SCT-Novel #309 - A flower snake presses on the top of the mountain, and thunder roars!
#309 - A flower snake presses on the top of the mountain, and thunder roars!
Crack!
Rumble!
Rumble, rumble!
On Mount Xiangji.
It was as if a performance of divine punishment was underway.
In an instant, several bolts of lightning struck down.
Thunder rumbled, and the wind howled.
Immediately, the rain poured down.
The stones and mud on the mountain, mixed with rainwater, rumbled and rolled down.
The commotion in the wind and rain startled the monks at the foot of the mountain.
"Not good!"
"How dangerous!"
A young novice couldn't help but exclaim, "Why is the thunder coming so fast?"
"This rain is also falling strangely!"
"Could it be a demon undergoing a lightning tribulation?"
"Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand!" The senior brother beside him quickly said.
Those who cultivate must endure the suffering of lightning tribulation. This is a heavenly tribulation, a matter of the heavenly Dao.
The young novice immediately closed his open mouth.
He whispered to the person beside him.
He had almost shouted out, asking his senior brother if this was a demon causing trouble, leading the Thunder God to descend the lightning of the Nine Heavens to诛灭 (zhū miè: execute) the evil demon, wanting to strike it dead.
Fortunately, he woke up in time, otherwise he would have offended those two senior brothers.
Qin Hong sat sideways, using his hand to lift the curtain of the carriage window, looking towards Mount Xiangji where the thunder had struck, and couldn't help but smile upon hearing this.
For a moment, he also had such doubts in his heart.
After all, looking at the momentum of the thunder under this celestial phenomenon, it did indeed seem like it was going to suppress and kill the person being struck under the might of the heavens.
The rain blocked everyone's view, and Qin Hong couldn't see if Xu Chengxian was undergoing tribulation on the top of the mountain.
However, since Xu Xiaobai and that strange black goat both said it was him, then it should be correct.
Perhaps, cultivators undergoing tribulation are all in this kind of situation?
Hard to say.
He also hasn't had the opportunity to see a second cultivator undergoing lightning tribulation in person.
"Xiaobai," At this time, the little black goat following beside the carriage opened its mouth and said, "Tell me, what heinous things has your dad done that every time he undergoes tribulation, it's like a god farting, extraordinary."
"Dahei, this is the first time I've seen Daddy's lightning tribulation." Xu Xiaobai grabbed Dahei's horn, shook her short legs, "But Daddy is amazing, the lightning tribulation is also amazing!"
Not only was it the first time she had seen Xu Chengxian undergoing tribulation, but it was also the first time she had seen lightning tribulation.
So she had no concept or idea of what Dahei meant by 'extraordinary'.
Dahei was the one who told her before when she and Qin Hong were talking about Xu Chengxian's tribulation that there would be a lot of tribulation lightning.
"Dahei, you've said bad things about Daddy twice~" Xu Xiaobai stretched out two fingers and waved them in front of Dahei's eyes, "You have to let me ride you two more times, or I'll tell Daddy and deduct your rations!"
"You little rascal!" Dahei shouted, "When did I ever say bad things about Daxu?"
"God farting, extraordinary!" Xu Xiaobai immediately said, "Also, 'Your dad, I don't even know what to say about him!', this sentence."
This was what Dahei said when it found her, wanting to take Qin Hong away together, just as the top of the mountain transmitted fluctuations of power, and dark clouds of tribulation filled the sky.
Immediately following that sentence, it said that the number of tribulation lightning bolts would be very large.
"That's not bad talk!" Dahei didn't admit it. "You're a child, you don't understand."
"Xiaobai is a child, Xiaobai doesn't understand." Xu Xiaobai giggled, "I'll write it down and tell Daddy! Daddy understands!"
It's enough if her daddy understands!
If Daddy says it is, then it is!
"You little rascal! Fine, fine, I'll be your mount." Dahei conceded.
Who told it to be increasingly unable to control its mouth now? It was asking for trouble to have its weakness seized.
"There won't be a next time!"
As a glutton, it must correct its mistakes!
Next time, it will say it in front of Xu Chengxian!
Then, feeling that it was about right, it said to Qin Hong in the carriage, "Alright, you can stop now."
Walking two miles was more than enough.
No matter what, a lightning tribulation wouldn't affect such a long distance.
Even if the one undergoing tribulation was Xu Chengxian.
Dahei stopped its hooves and looked back at Mount Xiangji.
Crack!
Rumble!
Just at this moment, a bolt of tribulation lightning struck.
"That's the third one." It thought to itself.
In fact, even the idea that the tribulation lightning would be far more than the normal amount came from its speculation.
It was based on the previous tribulation lightning's special treatment of the flower snake.
It wasn't Xu Chengxian who told it.
"This guy, I don't know what he's up to, he won't even tell the main body about using a clone to refine the power of incense and wishes." Dahei thought to itself.
"Since this guy's previous main body tribulation had twenty-one lightning bolts, of course I have to wish him that this time, his clone tribulation can also have so much tribulation lightning."
"Hehe!" It couldn't help but laugh.
"Dahei, what are you laughing at?" Xu Xiaobai immediately asked, putting her hands on her hips.
She strongly suspected that Dahei's laughter was holding back a bad fart.
"I'm looking forward to Daxu's lightning tribulation having as many as twenty-one bolts!"
"What! Dahei, you bastard! You're actually cursing my daddy!"
"Don't talk nonsense! I'm clearly sincerely blessing him!"
"Hmm, how so?" Xu Xiaobai's little face sank.
Dahei had just said that her daddy's lightning tribulation was extraordinary.
Each bolt of tribulation lightning was amazing, and now it was saying it hoped there would be as many as twenty-one bolts.
Wasn't that hoping her daddy wouldn't be well?
If Dahei couldn't give a reason, she wouldn't let Daddy give it even a little bit of blood energy!
"Little rascal, doesn't your inheritance have anything about lightning tribulation?" Dahei was questioned, but it wasn't at all guilty.
After all, although it did indeed hope that Xu Chengxian would suffer more in the lightning tribulation, it also hoped that this guy could greatly benefit from it.
"Of course there is, but I want to hear you say it." Xu Xiaobai said with righteous confidence.
Actually, because she hadn't actively awakened her inherited memories, she knew almost nothing about lightning tribulation.
But that wasn't important.
"Hmph, hear me say it? Then listen carefully!" Dahei harrumphed, "The greater the power of the lightning tribulation, the more benefits there are for tempering the cultivator's physical body and soul!"
"Moreover, if the tribulation is successful, the spiritual energy bestowed by the Heavenly Dao will be even richer!"
"Similarly, being able to attract a powerful lightning tribulation also indicates the cultivator's strength!"
"So that's how it is." Xu Xiaobai was happy, "My daddy is indeed amazing!"
Qin Hong, sitting in the carriage, also revealed a look of understanding.
The power of the tribulation lightning is so terrifying because that Daoist Xu's cultivation is powerful?
That makes sense.
… …
Crack!
Rumble, rumble!
At this time, on the top of Mount Xiangji.
Xu Chengxian, whose divine soul had returned to the clone, sitting cross-legged on top of the main body's head, had just withstood the twelfth bolt of lightning.
He couldn't help but raise his eyes to look at the sky.
The tribulation clouds, as expected, showed no signs of dissipating.
"Damn it!"
He couldn't help but curse inwardly.
Clearly, the clone's lightning tribulation wouldn't end so easily either.
Most likely, it would also be twenty-one bolts of tribulation lightning.
But for him, this wasn't a bad thing.
Because by borrowing the lightning tribulation, he could not only quickly temper the clone, widen the meridians, open up the dantian and purple palace, and disperse a lot of the power of wishes, but he could also directly use the thunder-fire to refine the power of incense and wishes.
"The power of incense and wishes can be refined by the thunder-fire of the Heavenly Dao's tribulation lightning."
"If it's used to deal with the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning, can it be directly used to resist the tribulation lightning?"
This was the conclusion Xu Chengxian had reached after verification.
The so-called power of ten thousand people's incense and wishes is the power of believers' incense collected and refined by the Qiankun Cauldron.
Xiaocui can gather the power of incense with her divine position and refine it into divine power.
Divine power can resist heavenly tribulations.
That makes sense!
If there's any left after the tribulation, he can leave some for Xiaocui.
Rumble!
Rumble, rumble!
In the tribulation lightning vortex, thunder rumbled.
An even stronger bolt of tribulation lightning was brewing.
"Come on!"
There was no fear in Xu Chengxian's eyes, and even a bit of eagerness to try.