The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 117 - 103: Great Catastrophe!_1

Fifth Realm.

Strange phenomena in the sky caused Pang Jian’s heart to be filled with immense fear.

Just like when he initially gazed at the Upper Realm from his family courtyard, borrowing Sun Bin’s leftover power, he was now looking up at the marvels above him in the Fifth Realm.

Affected by the terror, he quickly noticed that the majority of the "raindrops" vanished into ashes the moment they appeared in his field of vision.

This seemed to mean that many people, like him, had not managed to fall to the grounds of the Fifth Realm, but had just materialized in the Fifth Realm’s sky and immediately turned to ash.

He felt that those people were ordinary folks with no understanding of cultivation.

Ordinary people, leaping down from the Fragment Land above, were instantly turned to flying ash as they pierced through something unknown.

Physically robust cultivators barely withstood the tearing of some terrifying power, shattering to pieces only after they had crashed down.

"What on earth has happened in the Fourth Realm?"

A great confusion rose to his mind, and Pang Jian focused all his attention into the depths of the void.

Gradually, he noticed wisp-like threads of Filth Alien Power rising from the Fifth Realm and drifting toward the Upper Realm.

It felt as if some evil force from the Fifth Realm had broken through a certain barrier, allowing it to successfully infiltrate the Fourth Realm.

Consequently, the living beings of the Fourth Realm were contaminated and, in a suicidal manner, detached from the Fragment Land they lived in, with countless rushing out and either turning to ash mid-fall or shattering upon impact.

Such a terrifying disaster present itself clearly before Pang Jian, giving rise to a strong feeling of unease within him.

He knew that something grave must have occurred somewhere in the Fourth Realm.

He anticipated that the powerful creatures of the Fifth Realm would inevitably be alarmed by the celestial phenomenon and eventually take notice of the dramatic changes.

At this time, he had no time to survey his surroundings, hastily sitting down next to the Dark Giant Python to meditate and try to sense that sapling.

Inwardly, he prayed that the sapling had not been eaten by the ferocious beasts of Cloud Marsh and had not been trampled by passing individual cultivators.

With his mind agitated, he finally cast away the distracting thoughts and gripped the bronze medallion that was yet to be enveloped by the ice crystal, attempting to establish a connection with the sapling.

Slowly, a blurry image appeared in the lake of his heart, and he successfully sensed the sapling.

This meant that there was hope for him to return to the Fourth Realm in the same way and come back to the Thousand Miles of Cloud Land!

Just as he was about to proceed...

"Roar!"

An earth-shattering roar suddenly came from the nearby mountains, as if it were triggering landslides and tsunamis.

The roar, full of defiance, tore through the silence of this world, and shook Pang Jian awake from his "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell" state.

Upon opening his eyes, he saw the Dark Giant Python lying on the ground, shivering in fear.

Pang Jian quickly looked toward the source of the roar.

A mountain range in the distance abruptly rose, shooting up a great height under his gaze!

He then saw an enormous Cyclops, covered in thick rocks, standing up as if it were a mountain itself.

What he thought was a mountain turned out to be a colossal giant that had been squatting, seemingly in slumber for eons, but was now suddenly awakened!

The Cyclops that rose stood a thousand feet tall, its presence overwhelmingly intimidating.

In Pang Jian’s memories, not even the Solitude Mountain Range and the Thousand Miles of Cloud Land had landscapes as towering as this Fifth Realm’s Cyclops!

At this moment, it was gazing at the ink-black Sky Curtain of the Fifth Realm with its lone, massive eye.

"Whoosh!"

A thick stream of deep red light burst forth from that eye, like a reverse-flowing river of light, rushing toward the impenetrable blackness of the Sky Curtain high above.

A mix of despair, rage, and forlorn emotions emanated from the Cyclops’s colossal frame, instantly filling the air across thousands of miles.

At this moment, every being within a thousand-mile radius in the Fifth Realm seemed to sense the emotions he imbued in that soaring red light.

Pang Jian even glimpsed majestic rivers and mountains within the soaring red light, appearing as a great kingdom built of huge stones.

It was as if this was the Cyclops’s once-inhabited homeland, a materialization of its yearning will.

"Whoosh!"

The Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, which had stood in the wilderness of the Fifth Realm, suppressing its inhabitants for eons, suddenly emitted a bright cyan divine glow.

Pang Jian’s gaze was involuntarily drawn to the pillar that radiated divine light, a cyan stone column in its entirety.

The top of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, seemingly hidden in the clouds, shone with radiance, illuminating ten thousand miles around in an instant!

The landscapes, ferocious beasts, and the countless bones and skeletons within a ten-thousand-mile radius became distinctly visible.

At that moment, Pang Jian felt as though he had returned to Bagua City.

He saw even more clearly numerous sparkling lights materializing throughout the entire translucent, cyan jade-like column.

From afar, some sparkles were mysterious ancient scripts, others were celestial bodies such as the sun, moon, and stars, and some were inscriptions resembling swords and sabers, and yet others depicted mythical creatures such as the Kylin, Phoenix, Heavenly Dragon, and Mysterious Turtle.

A myriad of divine expressions and various Daoist images were all manifested within the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, exuding endless mystery and shaking his very soul.

And intimidating the inhabitants of this realm!

The deep red light that shot out from the Cyclops’s eye towards the Sky Curtain, due to the sudden emergence of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, was suppressed by an immense divine power!

"Crash!"

Inside the vast beam of light, the stone-built kingdom and the manifested rivers and mountains shattered instantly as the light dispersed!

The Cyclops let out a heart-wrenching howl, with blood streaming from its eye as it roared furiously at the sky.

"Whoosh!"

A White Silver Bone Dragon, winding like a mountain range, appeared out of nowhere.

It roared as it flew toward the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar that had stood in the wilds for millennia, coiling its elongated bony body around the column.

The ancient scripts, celestial bodies, inscriptions, and divine beasts that sparkled within the cyan pillar under the dragon’s coiling exploded with supreme Divine Power.

"Howl!"

The White Silver Bone Dragon howled as its massive silver-white skeletal body shattered, with pieces of its silver-white bone scattering everywhere.

It howled while its remaining dragon head darted back and forth through the air.

It gathered the silver-white dragon bones scattered across the land, one by one, reconstructing its silver-white skeletal body.

Soon, the previously pulverized White Silver Bone Dragon reappeared, but it no longer dared to charge at the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar.

Pang Jian’s gaze shifted upward, and he soon saw a woman with six pairs of pure white wings, appearing high upon the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar.

The mysterious woman, not of the human race, flew towards the peak of the pillar, seemingly wanting to approach Bagua City.

Countless, splendid lights scattered across different areas of the pillar hurriedly flew upward, as if trying to prevent the mysterious woman from doing something.

"Roar!"

"Howl!"

Suddenly, Pang Jian was engulfed by the roars of the beings from the Fifth Realm.

While he was fixated on the towering Heavenly Tribulation Pillar that pierced the clouds, he abruptly realized that his valley was teeming with all sorts of bizarre Ferocious Beasts.

The massive Ferocious Beasts found the bodies of cultivators on the ground and began to feast on them, as if a bloody frenzy had commenced.

Before he could take a closer look, Pang Jian suddenly felt intense pain all over his body and realized he was entangled by thorns bristling with sharp spikes.

The greenish thorns had pierced through his flesh with their spikes, as if sucking his blood.

He turned his head to see even more carnivorous thorns flying towards him.

Not only targeting him, but even the Dark Giant Python was considered prey, with many thorns flying towards it.

"Shriek!"

He summoned the Astonishing Spear.

He vigorously twisted the shaft of the spear, and using the spiritual power that had not yet been corroded, he slashed the approaching thorns.

The glow released by the Astonishing Spear and the cyan divine radiance of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar were almost identical.

Near him, the Ferocious Beasts of the Fifth Realm that were gnawing on the bones of cultivators all turned to look at him.

The beasts’ eyes suddenly revealed bloodthirsty ferocity, as if they saw a target that they must eliminate first and immediately charged towards him.

Pang Jian’s face paled dramatically. Any of these extremely vicious beasts were stronger than a cultivator in the Marrow Cleansing Realm.

And their numbers were vast!

Once surrounded by these beasts, he would have no chance of escape.

"Terrible!"

Ignoring the wounds on his body and not bothering to observe his surroundings, amidst the deafening roar, he entered the state of the "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell" again and immediately sensed the Sapling.

"Go!"

He chanted silently in his heart after establishing the connection.

The bronze plaque suddenly turned icy, covered once more by ice crystals, and shot a ray of Alien Power towards the equally panicking Dark Giant Python’s forehead; Pang Jian and the bronze plaque disappeared together in the light.

"Howl!"

The moment he disappeared, the Dark Giant Python, which had become the target of the beasts, had no choice but to flee for its life.

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The Fourth Realm.

Cloud Marsh.

Holding the Astonishing Spear, Pang Jian lay bleeding in the grass, gasping for air.

Not far in front of him was the Sapling with which he had an established connection.

In just a short while, the Sapling had grown slightly but emitted no glow, blending indistinguishably with the weeds.

Seeing it, Pang Jian immediately breathed a sigh of relief, knowing he had escaped from the brink of death in the Fifth Realm.

"Terrifying..."

He didn’t bother to stand up but lay on the ground, staring blankly at the grey sky.

A thousand-foot tall Cyclops, a serpentine White Silver Bone Dragon, a woman with six pairs of pristine white wings, and numerous bloodthirsty Ferocious Beasts that had pounced on him to kill him.

That pillar, filled with infinite mysterious glimmers, which shook the beings of the Fifth Realm with its azure Heavenly Tribulation Pillar.

It was an experience like a nightmare flashing through his mind, leaving him scared even now.

The wounds on his body, the flesh pierced by thorns, reminded him that it wasn’t a nightmare but something that had just happened.

"So it’s true that a city could be situated atop the pillar."

Having witnessed the overwhelming power of the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar in the Fifth Realm, he realized that what they had gone through in Bagua City was nothing compared to this.

The Heavenly Tribulation Pillar in the Fifth Realm wielded a might beyond his imagination, shouldering the burden of suppressing the beings of the realm.

However, why was there still Filth Alien Power from the Fifth Realm rising and successfully emerging in the Fourth Realm?

Pang Jian was somewhat baffled.

He felt that there might be some issue with the Heavenly Tribulation Pillar, otherwise, there wouldn’t be such strange scenes of beings from the Fourth Realm falling.

After a while, having sorted through his thoughts, Pang Jian finally sat up.

He took some healing ointment from his storage bag and applied it to his wounds, then with the Astonishing Spear, he vented out the remaining Spiritual Power and the infiltrating Filth Alien Power.

Afterward, he took out a piece of Spirit Jade, starting to absorb Spiritual Power with a bit of reluctance due to its value.

Only after his drained Spiritual Sea was replenished with two-tenths of its power through the Spirit Jade did he switch to using Spirit Stones.

"A terrible catastrophe must have broken out somewhere in the Fourth Realm, I should find Dark Ghost to inquire about news."

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