Douluo: I have too many clones

Chapter 706: Success, and Failure
"Boom!"

A deafening roar of thunder suddenly exploded in the sky, as if a giant had sounded the drum of doom. The dark sky, which was originally as thick as ink, was torn into a dazzling crack at this moment, and a bright light as bright as day surged out.

Immediately afterwards, a huge bolt of lightning as thick as a water tank, carrying with it a breath of destruction, roared down from the sky and heavily slammed into the mountain-like body of the ape god below.

Huo Yuhao’s eyes suddenly widened and he asked in his mind, “Brother Tianmeng, you said it is undergoing a tribulation?”

Tianmeng Bingcan nodded solemnly and said slowly: "That's right, Yuhao. Although my cultivation was gained through deep sleep, I have reached that level after all.

There is no mistake. The aura exuded by this fellow called Ape God is very similar to the feeling I had when I reached a million years of cultivation."

Bingdi also said, "Yuhao, be careful. Unlike the useless Tianmeng, once that guy called Yuanshen breaks through, his combat power will definitely not be comparable to that of a weakling like Tianmeng."

Huo Yuhao frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "Brother Tian Meng, do you think that if we attack it now, can we interrupt its tribulation or even kill it directly?"

As the saying goes, take advantage of your illness to kill you!

Huo Yuhao has never been the kind of person who cares about martial ethics. Since the fight has come to a point where he will fight to the death, he will naturally not sit idly by and watch the Ape God successfully break through.

"No." At this time, the Snow Emperor, who had survived six heavenly tribulations, stopped him in a serious tone, "Yuhao, if you attack it rashly, the heavenly tribulation might think you are in the same group with it and attack you as well."

"What we need to do now is to quickly get away from this area. Don't worry, the heavenly tribulation is not so easy to survive, especially the heavenly tribulation that takes a million years of cultivation. Let's not talk about whether we can survive it. Even if we succeed, we will definitely be seriously injured. It won't be too late for us to take action then."

"it is good."

Huo Yuhao thought for a moment, then followed the advice of the Snow Queen and quickly retreated. However, he did not retreat too far, but kept a relatively safe distance from the Ape God, staring closely at the huge figure who was undergoing the tribulation.

"boom!"

The Ape God had no time to care about Huo Yuhao at this time. It suddenly raised its head, and golden light burst out from its eyes, like two small suns. Then, it opened its bloody mouth and let out a deafening roar, the sound was full of indomitable spirit and madness.

Its huge body moved quickly, waving its arms as thick as pillars, and blasted towards the thunder, as if it wanted to compete with the power of heaven.

In an instant, the entire world changed color. Dark clouds rolled in the sky, the earth shook violently, and the mountains in the distance began to shake under the impact of this force.

On the Douluo Continent, all the soul beasts with cultivation levels of more than 100,000 years seemed to have sensed this terrifying aura. They stopped what they were doing and cast their eyes toward the sky.

Beside the Lake of Life, Di Tian, ​​the Beast God, also raised his head and looked at the thrilling scene in the sky, with a glimmer of longing in his eyes.

If he was not shouldering the heavy responsibility of protecting the Star Dou Great Forest, he would have been desperate to pursue that supreme realm.

……

"Boom!"

Nine consecutive bolts of lightning poured down like the Milky Way in the sky, each containing the power to destroy the world.

However, the Ape God remained fearless in the face of danger. He mobilized all his soul power, raised his aura to the extreme, and withstood the nine terrifying lightning bolts.

But this was a divine-level thunder tribulation after all. Even though the Ape God managed to withstand it with his strong body, his aura had obviously become much weaker.

"boom--"

As if angered by the Ape God’s resistance, the calamity clouds became more and more violent, and bolts of lightning fell one after another like raindrops. The power of each bolt was no weaker than the Morning Dew Sword Technique that Huo Yuhao had performed before, reaching the level of a god.

The monkey god looked up at the sky, there was no despair in his eyes, but instead there was a flash of even hotter light.

A golden vortex slowly appeared on its forehead, and the air around it instantly became violent. It actually relied on this golden vortex to withstand the bombardment of the thunder.

"Is that a soul core? And there's only one?" Huo Yuhao looked at the scene with a look of surprise. As a strong man who had condensed three soul cores, he had a deep understanding of soul cores.

But the scene before him was difficult for him to understand. In his understanding, for the Ape God to be able to defeat the powerful Emperor Tian, ​​he should at least have a Yin-Yang complementary soul core, or at least a isotopic resonant dual soul core. But now he only had one soul core, which was really beyond his expectations.

"go with!"

The Ape God naturally did not care about Huo Yuhao’s surprise. It used all its strength to operate the golden vortex, trying to offset all the thunder strikes.

However, this is a heavenly calamity that lasts for millions of years. How can it be so easy to resist?

At the beginning, the golden vortex condensed by the soul core could barely block the lightning, but as time went on, it became increasingly powerless.

Slowly, the power of lightning passed through the soul core's defense and struck the ape god heavily. The terrifying power instantly split its body into a charred black, with flesh turned inside out and blood flowing.

"Roar--"

Although his body was in a terrible state, the Ape God didn't care. He stared at his soul core with burning eyes. In his perception, as the thunder tribulation continued to fall, his soul core was undergoing amazing changes.

That is a transformation from mortal to divine!

"It will take time. It doesn't matter if this puppet is destroyed, as long as the soul core can purify the previous energy."

That’s right, using the power of thunder and lightning to purify the life energy collected from the Star Beast Tide and the Demon Forest was Nan Fusheng’s real purpose in creating the Ape God.

Back then, when creating the Ape God, Nan Fusheng injected all the massive life energy collected from the Star Fighting Beast Tide and the soul crystals harvested in the Demon Forest into the Ape God's body, which led to its 990,000 years of cultivation.

But in the final analysis, the Monkey God is just an energy purifier.

The main reason why Nan Fusheng created it, besides for fun, was to allow it to use the lightning tribulation during a breakthrough to purify the energy in the body again.

In this way, after the Monkey God dies, the soul core it leaves behind can be better absorbed by the Pink Evil Eye.

This practice is quite similar to the dragon crystal inheritance of the dragon clan on Douluo Continent. After the death of some powerful dragons, there is a certain probability that they will leave behind dragon crystals, and anyone can absorb them as long as the attributes are not repulsive.

(PS: Just like the Light Holy Dragon Crystal that Moon once obtained from a relic and left to Huo Yuhao.)
"Boom!" A huge ball of purple-gold spherical lightning, like a huge ball of destruction, fell from the sky. In the violent roar, the body of the ape god was completely swallowed up in an instant. With it as the center, the area within a radius of ten miles became a world of thunder and lightning.

It’s not that the range of the thunder tribulation is so small, but because the target of the thunder tribulation is only the Ape God, so the power is concentrated in this area.

Under the terrifying power of the heavenly calamity, the surrounding space seemed like fragile glass, cracking one after another and gradually turning into a huge black hole.

“Is this the heavenly tribulation of a million-year-old soul beast?! This power is too terrifying.” Huo Yuhao muttered to himself.

The majestic power of thunder and lightning was vast and filled with the righteousness of heaven and earth. Even though he did not face it directly, just feeling it at a close distance, Huo Yuhao felt as if his body and mind were baptized by this majestic righteousness.

He couldn't help but think that if even he, a bystander, had such feelings, what kind of pain must the Ape God who was undergoing the tribulation be enduring!
……

"boom--"

A loud noise that could tear the sky apart suddenly exploded, and the sound waves were like a surging undercurrent, spreading wildly in all directions with the force of thunder. The space trembled violently under the impact of this loud noise, as if it could break at any time.

After an unknown amount of time, the raging purple-gold sea of ​​thunder finally began to show signs of receding after a long period of roaring and raging.

The sky and earth, which had just been illuminated by lightning as bright as day, now gradually returned to darkness.

As the sea of ​​thunder dissipated, large patches of inky black space cracks appeared.

These cracks were like the bloody mouths of giant beasts, emitting a frightening breath of danger. They were also like hideous scars in the long river of time and space, silently telling the earth-shaking catastrophe that had just occurred.

"finished."

Huo Yuhao murmured in a low voice, his eyes fixed on the area that was gradually calming down. His palm tightly grasped the Morning Dew Knife, and his knuckles turned slightly white due to the force.

Seeing that the thunder tribulation seemed to be dissipating, Huo Yuhao felt a complex emotion in his heart. He was worried about the unknown result, but also had a hint of expectation.

He took a deep breath and sent his mental power towards the space crack like a spider silk.

In his opinion, if the Ape God died, that would be the best; but if he was not dead, he was ready to go forward and finish him off, and would never let this powerful threat continue to exist.

"do you died?"

Huo Yuhao thought silently in his heart and breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously. In his mental detection, the area that was originally full of oppression and danger now had no signs of life.

Looking over, there was only a golden crystal core emitting a faint light, quietly floating in the air, as if it was the only relic left after the catastrophe.

Just when Huo Yuhao was about to let down his guard, a strange buzzing sound broke the brief silence.

The golden crystal core suddenly began to spin at high speed, and the crystal light became more and more dazzling. With the crystal core as the center, the energy of the surrounding heaven and earth seemed to be pulled by an invisible force and gathered towards the crystal core frantically.

The elements in the air began to surge violently. The wind was howling, the fire was jumping, the water was churning, and the earth was shaking. Various elements intertwined and collided with each other, forming a huge energy vortex.

As energy continued to gather, a somewhat illusory figure slowly solidified in the vortex.

Huo Yuhao's pupils suddenly shrank, and his expression instantly became extremely solemn. The figure of the Ape God reappeared, and the familiar sense of oppression and powerful aura once again enveloped the space.

Huo Yuhao reacted quickly and used his body skills to distance himself from the Ape God. His voice was filled with shock and disbelief: “It’s not dead?”

The ape god slowly clenched his fist, feeling the surging yet somewhat unstable power in his body, and sighed secretly: "Success, and then failed again."

Success means that his cultivation has indeed reached the million-year level.

If he fails, it means that he doesn't have much time left.

In Douluo Continent, every time a hundred thousand year soul beast breaks through a major realm, it will inevitably suffer the punishment of a heavenly calamity.

But in fact, there is a key difference hidden in it: a breakthrough is not caused by being struck by thunder, but the thunder is attracted because of the breakthrough.

The two seem similar, but are actually worlds apart: the former represents that the heavenly tribulation is an indispensable part of the breakthrough process, while the latter represents that the heavenly tribulation is actually dispensable.

The soul beasts' heavenly tribulations belong to the latter. Heavenly tribulations are a punishment mechanism, a unilateral sanction from the God Realm against Douluo soul beasts. If you dare to break through, you will be killed.

(PS: As I said before, this book is more based on the story line of Dou San.)
The million-year catastrophe had been at full strength from the very beginning. It started with quasi-god-level lightning, which was powerful enough to wipe out most powerful people in an instant.

Afterwards, the intensity of the lightning continued to rise, gradually reaching the level of a priest and a third-level god. And when it came to the final blow of the thunder tribulation, its intensity soared directly to the level of a first-level god.

Such a horrific natural disaster leaves no chance of survival for soul beasts.

Rather than calling it a heavenly calamity, it would be more appropriate to call it a heavenly punishment. For a soul beast, failure to survive it means death, and even if it survives it by chance, it is most likely not far from death.

This is completely different from the setting in immortal cultivation novels where one can gain benefits by surviving the thunder tribulation. In Douluo Continent, the heavenly tribulation is aimed at completely destroying the soul beast.

"Without the Time Worm to shield us from the heavenly tribulation, in this age when the God Realm still exists, we still cannot truly become gods, right?"

Nan Fusheng sensed the state of the Ape God. Although its soul core or divine core was intact, its body was completely destroyed in the calamity just now.

The reason why he can condense his body again is because Nan Fusheng used the divine power in his divine core to condense a divine body.

If Nan Fusheng is willing, he can help the Ape God build a body and then put the divine core into it. In this way, an Ape God with a million years of cultivation can reappear on the Douluo Continent.

But there is no need, because the essence of the Monkey God is just a puppet. It has been given a specific mission since its birth. Now that the mission is about to be accomplished, it is time to let it end.

The Ape God cast his gaze towards Huo Yuhao, who was standing alert in the distance. A ferocious smile slowly appeared on his lips, and his voice was filled with cold murderous intent: "Sorry to have kept you waiting for a long time. Now it's time to put an end to this."

(End of this chapter)