Chapter 238: Chapter 237: Life Tribulation (First Update, Please Subscribe)
In the Chaos Hall, within the Medicine Garden, the soil is the Nine Heavens and Earth, where Dragon Tooth Rice is planted on top.
Towering trees grow in the Medicine Garden, each reaching a height of thirty meters, with grains shaped like swords hanging densely.
On every big tree, there are at least several hundred, or even thousands of Dragon Tooth Rice.
The fruits hang heavily, emitting a refreshing fragrance.
Looking at the Dragon Tooth Rice growing in the Medicine Garden, it gives off a burst of fragrance, making one feel at ease just by breathing it in, feeling that one’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit are extremely comfortable.
Just smelling the aroma can eliminate some toxins from the body.
To cultivate Dragon Tooth Rice, Five-Colored Soil is needed, but the grade of Nine Heavens and Earth is even higher; it is also irrigated with superior Spiritual Spring, nourished by Thunder True Qi, and finally the Dragon Tooth Rice successfully grows.
However, it is almost impossible to widely promote and spread it.
It is said that a cultivator, based on the characteristics of Dragon Tooth Rice, improved the seeds to create White Sun Rice, Jade Emperor Rice, etc., which can be planted on a large scale, but the effect of Spirit Rice is still far inferior to Dragon Tooth Rice.
White Sun Rice is only beneficial for Qi Cultivation Cultivators.
Jade Emperor Rice is only beneficial for Foundation Establishment Cultivators, Purple Mansion Cultivators.
After reaching Golden Core, it becomes mostly useless.
Yet Dragon Tooth Rice provides great benefits for Golden Core Cultivators, Nascent Soul Cultivators, and even any cultivator who hasn’t become immortal.
Swipe, swipe!
Activating True Qi, he began to harvest the Dragon Tooth Rice.
As the harvesting progressed, grains of Dragon Tooth Rice were gathered and stored in the warehouse.
As they were being harvested, the Dragon Tooth Rice trees began to wither, then completely shrank down, their leaves falling, their trunks breaking, as if all life was instantly drained from them, quickly approaching death.
The branches of the large trees began to merge into the Nine Heavens and Earth, immediately emitting a fragrant aroma from the Law of Nine Heavens and Earth.
Then, this land also entered a fallow period.
Nine Heavens and Earth also need to accumulate Primordial Qi, as continuous cultivation would deplete the soil; after planting one crop, it requires rest to restore the soil’s Primordial Qi.
Then, it starts to cook the Dragon Tooth Rice and begins to eat.,
After being cooked, Dragon Tooth Rice is neither porridge nor rice; it contains a rich Power of Creation, cleansing the physique and enhancing life’s potential.
Eating Dragon Tooth Rice not only nourishes Primordial Qi and enhances cultivation but also improves aptitude.
Originally, having a Pure Yang Dao Body, his aptitude was considered top-tier, and improving further was very challenging. But after eating Dragon Tooth Rice, his aptitude forcibly improved a notch.
While eating Dragon Tooth Rice, just a slight movement of the stomach can quickly digest it.
With the help of the [Void Stomach], Lu Xuanji digests the Dragon Tooth Rice, his appetite increasing, consuming three Dragon Tooth Rice roots in one meal, equivalent to thirty jin of Dragon Tooth Rice.
In these twenty years, with the assistance of Pure Yang Dao, top-grade Spirit Root, supreme-grade Pure Yang Pill, Void Stomach, Pure Yang Broken Sword, and Dragon Tooth Rice as an added benefit, his speed kept surging, ascending one layer every ten years, two layers in twenty years.
Even Lu Xuanji felt he could progress faster, but forcibly suppressed it.
Buzz, buzz!
At this moment, the void flickered, and a fist-sized bee appeared, with six pairs of golden wings fluttering adorably.
This was a Gold-devouring Insect, or also known as a Gold-Devouring Bee.
The Gold-devouring Insect is already at the Ninth-Layer of the Purple Mansion, just one step away from becoming a Golden Core.
Over twenty years, the Gold-devouring Insect progressed from a mere Qi Refinement Stage to the Ninth-Layer of the Purple Mansion at a terrifying speed, even putting the Human Race’s Celestial Spirit Root to shame.
Since the Gold-devouring Insect entered the Purple Mansion, Lu Xuanji tried feeding it Dao Tribulation Immortal Gold, but just consuming one gram made it feel stuffed, and then it grew golden wings, transforming its once-ugly body into something perfect.
The Gold-devouring Insect began to evolve.
To allow for better evolution, it was fed three strips of Heaven Mending Qi directly.
Then, let nature take its course!
Maybe the Gold-devouring Insect will break through the racial shackles, becoming a Golden Core Demon Insect, the first demon beast to step into a Golden Core stage; or it might fail evolution, wasting many resources.
The evolution of life is full of uncertainty and various variables.
As for what it will eventually evolve into, it is left to luck.
"However, little one, your combat power is somewhat lacking... won’t you become another Celestial Dream Ice Silkworm?"
Lu Xuanji said speechlessly.
The Gold-devouring Insect has a Ninth-Layer Purple Mansion cultivation, yet it cannot defeat a Ninth-Layer Foundation Establishment Human Race Cultivator, indicating how weak its combat power is.
"Forget it, at least raise it as a pet, at the very least it can act cute!"
Lu Xuanji smiled and said.
Buzz, buzz!
The Gold-devouring Insect buzzed cheerfully, showing joy in its demeanor.
Lu Xuanji sighed again.
Bai Ling’Er is a Three-tailed Spirit Fox; at birth, it transformed into human form. Even during the Qi Refinement Stage, it possessed intelligence no less than that of humans. Its combat power could even fight across levels. When ordinary human prodigies encountered her, it usually ended disastrously for them.
Yet the Gold-devouring Insect has already reached the Ninth-Layer Purple Mansion, but it cannot transform shape until it reaches the Nascent Soul stage; its intelligence at present is only equivalent to a newborn baby, with too low an IQ.
Many demon beasts transform after consuming a Transformation Pill.
But for the Gold-devouring Insect, even if it is fed a Transformation Pill, it still cannot transform.
The gap between demon races is vast, like the difference between heaven and earth.
"Someday, I want to try feeding you Emperor’s Oar!"
Lu Xuanji suddenly thought about the supreme divine item of the demon race, which provides the greatest help to demon races.
"Twenty years have passed, I wonder how Old Ancestor Jin is doing?"
"There are three great tribulations in attempting the Nascent Soul: Celestial Tribulation, Human Tribulation, and Life Tribulation."
"At this moment, Old Ancestor Jin should be undergoing the Life Tribulation."
Suddenly, Lu Xuanji felt his vital energy changing, connecting with Old Ancestor Jin. The next moment, his head became dizzy, slipping into sleep.
"Not good, I’ve been affected by Old Ancestor Jin’s Life Tribulation!"
Life Tribulation, it can be understood as a tribulation of fate, also a tribulation of destiny.
Life Tribulation occurs in an Illusion Realm but is a real tribulation as everything in the Illusion Realm impacts reality.
In the Chaos Hall, within a secret chamber.
Old Ancestor Jin’s face was twisted, a flash of killing intent appeared on his face, as he had already entered the Illusion Realm, falling into the illusion conjured by the Life Tribulation.
...
On the wilderness!
Boom, boom, boom!
In the void above, tribulation clouds were gathering, reserving devastating thunderbolts, seemingly transforming into death.
Boom, boom, boom!
The Celestial Tribulation descended.
The sword in the woman’s hand slashed out, one strike breaking ten thousand techniques, cleaving through the first Celestial Tribulation.
The second Celestial Tribulation descended.
The third Celestial Tribulation descended!
Celestial Tribulations descended continuously, destroying and tearing everything apart.
All nine Celestial Tribulations were broken by this unknown person.
"Old Ancestor Jin finally broke through the tribulations, about to become the Nascent Soul... but I seem to have forgotten something..."
In the wilderness, a man showed joy in his expression.
Watching Old Ancestor Jin crossing the tribulation, it seemed he forgot something.
But he just couldn’t remember, and since he couldn’t recall, he decided not to think about it.
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