Chapter 789: Miscalculated… Miscalculated
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"Linlin, Lily!"
When Huo Ren saw them, his joy was evident. Although he had watched them leave and missed them dearly in his heart, the feeling of meeting them again was indescribable.
"Young Master!" Lu Linlin and Lu LiLi looked at Huo Ren with a sweet smile before suddenly forming yin-yang rings to drive back Sun Wukong.
They had made up their minds and stood firmly by Huo Ren's side!
Huo Ren, possessing the Immortal Spirit Bodies that were split from them and having the Seven-Hearted Five-Colored Lotus that was born with him, could feel the joy in their hearts.
The situation immediately changed from a one-on-one to three against one!
With Linlin and LiLi's Seventh Petal Lotus realm strength and their combined power, they forcibly raised Huo Ren’s temporary level up to the Sixth Petal Lotus realm!
Sun Wukong had lowered his realm to Fifth Petal Lotus, but he was already surprised that he couldn’t defeat Huo Ren at this same level. Now seeing two Seventh Petal Lotus helpers join from the Heavenly Palace, Sun Wukong became even more frustrated and instantly raised himself to Eighth Petal Lotus!
Although he didn't fight women, these two women were extremely fierce in their attacks. Upon closer inspection, Sun Wukong realized that they were the 'step-daughters' of Queen Mother Xi Wang Mu and the Pavilion Masters of the Heavenly Heart Palace where she resided.
Even Sun Wukong's sharp mind was confused. This young man wielding the Ruyi Golden Cudgel to fight in the Heavenly Palace, almost like a repeat of his past self; the two closest attendants of Queen Mother Xi Wang Mu were helping him...
Could this kid be her illegitimate son Sun Wukong had an evil thought.
Zhenyuanzi, standing near the Heavenly Gate, was also somewhat stunned. The situation changed so drastically that even he couldn't understand it anymore.
Sun Wukong fought Huo Ren in a no-holds-barred match and suddenly, the closest attendants of Queen Mother Xi Wang Mu joined the battle on Huo Ren's side, which was akin to open rebellion!
The Pavilion Master of the Heavenly Heart Palace! That’s one of the highest-level palaces within the Heavenly Palace! It’s almost equivalent to the Dragon Deity Hall in the dragon race realm!
It’s where all heavenly commands are issued and communicated.
A Sixth Petal Lotus, two Seventh Petal Lotus, and their minds connected, making continuous attacks. Even the strongest Sun Wukong in Heavenly Realm couldn’t withstand it without harming Lu Linlin and Lu LiLi.
Zhenyuanzi saw the glittering look in Sun Wukong’s eyes, knowing he was about to lose his temper. He hurriedly tried to dissuade him, "Second Brother, Second Brother..."
Some parts of this Heavenly Dao change were beyond even his calculation. If Sun Wukong really flew into a rage, it would be uncontrollable...
No matter right or wrong, he had already sworn brotherhood with Huo Ren and felt that in just one year, Huo Ren could cultivate to such a level, which at this rate, was no less than Sun Wukong. He would certainly be a significant figure in the heavens and earth.
Of course, Sun Wukong’s cultivation relied entirely on himself, condensing Heavenly Qi運勢, while Huo Ren obtained numerous external forces but still grasped crucial opportunities.
A thousand years ago, Sun Wukong took the Ruyi Golden Cudgel from the East Sea Dragon Palace. Now a millennium later, Huo Ren, representing the East Sea Dragon Palace, was fighting with Sun Wukong using this very weapon; it could only be karma's retribution... Zhenyuanzi thought.
"Huo Ren, hold him off for me and let me rush in!" Zhao Kuo suddenly shouted as he sat atop the Black Qilin and charged towards the Heavenly Gate.
Zhenyuanzi saw Zhao Kuo suddenly charge in and almost forgot about this third master of East Sea Dragon Palace. He was just about to call out a warning when Zhao Kuo had already rushed into the Heavenly Gate.
This peak Dryan-level Third Petal Lotus cultivator hadn't even registered on Sun Wukong’s radar or left any impression in Zhenyuanzi’s mind, yet he dared to charge through the Heavenly Gate at this level!
Boom!
The hundreds of Celestial Immortals standing inside the Heavenly Gate acted together.
Zhao Kuo was surprised when he saw so many cultivators lying in ambush behind the Heavenly Gate. He had planned with Jin Cunming to raid the Heavenly Palace for medicinal pills and got his approval, thus they worked together.
However, these upper realm cultivators weren't pushovers either. While Sun Wukong was holding Huo Ren and company at bay outside the gate, they were already setting up an ambush inside; if Huo Ren dared to rush in, he would face a barrage of lightning!
But... while Fifth Petal Lotus Huo Ren didn’t come in, Third Petal Lotus Zhao Kuo recklessly charged into the Heavenly Gate!
Frightened by this sudden situation, Zhao Kuo kicked out with his foot, sending the Black Qilin back outside. He held up both hands to block the combined attack of these Celestial Immortals with his own body.
He would face the consequences himself! He hadn’t expected that while Sun Wukong was blocking at the gate entrance, cultivators were hiding inside the white clouds behind the Heavenly Gate. Since it was so, why should he bring the Black Qilin along to share his fate
"Third Uncle!"
Seeing lightning flashing in the Heavenly Gate, Huo Ren sensed something amiss and flew up towards the gate.
Sun Wukong turned back to see the Celestial Immortals inside the Heavenly Gate unleashing their world-destroying heavenly thunder. He cursed them for being shameless.
Back then, when he charged into the Heavenly Realm alone, it was nearly exterminated by these people collectively; if not for him already cultivating up to Seventh Petal Lotus and having the Ruyi Golden Cudgel protecting him, he would have been reduced to ashes!
If that hadn’t happened, how could his anger drive him almost to tear down the Heavenly Palace He was simply challenging a Heavenly Realm expert, yet these cultivators collectively ambushed him at the door!
Now, after a thousand years had passed, they used this old trick again! If not for Huo Ren being held back by him, wouldn’t he have been exterminated as well
The Black Qilin somersaulted out of the Heavenly Gate.
And in an instant, that Heavenly Gate was shattered to pieces!
This is the world-ending heavenly thunder conjured by all the immortals!
Any cultivator who breaks through to the Eighth Layer of Heaven and enters the Heavenly Realm without permission will be attacked like this!
Zhenyuanzi's eyes widened in shock, thinking that Zhao Kuo would definitely die under this attack.
The Heavenly Realm cultivators are too cold-hearted; they don't even reason at all. Zhenyuanzi could only shake his head helplessly.
*Boom! Boom! Boom!*
But the world-ending heavenly thunder conjured by all the immortals doesn't end after one strike—it must continue for nine consecutive strikes!
After nine strikes, Zhao Kuo won’t even have a soul left!
Hao Ren was about to rush over when he suddenly felt himself being gently lifted up. "Kid, stay here!"
Sun Wukong appeared behind Hao Ren, using his green jade cudgel to pierce through Hao Ren's collar and hoist him up.
With the unstable six-petal lotus realm, rushing into a world-ending heavenly thunder like this is seeking death! Sun Wukong saw Hao Ren holding the Ruyi Jingu Bang to charge towards the Heavenly Realm and wanted to test him out but didn’t want to see him die!
Lulina and Lilili also quickly grabbed onto both of Hao Ren’s arms from either side to prevent him from rushing into this world-ending heavenly thunder array that even they wouldn't dare challenge.
"Hahaha... Come on! Come on!"
Amidst the flashing lightning, Hao Ren suddenly heard Zhao Kuo's wild roar.
The first three strikes of the world-ending heavenly thunder…居然冇能打死趙闊！
(竟然冇能殺死趙闊！)
Zhenyuanzi also looked puzzled at the place where the lightning was flashing. The power of this kind of heavenly thunder made even a seven-petal lotus cultivator like him feel numb all over, but how could Zhao Kuo, who is only a three-petal lotus, withstand it!
Could it be that...
Zhenyuanzi was stunned for a moment.
This Zhao Kuo took this as his tribulation!
He transformed the world-ending heavenly thunder used to eliminate high-level cultivators into his own celestial dragon lightning tribulation!
"Again! Again!" In the dazzling white light, Zhao Kuo turned into a black dragon and roared while rolling around.
This heavenly thunder directly hit him back into his original form but didn't kill or shatter him! Zhao Kuo was undergoing his tribulation!
The ink-black qilin slowly floated to Hao Ren's side, staring with its black eyes in shock at the place where the lightning was flashing.
Lightning cultivator!
Hao Ren suddenly thought of this point.
Zhao Kuo refined his body using the Five Elements but didn't adopt the method of a lightning cultivator. It wasn’t that he hadn’t thought of this, but rather he wanted to refine his meridians and bones first before using the power of heavenly thunder when it came!
He was trying to absorb the full strength of the tribulation in one breath!
Although extremely dangerous, as long as he could withstand the initial few waves, he would become increasingly powerful and be able to resist the subsequent waves!
In the past, Zhao Kuo’s first tribulation was also done this way when absorbing the power of the first and second heavenly thunders.
Only, with his practice of Split Light Sword Shadow Art and simultaneous cultivation of the Five Elements, he could absorb and convert even more lightning power!
He wasn’t weaker than Su Han; it was that he deliberately didn't replenish his spiritual energy to avoid reaching full capacity in his body.
Hao Ren was stunned by Zhao Kuo's bold concept!
To gamble with one’s life and challenge the heavenly tribulation! Now, facing the world-ending heavenly thunder strike on the Ninth Heavens’ clouds, he directly took it as undergoing a tribulation!
Roar...
Zhao Kuo's black dragon soared high into the air, while massive heavenly thunders followed to strike.
Without reaching the ninth strike, they couldn't stop!
Held by Lulina and Lilili at the position of the vanished Heavenly Gate, Hao Ren saw Zhao Kuo’s black dragon form being struck into the pitch-black Ninth Heavens—it was like watching how the heavenly thunders were unleashed!
Zhao Kuo's first tribulation, he watched Zhao Kuo endure it on the sea; his second tribulation, and he stood in the Heavenly Realm to watch these celestial immortals unleash their heavenly thunders!
In an instant, Zhao Kuo was struck down thousands of meters below, almost reaching the boundless void of the Ninth Heavens!
Suddenly, countless golden light spots appeared in the black void and moved toward Zhao Kuo.
The celestial immortals who had triggered the world-ending heavenly thunder with Heavenly Dao power were slightly surprised but still unleashed the sixth heavenly thunder.
The golden dots also swiftly converged towards Zhao Kuo, revealing layer upon layer of gold on Zhao Kuo’s black dragon body that was merged within the dark void!
It was as if he was remaking his physique in gold!
The sixth bolt of heavenly lightning struck Zhao Kuo's body and even bounced off him. The seventh bolt, however, produced a flurry of faint light when it hit.
The ninth bolt, which carried the aftermath of all previous bolts, thundered down and almost turned Zhao Kuo into a golden dot before slamming him into the eighth heaven. But Zhao Kuo suddenly sprang up!
A Heaven Dragon radiating golden rays!
That was how Zhao Kuo survived the tribulation and became a Heaven Dragon.
Hao Ren didn't know what to say as he saw Zhao Kuo's figure suddenly expand into a five-colored divine dragon that these Celestial Immortals had to look up at!
He cultivated in the Five Elements together, and with the Seven-Hearted Lotus of Five Colors, Zhao Kuo became the first Heaven Dragon of the Five Elements in a thousand years!
Although he started cultivating earlier than Hao Ren, because Hao Ren was blessed with good fortune, he surpassed him. But now, he had finally become a tribulation survivor before Hao Ren.
Tribulation survival meant perfection. Without experiencing the tribulation, even though Hao Ren temporarily achieved the five-petal and six-petal lotus stages, they were still unstable realms!
Transforming into the colors of the rainbow, he rushed back to the Heavenly Gate at a speed that these celestial immortals could barely catch. With the flick of his tail, the Celestial Immortals tumbled.
The so-called Celestial Immortals were cultivators who ascended to heaven long ago, while figures like Queen Mother of the West and Zhenyuanzi were the earliest cultivators.
With Zhao Kuo becoming a Heaven Dragon of the Five Elements, he was not inferior to them in any way. In fact, he was stronger than most of them!
A survivor of the world-ending tribulation and the fusion of the Five Elements directly led him to the five-petal lotus realm.
"Dad! Look!" Zhao Kuo circled around before calling out loudly, "I’ve also ascended as a Heaven Dragon!"
He fulfilled his promise to his father and successfully reached the stage of Heaven Dragon. Moreover, he directly achieved the five-petal lotus realm!
Suddenly, a conical black dragon spear shot out from Zhao Kuo’s claws, wrapping around an ethereal black dragon.
This was the thousand-year-old dragon soul of Zhao Haoran that had lingered inside the Black Dragon Spear for so long!
The dragon soul, which was only as long as the Black Dragon Spear, looked at Zhao Kuo with satisfaction and approval before gradually dispersing into the void.
As a father, he still had one unfulfilled wish: to see his most gifted and hardworking youngest son ascend to Heaven Dragon!
Because of this, he attached his dragon soul inside the Black Dragon Spear, wanting to accompany his young son in battle and witness Zhao Kuo’s ascension to Heaven Dragon.
Zhao Kuo did not disappoint Zhao Haoran's expectations. Ever since Hao Ren gave him the Black Dragon Spear, he had kept it beside him so that his father could feel his growth and see with his own eyes how he ascended to Heaven Dragon!
When Zhao Haoran’s life came to an end, he was unable to be by his father's side. This was a regret for Zhao Kuo, but now that he had ascended to Heaven Dragon, he wanted his dragon soul to feel it.
This was the pride of the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace and his own pride as its son!
Seeing Zhao Haoran’s dragon soul faintly appear inside the Black Dragon Spear, Hao Ren felt touched. Zhao Haoran should have disappeared from this world, but he forced his dragon soul into a weapon and infused it with endless killing intent for life, all to inspire Zhao Kuo to advance towards Heaven Dragon.
How could outsiders understand such deep father-son affection!
"Dad! Don't leave!"
Seeing the black dragon soul gradually dissipate, Zhao Kuo suddenly turned human and his five-colored scales became a suit of armor. He seized the Black Dragon Spear.
Zhao Kuo had another promise: to bury Zhao Haoran in Heaven's Dragon Tomb!
He used the power of the Heaven Dragon with the five-petal lotus, and infused it into the Black Dragon Spear to retrieve Zhao Haoran’s dragon soul!
The appearance of Zhao Haoran’s dragon soul indicated that his wish was fulfilled. It would soon disappear from this world. Even if Zhao Kuo held back the dragon soul, he could only maintain it for a stick of incense's time.
Zhao Kuo suddenly charged towards Heaven Palace!
Upon hearing "dragon tomb," Sun Wukong holding the Green Stick leaped up to block his path.
The Dragon Tomb in heaven was where ancient celestial dragons rested. Since Sun Wukong guarded the Heavenly Gate, he had to stay until the end and would not let Zhao Kuo enter this forbidden area!
Zhao Kuo’s body burst with countless sword lights as he held the Black Dragon Spear, his dark face glowing red, like a raging heavenly deity… unleashing his power!
What he wanted to do was to send Zhao Haoran into Heaven's Dragon Tomb! This was his vow to his father!
Hao Ren saw Zhao Kuo and Sun Wukong about to clash. He suddenly broke free from Lu Lingling and Lu Lili’s slender arms, flashing out the Ruyi Jingu Bang and striking toward Sun Wukong.
He and Zhao Kuo both cultivated Sword Light Shadow Technique, they shared the same path of the Five Elements, and they were at the five-petal lotus realm!
Fighting side by side once again!
The former and current generals of the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace aim to reclaim its honor from a thousand years ago!
The Heavenly Array of Eight Trigrams and Absolute Annihilation!
Hao Ren’s sword formation, Zhao Kuo has seen it before! A full two layers of heavenly formations!
With Hao Ren being at the Fourth Stage, he possesses the ability to slay a cultivator at Fifth Stage with this sword formation. Two such cultivators working in tandem can obliterate someone at Seventh Stage!
The immortals gathered near Heavenly Gate turned pale and hastily avoided the buzzing sword formation.
If one were to be caught within such a heaven-defying annihilation array, they would suffer an instantaneous demise!
Moreover, this sword formation not only had offense but also defense. It surrounded both attackers and defenders like an endless storm of swords, making it hard for anyone to escape once it was unleashed.
Sun Wukong did not have the Ruyi Golden Cudgel, so he could not shatter these sword beams. To challenge a two-layered sword formation alone would mean certain death or severe injury even if he survived!
But as a proud Heavenly Sage of Equal Heaven, how could Sun Wukong back down
In an instant, countless avatars transformed from him charged into the sword formation.
The immortals present were shocked to see that Sun Wukong had cultivated himself to such a degree that he could now split his body infinitely like a heavenly treasure!
"Attack!" Zhao Kuo did not hesitate and activated the sword formation together with Hao Ren.
Countless illusions shattered inside the formation, while countless sword beams vanished at any moment.
This battle was earth-shattering!
Two Fifth Stage cultivators challenging an Eighth Stage one seemed like a losing proposition, but it was evenly matched. Wherever the sword beams passed, they tore through space and left dark shadows behind, causing those immortals to retreat even further.
Zhenyuanzi watched nervously, anxiously tapping his foot. It was about time that Xi Wangmu made her move!
He suddenly thought of something, quickly lowered his head, and calculated...
"Ah…" He looked at the center of the sword formation where the sword beams were circulating and suddenly realized... Zhao Kuo from the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace was truly the chosen one by Heavenly Dao!
Su Han was a union between two heavenly dragons; she was born half-heavenly dragon, unparalleled in her cultivation potential.
In comparison, Zhao Kuo’s innate talent seemed ordinary. Yet, he had been the hardest-working and fastest-improving dragon cultivator in thousands of years!
He reached peak Heaven grade within just two hundred years!
The heavens reward diligence!
It turned out that Heavenly Dao’s chosen one was not Hao Ren, but this seemingly foul-mouthed Zhao Kuo!
Zhao Kuo cultivated cautiously, neither killing indiscriminately in battle nor straying from his goal of becoming a heavenly dragon.
His first tribulation failure was not Heavenly Dao’s punishment for his rough language but a test and refinement!
The cultivation of Sword Shadows Splitting Light and obtaining the Five Elements Mystic Crystal were all part of an invisible divine will!
Zhenyuanzi suddenly realized that if he hadn’t convinced Heavenly Dao to favor Hao Ren, this Ruyi Golden Cudgel should have gone to Zhao Kuo instead!
Stupid! Stupid!
Zhenyuanzi wanted to slap himself.
He now understood why Xi Wangmu could sit steadily in her position while he was just a leisurely cultivator—it was due to his unsuitability for major responsibilities!
The extra factor likely being Zhao Kuo’s father, the old Dragon King of the Eastern Sea—Zhao Haoran!
Even Zhenyuanzi hadn’t expected that within this black dragon needle lay a lingering dragon soul—that was the extra number!
It seemed like three cultivators had rushed to heaven, but there were actually four!
"Second Brother, retreat!" Hao Ren suddenly shouted.
Hearing this, Sun Wukong paused slightly and then was immediately pressed by the sword formation.
However, Hao Ren left a gap in his sword array.
Sun Wukong transformed into a beam of golden light and fled. Meanwhile, Hao Ren and Zhao Kuo flew toward the dazzlingly colorful place within Heavenly Palace!
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