Eternal Immortal Clan: It All Started When I Married My Junior Sister!

184: Break through the heavenly tribulation and advance to the Fusion stage!Above Tianxuan City, a strange phenomenon suddenly appeared.

The vortex of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, which originally only covered the City Lord’s Mansion, expanded crazily within the span of a single stick of incense.

Ten miles, a hundred miles, five hundred miles... in the end, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within a radius of ten thousand miles seemed like boiling water.

It was forcibly extracted by an extremely domineering force.

Looking down from high above, the entire Tianxuan City seemed to have turned into a giant eye of a storm.

The colorful Spiritual Qi turned into a tangible, long river.

It surged and roared, pouring into that inconspicuous retreat room on the back mountain.

”Heavens! What is happening?”

”What terrifying Spiritual Pressure! I feel like the Golden Core inside my body is about to shatter!”

Countless Cultivators in the city looked up in horror.

For the vast majority of people, they had never even seen a Void Refining Stage Cultivator break through in their entire lives.

Let alone attempting to impact the legendary Body Integration Stage.

This power to reshape heaven and earth made them feel their own insignificance and awe, originating from their very Souls.

”Everyone, listen to my command! Sit cross-legged on the spot and stabilize your minds! Do not move about!”

Chen Daoxuan’s resonant voice, mixed with the pressure of the Void Refining Stage, instantly spread to every corner of the city.

”The Family Head is achieving a great success in his divine technique, do not panic! This is the fortune of our Tianxuan City!”

Hearing the words ”Family Head,” the crowd, which had been somewhat chaotic, instantly quieted down.

In Tianxuan City, Chen Xu was a god, an omnipotent faith.

Since it was the Family Head breaking through, then everything was fine.

Instead, an indescribable frenzy spread among the crowd.

Meanwhile, inside the retreat room at the center of the Spiritual Qi storm, Chen Xu sat cross-legged on a lotus platform.

Thirty years of secluded cultivation seemed to have left no changes to his appearance.

But if a Great Expert were here, they would certainly discover that a faint layer of purple-gold radiance was flowing beneath his skin.

That was not the light of spiritual power, but a precursor to his Physical Body reaching the extreme, about to undergo a qualitative change.

Within his Dantian and Purple Mansion, that Primordial Chaos Nascent Soul, which was originally only the size of a fist, had now grown into a purple-gold miniature version of himself.

The little figure’s eyes were tightly closed, its expression solemn, surrounded by countless intricate runes.

Those were all the powers of Law that Chen Xu had comprehended over these thirty years.

Space, Slaughter, Five Elements, Karma...

These Laws, which were usually incompatible, were now undergoing a subtle and dangerous Fusion under the harmonization of the Primordial Qi.

”Hoo—” Chen Xu slowly opened his eyes.

In that instant, it was as if two golden lamps lit up in the retreat room, and lightning crackled in the void.

”Thirty years to sharpen a sword, today is the time to unsheathe it.”

Chen Xu’s voice was calm, yet it carried a confidence that could shake the heavens and earth.

For ordinary Cultivators to attempt the Body Integration Stage, it was a life-and-death ordeal, requiring countless Lightning Tribulation Magic Treasures.

They even had to find Protectors and set up layers of Formations to weaken the Lightning Tribulation.

A slight carelessness would result in death and the dissipation of their Dao, with their Divine Soul destroyed.

But Chen Xu did not need to.

Because his Foundation was too deep.

Over these thirty years, he had worked hard in the Family, and his number of offspring was as numerous as ox hair.

His grandchildren were even too numerous to count.

Each birth of a new life, each Breakthrough of a clansman, would turn into the purest power of Luck, nourishing his Divine Soul and Physical Body.

He was not fighting alone.

He was leading the entire Family to charge at the Heavenly Dao!

”Integrate!” Chen Xu gave a low shout.

Without any superfluous movements, he formed a hand seal in front of his chest.

Inside the Purple Mansion, the purple-gold Nascent Soul suddenly opened its eyes and let out a clear, long whistle.

Immediately after, the Nascent Soul stepped out, actually rushing directly out of the Purple Mansion.

It merged with Chen Xu’s Physical Body.

Rumble—!!!

At this moment, Chen Xu felt as if his body was being torn apart and reorganized; every cell was cheering.

Every inch of his Meridians was burning.

The boundary between the Nascent Soul and the Physical Body began to blur.

The Soul and the shell were no longer distinct.

”Boom!”

A massive purple-gold pillar of light shot up from the retreat room without warning, piercing through the roof.

It pierced through the City Protection Grand Formation, and even pierced through the clouds in the firmament.

The dark clouds originally formed by the gathering of Spiritual Qi dissipated instantly under the impact of this light pillar.

In their place was a colorful auspicious cloud that was splendid to the extreme.

And above that auspicious cloud, a magnificent phantom of a palace vaguely appeared, with ethereal celestial music and the auspicious signs of dragons and phoenixes.

This was... a phenomenon of heaven and earth, the Immortal Palace descending to the world!

Only when the top-tier Integration Stage Great Expert is born, will it attract such congratulations from the Heavenly Dao.

Outside the main hall, the nine Protectors watching this scene were already dumbfounded.

”Immortal... Immortal Palace phenomenon?”

Lan Shuyao’s hand holding the sword was trembling: ”Ancient records state that only those who have comprehended the supreme Laws and have a flawless Foundation will have this phenomenon when breaking through to Body Integration.”

”Brother Chen... what kind of Cultivation Technique is he practicing?”

”Who cares what technique it is!”

Ba Dao wiped the cold sweat from his face and grinned: ”I only know that from now on, when I go out, I can walk sideways! Whoever dares to provoke me, I’ll just say I’m the watchdog of an Integration Stage Great Expert!”

Chen Daoxuan and Chen Daochu looked at each other, their eyes filled with tears of excitement.

It worked!

Although the Lightning Tribulation had not yet arrived, the appearance of this phenomenon meant that his father’s Breakthrough was already half successful.

As long as he survived the baptism of the upcoming Lightning Tribulation, the Chen Family would completely rewrite its destiny!

Just as everyone was rejoicing, the auspicious clouds in the sky suddenly churned.

The originally peaceful celestial music stopped abruptly, replaced by thunderclaps as dull as war drums.

”Dong! Dong! Dong!”

That was not ordinary thunder; that was the Heavenly Dao scrutinizing and testing.

Layers of black tribulation clouds began to condense beneath the auspicious clouds.

”Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation?”

The Xuan Shui Dragon Turtle shrank its neck, its voice sounding bitter: ”No... this Aura is wrong, this is even more terrifying than an ordinary Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation... This is a World-Destroying Lightning Tribulation!”

However, facing the tribulation clouds above his head that seemed to want to destroy everything, Chen Xu, who was in the center of the light pillar, slowly stood up.

He looked up at the sky, the corners of his mouth curling up.

”Come on, let this seat see just how high the threshold of the Body Integration Stage really is!”

As Chen Xu’s words fell, the giant eye of the tribulation cloud above Tianxuan City also slowly stopped.

And in the center of that bottomless black vortex, a flash of piercing azure appeared.

In an instant, a giant head covered in thunderous scales slowly probed out from the depths of the vortex.

”It’s... Thunder Spirit manifestation!”

Lan Shuyao, who was watching from outside the main hall, had her expression change instantly.

Her natal Flying Sword emitted an uneasy humming sound.

Clearly, only those Heaven-Defying Cultivators who had truly violated the rules of the Heavenly Dao would attract a Lightning Tribulation with intelligence.

As the dragon head completely emerged, followed by a winding, seemingly endless body.

This was a thunderous giant dragon of unknown length.

It coiled above the firmament, its massive body almost blocking every inch of light above Tianxuan City.

”Roar—!”

A dragon roar suddenly exploded.

The destructive will contained in this sound caused the millions of low-level Cultivators below to instantly bleed from their mouths and noses.

If not for the City Protection Grand Formation insulating most of the power, this roar alone would have shattered the Divine Souls of all Cultivators below the Golden Core stage in the city.

The giant dragon swooped down.

It had no fancy moves, just a simple swoop.

But with the addition of such speed and power, the entire sky seemed to have collapsed.

It turned into a piece of blue meteorite iron smashing toward the ground.

”Father!”

The brothers Chen Daoxuan and Chen Daochu exclaimed, their hearts instantly rising to their throats.

Just as the hideous dragon head was less than a hundred zhang from the top of Chen Xu’s head, and the terrifying heat wave was already blowing his black hair into a wild frenzy.

Chen Xu slowly extended his right hand and grasped the void.

”Hum—”

A clear and impassioned sword hum drowned out the thunder in the sky.

A dark red long sword appeared in his palm out of thin air.

As soon as this sword appeared, the surrounding, originally violent thunder Laws actually stagnated for a moment.

It was as if even the Heavenly Dao had to retreat three steps in front of this sword.

This was the Immortal Artifact fragment he had obtained in the Lower Realm back then—the immortal slaying sword tip.

But over these thirty years, with the crazy reproduction of Chen Xu’s Family offspring, the System’s ”More Children, More Blessings” reward mechanism had almost been exhausted by him.

In addition to massive amounts of cultivation and resources, the System had generously rewarded a wisp of ”Innate Slaughter Origin.”

Chen Xu spent a full ten years smelting some Heaven-Defying Materials and the fragment into one.

He finally reforged this broken sword into a complete divine weapon.

The current immortal slaying sword, although it had not fully recovered its Peak glory from the ancient times, was already a genuine Quasi-Immortal Artifact!

”Noisy.”

Chen Xu spat out two words lightly, and his wrist flicked upwards as if casually.

A dark red sword light met the ten-thousand-foot thunder dragon descending from the sky.

The difference in size between the two was like an ant shaking a tree.

However, the moment that red thread touched the tip of the thunder dragon’s nose, the image froze.

That ten-thousand-foot thunder dragon was neatly split in two by that red line, starting from the center of its head.

”Rip—”

A harsh, explosive sound resounded through the sky.

The massive body of the thunder dragon disintegrated on both sides of Chen Xu, turning into countless fine blue spots of light.

Like two grand blue rainstorms, they brushed past Chen Xu.

One sword, slaying the dragon!

However, an even more jaw-dropping scene occurred for everyone.

Those disintegrated thunder dragons did not dissipate between heaven and earth; instead, under the traction of some strange power, they did not fall to the ground.

They hovered around Chen Xu.

At this time, Chen Xu’s bare upper body was flowing with a purple-gold luster.

That was a symbol of the Grandmist Undying Body operating to the extreme.

Every pore seemed to have turned into a tiny black hole, greedily devouring the pure thunder Origin around him.

”Zzz— zzz—”

Blue electric arcs danced on the surface of his skin, drilling into his flesh and tempering his bones.

The tribulation thunder, which was fatal to others upon contact, had now become the best supplement for Chen Xu.

As the massive amount of thunder essence entered his body, Chen Xu’s Aura, which had been somewhat floating after just breaking through to the Body Integration Stage, actually became solid at a speed visible to the naked eye.

On his purple-gold body, faint blue thunder patterns even began to emerge, appearing both sacred and demonic.

”The taste is not bad.”

Chen Xu moved his neck, making a series of crisp bone-cracking sounds.

He felt that his Physical Body was now full of explosive power.

It felt as if a single punch could pierce through this firmament.

”Rumble—!!!”

But clearly, the Heavenly Tribulation was not yet over.

The vortex above the firmament began to tremble violently.

The originally black clouds instantly turned dark red, as if the entire sky were dripping blood.

That Aura, oppressive to the extreme.

Caused the City Protection Grand Formation of Tianxuan City to begin trembling violently.

This time, the Tribulation Eye was no longer rotating slowly but was contracting and expanding frantically.

Like an enraged heart beating violently.

”Thump!”

Accompanied by a dull rumble of thunder.

Nine beams of light shot out simultaneously from the nine directions of the Tribulation Eye.

Upon landing, the beams of light took form, instantly transforming into nine blood-colored lightning dragons identical to the previous ones, with an even more violent Aura.

They did not line up to die like before but, with great intelligence, dispersed to occupy Chen Xu’s front, back, left, right, top, bottom, and all four directions.

For a moment, the nine dragons roared, occupying the nine palaces, and descended in a pincer attack with the force of overturning the universe.

”Well come.”

Facing such a killing Formation, there was not a trace of panic on Chen Xu’s face; instead, he revealed a hint of approval.

The immortal slaying sword in his hand vibrated slightly, and in that square inch of space, he thrust out nine swords in succession.

These nine sword strikes were fast to the extreme, so fast that in the eyes of others, it seemed as if only a lingering shadow had flashed by.

Nine dark red sword beams met those nine ferocious dragon heads.

In an instant, the massive bodies of the nine lightning dragons stiffened, and their world-destroying momentum vanished into thin air.

Following that, their bodies began to collapse from within.

In no time, the nine blood-colored lightning dragons disintegrated in the air, turning into blood-colored lightning essence, like nine inverted heavenly rivers, which were all swallowed by Chen Xu’s Grandmist Indestructible Body.

Upon the pale blue lightning patterns that had just appeared around his body, another layer of eerie blood-colored patterns was added.

The Aura radiating from his entire being became increasingly unfathomable.

The crowd watching from outside Tianxuan City had become completely numb.

”One sword for each… I, this old turtle, have lived for so many years and have never seen anyone undergo the Heavenly Tribulation like this.”

The Xuan Shui Dragon Turtle muttered to itself, feeling that its turtle shell would likely be no different from paper in the face of such Sword Qi.

The blood-colored tribulation clouds in the sky churned even more violently, seemingly completely enraged by Chen Xu’s behavior of treating the Heavenly Tribulation as a tonic.

This time, no more lightning dragons condensed, and the color of the entire tribulation cloud vortex began to undergo a strange change, turning from blood red to a deathly gray-white.

A wisp of gray flame drifted down slowly from the center of the tribulation clouds.

This flame had no temperature, no light, and even its burning form was barely perceptible.

The moment it appeared, Void Refining Stage experts like Ba Dao and Lan Shuyao all felt a sudden palpitation in their hearts.

It was as if something extremely important was being stripped away by this flame out of thin air.

”It is the Fire of Karma!”

The Xuan Shui Dragon Turtle shrieked, ”This thing does not burn the Physical Body, nor does it incinerate the Soul; it burns the karmic connection between the Cultivator and this world!”

”Once touched, at best the Foundation will be damaged, and at worst, one will be abandoned by the world and turned into nothingness!”

The gray Fire of Karma increased in number, like a despairing gray snow, scattering down towards Chen Xu.

Facing this nearly unsolvable Law attack, Chen Xu merely raised his right hand calmly and pressed it remotely toward the sky.

”Universe in the Palm.”

In an instant, with him at the center, the space within a thousand zhang suddenly contracted inward.

A prototype of a Small World, independent of the Spirit Realm, unfolded with a boom.

All the gray flames drifting here were, the moment they touched this ”Universe,” forcibly repelled and annihilated by an unreasonable power of the Law.

In this Domain, Chen Xu was the only Heavenly Dao.

External Karma had no soil here to take root and sprout.

However, the Heavenly Tribulation did not give up there.

The tribulation clouds changed color again, turning into a deep, bottomless pitch-black.

Drops of black rain fell from the sky; the rain was incredibly heavy, and each drop seemed to contain the weight of a great mountain.

Pressing the space below until it collapsed layer by layer.

”Water of Karma!”

Murong Zhuyun’s face turned pale, ”This water can wash away all the merits of a living being and amplify their lifelong sins; once drenched by it, Heart Demons will sprout, and the Dao Heart will surely collapse!”

The black rain pierced through the barrier of the ”Universe in the Palm” Domain and landed directly on Chen Xu’s Physical Body.

Chen Xu frowned slightly; he could feel a cold and filthy force attempting to invade his Soul.

In his mind, countless enemies he had personally killed over the years uncontrollably surfaced.

Those resentful roars seemed to echo right in his ears.

”Hmph, a mere firefly’s glow daring to shine?”

Chen Xu snorted coldly, and a ten-thousand-zhang-tall purple-gold giant phantom suddenly appeared behind him.

Grandmist Dharmic Image!

Once the Dharmic Image appeared, all Laws could not intrude.

The giant phantom simply opened its mouth and took a gentle breath, and the sky full of Water of Karma, which would make any Body Integration Stage Cultivator’s scalp tingle, turned into a black water dragon and was swallowed into its belly in one gulp.

It was then completely purified and dissolved by the most original Primordial Qi.

The Fire of Karma and the Water of Karma—these two types of Law tribulations, which could easily kill ordinary Integration Stage Great Experts—were thus casually resolved by Chen Xu.

In this process, he was not just simply defending and breaking them.

Every collision with the Laws of Heavenly Dao allowed his understanding of power to reach a higher level.

Space, Slaughter, Five Elements, Karma… countless insights into Laws that were originally separate were now fusing and sublimating in his Soul at an unprecedented speed.

Gradually forming a ”Dao” that belonged solely to him, Chen Xu.

His Aura became increasingly harmonious and returned to simplicity.

As if he could merge with this world at any moment.

As the Law tribulation receded, the tribulation clouds in the sky gradually thinned.

It seemed that this protracted Heavenly Tribulation was finally coming to an end.

However, just when Chen Daoxuan and the others had just breathed a sigh of relief, the most dangerous test arrived quietly.

Chen Xu’s eyes had a moment of trance.

The scene before him changed suddenly; it was no longer the Forbidden Ground behind the mountain, but the war-torn Tianxuan City.

The City Protection Grand Formation had long since shattered, and countless Cultivators wearing the attire of the Tianyu Holy Land poured into the city like a tide, killing whoever they saw and looting whatever they saw.

”Father! Save me!”

A shrill scream came, and Chen Xu turned his head abruptly.

He saw Chen Daochu pinned to the city wall by a golden spear, his eyes filled with unwillingness and despair.

And the one holding the spear was an Integration Stage Great Expert with a terrifying Aura.

”Hahaha! Chen Xu, you ant of the Lower Realm, did you not think there would be such a day!”

A middle-aged man wearing a black python robe with a majestic face stood in the air; it was the Vice Holy Master of the Tianyu Holy Land.

”Kill! Kill all the remnants of the Chen Family for me, leave not one alive!”

The order was given, and more tragedies unfolded before his eyes.

To cover the retreat of the clansmen, Chen Daoxuan was besieged by several Void Refining Elders and eventually exhausted his strength and self-destructed.

Murong Zhuyun, Lan Shuyao, and others also died in battle one after another, their blood staining their clothes red.

Familiar faces, his descendants whom he regarded as treasures, were harvested like grass before his very eyes.

The entire world was left with only endless slaughter and the wails of his loved ones before death.

”No—!”

The excruciating pain and rage tearing at his Soul exploded in his heart.

He wanted to strike, but discovered he was imprisoned in place by an invisible force, able only to watch it all happen.

”Give up.”

A majestic and indifferent voice rang out between heaven and earth.

A figure enveloped in endless golden light, whose face could not be seen, appeared beside Gu Qingfeng.

It was the Holy Master of the Tianyu Holy Land: ”The fate of your Chen Family is exhausted; you act against the heavens and will ultimately have nothing. Kneel now and offer up all your secrets, and this Seat can grant you an intact corpse.”

In the illusion, Chen Xu’s eyes were blood-red, and his whole body trembled, seemingly having been completely crushed by this boundless despair and pain.

However, just at the moment when the Holy Master’s phantom thought his Dao Heart was about to collapse, Chen Xu’s eyes, originally filled with bloodshot veins, suddenly regained clarity.

He slowly raised his head and looked at the high and mighty Holy Master phantom; there was no pain, no anger on his face, only a calmness and coldness that seeped into his bones.

He tugged at the corner of his mouth and said nonchalantly, ”When I achieve success, I will naturally pay a visit to take your head.”

The moment the words fell, the entire Heart Demon illusion let out a muffled sound, and like a shattered mirror, it crumbled inch by inch.

In reality, Chen Xu’s body swayed slightly, and he regained his footing.

His Soul, far from being damaged by the illusion that could have driven any Cultivator mad, had instead become unprecedentedly condensed and transparent because he had seen through this ultimate vanity.

Like a piece of glazed glass polished to the extreme, unstained by dust.

In the sky, the last trace of the tribulation clouds completely dispersed.

But the end of the Heavenly Tribulation was not the finish line.

Even richer and more resplendent seven-colored auspicious clouds gathered from all directions, illuminating the sky above the entire Tianxuan City into a dreamlike fairyland, and streaks of seven-colored rays containing the Origin of Life and fragments of Heavenly Laws fell like sweet dew.

For a moment, the seven-colored auspicious clouds filled the long sky!

Throughout Tianxuan City, a drizzling spiritual rain began to fall.

This rain was not ordinary water; each drop appeared crystal clear and amber in color.

Chen Xu hovered in mid-air, slightly lifting his head, letting this sweet dew fall upon his body.

The moment the rain touched his skin, it seeped in on its own, and those tiny Meridians damaged in the Lightning Tribulation were healing and reshaping at an incredible speed.

An unprecedented feeling of comfort spread throughout his whole body, as if he had unloaded shackles he had carried for a hundred years.

His whole being felt so light and agile that he could ascend at any moment.

But he did not immerse himself in this physical pleasure for too long, because he knew that the real main event was only just beginning.

The gift from the Heavenly Dao was certainly precious, but the rewards from the System were the Foundation that allowed him to overtake on a bend in this cruel Cultivation World.

With a thought, the familiar pale blue virtual panel slowly unfolded in his mind.