Chapter 62: Heart Demon Tribulation, Nascent Soul Second Layer

【No one knew how much time had passed. Under the mighty power of the Heavenly Lightning, your Heavenly Lightning Body-Refining Art successfully stepped into the third-layer perfected realm. Your physical body’s power was comparable to half-step Spirit Transformation!】

【On your Golden Core, nine Heavenly Lightning Marks slowly emerged, turning your Golden Core a golden-purple.】

【With the help of the Heavenly Lightning Marks on your Golden Core, your spiritual power also came to contain a trace of Heavenly Lightning force.】

【With this trace of Heavenly Lightning force, your spiritual power became even more destructive, and the might of your techniques greatly increased.】

【Seeing that you had absorbed nearly all the Heavenly Lightning force, your mood was excellent. You knew this wave of heavenly tribulation had passed.】

【But in that very instant you relaxed your guard, a thing that made your heart palpitate suddenly appeared within the tribulation clouds, and in a single instant charged into your divine sense!】

【Before you could even react, you were dragged by the Heart Demon into an illusion.】

【In the illusion, you returned to Blue Star, where your parents were both alive, and you began your senior year of high school.】

【You forgot that you had transmigrated to the cultivation world, and you forgot your many years of cultivation. Your Golden Core stage cultivation vanished without a trace.】

【Just like that, you began the life of an ordinary person.】

【“I heard our class is getting a new transfer student today.”】

【“A boy or a girl? Good-looking?”】

【“A girl. I saw her in the homeroom teacher’s office. She’s smokin’ hot.”】

【“The homeroom teacher’s here!”】

【The voices in the classroom cut off abruptly. You raised your head and looked toward the podium.】

【“This is the new transfer student in our class. Everyone give a round of applause!”】

【On the podium, a middle-aged man introduced her, a eighteen-year-old girl standing beside him.】

【After a round of applause, the girl began her self-introduction.】

【“My name is Shangguan Lan. I previously attended Qingyun High School. I hope everyone will take care of me in the future.”】

【You looked at the girl on the podium and felt a sense of déjà vu, as if you had seen her somewhere before.】

【“Shangguan Lan…” You silently repeated the girl’s name in your heart. You felt this name was very familiar.】

【“You sit next to Ye Xiao for now.” The homeroom teacher spoke, and so you had a new deskmate.】

【On the way home from school, you saw an old man doing fortune-telling. Somehow, you suddenly walked up to him.】

【“This humble Daoist is known as Daoist Outrageous. One divination is thirty yuan. Pay first, then I’ll divine.” Daoist Outrageous stroked his beard and said to you.】

【You pulled thirty yuan from your pocket and handed it to Daoist Outrageous.】

【“What do you want to divine?”】

【You thought for a moment, then shook your head. “I don’t know.”】

【Daoist Outrageous clicked his tongue twice and began divining for you.】

【“Ten deaths and no life! Ten deaths and no life!!!”】

【Your pupils abruptly constricted, and your head instantly throbbed with pain. In a daze, you seemed to see another version of yourself.】

【You saw yourself in another world, becoming a lofty immortal, enemies reduced to ashes with a wave of your hand.】

【You saw yourself tearing one enemy after another apart, the thick stench of blood rushing into your lungs, making you feel extremely uncomfortable.】

【You heard someone call you Master, and others call you Daoist Wuji. You heard all kinds of titles.】

【You even saw today’s new classmate, Shangguan Lan. She smiled at you!】

【You groggily blacked out. When you woke again, you were lying on your own bed.】

【You lay in bed, staring at the bedroom ceiling, your mind utterly blank.】

【“Who… am I, really?”】

【“I’m Ye Xiao, I’m True Person Wuji, I’m Master, I’m Fellow Daoist, I’m First Elder…”】

【You walked out of the room and said to your parents, “I’m Ye Xiao.”】

【Your parents nodded at you. You came to the street and saw Daoist Outrageous.】

【“I’m True Person Wuji.”】

【Arriving at school, you saw the homeroom teacher. “I’m First Elder.”】

【Qingyunzi smiled at you. You returned to the classroom and saw Shangguan Lan.】

【“I’m Master.”】

【The cold, frost-like Shangguan Lan smiled at you.】

【“I’m… I’m… all of these are me!”】

【You went mad, shouting loudly in the school.】

【As you roared again and again, the school began to collapse. The people you knew slowly vanished.】

【The features on your parents’ faces blurred in an instant.】

【Shangguan Lan, Qingyunzi, Daoist Outrageous… everyone smiled at you, waved a hand, and vanished.】

【The world fell into utter darkness, and all your memories returned.】

【“So this is the Heart Demon Tribulation?” Having come back to your senses, your heart still palpitated with lingering fear.】

【“The illusion is broken, so how do I get back?” You sank into thought, searching for a way out.】

【“The Heart Demon targets divine sense. In other words, right now I’m just a wisp of divine sense. My physical body is still outside.”】

【You thought of a technique: the Taixu Spirit-Refining Art!】

【You began cultivating the Taixu Spirit-Refining Art. Your divine sense was drawn along, about to head to the Taixu Realm.】

【Your divine sense left the Heart Demon’s encirclement and headed for the Taixu Realm.】

【The Heart Demon pursued relentlessly, following your divine sense all the way.】

【Within the Taixu Realm, you roamed, strengthening your divine sense while trying to shake off the Heart Demon.】

【No one knew how much time had passed. The Heart Demon that pursued you relentlessly fell into confusion, standing there dumbly.】

【You had cultivated the complete version of the Taixu Spirit-Refining Art. In a short time, you would not fall into confusion within the Taixu Realm.】

【You stopped roaming. Looking at the dazed Heart Demon, you slowly approached.】

【With your current vision, you simply could not tell what kind of existence this Heart Demon was.】

【You gave up studying the Heart Demon and prepared to let your divine sense return to your physical body.】

【In the Taixu Realm, there was no concept of time. You also did not know how long you had been apart from your physical body.】

【To your relief, you sensed your physical body. Your divine sense quickly hurried toward it.】

【As your physical body returned to its place, you sat straight up from the bed.】

【You studied everything around you. You remembered — you had been here before. This was Bai Ruoxi’s boudoir!】

【You got off the bed, moving your limbs, familiarizing yourself with your long-lost flesh.】

【Once you had fully adjusted, you summoned the Nascent Soul within your body.】

【Your Nascent Soul was purple, an infinitely shrunken version of you.】

【On the Nascent Soul, you saw the nine Heavenly Lightning Marks that had once appeared on your Golden Core.】

【You circulated the Boundless Longevity Art, sensing the spiritual power within your body. Only then did you discover that your cultivation had actually reached the second layer of Nascent Soul!】

【Second-layer Nascent Soul cultivation, a half-step Spirit Transformation physical body, and the half-step Spirit Transformation divine sense power that had just returned from the Taixu Realm — in this moment, you felt incomparably powerful!】