Chunibyo in Cultivation World

Very soon, Li Tianwei took out the Saint Soul Banner.

At this moment, the banner emitted a faint green demonic light.

Within it, the aura that drifted out seemed to carry a trace of sorrow and despair.

It was as if the condition of the souls within was cruel beyond words miserable and tragic.

“Heehee, I am the Heart Demon…”

“Heart Demon…”

As for Ming Yin and Xu Yuqing, they had no idea what they were about to face.

Their divine souls were already covered in strange markings, and they were muttering incomprehensible words.

Li Tianwei didn’t care what they said.

He opened his hand and directly grabbed their two divine souls, then shoved them straight into the Saint Soul Banner.

Inside the Forbidden Land of Taixu, where chaotic energies accumulated, the souls of the demonic cultivators within had long been baptized and tormented endlessly by the Scripture of Supreme Virtue and Radiant Purity.

Every ounce of their essence had already been extracted to the extreme.

What kind of suffering it was could be seen from the flickering green lights on the banner’s surface.

After shoving Ming Yin and Xu Yuqing no, the Heart Demons that had taken over them into the banner, Li Tianwei began to chant an incantation.

“Come forth! As manifestations of the Heart Demon Tribulation, you too are part of Heaven and Earth. Now that the world is facing an invasion from the Demons, as beings born of this world, you have the right and the duty to contribute your strength to Heaven and Earth.”

“So enter my Soul Banner as its master souls, and offer up more merit.”

“Assist me!”

Li Tianwei lowered his gaze, chanting his spell as the pure, radiant light of the Scripture of Supreme Virtue and Radiant Purity shone brightly behind him.

Under the brilliance of this immaculate light, and the murmured chant from Li Tianwei’s lips, the consciousness of Ming Yin and Xu Yuqing grew heavier and heavier—their sense of self completely sinking away.

Hearing Li Tianwei’s words, they couldn’t help but think—perhaps this was how it should be.

Soon, runes surfaced upon the Saint Soul Banner, intertwining around their forms and dragging them in completely.

As they were pulled into oblivion, the fate of the two was sealed at that very moment.

Neither Ming Yin nor Xu Yuqing could have ever imagined that this would be their end.

They had thought their divine souls could crush him effortlessly, yet instead, they became tribulations of the Heart Demon, and under that bizarre method, they fell into dissolution and annihilation.

Even at the moment of their death, they had not realized what had truly happened.

“It seems I’ve overcome the heavenly tribulation,” Li Tianwei murmured.

“I should now have truly reached the Golden Core Realm. But… why don’t I feel any power increase?”

“How strange. According to the novels I’ve read, the protagonist, upon transcending a tribulation, should have his power refined, undergo a transformation, gain heavenly merit, or even awaken some special constitution.”

Doubt filled Li Tianwei’s heart as he looked blankly toward the sky.

“Maybe it’s because I’m too strong,” he reasoned.

“I can’t compare myself to those novel protagonists. I’m far superior to them.”

He shook his head soon after, suddenly feeling that comparing himself to novel protagonists was demeaning.

With solid Golden Core cultivation, nearly infinite strength from fusion, and righteous Dao techniques shining with grandeur, he was already the best proof of his own excellence.

Just as Li Tianwei refined Ming Yin and Xu Yuqing into the master souls of the Saint Soul Banner, the sight immediately drew the attention of Elder Fuzhen and Daoist Master Lan Yu, who were still engaged in battle.

A single glance and they both froze.

The Li Tianwei who should have died under Ming Yin and Xu Yuqing’s divine soul assault now stood holding the Soul Banner, his whole body emitting eerie green light, exuding a chilling, sinister aura.

Within the banner, the two divine souls of Ming Yin struggled in vain.

No matter how one looked at it, the scene was that of a Great Demon performing a soul-refining ritual.

Elder Fuzhen couldn’t help but cast a strange look at Lan Yu.

In an instant, Elder Fuzhen realized something.

He immediately pointed at Lan Yu.

“Who would have thought! So it turns out your Sacred Land of Lingxu is such a den of corruption—harboring a Great Demon like this!”

“So this ambush against Li Tianwei was all orchestrated by your Sacred Land!”

“No wonder we were able to obtain the intelligence that Li Tianwei entered the Forbidden Land of Taixu to comprehend divine powers. Such information should have been top secret. There’s no way all three Sacred Lands could have known simultaneously—it must have been you who leaked it intentionally!”

“Despicable! Utterly despicable!”

Elder Fuzhen’s voice trembled, as did his hands and heart, upon seeing the deaths of Xu Yuqing and Ming Yin.

His words poured out with fury, and the gaze he cast upon Lan Yu was filled with resentment as though he had been outmaneuvered in a deadly game.

“……”

Under that gaze, and the barrage of accusations, Lan Yu was stunned.

He couldn’t help but glance at Li Tianwei.

Feeling the aura from him, he became even more certain this man was indeed Li Tianwei.

Although his energy felt strange and emitted traces of demonic qi, he was undeniably still Li Tianwei.

Lan Yu wanted to argue back but for a moment, he found himself unable to.

He glanced at Li Tianwei again.

“My dear junior nephew, could you at least restrain your demonic arts a little?”

“With reason on my side, I still can’t explain this away!”

Lan Yu sighed deeply.

If Elder Fuzhen hadn’t accused him so furiously, he wouldn’t even have realized that the Sacred Land might have arranged such a thing.

“Could it be… the Sacred Land really did make such arrangements?”

Under Elder Fuzhen’s words, Lan Yu couldn’t help but quietly form a question mark in his heart.

But Elder Fuzhen didn’t care what Lan Yu thought, or what the truth actually was.

In his mind, things were already decided.

Some people were simply that stubborn believing their own version of truth beyond explanation.

Having fallen into such a bizarre situation, Elder Fuzhen no longer cared about anything else.

“Come forth, Heaven-Repelling Mirror!”

Elder Fuzhen raised the Heaven-Repelling Mirror, flipping it and pressing it down toward Lan Yu.

At the same time, his Manifestation of the Spirit appeared, revealing his divine soul.

Elder Fuzhen possessed an exceptional Wood Spiritual Root and the Ancient Greenwood Body.

Once he activated his power, dense vitality intermingled with faint decay, reflecting in the air.

The Law of Life surged rapidly—within the mirror’s reflection, an ancient sky-reaching tree appeared, radiating boundless power.

Boom!

“All trees return to origin…”

“Be dissolved with me!”

Facing this hopeless situation, Elder Fuzhen had only one choice to drag both Li Tianwei and Lan Yu down with him.

He was at the peak of the Spirit Transformation Realm—the highest combat power currently able to appear in the world.

The power of laws burst forth; the ancient tree descended from the sky, and all surrounding energies were drained and stripped away.

It must be said—Elder Fuzhen truly lived up to being the main force behind the assault on Li Tianwei.

His means were indeed formidable.

Lan Yu instinctively retreated several steps, watching the immense ancient tree manifesting behind Elder Fuzhen.

Vitality melted away, replaced by the stench of decay.

With Lan Yu’s discerning eye, he could tell that Elder Fuzhen was drawing out the life force of Heaven and Earth itself dragging the entire region into ruin.

This was no different from a Nascent Soul cultivator’s self-destruction; for someone at the Spirit Transformation Realm, it was chaos unleashed through the power of law.

And with the Heaven-Repelling Mirror—a treasure about to advance into a true spiritual artifact—Elder Fuzhen’s eruption doubled in magnitude.

Amid such immense upheaval, Li Tianwei slowly lifted his head below, gazing up at the ancient sky-reaching tree.

Through his grasp of various Dao Intents and his own power, Li Tianwei could already feel the threat looming within.