Chapter 242: Chapter 241 Returning to Sword Island (First Update, Request for Subscription)
In the Chaos Hall, Jin Xi shared her life experiences.
Lu Xuanji listened, feeling enlightened. These were things he really didn’t understand.
In his eyes, battling meant using every means necessary to kill the enemy.
Thus, it is heard that an unskilled attack is quick, but an artful attack lasts.
At the moment of battle, kill the enemy as fast as possible, swift and decisive, avoid seeking so-called artistic beauty or the aesthetics of battle, and avoid a three hundred round fight with the enemy.
If you can kill the enemy in three moves, don’t use thirty.
If you can kill the enemy before they reveal their hand, then don’t fight hard just to see the enemy’s cards.
But now, Jin Xi was talking to him about another concept, during battle, appropriately hide your strength, fake vomiting blood when there’s none, pretend to be severely injured when you’re not, act like you’re about to lose when you can still fight fiercely.
This can effectively numb the enemy and lower their appraisal of your strength.
Make the enemy underestimate you, make them belittle you, can increase your survival rate.
"Thank you, Ancestor, for your guidance!"
Lu Xuanji nodded.
But in the next moment, his waist was twisted, Jin Xi, with a face of evil Qi, said, "What did you call me?"
"Xi’Er!"
Lu Xuanji obediently replied.
"I am only four hundred and fifty years old, only a hundred years older than you!" Jin Xi said, "Don’t call me Ancestor, it makes me sound old! Perhaps now, you feel that I’m a cycle older than you, but in a thousand years, our age gap will be small. In ten thousand years and a hundred thousand years, the age difference will no longer exist."
"I know, it’s just a habit!"
Lu Xuanji said.
"Slowly, you’ll get used to it!" Jin Xi said, a touch of tenderness in her eyes. She had already regarded Lu Xuanji as her Dao Companion, the most reliable partner on the path of Cultivating Immortality. As for other matters, she neither cares nor interests herself with them. At her realm, concepts such as rules, right or wrong, good or evil, are all governed by her heart.
The Flying Ship continued forward, the journey was much safer, upon arrival in Chu Country, they did not return home but stopped at a small town.
"Is there anything mysterious here?" Jin Xi looked at the town but found no peculiarities.
"I obtained a Pure Yang Order which can let us enter Sword Island!"
Lu Xuanji said, taking out a token.
The token was inscribed with the words Pure Yang, looking ordinary yet possessing an aura of authority, suppressing heaven and earth in all directions.
Buzz buzz!!
Activating the token, it immediately emitted radiance, enveloping Lu Xuanji.
Lu Xuanji stepped forward, grabbing Jin Xi’s hand.
Holding the beautiful hand, Lu Xuanji felt a mild excitement.
After ten seconds of radiance, the two disappeared.
The void shifted, when they reappeared, they were already on Sword Island.
"This place is so desolate!"
Jin Xi sensed the surroundings, here was Sword Island, yet devoid of life, devoid of inhabitants, devoid even of Death Qi, only barrenness and decay, endless bleakness.
Sensing the surroundings again, it was indeed Sword Island, but it was actually a continent, a floating continent.
"This is Ancient Sword Island, there must be great encounters..."
Jin Xi said gladly.
"There’s nothing left! Nothing at all!" Lu Xuanji smiled, "Time is the enemy of all things, under its erosion, a forgotten prodigy, ancient Divine Techniques will also wither; ancient arrays capable of killing immortals will merely have the power of Divinity Transformation. In the Medicine Garden, many Spirit Medicine and Immortal Elixirs, all turned to medicine dust."
"Even some weapons are so dilapidated that they crumble at a touch, all things have a lifespan. Of course, afterward, you can try finding some encounters, if you find them that’ll be good fortune! But now let’s focus on Tribulation Crossing."
Jin Xi nodded, speaking no more, directly instigating the tribulation.
This place was the best place for Tribulation Crossing.
If it wasn’t suitable here, there wouldn’t be any other place.
Boom boom boom!
On Sword Island, lightning flashed, a vast cloud of tribulation gathered, shrouding a hundred-mile void.
The stronger a cultivator’s foundation, the more powerful the celestial tribulation.
Because of Golden Core Ninth Transformation, Jin Xi’s tribulation was exceedingly fierce, far surpassing previous ones.
"Don’t worry."
Jin Xi’s face was calm, her demeanor indifferent.
The celestial tribulation is the final hurdle to achieving a Nascent Soul, this hurdle is difficult, but also the easiest, it depends on the Celestial Secret Transformation.
"Watch me cross the tribulation!"
Jin Xi said, stepping to the height of a hundred battles, facing the tribulation head-on.
The first celestial tribulation descended, its power only equivalent to Golden Core Peak’s strike, yet the dazzling light, endless thunderbolts, illuminated the region within a hundred miles.
Whoosh whoosh!
Jin Xi opened her mouth to inhale, endless thunderbolts were like food, entering her body, slowly refining, her body emitted crackling sounds.
After three breaths, the second celestial tribulation descended.
Within the thunderbolts, flames were present, this was the Thunderfire Tribulation.
The power increased by five layers.
Jin Xi remained unchanged, again opened her mouth to swallow, consuming the tribulation whole, obliterating and digesting all tribulations, tempering the [Immortal Sword Body].
The third celestial tribulation descended, wind and fire intermingled within the tribulation, its power increased again, reaching the level of a Fake Nascent Soul.
Jin Xi reacted only with a slight color change, yet still opened her mouth to swallow the tribulation.
People fear tribulations, wanting to avoid them.
In her eyes, tribulations were merely food.
Tribulations kept descending, one after another, by the sixth tribulation, Jin Xi could no longer consume the celestial tribulation directly, instead, using Secret Technique, constantly refining the tribulation, utilizing the fire power within it, wind and fire power, to temper her physical body.
Boom boom boom!
The seventh celestial tribulation fell, comparable to a Nascent Soul First Layer strike.
Jin Xi prompted Swordsmanship to break it.
The eighth celestial tribulation fell, comparable to a Nascent Soul Second Layer Peak strike.
Jin Xi broke it again.
The ninth celestial tribulation fell, comparable to a Nascent Soul Third Layer Peak strike.
Jin Xi prompted Swordsmanship, slashed out, the tribulation was shattered and dispersed.
The aura was unstable, suffering injury for the first time.
Just when thinking the tribulation was over, ready to leave, the clouds above gathered again, transforming into five-colored tribulation clouds. Green lightning clouds, black lightning clouds, red lightning clouds, white lightning clouds, yellow lightning clouds, intermingled together, borrowing water to produce metal, borrowing earth to produce wood, borrowing wood to produce fire, borrowing fire to produce earth, Five Elements circulate, Five Elements Life and Death.
Wood Divine Thunder, Earth Divine Thunder, Sunflower Divine Thunder, Geng Metal Divine Thunder, Binghuo Divine Thunder.
Five Great Divine Thunders converged, forming a terrifying tribulation, descending lower.
Under this tribulation, its power was equivalent to a Nascent Soul Fifth Layer strike.
Boom boom boom!
Immediately, Five Elements Divine Thunder engulfed all, consuming Jin Xi.
As the tribulation dispersed, on the ground, there was only a scorched body, like dead wood.
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PS: Just one Chapter in the morning, too chaotic with many people, writing efficiency declines, speechless.