Chapter 291 The Unbearable Tribulation

First, for the countless people of the human race; second, for the Chen Immortal Clan (Organization); and third, for my own cultivation and opportunities.

For these 3 reasons, everyone naturally understood the significance of this battle and were resolute in their determination to join the war.

Seeing everyone nodding repeatedly, Eldrin took a sip of tea before setting down his cup and continued.

"Since we have chosen to fully participate in this battle, we must commit ourselves wholeheartedly."

"I believe aside from stationing 3 Eldrin cultivators to guard Spirit Isle Lake (Location), Pingyang City, and Verdant Chariot Mountain (Location) respectively, all other locations can be entrusted to Foundation Establishment cultivators for defense."

Everyone nodded in agreement upon hearing this, and Lior (Person Name) couldn’t help but ask, “If that’s the arrangement, then who among us will go and who will stay behind?”

The old clan leader stroked his long beard, contemplating for a moment before saying, "Pingyang City is vital to our clan's foundation. Lior (Person Name) recently broke through to Purple Palace, Mid Stage (Cultivation Realm). With him holding the fort in my stead, even a typical False Core cultivator would find it impossible to breach."

Pingyang City was protected by a grade 3, superior-grade formation, and its spiritual vein had also reached the grade 3, superior-tier.

The combination of these factors, further reinforced by the presence of a Purple Palace, Mid Stage (Cultivation Realm) cultivator, meant they could hold off even a Golden Core (Cultivation Realm) expert for a time. The level of security needed no further explanation.

Everyone nodded in agreement, naturally having no major objections, thus accepting this decision.

Eldrin pondered for a moment before finally speaking, "Let Silas guard Spirit Isle Lake. Having overseen the Spirit Isle Lake formation arrays on my behalf for years, she is more than capable of ensuring its absolute security."

The matter of Verdant Chariot Mountain (Location) can also be entrusted to Caleb (Person Name).

Among the crowd, both Caleb and Silas had only recently broken through to the Eldrin Realm, their cultivation levels merely at the first or second layer of the Eldrin.

In truth, the family currently had only 3 cultivators at the Purple Palace, Mid Stage: Lila, Lior, and Kael.

Within the clan, aside from Eldrin and the old patriarch, Kael was the first cultivator to break through to the Violet Mansion realm.

He had broken through to the Purple Mansion Realm when he was just over 1 100 years old. Now, not yet 1 100 and 60, he had already spent over 50 years consolidating his cultivation in the Purple Mansion Realm.

However, after establishing his Purple Mansion, he had forged 3 Life-Bound Magical Treasures, which significantly slowed his cultivation progress. Fortunately, having broken through to the Purple Mansion realm without relying on external aids, he received substantial resource rewards. Not long ago, he finally reached the fourth level of the Purple Mansion realm by utilizing the Purple Qi Cloud Vein Pill.

Lior was the second in the family to achieve a breakthrough. Having reached the Purple Palace realm over 40 years prior, his rapid advancement to Purple Palace, Mid Stage was largely due to the family's dedicated cultivation efforts, aimed at ensuring he broke through before the onset of the Beast Tide.

In fact, he still owed the family over a 100 1000 spirit stones. However, Eldrin had made the decision to let him prioritize cultivating to the Great Perfection of the Violet Mansion realm first. He would repay the debt with his stipend only when his cultivation progress stagnated and no longer required spirit stones.

The benefit of this approach was that it prevented his cultivation progress from slowing down over the next few decades due to a lack of resources.

The downside is that ordinary Purple Mansion families might not have the resources in their clan treasury to sustain such loans. Only the Chen Clan, with its numerous business ventures and substantial annual surplus of spirit stones, dares to extend such credit to its cultivators.

There was another downside: Lior owed the family a massive sum of money. Should he perish abruptly, the family would be left with a substantial bad debt.

However, in Eldrin's view, when the family had faced desperate circumstances years ago, Lior had generously offered assistance. Now that the family had prospered, it was only natural to provide a certain degree of care for these elders of the clan.

With him personally giving the green light, no 1 else had any objections.

Lila possessed a unique spiritual root and had broken through to the Purple Palace at a remarkably young age. As she only needed to refine a single life-bound magical treasure, her advancement to Purple Palace, Mid Stage was naturally considered exceptionally swift.

However, the Hetero Spirit Root only proves advantageous before the Golden Core stage. After forming the Golden Core, it may not necessarily surpass Multi Spirit Roots.

Since an anomalous spirit root only refines a single Life-Bound Magical Treasure, it falls far short of multiple spirit roots in terms of purity of magical power and the certainty of surviving the heavenly tribulation.

It was merely because a Variant Spirit Root could increase 1's chances of breaking through to the Golden Core realm by 20 percent that such individuals were dubbed Golden Core Seeds. However, once 1 truly reached the Golden Core stage, an entirely different situation unfolded.

Their chances of breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm were no different from those with ordinary spiritual roots, yet those with variant spiritual roots faced even greater tribulations.

Given the difficulty of the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation, if 1 lacked sufficient background and had no senior expert willing to lend a Demon-Subduing Supreme Treasure to aid in overcoming the tribulation, the chances of a Variant Spirit Root cultivator successfully passing the trial were exceedingly slim.

In contrast, Golden Core cultivators with dual or triple spiritual roots actually stand a fair chance of surviving the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation. By procuring multiple superior-grade fourth-tier magical treasures to withstand the lightning strikes and paying the price of severely damaging or even shattering their own natal magical treasure, they might barely succeed.

It is said that the Divine Soul Thunder Tribulation possesses power capable of annihilating heavens and earth. Without borrowing the Supreme Treasure of Pure Yang (Magic Treasure) to withstand the tribulation, attempting to transcend it with merely a Heavenly Spiritual Root (Spiritual Root) or a Unique Spiritual Root would be nothing but courting death.

In truth, even with the borrowed Supreme Treasure of Pure Yang (Magic Treasure) and the foundation of a Heavenly Spiritual Root (Spiritual Root), unless 1 achieved the legendary Heavenly Dao Nascent Soul, most cultivators would struggle to withstand the final 1 or 2 heavenly tribulations.

It was precisely for this reason that nearly all Nascent Soul Dao Lords in this realm were cultivators with multiple spiritual roots.

1 particularly harsh reality is that throughout the ages, none who achieved immortality were ever recorded to possess a Heavenly Spiritual Root (Spiritual Root) or anomalous spiritual roots. Instead, virtually all were prodigies with at least dual spiritual roots or greater.

After all, you could borrow the supreme demon-refining treasure to survive your Nascent Soul Tribulation, and with your astonishing background, you might even borrow the Supreme Treasure of Pure Yang (Magic Treasure) to transcend your Spirit Transformation Tribulation.

The might of a Dao Body also has its limits. The vast majority of Dao Bodies cannot, through feedback, enable their Natal Spirit Treasure to bridge the chasm to the Supreme Treasure of Pure Yang (Magic Treasure), let alone nurture a single Natal Immortal Treasure.

Although Eldrin's (Person Name) Natal Magic Treasure had its foundation elevated by the Primordial Violet Qi, according to his calculations, it would likely remain stuck before reaching the 5th rank.

In the future, when he reached the Golden Core, Late Stage (Cultivation Realm), he would need even more Primordial Purple Qi (Primordial Chaos Energy) to elevate the foundation of artifacts like the Li Fire Sword of the Returning Abyss (Magic Treasure) in order to breach the chasm of refining demonic treasures.

This is precisely why the Great Luo Golden Elixir serves as the foundation for attaining the Dao. For a 5 Spiritual Roots cultivator, if they stake all 5 of their Life-Bound Supreme Treasures of Pure Yang—even at the cost of complete destruction—the Great Luo Golden Elixir offers at least a 30 percent certainty of surviving the Immortal Ascension Tribulation.

Of course, high-level cultivators possessed endless methods, with exceptionally brilliant individuals constantly devising new techniques to transcend heavenly tribulation.

Particularly after a cultivator breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage, as a Nascent Soul True Lord, they gain the potential to acquire various incomparably precious Great Divine Abilities. Among these exists the method to replenish spiritual roots.

However, mending a spiritual root was an incredibly arduous task. It was manageable before reaching the Purple Mansion stage, as it only required replenishing the spiritual root.

However, after reaching the Golden Core stage, the path becomes arduous. A Golden Core forged from a single spiritual root is inherently mono-attributed. At this stage, 1 must not only replenish the spiritual roots but also pay an immense price to refine the Golden Core into completeness. Beyond the Nascent Soul stage, the very Nascent Soul itself requires fundamental reconstruction.

The deeper 1's cultivation base, the greater the cost to replenish a spiritual root.

After reaching the Nascent Soul realm, mending spiritual roots becomes as difficult as scaling the heavens. Unless 1 encounters a heaven-defying opportunity, even a Nascent Soul Dao Lord spending 10 1000 years might fail to complete a single spiritual root.

Ordinary folk had no access to such information whatsoever; Eldrin had only obtained it after compiling the inherited records of the Verdant Void Sect.