The Lord of Void and Real
Chapter 480

Chapter 480: Chapter 476: The Arrival of the Heavenly Tribulation Chapter 480: Chapter 476: The Arrival of the Heavenly Tribulation The blue water dragon plunged into Shen Luo's Ren meridian, and like a flood dragon travelling through a river, it charged straight towards the top along the wide meridian. Every place it passed, his meridian wildly pulsated. His meridian, already thicker than an average person's, suddenly expanded by twice its size.

The flood dragon went from the Ren meridian to the Du meridian, then to the Dai meridian when it reached the lower back. It then travelled along all of Shen Luo's meridians, and as it absorbed more and more of the Pan Peach's spiritual energy, the glow within Shen Luo's meridians became brighter and brighter.

Unconsciously, the Huangting Technique within Shen Luo's body started to operate on its own. A storm seemed to rise in his sea of consciousness, with the last verse of the seventy-two verses of the Huangting Technique constantly echoing in the void of his divine consciousness:

“Heavenly Court and Earthly Pass are lined up in the furnace and scale. The Spirit's Platform is so firm that it never declines.”

In a short while, Shen Luo had consumed the whole Pan Peach, leaving only a long and bright red peach core in his hand.

The complete spiritual energy of the Pan Peach was absorbed into his body, causing a burning sensation to well up all over him. Clenching the peach core in his palm, he muttered, “That threshold… it seems to be near…”

Having said that, he casually threw down the peach core, raised his hands, formed a magic spell, and started to independently operate the Huangting Technique.

Once Shen Luo initiated the Huangting Technique, a divine thought immediately manifested within his body. Riding atop the blue water dragon, single-handedly grasping the dragon's horn, it surveyed all the acupoints in his body.

Wherever the water dragon passed, each acupoint lit up with a blue light, as if a certain prohibition had been shattered. Each one popped up a miniature whirlpool and began to wildly spin.

The feeling of being filled with mana when he was at the Great Mahayana Peak disappeared completely. Shen Luo only felt that every acupoint of his seemed like a hungry beast, greedily devouring the immense Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi.

As more and more Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi was absorbed into his body, Shen Luo's clothes swelled up to the limit, and he began to float in mid-air, looking like an inflated balloon.

Shen Luo was inwardly focused, fully operating the Huangting Technique, quickly transforming the Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi absorbed into his body, and drawing it into his meridians and Dantian as mana.

That small divine soul controlled the water dragon as it freely roamed within his body's meridians. After circulating seven times, it finally stored up enough power to charge towards the bottleneck behind the Great Mahayana Peak.

There, a very special acupoint calleNiwan Palace exists. Once this is breached, one can transform from being an ordinary mortal to an immortal.

An ancient saying goes, “An immortal pats my head, braids my hair, and grants me eternal life.” It refers to the immortal technique of breaking through the Niwan Palace, which can open a mortal's immortal acupoint and grant them immortal techniques.

However, this is merely a mortal's fantasy. In reality, it's not that simple. Only those who have cultivated up to the Great Mahayana Peak can try to break through the Niwan Palace. Any rash attempt will damage their divine soul, leading to a state where their physical body and divine soul are disconnected, and they will never have the possibility of reaching the True Immortal Realm again.

Just then, suddenly, an unexpected change occurred.

“Dong…” In the originally empty golden hall, a drumming sound suddenly resounded out of nowhere.

“What is that…” Shen Luo was shocked awake by the drumming sound and suddenly opened his eyes. The water dragon inside his body also temporarily halted its upward surge, hovering in the area of the Dazhui acupoint, continuously spinning.

“Dong…”

After a short pause, a bell rang again.

“The triumphant drum beats thrice, Heavenly Tribulation descends upon the world.” At this moment, waves began to ripple from the body of the Armored Heavenly General sitting on the throne in the hall. A somewhat indifferent voice emanated from his body.

“Heavenly Tribulation? What's going on? Typically, doesn't the Heavenly Tribulation descend only after entry into the True Immortal Realm?” Hearing this, Shen Luo couldn't help but feel a sense of tightness in his heart.

Shen Luo had conversed in detail with Bai Xiaoyun about becoming a true immortal and thus knew quite a lot about it.

Upon comprehending the nature of the Mud Pill, one could transform from being a mortal to an immortal. After that, Heavenly Tribulation would descend to temper the divine soul, to refine the muscles and bones, in order to remove all impurities from the physical body and thus solidify the True Immortal Realm.

This Heavenly Tribulation has always been perilous, and very few can successfully withstand its test. If someone from an cultivating aristocratic family or sect could achieve this, it often required the full strength of the entire family or sect in preparation.

Initially, Bai Xiaotian only attempted to break through under the full support of the Bai Family and the protection of the Hua Sheng Temple.

Unfortunately, he failed. Finally, he had to destroy a precious magical treasure passed down within the Hua Sheng Temple to barely preserve his life, ultimately turning into a half-immortal.

His case is one of the better ones. Many more people could not withstand it, were killed by the Heavenly Tribulation, and ultimately ended up with both body and spirit annihilated, unable to reincarnate.

There are also some special individuals who, despite their bodies being destroyed by the Heavenly Tribulation, managed to have their divine souls survive and thus obtain tremendous power. They're referred to as Ghost Immortals.

“If I had known, I wouldn't have eaten the Pan Peach in such a hurry…” Shen Luo regretted in his heart. Naturally, he didn't want to become a half-immortal or end up as a Ghost Immortal.

Unfortunately, by this moment, it was too late for regrets.

“Boom…”

With the last sound of the Kui drum, a golden mist suddenly arose above the Golden Hall, and four large figures emerged from it.

Shen Luo looked up to see four giant figures, clad in golden armor, emerging. Each of them held an axe-like magical instrument in their hands and looked at him indifferently from below.

The aura of those few individuals was very unique, unlike the Armored Heavenly General and the Heavenly Soldiers he had encountered before. There was no hint of humanity or divine spirit in them. They appeared naturally-formed yet exuded an incredibly powerful suppressive aura of Heaven and Earth.

“Law Enforcement Heavenly Soldiers.” He murmured.

It was rumored that the Law Enforcement Heavenly Soldiers wielded Heavenly Tribulation and Heavenly Punishment. The former tested the ascension of mortals to immortality, while the latter punished the sinning immortal. Naturally, their powers were not to be underestimated.

Seeing this, Shen Luo could only steel his heart. Turning his wrist, he summoned the Six Chen Whip.

Just then, the four Law Enforcement Heavenly Soldiers overhead moved abruptly, spreading apart and occupying the four cardinal directions of southeast, northwest. Simultaneously, chanting sounds emerged from their mouths.

In a flash, the chant, similar to Buddhist scriptures, echoed throughout the Golden Hall. The soldiers' bodies rippled with waves of spiritual power, and a cross-like formation pattern surfaced in the void.

As the array surfaced, Shen Luo suddenly felt the air around him stagnate as if the flow of Heavenly and Earthly Spiritual Qi had slowed down. An unsettling silence enveloped the surroundings, and he could even clearly hear his own heartbeat.

Shen Luo's brow was coated with a slight veneer of sweat due to the intense repression from above. He involuntarily swallowed, and secretly started to run the Huangting Technique.

The water dragon coiled around his Dazhui acupoint also raised its head as if facing a great enemy.

Just then, the four Law Enforcement Heavenly Soldiers suddenly struck each other with their axes, making a resounding “clang” noise!

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