Looking at the naturally formed formation below, Lu Qing activated his special ability and began to comprehend and deduce it.
The reason he wanted to send the white dragon and Xiao Li away from the valley was because he wanted to use the vast array of heaven and earth below to prepare for the upcoming tribulation of the primordial spirit.
His original plan was to find a more powerful celestial formation.
That way, the white dragon's dwelling place can be avoided.
However, he only has ten days to prepare, so he has to make do with what he has on hand and utilize the existing natural formation.
He wanted to modify this great formation to make it an aid during his tribulation.
With Lu Qing's current mastery of formations, comprehending and deducing a heaven and earth formation is naturally not too difficult.
Before long, he had already deduced the most suitable grand formation plan for him to overcome his tribulation.
After deducing the plan, Lu Qing descended back into the cave, summoned the Fire Cauldron, took out a large amount of refining materials, and began to refine the array eyes needed for setting up the formation.
Seven days later, after Lu Qing finished refining all the array cores, he began to travel around again.
Within the vast expanse of the heaven and earth formation, following his own deduced plan, he placed the refined array nodes, resembling dragon pillars, at numerous points.
Whoosh!
Two days later, as Lu Qing inserted the last dragon pillar deep into the ground, he communicated with the formation with his mind, and instantly, the formation within a radius of a thousand miles was under his control.
"Mission accomplished."
A smile appeared on Lu Qing's face.
This grand formation can be said to represent the culmination of his current mastery of formation techniques.
He incorporated not only the numerous formations recorded in the Divine Talisman Sect, but also much of the knowledge of the Zhou Tian Star Formation into this grand formation.
It can be said that the defensive capabilities of this vast array of heaven and earth beneath our feet are not as good as the Zhou Tian Xing Chen Array, which the Gongshu family has been operating for countless millennia.
However, it surpasses even the protective formations of many powerful sects.
With the support of such a grand formation, his chances of successfully transcending the tribulation will increase by at least several times.
After setting up the grand formation, Lu Qing transformed into a stream of light and returned to the valley.
"Ah Qing, have you set up the formation?"
In the valley, Xiao Li was chatting with the white dragon when she saw Lu Qing return and immediately jumped up.
"grown ups."
Bai Jiao also respectfully greeted Lu Qing.
However, its body had stopped trembling. After observing for the past few days, it had also discovered that Lu Qing was not as scary as it had imagined.
"Okay, everything's set up. We have one more day. I need to get myself ready. You all need to be prepared at any time. If I notify you, leave the valley immediately and try to get as far away as possible."
"knew!"
After giving his instructions, Lu Qing returned to the cave and began to meditate.
As for Xiao Li and Wu Xing, they were both excited.
Lu Qing is finally about to undergo the tribulation of his primordial spirit. After he completes the tribulation, they can go home.
As for whether Lu Qing could successfully overcome the tribulation and achieve the primordial spirit, they had never doubted it.
In their eyes, Lu Qing, when he was at the Golden Core stage, could kill primordial spirits as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.
Surviving the tribulation of one's primordial spirit is a piece of cake; there's simply no possibility of failing to overcome it.
Only Bai Jiao, upon seeing Xiao Li and Wu Xing's excitement, showed a hint of sadness in his eyes.
It knew that Xiao Li would leave once Lu Qing achieved the Nascent Soul stage.
Then it will have to part ways with its only friend.
Time passed slowly, bit by bit, in the somewhat strange atmosphere of the valley.
Tens of thousands of miles away from the valley where Lu Qing and the others were, two figures were slowly flying in the sky.
One of the middle-aged men was holding a compass-like magical artifact in his hands, seemingly surveying something.
"Senior brother, you come to the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains every few years. Is that white dragon really here?"
A young-looking cultivator said with some helplessness.
"There's no mistake. Back then, that old white dragon was severely injured by Master, who even removed its reverse scale. But in the end, it was careless and the old white dragon used a secret technique to escape with the little white dragon."
The old white dragon fled in the direction of the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains.
The middle-aged man looked at the compass and answered.
“But that was a hundred years ago. How could that old white dragon have stayed in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains all this time? Maybe it escaped into the Demon Realm back then,” the young cultivator questioned.
"Impossible. That old white dragon was seriously injured by his master and forced to use his innate secret technique. When he fled back then, he was already on the verge of death and didn't have many years left to live."
Moreover, it was a demon beast banished from the demon realm. If it returned to the demon realm, not only would it face certain death, but even its daughter would be devoured.
The demon realm operates on a law of the jungle, where competition is far fiercer than that among humans.
Therefore, the most likely explanation is that it hid the little white dragon within the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains.
The middle-aged man analyzed with certainty.
“But if we’ve been searching for so long in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains, we should have found it by now. It’s impossible that we’ve come up empty-handed.”
The young cultivator remained puzzled.
"Actually, more than 20 years ago, when I was searching in this Ten Thousand Demon Mountains, the Ten Thousand Beasts Compass fluctuated once. This compass was made by my master by incorporating the bones and blood of that old white dragon and its reverse scale."
If the old white dragon, or the little white dragon connected to it by blood, appears within a million miles, it will not escape the compass's detection.
But for some reason, the Beast Compass only fluctuated once, and before I could calculate the direction of the fluctuation, it disappeared again.
However, I am certain that the old white dragon or the young white dragon is hiding somewhere within a million miles.
"So, senior brother, are you just going to keep searching bit by bit like this?"
"That's right. Master said that the old white dragon and the little white dragon contain the bloodline of a true dragon and have great potential."
If nurtured properly, it is almost a certainty that they will develop into primordial spirits in the future.
If we could capture and enslave them, it would undoubtedly be a tremendous help to us.
The middle-aged man said with a hint of fanaticism in his eyes.
This is why he has been searching tirelessly for so many years.
Their Ten Thousand Beasts Sect has a secret technique: the stronger the potential of the enslaved spirit beast, the stronger the blessing power they receive, and they can even absorb the potential of the spirit beast for their own use.
If he could enslave the white dragon with true dragon bloodline as his own natal spirit beast, then achieving the primordial spirit would no longer be a pipe dream.
Even if he surpasses his master in the future and becomes a Nascent Soul expert above the Three Tribulations, it is not impossible!
Compared to his senior brother's excitement, the young cultivator felt nothing.
In his view, his senior brother had become somewhat obsessed.
That white dragon has been missing for many years; it's very likely that it left the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains long ago and is now hiding somewhere.
The fluctuations of the True Dragon Compass are probably just an illusion caused by my senior brother's excessive obsession.
Otherwise, how come they haven't found anything after searching most of the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains over the years?
Unfortunately, he knew that his senior brother couldn't persuade him; perhaps he would only come to his senses after searching the entire Demon Realm.
Just as the young cultivator was yawning and wondering where he should stay for the night, he suddenly saw the Myriad Beasts Compass in his senior brother's hand emit a burst of light.
"Senior brother, what's going on?"
"The white dragon has appeared!"
The middle-aged man looked at the compass in his hand, his face filled with ecstasy.
He made a hand seal and suddenly exhaled a breath of vital energy. The compass began to spin rapidly, and after more than ten breaths, the needle pointed east.
"In the east, about ten thousand miles away from us, junior brother, let's go!"
A glint flashed in the middle-aged man's eyes, and he patted a leather bag at his waist.
A streak of gray light flew out and transformed into a giant gray bird, landing in front of the two.
The middle-aged man took a step and landed on the gray bird's back.
The next moment, the gray bird let out a clear cry, transformed into a gray lightning bolt, and flew eastward.
Seeing this, the young cultivator did not hesitate. He also patted his waist and summoned a gray bird, which followed closely behind his senior brother.
Unbeknownst to the white dragon, a perilous danger was about to befall it.
Not long ago, it was chatting with Xiao Li in the valley when suddenly, Lu Qing's voice rang in their minds.
"I am about to undergo tribulation. You all get out, or at least retreat to a distance of a hundred miles."
"Little White, let's go!"
Upon hearing Lu Qing's telepathic message, Xiao Li dared not delay. She immediately called out to the white dragon, then took flight and flew out of the valley.
The Five Elements also followed suit and left.
As for the white dragon, after hesitating for a moment, it finally took to the air and followed behind Xiao Li.
Even the weakest of the three spirit beasts, Wu Xing, is at the fourth level of the Golden Core stage.
Therefore, they flew extremely fast, and soon flew more than a hundred miles away from the valley.
After sensing their departure, Lu Qing also emerged from the cave, his body slowly rising until he reached the summit of the mountain above the valley, where he looked up at the sky.
At this moment, he had adjusted himself to an unprecedented peak.
The immense power of the Great Dao above their heads grew heavier and heavier, showing signs of descending at any moment.
"Master is finally about to undergo the tribulation of his primordial spirit."
Inside the Fire Cauldron, "Yan" watched this scene with an excited expression.
It never expected that the boy who had to threaten it to barely refine the Fire Cauldron back then would actually be able to reach this point.
Moreover, it could also foresee that after Lu Qing achieved the Primordial Spirit, his strength would undergo an extremely terrifying transformation.
After all, he was able to kill Nascent Soul Realm cultivators at will when he was only at the Golden Core Realm.
"I just don't know what kind of tribulation Master will face."
"Yan" still remembers that when Lu Qing underwent the Golden Core tribulation, an unprecedented five-colored tribulation cloud appeared.
Its power far surpasses all the Golden Core Heavenly Tribulations it knows.
I wonder what this tribulation of the primordial spirit will look like.
But it is foreseeable that its power will be unimaginably terrifying.
Boom!
Amidst Yan's excitement and trepidation, a tremendous tremor suddenly resounded, shaking the heavens and earth.
However, through Lu Qing's mental communication, he finally attracted the vast calamity energy in the darkness, triggering the calamity of his primordial spirit.
In an instant, the world changed color, and the might of heaven was overwhelming.
The sky, which had been clear and sunny just moments before, changed instantly. The void twisted, and a colossal vortex of heavenly tribulation, spanning a hundred miles in size, slowly emerged.
"Aqing is about to undergo a tribulation!"
Upon hearing the earth-shaking sound, Xiao Li, high above in the sky, was first startled, and then its expression changed drastically.
"Oh no! Ah Qing's tribulation is too strong and its range is too large. We need to retreat further!"
After saying this, it led the white dragon and the Five Elements back several hundred miles before looking back with lingering fear.
In the direction of the valley, high in the sky, a vortex of celestial tribulation, a hundred miles wide, was slowly rotating, exuding boundless majesty.
That immense divine might caused all living beings within a radius of thousands of miles to tremble.
Especially the creatures near the valley, driven by the threat of death, fled frantically as if their lives depended on it.
Xiao Li and the others were equally shocked.
Although they had long anticipated that Lu Qing's primordial spirit tribulation would be extremely terrifying.
But when the vortex of heavenly tribulation appeared, they realized that they had greatly underestimated it.
The power emanating from the vortex of heavenly tribulation ahead was far, far greater than the Golden Core tribulation they had overcome back then.
If their Golden Core tribulation back then was a candle, then the Heavenly Tribulation vortex triggered by Lu Qing was a blazing furnace.
Both are heavenly tribulations, but they are not even in the same league.
"How could the tribulation of your primordial spirit be so terrifying?"
Compared to Xiao Li and Wu Xing's shock, Bai Jiao was even more terrified.
It stared blankly at the enormous vortex of heavenly tribulation, its eyes filled with disbelief.
As a member of the royal bloodline in the demon realm, it had heard many legends about the tribulation of the primordial spirit when it was young.
It even witnessed its father's tribulation to achieve the Primordial Spirit.
However, it originally thought that its father, who was known as a royal genius, had already suffered an astonishing tribulation of the primordial spirit back then.
However, compared to the divine might unleashed by Lu Qing, it was so weak.
It's like the difference between a calm pond and a vast ocean; they're not even at the same level of heavenly tribulation!
What happened up ahead?
When Lu Qing triggered the heavenly tribulation, the might of heaven descended.
The middle-aged man and the young cultivator, thousands of miles away, suddenly felt an overwhelming sense of unease.
The bird involuntarily stopped abruptly, staring ahead with a mixture of surprise and uncertainty.
To be precise, it is the vortex of celestial tribulation hanging high in the distant sky.
"It's the aura of a heavenly tribulation! Is a living being undergoing tribulation ahead? Is it a human or a spirit beast?"
With its vast heavenly might and pervasive aura of tribulation, the two, who had both experienced the Golden Core tribulation, could easily recognize what it was.
However, after recognizing them, they felt somewhat incredulous.
Because the vortex of that heavenly tribulation was so vast and its divine might so overwhelming, even those thousands of miles away could still feel their minds tremble.
It's hard to imagine what kind of beings are undergoing tribulations down there.
"Is a being undergoing tribulation within the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains?"
"Who dares to undergo tribulation in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains!"
"Let's go take a look!"
The vortex of heavenly tribulation triggered by Lu Qing was so powerful that it could not be hidden at all.
In an instant, not only the many powerful beings who had been cultivating in seclusion in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains were alarmed.
Even on the other side of the mountain range, countless spirit beasts and demon beasts in the demon realm noticed the enormous vortex hanging high in the sky.
