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#693 - Thunder

“Judging from the scale of these thunderclouds, the power of the heavenly tribulation doesn't seem too great.”

“Yeah, it's a medium-to-small scale within the 4-9 Heavenly Tribulation. As long as Bao Yun is steady on his end, there shouldn't be a big problem.”

“I think so too. It's smaller than when I went through my tribulation back then.”

“Everyone's cultivation is different, I suppose.”

“If we could have brought Bao Yun to our place before this, and let him train for a while, his strength should have improved quite a bit.”

“That depends on his own thoughts.”

“Then don't forget to ask him about it after a while.”

“Hmm~ It's starting.”

……

Just as Liang Yue and the others were privately discussing this, on the distant mountain peak, the tribulation clouds grew even lower, and the pressure within them intensified to the extreme.

At the very moment when the lightning gathered to its peak, a dazzling bolt of lightning suddenly formed at the very center of the tribulation clouds, flashing for an instant.

In an instant, it struck down from the depths of the thunder eye, onto the Taoist sitting cross-legged on the mountain below!

“Crack!”

In an instant, the world turned white, and everything below seemed to shudder in unison at the same moment.

Especially those disciples around Liang Yue who hadn't seen much of the world, as well as their colleagues from the world of异人, all changed color, yet stubbornly kept their eyes open, unwilling to miss a single detail.

But the Taoist who was truly struck by the heavenly lightning showed a very calm demeanor at this time.

Immovable as a mountain, calm as usual!

No matter how the lightning tribulation struck him, he didn't move at all!

He didn't even raise his protective true energy, just sitting steadily in place.

If it weren't for the fact that the coiled hair on his head instantly turned into wisps of green smoke because it couldn't withstand the high-temperature forging, and the mountain under him was shattered by the lightning, with rocks flying in all directions...

Perhaps everyone would have thought that the heavenly tribulation had missed its target.

“This kid actually used his physical body to directly resist the first lightning tribulation.”

“He probably wanted to test the quality of this heavenly tribulation first, similar to what I thought back then.”

“With his accomplishments in body refinement, it shouldn't be a big problem. Moreover, isn't he still wearing the treasure garment you gave him before?”

“It's just a pity about his head of black hair.”

“Yeah, we should have prepared a hair crown or hairpin for him, even if it could protect his hair.”

“Don't worry about those things, anyway, it will grow back later. Besides, don't you still have me~”

……

For the sake of his disciple's advancement and tribulation, Liang Yue, as his master, would naturally not be stingy with anything.

In addition to bestowing precious medicines to nourish his body, explaining various key points and taboos in person, he also gave away quite a few protective treasures.

Take the clothes that Bao Yun is wearing now, for example. An ordinary dark blue Taoist robe, seemingly unremarkable, is actually a magic robe personally refined by Liang Yue.

Whether it is the material of the refining or the construction of various formations on it, it is quite exquisite!

Dust avoidance, body purification, style transformation, resistance to harm, and water and fire resistance are all basic functions, almost the same as the magic robe Liang Yue refined for himself.

As for lightning tribulations, although he didn't specifically design some targeted functions.

But just looking at its intact appearance after being struck by a heavenly thunderbolt, you can tell that the quality of this magic robe is definitely not bad!

“Crack!”

Only three or four seconds apart, the second lightning tribulation also descended.

This time, Bao Yun didn't act recklessly and continue to resist with his physical body. Instead, he used his Heaven Sect's protective technique ~ Immortal Martial Spiritual Energy Shield.

Under the strike of the powerful heavenly lightning, the spiritual energy shield was weakened by a large margin in the blink of an eye. The original bright purple, majestic and noble shield was directly struck until only two or three tenths of it remained.

However, the second lightning tribulation was successfully resisted.

It is also worth mentioning that Bao Yun Zhenren, as Liang Yue's personal disciple, his cultivation direction is martial arts, and his techniques are almost inherited from him.

They all started with the《Shangqing Qigong》for Qi accumulation, then switched to《Zixia Divine Art》in the later stage, and after the Innate stage, they began to practice《Innate Skill》. Now, these three techniques have all been practiced to the limit by him.

In addition, in order to manage the Streaming Cloud Sect back then, Liang Yue also took out many inheritances from his collection, various martial arts secrets, mental cultivation methods, light skills, and even the original Taoist scriptures, which can be said to have everything.

It can be said that Bao Yun basically knows all the martial arts that Liang Yue knows, so he is definitely not lacking in methods.

That's right, after the second lightning tribulation passed, a purple lotus bloomed above his head, merging with the Immortal Martial Spiritual Energy Shield outside his body.

That purple lotus is the natural manifestation of the technique after practicing the Zixia Divine Art and the Innate Skill to a certain level.

Unfortunately, later, with the advent of Tiangang's first transformation,《Universe Creation》, someone relieved the filter of its duties.

Fortunately, after the forging and integration of cosmic energy, the purple lotus itself has also undergone a qualitative change, and now it has been quietly cultivated by Liang Yue into another method~

Bao Yun naturally hasn't reached Liang Yue's current level, but he obviously has some of his own ideas.

Looking closely, there seem to be many mysteries inside the lotus flower. Among them, there seem to be some signs of Universe Creation's Qi-absorbing Lotus.

However, compared to Liang Yue's complete version, Bao Yun's own lotus flower clearly only created a general framework inside the lotus flower, barely supporting such a revolving skeleton.

Among them, more than 90% of the details of the original technique are still blank.

However, this is actually very difficult, and it indirectly proves that his disciple has put in real effort in the past few decades!

“Crack!”

About ten seconds later, the third lightning tribulation descended, instantly striking Bao Yun Zhenren's head from the high clouds above.

As a result, it naturally plunged into the purple lotus.

Under the strike of the powerful heavenly lightning, the small purple lotus did not collapse, because after all, the existence of the purple lotus is actually more like a manifestation of cultivation on a spiritual level.

It has no physical form itself, so even the current 4-9 Heavenly Tribulation can't do anything to it.

However, correspondingly, the Qi-absorbing system that Bao Yun constructed in the purple lotus is itself extremely mysterious. Although it is only a simplified version of the original Qi-absorbing Lotus, it still has a considerable degree of restraint on the lightning tribulation!

The lightning tribulation is based on the power of heavenly thunder, which is inherently powerful and extremely fast!

The process of striking down from above the tribulation clouds and directly striking the person undergoing the tribulation is only a short moment.

But it is this short moment that, in the instant the lightning tribulation passed through the purple lotus, the thunderbolt, which was originally as thick as a sea bowl, was directly cut off from most of its power!

In the end, the heavenly thunder that struck the Immortal Martial Spiritual Energy Shield was at most only three or four layers!

As a result, it was naturally successfully blocked.

However, the price was that a large amount of lightning tribulation power was poured into the lotus flower above Bao Yun's head, turning it into a shining thunder flower.

And this purple lotus is connected to the Immortal Martial Spiritual Energy Shield outside his body, and even the true energy inside his body, forming a complete operating system.

Under mutual traction, with a large amount of lightning tribulation power entering his body, it naturally affected the operation of the true energy in Bao Yun Zhenren's body.

For a time, thousands of lightning bolts were added to his body, and the violently jumping electric arcs raged on his body non-stop!

Fortunately, Liang Yue's disciple's physical body is strong enough. Decades of body refinement have made him create a golden muscle and jade bone. A few days ago, he also just obtained some water droplet energy from him.

After a period of nourishing, his physical condition has also recovered to the peak moment of his life.

Therefore, even if he is currently entangled in heavenly thunder, he can still suppress it temporarily!

……