Unfortunately, Wen Zixuan, the master of the Hate Heaven Net, searched the entire palace after the destruction of Xuanyuan Palace but could not find this cultivation technique.
The reason the original owner experienced physical abnormalities during her tribulation was because she had been cursed. Because of her powerful cultivation techniques and extreme sensitivity to poisons, she was easily fooled by drugs that suppressed magical abilities. Therefore, the witch Xiao Huan, who served her closely, placed this curse on her.
This hidden curse originates from the celestial realm above.
Wen Ruyan was originally the lost little princess of the Wen family, a noble immortal clan in the upper realm. Because her father, Wen Zi'ang, was afraid that her true identity would be discovered in the lower realm due to her immortal roots, he placed a restriction on her body, which is why she only showed five spiritual roots.
Xiao Huan comes from the Wen family of the immortal sect. She has two missions in the mortal realm: first, to eliminate the remnants of the Xuanyuan Palace; and second, to find the little princess Wen Ruyan.
After Chu Nian finished sorting through the original owner's memories, she looked up and saw rolling clouds overhead, lightning flashing, and electric snakes constantly gathering in the clouds.
The lightning Chu Nian just received was the sixth bolt of heavenly lightning from the original owner when she was undergoing the Great Ascension Tribulation. What is currently gathering is the final bolt, the seventh bolt of heavenly lightning.
In the original owner's memory, the seventh heavenly lightning bolt was only about a quarter of an hour away from the sixth, but Chu Nian felt that nearly two quarters of an hour had passed and it still hadn't struck.
Moreover, judging from the countless lightning bolts gathering in the sky, their formation was far stronger than the heavenly lightning when the original owner was present.
Chu Nian stared at the rolling dark clouds in the sky, not knowing what she was thinking: she felt that the heavens were going to send lightning to strike her, not the original owner of this body.
Those who dared to watch the original owner undergo the Great Ascension Tribulation from the surrounding mountains were all semi-big shots in the entire cultivation world, all cultivators at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. It's unclear whether they wanted to learn from the original owner's tribulation or simply wanted to see him struck by lightning.
Chu Nian searched the original owner's memories and found that she was not familiar with the people present. However, two of them were people who had besieged Xuanyuan Palace. One was a demon and the other a righteous one. The demon one seemed to have recently killed his son. The righteous one's beloved disciple was apparently killed by Chu Nian in a secret realm decades ago when the original owner was still in the Nascent Soul stage.
These two people have an irreconcilable feud with the original owner, so they probably didn't come here simply to watch the original owner's misfortune.
About two quarters later, a giant golden lightning bolt had condensed in the sky, shocking everyone present: Golden lightning tribulation usually only appears when immortals undergo tribulation, so how could it appear during the tribulation of cultivators in the cultivation world?
Chu Nian didn't seem to mind; it seemed that this color of heavenly lightning was normal for the seventh strike. She had already re-formed a protective shield and opened the Soul Ruins again...
A deafening roar of thunder echoed across the sky as the seventh bolt of lightning finally struck. Though only as thick as an arm and seemingly weaker than the previous sixth bolt, it crackled with countless electric snakes as it descended, and from all directions in the sky, countless golden electric snakes surged forth.
Perhaps unaware that the one undergoing tribulation could hear their whispers, the demonic cultivator who had just lost his son, named Chu Yungui, secretly whispered to the others: "Everyone, this female demon has only just reached the Great Ascension stage and is already experiencing golden heavenly lightning. If we allow her to grow like this, I'm afraid we'll have even less peace after we reach the Immortal Realm."
Ouyang Chao, the Daoist cultivator who had killed his disciple—oh, speaking of which, he was from the same clan as that scumbag Ouyang Hao—quickly chimed in, "That's right. This female demon has killed countless of my Daoist cultivators. If we don't eliminate her here today, I'm afraid even more fellow cultivators will die at her hands in the future. Everyone, although we are not on good terms with each other because of our different paths, we must join forces today to eliminate this female demon to prevent her from becoming a great threat to our three clans."
The call from these two immediately received a response from several other Nascent Soul level experts.
Well, so these people came just to see if the original owner could successfully overcome the tribulation. If not, fine. But if she could, they would kill her while she was still weak after the tribulation.
"These people have a good plan!" Chu Nian thought to herself with a chuckle.
Golden lightning slammed heavily into the protective shield she had erected, shattering it with a crack, but ultimately shielding Chu Nian for a moment. In the blink of an eye, Chu Nian had already erected a second protective shield, then a third, a fourth…
Several protective shields were smashed to pieces, and since the original owner's physical strength was limited, Chu Nian could only maintain a protective shield of this strength for the time being, which inevitably made him appear a bit flustered.
Fortunately, by the time she reached the ninth protective barrier, Chu Nian sensed that the power of the heavenly lightning was weakening. She tried to channel the lightning energy into her own Void.
This was a tribulation lightning formed by the Heavenly Dao, which was purer and more powerful than any energy she had ever encountered before. She didn't want to let such a good thing slip away.
The crowd was unaware of the details of the lightning tribulation area, but they could sense that those being struck by lightning were constantly forming protective shields, and eventually they became overwhelmed.
However, they also sensed that the energy of the heavenly lightning had weakened compared to the beginning, so they exchanged a glance.
During the heavenly tribulation, they cannot interfere, otherwise they might attract the heavenly lightning to themselves. Therefore, if they want to take action, they can only wait until the heavenly tribulation is completely over.
Ouyang Chao: "When I saw her faint from the lightning, I thought the next two bolts of lightning would finish her off, but I didn't expect her to survive."
Chu Yungui: "Yes, she's quite resilient."
Ouyang Chao: "On the other hand, if she didn't have this kind of spirit, she probably wouldn't have escaped the battle of Xuanyuan Palace."
Chu Yungui couldn't help but ask, "Are you saying that what the Upper Realm is looking for is really on this woman?"
Ouyang Chao remained silent in thought.
Chu Yungui said with a mix of helplessness and worry, "If it were still there, that would be fine, since we found the celestial official who gave it to the upper realm. But what if it's not on her? If we report this to the upper realm, won't they suspect that we've been hiding it?"
He speculated that the "Battle Heaven Technique" might be a secret even in the Immortal Realm, but the Upper Realm revealed it directly to them when issuing this task.
In fact, Ouyang Chao also had this worry, but he didn't know what to do: some things, whether you go forward or retreat, will not end well, and it seems that this is the situation they are facing now.
At this moment, Ouyang Chao and Chu Yungui were communicating telepathically. The other Nascent Soul cultivators present, including demons, monsters, and Taoists, did not participate in the conversation. This was because only the two of them had participated in the battle of Xuanyuan Palace and had been tasked with hunting down the remnants of Xuanyuan Palace in the upper realm.
Chu Nian felt that these two weren't completely stupid for having such doubts.
As the lightning subsided and the dark clouds began to disperse, Ouyang Chao and Chu Yungui's expressions turned serious. Regardless of whether what the upper realm was looking for was on Hua Nian or not, they had to take action.
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