In the boundless sea, on a nameless island, someone was facing the Ninety-nine Tribulations.

The sea roared, battering against the rocks, smoothing them out.

Hou Fei, Hei Yu, Shi Xin, Shi Bing, and Si Zhan, a group of five, stood together, gazing the distant Qin Yu undergoing his tribulation, with faces full of concern.

Seeing Qin Yu summoning the Sword Immortal Puppet, the tension on Hei Yu and Hou Fei’s faces eased slightly.

Gradually, the wild winds ceased, the originally roaring waves calmed down, and an invisible oppressiveness descended upon the entire sea. In an instant... Hou Fei and the others felt as if the whole world had lost its sound, extremely quiet, yet just as extremely oppressive.

The momentum continued to grow as if tangible, the tribulation clouds continuously swirled and condensed, but the momentum kept escalating.

After a long while...

"Why hasn’t the last heavenly tribulation fallen yet?" Hou Fei looked at the tribulation clouds brewing in the sky, fuming with resentment, while the terrible momentum was already causing the ordinary animals on the nameless island to explode and die from the pressure.

Hei Yu, however, was silent, his eyes filled with worry.

"Monkey, this last heavenly tribulation will have unprecedented power," Hei Yu said slowly.

...

Qin Yu’s eyes sparkled, his condition having fully recovered to its pinnacle state, with the Sword Immortal Puppet positioned above his head. No matter how the heavenly tribulation would strike, the first to be attacked would always be the Sword Immortal Puppet. Even if it would consume the puppet’s energy, Qin Yu could no longer care about that.

"Humph, still brewing, I really want to see how powerful this last heavenly tribulation is," Qin Yu’s gaze was as sharp as an ice blade, piercing into the tribulation clouds in the sky.

Suddenly—

For a moment, it was as if seas had changed into mulberry fields and the stars had shifted. What Qin Yu saw with his eyes, and perceived with his Spiritual Sense, had completely transformed.

"Big Brother Qin Yu."

Li’er, with a serene smile on her face, stood in front of him, looking at Qin Yu, "Big Brother Qin Yu, I’m back. With Uncle Lan’s help, I’ve finally convinced my father, and he has agreed to let us be together, to let us marry."

Seeing this scene, hearing this voice.

The frozen spirit ’popped’ and shattered.

"Is it an illusion?" Qin Yu hoped in his heart it was not an illusion. "It could be real... Even if it is an illusion, seeing Li’er again is a luxurious indulgence."

Suddenly—

A wave of dizziness swept over Qin Yu’s mind completely.

"The ninth heavenly tribulation comes with something akin to the Enchanting Soul Technique..." Qin Yu had just thought of this when his entire being sank into a dazed state.

"Boom!"

That fierce strike, as if the sky were breaking and the earth were splitting, turned the tribulation clouds into a forceful electric snake that viciously struck down from above, hitting the ’Sword Immortal Puppet’ floating above Qin Yu, who like a piece of scrap iron, was cleaved directly and fell towards Qin Yu.

The Sword Immortal Puppet, akin to an Immortal Artifact, was incapable of any autonomous response; it could only react when controlled by Qin Yu.

And now, with Qin Yu in a state of confusion, the Sword Immortal Puppet, despite having a Top-Grade Elemental Spirit Stone within the ’Ninety-nine Spirit Array,’ was utterly ineffective without Qin Yu’s control, unable to mount any resistance.

...

Seeing the Sword Immortal Puppet, like a piece of scrap metal, fall onto Qin Yu’s head, both Hou Fei and Hei Yu’s complexions changed.

"Damn it!" Hou Fei’s face drastically changed, "Big Brother is in a dazed state right now and completely unable to control the Sword Immortal Puppet."

"Big Brother!"

Hei Yu’s first reaction was to communicate with Qin Yu through spiritual telepathy, but even with his spiritual messages, Qin Yu showed no response whatsoever.

×××

Even as the Sword Immortal Puppet smashed down upon him, none of the spiritual messages from Hei Yu, Hou Fei, or the others could awaken Qin Yu. And then, the energy of the ninth tribulation lightning struck the Sword Immortal Puppet, yet, even without expending energy, the puppet remained incredibly sturdy.

The energy of the tribulation lightning spread to Qin Yu’s body and instantly shattered him.

At the same time, a purple fire dragon and a dark vortex followed closely after the tribulation lightning, swiftly engulfing Qin Yu in a flash.

In an instant, Hou Fei, Hei Yu, and the others could no longer see Qin Yu; he was completely enveloped by the purple fire dragon, the dark vortex, and the azure tribulation lightning, forming a cocoon of mixed colors.

"Big Brother!"

Hou Fei and Hei Yu shook violently in an instant, their eyes filled with fear.

...

"What’s happening to me, what exactly is going on?"

Qin Yu, in his muddled state, found his thoughts and reactions incredibly slow as if he had forgotten his memories, struggling to remember anything. At this moment, a cold and refreshing current swiftly enveloped his soul.

Qin Yu woke up with a start!

"I’m still in the midst of crossing the tribulation!"

Qin Yu’s first instinct was to try and open his eyes, yet he found he couldn’t control them at all, because... his eyes had long since turned to ashes.

Spiritual sense!

Qin Yu immediately scanned his surroundings with his spiritual sense.

Even though he was prepared, the state of his current situation still shocked him.

His outer skin had been turned to ash by the tribulation lightning, and even his muscles had turned charred black. At the same time, new blood-red muscles were constantly forming inside his body due to the life essence power, but they were turned charcoal black in the blink of an eye by the thunder and purple heavenly fire, much like charred coal.

Meanwhile, a terrifying dark vortex was continuously devouring parts of his body.

Even with lifeforce making a lightning-fast recovery, nearly half of his body was being devoured. At this moment, Qin Yu’s soul was merging with the True Solar Core in his Dantian, while the Meteor Tear was continuously revolving, emitting green light spots that accelerated the recovery of his body.

The tribulation lightning, heavenly fire, and dark vortex were all causing continuous destruction.

Yet, the life essence power was incessantly repairing his body, and the Meteor Tear was striving to emit strands of green light.

But even so, the rate of recovery was not keeping up with the destruction.

Logically, with the power of the tribulation lightning, the heavenly fire tribulation, and the dark wind tribulation, the blink of an eye would be enough to destroy a body, but Qin Yu was resisting with life essence power and the Meteor Tear. Therefore... his body was slowly being destroyed, and now it had been destroyed by more than half.

And the uncontrolled Sword Immortal Puppet fell aside like a piece of scrap metal, completely useless.

"Sword Immortal Puppet!"

Qin Yu’s thoughts stirred.

The eyes of the Sword Immortal Puppet suddenly filled with color, and its right hand instantly touched the sword hilt on its back—

Meanwhile, an astonishing sword Qi appeared.

"Black Flame Monarch’s Ring!"

...

That amazing sword Qi instantly enveloped Qin Yu’s entire body, shielding him from the outside tribulation lightning, heavenly fire, and wind tribulation. Those that had entered his body, lacking replenishment from the outside world, were exhausted in a short while.

"Huff~~~"

In the span of a single breath, his previously torn body completely recovered to its original state, without a scratch.

Under the erosion of the Sky-breaking Sword Energy, the energies of the tribulation lightning, heavenly fire, and wind tribulation were completely depleted.

The sword Qi protective shield dissipated, and the Sword Immortal Puppet was also retracted into Qin Yu’s body.

"Is it over?"

Qin Yu murmured softly.

Inhaling the air tinged with a faint bloody scent, along with the wonderful feeling of the breeze on his skin, and the gentle sound of the waves lapping against the rocks by his ears.

Qin Yu looked up at the sky.

The sky was azure blue, with white clouds drifting at the horizon, slowly moving eastward with the breeze.

"I succeeded." Qin Yu took a deep breath, his heart full of excitement.

He still felt somewhat frightened recalling the last strike just now.

If he had come to his senses even slightly later, it was very likely that his entire body, including the planet within his Dantian, would have been destroyed over time.

If the Life Essence Power and the Meteor Tear had restored him slower, he would have died.

"Haha, I knew Big Brother would succeed!" Hou Fei appeared before Qin Yu in a flash, giggling and talking, but his eyes were filled with indescribable excitement.

Hei Yu looked at Qin Yu, his eyes brimming with uncontrollable excitement.

"Mixed Feathered Bird, look at you. Haha, I’ve said it before, the Ninety-nine Tribulations are nothing to Big Brother—didn’t he come out without even a hair out of place?" Hou Fei chuckled.

Hei Yu calmed down slightly and looked at Hou Fei coldly, "Oh? It seemed like a certain monkey was about to cry after the ninth heavenly tribulation struck down."

"Who, who, who was crying." Hou Fei hurriedly protested.

Hei Yu, however, fell silent, but the slight curl of his lips revealed that he was secretly laughing, which infuriated Hou Fei even more.

"Alright, stop it," Qin Yu said with a smile, wrapping an arm around the shoulders of his two brothers, "Feifei, Little Black, to be honest, I really almost finished myself off just now. That ninth heavenly tribulation of mine, aside from attacks like heavenly fire, Heart Demon Temptation, and Enchanting Soul Technique, the power of that tribulation lightning was also terrifying. And... this ninth heavenly tribulation of mine, it had an additional mysterious wind tribulation, that dark colored vortex, its power was even greater than the heavenly fire."

Qin Yu shuddered at the thought of the dark-colored vortex.

That vortex had an astonishing swallowing ability. Despite his body’s strength, he was rapidly consumed. It was fortunate that the Life Essence Power continually restored him.

"Dark-colored vortex?" Hou Fei furrowed his brow.

Hei Yu was silent for a moment and then said, "Could it be... the Black Annihilation Wind?"

"Black Annihilation Wind?" Qin Yu was puzzled.

Hei Yu nodded, "In my Inheritance Memory, there are many types of winds, and Black Annihilation Wind is one of the more powerful ones. It exists in certain places of the Demon World and the Demon World. Even the hardest of ores typically turns to ash when faced with Black Annihilation Wind."

Qin Yu nodded to himself in secret.

His body’s resilience was certainly no less than that of a top-grade spiritual artifact, yet even so, his body was so easily destroyed. Perhaps, an ordinary low grade immortal device wouldn’t be able to withstand such Black Annihilation Winds.

Hou Fei giggled and said, "Big Brother, those Black Annihilation Winds are considered treasures by the people of the Upper Realm."

"Treasure?" Qin Yu asked in confusion, "Could it be that this Black Annihilation Wind can also be harnessed for our own use?"

Hou Fei shook his head and laughed, "No, the Black Annihilation Wind is very difficult to harness. However, where there is Black Annihilation Wind, there are usually extraordinarily good minerals, and those minerals can be refined into demon artifacts without much effort."

Qin Yu suddenly understood.

"Haha, that’s right. Under the relentless assault of the Black Annihilation Wind, ordinary rocks and minerals would have long been reduced to ash. The minerals that manage to exist, which one of them would be inferior? Without refining, the hardness of these minerals is on par with ordinary low grade immortal devices, and once refined, their power is even greater."

Hei Yu nodded and added, "Indeed, where the Black Annihilation Wind constantly invades, mining those minerals is also much easier. There’s no need to sift through them, because none of the minerals that can exist under the Black Annihilation Wind are inferior."

Both Hei Yu and Hou Fei possessed inheritance memories, which were not only about some miraculous cultivation techniques but also contained information about various realms and such.

"To have Black Annihilation Wind appear in my Ninety-Nine Tribulations, heaven really thinks highly of me," Qin Yu shook his head and wryly smiled. "But just now, releasing so much Sword Qi to form a protective shield consumed a lot of the top-grade elemental spirit stone’s energy. This is bad."

Qin Yu’s spiritual sense swept over the area.

After the battle at Qingxu Mountain, the top-grade elemental spirit stone of the Sword Immortal Puppet had only eighty percent of its energy left. Just now, to protect Qin Yu, it had consumed another twenty percent of its energy. Now, only sixty percent of the energy remained. This sixty percent of energy was at most sufficient to execute the eighth move of the Sky-breaking Sword Technique.

"Sixty percent of energy, plus Zong Jue’s support, as well as Uncle Lan’s prestige, should be enough to intimidate those Upper Realm envoys," Qin Yu considered internally.

Having passed through the Ninety-Nine Tribulations, Qin Yu’s thoughts were now entirely focused on the auction that would be held in a little over two months.

This auction was of paramount importance to Qin Yu. After all, top-grade elemental spirit stones were what the current Qin Yu needed most. For every additional top-grade elemental spirit stone, Qin Yu’s trump card would be that much stronger.

"Big Brother, you should have entered the late stage of Tribulation Crossing, right? What does the Star Transformation cultivation method look like when one enters the late stage of Tribulation Crossing?" Hou Fei’s voice roused Qin Yu from his thoughts.

"Late Tribulation Crossing?"

Qin Yu paused, then immediately used his spiritual sense to carefully examine the state within his body. He had not yet taken a good look at his current state after the successful tribulation crossing.

Within the Dantian, the size of the green planet’s True Solar Core had grown by a fraction. To be precise, the volume of the True Solar Core now occupied almost half of the green planet’s volume.

Qin Yu knew very well that only when the entire green planet transformed into the True Solar Core would he be entering the ’Constant Star Stage’.

Through this round of the Ninety-Nine Tribulations, Qin Yu’s body, under the ’tug of war’ between tribulation lightning, wind tribulation, heavenly fire tribulation, Life Essence Power, and Meteor Tear, was destroyed and reborn time and again. After countless cycles of tempering, the resilience of his body had actually greatly increased.

"Is there any significant change?" Hou Fei asked again.

"No big changes, but the resilience of my body has indeed improved quite a bit," Qin Yu replied with a smile. "Alright, Feifei, Little Black, let’s head to Gold Wood Island immediately, then take the ancient transmission array to Xue Yu Island. The day of the auction for the Sky-breaking Map is not far off."

"Auctioning the Sky-breaking Map?" Hou Fei chuckled mischievously, "Good. Let those Upper Realm envoys compete with one another. We’ll sell it to whoever has the most top-grade elemental spirit stones."

Hou Fei and Hei Yu both knew the secret of the Sword Immortal Puppet and understood that the energy of the Sword Immortal Puppet needed to be supplied by top-grade elemental spirit stones. The more top-grade elemental spirit stones there were, the higher the attack power of the Sword Immortal Puppet would be.

"Exactly, we’ll take their top-grade elemental spirit stones, and with the greatly strengthened Sword Immortal Puppet, we’ll use it to deal with them," Qin Yu said with a smile. "Alright, let’s go."

Qin Yu was the first to transform into a streak of light and fly to the south, with Hou Fei, Hei Yu, and the others quickly following him toward the south at high speed.

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