Chapter 1676: Tribulation Is Here

Wu Hengzhen’s appearance immediately boosted the morale of the Golden Crow Clan.

The faces of Toady and the others turned grave.

Lin Xun was at the perfect supreme True Saint Stage while his opponent was at the perfect Big Saint Stage. The difference between them was not just an entire cultivation stage!

Under such circumstances, even though Lin Xun possessed ‘supreme’ power, he was still at an absolute disadvantage in terms of cultivation level.

Who would not be worried?

“Ninth Younger Brother, this kid just killed your Sixth Elder Brother Henghai...”

Wu Hengtian quickly sent a voice message to inform Wu Hengzhen of the previous battle outcome.

After hearing this, Wu Hengzhen’s eyes blazed with frightening murderous intent, “I will make him pay with his life!” His expression was cold and menacing.

Boom!

Before his voice died away, he had already rushed skywards and hovered in the high altitude. His slim body radiated a feeling of immeasurableness and perfection.

Wisps of purple divine flames flickering around him added an imposing, sacred, and majestic bearing aura to him, as if he was a divine mountain.

Clang!

Immediately, a jet-black spear appeared in his grip, the tip pointing in the direction of Lin Xun. He said expressionlessly, “In my eyes, there is no difference between the strong and the weak. I have no mercy for people like you.”

His voice was reverberating, and murderous intent surged into the nine heavens.

Toady and the others couldn’t help changing their expressions. As supreme True Saints, even they felt a mountainous suffocating weight bearing down on them in the presence of a perfect Big Saint Stage cultivator.

This alone proved that Wu Hengzhen was much stronger than Wu Henghai!

Lin Xun narrowed his eyes.

He felt a tingling feeling, and he also felt an oppressive power assaulting his face. He realized the terror of Wu Hengzhen.

Shua!

Without any wavering, and seemingly too lazy to say anything, Wu Hengzhen launched into action, appearing extremely aggressive, fierce, and powerful.

With a flash, he vanished from the spot. The next second, a dark spear was lunging towards Lin Xun.

It was a simple spear, but it seemed unstoppable as if it was in the hands of the God of Death.

Rumble—

The nearby space exploded. Lin Xun raised his fist to meet the spear head-on. The power of the punch was like a boundless abyss.

With a boom, Lin Xun reeled back several steps.

Shua!

Wu Hengzhen smirked menacingly and without any delay, followed up with another killing strike. Countless spear shadows enveloped the sky and the earth.

Each spear shadow was unpredictable and frighteningly powerful, containing the law power of the Big Saint Stage.

Bang!

Very quickly, Lin Xun was pushed back once again. His blood and qi tumbled frantically throughout him.

“You are indeed not ordinary.” Wu Hengzhen’s eyes glinted.

But he did not pause his movements at all. His spear swung horizontally in a fierce and powerful strike, giving Lin Xun no chance to breathe.

Rumble!

At this moment, Lin Xun had mobilized all his cultivation to their fullest. His body, like a great dao furnace, had integrated all the secrets of the Sacred Combat Art, Yazi’s Rage and Extreme Absolute within it.

This was the source of dao.

And inheritances such as the Tribulation Dragon Nine Transformations, the Taixuan Sword Scripture, the Nine Heavenshaking Destructions Art and the Heavenly Yuan Slash were similarly being activated in the furnace.

This was the source of art.

All arts and daos were operating to an unprecedented level and unleashed with the Great Dao Furnace Art, which could be regarded as Lin Xun’s current most powerful means.

He dared not hold back in the face of a terrifying opponent like Wu Hengzhen.

Suddenly, the sky quaked turbulently, divine light swept the area, and beams of dao light danced wildly.

Within seconds, the two had exchanged hundreds of blows, plunging the world into chaos and darkness, with the rays of the sun and the moon completely shut out. Indescribable shockwaves swept out with deafening roars.

However, Lin Xun was repeatedly being suppressed and knocked back, unable to fight his way out of the disadvantaged situation.

After all, the power wielded by Big Saints was too incredible.

Even though Lin Xun was already invincible at the Supreme True Saint Stage, facing an opponent like Wu Hengzhen, who was at the pinnacle of the perfect Big Saint Stage, he still got the short end of the stick.

“Die!”

Wu Hengzhen pressed forward with unstoppable momentum.

His fierce and mighty stance stunned and excited everyone of the Golden Crow Clan.

Even some of the older generation of cultivators were amazed and impressed.

“My ninth younger brother has been regarded as a cultivation genius since he was a child. He has extraordinary talents and an excellent foundation. What’s especially exceptional is that he has a calm and aloof personality, and he is devoted to the dao and avoids worldly affairs. This allowed him to progress much further on the path of cultivation than any of our brothers.” Wu Hengtian said leisurely.

“If it weren’t for that troublesome little bastard, I wouldn’t want to bother my ninth younger brother during his closed-door cultivation. After all, he is already at the door of the Saint-King Stage.” His voice full of pride.

The nearby Golden Crow Clan experts all nodded in agreement.

Wu Hengzhen was indeed an outlier of the old monsters of the Golden Crow Lineage. In terms of foundation and combat prowess, he was regarded as a pinnacle figure of the Big Saint Stage.

𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

“The situation doesn’t look good.”

Meanwhile, Toady, A’lu, and Shaohao scrunched up their faces with worry.

The difference in strength was too obvious.

It was already shocking that Lin Xun, a supreme true Saint, managed to kill Wu Henghai, a Big Saint.

But in this match, his opponent was at the pinnacle of the perfect Big Saint Stage. It was near impossible to repeat the previous feat.

In truth, Lin Xun also discovered this fact as the battle progressed.

His combat strength was regarded as invincible at the True Saint Stage and allowed him to kill Big Saints such as Wu Henghai who was an entire cultivation level greater than him.

But to transcend the cultivation levels and kill someone like Wu Hengzhen...

It was near impossible!

“Die!”

Wu Hengzhen’s spear slashed across the air, aiming directly at Lin Xun once again. Ever since the battle began, he had been relentlessly chasing down and attacking Lin Xun, pushing him back again and again. This time it was no exception.

His face was as cold and emotionless as a rock, but his heart was palpitating with disbelief.

He never attached any importance to True Saints, but Lin Xun had surprised him to be able to survive this long in the battle.

But that only made his attacks grow more and more aggressive and full of murderous intent!

If he let the little heaven-defying monster continue to live, then without a doubt, he would grow to become a serious problem for the Golden Crow Clan.

Rumble!

Wu Hengzhen spear resembled a lightning flash, a thunderbolt, a raging blaze, and a blast of powerful wind as he attacked with multiple strikes. Vaguely, the faint aura of a Great Dao Field seemed to appear.

The pressure on Lin Xun intensified!

“In less than a moment, that kid will definitely die!” Wu Zhentian declared as he analyzed the battle from afar.

Many people nodded.

Everyone could tell that Lin Xun was just like a cornered beast putting up a desperate fight and was on his last breath!

Bang!

When Lin Xun was blasted back once again, his dark eyes suddenly gleamed. He looked up at the sky and uttered three words, “Tribulation is here.”

It was only three words, but it seemed to have a strange heart-shaking power that stirred up the nine heavens.

Wu Hengzhen seemed to notice something and came to an abrupt halt. Then, he frantically retreated into the distance.

He also raised his head to look at the sky. A look of disbelief washed over his face.

At the same time, everyone else trembled inwardly and looked up at the sky.

Then—

The azure sky suddenly dimmed as darksome tribulation clouds scudded across and swathed the sky at an incredible speed.

Daytime seemed to have been turned into eternal night!

Tribulation clouds were thickening as they appeared in the form of a rapidly whirling, funnel shaped cloud. It was utterly silent, but an aura of supreme law and order pervaded the area.

Everyone, regardless of their cultivation level, turned ashen-faced and felt their hair standing on end. Their state of mind showed signs of restlessness and disorder.

Moreover, the higher one’s cultivation level, the more terrified one was.

“Quick retreat!” Wu Hengtian roared.

There was no need to remind anyone, everyone was already moving away from the area.

Even Toady and A’lu looked bewildered and darted far away. The aura of the tribulation made them feel nervous and uneasy like a thorn was on their backs.

Rumble—

The depths of the tribulation clouds growled with thunder. The muffled booming noise reverberated around the area and turned the atmosphere austere

Many cultivators only felt a constant buzzing sound in their ears and saw stars. The rumble of tribulation thunder almost made them lose their minds.

Old monsters like Wu Hengtian were not much better. His face was aghast as if he was facing a formidable enemy.

What kind of tribulation is that? Why does its aura defy the heavens?

It even felt like the power of taboo was gathering.

Shaohao’s eyes blazed wild with horror as he mumbled, “Brother Lin follows the path of ‘when the three ways are united.’ A while ago, he overcame the Taboo Dao Tribulation and cultivated the three cultivation paths, physical refinement, spirit refinement, and qi refinement, to the supreme Saint level.

“This path once existed in the primeval era of the Ancient Wasteland Domain, but it was severed after that. To this day, Brother Lin is the only one in the Ancient Wasteland Domain who has embarked on this heaven-defying path.

“What he is about to face now is a tribulation of the Big Saint Stage unlike any other. Even Saints on the supreme path can’t trigger such a rare and terrifying tribulation!

“But why does Brother Lin want to overcome the tribulation here? Does he not know that external disturbances during this time can easily cause him to fail and become reduced to ashes?”

Shaohao frowned. He could not understand Lin Xun’s plan.

The others were also bewildered.

Boom!

In the sky, the tribulation clouds grew denser and darker. Deep in the ink-black clouds, bolts of bright tribulation lightning as thick as a python body flickered and crackled as if about to break the cover.

Strangely, those tribulation lightning occasionally took the shape of palaces, trees, birds and beasts, and sometimes turned into blades, spears, swords, halberds, stamps, pagodas and cauldrons...

In the end, illusory figures appeared one after another, like lightning spirits from the myths and legends, roaming leisurely within the tribulation clouds.

Everyone inhaled sharply as they watched the shocking scenes.

They had never heard of such an earthshaking tribulation, let alone witnessed one. There was also almost no record of anything similar in the history books!

Wu Hengzhen had no choice but to give up on attacking Lin Xun and stay far away from him. His expression morphed indefinitely, from shock to bewilderment to coldness.

He did not expect Lin Xun to choose to tackle the Big Saint tribulation at such a time, nor that his tribulation would be so incredible.

Could that kid be planning to use the power of the lightning tribulation to kill me?

When Wu Hengzhen thought of this, he couldn’t help but sneer. There had been many examples of cultivators trying to use this trick to kill their enemies since ancient times, but the majority always underestimated the terror of lightning tribulations and ended up killing themselves instead.

If Lin Xun dared to play this trick then Wu Hengzhen would not mind adding fuel to the fire by interfering and causing him to be struck to death under the lightning tribulation!

In the high altitude, Lin Xun stood calm without a ripple of expression on his face, as if completely unaware of everything.

The tribulation was already within his grasp, and it was also one of the tricks he had up his sleeve to deal with the Golden Crow Clan!