Chapter 348: Chapter 73: Three-Nine Thunder Tribulation, Nascent Soul Breakthrough! (Double-Length)

The Great Xia Country, Martial Arts Palace.

Lin Chen told Uncle Wang about his impending Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation.

On the day he informed them, Wang Lishan convened a high-level meeting of the Great Xia.

At the same time, the Great Xia leadership ordered 300,000 martial artists in the military region to publicly claim it as a military exercise.

In fact, the entire mountain range in the rear of the military region, spanning a hundred miles, was completely sealed off.

The next day, twelve human race powerhouses temporarily returned to Great Xia from the Martial Realm.

Six Martial Kings, five Martial Emperors...

And one... Martial Emperor!

Upon learning of Lin Chen’s impending tribulation, the entire Great Xia Country displayed unprecedented cohesion and deployment capability.

In just one day, a massive lightning rod and a Faraday cage large enough to accommodate ten thousand people were placed on a mountain summit.

The Great Xia did not know whether these devices would help Lin Chen during his tribulation.

But that did not prevent them from investing resources in them.

While the entire leadership and high officials of Great Xia were caught up in busyness...

Lin Chen returned to the family quarters to have a meal with his uncle, aunt, and younger sister.

His uncle and aunt, nearing sixty years of age, had hair slightly white.

But under Lin Chen’s arrangements, his uncle and aunt had unknowingly consumed quite a few life-extending secret medicines.

Moreover, now that Qi Refining is promoted nationwide, Lin Chen’s family naturally "luckily" received the first batch of experimental cultivation quotas.

Both husband and wife have spirit roots, having stepped into the Foundation Establishment stage two years ago.

With the life-extending secret medicine and Eternal Spring Technique, living two or three hundred years is not a difficult matter.

As for Lin Chen’s little sister, Lin An’an...

She has become one of the few golden core cultivators in the Great Xia Country; not only is her martial spirit special, but her talent in cultivation is far beyond the ordinary.

"Chen, eat a bit more."

His aunt had a doting expression, adding more dishes to Lin Chen’s bowl.

In the course of one meal, Lin Chen ate twice as many dishes as he did rice.

His uncle Lin Jianhe smoked a cigarette, looking at the siblings with a worried expression.

"Chen, we’re almost forty years old... when do you plan on bringing someone home?"

"At your age, An’an was already in high school."

He turned to Lin An’an, snorting:

"You’re already over thirty, not doing anything useful all day... is it because no man likes you?"

Lin An’an listened with disdain, putting down her bowl and chopsticks, picking up the long sword on the table and saying:

"Dad, what era is it now? Still pushing for marriage!"

"I’m now a golden core cultivator, I can live to five hundred years! Calculating comprehensively, that’s equivalent to an eight or nine-year-old child before, right?"

"Besides, in this Great Xia, how many men are worthy of me?"

Lin An’an’s eyes carried a hint of pride.

No one knows when it started, but Lin An’an began focusing solely on cultivation.

Her martial and cultivation realms ascended rapidly; aside from Lin Chen’s extraordinary talents, Lin An’an was also a rare genius in the Great Xia over the past century.

Her martial realm reached the peak of Martial Spirit, and her cultivation recently broke into the Golden Core stage.

Of course, this was inseparable from the various Bone Marrow Cleansing Pills and Qi Blood Pills Lin Chen had given her since childhood.

The martial path is three parts training, seven parts nourishment.

Ample resources often allow cultivators to progress with less effort.

His aunt Kong Shan glared at Lin Jianhe, reprimanding:

"How can you talk about our girl like that?"

"An’an is now high in cultivation, beautiful, with many people pursuing her... do you need to mention it?"

"Can’t you keep your mouth shut while eating?"

She extinguished the cigarette in Lin Jianhe’s mouth and added another helping of food.

Watching his bickering uncle and aunt, Lin Chen felt a sense of warmth.

After the meal, Lin Chen bid farewell to his uncle and aunt.

He called Li Nian, then drove to the Martial Arts Palace.

After several transfers, under the cover of Wang Lishan and others, Lin Chen made his way to the rear mountain of the military region.

...

The rear mountain of the military region, a mountain top full of spiritual vitality.

Lin Chen looked around at the site he personally chose for crossing the tribulation.

Cultivators pay attention to feng shui, especially for major events like crossing tribulations.

Lin Chen even calculated that today was an auspicious day, coupled with this feng shui treasure ground, crossing the tribulation should go smoothly.

This mountain stands several hundred zhang high, below it, within a range of tens of miles, 300,000 martial artists and soldiers guard tightly, forming the outermost defense line.

At the mountain top, twelve Martial Kings and above appear simultaneously.

This includes five Martial Emperors and one Martial Emperor.

Even for Lin Chen, it was his first time in twenty years encountering so many martial arts strongmen.

In the high martial world, strongmen above Martial King rarely appear on Blue Star; they spend their lives in the Martial Realm, defending against demon beasts.

If not for Lin Chen’s tribulation, even if a demon beast was to destroy a city, a Martial Emperor might not return.

Because it’s more crucial inside the Martial Realm...

"Lin Chen, I’ve heard of you."

The leader among the twelve strongmen, an average-looking man in his thirties or forties said.

He exuded a certain charisma that felt like an invisible allure, akin to an uncle.

This man was the only Martial Emperor among the twelve—Lv Zishou!

"Senior Lv!"

Lin Chen respectfully saluted.

This Lv Zishou was a figure of note from centuries ago in the Great Xia.

Recorded in historical texts!

Before this, even Lin Chen did not know that Lv Zishou had already ascended to Martial Emperor, and was stationed inside the Martial Realm.

Clearly, the human race has birthed many strongmen over thousands of years.

But they have been silent for a long time, presumably not dead, but continuously battling in another battlefield inside the Martial Realm.

However, when critical moments are truly encountered, they return.

Lv Zishou patted Lin Chen on the shoulder, a smile appearing on his face:

"The future of humanity lies with you young ones."