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However, they did not know that a vase had been placed under the waterfall. It was none other than the Cleansing Vase.
Hiding inside were both Alex and Daya. They had even moved the five corpses into it.
“These people are so rich!”
“Their storage rings are so abundant that the items inside are almost uncountable!”
“They must be of great origins. What should we do now? All of them are looking for us.”
After thinking for a while, Alex replied, “We should bide our time for the time being.”
Thus, the two just hid in the Cleansing Vase. During that time, Alex went to meet Neela.
The souls of Neela, her sister, Belindo, and another member of the Ice Dragons were still intact, so he did not have to worry about their disappearance. However, since it was more difficult for them to survive without their physical bodies, they had to temporarily stay in the Cleansing Vase and wait for a chance.
On the other hand, Neela, who had comprehended the true essence of the dragon tribe, needed to continue her seclusion.
It did not take long before Alex and Daya heard another burst of roars.
Apparently, they had failed to find Alex and Daya and couldn’t wait any longer, afraid that a delay would produce something unfavorable. When the time came, more people would come in and seize the treasures. After discussing countermeasures, they forcibly broke the formation again.
Boom! Boom!
The world seemed to shake, and the entire Yukon trembled.
Alex and Daya cautiously walked out of the Cleansing Vase. However, dozens of figures popped out of the surroundings and besieged them almost immediately.
“It’s really just two intruders. As expected, they have been hiding here.”
“Come out of the vase now! I think I have seen it somewhere! You managed to escape the scanning with our divine sense! You were hiding in a dimensional space!”
Surprisingly, those people coveted Alex’s Cleansing Vase!
For a while, Alex and Daya were dejected.
Those five old geezers had secretly set up such a trap, waiting for them to take the bait automatically.
“Ahem! You have sneaked into my territory. You’re trespassing. Do you understand?”
“You are still so arrogant. Tell me. Where are you robbers from? Do you have a license?”
Alex spoke first and was full of nonsense. In fact, his palms were sweaty. Those people had strength so unfathomable he was on pins and needles. At that time, he couldn’t help but secretly arrange a way of escape beneath his feet.
Someone actually realized who he was.
“You are Alex Rockefeller, that madman who deceived several thousand Divine Heirs and Holy Maidens in the Underworld?”
Alex nodded. “That’s right! It’s me! They had all recognized me as their big brother. Weren’t your people among them? If that’s the case, we’re considered family. Then, I will allow you to take an item from my territory.”
The white-haired woman sneered. “Then, you deserve to die even more!”
This woman was the most impatient. She directly made a move right after finishing her speech. She executed a gentle palm strike.
However, Alex and Daya saw the beckoning Grim Reaper.
“Frost Field! Block it!”
Boom!
The power of the blow was immense, with the huge pool under the waterfall directly destroyed by the palm strike. In addition, all the tricks that Alex had set up under the waterfall were in vain.
Bleurgh!
Daya vomited blood and was severely injured. Having home the brunt of the whole thing, Alex wasn’t in the best condition either. If he hadn’t used the Mystic Armor in the end, he would have met his demise.
Instant Teleportation!
“Old hag, just you wait!” Alex hissed before teleporting away.
To his surprise, he was forcibly caught by a huge hand halfway through the teleportation and dragged out of the space before slamming hard against the ground. At that moment, he had broken a dozen bones.
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‘Holy crap!’ cursed Alex in his heart.
The white-haired demoness really had profound tricks. He had teleported into space, yet she managed to drag him out. In addition, despite his body being as hard as a treasure tool, many bones were broken by the fierce slam.
Fortunately, Alex threw Daya into the Cleansing Vase the moment he was caught, or the consequences would’ve been even more unimaginable.
When the white-haired demoness noticed Alex slightly injured and lost the other target, she looked very surprised. “Brat, you have quite the skills.”
The old Daoist priest next to her said, “The tortoiseshell in this brat’s hand seems to be a decent treasure. My two beloved disciples are dead, so this shell should serve as a memento for me!”
The old Daoist priest boldly moved before the white-haired demoness could say anything.
Boom!
The priest looked self-righteous, but his moves were vicious. He swung his sword down, attempting to split Alex into halves!
Whoosh!
Alex was injured, so he could only dodge it via Instant Teleportation.
A few old monsters and a small group of onlookers were eyeing him covetously. The current situation was truly perilous.
The short-range Instant Teleportation was merely enough to avoid the old Daoist priest’s sword. However, the gap between their cultivation levels was too huge. Alex managed to dodge the fatal slash, but he was stabbed by the blooming sword light with a piece of his clothing torn apart.
Blood dripped, but rage surged in Alex’s eyes.
“Do you think you can do whatever you want in my territory?”
The white-haired demoness went on, “How can it be? How can a Wasteland aborigine like you be qualified to become the master of Yukon? Moreover, you have killed three of my disciples! I will definitely take your life!”
The three thousand golden cores in Alex’s body were erupting. Ymir’s Divine Bone on his tailbone was exerting its force, and the broken bones in his body were recovering at a breakneck speed.
A crazy idea suddenly crossed his mind.
“What about you guys?” Alex looked at the other few old men. “Do all of you harbor the same thoughts as her? If yes, all of you can come over. I, Alex Rockefeller, will fight you on my own today.”
A junior sneered. “Alex Rockefeller, this isn’t the Underworld. You can do whatever you want in the Underworld because you bribed that monk from Shoraionji Temple, but you are vulnerable with your real strength! Why don’t you ask what existence you are facing?”
“That’s right! Why don’t I introduce them to you? This is the master of the White Phoenix House, former bigwig, and Heavenly Deity of cult-master level. Even after the backlash of the laws, she still retains the cultivation level at Incarnate Deity. It is the real level of a deity… You… On the other hand, aren’t even an Immortal. Do you understand the gap?”
“And, this Daoist master is the grand elder of Mount Zanarkand, who is also at deity level.”
“Let’s look at this one. My master…”
That man wanted to continue bragging, but his master cut him off. “You talk too much! Now is the most crucial moment to unlock the Troop Raising Pond! Put everything else aside and kill this brat right away! We will discuss the rest later!”
As he spoke, he also stepped in and attacked Alex brazenly.
“D*mn it! What a pity!”
Alex unleashed three dark gold talismans with a wave of his hand.
They turned out to be the Talismans of Equality that he had acquired from Revealer Maha in the Underworld. These were precious talismans of which he had only a few. Even if they were precious, he had to use them in the face of several deity-level powerhouses who had teamed up.
He intended to draw over all the five cheating powerhouses in one fell swoop, but unfortunately, he was not allowed to do so in reality. The other two people were relatively far away, so he could only activate three talismans first.
Buzz!
The dark gold talismans were activated, unleashing Buddhist songs and symbols.
The old geezer that rushed over to kill Alex happened to have his head encircled by a golden light band. In that instant, he felt that his Chi, spirit, and cultivation were restricted by a powerful law.
Revealer Maha’s Talismans of Equality had come from Dairaionji Temple, whereas the law transcended this world.
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Having a foreboding, the man decisively backed off. Unfortunately, it was too late. His cultivation instantly dropped to the same level as Alex.
And where was his cultivation at?
Core Formation!
The old geezer abruptly broke out in a cold sweat. ‘How is that possible? It’s impossible that cultivation drops so much even when suppressed by the Immortal-slaying Sword Formation! It’s a reduction of over ten levels, from the deity realm to Core Formation!’
On the other hand, Alex was waiting for that moment. He fiercely swung the Dao Killing Sword that he had long prepared, slashing from bottom to top.
Each Talisman of Equality only lasted for a few seconds. It would lose its effectiveness after the duration… After that, the opponent would kill him ferociously in return.
Splash!
Alex severed the old geezer’s body into halves with the Dao Killing Sword as blood splattered all over.
The scene blinded the eyes of everyone present. It was simply unbelievable.
“Master! How dare you kill my master?!”
Alex ignored the cries. After killing an enemy with the Dao Killing Sword, he continued to slash at the Daoist priest next to him with the huge epee containing boundless killing intent.
The old Daoist priest’s eyes widened with rage. He felt the same thing as the previous guy, his cultivation had been suppressed to Alex’s level in a short time.
However, Alex’s cultivation was against the heavenly law. He was at Core Formation, yet he could kill an Immortal Emperor.
“Oh, Lord!”
“D*mn it! It’s the Talisman of Equality from Dairaionji Temple!”
At the critical moment, the old knowledgeable Daoist priest managed to recognize the dark gold talismans in Alex’s hand. Thus, he immediately conceded. “Buddhism and Daoism are one family. My friend, please have mercy… Ahh!”
Later, he would let out a miserable scream.
How could Alex show mercy?
His chances were fleeting, and if he were to show mercy now, he would end up in misery later.
The Dao Killing Sword spat out a legendary flame of the Buddha’s wrath and severed the old Daoist priest’s body.
The old Daoist priest was filled with regret. The grand elder of Mount Zanarkand, he had a lifespan of thousands of years and had experienced countless years of ups and downs and the war eras. Even after the Undying Clan’s invasion, he managed to survive as the universe turned into a battlefield. To his surprise, he ended up dying in the hands of a Core Formation junior today.
Alex failed to kill the remaining white-haired demoness. It was because the time was up.
The Talisman of Equality against the white-haired demoness only temporarily kept her from making a move.
Just as Alex unleashed an expanse of Bursting Frost Arrows, the white-haired demoness’s cultivation level had returned to normal.
The white-haired demoness flew into a rage. She was almost killed just now. When she thought about that horror, she felt a lingering fear. On the other hand, the two ancient bigwigs with similar cultivation as her died in the hands of an aborigine from the Wasteland. She had to kill this man instantly.
“Go to hell!”
The white-haired demoness unleashed the strongest killing move in her lifetime.
Just then, a soft clang rang out.
The Frost Arrow hit something. It was a stone tied to the white-haired demoness’s belt, the concealing divine stone used to hide her cultivation level.
As a result, the Frost Arrow shattered the divine stone.
“Huh?”
The white-haired demoness was startled for a moment. The next second, a bloody sword popped out of the void at lightning speed and instantly slashed the white-haired demoness’s neck
She was instantly decapitated!
That was the Immortal-slaying Sword.
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“Holy crap!”
Alex was astonished by the mystifying Immortal-slaying Sword. It was unostentatious back then, but it could now decapitate cheaters instantly.
How overpowering was that?
The white-haired demoness’s head rolled in the sky with wide eyes, but her soul also perished and vanished in a puff of smoke under the Immortal-slaying Sword.
Among the five forces with experts that had come by cheating, three were instantly destroyed.
On the other hand, the Immortal-slaying Sword cruised in the air as if still looking for a target. At that moment, the remaining two bigwigs truly felt what it meant to be on pins and needles. They stood frozen and dared not move a muscle as well as Chi, fearing that they would inadvertently expose their identity and be targeted by the Immortal-slaying Sword right away.
However, Alex’s eyes gleamed upon witnessing such a situation.
“What a great chance!”
Being a native cultivator, he wouldn’t trigger the Immortal-slaying Sword Formation.
Sure enough, there would be no problems.
“Old fart! Go to hell!”
Alex directly unleashed his strongest killing move.
The four hundred thousand-pound Dao Killing Sword raised a swath of ice curtain and ruthlessly slashed at the remaining two bigwigs. There was the legendary flame of the Buddha’s wrath, divine power, and even the Great Seal Spell in the middle of his move.
Alex could kill an Immortal Emperor with his full strength now.
If they wanted to hide their true strength, they could only borrow the divine stone’s power and control their strength at the cultivation level of an Immortal Emperor… Moreover, they would surely flinch and not dare to unleash their full power.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of explosions from the powerful attacks rang out.
The space in the forbidden area of Yukon was clearly far sturdier than others, but the space was broken and torn apart under the onslaught.
The two bigwigs who feared the repercussions after acting against Alex were aggrieved and annoyed.
Even more unbelievable was that the guy did not even use the Talisman of Equality, so why were his attacks so powerful?
Had he surpassed their critical point?
Most importantly, they had just seen Alex’s Bursting Frost Arrow shatter the divine stone that concealed one’s cultivation level, thus nullifying the concealing function. That was the true terror… The covetous Immortal-slaying Sword was the ultimate move that could eradicate them instantly.
They had just seen it in space.
The huge black dog and the golden-winged condor that dared to attack the Immortal-slaying Sword Formation were giant-level existences that had surpassed their true sect masters.
But what was the result? Didn’t they die by the Immortal-slaying Sword?
“Disciples of the Ghost King Sect, heed the order! Come quickly and help me to kill this guy!” roared a mogul.
The other quick-witted guy immediately understood. Their hands were tied due to the restricted cultivation level, but the surviving juniors were existences within laws and wouldn’t be targeted by the Immortal-slaying Sword.
He immediately shouted at all those people to take action. In that way, the two bigwigs had a chance to catch their breath.
However, just as Alex was trying to find a way to break another one or two divine stones, the Immortal-slaying Sword that seemingly failed to find a target swirled in the air and passed through void before it disappeared.
“Haha!”
“Brat, as insidious and cunning as you are, you’re going to die here today! You’re doomed if we don’t meet our demise!”
“Kill him!”
Alex was helpless. The Immortal-slaying Sword’s level was too high, and it was simply not something he could control. In the face of the two bigwigs’ substantial killing intent, the last thing Alex could do was to run away.
However, enemies surrounded him from all sides… All directions were now impassable.
Just then, Shelly in the mind palace spoke telepathically. “Hurry and get into the Cleansing Vase!”
Alex was shocked. “Won’t I be walking right into the trap under the crowd’s eyes?”
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“Cut the crap. Just go in as I say. I have my way to save you,” Shirley urged.
Whoosh!
Alex was not hesitant this time. He rushed into the Cleansing Vase right before the impending attack.
When Alex entered it, the Cleansing Vase would detach from his mind palace and show itself… Everyone saw that flawlessly white Cleansing Vase fall from Alex’s body, covered by countless approaching attacks.
However… It seemed to be a non-existent painting.
After all the attacks landed on the Cleansing Vase, they seemed to pass through an illusion. There was neither a vase nor a physical object. Even so, the unscathed vase falling to the ground was visible to the naked eye.
“This is… Could this be… Ancient Buddhism’s Cleansing Vase from Dairaionji Temple?” a cheating bigwig in his forties exclaimed after thinking a bit.
He probably knew the vase’s origin.
The other guy’s eyes also widened after hearing it. “Joachim, are you sure you aren’t mistaken? Is this… The divine artifact that used to be in the hands of the thousand armed and thousand eyed Bodhisattva?”
“Other than this divine artifact, I can’t think of anything else comparable to the one in front of us.”
“Uhm… If this is really that artifact, then I’m afraid those in the Troop Raising Pond are just leftovers.”
“Therefore, we have to acquire it!”
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was right in front of them, so how could they let it go?
The two bigwigs tried to take possession of the Cleansing Vase by all means.
On the other hand, Alex checked Daya’s injuries after rushing into the Cleansing Vase. Fortunately, she got sent in just in time. In addition, her life energy also acted as holy medicine for healing injuries, and her body recovered rapidly without any major problems.
However, Shelly urged, “Alex, you don’t have time to care about your woman now. With the Cleansing Vase’s appearance, the two guys out there are forcibly retrieving the treasure with their blood essence. Its ownership will change in less than three days.”
“Huh? Wouldn’t I become a sitting duck? Didn’t you say you have a way?”
“I do have a way, but I need your cooperation to execute it.”
It did not take long before Alex ran to a separate space in the Cleansing Vase.
Next, Shelly appeared, holding a blue lotus in her hand. It wasn’t large, but its accessories were complete. Furthermore, Alex knew that this item wasn’t as simple as it looked. As soon as it was taken out, he felt the divine power and the golden lake of holy energy in his body trembling wildly. It was not of excitement, but of rage!
“What’s going on? This blue lotus is clearly holy and gentle, but why do I feel like I’m facing a prehistoric demon?”
Ancestor Bodhi also ran out and chimed in, “Brat, you haven’t seen it before, have you? Let me tell you. This is an object of great origin. It is the Blue Demonic Lotus that Miss Shelly got for you from the Demon’s Domain at the risk of her life.”
“It’s specifically for me?”
“Yes!”
“Cut the crap and immediately refine this Blue Demonic Lotus starting from now,” Shelly said. “It can increase the holy energy in your body by a great amount, as well as stimulate the Lightning Tribulation of the three thousand golden cores in your body. You can only escape the fate of being refined by relying on the Lightning Tribulation. Consume it at once!”
Without hesitation, Alex picked up the Blue Demonic Lotus and consumed it.
“Uh..?”
Ancestor Bodhi’s eyes were about to pop out of his head. “You actually asked him to swallow it? He won’t explode, won’t he? This is the twin lotus of the Blue Genesis Lotus! I can feel my heart in my mouth.”
Shelly said, “There is no time for him to keep dawdling. Here I am, witnessing his fateful battle.”
“With the two cheaters out there?”
“No! It’s most likely that so-called ‘seed’ up there!”
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Ancestor Bodhi immediately shut his mouth, as he had heard about the seeds from Shelly long before this. It was an ultimate plan made by the League of Cultivators at the end of their era-they took massive amounts of spiritual energy from the entire universe and inserted it into the Wastelands.
They knew that the energy would burst out one day. Hence, by doing so, large groups of people would gain the strength and ability to defeat the Undead clan.
However… Shelly seemed to despise that idea.
“It’s nothing more but an illusion!”
“With such large-scale violence and war, even the strong can’t do anything significant! What we need are a few limitless overlords who have mastered extreme skills. That’s Why that seed from ancient times will be the one that benefits the most from the sacrifice of the universal amount of spiritual energy.”
“So that means the seed has been growing silently even before the recovery.”
However, Shelly wouldn’t possibly choose this seed.
It wouldn’t become the person Shelly needed as well… She needed a leader for the Siddhartha realm, a spokesperson. When the seed became an actual seed, its life and destiny had already been written out for it. It was born to strive towards success.
Shelly turned to Alex and whispered. “I don’t expect you to exceed the seed’s powers, but I hope you can survive!”
Alex couldn’t hear what Shelly was saying at that time. When he swallowed the Blue Demonic Lotus, he felt as though a nuclear bomb was being stuffed into his stomach.
Nine lotus seeds fell out as the Blue Demonic Lotus was cut down. Yet somehow, each one felt like it could destroy the universe as long it wanted to.
Buzz…
Ymir’s Divine Bone was the first to react, releasing a powerful force to protect every part of Alex’s body. After that, the divine power sensed the demonic energy as well.
Every lotus seed was filled with endless demonic energy, yet, each with its own attribute-rage, resentment, jealousy, hatred, malice, loneliness, destruction… And many more…
Suddenly, Alex felt a sudden wave of fear creeping up his heart. The negative emotions and demonic energy radiating from the seeds consumed his mind and divine consciousness. His mental state and mental domains were affected as well, along with every golden core and cell in his body.
“Ahhh!!!” Alex let out a maniacal scream that echoed through the air.
At the time, several odd, black phantoms appeared behind Alex. There were dragons, phoenixes, large eagles, and many other animals. Although most were creatures they’d seen, many still looked relatively unfamiliar. Some even looked way too strange to be called shapes, let alone animals. All of these shadows seemed to have come from another space. They were all reaching their claws out, trying to grab hold of Alex.
Psh!
A large dragon claw grabbed onto Alex’s shoulder and ripped out a piece of his flesh. A voice then popped up next to his ears.
“What fresh blood. You’re mine now. We can merge into one, becoming the most powerful being in this world. So stop what you’re doing right now. If you miss this opportunity, you will lose it forever.”
Alex was shocked. ‘What is that phantom? How is it able to talk to me?’
He initially wanted to turn around and take a look, but his heart jumped when he heard Shelly‘s voice from inside. “Don’t turn around. That’s a demon that can hypnotize humans! Use Ksitigarbha’s Ten Wheels Earth Incantation to ignore it. As long as you’re determined enough, you’ll be safe!”
Alex felt his heart shudder again and turned back to the front, chanting the Ksitigarbha’s Ten Wheels Earth Incantation immediately.
Pshhh… Pshhh…
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His body was beginning to fall apart under the onslaught of the dragon’s Claws. His flesh had been mashed into a gory mess, his bones crushed, and even his organs were falling out… Yet the dragon phantom was becoming weaker with every passing second, its attacks seemingly more feeble as if it were going further away.
There was a large pool of blood on the ground now, mixed with small pieces of flesh. It was simply a horrifying sight.
The phantom was actually ripping his skin off. It wasn’t just an illusion.
After that, several other demons rushed over and started tearing Alex’s flesh off as well, just like how the dragon demon did. They also tried to hypnotize him to take over his body.
With this, more blood and flesh poured to the ground.
Alex, however, confirmed to chant the incantation as he completely ignored the demons. It was as if they weren’t harming his body at all, as if the blood and flesh weren’t his, to begin with.
The average person would’ve been dead long after losing this much blood, yet Alex was still alive. His flesh and bones kept growing back despite being clawed out as though his body could regenerate. It looked as if he was being reborn.
The worst part was when demonic energy started consuming his mind. That was the base of one’s life and soul, so nothing should ever happen to it. However, the energy within the Blue Demonic Lotus was just too strong. The Green Genesis Lotus’ twin was considered a solid divine object.
The Green Genesis Lotus was one of the top three Chaos treasures, hence it had as much power as the Heavenly Axe and the Jade Disc of Fortune. It was the most powerful one of the three at the time.
The Blue Demonic Lotus, on the other hand, was just as strong as his twin.
The problem was…
Back then, when these two lotuses were still growing, there was a polarization in their powers. The Green Genesis Lotus absorbed lots of positive energy, while the negatives inserted into its twin.
That meant that the Green Genesis Lotus treated its twin like a trash bin, merely because it was the strongest of the two. Hence, it took all the goods and left everything bad to the other twin.
With time, the differences between the two lotuses became greater. The Genesis Lotus grew magnificently.
On the other hand, its twin was also one of the precious Chaos treasures. It wasn’t going to be willingly destroyed just like that, it developed a mind of its own, cut all ties with the Genesis Lotus, and entered another void…
It was also at that time when the twin’s nature was formed. It was exposed to negative vibes and kept away from positivity, which later developed into the Blue Demonic Lotus and became the source of the demon realm.
Indeed, the demon realm was created because of the Blue Demonic Lotus.
Shelly had currently entered the demon realm and robbed the Blue Demonic Lotus from it. It then had been devoured by Alex. With the help of the lotus’ powers, Alex underwent a great transformation that unleashed many new potentials.
The whole situation was hard to believe.
The Blue Demonic Lotus was the twin of the Genesis Lotus. A Supreme God’s stomach might not even be able to handle it. Yet Alex, who was at Core Formation, had eaten it… It was like suicide. A single lotus seed might have blasted his body.
Hence, Ancestor Bodhi was staggered.
Now, the nine demonic lotuses were simultaneously triggered within Alex’s body… Waves rose up and down at the holy golden pond within his head. From his internal vision, it looked as if it were a tsunami.
This was a battle between Buddhism and demons.
Thud!
The two forces crashed into one another, and right at that moment, Alex felt like he was losing his mind. Such a high level of energy collision wasn’t what Alex’s will and mentality could handle. He even suspected that his brain would soon be damaged, and he’d be in a vegetative state.
Just then, Shelly took action. She used her own Chi to force out a snow-white head from her body and stuck it between Alex’s brows.
“Huh..?”
“Shelly, what are you doing? That’s your Starbound bead. Without it, your place as Starlord… ” Ancestor Bodhi yelled out as his eyes widened in disbelief.
Shelly looked calm. “Siddhartha realm keeps getting smaller at the moment. This guy is the realm’s last hope. I can only risk everything right now. It doesn’t matter if he gets my head. Bodhi, don’t you be stingy either. Take nine of Bodhi’s hearts out.”
“What? Nine? You’re asking for my life!”
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Blink!
A white ray of light appeared before Alex’s eyes. It awakened his blurred mind like a ray of hope. His spirit became high… The seemingly endless negativity turned from its strong presence to a slow retreat.
“No, wait, what’s this?” Alex’s mind gradually became clear, seeing the true source of the white light.
‘Is that a planet… No, a woman… A goddess!’
‘It’s… Shelly!’
“This bead is called the Starbound bead. It should be of some help to you, but I can’t do much about the demonic, corrosion of the Blue Demonic Lotus. You have to go through this challenge with your own willpower!”
“Here’s another nine hearts. This is all we can give you. You’ll have to go through the remaining fights on your own.”
“The journey will be tough, but as long as your will is sincere, you’ll pass this challenge easily.”
“It’ll be as easy as picking up a girl.”
Alex nodded and faced the strong negative attacks straight on.
Outside, Shelly and Ancestor Bodhi stood next to each other.
Ancestor Bodhi looked like he had just met a ghost. “Shelly, you told him it’ll be an easy challenge? But to my knowledge, in this world and in past history, some had indeed tried to gain great powers by attaining the Blue Demonic Lotus. ”
“Unfortunately, no one succeeded, and they all died painful deaths.”
Shelly slumped to the ground, no longer looking at how Alex was doing. Instead, she observed the space within the Cleansing Vase. “We can only make a bet on Alex! If we lose, it’ll be the end of the Siddhartha realm.”
Ancestor Bodhi paused for a moment, then finally nodded. “You’re right. There are too many rules in the Siddhartha realm, we’d be better without it anyways! I love alcohol!”
He searched for a while and took out a bottle of beer. He was about to open it and drink it, but Shelly snatched it over and drank it immediately.
“Buddha, Amitabha!”
“Amitabha, Abhava!”
One of them looked like a twelve year old girl, while the other looked like a young monk that was about seven. However, the meaning of the words these two had spoken could never be fully understood by many in their whole lives.
***
Two days later, Alex was getting frustrated.
He had no idea what the Blue Demonic Lotus was. Believing it was just a normal lotus that grew in the demon realm, he had used all his powers to purify its negativity. The Starbound bead and heart were also fighting the nine lotus seeds.
However, they had no effect on it.
After the nine seeds entered his mind palace, they would plant themselves within his Heavenly Self-renewing Soil and wouldn’t come out… It was as if they treated Alex’s mind palace as their own home.
Soon, the land sank and became like a swamp. What angered Alex more was that the Starbound bead had planted itself into the soil too as if planning to reproduce.
‘It can’t possibly grow another Shelly from the soil next year?’ Alex thought He was, however, relieved that things were calm now.
Alex was clearly disturbed. According to Shelly, refitting the lotus should’ve been very easy. It was supposed to be so easy that any weakling could pass through despite having lousy willpower.
However, as he went through the process, he felt stuck. It was like his mind was about to give up at any time. It was definitely not as simple as Shelly had described.
Alex was even starting to doubt if his will was weak. Finally, the weird ax within his mind sent out a wave of pure energy and shook the negativity of the nine lotus seeds away. Only then did Alex let out a sigh of relief. The stalemate finally came to an end.
Besides, the nine hearts combined with Alex’s pond and formed a sea. It could be found in each golden core.
Whoosh… Whoosh…
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Through his internal vision, Alex could hear sounds of waves coming miraculously from within his body. The three thousand golden cores were almost fulfilled too.
***
“That’s weird. Why have things been so peaceful?”
“It is a little bit weird. The destruction of the Starbound bead alone should’ve caused havoc. Could something else have happened?”
Ancestor Bodhi and Shelly looked at Alex as they whispered. Things had gone out of their expectations. The Blue Demonic Lotus’ resistance was too gentle, but Alex still awakened surprisingly.
“Alex, you… You’re actually alive? What a miracle!”
Ancestor Bodhi held onto Alex’s hand and glanced around curiously like a fool.
Alex’s expression changed. “What do you mean? Is refining the Blue Demonic Lotus a dangerous process?”
Shelly butted in. “What dangers are there? Any normal kid could’ve done it, but to think that you’ve used so many days… You sure are untalented. Don’t go around boasting every day and picking up girls! You should work harder.”
Ancestor Bodhi opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but no words came out in the end.
‘This fellow here is so powerful that he just refined the Blue Demonic Lotus! Yet you’re describing him with such words? Do you have any conscience?’
“That’s it then!”
“Since we can conjure the tribulation cloud now, let’s hurry and remove those old guys outside. They are so annoying!” Shelly said nonchalantly.
However, when Alex left, she immediately jumped and spun around excitedly. She then touched her own face and said, “Bodhi, Bodhi. Is this true? Is this really true?”
“Looks like it.”
“That really is weird. The reaction’s too small. Could it be that the lotus has been in the demon realm for too long, and its energy has greatly lessened?”
***
On the outside, the two old fellows were still using their blood essence in an attempt to refine the Cleansing Vase.
“Clinton, try harder. I can feel that the vase is at its limits. It’s about to come out from the dimensional space.”
“I feel it too!”
“There’s only one Cleansing Vase, but we ’ve made a promise to use it together and rob the Dao Fields of the sacred mountain of their resources. Then we’ll gain so much more than just a vase.”
“Don’t worry, I’m a man of my word!”
The two old men subsequently came to an agreement. They urged their juniors who were helping out behind, to use more force.
Right at that moment, the vase moved, and a force was released. The two men were ecstatic.
“It’s coming out, it’s coming out!”
“That son of a b*tch, it finally gave in!”
“Everyone, try harder! When we’ve opened the Troop Raising Pond, you guys can pick any weapons you like!”
“Thank you, ancestor, thank you, senior!”
Amid the celebratory yells, they suddenly felt that something was wrong. They raised their heads and found that the skies had darkened.
A gigantic sea of black clouds covered them. There were several layers of clouds that now hid the blue sky completely. There were even rare lightning patterns on the clouds.
“F*ck!”
“Who is it? Who’s tribulation is this?”
“Damn it, we were just about to succeed! If this tribulation arrives, won‘t we… Be dragged into it?”
As they spoke, Alex walked out of the Cleansing Vase and smiled. “Thanks, everyone, for your love and accompanying me through this tribulation!”
The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 2990
“Sh*t, it’s this a*shole’s tribulation!”
“Then we don’t have to be afraid anymore. This guy’s cultivation is weak. I wonder what kind of messy skills he has learned. Just look. He’s only at Core Formation… You could pass such tribulation with your eyes closed.”
“Clinton, did you forget? Our cultivation levels would be included in it too!” an old man reminded him.
Only then did Clinton remember, and he quickly felt relaxed again.
“What are you afraid of? We’ve even bluffed the Immortal-slaying sword formation. This lightning tribulation is nothing.”
“It’d be easy to fool.”
As they had lived for thousands of years, they’d been through many lightning tribulations. Having some experience, they knew many ways to pass it.
However…
When Alex appeared, the rich Demonic Chi from his body was so strong that it made everyone freeze in place.
“He… He’s a Demonic Cultivator?”
“Oh god, how could there be such pure Demonic Chi? Could he be a celestial demon’s son?”
The Demonic Chi that came from Alex wasn’t completely pure, leftovers by the Blue Demonic Lotus. That was enough to shock everyone, though. If the Blue Demonic Lotus had appeared directly under the tribulation, it might’ve caused quite a havoc.
Rumble…
The tribulation clouds changed swiftly as they sensed Alex’s Demonic Chi. Countless circles of lightning and electrical patterns appeared on the dark clouds. The whole space was locked in and covered by it. The lightning attribute that roamed in the air made everyone shudder in absolute terror.
“I… D*mn it! I want to escape!” Clinton looked at the lightning tribulation above him. He squeezed the divine stone on his waist suddenly. Such a scary tribulation worried him. He was afraid that it would destroy his divine stone.
As he looked at the Cleansing Vase, he felt reluctant to leave it. The two of them had worked so hard to refine it. While he had just this little thought of doubt, the lightning tribulation started.
Boom!
Instantly, the skies and grounds changed color. It was as if the whole universe was in chaos. The two old men were flabbergasted.
‘What kind of lightning tribulation is this?’
They’d never heard of a tribulation that arrived so quickly and hit so hard. Everyone within its range was attacked at the very same time.
Crack!
Countless streaks of lightning and roaring thunder rained from the skies.
The disciples had spent so much effort entering Yukon just to think of what weapons to choose from the Troop Raising Pond. Despite this, they met their demise in the blink of an eye.
With a clap of thunder, they were all killed on the spot!
Alex himself was stunned. He hadn’t expected such a terrifying lightning tribulation. Yet he seemed to not feel anything.
Since he was the main target of the lightning, it meant eighty percent of the tribulation’s attacks would land on him. However, it was rather odd. As the lightning landed on his body, they entered his mind palace immediately and disappeared in the mud swamp where the nine lotus seeds were planted.
The mud swamp was absorbing all of the lightning tribulation’s attacks.
‘This… What’s happening?’
Alex stood still under the tribulation, confused.