111: Chapter 111 is over, and he's about to undergo another tribulation.

"Hmm?"

"What do you want?"

Zhao Yi suspected that these Wuxiang Sect Cultivators had gone mad.

This was the Baiyu Mountain Spirit Stone mine. Not to mention the three thousand Immortal Army troops on the peak, just the vajra soul-shattering staff alone—was that something they could handle?

"Where is the Immortal Army?"

Zhao Yi asked calmly, but he forgot that this was a mine tunnel; his voice couldn't be transmitted out at all.

"Hehe~"

"The Immortal Army?"

"Is Mining Envoy Zhao talking about those grunts?"

"It would be one thing if you let them operate war boats to fire at us, but fighting in a mine tunnel? How could they be our opponents?"

"What do you think?"

Ah Da clenched his fists and walked step by step toward Zhao Yi with a sinister smile.

Zhao Yi...

"Where is the vajra soul-shattering staff?"

The entire mine tunnel trembled.

Zhao Yi felt a surge of joy.

The many Wuxiang Sect Cultivators were taken aback.

And then, there was no 'then'.

Ah Da laughed.

"Look, Mining Envoy Zhao, this is Heaven wanting to finish you off."

Zhao Yi watched the Wuxiang Sect Cultivators slowly approaching.

At the end of the mine tunnel, Li Yingzhen's aura was faint, but knowing this, Zhao Yi felt confident.

He took out the pitch-black lightning-fire brick and looked at Ah Da with a sinister expression.

"Senior might not know this, but I also know a thing or two about fighting."

"What?"

Subsequently, Ah Da was drawn to the brick in Zhao Yi's hand.

"This is our sect's heaven suppressing brick. Why is it in your hands?"

"Damn it, so it was you who stole our sect's Spiritual Artifact."

"If the demon binding rope and the heaven suppressing brick were still here, how could I have been captured?"

"Zhao, you thief, it's all your fault! I'll fight you to the death!"

Bang!

"Ouch."

Ah Da, who had rushed up, was knocked to the ground by Zhao Yi with a single blow from the brick.

Zhao Yi placed the lightning-fire brick under his butt and produced the great sumeru treasure hoe in his hand.

He pressed the blade of the hoe against Ah Da's neck.

"You can blame me for this too?"

"Senior, do you think my hoe can't kill you?"

"Hehe, I wasn't angry until I mentioned this, but now that I've said it, I'm furious."

"If you hadn't coveted my hoe in the first place, none of this nonsense would have happened later, would it?"

"Damn it, look at this..."

Zhao Yi pulled aside his right shoulder, where a black scar was visible—a result of the great sumeru treasure hoe being tied to the brick, which caused it to appear late, leading to him being struck by the Hundred Day Fire and Thunder Tribulation.

"And you're still saying it's all my fault?"

"To hell with your fault~"

The more Zhao Yi spoke, the more worked up he got; the more he spoke, the angrier he became, recalling the days he had been troubled by Ah Da...

"Die!"

With a bang,

Ah Da was smashed into the rock.

"It's useless. You are only at the Late Stage Void Refining cultivation level. To put it bluntly, even if I have lost my cultivation, you cannot do anything to me with just this Mahayana Stage Physical Body."

Zhao Yi...

"What the f*ck!"

"I don't believe it."

He swung the great sumeru treasure hoe and began smashing at Ah Da.

In the blink of an eye, a humanoid pit was smashed into the ground in front of him.

Ah Da's voice came from the pit,

"I told you, you can't kill me."

"Unless you advance to the Body Integration Stage."

"Advance to the Body Integration Stage?"

"Fine, you wait there."

Zhao Yi was also stunned. He had been so focused on immortal fate and planning to mine the Baiyu Mountain Spirit Stone mine alone that he had forgotten he already had enough experience points to Breakthrough to the Body Integration Stage.

He put away the great sumeru treasure hoe, picked up the lightning-fire brick, and turned to leave the mine tunnel, leaving a group of Wuxiang Sect Cultivators staring at each other.

"What do we do now?"

"Whatever, let's tend to our bodies first and see if there's a way to recover our cultivation."

"Should we stop him?"

"Who's going to stop him? If you want to stop him, go ahead."

These Cultivators weren't stupid. Ah Da was already lying in the stone pit playing dead; why should they stick their necks out?

As for the mine tunnel, they didn't dare leave it either, or they would be killed by the vajra soul-shattering staff.

...

Below Baiyu Mountain.

Zhao Yi originally didn't want to undergo tribulation so soon, although he had enough experience points when he dug out the supreme grade heavenly spirit stone.

But now, provoked by Ah Da, Zhao Yi couldn't take it anymore. He wanted to break through; he couldn't keep a low profile.

"System,"

[Miner: Zhao Yi]

[Cultivation: Late Stage Void Refining (Can be upgraded)]

[experience points: 3171 / 1600]

[Reward: good luck card (30 days)]

He looked around, then at himself. Aside from the lightning-fire brick and the great sumeru treasure hoe, Zhao Yi hadn't prepared anything at all.

"Sigh!"

A beautiful figure flashed through his heart, and Zhao Yi cursed himself silently, calling himself 'a glutton for punishment'.

"Approximate, I can only rely on you now."

Zhao Yi stroked Approximate's golden dog head.

"That guy Li Yingren, he's too ruthless."

"He could have at least waited until Mei Zheng finished refining my Magical Artifact. Now look, he killed the person, and even my thatched hut is gone."

While complaining, Zhao Yi found a small mountain a hundred miles away from Baiyu Mountain and sat cross-legged on the peak.

He casually threw down a defensive Formation Plate and said softly, "System, upgrade my cultivation."

Zhao Yi was a Death Cultivator; his tribulations were terrifyingly large. All standard methods of Undergoing Tribulation were useless for him; breaking through his cultivation directly was the only true path.

In the Integration Realm, the divine infant and the Physical Body merge into one. The Physical Body is the divine infant, and the divine infant is the Physical Body. After the two combine, they are no longer distinct; this is the 'one' of the primordial chaos, achieving the body of a half-Immortal.

Just as Zhao Yi began his Breakthrough, the entire small mountain became covered in dark clouds. Amidst the thunder and lightning, the sky turned dark.

Approximate, who had been sitting in front of him, was startled by the thunder.

It looked up at the dark clouds in mid-air, and without a moment's hesitation, Approximate transformed into a golden character and merged into the center of Zhao Yi's forehead.

In Anning Prefecture city, Li Yingzhen, who was giving instructions to Zheng Qinghe and Lin Xingran, stood up abruptly.

This familiar feeling,

it was too similar to the feeling of Zhao Yi's last tribulation.

"That shouldn't be possible, right?"

"How long has it been since Zhao Yi broke through to the Void Refining Realm?"

"It's impossible for him to have broken through his cultivation again, right?"

Li Yingzhen's expression was somewhat unnatural.

"Fourth Master, what's wrong?"

Zheng Qinghe thought he had said something wrong.

"It's nothing."

"The weather has changed. This scene suddenly feels a bit familiar."

Outside, dark clouds gathered, shrouding the entire Anning Prefecture.

The cultivation of Zheng Qinghe and the others was only at the Void Refining Realm; they were not as sensitive to the world as Li Yingzhen, but they still felt an inner trembling.

"This is a tribulation, a tribulation cloud!"

"With such a massive display, is some big shot undergoing the Immortal Ascension tribulation?"

This sentence instantly shattered Li Yingzhen's hope.

"It's Zhao Yi."

"Finished, he's going to undergo tribulation again."

"This guy, I told him repeatedly not to cultivate, not to cultivate. Is he in such a rush to die?"

At this moment, Li Yingzhen really wanted to beat Zhao Yi to death. Thinking about how much effort she had spent to get Li Xuanye to agree to let Zhao Yi mine the Baiyu Mountain Spirit Stone mine alone?

And how much thought she had put into abolishing the cultivation of the Wuxiang Sect Cultivators and casting them into the Baiyu Mountain mine tunnel,

and now?

Zhao Yi's cultivation had actually broken through again; he was going to undergo tribulation.

When ordinary Cultivators practice, breaking from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core requires undergoing the One-Nine Lightning Tribulation; breaking from Golden Core to Nascent Soul requires the Three-Nine Lightning Tribulation.

Nascent Soul to Soul Transformation requires the Six-Nine Lightning Tribulation.

Ten thousand years of Void Refining, with a Void Refining tribulation every thousand years; ten times constitutes Perfection.

Besides that, there is the Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation of the Tribulation Crossing Stage; after passing the Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation, one becomes the Immortal that thousands of Cultivators yearn for.

But Zhao Yi, when breaking from Golden Core to Nascent Soul, underwent the Nine-Nine Lightning Tribulation; Nascent Soul to Soul Transformation was the Seven-Day Tribulation; Soul Transformation to Void Refining was the Hundred Day Fire and Thunder Tribulation.

For ordinary Cultivators, there is no tribulation at all when cultivating from Void Refining to the Body Integration Realm, yet Zhao Yi is now covered in tribulation clouds again.