Chapter 40
Lin Yuan spread his five fingers, and black energy surged from his hands, attacking the surrounding starry sea.
Jiang Liuya's pupils shrank sharply, and she immediately used the same move, following the spiritual power released by Lin Yuan to chase after it, trying to offset the destructive power before it caused damage to her sea of consciousness.
Although Lin Yuan's attack was casual, it was extremely difficult to completely neutralize it without causing an overflow of spiritual energy, especially when one was completely unprepared. Within this defenseless sea of consciousness, every action could potentially cause irreparable damage to Daoist Danxi.
Even with a single strike, a slight amount of spiritual energy still dissipated, causing the entire sea of consciousness to tremble, and the surrounding light spots to sway precariously, flickering on and off.
Danxi Daojun's face, which had been tightly closed, turned pale instantly. His brows furrowed and his thin lips pursed, as if he were enduring intense pain.
Jiang Liuya angrily shouted, "Lin Yuan, what are you doing!"
Lin Yuan coldly stared at Jiang Liuya, his dark purple pupils gleaming with a faint, eerie light. How could she forget that Daoist Danxi was determined to destroy her completely? And her beloved master seemed to favor her former lover.
People's hearts are so fickle, they can't be relied on! So it's better to rely on yourself than on others.
"Are you going to abandon me for him? Don't forget, who helped you rebuild your core and meridians? Who was it that stayed with you through your most difficult times?" Lin Yuan questioned sharply.
"No! I never thought of giving up on you!" Jiang Liuya shook her head gently and retorted loudly.
Lin Yuan snorted and said, "Do you think I don't know what you're thinking and whether you're wavering? Don't forget, I was created from you."
For a long time, Lin Yuan had been in the form of a Gu worm, obediently residing within Jiang Liuya's dantian and directly obeying her will. She never imagined that one day Lin Yuan's will would supersede her own.
At this moment, Jiang Liuya realized that Lin Yuan would no longer easily obey her, and she had to take Lin Yuan away from Danxi Daojun's sea of consciousness as soon as possible. This fragile sea of consciousness could no longer withstand any disturbance.
Jiang Liuya's ethereal consciousness swooped forward, tightly gripping Lin Yuan. Within this sea of consciousness, which resembled a starry sky, the two ethereal consciousnesses vanished together.
Danxi Daojun opened his eyes, his face still pale, his head throbbing with pain. The attack had injured his sea of consciousness. Fortunately, Jiang Liuya's timely response had absorbed most of the force. He immediately swallowed a bottle of pills, circulated his qi to repair himself, and stabilized his soul.
The female cultivator in front of him looked at him quietly, with a half-smile.
As Danxi Daojun recovered from the excruciating pain of her soul being torn apart, she immediately sensed that something was wrong.
"You are... that Gu worm?" Danxi Daojun broke out in a cold sweat.
"What do you mean by 'that Gu worm'? Don't use such harsh language." Lin Yuan had already taken control of Jiang Liuya's body.
"Speaking of which, I have to thank you. Thanks to you, I gained control of this body." Lin Yuan deliberately chose to say things that hurt the most.
Within her sea of consciousness, Jiang Liuya, forced by circumstances to leave as quickly as possible, made a concession, relinquishing control of her body. Lin Yuan's divine sense, after its advancement, was now stronger than Jiang Liuya's, but as the original owner of the body, her compatibility was higher. For Lin Yuan to seize control of her body and gain complete dominance would not be easy. Since both sides had their own desires, it was better for each to compromise.
Lin Yuan has just taken over Jiang Liuya's body, and it is not yet fully integrated. More time is needed to upgrade this body.
"I can't kill you right now, and you can't do anything to me either, so let's part ways here." Lin Yuan had no intention of fighting, and with that, he turned and left.
Danxi Daojun's body, which he was barely holding on to, was churning with blood and qi, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
As soon as Lin Yuan left the territory of the Tianxuan Sect, the originally azure sky instantly turned into a depressing gray, as the lightning tribulation had quietly locked onto her.
Well, what's coming will come.
Twisted purple arcs of electricity flickered in and out of view in the dark clouds above Lin Yuan's head, crackling and popping. A gale howled, and the hem of his black robe fluttered wildly.
A purple light gleamed in Lin Yuan's dark eyes, and a strange smile curled at the corner of his mouth.
She spread her fingers slightly, and a green light flashed in her hand.
"You are the natal magic weapon of a Nascent Soul cultivator. I'll use you to help me block this tribulation."
Driven by spiritual energy, the jade vine in her hand rapidly spread and grew, intertwining with each other to form a dense, umbrella-shaped protective shield above her head. The shield emitted a green fluorescence, with a purple lightning-like light subtly flowing across its surface.
The Thunder-Struck Jade Vine is a thousand-year-old spiritual tree that encountered a lightning tribulation. After the spiritual tree turned to stone, Daoist Danxi nurtured it with the power of the wood spirit, giving birth to a rare treasure that not only inherited the immense power of the lightning tribulation but also contained boundless vitality.
A massive, purple lightning bolt, as thick as a century-old tree, crashed down from the clouds with a devastating force, accompanied by a deafening roar. The area around the lightning tribulation was ravaged by flying sand and stones, leaving nothing but barren land.
The protective shield woven from the jade vines sizzled under the bombardment of the lightning tribulation. The surface of the jade vines was scorched black by the lightning, and the life force contained within was immediately released and spread. But before it could spread throughout its entire body, wave after wave of lightning struck, gradually charring the jade vines' vibrant green exterior, turning it increasingly gray, as if its life force had been drained.
At Lingcui Peak, Daoist Danxi was recuperating. His soul had just been severely injured, but what pained him even more was that he had failed to protect his beloved again.
Suddenly, a sharp pain shot through his dantian, and an extremely dangerous force exploded within it. He felt a trace of the pressure of a tribulation lightning. Danxi Daojun was a Nascent Soul cultivator, and his dantian had already formed a small universe containing vast energy, but it was now blasted into ruins.
Is this a tribulation of lightning? She's undergoing tribulation.
Immediately afterwards, Daoist Danxi fainted.
A righteous cultivator faces nine tribulations of lightning as they advance to the Nascent Soul stage, but as an evil cultivator, the Heavenly Dao is particularly harsh, subjecting him to double the lightning tribulations, which become increasingly powerful as they progress. Lin Yuan thought resentfully as he continuously catalyzed the Azure Jade Vine to shield himself from the calamities.
Finally, the Jade Vine burned out its last bit of power, collapsed with a crash, and shrank back to its original form, becoming a withered vine.
"Three more lightning strikes left, and you're already done for? What a waste!"
Lin Yuan retrieved the withered jade vine from his hand, faintly sensing a trace of life within it.
"Isn't there still some energy left?" he said, and then tried to activate it again.
"That's enough! Let's stop here!"
At the Dan Yuan point, Jiang Liuya tightly gripped Lin Yuan's hand.
As a lightning bolt descended, Lin Yuan used Jiang Liuya's tightly gripped hand to push her away.
"Since you care about him so much, you should suffer this pain for him!"
Jiang Liuya's soul was pushed out by Lin Yuan, and she regained control of her body, only to be struck by a heavy bolt of heavenly lightning. She frantically mobilized all her spiritual power, but it was still no match for the lightning tribulation.
Before she could even catch her breath, another lightning tribulation was already brewing, ready to strike. In this life-or-death moment, Jiang Liuya released all her treasured Gu arrays. The black Gu arrays surged wildly, and under the onslaught of purple lightning, the Gu worms of different forms exploded, burned into charcoal, and then scattered into ashes. Jiang Liuya's blood surged, and she spat out a mouthful of blood.
There is one last tribulation lightning strike.
Jiang Liuya gazed at the dark, surging clouds overhead, where countless tiny, eerie blue lightning bolts weaved and intertwined, forming a massive vortex. Blood trickled from the corner of Jiang Liuya's mouth, and her eyes reflected the flickering lightning.
His black eyes gradually turned purple.
"The final lightning tribulation is the key, so of course I have to bear it myself." Lin Yuan regained control of her body and locked Jiang Liuya inside her dantian.
Lin Yuan, of course, wouldn't be so kind. She was no longer the obedient Gu worm that would shield its master from trouble and calamities. This final lightning tribulation contained the energy of rebirth, the opportunity for her to reshape her physical body and allow her soul to merge closely with this body.
A massive lightning bolt descended from the clouds, emanating a chilling aura. The surrounding scene was enveloped in blinding light, and space seemed to freeze.
Lin Yuan truly felt the terror of the lightning tribulation. She took a deep breath, raised her hands high, and gathered all her spiritual power. However, no matter how she resisted, her body was instantly pierced through, and powerful electric currents surged through her entire body. These currents coursed through her limbs and bones, shattering her meridians and breaking her bones. She didn't know how much time had passed before the light slowly disappeared, and Lin Yuan collapsed heavily to the ground.
Opening her eyes again, Lin Yuan looked at her hands with great curiosity. This was a completely new body, brimming with power, as if she could move mountains and fill seas with a mere wave of her hand. She tentatively unleashed one-tenth of her spiritual power, and a large tree instantly rose from the ground. Like a mischievous child, she manipulated the tree, propelling it into the air before it crashed down from the sky; this tree was merely a temporary toy for her.
With a wave of her hand, a piece of vine fell from her sleeve—the jade vine that had just helped her block the lightning tribulation.
Lin Yuan picked up the Jade Vine, which was beginning to show a hint of green. The Jade Vine was originally born from lightning, and in the last tribulation lightning, it comprehended "endless life" and was now tenaciously nurturing new life.
Lin Yuan thought to himself, "This useless guy is just like his master. He can't exert any force when you want to use him, but he'll come out and get in the way when you don't want to use him."
Having endured the tribulation of lightning, Lin Yuan is now the Gu Master. She holds up the jade vine with one hand, while black venom seeps out from the other, intending to destroy it completely with the venom.
"stop!"
The dying Jiang Liuya spoke up to stop them.
"What time is it? You should worry about yourself!"
"If you dare to lay a hand on me, I'll self-destruct!" Jiang Liuya warned sternly from the Dan Yuan location.
Lin Yuan gritted his teeth inwardly. He thought to himself, "Humans are truly foolish, sacrificing for love and burdened by emotions. They are utterly foolish!"
She casually tossed the jade vine out.
Well then, what difference does it make whether this piece of trash is kept or not?
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