Do not die

This time, Meng Zhou didn't get stuck at the alternation of old and new years before entering a deep state of concentration.

But slightly ahead of schedule.

When the new year came and Meng Zhou turned 100 years old, he not only adjusted his physical and mental state to the best, but also made up for the last bit of cultivation progress that was lacking in the ninth level of Dan Dan one step ahead of schedule, starting from "9999" /10,000” becomes “10,000/10,000”.

It truly reaches a state where there is no way forward and the water is overflowing.

The moment he took this last step, Meng Zhou suddenly felt as if Huntan had an idea of ​​his own.

Just like a fledgling that has grown to a certain level, it is eager to leave the nest that provides safe shelter, and wants to join the wider world outside the "nest".

If Meng Zhou hadn't been calm and clear-headed enough in his heart, and there was a green lotus seed that seemed to contain infinite mysteries, acting as a ballast stone and a sea pearl, Meng Zhou would have been worried that he would have escaped from the soul pool without paying attention.

Deep in the bottom of the pool, the outline of a giant turtle is looming, carrying the bright moon on its back.

In the "inner world" that is more abstract, deeper and more obscure than the sea of ​​consciousness, the image of the giant sun-carrying turtle that was purely transformed by Meng Zhou's thoughts of visualization has become more solid, and its breathing has also changed. Got to be thicker.

Although this giant sun-carrying turtle is closer to the idealistic level, every breath he takes, and even the flow of energy that makes up its body, will be reflected in some aspect of essence, energy, and spirit in some form.

In the steady and heavy breathing of the sun-carrying giant turtle, and the smooth and unhindered flow of Qi throughout the body, the Sea of ​​Consciousness Soul Pond is like a real pure land between heaven and earth;

In the Dantian of the meridians, the pure mana rich in vitality is like an endless river, flowing and surging again and again;

A body that is more powerful and more wonderful than the third-level magic weapon. The energy and blood gather and disperse like smoke and clouds, sometimes here and sometimes there.

From the inside to the outside, Meng Zhou, who was in a deep state of concentration at this moment, was perfect to the extreme and relaxed to the extreme.

Converge all your thoughts, just like a stubborn stone or a green cypress.

But at the same time, it is like a crossbow that is fully charged, a bow drawn to the full moon.

At a certain moment, Meng Zhou suddenly felt very clearly that a mysterious aura suddenly filled the air around him.

Meng Zhou was no stranger to this aura.

This mysterious aura will only appear in every corner of the world indiscriminately when winter turns to spring, when the old and the new change, taking the world into a new reincarnation.

The reason why he set the retreat that is only once a year in the first month, and the reason why he set the time of this breakthrough at this moment, wasn't it for this moment!

"This is the moment."

With this thought in his mind, Meng Zhou immediately released all the restrictions.

The breathing of the "giant turtle carrying the sun" suddenly changed.

In the body, the magic power flowing naturally in the meridians and Dantian, and the energy and blood gathering and dispersing randomly among the body's muscles and bones, seemed to have suddenly changed from "careless" to a "dead charge" state.

In the sea of ​​​​consciousness, the green lotus seed suspended in the sky above the soul pool, acting as a ballast stone and a sea pearl, suddenly sank into the soul pool.

In an instant, the soul pool was like a hydrogen balloon that had been disconnected and lost its control and restraint. It "flyed" from the position that it had never moved since the foundation was established and the soul turned into the soul pool.

What was carried away with them was the bright moon at the bottom of the pond, the shadow of the giant tortoise with the negative moon, and even Meng Zhou's own consciousness and thoughts, as well as all the "tanks and jars" under the jurisdiction of the soul pond, all "flyed away" with them. "Get up.

The floating soul pool seems to be flying out of the sea of ​​consciousness.

But the boundary of the sea of ​​consciousness seems to be close at hand, but it seems to be forever out of reach, always just a little bit away.

During this process, Meng Zhou felt that his mind and thoughts were becoming active uncontrollably, and all kinds of messy emotions and thoughts that he thought he had sorted out well suddenly emerged in his heart without any warning.

Meng Zhou was alert, but he did not feel panic.

He was prepared for this change in advance.

After forming the core and breaking through the realm of Nascent Soul, the most significant change is concentrated on the soul.

For a soul in the Dan Formation realm to transform into a Nascent Soul, not to mention other steps, fully tempering the loose soul body and pruning away messy and uncontrollable thoughts like weeds are all necessary steps. .

"coming!"

At this moment, Meng Zhou's heart tightened, and his keen intuition about danger let him know what he was about to face.

The catastrophe is coming soon.

If it were other monks, they would usually immediately withdraw from the state of deep trance at this moment.

As the saying goes, "There is no turning back when you shoot a bow." The monk who has reached this point is like an arrow being shot out.

The most important battlefield has moved from "inside" to "outside".

However, Meng Zhou did not do this.

One is that he didn't make any extra preparations except for his body.

It wasn't that he didn't want to make more preparations, but after careful weighing, Meng Zhou suddenly discovered that his strongest means was himself.

Rather than spending time on preparations such as elixirs, magic weapons, and talisman formations that other tribulation monks usually pursue, it would be more effective to spend it on yourself.

In this case, he does not have to consider the question of "what means should be used and what preparations should be used to face this wave of catastrophe".

For him, the choice is very simple, just fight hard.

In this case, he naturally does not need to withdraw from the deep state of concentration.

Although this makes him less flexible and maneuverable when facing the catastrophe, it also has another benefit. In this state, he can grasp the changes inside the body more keenly and make the most timely adjustments. .

Just as he was thinking about this, in the sky above his head, the dome originally formed by the "Tianchi Star Mud" carrying a large number of "tadpole patterns" suddenly retreated to the periphery, and a huge hole was exposed in the originally tight dome.

——This is the arrangement Meng Zhou made in advance in order to prevent the "Tianchi Star Mud" and the new rules carried on it from being damaged when facing the catastrophe.

Shortly after the hole in the dome appeared, a purple thunderbolt as thick as a bucket, carrying the power of the sky, struck Meng Zhou, who was sitting motionless on the water of "Xingxiu Tianchi" with his eyes closed.

"boom!!!!!"

Meng Zhou's entire body was instantly submerged in purple plasma.

The violent power of thunder quickly seeped from the surface of Meng Zhou's body into the depths of his body.

However, at this moment, Meng Zhou's body erupted with red light mixed with pure golden light.

That was when Meng Zhou's body was hit by a strong external force, he gathered Ruyi's energy and blood to make an instinctive defense.

At this moment, Meng Zhou's body, which was so strong that it was beyond the ordinary, finally burst out with unbelievable power in the face of this powerful catastrophe that was also beyond the ordinary.

When the power of thunder and lightning penetrated his skin, 100% of its power had been reduced by at least 30%.

When it penetrated the flesh and blood under the skin, half of the remaining power of less than seven layers was lost.

The remaining power was extinguished by the counterattacking Qi and blood before he even had time to go any further.

The core suffered almost no damage.

The price was that Meng Zhou's skin and the flesh and blood under the skin looked extremely bad. From the appearance, it turned into a piece of coke in one blow.

And as the mana surging in the Dantian of the meridians and containing rich vitality poured out like a burst of flood water, it was like the cracked and dry earth quickly restored to its original state after being infiltrated.

This first wave of thunder tribulation was easily carried through.

Meng Zhou's attention was not focused here.

Compared to the blows he received on the physical level, he was more concerned about the ravages from the spiritual level.

As the natural disaster came, violent roars penetrated into the sea of ​​​​consciousness, and Meng Zhou felt that the entire sea of ​​​​consciousness was buzzing.

There were already a lot of distracting thoughts, and random thoughts emerged in my heart uncontrollably.

The catastrophe that fell from the sky was not only the "Heavenly Thunder Tribulation", but also the "Inner Demon Tribulation".

As this "voice of thunder" resounded in his heart, Meng Zhou felt that his heart was like the end of winter and the coming of spring, entering the earth during the hibernation season.

There were many thoughts that he had hidden deep in his heart that even he himself was not aware of and never paid attention to.

Absurd thoughts, vague thoughts, greedy thoughts, violent thoughts, lustful thoughts, dark thoughts...

"They" are like snakes, insects, rats, and ants hidden deep under the "soul earth". Under the sound of thunder that resounds deep in the soul, they have signs of "waking up" one after another.

This is just the change after the first thunderous sound of heavenly tribulation entered the mind.

As the thunder of the second and third heavenly tribulations sounded in Meng Zhou's heart, these messy thoughts began to have their own ideas. They began to appear under his "eyesight" and in the pool of his soul. To declare his existence, he even wanted to replace him as the rightful owner and become the new owner of the soul pool.

Faced with such changes, Meng Zhoudu felt very difficult.

For these "activated" thoughts, Meng Zhou couldn't even find a more appropriate way to deal with them on Monday.

"Is this the inner demon calamity?"

Meng Zhou was thinking this, but he felt something was wrong.

In the library hall of Lingming Island, there are many ancient books that share the experiences and insights of the Nascent Souls of the Xingxiu Palace who successfully overcame the tribulations of the past dynasties.

There is even more emphasis on the "Heart Demon Tribulation".

From the records in those books, it was not difficult for Meng Zhou to see a pattern. Compared to the "Heavenly Thunder Tribulation", those who had overcome the tribulation were more wary, even fearful, of the "Heart Demon Tribulation".

Compared with the "external enemy" of "Heavenly Thunder Tribulation", the "internal strife" of "Inner Demon Tribulation" is more difficult to solve.

"Heart Demon Tribulation" is quite tailor-made.

The "inner demon calamity" faced by everyone is different.

However, it is not difficult to summarize some specific rules by extracting the experiences of people who have experienced different tribulations.

Generally speaking, "Heart Demon Tribulation" is aimed at the weakest and most flawless place in a monk's mind.

If there are regrets, guilt, and fears in the heart, and the so-called "Tao heart is not perfect," then the "Heart Demon Tribulation" will often start from these aspects.

Another example is that the desire of a practitioner in certain aspects is too strong and reaches the point of "imbalance". Whether it is sex, wealth, power, or even the desire to achieve enlightenment and become an immortal, the "inner demon tribulation" will attack these places.

On the one hand, this is certainly a "tribulation", but on the other hand, it is not about correcting the weakest points in the mind that are most likely to lead practitioners astray.

Surviving the "inner demon tribulation" is the process of overcoming correction.

This is the necessary step for the soul to advance into the Nascent Soul.

But Meng Zhou discovered that the "Heart Demon Tribulation" he encountered was completely different from what was recorded in these ancient books.

If someone else's "heart demon tribulation" only selectively manifests a certain "heart demon", then the situation he is facing now is simply "all demons are rampant".

While feeling tricky, Meng Zhou was also a little angry.

Is this heavenly tribulation too targeted at him?

Although the heavenly tribulation "becomes stronger when it encounters a strong opponent", there is no need to do things to this extent, right? !

Just as he was having a headache about how to deal with this ridiculously strong "heart demon tribulation", the huge changes in his body suddenly attracted Meng Zhou's attention.

Originally, Meng Zhou, who had devoted most of his energy to the soul pool in the sea of ​​consciousness, had to pay attention to the changes in his body.

"Huh... what's going on?"

Meng Zhou found that his body seemed to recover quickly under the "heavenly thunder" that was hit one after another, one stronger than the other.

But in fact, it was not that simple.

In the pure purple heavenly thunder, there were many black, red, gray and other messy colors.

They are of various colors and have different properties, but they can all be classified as "evil spirits".

To be more precise, they are fourth-level evil spirits.

Or fourth-level evil spirits that have been tempered by heavenly thunder.

They are like muddy sand mixed in clear water.

Although his body seemed to recover quickly, these "muddy sands" settled in his body and continued to penetrate deeper into his body.

And continued to harm and consume his body.

Because Meng Zhou's previous focus was mostly on the "heart demon calamity" that occurred at the level of the sea of ​​consciousness, he did not notice it.

At this moment, when he discovered it, these forces had penetrated deep into the bone marrow and blood.

Meng Zhou could clearly feel that under the continuous and persistent consumption of this force, his blood potential was being "polluted" bit by bit.

"What the hell is this?"

This change shocked Meng Zhou's heart. If these turbid evil spirits really succeeded, he would not only fail to pass the calamity, but his strength and potential would also drop sharply.

This is still the most optimistic situation.

The greater possibility is that the strong body will turn into a pool of dirty blood.

If the great changes that occurred in the sea of ​​consciousness are taken into account, this moment can be described as being trapped both internally and externally.

At this moment, Meng Zhou felt a huge pressure.

"What should I do?"

"How can this situation be resolved?"

While Meng Zhou was struggling with his strong foundation, his thoughts were racing, thinking about how to break the situation.

If this scene happened to other people who were undergoing the tribulation, they might have surrendered and waited for death.

However, Meng Zhou is Meng Zhou, not someone else.

Although the situation in front of him made him feel difficult, he always believed that he would be able to find a way out. (End of this chapter)