Chapter 1517: Natural Yin Yang Great Way Tribulation

“The Natural Yin Yang Great Way Tribulation? Impossible!” Trapped within the Crown of Butchers and unable to break free, the Evil Body let out a roar of astonishment.

The Natural Yin Yang Great Way Tribulation was one of the Thirty Six Heavenly Stars Tribulations. It was also a Sage-stage tribulation.

In other words, Ye Qing had also breached that barrier and found his way to transcendence. He was also intending to become a Sage just like Feng Qingyou.

First it was Feng Qingyou, now it was Ye Qing. They were both trying to overcome their tribulations and becoming a Sage on the same day. Since when was overcoming a tribulation such a casual thing?

Even more infuriating was the fact that they were both using him as their stepping stone and their meat shield!

This was an insult he could not ignore no matter what!

Still controlling the Crown of Butchers, the Evil Body tried to break free from Ye Qing’s control. He wanted to kill the young man.

However, the energies flowing inside Ye Qing’s body were endless like the sea, and vast like the earth itself. He found that he could not do so immediately.

“Stop struggling. I won’t leave you behind.” Ye Qing looked down on the shaking Crown of Butchers, a smile of unwavering determination spreading across his lips.

If the Evil Body was Ye Qing’s close friend, then he would be in tears right now.

But he wasn’t, so the Evil Body only had rage and killing intent to offer the young man.

It was at this moment Yin Yang Qi landed on Ye Qing and pulled him into the yin yang millstone in the sky.

The next moment, Ye Qing found himself standing in a monotonous world. Above him, flawless white was rotating to the right. Beneath him, boundless darkness was rotating toward the left.

Crack crack crack...

As the millstone rotated, an unbearable screeching noise came from within Ye Qing’s body. His muscles and bones popped loudly, and his inner organs vibrated non-stop.

Slowly, the noise grew louder and loder until it was as loud as a heavenly bell.

Blood was seeping out of Ye Qing’s pores. Pain filled his face, and his entire body was shaking violently.

Crack crack crack!

It sounded like dead branches being snapped in half, or papers being ripped apart. More noises were coming from within Ye Qing’s body.

The noises weren’t coming from dead branches or papers though. The snapping branches were his bones, and the tearing papers were his skin.

Eventually, his skin ripped into pieces, his bones snapped like twigs, and his flesh crumbled into pieces.

“Argh!” Unable to withstand the pain any longer, Ye Qing cried out in pain.

Profound light and vitality were mending his wounds and regrowing his broken skin, flesh and bones. However, he was falling apart faster than he was recovering. So, his injuries only got worse.

Just a teatime later, Ye Qing had dissolved into a pool of gore and a pile of bones.

This wasn’t the end. Over time, the invisible pressure of the millstone turned even the flesh into powder, and the powder into nothing.

A few breaths later, a drop of blood emerged from the black-and-white world. The blood slowly increased in size and grew flesh and bones until finally, Ye Qing was reborn.

The reborn Ye Qing was exactly identical to the original.

“I’m back?” Ye Qing raised his eyebrows. He was sure he was still alive.

Although he was literally ground into nothingness—not even his mind and consciousness were exempted from the millstone’s power—he didn’t perish. His consciousness had fallen into a state of nothingness, but there was still a flicker of spirit that refused to fade. Just the same, his flesh and blood had returned to the void, but there was a flicker of vitality that refused to die.

It was a confusing state of existence. Both his consciousness and his life force were bobbing in and out of the fine line of existing and not existing. It felt like it lasted only an instant, but it also felt like it lasted ten thousand years. If his consciousness was rainwater, then his life force was the seed. When the rainwater poured onto the seed, the seed sprouted and eventually flourished into a soul and a body. That was how he was reborn.

He wasn’t just reborn though. He could feel that he was better in every way. His skin was denser, his flesh was more tight knit, his bones were stronger, his spirit was purer, his soul was greater, and his consciousness was more perfect.

In summary, the destruction and rebirth had improved him in every way not just in the body, but also the mind.

Before he could let out a sigh of relief or inspect himself though, the tearing, pulling, crushing sensation assaulted him once more.

“Again?” What could he do? He could only accept it. This time, the pain was worse not just because he was stronger, but also because the tribulation was more powerful as well.

This was the Natural Yin Yang Great Way Tribulation of the Thirty Six Heavenly Stars Tribulations. The world was formless until taichi was born, and from taichi came yin and yang. If yin and yang complemented each other, then all things shall live. If yin and yang acted against each other, then the five phases shall perish. Therefore, the Natural Yin Yang Great Way Tribulation corresponded to the Way of Taichi of Complementing and Opposing Yin and Yang.

The millstone was what they called the Natural Yin Yang Way Millstone. Anything trapped inside its confines would experience death and rebirth again and again.

Both the challenger’s tangible, physical form and their intangible, mental form would be ground into nothing by the millstone. Then, they would be reconstituted back to life. This would repeat again and again.

During this process, the challenger must withstand the pain of their body and mind being powderized by the Natural Yin Yang Way Millstone. In fact, the tougher the body, and the stronger the mind, the worse the pain would become. After all, it took longer for their body and spirit to be destroyed, so they would need to endure the ungodly pain for longer as well.

Of course, a tribulation was both a tribulation and a blessing.

Every time the challenger’s body and mind was destroyed and reconstituted; killed and revived, they would become stronger in every way. They would also be able to experience the Way of yin and yang acting against one another inside the taichi.

So long as they could bear the pain, so long as their consciousness did not collapse, then their body and spirit would keep growing stronger, and their understanding of the Way of complementing and opposing yin and yang would deepen as well.

However, not everyone could bear the pain of their body and mind being ground into nothing again and again. If their willpower or mental fortitude was weak, if their consciousness collapsed or became confused during this period, then they would die for real.

This was the signature characteristic of the Natural Yin Yang Great Way Tribulation. If the Supreme Primal Origin Unbounded Tribulation was the tribulation that could not be cheated, then the Natural Yin Yang Great Way Tribulation was the most painful tribulation of it all. They were both terrible tribulations that scared the shit out of countless warriors.

All things were the same within the Natural Yin Yang Great Way Tribulation. Ye Qing was the same. The Evil Body was the same.

It went without saying that the Evil Body was swearing up and down at the ungodly pain that was being inflicted upon him. He thought he couldn’t hate Ye Qing anymore than he already did, but he quickly realized that he was dead wrong. He tried several times to kill Ye Qing but could never last long to do so.

Because he was stronger than Ye Qing, the terrible power and pain he suffered was greater as well. As great as he was, even he was finding the pain unbearable.

Escape wasn’t an option. He had already been dragged into the Natural Yin Yang Great Way Tribulation. Until the tribulation was over, there was nowhere he could go.

Of course, this tribulation wasn’t all bad for him. Just like Ye Qing, his mind and body were becoming stronger as well. He was also deepening his understanding of the way of complementing and opposing yin and yang. If he forgot the circumstances, he could even declare that this was a rare opportunity.

In short, he could neither kill Ye Qing nor escape this tribulation, so he decided to just give up and “enjoy” this opportunity!

After all, it wasn’t like he couldn’t kill Ye Qing after the tribulation.

As for his Good Body... the fuck else could he do in this situation? It was every man for himself!