Chapter 79 Mahayana

Chapter 79: Mahayana

Winter passed and spring came, and another eight hundred years went by.

Ever since Lu Mingfang killed a Demon Race Void Refining Cultivator.

The Demon God Sect's actions quickly fell silent.

Without the chaos caused by the demonic plague, the Yu Fan Heaven World returned to its former appearance.

If it weren't for the occasional Demon Race members who slipped through and were discovered, people would have almost forgotten that a demonic plague ever existed.

However, after several centuries of continuous purges.

The number of Demon Race members who had entered Yu Fan Heaven through temporary passages in the previous few times was already pitifully small.

They were even rarer than giant pandas on Blue Star.

Every time a Demon Race member was discovered, a large group of Cultivators would gather to watch.

To compete for the merit of killing Demon Race members, Cultivators would even fight amongst themselves.

As a result, more Cultivators were killed by their own people than by the Demon Race.

The main reason was that the Dao Saint Sect's merits were simply too tempting.

As long as one had enough merit, even Heaven Rank Divine Abilities could be exchanged.

For Cultivators, such a temptation was completely irresistible.

The only problem was that there were too few Demon Race members.

Without enough Demon Race members for them to kill, they simply couldn't accumulate enough merit.

The Dao Saint Sect's rules were very rigid.

To gain merit, one could only kill Demon Race members.

Besides that, there were no other channels through which to obtain merit.

This made the Cultivators quite depressed.

Everyone once thought that the so-called merit exchange was just a饼 drawn by the Dao Saint Sect.

It simply couldn't be accumulated.

Currently, the Cultivator with the highest accumulated merit.

At most, they could only exchange for an ordinary Magic Treasure.

As for exchanging for Cultivation Techniques or Divine Abilities, the merit was still far from enough.

Despite this, the Cultivators' enthusiasm for joining the Demon Suppression Army did not decrease in the slightest.

After all, besides patrolling various places within the prefectures, they didn't need to do anything else and still received a salary.

So why not join?

The Dao Saint Sect also welcomed all comers.

As long as a Cultivator was at Foundation Establishment and above, the Demon Suppression Army would accept them.

Moreover, salaries were paid promptly and never delayed.

Therefore, in some larger prefectures.

The number of Demon Suppression Army members even swelled to several hundred thousand.

Ordinary people saw the excitement, but the major powers had long understood the implications.

The Dao Saint Sect's grand action of forming the Demon Suppression Army.

And continuing for nearly a thousand years, yet not deploying the Demon Suppression Army to do anything.

Clearly, the Dao Saint Sect was preparing for war.

As for the purpose of the war? Where did the enemy come from?

That was a bit hard to say.

But they knew it definitely wasn't from within Yu Fan Heaven.

Because in the entire Yu Fan Heaven, there was no one worthy of such serious treatment from the Dao Saint Sect.

Some speculated that perhaps the Demon Clan Army was making a comeback, repeating the calamity of a hundred thousand years ago.

The Dao Saint Sect was forming the Demon Suppression Army in various places to deal with the calamity.

Others speculated that the Dao Saint Sect might have discovered a new civilized world.

The formation of the Demon Suppression Army was intended to invade the new world.

There were even guesses that the Dao Saint Sect formed the Demon Suppression Army to cleanse the forces within Yu Fan Heaven.

Various speculations abounded.

However, the Dao Saint Sect never gave a clear statement.

It was just silently accumulating strength.

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Cloud Python Mountain Range, Thunder Lake.

“Hoo, I finally passed another Heavenly Tribulation.”

Zhang Yuhe stood on the lake surface, letting out a long sigh.

At this moment, his aura was fully unleashed, and a terrifying pressure swept across hundreds of thousands of miles.

He had indeed reached the Mahayana Realm.

After more than eight hundred years of diligent Cultivation, he finally Cultivated to Body Integration Perfection.

Then he came to Thunder Lake to Undergo Tribulation.

The Heavenly Tribulation triggered by breaking through to the Mahayana Realm was indeed incredibly fierce.

In the final round of Heavenly Tribulation, eight streaks of nine-colored Divine Lightning struck continuously.

And even a golden lightning bolt appeared at the very end.

Zhang Yuhe had never seen any records of golden lightning in ancient texts.

This meant that, in the history of Yu Fan Heaven, golden Heavenly Tribulation should not have appeared.

When this unknown golden Heavenly Tribulation appeared.

It truly gave him a huge fright.

Fortunately, he had improved the Ren Water Lightning Absorption Array later on.

Although he did not replace the Lightning Absorbing Pillars.

He redesigned the array patterns.

The improved Ren Water Lightning Absorption Array had an extremely strong weakening effect on Heavenly Tribulation.

It could probably weaken the power of the Heavenly Tribulation by two-thirds.

So much so that when dealing with the first sixty lightning bolts.

He didn't use any Spirit Treasures, directly activated the Milky Way Celestial Cycle Art, and shattered the Heavenly Tribulation with his fists.

Even the eight streaks of nine-colored Divine Lightning, after being weakened by the Ren Water Lightning Absorption Array, were easily handled by him.

Only that last golden Heavenly Tribulation, its power was truly terrifying.

Even after being weakened by one-third of its power by the Ren Water Lightning Absorption Array.

It still pierced through countless layers of the Nine Heavens Primordial Sword Formation's defense.

It almost struck him directly.

It scared him half to death at the time.

If the golden Heavenly Tribulation had directly struck his body.

His small physique, even with the Milky Way Celestial Cycle Art activated, definitely wouldn't have been able to withstand it.

“I finally passed it.”

Watching the sky return to clarity.

Zhang Yuhe felt a sense of relief after surviving a calamity.

“The power of the Heavenly Tribulation is more outrageous each time, I really don't know how abnormal the upcoming Ascension Great Heavenly Tribulation will be?”

After advancing to Mahayana, Zhang Yuhe had to prepare for Ascension.

Fortunately, he had plenty of time to plan slowly.

To trigger the Ascension Great Heavenly Tribulation, one had to Cultivate to Mahayana Perfection.

This was not something that could be achieved in a short time.

Cultivation in the Mahayana Realm was extremely difficult.

Progress was terrifyingly slow.

According to rumors, Sect Leader Feng Xiaotian of the Dao Saint Sect only took twenty thousand years to Cultivate to the Mahayana Realm.

However, another ten thousand years have passed, and Feng Xiaotian is still in the Mahayana Early Stage.

Another Old Ancestor in the Sect, Wu Yuemin, has been Cultivating for over eighty thousand years and is only in the Mahayana Middle Stage.

From the Cultivation progress of these two people, the difficulty of Cultivating in the Mahayana period is evident.

Although Zhang Yuhe's talent was Heaven-Defying, he did not believe that he could quickly break through to Mahayana Perfection.

It would take at least three to five thousand years.

With such a long time to prepare, he would surely come up with a way to deal with the Ascension Great Heavenly Tribulation.

Moreover, the Dao Saint Sect had previous precedents of Cultivators successfully Undergoing Tribulation and Ascending.

At that time, he could also refer to them.

To see how others withstood the Great Heavenly Tribulation.

Although the Great Heavenly Tribulation he was about to face would definitely be countless times fiercer than that of other Cultivators.

But observing others' Tribulation Undergoing processes would still have some reference value.

He believed that the Dao Saint Sect must have corresponding records in its ancient texts.

It was just that he hadn't broken through to the Mahayana Realm before, so he wasn't qualified to view them.

Zhang Yuhe looked at the surrounding lake surface, only to see it vast and boundless.

It was two to three hundred thousand miles in area.

“This place is really going to become a great sea.”

Looking at the vast lake surface around him, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

After Undergoing Tribulation here three times in a row.

Thunder Lake had expanded from a few thousand miles in area to two to three hundred thousand miles.

He thought.

If the next Ascension Great Heavenly Tribulation also took place here.

Perhaps even the entire Cloud Python Mountain Range would be destroyed.

The power of the Heavenly Tribulation was truly terrifying.

He wondered where the energy came from to gather such a fierce Heavenly Tribulation.

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