Chapter 439: Reincarnation Realm
Three days later, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue sat on opposite sides of the jade table.
"Azhen, why do you think our score is so much higher than other people’s?" Jiang Yue asked.
"I don’t know." Yu Nianzhen shook his head.
He had thought about it since they took the test but he couldn’t think of anything.
After all, they all had the same opportunities.
It didn’t make sense for two people to improve dramatically while the others lagged behind.
"It’s baffling." Jiang Yue said with a bewildered look in his eyes.
"Did you find a jade tablet on your table?" Yu Nianzhen changed the subject.
"I found it." Jiang Yue said and then continued.
"We can’t leave the Cangxing mountain until we break through to the reincarnation realm."
"It’s a good thing we didn’t hide our strength when we took the test." Yu Nianzhen said and Jiang Yue agreed.
From the jade tablet, they learned their score was also used to compare with other cultivators in the Reincarnation world.
In some instances, the score would determine whether or not they would get some opportunities.
"As our mountain master, you will have to work hard to make sure our world gets more opportunities." Jiang Yue said with a solemn look on his face.
Other than managing the Cangxing mountain, the mountain master had a more important task.
The task was to negotiate and compete with other mountain masters to ensure their Cangxing world had a share of the Reincarnation World’s opportunities.
However, this task was not easy.
According to the jade tablet, most of the mountain masters were in the higher levels of the reincarnation realm.
Unfortunately, the Cangxing world had just returned to the Reincarnation world and didn’t even have a reincarnation realm cultivator.
"Let’s take one step at a time." Yu Nianzhen said.
Although he was worried, he was not discouraged.
Since he was the mountain master, he would naturally lead his world to gain a foothold in the Reincarnation World.
"It’s been many years since you took the leading role." Jiang Yue teased.
"Do you miss seeing it?
"Mmmm." Jiang Yue nodded.
"In that case, I will work hard."
With that, the two played around for another two months before they went into seclusion.
After advancing to the nascent soul realm, a cultivator gained a nascent soul.
The nascent soul was an independent lifeform and could continue living after the body’s death.
However, the nascent soul was fragile.
It was easy to damage and without a body as shelter, it could only live for one hundred years.
Because of this, nascent soul realm cultivators who had lost their bodies tried to seize one as soon as possible.
After advancing to the reincarnation realm, a cultivator’s nascent soul transformed into a primordial soul.
Unlike the nascent soul, the primordial soul was not easy to damage.
Most importantly, a primordial soul had the same lifespan as its body.
In this way, reincarnation realm cultivators who lost their bodies didn’t need to seize a new one to continue living.
Besides the soul transformation, there were other changes when transitioning from the nascent soul realm to the reincarnation realm.
One of the changes was a body transformation.
After advancing to the reincarnation realm, a cultivator’s body became semi-immortal.
It gained the self-recovery ability and one didn’t need pills for most injuries.
Compared to the nascent soul realm, breaking through to the reincarnation realm could be said to be a lifeform transformation.
Considering this, advancing to the reincarnation realm was not easy.
Even with their talent, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue retreated for a little more than one hundred years before they were ready to break through.
"Let’s go." Yu Nianzhen said and pulled Jiang Yue to leave the cave house.
At the same time, he used his authority as a mountain master to transmit a message to all the cave houses.
Soon after, the two arrived in front of the stone monument.
"Some rankings have changed." Jiang Yue observed.
"It’s natural." Yu Nianzhen said.
From what they knew, a person could take the ranking test when their cultivation increased by a small or big level.
Although no one had advanced to the reincarnation realm, many people had advanced from the lower levels of the nascent soul realm.
"I thought Master Yang and some of the other elders would advance before us." Jiang Yue said with a complicated look on his face.
"I thought so too." Yu Nianzhen said and frowned.
"We have exhausted all the mid-grade spirit stones we had." Jiang Yue said.
"Let’s hope the remaining peak-grade spirit stones are enough to advance."
After that, the two touched the stone monument with their jade cards.
Barely a moment later, two transparent domes appeared in front of the mountain.
"Azhen, good luck."
"You too." Yu Nianzhen rubbed his husband’s hair and each entered a transparent dome.
At the same time, more than one hundred cultivators came out of their cave houses and waited to watch the breakthrough.
’The reincarnation qi in this dome is a lot thicker than Azhen’s cave house.’ Jiang Yue thought as soon as he entered the dome.
’With this, it will be a lot easier to break through.’
Because the breakthrough conditions suddenly improved, the worry in Jiang Yue’s heart lessened.
He sat cross-legged and immediately began to adjust his state.
Three days later, his condition reached a peak state and Jiang Yue stopped suppressing his cultivation.
A moment later, black clouds began to gather in the sky and the spectators couldn’t help but fear.
"The clouds are so thick." A female cultivator observed.
"They are incomparable to my clouds when I broke through to the nascent soul realm."
"He is the second-ranked after all. His tribulation is not easy."
After half a day of gathering, the first wave of lightning fell.
Seeing this, Jiang Yue used his pipa to block and passed it without incurring an injury.
In this way, he also used the pipa to block the second and third waves.
However, Fuyue was only a profound rank weapon and couldn’t withstand too much tribulation lightning.
After the third wave, Jiang Yue had to put it away and use his body to block the rest of the waves.
Fortunately, his body cultivation was at the peak of the fifth level and could barely withstand the lightning.
As he crossed the tribulation, Jiang Yue absorbed some of the lightning and used it to temper his body cultivation.
In the blink of an eye, the fourth, fifth, and sixth lightning waves passed.
When he was crossing the seventh, his body cultivation finally broke through to the sixth level and Jiang Yue heaved a sigh of relief.
’This way, I may not need the Tree of Life leaves to survive the tribulation.’ He thought.
However, Jiang Yue underestimated the reincarnation realm tribulation!
After his body cultivation broke through, he easily crossed the seventh and eighth lightning waves.
Unfortunately, the ninth wave was three or four times more powerful than the combination of the previous eight waves.
When it fell, Jiang Yue was directly hacked to the ground and ghastly wounds appeared on his body.
Feeling the dangerous situation, he hastily swallowed a few leaves and forcibly suppressed the urge to give up.
"What a powerful tribulation." Someone said and trembled in fear.
"If I encounter this tribulation, I will surely die." Another said.
"Mine shouldn’t be this terrible." A female cultivator said but with a little uncertainty in her voice.
After all, this was the first time they were watching a cultivator advance to the reincarnation realm.
"Is he dead?"
"Can anyone survive that kind of tribulation?"
"The clouds are dispersing and the heavenly blessing is about to fall. He should be alive."
While Jiang Yue was bathing in the heavenly blessing, Yu Nianzhen was crossing the first wave of his tribulation.
Like Jiang Yue, he used his sword to block the first three waves.
After that, he redirected the tribulation lightning into his small sword world, wanting to temper the world a little further.
However, the small world could only handle up to the seventh wave.
For the eighth wave, Yu Nianzhen blocked it with his body and his sword body cultivation broke through to the sixth level.
"The ninth wave is always the fiercest." Yu Nianzhen muttered and his face turned solemn.
His first tribulation was in the origin forging realm and each wave had one lightning bolt.
With each breakthrough after that, a lightning bolt was added to each wave.
At the reincarnation realm, each tribulation wave had six lightning bolts.
Even with his incomparable physique and Tree of Life leaves, Yu Nianzhen was still seriously injured.
When the tribulation finally ended, he was lying at the bottom of a deep pit and every inch of his body was burned black.
’I can’t let XiaoYue see me like this.’ He thought and urgently swallowed a few Tree of Life leaves.
At the same time, he accepted Heaven’s blessing and his body quickly healed.
