"The Gods don't want to acknowledge me." thought Lin Feng, even though he didn't understand why.
"No matter what anyone else thing, I've already broken through to the Huang Qi layer." thought Lin Feng as he rose into the air. Even if the gods didn't want to acknowledge him, inside his own small world, he had already become a real emperor, he could even become stronger in there. If the gods abandoned him, then he'd abandon that world.
The only problem was, what would happen to Lin Feng in the future if he couldn't borrow cosmic energies from the Earth and sky? And what would happen if the gods really were upset with him?
"Why was the sky so upset before?" Qing Feng asked, staring at Lin Feng. She had observed him, and soon as he recalled his cosmic energies, the sky had stopped assaulting their small world. The others thought that the old man had done that, but she knew that it had something to do with Lin Feng.
Lin Feng smiled at her and asked, "That Master saved me, right?"
"Indeed." said Qing Feng nodding.
"Thank you, the gods abandoned me, my wife abandoned me, and surprisingly a stranger saved me." said Lin Feng. Although he was smiling, he still looked a bit sad. Qing Feng smiled in a warm, gentle and sweet way, "You already have seven types of cosmic energies, that's already amazing."
"You're right, I must continue making efforts, then maybe I'll find something I did wrong which is preventing me from progressing." replied Lin Feng, smiling.
Eventually the old man came back, the chessboard was in his hands.
"Thank you very much, Master." said Lin Feng.
"Let's not waste time, we have things to do." said the old man, dragging Lin Feng, and flying at full speed.
"Stinky old man, he didn't even take me with them." thought Qing Feng, biting her lips. She tried to catch up with them, but it was impossible.
In Vast Celestial Ancient City, there were many lakes, many islands, many people practiced cultivation there.
They flew to a remote island where cultivators commonly practiced cultivation.
"Everybody, piss off!" shouted a terrifying voice.
Blech. An emperor was on that island, practicing cultivation, and the voice had disturbed him violently, making him cough blood.
"Bastard!" thought the emperor, but he didn't dare say anything like that to such a terrifying cultivator. He wasn't the only one, everybody was upset, but nobody said anything openly. Very quickly, people left, even great emperors.
Lin Feng looked at the old man, speechless.
"Maybe the gods won't let you use cosmic energies, so you have to try and see if you can survive. Everything is in your hands now." said the old man. "I'll protect you."
Then the old man disappeared.
After he disappeared, Lin Feng took out his Celestial Evolution Chessboard and jumped on it. He released his godly awareness but didn't release any cosmic energies. He had to control the deployment spells with his godly awareness first, then he had to see if the gods would attack him or not.
When Lin Feng finished changing the deployment spell with his godly awareness, he released demonic cosmic energy again, and suddenly a vortex appeared in the sky.
"What a scary sky!" Lin Feng frowned. The sky was turning black, making tremble slightly.
Lin Feng started thinking about giving up but then he remembered all the hardships he had been through. He raised his head and told himself that no matter what, he would challenge the gods.
Outside the island, the energies and the strange-looking sky started drawing people's attention. What was going on there? The cosmic energies were becoming scarier as they condensed.
Was someone breaking through to the Huang Qi layer? But that couldn't be right, energies couldn't be that terrifying when someone broke through to the Huang Qi layer. Besides, cosmic energies cleansed a cultivator's body when they broke through to the Huang Qi layer, but those energies seemed like they wanted to punish someone.
Lin Feng stood there motionlessly, thinking that he would have died without the Celestial Evolution Chessboard.
The condensing energies pushing the island into chaos. Lin Feng condensed more demonic cosmic energies and then cosmic energies began descending from the sky, but they weren't wanting to cleanse his body…
Lin Feng saw those terrifying cosmic energies descending, so he ran over to the Celestial Evolution Chessboard. Suddenly, a Demonic King Armor appeared around his body and a demon appeared behind him.
Kacha! two terrifying lights collided, the demon spell and the purple lightning. Lin Feng shouted furiously, his demonic energies dashed to the skies, and he punched the air. But it still wasn't enough, the energies crashed onto his body, he was bleeding and his armor had exploded.
Lin Feng's silhouette was blurry as he dashed around, releasing life energy in a frantic effort to recover.
"And more!" thought Lin Feng, his eyes were bloodshot.
Lin Feng rose up in the air, meeting the next heavenly tribulation.
After being bested again, Lin Feng was lying on the ground, unable to stand up anymore.
"You can't oppress me." said Lin Feng, then he stood up again.
A third thread of demonic cosmic energy appeared, and just as suddenly, more energies descended from the sky towards Lin Feng. However, he was still standing after the tribulation. Though he almost fell, his body was paralyzed, and his face was deathly pale, but he persisted. Finally, his demonic cosmic energies disappeared.
Boom. Lin Feng collapsed again, fainting. He still had a smile on his face though.
An old man was glancing around inside the Heaven Clan. He noticed some demonic cosmic energies from the distance, but those weren't the cosmic energies of someone who had broken through to the Huang Qi layer.
"Restriction body, the gods must be upset." whispered the old man.
Over in the Dugu and the Chu Clans, some old men also gazed into the distance, thinking the same things.