Chapter 1365: 547 Taiyi True Immortals fall, a Realm Master is finally made!
The Heavenly Tribulation grew increasingly terrifying, the aura of destruction even tearing apart the boundless heavens. Countless spatial cracks spread like fine threads, enveloping this space and transforming it into an absolute death zone.
"Pfft!"
Several terrified Profound Immortals turned into streams of light as they fled into the distance. However, when they passed through a portion of space ravaged by the Heavenly Tribulation, in the blink of an eye, their Immortal Bodies were obliterated, torn apart by the innumerable tiny spatial cracks.
Even their Profound Immortal Dao Fruits were destroyed beneath the horrifying tears in space.
In an instant.
Pieces of shattered flesh rained down from the sky, their deaths utterly devoid of any ripple or significance.
Elsewhere, a Taiyi True Immortal, who had just been struck down into the earth by a bolt of the Tribulation Lightning, was left with charred hair, coughing up mouthfuls of blood. Above his head, a supposed Immortal Artifact resembling a Mixed Element Umbrella emitted a light screen that stretched toward the heavens.
At this moment, his eyes no longer held the confidence, immortal grace, and arrogance he had displayed when facing Su Yu earlier.
All that remained were terror and unease.
"Run, run, run!"
The third bolt of the Tribulation Lightning alone had forced him to use his Lifebound Immortal Artifact for protection.
Two more bolts, and wouldn't he meet his end here as well!?
Although he knew the Mahayana Immortal Fruit was unimaginably powerful—perhaps not appearing even once within the Immortal World in millions of years—he had never imagined the tribulation would be this horrifying.
Even he, a Taiyi True Immortal, could endure only a few bolts of this Heavenly Tribulation!
Just after he fled from the ground, clutching his Mixed Element Umbrella, he frantically rushed to escape the Immortal Tribulation's zone.
Yet, before even half a breath passed, the Heavenly Tribulation descended again with a deafening roar: "BOOM!!!!"
"Pfft!"
Once more, he was struck by the terrifying bolt, slammed straight into the ground.
The protective barrier of the Mixed Element Umbrella shattered, and the umbrella itself nearly disintegrated into nothingness.
His Taiyi True Immortal body also began to reveal cracks.
Buried beneath the earth, his body and even his Immortal Soul were bathed in destructive bolts of lightning. The terrifying aura of annihilation coiled around him entirely, extinguishing nearly thirty percent of his life force in that single strike!
What terrified him most was that even his Taiyi True Immortal Dao Fruit seemed destabilized.
As though this Tribulation intended to strip away his cultivation, reducing him from Taiyi True Immortal back to the Profound Immortal realm!
"I *&^#$!"
Regret consumed him, and he cursed furiously. Damn it—what sort of accursed Heavenly Tribulation was this, capable of outright obliterating one's cultivation?
Haggard and battered, he crawled out of the deep pit, his movement far slower now, his injuries severe.
The air around him was filled entirely with the destructive aura of the Tribulation Lightning. Even his breaths exhaled streaks of crackling electricity.
Just as he emerged from the dirt pit, the fifth bolt of Heavenly Tribulation descended from the Nine Heavens: "BOOM!"
"Pfft!"
In an instant.
A Taiyi True Immortal was reduced to ashes, annihilated entirely along with his Taiyi Dao Fruit. That life force vanished without a trace.
In the distance.
Fairy Wen of the Nine Immortals Sect looked on, her hair standing on end, her eyes filled with terror and awe. She had just witnessed with her own eyes a Taiyi True Immortal perish beneath the Heavenly Tribulation.
As this bolt of Tribulation was completed, a profound feeling of relief and gratitude for surviving washed over her.
Thank goodness!
Thank goodness she had not acted on impulse and charged in.
Otherwise, among the dead, she might very well have been one!
She turned her gaze toward the center of the Tribulation. By now, the once-lofty Immortal Mountain had been leveled by the strikes of the Tribulation Lightning. The humanoid figure that had been visible earlier was already gone without a trace.
In its place, there remained only a scintillating golden Immortal Dao Spiritual Plant.
The moment she saw that plant, Fairy Wen suddenly understood: "No wonder it could comprehend the Life Dao and condense the Life Dao Fruit as a Mahayana Immortal Fruit. As it turns out, it was an Immortal Wood."
However, upon realizing its true nature was an Immortal Wood undergoing tribulation, an even greater envy sparked in Fairy Wen's heart. Instinctively, a glimmer of greed flickered in her gaze.
An Immortal Wood of this level—
If she could get her hands on it, use its essence for Artifact Refining...
In the distance.
A man stationed at a stronghold of the Infinite Immortal Palace also revealed subtle astonishment in his eyes. Earlier, he hadn't attempted to discern the small one's true form. Only now, under the trials of the Immortal Tribulation, did it reveal its nature—it wasn't of the Human Clan?
It was an Immortal Root Spirit Wood?
Such instances were exceedingly rare.
To condense a Life Immortal Fruit—this kind of Mahayana Dao Fruit—an Immortal Root Spirit Wood capable of such a feat was even rarer.
Furthermore!
Gleaming with profound insight, the man focused on the tribulation zone where Su Yu was undergoing his trial. While time and space were inherently more abstruse than the Life Immortal Path, he could clearly sense something unusual in that region of time and space.
The speed of the Heavenly Tribulation's descent was abnormal.
Ordinarily, Heavenly Tribulations would not fall at such an unrelenting pace!
The impression was as though the timespace occupied by them and the timespace encompassing the Tribulation were at fundamentally different speeds...
With this realization, the man's expression shifted to one of shock.
"Not only has he condensed the Life Immortal Fruit, but he also comprehends time and space!"
In that instant, his heart trembled with both fear and intrigue.
It wasn't that he coveted the mere entity of a newly ascended Immortal Root Spirit Wood.
Rather, a being of such unparalleled talent...
If they could draw him into the Infinite Immortal Palace, then the palace might gain another prodigious Dao Seed, capable of challenging even the Eight Great Immortal Sects.
Perhaps—just perhaps—this extraordinary being might even elevate the Infinite Immortal Palace to produce its ultimate Daozi!
In the man's view, this little one already possessed such potential.
At that moment, as if sensing something, his eyes narrowed slightly, looking toward other parts of the Infinite Immortal Mansion. The instant the Immortal Root Spirit Wood's true form had been exposed, he noticed many entities stirring restlessly, preparing to approach the Infinite Immortal Mansion.
But before they could get closer, the man's indifferent voice rang out across the mansion: "Leave."
"This little one belongs to the Infinite Immortal Palace now."
Yet no sooner had his words fallen than another domineering voice thundered from beyond the Infinite Immortal Mansion: "Taoist Friend Ying, I must contest that. If I'm not mistaken, this little one isn't part of the Infinite Immortal Palace. Since it is rootless, might it not also belong among the Heavenly Court's geniuses?"
The man didn't bother sparing him a glance and replied calmly, "He is within the domain of the Infinite Immortal Mansion, which means he is of the Infinite Immortal Palace. If you're displeased, feel free to take it up with the Old Ancestor."
The Heavenly Court's envoy was so choked by this retort that he couldn't even retort back...
Damn it.
That argument was annoyingly reasonable!
This domain was indeed part of the Infinite Immortal Palace's territory—its sovereign land!
The little one undergoing tribulation was certainly within the bounds of the Infinite Immortal Mansion. From this perspective, those words held no flaw.
But as he observed the Immortal Root Spirit Wood enduring the Immortal Tribulation with effortless grace, untouched and unscathed, his gaze flickered with envy and covetous desire.
A prodigy like this—if he could take control of him...
Amid the Tribulation.
Su Yu continued maintaining his Divine Skill over time and space. Under his control, not only the Tribulation but the flow of time in the entire region was being manipulated, with one bolt of lightning following another at a terrifying pace.
And while the Lightning was indeed fearsome, when it struck his Immortal Wood body—formed from the Divine Strange Seed—it didn't even elicit the slightest sensation, not even an itch.
Only the terrifying Immortal Dao Origin Power continued surging into his body with every strike of lightning.
The Life Immortal Dao Fruit was visibly forming!
Simultaneously.
As his Divine Split Body ascended through the tribulation, Su Yu's true body in the Lower Realm, which was integrating with the source of the Cultivation World and preparing to become Realm Master, seemed to sink into an unprecedented state of enlightenment.
A brilliance of thought unlike anything before surged through his mind, the mysteries contained within the source of the Cultivation World pouring into his awareness as though being directly infused.
Leaning into the opportunity of his Divine Split Body's celestial ascension, his true body's awareness seemed to transcend its former boundaries, no longer limited by mortal understanding.
Fully immersed in merging with the Cultivation World source, his progress surged unhindered, and he murmured softly to himself, "So this is the truth."
Boom!
With the breakthrough of those mental barriers, the Cultivation World trembled.
An inexplicable wave of reverence coursed through the hearts of countless living beings, each experiencing an awe they couldn't articulate.
Many were visibly shaken before ultimately lowering their heads, bowing with utmost respect: "Congratulations to the Realm Master on your achievement!"