The Ye Clan's ancestor was still in shock and only calmed down after sitting on the mountainside for a long time. It was said that when animals cultivated to a certain stage, they would face a heavenly tribulation. This heavenly tribulation was the biggest test for animals' cultivation.
It was said that snakes had to cultivate for a hundred years before they could become flood dragons, and flood dragons had to cultivate for a thousand years before they could become dragons. Generally, snakes in the mountains would have spirituality after a long time, so they couldn't be easily harmed. The biggest wish of animals' cultivation was to transform into a human form. Therefore, whether it was a weasel, a hedgehog, or a fox, transforming into a human form was their lifelong wish. However, there was one exception, and that was snakes. Their goal wasn't to become a human, but to transform into a dragon. For snakes, transforming into a dragon was more difficult than transforming into a human form.
Generally speaking, if spiritual beings wanted to break away from their mortal bodies and transcend into a saint, they had to undergo three heavenly lightning baptisms before they could transform into a saint. However, spiritual beings that could undergo three heavenly lightning baptisms were very rare. Most of them would be destroyed by the heavenly lightning during the first heavenly tribulation. Therefore, it was common to see some burnt bones of animals in the mountains. Those were spiritual beings that failed the tribulation. There were usually three reasons for failing the tribulation. First, the spiritual beings themselves didn't have enough spiritual power. Generally speaking, they would experience a heavenly tribulation every 60 years. Therefore, during these 60 years, the spiritual beings had to cultivate with all their might and couldn't slack off. They had to maximize their spiritual power. This was so that they could survive the heavenly lightning baptisms. However, most of the spiritual beings had just developed their spiritual wisdom and couldn't resist the temptation of this colorful world. Therefore, there were very few spiritual beings that could cultivate peacefully. 60 years passed in a blink of an eye, so it wasn't strange for spiritual beings to fail the tribulation.
There were also a small number of spiritual beings that wanted to cultivate wholeheartedly, but they couldn't bear the pain of cultivating in seclusion. Therefore, they came up with devious ideas and used opportunistic methods to increase their spiritual power. For example, they used the method of absorbing souls to cultivate their inner core. This method could increase spiritual power very quickly, but it was very harmful. These spiritual beings more or less had some divine abilities. They could either call the wind and summon the rain or spit out clouds and mist. They used these divine abilities to deceive some local people, falsely claiming that they were gods and needed children as tributes. Otherwise, calamities would descend and so on. They harmed the local people and cheated the people of their incense. Such spiritual beings had a very tragic ending. Usually, before the heavenly tribulation, they would be blasted into pieces by the heavenly lightning and their primordial spirit would dissipate. Or, they would be reported to the Heavenly Courts by the local Earth and Mountain Gods and be killed by the Heavenly Courts' Divine Generals.
There were also some spiritual beings that cultivated diligently after gaining sentience. Furthermore, they cultivated dutifully and never harmed humans or animals. Instead, they would appear from time to time to help the local people. However, he still didn't succeed in transcending the heavenly tribulation. The reason should be that he had committed too many evil deeds in his previous life, which affected his karma in this life, causing him to fail the tribulation. However, the heavens were benevolent. Although he failed to pass the tribulation, his primordial spirit was not scattered. Instead, he continued to enter the cycle of reincarnation. Give him a chance to continue cultivating. Therefore, it was very lucky to pass the tribulation successfully. Those who could pass the third heavenly tribulation could be said to be very rare, as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.
After the Ye family's ancestor returned home, he had a dream that night. In the dream, a scholarly young man bowed to him. The young man told him that he was originally a white snake in Kunlun Mountain and had cultivated for more than a thousand years. Today was the day he encountered his third heavenly tribulation. There were a total of nine bolts of heavenly lightning. Originally, with his cultivation, he could withstand six bolts of heavenly lightning at most. There was no way he could dodge the remaining three bolts of heavenly lightning no matter what. However, just as the seventh bolt of heavenly lightning was about to strike, the Ye family's ancestor fell right on his head. He knew that he definitely couldn't dodge the remaining three bolts of heavenly lightning. Now that he saw someone fall into the mountain stream, rather than losing his life in vain, he might as well save this person with all his cultivation. Therefore, he used all his spiritual energy to cover him and sent him to a flat place. After he saved him, he found that the heavenly lightning had already dissipated.
Now, he already knew that the heavens considered him to be kind-hearted and honest. Ever since he started cultivating, he had never harmed humans or animals. Moreover, at a critical moment, he could disregard his own life to save those who fell off the cliff. It was not easy for a snake to have such a kind heart. An exception was made to let him pass through this heavenly tribulation and avoid the last three bolts of heavenly lightning. That red pearl was originally his primordial spirit's Neidan. After being baptized by the heavenly lightning, it had already turned into a dragon pearl. He now had the body of a heavenly dragon. Today, if it wasn't for the Ye family's ancestor, he was afraid that he would have been bombarded into ashes by the heavenly lightning. This time, he specially came to repay the Ye family's ancestor and asked him what he wanted. He would try his best to satisfy him.
After the Ye family's ancestor heard this, he was greatly shocked. It seemed that the heavenly tribulation was not just a rumor. However, this time, although he coincidentally helped him pass through the heavenly tribulation and turned into a dragon, to be honest, his life was also saved by him. If it wasn't for him passing through the heavenly tribulation, he would have already died and fallen into the mountain stream, smashed into pieces. Thinking of this, the Ye family's ancestor said to the scholarly young man, "You passed through the heavenly tribulation because you have a kind heart and devoted yourself to cultivation. Although it was because of me that you had the opportunity to accumulate merits, in the end, I was only a test for you. Moreover, if it wasn't for you, I would have already lost my life in Kunlun. If you want to say thank you, I still have to thank you. Now that you have the body of a heavenly dragon and I have survived, you and I don't owe each other anything. Don't mention anything about repayment. " After the young man heard this, he pondered for a moment and said to the Ye family's ancestor, "How about this, you can worship my memorial tablet at home. In the future, if there is an emergency, you can burn incense and pray. Under the condition that it doesn't violate the heavenly laws, I will definitely help." "This time, since you don't tell me what you want, then I will act on my own. Tomorrow, you can go to Kunlun Mountain again. Halfway up the mountain where I appeared, I prepared a gift for you. That was something that I begged the Kunlun Mountain God with great difficulty." "No matter what, please accept it to express my gratitude." After saying this, the young man bowed deeply and disappeared.
After the Ye family's ancestor woke up from his dream, he deeply agreed. Early the next morning, he once again came to the halfway up Kunlun Mountain where he met with danger yesterday. However, no matter how carefully he searched, he did not find anything special. Just when he thought that perhaps he was dreaming about something that he thought about during the day, a corner of a huge rock beside him suddenly cracked, revealing a piece of snow-white jade. The Ye family's ancestor hurriedly went forward to take a look. He was so shocked that he could not believe his eyes. This was a piece of top-grade Kunlun White Jade. What surprised him even more was that this piece of Kunlun White Jade was more than ten feet tall and weighed at least five hundred kilograms. Ever since the Ye family's ancestor was born, he had never heard of such a big piece of Kunlun Jade with such good quality, let alone seeing it. The biggest piece of jade he had ever seen was only a square foot. Moreover, its quality was like heaven and earth compared to this piece of white jade. It seemed that what the young man said in his dream was not false.
A huge fortune fell from the sky, causing him to be unable to suppress the ecstasy in his heart. He re-wrapped the exposed part of the white jade with the stone that fell off and then rushed back home. He spent a lot of money to find someone to transport this huge rock home. Because he was a jade craftsman himself, he naturally did not need the help of others. After a few days, he finally completely peeled off this piece of Kunlun Jade. The entire piece of white jade was sparkling and translucent with a gentle color. Especially at night, it emitted a gentle white light like a luminous pearl. It illuminated five steps and was magnificent.
The Ye family's ancestor did not expect that the white snake would give him such a generous gift. Thinking that the white snake had already become a dragon and promised to grant his request, the Ye family's ancestor decided to simply carve this piece of jade into the shape of the white snake and worship it for generations. After thinking about it, he began to pretend that he was ill and shut himself in. He spent half a year carving this piece of Kunlun White Jade according to the shape of the giant snake. After fasting, changing clothes, burning incense and bathing, he enshrined the statue in the secret chamber.
On the night of the enshrining ceremony, the scholar-looking young man appeared in the Ye family's ancestor's dream again. In the dream, the young man asked him why he did not offer the white jade to the current emperor. If he did, the emperor would definitely give him glory, splendor, wealth and rank and promotion. The Ye family's ancestor told the scholar that he had been saved by the immortal and he had no way to repay him. Now that the immortal has given me such a beautiful piece of jade, I really feel bad. In order to repay the immortal's kindness of saving my life, I will offer Buddha with borrowed flowers. I will carve this beautiful piece of jade into the immortal's appearance to show my sincerity. As for the glory, splendor and wealth, the leftover jade would be enough for him to live the rest of his life. The young man laughed heartily and said, "How rare. It's rare that you have such a pure heart and few desires. If you have any difficulties in the future, you can tell me and I will definitely help you." After saying that, he disappeared.
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