500: The Strange Saint's Tribulation

Amidst the "expectant" gazes of everyone.

Facing the second Old Ancestor, Lin Ye unleashed another sword strike.

It was still the Mountain and River Sword Intent—vast like a river, blotting out the sun and sky, endless and boundless. As the Sword Intent surged, mountains and rivers were all destroyed.

Huge deep craters appeared on the ground, and the Void Realm was filled with cracks.

Such Sword Intent left everyone dumbfounded.

One strike! It was still just one strike!

Lin Ye, who had slain two Old Ancestor phantoms with a single strike each in succession, had completely stunned everyone watching this scene from outside the sky screen.

If they had previously thought Lin Ye could not pass this trial, then at this moment, their thoughts began to shift.

Although there were still three top-tier Old Ancestors remaining, Lin Ye had only used one strike against everyone he faced so far; it was simply too exaggerated. Who else could possibly contain him?

Invincible in the same realm!

This truly was invincible in the same realm!!!

Everyone felt as if they were witnessing a Prodigy who would suppress an entire generation rising steadily.

Meanwhile, the third Old Ancestor slowly walked out. Just when everyone thought Lin Ye would slay it with another single strike, the scene suddenly changed.

Lin Ye was seen clutching his chest, his expression pained.

The next moment, that Old Ancestor charged forward. Its majestic Sword Intent was dazzling, like a collapsing mountain or falling stars, and accompanied by a violent roar, it smashed fiercely toward Lin Ye.

Boom!!!

The shockwaves made the entire sky screen tremble.

The two Spirit Swords collided, and the residual power splashed out, destroying everything around them. The Void Realm was shattered, and the ground was covered in craters and cracks.

Dozens of mountain peaks were directly leveled; the scene was terrifying.

This time, the two were evenly matched.

"What is going on? Is this Old Ancestor stronger than the previous ones? Why are they evenly matched? Is Lin Ye putting on an act for me?"

"No! Look, the Qi on Lin Ye is becoming chaotic. A Saint intent... Yes! That is Saint intent! He is about to become a Saint right here!"

"Breaking through to the Saint Realm in the middle of a battle? Wouldn't that mean he can truly crush those Old Ancestor phantoms?"

"Impossible. These phantoms are trials derived from the Chongxiao Sword. If I'm not mistaken, if Lin Ye breaks through to become a Saint, those phantoms will also become Saints!"

"..."

At this moment, the nearly twenty remaining phantoms were all Old Ancestors.

As everyone knows, the Saint Realm is a watershed.

Only by becoming a Saint can one be considered a powerhouse, truly gambling with the heavens! Connecting to the momentum of heaven and earth, striking opponents with Concepts.

If Lin Ye were to become a Saint, he would only be a newly broken-through Saint, whereas those twenty-plus individuals over there had long since reached the Saint Realm.

It was clear who was stronger and who was weaker.

Even in Liu Qingxian's beautiful eyes, there was a trace of gravity.

"Lin Ye is breaking through in the middle of battle; clearly, his internal spiritual power has accumulated too much and he cannot hold it back. But can one communicate with the will of heaven and earth within this Chongxiao Sword trial?!"

The Elder on the side was pacing back and forth in anxiety.

Lin Ye was at the most critical moment of his cultivation.

If any problems arose during his Breakthrough to the Saint Realm, the damage would be immeasurable!

He might even turn from a Prodigy into an ordinary person.

After all, what can a Mahayana Realm Prodigy do, no matter how much of a genius he is? Even if a Saint cannot beat you, can't a Supreme beat you?

"Immortal Ancestor! Can you stop Lin Ye's trial? Let him come out and break through to the Saint Realm first!"

Hearing this, Liu Qingxian shook her head: "This is the Chongxiao Sword trial. Once started, unless Lin Ye is defeated by the phantoms inside, no one can interfere."

"What?!"

Swish, swish, swish...

Just as that Elder was horrified, various figures appeared near the Chongxiao Sword.

These people were all Old Ancestors of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

Clearly, they had learned of the severity of the situation the moment it happened.

If Lin Ye were truly crippled, let alone talking about the end of the Dao of the Sword, the Flying Feather Holy Sect alone would fight them to the death.

"He is about to break through to the Saint Realm! Get him out quickly! Otherwise, there will be trouble!"

"How? Should we uproot the Chongxiao Sword?"

"Impossible! Even if you could uproot the Chongxiao Sword, so what? Lin Ye is still inside!"

The group of Old Ancestors were like ants on a hot pan, their expressions full of anxiety.

If possible, they would rather trade places with Lin Ye.

"Enough."

Liu Qingxian stopped the noisy crowd, her world-toppling face filled with gravity: "Lin Ye, he is about to undergo his tribulation."

"What?!"

Everyone turned their gazes toward the sky screen.

They saw that the heaven and earth within the sky screen had changed; the originally clear sky was now covered with a thick layer of dark clouds, with lightning serpents raging within them from time to time.

A destructive aura emanated from the sky screen, causing some of the weaker Disciples to have their Divine Souls tremble on the spot.

A young man in the crowd looked at the sky screen with a complex expression.

"Should I go save him? But if I save him, whose side will the destiny of the Immortal Ancestor and the two of us favor? ...I had better wait and see."

Rumble, rumble, rumble!!!

Just at this moment, a roar like the battle drums of the Immortal Realm erupted from within the sky screen; every time it sounded, the surrounding ground would crumble inch by inch.

Yet, Lin Ye was still locked in a great battle with that Old Ancestor.

The Sword Intent of the two flew across the sky, piercing through the firmament.

Because he was about to break through to the Saint Realm, earth-shaking changes were occurring within Lin Ye's body.

At this moment, he was still in the middle of battle, and due to the suppression of the Saint Tribulation, he could not end the fight in a short time, making this Undergoing Tribulation even more difficult.

While Lin Ye was still fighting fiercely with the Old Ancestor, the firmament changed.

They saw a pool of lightning appear within the thick dark clouds; it was no longer simple lightning, but seemed to be liquid lightning, blooming with cyan-blue light and flowing slowly.

The pressure spreading from the lightning pool continued to persist.

It was unknown how much time had passed, but a living being seemed to appear within the lightning pool.

It was a being birthed by the lightning pool; it stood quietly in the center of the pool, and a large amount of lightning intertwined to form a sword of thunder that landed in the creature's hand.

As the lightning continuously intertwined, the creature's face became increasingly clear.

"Th-th-that... is that Lin Ye?!"

The people watching the sky screen were shocked to discover that the figure appearing in the lightning pool looked exactly like Lin Ye; except for the complete lack of Life Qi on its face, it was the spitting image of Lin Ye's Clone.

There is such a Lightning Tribulation?!

Is this how the Saint Tribulation is undergone?

At this moment, whether it was Cultivators who had undergone the Saint Realm or those who had not, their faces were filled with confusion.

To enter the Saint Realm, one must connect to heaven and earth; the Heavenly Dao will bestow auspicious omens to congratulate the birth of a Saint, and the Cultivator breaking through to the Saint Realm will condense a Dao Fruit with their own Dao Rhyme to nourish heaven and earth!

But what about now? No auspicious omens, no Dao Fruit! Not even a normal Lightning Tribulation!

Instead, a bizarre Clone appeared!