I Can Reincarnate Infinitely

Chapter 520: Chapter 513: Divinity Transformation Tribulation

After the Dragon Blood Crystal was fully refined, the world in Du Youqian’s eyes began to show subtle differences.

Someone with an unsteady Dao Heart might even think that the world itself had changed.

They would then begin to doubt the reality of the world.

This wasn’t like a Cultivator’s first Foundation Establishment, where they suddenly gain the ability to perceive things in minute detail, seeing the world in richer colors and fuller particulars, as if heaven and earth had been remade.

It was far beyond that level.

To make an analogy, it was more like a person from a three-dimensional world observing their world from the fourth dimension for the first time.

Alright, perhaps not that exaggerated, but that was what it felt like.

Everything he saw became different. Even the world observed through his Divine Sense was no longer the same as before.

It was much like the saying, ’seeing a mountain and it is no longer a mountain’.

In such a completely transformed world, few could maintain their original intentions, their minds utterly still.

This was the first hurdle of Divinity Transformation.

But for Du Youqian, this hurdle was not so difficult to overcome.

’So what if the world has changed?’

’No matter how great the shock, how could it compare to when I first transmigrated to this world!’

His entire worldview had been overturned, going from a Demonless World to an Immortal Demon World.

If he could accept that back then, how could he possibly question the reality of the world now?

Having smoothly passed this first gate, Du Youqian continued to advance the process of Divinity Transformation.

The solidification of Divine Sense!

This was also the most difficult and crucial step in ascending to Divinity Transformation.

Divine Sense is ethereal, not corporeal.

One couldn’t mistake Divine Sense for a type of "Qi," because even Qi has substance.

Divine Sense, however, is not a physical entity.

No matter how powerful one’s Divine Sense was—even if it could detect objects as fine as dust within a radius of dozens of miles—it was still ethereal, not a tangible thing.

Divine Sense cannot directly attack another person’s body, only their Divine Sense. It cannot move objects, not even a small marble, unless the object has been refined, which would be akin to controlling a drone’s central hub via radio waves.

But after ascending to Divinity Transformation, a Cultivator’s Divine Sense solidifies from ethereal to real!

Divine Sense becomes capable of truly affecting the real world and influencing physical objects.

In the future, upon ascending to Void Step and Harmonization, this solidified Divine Sense would have even more wondrous uses.

Du Youqian carefully controlled his Divine Sense, solidifying it strand by strand.

Throughout the entire process of its solidification, a Cultivator had to be extremely cautious, as if treading on thin ice or walking a tightrope.

Exercising too much control would halt the solidification process, leading to a failed ascension. One might become a Half-Step Divinity Transformation, with only a small portion of their Divine Sense solidified. If they were lucky, they could find another Divinity Transformation Spiritual Object and other Treasures of Heaven and Earth to attempt the ascension again. Otherwise, their progress would be stalled for life.

If control was too weak, the solidification would accelerate, expanding like a snowball. The consequence would be a complete loss of control, causing the Divine Sense a Cultivator had painstakingly built over half their life to dissipate back into the world. The Cultivator’s ascension would fail, and their Realm would plummet. In severe cases, their Nascent Soul could even shatter, their soul unable to escape in time, resulting in utter obliteration with no chance of reincarnation.

This step also had the highest mortality rate for Cultivators attempting to ascend.

Once past this stage, though failure was still possible in the subsequent steps, the risk of death was mostly gone.

Outside Du Youqian’s secluded chamber—no, to be precise, outside his residence—a Spiritual Qi vortex more than ten miles in diameter, covering almost half the city, had been raging for months.

Ordinary people didn’t feel it deeply, but Cultivators did. The higher their Cultivation, the more oppressive it felt the closer they got to the vortex’s center. Some even struggled to stand firm against the violent surge of Spiritual Qi. When sensing the ascendant at the heart of the vortex undergoing a life-altering sublimation, they felt a heart-pounding terror, a clear sense that the other person could crush them to dust with a single finger.

However, the edge of the Spiritual Qi vortex had become a Holy Land for Cultivators below Core Formation, as the concentration of Spiritual Qi far exceeded normal levels.

The city’s Low Tier Cultivators were in a state of frenzy, with people constantly breaking through minor realms.

An unknown amount of time passed. Even Du Youqian, with his Top Grade Cosmic Spirit Root and his mastery of a Cosmic Attribute Technique, had lost all track of time. Had it been three months or five? Or had it been three years or five?

He finally solidified the last wisp of his Divine Sense.

Of course, this solidification was not yet complete and could revert at any moment.

It still required the final Celestial Tribulation—the burning of Celestial Fire—to completely transform the Divine Sense into a solid state and consolidate it.

Du Youqian had no time to celebrate. Once his Divine Sense was fully solidified, his Nascent Soul also began its own process of solidification.

Although this step was less fatal, failing to maintain the right balance could still lead to a failed ascension. He would become a Half-Step Divinity Transformation, and restarting the process in the future would be incredibly difficult.

The Nascent Soul is a unification of a Cultivator’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit. Unlike Divine Sense, which is purely ethereal to begin with, the Nascent Soul exists in a state between the ethereal and the real.

However, this did not mean that solidifying the Nascent Soul was any easier.

On the contrary, because the Nascent Soul involved the Cultivator’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit, it was not as pure as Divine Sense alone. This made the tightrope walk even more perilous; the slightest misstep would lead to a plunge into the abyss.

Even though Cultivators rarely died from failing this step, the probability of failure was highest at this stage.

Du Youqian did not dare to relax in the slightest, controlling the progress of his Nascent Soul’s solidification bit by bit.

At this moment, his profound past accumulations came into play.

Each of his Divine Abilities acted as a "Dao Mark" within his Nascent Soul, serving as a reference point that kept him from losing his way as he controlled its solidification.

The solidification advanced, bit by bit.

Outside his residence, the Spiritual Qi vortex had shrunk to half a mile in diameter. But the almost tangible concentration of Spiritual Qi and the dark, oppressive sky all foretold that a world-shaking change was about to occur.

Zhao Shan bowed and asked a handsome, noble-looking young man beside him, "Ancestor, what do you think? Will he succeed?"

One of the three Divinity Transformation True Monarchs of the Zhao Royal Family, Kai Ping True Monarch, narrowed his eyes as he watched the Spiritual Qi vortex.

Zhao Shan stood respectfully to the side.

He didn’t know what kind of world the Ancestor saw through his eyes.

As a member of the Royal Family, the ancestors had been diligent in his education, and people had told him about the changes that occurred after Divinity Transformation. But some things simply could not be understood through imagination alone.

It was like a person born blind trying to comprehend a rainbow of colors.

How could you imagine what you’ve never seen?

You can’t speak of the ocean to a frog in a well, nor of ice to a summer insect.

After a long moment, Kai Ping True Monarch slowly said, "This person’s accumulations are profound. He should have no problem entering the final Divinity Transformation Celestial Tribulation, the Celestial Fire Tribulation. I’d say he has a seventy percent chance of passing it safely. If he has enough Guardian Treasures, or even a Tier Five Treasure, his chances will rise to ninety percent."

Zhao Shan’s body trembled slightly.

This Nascent Soul Cultivator, whom he had invited to become a Tributor, had only been at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage when they first met. He never expected the man to surpass him, ascend to Divinity Transformation, and become his senior.

He couldn’t tell if he felt happy or jealous.

Perhaps it was a bit of both!

’I hope this fellow Daoist succeeds in his Divinity Transformation and becomes the Zhao Kingdom’s second Divinity Transformation Realm Tributor! The surrounding Alien Races are getting restless, and Demon Sect experts are hiding with malicious intent. If he succeeds, the number of Divinity Transformation True Monarchs in our kingdom will increase to five. That should be enough to deter those miscreants and keep the surrounding Alien Races in check until Changping Ancestor recovers from his injuries and comes out of seclusion.’

Kai Ping True Monarch said nothing.

In his view, all of that was just pointless chatter.

「Three months later」

A message from Kai Ping Ancestor echoed in Zhao Shan’s sea of consciousness: "The Celestial Fire Tribulation is about to begin. Disengage the Grand Array immediately, or it will amplify the Celestial Tribulation’s power. However, be ready. If Master Sui Xiao can’t hold on, activate the Grand Array at once to save his life. It will also prevent the aftershocks of the Celestial Tribulation from harming the Low Tier Cultivators in the city."

"I will obey the Ancestor’s decree!" Zhao Shan immediately accepted the order. He went to the Array’s control hub, took command of the Grand Array to temporarily disengage its defenses, and began to observe.

Above the residence where Du Youqian was in seclusion, the Spiritual Qi vortex had shrunk to a diameter of a hundred feet. However, the Spiritual Qi was highly condensed, and the dark clouds in the sky were as black as metal, hanging heavy like Zhao Shan’s mood.

That patch of sky seemed ready to break free from the Celestial Curtain and plummet to the earth, filled with an ominous presence.

The Core Formation Celestial Thunder Tribulation was certainly terrifying, but Zhao Shan had once witnessed an ancestor’s Divinity Transformation Celestial Fire Tribulation. He knew that for a Human Race Cultivator, it was a Celestial Tribulation even harder to resist than the Thunder Tribulation.

But if one passed it, they would naturally be completely reborn.

Using the power of the Grand Array, Zhao Shan carefully observed the hundred-foot-square tribulation cloud above Du Youqian’s head.

Despite the tribulation cloud’s small size, the destructive power it contained was comparable to a full-force attack from a Divinity Transformation Late Stage cultivator.

In other words, for a Nascent Soul Master to cross the tribulation and ascend to Divinity Transformation, they first had to withstand a Celestial Fire Tribulation at the Divinity Transformation level...

As the first wisp of Celestial Fire broke free from the tribulation cloud and drifted down—seemingly slow but actually fast—a figure shot up from the residence, actively meeting it head-on.

Zhao Shan’s spirits lifted. ’It’s finally starting!’

Du Youqian had long studied several accounts of Divinity Transformation and had also practiced a Divinity Transformation Secret Technique. Therefore, his charge toward the Celestial Fire was not a suicide run, but a part of that Secret Technique. The idea was to first use the initial, weaker Celestial Fire to quickly strengthen and temper his body, allowing him to better face the rest of the Celestial Fire Tribulation.

The Celestial Fire Tribulation consisted of nine rounds. The first round had one wisp of Celestial Fire, the second had two, the third had four, the fourth had eight... and the ninth round had a total of two hundred fifty-six wisps of Celestial Fire, a sky-covering deluge that left a Cultivator no room to dodge or take shortcuts.

This Celestial Fire was no ordinary flame. Nothing in the Mortal World could extinguish it; one could only wait for it to burn for a certain period before it died out on its own.

The Celestial Fire would track the Cultivator. The moment it made contact, it would rapidly burn its way inside, searing through their limbs and bones to incinerate their physical body, Nascent Soul, and even their soul.

Relatively speaking, the Celestial Fire’s effect on the physical body was not as severe. Most Cultivators who had ascended normally up to this point could endure it. In fact, after being burned by the Celestial Fire, their bodies would become stronger and more solid, immune to all illnesses, and their organs would be powerful.