Longevity by Grinding Skills

Chapter 517: Chapter 517: Celestial Human Five Declines and Three Tribulations

Xu Yunfan instantly realized what was happening. The Innate Pure and Muddy Qi he had worked so hard to collect was obviously not for True Monarch Qing Yuan. In the end, it was all for Chu Chengnan.

That True Monarch Qing Yuan really was a good leader.

’Damn it, these people are all schemers, one more ruthless than the next.’

’Their minds are full of twists and turns, thinking who knows what. You can never guess their true intentions until the very last moment.’

But Xu Yunfan wasn’t angry. He also wanted to see what seeking the Golden Dao looked like in the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm. With Chu Chengnan’s brilliant example before him, he would naturally be able to observe.

In the future, when he broke through to the Golden Core and achieved the rank of True Monarch, he would naturally be able to avoid some pitfalls.

"Junior Brother Xu, please act as my Dharma Protector!"

Chu Chengnan wasted no more words. His figure shot into the air, hovering directly above the torrent of Muddy Fiend gushing from the broken cliff.

"Qian and Kun, fix your positions! Earth Veins, hear my command! Rise!"

Following his thunderous shout, which was like the decree of a mountain god.

An indescribably vast will erupted from him.

An immense and heavy Magical Power, like that of a mountain range, suddenly radiated from his body.

Chu Chengnan cultivated the Hundred Peaks Demon Suppression Scripture and had condensed the Thousand Mountains and Ten Thousand Peaks Dao Foundation. His aura intertwined with the earth, becoming one with it.

RUMBLE!

All of Cold Crow Pass—no, the entire land for a thousand miles around Cold Crow Pass—began to rumble and shake.

It was as if the Earth Dragon was flipping over.

The earth’s crust in this region trembled, its invisible veins forcibly awakened.

The Cultivators within Cold Crow Pass were all shaken. A Foundation Establishment Elder Daoist Master sensed the surge in the Heaven and Earth Qi Mechanism and his expression immediately changed.

"A Great Daoist Master is seeking the Golden Dao Fruit!"

As soon as he said this, the expressions of the Cultivators beside him changed.

An old Cultivator couldn’t help but mutter, "How many years has it been since someone in the Taihua Spirit Ruins Realm sought the Golden Dao Fruit?"

As they spoke, a mysterious Qi mechanism began to rise between heaven and earth.

At that moment, streams of earthy-yellow light, visible to the naked eye, awakened like giant pythons, roaring as they converged from all directions—from deep within the earth and from thousands of mountains and hills.

This was not the physical movement of mountains, but the essence of Earth Qi—imbued with the properties of "immovability" and "heaviness," and accumulated over millennia in the mountain and Earth Veins—being forcibly stripped, extracted, and moved under the power of Chu Chengnan’s Hundred Peaks Demon Suppression Scripture.

At this moment, it was as if tens of millions of Earth Vein dragon souls were being forcibly captured and summoned.

They transformed into thick, solid Profound Yellow Qi Pillars that burst from the ground, soared through the sky, and aimed directly for Chu Chengnan.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

One after another, enormous Profound Yellow Qi Pillars descended from the horizon, plunging into the immense torrent of Muddy Fiend erupting from the broken cliff at Cold Crow Pass.

Nourished and guided by the essence of countless Earth Veins, the torrent of Muddy Fiend instantly grew more violent and also more pure.

Seeing this, Chu Chengnan continuously formed hundreds of Spells with his hands to guide the Muddy Fiend.

Guided by the Innate Pure and Muddy Qi, the Muddy Fiend no longer gushed chaotically. Instead, it coiled around Chu Chengnan, forming a pillar of Profound Yellow Muddy Fiend that stood between heaven and earth, connecting them both.

The Earth Vein Power, so heavy it seemed capable of crushing all creation, merged perfectly with the destructive energy of the Muddy Fiend.

A hint of joy appeared in Chu Chengnan’s eyes. The Ritual was now complete, and he hadn’t expected it to be so easy.

But he was also overcome with emotion.

"Five lifetimes of Cultivation have led to Perfection in this one. My Dao shall persist, and the Fruit Position looks upon me with favor."

He took a step forward into the pillar of Profound Yellow Muddy Fiend. Inside the core of this colossal, sky-piercing column, Chu Chengnan was like a son of the earth, a master of rivers and mountains.

He formed seals with his hands and chanted an ancient, profound scripture. Each syllable caused the massive pillar of Muddy Fiend beneath him to resonate violently.

His entire being was shrouded in an intense Profound Yellow Radiance, his figure blurring until it seemed to merge as one with the pillar of qi that pierced through heaven and earth.

Then, his vast Magical Power communed with the earth’s Qi mechanism, guiding the Ritual to connect, in the unseen world, with the Fruit Position Origin of the "Immovable Profound Mountain."

The scene at Cold Crow Pass was terrifying to the extreme.

On one side was the pillar of light from the Innate Pure and Muddy Qi, erupting so violently it seemed about to tear the heavens apart. On the other were the countless Profound Yellow Earth Vein torrents converging from all directions.

Together, they guarded the core: the Profound Yellow pillar, which grew ever more brilliant and ever more substantial, as if it were gestating an ancient, eternal mountain.

The entire world was stirred by this terrifying storm of Earth Vein energy and Evil Qi. Ten thousand miles of clouds were swept away, revealing a night sky as deep as ink. But above that night sky, an indescribable aura began to faintly spread.

A cosmic property representing "solidity," "immovability," and "support" was slowly condensing and manifesting.

It was a sign that the Fruit Position was about to descend with its favor.

Below, Xu Yunfan watched without blinking, his expression grave. He had already quietly extended his Divine Sense to cover a hundred-mile radius.

Such a grand display had caused the entire Heaven and Earth Qi Mechanism to boil, drawing the attention of the world.

A Great Daoist Master Cultivator at Foundation Establishment Perfection seeking the Golden Dao, seizing the Dao Fruit Origin of heaven and earth to form their own Golden Core—this was an act of defying the heavens and changing one’s fate.

Heaven and earth would surely send down a tribulation, known as the "Celestial Human Five Declines and Three Tribulations."

This process was akin to being a giant rat in this world, digging up the Heaven and Earth Root Qi to forge one’s own Golden Core. The Celestial Dao would naturally fight back, thus forming the tribulation.

The first tribulation was the sign of the Celestial Five Declines eroding the Dao Heart and precious body. The second was the repulsion from the interaction with the Heaven and Earth Laws, which brought down disasters of thunderbolts, wind, and fire.

The most dangerous and unpredictable of all, however, was the "Human Tribulation."

The tribulation of the Celestial Five Declines was born in the deepest parts of one’s Dao Body and Divine Soul. It was the most insidious and cruel; most ordinary Cultivators failed here, their Dao transforming back into the world.

However, Chu Chengnan’s cultivation of the Hundred Peaks Demon Suppression Scripture had long since reached Perfection. His Thousand Mountains and Ten Thousand Peaks Dao Foundation was as steady as a boulder, and his will was as unshakable as a profound mountain.

Xu Yunfan could see clearly that the Heaven and Earth Tribulation was truly no match for the well-prepared Chu Chengnan.

The decaying qi, potent enough to drain a Foundation Establishment Daoist Master’s lifespan and rot their Dao Body, had only just begun to form when it was forcibly crushed and smoothed over by his immense Magical Power—as heavy as the earth and mountains—and the will of his Dao Heart.

The Profound Yellow Divine Light around him merely rippled once before stabilizing again. The tribulation of the Five Declines was broken without a sound.

The Heaven and Earth Tribulation followed immediately after.

It should have been a tribulation of lightning from the heavens, Yin Fire from the earth, and an assault of wind blades and frost swords, all to annihilate the one defying the Dao.

However, this was Cold Crow Pass, a land of Supreme Yin and filth where the Innate Pure and Muddy Qi erupted.

What Chu Chengnan had summoned was a torrent of Earth Vein Dirt Qi, fused with the will of a thousand mountains and ten thousand peaks and carrying with it infinite Earth Evil.

The tribulation’s heavenly thunderbolts had just begun to gather in the nine heavens, their brilliant celestial might yet to descend, when the Profound Yellow pillar—which had condensed the essence of Earth Veins from ten thousand miles around and a heavy concentration of Muddy Fiend—suddenly trembled.

In an instant, Chu Chengnan forcibly used the earth’s Qi veins to confront the Celestial Punishment. The top of the giant pillar erupted with a heavy Dirt Qi that seemed capable of crushing the firmament. It shot toward the heavens and violently tore apart the newly gathered thunderclouds, scattering them into nothing.

RUMBLE!

At such an act, the Celestial Dao was naturally enraged.

But now, Chu Chengnan’s entire Qi mechanism was intertwined with the earth’s terrestrial veins. The Qi mechanism of the land for tens of thousands of miles around Cold Crow Pass had been forcibly bound to him.

If the Celestial Dao insisted on sending down a boundless killing tribulation, this entire region would likely cease to exist.

It would be completely striking itself.

Xu Yunfan watched in sudden realization. ’I never thought he had a move like this up his sleeve.’

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