Chapter 1276: Chapter 1276: The Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth, The One That Escaped
A thin line of cold sweat quietly slid down from Yang Yan’s temple as he associated this with an extremely terrifying matter.
The three—Xu Caomu and the others—had once each been Sect Leaders in their own right; their attainments in the Golden Core Realm could not be called shallow, and with the augmentation of the Evil Qi they had long since reached the peak of the Golden Core Realm.
And at this moment, these tribulation clouds...
"This is bad, Xu Caomu and the other two are about to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm!" Yang Yan shouted in shock. "Quick! Stop them!"
"Stop them? Hmph!"
Sect Leader Li of the Heng Sect, who was under the control of an Evil Spirit, let out a cold snort, and immediately a stream of Evil Qi visible to the naked eye shot straight toward the mountain peak a hundred miles away!
All of a sudden, the sky, already black as ink, deepened several degrees, Evil Qi and Yin Spirits spreading across the entire firmament.
These Yin-things seemed unafraid of the Thunder Tribulation above, wandering between the lower skies.
"This is..." Lin An said in astonishment.
"A Heaven-and-Earth Great Tribulation!" Sect Leader He of the Lingying Sect said with a frown.
Seeing everyone looking over, Sect Leader He gave a bitter smile, then immediately explained, "I once read in historical records that this situation is something that might not be encountered even in tens of thousands of years."
"If a thing is rejected by the Dao of Heaven and Earth, normally speaking it cannot get past the threshold of the Nascent Soul Realm, because before that it will already have been exterminated by all under heaven. But once it surpasses this limit, Heaven and Earth will lower this sort of Heaven-and-Earth Great Tribulation!"
The Lingying Sect itself was a sect passed down from the Ancient Times to the present, and among these Sect Leaders, Sect Leader He of the Lingying Sect could be said to be of the oldest generation; no one doubted his words.
"Then... if this thing rejected by Heaven and Earth manages to get through such a Great Tribulation?" Yang Yan asked with a frown.
"Then all living beings will be plunged into misery and suffering, blood will flow like rivers!" Sect Leader He said faintly. "Such an evil thing is, by its nature, something Heaven and Earth cannot tolerate, yet ’of the great numbers of the Grand Evolution, they are fifty; its use is forty-nine, and one is that which escapes.’ That one is reserved precisely for such evil things that Heaven and Earth originally did not permit to exist."
Sect Leader He coughed lightly here, briefly organizing his words, then continued, "In truth, this ’one’ does not only encompass such evil things, but also all things that exceed the limits and defy the heavens. However, if a thing of pure evil can survive this Heaven-and-Earth Great Tribulation, then its... strength will advance greatly!"
"Is there any way we can stop this from happening?" Lin An asked uneasily.
He turned back and saw the rampant Evil Qi in the sky, and could not help but shiver.
"There’s no way!" Yang Yan cut him off. "I can feel it—this kind of Heaven-and-Earth Great Tribulation does not allow external forces to step into it. These tribulation clouds are as if they possess a spirit. If we, from our own will, try to destroy or interrupt this advancement process, the Thunder Tribulation will regard us as violators and cut us down!"
"Then..."
Yang Yan gently shook his head, speaking with some helplessness, "All we can do is wait here. If it is a blessing, it will be a blessing for the world; if it is a calamity, there’s nothing we can do either!"
For a moment, everyone fell silent, praying quietly.
Just then, Heaven and Earth changed drastically, as if overturned.
"Boom!"
The distant mountain peak exploded, and a wave containing a mixture of Evil Qi and Spiritual Power rippled through Heaven and Earth!
The lightning in the sky surged like a great river, as though a Star Realm were sinking; vast and boundless, yet unable to disperse even the slightest bit of the Evil Spirits’ Evil Qi.
At the center of the Thunder Tribulation in the sky, a strange change occurred: eighty-one bolts of lightning formed from Celestial Dragons slowly emerged in the heavens, vivid and lifelike, coiling within the Void.
Immediately after, a dragon’s roar shook the Nine Heavens above and the Nine Netherworld below, echoing between Heaven and Earth.
Rumble—
The eighty-one Celestial Dragons suddenly moved, smashing open spatial fissures in Heaven and Earth like black holes.
The eighty-one Celestial Dragons suddenly crashed down, their falling-from-the-Nine-Heavens momentum smashing into the mountain peaks!
The light between Heaven and Earth suddenly went dark, and then all sound vanished.
The sound of the Celestial Thunder disappeared, and the shouts of killing also vanished.
What followed was a light like the opening of Heaven and Earth itself, which completely blocked everyone’s sight!
Yes, blocked!
Great sound is rarely heard, great form is without shape.
After a few seconds, the distant mountain peak was already gone, and the Evil Spirits and disciples around it were disintegrating and dissipating into Heaven and Earth at a speed visible to the naked eye.
At this moment Lin An snapped back to himself and exclaimed in alarm, "Quick! Have all the heroes and sect disciples return immediately!"
Yang Yan, beside him, pulled Lin An back. "Sect Leader, there’s no need!"
Lin An looked at him in shocked confusion, only to see Yang Yan’s brows tightly knitted together. "We... may be about to face a vicious battle!"
At these words, Lin An was startled; his neck seemed to get stuck as he slowly turned his head toward the side of the mountain peak.
Immediately, his pupils shrank sharply.
He saw Evil Qi erupting from where the mountain peak had been, which was now a huge crater several miles in radius. Countless Evil Spirit faces accompanied it, their howls endlessly echoing between Heaven and Earth.
"They... have already successfully survived the Heaven-and-Earth Great Tribulation!" Yang Yan’s hoarse voice resounded in everyone’s ears.
Evil Qi filled Heaven and Earth. The Evil Spirits battling the various heroes and disciples were greatly invigorated; the Evil Qi in the air permeated the battlefield.
Roar!
No one knew which Evil Spirit started it, but one raised its head and howled loudly.
Immediately, sounds like ghosts weeping and gods wailing tightly wrapped around the battlefield!
The Evil Qi filling the skies, as if having discovered a target, converged into a pitch-black torrent, rushing straight toward the deep crater.
Then, three figures slowly walked out from within the crater.
These three figures seemed like ordinary mortals; no fluctuations of Spiritual Power or Evil Qi could be felt from them, yet everyone knew that they were the great terror on this battlefield.
"Everyone, fall back to the defensive line at once!" Yang Yan reacted instantly and shouted.
His voice spread in waves into everyone’s ears.
Yang Yan thought to himself, Xu Caomu and the others have already advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm—what are we to do now?
Suddenly, he saw Xu Caomu’s figure far off a hundred miles away move ever so slightly. Yang Yan’s mind snapped to full focus, his scalp going numb.
After advancing to the Golden Core Realm, his sense of danger had increased by who knew how many levels.
At the instant Xu Caomu’s figure moved, he felt as if a thorn was pressed against his back, and then he shot into the sky, flying straight out.
"Bang!"
Out of the corner of his eye, Yang Yan saw Xu Caomu—who had been a hundred miles away just a moment ago—appear where he had just been standing, as if by Instant Teleportation.
Then, right beneath Xu Caomu’s feet, the ground for several miles around was struck as though by an incomparably heavy mountain; gushing magma spewed out, slowly filling the crater.
Cold sweat instantly covered Yang Yan’s forehead, and his spirit did not dare relax.
He saw Xu Caomu, standing on the ground, slightly lift his head.
Then, an intense pain spread from his abdomen throughout his entire body, and he was sent flying.
"Yang Yan!" Lin An and the others were shocked at this sight; it was only when Yang Yan was knocked flying that they understood what had just happened!
"Sect Leader Lin, the urgent matter now is to heed Yang Yan’s words and retreat to the defensive line at once." Sect Leader He rushed to Lin An’s side and grabbed him just as he was about to run over to help Yang Yan.
With a bitter smile, he continued, "You and I are merely ordinary Golden Core Realm cultivators; if we go over, we’ll only be a hindrance. Yang Yan is a man of great fortune; Heaven will not lightly take his life. All we can do now is help the various heroes and disciples withdraw!"
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