Flaxseed nodded, and the group immediately followed Jared away from the scene.
If that shadowy organization sent more people, Jared was not sure could handle them yet, so retreat was the wisest course.
“Mr. Chance, where should we head next?” Everett asked.
“To the Destiny Sect. If I’m not mistaken, we’re no more than ten thousand kilometers from their territory,” Jared replied.
Everett nodded, “Correct. The Barbaric Clan lies roughly ten thousand miles from the Destiny Sect, we can reach it in a few days at most.”
With that, Jared led the party toward the Destiny Sect. Yet after only a single day’s travel, his expression suddenly changed.
“Something feels wrong up ahead…” muttered, eyes narrowing as stared forward.
Streaks of scarlet lightning were hammering relentlessly at a single point in the distance.
Everett took one glance and hurried to explain, “Mr. Chance, that’s a scarlet lightning tribulation, someone is trying to break through from Third Heaven to Fourth Heaven. In other words, a wandering immortal is about to become an earthly immortal, an officially recognized immortal being.”
Jared studied the scarlet lightning ahead. With his current strength, too was ready to step into Fourth Heaven, yet knew little about this particular tribulation.
“Come on, let’s take a look,” said.
“Mr. Chance, this lightning tribulation is unimaginably fearsome. Not everyone who heads for Fourth Heaven makes it through. If the attempt fails and those scarlet bolts rage out of control, all of us could be caught in the backlash and pay a terrible price,” Everett cautioned, his voice low yet urgent as faced Jared.
Jared answered with easy confidence, “Relax, I’ve subdued lightning tribulations far worse than this one.”
With those words, shot forward, heading straight toward the blood-red tempest in the distance.
Seeing Jared rush ahead, Flaxseed and the others had no choice but to follow. Everett clenched his teeth and hurried after them, unwilling to fall behind.
When they were still about a hundred kilometers from the rolling storm, the sheer power radiating from the scarlet lightning forced them to slow.
Invisible shockwaves pressed against their bodies and made each step feel as though they were walking headlong into a gale.
Rumble! Rumble!
Thunder rolled across the heavens like war drums echoing over a battlefield. A scarlet bolt of lightning slashed down from the sky, its crimson glare splitting the darkness.
At that very instant, a column of vital energy roared upward, colliding with the bolt and stopping it cold in mid-air.
Jared’s eyes widened in surprise.
I didn’t think anyone in Third Heaven could muster strength like that!
Focusing on the source, spotted a cultured-looking middle-aged man beneath the storm.
The man wore a pale blue robe and held a calligraphy brush in his hand. Eyes blazing with battle intent, stared unflinchingly into the churning clouds while the blood-red lightning crackled overhead.
Behind the middle-aged man, countless top-tier cultivators sat cross-legged in a tight formation.
Threads of glowing aura streamed out of every seated figure and poured continuously into the man’s body.
Jared immediately sensed that the middle-aged man stood at the Top Level Wandering Immortal Realm, his aura even stronger than that of the Seventh Hall overlord.
What truly stunned Jared, however, was the lineup behind him, many were Wandering Immortal Realm Level Seven or Eight cultivators, and five were Level Nine. Every one of those cultivators wore an expression of fearless resolve as they funneled their aura into the man without hesitation.
Flaxseed gaped at the scene. “What in the world are they doing?”
Everett answered solemnly, “They’re using the strength of their entire clan to escort that man in his ascension to Fourth Heaven.”
Jared asked in genuine curiosity, “Their entire clan? With power like his, is still incapable of withstanding the scarlet lightning on his own?”
Everett explained, “Reaching Top Level Wandering Immortal Realm isn’t enough. To break through again, must become an Earthly Immortal, and that can only happen in Fourth Heaven, the dimensional plane above this one…”
“The Thirty-Six Heavens are divided into twelve planes, three heavens per plane, so the Fourth Heaven is a whole different world. The scarlet lightning doesn’t judge by cultivation level alone. It also measures the toughness of one’s body and the totality of one’s real combat power…”
“Very few cultivators ever succeed In ascending to the Fourth Heaven. Families that dream of producing a single Earthly Immortal sometimes stake everything, pouring the combined strength of their entire clan into one candidate. But the gamble is lethal, if the attempt fails, the whole clan pays the price.”
Jared could not help sighing in awe.
They’re wagering their entire clan on this single moment…
