The Ancient God's Three Trials Seven Calamities were like the Heaven's Five Blights of cultivators. They were like life knives that hung above one's head. If one survived, their cultivation would increase greatly. If one failed, their body and soul would be destroyed.
The first trial had two calamities, the second trial also had two calamities, and the third trial had three calamities!
The Ancient God's Three Trials were much more strange than the Heaven's Five Blights. According to Wang Lin's memories, the stronger the ancient god, the slower the calamity. Although the calamity began at six stars, some ancient gods didn't encounter the first trial until seven stars.
There were even a few ancient gods that didn't face the first trial until eight stars.
For example, Tu Si had easily passed the tribulation when he was on the eighth star, and his magical powers had improved greatly. Although he hadn't reached the ninth star, he had reached the peak of the eighth star. In order to reach the legendary ninth star, he had taken the risk to cultivate the Flowing Ink Soul Fission Art.
As for the three calamities of the third trial, they were the highest calamities of the ancient god clan. As for what they were like, Tu Si didn't know.
Facing two calamities of the first trial at five stars was something that Tu Si didn't remember. Every time he thought about this, Wang Lin would bitterly smile. The reason his Ancient God's Three Trials arrived early was because he wasn't a complete ancient god and because he had used too much ancient god power in the Demon Spirit Land.
All of this caused him to become the first ancient god to go through the first trial at five stars.
The calamity that an 8-star ancient god could easily pass was a fine line between life and death for Wang Lin.
One of the two calamities of the first trial was the constant damage to the entire body. When he was at the Rosefinch Divine Sect, Wang Lin's entire lower body was left with black bones. After coming to the Cloud Sea Star System, the damage was even more severe, and everything below his chest was only bones.
This was just the beginning, the first trial. Once his body was completely devoid of flesh and blood, the first trial would end and the two calamities would arrive.
If nothing unexpected happened, his original body would without a doubt die.
Fortunately, Wang Lin had obtained Tu Si's heart's blood, so he had the strength to fight.
In the depths of the Gui Yuan Sect, where his original body was, his original body, which was sitting cross-legged, no longer had any flesh or blood. All that was left was a skeleton.
The skeleton was wrapped in a blood-red color. The blood-red color was like a thin film that stuck to the bones and spread throughout the body. If one looked closely, they would notice that there was a small amount of blood flowing between the blood-red film and the bones.
At the moment when Wang Lin's clone approached, the eye sockets of the main body suddenly lit up with a dim light, as if it had awakened.
Wang Lin sat down cross-legged and stood guard for the true body. At the same time, he poured all of his mind into the true body to share the pain.
Time slowly passed. In the blink of an eye, three days had passed. In these three days, the pain of the original body continuously increased. The feeling of having no flesh and blood, only bones, but the consciousness was still clear, was enough to drive someone crazy.
In these three days, his body had grown ten times bigger!
At this moment, in the depths of the Gui Yuan Sect, a skeleton that was more than 100 feet tall lay there. The blood on the skeleton shined and the blood flowed faster.
After another three days, the skeleton of Wang Lin's original body had completely grown and reached a length of more than 300 feet. The bones that were thicker than a person had very little blood, but it was still flowing. However, the speed of the blood gradually slowed down until it dissipated.
This blood was Tu Si's heart's blood. As it flowed, it was slowly absorbed by the original body's bones. When it was completely absorbed, the first trial ended.
Just at this moment, the original body's eyes lit up. It was as if he could see through the earth and see the blue sky outside!
At the same time, a series of cracking sounds suddenly reverberated in the depths of the ground.
"Bone Calamity …."
This cracking sound came from the original body's right foot. At this moment, an invisible force seemed to turn into a giant hand that slowly crushed the bones in his right foot.
The bones in his foot shattered and turned into dust that scattered to the side. Under this unimaginable pain, all the bones in the original body trembled. However, the cracking sounds didn't stop and became even more intense.
In the end, it was like thunder that echoed deep underground. Every time it echoed, it meant that one of the bones in the original body had collapsed.
Wang Lin's avatar's face was pale. He clenched his teeth and endured the unimaginable pain with the original body.
Veins popped out on his face and large beads of sweat fell like rain.
This bone calamity descended in this merciless manner. With the powerful vitality of an ancient god, even if one lost their flesh and blood, as long as there was a trace of vitality, they could recover. The first trial erased vitality!
After erasing vitality, the bone calamity came like a flood. It wanted to destroy all the bones in the original body that had lost their vitality. Once all the bones in the original body dissipated, the only outcome would be death.
If the original body died, the avatar would also be destroyed.
In order to pass this bone calamity, the original body had to reverse the damage and reawaken vitality to fight against it until all the bones in the body were reformed.
The new bones that were reformed were many times stronger than before. Magic treasures wouldn't be able to break them at all!
Therefore, although Wang Lin was in excruciating pain, he still endured it. Both the avatar and the original body were enduring it!
He endured the pain and the continuous breaking of all the bones in his body.
Only when all the bones in his body were broken could he resist and turn this bone calamity into an opportunity for the original body's strength to increase greatly!
If he couldn't wait until then, even if he resisted and succeeded, only a part of the bones in his body would be reformed. The rest of the bones would remain the same as before.
In this case, the bone calamity was a wasted opportunity for Wang Lin.
However, Wang Lin understood that the later he resisted, the lower the success rate would be. As the bones continued to break, the area of collapse would become larger and the difficulty of passing the calamity would increase.
In fact, in the Ancient God Clan, not to mention the Eight-star Ancient Gods, almost all the Seven-star Ancient Gods would choose to resist the calamity the moment all the bones in their body were broken and turn the calamity into a good fortune.
However, although the idea was good, it was rare for them to actually do it. Very few of them could truly endure to that step. Often, when the bones were only the size of a fingernail, they couldn't help but start to resist the calamity.
As a result, the fingernail-sized bone became the only weakness of the Ancient Gods.
If this was the case for the Seven-star Ancient Gods, it was even rarer for the Six-star Ancient Gods to endure to the last moment.
The last moment was a dead end. Only by taking countless steps forward could one succeed. However, if one took a step back, it would be an abyss and both body and soul would be destroyed.
As for whether or not he could last until that step, Wang Lin wasn't sure. However, for this opportunity to reform his flesh and blood so that he could become a real ancient god, Wang Lin decided to risk it all.
"My avatar is a heaven-defying cultivator and my original body is a Defying Clan member. I, Wang Lin, have only cultivated one word: defy the heavens, defy the calamity, and defy fate!
A mere calamity can't stop me from going against the heavens! "The eyes of both Wang Lin's avatar and original body shined brightly. They revealed unyielding gazes.
There was no shout or roar, just that unyielding gaze caused Wang Lin's heaven-defying thoughts to erupt like crazy. It was invisible and earth-shattering!
Crackling sounds continued to echo. The original body's entire right leg had collapsed, and even the left leg below the knee had turned to ashes. The sound of bones collapsing came from the earth and gradually rushed to the surface.
During this half a month, the entire continent of Mo Luo could hear the rumbling coming from underground. At first, it was weak, but now it became louder and louder, causing the earth to tremble slightly.
The mortals on the continent of Mo Luo were all terrified and didn't know what was happening.
They could only kneel and pray to the heavens to appease their anger.
The cultivators of the Origin Sect attached great importance to this matter and were all sent out to investigate. The rumbling was like a roar to them, and when it entered their ears, they couldn't help but be shocked.
Li Xiangdong, Lu Yanfei, and the two elders floated in the air. Their gazes fell on the ground. With their cultivation levels, they could clearly feel where the rumbles were coming from.
Originally, Li Xiangdong had planned to investigate a few days ago, but he was stopped by Lu Yanfei. However, now the rumbling had become even more intense and was almost heaven-shaking.
If this was it, it wouldn't be a big deal. More importantly, as the rumbling got louder, the origin energy on the continent of Mo Luo began to stir. It was as if there was an invisible force forming a vortex that was attracting origin energy like crazy.
What made the four of them feel even more terrified and unimaginable was that in the space outside the continent of Mo Luo, a large amount of origin energy was gathering like crazy. Although it was still outside the continent, once such dense origin energy rushed in, the continent of Mo Luo's defenses would instantly collapse.
Thinking about the consequences of this, the four of them felt their scalps go numb.
What shocked the four of them even more was the fierce beasts that would occasionally appear in the fog outside the continent of Mo Luo. For some reason, these fierce beasts had all been attracted to the continent of Mo Luo. They stared at the continent of Mo Luo with fierce and hesitant eyes.
They wanted to rush in several times, but in the end, they held back.
This scene made it seem as if there was something here that was attracting these beasts, but their rationality prevented these beasts from moving forward, which was why they were hesitating.
Among these fierce beasts, there were rank 5 and even rank 6 beasts!
What was even more terrifying was that Li Xiangdong even saw a rank 7 beast. A rank 7 beast was strong enough to battle a mid stage Nirvana Cleanser cultivator!
"Junior Sister Lu, it doesn't matter why you stopped the three of us from going to check before, but today, we must go and see what exactly has happened on the continent of Mo Luo that can attract the origin energy of the world and cause the fierce beasts that normally hide in the fog to gather!"
Li Xiangdong thought about the rank 7 beast and his heart trembled. He stared at Lu Yanfei with a serious expression.
The two old men also silently looked at Lu Yanfei.
Lu Yanfei bit her lower lip and silently nodded.
"Yesterday, I owed 2,000 words and my monthly votes fell out of the top 10. Today, I clenched my teeth and made up for it all. At this critical moment, I ask for monthly votes!!!