Chapter 65: Nine Spiritual Cores, Five Nascent Souls

Chapter 65: Nine Spiritual Cores, Five Nascent Souls

Once the five-petaled appeared Tianyi’s head, the thinning of the tribulation clouds stopped. The crackling clouds began to grow denser and denser, and the blackness reached the point that it no longer resembled a cloud but a hole in the sky. It was as if the previous tribulations clouds had just been a glimpse of what was to come. The rumbling thunder became silent as it was replaced by vibrations that seemed to shake the very earth.

It wasn’t just the physical aspect of the Heavenly Tribulation that changed but the spiritual aspect as well. The majestic pressure crushed down on all those within the immediate vicinity, even those outside of the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation. Mengfei and the Unity Realm Elders were fine under the crushing pressure, but sweat dotted Daoyi’s forehead. Her skin paled, and her breathing became impaired as if there was a stone crushing her chest. Mengfei glanced at her disciple, and a barrier was erected in front of Daoyi that shielded her from the abnormal pressure.

Elder Shan was only slightly better. But his true qi became slightly erratic under the pressure of the Heavenly Tribulation. His Nascent Soul felt as if it was beginning to destabilize; Elder Shan frowned. His body began releasing a medicinal scent and vital qi. At the same time, the stifling pressure was alleviated.

“Strange, the Heavenly Tribulation should have already been over. Why does it seem that junior nephew Tianyi is undergoing another Heavenly Tribulation.”

“The abnormal occurrences started to happen as soon as the white lotus appeared. It seems to be junior nephew Tianyi’s Nascent Soul?”

“Strange, very strange. The orthodox Nascent Soul of a cultivator should be human in form unless junior nephew Tianyi is practicing soul cultivation as well? Only a soul cultivators are able to form Nascent Soul that is different from their appearance.”

“Spiritual, martial, and soul. Grand Elder Xi’s son sure is ambitious. But this doesn’t explain why the tribulation clouds have not dispersed.”

“When junior nephew Tianyi formed his Spiritual Core, it was nine, and he had to undergo nine Core Formation Heavenly Tribulation. This time, it seems that junior nephew Tianyi is going to do something similar.”

“Nascent Soul isn’t the same as a Spiritual Core. Even if junior nephew Tianyi has nine Spiritual Cores, that should not give him the ability to form multiple Nascent Souls.”

“Perhaps not, but soul cultivation is esoteric. Do you have any insight, Elder Jiao?”

Elder Jiao glanced at her fellow Unity Realm Elder and contemplated before speaking. “There are cases of soul cultivators splitting their soul when their Nascent Soul formed to form soul clones. But that isn’t a normal method. I don’t think junior nephew Tianyi will do such a thing.”

“Perhaps, it is another similar circumstance. Grand Elder Xi must have given some pointers. As expected of the peak immortal of the Huang Realm.”

“It is a pity that we were not able to witness junior nephew Tianyi’s abilities. He doesn’t need to compete for resources in the sect, and rather than compete in a tournament, junior nephew Tianyi would rather spectate.”

“Has junior nephew Tianyi even sparred with anyone in the sect?”

“...”

“I heard that a disciple of an elder requested to have a sword spar with junior nephew Tianyi, the result was that he lost in a few rounds.”

“I’m surprised junior nephew Tianyi was able to reach this stage without any battles.”

“Back then, I heard Grand Elder Xi had constantly been adventuring.”

“Look! Junior nephew Tianyi’s white lotus Nascent Soul is showing change!”

On the white lotus above Tianyi’s head, tiny light balls had formed on each of the five petals. Each light was a different color: red, black, yellow, green, and white.

Slowly the lights began to shape into a form with a head, two arms, and two legs. Each one took the form of an adolescent, not even five years old yet. All five had the exact same face as each other. They all resembled Tianyi when he was at their age.

As if on agreement, both the tribulation giant and cosmos giant began walking towards the other. The air crackled with sparks as the two giants neared each other, neither willing to show weakness.

The tribulation giant raised its sword overheard once the cosmos giant neared within its striking range.

SSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH

The sound of the sky bifurcating was heard as the tribulation sword descended, seemingly like a sea of lightning descending.

In response, the cosmos giant held out his right hand and locked the tribulation sword’s blade in its hand. Lightning crackled and thundered rumbled from the sealed sword. But no matter how the tribulation lightning battered the cosmos giant’s hand, it remained stalwart. The cosmos giant was even absorbing trace amounts of lightning through contact.

At the same time as the sword descended, the dragon formed of tribulation lightning soared forward. It wrapped around the cosmos giant’s body and even started to strange its neck.

The cosmos giant’s left hand pulled against the dragon’s body as it tried to unwrap the dragon. The tribulation giant delivered a mighty kick that launched the cosmos giant onto its back and caused the cosmos giant to released the tribulation sword.

The cosmos giant began to distort as the tribulation dragon constricted even more. At this time, the cosmos giant formed its two hands into claws and slashed the tribulation dragon.

The tribulation dragon roared in pain as the claws penetrated deep into its body. Lightning bled from its body, and with its integrity ruptured, the tribulation dragon began to deform into pure tribulation lightning. The tribulation lightning covered the cosmos giant in an aura of lightning.

The cosmos giant lumbered into a standing position, the ground quaking with each of its movements. When it stood up, the tribulation giant was upon on it as it slashed downward with the tribulation sword once again.

Claws met sword as the two giant duked it out. The cataclysmic battle raged on as the two behemoths clashed again and again.

Should a normal Nascent Soul Grandmaster intercede within the battle, just the wind generated from each swing of either giant’s arm would result in lethal damage.

Crack!

The tribulation sword fractured under the repeated strikes from the cosmos giant. Upon shattering in two, the tribulation sword morphed into lightning and enveloped the cosmos giant, much like the tribulation dragon was destroyed.

But the tribulation giant was undeterred as it began to rain fist after fist upon the cosmos giant that was still shrouded in tribulation lightning. When each fist landed on the cosmos giant, the lightning rippled outward from the contact point. As the battle continued, the number of the stars within the cosmos giant began to diminish, and even it’s size started to decrease.

The cosmos giant abandoned all thoughts of defense as it allowed the fist to land on its body and returned the assault threefold onto the tribulation giant. At first, the tribulation armor blocked the cosmos giant’s assault. Soon, cracks appeared on the tribulation armor before it too shattered and turned into tribulation that reignited the shroud of lightning assaulting the cosmos giant. Before this, the veil of tribulation lightning had been thinning.

The cosmos giant ignored this as it continued to engage in a primitive slugfest with the tribulation giant. This battle was an endurance match to see which of these two titans would fall first.

The answer was the cosmos giant as glass-like crack began to appear on its body. With each passing second, the web-like cracks grew until the form of the cosmos shattered. The void-like mist dispersed to reveal Tianyi’s figure in the air. His stature like an ant before the elephant that was the tribulation giant.

But the tribulation giant had already lost all its armament, its base body formed of tribulation lightning had begun to distort. It appeared as if another strike would destabilize it.

Tianyi pointed his finger at the giant, and a black sphere condensed upon his fingertips. Without seemingly any outside force, the black sphere short towards the tribulation giant. With each second, the boundary of space was devoured and fueled its growth.

The tribulation giant roared in indignant fury as it brought both arms crashing down upon the blackhole coming towards it in great defiance. Upon contact, the giant’s arms distorted into a mist of lightning and were sucked into the black hole. Before its body could even lose its integrity, the black hole greedily started to devour the tribulation lightning giant. The giant roared once more as it consciously dissolved its form into a net of lightning that soared towards Tianyi. But right as it neared Tianyi, it was pulled back and devoured by the black hole.

Tianyi watched the black hole shrank under his commands until it disappeared into the world. Blood started to leak from the edge of his lips to which he wiped it away with his sleeve.

“Sssssssssssssss,” Tianyi hissed in pain as his clothes rubbed his skin, slightly pink as if it had been scalded by boiling water.

Inside Tianyi’s body, his cosmos body, the tribulation lightning, and the space devoured by the black hole reappeared within. Before it could rampage, black clouds sparkling with starlight encased it. No matter how the tribulation lightning raged, the true qi of chaos ground and dissolved it into pure energy absorbed by Tianyi.