Chapter 1126: Earthly Tribulation (1/2)

“Five times… is enough!” murmured Qiu Luoyu as he looked away.

“You don’t regret it?” Qing Yu blinked.

“Is there anyone who truly lives forever? If it wasn’t for Lu Yun and the little fox, I would’ve died a hundred times over in the Tomb of Heaven and Earth.” Qiu Luoyu absentmindedly looked at the teeming human tribulation before him. Violetgrave had withdrawn her boundary of frozen time with her departure, so they were beginning to stir into motion again.

“You’re part of the Inception Palace now, you don’t have to die.” Qing Yu frowned.

Qiu Luoyu remained silent; two tiny azure flames rose in his eyes a while later. “And so what if I’m part of the sacred palace? Palace sovereigns have perished by the batches after countless chaos tribulations, and even the sacred monarch, princes, and princesses have experienced death as well.”

Whoosh!

Azure fire blossomed around him, sweeping through the air and reducing all of the human tribulations to ash without giving them a chance to resist.

“True.” Qing Yu nodded. “You’re right, but there are still exceptions in all things. The first person to transact with Violetgrave has yet to die after all this time, the same is possible for you.”

She hadn’t paid any attention to the human tribulation from beginning to end. It hadn’t seemed to register at all.

Qiu Luoyu nodded silently and returned to the void, continuing to stand guard over Qing Yu.

“The first to transact with Violetgrave was a fox?” Qing Yu cocked her head curiously, then continued refining the immortal dao with the power of creation.

The immortal dao in the chaos was gaining weight with its existence and beginning to show signs of connecting with the immortal dao in the world of immortals. Of course, to send the immortal dao throughout the chaos wouldn’t happen overnight. It was to be a long and arduous process as the chaos was too vast. In comparison, the worlds were a speck of dust.

……

The little fox’s earthly tribulation had arrived. As the saying went, thunder and lightning arrive from heaven, while fire springs eternal from the earth. The heavenly tribulation was one of thunder and lightning, and the earthly one comprised of fire.

What made the two similar was that the earthly tribulation also shifted through endless permutations. Additionally, an earthly tribulation summoned by the Dragonquake Scripture was manifold times more terrifying than an ordinary one.

The little fox was currently running for dear life as the chaos beneath her feet split open with fissures that followed her movements. They chased her like mouths yawning open to bite her in half. She didn’t know what else she could do other than run. What could she use to block this creepy tribulation? What would happen if one of the mouths swallowed her?

She had absolutely no idea and didn’t desire to find out, so the only thing to do was run as if her life depended on it. Well, it truly did.

On duty to guard her mistress, Qing Han gaped with incredulity. She couldn’t offer any help in this situation, other than follow the little fox in running circles around the chaos.

“EEEK!” The little fox jumped up and took fox form, making an about-face and heading in the opposite direction. “Lu Yun, why are you here for me too?!”

Black fire was starting to spew out of the fissures—hellfire! She knew full well how dreadful hellfire was!

Fur bristling to the point where she resembled a porcupine, the little fox stretched her short limbs to their limits on each bound and kept up a litany of sobbing curses as she ran.

Qing Han’s jaw dropped and threatened to sink through the chaos. Her regal, magnificent image of the master’s second wife collapsed with explosive glory into tiny bits of rubble.

Whoosh!

A snow-white skeletal arm probed out of the gushing hellfire and grabbed at the little fox. It was huge—on par with a chaos star, and slapped down with surging flames at the little fox.

“How dare you!” Qing Han shouted and flared cuttingly sharp light out of her longsword, cutting down on the arm.