At this moment, the seven people entrusted by Lin Daozi to protect the Dharma also landed beside them.
Elder Jia laughed and said, "Senior Brother Lin, aren't you exaggerating? Look at your disciple, he doesn't look like he needs someone to protect him at all!"
Having just survived the tribulation of becoming a Nascent Soul cultivator, he showed no signs of the weariness caused by being struck by heavenly lightning. Instead, he was full of energy and radiant with vitality, truly needing no one to protect him.
Shi Xuan smiled sheepishly, spun around, and bowed, saying, "Thank you for your trouble, elders!"
Elder Jia then examined Shi Xuan closely for a while and asked in surprise, "Was the tribulation you were undergoing just now the Nascent Soul Tribulation?"
Although this level of cultivation at the second stage of the Nascent Soul realm doesn't seem like the level that needs to undergo tribulation, it's a bit too late to say that he's undergoing the Nascent Soul tribulation, and it's far from saying that he's undergoing the Void Refining tribulation.
Shi Xuan nodded and said, "Because I broke through the realm in the void, I only went through a tribulation of inner demons at that time. After I came out, the formal tribulation of lightning began."
"You've made quite a commotion; we thought you were undergoing a Void Tribulation!"
"That's probably because the tribulation lightning came too late, so the intensity was increased..."
Otherwise, Shi Xuan wouldn't know how to explain it.
At this moment, Lin Daozi remembered to ask, "I wonder how many bolts of heavenly lightning were used for this tribulation?"
The seven members of the Lianfeng Sword Sect also looked at Shi Xuan. When they arrived, the tribulation had already begun, but since they saw it, there had been more than eighty-one bolts of heavenly lightning.
Shi Xuan scratched his head: "Let's say a hundred..."
"What does 'counting for one hundred' mean?" Lin Daozi asked, puzzled. "Is there some other interpretation involved?"
Shi Xuan replied, "There's one more after the hundred, but it's too small to count..."
This last, fine lightning bolt left Shi Xuan unsure whether it could be considered a heavenly lightning bolt.
She had never seen a lightning bolt as thin as a finger before; even the lightning tribulation of the Golden Core stage was not this thin.
"One hundred and one?!" Elder Jia couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "I've never heard of anyone being able to pass a tribulation with a three-digit number of tribulations! In the past, wasn't the number of tribulations in the Heavenly Tribulation always ninety-nine?"
This is a consensus in the cultivation world, okay? Whenever someone undergoes tribulation, the number of heavenly lightning bolts that everyone thinks of is eighty-one.
Nine is an extreme number. For example, it is common knowledge in the cultivation world that a complete pill is made of nine pills.
“We were narrow-minded in the past,” Lin Daozi said with no small amount of pride. “Everyone says that nine is the ultimate number, but it doesn’t seem to be the case. Xuan’er already faced a hundred lightning tribulations during her Nascent Soul tribulation.”
"What?!" The seven elders felt that these words overturned their understanding. If it weren't for Shi Xuan, they would have always thought that nine was the ultimate number in the cultivation world. But Shi Xuan had created a completely new realm!
If that's true, then the disciple Lin Daozi accepted would be the first one to achieve perfection in thousands of years!
Those who previously thought they were perfect "geniuses" seem to be about to be downgraded.
No, it's not a downgrade, but rather that her status has been raised too high. Ordinary disciples in the cultivation world can no longer compare to her.
All seven of them looked at Lin Daozi. This guy only knew how to drink all day long, but who would have thought that his disciples would be more and more amazing than the last? It was truly enviable.
Lin Daozi admired the envious and jealous expressions on the faces of his fellow disciples for a while before saying, "This is not the place for reminiscing. Let's go back to the sect first."
The group of nine rode on their swords and headed away from the territory of the Divine Cauldron Sect.
Only then did the people of the Divine Cauldron Sect breathe a sigh of relief.
At the same time, they also faced the fact that their sect had declined.
The people of the Lianfeng Sword Sect could enter and leave their sect as if it were an empty place, while these people were like dead people, not daring to resist in the slightest.
They were all afraid of angering the Lianfeng Sword Sect, who had only damaged their property so far. If they were angered later and the sect went on a killing spree against the Shending Sect, the Shending Sect would be at their mercy.
At this moment, the relaxed members of the Divine Cauldron Sect belatedly realized that one of the nine people who had flown away from their back mountain earlier was... Shi Xuan!
Therefore, the person who was undergoing tribulation on the back mountain just now was Shi Xuan!
Is Shi Xuan already at the Void Refining stage? No, the lightning tribulation just now seemed to have many more than eighty-one. The tribulation clouds looked like a tribulation, but the number of lightning bolts seemed wrong.
Ke Qiansong pondered, "Perhaps... Shi Xuan has developed a new lightning-attracting pill and came to our Divine Cauldron Sect specifically to destroy our mountain-protecting formation?"
After a discussion, the elders found that this conclusion was indeed the closest to the truth.
Besides the incorrect number of heavenly lightning bolts, why would such an important matter as tribulation be done in the opposing camp?
Thus, Shi Xuan's tribulation was unknowingly interpreted as a revenge mission to the Divine Cauldron Sect, where he used the Lightning-Attracting Pill to summon a hundred bolts of heavenly lightning, and only left after destroying the sect's protective array.
They also dispatched seven protectors to launch a feint attack in one direction, in order to coordinate with her actions!
Finally, even the master, who was at the Void Refinement stage, came personally to inspect the results!
Tragic! Who could be more miserable than their Divine Cauldron Sect?
After this incident, whether in the eyes of others or in their own perception, the Divine Cauldron Sect had fallen out of the ranks of the former Six Sects of Qian Yuan. From then on, it entered the ranks of second-tier sects.
Shi Xuan's return to the sect is a major event for their Lianfeng Sword Sect.
In no time, people from all over the mountains, whether they knew her or not, came to visit her and ask where she had been these past few years.
It took three whole days before things finally calmed down.
Lu Shenzhi, Lu Wenxing, He Weiqing, and Tang Nong, who had been training outside, returned three days later.
Upon hearing that their junior sister had returned to the sect, the group disregarded whether they had finished their business outside and headed straight for the sect.
With the return of the four people, Fuyu Peak finally reached its most prosperous state in history.
Looking at his junior sister who had already reached the Nascent Soul stage, Lu Wenxing exclaimed, "The first one among us to reach the Nascent Soul stage is actually our junior sister!"
Shi Xuan cupped his hands in greeting and said without ceremony, "I am indeed the one who is here."
"Ah! Junior Sister, are you even human?! If you keep going like this, you'll surpass Master in just a few years! When we go back, you'll be Master's Master!"
"You can't expect anything good to come out of a dog's mouth!" Shi Xuan slapped him on the head. "If I didn't know your attributes, I would have drawn my sword against you today!"
This blatant attempt to sow discord between master and disciple, if applied to an ordinary master and disciple, would likely be intolerable to some narrow-minded masters.
Lin Daozi, however, was not that kind of person. He laughed loudly and said, "I'm looking forward to that day. If Xuan'er really surpasses Master, you should brew more plum wine for Master to comfort him, haha."
Before Shi Xuan could speak, Lu Wenxing objected.
"What do you mean by 'dog'? How dare you talk to your senior brother like that!"
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