Chapter 59: Choice, Tribulation Crossing
The Lightning Tribulation dispersed, and Bai Wuxi came before you with the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill.
“I never imagined it, never imagined it! Even I, Bai, have a day like this. A fourth-grade supreme pill, and I actually refined it!” Bai Wuxi was overjoyed.
“Fellow Daoist, say no more. Take these two pills. I don’t even want any payment.” Bai Wuxi handed the two completed fourth-grade supreme Nascent Soul Breaking Pills into your hand.
“To an alchemist, nothing is more precious than alchemy experience! Especially for supreme pills like these,” Li Wuyou explained to you.
You nodded, accepted the two Nascent Soul Breaking Pills, then glanced at Bai Ruoxi beside you and handed one over.
For the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, one pill was enough when breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage. More was useless.
“This is…” Bai Ruoxi was at a loss.
“Consider it your reward for accompanying me this whole way. When I break through to the Nascent Soul stage, the grudge between us will be wiped clean.” You looked at Bai Ruoxi and said.
“Thank you.” Bai Ruoxi’s face reddened slightly. She reached out to take the pill and said softly to you.
“Alright, if there’s nothing else, you should head back first. I need to enter secluded cultivation for some insights.” Bai Wuxi waved his hand, issuing a dismissal.
You cupped your hands to Bai Wuxi in thanks and prepared to leave.
“Little Sister, you…” Bai Wuxi watched your departing backs, then suddenly spoke.
“Senior Brother, focus on your cultivation. Once I break through to the Nascent Soul stage, I’ll come find you!” Bai Ruoxi waved her hand and left without looking back.
Back in the city, at the Bai family’s residence, you watched Bai Ruoxi, who was about to enter secluded cultivation to prepare for breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, and suddenly spoke. “Does your Bai family have any books describing the Nascent Soul stage?”
You wanted to learn more about the Heart Demon of the Nascent Soul stage, and about the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill.
Though the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill was already in hand and breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage was a sure thing for you, Daoist Outrageous’s warning would not leave your mind.
Remembering the mark on Li Wuyou’s hand, you felt it was better to understand the truth behind it before making a decision.
Bai Ruoxi paused. She said to you, “It’s too late today. Tomorrow morning I’ll take you to my Bai family’s Scripture Pavilion. There should be what you’re looking for there.”
The night passed without incident.
The next morning, Bai Ruoxi brought you to the Bai family’s Scripture Pavilion.
“Eldest Miss, this is…” A Bai family Elder from the Scripture Pavilion appeared and stopped you.
Bai Ruoxi said nothing. She only transmitted her voice to the Elder. You did not know what the two discussed, but in the end they let you through.
“You may freely browse the books on the first through fourth floors. As for the fifth floor… if you truly need something, I can go for you,” Bai Ruoxi instructed you.
“Many thanks.” You felt grateful. After all, a place like a Scripture Pavilion was extremely important in any sect or family. Letting an outsider in to read was not easy at all.
“Hmph, no need for thanks. Just don’t be so ruthless to me in the future!” Even now, when Bai Ruoxi recalled being beaten badly by you, her limbs broken, she still trembled all over with fear.
Watching Bai Ruoxi leave, you could no longer wait to begin searching for what you wanted.
Your Nascent Soul stage divine sense spread out, searching for relevant books.
A week later, you walked out of the Scripture Pavilion and slowly exhaled a turbid breath.
“I truly underestimated the Bai family. I never imagined they even had slight records of matters from ten thousand years ago.” In one week, you had read all the books on the four floors. Though you had not fully clarified the matter, you had already found the answer you wanted.
At the Bai family, you learned the truth about the mark of the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill.
After consuming the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, the owner of the mark on your hand came from the Wasteland Realm's Remnants of over ten thousand years ago!
It was said that the Wasteland Realm's Remnants originally did not belong to the Heaven Mystery Continent. They came from an unknown place and went to war with the original inhabitants of the Heaven Mystery Continent.
After ten thousand years of war, the war finally ended. As for how it ended, there were no records.
The current six transcendent powers also appeared and rose to prominence at that time!
With that thought, you felt a secret shock in your heart, suspecting this was an enormous conspiracy!
But with your current cultivation, you clearly could do nothing.
Though you did not know what use that mark had, you had no intention of consuming that Nascent Soul Breaking Pill.
“What a pity, all that rushing about this whole way, only to end up with something useless.” You could not help but lament, but fortunately you had also learned some things, and gained some understanding of all of Central State, and even the Heaven Mystery Continent.
“Well? Did you find what you wanted?” Bai Ruoxi came out of seclusion and came to your side, asking.
“I found it. I have to thank you again this time.” You thanked her sincerely.
Bai Ruoxi nodded, wanting to speak but hesitating.
“If you have something to say, just say it.”
“Where do you plan to go next?” Bai Ruoxi asked.
“To that secluded cultivation place you mentioned, to break through to the Nascent Soul stage!”
“Then, why don’t you wait a bit longer? After I break through to the Nascent Soul stage in three days, I’ll take you there.”
“Three days, I can wait.”
“Then it’s settled!” Bai Ruoxi vanished in a puff of smoke.
Over the next three days, you wandered around Yun’gui City.
You searched the entire Yun’gui City but could not find Daoist Outrageous.
You noted down the time you encountered Daoist Outrageous this time, planning to come again during the next simulation.
Having a hidden big shot whose cultivation you could not fathom do a divination for you was a benefit you naturally did not want to miss.
“Tonight, I’m going to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. Then I’ll be stronger than you!” Bai Ruoxi appeared beside you and said.
“Is that so? Then after you break through, how about we spar again?” You said with a chuckle.
“Cough, spar then spar, who’s afraid of who?” Though Bai Ruoxi was stubborn with her words, she was already panicking inside. The matter of you killing a Nascent Soul stage cultivator with one punch was still fresh in her memory.
That night, at the Bai family’s secluded cultivation grounds, Bai Ruoxi and all Bai family cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage or above were present to protect her!
And you, naturally, were among them.
Watching Bai Ruoxi cross her tribulation will also accumulate experience for my own tribulation later, especially the Heart Demon Tribulation! You murmured in your heart.
Bai Ruoxi triggered the Lightning Tribulation. Tribulation clouds gathered densely as the Four-Nine Heavenly Tribulation brewed.
As the first bolt of Heavenly Lightning fell, the Tribulation Crossing began!