In the east, a disc of the sun has just been revealed, bright and dazzling, exuding a warm light, shining on the vast land of mist and empty sky, and everything has begun to revive for a new day.

A small hillside that is exceptionally secluded, with sparse trees and green grass, clinging to it with dew, and wants to slide down.

On a fairly flat rock more than half a zhang high, there was a young man in thin clothes who was calm and waveless, and sat down in the morning sun there, and there was a yellowed book next to him, called "The Primary Mind Method of Gathering Qi".

At this moment, something surprising happened, the young man who had always looked serene, his still immature face, was overflowing with a bewildering smile.

Then, a faint white mist appeared around him visibly, and gradually thickened a little, and began to entangle around him.

These white fogs are different from the fog that fills the sky. If you touch the mist, it will turn into a liquid water.

And it, like white smoke, is ethereal and elegant, full of spirituality, and has an indescribable sense of etherealism.

I don't know how long time has passed, and the sun that rises in the sky is no longer as delicate as before.

As if provoked by someone, it was shining with a very hot and violent light towards all things on the earth.

Under the scorching sun, the fog that had already covered the earth and could hardly be seen far had already evaporated.

However, the white mist that was wrapped around the young man was not affected by the scorching sun in the slightest, but became more and more dense, and there were even some close to liquid states, which was very strange!

The young man in it is still unmoving, his fair and delicate face is still so calm, and he is still in a state of concentration.

But in less than a quarter of an hour, the young man's two sword eyebrows, which had been stretched and lying flat, gradually leaned towards the center of the eyebrows and wrinkled, and the color of pain was fully displayed on his face.

The young man's body began to tremble slightly.

At this moment, his heart could not be calmed, and there was a sharp and suffocating pain from his abdomen, which finally made him give up his intention to continue to settle down.

After a while, the look of pain on his face faded.

At the same time, the invisible white mist was gradually fading, disappearing into the surrounding vegetation one by one.

At this time, I saw the young man's eyes tremble twice, and then he slowly pulled them up, revealing a pair of bright and transparent eyes, looking at the white mist around him that was about to completely dissipate, and he squeezed out a very helpless smile.

The helpless young man slowly stood up on the rock, with a somewhat bitter look, shook his head, and muttered to himself.

"It's been ten years, and since I picked up an emerald green ocarina in the Xuanying nest that time, in addition to the stronger and stronger sensing power, and the stronger aura that attracts heaven and earth, I still can't introduce these aura into my body!"

Speaking of this, the young man spread out his two slender palms, lowered his head and looked at his palms in a little confusion, and said, "Could it be that my Mu Yuan and the way of cultivation are really inseparable, and I am destined to live a life of only a hundred years in mediocrity?" ”

"No...... Never! Lao Tzu must embark on the path of cultivation! Only in this way can Lao Tzu become stronger faster, have better strength, and have the opportunity to go to that place! ”

Thinking of the figure of Meiman that became more and more blurred in his mind, Mu Yuan actually changed his name, he clenched his fists violently, looked at the blue sky in the distance, and roared loudly.

After a long time, when he was in a good mood, he remembered that it was already noon, and he had to go back to cooking.

But at this time, with a "click", an earth-shattering thunder came into his ears, which made his body tremble violently, and an inexplicable sense of uneasiness arose spontaneously at this moment.

On a clear and sunny day, the scorching sun is in the sky, and there are no clouds, where did this thunder come from? And in my heart, why is he so uneasy?

Mu Yuan was frightened at the same time, but also very puzzled.

His suspicious and uneasy gaze, mixed with a little incomprehension, looked around, and his bright and transparent eyes suddenly magnified, staring at the sky thirty miles away.

For some reason, a storm had sprung up there, and a cloud of colors had suddenly formed, covering a mile below it.

"Click!"

There was another thunderbolt of lightning, and a thick silver lightning bolt from the mouth of the bowl suddenly slashed down from the multicolored clouds.

"That'...... That's a thunder tribulation, and there are living beings in the tribulation! Mu Yuan quickly recognized what was going on there.

But then, he was puzzled again.

The mountains here lacked spiritual energy, and there were no monks who lived here except for him and his master.

In addition, there are some enlightened demon spirit beasts and birds here, but according to their low-level level, even if they break through in a short period of time, it is impossible to cause such a strong heavenly tribulation.

If the creature that can trigger this heavenly tribulation, at least it will have a powerful cultivation like his master.

Seeing this five-color tribulation cloud that would only appear if his cultivation had reached the "Huachen Rank Great Star" and was about to break through to the "Dacheng" level, Mu Yuan thought of an amiable man, and his mouth couldn't help but arc, revealing a proud arrogance.

But then, he seemed to remember something again, and then let out an exclamation, yelling that it was not good!

He suddenly remembered what Chang An, who had been stuck in the "late stage of the Huachen Rank Great Star" and might have made a breakthrough recently, had told him last night.

"If the master is not by your side in the future, you must take care of yourself."

In addition, Mu Yuan also remembered that eight years ago, when Chang An took him to travel outside, he had a chance to meet a great monk who turned into ashes after failing to cross the Dacheng Heavenly Tribulation.

At that time, Chang An was by his side, looking at the sky, and sighed: "If it weren't for the refining of the golden body, without a powerful magic weapon, few people would be able to survive the catastrophe!" ”

Mu Yuan knew that there were a total of eighteen thunder tribulations in the Dacheng Heavenly Tribulation, and every time he survived one tribulation, the power of the next one would be doubled and dramatically increased. That's not what worries him the most, though.

And what frightened him, Chang An, and even the monks below the level of the entire cultivation world was the last Heavenly Tribulation of Dacheng, which was the tribulation of each Heavenly Tribulation that had been passed before!

From this, it can be imagined that the destructive power of this heavenly tribulation is absolutely beyond imagination!

Thinking of these, Mu Yuan finally knew why Fang Cai had that inexplicable feeling of unease.

Then he jumped down from the grass, without looking back, and in a hurry, ran into a bamboo forest in the distance, and ran quickly in the direction of the valley, leaving only a yellowed book lying quietly on the rock.

The distant figure had begun to blur, and gradually turned into a small dot from large, and Mu Yuan soon disappeared into the valley.

At this moment, in the bushes and grass, which were less than a hundred feet from the rocks, someone suddenly spoke.

"Third brother, that kid is no longer visible, let's follow!"

"Second brother, what are you in a hurry? In front of the two of us, his mortal body is like an ant, and he can't even introduce a wisp of aura into his body for his own use, this is what the monk often says about waste wood, and I'm afraid that he will be lost in the eyes of the two of us? ”

"I said third brother, you have such a big brain, why don't you understand the second brother's mind, you listen carefully, is there a sound of cooing here?"

"I'll you, second brother, didn't you just eat a wolf demon with three tails? You're hungry again so soon?"

"This ...... This is not something I can control the second brother, especially when I saw that kid's thin skin and tender skin just now, I was even more greedy. ”

"But why didn't you pounce on me before, but dragged me here and hid?"

"Isn't this for fear of disturbing that kid's cultivation, didn't you see that he was very wicked when he gathered the aura of heaven and earth?"

"It's pretty good, but so what? He can't introduce aura into his body, and he's still not a waste! ”

"Seeing that it only took him a few hours to attract the aura of heaven and earth so thickly, you must know that the aura here is very scarce."

"Third brother, as Huachen Rank Great Star Cultivators, if we cultivate here, our benefits will not be more than one-third of his."

It's a pity that his "Spirit Sea Land" has countless fragments and is incomplete. ”

"This is also the reason why every time he introduces the aura into his body, he will be in great pain and cannot gather the aura there."

"Okay, let's go and meet the eldest brother first, after all, that divine treasure map is important."

As for that kid, seeing him in such a hurry, the second brother dared to conclude that he would definitely send himself to the door later. Let's go! ”

"However, my stomach was also hungry and I couldn't walk. Or, second brother, you squat down and go with me on your back, right? ”

"The monks in the early stage of the Great Star of the Huachen Rank will still have hunger? It's been a long time ago! ”

"Hey...... Second brother, you said the wrong thing this time, you should slap your own mouth, otherwise, you will have to recite me this time. ”

"Haha...... What's wrong with you on your back? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a tall, thin and hunchbacked black shadow flash from the bushes and grass, with a heavy afterimage, passing over the rock and running in the direction of the five-colored clouds.

The black shadow didn't even see what a person or a ghost looked like, and soon disappeared into the mountains in the distance.

Mu Yuan, who almost became the food in the stomach of an unknown creature and didn't know it, rushed back to the bamboo house very urgently at this moment to see if his master was still there.

Originally, the way back to the bamboo house was only a little more than six miles away, but Mu Yuan felt unprecedentedly far away, and his heart was very worried, and he could not be at ease before returning to the bamboo house.

According to him, he ran a hundred miles in the mountains, and he would not feel tired, and it was difficult to drop a drop of sweat on his body.

And now, when he ran back to a wooden bridge that could pass through a bamboo house from six miles away, he was already sweating profusely, and even his clothes had penetrated more than half, and the whole person seemed to be evacuated, very weak.

The bamboo hut is not very large, but it is close to 13 square meters, built on the surface of a rippling lake.

With apprehension, Mu Yuan quickly crossed the wooden bridge and came to the two bamboo doors, raising his hands in the air, but he couldn't push the doors open.

He, who has never been indecisive, began to worry at this moment. He feared that the glimmer of hope in his heart would be extinguished the moment he pushed the door open, or in the midst of a brief search.

Just now, on the way back to the bamboo house, he saw that the stone that Chang An had been using to meditate and cultivate had already broken into countless small stones, and there were also some traces of burning, emitting a smell of charcoal smoke.

His intuition told him that there was a high probability that there was a close connection between these and the previous thunder.

In the end, he still pushed open the two bamboo doors and searched every place in the bamboo house, and to his horror, he really didn't see the person he cared about in his heart.

"The person is not there, it is really gone!" Mu Yuan was very lost, and the whole person collapsed on the floor.

"No...... No, the master will be fine! As if he had gone mad again, he jerked himself up on the floor and rushed out of the doorway.

Mu Yuan ran straight out in the direction of the valley mouth, and ran wildly towards the place where the thunder rumbled ten miles away, and he was running at a speed several times faster than ordinary people!

After passing through several deep mountains and dense forests, Mu Yuan appeared on a relatively wide and flat grassland. And the distant scene in front of him gradually narrowed as he ran desperately.

He saw a middle-aged man in rags and covered in blood, stepping into the void, holding a dark iron sword in his hand, under the multicolored clouds of lightning and thunderbolt, stubbornly resisting the heavenly tribulation that was even more terrifying.

"Master! Master! Master ......"

Mu Yuan ran frantically while shouting at the place. That person is Chang An, who will raise him for sixteen years.

When Mu Yuan was about to approach the tribulation area, he suddenly felt a soft force wrapping his body.

His whole body was in the running position, like a sculpture, and he was imprisoned all of a sudden.

Being in it, Mu Yuan is most familiar with these sudden things. He knew that this was Chang An's doing, and he didn't want him to get close to the area of the robbery, so as not to be robbed as well.

"yes, how could I get into it with such a weak body?"

"Even if the heavens have mercy and won't let me turn to ashes in an instant, I can't help at all, but it will drag down the master, which will only make him more distracted."

"It's Yuan'er...... It's so reckless! ”

The hindrance of progress also made Mu Yuan calm down a lot, and realizing the current situation made him more rational and less impulsive than before.

At this time, he found that the neck above was not affected by the confinement, so he shouted loudly to the air: "Master, you must hold on, Yuan'er hasn't married a daughter-in-law yet, and get a few dolls for your old man to train well!" ”

"Poof......

I don't know if I heard the words he shouted in a hurry, or because he was hurt by the catastrophe, Chang An let out a "poof" in the air, and spit out a mouthful of blood in his mouth.