227: Chapter 227 This sin, Zhao Yi is unjustly burdened!

"Approximate."

"Do you think my luck has finally turned for the better?"

"Logically speaking, I should have died a few times while undergoing this Golden Immortal Lightning Tribulation."

"I probably would have had to borrow the Substance of Eternity to resurrect."

"Now, it seems..."

"It won't be necessary..."

Zhao Yi scratched his right thumb. Perhaps irritated by the Chaos Lightning Tribulation, it was itching intensely, forcing Zhao Yi to rub it constantly.

Approximate hid within Zhao Yi's brow, praying devoutly.

He prayed to all the Heavenly Gods in the sky, asking them not to let Zhao Yi safely pass through this tribulation.

He wanted him to drop dead quickly so he could break through his own realm.

As it turned out, before he had even finished praying, he heard Zhao Yi's leisurely voice.

This made Approximate so angry that he couldn't contain himself.

He darted out from Zhao Yi's brow.

Hovering in front of Zhao Yi, he said, "Master, can you please take this seriously?"

"We've barely even started!"

"Do you think the Chaos Lightning Tribulation is so easy to pass?"

Boom!

A purple-black lightning bolt suddenly tore through everything and struck Approximate.

Without any resistance, Approximate was instantly reduced to ashes.

With the cultivation of an Early Stage Profound Immortal, he was like a balloon—popping at the slightest touch.

"It was his arrogance, his complacency! Why are you striking me?"

Approximate's voice echoed throughout Fuyu Palace; clearly, he was very unwilling to have 'dropped dead'.

Zhao Yi...

"What do you call this?"

"The wicked suffer many tribulations. You were hidden perfectly well, but you had to come out and court death."

"Now look at you."

"Dead, aren't you?"

Zhao Yi's words had barely left his lips when the Lightning Tribulation continued without pause.

The first bolt...

The second bolt...

Continuous bolts of Chaos Lightning crashed down one after another.

Each one was more violent than the last.

It was as if the world itself was refusing to allow an existence that shouldn't exist to step into the ranks of Golden Immortals.

Zhao Yi gritted his teeth and held on, his Physical Body being shattered time and time again.

Bang!

After enduring who knows how many strikes, the great sumeru treasure hoe above his head turned pitch black.

As the Chaos Lightning Tribulation continued, it finally couldn't hold on any longer; with a boom, it shattered into pieces.

Losing the buffer of the great sumeru treasure hoe, Zhao Yi couldn't even withstand a single bolt of lightning before he was reduced to charred remains.

The Chaos Lightning Tribulation was unlike other tribulations; its main features were its overwhelming volume and long duration.

Even though Zhao Yi had turned into charcoal, the Chaos Lightning Tribulation did not stop.

Bolt after bolt followed.

Who knows how much time passed, but the charred remains kept shrinking.

Eventually, it became the size of a thumb, looking as if it would disappear at any moment.

Yet, this thumb-sized piece of charcoal remained like a needle stabilizing the sea, unmoving amidst the violent Chaos Lightning Tribulation.

This continued for ten years.

The Chaos Lightning Tribulation in the Great Awakening Spirit Realm seemed to be stimulated; it continuously drained the Origin of the world from the Great Awakening Spirit Realm.

Later, seemingly unable to keep up, it began to inhale and exhale the Chaos Qi from outside the Great Awakening Spirit Realm.

Watching the Great Awakening Spirit Realm, which now resembled a funnel, Linglong and the other two Golden Immortals had to retreat even further away.

Inside the Great Awakening Spirit Realm, the Xuanpin Spirit Fox had already curled into a ball.

Beside her, Luoke Bo was even more dramatic; he had dug a deep pit and buried himself.

In mid-air, the purple-black Chaos Lightning Tribulation seemed intent on erasing the entire Great Awakening Spirit Realm; it was terrifyingly frantic.

In the center of the Lightning Tribulation, that charred thumb bone suddenly shone with brilliant light.

Subsequently, the charred blackness peeled away bit by bit, revealing a thumb.

That thumb began to undergo a transformation within the Chaos Lightning Tribulation.

The bones turned into crystalline jade.

The blood condensed into a galaxy.

The capillaries evolved into a Small World, resonating with the Laws of the outside world.

When ninety-nine years had passed, the center of the Chaos Lightning Tribulation shone brilliantly once more, and a figure sat cross-legged in the Void Realm.

It was Zhao Yi, who had returned once again.

At this moment, he held the great sumeru treasure hoe in his right hand, and in his left, he cradled a mountain of 'money' piled from Medium Grade Immortal Stones.

His voice was hoarse and hollow.

"Is this the Law of Money?"

Wherever his gaze fell, everything was clearly priced.

The lifespan of a flower was worth three breaths of time.

The freedom of a breeze required the payment of a wisp of spiritual energy.

The burning of a star was an energy exchange spanning billions of years...

Zhao Yi seemed to see through the rules governing the world, piercing through the cost behind existence.

"So this is a Golden Immortal of the Dao of Money; it is not about immortality, but about mastering the pricing power of one's own existence."

"I am no longer subject to being erased at will by the Dao. My life is mine to decide."

As his words fell, the various Lightning Tribulations suddenly dissipated, as if they had never appeared at all.

The entire Great Awakening Spirit Realm erupted with blinding golden light.

"This..."

"He succeeded?"

Linglong and the other two in the Chaos looked as if they had seen a ghost.

They had never heard of a Cultivator who could pass the Chaos Lightning Tribulation while attaining Golden Immortal cultivation.

"He succeeded?"

The Xuanpin Spirit Fox in the Great Awakening Spirit Realm was also dumbfounded.

"Hurry up and come out."

She casually dug Luoke Bo out of the dirt, tore through space, and appeared before Zhao Yi.

Looking at Zhao Yi, who sat cross-legged in the Void Realm radiating endless immortal light, she covered her small mouth.

"Is it really you?"

"You freak!"

In the eyes of the Xuanpin Spirit Fox, Zhao Yi was now covered in sin.

That pitch-black aura was almost crushing the Void Realm.

Yet, Zhao Yi's immortal power was upright and magnificent, and his immortal body was filled with spiritual light; no matter how one looked at him, he appeared to be a virtuous Golden Immortal.

"What's wrong?"

"Is there something unclean on me?"

"No, no~"

The Xuanpin Spirit Fox felt even more uncomfortable.

Because there was also a stench of money on Zhao Yi—the scent unique to Immortal Stones—which made her, a little fox demon, feel her heart pounding, almost unable to control herself.

"It's good that nothing is wrong."

Having attained the status of a Golden Immortal, Zhao Yi was even more confident.

With a single glance, he saw through the Great Awakening Spirit Realm.

The current Great Awakening Spirit Realm had almost been destroyed by the Chaos Lightning Tribulation; hundreds of millions of living beings had been wiped out.

Only a few Cultivators in the Immortal Realm remained, struggling to survive.

The original mountains, rivers, lakes, and seas had also vanished without a trace.

The entire world was desolate.

In the sky, wisps of sin fell upon Zhao Yi.

That was the resentment of the Heavenly Dao of the Great Awakening Spirit Realm.

Zhao Yi was speechless.

"What the f*ck!"

"That Chaos Lightning Tribulation—didn't you contribute to it as well?"

"Now you dump all the sin onto me alone. Do you think my hoe isn't sharp enough?"

The pitch-black great sumeru treasure hoe appeared in Zhao Yi's hand, emitting a faint black light.

Unfortunately, the Heavenly Dao of the Great Awakening Spirit Realm had reached the end of its destruction; imposing sin on Zhao Yi was its final exertion.

Expecting it to answer Zhao Yi was simply impossible.

Therefore, Zhao Yi did not wait for a reply from the Heavenly Dao of the Great Awakening Spirit Realm; instead, he waited for the arrival of the three female Golden Immortals: Linglong, Snow Domain, and White Ferry.

"It really is you?"

"Damn it, if I had known, I would have crushed you to death as soon as I arrived."

White Ferry looked at Zhao Yi with extreme regret. Who would have known that the Cultivator she had casually frozen would so easily attain the status of a Golden Immortal?

That's right, for Zhao Yi to pass the Chaos Lightning Tribulation and attain Golden Immortal status in one hundred and nine years seemed far too easy to White Ferry and the others.

When they cultivated to become Golden Immortals, which one of them didn't prepare for ten thousand years in advance?

"Crush me to death?"

Zhao Yi gripped the great sumeru treasure hoe.

"Damn it, do you think I don't want to crush you all to death as well?"

If it weren't for Linglong and the other Golden Immortals, he could have prepared for his Golden Immortal tribulation slowly. How could it have been like this?

Because of the tribulation, hundreds of millions of living beings in the Great Awakening Spirit Realm were killed.

Zhao Yi is wrongfully burdened by this sin!