Chapter 137: Manifestation
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“It’s probably because you’ve slain too many phantom beasts, unintentionally triggering this secret realm’s life-and-death tribulation,” Su Ran explained.
“Killing too many phantom beasts?” Chen Fei hadn’t expected that his actions would bring such a crisis upon them.
“The essence of phantom beasts is the source of power in this secret realm.”
“The more phantom beasts you kill and the stronger you become, the secret realm may misjudge the situation, believing that the intruder has exceeded its designated power limits.”
“When such a power anomaly appears, it’s seen as a provocation to the secret realm’s master. Thus, the master of this realm triggers the life-and-death tribulation to eliminate the challenger.”
Su Ran added further explanation.
“This is so unfair!” Chen Fei looked aggrieved. When had he ever provoked the secret realm’s master? He hadn’t even exceeded the realm’s prescribed limits. At present, he was only at the fourth-rank True Spirit Master stage, and his Technique Spirit Master rank hadn’t even fully reached four hundred segments.
His cultivation level was well within the accepted range.
If anything was exceeding the limits, it had to be the Void Heaven Cauldron!
The Void Heaven Cauldron naturally possessed an immensely restraining effect on energy-based creatures like phantom beasts, allowing him to kill even late-stage ninth-rank True Spirit Master phantom beasts with a single strike despite his weaker cultivation.
“This isn’t unfair at all!”
“In this secret realm, the number of phantom beasts you’ve slain has already reached nearly a hundred.”
“If it were just the quantity, perhaps it wouldn’t have been enough to trigger the life-and-death tribulation. The key issue is that you even killed four late-stage ninth-rank True Spirit Master phantom beasts with a single strike.”
“It’s no surprise that this has triggered the tribulation.”
Su Ran found Chen Fei’s aggrieved expression amusing.
“I was doing all this for you, my wife, yet you still find it funny.” Chen Fei smiled bitterly.
“The tribulation has already begun. We can’t escape!” Su Ran laughed. “Now, we just have to see what kind of measures the master of this secret realm will take against us!”
“Wife, you don’t seem scared at all?” Chen Fei asked in confusion.
“There’s no need to be scared. This tribulation was triggered by you, and I was merely implicated. So for me, the difficulty shouldn’t be too great. Now that my strength has increased significantly, if all goes as expected, this tribulation will only bring me benefits, not harm.”
Su Ran spoke playfully, her tone lighthearted and seemingly indifferent.
Seeing Su Ran’s relaxed attitude, Chen Fei felt a bit reassured.
Su Ran would never stand by and watch him fall into a life-and-death crisis without concern. If she wasn’t worried, then this so-called life-and-death tribulation might not be as dangerous as it seemed—perhaps it would even be beneficial for him.
As the ice sculptures around them collided more and more violently, large numbers of ice shards shattered upon impact, falling and rolling down the mountainside.
Chen Fei and Su Ran had already stopped moving. They stood still, waiting for the means left behind by the master of this secret realm to manifest.
Soon, a thick mist began to rise, engulfing Chen Fei and Su Ran in a dense fog.
Before they could react, a terrifying force descended from above, forcibly separating them. Then, the fabric of space shifted, and in the next moment, the two of them vanished from the spot.
Once they were taken away by this powerful force, the snowy mountain returned to silence.
“It’s done!”
“The demonic technique is finally complete!”
Meanwhile, deep within the inner region, Ye Chenxing, who had been cultivating his Bloodbreaking Demon Technique, had finally fused himself with his demonic weapon.
“Su Ran, Chen Yang!”
“Your time has come!”
The moment Ye Chenxing completed his cultivation, he could no longer hold back. Without hesitation, he rushed toward the core area.
He was worried that if he delayed too long, Su Ran’s strength would grow even further, making her even harder to deal with.
Before long, Ye Chenxing arrived at the core area. Using his secret technique, he attempted to sense Su Ran’s whereabouts.
“Hm?”
“They’ve already left the core area and gone to the forbidden zone’s snowy mountain?”
Ye Chenxing quickened his pace, heading straight for the snowy mountain.
He wasn’t the only one searching for Su Ran. The gray-robed man from Qinling was also traversing the snowy peaks, finally discovering a rare spiritual fruit that could help him break through his cultivation limits.
Facing a peak ninth-rank True Spirit Master phantom beast, the gray-robed man showed no signs of retreating. He was determined to fight to the death, no matter what it took, to obtain the glowing red spiritual fruit.
Ye Chenxing searched for Su Ran. The gray-robed man risked everything to grow stronger, all for the sake of Su Ran’s Phoenix bloodline.
But at this moment, Su Ran had already been taken into an independent space by the power of the life-and-death tribulation. No one could find her—not even Chen Fei knew where she had gone.
In this isolated space, Su Ran showed no concern. Instead, she hovered in midair, a phoenix shadow manifesting behind her.
“My descent upon this place is your fortune,” Su Ran said indifferently.
“Helping me awaken my bloodline won’t be able to bring you back to life, but it will ensure your inheritance doesn’t fade. If one day, someone truly reaches the pinnacle, then perhaps fate has not forsaken you entirely.”
She continued speaking.
Yet, all around Su Ran, there was nothing but emptiness.
Strangely, the moment she finished speaking, a force surged forth, coalescing into a vague figure.
If Chen Fei were here, he would have immediately recognized this figure—it was the same statue of a man he had encountered in the temple hall after crossing the floating bridge on the second layer of the secret realm.
To obtain this man’s inheritance, Chen Fei had once knelt respectfully, performing three prostrations and nine kowtows. In return, he had received the Axe Spirit Weapon.
Without the Axe Spirit Weapon, Chen Fei would never have survived until now. Twice, the weapon had saved him, resisting demonic artifacts and preserving both his and Su Ran’s lives.
Chen Fei was unaware of Su Ran’s situation. He, too, had been drawn into an independent space by that overwhelming force.
Upon arrival, he found himself in an environment nearly identical to Su Ran’s.
As he curiously observed his surroundings, unsure of what to do, a terrifying force suddenly manifested from the void.
Then, without warning, this force hurtled straight toward him.
Chen Fei had no time to comprehend what was happening before he was struck by such a terrifying attack. His face turned pale with fear.
“Didn’t Su Ran say this wouldn’t be too dangerous?”
“The level of this power… it’s probably beyond even the peak of the ninth-rank True Spirit Master realm!”
Chen Fei’s expression darkened. In an instant, he activated his full power, transforming into an eight-hundred-segment Technique Spirit Master. He unleashed his Earth Spirit Technique at full force, surrounding himself with layers of earthen shields.
