Whoosh...


    The wild wind that had suddenly arose in this world of death came from every direction. All the winds surged towards Immortal Diancai’s direction, and Ji Ning, Immortal Fivecraze, and the Whitewater Hound could all sense how powerful this wind was. However, they were able to resist it by using just a bit of elemental ki.


    The closer the wind moved towards Immortal Diancai, the more powerful it became. The wind gathered from all corners of the world, slowly merging into an azure windde. By the time this azure windde actually flew towards Immortal Diancai, it had turned such a deep azure color that it could almost be described as a ck windde.


    Just staring at it caused Ning and the others to feel shocked.


    “Open.”


    The ck-robed Immortal Diancai stood there, the five Heavenraker Immortal swords floating around him, swiveling. It was as though five rainbows were swirling around him. Although the terrifyingly powerful ck winddes chopped repeatedly towards him, all the strikes were blocked.


    “Junior apprentice-brother Diancai’s sword-arts have already risen to such a level?” Immortal Fivecraze revealed a look of delight. “Ji Ning, I had an idea as to what level your master’s sword-arts had reached...but he is even more powerful than I had expected! Long ago, I came to the conclusion that junior apprentice-brother Diancai had the highest chance amongst us of bing a Celestial Immortal, and back then his sword-arts were already at an astonishing level. After adventuring for forty years, and after receiving your Dao-repository, his sword-arts...they are not one whit inferior to Immortal Northwalker’s. He truly does have a chance to be a Celestial Immortal!”


    “Right.” Ning was filled with eagerness as well.


    Everything else aside, the ‘Five Elements Sword-Intent’ which his master had just disyed was enough to let Ning know that his master’s sword-arts were most likely on a levelparable to his own. His master truly lived up to his reputation as the peerless genius of the ck-White College with the highest chances of bing a Celestial Immortal.


    ......


    The savage ck winddes hammered repeatedly against the five rainbows of light, causing even the surrounding space to crack and fracture.


    Rumble...


    All of the ck winddes suddenly vanished. The world actually turnedpletely calm and tranquil again...but then yet another series of winds began to appear. The winds stabbed like sharp needles...and a series of needle-like spikes began to appear in midair. The thousands of spikes all gleamed with golden light as they stabbed towards the five Immortal swords which were in the form of five rainbows of light.


    ......


    Savage. Insidious. Soft. Icy. zing...


    All sorts of wind came in an unending flow. In fact, a total of twelve types of skywind appeared as well!


    Suddenly, the surrounding area once more turned calm. For a long period of time, no further gusts of wind appeared.


    “Not good.” Immortal Fivecraze was startled. “The final part of the wind tribtion has begun.”


    Ning was nervous and restless as well. He looked anxiously towards his master, standing there in the distance.


    The Celestial Tribtion consisted of four great tribtions; the wind tribtion, the fire tribtion, the thunder tribtion, and the demonheart tribtion. The wind tribtion...it first consisted of ordinary wind, then types of skywind of different power, and then finally the most terrifying of all, the Celestial Immortal Wind. This Celestial Immortal Wind was invisible and formless; it was hard to locate within the Three Realms, and would only appear during the Celestial Tribtion.


    No magic treasures were capable of blocking the Celestial Immortal Wind; it would form directly in front of the tribnt’s body, then surge in through the head. Nothing, not even Daoist robes, would be able to block the prating power of this wind in the slightest!


    After surging in through the head, it would naturally disperse and tear through the vital organs.


    What it tested was a person’s Dao-heart. If one’s Dao-heart was weak, then once the Celestial Immortal Wind surged in through the head, their body would most likely instantly melt and transform into dust, allowing only the Goldlotus Primal to survive and flee. More than 99% of Void-level Earth Immortals would be defeated by the Celestial Immortal Wind.


    If one’s Dao-heart was strong and stable enough, then the trial of the Celestial Immortal Wind would actually be a transformatative baptism, allowing the tribnt to slowly begin to develop a Celestial Immortal Body.


    “Master, you have to hold on,” Ning said, extremely worried.


    “Hold on.” Immortal Fivecraze stared at him as well.


    Immortal Diancai stood there by himself, surrounded by those five pitch-ck Immortal swords. He opened his eyes, revealing a smile as he looked towards Ning and Immortal Fivecraze. “The wind tribtion is over.”


    “Good.” Immortal Fivecrazeughed loudly, “I just knew that your Dao-heart had to be strong, junior apprentice-brother! The wind tribtion was unable to do anything to you at all. Hurry up and replenish your elemental ki and prepare for the next tribtion, the fire tribtion!”


    Ning let out a sigh of relief as well.


    At least the first tribtion had been ovee.


    In truth, given the Dao-heart which his master normally disyed, Ning should have felt quite confident in him. However, right before they entered this minor world, his master’s emotions had been disturbed, and he had even spoken of reuniting with his deceased junior apprentice-sister. Ning had been very worried about the effects of this former rtionship on his master’s heart. Once one’s Dao-heart became even slightly unstable, then one’s body would quickly be transformed into dust.


    The Celestial Tribtion was truly dangerous. One couldn’t make a single error in it; a single error would represent aplete failure!


    ......


    Ning, Immortal Fivecraze, and Uncle White kept their divine senses spread as they stood vignt guard for Immortal Diancai, whom they continued to watch.


    Roughly an hour after the wind tribtion ended.


    Rumbling red clouds suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the skies; it was as though a cloud created from an enormous ball of mes had appeared.


    “The fire tribtion has arrived.” Ning and Immortal Fivecraze both watched nervously.


    The fire tribtion wasn’t as insidious as the wind tribtion, but it was even more savage and ferocious! The power of those mes...if a Void-level Earth Immortal slipped for a single instant, then his body would instantly be charred into ash.


    The fiery clouds in the skies slowly descended. Instantly, the temperature of the surrounding area began to rise, and the air itself seemed to glow with a blurry red light.


    Crackle crackle crackle...


    The ground itself began to turn soft. It began to transform intova and began to bubble and froth.


    Immortal Diancai began to levitate into the air. “Go!” Immortal Diancai pointed with his finger, and one of the five Heavenraker swords actually flew out, transforming into a giant serpent of fire that flew through the skies, stabbing straight towards the enormous fiery cloud, shing through it and causing it to grow chaotic and disordered. However, the Heavenraker sword was quickly knocked flying backwards.


    Instantly, the fiery cloud began to drop at an even faster pace. Soon, itpletely enveloped Immortal Diancai within it.


    Hiss hiss hiss...


    The temperature had risen to a terrifying level, and even theva within the region had beenpletely incinerated and transformed into nothingness. Even the stones in the distant region where Ning and the others were watching had been transformed intova. From this, one could tell how terrifying the temperature was.


    Rumble...whoosh...crackle...


    Streaks of skyfire could vaguely be seen zing from within the fiery cloud. There was golden skyfire, ck skyfire, green skyfire, and even skyfire that seemed to sh like the stars...


    “The various types of skyfire have descended.” Ning and Immortal Fivecraze both watched nervously.


    Boom!


    Suddenly...


    The entire fiery cloud began to converge and coalesce around a single central point. Suddenly, a human-shaped figure appeared from within it, protected by five Immortal swords. The fiery cloud had transformed into a zing light that waspletely insubstantial. The light passed through the blocking Immortal swords, flying straight into the human-shaped figure’s body.


    For a moment, the entire world turned silent. The surrounding temperature began to drop at a rapid pace. Immortal Diancai, however, emanated a fiery light as he hovered there in the skies. Ning stared at his master; his master was emanating so much fiery light, he seemed to be made out of mes himself.


    “The final type of fire within the fire tribtion...the Celestial Immortal Fire,” Immortal Fivecraze said worriedly.


    A Celestial Immortal Body had to be tempered by wind, fire, and lightning. Only afterwards could the Celestial Immortal Body be forged. Then, after undergoing the trial of the demonheart tribtion, the Celestial Immortal’s Dao-heart would be formed.


    Only after all tribtions were passed would one be a carefree, unbound Celestial Immortal!


    “He overcame it.” The distant Ning revealed a look of joy on his face. He saw that the distant Immortal Diancai’s body was beginning to slowly turn a duller color as he slowly returned to normal.


    Immortal Diancainded. He immediately sat down in the lotus position, quietly adjusting his energy levels and recovering his elemental ki.


    “The fire tribtion is over. Nextes the most dangerous tribtion, the thunder tribtion!” Immortal Fivecraze murmured softly.


    “Right. The thunder tribtion.” Ning’s heart clenched as well.


    Of the four great tribtions, the final demonheart tribtion was the strangest tribtion. But the thunder tribtion was the most terrifying one!


    The thunder tribtion was the most brutal one of all. Layers of lightning bolts would descend, continuously rising in power. Even past figures like Immortal Juhua and Immortal Northwalker had eventually been destroyed by the power of the continuous, unending thunderbolts, resulting in their Goldlotus Primals being damaged and them fleeing to be Loose Immortals. The thunder tribtion was an absolute nightmare! The vast majority of peerless geniuses would end up perishing in the face of this tribtion. There were absolutely no tricks that could be used to block the thunderbolts; each time a bolt descended, you had to block it head-on. If you couldn’t? You’d be finished!


    Simple as that!


    “I wonder how many bolts of thunder will fall.” Immortal Fivecraze was worried.


    “Master has an extremely high level in sword-arts. His talent is very high, and he has five top-grade Immortal-ranked flying swords. I imagine there will be quite a few,” Ning said worriedly as well.


    The thunder tribtion...some Earth Immortals might only encounter nine bolts of thunder. Others, however, might meet with eighteen, twenty-seven, or thirty-six bolts...and ording to the stories, the highest number possible was eighty-one bolts!


    The power of the skythunder would be linked to many factors; in fact, it was also linked to karmic merit. Still, generally speaking, Ki Refiners would never suffer the legendary ‘eighty-one bolt skythunder tribtion!’ Generally speaking, only Fiendgod Body Refiners would encounter it while undergoing their tribtion. Many monstrously powerful Void-level Fiendgod Body Refiners would be hammered to death by the consecutive lightning bolts!


    Ning knew very well that although he had already trained in the third stage of the [Eight-Nine Arcane Art], if he were to encounter the eighty-one bolts of lightning, he would definitely be crushed into nothingness by the power of those bolts!


    “I hope he has less than 36 bolts,” Immortal Fivecraze whispered.


    “Right.” Ning nodded gently as well.


    Ki Refiners were innately weaker than Fiendgod Body Refiners when it came to withstanding skythunder. Generally speaking, it would be very hard for them to seed if there were more than 36 bolts.


    ......


    Another hour passed.


    Two enormous stormclouds suddenly appeared out of nowhere from within the calm skies. These two stormclouds converged rapidly from different directions,pletely blotting out the sun as they drew close to each other. Instantly, electric streaks of lightning began to crackle between the two massive clouds. The awe-inspiring power from within them caused Ning, Immortal Fivecraze, and the Whitewater Hound to all feel trepidation.


    Slowly, the two massive stormclouds began to merge, and as theybined to form a single supermassive stormcloud, the supermassive stormcloud began to rotate. Soon, it the thunder tribtion stormcloud had transformed into a vortex of lightning and clouds.


    “What an enormous thunder tribtion cloud.” Immortal Fivecraze’s face suddenly changed.


    “What’s wrong?” Ning asked, worried.


    “When I faced my tribtion, it was this thunder tribtion which defeated me. But...the thunder tribtion cloud I faced wasn’t this big,” Immortal Fivecraze said worriedly.


    “What?! How many bolts of thunder were you up against during your thunder tribtion?” Ning asked.


    “I don’t know. However, the twenty-fifth bolt of skythunder shattered my magic treasures and blew apart my body. I thus chose to give up and flee,” Immortal Fivecraze said. “Junior apprentice-brother Diancai will definitely face far more bolts of skythunder than I did.”


    Just as his words came out...


    BOOM!


    Ning could hear a thunderous noise in his ears as an absolutely dazzling bolt of lightning suddenly streaked down from the lightning-cloud vortex in the skies, mming directly downwards towards Immortal Diancai.