14: Heavenly Rewards

On the streets, the common people cheered, "Look! A strange phenomenon in the sky, this must be an auspicious sign of passing the Heavenly Tribulation!"

A Cultivator excitedly said, "Legend has it that there must be good fortune after a Heavenly Tribulation. What's hidden behind these numbers is probably a Heavenly Dao treasure!"

As soon as these words were spoken, thousands of Cultivators summoned their Flying Swords, flying into the sky, swarming towards the countdown in the sky.

Emperor Qin looked up at the giant numbers in the sky, his brows furrowed, his recently relaxed nerves instantly tensing.

"What is this thing?!"

Before he finished speaking, Emperor Qin threw a punch, and a black Dragon clawed towards the countdown.

The Dragon Fist passed directly through the numbers, which had no physical form.

Lin Fei was shocked and couldn't believe it: "This is a countdown, a timing method from Earth. 60 minutes make an hour!"

As a former game booster, Lin Fei suddenly realized: "The Heavenly Tribulation isn't over. We've just passed the first stage, and the second stage will begin soon."

Emperor Qin was frantic. They had clearly won, so why wasn't it over yet?

According to the ancient stele records, wasn't there only one World-Ending Heavenly Tribulation?!

Emperor Qin lost his reason, grabbing out of thin air. Lin Fei, an Ascension Realm Heaven Rank 900 Cultivator, was powerless to resist and was directly pulled before him.

"You're saying this countdown is your Earth's timing method! That means the Heavenly Dao is from your Earth! You're in league with the Heavenly Dao!"

Lin Fei's mind buzzed. He hadn't expected the Heavenly Dao to use Earth's timing method.

Lin Fei's eyes were bloodshot: "Your Majesty, it's been five hundred years. I've been by your side for five hundred years. My family, my wife, my son, my grandson, they are all in this world. I've long been a person of this world. Do you still not believe me?"

Emperor Qin's face was grim: "Then how do you explain these numbers?"

Lin Fei earnestly said: "Your Majesty, calm down! Didn't I tell you that there should be more than one Heavenly Dao, and they should all know each other? So it's normal for them to know Earth's timing method. Perhaps Great Qin and Earth were created by the same Heavenly Dao, which is why the histories of our two worlds are so similar!"

After a pause, Lin Fei continued: "Didn't I tell Your Majesty before, it's like a game. We've already passed the first level. Now the countdown indicates that there's a second level, a third level, until we clear the game!"

Even the arrogant and world-defying Emperor Qin seemed to age considerably in this moment.

His voice was despondent: "You're saying we sacrificed millions of Mysterious Guards, sacrificed the strongest Bai Qi, sacrificed thousands of Ascenders, and nearly half of our cities were destroyed, just to pass the first level??"

Lin Fei said loudly: "Your Majesty, don't worry. Based on my gaming experience, there will be massive rewards for passing each level, so players can pass the second, third, and subsequent levels until they clear the game!"

"Heavenly Dao reward?!" Emperor Qin's eyes lit up, and he quickly released Lin Fei's neck. "My dear Lin, you know, Bai Qi's death deeply grieves me. Now, you are the only one I can trust."

Lin Fei bowed deeply: "Your Majesty, rest assured, your subject will serve with utmost devotion until death!"

Clap clap clap!

Lu Chen couldn't help but applaud!

Good, good, good. As expected of a game booster, you really treat me like a game dungeon to be farmed!

Just wait, I'll give you a big reward later, hehehe.

Thinking about what would happen next, Lu Chen couldn't help but smile.

The one-hour countdown quickly ended.

Everyone was eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Heavenly Dao's reward.

Just then, a cockroach crawled past Lu Chen's foot. Lu Chen grabbed the cockroach with toilet paper and threw it into the cultivation world.

Lu Chen didn't expect that this cockroach was actually a sexy and fiery female cockroach. After being enhanced by the heavenly dao system, its size swelled to that of a giant hill as soon as it landed. Thousands of pod-shaped oothecae grew from its tail, and each ootheca hatched 100 small cockroaches.

At this time, thousands of people from Incense Burning Valley, one of the ten Immortal Cultivation Sects of Great Qin, were flying on swords, searching for the Heavenly Dao reward, and happened to pass by here.

Sect Head Fen Qingzi immediately noticed the female cockroach's uniqueness. The crystal-clear oothecae on its tail emitted Spiritual Qi even richer than immortal-grade Spirit Stones.

"Hahaha, it's a Heavenly Dao reward! We're the first to discover it! A great Opportunity! Quickly kill this Yao Beast and seize its crystal!"

The Head Disciple Su Hanyi smirked: "A mere insect, not worth mentioning. Revered Master, let this Disciple try!"

Su Hanyi, only twenty years old this year, was already at the Peak of the Soul Transformation Stage, a Genius rarely seen in a thousand years!

He ranked second on the Great Qin's Young Heroes list.

Mysterious Ice Thousand Mechanism Art!

The Mysterious Ice Sword in Su Hanyi's hand instantly split into a thousand ice crystals. The sword light poured down like a silver river, directly striking the female cockroach's head.

"As expected of my most cherished Disciple!" Sect Head Fen Qingzi praised with a smile.

However, in the next second, the laughter abruptly stopped.

The ice crystal sword rain was instantly vaporized.

The female cockroach was completely unharmed!

Su Hanyi was dumbfounded: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible. Even an ancient primeval Vicious Beast couldn't block my self-created ultimate technique so easily."

"Haha, it seems Senior Brother is being gentle with the fairer sex! Then I shall make a fool of myself!" The second Disciple, Li Tianxiao, decisively attacked. His Moon-Slaying Blade transformed into a hundred-meter long blade, splitting down with the force of cleaving mountains. "Die for me—"

Before he finished speaking, the female cockroach whipped out a tentacle as thin as a steel needle, directly piercing his chest.

Warm blood splattered onto the female cockroach's carapace, instantly corroding into green smoke.

"Tianxiao!" The Grand Elder was grief-stricken. This was his Personal Disciple. The Grand Elder summoned an Emperor-grade Magical Artifact, the "Sky Burning Cauldron."

The giant bronze cauldron, carrying heavenly fire, smashed towards the female cockroach, but was unexpectedly swallowed by it in one gulp.

This???

The Grand Elder stood dumbfounded on the spot.

"Everyone retreat!" Fen Qingzi made a decisive decision, pointing his sword at the sky.

A thousand Disciples exerted all their strength to fly into the sky on their swords.

However, the small cockroaches, covering the mountains and plains, unfurled their barbed wings and chased after them, surrounding them like a black tide, shooting poisonous arrows.

"Pfft!" A venomous arrow pierced through a Disciple's heart-protecting mirror, instantly melting him into a pool of blood.

Screams rose one after another. Su Hanyi brandished his broken sword to resist, but was utterly powerless.

"No! How can I die here? Old Man Tianji foretold my destiny, saying I would become the number one in the world, I..."

The next second, he was torn into pieces and devoured by hundreds of small cockroaches.

In less than ten seconds, all thousand people from Incense Burning Valley were devoured.

Even until their deaths, they couldn't understand. It was supposed to be a Heavenly Dao reward, how did it turn into a disaster that annihilated their School?

The entire sky was dyed purplish-black. The female cockroach let out a deafening shriek, leading its million-strong swarm to spread out. Wherever it passed, mountains crumbled and Spiritual Qi dissipated.

Epang Palace Grand Hall!

"Your Majesty! The three southern provinces are... are without life!" The messenger burst through the palace doors, his armor shattered, on the verge of death. He clutched a special Spirit Jade, transmitting the visual data within it to the qiankun mirror.

Emperor Qin, Lin Fei, Bai Qi's second generation Bai Ling, Wang Jian's second generation Wang Ben, Master Craftsman Ban's sixth generation, and all other core members widened their eyes, watching the tragic scenes of Yao Beasts destroying cities and Schools displayed on the qiankun mirror.

Emperor Qin was furious to the extreme: "Lin Fei! Is this what you called the Heavenly Dao reward??"

Lin Fei's scalp tingled: "That's not right. This Heavenly Dao isn't playing by the rules. We clearly passed the first level, so why is there no reward? Wait, this, this is a cockroach!"

Emperor Qin coldly asked: "What is a cockroach?"

Lin Fei recalled: "It's a common insect on Earth, about the size of a finger. You can stomp them to death with one foot, but how did they appear here, and why are they so terrifying!"

In the screen, thousands of common people were torn apart, devoured, and chewed by the insect tide, a truly horrific sight.

The City Lord, leading tens of thousands of Cultivators to resist, couldn't even kill a single ordinary larva.

Not to mention, behind them was a ten-thousand-meter-tall giant female cockroach.

"Your Majesty! The northern border has fallen!" Another messenger, covered in blood, rushed in.

"Report... Report, Your Majesty! The western border's Spiritual Veins... are infested with the Yao Beast's egg sacs, and Spiritual Qi... Spiritual Qi is rapidly draining away!"

"Report, Your Majesty, the Yao Beasts are flying towards the Heavenly Palace!"

Messengers arrived one after another.

The grand hall fell into a deathly silence, with only the buzzing of the insect swarm from the qiankun mirror audible.

The entire court of civil and military officials fell into despair, seemingly having accepted their fate and given up.

Even Emperor Qin had lost his fighting spirit.

After all, even if they withstood this wave of attacks, there might be another, and another after that. It was an endless cycle.

Lin Fei's eyes, however, lit up, because he discovered that the female cockroach actually had a health bar!

Hahahaha!

As long as there's a health bar, even a god can be killed!

The game booster's intuition made him see hope: "BOSS, that's a game BOSS! It's the dungeon boss! No wonder there was no reward just now, because we haven't killed the BOSS yet. Usually, as long as you kill the boss, it means you've cleared the level and can get a lot of loot! Your Majesty, and everyone, don't give up!"