"Bai Zihe..."
As soon as he emerged from the secret chamber, Bai Zihe saw Lin Hu standing dumbfounded at the doorway.
The way Lin Hu looked at him was as if he were gazing at a monster, an anomaly, an unprecedented, never-before-seen anomaly.
"What's wrong?"
Bai Zihe felt a bit uncomfortable under his gaze, so he casually inquired.
"You see for yourself."
Lin Hu forced a wry smile and gestured for Lin Tianxuan to look outside.
Good heavens...
Everything outside was already askew, in disarray, and some of the stone lions Bai Zihe remembered had even turned to dust.
"This..."
Bai Zihe was slightly surprised and asked, "What happened?"
In his opinion,
This was a paradise, and with the existence of that Quasi-Saint ancestor, there shouldn't be anyone causing trouble.
Yet, everything before him was inexplicable.
"It's all because of you!"
Lin Hu shot him a glare and said slowly, "While you were cultivating inside, the movement of absorbing spiritual energy was too great, stirring up fierce gales."
"I only survived the storm of your spiritual energy thanks to my magical artifacts."
"Your cultivation..."
"Caused the spiritual energy of our entire ancient Lin family to become thinner by who knows how many times. It will take who knows how many years for it to slowly recover."
Hearing this,
Bai Zihe was also stunned on the spot.
He had only cultivated casually, yet it had caused such a commotion?
He thought about it again, and it seemed plausible.
Chaos energy...
This was already a forbidden power between heaven and earth, not to be judged by ordinary standards.
"It seems..."
Lin Hu didn't dwell on the matter. He quickly smiled and said, "You must have succeeded in your cultivation?"
Considering Bai Zihe's trajectory, he could infer many things.
"Yes."
Bai Zihe smiled.
With a thought, he suddenly appeared three feet away.
This wasn't due to excessive speed, but rather the spatial divine ability of translocation he had employed.
With another movement, he froze time in the surroundings.
At this moment,
Within Bai Zihe's control, all time had stopped!
Even Lin Hu's thoughts were frozen at that very instant. Even the spiritual sense of the Quasi-Saint ancestor's probe was halted by time.
Such immense power...
It was simply earth-shattering.
"Hiss..."
Bai Zihe quickly stopped the spell.
However, Lin Hu still exclaimed in astonishment, looking at Bai Zihe in alarm, as if he had seen some ancient monster: "The power of space, the power of time..."
"Brother Bai, you are truly a divine being!"
Lin Hu said dryly and gave Bai Zihe a thumbs-up.
Bai Zihe grinned, "Alright, I must leave. I don't know what the outside world has become."
Bai Zihe was still a little worried.
Now...
He had mastered chaos. But if he went out and found that his little sister, senior sister, and father had been corrupted and defeated by darkness, it would be meaningless.
"Okay."
Lin Hu nodded, "Then I won't keep you. Go."
Bai Zihe also nodded.
Then,
He bowed his head in the direction of the Quasi-Saint ancestor and gave a nod of acknowledgment: "Thank you!"
Now that he had mastered the power of chaos, he would undoubtedly become the master of chaos in time. Facing a Quasi-Saint, he no longer needed to be subservient.
After doing so, Bai Zihe used translocation and arrived at the main entrance.
While spatial abilities could allow him to leave quickly, it would inevitably cause the ancient clan's forbidden grounds to connect with the outside world, which would be unfavorable.
"Buzz..."
As soon as Bai Zihe appeared,
Layers of tribulation clouds had already appeared in the sky.
Outside Kunlun Mountain.
It was already surrounded by countless dark creatures.
Ever since the Black Emperor opened the seal beneath Dragon Island and completely unleashed everything, all the dark creatures, guided by some unseen force,
Had swept out in all directions, across the entire world, charging forward.
In a short period of time,
Countless civilians were infected by darkness and, like controlled puppets, unleashed their fury everywhere.
And Great Xia...
Because of the countless cultivators, because of the Xuanyuan Palace, because of the arrangements made by countless ancestors for hundreds or thousands of years across time and space, it had become the only pure land under the darkness.
Only...
This pure land could not hold for long.
Darkness came from all directions, quickly infecting hundreds of millions of ordinary people, who then became swords in their hands, marching towards Kunlun Mountain and Xuanyuan Palace.
This was the last line of defense against the chaos.
Breaching here...
The entire world would surrender at the feet of darkness.
"Junior brother, oh junior brother..."
Ji Xianyu, while organizing cultivators to fight this war of chaos and darkness, murmured in her heart, "At this critical juncture..."
At this point, Ji Xianyu suddenly stopped speaking.
Because she sensed the tribulation clouds in the southwest direction.
It was a cluster...
An extremely vast, extremely immense tribulation cloud, impossible for humans to resist or survive, a tribulation cloud far more terrifying than all the tribulation clouds in history combined.
"This..."
Ji Xianyu could not help but exclaim in shock, and then in overwhelming joy.
"Junior brother..."
"He actually comprehended chaos."
"Otherwise..."
"It would be absolutely impossible to trigger this unprecedented Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation!"
Yes!
As soon as Bai Zihe emerged from the ancient clan, he encountered the Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation!
"Thunder tribulation..."
Bai Zihe looked up at the sky, a sense of calm pervading him.
His heart was undisturbed. He even took out a communication jade slip. Upon seeing the message on it, his expression changed drastically.
The darkness had launched its final assault!
The seven continents, four oceans, and over a hundred countries and regions had all fallen!
Great Xia was the last pure land!
The surrounding provinces and cities of Great Xia had fallen!
Only Kunlun Mountain remained!
This...
"Eighth Senior Sister, Eighth Senior Sister!"
Bai Zihe immediately sent a reply to Ji Xianyu.
"Junior brother."
"Have you grasped chaos? Are you undergoing tribulation?"
Just as Bai Zihe was holding the communication jade slip, Ji Xianyu was preparing to send him a message, so she replied instantly.
"Yes."
Bai Zihe quickly replied.
However,
He soon felt that this method was too troublesome.
Now, he controlled the power of time and space!
"Swish..."
The next moment, just as Ji Xianyu was about to ask further questions, a figure suddenly appeared beside her. Clad in snow-white robes, immaculate, with familiar features.
It was indeed his junior brother, Bai Zihe.
"Junior brother, you..."
Ji Xianyu froze for a moment, then understood.
Since Bai Zihe had mastered chaos, spatial translocation was a mere trifle to him, something he could do at will.
"There is hope!"
Ji Xianyu's countenance remained unchanged, but her peerless beauty exuded a hint of exhaustion. Finally, after Bai Zihe's arrival, her expression improved.
"Haha..."
Bai Zihe laughed confidently, "Eighth Senior Sister, wait for me. I'll be back in a moment."
The next moment,
Bai Zihe teleported into the dark army outside.
"You..."
Bai Zihe looked up. The figures before him were all ordinary people, but after being infected by darkness, they possessed immense strength and were bloodthirsty and ferocious. The dark leaders behind them used them as cannon fodder, intending to deplete the strength of Xuanyuan Palace.
"Retreat quickly!"
Bai Zihe let out a cold snort. The sound of chaos immediately awakened everyone.
Subsequently,
The darkness dispersed from the eyes of these ordinary people, and their clarity returned. One by one, they saw the strange black creatures behind them and fled in panic towards the surrounding barren mountains and forests.
These barren mountains and forests were created by Bai Zihe's spatial magic, capable of withstanding the darkness for a period of time.
Since comprehending chaos,
Bai Zihe knew that with great power came great responsibility. Therefore, he did not wish to slaughter these civilians; they were merely tools of darkness.
"Screech..."
After Bai Zihe finished doing this,
The thunder tribulation that had been brewing in the sky for a long time finally descended.
However...
"Break!"
Seeing the tribulation begin, Bai Zihe directly let out a soft shout and pushed back the heavenly lightning, causing the tribulation clouds in the sky to dissipate immediately!
Mastering the power of chaos...
Bai Zihe's body was strengthened to an unprecedented degree, and he did not need heavenly lightning to temper him.
This was the most perfect form.
Undergoing tribulation...
For a supreme expert like him, it was merely a process.
"Buzz..."
Soon, after the tribulation clouds dispersed, Bai Zihe completed his tribulation, and his body underwent a profound transformation at that very moment.
A stream of light descended from the final tribulation cloud.
It was a gift from the thunder tribulation – the purest essence of power.
After absorbing it,
Bai Zihe's realm rapidly ascended.
From the Tribulation Realm to Ordinary Immortal, then to Heavenly Immortal, Golden Immortal, Mysterious Immortal, and finally...
He directly ascended to become a Saint!
His physical body achieved sainthood!