"Stay calm and don't act rashly."
Gulistan cautioned while Hejin trembled with a mixture of anxiety and rage. Alas, in his current state, her words did little to affect him, and without further delay, he dived in his quarters. An unfortunate move, for the first thing he saw, was the entirety of his maids and cauldrons lying on the ground, throughout the entrance hall.
All lay with shredded clothes, legs spread wide with abundant spunk trickling from all orifices, and blissful look plastered on their faces. Hejin's eyes went bloodshot, and by the time Gulistan caught up to him, he was flying toward the origin of the ever rowdier moan.
Of course, the source of all those stabbing sounds was his bedroom, and having laid with them for centuries, how could Hejin not recognize the rowdy voices within?
"Aahh…ahhh…ahhh!
Oooh, yes…yes…yeeess!
More…more…moreee!!!"
The women groaned in a clearly debilitating pleasure. The trembling Hejin dared not step forward, his body attempting to prevent him from bearing witness to what his mind already realized.
At that time, Gulistan appeared by his side and shook her head from left to right. They'd arrived far too late. But then, as if wanting to corroborate the events unfolding within his mind, Hejin pushed open the door. It didn't grate and opened without a sound. Hejin wished it did, for without that grating sound, nothing could enfeeble the moans assailing his ears.
The door stopped blocking his sight, and even without stepping into the room, he could clearly see what went on within.
*Pah* *Pah* *Pah*
*Squelch* *Squelch* *Squelch*
*Pah* *Pah* *Pah*
A young man of daunting girth stood balls deep in Hejin's wife, hammering her from behind while his concubines, the still awake ones, licked his sculpted body and fought for every inch of him they could snatch. The *pah* sound of balls smacking ass and the squelching of a cock going in and out of a greedy cunt rivaled with the soaring moans within the room. And though she couldn't see him, Hejin could clearly witness the sight of his wife's tongue lolling out and her body writhing in pleasure even he couldn't bring out.
First, Hejin stopped, his bloodshot eyes spread wide, and his body entered a still state. But in an instant, that strange moment of calm was swept aside by a tidal wave of wrath, and without a care for who stood before, Hejin let his cultivation base explode at full-force!
"I…WILL…KILL YOOOOOU!"
Hejin roared, words so many before him did, and shot toward that youth he'd previously scorned. For indeed, it was Xabur, or rather, the Xabur-disguised Konrad. But even as Hejin pounced onto him, Konrad didn't stop plowing his wife and relished in the mixture between the suction of her fold and the eager touch of Hejin's concubines.
But before Hejin's raised fist could strike his face…
*PAH!*
…Konrad backhanded him across the cheek and sent him spiraling in the air before crashing in a nearby wall, all without stopping his pounding of Hejin's woman. Only a cuckolder could understand the joy of that instant when the cuckolded realized the treachery, rose in indignation, but failed to avenge himself, and was instead forced to endure the stabbing sight by his new nemesis.
That feeling could trigger an orgasm by itself, and Konrad could never get weary of it.
"Ohhh!"
He groaned and burst his nut in Hejin's wife's cunt while the man lay encased in the adjacent wall, unable to extricate himself, and forced to keep his eyes open by a superior power. Hejin's wife clenched the bedsheet while her pussy tightened and sucked in Konrad's spunk, and she collapsed in the umpteenth orgasm.
Satisfied, Konrad gave her plump ass a good smack before rising to face his elders.
All along, Gulistan remained stoic, with her impassible eyes never betraying her thoughts.
But as Konrad rose, and the Xabur shape morphed into his real appearance, surprise flashed within her gaze.
Not due to awe of his empyrean looks, but because once more, his appearance had undergone non-negligible changes. And the last time they did, his bloodline changed, while his strength tremendously rose.
Konrad stretched out his hand, causing a black overcoat to appear and cover his body.
"Greetings, mother. Long time no see. I missed you."
Konrad claimed with his lips curled into a bright smile.
"So did I, my beloved son. I would have been glad to meet you. But unfortunately, you didn't seem willing."
Gulistan replied with her lips flashing a matching smile.
…
Meanwhile, within the Hidden Forest, the winds of calamity rose as the Ant Goddess' cosmic tribulation approached. Within the Serpent tribe, Yvonne sat crossed-legged with Verena and the Blood Fiend Twins by her side while five men knelt before her. Those were the chieftains of the serpent, blood beast, sekhmet beast, anzu beast, and black swan tribes.
Using the Zenith Ants invasion of the Barbarian Continent and her absolute control over the Hidden Forest's Formations, Yvonne led the serpent tribe to annex the other four. The undecided blood beast tribe and the three defectors were all subjugated in a bloody, lightning war, and forced to acknowledge her as their new monarch.
Now wielding the title of Hidden Forest Monarch, and the entirety of the Forest's forces, Yvonne awaited the Ant Goddess' tribulation, to deal the blow Konrad requested of her.
Rumbling thunder echoed, and the sky darkened, covered by a plethora of ominous clouds within which a cosmic force brew. Yvonne, Verena, Calisto, Vylsea, and the five chieftains raised their heads toward the sky to lay eyes on this unprecedented event.
Not only them, but throughout the Ancient Crystal World, none failed to feel the brewing cosmic forces targeting the World Tree, which rippled with boundless life essence.
Constellations formed and spread within the dark sky, replacing it by a starry map encompassing myriads of cosmic shapes. One of those cosmic shapes glittered in dazzling white light and released a massive stellar strike on the World Tree!
In that instant, all beings within the Ancient Crystal World were illuminated, and though they didn't face it, not many dared claim the ability to survive that blow.
But before it could strike the World Tree, an emerald light shield around which glittering leaves swirled appeared and barred its path!
*BOOOOM*
The stellar beam collided with the Life Shield, which only blocked it for an instant before collapsing in emerald light particles!
Still, the shield managed to take away sixty percent of the beam's might, allowing the World Tree to endure the rest.
*BOOOOM*
Another resounding boom echoed and rumbled the Ancient Crystal World. But still, the World Tree stood, and as the light dispersed, so did the starry map. The sky returned to its usual shape. But from within the World Tree, cosmic forces lingered as the Ant Goddess successfully crossed her tribulation!
And even while the blow left her drastically weakened, her cultivation experienced a qualitative change, and she officially rose to become a One Tribulation Demigod.
