Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me-Chapter 61 The Three Disasters

61: Chapter 61: The Three Disasters

61 -61: The Three Disasters

Typically, when a cultivator makes a crucial breakthrough, it triggers a Heavenly Tribulation.

This tribulation is a test from the heavens to determine if the cultivator is worthy of becoming an immortal.

Survive it, and advance further.

Fail, and everything ends there.

Jiang Chen understood this reasoning.

It was just that, the appearance of the Heavenly Tribulation puzzled him.

He hadn’t heard of a Heavenly Tribulation occurring when reaching immortality in this realm!

Despite feeling perplexed about the occurrence of the Heavenly Tribulation, the Thunder Tribulation gave Jiang Chen no time to contemplate.

A thunderstorm, the size of a water barrel, fell from the sky aiming straight at Jiang Chen’s forehead.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen ceased pondering about the reason behind the Heavenly Tribulation’s appearance and swiftly utilized his Divine Abilities, resisting the incoming thunderstorm.

In his heart, the mark of Mount Buzhou started to turn spontaneously.

In an instant, Jiang Chen seemed to have merged himself with Heaven and Earth, emitting an ancient aura as if he was a mighty mountain standing between the Heaven and Earth, never-changing and eternal.

Thunderous booming sounds!

At that moment, the thunderstorm struck, but it failed to harm Jiang Chen in the slightest.

However, Jiang Chen’s situation didn’t improve, instead it became increasingly dangerous.

A ball of dark fire began ablaze from beneath his soles, piercing his flesh and threatening to turn his organs to ashes and limbs rotten, reducing all his cultivation into nothingness.

At the same time, a gust of chilling wind blew through the crown of his head into his six internal organs, intending to shatter his body and obliterate him.

“These are the Three-Disasters, the calamities of cultivators!”

Coming to realization, Jiang Chen finally figured out the reason behind his abnormal condition, it was the legendary Three-Disasters.

While the practitioners of the Immortal Dao could achieve high moral character and live as long as the heavens themselves, they also weren’t completely safe.

They had to guard against the devastating Three-Disasters.

What are the Three-Disasters?

They are the Heavenly Thunder, Dark Fire, and Great Wind!

The path of cultivation involves usurping the natural order and treading on the mysteries of the sun and the moon.

Once this path is traversed, even the gods and the spirits find it hard to accommodate such beings.

Once completed, even if they retain their youthful looks and increase their lifespan, after five hundred years, they would face the thunder disaster.

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Surviving means a lifespan equal to the heavens; failing means death.

After another five hundred years, they face the fire disaster.

This fire is not an ordinary fire but a “Yin Fire”.

It burns starting from under the insoles, searing the organs till they turn into ashes and the limbs rot away.

The efforts of a thousand years of cultivation can be reduced to nothing in an instant.

Another five hundred years later, the wind disaster will arise.

This wind is not any ordinary wind, but a “Bi Wind”.

It blows from the crown of the head into the six internal organs, diffusing through the body and dissipating it.

These Three Disasters are significant obstacles in cultivation, with only a few able to overcome them.

Even if one survives a round, there is always the next round, and the round after that.

Every five hundred years, either the Heavenly Thunder, the Dark Fire, or the Bi Wind will certainly appear, only to cease before becoming a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Imagine how many could withstand this?

Take, for instance, Sun Wukong.

Born from the essence of Heaven and Earth, he was gifted and powerful, but even so, he chose to avoid the Three-Disasters using his Divine Abilities rather than resist them.

From this, one can infer the devastating intensity of the Three Disasters.

Hence, one can only avoid the Three-Disasters using Divine Abilities.

There’s no other way to resist.

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“Damn it!

Why would the Three Disasters strike simultaneously?”

Even though he had figured out the reason for his predicament, Jiang Chen’s heart was still full of confusion.

Shouldn’t the Three Disasters occur once every five hundred years?

How did it come to pass that when it was his turn, the Three Disasters happened at once?

Thinking and pondering, Jiang Chen finally blamed it on his too rapid advancement.

In less than fifty years, he had reached the Heavenly Human Realm.

Such a rate of cultivation could only be outpaced by Sun Wukong in this era.

It was indeed too fast.

Thus, the Three Disasters happened all at once.

Additionally, it could also be because of practicing Ancient Martial Arts, which is seen as defying the heavenly order.

If one talks about defying the heavenly order, which cultivation system could compete with Ancient Martial Arts?

Thinking about it that way, it’s not difficult to understand martial artists practicing Ancient Martial Arts receiving special treatment from Heaven and Earth.

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Jiang Chen did have Divine Abilities that could help him avoid the Three-Disasters.

The Bodhi Patriarch once told Sun Wukong that the methods of evading the Three-Disasters included the Heavenly Gang’s thirty-six transformations and the Earthly Fiend’s seventy-two transformations.

Those were the Heavenly Gang’s thirty-six laws and the Earthly Fiend’s seventy-two transformations – the Divine Abilities for evading the Three-Disasters.

Although Jiang Chen didn’t know the Earthly Fiend’s seventy-two transformations, he knew the Heavenly Gang’s thirty-six laws, and they were the original and unweakened versions of the Heavenly Gang’s thirty-six Divine Abilities.

It didn’t make sense why the Heavenly Gang’s thirty-six laws could avoid the Three-Disasters while a stronger form – the Heavenly Gang’s thirty-six big Divine Abilities – could not.

Furthermore, when it comes to the Heavenly Gang’s thirty-six laws, there is something that needs to be mentioned.

Sun Wukong was known for his aptitude in transformations, which perhaps had something to do with the Earthly Fiend’s seventy-two transformations.

But primarily, it was his innate Divine Abilities.

Sun Wukong was a spirit-born stone monkey, and stone monkeys could transform, discern celestial patterns, understand earth’s advantages, shift stars and change dippers.

Thus, transformations were Sun Wukong’s own innate Divine Abilities.

The Earthly Fiend’s seventy-two transformations simply strengthened his innate abilities.

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Even though he knew that the Heavenly Gang’s thirty-six Divine Abilities could help him evade the Three-Disasters, Jiang Chen chose not to use them.

He was prepared to face and resist the Three-Disasters!

The strength of the Three-Disasters, while immense, were nothing compared to the difficulties he would face in the future.

If he couldn’t even withstand the Three-Disasters, how could he possibly reach the pinnacle of Ancient Martial Arts and attain a status rivalling the three sovereigns and the five emperors?

With a thought, Jiang Chen suddenly released his defenses, allowing the Three-Disasters to wreak havoc within his body.

He would face the Heavenly Thunder, endure the Yin Fire, and let the Bi Wind consume him.

He was using the power of the Three-Disasters to temper himself.

At this moment, Jiang Chen was confident that his body, which had been refined by merging the power of the four divine beasts, would not be destroyed by mere Three-Disasters.

Thunderous booming sounds!

Under the tempering of the power of the Three-Disasters, Jiang Chen’s vital energy became increasingly refined and his aura grew stronger.

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“Three Disasters?”

“Why is that lad’s Three Disasters happening now?”

Jiang Chen’s situation had certainly caught the attention of the East Sea Dragon King and others.

They didn’t expect Jiang Chen’s Three Disasters to occur at this time, and most surprisingly, to occur all at once.

However, after the initial shock, they quickly regained their composure.

Unlike Jiang Chen, they were all experienced and well-informed, aware that although the simultaneity of the Three Disasters was rare, it wasn’t unheard of.

Generally, those with outstanding talent would face the simultaneous occurrences of the Three Disasters after transcending beyond the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

This was a treatment exclusive to exceptional talents.

Seeing this happen to Jiang Chen, the Sea Dragon King and others, far from being worried, congratulated Jiang Zixuan instead, “Congratulations to you.

The Jiang family has produced another exceptional talent.”