Throughout history, those who left the Peach Blossom Secret Realm never returned, thinking back to when Xiao Zhi parted with Yun Mengmeng, she cried so heartbrokenly, believing it was an eternal farewell.

And the one who caused Xiao Zhi to leave the Peach Blossom Secret Realm was this guy named Ye Wanli!

Daoist Buyu had only met Yun Mengmeng once, and that was with a Yun Mengmeng who was less than ten years old. Since Yun Zhi didn’t follow her back to the Secret Realm to visit her relatives, he didn’t recognize Yun Mengmeng’s identity at once.

When he carefully recalled what Yun Mengmeng had said upon their meeting, he finally realized who Yun Mengmeng was and suddenly understood.

"You’re the little girl who cried so fiercely back then!"

𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"How dare you say that!"

Yun Mengmeng glared and exploded without a second word, catching Daoist Buyu completely off guard.

Even with rich combat experience, no cultivator could react promptly to a self-detonation attack.

Yun Mengmeng had just learned the Continuous Self-Detonation Technique from Fairy Eternity and used it on Daoist Buyu. The sky above Sky Gate Mountain was filled with continuous booming noises as Daoist Buyu was tossed around like a tattered kite in the shockwave.

Lu Yang felt somewhat relieved, glad that Yun Mengmeng had just learned how to use the Initial Form of Immortal Dao Fruit from the fairy. If she hadn’t learned it yet, it would have been difficult to sneak attack their master.

"Master has this tribulation in his fate," Lu Yang said nonchalantly, making excuses for himself not to help, like a fortune-telling blind man.

Gan Tian also agreed with her junior brother’s point of view, "Since master is at the Pass Tribulation stage, undergoing a few human tribulations is within reason."

Gan Tian had a fruitful trip seeking melodic inspiration outside; she brought back a local specialty, a white melon with few seeds, crisp and sweet, full of water content. She cut the white melon into eight pieces using a string from her instrument and shared a piece with her junior brother, the two siblings enjoying it with relish.

The commotion at Sky Gate Mountain also attracted the Disciples of the Dao Seeking Sect, who pointed and speculated about the continuously exploding Daoist Buyu, curious about who was responsible.

"Amazing, our Dao Seeking Sect has such an expert?"

The disciples discussed animatedly, all wanting to know who this expert was.

Even if it were the Grandmaster from Captive Peak or Elder Tao from the Scripture Pavilion taking action, the effects wouldn’t be this exaggerated.

Just then, Yun Zhi hurried back, watching Yun Mengmeng’s frenzied self-detonation and Daoist Buyu like a candle in the wind, her eyes twitching.

"Alright, alright, Mengmeng, stop now, that’s enough," she said.

Yun Zhi stood between the two, interrupting Yun Mengmeng’s continuous self-detonation, allowing Daoist Buyu to finally cease maintaining his Sword Qi protective state.

Seeing that it was Xiao Zhi who came, Yun Mengmeng huffed and did not attack again, and Daoist Buyu also let out a sigh of relief. He really didn’t know how to deal with Yun Mengmeng.

If he retaliated, indeed she had the moral high ground and their dispute was not trivial.

If he didn’t retaliate, he couldn’t withstand being bombed like this for long.

Suddenly, a peal of thunderous noise arose, causing Daoist Buyu to subconsciously think that Yun Mengmeng was about to self-detonate again.

Then he realized that the thunderous noise was coming from a far distance and felt very familiar.

"Thunder of Pass Tribulation, who is about to reach the Pass Tribulation stage?"

Daoist Buyu looked in the direction of the thunderous noise, squinting his eyes slightly. If his guess was correct, that place was the ravine, the site of his older brother’s secluded cultivation.

"The Grand Elder is undergoing his tribulation!"

Lu Yang also realized, having visited the Grand Elder’s place of secluded cultivation, it was all coffins.

Having secluded himself for over a year, the Grand Elder finally reached fruition.

The disciples of the Seek Dao Sect were drawn to the commotion made by the Grand Elder and rushed toward the canyon nearby to witness the process of Transcendence Tribulation.

Lu Yang and others also hurried over.

At that time, the sky above the canyon was pitch black as ink, the thunderous pressure looming like an abyss, unfathomable.

The Thunder Tribulation the Grand Elder faced, although not as intense as Daoist Buyu’s, was also nearly the same, worthy of the title of a Half Step Pass Tribulation Cultivator.

Below the canyon, the coffin shook, and only the pit was left of the Immortal Peach laid in front of it. Suddenly, a pale hand stretched out of the coffin, gripping the edge of the lid, the veins on the back of the hand bulged.

With a bang, the coffin burst open, and the Grand Elder soared into the sky, arriving above the canyon, confronting the Thunder Tribulation head-on, showing no fear, his head lowered, snoring.

"The Grand Elder seems to be sleeping, is he alright?" Lu Yang asked, worried.

"It’s fine, my brother practices the Dream Dao, and in his dreams, he is in his strongest state. Enemies in the real world appear in dreamland in different forms. In the dream, my brother fights the enemy, and his actions in the real world follow suit," Daoist Buyu explained, the memory of being schooled by the sleepwalking Grand Elder still vivid in his mind.

The Grand Elder’s Pass Tribulation was a major event;; the Second Elder, Third Elder... even the Sixth Elder had come.

The child Grandmaster, Elder Tao, had also come.

Boom!

Nobody expected that the first wave of Thunder Tribulation would emerge from below the canyon, the thunder in the sky was just a decoy!

Sudden thunder roared from the ground, heading straight for the Grand Elder’s face. With his eyes tightly shut, the Grand Elder slashed down with a hand, intending to meet the Thunder Tribulation with brute force!

Innumerable bolts of lightning, like tentacles, rose from below, entwining the Grand Elder, who shouted loudly as his muscles swelled. The image of an Arhat wielding a Vajra Pestle emerged, breaking free from the Thunder Tribulation’s restraint;; Lu Yang watched, his heart pounding.

He saw clearly, the Grand Elder’s skin split and flesh gaped open, wounds deep enough to expose bone. The Grand Elder, as if feeling no pain, relentlessly struck back at the Thunder Tribulation, completely disregarding his own injuries.

"When he’s asleep, he’s like this, only attacking, not defending, and unable to feel pain," Daoist Buyu explained again.

The Grand Elder, not knowing what he was dreaming about, had a fierce expression, resembling an Arhat exorcising demons from the murals.

"Let me tell you, I am the strongest zombie, having cultivated to the realm of the Drought Demon; you lot of Unformable Bones couldn’t possibly be stronger than me!" the Grand Elder suddenly shouted.

"Let me tell you, this graveyard is my territory, no one can think of taking it away!"

"Don’t agree? Then let the fists do the talking!"

Lu Yang: "..."

Grand Elder, what exactly are you dreaming about?

When the Grand Elder repelled the ninety-ninth Thunder Tribulation, and the tribulations from both below the canyon and above dissipated, sunlight shining on the floating Grand Elder, battered and bruised like a war god, the Grand Elder slowly opened his eyes, his face solemn and stiff, as though relishing the sensation of becoming a Drought Demon.

"Hiss, that hurts!"

The pain that followed the Tribulation quickly pulled the Grand Elder back to reality. The power left by the Thunder Tribulation in his body continuously healed him, and only then did he realize that he had just undergone the Tribulation, and he had now become a Pass Tribulation Cultivator.

"Big brother, finally a Pass Tribulation Cultivator, congratulations," Daoist Buyu was the first to offer his congratulations, with Uncle Ba and others flying up to join in.

There was a joyous atmosphere throughout the Seek Dao Sect; adding a Pass Tribulation Cultivator was cause for celebration.

"Senior Brother, where did little Qin get this fondness for zombies and graves?" Elder Tao asked with a strange look at the child Grandmaster, suspecting his involvement in it.

The child Grandmaster coughed dryly, embarrassed to say that he used to scare the Grand Elder with zombie stories. He hadn’t anticipated that it wouldn’t scare him, but instead it piqued his interest.