The Ancestor of All Demons

The just-begun Heavenly Tribulation was still sporadic, with clumps east and patches west, and each having different attributes—some were Purple Cloud Thunder, some were Qingxiao Thunder, some were Wind Fire Thunder, and some were Heavenly Gang Thunder.

Gradually, the summoned tribulation clouds increased in number; they repelled and attracted each other based on different attributes, producing various wonderful uses and gathering together.

Small patches merged into large ones, and the area covered grew; once different attributes of tribulation clouds fused, they produced unexpected changes, generating even more powerful Heavenly Thunder.

Each person's situation varied, with differences in the time and intensity of the summoned Heavenly Thunder—some thunder arrived first, some later, in dribs and drabs, eventually leading to ever-growing accumulations of tribulation clouds.

This Heavenly Tribulation would last for three years, intermittently, with varying intensity, primarily focusing on Thunder Tribulation and Fire Tribulation, while Demon Tribulation was mixed in.

The Demon Tribulation was the most fierce, with each person's Dao Level depth and strength differing, influencing the type of Thunder Tribulation and Fire Tribulation summoned, and attracting various demons. Heavenly Devils followed Heavenly Thunder and Heavenly Fire, directly attacking the primordial spirit of the tribulation-crossers, even combining with Thunder Fire to form Demon Thunder, assaulting the physical body and stirring one's energy and blood, causing immense discomfort from head to toe.

Some Yin Demons quietly infiltrated people's hearts, causing them to see illusions, such as the tribulation already being over, or even directly charging at the tribulation clouds in the sky...

Such occurrences were endless.

Shi Feiyang only led everyone to cast spell when the Heavenly Tribulation was at its strongest, simultaneously activating the Nine Palaces Eight Diagrams Formation, creating a large five-colored cloud light above everyone, and spouting that Chaos Dragon Ball.

He seized every opportunity to temper himself and improve, using Heavenly Thunder to fiercely strike the Dragon Ball, followed by casting with Heavenly Fire.

The Dragon Ball flew to its peak, attracting all the Thunder Fire.

The Immortals below watched with tear-filled eyes: "Master Yuan Yang is righteous!"

"Indeed, indeed, to help us cross the tribulation, he doesn't hesitate to deplete his mana and withstand the Thunder Fire at the top!"

"Even true father and son wouldn't do this!"

"Master Yuan Yang is like a reborn father to me!"

Many couldn't bear to watch, and swiftly released their Flying Sword Magical Treasures, letting them ascend: "Let's not let Master Yuan Yang bear the tribulation alone on our behalf; let's join forces!"

Numerous people strove to maneuver their Flying Sword Magical Treasures higher than Shi Feiyang's Dragon Ball, but by then the tribulation clouds had already connected into one, forming an immense cloud layer with a diameter of ten thousand miles, filled with red, black, purple, and blue cloud mists, flashing with various colored lightning, swirling with different flames, along with all sorts of gales, Heavenly Winds, etc.; everything from Yin Yang Five Elements, heat and cold, existed.

Whenever their Flying Sword Magical Treasures rose higher than the Chaos Dragon Ball, Heavenly Thunder struck down immediately, instantly reducing their Flying Sword Magical Treasures to ash, unable to withstand thunder strikes and fire burns.

Thunder roared, fire rained.

Even Cang Lingzi, releasing ninety-nine Tianxin Swords into the sky, couldn't endure more than the time of a cup of tea under the wild thunder.

Divine Camel Yi Xiu was defiant, unleashing ten-colored Five Elements Divine Light between his hands, shooting straight into the heavens, attempting to disperse the tribulation clouds. His divine light reacted with various attributes of Thunder Fire, forming all sorts of colored light-shadow cloud vapors, extremely dazzling but withstanding for merely two cups of tea's time before the Five Elements Divine Light dissipated.

The Immortals took turns acting, differing in their mana strength, magical treasures' quality, and attribute interactions, maintaining varying durations.

But even the longest attempt couldn't exceed the time it takes to eat a meal.

After everyone tried, when they looked again to the highest point in the sky at that Dragon Ball, which attracted ten thousand thunder strikes, countless heavenly fires all focused on it, with innumerable lightning arcs connected to it forming a colossal lightning sphere, and endless heavenly fires floating over to burn, lasting one or two days at a time, it revealed Shi Feiyang's prowess: Master Yuan Yang's strength was truly terrifying!

In fact, Shi Feiyang leveraged the power of the Heavenly Treasure Mirror and the Circulation Light Disc, and the Chaos Dragon Ball was indeed extraordinary.

This Dragon Ball had originally been formidable, merging with the Chaos Core inside the Nine Suspicions Tripod, containing immeasurable power, yet Shi Feiyang seldom used it due to being its Lifebound Magical Treasure, fearing damage.

During the tribulation on Tongye Island, this Dragon Ball absorbed a lot of Taihuo Poison Flame's essential fire energy, plus with the Mixed Element Qi Ball; during regular cultivation, he added True Water, Two-Pole Primordial Magnetic True Energy, and Five Elements Essence. These years, he refined it in the Qiankun Furnace, accepting the Heavenly Star Debris's energy...

The energy contained in the Dragon Ball now is greater than the Circulation Light Disc refined from dozens of Secret Demon Divine Shuttles combined!

If Shi Feiyang were driven to a dead end and detonated this thing, it could collapse at least one-third of this world's space. And it wouldn't just be landslides and earthquakes, but spatial distortions and even turbulence in time.

Originally tempered in the Qiankun Furnace, it was of "Civil Fire," but now struck by Heavenly Thunder and burned by Heavenly Fire, it counts as "Martial Fire."

Back then, the Ancient Immortals obtained the Chaos Core and specially forged the Nine Suspicions Tripod, attempting to refine this core using alchemy to create a world, but they failed.

Shi Feiyang is now also trying to refine it using alchemical methods, but instead uses heaven and earth as the Tripod Furnace, the sun, moon, and five stars as Civil Fire, thousands of Sword Immortals summoning Heavenly Tribulation Thunder Fire as Martial Fire, the essence energy of all beings from Outer Heaven Divine Mountain as ingredients, melding human heart with Heavenly Heart into Dao to form the dragon and tiger, using his strong Dao Heart to control the Circulation God Technique for fire control... to refine this "Great Pill"!

At first, the Thunder Fire was chaotic, merely striking and burning continuously.

After several months, those Heavenly Thunder Fires began forming a regular ebb and flow pattern, today striking with Purple Cloud Thunder, tomorrow with Qingxiao Thunder, the day after with Chi Xiao Thunder, the day after that with Xuan Xiao Thunder, followed by Jade Core Thunder, Grand Cave Thunder, Immortal Capital Thunder, Tai Chi Thunder, Jade Dawn Thunder, Beiji Thunder... each type of thunder settling in its own category, changing from disorder to order, each matching the number of the Circulation.

Thunder, fire, wind, rain, frost, snow, etc., grew more pure and orderly. After a year, there was no more mixing between thunders. If Purple Cloud Thunder came today, Qingxiao Thunder wouldn't appear; if Grand Cave Thunder was due today, not a single North Star Thunder would arrive, there was not a speck of chaos.

In the following year, it was divided into four seasons, eight segments, and twenty-four phases!

During Frost Descent, what fell was the Tianyi Mysterious Frost; in the eternally bright days and scorching heat of the Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, frost began to fall, covering all things with frost crystals.

During Rain Water, what fell was the Nine Desires True Water that could dissolve the Primordial Spirit. Ordinary fierce ghosts would dissolve entirely when splashed with just a drop, their souls scattering. Except for Pure Yang Heavenly Immortals, anyone with even a hint of negative energy would be dissolved by this rain. That is to say, whether Shi Feiyang or Master Chi Zhang, their Primordial Spirits couldn't withstand this rain, but someone like Lin Han, having refined into Yang God, was unafraid, able to cleanse his muscles and bones, even his internal organs, providing not only no harm but benefit.

Spring rain surprises spring's pure valley sky, summer fills the grain, linking summer's heat, autumn's first dew, autumn cold, frost descends, winter snow, snow, big and little cold in winter.

The twenty-four phases varied according to the Circulation's number, rotated to the coldest Great Cold phase, where the Tribulation Clouds rained down a substantial amount of Cold Gang. Each strand of Cold Gang transformed into a great Cold Wave, impacting mountains and rivers, freezing the entire Outer Heaven Divine Mountain, and turning the central sea into an enormous solid ice block!

This was not only the tribulation of the group of immortals but also the tribulation of the entire Outer Heaven Divine Mountain and the millions of living beings there!

The subjects of the Yu Country between mountains and seas, whether human, deity, demon, or ghost, all prayed facing toward where Shi Feiyang was, enhancing with their Will Power.

Shi Feiyang cast spells to resist the severe cold, as the Central Sea bore the brunt, he directed all Water Clan to sink underwater, leading the group of immortals to use the Array for enhancement, channeling mana southward.

His altar city's guardian at the southern gate, Huo Wuhai, immediately cast spells releasing a substantial amount of True Fire. The fire source was transmitted to the Southern Divine Peak, where the Shaoyang God Monarch released two Bing Fire Spirit Snakes; these two snakes were spirits nurtured in the Earth Fire of Moqiu Island. Upon encountering Huo Wuhai, they received guidance from Shi Feiyang, acquiring a plethora of True Sun Fire, Five Elements Separation Fire, South Bright True Fire... carefully nurturing and refining for many years. These two snakes, now longer than ever, flew in the air, winding and coiling, resembling dragons in form, spewing infinite flames from their mouths to counter the Cold Gang.

During the first year of violent Thunder Fire, Demon Tribulation was difficult to arise. In the second year, when Thunder Fire gained order, entering the "Civil Fire" phase, Demon Tribulation arrived.

Everyone has a Demon Tribulation, Shi Feiyang is no exception. As during his previous Tribulation Crossing, he returned to the examination room of his college entrance exam year.

The examining teacher sternly accused him of cheating, announcing not only the cancellation of his qualification but also intending to call the police officer to arrest him for violating the state law, intending to imprison and eventually execute him...

Shi Feiyang understood these were illusions created by Yin Demon, merely needing to be ignored. When Dan Qi gradually matured, his Primordial Spirit retreated from Yin to Yang, and they naturally dissipated.

If trying to subdue demons, one enters the Demon Realm and becomes trapped, unable to extricate oneself.

Besides Yin Demon Illusions, there were Heavenly Demon Impacts, which he observed with his Wisdom Eye. Throughout the heaven and sea, Heavenly Demons from Heavenly Worlds boiled over, cheering and roaring, constantly changing, able to create illusions for people and even enter them to seduce one's Primordial Spirit. Some directly pounced on people's bodies, attempting to occupy the flesh, others absorbed people's Primordial Spirit from a distance, trying to suck the Divine Soul away...

This was something outsiders couldn't stop; Shi Feiyang could only, as planned, release the three Purple and Blue Divine Flames above his head, dispersing them into 108,000 fire seedlings, shining like star fire over everyone's heads. Besides suspending three over every Sword Immortal's head, the rest formed a fire net in the sky to block many Heavenly Demons from approaching.

Doing this undoubtedly consumed massive resources, but fortunately, Shi Feiyang had the millennia-old Divine Oil from the Xuanyuan Holy Tomb, as well as the Nine-Grade Green Lotus continuously replenishing Primordial Qi, allowing him to barely continue.

However, he could only prevent the Heavenly Demons in the air from approaching the tribulation crossers. The Heavenly Demons, invisible evil spirits, etc., induced in their hearts couldn't be dealt with; they had to rely on their own mental fortitude and will to pass through.