txolops Chapter 30 The Little Dragoness is Back
Chapter 30 The Little Dragoness is Back
Before the lightning struck, the oppressive feeling had already arrived.
The air became thick and heavy, and with each breath it felt like a huge rock was pressing on my lungs.
A thin layer of static electricity rose on the stone platform at the summit, causing tiny pebbles to bounce erratically on the ground.
Looking up, the clouds overhead were no longer clouds, but an overturned iron pot, its bottom scorched purple, ready to pour down on you at any moment.
Lu Changgeng stared at the swirling purple clouds, his hands unconsciously clenching.
He recalled the records about demons transforming into human form in the "Celestial Immortal Manual".
The Heavenly Tribulation of Transformation is divided into several levels: the Forty-Nine Heavenly Tribulation has thirty-six stages, and the Sixty-Nine Heavenly Tribulation has fifty-four stages.
For ordinary demon cultivators, passing the forty-ninth level is already extremely dangerous, while the sixth level is where the righteous gods of the Heavenly Court's Thunder Department personally carry out the punishment, and very few survive it.
I am considered a remnant of the Golden Crow who has awakened his spiritual power through the spring. My foundation is higher than that of ordinary demon cultivators. If the Heavenly Dao judges according to the highest standards, the Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation is not impossible.
The moment the thought crossed his mind, his heart started racing.
He has prepared magical artifacts and elixirs, and his condition has been adjusted to its best. He doesn't know if these things are enough.
This broken horn of the Xie Zhi was used by the mountain demon when it was undergoing the forty-nine Heavenly Tribulation. Whether it could withstand the sixty-nine Heavenly Tribulation is another matter.
The Bone-Regenerating and Muscle-Regenerating Pill could save his life, but if the first bolt of lightning shattered his physical body, he wouldn't even have a chance to swallow the pill.
Another silver flash burst through the clouds overhead, illuminating the mountaintop in a stark white light, as if it were covered in snow.
Lu Changgeng's Adam's apple bobbed, and the bone-regenerating pill under his tongue was pressed tightly.
It would be a lie to say that you're not afraid at this point.
He had been here for nearly a hundred years before he reached the stage of human form, but when he finally reached this point, he found that his hands were trembling.
This is an instinctive fear that surges from the depths of one's bones. This fear has nothing to do with courage; it is the natural suppression of demon cultivators by heavenly lightning.
However, Lu Changgeng's main idea was that since he was already here, he had to overcome his tribulation today.
Heaven made him become the Cleansing Spring in a daze, where he was bathed by the Seven Fairies. Even though he was struck by lightning and his soul was scattered, it was still considered that Heaven treated him well.
After thinking it over, he steeled himself and suppressed his fear, looking up at the clouds, his eyes gradually changing.
"Come on!" he gritted his teeth and whispered in his heart.
It seemed that Heaven had heard this provocation.
A blinding silver-purple bolt of lightning struck down from the heavens, so fast that he didn't even have time to blink.
The lightning bolt was already as thick as an ancient tree when it struck halfway through, with dozens of branches exploding on the main trunk, like an upside-down silver giant tree crashing down.
The moment the air was torn apart, thunder followed the lightning and crashed down, making the stone platform beneath their feet vibrate.
Lu Changgeng subconsciously tried to activate the Xie Zhi horn to withstand the attack, but the lightning struck too quickly. Before the Xie Zhi horn could be activated, the silver light, as thick as an ancient tree, struck him squarely on the head.
it's over...
His mind went completely blank.
However, the next second, he froze.
When the lightning struck his body, it did not tear his skin and flesh apart as he had imagined.
Like a ladle of warm water poured into a stream, flowing around the meridians, from the top of the head to the soles of the feet.
The demon core began to spin on its own, gently absorbing the power of thunder, like taking a puff of smoke, without even producing a spark.
Gone.
Lu Changgeng blinked.
The second bolt of lightning struck down, thicker than the first, and even more terrifying.
Then it struck him, still like lukewarm water flowing through a stream, and the demon core took another breath.
The third, the fourth...
Thunderclaps followed one after another, and the storm of lightning above the clouds beat faster and faster like a drumbeat...
Lu Changgeng was surrounded by arcs of electricity. The mountaintop was shattered and scattered with flying rocks. Ash covered his head and face, and from a distance, he looked like a scarecrow that had been struck by lightning.
But inside his body, the situation was quite different.
The demon core spun slowly and steadily in the dantian, swallowing up every last bit of the heavenly lightning that struck in.
Deep within the demon core, unnoticed by Lu Changgeng, an irregular, fibrous mass flickered on and off... Heavenly lightning had entered this place, and with each gulp of heavenly lightning swallowed, the fibrous mass would light up a little more.
In the depths of his unnoticed consciousness, in that boundless, pitch-black void, a massive, sleeping figure yawned softly, turned over, and gently brushed the heavenly lightning away from Lu Changgeng, as if brushing aside a wisp of obstructive waterweed.
Then she turned over and went back to sleep.
At the summit, Lu Changgeng sat cross-legged in the center of the stone pit, his face charred black, his expression extremely strange.
Thirty-four bolts of heavenly lightning struck him... Instead of losing any limbs, he felt incredibly energetic, his whole body brimming with inexhaustible strength.
I tried circulating the "Celestial Immortal Technique" once. The magical power was thick and solid, flowing like lead and mercury.
The thirty-sixth bolt of heavenly lightning quickly struck, and the purple clouds overhead swayed before slowly dissipating.
That's all, only thirty-six.
It's not the Six-Nine Heavenly Tribulation, it's the Forty-Nine.
Moreover, the feeling of being struck by the Heavenly Tribulation of the Forty-Nine Heavens was, how should I put it, like turning on the lowest setting of an electrotherapy device, a tingling and numb sensation. Although the exterior looked disheveled from being struck, in reality, not even a single layer of skin was scratched.
Transformation lightning tribulation, is that all?
We didn't need to use any magical artifacts or elixirs, which saved us a lot of trouble.
At the same time, the demon core in the dantian slowly circulated, and the patterns on its surface became brighter and denser, silently breaking down and reforming.
A tiny demon infant was taking shape. The three-inch-tall figure sat upright in the golden flames, its facial features gradually becoming clear. It looked like a miniature version of Lu Changgeng.
Lu Changgeng stared at the demon infant for a long time, feeling that the little man was holding a blurry, indistinct figure, like a chicken.
Lu Changgeng immediately let his imagination run wild: this chicken must be his guardian beast, the ancient Golden Crow!
He'll appear just when he's in danger, unleashing his signature move: "Chicken-Embracing Kill"...
It is reasonable that the spring, which is the remnant of the ancient golden crow, appeared there.
Just as he was lost in thought, the moment the demon infant took shape, an extremely pure aura uncontrollably spread out from his body.
That was the aura that the demon infant unconsciously released when it first inhaled the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, containing a trace of the true fire of the sun.
This was his first time undergoing tribulation, and before he knew it, that aura slipped out during that brief moment, spreading for dozens of miles in the blink of an eye.
Dozens of miles away, a long, azure rainbow was riding the clouds and mist.
Princess Wansheng abruptly stopped on the cloud, her nostrils flared slightly, and her phoenix eyes suddenly lit up.
The dragon race's ability to distinguish water vapor is unparalleled in the three realms. She would never mistake that aura; it was the aura emanating from the water sphere in the Xie Zhi Cave.
She immediately turned the clouds around and sped toward the source of the aura.
At the top of the mountain, amidst the pile of rubble, Lu Changgeng was meditating cross-legged when suddenly a thought struck him, and he looked up.
A streak of emerald light was hurtling towards him from high in the distance, and judging by its direction, it was undoubtedly heading straight for him.
Lu Changgeng carefully sensed the person's presence, and then a playful expression appeared on his face.
The little female dragon actually came!
Well, I don't know how strong I will be after the tribulation, so I'll just have to meet her!