Chapter 115: Nine Tribulations of Reincarnation
The surging waves of the Chaos Sea devoured countless stars, and the netherworld flames in the eye sockets of the First Sword Master's remains suddenly flared.
The bronze ancient blade in Lu Qingyang's hand trembled incessantly, and the Immortal Emperor's bloodstains on the blade transformed into a crimson Dragon, tearing open a spatial rift amidst the ruins of the collapsed Thirty-Six Heavenly Palaces.
The crystal coffin woman's delicate hand formed a seal, and the cinnabar mole on her wrist, which had condensed into a blood butterfly, suddenly self-immolated.
The Zhou Tian Star Map that emerged from the ashes perfectly fit the Texture of the Jianmu Remnant Branch.
"This is the Heaven-Slaying Tribulation Eye!" Su Meiniang's remaining fox tail suddenly exploded, and nine netherworld lamps, condensed from her vital essence and blood, floated in the Void Realm.
Where the lamplight flickered, countless phantoms of heavenly soldiers on a punitive expedition surged forth from the River of Time, their broken halberds and tattered armor clashing, shaking the Chaos vortex into an inverted state.
Yin Jiuyou seized the opportunity to spew out the filthy earth, a secret technique of the Witch Tribe.
The Taotie Dharma Idol, condensed from the turbid Qi, opened its heaven-devouring maw and actually swallowed half of the Star Map whole.
Jianmu's annual rings appeared on the surface of Lu Qingyang's Xuanming Dharma Idol, and thousands of Law chains burst forth from the tip of the Tribulation Lightning Sword.
The moment the chains pierced through the First Sword Master's remains, a bronze altar rose from the bottom of the Chaos Sea.
What was enshrined on the altar was not a divine position, but a half-scroll of the blood-stained Xuan Ming Sword Canon.
The Sword Qi that leaked out when the pages turned actually split the Chaos Qi within a radius of ten thousand li into Yin and Yang.
"Three-Life Stone, appear!" With a furious roar from the crystal coffin woman, she suddenly tore open the Reincarnation Seal on her glabella.
Nine streams of light shot out like meteors, instantly transforming into nine colossal stone tablets that stood firmly in the center of the altar.
These stone tablets soared into the clouds, their surfaces smooth as mirrors, emitting a mysterious glow.
However, to everyone's surprise, what appeared on the tablet surfaces was not the past and present lives that people expected, but a shocking scene of Lu Qingyang, wielding the measuring heaven ruler, engaging in a life-and-death struggle with a nine-headed Xiangliu in the Boundless Sea.
In this thrilling scene, Lu Qingyang's figure was agile, and his swordsmanship was as fast as lightning, each strike containing endless power.
The nine-headed Xiangliu, on the other hand, bared its fangs and brandished its claws, spitting poisonous mist, engaging in a heart-stopping duel with Lu Qingyang.
When the sword's edge finally pierced the seventh snake head, the entire scene suddenly froze, as if time had stopped flowing.
Just then, the inscriptions on the tablet suddenly began to reverse, like a movie playing backward, replaying the previous scenes before everyone's eyes.
As the inscriptions reversed, some previously hidden details gradually emerged.
People were surprised to discover that what was pouring down was not rain, but countless tiny black insects!
These insects were densely packed, like a black curtain of rain, enveloping the entire Insect Master Valley.
Ao Lie's remnant soul suddenly let out an earth-shattering Dragon roar, and the crimson flood Dragon Dharma Idol coiled on the altar's surface, forming a bloody array diagram.
The Jianmu Remnant Branch at the eye of the array suddenly bloomed, and as the Rebirth Flower petals fell into the Chaos Sea, countless Immortal Court warships rose from the seabed.
The blood-stained battle flags fluttering on the mast poles rustled, and the golden blood flowing from the damaged parts of the flags condensed into the complete "Seven Heaven-Slaying Tribulations" Sword Art in the Void Realm.
Yin Jiuyou's face was ferocious, and he suddenly let out an angry roar, crushing his own vital Witch Core with both hands!
As the vital Witch Core shattered, a powerful energy erupted like a volcanic eruption, instantly absorbed by his body.
His body began to tremble violently, and his skin gradually turned pitch black, as if covered by a layer of ink.
At the same time, the Taotie Dharma Idol, condensed from the filthy earth behind him, also seemed to have received some kind of power boost, suddenly soaring to a thousand li in size!
The colossal Taotie Dharma Idol opened its bloody maw, revealing sharp fangs, and pressed down on the altar like a mountain.
When its sharp teeth bit into the edge of the altar, a series of "crunching" sounds could be heard, and the altar was actually bitten into a huge gap by it!
However, at this moment, something unexpected happened.
The Immortal script that had originally appeared on the surface of the bronze pillar suddenly began to reverse rapidly, as if controlled by an invisible force.
As these Immortal scripts reversed, they actually transformed into clusters of bone-corroding poisonous mist, like a black whirlwind, directly eroding towards the Origin of the Dao Seed!
Lu Qingyang's face changed drastically at the sight.
He hurriedly waved the Tribulation Lightning Sword in his hand, and streaks of purple electric light immediately burst forth from the Tribulation Lightning Sword, like purple flood Dragons, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws as they pounced towards the poisonous mist.
The sword light and the poisonous mist collided with a thunderous roar in mid-air, creating an earth-shattering sound.
However, although this strike temporarily resisted the erosion of the poisonous mist, the resentment of countless Immortal demons suddenly solidified at this moment, wielding Immortal Artifacts such as the measuring heaven ruler and the Heaven-Overturning Seal, attacking from all directions like a pack of hungry wolves!
"Gui Xu Attraction!" With a soft shout from the crystal coffin woman, her wrist, which was like mutton-fat jade, suddenly flipped.
Nine Reincarnation talismans, shimmering with mysterious light, flew out like meteors, accurately striking the First Sword Master's remains.
At that instant, the First Sword Master's remains, which had been quietly lying in the crystal coffin, suddenly seemed to be endowed with life, and actually stood up abruptly!
Those already decayed finger joints incredibly gripped the Xuan Ming Sword Canon that had been placed beside it.
The moment this bizarre scene occurred, the entire Chaos Sea seemed to be disturbed, stirring up monstrous waves.
The towering huge waves swept in all directions like the end of the world, as if to engulf the entire world.
And on the crest of those waves, a colossal bronze coffin loomed in and out of sight.
On the surface of the coffin, the true form of a nine-headed Xiangliu, pierced by Heavenly Dao chains, faintly emerged.
Each head of the nine-headed Xiangliu was ferocious and terrifying, and the black mist it spewed from its mouth intertwined with the waves of the Chaos Sea, forming a chilling picture.
However, what was most astonishing was that at each gap in the Heavenly Dao chains of the nine-headed Xiangliu's true form, a missing sword style rune from the Xuan Ming Sword Canon was embedded!
These runes flickered with faint light, seemingly echoing the Xuan Ming Sword Canon in the First Sword Master's remains, revealing an incomprehensible mysterious power.
Three of Su Meiniang's vital lamps suddenly extinguished, and the remaining Fox Fire condensed into a stream of light that entered Lu Qingyang's glabella.
The Jianmu phantom behind the Xuanming Dharma Idol suddenly solidified.
As its branches pierced through the Thirty-Three Heavenly Veils, countless Tribulation Lightning condensed into Immortal Emperor phantoms, stepping on clouds.
The chaos bell held by the leader boomed, its bell waves shattering countless stars, but turning into green smoke upon touching the measuring heaven ruler—this was precisely the "Shattering Dao" Sword Intent among the Seven Heaven-Slaying Tribulations.
"Open!" Lu Qingyang pointed his fingers across the bronze ancient blade, and the Dragon on the blade transformed into chains, entangling the nine-headed Xiangliu.
When the sword's edge pierced the vertical pupil of the seventh snake head, the Chaos altar suddenly collapsed, and countless bronze fragments condensed into an Ark of Salvation in the Void Realm.
The ancient script carved on the Ark's body suddenly came alive, transforming into a torrent of Law that washed over the Laws of the Thirty-Eight Heavens.
Yin Jiuyou's filthy earth Dharma Idol disintegrated inch by inch in this torrent, and his vital Witch Core actually merged with the Xiangliu's poisonous fangs, forming an arrow of world destruction.
Just as everyone was astonished, the woman in the crystal coffin suddenly moved!
She slowly rose from the coffin like a ghost, each movement so light, as if she had no weight at all.
She lightly lifted her jade foot, directly shattering the Void Realm, and with a single step, arrived before the Ark.
Before anyone could react, the Reincarnation Seal on her glabella suddenly burst forth with dazzling light, like the brightest star in the night sky.
This Reincarnation Seal transformed into a stream of light, shooting out like lightning, directly entering the Ark.
In an instant, the entire Ark trembled violently, as if it had suffered a tremendous impact.
And amidst this trembling, the Rebirth Flower hanging at the bow of the Ark also seemed to be awakened by some power, suddenly blooming.
Its petals unfurled layer by layer, and a green light burst forth from its stamen, like a clear spring, flowing in the Void Realm.
Within this green light, the scene of the First Sword Master slaying a Saint actually appeared!
It was an earth-shattering battle, with the First Sword Master, holding a blood-stained broken sword, facing the supreme Saint alone.
His figure was like lightning, and his sword momentum was like a rainbow, each strike containing endless power, forcing the Saint to retreat repeatedly.
However, a Saint was a Saint after all; his strength was unfathomable, and although the First Sword Master was brave, he gradually faltered.
Finally, in a fierce confrontation, the First Sword Master's broken sword was struck away by the Saint.
The Saint seized the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, and the First Sword Master had nowhere to dodge, eventually being struck in the glabella by the Saint's blow, with blood splattering.
At that instant, the deck of the Ark suddenly let out a loud bang, as if being torn apart, and a huge crack suddenly appeared.
Immediately after, a torrent of Chaos Qi gushed out from the crack, instantly filling the entire Void Realm.
This Chaos Qi seemed to possess infinite vitality, rapidly condensing in the Void Realm, and in the blink of an eye, formed a nine-layered Reincarnation Platform.
Each step of the platform shimmered with strange light, as if narrating the endless Dao of Reincarnation.
And on each step of this nine-layered Reincarnation Platform, scenes of Lu Qingyang's previous life failing to Undergo Tribulation were reflected.
Those scenes, like epic tragedies, made people feel a sense of sorrow.
Finally, when everyone's gaze fell on the ninth step, they were surprised to find that the river diagram fragment from the Drunken Old Man of the South Sea's Dao transformation was actually manifested here!
Although the patterns on the fragment were blurry, they revealed an indescribable ancient aura, as if containing the most profound mysteries of the Universe.
The measuring heaven ruler suddenly turned its sword's edge, piercing through Lu Qingyang's Xuanming Dharma Idol's chest.
The moment the Dharma Idol shattered, Jianmu's annual rings suddenly reversed, and its roots entangled the nine-layered Reincarnation Platform.
When the bronze ancient blade collided with the measuring heaven ruler, countless Immortal Court battle flags fell from the tree canopy, and the Immortal Emperor's bloodstains on the flags condensed into a Great Dao prophecy: "The Heaven-Slayer shall experience nine generations of tribulations, and only at the end of the tribulations shall the light of escape be seen."