Many children, many blessings: Stealing the offspring of powerful figures to cultivate immortality.

With a low shout from Situ Kong, the mouthful of blood essence transformed into a blood-red compass, spinning wildly before his eyes.

Through this layer of blood mist, the world before Situ Kong's eyes had changed.

What he saw was no longer the tribulation lightning, but a complex web of cause and effect, one of which was incredibly thick and connected to Jiang Yining, stretching straight to the heavens!

In that instant, Situ Kong's body trembled violently, and two lines of bloody tears flowed from his eyes, staining the white silk red.

He was struck dumb, staggered back several steps, and his face showed unprecedented horror.

"This...how is this possible?!"

At the end of that causal line, he actually saw a glimmer of opportunity for the Floating Cloud Realm to break through!

The future of the entire Floating Cloud Realm, the hope for resolving the Blood Moon Beast Tide, actually rests not on Ji Lingxiao, who is in the Mahayana stage, nor on the Confucian Sage Chu Jinglan, nor on Bai Ze, who is the Demon Emperor, but on Jiang Yining, who has just entered the Nascent Soul stage.

How long does it take to go from Nascent Soul stage to Mahayana stage?

Even a thousand-year-old monster might not be able to break through to the Mahayana stage!

"She's... the only variable? Does that mean all of us, after cultivating to the end, will perish with no hope of ascension, while she alone is the key to breaking this deadlock?"

Situ Kong's head was buzzing; this deduction was too shocking and overturned his understanding.

His mind was in turmoil. He forced himself to stand up despite the surging blood in his chest and trembling as he raised his hand to remove the white gauze from his eyes.

This white silk ribbon had been with him for hundreds of years; it was the price he paid for peering into the secrets of heaven.

But at this moment, he must “see it one more time,” even if it costs him hundreds of years of his lifespan.

The white silk ribbon slipped down.

His previously empty eyes suddenly focused.

It was as if a galaxy had reversed, and countless starlight surged into Situ Kong's long-parched eyes in an instant.

The world has been illuminated.

Situ Kong gazed greedily into the distance. Beneath the overwhelming clouds of tribulation, Jiang Yining stood ramrod straight, like the only bright spot in the world.

A few strands of hair were blown about by the strong wind and clung to her fair and delicate cheeks, but she didn't look disheveled at all.

Her features were exquisite, yet they held a coldness and resilience like a snow-capped mountain, like a proud snow lotus growing on a cliff, unmoved by wind and rain.

It was a vibrant, fiery life force.

Situ Kong's lips curled up slightly, revealing a gentle smile he had never shown before.

"My wife... I never knew you were so beautiful in real life."

It was a thousand times more vivid than the cold, lifeless outline in his consciousness.

Although Situ Kong could "see" with his divine sense, he was different from others.

The people and scenes that his divine sense could "see" were all in black and white. After discovering the secret that the Blood Moon Beast Tide was not formed naturally when he was ten years old, he went blind due to the backlash of the Heavenly Dao.

His gaze lingered on every inch of her face.

"Oh, Heavenly Dao! You control the fate of all living beings, treating everything as mere straw dogs, yet you fear having that one and only variable revealed?"

Situ Kong's thin lips curved slightly, and his aura changed instantly.

The once avaricious pavilion master was gone; the wind whipped up by spiritual energy billowed his robes.

His demeanor was composed and unhurried, like a gentle breeze and a cold moon, pure and ethereal.

Two lines of bloody tears slowly flowed down her cheeks, making her look both tragic and eerie.

Unfortunately, the woman who was fighting against the heavenly tribulation was destined not to see this scene.

"Heaven, you want to destroy her? I'll stop you!"

A cold glint flashed in Situ Kong's eyes, and his hands suddenly formed a hand seal, his fingertips flashing in afterimages: "Reversing the heavenly secrets, altering fate!"

boom!

In his world of cause and effect, his originally dim destiny star suddenly burst forth with unprecedented brilliance and rushed out recklessly.

It forcefully squeezed into the destiny path that originally belonged to Jiang Yining, like a shield blocking her destiny star and covering her up!

"puff--"

A mouthful of blood mixed with shattered internal organs suddenly spurted from Situ Kong's mouth.

His knees buckled, and he collapsed heavily to the ground.

The spiritual energy within his body flowed away like a dam bursting, causing his cultivation level at the Integration stage to plummet in the blink of an eye, only managing to stop at the late Golden Core stage.

This is not finished.

A strange golden curse mark appeared out of nowhere on Situ Kong's chest, twisting and writhing like a living thing, carrying excruciating pain as it snaked upwards.

It climbed all over his long neck, like a hideous chain, binding him with the sin of revealing heavenly secrets.

Pain, pain that penetrates to the bone marrow.

But Situ Kong gritted his teeth and remained silent. With trembling hands, he quickly tied the blood-stained white silk back over his eyes, covering his eyes that were beginning to glaze over.

This matter must not be known to Jiang Yining.

If she knew that I had hidden her birth chart...

We must not let the world know.

The hope of breaking through this barrier is too heavy, heavy enough to crush anyone's spine.

This immense pressure is something he, the head of the Tianji Pavilion who already possesses the abilities of a "big shot," should bear for her for now.

Situ Kong took a deep breath, and even though he was trembling all over from the pain, he put on his usual cynical and shrewd businessman look again, as if the crazy man who had been fighting desperately just now was never him.

But the fingers that were gripping the ground tightly had already dug deep into the soil.

We need to go far away...

But... Situ Kong's gaze drifted, while divine punishment pierced his flesh at every moment.

With a single spell, Situ Kong only had time to pass by Steward Zhao, leave a message, and then enter his room, losing consciousness.

Above that sky, the long-brewing ninth tribulation of lightning finally revealed its ferocious fangs.

That was no longer lightning, but a world-destroying thunder dragon a hundred feet thick, roaring as it swooped down with a will to destroy the world!

The oppressive force descended, and the earth cracked inch by inch.

"Ningning!"

Ji Lingxiao's sword was already half an inch out of its sheath. Even if it triggered a series of heavenly tribulations, he couldn't just stand by and watch Jiang Yining die.

A powerful sword intent, capable of freezing time and space, surged into the sky, and Ji Lingxiao's spiritual energy burned.

Even though he knew that a Mahayana cultivator interfering with the Nascent Soul Tribulation would bring about an even more terrifying chain of heavenly punishments, and might even cause him to perish, he did not hesitate at all.

Once the sword is drawn, there is no turning back!

At the critical moment.

A young but excited voice suddenly pierced through the rolling thunder and resounded throughout the entire venue.

"mother!"

From the direction of the main hall, a golden streak of light shot out like an arrow, carrying the recklessness of a newborn calf unafraid of tigers, and charged straight at the earth-shattering thunder dragon!

"Lei'er?!" Jiang Yining's heart stopped.