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Chapter 86, The Dragon Transformation Tribulation, Emperor Hengyu! [Please continue reading!]

Three hundred li outside Yunze City.

A lone plume of smoke rises from the vast desert, yellow sands pierce the sky.

Su Ye headed north.

The scorching sun overhead baked the desert into a distorted shape, and the distant sand dunes floated in the heat waves, like pieces of crumpled golden silk.

He was moving fast, but his mind was elsewhere.

The threshold of the Dragon Transformation Realm.

The spine has nine vertebrae, and each vertebra must undergo a tribulation of refinement before it can transform.

With his perfect accumulation of the Four Extremes, the heavenly tribulation he triggers will surely be even more terrifying than the Four Extreme Tribulations.

Just then.

A clear, cold female voice resounded deep within his consciousness.

"Holy Son, there is an aura of the second level of the Immortal Platform lurking in the void."

The voice of the Sage Yuheng carried a hint of solemnity.

"This person has already set up an array around the area, intending to seal off the void."

"Once the formation is activated, the space within a thousand miles will solidify, and no escape techniques will be able to be used."

Su Ye's expression remained unchanged, and he didn't even lift his eyelids.

"People from hell?"

Only Hell would send out a powerful assassin from the second level of the Sendai realm to deal with a junior who has reached the Four Perfections stage.

This level of attention goes beyond simply being described as "important".

"Most likely, it's chilling and shrouded in deathly aura, originating from the same assassins who tried to kill you before."

The Sage Yuheng paused for a moment.

"Should I make a move?"

"No need."

Su Ye responded in his mind: "May I directly invoke the tribulation to break the deadlock?"

There was a full three breaths of silence on the other side of the void.

"Can."

A barely perceptible smile appeared in the voice of the Jade Balance Sage.

"That's a good idea."

Su Ye's lips curled up slightly.

He continued walking deeper into the desert, the Daoist scriptures within his body already operating silently.

Purple divine power surged endlessly within the Sea of ​​Bitterness, with the Primordial Divine Mark Tower hanging directly above.

The innate divine marks on the nine layers of the tower lit up one by one, creating a silent resonance with the Daoist rhythm of the innate Dao embryo.

Deep in the desert.

The ruins of an abandoned ancient city are half-buried in the yellow sand.

The ruins are etched with the marks of wind and sand erosion, and several broken stone pillars lean crookedly towards the sky.

Su Ye stopped in the center of the ruins.

The wind and sand howled between the broken walls, swirling up wisps of fine sand.

Su Ye's gaze locked onto a spot in the void.

That void looked no different from its surroundings; it was just as transparent and just as silent.

But his innate perception wouldn't lie to him.

There was a highly compressed mass of deathly energy there, so thick it was almost solidified, like an ancient tomb crammed into a space the size of a fist.

"The powerful being on the second level of Sendai is hiding his true nature."

Su Ye shook his head.

"Is this all the guts a killer from hell has?"

The words fell.

The void suddenly distorted.

A crack appeared out of nowhere, and the gray death energy surging from the crack turned the sand grains several feet around it grayish-white.

The vital energy in the sand grains was instantly drained, making the sand itself fragile and turning into powder with a single gust of wind.

A figure stepped out from the crack.

Dressed in black.

Black hair.

His face was blurry, as if his features were obscured by a layer of hazy mist.

The deathly aura surrounding him was so thick it was almost tangible, condensing into a thin layer of gray armor on his body.

Sendai's second heaven.

The Great Power Realm.

Hell Killer.

He simply raised his hand.

A diagram of an array flew out from his palm.

The array swelled with the wind, instantly growing to a size of a thousand feet, enveloping the entire ruins.

The Dao patterns on the surface of the array flowed wildly, emitting a piercing buzzing sound.

The space within a radius of a thousand miles was completely locked down at this moment.

Every ripple in the void was suppressed; the air became viscous; the wind stopped; and the sand grains remained suspended in mid-air, no longer falling.

The trap has been set, and all escape routes have been cut off.

A decisive victory!

A powerful assassin from the second level of Sendai, using a meticulously arranged trapping formation, was dealing with a young junior who had reached the peak of the Four Extremes.

If this configuration were to get out, all the cultivators in the Eastern Wilderness would think that Hell had gone mad.

Why use a dragon-slaying sword to kill an ant?

But those who were secretly watching Su Ye knew all of this.

This is not an ant.

This is the Holy Son of Yaochi.

This is the innate Dao embryo.

This is an eight-forbidden demon who can reverse the seventh level of the Dragon Transformation Realm once he reaches the Four Extremes Perfection.

Su Ye had been waiting for this moment.

Deep within the sea of ​​suffering, the door that he had been pressing down on was deliberately broken open by him.

The shackles of perfect perfection in the four directions shattered.

The accumulated profound heritage, like a flood bursting its banks, gushed forth from the depths of the sea of ​​suffering.

The purple divine power surged along the meridians up the spine, causing all nine vertebrae to emit a dragon-like hum.

The aura of a dragon soared into the sky.

The aura erupted from Su Ye's body, transforming into a purple pillar of light that shot straight into the sky.

The array patterns above the ruins trembled violently under the impact of the beam of light, emitting a creaking sound as they struggled to bear the weight.

The assassin's gray pupils narrowed slightly.

He finally realized what had happened.

But it was too late.

The sky suddenly darkened.

It was midday in the desert, with the sun blazing overhead, yet the sky darkened to the point of night within mere breaths.

A dark, ominous cloud of calamity surged in from all directions, gathering above the ruins at an incredible speed.

The scale of the calamity clouds far exceeded expectations.

The sky for hundreds of miles around was completely covered by dark clouds, and lightning surged deep within the clouds, each flash illuminating the entire desert.

The thunder rumbled through the clouds, creating a continuous roar that shook the sand on the ground.

"Dragon Transformation Heavenly Tribulation —"

The assassin's voice was hoarse as he finally spoke.

Su Ye looked at him calmly.

"Weren't you going to kill me?"

"Then let's face this tribulation together."

No sooner had the words left his mouth than the first bolt of lightning struck.

boom!

The array patterns of the trapping formation crumbled inch by inch under the oppressive power of the tribulation clouds.

The paper depicting the thousand-foot formation was burned, turning into ashes piece by piece from the edges.

The sealed space resumed its flow, and the wind picked up again, carrying the aura of lightning seeping from the storm clouds.

The assassin wanted to make a clean getaway.

His figure blurred in the void, and the laws of space surged around him, attempting to tear open a spatial rift to escape.

But the calamity clouds had already locked onto his aura.

The Heavenly Tribulation views interfering with others' tribulation as a provocation.

The power of the intruder's tribulation will increase dramatically.

A bolt of dark golden lightning struck down from the clouds of tribulation.

As thick as a house, as fast as lightning.

The assassin's figure, which had vanished into the void, was forcibly blasted back out.

A spatial rift exploded behind him, and the violent spatial force tore dozens of holes in his black clothes.

He steadied himself, looked up at the increasingly thick clouds of calamity above him, and a hint of fear finally surfaced in his gray eyes.

"you----"

"Don't rush."

Su Ye interrupted him.

"There are still eight more—"

As if to confirm his words, a second bolt of lightning followed immediately.

Crimson fire and thunder, specifically designed to ward off evil spirits and deathly energy.

The deathly aura surrounding the assassin seemed to have met its nemesis in front of Huo Lei. The protective deathly aura hissed and crackled as it burned, and countless fine cracks appeared on the surface of the thin gray armor.

The killer stopped trying to speak.

He formed a hand seal, and a gray light screen opened in front of him.

The light screen was covered with densely packed death patterns, each containing the essence of the Hell Organization's killing techniques.

Fire and lightning struck the light screen.

The light curtain trembled violently, and the death runes were peeled away layer by layer.

But the light barrier didn't shatter, managing to withstand the lightning tribulation.

The third bolt of lightning gave him no chance to catch his breath.

It was a purple thunder dragon, its dragon-shaped lightning bolts opening their massive jaws as it swooped down from the tribulation clouds.

Wherever the thunder dragon passed, it scorched a black trail through the space.

The assassin drew an ancient bronze shield.

The ancient shield was engraved with defensive Dao patterns; it was a protective artifact that he had spent a hundred years forging.

He poured all his divine power into the shield, and the shield surface emitted a dazzling gray light.

The Thunder Dragon crashed into the shield.

boom!

The bronze shield shattered into pieces.

The assassin's body flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing into a broken wall deep within the ruins.

The wall collapsed with a roar, burying him halfway beneath the rubble.

He struggled to crawl out of the rubble, a trickle of dark red blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

The fourth bolt of lightning descended from the sky.

It was a cyan lightning bolt, seemingly gentle, but in reality it contained a terrifying power to strip away life force.

Wherever the blue lightning passed, several withered camel thorn bushes in the desert turned to ashes on the spot.

The assassin gritted his teeth, gathered his remaining divine power, and forcibly activated a blood-burning secret technique.

The gray death energy condensed into a huge skeleton phantom in front of him, and the skeleton opened its mouth to swallow the blue lightning.

The skeletal phantom and the wooden lightning shattered simultaneously.

The assassin spat out another mouthful of blood, swaying a few times before barely managing to stand.

The fifth bolt of lightning.

It is brewing amidst the clouds of impending doom.

Deep within the calamity clouds, a purple hue is spreading.

That purple color was completely different from the purple divine power of Su Ye's innate Dao embryo.

It is a chaotic purple, as if all the colors of the beginning of time have been crushed and mixed together.

Chaotic divine thunder.

The most terrifying of all heavenly tribulations.

It contains not a single law of power, but the chaotic origin of all paths intertwined.

Those struck by the Chaos Lightning Tribulation will have everything—from their physical body to their consciousness to their soul—completely erased.

The increasingly intense purple was reflected in the assassin's gray pupils.

He wanted to escape.

But the cause and effect are already determined.

The surrounding area within a hundred miles was locked by the tribulation clouds, rendering any escape techniques meaningless; he could only endure it.

Purple chaotic lightning struck down from the tribulation clouds.

fast.

So fast that you don't even have time to blink.

Wherever the lightning struck, space itself was annihilated.

The void surrounding the thunderbolts turned into a pitch-black nothingness, and even the concept of space itself was erased in the face of the chaotic thunder tribulation.

Chaotic lightning engulfed the assassin's entire body.

After the lightning dissipated, there was nothing left where the assassin had been.

There was no corpse, no bloodstains, and no fragments of soul.

Not a single speck of dust remained.

Sendai Second Heaven, a killer at the Great Power Realm.

Under the chaotic divine thunder, both body and soul were annihilated.

Su Ye withdrew his gaze and focused all his attention on the Heavenly Tribulation.

His tribulation is only just beginning.

The first five tribulations had already exhausted most of their power due to the assassins' interference, but the following four would be the real test.

Since the assassin is dead, the heavenly tribulation's punishment of the intruder has ended, and all subsequent lightning tribulations will now be directed solely at him.

boom!

The first heavenly tribulation descended.

The golden divine thunder of the Five Elements corresponds to the element of fire.

A crimson-gold lightning bolt, carrying the intense heat of scorching the heavens and boiling the seas, struck towards Su Ye.

The Primordial Divine Tower flew out of the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

The nine-inch purple-gold pagoda swelled in the wind and transformed into a ten-zhang giant pagoda hanging above Su Ye's head.

The tower has nine stories with thousands of purple-gold divine patterns hanging down, each of which is a manifestation of a great law.

Golden lightning bolts struck the tower.

The innate divine marks on the tower lit up simultaneously, and purple Daoist energy spread out from the tower.

The raging lightning power was gradually neutralized by the divine marks, and the destructive lightning energy was stripped of all its malevolence, transforming into the purest energy of heaven and earth that flowed into Su Ye's body through the tower.

His first vertebra emitted a crisp cracking sound as it was tempered by thunder.

The first transformation into a dragon has officially begun.

The second heavenly tribulation followed immediately.

Blue-green wood mines, metal-colored white mines, black water mines, and yellow earth mines.

Five elements of divine lightning struck down in succession, corresponding to the five internal organs and the five elements.

Su Ye protected his main body with the Primordial Divine Mark Tower, while simultaneously circulating the Dao Scripture, introducing the five elements of lightning power into the corresponding Dao Palace deities, refining and absorbing the fragments of laws within the five elements of lightning power one by one.

The third way.

The fourth one.

The fifth one.

All five elements of divine thunder were overcome.

Su Ye's first five vertebrae have completed the initial transformation.

A faint dragon's roar could be heard emanating from within the spine, as if a great dragon was awakening.

His cultivation in the first stage of the Dragon Transformation was completely stable, and the divine power within his body was several times stronger than before the tribulation.

But the clouds of calamity did not dissipate.

A thicker thundercloud gathered in the sky above the desert.

This thundercloud was not ordinary jet black, but a near-solid dark purple, and the oppressive force it emitted was more than one level stronger than the previous five.

Su Ye looked up at the dark purple tribulation cloud, a flash of purple light disappearing in his eyes.

This is the moment he's been waiting for.

The accumulation of the Four Extremes Perfection was too great, and the tribulation of breaking through the Dragon Transformation Secret Realm and the tribulation of the second transformation of the Dragon Transformation merged into one at this moment.

After completing his tribulation, his cultivation level will directly leap to the second level of the Dragon Transformation Realm.

Su Ye focused all his attention on the Heavenly Tribulation.

The first five heavenly lightning bolts have passed; the remaining four are the true test of the Dragon Transformation Tribulation.

A crack appeared in the dark purple calamity clouds.

A figure emerged from the crack.

The young man was dressed in a crimson-gold battle suit, his blood-red armor gleaming in the clouds of tribulation.

A crimson furnace hangs overhead, its body entirely cast from phoenix-blooded crimson gold, its surface shimmering with Daoist patterns reminiscent of a phoenix's rebirth.

With each step, the void beneath their feet was scorched black.

The phantom of Hengyu Furnace.

Emperor Hengyu in his youth.

The Great Emperor who proved his Dao through the Dao of Fire in the ancient times, and the ancestor of the Jiang family.

The Hengyu Furnace refining method he pioneered remains one of the strongest weapon-refining traditions in the Beidou system to this day.

The young Emperor Hengyu's gaze fell upon Su Ye, without any emotional fluctuation.

The marks etched by the will of heaven and earth have only one purpose: to test those undergoing tribulation.

On the edge of the desert.

The cultivators who had been drawn by the celestial calamity were all frozen in place.

"Humanoid Lightning!"

A young rogue cultivator exclaimed in disbelief.

The old monk next to him slapped him on the back of the head.

"Shut up! That's Emperor Hengyu! The ancestor of the Jiang family! The Dao Mark of an emperor in his youth!"

"The Dragon Transformation Tribulation has triggered humanoid lightning? And at the level of an Emperor?"

The voice of the other middle-aged monk was trembling.

"What kind of monster is this Jade Pool Holy Son?!"

Several female cultivators were already terrified, their faces turning deathly pale.

"Emperor Hengyu—even in his youth, he was still an emperor!"

"How could the Holy Son of Yaochi possibly stop him?"