Chapter 60: Heart Demon Tribulation, Secluded Breakthrough

【The Four Nine Heavenly Tribulation, all thirty-six bolts of Heavenly Lightning fell, and Bai Ruoxi, in the midst of her Tribulation Crossing, took them all one by one.】

【To dare cross the Tribulation, one naturally has preparations!】

【When the Heavenly Lightning had all fallen, a heart-stopping aura surged forth from within the tribulation clouds.】

【“The Heart Demon Tribulation is here!” an Elder standing beside her said in a deep voice.】

【You quietly tapped your own eyes, activating the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye!】

【Through the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, you saw a pitch-black mass within the tribulation clouds, which in the blink of an eye rushed straight into Bai Ruoxi's mind.】

【Bai Ruoxi's movements as she circulated her cultivation technique paused, and her entire body came to a halt.】

【Within Bai Ruoxi's mind, you saw that pitch-black mass surrounding Bai Ruoxi's divine sense, attempting to devour it.】

【“What's going on? How has the little girl's Heart Demon Tribulation not yet passed? Doesn't she have a Nascent Soul Breaking Pill?”】

【“Could it be, she didn't take it?!!”】

【“Foolish! Without a Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, why is she crossing the Tribulation?!”】

【“Alas, the last cultivator of our Bai family to cross the Tribulation without a Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, the grass on his grave is three hundred meters tall by now!”】

【“Hiss, this this this…” The various Elders of the Bai family could no longer sit still.】

【“Silence! The little girl never does anything she isn't confident in. Trust her!”】

【“Also, no one is permitted to leak today's matter. Later, erase this memory yourselves!” As the Bai family Ancestor, the Spirit Transformation cultivator Bai Sanhai spoke, and the Bai family Elders dared not disobey.】

【As if intentionally or not, you noticed that Spirit Transformation Ancestor glance at you.】

【At this moment, you naturally had no heart to bother with such a trivial matter, and through the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye you kept observing the Heart Demon Tribulation.】

【Through the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, you observed that Bai Ruoxi had already entered the illusion realm created by the Heart Demon, but you could not see the situation within the illusion.】

【Bai Ruoxi's facial expressions were extremely rich, joy, sadness, anger, fear, and so on.】

【Even her cultivation fluctuated along with them, one moment Golden Core, the next Nascent Soul.】

【“An hour has passed. If this continues, I fear things do not look good!”】

【“This little girl is the best cultivation talent our Bai family has produced in recent years. There absolutely must not be any mishap!”】

【“What to do? Who has a Nascent Soul Breaking Pill? If it comes down to it, feed it to her!”】

【“Where is that boy Bai Wuxi? Hurry and have him bring out a Nascent Soul Breaking Pill!”】

【Some of the older Bai family Elders began to panic, because Bai Ruoxi's current situation was exactly the same as that of the other Bai family cultivator who had broken through without a Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, no different at all.】

【Even the Spirit Transformation Ancestor frowned, about to act.】

【Through the Martial Dao Heavenly Eye, you discovered that Bai Ruoxi's divine sense had already been more than half eroded by the Heart Demon. If this continued, Bai Ruoxi would likely be unable to cross the Heart Demon Tribulation!】

【You looked at the Bai family Elders around you, frantic with worry, and took out the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, holding it before the Bai family's Spirit Transformation Ancestor.】

【Bai Sanhai glanced at you in surprise, nodded, said nothing more, and directly sent this supreme-grade Nascent Soul Breaking Pill into Bai Ruoxi's mouth.】

【The Nascent Soul Breaking Pill began to take effect. With your own eyes, you saw the Heart Demon that was devouring her divine sense stop.】

【Moreover, it directly turned around and went to devour the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill!】

【When the Heart Demon finished devouring the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, it actually left Bai Ruoxi's body directly, returned to the tribulation clouds, and vanished.】

【Within Bai Ruoxi's body, the Golden Core gradually transformed into a Nascent Soul, returning to her body.】

【Having successfully crossed the Tribulation, Bai Ruoxi, because her divine sense had suffered severe damage, fell unconscious.】

【A week later, Bai Ruoxi brought you out of Yun'gui City, heading to the secluded cultivation site she had spoken of.】

【“What did you see within the Heart Demon Tribulation?” Along the way, you could not help but ask.】

【“The Heart Demon… is truly terrifying!” Bai Ruoxi said, still shaken. “If not for your Nascent Soul Breaking Pill, I'm afraid I would have died.”】

【“So I advise you, when you cross the Tribulation, it's best to eat a Nascent Soul Breaking Pill as well.”】

【“Compared to the immortal path ahead, your little life is what matters now!” Bai Ruoxi advised you, and gave you the Nascent Soul Breaking Pill of her own that she had not consumed.】

【You smiled, put the pill away, and had Bai Ruoxi continue explaining matters of the Heart Demon.】

【For you, knowing yourself and knowing the enemy ensures victory in every battle. Cross the Heart Demon Tribulation!】

【“Within the Heart Demon, I could not distinguish illusion from reality at all. Whatever you want, whoever or whatever you wish to see, it can all be realized there.”】

【“Once you're mired in it, you can't bear to leave, and you have no idea how to leave!” Bai Ruoxi said this.】

【You understood in your heart. According to Bai Ruoxi's description, wasn't that equivalent to a massive illusion realm?】

【It was just that this illusion realm was all the more incomparably real.】

【Bai Ruoxi pondered for a moment, then said, “While undergoing the Heart Demon Tribulation, it was as if I forgot why I cultivate, and I didn't know what the purpose of my cultivation was.”】

【“It was a very strange state of mind, desireless and seeking nothing.”】

【You secretly noted this down, your understanding of the Heart Demon Tribulation growing ever deeper.】

【“I'll show you something.” As she said this, Bai Ruoxi extended her right hand toward you, and a mark slowly emerged.】

【“Although I can't feel any effect on my cultivation, for some reason, I feel an intense loathing for this mark, as if… I have a grudge against it!” At this, Bai Ruoxi burst out laughing.】

【“I actually have a grudge against something inside my own body. Tell me, isn't that hilarious?”】

【Hearing this, you did not laugh, nor did you answer.】

【Bai Ruoxi's laughter gradually faded, and her expression slowly turned ugly.】

【Bai Ruoxi, wanting to speak but hesitating, in the end said nothing.】

【In a deep forest far from Yun'gui City, Bai Ruoxi brought you to a cave residence.】

【“The density of spiritual qi here is no less than that of my Bai family's secluded cultivation grounds, and this place is remote. Almost no one ever comes.”】

【“With me keeping watch for you, just cultivate in peace inside and break through!” Bai Ruoxi, having only recently broken through to Nascent Soul, was filled with blind confidence in her own strength.】

【“Very well, call me if anything happens.” You entered the cave residence and began secluded cultivation, leaving Li Wuyou and Bai Ruoxi outside to keep watch for you.】

【Inside the cave residence, you first set up the Tier-Four Formation, the Five Elements Phantom Spirit Formation, then took out mid-grade spirit stones and began to cultivate.】

【From your breakthrough to the ninth layer of Golden Core until now, by the fullest count, barely more than a month had passed.】

【But in this short month, you had successively taken part in all manner of great battles, thoroughly mastering the power of the ninth layer of Golden Core and solidifying your foundation.】

【When the spiritual power absorbed within your body reached its limit, you began to stir the Lightning Tribulation, preparing to cross it!】