Emperor Yi was able to fly on his sword. In the special environment of the Sword Tomb, he was even faster than the Flowing Light Flying Rainbow Escape Technique and caught up with Yinghuo.

"rustle!"

Rain began to fall from the thick, dark clouds above the Sword Tomb. The rainwater was as black as ink and contained a strong sword aura. As it fell on the ground, it created craters.

Emperor Yi sensed the terrifying aura reviving in the tomb of the patriarch of the Zhutian Sword lineage, realizing that it was the Azure Feather Sword Saint who had drawn upon the power of the patriarchs of past generations, and his mood immediately became heavy.

For the Azure Feather Sword Saint to be able to mobilize the power of his ancestor to fight, it is likely that the Blood Emperor himself is present outside the Sword Tomb.

Besides him, there were three other sword wielders inside the Sword Tomb, and Nangong Shi was also hiding in the shadows outside the Sword Tomb. However, several Blood Emperors of the Undying Blood Clan had arrived, and Emperor Yi had no way of knowing whether the Great Sage Lord of the Undying Temple had also arrived.

Right now, the priority is to stop Mars.

After chasing for another two or three hundred miles, Di Yi finally succeeded in awakening the ancestral holy soul of the Fengtian Sword lineage.

Three holy souls awakened in succession, flew out from the cemetery of the Fengtian Sword lineage, and possessed Di Yi's body.

With the Holy Soul entering his body, Di Yi's aura surged instantly, quickly surpassing the pinnacle of the Holy Realm and reaching the Holy King level.

Sensing the terrifying power within his body, Di Yi activated the Heaven-Sealing Sword and slashed at Yinghuo's back with a single strike. This strike could slay even the most powerful saints.

Yinghuo immediately sensed the danger behind her and, without hesitation, activated a sacred talisman between her brows.

The sacred talisman was blood-red, and once activated, it ignited a raging holy flame, pushing Mars's spiritual power to an extremely terrifying level.

The possessed ancestor of the Heaven-Sealing Sword exclaimed in surprise, "It is a Sacred Talisman crafted by a Great Sage of Spiritual Power. It contains the power of a Great Sage of Spiritual Power. Emperor Yi, be careful!"

The Emperor remained calm, realizing that Yinghuo must have something to protect her life if she dared to venture alone into the Underworld Sword Tomb. However, he did not expect that her trump card would be the Holy Symbol of the Undying Temple Master.

"Her spiritual power is at most level 53. Even with the Saintly Symbol of a Great Sage, the power she can unleash is only equivalent to a low-level Saint King. With the help of the three Ancestral Masters, it is enough to kill her."

With the help of the three patriarchs, Emperor Yi fully activated the Heaven-Sealing Sword, and all nine thousand inscriptions on the sword were revived, unleashing terrifying sword energy.

"The stars have changed!"

He unleashed offensive moves from the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Sword Technique, taking the initiative to attack Yinghuo.

Instead of using the crimson chain around her waist, Yinghuo took out a holy staff, used the power of the Holy Symbol to activate the staff, and unleashed a crimson beam of light.

"Undying Holy Light!"

Sword energy collided with holy light, unleashing a destructive storm between heaven and earth. A large section of soil was shaved off from the black plains, and ancient swords buried underground were flung everywhere, like a rain of swords.

Emperor Yi drew his sword and continued his attack on Yinghuo, unleashing the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Sword Technique with lightning speed.

The possession of the Ancestral Master's Holy Soul places an immense burden on the physical body. Even Wan Canglan, who is already a Saint of the Thorough Earth Realm, can only withstand the possession of five Ancestral Master's Holy Souls.

The number of ancestral masters among the six sword-wielders is around fifteen or sixteen. Theoretically, a sword-wielder at the Saint Realm cannot withstand the simultaneous possession of the holy souls of fifteen or sixteen ancestral masters.

The Azure Feather Sword Saint was able to do this because of his profound cultivation at the Saint King realm.

Ling Feiyu was able to do this because she had reached the supreme level in all four realms of martial arts and had also cultivated the Four Spiritual Treasures Body. Although she did not achieve physical sainthood, she was able to do feats that others could not by relying on the Four Spiritual Treasures Body and the Mark of the Gods.

Di Yi's physical body is even stronger than Ling Feiyu's. With the Mark of the Gods guarding his Qi Sea, he doesn't need to worry about the power of the Ancestral Master's Sacred Soul harming him.

The three ancestral master souls are not his current limit.

During the exchange, two more ancestral holy souls flew into Di Yi's body, instantly boosting his aura significantly. The Heaven-Sealing Sword in his hand unleashed even stronger sword energy, slashing towards Yinghuo.

The holy staff in Yinghuo's hand is no ordinary item; it is a spiritual artifact left behind by an ancient sage, belonging to the ancient artifacts of the sage. It contains the power of the sage, and now that it has been activated, every strike it unleashes carries the might of the sage.

The power they used far exceeded their own level, shattering the wilderness deep within the Sword Tomb into pieces. Ancient swords buried hundreds of feet underground were blown away and fell in all directions.

Under the influence of the Heaven-Sealing Sword, the sword rules of heaven and earth became extremely active, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth also boiled.

A crack, tens of feet wide and several miles long, appeared on the shattered plain beneath their feet, created by the aftershocks of their battle.

From within the crack, a chilling, ancient sword intent surged forth, taking control of the ancient swords scattered around. Tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of ancient swords came to life, densely packed like dark clouds.

The sword intent of ten thousand swords converged to form a supreme and terrifying will. With a single sword strike, it blasted the five ancestral saint souls within Emperor's body out of his body, and shattered the saintly talisman between Yinghuo's eyebrows.

Having lost the power of their Holy Soul and Holy Symbol, the two were utterly powerless to resist this will, like two cannonballs falling into a crevice.

A terrifying suction force erupted from the crack, constantly pulling at the two of them.

Emperor Yi activated the Ten Saints Blood Armor and drew upon the power of the Ten Saints, but he was still pulled towards the ground by an even stronger suction force, his body completely out of his control.

He looked up and was horrified to find that the crack above was closing, and the sky was gradually disappearing from his sight, replaced by endless darkness.

The surroundings were eerily quiet; Di Yi could only feel himself falling.

He used his movement technique to stabilize himself and slow his descent. At the same time, he released his mental energy to probe his surroundings and calculate the depth of his fall.

After falling for more than 30,000 meters, Di Yi finally detected the existence of the ground and crashed down.

Above, it was pitch black, but beneath their feet, the mud and rocks contained a special fluorescent substance, like a weakened firefly, emitting a faint glow.

Di Yi released his mental energy and swept it across the area, but he couldn't determine the size of this underground world. It seemed boundless and endless.

Even with the True Source Demon Eye activated, the boundaries remain invisible.

No one would have imagined that there would be such a special place beneath the Sword Tomb.

Darkness, silence, and the absence of sunlight created a very oppressive atmosphere. However, Di Yi did not feel much about it. Having experienced the test of the Twin Lotus of Return to the Void and being a dark cultivator, he felt right at home in the darkness.

However, this underground space was so strange that he had to remain vigilant.

As Di Yi pondered, chains came whistling from above. Even though she was in danger, Yinghuo immediately attacked Di Yi, intending to kill her.

Without the Holy Symbol, and without the Holy Soul of the ancestor of the Sealing Heaven Sword lineage, Yinghuo had absolute confidence in relying solely on her own strength.

Emperor Yi instinctively swung the Heaven-Sealing Sword. Fortunately, the underground space was still within the Sword Tomb's range, so the enhancement effect on the sword cultivators was not reduced but increased.

Surrounded by darkness and with her mental power suppressed by the Sword Tomb, Yinghuo kept a short distance from Di Yi in order to attack him.

Di Yi quickly locked onto her location, soared into the sky, and instantly closed the distance between himself and Yinghuo, appearing in front of her.

Yinghuo was greatly alarmed and swung his holy staff, which collided with the Heaven-Sealing Sword.

Both the holy staff and the holy sword flew out of his hands.

Di Yi gave her no chance to react, abandoning his swordsmanship and instead unleashing the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm for close combat.

Only when the Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm reaches the Saintly level does it truly begin to reveal the exquisite nature of one of the Eighteen Ultimate Techniques of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Path. With the blessing of ten thousand times the Yang energy, it is far more domineering than the other Saintly Techniques. A single palm strike is enough to evaporate a lake.

When Yinghuo was engaged in close combat, she could only use her mental energy to protect herself and desperately dodge.

This is the weakness of spiritual cultivators. Once a martial arts cultivator gets close, they can't unleash most of their strength. When they encounter someone like Di Yi, who has cultivated the path of physical sainthood and whose physical strength is extremely terrifying, they are even more difficult to deal with.

Yinghuo's spiritual power only caused minor injuries to Di Yi, but if Di Yi's Dragon Elephant Prajna Palm were to hit her even once, it would severely injure her.

"We can't drag this out any longer. We must kill this brat first, and then find a way to escape from this place."

Yinghuo made up her mind, and a beam of light suddenly shone from between her brows, striking Di Yi and sending him flying more than a hundred feet away.

An ancient book covered in barbaric patterns flew out from between Yinghuo's eyebrows, and her spiritual power immediately reached the level of fifty-three. This book actually suppressed her spiritual power level.

"You should be proud of yourself for making me use the Myriad Beasts Mirror against you."

Di Yi was struck by the previous spiritual light, and a bloody hole was blasted open in the flesh of his chest. Under the blessing of the Origin Divine Rune, he quickly recovered.

His gaze toward Yinghuo turned icy.

This demoness has an endless stream of treasures on her; if the battle continues, who knows what other treasures she will bring out.

Ultimately, his own cultivation level was still too low. Even with the blessing of the Sword Tomb, there was still a gap between him and Yinghuo.

The crimson chains pierced towards Di Yi again, but he did not dodge. Instead, he reached out and grabbed them.

Subsequently, the essence of the ten drops of divine medicine in the Qi Sea released a large amount of vital energy, which surged into the Baihui acupoint on the top of the head.

In the blink of an eye, the last of the 144 physical acupoints was successfully sanctified.

When the physical body achieves sainthood, calamity befalls the earth.

Centered on Emperor Yi, the earth trembled for dozens of miles around, and the soil seemed to turn into surging tides.

A terrifying force gathered and enveloped both Di Yi and Ying Huo.

Of the three cultivation paths, the path of spiritual power, which involves learning from heaven and earth, is different. The path to physical sainthood and the path of martial arts cultivation are both acts against the heavens and will be tested by calamities of heaven and earth.

A martial arts cultivator who wants to become a saint needs to undergo three tribulations: the Four-Nine Tribulation, the Eight-Nine Tribulation, and the Life-and-Death Tribulation. Only those who survive all three tribulations can become saints.

A cultivator who achieves physical sainthood will also attract a tribulation after sanctifying the 144 acupoints of their body. The tribulation will use the power of the earth to cleanse the body. If they survive, they will become a saint; if they cannot, they will die and their cultivation will dissipate.

Yinghuo did not expect that Di Yi would dare to break through to sainthood in the midst of a life-or-death battle, thus attracting a calamity.

Shocked, she then became flustered.

The tribulation of the earth targets the physical body; if she gets involved, she will also be forced to undergo the tribulation of the earth.

With her physical strength, facing the tribulation of physical sainthood would be tantamount to courting death. Di Yi's actions clearly indicate that he intends to use the tribulation to kill her.

(End of this chapter)