Wu... Liu Ruyan let out a short whimper, and soon the smile in her eyes deepened. She took the initiative to wrap her arms around Qin Hao's neck, responding passionately.
The morning light was faint, the valley was quiet, their figures overlapped, and their breaths intertwined.
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In a flash, another half a month passed. The two had sparred for half a month, evenly matched. Liu Ruyan's spiritual energy and Samsara origin were continuously tempered and blended during their dual cultivation, and her cultivation bottleneck had long since loosened.
Above the valley, the originally clear sky suddenly darkened without warning. Heavy thunderclouds gathered from all directions. Within the clouds, lightning snakes danced wildly, and muffled thunder rolled. A terrifying pressure from heaven and earth slowly descended, firmly locking onto Liu Ruyan in Qin Hao's arms.
With just one glance, Qin Hao separated from Liu Ruyan. This was the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation. If he stayed too close and the heavenly tribulation determined that he was interfering with Liu Ruyan's tribulation, the difficulty of passing it would skyrocket.
Ruyan, take these!
Qin Hao tossed his Nine-Revolution Exquisite Pagoda, Void Emperor Robe, and other magical treasures to Liu Ruyan to help her survive the heavenly tribulation.
Facing the magical treasures Qin Hao presented, Liu Ruyan smiled lightly and flicked her finger to return the treasures to him.
Liu Ruyan raised her head, her eyes firm and confident. Facing the fierce wind brought by the sky full of thunderclouds, her clothes fluttered, and her hair flew in the wind.
Brother Qin Hao, I appreciate your kindness, but this is my tribulation and my path. If I have to rely on external items for a mere Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation, how will I face the even grander Great Dao in the future?
She looked back and smiled sweetly at Qin Hao, a smile that contained unquestionable pride. It just so happens that today I will use this heavenly thunder to temper my Samsara Physique!
Before her voice died away, the first thick purple tribulation lightning had already torn through the sky. Carrying an aura that could destroy all things, it struck right at her head!
Seeing this heavenly thunder, Qin Hao's pupils shrank abruptly. Liu Ruyan's Nascent Soul Tribulation was actually several times more terrifying than his own Soul Formation Tribulation back then!
Facing such a terrifying lightning tribulation, Liu Ruyan neither dodged nor hid. Instead, she let out a clear shout and activated her Nine-Revolution Samsara Supreme Physique. The nine-colored radiance formed by the power of the nine revolutions of Samsara around her turned into nine pillars of light that shot into the sky.
The power of the nine revolutions of Samsara flowed endlessly, forming a Samsara scroll of continuous birth, death, and evolution above her head.
Liu Ruyan formed seals with her hands, and the Samsara scroll rose to meet the challenge, actively welcoming the tribulation lightning.
Boom!
Amidst the deafening roar, the heavenly thunder was worn down layer by layer by the continuously creating and destroying power of Samsara. In the end, only threads of pure lightning tribulation power remained, which were absorbed by Liu Ruyan to temper her meridians and her nascent soul prototype.
Watching from the side, Qin Hao nodded secretly to himself.
So strong! As expected of a Nine-Lifetime Immortal Emperor. Although I am currently at the peak of Soul Formation with a complete Great Dao and possess many top-tier physiques, if I really were to fight Ruyan, I wouldn't be her match.
The tribulation clouds seemed to be enraged by Liu Ruyan. The second and third heavenly thunders followed one after another, and their power doubled accordingly.
Liu Ruyan remained calm, using the power of Samsara to evolve different forms to deal with them. When Qin Hao refined his Soul Formation lightning tribulation back then, he still needed the coordination of multiple physiques, but Liu Ruyan directly subdued the tribulation clouds with just her mastery of the power of Samsara.
The commotion of Liu Ruyan undergoing her tribulation was enormous and had already alarmed the cultivators within a hundred-mile radius.
Initially, seeing the overwhelming tribulation clouds, the surrounding cultivators only thought that a senior expert was undergoing a tribulation, so they silently retreated to avoid being implicated.
However, when the last tribulation lightning dissipated, the phenomenon of sweet dew falling from the sky actually appeared. In an instant, the spiritual energy within a hundred miles surged, and many cultivators who were stuck at a bottleneck even broke through their cultivation levels.
A heaven and earth phenomenon! This is not an expert undergoing a tribulation! This is a heavenly treasure appearing in the world!
Sweet dew falling from the sky, spiritual energy surging wildly, and bottlenecks loosening, how did such a scene look like a cultivator undergoing a tribulation? It was clearly a blessing from heaven and earth that would only be triggered when legendary heavenly treasures, divine medicines appeared, or ancient ruins opened.
The cultivators who had originally retreated, the little apprehension in their hearts was instantly overwhelmed by monstrous greed.
A treasure! It must be a world-shocking treasure. With such a phenomenon, it is at least an Immortal-grade, or even a legendary Emperor-grade treasure!
The nine-colored pillars of light and the Samsara phenomenon just now were probably produced by the manifestation of the treasure's main body! Tsk tsk, a treasure with the power of Samsara! Just thinking about it makes me excited.
The early bird gets the worm, and the latecomer suffers. Hurry, if we go late, it will be snatched away by others!
Exclamations rose and fell. The cultivators who had originally distanced themselves suddenly changed direction and rushed madly towards the valley at a speed even faster than when they left.
......
In the valley, the sweet dew gradually stopped. Although the spiritual energy was still rich, the phenomenon had already begun to dissipate.
Liu Ruyan sat cross-legged, and the aura around her gradually stabilized. Qin Hao guarded by her side, the faint light in his heavy pupils hiding, and his divine sense had already spread out, taking in all the movements within dozens of miles.
When he felt the auras full of greed and killing intent rapidly approaching from all directions, Qin Hao could not help but curl his lips.
The commotion of Ruyan's tribulation was too big and attracted these people. Well, they are all Nascent Soul cultivators, a few Soul Formation ones, and individual Void Refinement ones, not worth mentioning.
After stabilizing her cultivation, Liu Ruyan slowly let out a breath of impure air. Looking at the densely packed streaks of light in the sky, a trace of annoyance and killing intent flashed across her eyes.
A bunch of reckless flies. Liu Ruyan's voice was ice-cold. Looking at Liu Ruyan in front of him, Qin Hao felt the indifference of Fairy Miejue.
Why do I suddenly miss that innocent Ruyan a little bit?
Feeling Qin Hao's gaze, Liu Ruyan blinked and turned her head to look at him. The annoyance and killing intent in her eyes faded, replaced by deep tenderness.
She took a step forward, affectionately hugged Qin Hao's arm, and rested her head on his shoulder.
Husband, so many people are coming for us. I am so scared. You will protect me, right?
Feeling the soft touch from his arm and the deliberately softened, slightly trembling sweet words in his ear, Qin Hao felt as if a spring breeze had brushed past him, and a trace of warmth rippled in his heart.
Looking at Liu Ruyan, who was just looking down on the world and not taking anyone seriously, turning into a weak, boneless appearance that needed protection in the blink of an eye, Qin Hao could not help but smile.
Your current strength is even stronger than mine, right? A Nine-Lifetime Immortal Emperor still needs me to protect her?
Liu Ruyan rubbed against Qin Hao's chest like a kitten seeking shelter, her voice softening a few degrees more.
That is different. Liu Ruyan pouted, her slender jade fingers drawing circles on Qin Hao's solid chest.
No matter how many lifetimes I have been an Immortal Emperor, in front of my husband, I will always only want to be a little girl loved by him.
Liu Ruyan raised her eyes, her tear-glistening gaze looking straight into the depths of Qin Hao's eyes. Her voice was soft and delicate, carrying just the right amount of grievance.
Husband, there are so many of them, and they look so fierce. I just finished my tribulation, and my body is still weak.
Saying that, Liu Ruyan swayed her body, pretending to be weak, and then took the opportunity to snuggle even more tightly into Qin Hao's embrace, like a frightened fawn.
Husband, do you really have the heart to watch me be bullied by them?
ose... to cooperate with the protagonist! Shen Yuan: I have a system! Protagonist: What? System: Holy crap, you're just spilling it out like that? Shen Yuan: Let's team up, we'll split the system rewards! Protagonist: Fifty-fifty split? Shen Yuan: No way! Protagonist: What!? I'm the one getting beaten up, and I don't get half? Shen Yuan: Forty-sixty split, I get forty, you get sixty! Protagonist: Deal! Big brother, come on, hit me! As long as it doesn't kill me, beat me like you mean it! Shen Yuan: Don't worry... I will definitely protect all of you! No one but me can lay a finger on you! Guard our Heaven's Chosen Ones! I'm the only one allowed to bully them!
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
