Chapter 92: Observing the Rites, Crossing the Primordial Calamity (Part 2)

  The yuanqi jie, after Ye Lao also gave a detailed explanation for Lu Qing.

  The so-called Primordial Qi Tribulation is actually when the sword cultivator reaches the pinnacle of the Sword Master stage, the sword embryo in their body's dantian and qihai is fully matured, and their physical body is also strong enough. The sword embryo then triggers the primordial qi between heaven and earth with its stored sword energy, thus bringing about a Primordial Qi Tribulation that belongs to its own sword energy attribute. This tribulation condenses into various forms, containing powerful pure-attribute primordial qi. Once it is crossed, the sword embryo is refined, achieving true pure-attribute sword energy.

  Along the way, everyone's eyes revealed a faint sense of anticipation. This group of people could be said to be the top figures of their generation, and they all had the opportunity to impact the realm of the Sword Master in the future. Now, having the chance to observe a sword master crossing the Yuan boundary ahead of time was undoubtedly a precious accumulation of swordsmanship for them. After all, there were only about thirty or so Sword Masters in the entire Zixia Sect region, and it was rare to see one every ten years.

  Facing the powerful offensive of Yuan Jie, not every swordsman can pass through safely. Out of about ten swordsmen who passed through the tribulation, only half were able to do so safely. Those who failed would not disappear into nothingness, but their skills would be scattered and they would become a useless person. For a swordsman, especially one at the peak of being a master swordsman, this is undoubtedly a fate worse than death.

  But as Ye Lao said, the way of the sword has life and death. To live, one must first die. This is what is meant by "breaking down before building up" and "being placed in a dead end before being reborn". Only under the threat of powerful pressure and death can the swordsman burst forth with an even more powerful strength than before.

  Wangyue Mountain is located between two mountain roads outside the Beast Burial Grounds, with a height of about 200 zhang. Because wolves often howl at the moon in the past, it was named Wangyue Mountain.

  Today, the foot of Wangyue Mountain was surrounded by a team of dozens of city guards, sealing off the entire mountain to prevent unrelated or uninvited people from climbing up and affecting Wu Tie's tribulation. Upon arriving at the foot of the mountain, Lu Qing and others handed over their invitations and proceeded all the way to the summit.

  On the halfway up the mountain, they encountered another group of about ten swordsmen wearing black martial attire. On their attire, a clear cyan-colored mountain peak was embroidered, which strangely took the shape of a sword. Although it was only an embroidery, it gave people a sense of majestic and sharpness.

  This is the guardian swordsman of the Sword God Temple, Lu Qing thought to himself. Looking at their martial attire and the aura emanating from their bodies, they all possess the cultivation of a swordsman. And this is just the power of a single branch temple in Luoshan City. Moreover, Lu Qing doesn't even know if this is their ultimate strength. Now that he thinks about it, the Sword God Temple has branch temples among the thousands of sects in the Ten Thousand Great Mountains. What kind of enormous power is that?

  As they spoke, the crowd arrived at the mountaintop, where there was a platform about 70 zhangs in diameter. The ground was devoid of any weeds, clearly having been cleaned up beforehand. A thin layer of mountain spring water had been sprinkled on the ground. In the center of the platform, Wu Tie wore a suit of soft armor made from dark green beast hide, with a black longsword slung over his back, sitting quietly on the ground.

  However, Lu Qing and others felt the intense fluctuations of the heavenly yuan energy around his body, and even heard the sound of wind generated by the fluctuations of the yuan energy. At the same time, the aura on Wutie's body became more and more profound, as if he had contained an extremely powerful force that was tightly suppressed and not released.

  Not far away, the viewing platform was actually a carved and raised stone ground. At this time, there were already many people on it. Except for the city master Gu Jianfeng standing in front of him wearing a white martial arts uniform, a middle-aged man in the same white martial arts uniform was calmly talking to him by his side. However, looking at the middle-aged man's face, there was obviously a hint of flattery.

  When he saw Lu Qing and his group arrive, Gu Jianfeng's originally calm face suddenly broke into a smile. He laughed loudly and said to Lu Qing and the others: "Everyone has arrived a bit late today, Wu Xiong's tribulation is about to begin, hurry up and come quickly."

  Meanwhile, the middle-aged man in white clothes and about twenty people behind them shifted their attention to Lu Qing's group. These people were all invited by Wutie and were some of the dignitaries of Luoshi City, mostly wearing black swordsmen uniforms, with a few wearing the light gray uniforms of sword guests, all aged around thirty or older.

  These days, Lu Qing and his group have been assisting Gu Jianfeng in patrolling the inner city and inspecting the outer city's beast ruins. It's hard not to draw attention to themselves. These people have all been rooted in Ri City for at least a hundred years, with considerable family businesses, and are naturally very well-informed about some news.

  At this time, Gujianfeng waved to greet them. Except for the middle-aged swordsman in white martial attire, everyone else bowed and asked how they were doing, making room for Lu Qing's group to come forward.

  "Come, let me introduce you. This is the head of the first family in Luojing City, the Sutu family's Sutu Zhongdao." Gujian Feng looked at Lu Qing and the others as they approached, introducing the white-robed middle-aged man beside him.

  "It turned out to be Elder Sito, and I, Luo Xin Yu, had an exchange with his junior brother, Sito Si Yu. I should refer to myself as a junior." At this time, Luo Xin Yu smiled and bowed politely.

  It was clear that the crowd behind him knew of Luò Xīn Yuè's reputation, and as they looked at the white-robed middle-aged man, their eyes couldn't help but reveal a hint of envy.

  "Xian nephew can't——" Si Tu Zhong saw the situation, although his face was full of smiles, but he still hurriedly helped up Luo Xin Yu. Beside him, Duan Qing Yun slightly raised the corner of her mouth, but she didn't say anything. After experiencing all this, she had already understood some of the importance of timing and adaptability.

  Suddenly, a burst of fiery red light erupted from the body of Wū Tiě in the center of the platform, and a crimson sword aura exploded out, tearing open deep gorges in the hard mountain rocks. Everyone felt a jolt and turned around, focusing all their attention on Wū Tiě.

  "This round of tribulation is about to begin," at this moment, Ye Lao's voice sounded, reminding Lu Qing in his mind, "Although it's just an ordinary fire tribulation, which doesn't match your cultivation attributes, it can still make you understand the origin of your cultivation attributes. You'd better watch carefully, as it will be useful for your future tribulations."

  Lu Qing's eyes narrowed, and he immediately became fully focused. In his mind, a silvery spiritual energy began to rapidly rotate in accordance with the Soul Refining Mantra. At the same time, an imperceptible fluctuation transformed into an invisible ripple that spread out towards Wuyi.

  However, Lu Qing did not notice that Nie Qingtian's eyes twitched slightly and his eyebrows furrowed slightly at a distance from him.

  As his divine sense spread out, Lu Qing instantly grasped the space around Wu Tie completely. However, the situation was still somewhat beyond his expectations. Around Wu Tie, the heavenly and earthly primordial energy had become extremely unstable, fluctuating violently. The divine sense waves released by Lu Qing were rapidly shattered as soon as they reached within ten feet of Wu Tie's body. His face turned pale, and Lu Qing's divine sense had already been shaken somewhat.

  As expected, Lu Qing couldn't help but let out a wry smile in his heart. He had overestimated himself. Originally, he thought that after cultivating the Soul Refining Technique and entering the Refining Spirit stage, he could compare to the spiritual awareness of a Sword Master at the Small Heavenly Realm level, and be able to grasp the changes in Wuti's aura very well. However, it turned out that when this aura fluctuated, it was even capable of harming his spiritual awareness, and at the same time, he also didn't discover Gujian Feng and other people's spiritual awareness surrounding him.

  It seems that I still lack experience, Lu Qing's mouth corner revealed a bitter smile, Gu Jianfeng and others must have already known the result, but he still had some self-deception to use his better divine consciousness to observe the entire process of Yuan Jie.

  "It's just a trivial matter of yuanqi, I'll help you, don't worry and observe." Ye Lao said with a hint of disdain in his tone. At the same time, Lu Qing felt that in his shentian shihai, a soft cyan light suddenly appeared, and in front of this light, Lu Qing's soul was about to tremble, his pale silver divine sense almost stagnated in an instant.

  Sigh——

  Without stopping, the blue airflow merged into Lu Qing's divine sense vortex in an instant.

  Hummm...

  A wave of fluctuations many times stronger than before spread out from Lu Qing's sea of consciousness, instantly enveloping the mountain top platform for dozens of feet in all directions, and even spreading out for several miles, incorporating the entire Wangyue Mountain and the sky hundreds of feet above into his mind.

  At this moment, Lu Qing felt as if he had two more eyes overlooking the world, calmly gazing down at everything below, including the black iron in the center of the platform, Gujian Feng and others on the observation deck, Duan Qingyun, Yu Jihua, Luo Xinyu, Yi Ruoyu, Ming Xue'er, and even Nie Qingtian, whose eyebrows revealed a hint of doubt, as well as his own physical body, were all completely under his control.

  At this moment, Lu Qing felt that he could even decide the life and death of all these people, with just one glance, he could make their souls scatter and reincarnate in the nine hells.

  "Stick to your heart, don't be infatuated with external things! Wake up for old man!"

  A loud shout suddenly echoed from the depths of his mind, and Lu Qing's whole body shook, his eyes clearing up from confusion. At this time, everyone around him, including Duan Qingyun, had shifted their attention to Wu Tie, who was starting to stir the heavenly and earthly primal energy. No one noticed Lu Qing's strange behavior at that moment.

  "Thank you, Master——" Lu Qing said with a grateful tone, but in his heart, he had broken out in cold sweat. This was the first time he had personally experienced Ye Lao's power, and almost got lost in that vast and boundless illusion. And this was just a casual display of Ye Lao's strength. At this moment, Lu Qing deeply felt the terror of this master who refused to reveal his true name, and only left behind his soul.

  This was just a mere soul, Lu Qing could imagine what kind of strength Ye Lao had when his physical body was intact, this was an overwhelming power that was beyond his comprehension.

  With the help of Ye Lao's power, Lu Qing instantly gained complete control over Wutie's transformation. Even if the fluctuations in Wutie's aura were intense at this moment, they could not shake Lu Qing's divine consciousness that enveloped the entire mountain.

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  At last, a change occurred on the body of Wrought Iron who was sitting cross-legged on the ground.