Soul Land 5: The Rebirth of Tang San-Chapter 745: A Gift to the Plane

The Crystal Demon Emperor was utterly stunned at this moment. What is this guy doing? Being right next to Tang San, she could feel everything most acutely.

What was Tang San doing? Inside the lotus seeds was the purest fortune of Falan Planet, accumulated by the Celestial Fox Clan over countless years, without any of the negative aspects. As Tang San used his Discerning Eye of Heaven to control this fortune and block the lightning, the fortune seed struck by the lightning naturally merged into the tribulation and then dissipated into the world, essentially being reclaimed by the plane.

What Tang San was doing now was tantamount to bribing the plane. That was why the last lightning strike had been so much gentler—it was as if the plane found his actions very agreeable.

Is this even possible?

When Tang San first arrived at the Heavenly Bloom, he had counted eighteen lotus seeds in total.

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The reason he didn’t do this earlier was to avoid pushing the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor into a corner. He also wanted his body to endure the lightning properly; how could it reach the apex otherwise?

But as his body was reaching its limit, this tactic had to be used. The tribulation was indeed much easier to withstand after the "bribe." Of course, the tribulation’s intent to destroy Tang San hadn’t changed, but such a bribe of fortune was undoubtedly welcomed by the plane.

As the Crystal Demon Emperor had said before, the Celestial Fox clan’s continuous accumulation of fortune on the Celestial Fox Sacred Mountain was certainly beneficial for the demon and nymph clans and the Daemon Continent, but it was very detrimental to the balance of the entire plane. Returning some of this fortune, especially in such a pure form, was naturally something the plane favored.

At this point, the lightning had become terrifyingly powerful, and the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor couldn’t stop it even if he wanted to. If he tried to stop Tang San from undergoing the tribulation, the lightning would still descend and destroy the entire Heavenly Bloom instead, which would be far worse than losing a single lotus seed.

The eighth lightning strike descended, and the Emperors outside suddenly had a strange feeling. The lightning that fell from the sky was now naturally converging toward the center, requiring less effort from them to compress it inward. Moreover, since it didn’t clash against them, its power was whole and unadulterated. It was almost as if the tribulation was conscious!

By now, the Emperors were almost numb. They couldn’t imagine what kind of situation could attract such a tribulation and didn’t even believe any creature could survive this. After all, if over a dozen Emperors couldn’t, then who could?

As the eighth lightning strike descended, Tang San, without hesitation, once again used the Discerning Eye of Heaven to absorb a lotus seed, causing it to shatter and return its fortune to the plane.

As expected, it worked again. The lightning became gentler as it shattered, and even the Spacetime Lighthouse's control over time and space seemed to regain effectiveness, making it much easier for Tang San to endure the strike.

Crystalline watched in stunned disbelief. Is the tribulation actually encouraging him to continue doing this? Could this really be happening?

But all these changes were within Tang San's expectations.

From then on, whenever a terrifying lightning strike descended, Tang San would shatter a lotus seed to return its fortune. Although each strike was stronger than the last, it seemed as if the tribulation itself was finding ways to make it bearable for Tang San. He endured them one after another, but as the fortune returned to the plane, the Celestial Fox Sacred Mountain outside began to shrink, even collapsing in on itself.

Those eighteen lotus seeds were the very foundation of the Celestial Fox clan!

The Celestial Fox Demon Emperor tried to intervene, but whenever he attempted to, the lightning that was originally aimed at Tang San showed signs of shifting toward him instead. This made him hesitate. If he was struck, he was dead; simple as that.

By the time the sixteenth lightning strike descended, the entire Hell Garden was bathed in the golden light of the dissipated lightning. Terrifying bolts of lightning crashed down on Tang San one after another.

At this point, Tang San's entire body had turned into a translucent gold, and with each strike of the lightning, his divine consciousness would be elevated further.

After enduring sixteen strikes of the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Divine Extinguishing Tribulation, Tang San's cultivation had reached the peak of the Demon King level. His aura had become extraordinarily terrifying, but the price he paid was nine fortune lotus seeds.

A single lotus seed required the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor to draw upon the plane's fortune for fifty years[1], condensing it into pure fortune while neutralizing any misfortune. Even when the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor cultivated, he only used the lotus seeds to assist; he would not directly absorb them. Eighteen seeds was the limit of what he could produce without causing an outright disaster.

Yet, Tang San had returned nearly five centuries of the Celestial Fox Demon Emperor’s efforts to the plane in practically five minutes, at the same time bringing his own cultivation from the brink of entering godhood to the peak of the tenth order. The Celestial Fox Demon Emperor outside was coughing up blood in frustration.

The seventeenth lightning strike arrived.

The terrifying lightning, crackling like fangs and claws, filled the Hell Garden almost instantly. Although it once more broke apart upon encountering the chaos energy, the remaining golden bolts of lightning were far more terrifying than the first strike Tang San had endured.

Yet these bolts did not immediately strike Tang San; they seemed to be waiting for something.

What they were waiting for, of course, was for Tang San to release more fortune, allowing it to return to the plane.

But this time, Tang San didn’t shatter another fortune lotus seed. Instead, he made a grasping motion with his right hand, and golden light burst forth from his forehead. The Sea God’s Trident rune emitted an incredibly brilliant radiance, and under this indescribable aura of divinity, Tang San seemed to grow infinitely tall and imposing.

Crystalline's projection had remained by Tang San’s side the entire time, witnessing the entire tribulation process. Seeing Tang San undergo transformation after transformation under the relentless baptism of the tribulation, her heart was filled with an indescribable shock.

She herself was the most powerful Emperor in history. When she had undergone her own tribulation, it had been a monumental event due to her extraordinary talent. But compared to the tribulation before her now, it seemed like child's play.

Even when the first lightning strike descended, she could sense that it was far beyond what she could have withstood in the past, not to mention the increasingly terrifying strikes that followed.

Throughout the entire process, Tang San maintained a remarkably steady demeanor. His determined gaze never wavered despite the increasing power of the tribulation. This alone filled Crystalline with awe. It was clear that he had been prepared for this, as if everything was unfolding exactly as he had anticipated. But could such a powerful and terrifying tribulation really be anticipated?

What happened next continued to shatter her understanding. With each lightning strike, Tang San revealed yet another method to counter it—from the initial Golden Armor Transformation to the combination of the Spacetime Lighthouse and Chrono Croc Transformation, then the addition of the Peacock Transformation and the absorption of Yin-Yang energy. The strangest of all was that single drop of chaos energy. Without it, even an army of Tang Sans would have been struck dead by the overwhelming power of the heavens.

Yet, he was so resilient, enduring the terrifying tribulation repeatedly and surviving its relentless onslaught.

What puzzled her even more was that Tang San didn’t directly absorb the pure fortune from the lotus seeds. Instead, he handed this fortune to the tribulation, allowing it to dissipate within the lightning. Although Tang San would absorb some of the fortune infused into the lightning, it was undoubtedly far less effective than if he had absorbed it directly. Crystalline believed that if Tang San had absorbed the fortune directly, the sudden surge of luck would likely have helped him withstand the tribulation. But he hadn’t done that; he had returned the fortune to the plane, making the tribulation’s attitude toward him seem ambiguous. Why?

1. This was originally 100 years, but we changed it to account for the fact that the Hell Garden did not exist during the reign of the previous Celestial Fox Demon Emperor, which means the current one has created everything by himself and condensing 18 seeds would require 1800 years, which he did not have. ☜