Chapter 236: Countless Calamities

Yu Qing also saw through the intentions of the Heavenly Object Venerable and knew that Su Che alone would surely not be able to stop him. There was no need to stop him; simply let him come and endure the calamity together.

During the calamity, if other cultivators approached, the heavenly calamity would regard them as aids, increasing its power several times over. Therefore, when the minor heavenly calamity struck, onlookers had to retreat at least hundreds of feet away, while during the major calamity, staying thousands of feet away might not even be safe.

Yu Qing was still worried that the power of the heavenly calamity might not be sufficient to suppress his overwhelming demonic energy. If there was also a Golden Core late-stage Heavenly Object Venerable added, there would be no need to provoke the calamity like Su Che did; the power would likely be enough.

“A minor heavenly calamity? Do you think I care?”

The Heavenly Object Venerable couldn’t fathom Yu Qing’s plans. He thought Yu Qing wanted to use the heavenly calamity as a talisman to threaten him, not realizing that, at his advanced Golden Core stage, he could capture Yu Qing even before the calamity struck.

Whoosh!

The Heavenly Object Venerable dashed in that direction at top speed.

Su Che, riding on the Star Emperor Compass, flew at a speed not much slower than the Heavenly Object Venerable and followed closely behind, delivering another Destruction Fist at his back.

The energy consumed by that fist was replenished almost instantly through the Sumeru Divine Seal, leaving no time for his expression to change. This Destruction Fist still mobilized two-thirds of his energy, with no reduction in power.

Su Che grew fierce in his heart: “With this kind of fist power, there are still a hundred more blows. If I use them all, even a Golden Core late-stage cultivator like him will suffer immensely.”

The Heavenly Object Venerable didn’t dare underestimate Su Che’s destructive fist power but didn’t turn to confront him. Instead, with a thought, a virtual image of continuous mountains and rivers appeared behind him, giving off a very familiar feeling.

Su Che instantly recognized that this virtual image was the topography map of the Tianxuan Mountain Range.

The Heavenly Object Venerable mainly practiced earth-based cultivation techniques, allowing him to absorb the energy of the earth for defense. This image of the Tianxuan mountains and rivers must be one of his defensive spells.

Creating this map of the Tianxuan Sect was also a psychological tactic—attacking it, as a disciple of the Tianxuan Sect, would be a spiritual desecration.

In the blink of an eye, Su Che had flown in front of the image, delivering the Destruction Fist straight at it.

Desecration or not—once he started fighting, Su Che wouldn’t care about such things at all.

Boom!

The image of the mountains and rivers shattered. Su Che rushed through, but even this fist failed to touch a thread of the Heavenly Object Venerable’s clothes.

It was merely a few hundred zhang away. At the speed of Venerable Tianwu, it took but an instant for him to reach Yu Qing.
Yu Qing remained calm, swung his arm, and delivered a punch.
Great Collapse!
At the same time, Su Che had also arrived. Behind Tianwu, he threw a devastating punch as well.
Destruction!
What Su Che had imagined—Great Collapse combined with Destruction—became a reality at this moment.
Although Yu Qing had not yet gone through the tribulation, he had already succeeded in forming his core. The power of his Great Collapse Divine Punch had already increased by more than ten times. Coupled with some factors known only to him, the strength of this punch was now on par with Su Che’s Destruction Punch.
As these two punches struck simultaneously, the space where Venerable Tianwu was located immediately showed signs of collapse and fragmentation.
Great Collapse and Destruction—just ten zhang apart, these two forces produced a synergistic effect, sharply increasing their destructive power.
Crack! The entire space shattered completely.
Venerable Tianwu’s expression changed drastically. The ability to shatter space was a skill only possessed by the Yuan Ying ancestors. How could these two youngsters have such power…?
Even Su Che was shocked by this strength. What he had initially thought of as just a combined attack of Great Collapse and Destruction turned out to create an explosive synergistic effect.
Buzz!
A large seal appeared above Venerable Tianwu’s head, seemingly a defensive spiritual treasure. Faced with the power of truly shattered space, he dared not take risks and had to use his treasure.
With a loud boom, Venerable Tianwu was blown dozens of zhang away. The seal above his head emitted streams of dark yellow energy, providing extremely strong protection, so he remained unharmed.
However, this incident also left him in a rather awkward situation. His anger flared, and murderous intent appeared in his eyes.
Of course, he didn’t dare harm Su Che, as his status as the chief disciple was the best protection. To deal with Su Che, he would have to go report to the sect leader. But killing Yu Qing, who was just an inner disciple, posed no problem at all.
Venerable Tianwu realized that Yu Qing was also extremely formidable. To kill him in one strike, he needed to use his strongest offensive technique.
Thus, a crudely shaped hammer appeared before his chest.
“Another hammer?”
Su Che and Yu Qing exchanged a glance and both shook their heads with wry smiles.
Fate’s arrangement was truly coincidental. Last time, they were both at the middle stage of the Foundation Building phase, teaming up to fight Feng Huo, who was in the early stage of the Golden Core phase. Feng Huo specialized in earth-based techniques, and his strongest treasure was a low-grade weapon hammer.
Today, at the early stage of the Golden Core phase, having advanced two levels, they were teaming up to fight Tianwu, who was also in the later stage of the Golden Core phase and specialized in earth-based techniques. His attack method was once again a hammer.

The only difference is that this hammer of Tianwu is not a magical artifact but rather a technique formed from divine powers…
“Disciple Tianyu, you surely won’t be able to withstand my strike. I advise you to be careful.”
Tianwu gave such a warning out of concern—afraid that if he launched this strike and Su Che foolishly rushed forward to act as Yu Qing’s living shield, he might be seriously injured, leaving Tianwu unable to account for it to the sect.
Thus, fighting Su Che made him feel constrained, as if he was hesitant to use his full strength. The role of the chief true disciple was indeed too burdensome!
Even without being told, Su Che knew that Tianwu’s strength was comparable to that of his master. A full-force strike from him could instantly kill someone at the mid-stage Golden Core stage. Even with the Star Emperor Compass and his precious Dao robes, Su Che might not be able to withstand it.
“What do you think?” Su Che turned to ask Yu Qing, implying that with him shielding him, Tianwu wouldn’t dare to go too far.
“No need.”
Yu Qing shook his head indifferently. Though he didn’t know Su Che was the chief true disciple, he could guess a lot from his extremely special golden-threaded Dao robes.
“This tribulation won’t be easy.”
Yu Qing looked up at the sky with a strange expression. The black hole above had fully opened, and the power of the heavenly tribulation could fall at any moment.
There were tribulations from others below, a heavenly tribulation above, and even demonic tribulations within himself…
Su Che also felt that this ordeal was truly difficult to overcome. Brother Yu Qing’s fate truly lived up to the description of being surrounded by hardships.
“Yu Qing, if you destroy your Golden Core to end this heavenly tribulation, I’ll take you back to the sect’s punishment hall—perhaps you can still save your life,” said Tianwu solemnly. “Otherwise, I will surely eliminate the demons and uphold justice, without hesitation.”
Yu Qing gave him a cold glance and replied with four words: “Too much nonsense.”
Whoosh!
In anger, Tianwu unleashed a deadly strike that rushed forward with a howl.
The shadow of the hammer hadn’t grown larger—it was still just over a foot long—but the power and aura contained within it felt as though the entire Tianwu Peak was charging at him, as if even the sky could be torn apart by it.
“To tear apart the sky”—this description wasn’t accurate, for at that moment, the sky itself was exerting its power!
Boom!
A bolt of heavenly lightning struck down from the sky, hitting that mountain-like hammer shadow precisely.
With a pop, Tianwu’s Earth Hammer was shattered into nothingness by the silver-white lightning, like a bubble popping.
“The Taqing Divine Lightning?”
Tianwu’s expression changed drastically. In fear, he retreated dozens of feet.
“This is a type of lightning that only appears during the great heavenly tribulation. How could it fall during a minor Golden Core tribulation?”

The Taqing Divine Thunder is the highest-grade heavenly thunder seen in the realm of cultivation. Even a cultivator at the Yuan Ying stage would perish instantly upon being struck by it, with almost no chance of resistance.
The Heavenly Being Lord initially thought he had misseen it, but then realized that even his most powerful attack technique had been shattered by a single strike—such power could only belong to the Taqing Divine Thunder.
“Is it really the Taqing Divine Thunder?”
Su Che was also extremely shocked. Though he had never seen the Taqing Divine Thunder before, he had heard the Heavenly Being Lord’s exclamation clearly.
“If it truly is the Taqing Divine Thunder, even a hundred of me wouldn’t be enough to withstand its strike. How could Senior Brother Yu Qing’s minor tribulation be nothing but thunder tribulation, and moreover the strongest heavenly thunder in the cultivation world?”
“Normally, since Senior Brother Yu Qing has an ice-type mutated spiritual root, his minor tribulation should be a tribulation of true water or a combination of gold and water, with power roughly comparable to my own wind-fire tribulation…”
“Who exactly is Senior Brother Yu Qing to have to face such trials?”
At this moment, Su Che truly couldn’t figure it out or guess.
Huh…
From the black hole high in the sky, a mighty force descended. Both Yu Qing and Su Che felt their bodies sink, dropping more than ten zhang in height.
“This power should be enough,” Yu Qing said softly, meaning that Su Che should avoid it promptly to prevent his own tribulation from affecting him.
Su Che nodded lightly and flew toward the Heavenly Being Lord, still wary of any hidden tricks he might play.
As for the tribulation itself, Su Che felt he couldn’t help much—indeed, he might only make things worse…
“The Taqing Divine Thunder, also known as the Taqing Demon Subduing Divine Thunder!” the Heavenly Being Lord said to Su Che. “This shows that even heaven wants to destroy this demon. Young disciple Tian Yu, don’t be stubborn.”
“The Taqing Divine Thunder that struck just now wasn’t targeting Yu Qing—it was your attack technique, right?” Su Che sneered. “This proves that heaven has eyes and can tell who the truly possessed one is.”
“Then let’s wait and see,” the Heavenly Being Lord sneered. “With the Taqing Divine Thunder falling, this demon child surely won’t survive this tribulation.”
Su Che didn’t bother arguing further. He merely thought to himself, “The disciples of Heavenly Peak are truly unlucky to have a master like you!”
Huh…
At this moment, the tribulation officially descended—not the Taqing Demon Subduing Thunder the Heavenly Being Lord had expected, but a stream of black heavenly water falling from the sky.
“Black heavenly tribulation water?” Su Che guessed secretly. “Could it be the legendary Holy Water of the Netherworld?”

Legend has it that in the netherworld of Jiuyou, there is a sacred river called Huangquan. The waters of Huangquan can wash away all spiritual imprints and erase the past memories of living beings in the world. Only by being purified by Huangquan, with all memories of past lives wiped away, can one be reborn. “I’ve never heard of anyone’s minor heavenly calamity bringing the waters of Huangquan. Could it be that heaven wants to erase all of Senior Brother Yuqing’s memories? Is this really a heavenly calamity, or divine punishment?”