novelraw Chapter 1560 - 1559 - True Danger
Chapter 1560 - 1559 - True Danger
The Tribulation of Judgment was merciless. It did not cater to a particular cultivator at all and simply slammed the subject with every possible aspect in existence related to cultivation.
Lind was able to conjure his full power at last but he devoted it to facing the next round. It seemed he would need to use his Battle Aura to its fullest with his Dao Weapons!
The clouds turning silver was odd but he ignored it as the battle began! Sword met sword breaker. Shield met pile driver. Spear met glaive. Every weapon was forced to face either its antithesis or something that could handle it.
If he had not mastered Battle Aura, he would have been royally screwed. It was not a favor to him that the tribulation started with it. From the records Haro and he had shared between them, it always started with the mundane facet of weaponry.
He had not known it would be all of them but a lot of weapons was already something he had experienced. The weapons kept coming and it was only partway through that he saw the clouds were shifting from silver back to black.
Blood flowed like a river from him but he endured. HIs scales were able to stop some of the attacks if he had deflected them previously.
He just had to keep going! He refused to bend as the Heavens unleashed more and more weapons. There was no duplicate until he destroyed the previous version. When that happened, though, they were stronger than before!
His Dao Weapons began to shatter! Just what insanity had he tempted by invoking the tribulation?!
The only consolation was it seemed to spare the glass basin itself. Not a scratch was put upon it at all!
The focus was solely on him!
About half the clouds had turned black but the power of the weapons were still rising! He was trembling as he was also hit more and more.
He began to lose limbs that he had to focus to regenerate or simply discard if he could still move to dodge.
He condensed his focus on his weapons too. The power of his Dao Weapons improved but it was being outpaced by the Heavens! Just how powerful could weapons become?!
He had seen some insane things in his life but the sheer power of what he was facing surpassed anything he had ever even been hinted at!
The rumble of thunder snapped him back to the present to find he was facing a massive strike at the end of the current round!
His soul shivered as he knew only True Death awaited him if he took a strike from those remaining weapons!
A twin blade battle axe vanished from his perception but it was joined by a spiked shield on his opposite side before he realized. A claymore flashed below his waist while a spiked mace dropped from above.
He had nowhere to dodge!
"ROOAAARRRRR!" Emerald flames shot out as his tail appeared. He became a weapon in body right there!
He conjured 2 shields that just barely deflected the path of the claymore and the axe. The rest he sacrificed his tail and an arm to.
He was sent flying by the force of both out of the way of the 2 deflected ones. Only by the skin of his teeth had he lived!
Rather than be pleased, only dread filled him. He had gambled out of necessity but he had severely underestimated the warnings given to him.
Only 2 rounds and he was barely alive! Even assuming he made it past the next 7, his True Lord and Progenitor Tribulations awaited him!
His body recovered as the Heavens gathered power before the clouds shifted to green. It reminded him of pine but then he saw them.
Sparks of elemental light and not just the 6 most would face. All 18! How?! That was not possible before he discovered the original relationship between Celestial Qi and the other 2 branches!
"So, the Great Bastard had done something nice by accident." His mumbled words did not spare what was coming. A familiar cluster of each set came together in all possible combinations.
He was not facing the basic elements but their entire spectrum all at once!
He sneered as this round would be a boon to him! His harmony flared and his nodes answered as lightning, gravity, and all manner of effects struck him dead on!
He did not turn but swallowed them! The power just kept coming like the weapons before but unlike then, his body soared to its peak! He felt his foundation actually improve as well!
Laws! The damned Laws were in there as well!
Just like the weapons, the power and quality were increasing as the color drained from the clouds. The terror of the tribulation finally sank into him.
Each round would cross the spectrum of cultivation until he faced the Dao each time! How could anyone survive it?!
It had to be for Immortals true, but even then, he grasped why it was so feared. The judgment was pure survival. He dared the Heavens and so they would punish him for it if he was not strong enough!
He was just lucky that his harmony happily absorbed all 18 elements even up to the Dao! His Nodes were even improved as the clouds turned pure black! The anger was heavy after that but Lind did not care as he was full to bursting.
First pure power, then weapons, followed by elements, so what would be next? Laws related to the elements had been with them but that was not all there was too–
The clouds shifted to completely see through but the danger made him tense up!
"I really need to stop think–" Every Law that existed in the universe appeared. Any Immortal in range would have been thrilled to be there but Lind knew how they would be used!
Rather than wait for the attack he began to engrave a massive Law Array. It was a desperate gamble but he prayed it would buy him time! The world shifted as if mountains were falling towards him.
The Laws of Life, Death, and so many others he knew were absorbed into the Law Array as he fused them into control nodes. A huge ward appeared that not only slowed down the Laws but showed him what he needed to know!
The Law of Yin was barely known to him but with some related Daos now slowing it down, he could analyze it. Lind knew he could not absorb or fuse them to his crystal like he had the elements but he could pick them apart!
The sheer power and quantity was already overwhelming and the worst was yet to come. Laws became Daos afterall!
His figure was a blur mixed with his aura flaring to survive the current round. Sweat poured like rivers down his sides but he could not stop! At some point, the first Dao traces appeared and then Daos themselves.
His Law Array was shattered like paper but his eyes flared as a new kind of array came to him. A Dao Array was born right at that moment. The world strained but he used Time Dao to buy him all he needed to complete it!
He then began again but it was immensely harder. If being buried by mountains was the Law phase, the Daos were entire worlds!
Blood flowed once more but it was pure strain as he barely succeeded in dismantling the last Dao.
His Dao Array collapsed shortly afterward as if the Heavens disdained his attempts to live!
He was mentally and spiritually drained but quickly recovered thanks to his harmony pulling on his Nodes.
Lind was confused. He thought things would be separated and increase in potency by round but not within the same round! He had faced a direct assault and the 3 essential aspects of a cultivator already.
What was left?
As if mocking him, the clouds changed again but the colors were myriad. He felt his bloodline react as the roar of dragons filled the air.
"You have to be kidding me." His sweat streaked face looked up as not lightning formed dragons, but actual dragons filled the sky!
He recognized the feeling as he had faced several already but his True Lord Tribulation had been made into a round for him!
He then grasped the true danger of the Tribulation of Judgement. It was not catered to any cultivator true but it WAS aligned with the most likely method to destroy any given cultivator as needed.
Lightning shaped dragons were one thing, but he was facing actual True Lord predecessors! They had millions of years and race memories to face him and he was alone!
He finally understood the reason his rounds were far more brutal than any he had been able to find. He was too damned advanced!
The imbalance of his body was pushing the Tribulation to its absolute limit!
He looked at the myriad of his fellow Dragon True Lords and summoned his Dao Weapon staff into his hands.
"Let's dance."