Back in Zhujian Valley, life has returned to normal.

The difference is that Long Qingyan no longer soaks in the sun pit every day, but just goes to explore the traces of the sun mine every day, goes out in the morning and returns in the evening, he is also deliberately suppressing his cultivation, and he is not in a hurry to advance.

Su Chen still went to the bamboo forest every day to practice his sword, and his cultivation was slowly but steadily rising.

The most interesting thing is Xiyue, after having a little follower by her side, she is not bored at all. When taking care of the pear saplings, let Xiaozi carry water and weeds, let Xiaozi light the fire when cooking, and let it wash the dishes, wash the pot, and collect firewood after the meal......

Every night, Su Chen and Long Qingyan could see Xiao Zi's tears, the fur that was originally bright and crystal like a purple diamond was gray and dull when they saw it every day, and some places were burned by the fire, becoming charred and crooked, miserable. Moreover, the wooden barrel that Xiyue usually uses to carry water is several times larger than Xiao Zi, God knows how it picked it up.

However, Xiyue still cares about Xiao Zi very much, and when she practices by herself every night, she will let Xiao Zi be with her, and she will receive the power of Taiyin and give Xiao Zi a part, so that it can accept the baptism of Taiyin, so the little guy's cultivation is also progressing steadily, and it is expected to enter the Jindan period in the near future.

That night, the three of them had dinner together, and Xiao Zi lay motionless on Xiyue's lap, snorting twice from time to time, obviously tired.

Su Chen looked at it like this, and couldn't help but say: "I said Xiyue, Xiaozi is so small, you can let it help light the fire, it's a bit embarrassing to carry water, right?"

Xiao Zi was energetic when she heard this, and quickly got up, nodding her head constantly, and then looked at Su Chen gratefully, and her impression of him was not so bad.

Xiyue rolled her eyes and said, "Then you will do it?"

Su Chen was choked, Xiao Zi originally looked at him with starry eyes, but the thing was silent for a long time, and suddenly lost the favorability that had just been brushed.

Long Qingyan said with a smile: "If you are blessed or not, you have to find it uncomfortable, haha!"

Xiyue glanced at him, and then said, "You don't have any sympathy at all, you're really cold-blooded. ”

Long Qingyan: "......"

Who is it who directs a little thing that has not yet changed shape and has not grown up all day long? and embarrassed to say that others have no sympathy!

Both of them were scolded back by Xi Yue, so they stopped talking, Xiao Zi continued to lie on Xi Yue's lap like a corpse, and she could vaguely see tears flowing from the corners of her eyes, I don't know if I regretted why I followed a demon king or expressed disappointment at Su Chenlong's incompetence.

In this way, two months have passed, Long Qingyan has reached the consummation realm of the Nine Heavens of Jindan, and can enter the god refining period at any time; Su Chen and Xiyue's cultivation has only reached the peak of the current realm; and Xiao Zi's harvest is great, and after practicing with Xiyue every day and being baptized by the power of Taiyin, he has finally advanced.

One night, on the vast grass outside the courtyard, the three of them sat cross-legged on one side to protect the Little Purple Alchemy.

The power of Taiyin overflowed from the full moon, and this time it was taken by Xiao Zi himself and poured into herself. Xiyue had already regarded it as her own cronies, so she did not hesitate to teach Xiao Zi's "Reincarnation Sutra", which itself was created by the ancestor of the ice phoenix, which was also a non-human race, and for a spirit beast like Xiao Zi, it was impossible to meet.

However, after cultivating the "Reincarnation Sutra", Xiao Zi also agreed to join the Ice Phoenix Clan, although it is not an Ice Phoenix, but in the North Underworld, there are also many other races affiliated with the Ice Phoenix Clan, and even in the North Underworld, there are creatures of other races who have settled.

Xiao Zi is wrapped by the power of Taiyin, her hair is crystal like a diamond, and there is purple electric light that appears and disappears from time to time, but after the power of Taiyin enters the body, there is more black in the purple lightning that symbolizes "yin".

In addition, the aura in the Bamboo Sword Valley also gathered, so thick that it was completely impossible to see the figure of Xiao Zi in the center.

The three Dharma protectors could clearly see that those spiritual qi were condensed into "Dan", and Xiao Zi sat in the center of "Dan", slowly refining these spiritual qi into his own body and becoming his own inner Dan.

With the passage of time, the "Dan" outside Xiao Zi's body is gradually disappearing, and all the aura has turned into her body and become her power. After the "Dan" outside the body completely disappeared, Xiaozi's inner Dan was also completely formed, and she officially entered the Jindan period.

Xiao Zi's heart was beautiful, standing cross-legged, and she could clearly feel her happiness. However, the three of Xiyue looked at the sky, which made Xiao Zi very puzzled.

Suddenly, a thunderclap suddenly sounded, Xiyue looked solemn, and said to Xiao Zi: "Xiao Zi, your heavenly calamity is coming, pay attention!"

Xiao Zi was stunned when she heard the thunder, but as soon as Xi Yue finished speaking, a bolt of lightning suddenly fell, right in the middle of Xiao Zi!

"Squeak......" Xiao Zi howled miserably, but Xiyue, Su Chen and Long Qingyan retreated far away, and they didn't think about helping her at all. After the first lightning, the sky was already covered with thunderclouds, the thunder was dull, and the electric light was faint, which made people's hearts palpitate. At this time, Xiao Zi also realized the seriousness of the matter, and although she was afraid, she also understood that this catastrophe was very important to her. Although her body was already dark, fortunately, the first thunder did not cause actual damage, so she became serious and dealt with the next "transformation robbery".

Different from the human race and the holy race, Xiao Zi belongs to the demon race, her parents are transformed from ordinary mink, she was born with a change in blood, and became a spirit beast purple electric mink. But fundamentally, she still belongs to the demon clan.

The demon clan refers to the race of ordinary birds and beasts who have gone through a long period of time to open their spiritual wisdom and enter the cultivation world. The demon race and the holy race belong to the same non-human race, the difference is that the demon race belongs to the race that opens up the spiritual wisdom after tomorrow, while the holy race is born with high wisdom; the holy race is favored by the heavens, and the path of cultivation has always been smooth, while the demon race is against the sky, so the cultivation will be hindered by the heavens, and at the key nodes of cultivation, it will attract heavenly calamities.

The demon clan and the holy clan can generally transform in the Jindan period, and the demon clan will experience the first heavenly tribulation when entering the Jindan period, and if they can survive it, they can be regarded as passing the test of the heavenly way and can transform into a human. And among the thousands of demon clans, the transformation tribulation of the Jindan period blocked the footsteps of unknown little demons.

However, legend has it that in a certain region of Shenzhou, there are also demon races who choose not to transform themselves, and they can still become peerless powerhouses and dominate one side by advancing all the way in their original form of race.

Xiao Zi's transformation tribulation seems to be more fierce than that of ordinary demon clans, after all, she is a spirit beast, not an ordinary beast, so the test of heaven is also more severe.

There are nine transformational tribulations, nine small thunders, nine big thunders, and the small thunder is followed by a big thunder, and the power of the latter thunder is directly doubled, and so on.

At the beginning of the Transformation Tribulation, Xiao Zi's howl could still be heard, but after half an hour, her voice was already very weak, and this was only the fifth small thunder, and there were four small thunders and five big thunders, a total of nine thunder tribulations.

Xiyue was a little worried, but she also knew that she couldn't intervene, it was one thing to help or not, the most important thing was that if she interfered in Xiao Zi's thunder tribulation, she would be contaminated with inexplicable cause and effect, and attract more terrible thunder tribulation against her, in that case, she herself might be worried about her life, because that kind of thunder tribulation related to cause and effect is devastating, and it will never stop if the target is not destroyed.

When the fifth thunder fell, Xiao Zi was completely silent, and the sky was temporarily silent, as if the thunder tribulation had lost its purpose.

"Little Purple ......" Xiyue couldn't help but wanted to take a look.

Su Chen grabbed her and said to her, "Don't go, the catastrophe is not over yet." ”

"But I'm afraid the little one won't get through it. Xiyue worried.

"Then you can't put yourself in it. Su Chen said resolutely, "Besides, I can feel that Xiao Zi's vitality is still there, and she is okay for the time being." ”

Long Qingyan didn't speak, because his attention was on the hands of the two of them holding together, and his expression was very subtle, very subtle......

"But I can't feel anything...... "Xi Yue paused.

Su Chen was also stunned, and then said, "You can sense it carefully?"

Hearing this, Xiyue closed her eyes and carefully sensed Xiao Zi's situation, and sure enough, she found a wisp of vitality for the little guy, and she didn't know what the reason was just now, she didn't even notice it.

Long Qingyan still looked at the hands held by Xiyue and Su Chen, and didn't plan to speak......

Sure enough, the thunder tribulation showed signs of splitting down again, Xiao Zi came with a whining sound, like a signal, the sixth small thunder fell, and at the same time, Xiao Zi's body rose with electric light, it was a strange thunder and lightning mixed with purple and black, facing the thunder, but how could her strength be compared with the power of heaven and earth, just a little block, and the thunder slashed on her that day. This time the power of the thunder tribulation is even more powerful, where Xiao Zi is located is a relatively desolate area in the Bamboo Sword Valley, at this time it has been destroyed by the thunder tribulation, after the sixth small thunder, here is even more miserable, a big pit appeared, fell into the ground for dozens of miles, Xiao Zi was lying in the center of the pit, although the breath was weak, but it was very tenacious, and it was never extinguished.

Su Chen frowned and looked down. Because Xiyue's attention was attracted by that side, she unconsciously clenched her hands when she saw the situation on Xiao Zi's side, but at this time she forgot that Su Chen was still holding her, and the hands of the two were still holding together, so Su Chen felt very bad......

"Xiyue...... Tap ......," Su Chen said in a deep voice.

Xiyue turned around in surprise and saw that Su Chen's face was a little red, and he didn't know why, but when he saw that he was holding his hand, he was suddenly embarrassed and quickly let go. Su Chen was pardoned, he shook his hand again and again, there was a feeling of coming to life, Xiyue looked petite, but this innate divine power was a bit weird, this was not the first time that Su Chen was deflated.

Long Qingyan turned his face to the side and laughed with a "poof", but was kicked by Xiyue.

The subsequent thunder tribulation is no longer continuous, because Xiao Zi's life breath is intermittent, so the thunder tribulation is also intermittent, but the remaining few heavenly thunders are not so easy to get through.

Xiyue was very worried, Su Chen and Long Qingyan also looked solemn, although Xiao Zi's vitality was tenacious, but I didn't know if I could really get through it. Because, there is no shortage of monks in history who died on the eve of dawn.

When the sixth thunder fell, it was already three minutes of the hour, and it was the moment when the power of Taiyin was the strongest, Xiao Zi seemed to have awakened some kind of talent, and mobilized the soft power of Taiyin when fighting against the sixth thunder, combined with his own purple and black electric light to form a peculiar cocoon, wrapped himself, tightly sealed, and actually carried the sixth thunder, and survived without danger!

Her breath of life is endless, so the thunder tribulation does not stop, the seventh small thunder, the seventh big thunder one after another, the strongest thunder tribulation, dangerously by the Taiyin soft force and Xiao Zi's talent purple electricity that is transforming into yin thunder, and part of the power of the thunder tribulation is absorbed by the cocoon and becomes a part of the cocoon.

About a quarter of an hour later, the eighth small thunder and the big thunder actually descended almost at the same time, and the cocoon suddenly rose with electric light, but the electric light was not as bright as the thunder, but pure black and feminine, and the thunder and light in the sky bombarded together, so that the three people watching from a distance could not look directly.

After this blow, the three of them looked over at the same time, and could barely see a cocoon of light surrounded by purple and black electric light, rising and falling in the dazzling light, and the breath of life contained in it was very strong, like a new life.

Just when Xiyue was just breathing a sigh of relief, the ninth thunder came!

When the thunder aura appeared, the three of them gasped, and on a huge thunder light, another smaller thunder light was entwined! The big thunder was dazzling, showing a pure white color, and the small thunder was deep and showing a pure black color, which was dark and yin and yang.

"This ...... It's more powerful than the previous ones combined!" Long Qingyan said.

"Will Xiao Zi survive it?" Xiyue was even more worried.

Su Chen frowned and said, "It's a pity that we can only rely on ourselves, and we can't do anything." ”

There was no landslide and earth cracking, and there was no deafening, only the land touched by the thunderstorm was seen melting like ice and snow meeting sunlight, and after the thunderstorm, only a crisp, eggshell-like sound came out, and the ninth thunder was menacing, but it went unusually calmly.

As soon as the calamity clouds in the sky dissipated, revealing the starry sky, the three of them couldn't wait to find Xiao Zi, they had both anticipation and worry, afraid that she would be destroyed in the tribulation.

The place where Xiao Zi crossed the tribulation has sunk for hundreds of miles, and the entire big pit is a hundred feet in circumference, and all the vitality has been destroyed, which is really shocking.

The three of them jumped out of the pit and went to the center of the place to find the little one.

A cocoon formed by the power of Taiyin and purple and black divine electricity has been completely shattered, and is dissipating into the most primitive aura, and among the fragments of the cocoon, a small figure is lying on the ground, motionless and unresponsive, as if it has died.

Xiyue's eyes were red, and she held her small body like dead wood in her arms, but finally couldn't hold back, but still cried.

Su and Long also sighed, sad for the little guy.

"Chirp ......"

Suddenly, this familiar and faint cry sounded, but it was like thunder in the ears of the three of them, and they looked at the purple electric mink in shock, and found that she had opened her eyes, her black pearl-like eyes were spinning, and she also stretched out her little paws to touch Xiyue's face.

"Ahh

However, Xiao Zi took the initiative to jump from her arms, fell to the ground, shook her body, and a thick layer of black ash was shaken off, revealing her crystal bright fur like a purple diamond, and the little guy stood up and looked curiously at the three people in the trance.

"Fraud, fraud!" Xiyue screamed and threw herself at Su Chen's side, almost knocking Su Chen into the air.

"You calm down! Xiao Zi is not dead at all!" Su Chen pressed her shoulder, and the innate sword gang flowed, canceling out the strange power from Xiyue, so as not to suffer an unwarranted disaster.

After listening to Su Chen's words, Xiyue came back to her senses, turned to look at Xiao Zi with an innocent face, her face suddenly sank, she picked up the little guy, and asked viciously, "You were pretending to be dead just now, right?"

Xiao Zi kicked the ground with his hands and feet, chirping and screaming, explaining to Xiyue that it turned out that when the little guy was fighting against the Ninth Thunder, he accidentally fell into a strange state of neither life nor death, as if he was in the world and not in the world. The ninth thunder seemed ferocious, but it couldn't accurately lock on to Xiao Zi, so in the end, it only destroyed the vitality within a radius of 100 zhang and the "cocoon" and retreated. Xiao Zi survived the ninth thunder, but she didn't return from that state for the first time, so when the three of them came over at the beginning, she was indeed like dead. It wasn't until Xiyue picked up the little guy and cried out that the "Reincarnation Sutra" she practiced resonated with the same scriptures in Xiao Zi's body in its autonomous operation, and she was awakened from that strange state.

Although she learned about the cause and effect, Xiyue was still very unhappy, and walked back with Xiaozi in her hand, still muttering: "Hmph, look how I clean you up!"

Xiao Zi wanted to cry without tears, and chirped to ask Su Chen and Long Qingyan who were watching the play for help, but the two men just shrugged their shoulders, saying that they couldn't help, so angry that Xiao Zi yelled, saying that they were going to spit into the rice bowl of the two of them.

Su Chen and Long Qingyan looked at each other and smiled, not taking it to heart.

"It's strange, Xiao Zi survived the transformation tribulation, why didn't she choose to transform into a shape?" Su Chen wondered.

"Some demon clans don't necessarily have to cultivate in human form to achieve the Great Dao, maybe for Xiao Zi, cultivating with a beast body can better maintain her 'Dao Heart'. ”

"Dao Heart...... Su Chen's gaze drifted into the distance, "How precious it is for a monk to be consistent and maintain a Dao Heart." However, once you enter this earthly world, whether you want to or not, there will eventually be dust covering this heart. ”

Long Qing said: "Indeed, once the heart of the Dao is covered with dust, the future will be bleak, and only by wiping off the dust can we reach the top and see the mountains at a glance." ”

Su Chen seemed to have a feeling, and chuckled: "If you haven't entered the WTO, how can you be born? If you don't go to this rolling red dust, how can we understand the preciousness of the heart of a child? Our hearts may have been covered with dust, but we still stick to the truest self in our hearts; we have never been changed, so why are we afraid of the dust of the Taoist heart!"

Long Qingyan also smiled: "That is, I am me, which is not only the true self, but also the self and the self." The life of a monk is to pursue the original 'me', Xiyue is like this, I am like this, you are like this, and thousands of monks in the world are like this. ”

Su Chen said: "Monks spend their whole lives exploring the essence of cultivation, the nature of life, and the nature of this world, and all of this starts with understanding why they are cultivating, that is, understanding what they wanted when they first entered the Tao and practiced. ”

Long Qingyan looked at him and said softly: "This is the original 'Dao Heart', but many people have slowly forgotten this 'Dao Heart' and why they entered the Dao. ”

Su Chen and Long Qingyan looked at each other, and he heard what his friend said, but he just smiled back and said irrelevant words: "Xiao Zi doesn't transform into shape, so isn't she struck by lightning in vain?"

Long Qing said: "It can't be said that the transformation tribulation is something that all demon clans have to experience on the way to cultivation, but most of the demon clans will choose to transform after the tribulation, so it is called the 'transformation tribulation', in fact, the demon clan has to cross this tribulation whether they transform or not." ”

And although the thunder tribulation symbolizes destruction, but there is also vitality in the destruction, in the process of crossing the tribulation, the body and spirit of the demon clan will be baptized by the power of heaven and earth, which is of great benefit to them, but the danger is also coexisting, only the demon clan who successfully crosses the tribulation, can enjoy the benefits brought by the catastrophe.

The Heavenly Dao is fair, but it is also ruthless, and it will not change according to the will of all beings. The Heavenly Tribulation is a manifestation of the Heavenly Dao, and he will not come down because the demon clan does not transform into a form. Similarly, at certain critical junctures in the practice, monks of any race will face a catastrophe, and there is no way to avoid it, but to fight for it.

"If you want to change the will of heaven and earth, unless you can reach the height of the heavenly dao. It's a pity that after hundreds of millions of years in the Divine Cultivation Realm, there are less than half a hundred people who have truly reached this height. Long Qingyan said with emotion. These things were all learned by him when he was in the Eastern Wilderness, some of them were told to him by his teachers, and some of them were seen by himself when he was looking through ancient books.

Su Chen also sighed: "Yes, that kind of height is so difficult, it is difficult for a non-worldly master to reach. We're still too far from that realm, so let's take care of what's in front of us first. ”

Long Qingyan said with a smile: "Having said that, you still have to have ambitions, otherwise life will be too boring." ”

Su Chen smiled indifferently and said, "My ambition is to become an idle cloud and wild crane. ”

"I'm afraid you can't. ”

"It's a matter of people. ”