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Chapter 246 - 244 He Doesn’t Deserve to Be My Opponent
Chapter 246 - 244 He Doesn’t Deserve to Be My Opponent
Chapter 246: Chapter 244 He Doesn’t Deserve to Be My Opponent
The arrival of the Heavenly Tribulation was extremely fierce this time!
It was stronger than all of the tribulations Yang Fu encountered from Qi Cultivation first layer to the tenth layer combined!
It was as if Yang Fu was about to reach the Foundation Establishment Stage!
At this moment, disciples from other Spirit Pavilions quickly gathered around expertly.
Yang Fu’s advancement during the Qi Cultivation Stage attracting Heavenly Tribulation was no longer a novelty at Cloud Hidden Spirit Sect.
Everyone had seen it many times and had grown accustomed to it.
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But cultivators, unable to escape human nature, saw the thunder cloud and all wanted to check out the excitement.
After all, immortal cultivation was too monotonous; it was the pleasure of most disciples at the Cloud Hidden Spirit Sect.
Haven’t reached the Golden Core Stage, haven’t seen a Heavenly Tribulation yet?
Moreover, the disciples were all too familiar with the name Yang Fu, who had several nicknames in the Cloud Hidden Spirit Sect.
The youngest acting Pavilion Master, the scapegoat, the billion-debtor, the last person you could ever find in the Earth Spirit Pavilion…
At this very moment, while the disciples of the Earth Spirit Pavilion, as usual, went on visits searching for treasures across the land, only Yang Fu was left alone guarding the entire Spirit Pavilion, facing the Tribulation.
The Heavenly Spirit Pavilion, Fire Spirit Pavilion, Earth Spirit Pavilion… others also arrived.
Yang Fushuo quickly joined them as well.
“Hey! The one undergoing the tribulation up there is my brother! Cool, right?”
“Your real brother?”
“Of course, look how similar we look!”
“Then you take over his debts! The debts of the Earth Spirit Pavilion include yours! Quick, look everyone! Here is Yang Fu’s brother, from the Elixir Pavilion, he surely has spirit stones to pay us back!”
This disciple from the Earth Spirit Pavilion grabbed Yang Fushuo’s arm and shouted to those around him.
Yang Fushuo: “???”
“No, dude!”
“This debt also counts on my head?”
Below was a chaotic mess, and Yang Fu couldn’t hear them, as he was wholly focused on dealing with the Heavenly Tribulation.
“This Heavenly Tribulation is indeed different… this should have been the Thunder Tribulation for Foundation Establishment, luckily I was prepared in advance.”
Yang Fu, being the most stable man of the Yang Family, had prepared a vast number of fallbacks for himself; even the Foundation Establishment Thunder Tribulation couldn’t possibly kill him.
“The most important thing now is to absorb the power from the Heavenly Tribulation… and not advance to the Foundation Establishment Stage.”
“My Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object is already put away; I won’t contemplate that Dao Essence.”
It was a principle known to all cultivators that Foundation Establishment required a Foundation Establishment Spiritual Object.
This Spiritual Object might be a treasure nurtured by heaven and earth, could have been a personal item of a Great Cultivator imbued with spiritual energy, or even the essence blood of some demon beasts.
All shared one common feature: the ability to mobilize the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and they contained a thread of Dao Essence.
Only by refining this thread of Dao Essence could one achieve the True Fire of Dao Foundation, become a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage, and gain the ability to manipulate the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
This was a threshold at the Cloud Hidden Spirit Sect, where only Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators constituted the true strength of the Sect!
The Fetal Breathing Stage and Qi Refinement Stage were merely for apprentices, focusing solely on cultivation and learning.
While Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators would be assigned various tasks by the Sect, some were to guard the borders, others were sent to Lower Realm dynasties to collect tributes, or to conduct trades with other sects…
Yang Fushuo, due to the reasons of refining a new Elixir, had his duties transferred to other cultivators of the Elixir Pavilion by Du Yuyan, so he could temporarily stay well within the Sect; otherwise, he would have to go out and work too.
The Sect wasn’t maintaining so many cultivators for nothing; they needed to uphold the interests of the Sect and demonstrate its prestige.
A cultivator at the Foundation Establishment Stage was the minimum threshold.
At this moment, a lot of Qi Refinement Stage disciples looked enviously at Yang Fu’s breakthrough.
“From now on, Brother Yang will be able to undertake real missions and go out freely…”
“We better complete the tasks our master left us, quickly cultivate to the Foundation Establishment Stage and become a force to be reckoned with.”
“Hehe~ Reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage at nearly 50… The first pride of the Twelve Dynasties is not truly formidable.”
As soon as these words came out, everyone looked toward the speaker.
Feng Xun.
The first pride of the Immortal Path competition of this cohort two years ago!
Recognized as the once-in-a-century talent of the Sky Garden!
In the Immortal Path competition twelve years ago, Feng Family members from the Sky Garden were defeated upfront by the Fierce Sun Six Heroes and retired early, leading to the Sky Garden Dynasty ranking among the last three in the past decade, requiring them to pay an additional twenty percent tribute.
This incident was forever etched in the hearts of the Feng Family!
Especially Yang Fu and Yang Fushuo, who were viewed as the sources of shame for the Feng Family.
Two years ago, Feng Xun led the team in the contention for the Immortal Path.
Wind Spirit Root! Heavenly Spirit Root!
Unparalleled genius!
His talent had shocked the Cloud Hidden Spirit Sect!
The last time they saw such supreme talent was in Murong Ziyuan.
He easily secured first place and then entered the Heavenly Spirit Pavilion.
He had just achieved a breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Stage a few days earlier.
Now barely 30 years old, to call him the pride of the heavens was no exaggeration.
At this moment, seeing that Yang Fu at nearly 50 years old had only just managed to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, Feng Xun wore a look of disdain.
“Such talent also made it into the Earth Spirit Pavilion… hilarious. It must be because of that Thunder Cloud? This Heavenly Tribulation striking down… I could refine it in an instant!”
All the disciples gasped in astonishment.
“With the rarity of Brother Feng’s Wind Technique in the world, to you, the Heavenly Tribulation is nothing more…”
“If Brother Feng were 50 years old, he would probably already be witnessing the Golden Core Great Dao!”
“Brother Feng truly is a once-in-a-generation prodigy, Yang Fu has some talent, but compared to you, he is far behind…”
People with talent, good cultivation, and wealthy families were always highly sought after in their student days, as everyone knew.
Feng Xun was such a person.
He shook his head: “Boring, before I came here my cousin even told me to take the chance to spar with Yang Fu, the top prodigy of his generation. I thought he had been in the Foundation Establishment Stage for a long time, but it turns out he has just started.”
“He is not worthy to be my opponent.”
Feng Xun turned around and left, his eyes filled with disappointment.
At this moment, no one could claim that what Feng Xun said was wrong.
Because… indeed, Yang Fu was no longer young.
Establishing a foundation at 49, in the Cloud Hidden Spirit Sect, was merely mediocre, hardly worth mentioning as a prodigy.
Some disciples who had not seen the competition that year also began to talk, thinking that Yang Fu had secured first place by some other means.
Those who had seen the competition, as well as cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage, looked on with anticipation.
“Yang Fu dominated his competitors back then; even Li Yao with his Heavenly Spirit Root was merely a defeated foe… just watch.”
“You don’t know this, but Yang Fu has Five Spirit Roots, and reaching the Foundation Establishment Stage was incredibly difficult for him; his strength lies in battle techniques…
“Don’t look down on the Heavenly Tribulation… not everyone is worthy of being struck by it.”
“Let’s observe this Foundation Establishment Thunder Tribulation; it’s even rarer than the Golden Core Stage Thunder Tribulation, and might be the only time you see it in your life…”
“Indeed.”
Boom!
Purple lightning struck down!
Yang Fu, sitting cross-legged at the top of the Earth Spirit Pavilion, grunted, his body’s spiritual power resisting the strike.
Then he resorted to consuming elixirs, deploying treasures, and using various methods.
Boom boom boom!
The roaring of the thunder tribulation was magnificent, and the disciples watched enraptured.
Some Golden Core Stage Pavilion Masters and Deputy Pavilion Masters, not present, but gathered together elsewhere, also expressed their marvel.
“So this is the Qi Refinement to Foundation Establishment Thunder Tribulation… quite an eye-opener.”
“The Earth Spirit Pavilion always manages to bring something new to the table, none of its disciples are mundane.”
“In the aspect of being unusual at the Earth Spirit Pavilion, Yang Fu performs quite normally…”
“Wait… look at Yang Fu, why hasn’t he achieved the True Fire of Dao Foundation even after the Thunder Tribulation has passed?”
“What went wrong?”
“His aura… it’s so strange! I’ve never seen anything like it!”
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At this moment, Feng Xun, who had just left, stealthily found a corner and squinted to watch.
“That said… Li Yao also has some skills, and since he could defeat his opponent, I might as well take another look.”