Using entries to cultivate immortality in chaotic times

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The Tribulation Clouds gradually enveloped the entire heavens and earth, and an even more terrifying pressure began to condense. All living creatures within thousands of miles centered on the Heavenly Palace felt this dread-inducing pressure, signaling a Heavenly Tribulation far beyond any Unification Tribulation!

And yet!

The pressure continued to rise at a terrifyingly rapid pace.

Literally all living creatures within thousands of miles of the Heavenly Palace were fleeing in panic; the oppressive force was so thick they could hardly breathe. In an instant, the entire forest, even ents who hadn't bothered to move for centuries, started to uproot themselves and stampede for their lives.

The situation was dire.

Very dire.

As ents, they had ample experience with Heavenly Tribulations and naturally didn't want to end up as spiritless Thunderstruck Wood. According to their experience, this Incoming Tribulation was cataclysmic.

"..."

High in the sky far from the Heavenly Palace, underneath the Tribulation Clouds, Chen Qiu retracted his gaze from above with a calm expression and let out a sigh, revisiting all his contingency measures. He felt that he might have been a bit rash—was the pressure from his Unification Tribulation way too outrageous?

After all, wasn't he just a holder of Heavenly Dao Foundation, twelfth-grade Golden Core, twelfth-grade Nascent Soul, fourteenth-grade Divinity Transformation Domain, and twenty-fourth-grade Void Refining Body?

Did they really need to strike him dead?

What's done is done.

Better have a meal first.

Chen Qiu took out an Eight Desolate Fruit from his bosom and popped it into his mouth, savoring the tasteless juice. He never fully understood the effects of this heavenly treasure, and it was unclear whether it would help ward off the Heavenly Tribulation, but he might as well consume it first—after all, it shouldn't have any adverse effects.

The Tribulation Clouds continued to gather.

Tens of thousands of lightning arcs, surging with the rich pressure of the Heavenly Dao, had already begun to flicker rapidly in the air; the Unification Tribulation was about to take shape!

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At the entrance of the Heavenly Palace.

Cradling a gift, ready to pay a visit, the Sect Master of the Heavenly Axe Sect looked towards the distant, intensely terrifying atmospheric pressure with shock and horror in his eyes. Though he was a peak Void Refining cultivator, standing here, he felt a primal fear taking root within him, compelling him to flee at once!

When the Tribulation Clouds first appeared around the Heavenly Palace, he was already en route with the gift, intending to celebrate the elder's successful breakthrough into the Unification realm.

But...

Upon his arrival, he realized that what had just occurred seemed not to be the elder's Unification Heavenly Tribulation?

Was it just an appetizer?

Is this now the real Unification Tribulation Cloud of the elder?

"Bu... but..."

Full of fear, the Sect Master of the Heavenly Axe Sect gazed at the exceedingly terrifying Tribulation Cloud nearby. He had seen others' Unification Tribulation Clouds before—not to mention distant examples, just last year, the Bai Family ancestor broke through to Unification, and it hadn't caused this much commotion!

You're telling him this is a Unification Tribulation Cloud? If you say it's an ascension tribulation, he might believe it!

Is this power not a bit excessive?

If all Unification Tribulations were like this, he swore he would never invoke a Heavenly Tribulation in his life, content to suppress his cultivation at the peak of Void Refining and live a stable life because, damn it, who could survive this? Even though he trusted the elder, right now, he was lacking confidence.

Especially since the Tribulation Cloud seemed to have no intention of letting the elder live.

But after more thought, it seemed normal... after all, the elder's Heavenly Dao Top Grade Golden Core, Heavenly Dao Top Grade Nascent Soul, fourteenth-grade Void Refining Domain, and Heavenly Dao Top Grade external body, along with countless sins, any one of these by themselves would greatly increase the power of the Heavenly Tribulation, let alone all of them combined, which indeed might be too much to withstand.

"Don't worry."

Fat Long appeared quite confident, arms folded as he leaned on one of the stone lions at the entrance of the Heavenly Palace: "For Brother Qiu, this level of Heavenly Tribulation is just average, and the bigger, the better. Otherwise, it wouldn't even trigger the Heavenly Dao Decree; it would seem strangely quiet."

These two stone lions were won the last time he accompanied Brother Qiu to draw a prize next to the Heavenly Hall's reward pool.

Cultivation of early-stage Void Refining.

Brother Qiu had placed them temporarily at the entrance of the Heavenly Palace, and while they made the place look imposing and quite handsome, it was rather disheartening; his own cultivation was in the late stage of Divinity Transformation, and now even a stone lion had a higher cultivation than him. If that wasn't discouraging, nothing was.

For most people, adjusting such a state of mind would indeed be difficult, but for him, it was fine—as long as he could lie down, who wouldn't like that?

"Just average..."

Ao Tian, who had appeared beside him at some point, spoke with a complex expression: "It is said that the Dragon Clan is prideful, and Dragon Son-in-Law, you certainly fit the bill, possessing the highest-grade Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Bloodline. This disposition of yours is indeed very fitting. With the power of this Heavenly Tribulation, not to speak of the higher realms, even someone in late-stage Integration would be smitten dead by it. Do you believe that?"

"The highest-grade Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Bloodline?"

The Sect Master of the Heavenly Axe Sect, who had been silent at the side, quickly caught on to this sensitive piece of information, a hint of confusion flashing across his eyes. How could a human possibly have the bloodline of the Dragon Clan, and the highest-grade at that?

How is that possible, considering there have always been constraints on the Vast Continent? He was not extremely familiar with the dragons of the Vast Continent, but he knew enough to be aware that currently, the highest bloodline grade among the Dragon Clan on the continent belonged to the Clan Leader, who possessed merely a tenth-grade Bloodline. Could it be twelfth-grade? That was simply...

Impossible!

But... well, if this was happening at Chao Tian Sect, then it didn't seem so impossible after all. To him, Chao Tian Sect was a place of absurdity; it wouldn't be strange at all if a human had a twelfth-grade Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Bloodline. Even if Spirit Stones rained from the sky, it would seem normal to him.

After all, it was the Chao Tian Sect.

"..."

Noticing the gleam in the eyes of the Sect Master of the Heavenly Axe Sect, Fat Long casually glanced over and didn't explain much, simply saying: "Anyway, I have quite a bit of confidence in Brother Qiu. Let's just wait and see. If it really comes down to it, we'll go and protect the Way later."

As the words fell,

Ao Tian and the Sect Master of the Heavenly Axe Sect instinctively took a step back. It wasn't that they felt any sense of betrayal, but with a Heavenly Tribulation of this magnitude, to protect the Way?

Was he there to protect the Way, or to return it?