Nonsense! Master is not my wife.

The young man's expression gradually darkened as he spoke: "However, when I wanted to go forward and refine it, I found that due to countless years of slumber, Xunmu's soul had already fallen into an eternal dream, and even his body could only shrink in this small world, like an old and frail person."

"I'm not reconciled!"

The young man's expression suddenly turned ferocious. "In order to find Xunmu, I gave up my family, my lover, my honor, justice... I gave up everything. How can I just watch it go to destruction!"

"Since Xunmu's soul has sunk into the eternal dream, I will cultivate another soul!"

"When it comes to the way of the soul, the outer demons are far more proficient than us cultivators from the five domains," the young man said indifferently, "so I designed a plan to lure the demons to come, and devoured a high-level demon during the chaos, and obtained the demon method from it."

"After decades of research and experimentation, I finally cultivated a new spirit, the Holy Vine, on Xunmu's body."

"It may be because the magic of the Heavenly Demon that I obtained is incomplete. The newly born holy vine is extremely fragile, not even as strong as the infant's soul. But it is a soul born from the body of Xunmu after all, and possesses some of Xunmu's original characteristics."

"I couldn't wait to refine the holy vine, and the process went very smoothly," the young man continued, "After only refining a portion of the origin of the Xunmu tree, my cultivation level skyrocketed, surpassing the previous hundred years of hard training."

"In order to strengthen the Holy Vine's Soul, I took advantage of the turmoil in Flower City and the rampage of the demons to secretly kill many of Flower City's cultivators, using their bodies and souls as nutrients to nourish the Holy Vine's Soul."

"But one person's efficiency is too slow!"

The young man said calmly, "Besides, the evil spirits in Flower City had been suppressed by the reinforcements from the Dao Alliance, and the entire city had slowly returned to its former tranquility. If I wanted to gather nutrients without alerting the forces in Flower City, I could only act during the busiest time of the year, when the flowers are in full bloom in spring."

"Later, I got inspiration from secret forbidden techniques such as soul division and external incarnation, and developed a forbidden technique called 'Holy Vine Granting', which can separate the power of the holy vine from Xunmu's body and grant it to others, so as to improve their cultivation talents."

"With this forbidden technique, I have recruited a large number of subordinates and have them spread across Flower City to collect nutrients for me."

"I calculated the time, and it's been almost a hundred years."

"Because of their sufficient caution, the forces in Huacheng had suspected us a long time ago, but they never really found any clues about our crime. I also always thought that I could refine the Xunmu completely without anyone noticing, and use it to ascend to the upper realm."

The young man suddenly looked at Yin You: "It's just an unfortunate coincidence that I ran into you, my friend."

Yin You was puzzled: "What do you mean?"

A smile appeared on the young man's face: "If my guess is correct, you are following the path of the five elements, right?"

Without waiting for Yin You to answer, he continued, "Just like you can sense the pure wood spirit of the holy vine, I can also sense the pure water spirit and the faint wood spirit in you."

"When I found out that Lu Ren, that idiot, failed to kill me and was marked instead, I knew the situation had changed and time was urgent."

"So I assigned Hua Rong to persuade you to withdraw from this mess as soon as possible, while I asked others to speed up the collection of nutrients."

Yin You suddenly interrupted him and said, "Why did you let Hua Rong come to persuade us instead of killing us to silence us?"

The young man was a little speechless when he heard this: "Of course I am considering the top sect behind you. Which of you true disciples who have entered the world to practice cultivation does not have some sect tokens left on you? I don't want to beat the younger ones and then the older ones, delaying my plan of ascending."

At this point, he said with a little interest: "I haven't asked you guys which of the five top sects you are from yet?"

There was nothing to hide about this matter, so Yin You said frankly: "Xue Lingxu, Yin You."

"Xue Lingxu, Zhu Yingqiu."

"Xue Lingxu, Xue Qingyou."

When Zhu Yingqiu and Xue Qingyou heard their uncle speak, they also started to speak.

The young man narrowed his eyes and said in amazement: "Interesting, interesting."

He naturally knew the strange rule of Xuelingxu that only accepted women since ancient times.

He smiled and said, "My name is Yin Xingsheng."

After these words were spoken, Yin You and Xue Qingyou's expressions changed slightly.

"Yin Xingsheng? The Lord of Huacheng a hundred years ago?" Yin You confirmed.

Yin Xingsheng was slightly surprised and became more interested in him: "Yes, I was the Lord of Huacheng a hundred years ago."

Yin You was silent.

Ever since he heard Liu Ningshuang talk about the evil incident in Huacheng a hundred years ago, he asked his master's soul and learned the whole story from her.

One day a hundred years ago, the devil suddenly descended on Huacheng, possessed many cultivators, and attacked and killed other cultivators, causing everyone to be in danger. Huacheng fell into chaos, and even Huacheng Lord Yin Xingsheng was ambushed by the devil while practicing, and ended up dying.

Later, the Northern Territory Taoist Alliance headquarters sent support, and Yin Ci and her master, who were traveling nearby, also rushed over after hearing the news and killed the leader of the demons, thus quelling the unrest in Huacheng.

But at this moment, Yin You realized that the evil spirit in Huacheng a hundred years ago was not that simple. It turned out that the instigator of everything was the Lord of Huacheng who should have died long ago.

Yin You thought of another person and couldn't help but ask, "Why didn't you tell Pavilion Master Qu Yueting about your fake death? Don't you know how sad she was at that time?"

"Ting'er..."

Yin Xingsheng looked dazed for a moment: "Ting'er is kind-hearted and upright. If I tell her all this, she will definitely stop me."

Yin Xingsheng shook his head, his expression regained its composure: "I have talked so much with you, my friends, it is almost time to end it."

Yin You and the other two were startled when they heard this.

Yin You quickly made hand gestures with his hands under his sleeves, ready to release secret techniques at any time to take his two nephews and escape.

Zhu Yingqiu placed his right hand on the hilt of the knife, ready to draw it at any time.

A cold sword energy emanated from Xue Qingyou.

Seeing the actions of the three people, Yin Xingsheng laughed dumbly: "Don't worry, I won't kill you."

Then he showed a strange smile on his face: "I deliberately teleported you here. In addition to wanting to chat with you, there is one more thing, which is to invite you to watch a -"

"Ascend!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a dark green light floated out from Xunmu's body and merged into Yin Xingsheng's body, and an extremely powerful aura emanated from him.

The next moment, the world in the eyes of Yin You and the other two began to shake violently.

The whole little world is shaking!

Chapter 31 Heavenly Tribulation

"The earth is shaking..."

"How's the situation with Master Teng?"

"This is indeed a trap set by the demon sect monks!"

No matter where the numerous cultivators in the small world were, they all felt the earth shaking violently at this moment.

"Hey, the no-fly zone is invalid!"

"Run, escape from this little world first!"

Many cultivators were so shocked that they forgot about the restricted air zone of the small world and subconsciously flew into the air. After they reacted, they found that there was nothing unusual.

The no-fly zone has expired.

No matter what the reason was that caused the no-fly zone to fail, many cultivators were no longer in the mood to explore it further. Even many cultivators of both the righteous and evil paths who were fighting stopped the fight. They looked everywhere for teleportation arrays, scrambling to leave this small world that seemed to be destroyed in the next second.

The center of the small world.

Yin Xingsheng rose into the air, opened his hands, his face full of intoxication: "Is this the power of the Ten Realms?"

That's right, long before Yin You and others came to this small world, he had already completely refined the holy vine and indirectly controlled Xunmu, absorbing the majestic spiritual energy and wood path insights accumulated by Xunmu over countless years!

Just the fluctuations of spiritual energy emanating from his body were enough to make Yin You and the other two turn pale, their spiritual energy solidified, and they could hardly move!

At some point, it got dark.

Thick dark clouds covered the sky, and blue-purple lightning flashed from time to time between the rolling clouds. Every time the lightning flashed, the spiritual energy of the entire small world would be drawn by it, making a violent roar!

The wind was howling between heaven and earth.

Yin Xingsheng stood in the void, looking up at the strange phenomena in the sky with a fanatical look: "Hahaha, let me see the legendary ascension calamity!"

The next moment, he suddenly moved and plunged into the calamity that was still brewing in the sky!

click!

It seemed that the whole world was enraged by his arrogance and contempt, and suddenly a thunderclap sounded!

An extremely thick bolt of lightning suddenly appeared and struck Yin Xingsheng hard!

The dark sky, which was originally covered by dark clouds, suddenly became bright.

Yin You and the other two could only vaguely see Yin Xingsheng's body tremble slightly, and then he was covered by countless thunder tribulations.

Fortunately, Yin Xingsheng took the initiative to rush into the heavenly tribulation to survive it, and was very far away from Yin You and the other two. So although the thunder tribulation looked terrifying, it did not affect the three of them.

Rumble…

The only sound in the three people's ears was the continuous thunder.

Even the thick inky clouds were occasionally dispersed by the thunder, and countless electric snakes and thunder dragons could be vaguely seen wandering in the gaps, which was extremely terrifying.

"pity."

Yin Ci's soul, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke. This was the first sentence she said since Yin You entered this small world.

"Master!"

When Yin You heard his master's words, his nervous mind instantly calmed down.

But after hearing what Yin Ci said, he was a little puzzled: "Why is it a pity?"

Although the thunder in the sky was powerful, it never stopped. It could be seen that Yin Xingsheng's situation was not that bad. Moreover, judging from his character of enduring for a hundred years, he was obviously very confident of successfully surviving the thunder this time, otherwise he would not dare to fly directly into the thunder.

Yin Ci had a strange look on his face and revealed a secret: "Because the path to ascension has long since collapsed."

Upon hearing this, Yin You was stunned.

"What...what's going on?"

After he realized what was happening, he quickly asked, "Didn't our master ascend to the upper realm a hundred years ago?"

"The road to ascension collapsed after our great-grandmaster ascended," Yin Ci said slowly, "After our great-grandmaster ascended, a senior from each of the Northern and Western Regions successfully overcame the tribulation, but found that the road to ascension collapsed and they could not be led to the upper realm."

"So the two seniors could only stay in the Five Realms. However, they were already 'immortals'. The Five Realms were no longer suitable for them to survive and practice. They even felt a bit repulsive. In the end, the senior from the Western Realm chose to scatter the Dao world, and the other senior from the Northern Realm chose to cut off his own path."

Yin You's mind was in turmoil, and he looked up into the sky: "Then why did Yin Xingsheng still want to survive the calamity?"

Yin Ci was speechless for a while before he spoke: "The news of the collapse of the ascension path is only known among the ninth and tenth realm cultivators, and at most some eighth realm cultivators from some top sects know about it."

"And this Yin Xingsheng... when he served as the Lord of Flower City a hundred years ago, he was only at the seventh level of cultivation. For the past hundred years, he has been hiding in Flower City and practicing silently. He has not communicated with the cultivators from the outside world. He definitely doesn't know about this."

Yin You was stunned for a long time: "Then...then why didn't you stop him just now, Master?"

Yin Ci's expression was cold: "Let's not talk about whether he can pass the tribulation or not. It has nothing to do with me. Before You'er and the others talked to him, he had already started to pass the tribulation. He had just been suppressing it before."

Yin You naturally had no good feelings towards Yin Xingsheng, a demonic cultivator who had killed countless cultivators in Huacheng over the past hundred years. He was just worried that if Yin Xingsheng survived the heavenly tribulation and found out that the ascension to heaven he had pursued all his life was just an illusion, he would go crazy and do something cruel.

Yin You remembered that in order to ascend to the upper realm, he abandoned his position as the Lord of Huacheng, the love of Pavilion Master Qu Yueting, the honor of a righteous cultivator... he almost gave up everything!

As if sensing what he was thinking, Yin Ci said gently, "It's okay. I have informed the Lord of the situation here. The support from the Dao Alliance is on the way."

Just as Yin You was talking to his master, the dark clouds in the sky slowly dissipated, and the deafening thunder gradually stopped, revealing the dark green figure in the center of the heavenly tribulation.

Yin Xingsheng looked no different from before; even his clothes were neatly dressed without any damage.

He waved his hand in boredom: "Is this the power of the Ascension Tribulation?"

His tone showed that he was quite dissatisfied with this natural disaster.

But soon, he seemed to sense something and a smile appeared on his face again: "I see."

After saying that, he disappeared into this small world.

……

Flower City.

Many mortals looked up at the sky, somewhat surprised at how changeable the weather was today. It was sunny and windy in the morning, so how come dark clouds suddenly gathered?

But they didn't think much about it and ran back home to collect their clothes.

However, the cultivators had solemn expressions, because in their minds, the dark clouds contained terrifying power of heavenly tribulation. The higher the level of cultivation, the more they could sense the horror of the power of heavenly tribulation.

click!

With a loud thunder, the first rainstorm in the Flower City in the beginning of spring came suddenly.

The dark sky seemed to be collapsing, and strong winds mixed with heavy rain poured down like an overwhelming force.

Wow…

"Who is going through the tribulation? Is it related to the vibration of the small world just now?"