<strong>Chapter 839: True Immortality is a Challenge!</strong>


    Despite the level of Meng Hao’s cultivation base, the massive lightning hand that descended caused him to feel a sense of impending doom. Almost as soon as it began to fall from the sky, Meng Hao’s eyes glinted with madness. He raised his hand, and the Blood Demon Grand Magic surged with full power. Rumbling filled the air, and his entire body radiated magical light.


    In the blink of an eye, all existence was illuminated by the glow of his magic.


    At the same time, the Blood Demon Grand Magic vortex roared like a beast from ancient times. All the cultivators in the Violet Fate Sect could clearly see a red horn protruding from the middle of the vortex.


    Next, a gigantic head appeared, the head of a Blood Demon that then hurled itself directly toward the glittering lightning hand.


    When they met, the resulting explosion caused all creation to shake violently. The Blood Demon head’s horn shattered, after which, the entire head copsed into pieces. The blood-colored vortex shattered, as did Meng Hao’s Dharma Idol.


    As for the lightning hand, it was also shaken. One finger after another copsed, until all that remained was a single finger that continued to jab viciously down toward Meng Hao.


    Just when it was about to m into him, Meng Hao’s body began to shine with boundless golden light. He became a golden roc, which pped its wings, sending him speeding off into the distance. As the palm raced after him in pursuit, Meng Hao rotated his cultivation base and then unleashed another divine ability. He pointed directly toward the iing palm.


    BOOM!


    A huge crash could be heard, and the lightning palm vanished. Blood sprayed from Meng Hao’s mouth, and he staggered backward to a position nearly three thousand meters away. After coughing up seven sessive mouthfuls of blood, he finally came to a stop.


    His face was pale, and his body was wracked with trembling. Sparks of electricity continued to dance around his body, and he had lost more than half of his qi and blood. There was a massive wound in his chest, which burned with intense pain.


    Meng Hao gritted his teeth and looked up; his eyes shone with a boundless, intense light.


    He hadpletely surpassed the Tribtion Lightning’s punishment!


    As of this moment, all of the Southern Domain cultivators who hade to act as Dharma Protectors for Pill Demon were left inplete and utter shock. What they had just witnessed exceeded anything they had ever seen before in their lives.


    They had the impulse to rush to help Pill Demon in his true Immortal Tribtion. However, the massive pressure that weighed down not only filled them with awe, it made it impossible for them to even fly into the air.


    They could only look on as Meng Hao acted, and his intense strength only deepened their impression of him.


    In the Violet Fate Sect, all of the disciples’ minds were shaken. Everything that Meng Hao was doing caused their gratefulness to him to be even more intense.


    Were it not for Meng Hao’s presence, Pill Demon might still have been able to avoid death during this tribtion. However, it definitely would have been much more difficult to acquire the true Immortal destiny. And if he had failed... he would have perished and his soul would have been dispersed.


    Meng Hao wiped the blood from his mouth and looked up into the sky. He saw his master Pill Demon, standing on the damaged statue of Reverend Violet East, once againbining the power of two lifetimes to strike the Door of Immortality.


    Once, twice, three times....


    He struck the door again and again, and it continued to open wider and wider. At the same time, more Immortal Tribtion Lightning descended, with increased intensity. By now, all of Pill Demon’s magical items were in use, and the Immortal Tribtion had reached a shocking level of intensity.


    The Violet Fate Sect’s grand spell formation was activated to the fullest extent to help Pill Demon fight back against the Immortal Tribtion. However, the Immortal Tribtion was growing more intense, and the Door of Immortality was only forty percent open! There was still another sixty percent to go!


    “Fellow Daoist Pill Demon, use this magical item of mine!”


    “Senior Pill Demon, take my magical item!”


    “Pill Demon, this is a treasure I prepared to help you transcend the tribtion!”


    Many among the crowds down below began to produce various magical items. They severed their own connection with them and then tossed them up into the sky.


    The magical items transformed into countless beams of glowing light that shot toward Pill Demon and then swirled around him. These were all lightning-resisting items, and all of them were extremely valuable.


    At this moment, they didn’t hesitate for even a second to give them to Pill Demon. Pill Demon trembled, and his heart filled with appreciation. Now was not the time for words, though. He took a deep breath, sped hands to the crowds below, and then waved his arm, causing the hundreds of magical items to emit a boundless glow that fought back against the Immortal Tribtion!


    Meng Hao hovered off in the distance, watching the scene. He also waved his hand, sending a magical item out, his beast w. It emitted an incisive glow that, when it joined the other magical items around Pill Demon, transformed into a bizarre light.


    Meng Hao’s eyes gleamed with the anticipation of being able to bear witness to his master bing a true Immortal.


    RUUMMMMBLLEEEE!!


    Bolt after bolt of Immortal Tribtion Lightning mmed down, without end. Soon, they were so numerous that they became ake of lightning. It was almost as if a hole had been ripped into the sky, and lightning was falling like rain in a violent downpour.


    Pill Demon’s figure was submerged in the lightning to the point where onlookers couldn’t see him clearly. Only Meng Hao was just barely able to see him.


    The sts against the Door of Immortality continued. Fifty percent. Sixty percent....


    The magical items surrounding Pill Demon were beginning to shatter. In the instant that the door opened by sixty percent, even Meng Hao’s beast w copsed into pieces. By the time all of the magical items were destroyed, Pill Demon was like a flickeringmp about to be extinguished. Heughed bitterly, and looked up at the Tribtion Lightning, then at the Door of Immortality, which was only sixty percent opened. Then, he sighed.


    “True Immortality really is a challenge....” he said, his voice filled with pain. “A chance thates once in ten thousand years, and is incredibly difficult.... Despite my best efforts, I fell short by forty percent.” The sky rumbled, and theke of lightning screamed. It seemed to cover everything, filled with destructive power as it bore down onto Pill Demon, who stood in front of the Door of Immortality.


    However, at this moment, Meng Hao’s eyes glittered, and he smacked his bag of holding. The meat jelly appeared, and Meng Hao threw it into the air before it could even react. It shrieked as it became a beam of prismatic light that shot toward Pill Demon and the Heavenly Tribtion.


    “Master, keep battering that door!” yelled Meng Hao. As soon as the meat jelly reached theke of lightning, it let out a curse and then opened its mouth. It began to inhale, and theke of lightning trembled, then began to move toward the meat jelly.


    Popping sounds rang out from the meat jelly, and it turnedpletely ck in the blink of an eye.


    “Meng Hao you bastard, you bully! You’ve gone too far! Y-y-you...! Lord Third is gonna convert you!”


    Pill Demon trembled, but didn’t hesitate for a moment tosh out toward the Door of Immortality with all of his power. The meat jelly continued to consume theke of lightning, and currently, no more Immortal Tribtion Lightning fell. Pill Demon went all out,bining two lives’ worth of good fortune to break open the Door of Immortality!


    Seventy percent....


    Eighty percent!


    When the door opened by eighty percent, a boundless glow of Immortal light spilled out, as well as thick Immortal qi. Instantly, the sky became like an Immortal paradise, and the air filled with the music of great Daos, as well as the sound of scriptures being chanted.


    The cultivators down below, and the disciples of the Violet Fate Sect, were bathed in the light of Immortality. Their cultivation bases instantly began to rotate as they acquired good fortune.


    However, it was in this moment that the meat jelly let out an agonized shriek. It trembled, and countless rips spread out across its body. Although it was capable of consuming Immortal Tribtion Lightning, it could only withstand so much. Finally, it screamed and flew away, unable to hold on any longer.


    Theke of lightning once again rumbled down, enveloping Pill Demon. Pill Demon roared and caused his cultivation base to explode at full power to fight back. His entire body shook violently, and the statue of Reverend Violet east was starting to copse.


    Meng Hao was getting very worried. However, something suddenly urred to him, which caused him to take a deep breath. Without any hesitation, he summoned his second true self. He extended his hand and pointed, and his second true self began to tremble. His eyes grew dim as his soul flew out of the top of his head.


    This was... a true Immortal’s soul!


    In the past, Patriarch Blood Demon had mentioned that this soul would be strangely effective when transcending tribtion, most especially when reaching true Immortal Ascension.


    Meng Hao wasn’t sure if the soul of the true Immortal would be of any help in this situation; no matter how he had contemted it or observed it in the past, it didn’t seem useful for anything. Having no other options, Meng Hao extracted the soul itself.


    In the instant in which the true Immortal’s soul emerged, all of the lightning that was striking toward Pill Demon suddenly stopped in ce. Then, it abruptly left Pill Demon and shot toward Meng Hao, or, more urately speaking, toward the soul of the true Immortal.


    This soul... could actually attract Immortal Tribtion!


    Rumbling filled the air as the lightning shot forth. It rapidly surrounded the true Immortal’s soul, as if it vited some Heavenly decree, and deserved to die a horrific death at the hands of the lightning.


    With no lightning striking him, Pill Demon, his eyespletely bloodshot, went all out. Both he and the Dharma Protecting cultivators below had expended all the resources they could. This was the critical moment. If there was no sess now, the result would be death!


    Pill Demon roared, and his body burst into mes. He was burning his life force, as was the statue of Reverend Violet East beneath him. This was the power of two lives’ worth of cultivation base.


    Within the mes, Pill Demon turned into something like a shooting star that sped toward the Door of Immortality. He would st into it with all of the power of his life force.


    A huge boom rattled out through the entire Southern Domain, and, in fact, through all thends of South Heaven, as the Door of Immortality was knocked open even more.


    Ny percent!


    Massive rumbling could be heard as the statue of Reverend Violet East copsed. Pill Demon had aged dramatically, and he looked as if he were at the very end of his life. However, he was not willing to give up. Roaring at the top of his lungs, he used the power of his life force to once again strike against the Door of Immortality, like a moth drawn to the me.


    BOOM!


    The sound shook all of South Heaven, and even rolled out into the starry sky, to be heard by all of the people outside who were trying to fight their way past Meng Hao’s father.


    When they heard the sound, everyone felt as if... their minds were reverberating with the tolling of bells.


    The Door of Immortality... was ny-five percent open. Only a tiny sliver... and it would bepletely open!


    However, it was in this moment that the sky churned, and a wind sprung up in the seething mists!!


    This was a Spirit Extermination Tribtion Wind, the second stage of tribtion that came after the Tribtion Lightning!


    When the wind blew, Pill Demon, who was already like a sputtering candle, whose statue of Reverend Violet East had already been destroyed, began to fade away.


    He had failed.


    In this moment, all thends went quiet, and everyone who was watching the scene felt waves of sorrow rise up in their hearts. The sound of wailing began to drift out of the Violet Fate Sect.


    Pill Demon’s body began to rapidly vanish. Behind him, the Door of Immortality started fading away....


    It was ny-five percent open, with only a tiny bit left to go!


    Pill Demon sighed. He felt no bitterness. However, his reluctance to part with the world could be seen on his face. He did not wish to leave the people he knew down below. He did not wish to say goodbye to his apprentice. Nor did he wish to abandon his Dao. But he had reached the end.


    Pill Demon wanted to say something, but by this point, he couldn’t speak. His body was growing illusory, and half of it had already transformed into ash and been destroyed. The rest of his fleshly body was now continuing to turn into ash. His skin fell off, and he began to vanish into the air.


    He could only use his gaze to offer his blessings to all of the crowds of people down below.


    Meng Hao was trembling, and his eyes were shot with blood. Seeing that the Door of Immortality was fading, and that Pill Demon was on the verge of death, he couldn’t hold back. He shot forward.


    “Master, I’ming to help!”