Chapter 681: Ascending to Immortality (1/2)
Lu Yun really was going a little crazy from his need for more crystals. The bounty on the entirety of House Donglin was quickly draining him of wealth. Although the marketplace in Dao City was lucrative, it belonged to the merchant alliance!
He wasn’t a businessman and needed their help in his various exploits. Naturally, any profits had to be split with the trading guilds, rather than going into his own pockets alone; it was the only way for their collaboration to be sustainable.
At the end of the day, he needed more immortal crystals in order to lure the Ancient Tree of Life to Dusk Province. Now that Mo Yi had acquired the Skyturtle Pearl from the Ling Clan, the only thing he needed to lift the poison curse on Qing Yu was the tree!
The Ancient Tree of Life had taken root in a shard of hell. With the Key of Life in his possession, he could attract the tree by force-starting the key with a great amount of immortal crystals. Therefore, he needed more crystals for both Qing Yu and himself!
At least two hundred and fifty trillion crystals were required to lure the tree to Dusk Province. But in Lu Yun’s eyes, that was far from enough—he needed so much more! That was why he was going so far as to hold an auction during his tribulation, and even selling off his own tribulation essence!
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“Grrrrawl!” Beastly roars boomed through the sky. The heavenly judgment had concluded, but tribulation clouds yet remained, within which an enormous beast flailed its way to the surface.
Expression dark, Lu Yun stared solemnly at the increasingly visible beast.
“What will it be? A regular kun? Or another divine beast?” The immortals in the area had decided not to intervene.
Lu Yun had essentially given up on establishing a sacred land the moment he put the flower projection on sale. As long as he didn’t establish a sacred land, he posed no threat whatsoever to the other factions in the world of immortals.
“It’s long and thin… seems to be a snake?”
“A scarlet snake!”
Finally, the tribulation beast emerged from the clouds. It was a scarlet snake with twenty-four pairs of wings and a single crimson horn on top of its head. At thirty thousand meters long, it was large for the immortals of the world, but just about average for a tribulation beast.
Back during Zhao Wushuang’s tribulation, the beast she’d encountered had run five hundred thousand meters long and spanned all of the Divine Sea. The tribulation beasts of some other great geniuses were enormous as well, all of them spanning hundreds of thousands meters long.
And yet Lu Yun, the top cultivator and foremost youth sovereign of the world, summoned a tribulation beast that was only thirty thousand meters long? And a simple snake at that?
The snake did look bizarre and was uniquely shaped, but it was still just a snake at the end of the day!
Snakes were the lowliest of monster spirits. The only way to improve their lot in life was to activate what little draconic bloodline they had and transform into monster dragons.
Was Lu Yun’s talent all an illusion? Was he not a genius, but trash relying on gimmicks and tricks? But what had that heavenly judgment been about? Had Lu Yun done something to rouse the ire of the heavens?
How much tribulation essence would a mutated snake yield, anyway? Probably not enough for even the boy himself.
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However, no one noticed that Silverlight, previously overweeningly confident of her superiority, was now trembling and shaking.
“It can’t be, it can’t be. Why would it appear again, and in that kid’s tribulation? It’s become a tribulation beast too...” Silverlight shifted several steps back, her faint silver eyes filled with fear.
“Carmine Eternal… it’s still alive!” Goldenlight was stunned as well. “Tribulation beasts are all based on creatures that actually exist. They’re projections created by the law of heavenly tribulations...