Chapter 84 Tribulation
Watching Jiao Jue's graceful departure, Ji Zhuang felt the same heartache as Gu Qingqing.
Ji Zhuang also inwardly cried out that he had miscalculated!
He thought to himself that if he agreed to go with Jiao Jue to the Wu Clan's remnants to be the guardian deity, he might be able to mine a large bag of ore every now and then. If such a convenient thing happened, why would he have to worry about supporting his younger sister?!
Alas, shortsightedness harms birds!
But he was equally proud!
Since ancient times, the strong have been respected!
My younger sister Ji Rong is so clever. She effortlessly gained a demon king brother who delivers spirit crystal mines. If there were more brothers like her, wouldn't they be rich?
As Ji Zhuang was lost in his own thoughts, he saw thunder rumbling and wind and rain howling in the distant sky.
A dragon's roar pierced through the thunder and rain, spreading in all directions; immediately afterward, one after another ball of lightning rolled down and bombarded the area.
The bombing gradually turned the seawater on the horizon into a yellowish-brown color.
Jiaojue has begun her tribulation!
Facing the thunder and lightning, he recalled ancient legends.
Legend has it that dragons originated from wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, and can also fly to the clouds during tribulations to drink from the source and forge their bloodline.
The origin of this legend is unknown, but it is generally accepted that cultivators who can face the laws of heaven and earth to overcome tribulations will gain many benefits.
Jiao Jue thought to himself that in his life, he suffered humiliation as a child because of his impure bloodline. In his youth, he was protected by his younger sister, Jiao Pingbo. However, because of his impure bloodline and lack of talent, he could not improve his cultivation level and could only work as a porter.
Now, he is on the verge of becoming emperor, but he is not content with just becoming emperor;
He wants to fly up there and verify this legend!
If he manages to fly up and successfully transcend the tribulation, then no one will be able to laugh at him anymore.
If he hadn't been able to fly up and instead landed on the ground to become emperor, then few lives would have had the right to mock him.
If he were to perish here, he would have no regrets!
Because he tried!
An unprecedented sense of pride spread through Jiao Jue's heart.
The lightning began to fall, but Jiao Jue neither dodged nor evaded. He stretched out his ten-zhang-long body and flew upwards towards the dense tribulation clouds.
Lightning struck the Horned Jade like a sharp blade, stripping away its scales. Soon, its entire body was covered in blue and red blood, which mingled with the rain and fell down.
Ignoring everything else, Jiao Jue used his horn to block the lightning, holding his breath as he flew upwards.
The closer they got to the tribulation clouds, the denser the lightning became. They were like giant balls of lightning, blasting Jiao Jue until he was covered in blood and his whole body trembled.
But he seemed oblivious, and flew even faster upwards.
Perhaps the horned jade was too close to the tribulation cloud, or perhaps the tribulation cloud developed its own consciousness and felt that this life undergoing tribulation still had some strength left.
The dense lightning converged into a huge beam of light, which struck Jiao Jue directly; the lightning, as white as daylight, engulfed Jiao Jue's ten-zhang-long body, shearing off large chunks of his flesh.
Jiao Jue's body trembled violently uncontrollably. He froze in mid-air, letting out a mournful roar towards the sky.
Blood gushed from the horn on his forehead, yet the calamity cloud so close at hand still seemed impossibly far away.
Another bolt of lightning struck him.
The fear of death caused Jiao Jue's body to contort uncontrollably!
But he kept his body straight, raised his head and horns, and charged straight into the bolt of lightning.
"Click"
The Horned Jade's horn shattered and fell downwards along with the lightning. The Horned Jade's uncontrollable tail, along with its right hind claw, was sliced off by the lightning.
Jiaojue felt his life slipping away at an accelerated pace.
He can no longer turn back.
He didn't want to turn back.
The lightning above gathered again, and without thinking, he charged straight up.
"Tear"
The lightning struck, scraping off another layer of flesh from the Horned Jade, but it couldn't stop it, and the Horned Jade finally flew up into the clouds;
One of his eyes was already useless, and the other was filled with blood, allowing him to only vaguely see light.
In a blur, he saw a small pool nearby, which seemed to be flashing with electricity;
At this moment, Jiaojue was like a bloody, mangled skeleton, crawling laboriously forward on the clouds with his two long-broken forepaws.
The lightning continued to fall, but it could no longer harm him.
Perhaps it was thirty steps, perhaps three hundred steps, but Jiao Jue moved forward resolutely and finally reached the edge of the pool.
But his jawbone was broken, and he was unable to speak.
Jiaojue stared at the pool of shimmering, thick liquid with his bloodshot eyes.
He wanted to laugh, but his body no longer responded. He trembled as he used one severed hand to support the cloud, and then pressed the other severed hand down onto the cloud.
"Bang"
The mangled body flipped over and fell into the pool.
Before falling, Jiao Jue felt a sense of clarity in his heart.
Although his body felt like a million-pound piece of cold iron, he was very relaxed. He thought to himself, "Since I can't drink it, I might as well soak it in. It won't be a wasted trip."
The thick liquid made it impossible for Jiaojue to breathe.
In a daze, he recalled the tragic times of his youth.
A gentle mother, a lovely and considerate three-headed dragon sister, and the hot-tempered god Di Rong who always liked to whip them himself when riding in his chariot—how rude of him...
And then there's the infuriating little bird, her gray-brown bird brother, the three-colored fox, the mirror spirit that became the five-colored ugly fox... and the ancient witch clan that worships him... Haha! It's absolutely hilarious.
Unfortunately, the thick liquid filled his ears, and the pressure in Jiao Jue's mouth gradually eased. In the end, he could not hold on to his last breath.
I was about to drown... I'm so unwilling to accept this...
With a thought, Jiao Jue seemed to hear a crackling sound in his ear, like that dead little bird laughing wildly in his ear...
Like a yellow plague that had long since turned to dust, wriggled out of the minced meat, its fish mouth twitching as it grinned sinisterly at him…
For example, long ago, a group of little dragons pointed at the single horn on his head and mocked him…
Damn it, what's so funny!
...
Whenever Jiao Jue tried to fall into a deep sleep, laughter would come, making him barely breathe. His body floated up and down in the Thunder Battery, and his chest continued to throb powerfully.
Lightning bolts rushed into Jiao Jue's body, occupying his meridians and seizing his spiritual space, quickly evolving into a terrifying world of lightning above his spiritual platform.
They quickly merged into the shadow of the small unicorn dragon above the spiritual platform.
They electrified the little dragon, causing more lightning to gleefully surge in, which the small dragon's shadow, now a ball of light, absorbed.
The lightning that followed later had to rush down below the Spirit Platform and merge into the Spirit Lake;
The cracked spirit lake of the horned jade could not resist and could only let these lightning bolts wander and form a lightning pool.
Some of the lightning entered Jiao Jue's meridians and then traveled to the tiny veins throughout his body.
When they encounter obstacles, they directly construct them, causing the horned jade to unconsciously shake, flip, and twist within the lightning battery... occasionally whipping up lightning vortexes tens of meters high.
The chaotic, turbulent winds around them were struck by lightning and became calm and quiet.
Then, this harmonious spiritual energy obediently flowed into Jiao Jue's body, filling his body, which was like a dirty, tattered burlap sack.
Lightning was kneading his body.
The giant body of Jiaojue, which was originally ten zhang long, was melted by lightning. The broken bone of its single horn was erased and filled into the two ends of the dragon's head; a pair of furry deer antlers slowly grew out from the two ends of the dragon's head.
The severed claws on his body were cut off.
The three better claws were moved upwards by the lightning, and then they filled in the remaining claw bones of the Horned Jade downwards, causing the Horned Jade to grow two new claw bones.
The remaining flesh and blood of the horned beast were scraped off again towards its tail.
His neck became even thinner and longer, the remaining blood on his body had long been burned away by the lightning, and golden-blue blood flowed from his heart.
The wind and rain under the tribulation clouds had long since ceased, and they poured into the Thunder Battery, forming layer upon layer of wind and rain essence, like frost and dew, wrapping the Horned Jade's body layer upon layer.
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