The Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character Captured the Villainous Demon Venerable - Chapter 54

Chapter 54: Strike Here, Strike Hard!

The moment her cultivation level advanced to the Great Ascension stage, Mo Xun saw several images.

She saw herself in the Demon Realm, where the dark environment was overwhelmingly filled with immortal cultivators, as numerous as locusts. This prompted her to shield Yun Wushang, who was by her side.

Yun Qianchong, the leader, was simultaneously controlling thousands of flying swords, hovering high in the sky. She looked down with immense pressure and questioned, “Everyone I cared about died because of her! How can you expect me to let it go!”

There were other Great Ascension stage cultivators beside her, but Luo Baozhu was nowhere to be seen.

Just as Mo Xun was about to answer, the scene shifted, and the environment in her vision became even darker.

The gloomy, indigo night sky was filled with chilling black mist. Suddenly, the black mist surged, condensing into several human figures.

However, before these eerie black figures could move, Yun Qianchong’s figure rushed into Mo Xun’s sight. She instantly scattered them with a barrage of swords. Her eyes were calm, but her lips were tightly pursed, making it impossible to tell what she was thinking.

Mo Xun noticed that all of Yun Qianchong’s swords were covered in a layer of frost, and that ice emitted the demonic energy belonging to Yun Wushang’s Ice-attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root.

Mo Xun: Inner demon illusion?

System: No. Host, I should have mentioned that advancing to the Great Ascension stage grants a special ability.

Mo Xun: Yes, you did. I remember.

Mo Xun had planned to confirm this special ability with the System after transcending the tribulation, but now, she was far too curious.

If the scenes she saw were not inner demon illusions, then, could it be…

System: It is prevision of the future.

Indeed… So, the scenes I just saw will truly unfold in the near future?

Mo Xun: Do you mean that by completing the tasks you assigned, I acquired some power that only belongs to the Great Ascension stage back when I was at the Golden Core stage?

System: Yes.

Mo Xun: Why? Why was I able to acquire it early?

System: …That’s naturally because the Host has me, the System! The Spatial Folding technique is a power that can only be comprehended at the Void Refinement stage, and didn’t the Host acquire it early after completing a task?

This wasn’t the answer Mo Xun wanted to hear, but right now, she had a more important question to confirm first.

System: Did I say that? Well, let’s just assume I did… Actually, I only said that at the time to motivate the Host to raise her cultivation to the Great Ascension stage as soon as possible. However, as the Host’s cultivation level grows higher and closer to the Heavenly Dao, all the answers the Host seeks will eventually come to light. Please don’t be anxious.

Mo Xun: Forget it, I’ll deal with you later. I need to transcend the tribulation first.

Mo Xun sensed the impending Heavenly Tribulation, stopped talking to the System, stood up, and removed the five layers of restrictions.

Then, just as she planned to leave the Qionglou and find an uninhabited barren area outside the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate to transcend the tribulation, a thought suddenly struck her.

Mo Xun: As Luo Baozhu’s nominal disciple, wouldn’t it be too much to borrow her magic treasure to transcend the tribulation? (The original text uses the double negative which means “isn’t it excessive/too much?”)

She acted on the thought immediately!

The moment Mo Xun left the Qionglou, she used the Spatial Folding technique to arrive in front of the Nine Heavens Demon Suppressing Pagoda refined by Luo Baozhu, recited the incantation, and entered the tower.

Her movements were so fast that Yun Qianchong not only failed to detect her with her divine sense but also didn’t even notice her spiritual energy.

The Nine Heavens Demon Suppressing Pagoda was a ninth-grade magic treasure. Since it could easily suppress Yun Wushang, the Demon Venerable at the Great Ascension stage, it could obviously easily withstand attacks from the Great Ascension stage.

But whether it could withstand Mo Xun’s Great Ascension stage Heavenly Tribulation was hard to say.

After all, Mo Xun’s Heavenly Tribulation was always one major realm higher than hers.

Mo Xun still didn’t know why this was the case, and she had once suspected that the Heavenly Dao intended to kill her. But now, sensing the aura of the Tribulation Clouds through the tower, she only felt familiarity.

Mo Xun: Come, come, strike here, strike hard!

This was the sound of the tower being struck, followed a moment later by the sound of the falling lightning.

The sound of the falling lightning was even more terrifying than the sound of the tower being struck, like an ancient giant beast roaring in fury. The sound echoed throughout the entire Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate. The resulting airwaves swept over the mountains, causing a shaking of the earth!

The Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate cultivators fled in panic, unsure whether they should hide inside the sect-protecting array or flee outside of it.

Someone complained loudly: “Why is someone transcending the tribulation inside the sect!”

Someone retorted in fear: “The Elder must have a reason for choosing this place to transcend the tribulation! How dare you question it! Are you tired of living!”

Yun Qianchong was originally hovering near the Qionglou, watching, thinking she wouldn’t be affected. To her surprise, when the first bolt of lightning struck, the resulting airwave pushed her several meters away!

After finally regaining control of her body, she found that every inch of her skin was numb, having lost the sensation of pain.

Yun Qianchong: The Tribulation Transcending lightning is terrifying to this extent!

Having experienced the power of this wave of Heavenly Tribulation, Yun Qianchong dared not approach the Qionglou again. She flew to a spot a hundred meters away, controlled her sword to set up a defensive restriction, protecting the lower-level cultivators of the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate from being affected.

Forget it. Life and death are fated. As Luo Baozhu’s disciple, if she dies in Luo Baozhu’s illusory realm due to Luo Baozhu’s Heavenly Tribulation, it is not my fault.

Yun Qianchong, thinking this, would never have dreamed that this Heavenly Tribulation, whose power was enough to destroy the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate several times over, was Mo Xun’s Great Ascension stage tribulation, not Luo Baozhu’s Tribulation Transcending stage tribulation.

She also would not have expected that facing such a terrifying Heavenly Tribulation, Mo Xun was not only unharmed but had barely diminished her spiritual energy.

The second bolt of Heavenly Lightning struck. Accompanied by a loud “crack,” the tip of the Nine Heavens Demon Suppressing Pagoda snapped off. The lightning penetrated the tower, but Mo Xun used the Spatial Folding technique to dodge it instantly!

The Heavenly Lightning, having lost its target mid-strike, couldn’t slow down. It vented its fury by curving and striking the inner wall of the Nine Heavens Demon Suppressing Pagoda.

Two bolts of lightning had passed. The tower body was damaged but still functional. This showed that the quality of this tower was superior even among ninth-grade magic treasures, a culmination of Luo Baozhu’s work.

Mo Xun: “Keep striking, don’t stop!”

The third bolt of lightning fell. A noticeable crack appeared across the entire tower body, bringing it one step closer to being scrapped!

Mo Xun: “Too gentle. Didn’t you eat? Where is the intensity that once struck me until I was covered in wounds and spitting blood?”

The fourth bolt of lightning, perhaps genuinely angered by Mo Xun’s words, increased significantly in power. The entire top of the tower was shattered, mixing the inner and outer air, and the illusory realm barely held together.

Mo Xun: “Good, good, again, again!”

While shouting like a bystand enjoying the show, Mo Xun continuously used the Spatial Folding technique to change her position and avoid the Heavenly Lightning, ultimately ensuring that all the lightning bolts struck Luo Baozhu’s tower squarely!

Mo Xun thought that Luo Baozhu herself might not even be willing to use this tower to withstand the Heavenly Lightning if she were transcending her own tribulation.

But what could be done since she was currently in seclusion?

Since she was completely unaware of the outside world, she couldn’t blame Mo Xun for taking advantage of the situation!

Mo Xun raised one hand and drew a talisman in the air: “Lightning-Guiding Talisman, go!”

The fifth bolt of lightning struck. After Mo Xun dodged it, it was guided by the talisman and struck fiercely at a weak spot on the tower body.

Finally, the Nine Heavens Demon Suppressing Pagoda, which had been towering into the clouds like a great mountain, completely split open, breaking and collapsing from one-third of the way up. The metal tower body crashed to the ground with a heavy resounding boom, stirring up a massive cloud of dust!

The dust affected most of the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate, causing the cultivators in the sect to cough incessantly.

“Cough, cough, cough… What happened?”

“Cough, cough… I can’t hear what you’re saying!”

“Cough, cough, cough… My ears are going deaf! No, I have to leave the sect!”

Even with the restriction set up by Yun Qianchong, the lower-level cultivators of the Heavenly Mountain Immortal Gate could not endure the various disturbances coming from the mountain where Luo Baozhu lived, and they began to flee.

Yun Qianchong frowned, looking in that direction, both wanting to know what had happened and afraid to approach, feeling utterly helpless.

Could it be… Luo Baozhu’s tower has collapsed?

Then, is Yun Wushang already…

Yun Qianchong’s lips slightly pursed, but soon after, she relaxed again, returning to her expressionless state.

It’s better if she’s dead.

If she’s dead, the Demon Venerable is no more in the world.

The Nine Heavens Demon Suppressing Pagoda was completely destroyed, but the Heavenly Lightning hadn’t finished yet and continued to strike.

The sixth, the seventh, the eighth…

The sixteenth, the seventeenth, the eighteenth…

The forty-eighth, the forty-ninth, the fiftieth… the fifty-fourth bolt!

After the last bolt of lightning struck, the Nine Heavens Demon Suppressing Pagoda became a piece of charred remains unrecognizable from its original form, having no value for recycling.

Not only that, but the ground where it once stood now had a terrifying, deep pit.

Mo Xun returned to Luo Baozhu’s Qionglou Illusory Realm immediately after transcending the tribulation. She then set up nine layers of restrictions using her Great Ascension stage spiritual energy and raced against time to refine the ninth-grade powerful offense-type magic treasure that was already finalized in her mind.

She had promised Yun Wushang that after her next seclusion, she would help her take revenge. Therefore, she felt she had no face to enter the Nest of the Two Poles to see Yun Wushang when she had merely reached the Great Ascension stage and had not yet finished refining the ninth-grade magic treasure.

It doesn’t matter. In three years at most, no, in one year, I will refine the ninth-grade magic treasure. At that time, Yun Wushang will receive a pile of good news all at once!

After Mo Xun went into seclusion, Yun Qianchong cautiously flew towards the Qionglou to check the situation.

She looked at the charred remains next to the Qionglou—half-buried in the deep pit and still emitting hot smoke—her pupils dilated in shock. She couldn’t recognize that it had once been a ninth-grade magic treasure capable of shaking the entire cultivation world.

There was still some residual spiritual energy in the air, but it was primarily the spiritual energy of the Heavenly Lightning. Yun Qianchong couldn’t discern Luo Baozhu’s spiritual energy from it, nor could she sense Mo Xun’s spiritual energy, let alone Yun Wushang’s demonic energy…

She wanted to enter the Qionglou to investigate but ultimately didn’t dare.

That was Luo Baozhu’s territory. That woman seemed cold and emotionless, but when she got angry, she was like a lunatic—not someone to easily provoke.

But…

Going into seclusion immediately after transcending the tribulation? That doesn’t seem like Luo Baozhu’s style.

Was the one who transcended the tribulation just now really Luo Baozhu?