Infinite Professions

Shen Hex turned over and returned, the Demon Saber in his hand trembled slightly, it was evidently bearing a great force.

As for that bolt of tribulation thunder, although it too revealed strain and faded, in the next instant it flared with arcs of purple light, reviving in an instant, and crashed towards Shen Hex once more.

No, not just one bolt.

As soon as this Destruction Divine Thunder recovered, another Purple Thunderstorm descended from the heavens, the two currents of thunder converged and surged towards Shen Hex.

Shen Hex’s expression remained unchanged, as if he had anticipated it, the Demon Saber Dao Sword brandished, the interplay of saber light and sword radiance vanquished the thunder once again.

However...

"Boom!!!"

Electric arcs surged, purple light flared, the thunder which had just been extinguished swiftly regenerated, merging with the third descending bolt of celestial thunder, and together struck the cultivator.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The Demon Saber Dao Sword, exerted with full force and swept across.

Yet the Purple Thunderstorm was relentless.

One after another, layer upon layer, in a blink, twenty-seven bolts of thunder descended, neither fading nor dispersing, neither destroying nor perishing, forming a thunder prison, trapping the cultivator within, striking repeatedly.

"This..."

"How could this be?"

"These tribulation thunders...?"

Outside Dongting Lake, the assembled cultivators were also startled into disbelief.

Though the tribulation clouds extended far and wide, with flashing lightning and roaring thunder obscuring the inner sight, making it difficult to catch a glimpse of the figure of the one crossing the tribulation, yet the escalating intensity of purple light and electric radiance rendered the thunder purgatory increasingly clear.

All were horrified, and even more bewildered.

The Dao extends fifty, yet Heaven yields forty-nine, adhering to the principle of one thread of survival, celestial tribulation comes with various restrictions.

Usually, the number of tribulation thunders and their means of striking, generally speaking, are straight hits, at most descending layer by layer, with one layer dissipating before the next arrives.

One layer being nine bolts, meaning under normal circumstances, no more than nine tribulation thunders would strike simultaneously.

This is the restriction of celestial tribulation, otherwise if all thunders descended together, the Nine-Nine Celestial Tribulation would not need crossing, and even the Six-Nine Celestial Tribulation would be a forlorn hope, who could withstand dozens of bolts of celestial thunder striking together?

But now...

Looking at the increasingly intense purple light, and the expanding thunder prison, the eyes of the cultivators were filled with horror and confusion.

What is happening?

These tribulation thunders will not dissipate?

How could there be such a celestial tribulation?

The cultivators uncertainly questioned, only a few Nascent Souls suddenly realized, exclaiming in shock.

"This is..."

"Destruction Divine Thunder!"

"Creation Divine Thunder!"

"Undying Celestial Tribulation?"

A few Nascent Souls, whispered in shock, almost speechless.

"Creation and Destruction, Destruction and Creation!"

"Endlessly born and extinguished, the Nine-Nine Celestial Tribulation!"

"What has he done!?"

With horror, the Nascent Souls gazed at that Purple Thunder Prison, not knowing what to say.

Destruction and Creation, are the grand authority of the Celestial Dao.

Using this power as tribulation, it becomes a ceaseless cycle of birth and extinction of tribulation, if reaching the number of Nine-Nine, up to eighty-one bolts of tribulation thunders would constitute a thunder prison to eviscerate the cultivator.

Such a celestial tribulation, not merely a punishment, surpasses punishment, only recorded in ancient texts, unheard of after the ancients, completely unable to be stirred.

Yet he...

"Boom rumble!"

Within the tribulation clouds, inside the thunder prison.

Heaven and Earth thunder, Destruction and Creation, endless and boundless.

With saber and sword in hand, Shen Hex was rather serene.

Undying Celestial Tribulation?

He was prepared!

This particular celestial tribulation is not merely the Fourth Celestial Tribulation of Unity of Artifact and Technique, crossing together the saber and sword, but also an innovative, transformative Creation of Law Tribulation.

Indeed, he has invented a Dharma Gate, the Demon Saber Daoist Sword Skill uniquely belonging to him!

Creating methods is something Shen Hex seldom does, because he understands himself well.

His talent is ordinary, comprehension rather plain, even though he has the time advantage brought by Zhuang Zhou’s Dream of the Butterfly, yet the ambition to create a perfect cultivation technique remains impractical.

Creating methods, opening a new path, is it truly an easy feat?

Talent, perception, wisdom and creativity, vision and experience, accumulation of foundation, none can be absent.

Shen Hex, backed by the Human Empire, standing on the shoulders of giants, lacks the need to create methods and lacks the ability to create them, forcing development would merely be feigning grandiosity, only to add mockery, null of meaning.

Like a schoolchild attempting to establish classics of a certain field, naïve and absurd.

Shen Hex understands himself, avoiding such endeavors, always conducting tasks standing on the shoulders of giants, both the Martial Dao and the Immortal Dao have been thus, even the Spirit Control Dao’s "Spirit Control Scripture" merely synthesizes the essence of Spirit Control techniques from Spirit Control Realm and Human Empire, without much of his own innovations.

But now he possesses, he comprehended!

He combined the Karma Fire Three Calamities Blade Technique and Sacrificial Demon-slaying Sword Technique, deriving a unique Magical Sword Dao Blade Skill of his own.

Originally, he lacked such capability, after all, these two Dharmas are formidable fighting techniques forged by Immortal Demons, journeyed through cultivation reaching the Twelfth Rank Immortal Demon Realm, what qualification does an ordinary mortal cultivator with a maximum tier six have to amalgamate these two great Immortal Demon techniques and find comprehension and creation from them?

Logically, entirely impossible.

But alas, he doesn’t follow common logic.

The Self Transformed Sovereignty and Root of All Methods, this peculiar Demon Skill greatly enhanced his perception.

Coupled with the Immortal Hermit’s Immortal Concealment Blessed Land, the Immortal’s Longevity Cultivation Method, the Seeker’s relentless quest for Daos, each vocation attribute enhancing efficiency in cultivation, alongside accumulating life experiences of many lifetimes, human conditions, love-hate, desires and susceptibilities, the varieties of life, the vicissitudes of the world...

Essence of myriad things, converged into one being, engineered his breakthrough of common sense into epiphany.

He comprehended his own Dao, created his own technique.

Though it’s initial, imperfect, requiring refinement, yet understanding is understanding, creation is creation.

A Law Founder must encounter the Creation of Law Tribulation!

Moreover, this is the extraordinary technique born of epiphany combining Immortal and Demon, inducing tribulation naturally becomes extremely astonishing, the Nine-Nine Undying Celestial Tribulation completely accords with logic.

Shen Hex is unsurprised, instead brimming with delight.

The Dharma Gate is initially forged yet incomplete, many aspects require honing?

How to polish?

Right here, within this celestial tribulation!

Heavenly tribulation is both calamity and opportunity.

The Creation of Law Tribulation is even more so, newborn methods could envision the self within the celestial tribulation, completing its flaws and deficiencies.

This is why celestial tribulation variants are as plentiful as fish through the river, corresponding to unnumbered Daos and methods, yet he specifically attracted this Destruction Creation Nine-Nine Undying Celestial Tribulation.

This isn’t coincidence, this is destiny!

The heavens assigned him to inquire the Dao within the tribulation, to perfect the cultivation technique.

With an opportunity like this before him, how could Shen Hex not be overjoyed?

As for danger...he has long forgotten danger.

To hear the Dao in the morning, willing to die by evening!

With the great path before him, a little danger, what does it amount to?

Shen Hex wielded saber and sword in the thunder prison, arrogantly traversing, akin to paintbrush and palette freely painting, sensing the Dao of Heaven and Earth, comprehending natural principles, achieving the fruit of self.

Marvelous, marvelous!

In this manner, unknowingly how long, the Nine-Nine count finally completes, eighty-one bolts of celestial thunder forming the Purple Thunder Prison, creating life force, desolation power, endless and boundless, endless and boundless.

Outside Dongting, cultivators stood rigidly, expressions horrified, yet with growing concern.

Fear, is fearing this celestial tribulation’s might!

Concern, is worrying for the cultivator’s life!

Such tribulation, world-shakingly exceptional, who can overcome?

If he can’t overcome, who resolves the Profound Void crisis?

What’s to be done, what’s to be done?