He started cultivating. I was in the Dao Fusion Realm.
He reached Dao Fusion. I was still Dao Fusion.
He hit the Tribulation Realm. I followed into the Tribulation Realm.
He ascended.
I... still hadn’t ascended.
Finally, finally, I managed to ascend too. But he—he, he, HE... he ascended again!!!
“This Lu Ye is terrifying,”
Liu Changfeng muttered with a bitter sigh.
In the previous life, Liu Changfeng had actually ascended alongside Lu Ye—or close to it. Not just Liu Changfeng—quite a few from the Grand Dao Sect had followed Lu Ye up through the heavens.
Even their ascent from Second to Third Heaven had been together.
There was no helping it—Shangguan Huanling’s cultivation was just way too slow.
To wait for her, they’d spent close to a full century before ascending to Second Heaven.
And now? A century?
Lu Ye figured he could probably rush all the way to Sixth Heaven within that time.
“Senior Brother is ascending again?”
Yue Hongling stared at Lu Ye, a faint sense of despair blooming in her gaze.
She had tried so hard.
Just to improve her realm, she’d gone as far as absorbing the power of the Lunar Force and enduring the excruciating pain that came with it.
Even so, she was still only at the Earth Immortal Realm.
Not even close to the Heavenly God Realm.
And Lu Ye... was already ascending again.
So decisive. So heartless...
“I’ll never catch up... This goodbye is the final one. We’ll never see Senior Brother again,” Yue Hongling murmured blankly.
No—not even see.
From now on, she wouldn’t even catch a glimpse of Lu Ye again.
Because he wouldn’t spare her a second glance.
“This time... no one’s dragging you down anymore,” Shangguan Huanling couldn’t help but cry.
She had used her Heavenly Silkworm Nine Transformations to exchange for mountains of resources, piles of spirit treasures. She devoured to her heart’s content.
But still—it was exhausting!
All she did was teach in exchange for treasures to devour, and even that had pushed her to her limit.
In her previous life, she hadn’t earned a single coin—she relied entirely on Lu Ye.
And Lu Ye had forcibly raised her all the way to the Great Emperor Realm. Even now, she still wondered—
Just how many resources did Lu Ye scrape together to push her that far?
Now, even with her doing everything herself, she’d only barely entered the Heavenly God Realm.
Bai Qiulan looked at Lu Ye, and tears welled up in her eyes.
He really was going to leave completely.
From now on, strangers in a wide world—master and disciple, Dao partners, affections—all severed.
As expected, without her dragging him down, there was nothing left in this world that could hinder his steps.
Chu Ling’s face was veiled, her presence hidden to the point of nonexistence.
She didn’t want to be like this—but what could she do? She had too many enemies.
She couldn’t even show herself openly to watch him go. It was just pathetic.
She had pushed herself to her limits, cultivated madly, offended countless people, was hunted day and night—
All just to keep up with his pace.
But he was walking too fast!
Way, way too fast!
Chu Ling was exhausted.
Turns out—with their own strength alone, without relying on Lu Ye, they couldn’t even reach the peak of Second Heaven before being utterly left behind.
“Pffft!”
Chu Ling coughed up a mouthful of blood, staining the black veil over her face.
Huge tears slid silently down her cheeks.
From now on, she would never again have her Young Master.
Lu Ye was arranging a formation.
Everyone was baffled. With his kind of power, he still needed a tribulation formation?
Wasn’t that a little too cautious?
BOOM!
A deafening peal of thunder tore across the heavens.
Golden lightning bolts, as thick as a baby’s arm, came crashing down in an instant.
The void was dyed a brilliant gold. Countless threads of golden lightning exploded outward.
Shing!
A single sword strike.
The golden lightning was cleaved cleanly in two.
The thunderbolt struck the ground, and a terrifying magnetic field formed around Lu Ye. The gold filaments of lightning spread and were forcibly pulled into his body.
BOOM!
The second tribulation bolt fell.
Same thing—one sword slash.
Just two simple sword strikes, and Lu Ye’s body roared with resonance. His Nine Tribulations Undying Body reached the Fourth Tribulation. A thick, fragrant Dao Scent began to permeate from his body.
Though strong, it wasn’t enough to spread across a hundred li. And since he was in the middle of his tribulation, no one was close enough to smell it anyway.
“Let’s crank the intensity a little,” Lu Ye said calmly.
BOOM!
Heaven’s Tribulation was enraged by Lu Ye’s arrogant provocation. A golden lightning bolt, as thick as a water barrel, came crashing down like the Ruyi Golden Cudgel itself, splitting heaven and earth.
Sword light roared upward.
An endless barrage of sword light transformed into dragons, colliding violently with the golden lightning.
Sword light and thunder light annihilated each other.
Exhilarating! Absolutely exhilarating!
Now this was what a tribulation was supposed to be!
Everyone watching the tribulation had chills racing up their spines.
What the hell—this tribulation isn’t even on the same level as the ones we know...
This lightning is insane.
“Ding! Like hell I’m backing down!”
The system refused to give in. Against Lu Ye, she had always gone all out. [N O V E L I G H T] That was the only way to be worthy of her fragrant host.
And this time, her mission was to shatter her host’s physical body.
BOOM!
Golden lightning turned into a waterfall.
A downpour across the sky.
This tribulation had now reached the strongest level ever recorded for a Heavenly God Realm cultivator, but it still couldn’t hurt Lu Ye. He hadn’t even used Heavenly Venerable Fist yet.
No surprise—he was the host she’d personally cultivated.
Lu Ye was still wielding his stone sword, supreme sword intent erupting to the heavens. Sword light tore into the sky and slammed into the sea of thunder.
All around, spiritual energy surged like madness.
All of it flooding into the tribulation clouds.
The fifth bolt fell—blindingly brilliant golden lightning.
BOOM!
Lu Ye went all out.
His aura exploded.
Heavenly Silkworm Nine Transformations!
When the others saw this, they couldn’t help but cheer. That’s a skill we know too!
But when they saw Lu Ye not only leap across realms but jump straight into the 5th Layer of the Destiny Realm, their faces turned pale.
Wait a minute... this isn’t the same transformation we use...
And Lu Ye wasn’t even at his limit yet. As another burst-type secret technique exploded, his aura surged to the 7th Layer of the Destiny Realm.
BOOM!
The ground shattered.
The void collapsed.
The sixth bolt followed immediately after, its golden color now dimming—turning dark gold.
Blood had already appeared at the corner of Lu Ye’s lips.
“Good god... did this man offend the Heavenly Dao or something? Since when has anyone ever seen dark gold lightning in a Heavenly God Realm tribulation?!”
“And since when does someone only cough up a little blood in the face of golden lightning?!”
“Ranked #1 on the Eternal Heaven’s Geniuses List—I finally understand what that title means. It’s terrifying!”
“Heavenly Venerable Fist!”
One punch—dark gold tribulation lightning shattered.
Seventh bolt—Heavenly Venerable Fist!
Eighth bolt—the lightning was fully dark gold now—
Still smashed apart by one punch from Heavenly Venerable Fist.
Too strong. So strong it left people stunned and doubting reality itself.
The system saw this—
And without hesitation, she violated the Heavenly Dao.
The tribulation clouds didn’t scatter.
No—they all condensed into one final tribulation bolt.
BOOM!
From within the dark gold, a faint trace of violet lightning emerged. Even Lu Ye’s Heavenly Venerable Fist was shattered by this final bolt—its power reaching the peak of the Karma Realm.
And along with it—his physical body was blown apart.
Fragrant waves of Scent of the Dao burst from his shattered body, surging outward at full force.
