I run a casino in the immortal realm.

Everyone was stunned.

Why are there two paths?

The Heavenly Tribulation of Transformation is a perilous journey with a slim chance of survival; only one main lightning bolt ever strikes the one undergoing the tribulation.

But at that moment, what struck down from the clouds were two pillars of lightning!

A beam as thick as a water vat, carrying a devastating pressure, crashed straight down on Ouyang Tian, ​​who was already withered and emaciated, at the eye of the storm.

The other one, though only as thick as a thigh, contained no less destructive power. It drew a strange arc in mid-air and accurately struck Zheng Yifei on the outside!

At this moment, Zheng Yifei's Five Elements True Qi was pushed to its limit, and the spiritual power of the five attributes formed a miniature five-colored wheel above his head.

This was the crazy thing he had figured out over the past few days while teetering on the edge of the tribulation. He used the principle of mutual generation and restraint of the five elements to simulate the operation of the laws of heaven and earth and forcibly draw in the tribulation!

"bring it on!"

Zheng Yifei let out a beast-like roar in his heart.

Lightning and the body.

Without any fancy resistance, the five-colored wheel above Zheng Yifei's head shattered in less than a tenth of a breath. A violent, purplish-black lightning bolt pierced through the top of his head and crashed into his dantian.

In that instant, Zheng Yifei felt as if his body no longer existed.

His consciousness was stretched infinitely, and all that remained in the world was a tearing sensation that could drive anyone mad.

At the eye of the storm, Ouyang Tian suddenly opened his eyes, his withered hands raised upwards, and ancient shields and high-level talismans unfolded layer upon layer above his head, but melted away like ice and snow the moment they touched the lightning pillars.

The lightning bolt slammed into him, engulfing him in a blinding white light.

Three feet of the entire back hillside were shoveled away. The hard obsidian ground instantly melted into dark red magma under the high temperature.

The blinding light lasted for a full ten breaths.

When the light finally faded, the dark clouds in the sky seemed to lose their support and began to dissipate in large areas.

Sunlight shone upon the earth once more. Immediately afterwards, a strange ripple spread from the heavens.

The originally violent spiritual energy instantly became extremely docile, and large patches of colorful light appeared in the sky.

Faintly, ethereal sounds echoed through the valley, while phantom images of hundreds of birds, formed from pure spiritual energy, circled and danced in the rosy light, emitting clear chirps.

The sky is ablaze with rosy light, and a hundred birds pay homage!

This is a celestial phenomenon that has only been recorded in ancient texts.

"It's done... the sect leader has been made!"

Ye Tianqiong stared blankly at the strange phenomenon in the sky, then suddenly realized what was happening, let out a wildly joyful roar, and transformed into a streak of light, rushing headlong towards the center of the back mountain.

Su Wanqing, Zhao Ling, and the other three scrambled to their feet, not even having time to wipe the blood from their mouths, and rushed frantically toward Zheng Yifei's location.

In the center of the back mountain, the original flat land has been turned into a huge stone pit that is tens of feet deep.

At the bottom of the pit, Ouyang Tian lay face up in the lava, his body charred black, without making a sound.

In a small pit not far from him, Zheng Yifei had also turned into a human-shaped charred corpse, with even the outlines of his limbs almost indistinguishable, and wisps of smoke still rising from his body.

"metropolitan!"

Ye Tianqiong landed beside Ouyang Tian and was about to reach out to investigate when he sensed an extremely faint but powerful aura that made his soul tremble as it slowly revived from the charred body.

Zhao Ling knelt on the ground, her divine sense frantically scanning Zheng Yifei's body.

"He's still breathing! There's still a sliver of a pulse in his heart!"

Zhao Ling's voice was choked with sobs as she immediately pulled out all sorts of top-grade life-saving pills, only to find that Zheng Yifei's body surface was completely carbonized, making it impossible to feed him the pills.

"Don't move!"

Ye Tianqiong turned his head and shouted sharply, his eyes filled with unprecedented seriousness: "The heavenly tribulation has just passed, and their bodies are now full of violent fragments of laws. Any external intervention will break the balance that they have barely maintained within their bodies, causing them to explode and die!"

Ye Tianqiong stood up, looked around at the elders and elites of the Heavenly Demon Sect who were arriving one after another, and ordered in a deep voice: "Pass on my order to seal off the back mountain! Everyone sit cross-legged on the spot and form a formation to protect the sect leader and Zheng Yifei!"

No one is to approach within ten feet of them without my permission! Anyone who disobeys will be executed without mercy!

Su Wanqing gripped her sword tightly, staring intently at the charred remains on the ground, tears silently streaming down her face.

She obeyed Ye Tianqiong's order and did not touch Zheng Yifei. Instead, she sat cross-legged three feet in front of him and released her newly broken-through Nascent Soul sword intent without reservation, forming a sword energy barrier to protect Zheng Yifei behind her.

Zhao Ling, Li Jianfeng, and Wang Changsheng immediately dispersed and occupied the other three positions. The four newly promoted Nascent Soul cultivators tightly protected Zheng Yifei in the middle.

Time passed day by day in suffocating anticipation.

one day.

Two days.

Three days.

At noon on the third day, Ouyang Tian, ​​lying at the bottom of the pit, suddenly heard a very faint "crack" sound from his charred body.

Ye Tianqiong suddenly opened his eyes.

A crack appeared on the thick black carbon shell. Then, the crack grew larger and larger, spreading across its entire body like a spider web.

"Bang!"

The carbon shell exploded, and a fair, jade-like hand, without a single wrinkle, emerged and pressed against the nearby rock.

Then, a handsome man who looked to be only in his thirties slowly stood up from the carbon shell.

He was naked, but the surrounding spiritual energy spontaneously gathered around him, transforming into a shimmering gray robe that draped over his body.

He didn't exude any pressure; he stood there like an ordinary person with no cultivation.

But just one glance at him evokes a sense of awe, as if facing the vast and unfathomable starry sky.

"Hahaha……"

The man raised his head and looked at the sky. At first, he chuckled softly, but then his laughter grew louder and louder, eventually turning into a wild laugh that shook the heavens.

"Three thousand years! I, Ouyang Tian, ​​have finally broken free of this damned cage!"

Amidst the maniacal laughter, a terrifying aura, surpassing all living beings and truly belonging to a Nascent Soul stage expert, swept across the entire Heavenly Demon Sect like a tsunami.

At this moment, all the birds and beasts within a radius of tens of thousands of miles lay prostrate on the ground, trembling with fear.

"Congratulations, Sect Master! You have achieved the Nascent Soul stage! May you live a long and prosperous life!"

Led by Ye Tianqiong, all the elders and disciples of the Heavenly Demon Sect knelt on one knee in unison, their voices shaking the heavens.

Ouyang Tian stopped laughing, his gaze sweeping over the kneeling crowd around him, his eyes calm as still water. But when his gaze fell on the charred remains of Su Wanqing and the other three not far away, his eyes paused slightly.

He ignored the worship of Ye Tianqiong and the others, and instead took a step. Although it seemed slow, he actually shrank the distance by tens of feet in one step and came to Zheng Yifei.