Chapter 582: Five Phase Tribulation

“Uwah!”

In the end, the girl could not stand it any longer. She let out a cute cry, leaped up from her wooden fish, and smacked Xie Taohu's head with her wood hammer.

Tok!

It was said that one should not judge a book by its cover, and the idiom fit the girl perfectly. What looked like a harmless blow actually caused Xie Taohua’s feet to sink into the ground. This was just the beginning though. the girl would continue to hit his head like she was hammering a nail until he sank all the way up to his neck.

Tok tok tok tok tok tok tok...

“Ow! Ow! Enough! I’m awake! I’m awake!”

A few breaths later, Xie Taohua suddenly cried out in pain and stretched his arms out of the ground, covering his head with one hand and catching the girl with the other. After that, he leaped out of the hole in a flurry of peach blossoms and flicked three of them toward Skin Painting Gentleman, Limp Celestial and Tiger Sovereign’s forehead.

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The three peach blossoms let out an eerie, human-like laughter, and three gorgeous women dressed in pink abruptly appeared behind the trio. However, their faces were completely devoid of flesh like pink skeletons. They then hugged the trio and dyed them in pink bit by bit.

The trio snapped out of their stupor and turned as white as a sheet. It was because they recalled what just happened, and because they saw what resided within the black lotus.

Right now, they were less than ten meters away from the black lotus, so they were finally able to see it for what it was.

They thought that a treasure would reside at the center of the black lotus, but they were wrong. It was a man sitting in a meditative position. His eyes were tightly shut, and rainbow-colored spiritual light was gushing from the top of his skull. The black lotus they saw was really an image manifested from his energies and spirit.

The reason they failed to notice this sooner was one, they were too far away; two, the man’s spirit and energies were so immense that their senses were unable to pierce through them until now; and three, the black lotus was far too realistic and far more conspicuous than the man at the center.

“Is he... creating a Yin God to become a Spirit Master?!” Skin Painting Gentleman blurted out instinctively after seeing this.

“The phenomenon of Peach Blossom Mountain isn’t a treasure? It’s just someone trying to ascend to the next stage?!”

Limp Celestial looked dazed and disbelieving as well.

“There was no treasure from the beginning... no treasure... haha! Hahahaha!” Tiger Sovereign muttered to himself before bursting out in laughter all of a sudden, face gradually contorting into a furious snarl over time.

Xie Taohua followed his gaze and saw a clump of dark clouds floating above their heads. However, it had five colors—green, red, yellow, white and black—and he could vaguely see lightning rippling across its surface. Its mere presence was intimidating and suffocating.

It was at this moment thunder growled a deep rumbling warning, and a green lightning the size of a water barrel shot out of a green cloud. It didn’t look particularly dangerous, and it even gave off a floral scent. Only an idiot would think that it was harmless, however. It was aimed straight at the man at the center of the black lotus.

“The Yi Wood Divine Thunder?! Me and my bloody mouth!” Xie Taohua slapped his own mouth before urging, “We need to move!”

Xie Taohua pushed off the ground and appeared ten meters away from his original position.

Skin Painting Gentleman, Limp Celestial and Tiger Sovereign all sensed the terrible power brewing in the sky and decided to heed Xie Taohua’s advice as well. They all retreated farther away from the black lotus.

Boom!

It was at this moment the green lightning struck the black lotus with a deafening boom. The latter shook violently as green lightning scattered everywhere like tiny snakes, and an invisible, anomalous power washed out.

Strangely, the withered plants in the area sprouted new leaves and branches when they should’ve been crushed into powder by the green lightning. When it faded, the former wasteland was overflowing with greenery, and the spot where the black lotus was residing was scorched black. The black lotus itself looked less tangible and realistic than before.

“What... What is that, Brother Xie?” Skin Painting Gentleman asked shakily. The bolt of lightning did not look particularly powerful, but it was a righteous power that could pierce all evil. As his “Art of Skin Painting” was a demonic art through and through, he was especially sensitive toward such powers as a matter of course.

He had no doubt that he would be a pile of ash if he was the lightning’s target.

“That’s the Yi Wood Divine Thunder of the Five Phase Tribulation. Capable of smiting evil and creating life, and it is especially deadly against heretical powers.”

Xie Taohua calmed the goosebumps popping on his skin before continuing, “The Five Phase Tribulation is a type of the Seventy Two Earth Fiends Tribulation. They are composed of the Yi Wood Divine Thunder, Ding Fire Divine Thunder, Geng Metal Divine Thunder, Wu Earth Divine Thunder, and Kui Water Divine Thunder. They correspond to the Five Phases: Wood, Fire, Metal, Earth and Water.”

“Although the Five Phases Tribulation is ranked at the bottom half of the list, it is still a tribulation and not to be underestimated. I wonder what kind of martial art that man is cultivating that the mere act of manifesting a Yin God would summon such a tribulation.”

“The Five Phases Tribulation?!” Tiger Sovereign, Skin Painting Gentleman and Limp Celestial’s eyes flickered with shock and disbelief. To say that their feelings right now were mixed would be an understatement.

The next tribulation did not appear immediately after the Yi Wood Divine Thunder was done. Instead, the fiery red cloud kept boiling and rumbling as if it was gathering its strength.

The black lotus on the ground was slowly undergoing a transformation as well, growing darker and more mysterious. What felt like an infinite amount of inexplicable energy was washing out of it.