There was also a pungent smell of blood, and every part of my body was in excruciating pain. Moreover, the smell of blood seemed to be emanating from my own flesh.
Before she could even fully open her eyes, Chu Nian could feel halos of light appearing before her in strange patterns.
The tranquility lasted only a short while after she transmigrated, when a loud rumbling sound, like thunder, came from behind her.
When Chu Nian opened her eyes, she was startled to realize that the thunder that had come down from the sky seemed to be coming straight at her. She instinctively controlled her body to leap up and dodge to the side.
Unfortunately, this body was already severely injured and could not move very far. Moreover, the giant lightning bolt was about the thickness of a water bucket. When it struck, its killing range would definitely cover a large area around Chu Nian.
This scene brought countless similar images to her mind, as if she had experienced being struck by lightning more than once before.
This has a name on the path of cultivation that is both envied and feared: Tribulation Crossing.
That's right, the original owner of this body was undergoing tribulation when she transmigrated. Undoubtedly, she was a cultivator who had reached a certain level of cultivation.
Chu Nian didn't have time to think it through or sort out the original owner's memories. She quickly used the magical energy she brought with her to set up a protective shield and meet the giant lightning bolt as thick as a water bucket.
"Heh, I didn't expect her to still have the strength to withstand the fifth heavenly lightning. I thought she was done for just now."
"Yes, there's a sixth and a seventh one. She already fainted just now. I'm really worried she won't be able to hold on!"
"I hope she can hold on."
"Heh, you hope she can pull through so you can kill her yourself?"
...
The protective shield withstood the heavenly lightning, and Chu Nian then caught the sound of voices transmitting from several distant mountain peaks. The content of their conversation seemed to be about her and the tribulation she was undergoing.
These individuals are formidable and should not be underestimated. Chu Nian discovered that each of them possessed strength roughly equivalent to that of the original owner of this body.
The fifth bolt of heavenly lightning had passed, and the sixth bolt would take a little longer to condense. Chu Nian took the opportunity to organize the original owner's memories.
The original owner, Hua Nian, was a super female demon in the cultivation world who struck fear into the hearts of all. Countless cultivators, whether they were self-proclaimed righteous Dao cultivators, unruly demon cultivators, or long-lived and powerful monster cultivators, would turn pale upon hearing her name.
The Hua family she came from was originally a small cultivation family that had existed for three hundred years. The family belonged to the Xingyun Sect, one of the seven major sects of Daoist cultivation.
The Nebula Sect recruits outer disciples every three years and inner disciples every ten years.
When Hua Nian was fifteen, it happened to be the time for the Xingyun Sect to recruit inner disciples. Because the Hua family was a small cultivation family affiliated with the Xingyun Sect, they had one spot that allowed them to enter the inner sect without taking any tests.
At that time, there were two juniors in the Hua family who were both suitable in terms of age and qualifications. One was Hua Nian, and the other was Hua Tianling, who was two years older than Hua Nian but a generation younger.
Just as the family was struggling to choose between these two younger generations, Hua Nian's father, Hua Yinghai, was exposed for having an affair with the demonic cultivator Yin Tiannan. The news spread throughout the cultivation world in an instant, and the Xingyun Sect led many of its disciples to attack him.
Left with no other choice, the patriarch had to hand over Hua Yinghai. Upon learning the news, Yin Tiannan risked his life to go to the Xingyun Sect to rescue her, but he and Hua Yinghai fell into the Xingyun Sect's Hopeless Cliff and were never heard from again.
Because of this incident, Hua Nian was expelled from her family and hunted down by various Daoist cultivators. She fled to the Tianmang Forest, a place where the Daoist, Demon, and Monster races meet. There, she joined a sect that remained separate from the three races: Xuanyuan Palace.
The disciples of Xuanyuan Palace include Taoists, demons, and monsters, and their cultivation methods involve all three races. They also possess many top-tier cultivation methods and spells.
Hua Nian originally thought she could cultivate in peace here, but unexpectedly, not long after she formed her core, the entire Xuanyuan Palace was attacked by the combined forces of the Dao, Demon, and Monster races, and thousands of disciples died in what was said to be the Hatred Net from the Upper Realm.
Hua Nian was sent out of the Hatred Heaven Net by her master with all his magic power before his death, thus escaping. From then on, she roamed the Demon Realm, and with the help of the Xuanyuan Palace's techniques, she experienced the Nascent Soul and Deity Transformation realms in just a hundred years.
During this time, she killed countless cultivators in order to avenge her murdered parents and the many Xuanyuan Palace disciples who died unjustly, which is why she became a female demon that everyone feared.
Now is the time for her to undergo the Great Vehicle Tribulation.
She could have successfully transcended the tribulation, but during the tribulation, she was shocked to find that she could not mobilize the demonic energy in her body, as if she had taken a special drug that suppressed magical power.
Even so, relying on her powerful physical body honed through a century of arduous cultivation, she managed to withstand the first five bolts of heavenly lightning. However, she could no longer withstand the fifth bolt and fainted. By the time of the sixth bolt, she was struck and her body was shattered into pieces. When the seventh bolt struck, her soul, which had become extremely fragile due to the loss of her physical body, was also pulverized.
Although Hua Nian died from the lightning tribulation, the true cause of her death was clearly that she was ambushed, so she was naturally unwilling to accept it. Moreover, the real enemy who raped her parents was still alive; the culprit who killed thousands of people in Xuanyuan Palace, the master of the Hatred Heaven Net, was also still alive. How could she be content?
However, after her soul was shattered by the seventh heavenly lightning, it separated and scattered in all directions. Although it was a case of her soul being scattered, she was able to silently infiltrate various places and discover the truth about the murder of her parents and sect.
The person who told the Xingyun Sect about her father's association with the demonic cultivator Yin Tiannan and spread the word, forcing the six major sects to demand that the Xingyun Sect demand her father from the Hua family, was none other than her former fiancé, Ouyang Hao, a genius disciple from another family.
Ouyang Hao did this to openly and legitimately break off his engagement with Hua Nian, because his true love was Wen Ruyan, the maid of Hua Tianling. His engagement to Hua Nian was forced upon him by his family; he had no choice but to agree.
Wen Ruyan's five spiritual roots were considered useless. When she was in the Hua family, she could only serve as a maid. Only when her master, Hua Tianling, entered the inner sect of the Xingyun Sect could she become a disciple of the Xingyun Sect and begin her cultivation journey.
Ouyang Hao used this incident to successfully dissolve the engagement he didn't want, while Wen Ruyan used it to successfully make Hua Tianling an inner disciple of the Xingyun Sect, and she herself became a nominal disciple of the Xingyun Sect as Hua Tianling's maid.
Wen Ruyan is the female lead of this book. Although she possesses five spiritual roots and is disregarded by other cultivators, she rises through the ranks thanks to the protagonist's aura, eventually ascending to the upper realm with the male lead. Hua Tianling is the male lead. Ouyang Hao, who is constantly busy, is merely the second male lead.
It was Wen Ruyan who informed Ouyang Hao about Hua Yinghai and Yin Tiannan's affair. Hua Nian's mother, Yin Tianxiu, was Yin Tiannan's sister. She also went with Yin Tiannan to Xingyun Sect to rescue Hua Yinghai, but ultimately fell off a cliff and disappeared.
The mystery of the destruction of Xuanyuan Palace lies in a cultivation technique called "Battle Heaven Technique" that Xuanyuan Palace possessed. It is said that once this technique is mastered, it can instantly kill any top expert from any immortal sect.
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