In Jun City, Tribulation Thunder piled upon each other, and the booming sounds were like the sky splitting open. Not only did it shake Jun City, but it also caused the townspeople and cultivators to panic and flee, avoiding the center of the Tribulation Thunder.

Centered around where Jiang Li was, within a radius of a mile, everything was in ruins, especially where the mansion had originally been located; it had turned into bare ground, and the air was thick with moisture, threatening to turn the area into a body of water.

And still, this was far from the limit.

With Wuzhiqi as the source, the tribulation would continue to evolve, and could even reach the fourth-rank level.

At that time, it would be truly terrifying. Even if Jiang Li was exceptionally talented, facing a fourth-rank tribulation would likely be too much for him.

This was probably what many onlookers were thinking.

As the Tribulation Thunder intensified, a faint blue butterfly flitted gently, existing somewhere between being and non-being, quietly arriving at the point where the thunder was striking.

A swarm of butterflies fluttered, coming together and transforming, a slightly transparent figure appearing, sitting cross-legged in the air opposite Jiang Li's physical body. Upon seeing him, Tianxuan immediately strengthened the starlight Qi Shield, coating it in a layer of dazzling stardust to further block any prying eyes.

The figure nodded at her, then flew into the physical body.

This was just a Primordial Spirit.

It appeared to be the True Body, but it was actually a Primordial Spirit causing confusion with falsehood. Ling Wujue could not see through it because of the immense difference in power, and more so because of Jiang Li's Dao Fruit Divine Power "Outer Object Transformation."

This Divine Skill seemed to be an evolution from the Grandmaster Dao Fruit's "Dream Butterfly," capable of freely shaping one's own consciousness and Divine Sense into something nearly real.

It worked similarly to the Moluo Sword Manual, transforming illusion into reality. Almost instantly after acquiring it, Jiang Li had integrated it with the Moluo Sword Manual, creating an ability where whatever he thought, became reality.

He wanted to destroy Ling Wujue's talisman and Jade Talisman; his Divine Sense transformed into an Invisible Power and obliterated them.

He wanted to block Ling Wujue's Sword Style; his gaze transformed into a tangible barrier, blocking the attack.

Before that, Jiang Li wanted his Primordial Spirit to become real, making it nearly indistinguishable from his physical body.

Additionally, Jiang Li used "Carefree Travel" to allow his Primordial Spirit to silently reach the outskirts of the city, undetected by anyone.

In his initial use of Zhuang Zhou's Divine Skills, Jiang Li could only think of four words—do as one pleases.

As long as he could sufficiently wield these Divine Powers and control the wisdom granted by the Dao Fruit, Jiang Li could do as he pleased, with nothing impossible.

At that moment, he was experiencing this wonderful sensation.

Unfortunately, Jiang Li was not yet capable of reaching this stage, neither in wielding Divine Powers nor controlling wisdom.

When the Primordial Spirit returned to the body, Jiang Li subconsciously began thinking again, causing his brain to overload and his forehead to figuratively smoke.

"This Dao Fruit is great in everything, but the mental load is too heavy, and it's too liberating," Jiang Li complained in his mind.

Do as one pleases, freedom, to become anything one thinks of, bound by nothing—this represented an exceedingly high Realm, but Jiang Li was having a hard time adapting. After all, he was not Zhuang Zhou, capable of fully enjoying the metaphysical carefreeness.

He didn't plan to comply with this carefree spirit and become another Zhuang Zhou; instead, he wanted to make the Dao Fruit Divine Powers and wisdom truly his own.

The Dao Fruit is just that, a Dao Fruit; cultivators should use it to cultivate, not be assimilated by it. Acting is just that, acting, not becoming another person.

When this thought emerged, his overheated brain suddenly cooled down, and the uncontrollable influx of information began to subside.

Uncontrolled carefreeness isn't actually carefree, but madness. Jiang Li precisely grasped this key point and used his own thoughts to guide and contain the Dao Fruit.

Once again, he opened his eyes which, beyond the patterns of stars, heavenly stems, and Eight Trigrams, now subtly included some additional symbols and text.

"Master, you can remove the defenses now,"

Jiang Li looked up at the sky and saw the abyss-like swirl of tribulation clouds, and he spoke faintly.

With the Dao Fruit advanced and the person killed, what remained was just the final task of crossing the tribulation.

Tianxuan, upon hearing this, also didn't speak more. She directly withdrew the starlight Qi Shield, and in an instant, Divine Thunder furiously crashed down, black thunderbolts with rippling water waves plummeting down.

"Heaven and earth share one Qi, all things naturally transform into one Qi."

Facing the Ren Water Divine Thunder, Jiang Li rose into the air, and the enormous Array Map reappeared, using him as its nucleus, transforming and adapting—the Ren Water Divine Thunder striking it, disappearing into the Array Map like drops of water into the sea.

Jiang Li's eyes reflected the intricate patterns, and as the Wind Queen's Strange Gate was deployed, arrays of Magic Text appeared around the external Array Map, with heaven, earth, humanity, and divinity turning in succession, deciphering Ren Water, allowing Innate Qi to dissolve the Divine Thunder.

The mysteries of the Ren Water Divine Thunder were deciphered, and then digested with Innate Qi, transformed into Innate Water Qi, even enlightening the remaining water-related principles among the Innate Eight Qi.

This groundbreaking wisdom allowed Jiang Li to slightly evolve what he had learned, creating a massive Array to protect his rising body and receiving the Heavenly Tribulation.

The crashing Tribulation Thunder was absorbed, the Array evolving like the intertwining of the Innate Eight Qi, forming a vast sphere, continually expanding, intending to refine the Heavenly Tribulation in reverse.

Ordinary people crossing tribulations use the Tribulation Thunder to purify their True Qi, refining the Yin Dregs and thus sublime themselves, but for Jiang Li right now, refining Yin Dregs did not require Tribulation Thunder; he could even refine the Tribulation Qi and tribulation clouds in reverse.

The Array expanded, soon covering over a hundred yards, and still expanding, even forcefully extracting the Qi of Ren Water through its Qi Mechanism and the Tribulation Qi.

"Gah!"

A strange cry came from the sky as Wuzhiqi's voice rang out like muffled thunder, "To actually reverse the situation and use the Heavenly Tribulation and my divine power as sustenance, how audacious of the younger generation."

As his words fell, thunder roared and the Heavenly Tribulation seemed to evolve consciously.

Though it was a man-made tribulation, fueled by human sources, the essence of the Heavenly Tribulation was still the natural evolution of heaven and earth. It only appeared with human intervention because the spiritual mechanism of heaven and earth no longer existed.

Jiang Li sought to refine the Heavenly Tribulation, and naturally, the tribulation evolved accordingly, just as it initially targeted Jiang Li's Fire Element and transformed into the Ren Water Divine Thunder.

Whoosh—

From within the whirlpool of tribulation clouds, a sound like surging waves emerged, and another stream of water qi merged into it.

Gui Water!

Ren Water is yang, Gui Water is yin; Ren is the surging water of river tides, while Gui is the boundless water of the ocean. Wuzhiqi was originally the Huai River True God, proficient in the ways of Ren Water, but this Water Monkey had also become the son-in-law of the Dragon Palace and had obtained the methods of Gui Water, which were no less significant than his divine powers.

Seeing Jiang Li's audacity, Wuzhiqi now channeled the qi of Gui Water. Combining Ren and Gui, he utilized the evolution of heaven and earth to transform it into the ultimate form of water.

'Wuzhiqi, this Water Monkey, does not belittle his years of experience as a demon; he also knows how to utilize the Heavenly Tribulation so adeptly,' thought Tianxuan, secretly praising him in his heart.

Devil Cultivators were not true demons; they were still of the Human Race. Even though Wuzhiqi had fully embraced his demonic nature, he hadn't lost his human intellect and had instead gained a demon's wiliness.

This maneuver aided the Heavenly Tribulation, causing the tribulation thunder to change again as blue qi merged into the tribulation clouds. A huge water globe, blending black and blue colors and shaped like the Taiji, plummeted from the abyssal vortex.

Its momentum was like a meteor, and behind it surged an overwhelming torrent of water qi, pulling down all the water clouds gathered above Shu County.

In that instant, the sky seemed to collapse, the dark clouds pressing down, almost as if they would crush the entire county.

In a blink, the water globe, like a star battle, smashed onto the array, as Wind Queen's Strange Gate evolved infinitely with Magic Talisman, the four plates rotating, dismantling Ren and Gui, and a giant Dragon Claw emerged from the array.

"Ao—"

Only to see Jiang Li's figure had been replaced by a huge winged dragon. The Dragon Claw manipulated the water clouds, the Strange Gate summoning wind and rain, instantly turning into a situation where he could call forth wind and rain, the Yinglong Transformation.

Boom!

The claw of the Yinglong grabbed onto the water globe, the Innate Eight Qi surged into it, combining "Unity" with the Emperor's Qi Observation Skill to detect the connection between Ren and Gui, and then breaking it with the Innate Eight Qi.

Then, the pure black and blue water qi abruptly split into two streams, the Eight Qi intervening explosively between them.

Bang!

The towering water qi was ignited in an instant, generating torrential tidal currents in the sky. Water waves splashed wildly, resembling the inverted Milky Way, vastly majestic and vast.

Whoosh!

Like a pouring waterfall, the torrential rain fell from the sky, its momentum seemingly enough to drown the entire city, pouring into the streets and turning them into raging rivers.

But then, sunlight appeared.

The dark clouds in the sky drained away with that wave of inverted heavenly river-like rain, revealing long-lost sunlight over Jun City, displaying a rainbow in the sky.

This wave of aid from Wuzhiqi turned days of effort into nothing.

And above that rainbow, a dragon shadow flashed, majestic in every aspect, bringing an immense sense of awe to the people below.

"Ah!"

From afar, Wuzhiqi let out a fierce howl, ashamed to be disgraced by a junior, truly making him furious enough to storm directly into Jun City and slay the young man who caused him embarrassment.

He even truly considered it.

But in the next instant, a bright moon rose from the city, cutting through the sky, its boundless desolation and chill falling on the surging waves, instantly turning the torrent into ice. As the Taiyin Heaven arrived, moonlight turned everything into a silvery white.

Tianxuan had made his move.

Wuzhiqi's aid in the Heavenly Tribulation, though negligible in terms of the power consumed for his hundred-yard demon body, did result in a slight decline in his qi mechanism.

At this moment, Tianxuan finally acted, seizing the opportunity, his chilling killing intent merged into the moonlight, the intense cold making even Wuzhiqi feel frozen to the marrow.

He looked up, seeing the falling moon, his eyes bursting with golden light, suddenly raising both hands to the sky in a supporting gesture, holding up the Taiyin Moonlight, and shaking violently.

"Boom!"

The moonlight shattered like a solid body, the centuries-old demon exhibiting his peerless cultivation, forcibly challenging this utmost yin energy.

Then, the Taiyin Bright Moon fell, all colors in the world erased, replaced only by absolute white.

The mountain where Wuzhiqi was located turned into an ice mountain, all Devil Cultivators below frozen solid, then disappearing into the endless radiance.

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