Chapter 310: Time Tribulation
Ye Guan sat cross-legged on the ground and took out a spiritual pill to consume. As soon as he swallowed the pill, the pure energy of the pill filled him up. It spread slowly toward his body and limbs. Soon, he recovered most of his energy.
Ye Guan ate more spiritual pills until he fully recovered. Once he was done, he opened his palm, and Chen Quan's storage ring appeared in his hand. There were twelve spiritual pills in it. They weren't particularly great—they were only Immortal grade.
Other than that, there were twenty million spiritual cores inside the storage ring.
Chen Quan was quite poor. Of course, Ye Guan was speaking in the eyes of the King of the Guanxuan Universe. At the moment, he was just Ye Guan, so twenty million spiritual cores was far from a meager amount.
Ye Guan put the storage ring aside and frowned. Shangqing Sect?
Ye Guan inwardly asked, “Senior, have you heard of the Shangqing Sect?”
The mysterious lady spoke, “I've never heard of such a sect. Actually, I'm not familiar with the Eternal Era.”
Ye Guan nodded. His figure trembled, and he turned into a streak of sword light that vanished into the horizon. He had decided to go out there and take a look!
The mysterious lady suddenly spoke, "Your enemies here aren't on the same level as the opponents you've been fighting so far. They're a bit smarter than the usual riffraff, so I advise you to be careful!"
Ye Guan nodded in acknowledgment.
The black-robed old man had been an extremely powerful and smart opponent, so Ye Guan couldn't fathom why the old man, despite being aware of his presence, had been unwilling to give up the Tribulation Avoiding Stone.
The reason definitely wasn't mere greed. Ye Guan didn't think that the black-robed old man would make such a foolish move.
Ye Guan shook his head, not dwelling on it any further.
Ye Guan had realized that he couldn't underestimate anyone here, especially the old fossils who had been cultivating for so many years. They were tricky opponents, and they were also extremely powerful.
In other words, Ye Guan had to err on the side of caution here.
Soon, Ye Guan arrived at a mountain range and found a valley. A huge chunk of the valley was enveloped by dark clouds filled with lightning. Occasionally, a lightning bolt would flash and hit the ground.
Ye Guan’s expression turned serious upon seeing the dark clouds.
What an oppressive aura!
The mysterious lady said, “You're staring at what is called the Time Tribulation. It appears when one has reached the Great Time Sovereign Realm.”
Ye Guan asked curiously, “Senior, why are there so many tribulations and calamities here?”
"There are two reasons behind it," said the mysterious voice before explaining, "As I've mentioned, the remnants of the civilization that the Divine Dao Civilization had replaced banded together to construct terrifying arrays against the Great Daoist Brush Master.
"Unfortunately, their arrays went out of control, which led to a backlash that engulfed this world with a variety of tribulations and calamities. The second reason is that no one has established an order here, similar to what your father and my big sister had done on the Guanxuan Universe and on the True Universe, respectively.
"Without order, there is chaos. Thus, chaos reigns here!"
“I understand.” Ye Guan said with a nod. His gaze then fell on a mountain enveloped by thick clouds. He couldn't really see it, but it was sticking out, so it had to be housing the Shangqing Secret Realm.
Ye Guan transformed into a sword light and flew toward his destination. In an instant, he reached the entrance of a valley. He looked in and saw lightning bolts occasionally fleeting in his vision.
The sheer power of the lightning bolts made the entire mountain tremble.
Ye Guan felt like he was staring at what the end of the world would look like.
Ye Guan took a moment to compose himself before raising his foot to walk into the valley. However, footsteps suddenly echoed from behind him.
Ye Guan turned around to look, and he saw two figures calmly walking over toward him.
One of the figures was a woman dressed in a cloud-patterned embroidered skirt. Her figure was graceful, and her features were picturesque. A high-quality jade was also tied around her waist, indicating her social status.
A white-robed young man bearing a striking resemblance to the young woman was standing next to the latter.
They were both looking at Ye Guan.
Ye Guan moved to the side, allowing them to pass.
Just then, the young woman asked, “Young lord, are you here to explore the Shangqing Secret Realm?”
Ye Guan was surprised. He didn't expect that she would ask him a question, but he still replied, “I'm just here to take a look.”
The young woman examined him from top to bottom. “Earth Immortal Realm?”
Ye Guan nodded. “Yes.”
The white-robed young man and the young woman were astonished.
They stared at Ye Guan in disbelief.
“You came here despite your cultivation base?”
Ye Guan was silent. He was aware that it was indeed a bit strange for someone with his cultivation base to come here. The white-robed young man and the young woman were Time Immortal Realm cultivators, while he was just an Earth Immortal Realm cultivator.
The realms above the Earth Immortal Realm were the True Immortal Realm, the Heaven Immortal Realm, the Peak Immortal Realm, the Dao Immortal Realm, and finally, the Time Immortal Realm.
The difference between their cultivation bases was a whopping four realms!
Ye Guan shook his head with a smile. He also thought that his cultivation base was ridiculously low for this place. Without dwelling on it, he looked at the two of them and smiled. “I'm just here to have a look. I have no intentions of going in.”
Ye Guan decided to make sure that he wouldn't attract too much attention. Otherwise, a powerful powerhouse would put him in his place.
The young woman shook her head and said, "Young lord, your strength is too low here. You shouldn't have come here. Setting aside the secret realm's danger, I think you'll be hard-pressed to even defend yourself against those with ill intentions.
"You should hurry and leave!"
Ye Guan stared deeply at the young woman and smiled. "Thank you for the warning."
The young woman nodded and started walking into the valley with the white-robed young man by her side.
The white-robed young man suddenly said, "Sis, he's grossly overestimating his abilities. I really can't fathom the massive weight of his guts for him to come here as an Earth Immortal Realm cultivator. Why did you even bother warning him?"
The young woman's delicate brows furrowed. "What harm is there in giving a warning?"
The white-robed young man calmly retorted, "For someone who doesn't have a clear understanding of themselves, your reminder grants him but a brief respite from death. He's just going to die somewhere else."
The young woman shook her head and said, "He must have come here accidentally. I don't think there's someone out there at the same cultivation base as him foolish enough to come here out of their own volition. That's why I chose to give him a warning. If he's willing to listen, that's great. Otherwise, there's nothing we can do."
The white-robed young man smiled and said, "I wouldn't have reminded him if I were you. After all, there's nothing for me to gain by giving such a warning."
“What is there for you to gain from a mere warning?" the young woman made a sidelong glance at the white-robed young man and snapped, “I truly have no idea how you have such a bad personality. You shouldn't be so ruthless and selfish. Kindness begets kindness, and evil begets evil. Your selfishness and ruthlessness will eventually catch up to you by accumulating enough bad karma.”
The white-robed young man smiled, not bothering to argue.
Soon, the two finally entered the valley.
Ye Guan waited for a while before heading to the valley. Ye Guan felt a suffocating pressure boring down on him the moment he set foot into the valley.
Ye Guan's expression turned grim as he stared at the Time Tribulation clouds ahead of him. He was too weak to withstand Time Tribulation lightning, so he wouldn't have dared to come here if it weren't for a Tribulation Avoiding Stone in his possession.
Of course, Ye Guan reckoned that his Master Pagoda was strong enough to withstand such lightning!
A region filled with lightning was located not too far away from the valley entrance. Ye Guan saw seven individuals working hard to maintain an array to resist the thunderous wrath of lightning.
The seven individuals took turns casting spells to sustain the defense-oriented array, but they were clearly getting exhausted. It wouldn't be long until Death took them away.
Ye Guan chose not to intervene. He had a Tribulation Avoiding Stone, but he didn't want to expose it in such a place. He could save those seven individuals, but he couldn't guarantee that they wouldn't respond to his kindness with malice once it was revealed that he had a Tribulation Avoiding Stone.
Human nature was unpredictable, and Ye Guan wasn't a gambler.
He could hardly protect himself at the moment, so he wasn't willing to haphazardly conduct good deeds until he had absolute strength.
Ye Guan steered clear of the region filled with lightning and made his way toward the depths of the by walking along the periphery.
He eventually stumbled upon a crack in the mountain, and there stood a mountain thousands of meters high beyond the crack. Ye Guan could vaguely make out the silhouettes of towering buildings on the summit of that mountain.
Ye Guan was convinced that it had to be the legendary Shangqing Sect.
Ye Guan followed the trail before him and soon reached the foot of the mountain. He turned and saw a stone stele roughly ten meters on his right. Two large characters were engraved on the stone stele—Shangqing Sect!
Ye Guan's keen ears caught a cacophony of noises on the summit. He picked up the pace and soon reached the summit. As expected, there was an ongoing fight at the summit.
The white-robed young man from earlier and the young woman wearing a cloud-patterned embroidered skirt were fighting against someone—no, something wielding an iron sword.
Their opponent was an iron puppet. The puppet was fighting one against two, but it was completely suppressing the white-robed young man and the young woman. In addition, the iron puppet's attacks were complex, leaving the two with almost no room to counterattack.
Ye Guan's expression changed at the sight. The puppet was stronger than Chen Quan. If it were in either the Guanxuan Universe or the True Universe, even a Great Sovereign from either universe wouldn't be a match for this puppet!
The mysterious lady suddenly said, "You're staring at a puppet born from the long-lost art of Puppetry. I've only read about Puppetry being described in ancient texts. It is truly baffling that such a terrifying art once existed throughout the vast expanse.
"The puppet before you is equivalent to a Half-step Great Sovereign in strength!"
A Half-step Great Sovereign? Ye Guan nodded. He knew the puppet had to be at least stronger than a Divine Sovereign. Moreover, it looked to be made out of a special material. For some reason, the duo's attacks couldn't harm the puppet.
"It'll be great if you manage to learn the techniques, arts, and martial skills of the Eternal Civilization. I'm sure you'll become even stronger by then," the mysterious lady said.
Ye Guan smiled. He was about to respond when the puppet swung its sword toward the white-robed young man, sending the latter flying at least a few kilometers away.
However, the puppet didn't chase after the white-robed young man. It whipped around and dashed toward the young woman.
The young woman's expression changed sharply. She waved her sleeve, and a ray of light shot out.
Boom!
The light shattered with a loud explosion, and the young woman was blasted away in the resulting shockwaves of the collision. The puppet chased after her, and it leaped into the air and thrust its sword toward the young woman.
It had moved so fast that it had reached the young woman in the proverbial blink of an eye.
The young woman went beyond pallid upon realizing that there was no way she could block the oncoming sword thrust.
Just then, a hand wrapped around her waist and pulled her away. The young woman looked up and saw a young man thrusting his sword forward to meet the puppet's sword attack.
Boom!
The young man's sword managed to stop the puppet's attack, but the puppet's attack contained so much power that the remnant energies managed to send Ye Guan and the young woman flying several hundred meters away.
When they finally recovered their balance, Ye Guan looked down at his right hand.
His right hand had split open, revealing the white bones underneath his torn skin.
What horrifying power! Ye Guan was shocked.
Swoosh!
The puppet abruptly vanished into thin air.
Ye Guan’s eyes narrowed. He pulled the young woman to the side and said, “Miss, the puppet is too strong. Just in case, you should stay on the sidelines for now. Leave the puppet to me!”
Ye Guan rushed toward the puppet, leaving the young woman to stare at him agape.
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