At this moment, Shi Xuan only wanted to say to the Heavenly Dao: I thank you, but it's really not necessary!

She was already quite badly injured. If her guess was correct, there were still nineteen bolts of heavenly lightning that hadn't struck her yet, and each bolt was stronger than the last! This was outrageous!

Even Hong Chi looked at Jie Yun with great surprise, then at Shi Xuan, thinking to himself: Could it be that he miscounted? Ten thousand years have passed, and he's forgotten how to count?

Her first reaction was to doubt that she knew how to count, and she didn't even think about the possibility of a hundred heavenly lightning strikes.

When she finally realized that she was right, she thought to herself with emotion: In the past ten thousand years, the cultivation world has really made great progress. Even the number of lightning tribulations has increased!

Later, after she left, she gradually realized that she had been overthinking things. The cultivation world had not only failed to develop, but had actually regressed. The hundred lightning tribulations she encountered upon exiting were a unique, low-probability event.

That's a story for later. Nowadays, Shi Xuan is so eager to make everything fly, and he's consuming handfuls of healing pills that he would never normally need.

Fortunately, all her pills were of flawless quality, so there was no need to worry about pill poisoning.

Shi Xuan was too preoccupied to pay attention to anything else. He had just breathed a sigh of relief, but he knew that the next nineteen bolts of lightning were no joke.

After eighty-one bolts of heavenly lightning, there was a long pause, probably because the lightning tribulation itself felt that one hundred bolts of lightning were too much, and gave Shi Xuan time to rest.

Taking advantage of this brief respite, Shi Xuan mobilized all available resources. She maximized the power of the Myriad Life Technique and the Sacred Bone Technique, arming herself from the inside out like an ironclad fortress.

Before this tribulation, she had already mastered the second half of the Sacred Bone Technique. After being tempered by the tribulation, she entered a very profound realm, seemingly undergoing a transformation.

In the past, wherever she was attacked, the Sacred Bone Technique would use its spiritual power to strengthen that area. But now, Shi Xuan felt as if the Sacred Bone Technique was a membrane covering her body, protecting her completely and making her feel that no attack could break through it.

This feeling of being completely protected lasted until the arrival of the eighty-second lightning tribulation.

When the lightning struck, the piercing chill made Shi Xuan realize that his previous impression of the Sacred Bone Technique was just an illusion.

The internal organs were displaced by the blow, and the wounds that had almost healed were torn open again with this one blow.

Shi Xuan coughed up a mouthful of blood and almost collapsed to the ground.

At this moment, Shi Xuan's fighting spirit was completely ignited. She staggered to her feet, pointed the dragon bone in her hand at the tribulation cloud, and shouted sharply, "Show me what you've got!"

As he spoke, just as the next bolt of lightning struck, he leaped forward, using the dragon bone in his hand as a sword, and channeled all his spiritual power to unleash a powerful strike at the tribulation clouds.

The sword energy carried a strong sense of intimidation, and had a strong sense of declaring war.

The sword energy soared into the sky, heading straight for the tribulation clouds. The moment it touched the clouds, it seemed to possess a power capable of tearing the clouds apart.

At this moment, the swordplay no longer needed to conceal its edge; instead, its sharpness was fully revealed! It carried a resolute determination to fight the heavenly thunder to the death.

The dark, ominous clouds seemed to pause for a moment, as if they hadn't expected anyone to treat them this way.

Perhaps it was also taken aback by Shi Xuan's display of power, for the next bolt of heavenly lightning seemed to fall without properly gathering, and was even weaker than the previous ones.

As for Shi Xuan, what she lacked least at this moment was spiritual power. Not only did she have a massive amount of spiritual energy suppressed throughout her body, but she also had the fire spiritual power in this rift that was so dense it was almost tangible. Moreover, when the power of lightning struck her, a portion of it would be converted into spiritual power for her own use.

After she drained all her spiritual energy for this sword strike, new spiritual energy would quickly replenish her. The speed was just like that of the person who fell into this river of spiritual energy and was stretched to the point of bursting and dying. In just one or two breaths, it would replenish her to about 70-80%.

Since we're going to get injured anyway, instead of being listless and passively taking hits, why not take the initiative and treat this as a battle against the heavenly lightning!

Thinking of this, Shi Xuan changed to another dragon bone and held it in his hand. Enduring the excruciating pain in his body, he leaped up again, slashing at the tribulation clouds with his sword, adopting a desperate stance.

From this moment on, this is no longer a tribulation, but a battle, a life-or-death struggle between Shi Xuan and this tribulation cloud!

As it turns out, human potential is limitless. Even with his body injured, Shi Xuan still relied on his own willpower to leap up and use the dragon bone as a sword to cleave the tribulation clouds one strike at a time.

The dragon bone itself contained a massive amount of spiritual power and was extremely hard. When Xuan's sword energy rushed out, it also carried the power of the dragon bone towards the tribulation clouds.

This was the first time such an unusual phenomenon had occurred during a tribulation of lightning, and for a moment, no one knew how to handle it.

He seemed to have been thrown off his feet by Shi Xuan, losing his rhythm for a moment. Under Shi Xuan's interference, the manner in which he unleashed the heavenly lightning was not as composed as before.

At this moment, the heavenly lightning seemed to have become his weapon. When Shi Xuan swung his sword at him, he unleashed a bolt of heavenly lightning to retaliate.

The lightning strike, falling hastily like this, was naturally not as powerful as the lightning that had been carefully prepared beforehand. For Shi Xuan, the pressure was actually somewhat relieved!

At this moment, from the outside, the spiritual energy within the great rift of the Night Hemp Floating Island appears like a rushing river, all flowing in one direction.

Upon reaching their destination, they scrambled and spun towards the center, becoming supplies for one particular person. And that person was battling against heavenly lightning!

Jieyun's rhythm was completely disrupted; he almost forgot his mission.

The lightning seemed to strike one after another, more frequently, but its power was far less than before.

Just a quarter of an hour later, the tribulation clouds suddenly stopped.

Ninety-nine bolts of heavenly lightning had already been unleashed. If the rule was that one hundred bolts were required, now only one bolt remained before he dissipated...

Jieyun seemed to finally realize something was wrong; he appeared to have been led astray by this cunning human. But it was too late to say anything more; he only had one last chance left.

Jie Yun remained unresponsive for a long time, even as Shi Xuan repeatedly swung his sword at him.

Shi Xuan immediately realized his intention: this guy wanted to prepare for a while and condense the largest one!

Since that's the case, while the tribulation clouds were brewing, Shi Xuan took out all the magical artifacts from his space, including those that Li Jun had refined to sell.

The moment the last bolt of lightning struck, Shi Xuan activated more than a dozen defensive magical artifacts, along with the outer array, and also swallowed several handfuls of pills.

With everything in place, the tribulation clouds in the sky finally revealed their ferocious nature, and the jet of inky black lightning, as large as a water vat, finally descended.

The sound of thunder when it strikes is deafening, the kind that shakes the soul. Its ink-like color, wrapped in a layer of gleaming lightning, is enough to inspire fear just by looking at it.