With a single sword strike, Shi Xuan staggered to the ground, using the sword to support herself. Blood seeped from the corner of her mouth, but her eyes remained bright.
Seventy-nine.
Shi Xuan drew his sword again to meet Tian Lei, and they clashed for the second time.
All things grew around her, forming a tangible shell of spiritual energy that, when intertwined with lightning, emitted an exceptionally dazzling brilliance.
After the second impact and landing, Shi Xuan could no longer maintain her stance. She knelt on one knee, breathing heavily. Her eyes seemed to be flashing with two flames, flames of defiance.
eighty!
Thunderbolts struck down again.
Shi Xuan no longer had the strength to charge forward, but she still stubbornly refused to bow her head and submit.
When the lightning struck, Shi Xuan was already lying on the ground, unable to get up.
There was one last strike. The tribulation clouds in the sky were almost gone, but the few remaining clouds were gathering together, as if they were accumulating all their power to form this final strike of heavenly lightning.
Shi Xuan lay on the ground, but this did not affect the operation of all things.
This time, the interval was longer than before. All the energy within the tribulation clouds was gathered together, forming a bolt of heavenly lightning thicker than any before. It seemed to be about to raze the place to the ground, rushing down with overwhelming force.
All Shi Xuan could do was turn her body to the side, trying to avoid direct hits from the lightning on her vital parts, and then concentrate the range of the lightning strikes within the lightning zone, around her, so as to absorb the power of the lightning to the greatest extent and reduce the damage to her.
This final lightning bolt was so black it shone, carrying the aura of a final, decisive battle.
Shi Xuan could only lie there and accept this final baptism of thunder. She believed that she could definitely pull through.
As she expected, although the heavenly lightning was fierce, Shi Xuan's heart meridian was firmly protected, even though her meridians were shattered by the heavenly lightning and she was lying on the ground unable to move.
Lu Shenzhi looked over with concern and was relieved to find that Shi Xuan was still breathing.
Shi Xuan's tribulation caused such a commotion that it attracted the attention of cultivators in the surrounding area, who all came to see which Nascent Soul expert was undergoing tribulation there.
No one dared to approach before the lightning tribulation was over; they all watched from a distance on the periphery.
Although the period of tribulation is when a cultivator is at their weakest, there have been instances in the past where people have tried to take advantage of the situation, but the consequences were usually dire, because the power of the lightning tribulation is something that ordinary people cannot withstand.
It's not uncommon for people to get too close while watching the spectacle and be killed as a threat by those undergoing tribulation.
Therefore, those among the onlookers with ulterior motives are waiting for the tribulation to pass before taking action.
Usually, after a tribulation of lightning, the cultivator is almost powerless to resist attacks from outsiders and can only be slaughtered at their mercy.
This is why everyone prepares a safe place, finds someone to protect them, and creates a protective array when they are about to undergo tribulation.
They waited and waited, but the lightning bolts kept falling one after another, growing thicker and darker, terrifying the onlookers. They couldn't help but wonder what kind of cultivator could unleash such a terrifying tribulation.
More and more people gathered around to watch the spectacle, all observing the scene.
No one dared to make a move until all eighty-one lightning strikes had occurred, the clouds in the sky had dispersed, and the sky had cleared. Only then did people rush towards the place where the lightning had struck.
If the person undergoing tribulation is severely injured by the lightning, this is the perfect time to take advantage of the situation.
However, when they arrived at the deep pit that had been struck by lightning, there was no one there; only the pit itself demonstrated the ferocity of the lightning tribulation.
Fan Hongde, concealing his face among the crowd, frowned. He had come from the Divine Cauldron Sect, and by the time he arrived, it was already the last few bolts of heavenly lightning.
He had a hunch that the person undergoing tribulation here might be Shi Xuan. Although his divine sense was obscured by the tribulation clouds and he couldn't see clearly, the timing and location on the outskirts of the Azure Dragon Secret Realm were quite coincidental.
Looking again at the thick, human-sized lightning bolt, one might think that Shi Xuan wouldn't possess such a powerful lightning bolt.
However, since he's here, he'll definitely go and see. If it really is her, he can just kill her in the chaos without even showing his face. The Lianfeng Sword Sect can only assume that she was taking her tribulation outside and was robbed by a rogue cultivator, and they won't be able to find fault with her.
Based on his experience, this person would inevitably be weak after undergoing the tribulation and would have no chance of escaping.
But when they actually arrived at the center of the tribulation, the place was completely empty.
"Can you see what this person undergoing tribulation looks like?" Fan Hongde turned to ask the person next to him.
The man glanced at Fan Hongde and replied, "Although I arrived a little earlier, I still couldn't see her face clearly. I only saw the figure of a female cultivator."
"Damn it!" This confirmed his suspicions.
At this point in time, outside the Azure Dragon Secret Realm, and being a female cultivator, everything seemed to fit perfectly except for the overwhelming power of the heavenly lightning. As for that heavenly lightning, who knows if Xuan had committed some heinous act that would cause the Heavenly Dao to punish her with it?
Logically, after enduring such immense heavenly lightning, he shouldn't have had the strength to activate the teleportation talisman. Undeterred, Fan Hongde didn't leave after the crowd dispersed, but instead used his divine sense to search the surrounding area.
Shi Xuan knew the danger of this place, and the moment he could move after the lightning tribulation, he entered the Silver Frost.
Fan Hongde never expected that she would be so fortunate as to obtain such a divine artifact as the Silver Frost Secret Realm.
On the other side of the Qian Yuan Continent, after Fan Hongde left, Fan Mingzhu and Tianjun settled in the back mountain of the Divine Cauldron Sect.
Under the command of Tianjun, Fan Mingzhu entered the deepest part of the forbidden area in the back mountain.
"How do you know what's here?" Fan Mingzhu asked, puzzled.
The ancient voice of the Heavenly Army suddenly rang in her consciousness: "I have been in this Divine Cauldron Sect for far longer than you can imagine. How could I not know what is here?"
"Since it's a good thing, why don't you take it yourself?"
“Of course it can’t be retrieved,” Tianjun said. “This forbidden area cannot be entered or exited at will, especially since there is a powerful formation sealing the treasure.”
Fan Mingzhu, without suspicion, entered the forbidden area with the token in hand.
Deep within the forbidden area, at the bottom of the precipice, after walking for another quarter of an hour, Tianjun suddenly exclaimed, "This is it."
Fan Mingzhu looked around but couldn't see anything special.
"This is an illusion array. First, take five steps north, then three steps west..."
Under the command of the Heavenly Army, Fan Mingzhu easily passed through the illusion array, and the scene before her eyes was completely different from before.
Both sides were sheer cliffs; where she had just stood, the grass was lush and green, but now not a blade of grass grew where she was. A deathly silence permeated the land, carrying an ominous aura.
"It's right here!" Tianjun's voice sounded somewhat urgent. "Break this seal, and the treasure is yours!"
"How can the seal be broken?" Fan Mingzhu felt uneasy at this moment. She realized that the treasure that Tianjun mentioned was sealed in the deepest part of the forbidden area, where even the surrounding land was barren. It must not be an ordinary object.
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