No hope for eternal life

Chapter 400 Preparing for the Tribulation

"Before, Sect Leader Feng specifically asked us to stay and attend her funeral. I'm afraid it was just for today." Mu Changsheng sighed and felt deeply for Feng Rui's righteousness.

In addition to the loss of cultivation, the physical body will also disappear when one disperses the Tao. Most cultivators will be particularly careful about their bodies even when they are about to die, so very few cultivators will take the initiative to disperse the Tao. It is even rarer for a cultivator of the Ninth Realm to disperse the Tao. According to historical records, the only cultivator of the Ninth Realm who had ever dispersed the Tao was Tiansheng Emperor.

While Mu Changsheng was grateful for Feng Rui's heroic feat of spreading the Dao, he summoned his clone in white to absorb the scattered spiritual rain together, so as not to let Feng Rui down for her last kindness.

This spiritual rain came quickly and ended quickly, ending in just half an hour.

But don't underestimate this half hour. The ninth-level cultivators' dispersion will be of great help to Mu Changsheng, a sixth-level cultivator.

Before the scattered spiritual rain ended, Mu Changsheng's original body and his clone in white both felt a sense of blessing coming to their hearts. This was a sign of an impending breakthrough. As long as Mu Changsheng wanted, his original body and his clone in white could now summon the thunder tribulation and begin to overcome it.

However, Mu Changsheng was not yet prepared to endure the second level of thunder tribulation, and naturally would not endure it in a hurry, so he suppressed the divine power of breakthrough and delayed the time of enduring the tribulation.

But this postponement is not indefinite. Generally speaking, it can only be postponed for a maximum of one month. If it is postponed for too long, it will be harmful to yourself.

"One month is enough time for me to prepare." Mu Changsheng thought to himself. He now had 200,000 sect contribution points in his hands, so he had no shortage of the top-grade spirit stones needed to overcome the tribulation.

Not long after the scattered spiritual rain ended, Liang Kuan, who had been promoted to the chief disciple of the inner sect of the Tianling Sect, came to inform Mu Changsheng: "Junior brother Mu, quickly go to Zangying Peak to attend the funeral of Sect Master Feng."

"I'll go there right away." Mu Changsheng replied hurriedly, collected his clone, and rushed directly to Zangying Peak.

Zangying Peak is a place specially used to bury the sect's fallen monks. When Mu Changsheng arrived at Zangying Peak, Mo Lianyue, Xiao Niansheng, Shangguan Qiong and other ninth-level monks had already arrived.

Feng Rui's tomb was specially built on the top of Zangying Peak. Because of the scattered roads, this so-called tomb was just a cenotaph.

After a while, all the disciples had arrived. Shangguan Qiong faced the tombstone and said in a deep voice: "According to etiquette, the sect leader has passed away, and the sect needs to mourn for at least three years. However, the sect leader once left a message saying that the world is a time of great strife and cannot delay your three years of cultivation. The mourning period only needs three days. After three days, you can enter and leave the sect freely. I hope you will not let the sect leader down in the future."

"Yes." The disciples answered respectfully.

Outside Zangying Peak, Yin Buhui looked at Zangying Peak from afar, muttering: "What a great way to end the sect, to end it completely, no one can disturb you anymore. Compared to death, living people may be more painful."

Afterwards, Yin Buhui turned around and left without any nostalgia, leaving the Tianling Sect and the Tianling Realm.

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Three days later, the funeral was over, and it was time for Mu Changsheng to prepare for the second level of thunder tribulation.

Mu Changsheng first came to Lingzang Peak. Lingzang Peak of Tianling Sect was originally managed by Liang Kuan, but because Li Mubai was promoted to elder, Liang Kuan took his place as the eldest inner sect disciple and transferred to guard the Sutra Repository. Now, the one who has taken over Liang Kuan's management of Lingzang Peak is the new second inner sect disciple Qi Yuan.

Qi Yuan's cultivation level is the Seventh Realm Divine Sea Realm. At this level of the Seventh Realm, his strength is second only to Xiao Jingshan, who is number one in the Seventh Realm. Before Xiao Jingshan's sudden rise, he had always been firmly on the throne of number one in the Seventh Realm.

Qi Yuan smiled and said, "I see that Junior Brother Mu's divine light is restrained. It should be time for him to pass the tribulation soon, right?"

"Brother, please understand. Sect Master Chengfeng is spreading the grace of the Tao and is indeed going to transcend the tribulation. I came here today to prepare for the tribulation." Mu Changsheng said bluntly.

"Junior Brother Mu shined in the sect competition before, I also saw it, he must have earned a lot of sect contribution points, the contribution points are enough, a small double thunder tribulation is nothing." Qi Yuan laughed: "Moreover, Elder Mo reached the ninth realm with a lifeless personality, and Junior Brother Mu is also a lifeless personality. It may be possible for him to replicate it in the future, and he will achieve great things in the future."

"Thank you for your good words, Senior Brother." Mu Changsheng responded with a smile, and then got back to the point: "I want 130,000 top-grade spirit stones, and two seventh-grade fragrant orchids..."

Mu Changsheng reported a long list of names, and those spiritual materials were all that he was going to use to refine the formation plate.

Qi Yuan quickly calculated and gave a quote: "A total of 152,000 contribution points are needed."

The prices within the sect have always been low, so Mu Changsheng did not bargain at all and directly paid 152,000 contribution points. Most of the contribution points he had on hand were gone in an instant. It can be seen that the higher the cultivation level, the less contribution points can be spent.

After buying the things, Mu Changsheng returned to his cave in Chongluan Peak and began to retreat to refine the formation plate.

What Mu Changsheng planned to refine this time was a brand new formation, called the Protective Formation. As the name suggests, this formation was a defensive formation that could only defend and not attack.

Mu Changsheng intended to use this formation to resist the second level of thunder tribulation. The power of the second level of thunder tribulation would far exceed the first level of thunder tribulation, so defensive formations below the seventh grade could not stop it at all. Only a seventh-grade formation could ensure that Mu Changsheng would be safe when he passed the tribulation.

Although Mu Changsheng had failed every time he tried to refine the seventh-grade Immortal Trap Formation before, this time was different. Firstly, he had prepared twenty sets of spiritual materials for refining the seventh-grade defensive formation. Secondly, his cultivation had also increased dramatically because of the scattered spiritual rain, so his chances of success naturally increased as his cultivation increased.

As for why Mu Changsheng chose to refine the seventh-grade formation plate instead of the seventh-grade talisman, it is also easy to understand. Because Mu Changsheng's formation art has the experience of Emperor Tianqing and Taoist Master Yi, his foundation is even deeper. The last time Mu Changsheng successfully refined the seventh-grade shadow talisman, but failed to successfully refine the seventh-grade formation plate, it was completely an accident.

Before refining the seventh-grade defensive formation, Mu Changsheng first practiced with the sixth-grade top-level defensive formation to familiarize himself with this type of formation.

Mu Changsheng prepared ten spiritual materials for refining the sixth-grade top-level defensive array, and finally successfully refined four sixth-grade top-level defensive array plates. The reason for the low success rate was that it was his first time refining this kind of purely defensive array, and he was a little unskilled.

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng began to formally refine the seventh-grade defensive formation.

The first time, Mu Changsheng ended up in failure as expected. He once again felt the gap between the seventh-grade and sixth-grade formations. That gap was like the chasm between the Divine Sea Realm cultivators and the Tribulation Realm cultivators.

The second time, still failed.

The third time, the fourth time, failure, failure...