“Boom!”
Thunder roared, deafening.
“Damn, it’s a heavenly tribulation,” the elder’s face paled, trying to flee, but Ye Qiu gripped his hand tightly.
“Get lost.”
The elder shook Ye Qiu off, fleeing in panic.
“Hahaha…”
Ye Qiu laughed uncontrollably.
The elder glanced back, seeing no tribulation, just a bolt of lightning as thick as a cup in the sky.
No doubt, Ye Qiu had conjured it.
“You brat, you tricked me!” The elder’s eyes glinted coldly, menacing.
Ye Qiu sneered, “Old fool, you’re a King Realm expert, yet so cowardly? I just whipped up a bit of lightning, and look how scared you are, you coward.”
“You dare call me a coward? You’re courting death.” Enraged, the elder charged at Ye Qiu.
Unexpectedly, Ye Qiu didn’t dodge but rushed towards the elder.
“Hm?”
Seeing Ye Qiu’s move, the elder halted.
“He’s not even a cultivator, so why charge at me? Does he have some trump card?”
Despite his higher realm, the elder was cautious.
“Clang!”
A sword hummed.
Ye Qiu unleashed the Slaughter Technique, 2,100 sword intents raining like dense droplets towards the elder.
“Parlour tricks.”
With a wave of his palm, the elder turned the 2,100 sword intents to dust.
“Boom!”
Ye Qiu charged, throwing a punch at the elder.
“Overestimating yourself,” the elder said, raising a hand to meet Ye Qiu’s fist.
“Boom!”
Suddenly, thunder exploded overhead. Like a startled rabbit, the elder withdrew his hand, turning into a streak of light and fleeing.
Looking back, no tribulation appeared.
Ye Qiu stood in the air, laughing, “Old fool, you deny being a coward? Look at your actions, what else could you be?”
“I’ve seen many experts, and you’re the most spineless one.”
“Coward!”
Damn it, tricked by this kid again.
The elder’s face turned livid, striding towards Ye Qiu, saying, “Today, I’ll tear you apart.”
“Scared off by me time and again, and you, a coward, think you can kill me? Are you joking?” Ye Qiu’s smile didn’t fade, “Hurry up, call all your allies to help you.”
“I alone am enough to kill you.” The elder stepped through the void, appearing before Ye Qiu at an incredible speed.
“Die!”
The elder slammed a palm towards Ye Qiu’s head.
Ye Qiu dodged swiftly, drawing several lightning talismans, then used an invisibility spell, vanishing into the air before reappearing behind the elder.
“Using that trick again? You’re out of moves.”
The elder sneered, turning quickly, grabbing Ye Qiu’s shoulder.
“Swish!”
Ye Qiu unleashed the Six Meridians Divine Sword, attacking the elder at close range.
“Buzz!”
A black light curtain appeared before the elder, blocking the six sword qi.
The curtain trembled.
“Crack!”
The six sword qi shattered.
The elder smirked coldly, “Brat, go to hell—”
Boom!
Thunder roared above.
“The heavenly tribulation is here!” Ye Qiu shouted.
“Hmph, you fooled me twice, you think I’ll fall for it again? You’re done for.”
Before the elder finished, a massive “boom” shook the mountains.
The elder looked up, seeing a bucket-thick bolt of lightning streak down from the heavens.
“It’s really a tribulation!”
Terrified, the elder forgot Ye Qiu, trying to escape.
But how could Ye Qiu let him?
Having recently survived a tribulation, Ye Qiu’s tenth innate true qi had fully formed. Now, he summoned a Foundation Establishment tribulation.
If he passed, he’d become a cultivator.
But that wasn’t his ultimate goal.
His aim was to use the tribulation to kill the elder.
He’d used the Five Thunder Spell twice before to scare the elder, mocking him to lower his guard. Only on the third time did he truly summon the tribulation.
Ye Qiu unleashed his ten innate true qi, like ten chains, binding the elder’s body.
Then, he frantically drew immobilisation talismans.
As the elder tried to flee, Ye Qiu’s true qi entangled him. Struggling, he found himself bound, unable to move.
“What’s happening?”
Panicking, the elder thrashed.
Though the immobilisation talisman was potent, Ye Qiu’s cultivation was too weak to fully restrain a King Realm expert.
But Ye Qiu was prepared.
He drew over a hundred immobilisation talismans, binding the elder for ten seconds.
In those ten seconds, the lightning struck.
“Boom!”
Terrifying lightning, like a dragon, surged towards Ye Qiu.
Ye Qiu dodged, brushing past the elder, and the lightning hit him.
The elder was charred, flung hundreds of metres, blood streaming from his mouth.
Ye Qiu followed like a shadow.
Boom!
The great tribulation descended.
This tribulation was fiercer than any Ye Qiu had faced, the world raging, endless lightning falling like stars, engulfing both.
Fearing it wouldn’t kill the elder, Ye Qiu summoned the Qiankun Cauldron, striking the lightning to provoke the heavens.
He used every trick to block the elder’s escape.
Lightning talismans.
Invisibility spells.
Slaughter Technique.
Immobilisation talismans.
Dragon-Slaying Fist.
…
All techniques unleashed.
But Ye Qiu’s realm was far below the elder’s, unable to fully stop him.
Soon, the elder was about to break through the lightning.
“Looks like I have to use that move!”
Ye Qiu bit his right middle finger, drawing a talisman with his blood, chanting silently, then roared, “Seal!”
Buzz!
A massive talisman appeared in the air, materialising above the elder.
Instantly, the elder felt bound by ropes, completely immobilised.
Meanwhile, Ye Qiu spat blood, his aura wilting.
The sealing talisman, a forbidden technique from the Maoshan Talisman Compendium, was Ye Qiu’s plan to kill the King Realm elder, devised during his last tribulation.
He’d secretly practised it.
Though his cultivation was inferior, the sealing talisman could bind the elder for thirty seconds.
Ye Qiu had planned to use the Immortal-Slaying Sword after sealing the elder.
Now, with the elder sealed, Ye Qiu changed his mind.
He decided to kill the elder another way.
