It's only been two years now, there's still a year left, so I can start advancing now.
"If you're going to undergo tribulation, you can't do it in the ocean; you have to go inland for safety. You need to find a secluded place."
After saying this, he transformed into a human, concealed his dragon horns, and disappeared from the spot by activating the Tears of the Void.
I don't know how many times I teleported, and I encountered many demonic beasts, cultivators, and mortals along the way.
Lin Qing didn't linger for a moment and finally found a huge, eerie abyss.
The entire abyss was exceptionally vast; even with his current divine sense, he couldn't see the end. Lin Qing's divine sense could only detect up to 50,000 meters in depth.
Below that, there was nothing but emptiness, and within this 50,000-meter range, no trace of any activity was found.
Lin Qing chose this place as the location for his tribulation. It was completely deserted for thousands of miles around, which was very suitable, and it also provided some cover.
Silently reciting a command from the panel, and looking at his remaining 90 million evolution points, Lin Qing began to take out spirit stones from his storage space and consume them.
Lin Qing didn't plan to consume spirit stones of intermediate or higher grade. He remembered that one of the thirty million low-grade spirit stones was worth about 0.5 evolution points.
In other words, one only needs to consume 20 million lower-grade spirit stones to obtain 10 million evolution points.
[Ding! Consumed a lower-level spirit stone and gained 0.5 evolution points.]
[Ding! Consumed a lower-level spirit stone and gained 0.5 evolution points.]
[Ding! Consumed a lower-level spirit stone and gained 0.5 evolution points.]
The notification sounded countless times, but Lin Qing simply ignored it. It took him more than ten minutes to finish consuming the food, and now his evolution points have reached one hundred million.
Lin Qing said in a deep voice: System, advance!
[Advancement requires 100 million evolution points. Confirm advancement?]
"Advanced".
[Advancing, please wait]
The sky, which had been relatively clear, quickly darkened within seconds, and the entire sky was filled with dark clouds.
"Boom!" A huge rumble of thunder came from the dark clouds.
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Lin Qing stared blankly upwards, completely unmoved. These heavenly tribulations posed no threat to him whatsoever.
No matter how many come, they probably won't be able to break through Lin Qing's current defense. Even if Lin Qing can't hold on, he can absorb them all with his two horns.
Without any warning, a bolt of lightning as thick as a water vat struck Lin Qing.
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!" A large amount of tribulation lightning struck down, giving Lin Qing no time to catch his breath.
Eighty-one bolts of lightning struck down, and the whole world fell silent. The dark clouds slowly dispersed, and the sky returned to its original clear state.
"Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation? This lightning tribulation is much stronger than the ones before." Lin Qing exhaled a breath of black gas and relaxed.
Now his entire skin is charred black, making him look charred on the outside and tender on the inside.
Fortunately, Lin Qing's body was relatively strong; his twin horns were already at full capacity after absorbing only the first sixty tribulation lightning bolts.
His physical body absorbed the remaining twenty-one lightning bolts when they all struck.
Lin Qing's body instantly recovered with his powerful self-healing ability, and he began to evolve, involuntarily transforming into a dragon.
Before long, a colossal creature, eight thousand meters long, appeared in the abyss, and a soul-stirring power of bloodline surged outwards for miles around.
In that instant, all the monsters within range were so frightened that they lay on the ground, trembling.
Lin Qing's body began to grow larger and larger, and in no time, its entire body reached a length of 20,000 meters.
A small bump appeared on its claw, and a claw was slowly growing out.
Furthermore, a golden fleshy mass was slowly bulging out in Lin Qing's chest cavity, very slowly.
Suddenly, the entire dragon's body rapidly shrank from 20,000 meters in length to a mere one meter in size.
It slowly began to spiral up, and a layer of golden scales began to slowly emerge, eventually enveloping Lin Qing in a cocoon.
The golden cocoon completely enveloped Lin Qing's aura and imposing presence, revealing not a single trace of it.
Without Lin Qing's spiritual power, it immediately fell into the abyss, and soon the golden cocoon was swallowed by darkness.
One year later, inside Chentang Pass.
Because General Li and Madam Yin (surname Yin) were highly skilled in martial arts, they vanquished demons and monsters, ensuring that Chentang Pass was free from their harm and became very prosperous.
A small mountain, shorter than the other high mountains, with its summit inexplicably flat, upon which stands a temple.
The Nuwa Temple was bustling with activity, both inside and outside, with people coming and going, and the temple itself was thriving with incense offerings.
Li Jing and Lady Yin spent several hours climbing the stone steps from the foot of the mountain to reach the Nuwa Temple.
With a pancake in one hand and a chicken leg in the other, Madam Yin, heavily pregnant, walked briskly towards the Nuwa Temple, while Li Jing stood protectively by her side.
"General Li! Madam Li!" The people around them were all from Chentang Pass, and they quickly bowed to Li Jing and his wife when they saw them.
Lady Yin and Li Jing quickly waved and nodded in acknowledgment, then continued walking toward the Nuwa Temple.
Taking a bite of flatbread and chewing on a chicken leg, they arrived at the threshold of the temple. Upon seeing this, Li Jing quickly helped Lady Yin up.
To everyone's surprise, Madam Yin pushed Li Jing away and said, "No need."
With his hands supporting his belly, he jumped and cleared the threshold, which was a full twenty centimeters high.
Li Jing rushed inside, placing his hands protectively beside Lady Yin, saying, "Be careful."
The two then arrived in front of the statue of Nuwa. Li Jing walked forward with great piety, lit three incense sticks, and then knelt on the prayer mat with his hands clasped together and began to kowtow and worship.
After bowing for a while, Li Jing felt that it was no use for him to bow alone, so he turned to look at Madam Yin and said softly, "Madam, why don't you bow as well?"
Lady Yin had finished her flatbread and chicken leg and was happily eating an apple from her bosom when she heard Li Jing say that, and she immediately became furious.
"I've been praying for three years, and if she still can't give birth, I'll smash this dilapidated temple!" As she spoke, she threw the half-eaten apple in her hand hard at the statue of Nuwa.
"boom!"
Suddenly, a large hole appeared in the roof, and a fat man wearing a blue Taoist robe fell down, with a large fat pig on top of him.
This scene startled Madam Yin, who thought it had been knocked down by her apple.
Without saying a word, Li Jing immediately stood up and stretched out his left hand to block Madam Yin, took a few steps back, and looked warily at the fat man who was being pressed down by the big fat pig.
The fat man was struggling to get up when he suddenly looked up and saw Li Jing and his wife. His eyes lit up and he quickly got up from under the fat pig.
"Alas, I am the Taiyi Zhenren of Jinguang Cave on Qianyuan Mountain—a man!" A stone smashed onto the fat man's head.
After getting up again, Taiyi Zhenren began to tell Li Jing and his wife about the Spirit Pearl and the Demon Orb.
Taiyi Zhenren said solemnly, "Li Jing, you are a man of destiny. You have come here to send the Spirit Pearl to be reincarnated as your third son."
"A spirit pearl? Reincarnation? My third son?" Li Jing and Madam Yin were immediately filled with questions.
As dusk fell, the Li residence was packed with people; most of the people from Chentang Pass had come to the Li residence.
They had all come to see the spectacle after hearing that the spirit pearl had been born and reincarnated as General Li's third son.
Inside the Li residence, Madam Yin lay on her bed, screaming in agony. Her child was about to be born, awaiting only the arrival of the Spirit Pearl, which would be sent into her womb by the True Man Taiyi through an array plate.
The midwife and maidservants were on standby, while Li Jing paced anxiously back and forth outside the door.
Meanwhile, in the highest pavilion of the Li residence, no one noticed that Shen Gongbao was standing there with his hands behind his back.
Shen Gongbao revealed a sinister smile, took out two puppet talismans and threw them down. The two talismans slowly floated down.
In the backyard of the house, Taiyi Zhenren was sitting upright in a barrier surrounded by curtains. In front of him was an array plate, an important item for the reincarnation of the Spirit Pearl.
"It seems like it's about time." Master Taiyi held the time in his left hand, and a precious lotus flower floated in front of him.
The Spirit Pearl and the Demon Orb were preserved inside the Lotus Flower. At this moment, the curtain was lifted, and a figure slowly walked in.
Servant: "Hehe, Immortal Master, I've heard you enjoy drinking."
Master Taiyi turned around and angrily rebuked, "Don't you even know what time it is? Who has the leisure to drink now!"
The servant, without changing his expression, said with a smile, "I'll put it here for you!" He placed the wine jar next to Taiyi Zhenren and left immediately.
Taiyi Zhenren: "No time, no time! Take it away, take it away! Hey! Hey~~ Are you crazy?!"
After watching the servant leave, Taiyi cursed and looked disdainfully at the jar of wine on the ground.
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Suddenly, a look of surprise appeared on the chubby face: "Oh dear, just a small sip, you still have to drink it!"
"Glug, glug!" Taiyi Zhenren held the jar in both hands and poured it into his mouth.
"Ah~! The truth is, there's no point in drinking the last little bit, let's finish it!" Instantly, he drank the remaining half jar of wine in one gulp.
"Hiccup! Clang!" Taiyi Zhenren collapsed to the ground.
"Hehehe, this dose of medicine is enough for you to sleep for three days." The servant who brought the wine walked in from outside.
With a wicked grin, he walked towards Baolian and grabbed her with both hands. "Sizzle sizzle sizzle!" The servant was immediately burned.
He glanced at his hands, hardened his heart, grabbed the lotus flower again, and pulled with all his might, "Bang!"
A surge of energy shot out, sending the servant flying.
Seeing this, Shen Gongbao, who was in the attic, slammed his fist on the railing in anger: "Damn it, the Heavenly Venerable has cast a spell, and only Taiyi can lift it."
Deep within some abyss, a crackling sound emanated from a small, golden cocoon.
[Ding! Advancement complete.]
Lin Qing woke up and slowly opened his eyes. He found himself inside an egg, which made him feel very uncomfortable.
Before long, the cocoon was broken open by the claws, and Lin Qing's body appeared in the abyss.
Lin Qing now looks almost exactly the same as before, except that the two horns on his head seem to have become a little rounder and straighter, and his five dragon claws now have five fingers.
"Hey, wait a minute, five dragon claws?" Lin Qing immediately noticed that there was also a dragon claw on his chest, and this dragon claw seemed to be very powerful.