I Seek Immortality Through Serendipity

”Boom rumble!”

After ten days, on Cloud-Burning Island, lightning was bright, the thunderclouds were heavy, and the atmosphere between heaven and earth was filled with the scent of destruction.

Gu Yuan sat cross-legged in the Golden Frog’s cave mansion, quietly watching everything before him.

Beneath the sky full of thunderclouds was a four-winged green insect the size of a fingernail, with golden mouthparts.

Thunderclouds veiled the sky and covered the entire Cloud-Burning Island, but the four-winged green insect was only the size of a fingernail, seemingly of an entirely different scale. However, when the green insect screeched, a surge of soul light and demon qi rose turbulently, creating quite a presence.

The Heart-devouring Insect had followed Gu Yuan for many years, changing through many bodies, and was already at the pinnacle state of a Tier Two Demon Beast, unable to ascend further.

During these ten days, Gu Yuan captured several Tier Two Demon Beasts for it to devour soul spirits, and sent it to the Sloppy Daoist’s Broken Temple Beach to cultivate under the Tier Three Treasure Soul Spirit Tree, its soul power reaching overflowing potency.

He also retrieved many demon artifacts from the Golden Frog’s treasury for it to protect itself while crossing the tribulation.

The Huiyu Pearl was naturally also bestowed upon the Heart-devouring Insect.

With all preparations exhaustively made, the next phase depended on the Heart-devouring Insect’s own fate technique.

If successful, Gu Yuan would leave the Cloud-Burning Golden Frog’s carcass for it to devour and inhabit.

Though the Cloud-Burning Golden Frog was at the Mid-Stage Great Demon level, with its soul spirit shattered, the Heart-devouring Insect should have the ability to inhabit it upon breaking through to a Great Demon.

Even if it couldn’t fully utilize the Golden Frog’s power, Gu Yuan didn’t care.

He merely wished to use the Heart-devouring Insect to completely control the Treasure Cliff Order.

If it failed, if the tribulation was unsuccessful, it merely attributed to the Heart-devouring Insect’s insufficient strength, blaming no one else.

He would then conceive other methods.

”Boom!”

Just as Gu Yuan contemplated, the sky above erupted as the thunderclouds roared and crashed down fiercely.

”Rise!”

The Heart-devouring Insect summoned numerous demon artifacts, transforming them into multicolored streams of light, floating in front of it as barriers.

But the thunderclouds struck once, and all demon artifacts were reduced to dust.

In the face of celestial tribulation, external objects like dharma artifacts were most unreliable.

Within a single confrontation, such objects are reduced to dust under the celestial tribulation.

However, it managed to weaken the thunder tribulation slightly.

”Buzz buzz buzz!”

The Heart-devouring Insect screeched, its four wings vibrating simultaneously, and a surge of soul power burst forth, transforming into a gigantic green insect shadow, confronting the celestial tribulation.

As an exotic species, albeit existing via inhabitation, with limited means, its soul power was the most abundant, capable of materializing to obstruct the celestial tribulation.

”Boom!”

The celestial tribulation surged, striking violently, seemingly intent on pulverizing all that defies the heavens.

The soul light before the Heart-devouring Insect shattered instantly, and the persistent thunder-light struck its shell suddenly.

In an instant, its shell turned pitch black, teetering, seemingly on the brink of collapse.

Yet accompanied by the surge of spiritual qi, the Heart-devouring Insect ultimately stabilized its insect body.

Witnessing this scene, Gu Yuan turned his head, watching no more.

Without using the Huiyu Pearl, it could weather the first celestial tribulation, making the succeeding second tribulation almost surely manageable.

The Huiyu Pearl can redirect celestial tribulation, evading myriad techniques, genuinely a celestial tribulation passing treasure, precious beyond words, enhancing the chances of overcoming celestial tribulation significantly.

Gu Yuan waved his sleeve, taking out two glowing pills, akin to moonlight, dimly obscure.

Moon Rhinoceros Pill!

The Sloppy Daoist, using his residual spiritual materials, forcibly exchanged two Moon Element Shell Kings for him, which Gu Yuan accepted readily and subsequently transformed the two Shell Kings into Moon Rhinoceros Pills using Dragon Body Transformation two days earlier.

Two Moon Rhinoceros Pills combined can augment by a hundred and twenty strands of Gold-Attribute Mana, plus the previous Jade Heaven Pill, totaling two hundred strands of Gold-Attribute Mana.

After refinement, Gu Yuan’s mana would reach seven hundred and twenty strands!

Though it falls short of the two thousand strands required for Late Stage Golden Core, with the mana thickness from the Dragon Essence Golden Core Skill, Gu Yuan’s strength would expand considerably.

Nonetheless, he remained somewhat discontented.

Cloud Dream Marsh... truly is a land brimming with opportunities, an Immortal Blessed Land.

He had entered the marsh around a month ago, yet, upon subduing several Demon Islands, each had opportunities presented unexpectedly to him.

Especially this Golden Frog, remarkably obtaining the Treasure Cliff Order!

This order holds profound opportunities, but the accompanying risks have substantially increased.

Cloud Dream Marsh spans hundreds of thousands of miles; currently, he was just mingling in the less than ten thousand miles from the periphery, seemingly invincible, attending an unyielding, relentless pursuit, akin to a powerful dragon crossing a river, but the truly deep marsh he had not yet ventured into.

He had yet to face truly formidable individuals.

However, the Treasure Cliff Order was one of the few major events of the marsh, inevitably attracting many people to lurk.

In a treasure-rich domain stretching tens of thousands of miles, no one knows who may emerge. Therefore, increasing strength quickly and staying cautious is essential.

Considering this, Gu Yuan swallowed the pill to cultivate without further ado.

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It was unclear how long passed until the thunderclouds gradually dissipated, a surging demon qi charged upwards, and an immense wave of soul power shook the surroundings like rolling smoke, lunging to the sky.

On Cloud-Burning Island, the Sloppy Daoist and Old Turtle, who’d been watching the thunderclouds, exchanged glances, both revealing amazement in their eyes.

”Such strong soul power, newly becoming a Great Demon, already possesses soul power comparable to mid-stage level. What kind of exotic species is this?”

Sloppy Daoist couldn’t help but exclaim in shock.

The origin of the Heart-devouring Insect was unspoken by Gu Yuan. Though Sloppy Daoist knew it must be an exotic species, he couldn’t grasp its background.