Chapter 566: Heart Demon Tribulation

Seeing this, the other people followed with grim expressions.

Only after they walked away did the Blood Realm Venerable bite the bullet and ask behind him: "Brother, what's going on?"

"I have refined two Blood God Sons in total, and just now, I lost one." Yuan Wuji responded without looking back.

"What, lost a Blood God Son?" Bingli exclaimed.

"That Dark Moon God is really unfathomable. Fortunately, he should have some concerns and didn't really want to deal with me. I miscalculated this time." Yuan Wuji sighed and said slowly.

His mood now is really complicated. This time he has measured the strength of the Dark Moon God, which is good for dealing with the threat of the Undead Tree in the future, but he lost a Blood God Son in vain, which is a big loss.

On the other side, Huazhi, as the servant of the Dark Moon God, comforted Queen Mingkong and others, and then left and returned to the Stealing Heaven Cauldron space.

In the previous battle, she also lost a lot of strength, and she needs to recuperate for a while before she can fully recover.

Yuan Ming learned about the Blood God Son's magical powers through what happened just now, which was not in vain.

However, the biggest gain was that he frightened the people of the Nongchao Sanmeng. I believe that those guys will learn from their mistakes and stay quiet for a while.

After this incident, the Nongchao Sanmeng did not come to provoke again. The parties lived in peace and occasionally held exchange meetings. When the Nongchao Sanmeng needed external items, they asked the Dark Moon God for help. Their attitude was much more respectful, and the secret realm gradually showed unprecedented harmony.

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In the blink of an eye, it was twenty years later.

In the Stealing Heaven Cauldron, the white jade lotus platform was as golden as before.

Next to the altar, the Gathering Spirit Tree kept receiving spiritual energy, and the faint light on it was like a firefly, magical and gorgeous.

However, in the current Stealing Heaven Cauldron, there is more than one ancient tree.

In the spiritual field not far away, the Five Elements Creation Tree is already about ten feet high, and its branches and leaves have five colors, which looks messy but not chaotic.

Xiying was sitting cross-legged under the tree at this time. Five-colored light rose up from her body like a dragon and snake, floating towards the Five Elements Creation Tree and merging with it. At the root of the tree, five-colored spiritual light flowed into Xiying's body. The resulting Zhoutian cycle continuously improved her progress in practicing the Ju Mang Ling Jue.

However, as an ancient spiritual tree, the Five Elements Creation Tree was difficult to grow. However, the size of the tree was only a few feet, which was the result of Xiying's careful cultivation over the past 20 years. Even so, her Ju Mang Ling Jue was still stuck in the first level.

Xiying was just one step away from a breakthrough at that time. The improvement in qualifications brought by the first level of Ju Mang Ling Jue helped her break through the heavenly barrier and successfully entered the Nascent Soul stage.

After the breakthrough, Xiying continued to practice the Ju Mang Ling Jue hard, without any intention of giving up.

With the promotion of the Ju Mang Ling Jue and the Five Elements Creation Tree, her magic power improved a lot, and she was not far from the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage.

Xiying did not spend all her time on Ju Mang Ling Jue, and occasionally took some time to practice other secret techniques.

The five-color spiritual light on her body quickly dissipated, and was replaced by another extremely rich earth-yellow spiritual light, which slowly lifted her body up.

Xiying was practicing the Taiyin Refining Spleen Technique at the moment.

Unlike Yuan Ming, she did not lack earth spiritual roots, and practicing this method was also complementary. Since she broke through the Nascent Soul and got this method from Yuan Ming, she immediately practiced it with great interest, and now she has practiced this method to a very profound level.

Yuan Ming has also gained a lot in the past twenty years.

The immortal tree of that year has now grown into a black tree more than ten feet tall, with branches and leaves spreading.

After it grew bigger, it grew out of Yuan Ming's body, took root in the Stealing Heaven Cauldron, and occupied a large space in the Stealing Heaven Cauldron.

Compared with the Five Elements Creation Tree, the growth of the Immortal Tree can only be described as extremely fast. Thanks to this, Yuan Ming's Ju Mang Ling Jue has also made great progress and has reached the third level.

However, this Immortal Tree grew out of Yuan Ming's body, and half of his body was integrated with the tree, and it was difficult to tell who was who.

Yuan Ming smiled bitterly, and he was completely pitted by Ju Mang Ling Jue and Xi Ying.

The Immortal Tree has taken root in his body and has been deeply integrated. Even if his Ju Mang Ling Jue is perfect or he gives up Ju Mang Ling Jue, it is unknown whether he can separate from this strange tree.

If he is not good, he will have to stay with this black Immortal Tree forever.

However, being integrated with the black tree is not only harmful. The Immortal Tree can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on its own. Now Yuan Ming is equivalent to having an additional source of spiritual energy for heaven and earth. The speed of mana recovery is far beyond that of ordinary cultivators, and the endurance of mana is naturally greatly increased.

In the past twenty years, he has not relaxed the practice of Jiu Yuan Jue.

Outside the Three Immortals Island, Yan Sijing had already refined all the demon pills and spiritual herbs he had given her into pills and sent them back in.

With the power of the pills, Yuan Ming's mana also improved rapidly, and now he has reached the late stage of Danjie.

In addition to the cultivation of the law, Yuan Ming has also made progress in soul cultivation and body cultivation.

He had already broken through to the realm of the innate body ten years ago, and now he has reached the middle stage of the innate body. The internal breath he refined is as red as blood, and it has the refining effect of the Shura Blood Devouring Diagram.

The main reason for the slowdown in the advancement of the body cultivation is still because of the black tree.

In order to complete the Ju Mang Ling Jue as soon as possible, Yuan Ming gave priority to the growth of the Immortal Tree with the abundant blood source power in the Shura Blood Devouring Diagram. At the same time, the monsters sent by Huan Lingzi and others were also thrown to the black tree for absorption.

The bigger the immortal tree is, the more it needs the power of blood and qi. The blood power in the Shura Blood Devouring Diagram was quickly sucked dry. It was not easy for Huan Lingzi and others to catch monsters outside, so the improvement of the physical cultivation realm was relatively slow.

In terms of soul cultivation, the Ju Mang Ling Jue did not cause any restrictions. With the power of will provided by Yun Jiuxiao and others, Yuan Ming's soul reached the peak of the love witch fifteen years ago, and was only half a step away from the sleep witch.

Originally, Yuan Ming was ready to break through to the sleep witch realm in one go, but at this time, Xiying asked him to wait a while, not to rush to break through, and also asked him to stop absorbing the power of will.

Yuan Ming was confused and wanted to ask the reason, but Xiying did not answer directly, just told him that she would tell him when the time came, and before that, she hoped that Yuan Ming would temporarily forget about breaking through the sleep witch.

Although Yuan Ming was puzzled, he still did it. As for the extra power of will, he let the first soul absorb it all. Now the soul power of the first soul is not inferior to the main body.

Now twenty years have passed, and Yuan Ming has indeed forgotten about breaking through the Sleeping Witch. I don’t know if it’s because of the fusion with the tree, but his temperament has become more and more calm, preferring quietness to movement.

Another half a year passed, and one day, when Yuan Ming was practicing with his eyes closed, Xiying woke him up:

"Now you should be able to try to break through the Sleeping Witch."

Yuan Ming nodded, and after looking into his soul, he asked the doubts in his heart: "After so many years, my soul has hardly changed. Why couldn’t I try to break through back then, but I can now?"

"Because you absorbed too much willpower at that time, you should know that willpower contains a lot of living beings’ distracting thoughts. The existence of these distracting thoughts will greatly increase the difficulty of your breaking through the Sleeping Witch, so if you want to break through, you must stop absorbing willpower." Xiying replied.

"But I have used the Huanxin Jue to refine the distracting thoughts in the willpower, and after the transformation of the Stealing Heaven Cauldron, they are all pure willpower without distracting thoughts, which can be absorbed directly, and should not affect the breakthrough." Yuan Ming became more and more confused.

"The refinement of Huanxin Jue is not perfect. The willpower is inseparable from the distracting thoughts when it is born. Even if it is removed by various means later, it will not affect daily practice, but it will still affect the heavenly tribulation that comes when breaking through the sleeping witch. This is the law of heaven and earth, and no one can change it." Xiying shook her head.

"How did the sleeping witches in the Wuyue Sect break through?" Yuan Ming asked curiously.

"The sect has various secret methods to reduce the impact of this aspect, and the most effective one is to have Wuyue God personally assist in the breakthrough. It is said that only the chosen sons who have made great contributions to the Wuyue Sect and are favored by Wuyue God can receive such treatment." Xiying said.

Yuan Ming suddenly realized and recalled the scene when he watched Xiying break through the Nascent Soul before, and asked again: "You just said that the heavenly tribulation when breaking through the sleeping witch, do you mean the thunder tribulation?"

"There is no thunder tribulation when breaking through the sleeping witch. After all, the soul cultivator cultivates the soul. If you encounter a catastrophe like heavenly thunder, I am afraid no one can break through." Xiying shook her head.

"That is the heart demon tribulation." Yuan Ming seemed to understand.

"Yes, soul cultivators who break through to the Sleeping Witch realm will definitely experience the test of the Heart Demon Tribulation. This level is extremely difficult to break through. There are many soul witches in the Witch Moon Sect, but there are very few Sleeping Witches, because of this Heart Demon Tribulation." Xiying said.

Yuan Ming looked serious and asked: "It seems that this tribulation is not trivial. I wonder what this Heart Demon Tribulation looks like. Is there any trick to break it?"

"The Heart Demon Tribulation targets different people, and its specific form is different. The method I used at that time may not be applicable to you. If I tell you now, it may also mislead you." Xiying shook her head.

"Then we can only leave it to fate?" Yuan Ming frowned.

"That may not be the case. Although the specific method of breaking it cannot be told, the general idea is always eight words-adhere to the self and do not forget the original intention."

Xiying said, and suddenly took out a jade slip and handed it to Yuan Ming.

Yuan Ming took the jade slip and found that it recorded a technique called "Three Souls and Nine Refinings".

"Before entering Sanxian Island, I didn't expect you to break through the Sleeping Witch realm here. The elixir to assist the breakthrough was not prepared yet. Now only this secret method can help you hone your soul to the extreme, so as to increase the chance of breakthrough. You should concentrate on comprehending and practicing this method until you have mastered it thoroughly, and then you can try to break through." Xiying reminded her, with a trace of worry flashing in her beautiful eyes.

Yuan Ming saw her like this but was not very nervous: "Don't worry, I have already experienced the power of the Sleeping Witch realm in advance with the Stealing Heaven Cauldron. Now that I have truly broken through, there will be no problem."

Xiying just nodded slightly, hiding her worries in her heart, and said nothing more.