A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality c1-2248

by Translator: Johnchen

  The old man wore a solemn expression and doubtfully said, “It seems harsher than ordinary minor tribulation, but it can’t be the metamorphosis tribulation of a demon beast. That has only silver lightning.”

  When the Core Formation cultivators saw that Elder Huo was unsure, they wore disappointed expressions.

  The winds in the sky have already become more frequent and strong. A windstorm seemed to envelop the area fifty kilometers around the mountain. Black clouds also began to pressure the ground underneath.

  As a result, Elder Huo began to mutter to himself and order the caravan to form a circle for the time being and calmly wait for the tribulation to end before continuing forward.

  As the sounds of thunder continued to ring, the silver-gold lightning suddenly burst with greater ferocity. It roiled from cloud to cloud and began to strike down in a dense barrage aking to a rainstorm.

  As this continued, the silver lightning struck the mountain, breaking apart its top with explosions of dust and rock, easily cleaving the top of the mountain with blinding silver light.

  As for the golden lightning, it seemed to disappear upon touching the mountain.

  Soon after, thunder began to clap from the center of the mountain. A muffle explosion seemed even louder than the fierce claps of thunder from the sky.

  This came as a shock to Elder Huo and the other Core Formation cultivators. The golden lightning was odd in a heavenly tribulation and wasn’t blocked by the mountain rock in the slightest, directly striking the target of the tribulation. This strange scene was something that only occurred with the purple-gold lightning of greater tribulations.

  Could it be a type of greater tribulation that the old man had never seen before?

  As these doubts welled in the hearts of these cultivators, a piercing azure light shot out from the center of the mountain. In a blur, it emerged from the center of the mountain, containing a faint silhouette.

  When the spectators saw this, they knew the person inside the azure light was certain to be the cultivator of great ability undergoing the tribulation.

  Unbeknownst to them, this person had emerged from the mountain since it did nothing to block the golden tribulation lightning. He felt that he would better deal with the tribulation’s might in a wider area.

  At that moment, the golden and silver lightning striking the huge mountain swiftly changed targets to the azure light.

  A long shriek sounded from the azure light and azure light flashed from above the person’s head. A huge cauldron appeared and its lid opened in a blur.

  A dense mass of azure threads shot out from the cauldron and fluttered through the air, concealing about half of the sky.

  The azure threads completely absorbed the silver lightning into the cauldron, but the golden lightning was still unaffected and brushed past the threads to strike at the person below.

  “Good, good, good!” The person in the azure light seemed surprised, but he laughed at the unexpected result.

  The person clutched his hands together and raised them to the air. Thunder deafeningly rang and two dense bolts of lightning wildly flashed. Soon after, they spread out, creating a huge net of lightning above him.

  In the blink of an eye, the two types of golden lightning struck one another resulting in a crackling explosion. Afterwards, they dissolved into countless thin golden arcs that jumped through the air in a gorgeous display.

  The Elder Huo and the others were dumbstruck by the sight.

  Many cultivators practiced lightning-attributed techniques in the spirit realm, but when common lightning touched tribulation lightning, they were unable to block it. Rather, the tribulation lightning would absorb it and turning it against its owner.

  The cultivator undergoing tribulation in front of them not only cultivated lightning ability on par with tribulation lightning, but he actually dared to use it to block tribulation lightning. He never heard of someone with the gall to do such a thing.

  However, the silver and golden lightning dropping from the black clouds seemed unending. In the time it took for an incense stick to burn, the lightning continued to strike and with increasing ferocity.

  The lightning was originally as thick as a thumb, but now it was as thick as an arm.

  At that moment, the figure in the azure light had a faintly changed expression because the huge cauldron seemed to absorb as much lightning as it could hold. The azure threads seemed to be fewer and it began to block even less silver lightning.

  As a result, a large quantity of silver lightning began to rain down on the person’s golden net, draining the net’s strength to near the point of exhaustion.

  The Core Formation cultivators looked at each other in dismay. Their leader, the yellow-robed youth, muttered, “This absolutely isn’t minor tribulation. Even the tribulation of a consummate Deity Transformation cultivator isn’t this powerful!”

  Elder Huo, having witnessed this power, suddenly said, “No, I have heard of this kind of tribulation before...”

  “Is that true, Elder Huo?” The yellow-robed youth quickly turned to the old man.

  “Yes, I have heard someone mention it once before. However, it was so long ago that I can’t remember it clearly,” the old man said with a deeply contemplative expression.

  After all, he wasn’t a cultivator. In his advanced age, his memory has begun to weaken.

  The Core Formation cultivators felt somewhat anxious, but Elder Huo was a peak-grade body refiner with power that could rival a Nascent Soul cultivator. None dare to urge him to remember.”

  A Core Formation cultivator noticed a change in the sky and suddenly shouted, “Oh no, that Senior doesn’t seem to be able to hold on!”

  When the others heard this, they looked over in alarm and Elder Huo snapped out of his contemplation and quickly looked up.

  They saw the tribulation lightning suddenly change. The arcs of lightning were replaced with head-sized balls of gold and silver lightning. It was as if a goddess’ flowers were drifting down from the heavens.

  The balls of lightning were clearly more powerful than the arcs that struck down. Under the dense and numerous attack, the cauldron was no longer able to endure and let out a mournful drone before withdrawing its threads and shrinking to the size of a fist. In a streak of light, it flew back into the person’s body.

  It was clear the treasure suffered grave damage.

  The person still continued to channel golden lightning through his hands, but the golden net was soon about to collapse.

  Eventually, the net was scattered inches at a time under the barrage of lightning balls.

  Just as the spectators believed that the cultivator was about to fail his tribulation, the silhouette to let a bone-chilling snort and he slapped the back of his head to produce a grey misty light. He then opened his head to spit out a pitch-black inch-large rock.

  When the grey mist spread itself to receive the balls of lightning, an inconceivable event occurred.

  Regardless of the color of balls of lightning, the grey light immediately stopped the balls in their tracks. They appeared as if they were suspended in the air by an invisible force.

  The grey light appeared to only have this kind of power against the lightning balls and could do nothing else. But as lightning balls continue to drop down, it continued to gather them up with ease.

  Although the grey mist was only a hundred meters wide, in the blink of an eye, it amassed an overflowing number of lightning balls. It appeared filled to the brim as if it could hold no more.

  At that point, the person formed an incantation gesture at the inch-large rock in front of him. It surged into a forty-meter-tall mountain instantly.

  Immediately, after the silhouette let out a deep and cryptic incantation.

  Waves of light challenged through the entire surface of the pitch-black mountain and grey rings began to fly off the mountain, sweeping past the suspended lightning balls.

  An incredible scene followed.

  When the grey
rings began to sweep past them, the balls of lightning faintly trembled, but they didn’t have any greater effect. However, the grey mist seemed to ripple and those ripples soon began to warp.

  The balls of lightning eventually grew unstable as the grey mist twisted with greater intensity, causing the balls to strike one another and explode ferociously, scattering countless arcs of lightning everywhere.

  Following that, the grey rings trembled and the arcs of lightning seemed to be brought under their control, striking down at the pitch-black mountain in a uniform manner.

  The person in the azure light then continued, using the grey mist to dissolve the balls and using the small mountain to absorb the resulting loose lightning.

  These actions appeared to be done with ease, but in the person’s heart, he was cursing without end.

  Although the Divine Essencefused Light possessed fantastical abilities and he could draw on the Essencefused Mountain to deal with the tribulation lightning, it consumed astronomical amounts of magic power.

  Of course, the person in the azure light was Han Li, who cultivated in the mountain for over a hundred years.

  At that moment, not only did he cultivate the Vajra Arts to full completion, but he reformed his dissolved Nascent Soul with the aid of spirit medicines.

  He completely didn’t expect that Heavenly Tribulation would strike down on him the moment he reformed his Nascent Soul.

  Caught unprepared, he had no choice but to deal with it using force.

  Chapter 1315: The Golden Court Boat

  After a dozen more waves of lightning balls rained down, Han Li’s magic power had taken a steep dive, consuming a majority of it, but the tribulation didn’t seem to be exhausting its lightning anytime soon.

  Han Li’s face paled.

  Although he possessed many abilities, there weren’t many that could block the heavenly tribulation. As for the flame bird he refined from Shi Yan’s heavenly flame, it has been withdrawn into the body of his Nascent Soul since the start of tribulation.

  As the cinque devils and Weeping Soul Beast were sentient, they cowered before tribulation and weren’t very useful in this regard.

  The Eight Spirit Ruler and the Six Divines Talisman were suitable treasures, but they had been destroyed in the journey through the spatial node.

  Now he was left with sparsely few countermeasures, all of which he had prepared as last reserve life-saving measures, but he was still found wanting.

  But how could a minor tribulation in the spirit realm be so formidable? If they were all this frightening, how could other Deity Transformation-stage cultivators survive? He didn’t believe that each one of them was even more powerful than he was. There must be some trick to surviving it.

  As he sullenly thought this, he regretted not doing more research on minor tribulations.

  Of course, Han Li couldn't have known that what he was experiencing was far beyond what a minor tribulation could amount to.

  Even with his several heaven-defying abilities and his two top-grade treasures: the Heavenvoid Cauldron and the Essensefused Mountain, a normal Deity Transformation-stage cultivator would’ve already perished under the first wave.

  Now he let out a deep sigh and a crimson light faintly shined from his body as if something was about to emerge.

  At that moment, over a kilometer outside the area of Han Li’s tribulation, space fluctuated, followed by the appearance of a formation of white light.

  The light formation was only about thirty-meters-wide and had talisman characters drifting within it with blinding light.

  Although Han Li was mostly focused on blocking the tribulation, the strange appearance of the formation hadn’t escaped his notice.

  His heart trembled and a crimson streak flickered from his body. As he continued to use the Divine Essensefused Light to block the lightning balls, he turned his head coldly over.

  It was no wonder Han Li was so cautious. During a crucial moment of calamity, an odd item he’s never heard of suddenly appeared near him.

  However, the formation of light appeared rather familiar, much like...

  When Han Li swept his spiritual sense past the spell formation, he began to ponder.

  As the formation of white light droned, it flashed and a square golden boat suddenly sprang forth from it.

  The boat seemed to be forged from pure gold with exquisite detail, and it was also covered densely in faint silver talisman characters.

  When Han Li saw those talisman characters, his face faintly changed.

  “The silver rune scripts!” they were actually spirit scripts from the spirit realm!

  The golden boat was about twenty meters long and its surface was engraved in talisman characters of the rune script. The huge light formation seemed to be a teleportation formation without a base.

  Han Li felt shocked.

  But what astonished him even more was the yellow dome barrier at the center of the boat. It appeared incredibly thick, preventing even his powerful spiritual sense from looking inside.

  Shortly after the golden boat appeared, the formation of light beneath it crumbled away inches at a time. Meanwhile, the yellow barrier at the center of the golden boat disappeared to reveal two cultivators wearing golden battle armor.

  One of them appeared quite elderly, either in his sixties or fifties, and wore a goatee. The other appeared to be only in his thirties, and he had a white complexion with no facial hair.

  The silver rune scripts were also engraved into the two cultivator’s armor, and would also have these talisman characters occasionally float around them. It was clear to see that the two sets of armor possessed great value.

  Just as Han Li swept his spiritual sense past them, the Divine Essensefused Light above him trembled, nearly on the brink of destruction.

  Spatial Tempering-stage cultivators. One of them is even at mid-Spatial Tempering stage!

  How could such characters appear here and right as he was undergoing tribulation? Could it be that they’ve come for him?

  As Han Li looked at the two, he wore an unsightly expression.

  From the distance, the caravan naturally saw the sudden appearance of the golden boat and the two gold-armored cultivators.

  For a time the Core Formation cultivators were left in a daze. But when Elder Huo saw them, his face vastly changed in shock and he shouted out, “The Golden Court Boat! The Deep Heaven Guards!”

  “The Deep Heaven Guards! Could it be that Senior has a relationship with Deep Heaven City?” When the yellow-robed cultivator heard this, their faces turned snow white with disbelief.

  Elder Huo stared at the boat and vacantly muttered, “I’ve got it! That person is truly undergoing minor tribulation, but he must be a rare cultivator that ascended from a lower realm. He also hadn’t cleaned his essence with the Earth Exterminating Pill, causing two-colored tribulation lightning to claim his life. Those Deep Heaven Guards must’ve sensed the tribulation and have sent help. But what’s more strange is that they would be in the area to begin with.”

  The Core Formation cultivators were left even more shocked by what they heard. Soon, everything seemed to verify the old man’s words.

  When the two Spatial Tempering-stage cultivators appeared from the boat, they looked at the balls of lightning hailing down from Han Li’s tribulation. The two betrayed some astonishment at seeing him able to still hold out.

  Nevertheless, one of them immediately raised their hand and released a purple talisman from his hand. As soon as it left his hand, it let out a thunderous clap and transformed into a thirty-meter-tall person of light wrapped by purple lightning.

  The figure had its arm crossed and its upper body was bare, emitting a ferocious aura. However, its face was blurred and only a long mustache could be made out.

  As for the other armored cultivator, he released an azure and a gold talisman.

  When the two talismans were released, they let out thunderous light and turned into a three-meter-large azure spike and a gol
den hammer.

  The two items were wrapped in azure sparks and golden lightning respectively, releasing an astonishing pressure.

  The other cultivator began to solemnly cast spell seals into the huge light figure.

  Suddenly, the giant of light reached out to the azure spike and the golden hammer, two weapons formed from talismans, and promptly summoned them into its hands.

  As for the one who released the weapons, he began to chant in conjunction with his companion.

  The giant raised its head and let out a dragon’s roar. It raised its hand and pointed the azure spike in Han Li’s direction. Then, it fiercely swung down with the hammer.

  A huge bang resounded, followed by heaven-shaking lightning. Purple lightning sparked from the entire giant. The golden hammer and the azure spike both let out a blinding glare, a streak of purple, azure, and golden lightning poured out from the awl. At first, it was thin, but in the blink of an eye, it became thicker and longer, quickly expanding from ten meters long to over three hundred. At the peak of its expansion, the lightning took the form of a tri-colored true dragon. It’s radiant visage even lit up the nearby skies.

  The display left the spectators dumbstruck. The giant streak of lightning disappeared in an instant and reappeared above Han Li.

  Lightning zapped and tri-colored light flashed. Below, Han Li’s heart sank and his breath turned shallow. But immediately after, he left out a sigh of relief.

  The huge arc of lightning had changed direction and struck the black sky.

  Soon after, crackles sounded as various-colored lightning wildly danced through the skies. The balls of lightning that were originally hailing down quickly became rare.

  When Han Li saw this, he felt great surprise at the fact those two had suddenly assisted him in passing through his tribulation, but he wasn’t about to refuse the favor.

  And without another thought, his figure dropped back to the ground.

  The tribulation cloud was extremely dangerous, so he may as well use the opportunity to create more distance.