The blurry figure blocking the way of the few people has gradually become clear at this moment. When all the people of Zhu Luomu saw who was coming, they couldn't help but pay their respects.
"I've met the Sect Master!"
The man was dressed in white and had an old face. He was the Star Moth who had not appeared for a long time.
"Forget it, don't come near!"
After saying this again, the Star Moth disappeared without a trace in a flash, leaving behind only a group of monks staring at each other in amazement.
Then the sound of the star moth drowned out the thunder in the sky and resounded throughout the "Falling Star Valley".
"All disciples, go back. Do not approach the thunderbolt within 300 miles. Anyone who disobeys this order will be killed!"
This voice echoed for a long time, and the already somewhat chaotic "Falling Star Valley" suddenly returned to silence. Many people hesitated for a moment and then immediately stopped.
"Brother Zhu, could it be that something unexpected happened in the inner valley? It even made the sect master come out!"
In recent years, Zhu Luomu has been in the limelight, suppressing all the disciples. No matter whether you are dissatisfied or not, there are few people who can cultivate to the foundation-building stage who are not shrewd.
Since their master is the current sect leader, naturally they have to show goodwill to Zhu Luomu. Now that they have been ordered to stay here, they naturally look towards Zhu Luomu.
The direction where the wind and clouds gathered was deep in the valley, and the current phenomenon looked like someone had triggered the restrictions of the sect protection formation, triggering the power of wind and thunder.
Zhu Luomu frowned. He felt something was wrong. He had seen similar situations in some books. But before he could confirm, someone spoke out hesitantly.
"This isn't the activation of a formation restriction, but rather a heavenly tribulation. Is someone trying to form a pill?"
Just after this person said this, three or four more of their group of foundation-building cultivators had their eyes flickering, as if they had also thought of this possibility.
The rest of the cultivators were all shocked, and a flash of lightning suddenly flashed through their minds. They immediately looked at the person who spoke. That person was one of the oldest and longest-cultivating foundation-building cultivators in the valley.
It is a big event for a sect for a Foundation Establishment cultivator to condense the Golden Elixir and for a Golden Elixir cultivator to form the Nascent Soul. There will definitely be mid- to high-level cultivators on hand to protect them, and anyone who is irrelevant will be expelled.
If he is a casual cultivator, he will look for an extremely remote and desolate place to avoid being ambushed and killed by someone when facing the heavenly calamity.
And no one has formed a pill in the "Falling Star Valley" for more than three hundred years, and very few people have seen it.
It is common for cultivators to mobilize the power of heaven and earth through their own magic power and formations, so even if there is lightning and thunder, people's first reaction is not that someone is casting a spell or triggering the sect's protective formation.
After they witnessed the power of the sect protection formation last time, the sky was full of stars, like a dream, and it trapped and killed a Jindan cultivator. Now, suddenly there was a strange phenomenon of wind and thunder in the valley, and for a moment they did not think of it as a heavenly calamity.
Even the cultivator who spoke was only over 170 years old, and had never seen the tribulation scene of Lin Xinghe, the last person to transcend tribulation in "Falling Star Valley".
But he was still the first to react, because he had the good fortune to see others transcending tribulation from afar during his training outside.
"If it really is one of the senior brothers who is in the process of forming a pill, that would be great."
After a moment's silence, all the cultivators here became extremely excited, even though they had not been able to enter the deepest part of the heavenly tribulation, as they were still hundreds of miles away from there.
But with such a huge momentum, they can already see some things clearly here.
Being able to watch others form a pill from beginning to end at such a distance will not only be of great reference to their future efforts in forming a pill.
It may also give them insights into their cultivation, and the benefits to improving their own cultivation cannot be described in words.
"I wonder which senior brother has this opportunity?"
Someone asked in a low voice, there were several foundation-building monks who had been in seclusion in the depths of the valley for many years, and they were not very familiar with the area where the core disciples lived.
You may only know the area where a person lives, so you can only make a rough guess.
But Zhu Luomu suddenly remembered someone, and that person's residential courtyard should be in the area where the dark clouds gathered.
"It can't really be him!"
The Star Moth stopped when it was fifty miles away from the dark clouds. In just a dozen breaths, the black clouds there had become a thousand feet thick, like an invisible mountain coming from the sky.
"Dark clouds are pressing down on the city, threatening to destroy it!"
Xingming couldn't help but think of this sentence in his mind. Thick cumulus clouds were slowly spinning in the sky. A huge vortex had formed in the center of the clouds. As it rotated, it continued to press downwards, as if to destroy everything.
And on the ground facing the huge vortex eye in the sky, there is a small courtyard that looks so lonely and helpless.
When "Falling Star Valley" established the courtyards for these core disciples to live and practice, the two courtyards were separated by at least a hundred miles, except that most cultivators did not like to be disturbed by outsiders.
One of the most important reasons is to prevent someone from encountering a heavenly tribulation when forming a pill and implicating others.
"Who lives in that courtyard?"
Just as Xing Ming was silently observing the courtyard, a crisp voice suddenly sounded in his ears. Xing Ming was startled at first, but soon returned to normal.
There was only one person who could come to his side so quietly in the sect's formation without him noticing. He quickly bowed to the empty space on the side.
"Uncle Master, why did you come out of seclusion?!"
As he saluted, the void twisted slightly, revealing the figure of a young man in a red robe. It was none other than Tian Xingzi, the great elder of "Falling Star Valley" who had not been seen for decades.
After Tian Xingzi appeared, his eyes were fixed on the courtyard dozens of miles away. There was a strange light in his eyes. It was certainly a blessing from heaven that a disciple in the valley could condense the golden elixir.
"Master, it's the disciple named Zhang Ming!"
After Xing Ming confirmed the location where the Heavenly Tribulation would fall, he suddenly remembered the person in that courtyard. "Zhang Ming? Are you talking about that body cultivator?"
Tian Xingzi's eyes focused. It had only been twenty years, and he remembered the name the first time.
At this time, Tian Xingzi's broken arm had recovered, but his face was still abnormally pale. In the battle twenty years ago, Tian Xingzi had lost a huge amount of blood and essence, which could not be recovered in such a short time.
It was not yet time for him to come out of seclusion, but today during his practice he suddenly felt a heart-pounding pressure coming down on him, which woke him up from his practice.
He was shocked and thought that some powerful cultivator had come to the "Falling Star Valley", but when he scanned with his spiritual sense, he found that a heavenly calamity was coming.
The reason why he chose to come out now was that he felt terrified by the pressure contained in this heavenly calamity.
If he had not witnessed the great heavenly tribulation that his master had gone through when he was forming his infant, it would have been difficult for him to make any comparison or assessment.
This was far more powerful than any Core Forming Tribulation he had ever seen, but it was still far from the Infant Forming Tribulation.
But this was enough to make Tian Xingzi terrified. This was more than three times louder than the noise he made when he was forming the elixir, and this was just the beginning.
Seeing such a shocking change, Tian Xingzi immediately rushed here to confirm it.
"That's the man!"
Star Moth's answer was also very brief.
"How is this possible? Isn't he a physical cultivator? Moreover, he is a cultivator with four types of profound spiritual roots. How can he form a pill? Moreover, he must be at the eighth or ninth level of foundation building to have such pressure."
Tian Xingzi, who was already shocked, looked even more surprised. Although he was not at the eighth level or above in foundation building, his judgment was not weak at all and he saw the clue at a glance.
"That's why I, nephew, am also puzzled. But the spiritual root attribute cannot be concealed at all. With his mysterious spiritual root aptitude, it is a great blessing for him to be at the fifth level of foundation building at most."
Xing Ming just saw that the place where the heavenly calamity occurred was Zhang Ming's courtyard, and he was unable to figure it out for a moment.
"Then there is only one possibility. There is something wrong with this person's bloodline. It is said that some royal descendants, if they are immortal cultivators, will have the so-called 'hidden dragon blood'.
But I have only seen this statement in ancient books, but I have never seen any real records of the so-called royal descendants."
Tian Xingzi pondered for a moment, and then thought of a possibility. However, he had previously treated the so-called mortal emperor who claimed to be a descendant of a dragon as a joke.
Now, I couldn't help but remember this matter.
This was the first time that Xingming heard of the "hidden dragon blood" and a look of confusion appeared on his face.
"Uncle Master, is it true that in ancient times, or even in the ancient times, the human race and the dragon race intermarried? But how could the proud dragon race allow its members to intermarry with outsiders?"
Although Star Moth has never seen a real dragon, it has seen some dragon species.
Even with such a rare bloodline, the Jiaolong clan is extremely proud and arrogant. They will never marry or have children with cultivators from other races.
Tian Xingzi shook his head.
"I have only seen this kind of record. Otherwise, I can't think of any other way to explain this situation. A mysterious spirit root formed a pill, and the movement was so big!!"
With their knowledge, they would never think that there would be any problem in testing the attributes of the other party's spiritual roots. Even if they racked their brains, they would not believe that there was an ancient sect that specialized in cultivating mixed spiritual roots.
At this time, the alternating lightning and thunder in the sky was deafening, and the sound shook the sky.
"So what do we do now?"
Looking at the courtyard where lightning had begun to pour down, Xingming asked.
"The calamity has arrived, so let's wait and see what happens! If we had known earlier that this child might have the so-called 'Hidden Dragon Blood', we could have extracted his essence and blood for later use!"
Tian Xingzi said lightly, thinking of the descriptions about the "Hidden Dragon Blood" in his heart, and he already felt a little regretful.
According to the description in the classics, if Zhang Ming's essence and blood were extracted and refined into pills, it would not only have the miraculous effect of strengthening the body and quickly recovering from injuries, but it would also have a certain auxiliary effect in forming a fetus.
For a moment, Tian Xingzi couldn't help but think of Zhang Ming's physical body that was far superior to that of his peers. At this moment, he actually had a sense of enlightenment. The probability that the other party was carrying the "Hidden Dragon Blood" increased a bit.
Of course, Xingming understood what he meant by this. No matter what the other party's essence and blood were like, as long as the heavenly tribulation began, it would be extremely difficult for them to capture Zhang Ming.
Under the heavenly tribulation, even a Nascent Soul cultivator would not be willing to touch Zhang Ming casually, as doing so would trigger a powerful heavenly tribulation to attack themselves.
Generally, people take advantage of their enemy's tribulation to kill him, and this is the time when the enemy is at its weakest, just when the final tribulation is about to come.
"If he hadn't died but was seriously injured, there might still be a chance..."
Xingming whispered. After hearing this, Tianxingzi turned his head to look at him, then looked towards the dark clouds again.
There are generally only four possible outcomes for a cultivator who is undergoing tribulation.
If one fails to survive the tribulation, one will be reduced to ashes; if one fails to survive the tribulation, one will not die but will be seriously injured; if one succeeds in surviving the tribulation, one will be seriously injured; if one survives the tribulation, one will survive intact.
The first one goes without saying. Under the heavenly calamity, the entire person will be reduced to ashes, leaving nothing behind. This has no meaning to Tian Xingzi and the others.
Among the latter three, the most common are the first and second conditions, while the probability of the third one occurring is very small, so small that one in ten thousand is unlikely. There are already very few people who can survive the tribulation, and one in ten thousand is almost the same as nothing.
Even if a cultivator can completely survive the tribulation, he is often at his weakest right after surviving the tribulation, and is most likely to be killed.