“Give me a break.” A disciple timely interjected: “This kind of thunder tribulation, even Mahayana cultivators might not be able to survive. If tribulation fails, with such a great thunder tribulation, the person would probably be struck until not even ashes remain. Fortunately, this fellow isn’t on our Gufeng Mountain; otherwise, when dozens of purple tribulation clouds strike down, our entire mountain might be gone.”

The hall doors blocked out the commotion outside. Inside the hall, everyone looked at the distant dark clouds, each heavy with their thoughts.

Yueqin couldn’t help but speak: “Sect Master, fellow cultivators from earlier years have long since fallen, and among the new generation, we’ve never heard of anyone with such cultivation. This… could it be the demon race?”

The demon race was already eyeing them covetously. If another genius emerged among them, it really wouldn’t be good news for the human world.

“If it’s the demon race, they’re unlucky enough,” Xuan Lingzi coughed lightly: “We don’t even have confidence we could withstand this kind of tribulation cloud. Since the Demon Lord’s fall, even if a genius emerged among the demon realm’s younger generation, they would certainly die under one strike of purple tribulation clouds, let alone dozens of them. This isn’t tribulation – it’s simply punishment.”

Yueqin originally wanted to refute, but thinking carefully, Xuan Lingzi’s words made sense. With such thunder tribulation, none of them in this hall could withstand it, so how could the demon race… fare any better?

Shaoyang Zhenren stood with his hands behind his back, looking into the distance. The rolling tribulation clouds in the distance reflected in his calm eyes. After a very long time, he lowered his eyes and said softly: “It has emerged.”

……

The purple thunder tribulation across Duzhou’s lands struck toward a certain place again and again, as if without end.

Hidden remnant demon race members everywhere couldn’t help but look in the direction where tribulation clouds gathered at the same time.

The demon race was a people who grew in the darkest places, born fearing lightning. Yet this turbulent and violent thunder tribulation striking down again and again made the blood in their bodies slightly boil.

It wasn’t an illusion.

In the wasteland, huge rocks lay exposed. In the undulating mountain ranges, there was nothing but dead wood and pitch-Heishis. Some demon cultivator guards heard the commotion and also looked up at the tribulation clouds on the horizon to watch the excitement.

While watching, he suddenly felt the sound of flowing water by his ears. Startled, he looked down to see a drop of spring water emerging from spiritual veins that had been dry for so long.

The demon cultivator rubbed his eyes, unable to believe the scene before him.

The demon realm’s spiritual veins had gradually dried up after Demon Lord Gui Diaotang’s death that year. Two years ago, the withered spiritual veins had regained vitality, but it was only adding a trace of life force. But even this trace of life force was enough to let the demon realm, which had been dispirited for years, regain its spirit. Gui Yansheng was able to gather a batch of followers precisely by relying on this trace of life force.

And now, that dried spiritual spring had somehow begun bubbling with clear dark currents from its source.

The dark currents carried pure Demon Lord essence, surging forward and instantly moistening the dry wasteland. In just moments, demon race members scattered across Duzhou simultaneously felt the Demon Lord essence in their bodies boiling, as if about to burst out from within, their entire bodies filled with mighty power.

In the great hall, Rong Chun picked up fruits that had fallen to the ground due to the chaos, feeling somewhat uneasy. Now that Gui Yansheng had been in closed-door cultivation for many days without a trace, this young man’s whereabouts were uncertain – no one knew where he had gone. If chaos broke out at this time, as an ordinary person in this place, it wouldn’t be very safe.

Just as she was thinking this, excited voices of demon cultivators came: “Spiritual veins! The spiritual veins are moving!”

Rong Chun’s heart jumped. She got up to look outside, and the demon cultivators gathered at the hall entrance all rushed toward the direction of the demon realm’s spiritual veins with a “whoosh,” accompanied by excited shouts.

“The spiritual veins are flowing again! The Demon Lord has returned!”

……

“RUMBLE——”

Countless purple lightning bolts crashed down from the firmament, all striking toward the head of the girl sitting in the ice cave.

Bujiang couldn’t help but clench her fists, then relax them again, staring fixedly at a corner of the Ice Abyss.

This purple thunder tribulation had been going on for a day and night since it began, with no sign of stopping. If not for that green tree shadow still growing, she would find it hard to confirm whether Zanxing still had any life force.

The thunder tribulation contained the mighty and violent power of heaven and earth’s laws. Even she wasn’t confident she could endure it all, let alone Zanxing, who didn’t even have a Golden Core. But those purple thunder tribulations falling into the ice cave were like falling into a giant beast’s mouth – surging forth yet disappearing silently.

From the ice cave seemed to come the low roar of a wild beast. This roaring was indistinct and unclear, but in the silent abyss, it rang out like a startling explosion.

How could there be beast cries in the Extreme Ice Abyss?

Bujiang was startled, suddenly thinking of something, her expression becoming strange: “Yinlang Shi…”

Besides Zanxing, there had always been a listless fat cat. This cat was said to have a trace of Yinlang Shi bloodline, but that tiny trace of bloodline couldn’t possibly allow the spirit beast to awaken. Most likely, this Yinlang Shi was no different from an ordinary house cat.

However…

When Zanxing was on Gufeng Mountain, she often fed the cat with handfuls of pills, ultimately adding some spiritual qi to the cat. Later, at Li’er Kingdom, Wu Fan City, the treasure ground… in every trial, Mimi never fell behind. Finally, it even jumped into the Divine Fire Pillar during the Ten Thousand Kill Formation, devouring countless Divine Fire flowers.

Divine Fire was deadly poison to the demon race, but not necessarily to spirit beasts. Being scorched by Divine Fire, then entering the Ice Abyss into extreme cold – between ice and fire, it had experienced trials that other spirit beasts would never have in their lifetime. Reshaping its beast body and awakening its bloodline wasn’t impossible.

The immortal records noted: East of the Northern Sea, there are Yinlang, shaped like lion beasts, with silver bodies and snow feet, feeding on clouds for sustenance.

Feeding on clouds naturally included tribulation clouds.

Just as she was thinking this, the purple tribulation clouds overhead suddenly became even denser. Though it was night, when the azure flowers should bloom, they seemed frightened by this mighty thunder tribulation and their petals closed, leaving the entire Ice Abyss pitch black.

“Crack—”

A crisp sound rang out from the depths of the Ice Abyss.

That ice cave, which had remained motionless day and night, the prison wrapping the girl, suddenly showed a fine crack on its ice surface.

“Crack crack—”

This crack was originally just a thin line, but in an instant, it rapidly spread across the entire ice surface, like cracks on snow-white porcelain, spreading from the bottom and continuously moving upward.

“RUMBLE—”

The ice cave seemed finally unable to maintain itself and shattered all at once. From within came the roar of a giant beast. Before Bujiang could see clearly, she saw an azure light shoot straight into the clouds from the pitch-black ice cave. A woman riding a silver giant lion leaped out from the bottomless long abyss, then raised the azure long staff in her hand toward the ice wall of the deep abyss—

Striking down with full force!

In an instant, a tremendous sound came from the depths of the Duzhou continent.

Countless fierce beasts in the mountain forests cowered and prostrated themselves, as if frightened by this tremendous change between heaven and earth. That azure light passed through the cloud layers, scattering the heavy tribulation clouds.

In the Ice Abyss, the sound of falling rocks could be heard.

Those names carved on the ice wall by a strange power all shattered in this azure light, crumbling bit by bit into ash.

Bujiang felt the giant stone locks binding her body loosen. She looked up to hear the endless sound of ice surface cracking. The place of extreme yin that had imprisoned the demon race began collapsing inch by inch.

The Extreme Ice Abyss had collapsed.

Bujiang looked up in shock toward the top, where the Ice Abyss connected with the firmament. The woman holding the azure long staff stood there, gently stroking the head of the silver male lion beside her. Countless stars fell on her head, illuminating her face. She was beautiful, with a gentle expression, and at her forehead bloomed a small begonia flower.

Not black, not red, but azure.

The Demon Lord’s bloodline had awakened.

The ancient abyss slowly crumbled beneath her feet. The night sky was brilliant, silver flames glowing. She said: “The second one.”

She had become the second person to leave the Extreme Ice Abyss.

End of Star Chapter