While the Yin Yang Sect was hunting down Dragon Bodhisattva, over at the Hundred Blossoms Palace, Ye Qiu’s days were passing very comfortably.
Fairy Hundred Blossoms and Green萝 were in seclusion, while Long Eyebrow Immortal was in the attic memorising teleportation coordinates. The three of them had not emerged for ten days.
Besides cultivating, Ye Qiu spent most of his time studying the pill recipes from the Ye family ancestor’s inheritance. Unfortunately, without spiritual herbs, he could not attempt to refine them. When tired, he would catch a few wild rabbits or chickens for barbecue.
When leaving the mortal world, Ye Qiu had worried about not being able to stomach the food in the cultivation world, so he specially packed dozens of seasonings into his Qiankun bag, along with hundreds of catties of cumin, over a thousand bottles of beer, and tens of thousands of bottles of cola…
As for baijiu, Ye Qiu had not packed a single bottle.
Because the spiritual qi in the cultivation world was so abundant, even the most ordinary fruit wine tasted far superior to Maotai and Wuliangye.
The only regret was that the Qiankun bag could not be plugged into electricity, otherwise Ye Qiu would definitely have packed a few large refrigerators inside.
However, this problem did not stump Ye Qiu. He simply added some ice cubes to it.
After all, the Qiankun bag was enormous and could never be filled no matter how much he put in.
Of course, he had not let Long Eyebrow Immortal know about these things, otherwise that old fellow would probably nag every day about eating meat and drinking alcohol.
Time passed quickly.
In the blink of an eye, half a month had gone by.
This day, Ye Qiu was lying in a cluster of flowers, legs propped up, admiring the blue sky and white clouds on one side while sipping an iced cola on the other, utterly relaxed.
The medicine marten was chasing butterflies in the flowers, leaping about joyfully and having a great time.
Suddenly, the medicine marten seemed to receive a tremendous fright and “whoosh” jumped onto Ye Qiu’s shoulder, trembling all over.
“What is it?”
As soon as Ye Qiu’s words fell, wind and clouds surged in the sky, and a suppressing aura blanketed the heavens and earth.
“Who is undergoing tribulation?”
Ye Qiu quickly sat up and looked towards the attic, only to see a slender figure flying out from inside.
It was Green萝!
“Boom!”
The heavenly tribulation descended.
Ye Qiu noticed that Green萝’s movement technique was extremely nimble and swift. She actually dodged more than a dozen lightning strikes in one go.
Later, the heavenly tribulation became too powerful, and Green萝 had no choice but to take them head-on.
It lasted a full half hour.
Finally, Green萝 successfully passed the tribulation and stepped into the early Golden Core realm.
Ye Qiu thought to himself: “I never expected a single small spirit qi pill to make Green萝 progress so rapidly. It seems I need to find spiritual herbs soon to test the pill recipes. If I can become a skilled alchemist and refine more spiritual medicines, then we can all rapidly advance our cultivations.”
Just at that moment, Long Eyebrow Immortal’s figure flew out from the attic, shouting loudly: “Little brat, where are you?”
Ye Qiu quickly finished his iced cola, crushed the bottle to pieces in one squeeze, then stood up from the flower cluster and walked towards the attic, saying as he went: “I am not deaf, old man. Why shout so loudly?”
Long Eyebrow Immortal ran up to Ye Qiu, gesticulating excitedly: “Little brat, let me tell you some good news. This poor Daoist has memorised all the teleportation coordinates for the entire cultivation world.”
“Do you know how many there are?”
“Ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine!”
Ye Qiu was somewhat surprised: “So many?”
“Indeed, otherwise why would it take this poor Daoist so long? But it was all worth it.” Long Eyebrow Immortal said: “With the teleportation coordinates and the half saint’s formation pattern, we can go wherever we want from now on.”
“Eh, why do you smell like cola?”
Long Eyebrow Immortal leaned close to Ye Qiu, sniffing hard with his nose, just like a dog.
“What are you doing?” Ye Qiu shoved Long Eyebrow Immortal away.
Long Eyebrow Immortal looked at Ye Qiu and said: “You really do smell like cola on you, little brat. Tell this poor Daoist, have you hidden some in your Qiankun bag…”
Hum!
A vast heavenly might descended, and suddenly the sky turned dark.
The abrupt change startled both of them.
Ye Qiu and Long Eyebrow Immortal looked up simultaneously, only to see roiling thunderclouds above the ninth heaven.
The heavenly tribulation was about to arrive!
“Old thing, quickly find a place to undergo tribulation.” Ye Qiu said.
Long Eyebrow Immortal said: “This is not my tribulation. I have suppressed my cultivation.”
Hm?
Ye Qiu seemed to realise something and hurriedly looked towards the attic, only to see Fairy Hundred Blossoms rushing out from inside and directly ascending into the high sky. Her body emitted an extremely powerful aura that even suppressed Ye Qiu and Long Eyebrow Immortal.
It was clear that Fairy Hundred Blossoms’s cultivation had already surpassed theirs.
“After Fairy Hundred Blossoms passes this tribulation, she should break through to the peak Golden Core realm.”
“Her progress is truly astonishing!”
Long Eyebrow Immortal chuckled: “Little brat, it seems that fire spirit pill helped Fairy Hundred Blossoms a great deal. Do you think, once she finishes her tribulation, she might offer herself to you in gratitude?”
Ye Qiu shot Long Eyebrow Immortal a glare: “Do not talk nonsense.”
“Boom!”
At that moment, the first heavenly tribulation struck, a full seven bolts of purple lightning chopping down towards Fairy Hundred Blossoms.
Fairy Hundred Blossoms’s entire body bloomed with red light, like a fiery lotus, and she withstood it directly without being injured in the slightest.
“Boom!”
The second heavenly tribulation descended.
This time, there were a total of fourteen bolts of purple lightning.
Each bolt was as thick as a mountain ridge, like a sea of purple, vast and terrifying, instantly engulfing Fairy Hundred Blossoms.
“The heavenly tribulation for peak Golden Core is so powerful!” Long Eyebrow Immortal exclaimed in awe.
Ye Qiu was also somewhat shocked, thinking to himself, who knows what kind of great tribulation will descend when I break through to peak Golden Core?
After a moment.
Fairy Hundred Blossoms burst out from the sea of lightning, her purple skirt fluttering, like a celestial fairy. Her devastatingly beautiful appearance made the mountains and rivers pale in comparison.
“Rumble!”
The third heavenly tribulation appeared. The enormous thunderclap nearly shattered one’s divine soul. A full twenty-eight bolts of purple lightning connected heaven and earth, like the Milky Way from the ninth heaven pouring down.
In an instant, lightning surged like tides in the air.
Fairy Hundred Blossoms was once again engulfed by the heavenly tribulation. Several minutes later, the third bolt finally dissipated.
At this point, Fairy Hundred Blossoms was covered in wounds, her hair dishevelled, and she had long lost her previous immortal poise.
“Rumble!”
The fourth heavenly tribulation fell, a total of forty-eight bolts of purple lightning forming a world of thunder and lightning, surging and surging.
Ye Qiu and Long Eyebrow Immortal’s faces both turned solemn at the same time. Anyone could see that this was no ordinary heavenly tribulation.
“I wonder if she can endure through it?”
Worry appeared in Ye Qiu’s eyes.
Although Fairy Hundred Blossoms was already injured, her aura grew ever stronger, without a trace of defeat. Instead, she charged straight towards the lightning, fighting fiercely.
In the vast and endless sea of lightning, she appeared exceptionally tiny, like a lone leaf boat in raging waves, mercilessly battered by the heavenly tribulation.
Ye Qiu stared fixedly at the sea of lightning, his heart in his throat.
“Ah!”
Suddenly, a cry of pain came from Fairy Hundred Blossoms in the sea of lightning. The next second, she was struck flying a thousand metres by the lightning, blood spraying across the sky.
