Chapter 1096

Fang Yuan descends into Mini Northern Plains inside his sovereign aperture to undergo tribulation again. This area holds no resources now, only icy ground cleared of every snow monster. Calamities and tribulations target only him, so the tribulation follows wherever he stands. The aperture’s own River of Time tributary joins the river outside, and time inside slows greatly. ^{ch. 1096}

He inspects his arrangements. Gu worms stand ready for immortal tribulation tempering aperture, and Dang Hun Mountain beside him is altered to block Fixed Immortal Travel entry. Pulling Mountain now lets him move it alone, and Landscape as Before means he no longer fears its destruction. ^{ch. 1096}

Confirming no problems, Fang Yuan opens the sovereign aperture’s entrance. A huge amount of heaven and earth qi rushes in, more than last time. He activates the Gu worms outside too, already familiar with it. ^{ch. 1096}

He turns to immortal tribulation tempering aperture, which indirectly weakens the calamity’s power and draws out Reckless Savage’s true meaning for his transformation path cultivation. Unlike the first tribulation, many of the mortal Gu that form the move are now his own, and slight tweaks he made himself are meant to cut the Gu worms he must borrow from Lang Ya land spirit. Tens of thousands of green grape immortal essence beads activate it. ^{ch. 1096}

The second earthly calamity descends. The world rumbles, and winds rise, quickly strong enough to sweep the world and blow away all life. Fang Yuan stands atop Dang Hun Mountain’s peak, vigilant. ^{ch. 1096}

Intense winds blow the snow into the air, obscuring everything. His vision, already dim, grows worse still. He hears chimes ringing inside the wind, a strange scene that leaves him frowning. ^{ch. 1096}

A huge green flower flies out, faster than lightning, and crashes into Dang Hun Mountain, leaving a huge mark. The chimes ring again, and eighteen more crash in, leaving eighteen blemishes. Fang Yuan identifies them: wind flowers, a wind essence born only in extremely intense winds, rootless and extremely sharp. ^{ch. 1096}

The chimes ring once more, and forty to fifty wind flowers now attack from every direction. Fang Yuan retreats from the peak, troubled. Heaven’s will now targets his weakness: he is slower than the wind flowers, with only mortal-level defenses. ^{ch. 1096}

He uses Landscape as Before to restore the mountain’s blemishes, but soon another barrage smashes fresh layers off. This cannot go on. Activating immortal tribulation tempering aperture has already used more than half his immortal essence, and restoring the mountain only postpones the inevitable. ^{ch. 1096}

Fang Yuan combines myriad self, familiar face, and dark limit Immortal Gu. Countless phantoms occupy the mountain and rush toward the winds. His body turns into a plain rock instead, using familiar face and myriad self. He conceals his aura completely with dark limit. ^{ch. 1096}

Wind flowers attack the phantoms en masse. This spreads the calamity’s firepower thin and eases pressure on the mountain. Wind flowers destroy them in moments, and Fang Yuan summons myriad self again and again, until heaven’s will senses the tactic and the wind flowers target the mountain directly instead. Fang Yuan grits his teeth: heaven’s will means to destroy Dang Hun Mountain, his greatest source of revenue, and ruin his prospects. ^{ch. 1096}

Landscape as Before can still restore the mountain. But it only holds the line, draining his immortal essence fast. Triple layered sword wave and giant hand both prove too slow to catch the wind flowers. ^{ch. 1096}

He breathes out poison breath, a dark purple gas that scatters with the wind, and wind flowers wilt on contact, their power dropping sharply. Fang Yuan feels great joy. Poison breath, modified from the wisdom path killer move harboring malicious heart with Woman’s Heart at its core, is flawed and rarely used, and has never worked this well before. ^{ch. 1096}

The winds begin to slow as a cold light shines and a crescent moon appears out of nowhere. It lowers the mountain’s temperature until frost covers its surface. Fang Yuan names it snow moon: not merely a wind flower tribulation, but a combined wind flower snow moon tribulation. The former is an earthly calamity, the latter a heavenly tribulation, and this second earthly calamity is simply too absurdly strong. ^{ch. 1096}