War God Long Ao

He completely ignored the might of the Hundred Tribulations.

Long Ao, relying on his Desolate Tyrant Body, Divine Dragon Arm, and Nether Tiger Arm, clashed violently with the Hundred Tribulations.

The speed of the Hundred Tribulations had clearly increased this time. In a single second, the remaining forty Thunder Tribulations struck all at once. Long Ao spat out a mouthful of blood, but he ultimately endured it.

"Break!"

With a mighty roar, Long Ao charged his entire body into the Hundred Tribulations. He threw a flurry of punches, and with a single move, he shattered it.

The dark clouds began to dissipate, and in the blink of an eye, the sky was clear for thousands of miles.

'Successful Tribulation Crossing?'

Everyone stared blankly at the scene that had just unfolded. It was simply too shocking. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have believed it even if you beat them to death. To think someone in this world could actually shatter the Hundred Tribulations with a single punch.

Long Ao landed back on the training grounds. Long Qiang and Long Ming had already entered the Dragon Seal Space to properly refine the Power of Hundred Tribulations and completely convert their Spiritual Power into the Power of Spiritual Essence.

Having successfully passed the Hundred Tribulations, Long Ao was overjoyed.

'A true Venerable Realm.'

Long Ao knew very well that he owed his survival to the mysterious bloody water in the Blood Pool. Otherwise, he would be deader than dead right now.

Three months ago, his Cultivation had been forcibly broken through to the Venerable Tier by the Fire Qilin, so he hadn't been able to truly feel a Venerable's real power.

But things were different now. He had successfully passed the Hundred Tribulations and become a Void Hundred Tribulations Martial Artist. As long as he used the Power of Hundred Tribulations to convert all the Spiritual Power in his body into Spiritual Essence, it would mean he had officially stepped into the realm of a Void Venerable.

Slaughtering the Blood Sea Sect not only avenged his great grievance, but his Cultivation had also broken through to the Void Hundred Tribulations Realm. He wondered if this was the good fortune that was said to follow surviving a great disaster.

He took a deep breath.

At this moment, Long Ao's cold gaze swept over his surroundings. "No need to exaggerate what happened here today," he said.

"Senior Long Ao."

Waving his hand dismissively, Long Ao felt quite exasperated. 'I'm not even old, where is this "Senior Long Ao" coming from?'

"No need to call me Senior," Long Ao said, not wanting to waste another word. He turned and quickly departed.

Perhaps because he had devoured the bloody water, over the past three months, Long Ao's hair and eyebrows had all turned from white to a blood-red, completely changing his appearance.

Dressed in black robes, with a head of long, blood-red hair and two long, blood-red eyebrows, Long Ao at this moment appeared exceptionally mysterious and powerful.

The news that Long Ao had not died and had successfully passed the Hundred Tribulations spread throughout Kyushu in the blink of an eye. Upon hearing this, everyone thought it was just a rumor. It wasn't until the Ghost King Sect confirmed the matter that people began to believe it.

'Long Ao isn't dead?'

'And he successfully passed the Hundred Tribulations, achieving the status of a Void Hundred Tribulations Martial Artist?'

Everyone found it a little hard to believe. After all, they all knew full well what the Blood Sea Sect's Blood Pool signified. It was for this very reason that they all sighed in amazement. Long Ao had not only survived, but had actually achieved the Void Hundred Tribulations Realm.

Without a doubt, given Long Ao's talent, he would be able to formally attain the rank of Void Venerable in less than a month.

Long Ao had caused chaos in the Blood Sea Sect. In the end, Long Ao himself was fine, but the entire Blood Sea Sect had been slaughtered. The Sect was annihilated, with no one left alive.

「Thunder Sect, back mountain.」

Seeing Long Ao's sudden appearance, both Dugu Bai and Xia Jun looked as if they had seen a ghost. They immediately dismissed everyone else. Still uncertain, Xia Jun said, "There were rumors that you hadn't died and had even successfully passed the Hundred Tribulations. I never believed it, but to think you're really alive... This is truly great."

Long Ao smiled, because he considered these two to be his true friends.

"It's good to see you two."

The three of them shared a tight embrace. Dugu Bai said apologetically, "Brother Long, we failed to face life and death with you. We've let you down. In the end, it was because the two of us were afraid of dying."

Hearing Dugu Bai's words, a trace of shame appeared on Xia Jun's face. It was just as Dugu Bai had said: all their excuses were false. Ultimately, the two of them were simply afraid to die.

But Long Ao just smiled, not minding at all.

"Brother Dugu, Brother Xia, the value of friendship lies in a meeting of hearts, not in blindly throwing your lives away. Does dying for me make you friends, and not dying for me make you not friends? This matter is in the past. No one is to mention it again."

Looking at the young man before them, both of them nodded.

"Brother Long, your hair and eyebrows?"

Of course, Long Ao had already seen his hair and eyebrows. 'They look so domineering,' he thought. To be honest, he really liked his current hair color; it was much better than the white hair.

"I don't know."

Shrugging helplessly, Long Ao continued, "Back then, after Guan Hang knocked me into the Blood Pool, I only felt my Soul Emergence. After that, I don't know what happened. I just stayed in the Blood Pool for a full three months, absorbing all the bloody water inside. It was then that I felt the Power of Hundred Tribulations."

Long Ao recounted everything that had happened to him in detail, without exaggeration or concealment. But as Dugu Bai and Xia Jun listened, they found the tale utterly thrilling and terrifying.

Shattering the Hundred Tribulations with a single punch—that alone was something the two of them could never hope to accomplish. He was too powerful.

Swallowing hard, Xia Jun asked, "Brother Long, has your Cultivation reached the level of a Void Venerable now?"

Nodding, Long Ao said with a smile, "I've been refining my body these past few days. Heaven rewards the diligent. Just yesterday, all the Spiritual Power in my body was converted into Spiritual Essence."

'He succeeded.'

"Brother Dugu, if my senses aren't mistaken, you should have just passed the Hundred Tribulations and have yet to break through to the Venerable Tier."

Dugu Bai nodded and said with great pride, "Brother Long, to be honest, I have you to thank for my Cultivation advancing so quickly."

"Thank you?" Long Ao was very curious. 'I was in the Blood Pool for three months and haven't seen Dugu Bai at all. Why would he thank me?'

"HAHAHA, three months ago, your battle against ten Venerables where you instantly killed three Supreme Venerables was just too audacious! Perhaps watching that battle gave me an epiphany, because not long after I returned, I successfully triggered my Hundred Tribulations."

Letting out a deep sigh, Dugu Bai continued, "I'm not a freak like you who can shatter the Hundred Tribulations with one punch. I had to rely on the Sect's power to barely get through my Hundred Tribulations. By my calculations, it will still take me another month to convert all the Spiritual Power in my body into Spiritual Essence and advance to the Venerable Tier."

'So that's how it was.'

"Brother Xia, what about you?"

"Brother Long, I was also inspired by watching your battle. My Cultivation broke through to the Taoist Ancestor realm and is now approaching the Taoist Peak. I believe it won't be long before I can sense my own Hundred Tribulations as well."

Hearing that Xia Jun had also reached such a stage, Long Ao was very happy. 'It seems I did a good deed after all. At the very least, both of my friends gained some enlightenment, allowing their strength to increase rapidly.'