The Long Journey to Immortality

It prevents you from unleashing the true power of a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and at the same time, it sends down a lightning tribulation every hundred years in an attempt to kill this "scourge" that is harming the human world.

According to historical records, the tribulation of lightning that occurs once every hundred years is more powerful each time. Even a master like Senior Fang Lin could only withstand three tribulations before feeling that he was no match for them. He had to spend several years making arrangements for his "afterlife" and ascend to the spirit world in accordance with the will of Heaven.

However, this happened back in the era of ancient cultivators.

Now, in this era where high-level cultivators are scarce, any deity who reaches a cultivation level comparable to the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage will be summoned by the will of Heaven and can ascend at any time.

The Heavenly Tribulation that urges Nascent Soul cultivators to ascend to the next level has changed from once every hundred years to once every three hundred years.

The frequency is lower, but the power is greater.

When a cultivator's cultivation level is low enough to withstand a tribulation, the power of the heavenly tribulation becomes greater. Naturally, this tribulation, which occurs once every three hundred years, truly becomes a death warrant for all Nascent Soul cultivators.

This immense heavenly tribulation extended the time that the transformed cultivators could remain in the mortal realm to three hundred years.

This is why Feng Rubing answered with the words "cannot tolerate".

Han Lu explained her understanding, and Feng Rubing nodded repeatedly, "Your cultivation level is not high, but you know quite a bit about the Nascent Soul Realm."

After praising him, Feng Rubing explained, "The fact that the mortal realm cannot accommodate cultivators in disguise is not solely based on their cultivation level."

Han Lu pricked up her ears, afraid of missing even a single syllable.

“Cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage who have achieved significant progress in their cultivation can already resonate with the will of Heaven and, with the help of their own spiritual power, unleash abilities beyond the imagination of ordinary cultivators…”

Feng Rubing hesitated for a moment, but considering that she was "telling a story" to Han Lu, she still used the word "magic".

Because the differences were so great, Feng Rubing found it very difficult to explain.

So, regardless of whether Han Lu could understand, she simply recounted all the scenes of the Nascent Soul stage that she had glimpsed from her own perspective, which was roughly at the late Nascent Soul stage.

Han Lu could only barely understand about 30% of it.

In summary, cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage are incredibly powerful.

Just how powerful is she? Powerful to a degree that she, a mere Foundation Establishment cultivator, could not even imagine.

Han Lu could already foresee the future, the scene of her listening to Senior Wang Han preach in the Moon Pearl World one day.

"I'll probably be even more confused than I am now, not even having a smattering of understanding," Han Lu muttered to herself.

As Han Lu was lost in thought, someone behind them suddenly burst into laughter.

"What cultivation level do you have, talking so much about the Nascent Soul Realm?" A young man from a clan in the Western Regions mocked Han Lu and Feng Rubing, whom he considered ignorant and arrogant. "But you talk about it in a very mysterious and impressive way. I think you are not suitable to be a cultivator, but a storyteller."

Such behavior is quite rude, but it's also rather normal.

After all, there are only a few Nascent Soul Realm seniors in the Western Regions, and they are all famous figures in their respective clans.

Han Lu and Feng Rubing obviously do not match up with either of them.

In the young man's view, such lofty discussions were no different from storytelling or storytelling.

Therefore, Feng Rubing was not displeased by the young man's rude behavior.

On the contrary, Han Lu was displeased because her mother had been "humiliated" and immediately argued with the young man.

"Oh? Why is she not suitable to be a cultivator, but suitable to be a storyteller?" Han Lu was still reasonable and did not resort to violence like she had when dealing with certain villains in the Great Yu Dynasty. "Tell me, where did my mother go wrong?"

The young man was speechless for a moment.

After a moment of stunned silence, he realized, "I'm not qualified to talk about this either; I'm just saying that none of you are either."

"After all, the path of cultivation is long and arduous. Although the Nascent Soul Realm is the end point of my mortal world, it is still a long way from the lofty will of Heaven and the truth."

"And we Qi Refining cultivators are also 108,000 miles away from the Nascent Soul Realm."

"Even Nascent Soul cultivators cannot explain the will of Heaven, so how can we possibly understand the position of Nascent Soul cultivators?"

From his words, it's clear that this young man is quite eloquent and persuasive in the Western Regions.

If Han Lu and Feng Rubing were truly just ordinary Qi Refining cultivators, they would have been speechless about this matter, or would have had to resort to fallacies to maintain their position.

Just as the young man was feeling smug about his words, he was surprised to find that Han Lu and Feng Rubing ignored his wise advice and turned away together.

When he tried to catch up and chat with the two beauties, hoping to catch their eye, he unexpectedly discovered that his legs were somehow frozen to the ground by a warm block of ice, making it impossible for him to take a single step forward.

"Damn it!" the young man muttered under his breath, "If I can't win an argument, I resort to a sneak attack?"

At first, the young man did not take the ice binding his feet seriously, thinking it was just an ordinary spell.

After summoning the guards of the mausoleum and obtaining their consent, he then used magic within the mausoleum grounds of the Western Region King to try to melt the block of ice.

However, reality soon made him realize that this ice block was not an ordinary ice block.

At only eighteen years old, he had already reached the seventh level of Qi Refining. He tried various methods, but still couldn't do anything about the ice.

The two Foundation Establishment stage tomb guards who rushed to the scene were also defeated by the unexpectedly solid ice.

Fortunately, this was in the mausoleum of a king in the Western Regions, and it was not appropriate to have another "living statue" standing here in his likeness. That's why a master at the Golden Core stage was invited to help him out of the predicament.

Even the Western Region cultivators at the Golden Core stage struggled for quite some time, using seven or eight different methods, before they managed to melt some of the ice and barely manage to free him from it.

After being rescued, the young man stood there for about seven or eight hours, his legs trembling and weak.

However, after going through this complicated rescue process, and only after a Golden Core cultivator intervened to save him, the young man's heart was trembling even more than his legs.

"Could those two young girls really be the legendary Nascent Soul cultivators?"

Chapter 402 Warning and Departure

After painstakingly freeing the young man from the ice binding his feet, the Golden Core cultivator who had been invited and had contributed a great deal of effort naturally wanted to ask a few more questions, wanting to find out who had acted so recklessly within the territory of the Western Region King's mausoleum, and which fellow Daoist had used such a troublesome technique on a mere Qi Refining cultivator.

Faced with the question from the Golden Core cultivator, the young man hesitated slightly.

He was certain that Han Lu and Feng Rubing had used magic to trap him in place.

Based on this troublesome technique, it can be deduced that Feng Rubing, who was "talking big" there earlier, should be a Nascent Soul cultivator or a powerful being who is extremely close to the Nascent Soul realm.

Following this series of events, and given the "light" punishment he received for his unreasonable actions, the young man, who had already developed a sense of fear and gratitude towards Feng Rubing, would naturally not "betray" her at this time.

On a sudden inspiration, the young man fleshed out the story that had already taken shape in his mind when he was frozen, and told it aloud at this moment.

"Senior, I don't know who froze me here."

He was merely a Qi Refining cultivator when he was ambushed by a powerful expert who used magic, but he didn't know who had done it.

This statement is reasonable.

Unless a guard witnessed him arguing with Feng Rubing and Han Lu, no one could expose this little lie.

Then, the young man added, "However, before I was frozen, when I looked at the murals depicting the heroic figure of the King of the Western Regions, I couldn't help but quietly praise him a few times."

"I was planning to compose a poem, but I only managed to say two lines before I suffered this inexplicable disaster."

"I suppose it was some powerful figure who disliked the King of the Western Regions who ambushed me."

The young man planned to fabricate the image of a master to cover for Feng Rubing, the senior who had been merciful to him.

To avoid causing trouble for the other party, and instead make her remember him, this nobody.

The information provided by the young man was very important, and the Golden Core cultivator nodded repeatedly, clearly taking it to heart and becoming wary as a result.

You should know that this is the mausoleum of the King of the Western Regions, the place where the future cultural totem of the Western Regions rests.

Suddenly, a cultivator with a cultivation level of at least mid-Nascent Soul secretly sneaked into this place. He disliked the King of the Western Regions and was most likely an enemy rather than a friend.

In this situation, the Western Union, which had been established for less than five years, naturally needed to take some countermeasures to prevent the other side from ruining the Western Union's grand plan.

Such a simple confession was naturally insufficient to satisfy the Western Alliance's plan to "encircle and annihilate the mysterious reactionary monks."

The Golden Core cultivator generously gifted the young man a healing pill and used magic to alleviate the muscle injury in his leg.

Immediately afterwards, the Golden Core cultivator instructed two guards from the mausoleum to escort the young man away and keep him under their care for the time being, while they recorded more detailed statements.

The young man looked dejected as he was taken away.

"Why did I say that back then? Otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten myself into this mess."

Despite his displeasure, he dared not disobey the mausoleum guards who were more powerful and had a more prestigious background than him.

Fortunately, he was a witness, not a criminal, and his treatment wasn't too bad.

They arranged a single room for him to stay in, with no shortage of food and drink. In fact, to help him cooperate with the investigation, the Western Alliance even gave him two spirit stones for his cultivation.

The matter was neither major nor minor, but because it happened to be the day of the summer festival, the Western Alliance took it quite seriously.

In just one night, the young man was questioned three times and had verbal exchanges with several members of the "leadership" of the three major clans whom he would never normally meet.

Unfortunately, this was just a fabricated story, based on hearsay, and the identity of this hostile master could not be confirmed.

For safety reasons, the Western Alliance can only arrange for more people to patrol the Western Region capital city in the next few days to strengthen security and prevent accidents from happening.

The Western Alliance Group doesn't want to ruin the positive atmosphere and solid foundation they've just built because of some expert who dislikes the Western King.

However, these arrangements were all made secretly.

The ordinary residents and cultivators in the Western Regions royal city were unaware of the sudden tension in the air.

Many people are still immersed in the summer festival that just ended, hoping that the Western Region King can bring them some good luck in the next three months of summer life.

The instigators of it all, Feng Rubing and Han Lu, were also unaware of this anomaly.

They took it as just a routine security arrangement for the Western Regions capital during the sacrificial ceremony and didn't pay it any mind. They continued to tour and visit the area around the capital as Han Lu had arranged, experiencing the customs of the Western Regions.

Being able to travel around the world and experience different customs and cultures has become the greatest benefit Han Lu has experienced after her cultivation level improved.

Before setting off, the two of them naturally didn't forget to take some time to shop.

Having come to the Western Regions, Feng Rubing naturally took on the small task of helping her people purchase goods.

Han Lu also wanted to buy some items that were only available in the Western Regions to enrich the collection in her storage bag.

None of these goods had anything to do with cultivation. Han Lu preferred the exquisite and interesting handicrafts.

Although the Western Regions are a vast land, their cultivation resources are far inferior to those of the Central Plains and the Great Yu Dynasty. Here, the goods sold in the market are not rare items that would make Han Lu willingly take out her spirit stones.

The three days passed quickly. Even though Han Lu had made an extremely tight schedule, she and Feng Rubing were still unable to visit many places in the Western Regions Royal City that should have been very interesting.

However, neither of them felt any regret.

For the true spirit, time is never a rare thing.

Han Lu can look forward to traveling and enjoying the scenery of the Western Regions and other parts of the world with Feng Rubing and Feng You in the future.

After leaving the Western Regions capital, Feng Rubing and Han Lu took no detours and headed straight for the Seven Mountains Alliance.