Chapter 395: The First Heavenly Tribulation
The person who came with that powerful aura was actually Tianmiao Linghuang, one of the three emperors of the human race.
This made some of the Void-Refining cultivators who had just uttered "wild words" turn pale and become restless.
In the Feitian House, thousands of Jinshen and Lianxu monks all closed their lips tightly and said nothing, as if a disaster was about to happen.
The entire auction hall immediately changed from the bustling atmosphere just now to the dead silence it is now.
The woman who suddenly appeared didn't care at all. She laughed like a silver bell, looked around and said:
"Since it is in accordance with the rules for me to participate in the auction, the offer just now counts. I will offer 100 million spirit stones. Please continue bidding, fellow Taoists!"
Hearing this, all the cultivators in the Feitian House looked at each other in bewilderment. Who would dare to compete with the Spirit Emperor at this moment?
"Your Excellency Linghuang, why didn't you say hello in advance when you came to Tianyuan City? Our Council of Elders would have made preparations to welcome you!" An old voice came from outside the auction hall.
The moment they heard this voice, some monks in the Feitian House immediately showed joy on their faces and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Immediately afterwards, a ball of gray light appeared silently out of thin air in the hall, standing about ten feet away from Tianmiao Linghuang.
"It turns out to be Fellow Daoist Qi. I just happened to pass by Tianyuan City, so it's inconvenient to disturb you fellow Daoists!" The woman said with a chuckle.
"I see. I just didn't expect that Your Excellency the Spiritual Emperor would be interested in our Tianyuan City's Wilderness Auction held every three years?" The old man in the gray light asked slowly.
"Haha, I just saw an interesting spiritual treasure, and I was excited to buy it. Fellow Daoist Qi, you won't have any objection, right?"
"Hmm, it turned out to be a spiritual treasure made from Nine-Eyed Heavenly Silkworm Silk. Even this old man is somewhat tempted. No wonder the Spiritual Emperor would bid for it!"
The old man in the gray light stared at the nine-colored light in Master Chi's hand for a long time, and spoke with a hint of excitement in his voice.
"Why, fellow Daoist, do you want to compete with me?" the woman in the white light asked calmly.
After a moment of silence, the old man in the gray light smiled bitterly: "How can my wealth compare with that of the Spirit Emperor? Forget it!"
"In that case, no one will compete with me. Fellow Daoist, please announce the auction results!" Tian Miao Ling Huang looked at Master Chi and said.
Even being stared at by two beings at the fusion level, this Master Chi was able to remain calm. It was truly extraordinary.
He took a deep breath and announced loudly, "This Heavenly Silkworm Treasure Robe was bought by Senior Tian Miao Ling Huang at the price of 100 million spirit stones!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the woman in the white light stretched out her hand, sucked the brocade box away, and threw out a storage bracelet at the same time.
Grabbing the ball of nine-colored light in her hand, the woman looked at it for a few seconds, smiled softly, and said, "With the material of Nine-Eyed Heavenly Silkworm Silk, this spiritual treasure should have been included in the Chaos Ten Thousand Spirits List!"
"It's a pity that the refiner's technique was too rough and he still fell short in the end!"
Upon hearing this, Master Chi, who was presiding over the auction, suddenly turned pale and blue in the face, and his expression changed in an extremely exciting way.
This magical treasure came from his hand, so he certainly felt uncomfortable when he heard people comment on it like this.
If it were any other fusion cultivator, he might have argued with them.
But he was facing Tianmiao Linghuang after all, the most mysterious of the Three Emperors. His attainments in the fields of puppets, weapon refining, talismans, etc. were unparalleled among both humans and demons.
Master Chi's weapon refining skills are indeed far beyond this person's reach.
Grasping the ball of nine-colored light, the woman smiled suddenly, and the white light suddenly disappeared, leaving only a silver bell-like laughter echoing in the hall.
Anyone could hear the joy conveyed by the Spirit Emperor in her laughter, as if obtaining this Heavenly Silkworm Robe was a very pleasant surprise for her.
After the woman disappeared, a sigh came from the gray light: "With the Spirit Emperor's refining level, after refining this treasure, our human race will have another heavenly spiritual treasure!"
At this time, some of the Void-Refining cultivators in the Flying House flew out one after another, saluted to the old man, and called out, "Elder Qi!"
The old man nodded and disappeared without saying a word.
This wild auction ended here, and a group of Jin Shen and Lian Xu cultivators left the auction hall with heavy hearts and returned to their caves.
After walking around a few circles, Ye Changsheng returned to his cave.
"Tian Miao Ling Huang, I didn't expect that by attending an auction, I would actually meet this most mysterious existence among the Three Emperors!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
His understanding of this Spirit Emperor was really limited. After all, in the original time and space, this Spirit Emperor fell directly under the great heavenly calamity and was not even able to catch up with the devilish calamity.
Later, after the demonic calamity broke out, Tianling Realm encountered the strongest army of the demon world, and even the incarnation of the demon world's saint appeared there.
The successor Spirit Emperor had no ability to resist the demon army, and the entire Heavenly Spirit Realm was directly destroyed. As a result, the Spirit Emperor became even less noticeable!
"Combined monk!"
Ye Changsheng sighed softly and took out all the items he had obtained at the auction.
It cost 70 million spirit stones to get these things, three kinds of elixirs to improve magic power, one elixir to break through the bottleneck in the middle stage, and a pair of wing bones of Tianpeng.
“There will be no shortage of resources for the next phase of practice. I should improve my strength to the middle stage of the Spirit Transformation as soon as possible!” Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
Next, he will have to slowly take time to complete many of his tasks.
This is true whether it is cultivation or the training of gold-eating bugs.
"With 10 million spirit stones, we should be able to cultivate the first batch of 100 mature gold-eating bugs!"
"Before I advance to the realm of refining emptiness, my spiritual sense should be able to barely control these one hundred. With this trump card, I will have some confidence no matter where I go!"
Ye Changsheng put away the things in front of him and began to copy pills and practice.
However, his peaceful days of practice did not last long. Half a year later, he left the cave and went to the giant blue tower, where he reunited with his team members and began to carry out his mission.
This time, Ye Changsheng's team members expanded to ten people, finally completing it.
And the place they patrolled was still the Floating Swamp.
Another half a year later, one day, a dark cloud gathered over a cave somewhere on Cuilong Mountain.
A loud thunderclap sounded in the sky, followed by a strong wind. The thick dark clouds in the sky gave people a strong sense of oppression.
"Which fellow Taoist is going to endure a minor heavenly tribulation?" A figure appeared a hundred miles away from Ye Changsheng's cave. It was a middle-aged man who looked at the dark sky with a serious expression.
"That direction... seems to be an ascended monk who appeared not long ago!" A flash of light appeared next to him, and a fat man appeared.
"Oh? Ascended monk, could it be the ascended monk who killed four spirit generals of the spirit race alone?" asked the middle-aged man with a look of surprise.
"Yes, it's that person!" The fat man laughed and replied.
"I didn't expect that there are such fellow Taoists living around us. I must visit them when I have time!" said the middle-aged man with an amazed look on his face.
"Haha, this fellow Taoist is not that easy to get along with. Apart from gathering with those ascended monks, he rarely appears outside!"
"Basically, he is either carrying out missions or practicing in the cave. I have gone to his cave several times, wanting to visit him, but failed to meet him!" The fat man shook his head and said regretfully.
"So he is a monk who works hard? Perhaps that is why he was able to cultivate such strong strength!" The middle-aged man said with envy on his face when he heard this.
"Hard work alone is not enough. Each of these ascended monks has fought their way out of millions of people, and the path they have taken is much more difficult than ours!" said the fat man, shaking his head.
"Yes, if I were placed in the lower realm, I would not be sure that I could cultivate to the point of ascension!" said the middle-aged man in agreement.
"It's started!" The fat man was about to say something, but suddenly he saw the movement in the sky over there, so he stopped what he was about to say.
In the sky, bursts of thunder were heard, and blue lightning flashed in the clouds, turning into ferocious long snakes, giving people a strong sense of threat.
A golden light flashed in the mountain below, and a figure appeared in the open space on the mountain, with his hands behind his back, looking at the ferocious lightning in the sky.
The posture is quite relaxed and free.
"Tsk tsk, this fellow Taoist's demeanor is truly extraordinary. He can remain so calm even in the face of a heavenly calamity. I'm not as good as him!" The middle-aged man shook his head and exclaimed in admiration.
"In the first minor heavenly tribulation, almost no one will perish. As long as they are well prepared, most of the Divine Transformation cultivators can survive it!"
"With this Taoist friend's magical powers, I heard that he also has magical treasures in his hands. Naturally, he would not take such a small heavenly tribulation seriously!" said the fat man with a complicated expression.
"A spiritual treasure, haha, how enviable! With a spiritual treasure in hand, can the minor heavenly tribulation in the Spiritual Transformation Stage still pose a threat to him?"
“Who knows? I think the probability of this fellow Taoist breaking through the Void Refining Stage is absolutely very high. The path to eternal life, I dare not even think about it in this lifetime!” The fat man touched his chin and said with emotion.
"Hehe, even though the great calamity is extremely fierce, at least we have three thousand years to prepare. I'm really envious!"
…
While the two were talking, the calamity finally arrived!
Blue arcs of electricity flashed and attacked like long snakes, extremely ferocious.
I saw a black flag in the hand of the figure on the mountain. The flag was waving, and a black hurricane appeared out of nowhere, sucking the green electric arcs into it and turning it into a tornado.
Inside the tornado, the strong wind pressure squeezed the blue electric arcs. Not long after, these blue electric arcs flashed and dissipated.
The blue arcs of electricity from the dark clouds in the sky kept falling, but were constantly resolved by the figure using the small black flag in his hand.
Not long after, the shape of the green lightning in the dark clouds changed. The arcs condensed together and turned into head-sized lightning balls, which fell down like flowers scattered by fairies.
This type of lightning ball was obviously much more powerful than the previous electric arcs. After it fell densely, the figure also changed his response method.
One of them opened his mouth and spit out a black mountain. At the same time, a gray light emerged from his body. The light swept across the sky full of thunder balls that were close at hand. All the thunder balls paused and froze in the gray light, motionless.
Then, the black hill suddenly became hundreds of feet high and smashed down with a loud bang, instantly scattering large pieces of thunder balls.
In the distance, the two Jindan monks who saw this scene had their eyes twitching.
Although they didn't know what the black hill was, they could clearly see its power.
It can smash that kind of spherical thunder into pieces. Most magic weapons probably can't withstand this blow.
"This fellow Taoist's magical power is amazing!"
"If that mountain falls, I feel like all my treasured magic weapons will be smashed to pieces!"
The two of them talked with pale faces, and at the same time, they were unwilling to take their eyes off for a moment as they watched the man dealing with the heavenly calamity.
Blue lightning balls kept falling, and that person only used this method.
The thunder ball was fixed with a gray glow, and then a black mountain smashed down, smashing the thunder ball into pieces.
In this way, he solved more than a dozen waves of thunder balls in a row in this way.
As the last wave of thunder balls fell, the dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated, and in the blink of an eye, the sky became clear.
"It's over. This is the easiest person I've ever seen to pass a tribulation!"
"Hey, if I could have half the strength of this fellow Taoist, I wouldn't have to be afraid of the next minor heavenly tribulation!"
"Forget it. How can we compare with such people? Let's just collect treasures to overcome the tribulation!"
…
The two figures shook their heads and sighed, then dispersed.
In the cave, Ye Changsheng appeared here after surviving the tribulation.
"The power of the first minor heavenly tribulation is indeed just as Senior Brother Xiang and the others said, it is nothing!"
“Although each time the minor or major calamity comes, it becomes more severe than the last, with my magical powers, I can easily handle even the sixth or seventh minor calamity!”
"What's more, it's probably impossible for me to survive so many minor heavenly tribulations!" Ye Changsheng thought, shaking his head.
After putting away several magic weapons on his body, he sat upright for a while to regulate his breathing, then stood up and walked into the insect room.
There are hundreds of half-foot long, ferocious-looking gold-eating insects in there.
At this moment, all these gold-eating bugs have turned into pure golden bugs. Under Ye Changsheng's cultivation at all costs, these gold-eating bugs are on the verge of maturity.
Next, just extract some of the five elements spiritual energy and infuse it into the bodies of these gold-eating insects to fully ripen them.
"It seems like it won't take long. Hundreds of mature gold-eating bugs will appear. Wow!" Ye Changsheng sighed in his heart.
Walking out of the insect room, Ye Changsheng had a thoughtful look on his face.
"Although I am living a comfortable life now, and places like the Flouri Swamp are no longer a threat to me, it seems that I can't go on like this!"
"Every six months, I have to carry out a mission. If I keep doing this, I will have very little time to practice, and it will be intermittent, so I can't practice continuously!"
