Qin Si did not answer, and forcefully slashed forward with his sword!
"Break!"
"Rumble!"
A deafening roar suddenly erupted within the Primal Chaos Secret Realm, drawing everyone's attention.
A majestic and ancient stone gate appeared above the secret realm. Cultivators far away could not see its true appearance, only sensing a terrifying aura emanating from within. Those closer, however, were forced to their knees by the gate's pressure.
This included Cai Zhi and Qiao Yi, who were near the gate.
Chui Ming, with his profound cultivation and vast experience, and Yue Miaomiao, with her powerful innate divine beast abilities, quickly broke through Zhang Wu and Li San's obstruction, forcing Cai Zhi to transform into his true form and capturing him in his claws.
At this moment, the pressure from the stone gate loosened his grip. Cai Zhi was seized by Qiao Yi and rescued, but both of them were also suffering greatly. Qiao Yi was pressed to his knees by the stone gate's might, and Cai Zhi slammed into his back, causing him to collapse completely onto the ground.
"Cai Zhi, get up!" Qiao Yi gritted out, almost through clenched teeth.
He felt as if he and Cai Zhi were destined to clash, with trouble never far behind when they met.
Cai Zhi cried out in pain, "Ow, it hurts, I can't get up..."
Just as Qiao Yi was about to order Li San and Zhang Wu to drag Cai Zhi away, he suddenly heard a sharp, piercing cry from Cai Zhi, filled with agony and despair, as if undergoing something extremely dire.
"Qiao Yi! Get away from Cai Zhi quickly!"
Qiao Yi's years of experience with danger made him instinctively push Cai Zhi away with all his might. He then turned his head and witnessed a scene he would never forget in his life.
"Whoosh!"
Blazing gold-red flames erupted from Cai Zhi's body, burning fiercely and forming a massive net around him, like a beast-catching net, tightly enclosing Cai Zhi in his true form.
Cai Zhi screamed, instantly turning to ash in the torrent of flames.
Qiao Yi clearly saw the thread connecting Cai Zhi to the stone gate in the sky snap!
In the Purple Yellow Middle World, the patriarch of the Jade Finch clan sensed an anomaly with his son's life tablet and rushed to the ancestral shrine, only to witness his son's life tablet completely shatter. He let out a bewildered and enraged roar.
"Great-Ancestor! Why would you do this to Zhi'er – Great-Ancestor!"
The Jade Finch clan patriarch watched as the venerated ancestral divine statue suddenly emitted an ominous black light, turning into fine gray threads that spread from the ancestral shrine.
"Patriarch, the forbidden area in the back mountain is in chaos. What should we do—"
Before the newcomer could finish speaking, the gray threads silently wrapped around him. His voice abruptly stopped, his eyes widened, and he slumped softly to the ground.
"Cai Yi?"
The Jade Finch clan patriarch tried to step forward to check, but before he could take a step, he watched in horror as Cai Yi's body shriveled, then turned into a pile of white bones.
"No!"
The gray threads began to spread throughout the entire Jade Finch clan.
That day became a nightmare for the Jade Finch clan.
The great clan, which had prospered for a thousand years, was annihilated overnight!
Everyone in the Purple Yellow Middle World was shocked and deeply moved, leading to widespread fear and self-preservation.
Meanwhile, within the Primal Chaos Secret Realm.
A group of people from the Moon Star Middle World halted their advance.
"Something has happened to the Jade Finch clan of Purple Yellow," Long Zi Ning suddenly said.
Their clan possessed the ability to communicate internally, ignoring barriers and formations. Although the transmitted messages and frequencies were limited, this innate talent was truly formidable. Because of this, their clan's spies were spread throughout the three middle worlds, making them the clan that sent the most members to other worlds from the Moon Star Middle World.
As soon as the Jade Finch clan incident occurred, the news reached Long Zi Ning.
Long Zi Ning recounted the events, her vertical pupils showing a hint of contemplation. "I suspect the situation with the Jade Finch clan is related to the upheaval within the Primal Chaos Secret Realm."
She looked at the majestic stone gate not far away, her expression unfathomable.
Someone in the team asked, "Zi Ning, what should we do now?"
"The deterrent force of this stone gate is too strong. We've already moved so far away, and I still feel like I can't catch my breath, my heart racing."
The others echoed her sentiment.
Long Zi Ning swept her gaze across them, and everyone immediately quieted down. "Let's go take a look. I think this gate might be a relic within the secret realm."
"A relic?"
A relic within the Primal Chaos Secret Realm... Wouldn't that be where the gods resided in the past?
The crowd's spirits immediately lifted. Regardless of whether the area near the stone gate was dangerous, they all rushed towards it.
However, they could only approach within a hundred li of the stone gate before being unable to proceed further. Not only them, but Yun Youyue, Yun Buluo, Yue Bufan, and those from Xun Ming Continent of the Chong Yuan Middle World also stopped in the vicinity.
"Boom boom boom..."
"Thunderclouds? Who is undergoing tribulation within the Primal Chaos Secret Realm?"
The cultivators who could enter the Primal Chaos Secret Realm were all exceptionally talented. At a glance, they recognized the vast sea of lightning gathered in the sky as a tribulation for advancement.
Below the tribulation were the stone gate in mid-air and Qiao Yi's group.
"Qiao Yi, you're crazy! Tribulating at this time?" Li San and Zhang Wu immediately assumed Qiao Yi had attracted the lightning tribulation, as among them, only Qiao Yi was close to breaking through the Void Shattering realm.
But they were also greatly confused. Their cultivation was currently suppressed between the Void Glimmer realm and the Spirit Light realm. To undergo a lightning tribulation at this time was tantamount to seeking death.
As the two panicked, they saw Qiao Yi get up from the ground and say dazedly, "It's not me."
Qiao Yi was uncharacteristically out of sorts.
This was due to Cai Zhi's sudden death, and secondly, because he saw a thread connected to him within this lightning tribulation.
That thread, faintly visible, connected him to the stone gate.
Qiao Yi's expression was extremely grim. Why? What was his relationship with this stone gate?
"Qiao Yi! Look quickly! They've actually come out!"
Qiao Yi followed Li San's指 direction and saw a Black-Eyed Tiger and a White Tiger excitedly rushing towards a man and a woman.
It was Bai Shengyi and Qin Si, who had previously entered the Underworld River Gate!
With each step Bai Shengyi took forward, his aura deepened. Qin Si's was even more astonishing. In just a short period, his cultivation had soared to the Void Shattering realm and was still climbing...
It was the two of them undergoing the lightning tribulation!
This realization made Qiao Yi's heart skip a beat, and just then, he heard the sound of thunder tearing through the air and striking down!
The lightning tribulation had begun!
"Nonsense! Utter nonsense!"
Yue Bufan and the others were drawn by the lightning tribulation. They had initially thought it was someone else recklessly risking their lives and wanted to watch the spectacle. Never did they expect the spectacle to be thrust upon them.
"Knowing you were going to tribulate, couldn't you have done it separately? Who tribulates together... No, no, no! There's no spiritual energy in this secret realm at all, it's completely unsuitable for tribulation!"
Yue Bufan's beard bristled with anger. He shouted and sputtered, wishing he could rush into the lightning right now to scold Bai Shengyi and Qin Si, these unreliable individuals.