Clan Cultivation: Starting from Beast Taming-Chapter 1226 - 517: Minor Heavenly Tribulation [Subscription Request]_3

With the example of Tianjing True Person before them, Master Qingwei and those Golden Core Stage cultivators from the Green Lotus Temple must have an unfathomable amount of resolve and tolerance to continue watching the Zhou Family’s rise and expansion without taking action!

Such is the way of the world; where you sit dictates where your mind goes, and self-interest rules above all.

Those who think they see things clearly as bystanders often fail to maintain their clarity when they’re embroiled in the situation themselves.

At this point, after some deliberation, Zhou Chun decided to personally visit the Green Lotus Mountain Range—even if it was just to observe the Green Lotus Temple’s entrance from afar.

Once the decision was made, he acted on it.

After finalizing his decision, it wasn’t long before Zhou Chun arrived outside the Green Lotus Temple’s mountain gate.

Of course, he wasn’t so brazen as to openly and directly monitor the mountain gate but instead concealed his aura and hid at a spot dozens of miles away from the edge of the Green Lotus Temple’s Mountain Gate Great Array, secretly watching.

Zhou Chun speculated in his heart that he was likely not the only one stationed outside the Green Lotus Temple’s mountain gate; the Moon Wheel Sect, the Sunflame Sect, and even Tianjing Villa might have also sent people to stand guard.

However, he made no effort to look for them and simply focused on monitoring the Green Lotus Temple’s mountain gate activity while quietly studying the "Metal Escape Technique" divine skill.

Approximately three months into his surveillance, the skies above the Green Lotus Temple’s mountain gate suddenly underwent a dramatic change. Out of nowhere, dark clouds surged across the sky, within which streaks of blue-white lightning roamed unpredictably.

Though the streaks of blue-white lightning hadn’t yet descended, Zhou Chun, standing over a hundred miles away, could already feel the oppressive force that made his heart tremble.

His expression, like the turbulent heavens, suddenly changed drastically.

"Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation, this must be the legendary Nascent Soul ’Minor Heavenly Tribulation’!"

He exclaimed in shock, his face pale and his eyes brimming with disbelief.

When a Golden Core Stage cultivator seeks to transform their elixir and form their infant, they must endure the Thunder Tribulation and the ’Heart Demon Calamity.’

Because the Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation is weaker compared to the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation faced when advancing from the Nascent Soul Stage to the Divinity Transformation Stage, cultivators refer to it as the ’Minor Heavenly Tribulation.’

While it is termed "Minor Heavenly Tribulation," its power is still at the Nascent Soul level. For a Golden Core Stage cultivator like Zhou Chun, a single strike would undoubtedly spell death!

That a Thunder Tribulation had been triggered clearly indicated that Taoist Qingchen had at least reached the critical step of shattering the golden core and producing the nascent soul.

Next, if he could overcome the ’Heart Demon Calamity’ and endure the nine strikes of Heavenly Thunder, he could fully achieve Nascent Soul Great Achievement, becoming a true Nascent Soul Stage cultivator!

"It is said that the Heart Demon Calamity is the most difficult to overcome. Those who succeed often do so by sheer luck. Even Nascent Soul Stage cultivators might not survive another bout with the Heart Demon Calamity. I wonder if Taoist Qingchen’s state of mind and cultivation level are up to par!"

As his thoughts churned, Zhou Chun fervently wished for Taoist Qingchen to fail the tribulation and perish under the ’Heart Demon Calamity.’

Otherwise, if the Green Lotus Temple were to gain another Nascent Soul Stage True Person, particularly one who had just successfully formed their infant and was poised to live another one to two thousand years, the Zhou Family would be in serious trouble!

Inside the Green Lotus Temple, Master Qingwei, the former Temple Master, and Taoist Yiyang, the current Temple Master, along with other Golden Core Stage cultivators, watched the cave under the ominous thunderclouds from afar. Their expressions were tense, silently praying that Taoist Qingchen would succeed.

Success was imperative!

All the disciples of the Green Lotus Temple, who earnestly hoped for a Nascent Soul Stage True Person to arise and stabilize the sect’s standing, were also silently praying for Taoist Qingchen to prevail.

But it seemed as if the heavens were playing a cruel joke on them.

After twenty arduous years of seclusion, waiting for Taoist Qingchen to reach the critical juncture of shattering his core and forming his infant, the culmination of their hope was met with a howl of utter despair!

"No! I refuse to accept this!!!"

Alongside this anguished cry that echoed throughout the Green Lotus Temple’s mountain gate, a gray-black flame suddenly erupted from the nascent soul that Taoist Qingchen had just formed in his cave. The tiny nascent soul was immediately consumed by the flame, dissolving into a wisp of black smoke.

Soon after, his physical body was also reduced to ashes!

As Taoist Qingchen’s nascent soul and physical body simultaneously disintegrated into nothingness, the thunderclouds of the impending Heavenly Tribulation hovering ominously above suddenly dissipated, disappearing as abruptly as they had appeared.

Brilliant sunlight once again bathed the Green Lotus Temple’s grounds, but it failed to bring even a shred of warmth to Master Qingwei, Taoist Yiyang, and the others—they felt nothing but cold and desolation in their hearts.

At that moment, their hearts were frozen, their spirits crushed. They each bore expressions of mourning, their eyes filled with overwhelming despair.

"How could this happen? How could this happen?! Is this... is this fate’s decree of annihilation..."

A Golden Core Stage cultivator from the Green Lotus Temple murmured incoherently, his body swaying, his eyes full of despair.

One could hardly blame them for their anguish. Taoist Qingchen’s nascent soul formation was not just about his personal pursuit of the Dao or his life and death—it was deeply tied to the fortunes of the Green Lotus Temple.

The ’Infant Transformation Pill’ that he relied on during nascent soul formation had been obtained through Qingxiao True Person’s sacrifice of their own life, and its significance was far from ordinary.

Moreover, if Taoist Qingchen had faltered before the step of shattering his core and forming his infant, it would have only disappointed people without invoking the depths of despair.

The tragedy lay in the fact that he had passed this critical step, seemingly on the cusp of success. Just as hope had dawned, he unexpectedly fell prey to the ’Heart Demon Calamity’ and perished!

His death did not merely extinguish the faint glimmer of hope; it plunged the countless disciples of the Green Lotus Temple who had just seen that hope into an abyss of utter despair.