Path of Absolute Transcendence

The Demon Queen didn't hear Long Zhen's words but closed her eyes and pondered something. After a few moments, she opened her eyes, and her anger seemed to have dissipated.

She withdrew her domain and also the overwhelming pressure, and left the place without even talking to Long Zhen.

'Why is her personality so much different?' Long Zhen wondered as he saw the Demon Queen leaving abruptly. He didn't mind her attitude towards him, as a ceiling powerhouse of the world, he knew the temperament of most people with the same status as himself and knew that was the natural attitude of the Demon Queen.

Long Zhen also left the place to inform his family of the situation.

'I should kill Yang Wudi now, I already wasted a lot of time.' Anna dressed up and started walking towards Yang Wudi to kill him since the expedition was going to end soon.

She had already tortured Yang Wudi a lot using her avatar, so she swiftly severed his head and left the place to avoid getting caught. Before leaving the place, she cleared all the traces and evidence.

SLAUGHTER PALACE

The sect master peak is unique in the entire sect. It has all the facilities that are available in the sect, but the most important one is the monitor room.

It has the soul lamps of all core disciples and elders. Whenever a core disciple or elder dies, the lamp stops burning.

A soul lamp is a device that is capable of storing a piece of the soul, and when the person whose fragment is stored inside the lamp dies, the soul lamp extinguishes itself.

Inside the monitor room, a middle-aged man is cultivating with his eyes closed. There is an oppressive aura surrounding him, and he seems to be in a critical moment in his breakthrough.

The middle-aged man was Yang Chen, the sect master of Slaughter Palace, and now at the critical moment of his breakthrough into the supreme realm.

But suddenly, a soul lamp stopped burning, and it was sensed by Yang Chen. He did not open his eyes to see but used his senses to check on the person who died.

After checking the soul lamp, his emotions reached their peak, and he even dropped cultivating.

"Who dares? How did my son die? Who is responsible?" He screamed in anger after checking the soul lamp.

But being in a critical situation during his breakthrough, he wasn't able to take action personally.

His emotions got over his head, and he wasn't able to concentrate on his breakthrough properly.

'I should focus on my cultivation first and think about revenge next.' Yang Chen thought about and focused on his cultivation. He had a possibility of dying if he didn't control his Qi at the moment of his breakthrough. So, as an experienced cultivator, he immediately thought of the solution.

The Qi in the entire sect began moving in his direction, and his speed of breakthrough accelerated. Due to emotions, he broke the bottleneck that had been bugging him for years.

But he isn't happy about his situation; his eyes formed tears from thinking about his son.

He didn't even have time to get sad as a lot of thunderclouds formed around the sect master peak.

'I should find the culprit after passing the tribulation.' Yang Chen directly went above the clouds to avoid damaging the sect. The tribulation clouds also followed him above.

A tribulation is a necessary trail that must be crossed before becoming a supreme realm cultivator. The lightning from the heavens would strike the cultivator and test his foundation.

(A/N - The foundation mentioned here refers to the strength of a cultivator in each realm, not the foundation establishment realm.)

If the cultivator has a weak foundation, he will perish in the tribulation, but if he has a strong foundation, the tribulation will make it even stronger.

The lightning from the tribulation contains creation and destruction energy, so the cultivator's foundation only needs to be strong enough to withstand the destruction energy, and after that, he can enjoy the benefits of creation energy.

This is the reason that Kai didn't use any medicines or pills for cultivation. A pill or medicine contains impurities, and they will settle inside the body after consumption, so Kai doesn't consume any of them.

The impurities will make the foundation weak. It will also continue to gather and be hard to eliminate. The supreme realm becomes a hurdle for those types of cultivators who are using pills.

Yang Chen is now surrounded by dark clouds with golden lightning flashing from time to time. The tribulation clouds didn't attack him, but they continued to expand until they covered more than 100 kilometers.

The size of the tribulation clouds determines their strength. A person with a strong foundation will face a strong tribulation, and a person with a weak foundation will face a weak tribulation.

A strong tribulation has more creation energy, so it is more beneficial to the cultivator even though it is risky. A cultivation journey is sailing a boat against the ocean, so it is normal to risk lives in the process of becoming stronger.

The first lightning fell from the clouds on Yang Chen; he didn't deflect the lighting but instead just endured with his body. He got injured by the lightning, and a lot of injuries appeared.

He didn't take any pills for recovery as it would ruin the process; he passively endured the second and third strikes.

But in the fourth strike, he took his spear and attacked the incoming lightning. The power of lightning reduced him a lot, and he got struck by it.

He did the same thing for the fifth and sixth strikes, enough to reduce the power of lightning that he is capable of withstanding without any problems.

But for the seventh strike, he didn't attack it. He received the full power of the lightning.

Each strike is stronger than the previous one, that is the mechanism of tribulation. Yang Chen used this method to avoid accumulating injuries. If he resisted all the strikes, he wouldn't have been able to persist with the last few strikes.

So, he reduced the power of some attacks to face the last strikes without any problem.

He successfully crossed the seven strikes, and the eighth strike arrived without giving him any chance; he endured it without reducing the power.

But it caused him to vomit a mouth full of blood. His body wasn't capable of withstanding the power of lightning without getting injured, and it caused a lot of internal injuries.

'I have to do this for my son.' He thought about his son during the situation to cheer himself on.

The ninth strike gathered all the energy in the tribulation clouds to make the final attack. He knew it was the last strike based on its grandeur.

'It's now or never.'

The final lightning took the shape of a dragon and directly went to attack him with a roar. The lightning seems to have its own life; instead of traveling, it's moving like a dragon. It annihilated everything in its path and struck Yang Chen.

He didn't use any attacks to reduce the power since this strike contained the most benefits. But he got hit by it and fell to the ground.

Due to the impact, he formed a pit more than a hundred meters after he fell. He got a lot of injuries, but he successfully passed the tribulation and became the first supreme powerhouse of  Slaughter Palace. From now on, the sect can be called the Supreme Slaughter Palace.

After consuming a pill for his injury, he left immediately for the sect.

Soon he appeared above the sect, and as soon as he arrived, the grand elder, Yang Liwei, greeted him.

"Congratulations to the sect master for becoming a supreme realm powerhouse."

Yang Chen didn't say anything to him; instead, he scanned the sect using his supreme sense. (A/N - It is the same as divine sense and holy sense, but an evolved one for supreme realm cultivators.)

Yang Liwei, seeing the sect master acting abnormally, asked the reason.

"Sect master, did something wrong happen? Do you need any help?"

"Yang Wudi died in the secret realm." Yang Chen replied in a heavy voice. His face is full of grief, thinking about the situation with his son.

"How-w d-did this happen? I gave him a Tier 4 talisman for his safety. How did this happen?" Yang Liwei said it in anger. His aura started to spread, and the disciples near them bore the pressure.

Seeing Yang Liwei getting angry and out of control, Yang Chen suppressed his aura.

"Don't worry about that; the past is already past. But for now, we will find the culprit." Yang Chen said it in an emotionless tone, but it contained endless killing intent.

"Okay, first, let's bring all the disciples outside the secret realm and investigate."

"No, wait for a bit. I need to search the sect first; I found something weird here."

"You found something weird? Why didn't I sense with my holy sense?"

"I can only sense it after I broke into the supreme realm, so it may be the reason that you weren't able to sense." Yang Chen used his supreme sense on the scripture pavilion to find the source of the weirdness. He found a different kind of energy emanating there.

"Grand Elder, use your holy sense to check this area." Yang Chen asked the grand elder to confirm his doubt.

Yang Liwei didn't ask any questions and used his holy sense in the places told by the sect master.

"How is this possible? What kind of energy is it? It is capable of escaping my detection unless I investigate it personally."