svetikya Chapter 130 A Close Call
Chapter 130 A Close Call
Chapter 130 A Close Call
"They're not leaving, are they? They haven't finished chopping yet!?"
Seeing that the tribulation clouds were about to abandon him, Chen Yi spread his hands, looking flustered and anxious.
It seems he absorbed too much soul lightning recently, making his soul too resistant to lightning power, which greatly reduced the effectiveness of the nine lightning tribulations during his tribulation.
Furthermore, because he had prematurely developed divine consciousness with the attributes of the four elements of water, wood, metal, and fire, the quality of his divine soul was exceptionally high.
All these reasons accumulated over time
This prevented him from completing the third-tier transformation even under the bombardment of nine divine soul lightning tribulations.
"Don't go, Thunder Tribulation Master!"
In desperation, Chen Yi sent a wave of divine thought into the air.
But then he thought again that such a call was disrespectful, so he quickly straightened his clothes and bowed deeply to the clouds of calamity once more:
"This disciple was unprepared and almost missed the crucial tribulation. I humbly request that the Great Tribulation Lightning Master wait a moment!"
After saying that, he released all the Thunder Soul Power flowing within his soul body without hesitation.
Countless bolts of lightning energy erupted wildly from the very source of his soul.
His divine soul essence visibly lacked much of its lightning.
At the edge of the Sea of Divine Souls, the divine soul thundercloud that was originally only the size of a palm suddenly began to surge violently!
It expanded and swelled at an astonishing speed, breaking through from the quasi-third rank to the third rank in the blink of an eye, and then advancing to the mid-third rank with unstoppable momentum!
Chen Yi actually absorbed all the lightning spiritual power within the entire mid-stage third-tier Soul Lightning Cloud into his divine soul origin.
Like repels like.
No wonder the lightning tribulation, which was of the highest rank (third grade), had no effect on him!
As the power of thunder dissipated, the dissipating tribulation clouds in the sky suddenly paused.
A vast and mighty will of heaven and earth descended with a thunderous roar, and a divine sense as deep and unfathomable as a prison swept over Chen Yi's soul origin, thoroughly understanding every inch of his soul.
After confirming Chen Yi's true soul state, the already fading tribulation clouds abruptly stopped dissipating.
The next moment, the entire cloud of calamity began to shrink violently!
Countless jet-black lightning powers surged wildly towards the center of the clouds, like rivers flowing into the sea.
The edges of the tribulation clouds turned pale and transparent at a visible speed, as if all the energy had been drained away.
Meanwhile, at the heart of the cloud, a deep, abyss-like thunder eye slowly took shape, and the soul thunder pressure within it rose steadily, reaching the terrifying level of the peak of the third rank in the blink of an eye!
Chen Yi's expression was solemn, his gaze fixed on the tenth tribulation lightning that was taking shape.
He was calculating in his mind what it would be like to withstand this peak third-tier soul lightning without using the power of the Thunder Spirit to protect himself in his soul body, and only relying on the energy of his own divine soul origin.
As a result, after carefully sensing the intensity of the lightning tribulation in the void, as well as the strength of his own soul body,
Chen Yi concluded that he seemed to have to fully experience this peak third-tier soul lightning tribulation.
Otherwise, the energy of the tribulation lightning wouldn't be enough to allow his remaining divine sense to fully advance to the third rank.
The next spin,
The sky suddenly tore open.
boom--
A dark purple soul lightning bolt, over ten feet in diameter, descended like a monstrous dragon, carrying a terrifying pressure capable of annihilating divine souls as it struck vertically.
Chen Yi's entire soul essence was as if it had fallen into a pool of lightning, undergoing a continuous cleansing process like being bathed in soul lightning.
The lightning, imbued with the power of a peak third-order law, transformed into billions of fine lightning needles, repeatedly piercing and wandering within Chen Yi's divine soul essence.
The thunderous magma formed from the source of thunder completely immersed him, and the visible lightning bolts intertwined into a thorny net, whipping Chen Yi's divine soul source countless times from the outside in.
The excruciating pain Chen Yi suffered left his mind blank, and his entire soul body tinged with an abnormal bluish-purple hue.
His entire body was no longer just numb; it was being attacked from both inside and outside by the laws of thunder, causing his soul's surface to carbonize and crack.
Inside, however, it flickered with lightning and fire, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, as if it had been thrown into the furnace of heaven and earth and struck by lightning three thousand times.
Deep within the core of consciousness, on the verge of collapse, only a sliver of clarity, the size of a soybean, remained suspended in the center of the sea of consciousness, precisely manipulating the power of the system.
This wisp of consciousness is like a candle flame in a storm, waiting for the moment when an irreversible crack appears in the core essence of the soul before immediately activating the system's life-saving mechanism.
However, Chen Yi's soul's resistance to the thunder spirit had reached an absurd level.
These countless peak-stage third-tier lightning spirits struck every inch and every strand of Chen Yi's divine soul essence.
But ultimately, it failed to shake that last glimmer of consciousness deep within his being.
Gradually,
Chen Yi's soul body went from a chaotic blank state at the beginning to a blurry human-shaped outline gradually emerging in the lightning, and finally returned to a walnut-sized ball of consciousness.
That spark of consciousness suddenly burst forth with a brilliant emerald light, under the precise manipulation of his subconscious.
Ice droplets condensed into a mysterious ice mirror, green dew transformed into vibrant vines, a golden sword trembled, emitting a dragon's roar and a sword's cry, and flames expanded into a raging inferno—the five elements of divine consciousness within the four divine apertures simultaneously erupted with their innate radiance.
Four distinct primordial divine senses burst forth from Chen Yi's acupoints, forming the Four Symbols Grand Array around Chen Yi's divine soul origin, strictly positioned according to the directions of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise.
The moment the formation was completed,
The four colors of energy form a perfect closed loop of spiritual power, and they release their primal power to each other through 360 nodes, using heaven and earth as a furnace to carry out the endless interaction of the four elements.
Although in a subconscious state,
However, thanks to Chen Yi's deep-rooted experience in condensing the five elements' golden radiance, coupled with the unique, subtle control over energy possessed by a third-tier spirit chef,
This allowed him to precisely adjust the spiritual energy ratio of the four-colored divine consciousness origins as if controlling his own limbs, enabling them to engage in a special interaction of the four elements' energy.
In the intervals between chaos and excruciating pain,
As the Four Symbols Array pattern lit up, Chen Yi's soul was enveloped by blue, green, gold, and red light. The four colors of light spun rapidly, forming an energy vortex that tore apart the remaining lightning tribulation, and finally condensed into a beam of four-colored light.
Under the precise control of Chen Yi's third-order divine sense, the beam of light contained the power of the four elements, touched a certain law, and broke through the third-order barrier in terms of energy level, approaching the middle grade of the third order.
The energy of the four elements converges on the Azure Dew and the chilling cold of the icy water.
The next moment, four beams of light, like divine swords, pierced straight into the core of Chen Yi's soul.
Where the beam of light passed, the countless damaged soul power nodes within his body, formed by the bombardment of soul lightning, began to be rapidly healed and replenished.
At this moment, these four-colored beams of light followed the treatment priority, exerting more of the absolute freezing, stagnant, and slowing power of the ice water.
And the healing and restorative properties extracted from Qinghe Linglu.
The Golden Sword and the Flame take a backseat, serving only as providers of stable energy and law attributes, using the principle of mutual generation of the five elements to support the purity, energy conversion efficiency, and quality of the other two powers.
Although the treatment approach has some emphasis,
But for a soul on the verge of collapse,
This level of repair is sufficient.
In the tug-of-war between the lightning strike and the healing,
Although the tenth tribulation of soul lightning was extremely fierce, it ultimately failed to completely shatter Chen Yi's soul essence in the first instance, causing his soul to be scattered.
So, after entering the protracted war phase...
With Chen Yi's resilient spirit and the healing properties of the Four Symbols Beam, the victor will undoubtedly be Chen Yi.
Meanwhile, deep within the sea of consciousness,
Unconsciously,
The remaining four thousand strands of divine consciousness within Chen Yi's body, which were as thin as gossamer threads, were quietly absorbing the tempering power of the lightning tribulation, and were gradually showing the jade-like luster unique to the third rank, thus advancing to the third rank.
However, the test is not over yet.
The remaining peak third-tier soul lightning power within his body, like an enraged thunder dragon, still had more than half of it raging through his meridians.
For a time,
Chen Yi's soul essence was repeatedly bombarded inside and out by lightning needles formed from soul lightning.
At this moment, apart from the undying spiritual light at the core of the origin, which was still intact, the rest of the soul tissues were covered in wounds.
Under the continuous nourishment of the power of the Four Symbols,
The four-colored beams of divine consciousness, like a spiritual spring nourishing parched land, repaired the very essence of the soul.
Its original energy resonated with Chen Yi's newly advanced third-level divine consciousness, and its energy and healing power began to rise rapidly exponentially.
At some point, the energy density at the core of the four-colored divine sense beam had reached a terrifying level of mid-grade third rank.
Its healing capabilities have also increased significantly with the leap in energy level.
The injuries to Chen Yi's soul were like porcelain being repaired by a master craftsman, rapidly improving before his very eyes.
Even so, his current soul body doesn't have enough capacity to digest the remaining power of those boiling, magma-like peak-level third-tier soul lightning.
In the sky above the sea of consciousness where the tribulation clouds had dispersed,
at this time,
Above Chen Yi's sea of divine souls, several tiny, firefly-like lights appeared.
The tribulation cloud that once dominated the heavens and earth has long since turned into spiritual stardust and disappeared.
Faced with the invisible will of heaven and earth,
Chen Yi gave a slight bow towards the unknown location in the air.
Silently expressing sincere gratitude for the soul-piercing tribulation and assistance bestowed by the will of heaven and earth, he bid farewell to the will of heaven and earth.
Then, he used the system's devouring function.
It devoured the half of the peak third-tier lightning tribulation power that it had not yet digested in its divine soul origin, as if peeling away layers of silk.
Under the purification at the level of laws,
Gradually,
The foreign tribulation lightning in his soul's origin was gradually reduced by the system's power, like peeling away layers of silk.
The purified Thunder Spirit particles re-aggregated in a corner of the Sea of Divine Souls.
A spark the size of a grain of rice gradually appeared.
As time passed, and after an unknown period of time, the bolt of lightning grew larger and larger, like a snowball.
It eventually coalesced into a fist-sized ball of lightning, which floated in the air amidst the tide of soul power.
After systematic absorption and tempering,
This is the pure power of Soul Lightning after removing all berserk attributes.
Although it was only extracted from half of the Soul Lightning Tribulation energy.
However, the compressed energy inside this lightning sphere also possesses the pure soul lightning power of a third-tier superior grade.
Chen Yi hadn't figured out how to use it yet, so he stored it in a corner of his Sea of Souls for the time being.
Beside that ball of lightning was his thundercloud, which was at least at the third level.
A delicate energy cycle forms between the two, nourished by the continuous release of energy from the thunderclouds, resulting in a very long period of energy decay for the thunderball.
After using his divine sense to perceive it carefully, Chen Yi estimated that the quality of the energy it contained would not decrease significantly within ten years.
"Whoa—"
Finally, Chen Yi let out a long sigh of relief.
This ordeal of the soul was passed safely, albeit with some close calls.
Unexpectedly, being too cautious was not a good thing, causing the tribulation lightning to misjudge and almost causing him to miss the opportunity to advance his divine soul.
If Chen Yi hadn't politely informed Heaven and Earth at the beginning, and hadn't withdrawn the power of the soul lightning within his body at the crucial moment, thus narrowly avoiding leaving behind the tribulation clouds,
Let it exhaust its last bit of energy and unleash the tenth lightning tribulation.
This time, Chen Yi will likely fail to overcome his tribulation.
Behind,
What Chen Yi needed to do was to properly recover from the injuries to his soul and quickly familiarize himself with the abilities of his newly acquired third-tier soul.
After a comprehensive review of my own situation
Chen Yi realized he needed to systematically re-analyze his various cultivation levels and trump cards, from body refinement and magical power to divine sense, in order to figure out how to improve and enhance them.
This is a rather complex process involving the coordination of multiple systems.
Considering the interrelationships among various capabilities,
Chen Yi's plan needs at least several months to slowly think, organize, improve, and enhance it.
The feasibility of each improvement plan needs to be repeatedly verified during this period.
Only after clarifying these matters will Chen Yi be able to finally determine his next cultivation direction and method.
In fact, only three days have passed since Chen Yi took the Thunderfire Nirvana Soup until the end of his tribulation.
His divine soul essence was so powerful that even the tenth soul lightning tribulation at the peak of the third tier only caused his mind to stagnate for a mere two days.
On the last day, he had used the four-colored divine sense beam, which had advanced to the third level of divine sense, to partially repair the origin of his divine soul.
At least, it restored the spiritual light at the core of his consciousness.
After the system uses its power to clear the remaining lightning tribulation energy from his soul's origin, his soul's origin will only get better and better.
However, this process requires a significant amount of energy from the four-colored divine sense beams, which takes some time.
What Chen Yi didn't know was...
Just three days ago,
As Chen Yi endured the ninth tribulation of lightning and pleaded with the will of heaven and earth...
Somewhere in the Immortal City of Lakes and Seas, Emperor Qi and Fairy Zixiao, one after the other, each looked up at a certain point in the void.
A feeling that made them all tremble rose in their souls.
They seemed to sense a terrifying aura emanating from the level of their souls, and each of them contracted their divine senses, obediently focusing their eyes on their noses and their minds on their hearts.
After the tenth lightning tribulation dissipated,
Only then did that feeling of unease that made their hearts race finally subside.
The two used their divine senses to scan their surroundings like a net, but failed to detect anything unusual.
This kind of tribulation at the level of the soul is much rarer than the tribulation of forming a core or a nascent soul.
It is a tribulation of the soul that is attracted when a person's soul talent is extremely high, their foundation is extremely rich, and they surpass ordinary third-order souls, reaching a certain qualitative change.
Moreover, Fairy Zixiao was extremely knowledgeable; she even knew that ordinary tribulations of the divine soul rarely caused inexplicable fluctuations in the will of heaven and earth.
Only in special circumstances.
She pondered to herself who this person undergoing tribulation was—ordinary Core Formation cultivators could never possibly encounter such a tribulation.
This is because such tribulations of the soul have extremely demanding requirements for talent, and are often designed specifically for peerless geniuses in the Foundation Establishment stage.
She had already met all the prodigies who had come from Zhongzhou:
Qiu Li and Young Master Ji have already survived this ordeal.
Although that young sword cultivator surnamed Zuo has condensed a sword heart, his spiritual realm should not yet have reached that level.
Could it be that little monk?
This little monk was the only person that Fairy Zixiao could not see through.
Based on her intuition, she judged that the other party was someone with a strong physical body but slightly weaker magical power, but she really couldn't fathom the depth of his soul.
As for the prodigies of Qi, Fairy Zixiao's gaze was like lightning.
A mere glance was enough to see through it all—the vast majority of people were still one step away from triggering this calamity.
Even if one or two individuals had survived the tribulation of the soul, the resulting fluctuations in the heavens and earth were far less massive than those at this moment.
At this time,
The elders of both sides have already driven all the prodigies into the secret realm.
The true struggle for the inheritance of the ancient Thunder Soul Sect has officially begun.
However, when everyone stepped into the second minefield,
But their expressions changed drastically.
"Holy crap! How did the intensity of this minefield increase by a whole level?"
Qi Wuba immediately started cursing. Originally, he had rushed back to practice the Thunder Spirit Body Tempering Technique, which had brought his physical body's resistance to lightning fields to a new level.
They were preparing to attempt to break into the second-tier, third-level, high-grade minefield area.
result,
When they reached the previous mid-grade third-tier stone tablet, they discovered that the strength here was a whole level higher than before.
He immediately started cursing and swearing.
The other prodigies also frowned, their expressions solemn.
Even with the more advanced magnetic lightning collar crafted by Chen Yixin, Qin Chengcheng still felt increased pressure after stepping into the lightning field.
On the contrary, in comparison,
In contrast, the three prodigies from Central Plains seemed to be handling the situation with ease.
They easily broke through the mid-grade third-level lightning field and headed straight for the high-grade area, as if entering an empty field.
At this moment, they are "shopping spree" for the final inheritance on the second level.
Those three each possessed extraordinary abilities.
Qiu Li was surrounded by lightning, and the lightning attacks that struck her were like mud sinking into the sea, leaving no ripples.
She moved freely through the minefield, daring not to venture beyond the entrance to the minefield leading to the third level.
She explored the rest of the area thoroughly.
The swordsman wielded a longsword, a magical artifact gleaming with a cold light, his swordplay as fluid as a swimming dragon.
With exquisite swordsmanship, he deflected each of the incoming lightning bolts.
Wherever the sword tip touched, the lightning was drawn and scattered like threads.
Such superb swordsmanship left Leng Jianfei speechless.
Young Master Ji, on the other hand, remained more composed. A three-colored shield enveloped his body, and the lightning attacks struck it like raindrops on banana leaves.
He didn't even need to use his personal treasures; he easily defended himself solely based on his own cultivation.
Clearly, he is not just a spoiled brat relying on his family background.
This scene put immense pressure on the pride of the Qi Kingdom.
Although the inheritance stone tablets will not be exhausted all at once, and later generations will still have the opportunity to acquire them,
But who can guarantee that?
If someone is the first to reach the ultimate inheritance and take control of the entire Inheritance Hall,
At that time, how all opportunities are allocated will be entirely up to that person.
Moreover, everyone already knows the answer.
Will we be able to enter the final part of the Hall of Inheritance?
Each of the inheritance stone tablets in front of them seemed to have a purpose; if one could not learn the techniques in the previous level, one would not be able to advance to the next level.
Today, Zhongzhou Tianjiao is far ahead.
The people of Qi were naturally extremely anxious.
(End of this chapter)