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After some time, there was a bit of noise coming out from the door, before the voice of the Heaven"s Will spoke out once more again.
"Your request has been granted. You may keep the spiritual Qi inside your spatial ring for later usage. Now, we will deliver your advance thunder tribulations as part of this exchange. Please prepare yourself."
The princ.i.p.al was astonished beyond words when he heard this. "The Heaven"s Will actually relented to his request? This must be the first in this world!" he spoke out with an agitated tone to it.
The door slowly disappeared as thick clouds formed above Duan Li. This cloud was almost 5 kilometers high up in the skies, and the furious rumbling sounds of thunders could be heard from within it.
"I succeeded hahaha! With this amount of spiritual Qi, it should be enough for me to use it for emergency purposes!" exclaimed Duan Li excitedly in his heart.
After his adventure in the first region of the Eternal maze, even though the place was fraught with danger, he had benefitted a lot from there as well.
Therefore, he was planning to complete all nine regions of the Eternal maze, and the second region would be the next one he should enter.
Who knows if he would be able to have an even more heaven-defying encounter next time?
CRACK!
The lightning started to coil together.
"Oh boy, I should prepare myself first! This tribulation seemed dangerous.." said Duan Li as he snapped out from his daze to look at the ma.s.sive black clouds above him.
...
Empress Luo, who was watching this even unfolding from the holographic screen atop of her throne, frowned upon seeing that ma.s.sive cloud.
"If I am not mistaken, this is a tribulation for those who had defied the heavens, Heaven"s Judgement! Why did you not use the tribulation for the Core formation realm?" she asked with a slightly angry tone to it.
It goes for sure that the mortal boy was defying the heavens, but they had already agreed upon the latter"s request to send down an advance tribulation for the Core formation realm, then what is this all about?
Such tribulation would more or less be no different than the Heavenly Severing Existence axe! The mortal boy would definitely be killed by this!
For us the Heaven"s Will committee, to actually renegade on our promise, what has become of us?!
Just as the Empress was about to fume in anger, elder Jun immediately spoke out.
"Empress Luo, although you have heard of the incident back then, you hadn"t witnessed it personally. Elder Xiqong went crazy and sent down powerful tribulations all the way to the Nascent Soul realm tribulations!" elder Jun said as he shuddered when he recalled that bizarre scene.
Hearing this, the Empress"s heart stopped beating for a single breath. Obviously, she was not ready to hear such a reply from elder Jun and almost choked herself.
However, her outward appearance remained indifferent and graceful as she raised one brow.
"How is that possible? I still see him alive and kicking on the screen right now!" she spoke out with a questioning tone.
Do they take me for a fool?!
"T-This.. it"s hard to explain.. maybe the same thing would happen again today.. let"s just watch first.." elder Jun answered awkwardly.
...
"The tribulation is about to come down, let"s go back a bit further!" the princ.i.p.al said as they retreated 100 meters back.
CRACK!
Numerous lightning bolts started to enlarged with the size of a tree trunk each. They were golden in colour and shimmered out with a pale emerald glow.
Identify!
[Heaven"s Judgement Tribulation - A thunder tribulation meant for those who had defied the laws of the heavens.]
[Danger level: Fatal]
Seeing the results from his identify ability, Duan Li was stumped reading at its description and that "Fatal" danger level.
"W-What kind of a tribulation is that?! I have never seen such a tribulation even in the books of records before!" Shen Lu exclaimed out in horror.
"This is something beyond our imagination here, to think that Duan Li would attract such a tribulation! Even if it were me, I would definitely die from the sheer power that was radiated out by those lightning bolts right now!" Shen Murong spoke out with a grim countenance.
BOOMM!!
Duan Li exploded out with his full power from the get-go. His hair rose up as his pupils turned golden with streaks of lightning flashed around his body ever so slightly.
"Urgh! His aura is even more denser than before! How did he managed to power up to such an extent!" Shen Murong said in disbelief as he clenched his fists tight.
If previously they were almost equal in strength, after the body tempering, he was confident that he had become stronger than Duan Li by a few levels. But now, he knew for sure that Duan Li"s strength had already left him to eat dust!
"This was the effect of someone cultivating with three dantians. His total battle prowess right now should be similar to that of a late stage Core formation realm cultivator!" the princ.i.p.al said.
Suddenly, a gigantic palm streak across the skies and slapped against the still charging lightning bolts!
BOOMM!!
It was a pre-emptive strike from Duan Li, the Nine Palm Slapping Oceans!
Pu!
The princ.i.p.al and the rest choked their throats out at the sight of this!
Brother! No one has ever dared to strike against the tribulation from the heavens before!
Why must you be so domineering now?
What if the heavens got mad and made it even stronger?!
Even Empress Luo was jolted at her seat and almost choked out. To think that a mere mortal would dare to slap against the judgement from the heavens?
That was tantamount to looking to die!
"What an interesting mortal.. but if you think that such a puny strike would deter the heaven"s punishment, you are definitely thinking too much of yourself!" the Empress noted out as she snorted slightly with pride.
When the dust finally settled, the lightning bolts still floated mightily in the air, as if unbreakable and indestructible!
"d.a.m.n! I thought that my strike would at least dissipate some of them. To think that not even a single one was affected!" Duan Li"s face turned grim as he finally realized the power of the lightning bolts above him.
BOOMM!!
BOOMM!!
Several lightning bolts immediately struck down towards Duan Li.
"My Lord!" w.a.n.g Xiolun shouted out in horror, about to bolt forward to help Duan Li and become the meat shield.
However, the princ.i.p.al grasp at the latter"s left shoulder firmly with his palm, halting w.a.n.g Xiolun from acting foolishly.
Shen Lu and Shen Murong at the side turned away their faces as they dared not to witness the tragic scene before them any further.
In their hearts, there was no way that Duan Li could have survived that. To them, Duan Li was already a lost cause after the lightning bolts struck at him squarely.
"It was short but a memorable experience. I would never forget about you from this day onward my brother!" Shen Lu sighed out in his heart.
"Hais! There goes my only rival! If there is an afterlife, I would wish for us to meet again once more!" Shen Murong closed his eyes emotionally.
Only Xiahou Yu was watching intently at the scene where Duan Li was strucked repeatedly by the numerous lightning bolts. She almost took out a fried chicken drumstick on impulse as she felt this part to be the climax!
However, she suppressed herself from doing so. After all, even though she has an undivided beliefs that Duan Li would tide through every single problems he would face, the rest of them would definitely not share the same thought as her"s yet. Thus, it would be inappropriate and insensitive if she were to whip out a drumstick right now.
Therefore, she just whipped out a single, crispy skin of a fried chicken from inside her spatial ring, and discreetly put it inside her mouth.
Crunch!
"Good, they didn"t realize!" she exhaled in relief as she swallowed it.
Gulp!
However, her actions was caught red-handed by the princ.i.p.al as well as the four figures managing the isolation barrier. Due to the intensity of the situation at the moment, they had deployed their soul sense to the maximum and was very sensitive at each and every change within their range.
With their mouths wide agaped open, they simultaneously screamed inside their hearts.
Hey, are you watching a play right now or something?!
(Author"s note: My intention here was to portray Xiahou Yu like eating popcorn during a movie lol.)
BOOMM!!
BOOMM!!
BOOMM!!
The lightning bolts continued to rained down from the heavens relentlessly. At this moment, the Angaran forest was already burnt down to crisp before disintegrating into ashes as the ground tore open and many cracks had formed.
However, contrary to the princ.i.p.al"s previous grim countenance, right now he had instead thoroughly relaxed as he shook his head.
To Shen Lu and Shen Murong"s astonishment, the other party even chuckled!
Hais!
The princ.i.p.al must be extremely devastated right now that the innumerable emotions swirling deep inside him had turned so convoluted, that he couldn"t help but to just chuckle out at the tragic fate of Duan Li!
But what these two people did not realize was that the princ.i.p.al shook his head and chuckled was because he had already seen what happened behind that continuously blinding flash of light with his soul sense!
"As expected! That barrier was activated again this time to shred the tribulations into tiny pieces of thunder essence to be absorbed in the end!" the princ.i.p.al said to himself as his worries had now disappeared without a trace.
In retrospective, Duan Li was dumbfounded. During the first tribulation, he was too absorbed to notice a barrier was protecting him back then. And during the second tribulation at the blood pool, he was unconscious.
Therefore, this was his first time witnessing this event himself!
"Holy moly! What is this barrier? Is this another ability from the mysterious pearls inside me?!" he exclaimed in his heart, thoroughly shocked.
But it didn"t took him long to snapped out of it and pretended to be unfazed by this bizarre barrier surrounding him as if he knew about it all along.
He then sat down cross-legged, focusing in a.n.a.lyzing the shredded tribulations as it entered his body.
Closing his eyes, the All-Seeing eye activated.
"Eh? These thunder essence are coagulating inside my right arm?"
Right now, due to the high intensity of thunder essence that he was absorbing, he could finally feel that his right arm was being imbued with powers!
...
At this moment, Empress Luo stood up straight from her throne in agitation.
"This feeling.. it cannot be!"
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