Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

“I was ready long ago!” Yuan Thirteen said confidently, trying to stand up, but was restricted by the earth mountain above, unable to straighten its back.

“Yuanjing, is this mountain used to withstand lightning tribulations?”

Zhang Yuanjing smiled and said, “That’s right. If you and I undergo the lightning tribulation together, there will definitely be two lightning tribulations. This second one is no small matter. According to past records, one needs the strength of a nascent soul to withstand it.”

Even if Yuan Thirteen was slow to react, it understood at this moment that its soul was connected to Zhang Yuanjing, bringing great danger to both of them. It said with shame, “Yuanjing, in my bloodline memories, there are only records of soul rings, but nothing about what happens when encountering lightning tribulations. I, I’ve implicated you!”

Zhang Yuanjing laughed heartily and said, “Brother Yuan, you’re being too polite! If there were no soul ring connecting our souls, I, Zhang Yuanjing, would have died at the hands of the enemy long ago, how could I be here today! Since we enjoy its benefits, we must also bear its disadvantages. The transformation of advantages and disadvantages only depends on the timing. What seems like a disadvantage today may also be a time to turn it into an advantage.”

He hoped that after Yuan Thirteen created a nascent soul and was baptized by the lightning tribulation, it could refine the soul ring. In this way, he and the golden-backed giant ape could get rid of such constraints and not have to worry about one implicating the other.

At this moment, the sting-bull had already rushed to the bottom of the arena.

“What is that demon beast going to do?” On the cultivator's side, someone shouted.

“Does it also want to undergo a lightning tribulation?”

This remark caused a burst of laughter. The saying of forcibly inducing a lightning tribulation is recorded in all sects of the human race, but this is, after all, just an ancient legend. There has not been a successful example in nearly ten thousand years, so ordinary cultivators have long forgotten about it.

Suddenly, someone said loudly, “It might be trying to forcibly induce a lightning tribulation. This gray bull wants to do something bad!”

“Let me go and kill it!”

A Core Formation stage cultivator flew out, it was Huang Rongsheng from the Southern Domain’s Shaoyin Sect. He had seen Zhang Yuanjing’s methods and admired him greatly.

Halfway there, he saw the gray bull soar into the sky, transforming a long horn into layers of spear shadows, piercing into the thunderclouds.

Huang Rongsheng stopped in horror. The power of heavenly lightning is not something that can be easily endured.

“Rumble!”

The thunderclouds seemed to be angered by the sting-bull, shrinking suddenly, emitting a vibrating sound, with cyan-white lightning flashing in the clouds.

This sting-bull had cultivated for thousands of years, and had been accumulating at the Great Perfection of the Demon Core realm for nearly two thousand years. Its temperament was actually very strong. Since it had decided to induce lightning, it eliminated all kinds of distracting thoughts in an instant. Seeing the heavenly lightning about to descend, it quickly landed, stimulated its blood energy, covering its entire body, and its sharp horns released a three-colored halo, protecting its vitals, waiting for the tribulation lightning to descend.

Zhang Yuanjing heard the thunder sound dull, as if it had accumulated immense power, and the tribulation was about to descend. However, inspecting his inner soul, he was still a little short of completing the creation of the nascent soul.

He was stunned and instantly thought of a possibility, and his heart sank.

“Boom!”

A cyan lightning bolt surrounded by black light descended from the sky, directly striking the arena. The target of this lightning was, of course, the sting-bull first, but under the traction of its aura, it deviated towards the arena, heading towards Zhang Yuanjing, who was stronger and whose soul was about to complete a heaven-defying feat.

Zhang Yuanjing had originally prepared to take out the ten-foot-sized Void Sky Stone, but now he suppressed the thought, saving it for the more difficult second, or even the third, lightning tribulation.

“Bang!”

The existence of the arena’s formation blocked the power of the lightning tribulation, but it only held on for two breaths. As the lightning power in the sky continued to pour down, the formation disintegrated in a burst of crackling sounds, and the arena built by the two races came to an end. Presumably, neither side would propose to rebuild the arena afterward.

Lightning power, far stronger than the first lightning tribulation when ordinary cultivators undergo tribulation, bombarded the earth mountain.

“Boom! Rumble rumble rumble!”

The earth mountain disintegrated, revealing the dark, original stone. The lightning power poured down, passing over the black stone, and landed on Zhang Yuanjing and Yuan Thirteen.

Yuan Thirteen’s body bloomed with golden light, interacting with the lightning power. Part of the lightning power was offset, but there was still a lot that invaded its body. The golden-haired monkey trembled violently, its body’s golden light flowing, changing nine times in an instant, and its aura rose rapidly.

Zhang Yuanjing did not have the original stone as armor, so he could only rely on his physical body to withstand it. He had already swallowed the black mud-like thing into his stomach, and circulated the Soaring Sky Art. As soon as the lightning power entered his body, he used it to temper his body, and the excess uncontrollable lightning power was resisted and devoured by the power of thick earth. He had the Devouring Art available, and his magic power was also attached with lightning essence, so it was quite fast to devour and transform.

Of course, such a massive infusion of lightning power would inevitably damage his physical body. In just two breaths, his body was injured everywhere, covered with cracks and burns, and the whole person looked very embarrassed and miserable.

On the other hand, the big golden monkey next to him, with golden light rotating on its body, changing rapidly, had an air of becoming an immortal.

And the sting-bull that induced the lightning, because it did not bear strong lightning power, was not too badly injured even without preparing any items for the tribulation. It kept Bai Kongque’s words firmly in mind, and as soon as the first lightning tribulation passed, without looking to see if its soul had changed, it mustered its remaining strength and ran wildly outwards.

Heavenly lightning is extremely yang and extremely rigid, applying to both the physical body and penetrating the soul. The cultivator’s soul undergoes a heaven-defying change, tempered by heavenly lightning, which is the final step. If one does not experience this tribulation, there will ultimately be flaws, and it will not be complete.

Zhang Yuanjing’s soul was infused with the power of heavenly lightning, and he immediately created a nascent soul. In an instant, a feeling of heaven and earth being like amniotic fluid and himself being like an infant arose spontaneously. This closeness and fusion with heaven and earth was unprecedented. This is what is meant by returning from acquired to innate, and the spiritual soul becoming a nascent soul.

Simultaneously with him, Yuan Thirteen also achieved a nascent soul in the tempering of its physical body. It grinned, ignoring the pain of the lightning power. The Golden Ape clan is physically strong and immensely powerful, but their souls are weak, and very few can achieve a nascent soul. However, once they achieve a nascent soul, the sky is the limit, and their future is limitless.

As two nascent souls were created simultaneously, the thunderclouds in the sky immediately surged, as if immeasurable power fell from an unknown space and merged into the thunderclouds.

“There is also a spirit beast, actually trying to break through to the Nascent Soul stage together! This is simply crazy, overestimating oneself!” A cultivator said in disbelief.

“Counting the heavenly lightning induced by that sting-bull, this Fellow Daoist Zhang is going to endure three lightning tribulations, which is the same as a Nascent Soul ascending to a Transformation God, he will definitely die!” Another person also thought that Zhang Yuanjing’s actions were reckless and absurd.

Huang Rongsheng, who had already retreated to the cultivator’s camp, sighed, “If it were only two lightning tribulations, with Fellow Daoist Zhang’s strength, he might be able to get through it safely. It’s hateful that the sting-bull created complications and induced another one! Difficult! Difficult! Difficult!”

A person next to him sneered, “Originally, if he had returned to the sect to break through, or chosen a remote place, he would have mostly succeeded. But he had to show off and break through in this battlefield where the two races are fighting, and was deliberately targeted by the demon beast, it’s also his own fault!”

Huang Rongsheng glared angrily, “Fellow Daoist Luo, we are all human cultivators, why do you say such harsh words!”

Luo Yuting chuckled coldly, “Speaking the truth, what’s so harsh about it?”

Huang Rongsheng stared at him and mocked, “One cannot know a person without testing them. Fellow Daoist Luo, I can say I know you today!”