Chapter 434

Chapter 434: Who Crossed the Tribulation and Shook Shaking Light?

For the next month, Li Hui disguised himself in various identities to move about Huangting Mountain, dispersing all his pills and herbs to purchase thirteen jars of Eternal Liquid and two pieces of Lingxu Stone. He also spent much of his remaining talismans to acquire fragments of treasures and broken artifacts.

After clearing the bottleneck of the Seize the Day Talisman and accumulating talisman power to create over a hundred Boundless Cliff Talismans, he had left behind only a few secret techniques, now utterly bare.

The Seize the Day Talisman merely broke through one barrier; if he wanted to raise the time flow limit further, he would need to seek other opportunities.

Money flowed away like water, but it didn’t matter; as long as he had ability, he would soon restore his vitality.

During this time, Li Hui deepened his understanding of the Cloud-Brush Dragon Claw Technique and the controlling talisman hand seals, feeling that his heart aligned with the Dao, making daily progress.

The heart of Dao lies in nurturing, and this nurturing is truly extraordinary.

If the heart of Dao masters slaughter, then attacking the enemy is nurturing. If the heart of Dao is unbound, resolving crises is nurturing; thus, exploring dangerous secret realms and ruins can enhance his power and stabilize his heart of Dao, which is quite unique.

One day, he felt a strong urge and hurriedly left the royal city, choosing a secluded spot to sit down.

Not long after, dark clouds rolled in from all directions.

Such an imposing presence is rare in the world; even those demonic cultivators who had committed boundless slaughter, moving from Condensing Essence to Bosa, would not draw such a vast thunder tribulation.

Heaven seemed intent on reducing Li Hui to scraps; how many significant matters weighed on this kid? He fought against heaven for his life, helping the Celestial Tree to revive and nurturing a large den of demon cultivators, rushing to cultivate profound qi, seizing opportunities everywhere while appropriating others’ fortunes, releasing the Di Jiang Talisman Corpse of the Heavenly Talisman Sect, and severing avatars to constrain the Arhat Fruit.

Any one of these alone would be enough to evoke a monumental calamity; heaven’s killing intent was set to eliminate the demons!

Indeed, Li Hui was a demon, the Ideal Body alone was sufficient to go against the heavens, and paired with the Seize the Day Talisman, he treated formations and restrictions as trivialities.

Even heaven, having produced a child of fortune, would not be so exaggerated; if this kid became a practitioner at the Bosa stage, what then? Thus, it mobilized calamity power from miles around, thunder rumbling down.

Mountains danced with silver serpents, lightning flashed with thunder; the lightning didn’t come down in individual strokes but fell in clusters.

“Is it really necessary?” Li Hui looked up at the sky, thinking: “Something feels off! It’s said that heaven is merciless, treating all beings as grass dogs. In heaven’s eyes, all creatures are equal; I simply advanced from Condensing Essence to Bosa, not from Bosa to the Myriad Forms Stage. Why am I receiving such high treatment?”

The lightning exploded around him, but strangely, it vanished in an instant.

Heaven was furious; this kid had the audacity to absorb the thunder calamity power, clearly unaware of the consequences.

“Boom, boom, boom, boom…” The thunder transformed into a waterfall, into an hourglass, into an ocean, falling in various forms from the sky.

Li Hui remained unharmed, and thirty-six palm-sized lights shone around him, which were the Boundless Cliff Talismans, calling forth evil spirits from the Mysterious Pearl to merge with the thunder tribulations, hoping to cultivate thunderous evil spirits.

Using heavenly tribulations to refine talismans, even heaven would utilize it—how could that be allowed? Instantly, calamity power surged within thousands of miles, drawing many cultivators to observe from afar, thinking that a late-stage Bosa practitioner was crossing tribulation to enter the Myriad Forms Stage.

Sorry, this was merely Condensing Essence to Bosa, yet its power was outrageously great.

Soon, the thunder tribulation evolved into an ocean, crashing down toward the ground, swirling into a vortex aimed at Li Hui, but the thirty-six glowing orbs became even brighter, swallowing the lightning.

“Not bad, all thirty-six Boundless Cliff Talismans simultaneously broke through, upgrading from top-grade talismans to Yuanyuan Treasure Talismans, drawing even more malevolent aura and reaching a state of Yuan Transformation. Once I absorb the lightning and transform it into thunderous evil spirits, that will be the second Yuan Transformation; once the thunderous evils become Thunder Peak, that will be the third Yuan Transformation. If all goes well, I can create a Yuan Talisman, capable of suppressing the Four Fiends Absolute Kill Suppression Array, hoping for a true Jade Symbol transformation.”

Obtaining a Jade Symbol is exceedingly difficult; even spirit treasures cannot compare, as the crafting difficulties are beyond measure.

At present, he possessed only the Unity of Heaven and Earth Talisman and the Bull Demon King Talisman, along with the Yang Gu Talisman—a potent active talisman that was not in his hands.

Whether he could acquire a third Jade Symbol was uncertain; it required fortune and opportunity, and perhaps he needed just a bit more to succeed.

The thunder tribulation rampaged on, and the intensity surpassed the defensive limits of the thirty-six Boundless Cliff Talismans.

At this moment, another thirty-six talismans lit up, and the thunder calamity suddenly grew stronger. Li Hui finally felt pain and quickly summoned all one hundred eight Boundless Cliff Talismans to the battlefield.

The roar was deafening as the Boundless Cliff Talismans summoned horrifying malevolent energies from the Mysterious Pearl. With the interactions of both, they gave rise to thunderous evils, the second Yuan Transformation nearing completion, just moments away from generating faint flashes of Thunder Peak, but this checkpoint was challenging.

Li Hui formed hand seals with his fingers, and the silver snake bracelet released a spray of silver light, recently collecting talisman power from fragments of treasures had depleted nearly half. All the Boundless Cliff Talismans flickered with silver, suddenly unleashing unbelievable Thunder Peaks.

“Good, I’ve crossed a checkpoint.”

With the Boundless Cliff Thunder Peak Talisman established, the thunder tribulations vanished from all sides, even the sky fell silent. Li Hui nodded with satisfaction.

“Crack…” Black lightning appeared, shaking the ground and mountains.

Terrifying clouds of dust swirled, with even a single grain of sand weighing a hundred pounds, merging to form a storm that was easy to imagine. An endless heavy pressure enveloped him, as if a mountain were pressing down.

“Yang soil dust calamity?” Li Hui was surprised; this kind of calamity was too rare, rumored to be a specialty of the Wutu Continent, impossible to form in other continents.

Wutu refers to Yang soil, the densest and most substantial, suppressing all beings once calamity emerges. Even a Dao body or demonic fetus could not withstand it; they would perish—there would be no other outcome.

The earth beneath him creaked and groaned, and Li Hui activated the Ideal Body to resist the pressure, feeling his profound qi deplete exceptionally fast.

The Boundless Cliff Thunder Peak Talisman was consuming the black lightning, and it appeared to be quite laborious, managing to extinguish three strikes while ninety-six still remained.

“Is this the extreme yin thunder?” Li Hui felt quite gloomy, realizing that heaven was once again taking advantage of the situation. The Wutu region lacked many things, but it certainly had an abundance of dark energy brought by the dark moon; transformed into extreme yin thunder combined with Yang soil dust calamity, they attacked with a united force.

So ruthless, so harsh!

Facing a late-stage Condensing Essence practitioner, they exhibited the might typically reserved for late-stage Bosa or early Myriad Forms practitioners, even surpassing them. Thinking back to Hongmo Zheng and Qian Qiu Yue taking this step, how was there such a disparity?

Li Hui became furious, raising his hand to channel his talisman power, and behind him suddenly stood a Bull Demon King towering three hundred thirty-three zhang, wielding a vibrant staff smashing toward the sky.

“Boom, boom, boom…” The sky was filled with shadowy blows, too fast to believe, as it violently shattered the ninety-six streaks of black lightning while driving off the clouds and dust.

This was the might of the Jade Symbol, horrifying power tearing through the cloud layers, revealing the Broken Army Star, which, from afar, appeared as if even the stars were trembling.

Many cultivators witnessing this scene exclaimed in shock, “Who crossed the tribulation and shook Shaking Light? Even the calamity clouds broke apart—what kind of power must this be to achieve it?”

The Broken Army Star is also known as Shaking Light.

At this moment, many masters of techniques across the Great Xia looked on from afar, their gazes full of confusion: “The calamity clouds part, the Broken Army appears—has Chen Tiange emerged?”