Serpent Ancestor
Chapter 512: Flying Sword Crossing Tribulation

The sky darkened, and everyone simultaneously looked up.

At that moment, everyone in the mine was struck as if by lightning, their eyes bulging in shock as if they had seen a ghost.

Xiong Yan took just one glance before spitting out blood, using a blood escape divine ability to transform into a red streak and flee into the distance.

The Three Corpses Daoist turned directly into a corpse, lying on the ground and quickly decaying away, a technique known as shell shedding.

Everyone unleashed their divine abilities with a single goal.

Escape! The farther, the better!

But just as they began to move, they lost their ability to act, including Xu Hei's external incarnation, which also lost its strength and collapsed to the ground.

They couldn't move, unable to take even a step, as if they were bearing the weight of the heavens, unable to resist.

It seemed as if the space around the mine was completely locked down.

"What is that?"

Xu Hei's true self was far away, looking up at the sky.

In the distant sky, a massive sphere appeared, like the moon, falling downward, getting closer and larger at an incredible speed.

Despite the unknown distance, the oppressive force arrived early, pressing down on everyone in the mine and over Chaos Star City.

All those who couldn't escape in time were pressed to the ground, struggling to move.

"A meteorite falling from the sky?"

"My God, what kind of meteorite is this?"

"Is this the moon?"

"I've never seen such a large meteorite, oh my, run!"

"This is... a star!"

The people of Chaos Star City panicked, everyone acting in unison, using their strongest cards at any cost, burning their life force to flee the city.

Such a massive star, once it falls, the consequences are unimaginable, regardless of your cultivation level, whether at the Elemental Infant stage or even the Divine Transformation stage, only death awaits.

Xu Hei suddenly recalled a rumor from Huangfu Duanlong's memories.

In an ancient war, a cultivator used an unparalleled divine ability to summon a meteorite from the heavens, killing everyone on the battlefield.

It was this unparalleled divine ability that caused this region to be severed from the upper realm, becoming what people called the "Outer Battlefield."

Xu Hei took a deep breath. If such moon-sized meteorites were more numerous, it could indeed sever a realm. This was no longer human power, nor the power of a cultivator, but the power of the heavens, the power of the Dao!

What kind of divine might was this? Xu Hei couldn't imagine what cultivation level the cultivator who summoned the meteorite possessed.

"Boom!!"

The meteorite crashed down, stirring up endless storms. As it approached, Chaos Star City completely collapsed, its buildings falling one by one, countless cultivators crushed to death, unable to escape in time.

The meteorite, rubbing against the air, ignited into a blazing fireball, rolling down towards Chaos Star City.

It was undoubtedly a heart-stopping scene, one that would be remembered for a lifetime.

Only then did they understand that the ancient formation was a formation to summon meteorites from the heavens.

Where did the meteorite come from, what was its principle? Why did such a massive star exist in the void of the Outer Battlefield? No one knew.

"Boom boom boom!!!"

Under Xu Hei's gaze, the massive star, comparable to a city, finally fell, making contact with Chaos Star City. Humans were as insignificant as ants, dying without a trace.

The mere shockwave caused countless Elemental Infant cultivators to perish, their forms and spirits obliterated.

It was terrifying! No words could describe Xu Hei's inner shock.

"Right, now that the star has fallen, everyone's attention is drawn away, isn't this the perfect time to forge a sword?" Xu Hei's heart stirred.

He immediately dove underground, setting up a Star Sword Formation.

Then, he took out the yet-to-be-formed Five Elemental Sword.

Xu Hei held the sword in one hand and the refined Breath Soil in the other, pressing it into the sword's spine.

In the center of the Five Elemental Sword's spine, five beads appeared, forming a pentagonal pattern, slowly rotating and emitting ripples, creating a subtle resonance.

Dark clouds gathered in the sky, quickly forming a bolt of lightning that descended from the high heavens, striking directly onto Xu Hei's Five Elemental Sword.

"Crack!!"

The ground exploded, and the land where Xu Hei stood was blasted into a large crater. The power of this thunder tribulation was several times stronger than that in Liefeng City.

"Star Sword Formation, activate!"

Xu Hei activated the sword formation, using it to withstand the thunder tribulation as it fell again, each time annihilating both the formation and the tribulation.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"...

The thunder tribulations fell continuously, one after another, with immense power. Xu Hei countered them with the sword formation, creating a spectacular scene.

But compared to the falling star, it was insignificant.

No one noticed he was refining an artifact and crossing a tribulation.

The massive star fell, and the moment it touched the ground, the entire surface seemed to be lifted, terrifying ripples sweeping out from Chaos Star City in all directions, the shock spreading for millions of miles!

Countless people perished, countless cultivators failed to escape in time, crushed into oblivion, not even leaving a trace.

The impact of this meteorite collision spread from the eastern wasteland to the Central Plains, throughout the entire Outer Battlefield, detectable even at the far end of the Western Mountain, a cataclysmic event.

The entire Chaos Star City was destroyed, a single strike obliterating a city.

Outside Chaos Star City, even those at the Core Formation Stage couldn't escape, shattered to pieces, only those at the Elemental Infant stage could survive by chance.

In such an apocalyptic crisis, Xu Hei remained calm, seizing the opportunity to forge a sword!

Three thunder tribulations, four thunder tribulations, five thunder tribulations...

Xu Hei's Five Elemental Sword, after withstanding eight thunder tribulations, saw the clouds gradually disperse, seemingly about to stop there.

But suddenly, a strange force emanated from the site of the star's impact, automatically absorbed into the Five Elemental Sword, causing the sword to tremble violently.

The Breath Soil on the sword was transforming, evolving, turning into the shape of a star.

"What is happening?" Xu Hei's face changed dramatically.

The previously calmed thunder tribulation appeared once more, dark clouds rapidly gathering, forming divine lightning, more powerful than the previous eight combined, creating the ninth strike.

"Boom!!"

The lightning struck, driving the Five Elemental Sword into the ground, the sword's body cracking with countless fissures. With just one strike, the Star Sword Formation was destroyed, hundreds of flying swords vanishing.

Xu Hei had no time to feel distressed, watching as the tenth lightning bolt began to form in the sky.

"The tenth lightning bolt? A near fifth-grade magical treasure?!"

Xu Hei was shocked and pale.

The appearance of a magical treasure tribulation meant the grade had reached the pinnacle of the fourth grade, and if the number of tribulations exceeded ten, it signified the treasure officially stepping into the fifth grade threshold.

Xu Hei didn't know why his flying sword suddenly encountered this anomaly, it was beyond his calculations.

With the current materials of the True Dragon Sword, it couldn't withstand this tribulation and would immediately shatter!

"Could it be that the falling star caused my flying sword to accidentally absorb the power of the stars?" Xu Hei pondered.

Now wasn't the time for thinking, the tenth thunder tribulation was about to descend.

Xu Hei didn't want the True Dragon Sword to collapse, but at this moment, he couldn't think of a better solution. This was definitely an unexpected situation, though it might be an opportunity, he couldn't grasp it, not even Huangfu Duanlong had encountered such a strange event.

"Husband, can you let me try?"

Suddenly, a voice came from within.

"September?" Xu Hei was taken aback.

"Didn't you say I could become a sword spirit?" September's voice continued, "I want to try, to enter this sword, become a sword spirit, and withstand this tenth thunder tribulation together."