Chapter 718: Profound Yellow Mother Qi Tribtion


    Everyone in this unusual world had heard the supernatural resonance and felt its vibrations. They were all looking up at the sky and staring at the direction where it came from.


    Some people were envious, some people were jealous, some people were curious, some people were seething with greed, and some people were cooking nasty plots in their brains.


    Regardless of their thoughts, the next action they took were synced almost as if they had rehearsed this before: nearly everyone began moving toward the basin.


    Ye Qing had no idea that his breakthrough had drawn so much attention, of course. He was busy preparing to face the Heavenly Way’s final trial.


    After he broke free from his restraints and pushed open that door, he suddenly felt like he was being watched by someone or something. At the same time, his sixth sense warned him of an iing danger and trial.


    <em>Thump!</em>


    There was a thump that sounded like a heavenly drumbeat. As soon as it faded, a huge, dark yellow cauldron appeared in the sky.


    The cauldron had three feet and two handles. Runes of Heavenly Way covered its surface, and at its hearty the breath of all living things and great virtue. It was profound to put it mildly.


    As soon as the cauldron manifested, the world was engulfed in dark yellow light. The air suddenly became heavy and suffocating like the weight of a mountain was infused in it.“Is that the… Profound Yellow Mother Qi Tribtion?”


    Pedant Earth trembled with shock and disbelief as he looked up at the cauldron.


    “I… I think so.”


    Shangguan Hongjin replied shakily, mouth just as dry as Pedant Earth’s. She had heard of the legendary Profound Yellow Mother Qi Tribtion, but she had never witnessed it until now.


    The Profound Yellow Mother Qi Tribtion was the greatest tribtion of the Seventy Two Earthly Fiends Tribtions.


    The sky was profound, and the earth was yellow. Together, they make up the world. When the world first came into existence, the karmic qi that was born was known as the Profound Yellow Mother Qi.


    The Profound Yellow Mother Qi was the origin of all qi and mother of all creations. Such was its karmic weight that it defied exnation.


    The Profound Yellow Mother Qi was born only during the creation of a world. Naturally, it could only be obtained by those with great virtue and destiny.


    Those who wished to obtain it despite not being born at the right ce and the right time must face a tribtion instead. They must ovee the trials of the mother qi and the obstacles of the earth: the Profound Yellow Mother Qi Tribtion.


    The Profound Yellow Mother Qi Tribtion promised a great boon for the challengers who managed to ovee it. However, with great boones great terror.


    The boon was a wisp of Profound Yellow Mother Qi. There was a saying that went something like this, “One wisp of profound yellow to forge a Sage.” It meant that a single wisp of Profound Yellow Mother Qi could transform an ordinary, post-natal mortal with zero cultivation foundation into a natural, wless, and perfected being. Provided they didn’t purposely ruin themselves, they were guaranteed to enter sagehood[1] one day.


    Naturally, the Profound Yellow Mother Qi was a life-changing treasure everyone dreamed of getting. It would not be an exaggeration to say that anyone who obtained it would go from zero to hero in a snap of a finger.


    But of course, the one who wishes to wear the crown must bear its weight. To obtain the Profound Yellow Mother Qi, one must ovee the trials of the Profound Yellow Mother Qi Tribtion.


    This was what the ancients meant when they chose the words “great terror” to describe it.


    The Profound Yellow Mother Qi Tribtion was the greatest tribtion of the Seventy Two Earthly Fiends Tribtions. Naturally, its dangers could not be understated. Forget a Grandmaster, even a Sage would shudder at the thought of facing such a tribtion.


    “Who in the world is warrior Ye? He’s just ascending to the Grandmaster stage, and he’s drawing the king of the Seventy Two Earthly Fiends Tribtions, the Profound Yellow Mother Qi Tribtion?” Pedant Earth muttered inplete astonishment.


    It was said that there were seventy two Fiends on the earth and thirty six Stars in the sky. A Trueman represented the earth, and a Sage the sky. That was why those who wished to be a Trueman worthy of representing the earth were met with the Seventy Two Earthly Fiends Tribtions.


    Just the same, those who wished to be a Sage or living god worthy of representing the sky must face the Thirty Six Heavenly Stars Tribtions.


    Not all Seventy Two Heavenly Stars Tribtion were made equal. Some were stronger and loftier, and some were weaker and lower.


    The lofty ones were as high as the pce in the heavens. Those who got to see it were few and far between.


    The low ones were asmon as mountains and waters. They were present anywhere you looked.


    The world gave birth to tribtions so as to temper all creations and make eternal the Dao. Naturally, the trials must be bnced ordingly against the challenger’s talent, umtion, and karma. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a trial.


    To put it in more secr terms, the greater a warrior’s natural talent and umtion, the stronger and deadlier the tribtions they would face when attempting to enter a certain cultivation level.


    On the other hand, the lousier one’s natural talent and umtion, the weaker the tribtion they would trigger.


    On that subject, a warrior’s behavior and conduct would result in karmic hindrance or karmic virtue, and that changed the strength and type of tribtion they faced as well. As the people loved to say, what goes aroundes around, and you reap what you sow.


    Out of the Seventy Two Earthly Fiends Tribtions, the lower thirty weremon, the middle thirty were umon, and the upper twelve were very rare.


    To put it from a different perspective, the lower thirty of the Seventy Two Earthly Fiends Tribtions were the weakest and least threatening. Only warriors with weak talent but were still good enough to be a Grandmaster would attract them, and that applied to most people.


    The middle thirty of the Seventy Two Earthly Fiends Tribtions were average tribtions. It was reserved to those who were guaranteed to be a Grandmaster, but were unlikely to ever be a Sage. About one in one hundred warriors would attract such a tribtion during their breakthrough. They were umon, but they definitely weren’t rare.


    The upper twelve tribtions were the strongest and most dangerous tribtions of them all. They were reserved only for the exceedingly talented and hardworking. Only one in one hundred million warriors would have the fortune—or misfortune, depending on how you looked at it—to face such a tribtion, and the actual ratio was likely lower than that.


    On top of that, <em>jianghu </em>warriorsmonly believed that another hierarchy existed in the upper twelve tribtions. There was a saying that went something like this, “Those of the lower four would enter the Earthly Champions Ranking, those of the middle four might dream of Sages, and those of the upper four would roam the heavens as they pleased.”


    To put it in more secr terms, the warriors who overcame one of the lower four tribtions was guaranteed to be named on the Earth Champions Ranking, those who defeated the middle four tribtions was very likely to be a Sage in the future, and those who prevailed over the upper four tribtions was guaranteed to be a Sage and “roam the heavens”.


    But of course, it was just hearsay. Nothing was certain, and anything was possible. Still, it illustrated just how rare the upper twelve tribtions of the Seventy Two Earthly Fiends Tribtions were.


    In any case, Ye Qing hadn’t just attracted an upper twelve tribtion of the Seventy Two Earthly Fiends Tribtions, it was also the greatest of them all. Naturally, Pedant Earth was beyond speechless.


    He was also worried. The upper twelve tribtions of the Seventy Two Earthly Fiends Tribtions were famous for a reason. If Ye Qing seeded in oveing it, he would surely gain an unimaginable boon and soar to the heavens.


    The current ninth warrior on the Earth Champions Ranking, Nin Liuyun the “Wandering Celestial”, had met the seventh Seventy Two Earthly Fiend Tribtions known as the Yu Qing’s Boundless Tribtion of Primordial Beginning. After he overcame its trials, the heavens had bestowed him an Auspicious Primordial Beginning Cloud.


    Legend had it that the Auspicious Primordial Beginning Cloud was one of the auspicious clouds that appeared around the head of Yu Qing, the Primordial Beginning Heavenly Sovereign, when he was proving his Dao. It could maintain the purity of the mind, protect it from foreign influence, and ensure that one’s heart would always stay true to oneself.


    The current sixth warrior on the Earth Champions Ranking, the “Heaven Turning Great Sage” Yuan Zhantian, had met the fifth Seventy Two Earthly Fiend Tribtions known as the Twelve Capitals Heavenly God Fiend Tribtion. After he overcame its trials, he was bestowed a wisp of demonic intent belonging to the Progenitor Demon, Rahu himself.


    It was thanks to this wisp of true intent that Yuan Zhantian sessfully mastered the “Heaven Turning Scripture” and gained unparalleled fighting power. It was also how he managed to climb to the sixth spot of the Earth Champions Ranking.


    Examples like these were a dime a dozen. In fact, therge majority of warriors dominating the Earth Champions Ranking right now had ovee a middle thirty or upper twelve Seventy Two Earthly Fiend Tribtion during their ascension. The warriors just didn’t publicize the fact for one reason or another.


    All tribtions shared onemon characteristic, however. Without exception, the ultimate price of failure was true death.


    When the people looked up into the night sky and found the moon and the many stars that hung around it, they really should be looking down at their own feet where countless bonesy.


    It was never an easy thing to break free from one’s mortal restraints and join the celestial bodies themselves. The number of people who failed their tribtion and died far, far exceeded the number of those who seeded.


    This was doubly true for the upper twelve tribtions of the Seventy Two Earthly Fiend Tribtions. Even the most frivolous, uncaring warrior would not dare to underestimate them.


    There were only two oues when one was facing a great terror: either they emerged victorious and gained a new lease of life, or they failed and died right there and then.


    There was no judge fairer than the Heavenly Way. Blessing and lifey on one side of its coin, and disaster and death on the other![2]


    1. So er, this isn’t quite what was promised when the Profound Yellow Mother Qi was first introduced… but I guess the Profound Yellow Mother Qi the Earthly Sovereign got was ofpletely different quantity and quality. He WAS born during the creation of the fucking world itself apparently, so… you know what they say, “I was born in it, molded by it.” ?


    2. Jesus this is easily one of the most tiring chapters I’ve ever tranted even though it’s not the hardest. ?