Calabash Fairy

Xiahe Village.

Upon hearing the thunderous roar from afar, villagers, both in the village and in the fields, couldn't help but look in the direction from which the sound came.

Back when they were still in Liucun, the slightest disturbance would make them anxious and worried.

Now, although they were somewhat curious, they quickly put the matter out of their minds and continued with their own business.

With the mountain god protecting them, everything will be alright.

This is what the villagers of Xiahe Village firmly believe in today.

Yang Sheng stood at his doorstep, looking at the overcast sky and the drizzling rain, feeling inexplicably uneasy today...

He turned and went back into the house, skillfully took out three sticks of incense from the incense box on the table, and went to the statue of the God of Calabash Mountain in the main hall to light them with the help of the incense that had not yet burned out in the incense burner.

"Mountain God, please protect us..."

With a solemn expression, Yang Sheng bowed three times respectfully and slowly before placing the incense sticks, which were emitting wisps of smoke, in front of the gourd statue. His heart gradually calmed down.

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In the center of the basin, Fang Yan looked up at the overwhelming tribulation clouds above, within which lightning snakes rolled continuously, letting the howling wind blow his long hair and robes.

He could clearly sense that if the first bolt of heavenly lightning brewing within the tribulation were to fall, the subsequent attacks would inevitably follow with overwhelming force!

Soon, the heavenly thunder brewing in the thunderclouds condensed to its extreme. The next moment, a bolt of lightning, like a thunder dragon, roared and crashed down. When it appeared, it seemed as if the world darkened for a moment, and it struck the center of the basin in an instant!

"Boom!"

In an instant, accompanied by a deafening roar that shook the heavens and the earth, the entire basin vanished into the sea of ​​lightning.

The terrifying power emanating from this single bolt of lightning devastated the land, causing even birds and beasts a hundred miles away to scatter and flee.

As the first bolt of lightning struck, the tribulation clouds formed by the lightning tribulation showed no sign of stopping. Bolts of lightning, accompanied by deafening roars, continued to strike, all hitting the original location of the basin!

"boom!!"

"BOOM!!!"

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It wasn't until much later that the continuous thunder gradually subsided, but the tribulation clouds remained in the sky, with lightning bolts dancing wildly.

As the sea of ​​lightning on the ground gradually dissipated, the land was already a scene of devastation, with flames burning and black smoke billowing everywhere. The basin where Fang Yan was located had been transformed into a bottomless, scorched pit.

At this moment, only a gourd with purple-gold cloud patterns floated quietly above the deep pit, enveloped by a small, dimly lit golden seal.

"This heavenly lightning almost failed to defend against even the Mountain God's Seal and my gourd phantom technique..."

Fang Yan, who had revealed his true form, sensed the tribulation clouds that were still brewing but were already at their last gasp, and he was still somewhat apprehensive.

This tribulation lightning was nothing like the one that caused a demon to break through from a lesser demon realm to a greater demon realm. The power of just one bolt of heavenly lightning would have been enough to kill a two-thousand-year-old demon!

Just now, he was struck by over a hundred bolts of heavenly lightning!

This was the first time the magic weapon had been damaged since he obtained the Mountain God Seal, and more than half of the purple-gold spiritual power in his body had been consumed before he was able to defend against all the heavenly lightning.

However, the Mountain God Seal can no longer be used...

As Fang Yan sent out his thoughts, the dimly lit Mountain God Seal slowly flew into the purple-gold cloud-patterned gourd.

"Boom—"

The tribulation was clearly unwilling to give Fang Yan much of a chance to breathe. With a thunderous roar, the tribulation clouds once again unleashed heavenly lightning, transforming into hundreds of lightning snakes that fell and tore at the gourd!

Upon seeing this, the purple-gold cloud-patterned gourd in mid-air was immediately engulfed in crimson-gold flames, and hundreds and thousands of extremely yang and powerful crimson-gold sword energies spewed out from the gourd's mouth, heading straight towards the thunder snake like a rain of fire!

Pure Yang Sword Intent: Flaming Rain!

In an instant, the crimson-gold sword energy and the lightning serpent clashed together, bursting apart in mid-air and disappearing. This heavenly lightning attack was extinguished by Fang Yan in the blink of an eye.

In the sky, the tribulation clouds erupted with thunderous roars as if in a rage. All the remaining tribulation power within them quickly gathered and finally transformed into a massive thunder dragon, which fiercely swooped down!

"roar----"

The terrifying power of this thunder dragon was clearly stronger than any of the previous heavenly lightning bolts!

Fang Yan channeled all his spiritual power, and the Pure Yang Sword Seed hummed.

Suddenly, crimson-gold flames erupted from his body, like a blazing crimson-gold sun radiating intense heat, carrying boundless power as it collided violently with the thunder dragon!

Pure Yang Sword Intent - Great Pure Yang!

The instant the heavenly thunder collided with the pure Yang sword intent, the crimson-gold flames and light blue lightning intertwined and entangled, erupting in an instant amidst a deafening roar that shook the heavens and earth! Terrifying gusts of wind swept in all directions!

The next moment, the purple-gold cloud-patterned gourd, its spiritual energy exhausted, was blown into a bottomless pit in the ground by the gale, thus escaping the raging spiritual energy. The tribulation clouds in the sky also slowly dissipated and disappeared.

The warm sunshine once again bathed this land.

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An hour later, the four little demons who were really worried about their master on the mountain appeared on a verdant mountain peak.

They stared in horror at the scorched earth in the distance, ravaged by the lightning strikes and billowing with thick smoke.

Xuan Shui watched this scene in disbelief.

Just what is the master's background? How powerful are his foundation and talent? To attract such a lightning tribulation merely by breaking through to the second realm...?

Fortunately, the master should have survived this tribulation.

At this moment, a gourd-shaped statue of the mountain god was quietly placed on its back.

This statue was "taken" from a villager's home at the foot of the mountain and has been imbued with the aura of the mountain god. If something happens to Fang Yan, this statue will surely change.

But the statues are still intact, which means that their owner has safely survived the tribulation.

Black Flame hovered in the sky, looking down and saw that the land within a radius of more than forty miles had been reduced to scorched earth, and in the very center, a huge, pitch-black sinkhole had appeared.

It gazed intently and saw streaks of purple-gold light rising continuously from the dark sinkhole.

"We've found the owner!"

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Just as the four little demons were rushing towards the sinkhole, the purple-gold cloud-patterned gourd, enveloped in purple-gold spiritual light, flew up from the deep pit and landed to the side. Amidst the rays of light, it transformed into Fang Yan's figure, and a purple-gold robe naturally draped over his body.

"We've managed to get through this tribulation safely, albeit with some close calls."

Fang Yan smiled, and the purple-gold color that had appeared in his eyes at some point was slowly fading away, returning to its original dark and bright state.

He clenched his fist, sensing the changes within his body.

"His divine sense has undergone a transformation. Even outside the Qingfeng Mountain area, he can now detect objects within a radius of 100 miles, up from the original 20 miles."

"The same goes for the spiritual energy within the body; it's like a pond turning into a lake—the difference is enormous."

"With a solid foundation and profound knowledge, controlling sword intent and refining pills will be much easier in the future."

According to Jun Heng's description back then, his current improvement is so great that even Jun Heng himself did not experience such a significant improvement when he broke through, let alone an ordinary great demon.

But the changes he experienced during this breakthrough were far more than that...