Chapter 764: Frenzied Dragon! Wicked Dragon!
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The talismans floating above the barrier of the Dragon God Temple emitted increasingly dazzling light.
This barrier was like a semi-circular glass dome, enclosing the entire Dragon God Temple and its platform.
Xie Yujia silently counted these talismans and found many she did not recognize. She recorded them in her mind to study them further in the future.
The "Myriad Laws Converge on Talisman" technique passed down by the old woman could, when cultivated to a profound level, simulate all kinds of divine abilities with the Heaven and Earth Life and Death Talismans. The most basic form was transforming various talismans.
Varying types of talismans had different effects. Being able to transform into various talismans also meant being able to change into various divine abilities. In future, reaching a higher realm would no longer limit her to the forms of talismans; any thought in mind could bring about changes in divine abilities.
Casual Dress Scattering Man's ability to command the clouds and wind relied precisely on this set of Heaven and Earth Primordial Talismans.
And by passing down the "Myriad Laws Converge on Talisman" technique to Xie Yujia, it symbolized her extreme trust in Xie Yujia.
Beyond the barrier, clouds gathered and surged.
Just like when Zhao Kuo underwent his tribulation, high-altitude cloud layers condensed into rotating vortices that collided one after another to form increasingly larger vortices.
The activation of the Dragon God Temple's formation caused changes in the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy, hastening the formation of tribulation clouds.
Some peak Heavenly Rank cultivators dared not face the thunder tribulation and avoided it through various means; others, however, sought to actively confront the heavenly tribulation.
Su Han had prepared for this celestial tribulation nearly 20 years, from the very beginning of her cultivation journey when she decided to break through to become a Heavenly Dragon.
Therefore, even if the Dragon God Temple did not assist her, she would use her spiritual energy to trigger the heavenly tribulation herself.
The golden runes on the platform lit up one by one, as though countless beams of gold were flowing across it.
Su Han remained seated in meditation. Her Jade Sword, however, sensed changes in heaven and earth energies and began to hum, gradually rising from the ground.
Only a few fourth-level inspectors remained inside the Dragon God Temple, including Qin Shaoyang with his golden dragon-embroidered robe.
Bam... Bam... Above the Dragon God Temple, purple talismans emitted blinding light. Beneath it, golden runes shimmered one after another.
Heaven is round and earth is square.
The purple and golden lights illuminated each other, astonishing the nine deputy temple lords – the spiritual energy within the Dragon God Temple was abundant, but they did not expect such power outside!
This enormous platform suspended high in the sky had the Dragon God Temple standing at its center. Around it were 96 small and large rectangular dueling platforms arranged east, west, south, and north.
Whether it was the arena in the inner city or the penal cell in the outer city, along with the surrounding walls, all were destroyed by a single footstep of Yue Zilong. At this moment, 96 talismans that emerged slowly from within the platform and interlinked together occupied precisely where the arena used to be!
The Dragon God Temple at the center naturally became the core hub of this grand array formation!
This was fundamentally a natural platform for ascending through tribulation. The nine deputy chamberlains were beginning to doubt whether the construction of the Dragon God Temple had been prepared for this day all along!
East, South, West, and North each contained twenty-four arenas, totaling ninety-six in number. This exceeded the eight trigrams and was an earth-and-heaven formation utilizing the seasonal changes marked by the Earthly Branches.
The beginning of spring, rainy season, awakening of insects, spring equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, beginning of summer… Each direction’s twenty-four arenas were named after the Twenty-Four Solar Terms, and beneath these arenas was a hidden earth-and-heaven formation!
These deputy chamberlains of the Dragon God Temple started to feel that things were gradually going beyond their expectations.
Bang… The first bolt of lightning from the cloud gathered above struck Su Han.
This flash of lightning pierced through the deep purple barrier of the Dragon God Temple as if it had entered a glass ball, greatly slowing its speed.
The various golden runes in the platform lit up, and Su Han’s jade sword proactively met the heavenly thunder.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh… The blinding white light almost caused all spectators to squint their eyes shut.
After the light dispersed, Su Han was still sitting cross-legged with no harm done.
The nine deputy chamberlains each took a half-step back.
Among them were six who had already reached the peak of the Heaven rank, but none of them had experienced heavenly tribulation before. Seeing the power of this heavenly tribulation, they all secretly gasped.
Hao Ren saw that Su Han remained motionless despite the lightning dissipating and felt somewhat relieved.
He had seen heavenly tribulations several times, with the most powerful one undoubtedly being when Zhen Fei and her “Qin Lang” underwent their tribulation. Therefore, watching Su Han undergo his tribulation did not particularly surprise him.
Rumble rumble… All kinds of heavenly tribulations began to醞釀起來，三三兩兩的組合，形成一道更厲害的天雷。(This part seems a bit unclear in the original text and might need some clarification for accuracy.)
Su Han's longsword emitted a crisp ringing sound. Under Su Han’s powerful aura, it released wave upon wave of green light.
After repeated tempering, his personal magic treasure had even slightly gained the might of an innate spiritual treasure!
The nine deputy chamberlains were secretly startled… Seeing Su Han's calm and composed expression and the spiritual pressure from his personal magic treasure, it seemed that Su Han’s strength was probably above them all!
Not only did the deputy chamberlains of the Dragon God Temple feel this way; those few golden dragon elders who saw Su Han effortlessly block the first wave of heavenly tribulation without even a strand of hair being disheveled were also shocked to realize that Su Han surpassed any one of them!
As the power of the thunder outside continued to increase, the spiritual energy within the Dragon God Temple was also gradually condensing.
To use the spiritual aura of the entire Dragon Divine Temple to help Su Han counteract the heavenly tribulation, this Dragon Divine Temple has really pulled out all the stops!
A few Golden Dragon Elders quietly sighed. They were also calculating what kind of price they would need to pay if they wanted to bring Su Han back to the Golden Dragon faction, or what they could offer him.
In their eyes, Su Han's success in this tribulation was a sure thing! No cultivator has ever had the support of the Dragon Divine Temple during their heavenly tribulation!
Boom!
The second wave of heaven-defying thunderbolts that made even the Dragon Divine Temple tremble struck the temple's platform from high above.
Su Han remained seated, and the Jadeite Sword rose into the air to guide the lightning towards the ground before suddenly converging it around Su Han via an array formation.
A white barrier formed around Su Han; this was the ice wall he constructed with his dual Gold-Water elemental energy!
The thunderbolts, weakened after striking the platform and converging around Su Han, were unable to penetrate through Su Han's ice wall and harm him.
A third wave of heaven-defying lightning followed closely behind.
Su Han pulled out the Jadeite Sword from where it had been stuck in a white stone on the platform and flew up lightly.
Dance of Swords in Nine Heavens!
Su Han leaped dozens of meters off the platform, countering the third wave of heaven-defying lightning with his body and sword!
The spectacle was almost as awe-inspiring as Zhao Kuo's previous heavenly tribulation scene, but Su Han dealt with it effortlessly!
If Zhao Kuo were to see this scene, he would know that he lost fairly. The power Su Han unleashed truly surpassed his own!
Su Han slashed away the continuous fifth, sixth, and seventh waves of heaven-defying lightning with his sword shadows!
The nine deputy temple heads and those few Golden Dragon cultivators were all dumbfounded. They couldn't imagine that Su Han had such unpredictable strength; for him, going through a heavenly tribulation was not an act of risking everything but rather something he was confident about!
Su Han would soon become a Celestial Dragon in one fell swoop!
Nine waves of heaven-defying tribulations!
Su Han had already faced the first seven with hardly any difficulty!
The six peak Gān-level deputy temple heads were all secretly calculating; they probably could only withstand up to the sixth or seventh wave, so it seemed that Su Han would have a very high chance of becoming a Celestial Dragon even without the support of the Dragon Divine Temple!
This Su Han, who had hardly made any moves within the Dragon Divine Temple and quietly concealed himself as an university teacher in Donghai City, had actually silently reached this level!
Zhao Yanzi and Xie Yujia, upon seeing Su Han successfully deflect three lightning tribulations in a row, were already largely confident that he would survive the heavenly calamity. However, they felt somewhat lost: What would happen to Su Han once he became a Celestial Dragon...
The brilliance of the celestial lightning illuminated Xu Ke's body, causing his skin to feel slightly pricked.
"Disciple, let me ask you: Who created you"
Daoist Master Taiyi, dressed in a white robe, suddenly asked him.
"It... was my master," Xu Ke looked at Daoist Master Taiyi with surprise and said.
"Good to know," Daoist Master Taiyi nodded contentedly. "Since I can ascend to the realm of Celestial Dragon, should you not make a contribution"
"What does my master mean..." Xu Ke looked up at Daoist Master Taiyi and took half a step back.
“You are originally just a fragment of my consciousness with your own awareness. Why do you struggle now” Under the dazzling lightning, Daoist Master Taiyi approached Xu Ke indifferently.
The old man's face under the gleaming white lightning looked somewhat terrifying.
"Master, what you said before was that we are of a single origin; when I die, so do you," Xu Ke opened his eyes wide and spoke with some panic.
Xu Ke knew from birth that he was this "master's" fragment of consciousness. He was the part of Daoist Master Taiyi’s soul which could not be suppressed during cultivation.
To break through to a higher realm, Daoist Master Taiyi separated this troublesome consciousness and put it into a human body, and then killed a mortal and infused his fragment of consciousness into that person's body.
Unbeknownst to him, having a physical form caused this consciousness to gradually develop its own will. After residing in the Taiyi Cave for some time and resonating with Daoist Master Taiyi’s main soul but also deviating from it, he was sent to the remote East Sea City by Daoist Master Taiyi to avoid disrupting his cultivation progress, along with a Golden Light Shield as self-defense.
Xu Ke knew that being a fragment of Daoist Master Taiyi's consciousness made escape impossible, and given his human body, his cultivation path was not ideal. However, he also knew that Daoist Master Taiyi could not kill him directly but would still control him.
Now, the look on Daoist Master Taiyi’s face gave Xu Ke a sense of foreboding; he turned and ran away.
"Hmph, you're becoming more unmanageable!" Daoist Master Taiyi suddenly reached out with his right hand like lightning and gripped Xu Ke's forehead.
Xu Ke looked at Hao Ren and the others, only to find them staring intently at Su Han’s tribulation ordeal. The nearby Golden Dragon Elders were all focused on Su Han in the midst of the flashing lightning, none paying attention to him.
Crack… Xu Ke's body went limp on the ground.
The Golden Dragon Elders did not pay much heed when they saw Xu Ke lying by their feet. They assumed he was too low-level to withstand the pressure of these soul-shaking heavenly tribulations.
"All die!"
Daoist Master Taiyi suddenly attacked the six Golden Dragon cultivators from behind, then transformed into a black dragon and charged towards Su Han who was still resisting the last wave of heavenly calamity!e wasn't remote enough, and if they hadn’t been so low-key, another nearby sect would have wiped them out already. Even Bai Sapai Sect, which Zhao Yanzi had almost successfully impersonated last time,...