"Pah! Pah! Pah! Nonsense," Master Xueyin snapped, flustered and angered, yet she still explained, "The reason one must reach the Integration Realm before the age of four hundred is that the older a person gets, the lower the chance of a breakthrough. To date, no cultivator over the age of four hundred has ever survived the Combined Body Tribulation; they all perish under the Heavenly Tribulation."
"Is that really true?" Zhang Bin was astonished, his face a mask of disbelief.
"Absolutely," Master Xueyin said gravely. "Cultivation is an act of defying the heavens. It’s like a million soldiers trying to cross a single-log bridge. It requires not only unwavering perseverance but also exceptional talent and nurous fortuitous encounters. If you grow too old, your body’s functions decline, and your potential vanishes. Surviving the terrifying Combined Body Tribulation becos nearly impossible. Countless cultivators have died under it, reduced to ash."
"Stay here. I have a way to help you pass the Combined Body Tribulation." Zhang Bin looked at Master Xueyin with an intense gaze, sensing that the beautiful Master truly had deep feelings for him.
"Pah! Pah! Pah!" Master Xueyin spat repeatedly. "You scoundrel, you know nothing about cultivation! How on earth did your master teach you? We cultivators must be brave and diligent, forging ahead relentlessly, one falling only for the next to take their place. If you can’t even overco the Heavenly Tribulation on your own, then you might as well be turned to ash beneath it. Total annihilation of body and soul is better than living as a cowardly waste, clinging desperately to life."
"How is that being a cowardly waste?" Zhang Bin stroked his chin, puzzled.
"What is the Heavenly Tribulation? It is a trial ant to temper you, to unlock your potential and usher you into a new world. If you lack the ability to overco it, even if you pass with soone’s help, it just ans you’re a failure—the weakest cultivator of that realm. Perhaps so people would hope for such assistance, and willingly accept it. But I, Xueyin, absolutely will not. I would rather be the head of a chicken than the tail of an ox. Don’t even think of disturbing my Dao heart!" An extraordinary aura erupted from Master Xueyin, making her seem stern and inviolable.
Now *this* is a true cultivator.
Zhang Bin felt a surge of profound respect. He gazed at the beautiful master before him with even more warmth and said softly, "In that case, let know before you face your tribulation. I will co to witness it."
Master Xueyin nodded, pulled her hand from Zhang Bin’s grasp, and began to fly slowly toward Mount Ei. "Goodbye, Zhang Dahuai."
"Goodbye," Zhang Bin replied, his heart feeling a little heavy.
"Oh, and by the way," Master Xueyin suddenly stopped flying, but she didn’t turn back. Her voice was cold as she said, "Zhang Dahuai, don’t think that just because you’re powerful you can go around recklessly helping people with their Heavenly Tribulations. When soone interferes, the tribulation’s power multiplies to a horrifying degree. This ti, with the Holy Mother of Black Bell, if you insist on protecting her, the tribulation could beco twice or three tis as strong. It might even call down a higher form of lightning—Green Thunder. Green Thunder is specifically used to annihilate cultivators facing the Ascension Tribulation. It bombards not just your body, but your soul. You will die a truly miserable death."
"Helping soone with their tribulation calls down stronger lightning?" Zhang Bin was secretly shaken. "I understand," he said gratefully. "I’ll visit you when I get the chance."
"Don’t co to see . I’m entering a life-or-death seclusion."
After speaking these cold words, Master Xueyin picked up her pace and flew away rapidly, a tear escaping her eye. A single drop landed on the back of Zhang Bin’s hand.
"Huh? Is it raining?" Zhang Bin looked up in surprise.
SWOOSH.
Master Tianlong flashed to Zhang Bin’s side, fixing him with a strange look that sent a chill down his spine.
"Master Tianlong, why are you looking at like that?" Zhang Bin asked, startled.
"Sigh..." Master Tianlong sighed softly. "Zhang Bin, are you still planning to go to Ei to see Master Xueyin?"
"How did you know?" Zhang Bin asked, surprised.
"How could I not? You rascal," Master Tianlong chided with a laugh. "You’re determined to win her over, aren’t you? My advice is to leave her alone. You’ve already hard her terribly. Don’t cause her any more pain."
Zhang Bin was dumbfounded. "What? I’ve hard Master Xueyin? How is that possible?"
"It’s the truth, I’m not lying," Master Tianlong said. "Master Xueyin cultivates Ei’s ultimate technique—the Supre Forget-Love Art. This technique requires one to sever all emotions: personal feelings, romantic love, and familial affection. One must seek only the Dao and despise evil with a passion. That’s why practitioners of the Supre Forget-Love Art must be mbers of a monastic order, and ideally, orphans. You’ve been constantly flirting with her, and with how perfect you’ve appeared, you’ve caused ripples in her heart. She has developed feelings for you. In fact, I’m worried she has fallen in love with you. This is completely antithetical to the Supre Forget-Love Art and presents a colossal obstacle to her cultivation. The main reason she’s returning for a hundred-year seclusion is to forget you. Otherwise, even if she reaches the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Realm, she will have no hope of surviving the Combined Body Tribulation. She might even suffer a Qi deviation and fall to the demonic path."
"What? The Supre Forget-Love Art? She has to forget her emotions? That’s anti-human! Who in the world created such a malevolent technique? It has to be abolished!" Zhang Bin was furious and exasperated, his face flushing with anger.
Master Tianlong was left utterly speechless. He stared at Zhang Bin as if he were an idiot. After a long mont, he said irritably, "The Supre Forget-Love Art is an unbelievably miraculous divine technique. It is precisely because it severs emotions that cultivation progresses so rapidly. It’s how Master Xueyin was able to reach the Mid Nascent Soul stage by age 300. It makes it possible for her to reach the Integration Realm in the future. How could a technique like that be abolished?"
"If everyone practiced the Supre Forget-Love Art, wouldn’t humanity go extinct?" Zhang Bin argued righteously.
"HAHAHA..." Master Tianlong was so exasperated he laughed. "Do you really think just anyone can cultivate the Supre Forget-Love Art? It requires a peerless genius, the kind you might not find even one of in a million people. How could humanity possibly go extinct?"
"Er..." Zhang Bin rubbed his forehead, crestfallen. "No, that can’t be right. That technique is inhumane, it violates human nature. If it were truly a divine art, it wouldn’t have a characteristic like that. Maybe later generations misunderstood it. Master Tianlong, are you familiar with the Supre Forget-Love Art? Let take a look. I want to correct their mistakes."
"Zhang Bin, what in the world did your master teach you?" Master Tianlong didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. "Fine, I’ll enlighten you. To tell you the truth, our Earth has a history of 4.6 billion years, during which many intelligent civilizations have arisen. However, all of them have vanished.
"They might have gone extinct, moved to other planets, or perhaps their entire races ascended to the Immortal Realm. As a result, Earth is littered with ancient ruins. These ruins might contain the cultivation legacies of a forgotten civilization. Anyone who obtains one is basically put on a fast track to the heavens..."
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