Devouring the Stars: Reboot, Serpent of Eternity!

Chapter 467 Ji Ning's Tribulation

"Now, the Wandao Palace is of no use to you. When you go down the mountain and return to the Great Xia world, leave it to the Ji family."

Ji Ning was not reluctant, but puzzled, "Teacher, but I haven't defeated Teacher Jian Twenty-Seven and the others yet."

"You are at the Earthly Immortal Realm, so it would be strange if you could defeat them. As your understanding of the Dao increases, their combat awareness is also subtly elevated. Although it seems that they are only using a single sword path, they are actually controlling the sword path with the combat awareness of the World Realm... Even if you have fully understood the sword path, it is still difficult to defeat them. There is no point in continuing."

Ji Ning suddenly felt honored. If it weren't for his teacher's cultivation, how could he, a little cultivator who hadn't even entered the realm of immortals, be able to be fed moves by the combat consciousness of the world realm.

Orianna casually threw out a black object, which fell to the ground and turned into a huge black stone tablet that was ninety-nine feet tall and exuded a majestic pressure on its surface.

"This is the last treasure in the Wandao Palace. You can explore its secrets yourself. When you or your second soul is ready to break through to the celestial immortal, I will come to see you again."

Before she finished her words, the figure in the red dress disappeared.

Before Ji Ning could investigate the black stone tablet, Xiao Qing's voice came from the cave, saying that Taoist Master Bodhi wanted to see him for something, so Ji Ning hurriedly left Wandao Palace.

Inside the Taoist temple.

Ji Ning sat respectfully on the cushion, listening to the teachings of Bodhi Daozu.

He had already regarded Bodhi Patriarch as his true master, but the formality was still missing.

"You have many abilities. As an earthly immortal, you can occupy a place among the hundreds of millions of heavenly immortals in the Three Realms. If you continue to stay in my Fangcun Mountain, your progress will not be great. You need to enter the mortal world to be tempered and prepare for the 'heavenly tribulation'."

At this point, Bodhi Daozu sighed, with a look of worry on his face.

"Your accumulated foundation is too great. You have inherited from Brother Sanshou since childhood. You are also related to me and even the world gods. Your background is far-reaching. All these will increase the intensity of your heavenly tribulation. Even if it is only the heavenly immortal tribulation of the second Yuanshen, it will far exceed the top heavenly god tribulation. It must be unprecedented and difficult to surpass. It is extremely difficult... As for your original body, it is difficult! Difficult! Difficult to go through the heavenly god and heavenly immortal tribulation at the same time!"

Ji Ning was fearless: "Teacher, when is the right time for me to let my second soul pass the heavenly immortal tribulation?"

“First, when the sword is perfected, it is best to derive the power of the Great Dao, which is considered safe;

Second, the mental strength cultivation must at least reach the master level. Only when the master is perfect and has the strength close to that of a god or a first-class celestial being can he play a role in the celestial calamity.

Third, your teacher Wansheng left you a book called "A Brief Introduction to the Use of Mind Power Techniques". Master the techniques described there. At the very least, you should master the two techniques of using mind power to control flying swords and mind power to operate the soul, so as to bring your strengths to the extreme."

Ji Ning pondered secretly. Among the three major requirements, only the mastery of swordsmanship seemed within reach, but he dared not even think about giving birth to the power of the Great Dao.

The mental practice may be due to the influence of past life experiences or visualization of "Nuwa Picture" and "Styx Picture". The practice has been smooth sailing and has been honed to perfection. I don't know when I will be able to break through and enter the level of domination, let alone reach perfection.

As for the mental power techniques, the secret book left by Teacher Wansheng only explained the theory, and he needed to figure out how to implement it specifically.

Bodhi asked again, interrupting Ji Ning's contemplation.

"What level have you reached in practicing the secret self-defense technique that your teacher Wansheng gave you?"

"Teacher, with my current understanding of the Tao, the 'Water and Fire Immortal Clothes' I have condensed has been infused with a lot of Heavenly Fire and Heavenly Water. Its strength is comparable to that of a Pure Yang medium-grade magic armor."

Bodhi nodded slightly and said, "The good thing about this self-defense secret technique is that it can have super-level defense strength as the understanding of the Tao increases. It is unlike the Eight-Nine Mysterious Art, where the upper limit of defense at each stage is fixed. By the way, Ji Ning, how is your understanding of the Tao corresponding to the water and fire attributes?"

"Although the Dao of Dripping Water and the Dao of Blazing Fire can both develop Dao realms, they are completely incomparable to the Dao of the Sword. The former's comprehension is relatively deep, second only to the Dao of the Sword, while the latter is far behind."

"Don't slack off, continue to comprehend the Great Way of Dripping Water and the Great Way of Blazing Fire. Remember to plant the collected true fire and true water into the 'Water and Fire Robe' before the Second Soul passes through the Heavenly Immortal Tribulation to further enhance the protective strength of the secret technique."

"Yes, teacher, I remember."

"Now it is time for you to leave, and you have no shortage of magic weapons or secret techniques, so I really don't have anything to give you. Seeing that your Small Thousand Sword Formation can no longer keep up with you, I simply improved it into a 'Great Thousand Sword Formation' for you.

I have a feeling that it will be very difficult for you to survive the tribulation. In the future, you will probably have to travel the three realms with your second soul for a long time. As a pure Qi-refining immortal, you must master an exquisite formation.

The "Small Thousand Sword Formation" is a multi-treasure technique. It relies on many magic weapons and combines with appropriate formations to unleash extremely powerful power. Both Taoist and Buddhist sects have this kind of multi-treasure formation. I used your "Small Thousand Sword Formation" as the source, absorbed the essence of many multi-treasure formations, and created this top sword formation for you.

To be honest, although it is not as good as the many secret techniques that your teacher Wansheng left you, the Great Thousand Sword Formation can also be regarded as the top sword formation in the Three Realms."

"Thank you, Teacher. Thank you for your trouble."

Ji Ning was deeply moved. How could he "despise the poor and love the rich"? He immediately kowtowed and expressed his gratitude.

"Okay, come forward."

Patriarch Bodhi smiled and used his magical power to lift Ji Ning up.

Ji Ning hurried forward, and as soon as he got in front of the ancestor, the ancestor pointed a finger at Ji Ning's forehead.

Suddenly a lot of information flooded into my mind.

When Ji Ning regained consciousness, he had already memorized the "Great Thousand Sword Formation".

"Okay, it's time to go."

……

Daxia world.

Ji Ning is seventy years old and has just returned from his studies. He first goes back to Yishe Lake to see his parents, then goes to the Black and White Academy to see his old friends, where he learns that his fellow apprentice Mu Zishao is missing.

At the age of 71, he investigated the Donglin Sect and entered the Wujian Sect stronghold. He saw Mu Ziliao and made a big fuss in the stronghold, slaughtering people indiscriminately. He captured the leader of the stronghold, Buchasi, alive and forced him to release Mu Ziliao.

The Wujian Sect colluded with the Shaoyan clan and, using the Muzi Spear as a lure, dispatched the four immortals Xuanji, Ku Mu, Jin Zhong and Chi Xin in an attempt to ambush and kill Ji Ning.

When Ji Ning entered the net, the four celestial immortals immediately attacked.

Ji Ning and Mu Zi Liao both withstood a powerful spiritual attack, but Mu Zi Liao's Taoist partner Yu Xia was scared to death.

Ji Ning looked at his crazy junior brother, feeling extremely guilty. Realizing that his junior brother was implicated by him, he was immediately filled with murderous intent.

In an instant, the transcendent figures in "Sword Immortal Collection" appeared in his mind. Ji Ning realized the sword immortal spirit that he lacked, and since then he has achieved great success in swordsmanship.

Hundreds of top-grade immortal-grade flying swords circled around him, shooting out four golden sword beams, instantly killing four celestial immortals.

So what if there are top-level immortals and high-level immortals among them? They are third-rate stuff and have not yet fully understood a great way. Ji Ning's basic strength is already on par with them, and his understanding of the way is much higher than theirs. If he still can't kill them, it means that Ji Ning is too useless.

Everyone who was paying attention to this battle found it unbelievable.

When did he become a celestial being and possess such terrifying combat power?

(When Ji Ning exploded, he used the purple-gold hibiscus crown given by Orianna to change his aura)

wrong!

No one in the sect received any news about him overcoming his inner demon tribulation. He was definitely not a celestial immortal, but an earthly immortal. But how could an earthly immortal be so powerful?

The Purple Grass Celestial Being of Wujian Sect was puzzled.

Ji Ning was well aware of the principle of eradicating all evil and did not want to give Shao Yan clan any time to react. After comforting his junior brother Mu Ziliao, he told him that he was going to the Shao Yan clan's lair in Dongfu County and refused Mu Ziliao's invitation to follow him.

In the ancient tower, all the celestial beings of Shao Yan clan gathered together.

Click—click—

There were four crisp sounds in succession, and the four celestial beings Jingyu, Heiyu, Jinyun and Huoba who stayed behind were filled with fear.

died!

The four pillars of the clan who went to ambush Ji Ning were all dead!

A short message came from Wuxianmen.

——Be careful Ji Ning!!!

The four immortals were pale and at a loss, and hurried to contact their ancestor Shao Yanchou, but then they received news from the tribe that Ji Ning had climbed over the Chenyu Mountains, slaughtered people wantonly, and cursed them, the immortals.

For a moment, I was extremely anxious.

Shao Yanchou rushed back. Ji Ning's fierce battle record frightened him so much that he dared not show his head, for fear of being killed instantly. He only sent out two poisonous insects with top-level celestial immortal strength and heavenly-level bodies to test Ji Ning.

The Shelled Venomous Insect and the Winged Rhino were suppressed head-on by Ji Ning, and then dismembered and killed with a little effort.

The celestial beings of Shaoyan clan did not dare to show up, and finally it was the second soul of the old demon Fufeng who stepped forward, trying to take the Qiankun Pearl which contained the mortal members of the clan, and attack and kill Ji Ning.

Ji Ning accidentally shattered the Qiankun Pearl, killing hundreds of millions of mortals. Endless resentment and overwhelming despair enveloped Ji Ning.

A red fire with a strange and holy feeling fell from the sky and wrapped around Ji Ning.

Ji Ning was surrounded by endless pain. He held his head and screamed, unable to control his body and fell from the air.

Shao Yanchou in the one-horned golden robe was ecstatic. He threw out the World-Suppressing Tower, exiled Ji Ning, and sent him outside the Three Realms.

After this battle, four out of nine celestial immortals of Shao Yan clan were killed and they suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, the executioner had been killed and the disaster was averted.

Orianna hid in the space and watched quietly.

What? What is the fault of mortals?

Oh, that's the old nest of Shao Yan clan. All the mortals who can live under the formation, all the mortals who can be transferred by Shao Yan clan's immortals, all have Shao Yan clan's bloodline, and have shared Shao Yan clan's glory in the past. Now that the enemy has come to your door, you want to cut them off at the speed of light. You say you are innocent?

Ji Ning's mother, Yuchi, was once a wealthy family. Weren't they innocent? How many of them survived?

Orianna followed her master Jiang Zhe to kill the true god in the sea of ​​​​the universe. When a true god fell, the small universe was destroyed, and all the lives inside died. The death of these mortals of the Shaoyan clan could not cause her emotional fluctuations at all.

Also, just now Orianna had seen through the exile trajectory of the World Suppression Tower. If it was not for the "Realm of Nirvana", she would have used some time and space means to interfere with it and put Ji Ning into the "Realm of Nirvana".

It's a great place to practice skills and cultivate mental strength.

In fact, if there was no such coincidence in the original timeline, she would enslave a few reptile queens, arrange training for them artificially, and teach Ji Ning some tricks.

This is the seed that can lead to the eternal ultimate path. We can't just watch it rot.

That's a sin.

……

In a blink of an eye, Ji Ning is ninety years old.

He has been practicing in the realm of Nirvana for more than eighteen years, with remarkable results.

After going through the three calamities of karma fire - the calamity of soul destruction, the calamity of the mortal world, and the calamity of the heart for a thousand lifetimes, Ji Ning's mental power has steadily entered the level of domination. After eighteen years of practice, he has mastered many mental power operation techniques, the most important of which are the mental power sword method and the mental power soul method. His mental power level has also reached the perfection of domination.

The second is a breakthrough in the way of the sword. He realized the power of the sword and entered the second level. A layer of platinum light could be condensed on the sword.

This was not surprising, as Ji Ning had accumulated enough experience. The sword puppet created by Orianna showed Ji Ning the sword skills of the sword immortals of the three realms.

There was also progress in the two avenues of dripping water and blazing fire, but not much. After all, the focus of cultivation was on swordsmanship and mental strength.

The rest is the improvement of cultivation. The Qi Refining Flow cultivation is at the late stage of Return to Void, and the "Red Bright Nine Heavens Diagram" of the Body Refining Flow is stuck before the eighteenth level. There is a trace of "difficulty" left that he has not figured out, and he dares not break through.

Seeing that Ji Ning had almost finished leveling up and a new dungeon was about to be opened in the Daxia world, Orianna directly took action to destroy the small reptiles in the Broken Horn world and brought Ji Ning back to the Three Realms.

However, they did not return to the Daxia world, but came to the underworld, a scarlet sea of ​​blood.

"We're here. This is my dojo - Netherworld Blood Sea. Your Second Soul will break through to the Celestial Immortal here."

Ji Ning looked at the boundless sea of ​​blood around him and felt the "ferocious" that his teacher had mentioned. Even with his powerful soul and perfect mental strength, he was affected and murderous thoughts kept growing in his heart.

The immortals in the three realms would probably go crazy in an instant on the sea of ​​blood and turn into lunatics who only knew how to kill.

"Teacher, the Taiyin Taiyang Zhen... No, it's the 'Huangji Jingshi Shu' that says that a great formation is needed to help one break through to the Celestial Immortal realm? A great formation..."

"The blood sea is the great formation, which was created by my master, Lord Styx, himself. Nothing will go wrong."

Ji Ning said, "Teacher, my secret technique of self-defense is still a little lacking. I need to collect some true fire and true water to seed into my robes."

"That's easy, you see."

Orianna raised her hand and pointed at the air.

laugh! laugh! laugh--

Wow! Wow! Wow—

Clusters of real fire and wisps of real water emerged one after another out of thin air. They were all real fire and real water that Ji Ning was unfamiliar with, and he was stunned by what he saw.

"Teacher, you created all of these, didn't you?"

"You are surprised by what you have seen. With the understanding of the world realm, you can create another three realms, some real water, real fire, ancestral gods, and ancestral fire. It's too easy.

Do you know the black annihilation hole that can be seen in every big world at night?

That was the supreme celestial body that my master, Lord Minghe, created after he created the Scroll of Mixed Hole Free Visualization, in order to facilitate the cultivation of the beings in the three realms. "

As she spoke, Orianna threw another twelve-petal red lotus to Ji Ning.

"This is the innate treasure, the Karma Fire Red Lotus."

"After you were reincarnated, Lü Dongbin used it to survive the heavenly tribulation. Now he is lending it to you for a while."

"Also, the time flow rate has been increased a hundred times on the Blood Sea. Go and prepare to survive the tribulation. Don't worry about the time."

Ji Ning took the red lotus and assured him confidently: "Teacher, I will survive the calamity and will not let you down."

……

Three months later, the white-robed Ji Ning (the second soul) survived the catastrophe.

Calamity clouds enveloped the Netherworld and the sea of ​​blood. The first bolt of lightning that struck was completely white, and then began to mix with gold, until the seventy-second level, when it turned completely gold. The Pure Yang Golden Lightning appeared ahead of schedule.

The last nine heavenly thunders began to darken from pure gold.

But in the end, there was no black light thunder filled with destructive aura like the one that happened to Lu Dongbin, and Ji Ning successfully survived the thunder tribulation.

Afterwards, the inner demon calamity came quietly.

This is the final test.