Two Realms High Martial Arts: Gathering the Heavens to Become a Great Luo Immortal

Chapter 325 Second Tribulation

With an effortless and nonchalant gesture, Li Xijun suppressed dozens of geniuses in the Outer Realm, including four prominent figures who were considered the pinnacle of the Outer Realm on their respective planets.

This is not a victory after a fierce battle, but an absolute suppression from a higher dimension.

That silent yet overwhelmingly powerful scene completely swept away everyone's doubts and dissatisfaction.

Even those seven proud and arrogant geniuses who had already condensed their golden cores and were regarded as future seeds of the Great Vajra Realm fell into a long, shocked silence.

They almost all condensed second-grade golden cores. On the day the cores were completed, heaven and earth interacted, and various extraordinary phenomena appeared. They naturally possessed the formidable capital to look down on their contemporaries.

They firmly believed that the life leap and power transformation brought about by the Golden Core were enough to crush any being below the Golden Core level.

However, when facing Li Xijun, their proud barrier of skill seemed to become their only, and not very strong, advantage.

Just thinking about Li Xijun's cultivation speed, which completely defies common sense...

They had no doubt that, if things proceeded step by step, with this person's accumulated knowledge and comprehension, he would surely achieve the Golden Elixir within two years.

And what if—what if he gets some kind of opportunity in this Pantheon full of unknowns and wonders?

Will they face Li Xijun, who has already formed his core and whose strength has undergone a tremendous transformation, after this trip to the secret realm ends?

At that time, considering the martial arts techniques that the opponent has displayed today, which are completely beyond their comprehension, who would dare to say that they are sure to win?

A chill involuntarily crept into my heart.

It was a kind of awe-inspiring presence when facing the unknown and potential formidable enemies.

They had to put aside all their pride and contempt, and truly place that seemingly young figure in a position that required extreme vigilance, and even looked up to.

Lisa took in the subtle changes in everyone's expressions, and a hint of undisguised pride flashed in her eyes.

She coughed lightly, her voice languid yet carrying an undeniable authority, breaking the almost frozen atmosphere: "Since none of you have any other questions that need to be answered, then follow me. It's time to head to the legendary Pantheon."

Under the watchful eyes of Lisa, Wang Hanshan, and countless beams of light from the entire space fortress, a mixture of anticipation, awe, and complex emotions, Li Xijun, Su Nianying, and all the selected geniuses set off together aboard a large spacecraft.

After two days of travel, the group arrived at a turbulent area filled with meteorites. In this turbulent flow, a huge rift resembling a black hole appeared before them.

Without a doubt, this is the spatial rift leading to the mythical world of the Pantheon.

Those who had already visited countless mythical worlds, upon seeing this scene, entered with ease, escorted by two Vajra Realm warriors.

As that familiar sense of spatial distortion appeared, after a brief feeling of weightlessness and disorientation, Li Xijun felt her feet become solid, and the scene before her suddenly changed dramatically.

He had already left the dark and deep universe and found himself in a bizarre, broken, and vast unknown realm.

This is not any known planet or continent.

It is a vast ruin, adrift in absolute darkness and nothingness, with no one to rely on.

As far as the eye could see, there were countless enormous palace ruins that made one's heart tremble. They were constructed of a strange stone that was neither gold nor jade and still flowed with a dim divine glow. Even though they had broken, collapsed, and even turned into floating fragments, they still stubbornly exuded the magnificent divine power that once ruled over all the heavens and looked down over all worlds.

These remains, like the silent coffins of countless giants, silently tell of past glory and ultimate tragedy.

Further away, the scene was even more horrifying:

There are majestic sacred mountains, their surfaces smooth as mirrors, seemingly broken apart by an invisible force; there are remnants of star rivers, drained of all life, leaving only a dried-up riverbed; there are colorful, yet frozen in the instant of their eruption, destructive energy storms, like scars on the universe, eternally imprinted in the void—

The entire space was permeated with a sense of ancient desolation and the deathly silence of the end of all things.

Even time seems to have lost its flowing meaning here, leaving only eternal destruction frozen in time.

This place is the ruins of the Pantheon, a supreme divine realm where life and civilization have been completely wiped out.

Simply by standing here and feeling the aura of ancient and broken laws, Li Xijun could clearly perceive the glory this world once possessed.

This place must have once been a powerful divine court with a complete pantheon, strict rules, and extreme prosperity!

Yet this seemingly eternal and law-bound divine realm was utterly destroyed in some unverifiable era by a terrifying being or ultimate power beyond all imagination, with overwhelming force.

The gods fell like fireworks, the net of laws crumbled inch by inch, and the foundation of the world was utterly shattered, leaving only this boundless ruin as a silent witness to that unknown catastrophe.

Even with Li Xijun's extensive knowledge of traversing the world, doubts and fears about that unknown existence arose in his heart.

"No wonder the Human Federation and the Anagarde God Clan attach the highest level of importance to this world. In fact, according to the data, the Anagarde God Clan spares no expense and sends a large number of elite troops into the world every time it opens."

"Besides targeting Federation geniuses, their deeper purpose is to find even a trace of the truth behind the destruction from the ruins of this civilization, which also belongs to the 'God Race,' because deep within their hearts lingers a profound fear of this unknown calamity."

Li Xijun looked at the scene before him and fell into deep thought.

A moment later, due to the spatial rules, everyone was randomly scattered to different areas.

Li Xijun also traveled for a period of time in this world full of ruin and devastation.

He continuously spread his spiritual power, which had been tempered by lightning tribulation and was countless times more powerful and pure than that of martial artists of the same level, rapidly in all directions like an invisible tide, carefully scanning the surrounding environment and trying to sense Su Nianying's unique golden core aura.

However, after not having gained anything so far, his brows furrowed slightly.

Even though this world has been shattered and most of its areas have turned into absolute nothingness, the extent of its remaining physical parts still exceeds his previous estimates.

His mental power was enough to easily cover a large country.

But here, it was like pouring a cup of water into a dried-up ocean; it could only soak a very small area and could not immediately pinpoint Su Nianying's clear location.

"The range that my mental power can scan is still too small," Li Xijun thought to himself, but he didn't feel much anxiety.

Su Nianying has already achieved the first-grade Golden Core, and her strength has undergone a qualitative leap. In this battlefield where the highest entry requirement is the Golden Core realm, she is undoubtedly at the top of the food chain and is more than capable of protecting herself.

However, this setback in the investigation also gave him a clearer and deeper understanding of his current level of spiritual refinement.

His current cultivation level is stable at the first level of the Thunder Tribulation Realm.

According to the classic text "Nine Heavens Responding to the Origin of Thunder Pivot Jade Canon", when refining one's spirit in the Thunder Tribulation Realm, progress is not gradual, but rather accompanied by an explosive increase in strength.

Ancient texts have described in obscure terms that if one could reach the second level of the Thunder Tribulation Realm, and fully unleash their divine sense, they could easily cover a vast territory like the Eastern and Western Continents and the endless oceans surrounding it.

"That's almost—the range of divine sense that can cover the surface of a planet," Li Xijun's heart rippled slightly, filled with both longing and a sense of awe.

The more advanced this Spirit Refining System becomes, the more miraculous the improvement brought by each breakthrough of a barrier becomes, enough to bring about a complete transformation in the cultivator.

However, amidst his longing, he felt an overwhelming sense of caution and deep concern.

While describing the power of the second level of the Thunder Tribulation, the "Nine Heavens Responding to the Origin Thunder Pivot Jade Canon" also explains with an extremely serious, even warning tone, the perilous nature of breaking through it, which is far greater than that of the first level of the Thunder Tribulation.

The first tribulation of lightning has the core purpose of drawing upon the most yang and powerful lightning force in the world to carry out a destructive tempering of the yin spirit. In this extreme destruction, the yin spirit is forced to give birth to a trace of pure yang.

This can be seen as the initial step in the transformation of the Yin spirit into the Yang spirit. The resulting Yang and Harmony meaning mostly remains on the surface of the mind and does not truly touch the inner self.

Furthermore, the destructive power of this tribulation mainly penetrates from the outside in. Even if the mind is severely damaged in the tribulation, as long as the origin is not completely destroyed, it can be slowly repaired by the power of the vows of all sentient beings.

Li Xijun relied on the more efficient and controllable lightning tempering environment of the main world, as well as the almost inexhaustible and powerful willpower gathered by the global national competition, to perfect his mind in advance, and thus "easily" survived this tribulation.

However, the second tribulation is completely different from the first in both nature and process!

What it demands is no longer tempering, but a complete and utter destruction that leaves no room for compromise.

It requires the power of lightning tribulation to completely destroy the mental image that the cultivator has painstakingly condensed, from the most subtle thought structure to the macroscopic form of divine will, turning it into the most primitive and absolute "nothingness".

At the same time, the practitioner's true self, a spark of clear and unwavering spiritual light, must remain undying in this absolute "nothingness" and "deathly silence," like a candle flickering in the wind, yet stubbornly and relentlessly.

Then, using the vast and boundless aspirations of all beings accumulated in daily life as the sole fuel and source of creation, a completely new mental image is reshaped from this absolute "emptiness" and "death," which is thoroughly filled with pure Yang energy from the innermost to the outermost form.

This is a truly "life-or-death" process!

The immense terror and danger it contains are enough to terrify anyone with a weak mind.

At the moment when the mind completely collapses and returns to nothingness, if the ego consciousness wavers or dissipates in the slightest, or if the reserve of willpower is insufficient to support the earth-shattering reversal from "nothing" to "something", then what awaits the cultivator is the true, irreversible annihilation of the soul, and even the slightest possibility of the true spirit being reincarnated will be completely cut off!

Although Li Xijun's Dao heart was firm, his will had long been as solid as a rock after being tempered by the two realms. He also believed that the power of the wishes of all living beings gathered in the three worlds was so immense that it was enough to support this reshaping.

But faced with such a life-or-death situation that required him to risk his own life, he dared not say he had absolute certainty.

If the second level of the tribulation could truly be overcome by relying on resources and foundation, just like the first level, he wouldn't have chosen to prioritize condensing his martial arts avatar to enhance his immediate combat power.

"To be on the safe side, the most rational choice is—"

Li Xijun's gaze deepened and sharpened as he looked into the depths of this land of fallen gods, where the darkness seemed capable of swallowing everything and where dangerous, sporadic lights flickered. "I should still break through to the Golden Core realm of the main world first."

The Golden Core of Martial Arts is an essential leap in the level of life and soul, condensing into an immortal golden essence.

Once achieved, both the soul and body will be imprinted with an immortal "golden quality," and the essence of life will be strengthened and sublimated like never before.

At that time, the origin of the soul will be more solid and the essence will be more powerful. When attempting to break through the extremely dangerous second level of the lightning tribulation, both the success rate and safety will undoubtedly be greatly improved!

"Now, the most urgent task is to find a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in the ruins of the Pantheon that can help me quickly condense the supreme first-grade golden core."

Li Xijun cleared his mind of all distractions and adjusted himself to his best state.

He chose a direction that seemed more attractive to him, and his figure seemed to merge into this broken void, silently flying towards the deeper, more mysterious, and more dangerous area of ​​this myth.