# Chapter 1128: Perfect Divine Tribulation
Minghan Heavenly Lake—without question the number one sacred ground in Yin Xue Realm. In the Bing Huang God Sect, even for divine hall disciples, being allowed to enter Minghan Heavenly Lake even once was an immense grace.
But ever since Yun Che became Mu Xuanyin's disciple, this place had practically become his private heavenly lake. Especially after Mu Xuanyin "dragged" him back, he spent more than seventy percent of his time within Minghan Heavenly Lake.
At the center of the heavenly lake, Yun Che sat cross-legged with his eyes closed. No aura emanated from his body, yet the waters of the heavenly lake around him rolled up layer by layer, flowing in a slow circle around him.
What Yun Che silently influenced was not the lake water itself, but the ice-cold power contained within it.
Among the powers Yun Che possessed, the Golden Crow's flame force was undoubtedly the strongest, especially after obtaining the complete Golden Crow World-Incinerating Record—its strength had grown even further, completely surpassing his Phoenix flame force, let alone his weakest Ice Phoenix power, which was supported by only a single drop of divine blood.
Yet Mu Xuanyin forcibly made him begin from the first level and recultivate the Ice Phoenix God-Sealing Canon.
Compared to back in the Bing Yun Fairy Palace, when he had comprehended and forcibly cultivated the "Ice God Divine Art" on his own through the profound formula, this time with Mu Xuanyin by his side and within Minghan Heavenly Lake with its supremely pure ice-cold aura, his understanding of the Ice Phoenix God-Sealing Canon was vastly different. Even his comprehension of the laws of ice was undergoing a qualitative transformation on an intangible level.
After all, what level was Mu Xuanyin? Yun Che possessed the Evil God's Mysterious Vein, giving him unparalleled elemental affinity, but in terms of understanding and controlling the laws of ice, the gap between him and Mu Xuanyin was more than a hundred thousand realms.
Suddenly, seven beams of cold light appeared out of thin air, shooting toward his back.
Yun Che reacted almost instantly. His body remained in its seated posture as he teleported away, the seven cold beams passing straight through his afterimage.
Back when Yun Che first entered the Divine Origin Realm, Mu Xuanyin had spared no effort in personally sparring with him every day to help him comprehend the existence of "sensory perception."
The Divine Origin Realm was the first realm of the Divine Path and also an extremely important foundational realm. This realm marked the qualitative transformation of the body from mortal to divine, and the pinnacle of that transformation was awakening the body's "sensory perception." But those who could achieve this were less than one in ten thousand. In fact, many profound cultivators reached the Divine Tribulation Realm or even the Divine Spirit Realm without ever truly perceiving sensory perception.
If one could awaken sensory perception in the Divine Origin Realm and achieve the most perfect Divine Origin Realm, it would lay an incredibly perfect foundation for future progress on the Divine Path.
Yun Che had originally been close to achieving this, but due to Mu Xuanyin's Ice Phoenix primal yin, he had leaped straight into the Divine Soul Realm. While his profound strength surged, it resulted in a flawed foundation in the Divine Origin Realm and a dazed confusion about the Divine Soul Realm, naturally setting an extremely poor foundation.
The first thing Mu Xuanyin did with Yun Che was to rebuild his foundation.
After all, Yun Che's profound veins and body were far different from ordinary people, so although he had formed a very poor Divine Path foundation, the speed of rebuilding his foundation was very fast. In the half year after returning to Yin Xue Realm, his profound strength still did not advance at all, but his understanding of the laws of the Divine Path underwent earth-shaking changes. Where there had once been a thick fog, there was now clarity. His perception of "sensory perception" gradually became distinct, and after reaching a certain critical point, it grew increasingly vague until he could no longer sense it at all.
But after that, he felt that his body's perception of the world seemed to undergo a subtle change.
After rebuilding his foundation, Mu Xuanyin finally began guiding him to cultivate his profound strength. All the highest-grade spiritual herbs of the Bing Huang God Sect were lavishly used on Yun Che without any sparing. From that point, his profound realm advanced at a speed he had never imagined possible. It could truly be described as a thousand miles in a single day. In just seven days, he went from Level 2 of the Divine Soul Realm straight to Level 3. After three months, he had already stepped into Level 4 of the Divine Soul Realm...
Then to the late stage of the Divine Soul Realm... until the peak of the Divine Soul Realm.
In this world forcibly isolated by Mu Xuanyin, where he could not contact anyone outside, the only thing Yun Che could do was cultivate. He gradually fell into a state of obsession, no longer feeling the passage of time at all. He only sensed his profound strength constantly changing and his understanding of the Divine Path growing increasingly clear and thorough.
The seven beams of cold light shot toward Yun Che's back without any warning, as if they had suddenly emerged from the cracks in space. His spiritual sense had not yet detected anything, but his body had already reacted before his spiritual sense. In midair, Yun Che quickly turned around, but before he could speak, an irresistible pressure descended from above, forcibly slapping him back into the heavenly lake.
"Master," Yun Che sighed inwardly and bowed while still in the lake.
Mu Xuanyin looked down at him from midair, her icy gaze sweeping over his entire body. She seemed to mutter to herself, "It seems the time has come."
"Sit down!"
She gave Yun Che no chance to ask questions. He could only adjust his posture and obediently sit back down in the heavenly lake.
Mu Xuanyin descended from the air and came before him. Her right hand gently swept, and specks of blue light appeared. With each flash of blue light came an aura that was both bone-chillingly cold and vast as the ocean.
These blue lights and auras, following the light tap of Mu Xuanyin's jade-like finger, surged toward Yun Che's brow.
This was...
Ice Phoenix Divine Blood!!
Yun Che was not unfamiliar with the aura of Ice Phoenix Divine Blood. On the day he became Mu Xuanyin's disciple, she had bestowed a single drop upon him. That was a grace that only the personal disciples of Mu Xuanyin would receive.
And now, Mu Xuanyin was bestowing Ice Phoenix Divine Blood upon him again...
And as many as six drops!
The Ice Phoenix bloodline was difficult to pass down. That was the main reason Yin Xue Realm was far weaker than Yan Shen Realm. And each time a drop of Ice Phoenix source blood was used, it was permanently lost. In the Bing Huang God Sect, at least a thousand years passed before a single drop was bestowed upon the sect master's personal disciple.
Yet Yun Che had been given seven drops of Ice Phoenix Divine Blood by Mu Xuanyin.
In the entire history of Yin Xue Realm, such a thing had never happened before.
If this news were to spread, the entire sect would undoubtedly be shaken with shock.
"Master..."
"Do not be distracted!"
Mu Xuanyin said sternly, "I will give you no help with these six drops of divine blood. You must completely rely on yourself to refine them! The supreme ice laws contained within the Ice Phoenix Divine Blood can only be comprehended if you refine them on your own. This is also your best opportunity to break through to the Divine Tribulation Realm!"
The voice at his ear gradually became ethereal. Yun Che's consciousness had completely turned inward, fully concentrated on the six drops of Ice Phoenix Divine Blood.
The new divine blood slowly merged into his bloodline and profound veins. The Dragon God's blood, Phoenix divine blood, and Golden Crow divine blood within his body also reacted, releasing heavy divine auras, yet there was not the slightest sign of the rejection that should have occurred.
Mu Xuanyin did not leave. She watched Yun Che silently, sensing the changes in his aura. With her vast knowledge spanning over ten thousand years, she was utterly convinced that only Yun Che in the entire divine realm, the entire chaos, could have such perfect coexistence of bloodline, divine aura, and divine body.
Seven days later.
Above Minghan Heavenly Lake, a storm suddenly arose. Chaotic auras surged from all directions, even from within the lake itself, rushing toward Yun Che. The aura on Yun Che's body vanished for an instant, then in the next instant erupted violently. The waters of the heavenly lake around him were forcibly repelled, rolling up a considerable vortex.
Yun Che's eyes slowly opened. At that very moment, all the ice spirits above the heavenly lake stopped their elegant dance and surged toward Yun Che like mad, fluttering around him with excited, faint chirps that lingered for a long time without dispersing.
Yun Che slowly raised his hand, feeling the power surging through his body and profound veins: "This is... the Divine... Tribulation... Realm..."
For two whole years, Mu Xuanyin had set aside everything else, pouring all her heart and guidance into him. Rebuilding his foundation. Uninterrupted day-and-night cultivation in a sealed environment. The finest spiritual herbs of Yin Xue Realm. The most supreme environment. And finally, adding six whole drops of Ice Phoenix Divine Blood...
Two years. Yun Che had finally broken through the Divine Soul Realm and achieved the Divine Tribulation!
This was the moment he had dreamed of. In fact, he had never thought he could achieve it through cultivation alone. In his understanding, the only thing that could help him realize this extravagant hope was the Qiankun Five Jade Pill.
But the Divine Tribulation Realm he had now achieved was not reliant on the Qiankun Five Jade Pill at all. It was accomplished through cultivation—something he would never have believed two years ago.
He should have been excited, ecstatic. But at this moment, Yun Che was completely calm. His heart was filled only with deep satisfaction and peaceful joy.
What he had once desperately longed for and yearned for now felt so natural, so logical.
"Finally... finally..." Yun Che murmured to himself over and over, placing his hands over his heart.
Every time one broke through a major realm, not only did profound strength surge and the realm sublimate, but the perception of the world also underwent a noticeable change. But unexpectedly, this time the change was not obvious. It seemed both there and not there.
The countless ice spirits still danced around him. Yun Che's emotions slowly calmed, and he realized that Mu Xuanyin was still by his side, as if she had never left.
"Very good. At least you did not disappoint me," Mu Xuanyin slowly nodded. In two whole years, this seemed to be the first time she had spoken words of approval.
"The Divine Origin Realm makes the body transcend mortality, the Divine Soul Realm transforms the soul. But the Divine Tribulation Realm is different. Each minor level in the Divine Tribulation Realm is merely a pure increase in profound strength, and it has only nine minor levels, signifying the step-by-step approach to the nine heavens' tribulation!"
"The Divine Origin and Divine Soul Realms both belong to the foundation of the Divine Path. The Divine Tribulation Realm is a step-by-step approach to the true Divine Path. But mortals cultivating divinity must suffer heavenly punishment. When one reaches the peak of Level 9 of the Divine Tribulation Realm and takes another step forward, a heavenly tribulation will descend."
"However, the heavenly tribulation encountered by each profound cultivator trying to break through the Divine Tribulation Realm is not the same. The higher one's talent, the more heaven envies them. More than ninety percent of cultivators will encounter a single heavenly tribulation upon breakthrough. But those with extremely high talent will encounter two, or even multiple tribulations. Each additional tribulation is doubled in magnitude."
"Although more than ninety percent of cultivators will only encounter a single heavenly tribulation, nearly sixty percent of them still die under the thunder tribulation. Therefore, in the divine realm, countless cultivators who value their lives more than the pursuit of the profound path choose to forcibly suppress their profound strength at the Divine Tribulation Realm, never breaking through for their entire lives."
Yun Che had heard all this from Mu Bingyun when he first arrived in the divine realm, and in far greater detail. Still, he listened attentively.
"Regarding the Divine Tribulation Realm, I have mentioned it before. Now I'm going into detail because I want you to remember one thing."
Mu Xuanyin's tone turned serious: "In the future, when your profound strength reaches the peak of Level 9 of the Divine Tribulation Realm and you are close to a breakthrough, you must immediately inform me. Do not take that step on your own!"
"Your essence is ultimately human, but your body is mixed with too many things that could be called heaven-defying. Your talent is as high as it is, and you should know it in your heart. When that time comes, if you rashly take that step, the heavenly tribulation that descends upon you will definitely far surpass that of ordinary people. Do you understand?"
"Yes." Yun Che nodded heavily. "Disciple will remember Master's teachings."
He had only just entered the Divine Tribulation Realm. Reaching its peak, even with his talent, would be at least ten years away.
"Also, remember this: The power of ice, while weaker than flame, has far more variations than Golden Crow or Phoenix flames can compare to. Now that your Ice Phoenix God-Sealing Canon is fully accomplished, how to make good use of it can only be comprehended through your own experience in combat."
"Yes, Disciple will remember." Yun Che responded respectfully.
"Since you have remembered everything, make some preparations and then go to the Zhou Tian God Realm to participate in the Profound God Convention that you have been so eager about. In three days, the Profound God Convention will begin."
Mu Xuanyin's tone was extremely flat, but Yun Che felt as if he had been struck by lightning. He jumped up from the heavenly lake: "What? Three... three days!?"