283: Fifth Incarnation: Heavenly Physician (75)

Within the Su Family clan, although news of the Young Lord's imminent attempt to break through to the Golden Core realm was strictly sealed and limited to the core high-level members, an invisible sense of tension and oppression shrouded the hearts of every clansman like gathering storm clouds.

Deacons and guards with slightly higher cultivation could clearly feel that the fluctuations of Spiritual Qi coming from the isolated peak—a restricted area in the core of the ancestral lands—were becoming increasingly violent and majestic, as if some gargantuan entity was awakening, causing the spiritual energy of the four directions to boil.

Even more heart-palpitating was an indescribable aura of majesty spreading from the peak. It wasn't overbearing, yet it carried a profound power that seemed capable of establishing Order and organizing rules, causing everyone who perceived it to feel an involuntary sense of awe and even a faint, hidden fear.

"The atmosphere in the clan lately... is so oppressive."

"You felt it too? The flow of Spiritual Qi seems to have changed; it's all converging toward the Forbidden Ground!"

"I heard from a Senior Brother guarding the Forbidden Ground that strange phenomena have been occurring frequently on the peak lately, with the occasional echo of Daoist sounds. I fear something major is about to happen!"

"Could it be that one of the Old Ancestors is about to break through a bottleneck?"

"Doesn't look like it... this aura feels more like... the omen of a Tribulation Cloud approaching!"

"A Tribulation Cloud? Could it be... the Young Lord?!"

"Quiet! This matter is not to be discussed recklessly!"

"..."

Various speculations and whispers circulated in private, but no one dared to speak of it publicly.

The clan rules were strict, especially regarding matters involving the Young Lord.

However, that heavy feeling of a coming storm kept everyone's nerves taut.

The number of patrolling guard squads increased several times over, and the Formations at various vital areas shimmered with constant light, presenting a posture as if facing a formidable enemy.

All clansmen vaguely realized that the Su Family was at a crucial turning point.

The outcome of the Young Lord's current secluded cultivation might directly affect the fate of the entire Family!

Three days passed in a flash under this extremely oppressive atmosphere.

The third day, early morning.

Before dawn, there was only a sliver of pale white in the east.

Suddenly—

"Buzz..."

A low hum, yet one that seemed to originate from the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi's Origin, rang out from the summit of the isolated peak, instantly spreading throughout the entire Su Family clan territory!

Immediately after, everyone felt their hearts sink, as if the entire sky were pressing down upon them!

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within a thousand-mile radius converged toward the space above the isolated peak at an unprecedented, frantic speed!

"It's coming!"

Clan Leader Su Yun, Law Enforcement Elder Su Zhenshan, and other core high-level members instantly appeared outside their respective Immortal Caves, looking toward the Forbidden Ground with incredibly solemn expressions.

Above the isolated peak, the originally clear night sky suddenly changed color!

Endless black clouds surged from all directions, tumbling and racing with unbelievable speed!

Within the cloud layers, it wasn't the gray-black of ordinary dark clouds, but a deep, dark purple and Chaos color that seemed capable of swallowing all light!

Even more terrifying was that within that Tribulation Cloud, there were no fierce flashes of light like an ordinary Lightning Tribulation; instead, countless phantoms flickered in and out of existence!

Sometimes it was the sight of mountains collapsing and rivers flowing backward; sometimes it was fragments of cities being destroyed and Dynasties changing; sometimes it was chaotic scenes of contracts shattering and Order ceasing to exist; and sometimes it even directly manifested hideous images of the treacherous human heart and betrayals of trust!

It was as if all the imagery of Chaos, disorder, betrayal, and destruction in the world had been condensed within it!

An indescribable, grand pressure, accompanied by the Law aura of Chaos, decay, and ruin, enveloped heaven and earth!

Under this pressure, Cultivators below the Golden Core stage could hardly breathe, and great terror arose in their hearts!

Even Golden Core Immortals like Su Yun felt their Divine Souls tremble and their dharmic power circulation become sluggish!

"What... what kind of Heavenly Tribulation is this?!"

An Elder at the Golden Core Early Stage turned pale with horror; he had never seen such a bizarre and terrifying Tribulation Cloud!

This was no Lightning Tribulation to test a Cultivator; this was clearly... a tribulation of erasure by the Order of heaven and earth against some kind of 'heresy'!

"Order backlash... Karma Chaos... the treachery of the human heart... the tribulation Yuan'er is crossing is actually this terrifying!"

Su Yun's face was pale, his palms were covered in cold sweat, and his heart was filled with endless worry.

He originally thought his son's talent was peerless, and though the Golden Core tribulation would be strong, it should have followed some pattern. He never imagined it would be such a world-ending scene!

At the summit of the isolated peak, Xu Yuan slowly opened his eyes, calmly looking up at the terrifying Tribulation Cloud that covered the entire sky and contained endless imagery of destruction and Chaos.

In his eyes, there was no fear, only a clear sense of realization and determination.

"As expected... touching the Origin of Order has drawn this 'Myriad Phenomena Destruction Tribulation'... To establish a new Order, one must first break the old barriers. Heaven and earth use this tribulation to test me; it suits my wishes perfectly!"

Just as that terrifying Tribulation Cloud, containing the power of the Myriad Phenomena Destruction and the backlash of Order, brewed to its peak and was about to release the first destructive calamity.

In the depths of the endless Void Realm, a figure whose existence was indescribable descended silently.

There were no spatial fluctuations, no ripples of Spiritual Qi, and it didn't even trigger the alertness of any inherent Laws of this world.

He just naturally appeared above the isolated peak, somewhere in the Void Realm beneath that chaotic Tribulation Cloud.

The newcomer's figure was hazy, as if he were in another dimension. Endless Dao Rhyme flowed around him. Upon closer inspection, it was actually the materialized River of Karma entining him, fragments of space-time constantly being born and destroyed floating around him, and the Laws of the Myriad Daos of heaven and earth wailing and submitting at his feet!

He merely stood there, and his very existence caused all surrounding concepts—space, time, Karma, and even existence and nothingness—to undergo subtle distortions and reconstructions, forming an unknowable, immeasurable, and untouchable absolute Domain!

Unless it were another Dao Monarch who also wielded a Law of the Origin, even a Fruit Position True Person would be completely unable to perceive his existence, let alone glimpse his form!

It was precisely the supreme being of the Shangqing Dao Lineage, the Monarch who wielded the Seven Daos—Dao Lord Shang Qing!

This time, it wasn't a wisp of manifested will, but his true self... arriving in person!

His gaze was indifferent as he calmly looked down at the summit of the isolated peak, at that figure which appeared incredibly small under the vast heavenly might, yet radiated an unyielding intent of Order—Xu Yuan.

His eyes were as still as an ancient well, as if reflecting the birth and death of the eternal starry river, and seemed to encompass the trajectories of all rules in the world; no emotion could shake them in the slightest.

This "Myriad Phenomena Destruction Tribulation" that Xu Yuan had triggered—which was enough to make Golden Core Immortals turn pale with horror and make a world tremble—seemed no different from a gentle breeze or an ant's struggle in his eyes.

Below, everyone in the Su Family, including Clan Leader Su Yun, Law Enforcement Elder Su Zhenshan, and other Golden Core Cultivators, were still immersed in the terrifying pressure of the Tribulation Cloud and their extreme worry for Xu Yuan.

They looked up at the Tribulation Cloud, tensely waiting for the first calamity to descend, completely unaware that not far above their heads, a supreme being who stood above the Shangqing Dao Lineage was coldly watching it all.

Their perceptions, their Divine Senses, and even their cognition of that space had been invisibly distorted and shielded.

In their eyes, that patch of the Void Realm was no different from any other place, containing only the rolling Tribulation Clouds and the aura of destruction.

This was a Dao Monarch!

His words became Law, and his thoughts changed the Dao.

If he did not wish to be known, then no one could know!