"Little friend, aren't you planning to retreat? To cover their retreat?" Xue Daoguang asked Ye Yun at this moment.
"Me? I can't escape?" Ye Yun couldn't help but smile bitterly. Who on earth was covering for these guys? Was he that much of a saint?
"Can't escape? What do you mean?" Xue Daoguang's expression changed drastically.
"You'll know if you look up," Ye Yun pointed to the sky helplessly. If it had only been an inexplicable feeling before, it was now a clear indication.
At this moment, countless dark clouds were gathering in the sky. Beneath the blood-red sun, a hazy red light slowly emanated.
"This is? Heavenly Tribulation?" Xue Daoguang looked at the sky with uncertainty. As one of the Three Patriarchs of the Southern Sect, he was no stranger to heavenly tribulations, but he was somewhat unsure about the heavenly tribulations in the demon realm.
"It should be, I have that kind of feeling," Ye Yun looked at the gathering dark clouds in the sky, feeling exceptionally excited. This meant that after swallowing those demon seeds, he had broken through his cultivation through his own real-world practice, and also broken through his physical body! This was not a breakthrough conjured from the 'Heavenly Dao'.
"Heavenly Tribulation..." Xue Daoguang looked at the churning dark clouds in the sky, his eyes filled with desolation. In the cultivation world, only after reaching the Golden Core stage would one face a heavenly tribulation with each breakthrough. Before the Golden Core stage, breaking through realms did not require enduring a tribulation.
At that time, Xue Daoguang pursued the supreme Golden Core Great Dao, using his body as a pill to achieve the Nascent Soul body. His path, which was originally smooth and promising, was hindered by the depletion of spiritual energy. His cultivation had been hovering at the Void Refinement realm for nearly a thousand years. Coupled with the irreparable injuries sustained in the demon realm, he eventually felt joyless and lonely.
"Alright, senior, you and the others wait for me at the node. I'll see how many demons I can trick here," Ye Yun said with a faint smile.
"Okay, kid, with your current strength, you should be at the True Man realm. However, this heavenly tribulation is at most the energy of the Golden Core stage. Enjoy the taste of being struck by lightning. Hahaha..." Xue Daoguang looked at the accumulating dark clouds in the sky and laughed heartily.
He had already come into contact with the Heavenly Dao and naturally knew certain secrets. The Golden Core heavenly tribulation was achieved by Ye Yun through his own strength in the real world, not conjured by the 'Heavenly Dao'. Therefore, for Ye Yun, this heavenly tribulation would be at most like being bitten by a few mosquitoes.
Ye Yun summoned the black ant and gave it a few instructions. Then, he watched the retreating figures of the crowd and smiled with satisfaction. If these farmers were utilized well, the Dragon Palace could rise at a faster pace in the next year or so.
Boom...
At a certain moment, the dark clouds surged. Streaks of blood-red light peeled off from the blood-red sun and injected into the dark clouds. Accompanied by flashes of lightning, they transformed into a black dragon, a hundred zhang long.
Roar...
The dragon's mouth opened slightly, letting out a heaven-shattering roar that echoed for thousands of miles. Lightning covered its elegant whiskers. Soaring in the sky ten thousand meters high, its emotionless eyes stared at the valley below, seemingly searching for its target.
"Quickly, damn it! Such a grand celestial phenomenon must mean a rare treasure is about to be unearthed." A demon king, riding a ten-zhang demon fox, stared at the black dragon ten thousand meters in the sky with the single eye on his forehead, his eyes shining with immense joy.
This place was located in the extreme north of the Canglan Star in the demon realm. It was a barren land, and few demon kings usually came here. Therefore, this rare treasure was as good as his.
"Holy crap, a black dragon soaring through the clouds! This means either abundant treasures or an earth-shattering treasure! Everyone, speed up! I'll go into the 'Heavenly Dao' to inform Wang Tong and see what arrangements the King has." A hundred-person squad, led by a demon general, was rapidly heading towards the valley.
"Report, General, we found a group of humans about thirty li to our west. They have gray hair and gray skin. They should be some king-level lord's captive." A scout suddenly returned and said to the demon.
"If they are divine captives, don't bother with them. It will delay our journey!"
Across the four planets of the demon realm, every influential figure always kept one or two alien races as captives. This was very common in the demon realm. Although they had their own grievances, no one dared to touch the captives of others.
Similar scenes were happening everywhere within ten thousand li of the valley.
"What's going on? Why have all my marks disappeared?" Ten thousand li south of the valley, a demon wrapped in a cloak suddenly trembled and stopped in mid-air. He looked towards the north with fear in his eyes. A trace of crimson on his collar looked exceptionally jarring. He was one of the three great demon emperors of this Canglan Star, Da Yan.
First, the seal on the wooden coffin he placed earlier was broken, and then his marks were erased! And thirteen hundred marks had disappeared almost simultaneously, meaning the opponent's divine sense strength far surpassed his own by two or three times.
No, this could no longer be called divine sense; it should be called divine thought! This made him feel extremely wary, and he hesitated whether to continue. After all, someone who cultivated divine thought would definitely be stronger than him. However, when he thought of his over a thousand captive humans, energy pills, and demon seeds there, he felt extremely unwilling.
That was nearly one-fifth of his fortune.
Finally, after some thought, he gritted his teeth. His body instantly disappeared from where he stood and he continued towards the valley.
There was no way around it. Among the three demon emperors on Canglan Star, he had achieved the demon emperor realm the shortest time ago and had the least foundation. If he lost this place again, the gap between him and the other two would only widen.
Above the valley, the black dragon continued to circle. Streams of black energy surged up from the ground, causing the hundred-zhang-long black dragon to continuously expand. Moreover, as more and more demons stepped within a hundred li of the valley, the expansion speed of the black dragon became even faster.
Roar...
The black dragon's roar became more intense. Its eyes were fixed on the human and the thousands of demons below, their coldness inspiring dread.
"Have these demons never seen a heavenly tribulation or something? I thought I could use this opportunity to kill dozens of demons, but so many have come at once! How much will this cause the heavenly tribulation to swell?" Ye Yun's divine sense scanned the approaching demons and he was speechless. However, he didn't pay too much attention. Anyway, with the current energy of the black dragon, he could easily withstand it.
When one person endures a heavenly tribulation, the most taboo thing is for others to intrude into the tribulation field. Doing so would cause the heavenly tribulation to view the intruder as a challenger to the tribulation. The heavenly tribulation would then consider both the one enduring the tribulation and the intruder as undergoing the tribulation, locking onto them. Simultaneously, the power of the heavenly tribulation would increase correspondingly for Ye Yun.
"Come on, come on, I can handle it. You'll all be crying then."