novelraw Chapter 569: Ziyun’s Tribulation Crossing
Chapter 569: Ziyun’s Tribulation Crossing
Shen Xuan was filled with dread.
He was now certain that even possessing the Absolute Thunder Dao Body, he couldn’t withstand the Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder.
Evidently, as the will of the Heavenly Dao, the power of the Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder exceeded his resistance limit.
"So, does the Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder not only attack the flesh body but also directly target the divine soul?"
Otherwise, his heart wouldn’t be pounding so fiercely.
Shen Xuan secretly cast a Seeking Fortune and Avoiding Evil Technique.
Fortunately, it still showed "minor misfortune."
This made him breathe a sigh of relief.
At this moment, the Purple Essence Divine Wood, towering over several hundred zhang high, began to shake.
Milky white demon energy began to contract, forming a demon energy shield to protect it.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, a thousand-zhang thunder arc flew out from the thundercloud of the celestial thunder tribulation, striking down toward the Purple Essence Divine Wood.
The demon energy shield of the Purple Essence Great Demon was utterly defenseless under the attack of the Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder.
Just upon contact, it quickly dimmed and dissipated.
The Purple Essence Divine Wood shook its body, as lines of Dao patterns gathered on its branches, and various purple spirit branches and spirit leaves visibly grew rapidly.
At this moment, the Purple Essence Divine Wood was lush and vibrant, bursting with vitality.
Shen Xuan clearly felt the Purple Essence Great Demon unleashing its potential, growing robustly.
However.
The thousand-zhang thunder arc did not directly strike the body of the Purple Essence Divine Wood.
Rather, it was attracted by the lightning rod, with blue thunder arcs flickering along the tip, speeding downward rapidly.
In an instant, the thunder power passed through the ten-zhang high pole of the primordial copper mysterious gold, crackling, and at breakneck speed, like a roaring dragon, it was instantly conducted into the body of the Purple Essence Divine Wood.
A thousand zhang away, the red light in Shen Xuan’s eyes flickered, and he stared intently at the surge of electric power racing past the lightning rod.
"Luckily, the conductibility of the primordial copper mysterious gold is quite good!"
Then he looked at the Purple Essence Divine Wood again.
The body visibly trembled.
Thunder power spread along the main trunk, extending to all its branches.
Some of the weaker spirit branches could not withstand the power of the Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder and fell off one by one.
"It’s effective indeed!"
Shen Xuan’s eyes lit up.
After being attracted and guided by the lightning rod, the power of the Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder was conducted smoothly and orderly, with the electrical energy being dispersed throughout the entire body of the Purple Essence Divine Wood.
Thus, only some weak branches couldn’t withstand it.
The main trunk of the Purple Essence Divine Wood was almost unaffected.
The existence of the lightning rod reduced the power of the Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder by more than half!
"Huh?"
The Divine Power Ape Emperor glanced at Shen Xuan.
His eyes were full of surprise.
It was the first time he had seen a human cultivator using such a spiritual artifact as a lightning rod to weaken the power of the Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder.
Recalling the misery of being struck by divine thunder and left barely hanging on during his own tribulation years ago, he couldn’t help but feel a tinge of envy.
Shen Xuan didn’t think much, his entire focus being on the Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder.
After human cultivators formed a Nascent Soul, they also faced various tribulations.
The Celestial Thunder Tribulation was one of the most common.
Because of this, the Nascent Soul True Monarchs of the Profound Origin Continent generally refrained from acting lightly.
Demon Race undergoing tribulations was an extremely rare occurrence.
Shen Xuan being able to witness it firsthand was highly beneficial to his future cultivation.
With the help of the lightning rod, the Purple Essence Great Demon easily caught the first Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder.
Shen Xuan focused his attention.
The milky white demon energy reformed into a shield shape, enveloping the Purple Essence Divine Wood.
Regardless, this demon energy shield played a certain buffering and mitigating role against the Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder.
Moreover, the Purple Essence Divine Wood could slightly recover with the help of demon energy.
Shen Xuan pondered.
It seemed that with the aid of the lightning rod, the Purple Essence Great Demon should be able to withstand the first few Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunders, without much worry.
"Nine Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunders, each wave stronger than the last. Who knows how many waves he can endure?"
Shen Xuan released the soul-devouring insects from his insect bag.
Soon, over ten thousand soul-devouring insects spread across the entire small island in the lake.
"It would be great if the Golden-winged Eagle Emperor doesn’t come!"
As for the Heart-burning Colorful Butterfly, Shen Xuan wasn’t too concerned.
Soon, the second wave of Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder struck down from above.
This time, two Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunders came simultaneously from the left and right, with even greater momentum.
Fortunately, the lightning rod indeed proved effective.
After breaking through the demon energy shield, these two Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunders were still attracted by the lightning rod, concentrated at the tip, and poured into the body of the Purple Essence Divine Wood, spreading in all directions.
This time, more spirit branches fell from the Purple Essence Divine Wood.
Even the canopy became bare.
Some newly sprouted spirit leaves instantly turned blackened.
Luckily, the main trunk of the Purple Essence Divine Wood remained unharmed.
Following that, the third wave, fourth wave...
By the time the fifth wave of Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder descended, most of the spirit branches of the Purple Essence Divine Wood had fallen, leaving only the main trunk.
All the newly born spirit leaves had fallen off.
At the center of the main trunk of the Purple Essence Divine Wood, the weathered face of an old man appeared.
Two main branches transformed into two long arms.
The sixth wave of Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder formed a massive electric net, pouring down overwhelmingly.
The Purple Essence Divine Wood let out an angry roar.
A net-shaped magical treasure glinting with vibrant light met the oncoming attack.
It was the Top Grade Spiritual Artifact, the Ruyi Universe Net, painstakingly refined by him.
The two met.
The Ruyi Universe Net let out a mournful wail.
Enduring only a small portion of the power of the Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder, it rapidly shrunk and fell down.
However, doing so indeed buffered this wave of Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder a little.
Coupled with the obstruction of the demon energy shield.
Still, more than half of the Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder was absorbed by the lightning rod.
The remaining Celestial Tribulation Divine Thunder directly struck the body of the Purple Essence Divine Wood.
"Boom!"
With the sound of thunder strikes, several deep pits appeared on the main trunk of the Purple Essence Divine Wood, exposing the deep purple heartwood of the Purple Yunting Tree within.
The Purple Essence Great Demon released dense purple demonic energy, concealing the injured parts.
"Three more waves to go!"
Shen Xuan frowned slightly.
Judging by this situation, even if the Purple Halo Great Demon manages to pass the celestial tribulation, they will be extremely weakened.
Shen Xuan looked towards the Divine Power Ape King.
Unexpectedly, the Divine Power Ape King’s expression was even more solemn than his, gazing into the depths of the sky.
"Alas, what is bound to come will ultimately arrive!"
A golden light, swift as lightning, pierced the sky and landed right in front of the Divine Power Ape King.
As the golden light dissipated, a demon cultivator with a thin face appeared.
The features were sharp, eyes piercing, hooked nose, the whole face looked indifferent and bloodthirsty.
With just a glance, Shen Xuan recognized it to be the Jinchi Eagle King.
"Why are human race cultivators here when our demon race is crossing the tribulation?"
The Jinchi Eagle King coldly questioned.
A powerful divine sense enveloped Shen Xuan.
Shen Xuan quickly cupped his hands in salute: "Cyan Cloud Sect Xuan Bing, greetings to Jinchi Eagle King."
"Oh?"
The Jinchi Eagle King’s divine sense lingered over Shen Xuan.
Clearly, he was astonished by Shen Xuan’s robust flesh body.
Shen Xuan hesitated no more and immediately activated the True Monarch’s token.
A flash of blue light passed.
Soon, the figure of True Monarch Qing Yun appeared in front of him.
"Qing Yun greets Divine Power and Jinchi, two Dao brothers."
This was the spiritual power projection of True Monarch Qing Yun.
The true body was several thousand miles away at the Cyan Cloud Sect.
The Divine Power Ape King and the Jinchi Eagle King did not slack, they nodded slightly in return.
"During his youth, Xuan Bing was guided by Purple Halo. Now, having achieved success in cultivation, he is here to repay Purple Halo, aiding him in passing the tribulation. I ask for the two Dao brothers to kindly offer convenience."
The Divine Power Ape King replied courteously: "Repaying kindness, it is only right."
However, the Jinchi Eagle King was not as agreeable: "It was agreed between the demon race and the human race that neither True Masters nor Demon Kings shall act rashly. If the rule is broken, causing slaughter among the Wilderness Demon Kings, I cannot stand by and watch."
True Monarch Qing Yun stroked his beard and smiled: "Our Cyan Cloud Sect disciples always adhere to rules. Jinchi Dao brother need not worry. Xuan Bing dare not engage in needless carnage."
"That would be best!"
True Monarch Qing Yun smiled slightly, and his figure dispersed.
The spiritual power projection infused in the True Monarch’s token could only last for over ten breaths.
The Jinchi Eagle King ignored Shen Xuan and focused on the tribulation of the Purple Halo Great Demon.
Soon, the seventh wave of celestial tribulation divine thunder descended.
Different from the previous six waves.
At this moment, the tribulation thunderclouds layered densely, extremely thick.
This time, only one thunder arc struck down.
After an extremely muffled thunder sound, all the tribulation thunderclouds dispersed abruptly, revealing a silver-white thunder that was only a hundred feet long and the thickness of a barrel.
The silver light flickered, resembling a silver dragon, and the emitted silver electric light illuminated the sky above Luoxia Island, an astonishing momentum.
Once the silver-white thunder appeared, Shen Xuan felt a severe pain in the depths of his divine soul.
"The power of this thunder arc is too great; even the cultivator’s divine sense gets trapped within!"
Shen Xuan hurriedly severed the divine sense connection, not daring to directly view the silver-white thunder.
Under heavenly might, the Purple Essence Divine Wood shivered, and it sacrificed the Heavenly Ruyi Net, tightly wrapping its true body.
Afterward, hundreds of bottles of Emperor’s Liquid were sacrificed, with a thousand drops rushing out, heading straight for the main trunk.
In an instant.
The Purple Essence Divine Wood rapidly grew, bursting with vitality.
A loud "boom" echoed.
The silver-white thunder struck down from the air.
This time, the Thunder Needle only diverted half of the thunder power.
The remaining thunder power solidly struck the Purple Essence Divine Wood.
In the dazzling silver light, the Purple Essence Divine Wood trembled continuously.
Countless spirit branches and spirit leaves withered and fell instantly.
In just a few breaths, the Purple Essence Divine Wood declined.
The remaining hundred bottles of Emperor’s Liquid flew up.
Droplet by droplet, they drifted toward the charred wound struck on the Purple Essence Divine Wood.
Though the seventh wave of celestial tribulation divine thunder was terrifying, the Great Demon utilized the Emperor’s Liquid for restoration and just barely managed to withstand it.
"Two more waves; if Purple Halo can survive, it will become the eighth Demon King of the Wilderness."
The Jinchi Eagle King said, his face expressionless.
The Divine Power Ape King maintained a distance of over a hundred feet from him, not paying attention to him.
To the Jinchi Eagle King’s arrival, the Divine Power Ape King showed no sign of welcome.
At this time, it was unlikely for the two great demon kings to engage in a full-blown conflict.
Yet, they remained highly wary of each other.
Soon, the eighth wave of celestial tribulation divine thunder dropped, bearing even greater power.
This time, it was azure blue.
Smaller in size, estimated to be only forty to fifty feet.
However, its contained power of thunder was even more ferocious.
The Thunder Needle’s effect was greatly reduced.
It attracted only thirty percent of the power of thunder.
The remaining thunder power transformed into an azure electric dragon, striking the main trunk of the Purple Essence Divine Wood.
This time, the Purple Essence Divine Wood could not escape.
The main trunk cracked.
Approximately one-fifth of the main trunk, along with the entire treetop, was cut off harshly.
The Purple Essence Divine Wood let out a roar.
The Gathering Spirit array activated; a thousand pieces of upper grade wood spirit stone were fully triggered.
Rich wood spiritual qi, like the tide, was absorbed by the Purple Essence Divine Wood.
At this moment, the Purple Essence Divine Wood was left with barely a breath.
Yet, before it could catch a break.
The ninth wave of celestial tribulation divine thunder silently gathered.
This time, the divine thunder was only twenty feet long, but appeared dark purple.
With just one glance, Shen Xuan felt an explosive pain in his consciousness.
"Is this the legendary Purple Sky Divine Thunder?"
Shen Xuan pondered inwardly.
Cultivation scriptures recorded the many colors of celestial thunder: purple, blue, white, red, black, etc.
Among them, the purple celestial thunder is known to possess the greatest power.
The Purple Halo Great Demon just needs to withstand this final wave of celestial tribulation divine thunder to successfully pass the tribulation.