We Agreed On Experiencing Life, So Why Did You Immortals Become Real?-Chapter 367: If I Didn’t Have You, What Meaning Would Ten Thousand Years of Life Have?

A basin in the outskirts of Qin’s capital.

This place was remote, the terrain low, surrounded on all sides by mountain peaks, and it was also a natural formation array that gathered spiritual energy.

For Xiao Mo, it was an excellent location to undergo tribulation and enter the Nascent Soul Realm.

Among cultivators, there was a saying—“Only when you form a Golden Core are you truly one of us.”

Among cultivators, there was also another saying—“The day you break the core and form the soul is the day you are truly an immortal.”

In the understanding of the vast majority of cultivators, Nascent Soul was already the end.

So achieving Nascent Soul meant becoming a true immortal.

After all, a Nascent Soul cultivator could establish a sect and be addressed as an Ancestor, while a Golden Core cultivator, in most sects, was roughly at the level of an elder.

Even though Qin and the various states were at war, and on the battlefield there were not only Nascent Soul cultivators but even cultivators of the upper three realms—

Those cultivators had all been raised by an entire nation’s strength, and even a whole country did not have many of them.

For a great state like Qin among the seven great states, the number of Nascent Soul cultivators was fewer than thirty.

As for cultivators of the upper three realms, they were even rarer.

Among the seven great states, each state had fewer than ten Jade-Pure Realm cultivators, and Immortal Realm and Ascension Realm cultivators were only a scant few.

Most upper-three-realm cultivators only took action when the ruler of a state personally invited them during a war fought with the strength of an entire nation.

And most of the time, they fought one-on-one with the enemy’s upper-three-realm cultivators. If they could avoid entering deep into the battlefield, they would avoid it as much as possible.

After all, a battlefield carried karmic burden that was too heavy. Not many cultivators wanted to be stained by it.

If, later when you underwent tribulation, the Heavenly Dao saw that your karmic burden was not light and sent you two extra bolts of tribulation lightning, that would not be worth it.

Of course, for someone like Xiao Shi, a Jade-Pure Realm border lord, they did not care about so-called karma at all.

To such a person, if karma came, then it came—so what? It could be broken with a single blade, a single sword, a single spear.

But as for stepping into the upper three realms, Xiao Mo did not have many thoughts about it for now.

He would first get through this Nascent Soul tribulation.

After Xiao Mo set up the formation array in the basin, he checked again whether all the pills he had brought were complete.

Especially the pills that replenished blood qi.

For a martial cultivator, pills that replenished blood qi were of the utmost importance.

After confirming that nothing could go wrong, Xiao Mo began to undergo tribulation.

With a rumbling roar, in an instant, dark clouds filled the sky, and lightning and thunder tore across the firmament.

Outside the valley, Qin Siyao watched everything happening in the distant sky. She pressed her thin lips together tightly, her small hand clenched into a fist, looking incomparably tense—like a young girl undergoing tribulation herself.

At the same time, gusts of wind swept toward the imperial city.

Many common people within Qin’s capital raised their heads and looked toward outside the city.

Within the imperial palace, Qin Shengtian lifted his head and gazed beyond the capital.

“Your Majesty, this is...” Empress Shi walked to Qin Shengtian’s side.

“I wonder which cultivator is undergoing tribulation outside the city.” Qin Shengtian stroked his beard and smiled faintly.

BOOM!

A bolt of lightning fell from the firmament, striking down at Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo held his long spear and thrust out with a single strike.

ROOOAR!

Spear qi transformed into a dragon.

A massive silver dragon lunged toward the tribulation lightning.

The silver dragon swallowed the tribulation lightning completely.

As if the Heavenly Dao felt provoked, the thunder in the sky grew even fiercer than before.

BOOM! Another bolt struck down. This bolt carried the might of heaven, as if it wanted to strike Xiao Mo into powder.

Xiao Mo did not fear it in the slightest. He still endured the tribulation lightning head-on.

One bolt.

Two bolts.

Three bolts.

Each bolt was stronger than the last.

After nine consecutive tribulation bolts, the heavy clouds in the sky gradually dispersed, and only then did Qin Siyao let out a breath of relief.

These days, Qin Siyao had read quite a few books about Nascent Soul tribulation and knew that Nascent Soul tribulation was divided into two parts.

One part was the heart tribulation.

One part was the lightning tribulation.

Although martial cultivators did not need to pass the heart tribulation, how could the lightning tribulation be easy?

Nascent Soul lightning tribulation had five bolts to nine bolts.

Based on each person’s talent and realm strength, the Heavenly Dao would give different degrees of testing.

Now Xiao Mo had already endured nine tribulation bolts. It should be finished.

Just as Qin Siyao was about to go congratulate Xiao Mo, Huasheng grabbed Qin Siyao’s wrist.

“Your Highness the Princess, please wait a moment.”

“Huasheng, what is it?” Qin Siyao asked curiously.

“Your Highness the Princess, please look.”

Huasheng’s brows knit as she pointed upward.

Qin Siyao raised her head. She saw that the thunderclouds that had been about to disperse were condensing again, and becoming thicker and thicker.

“This is...” Qin Siyao’s eyes trembled.

That terrifying pressure shook Qin Siyao so much that she could barely breathe.

“This is the legendary Ten-String Tribulation.” Huasheng’s gaze ~Nоvеl𝕚ght~ tightened as she sensed that pressure, as if it could swallow heaven and earth.

“Ten-String Tribulation?” Qin Siyao had never even heard of it.

“The Ten-String Tribulation... I only heard the clan leader mention it when I was little. It’s said that this tribulation exists only in the era of gods, when the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was at its richest.

“Whenever a heaven-blessed genius of the human race or the demon race formed a Nascent Soul, the Heavenly Dao would descend with its harshest test—this Ten-String Tribulation.

“Xiao—Young Master Xiao may...”

“He won’t!”

Qin Siyao clenched her fist tightly, cutting off Huasheng’s words.

“Xiao Mo won’t have an accident. He will succeed. He promised me!”

The tribulation in the firmament continued to gather power, held back and not yet released.

And at this moment, some Nascent Soul cultivators and upper-three-realm palace consecrators within the capital all arrived outside the basin.

They felt the Dao resonance brought by the Ten-String Tribulation and hoped to gain some understanding from it.

At the same time, they were extremely curious whether the other party could succeed in crossing the tribulation.

Unfortunately, because of the formation array and the cover of the tribulation, they could not see that man’s appearance. They could not witness the true face of this heaven-blessed genius.

And just as the thunder grew louder and louder, as if it were about to shatter mountains and rivers—

In an instant, the thunder in the sky suddenly vanished.

All of heaven and earth suddenly became incomparably silent, as if everything—including time—had been frozen.

BOOOOM!!!

Three breaths later, the thunderous roar spread again.

The layers of clouds split open. A woman knelt at the edge of the clouds. Across her legs lay a zither, and she looked down at Xiao Mo.

Like a god gazing down at an ant.

But Xiao Mo knew this was not a god.

The gods had already vanished I knew not how many years ago.

This woman was merely the manifestation of the Great Dao!

TWANG!

The zither’s sound rang out.

The sound transformed into thousands upon thousands of troops and horses, charging to kill Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo did not fear it in the slightest. Alone, he charged into the sky and fought amid the thousands upon thousands.

In the next moment, the zither’s sound changed again. This time, ten thousand great demons joined the battlefield.

Ten breaths later, the zither’s sound changed once more—ten flood dragons formed of lightning bit toward that man who did not know death.

The zither’s sound transformed a fourth time. Tribulation lightning fell as golden light, covering the lightning-formed humans, demons, and flood dragons. Their blood qi became even more berserk, as if they truly existed in the world.

But Xiao Mo still continued to kill toward the direction of that “divine woman.”

The divine woman’s zither grew more and more urgent, and the slaughter of the thousands upon thousands grew more and more fierce!

The zither’s sound transformed a total of ten times.

The final time, ten gods stood high above, looking down upon all living beings. Divine might pressed onto Xiao Mo’s shoulders, spreading for a thousand miles.

THUD!

In Qin’s capital, the City-Guarding Grand Array activated on its own, dissolving the divine might evolved by the Great Dao.

But outside the capital, aside from Qin Siyao and the upper-three-realm cultivators, everyone else could not help but kneel down, lowering their heads to the ground.

The divine might evolved by the Great Dao was like a mountain, making it hard for Xiao Mo to breathe.

Yet Xiao Mo still raised his head, straightened his back, and charged toward the zither woman.

The ten “gods” made their move.

Their figures dispersed and became a golden long spear, stabbing toward Xiao Mo’s heart.

Xiao Mo knew he could not dodge it, but he had never intended to dodge.

Xiao Mo used all his spiritual power and hurled the long spear in his hand!

The long spear transformed into a silver-white streak of light, surging upward from below to pierce the sky, colliding with the golden long spear.

A violent ripple of spiritual power burst outward and scattered.

Thunder struck everywhere. One mountain peak after another was shattered by lightning, rocks rolling, the earth trembling.

A full twenty breaths passed before the thunder finally vanished. The black clouds slowly dispersed, and everything returned to calm.

Only the man’s hundreds-of-zhang-tall Dharma-Body rose slowly from among the mountains, looking down upon the capital.

“This is...the Frost King!”

“The Frost King is undergoing tribulation!”

“Has the Frost King reached Nascent Soul?”

“The Frost King isn’t even thirty, right? A Nascent Soul cultivator this young—I’ve never even heard of it.”

“Worthy of being the Frost King!”

“Even if I can’t become the primary wife, if the Frost King could take me as a concubine, that would be good...”

Within Qin’s capital, when everyone saw the appearance of that Dharma-Body, they all knew that the Frost King had broken through into Nascent Soul.

“This brat always brings people surprises.”

Within the imperial palace, Qin Shengtian smiled with satisfaction, withdrew his gaze, and walked back into the Imperial Study.

“Congratulations, Frost King!”

Outside the basin, the cultivators cupped their hands and bowed.

None of them had expected that it would be the Frost King undergoing tribulation here.

“You are too polite.” Xiao Mo’s Dharma-Body cupped its hands and returned the salute.

In the next moment, Xiao Mo’s Dharma-Body turned into specks of light and dispersed.

With a single step, he left the basin and walked to the woman who had been thinking of him the whole time.

“You broke through?” Qin Siyao’s eyes curved.

“Mhm. I broke through.” Xiao Mo nodded. “I made you worry just now.”

“I wasn’t worried at all. I knew you would definitely break through.” Qin Siyao laughed softly. “But I also have to cultivate diligently. You’ve formed a Nascent Soul—no matter what, I should form a Golden Core too. Otherwise, when the time comes, my lifespan won’t be enough to stay by your side, and other women will take advantage of the opening.”

“Leaving aside whether other women will take advantage of an opening—with your talent, entering Nascent Soul is not difficult at all. You’re just too lazy on ordinary days.” Xiao Mo smiled and flicked Qin Siyao’s forehead.

“I’m not lazy at all. I just don’t like cultivating.” Qin Siyao rubbed her forehead.

“What do you mean you don’t like cultivating.” Xiao Mo shook his head helplessly. “Have you never thought about reaching Ascension? Putting everything else aside, the Ascension Realm’s lifespan is several tens of thousands of years.”

“If you enter Ascension, then I’ll also work hard to enter Ascension.” Qin Siyao hugged Xiao Mo’s arm.

“Then what if I don’t enter Ascension?” Xiao Mo asked with a smile.

“If you don’t enter Ascension, then I naturally won’t either.”

Qin Siyao looked into her beloved’s eyes and smiled sweetly.

“What if Ascension gives you a lifespan of tens of thousands of years?

“If I don’t have you—

“Even if I had a ten-thousand-year lifespan, what meaning would it have for me?”