Chapter 261: Breaking the stalemate with a Tribulation
Translated by: La0o9
Edited by: Juicetin
Proofreader: Arya
A wounded soul vessel isn’t a small matter at all, as it normally takes months of recuperation to heal.
Gu Qing Shan frowned, then lightly tapped his forehead with his finger.
A ball of light lightly flew out at the tip of his finger.
[Dragon Fish Pearl: Mend all wounds on a soul vessel in a few seconds]
[Would you like to use the Dragon Fish Pearl?]
“Use it”
The light then scattered into Gu Qing Shan’s body.
A cool and refres.h.i.+ng feeling flowed from around his body to his Thought Sea, quickly healing all the wounds on his soul vessel.
One breath, two breaths, three breaths.
The cool feeling disappeared.
Gu Qing Shan’s soul vessel has fully recovered.
“Such an amazing treasure, I really want to know what that fish’s original form is” Gu Qing Shan muttered.
At the moment, his spirit was high and all he had were a few scratches on his body.
And he already reached Golden Core late stage.
The lightning kept on striking, with the amount increasing more and more.
While heading towards the center of the battlefield, Gu Qing Shan was still swinging the Earth Sword, knocking all lightning that descended on him away into the waves of demons.
「 Are you planning to keep on going like this, breaking through while using the lightning to kill the demons? 」 the Earth Sword asked.
“Two birds with one stone, why wouldn’t I?” Gu Qing Shan said.
「 You’re not afraid that the demons will enter the range of the Tribulation and do everything to kill you? 」the Earth Sword asked again.
“They’re still waiting for their chance, but right now…”
Gu Qing Shan swung his sword again.
Each and every bolt of lightning that came down all got knocked away into the army of demons, causing chaos and discord.
The destructive presence of the Lightning Tribulation scares the demons even more than the rain of fire far behind them.
The stronger demons are still hesitating, looking for a chance to strike so they haven’t moved forward yet.
Gu Qing Shan was still advancing, anywhere he went by, the demon army was scattered or made to run for their lives, unable to pay attention to the human army’s attacks.
At this point, the lightning suddenly stopped.
A heavy storm suddenly came screaming.
The sky became darker.
A more devastating Tribulation lightning was about to descend.
Because Gu Qing Shan had broken through stages in succession, and then further attempted to breakthrough a realm right away, the heaven and earth is about to bring upon him a greater trial, to stabilize the world’s Laws.
There have been too many genius cultivators who died at this stage of breaking through many times in a row.
Countless bolts of Tribulation lightning were gathering above the black clouds.
With so many arcs of lightning building up across the dark sky, it almost seemed like a river of stars.
No, a river of lightning.
Such a rare and magnificent sight appearing means that the Heaven’s Tribulation has reached its most dangerous segment.
The river of lightning in the sky began to s.h.i.+ne brighter and brighter, then without any warning, began to rapidly descend upon Gu Qing Shan all at once, like a giant waterfall.
Gu Qing Shan rested the Earth Sword on his shoulder while cupping his hand to look at the sky above.
He was regaining his breath to prepare for the tough battle ahead.
「 Be serious with this, do not die at this place 」the heavy voice rang out.
“I guess this is you worrying?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
「 That’s right, I’ve lived for countless years, but I’ve never seen such a reckless cultivator like yourself before 」
“Don’t worry, this kind of Lightning Tribulation is just what I needed”
「 Needed? 」
“Right, to help me break this stalemate”
Gu Qing Shan swung his sword down.
In the next moment, he moved like a storm, turning into a blurry shadow as he zipped towards the center of the battlefield and attacked.
The rain of lightning followed right behind him.
While moving, the bolts that got close to him were once again knocked away, turning into snakes of lightning that scattered everywhere he went.
The demons were being decimated in groups at a time.
Suddenly.
A Faceless Giant roared, walking towards Gu Qing Shan.
This is the strongest demon currently on the battlefield, as it moved, so did all the other demons.
——-that crazy cultivator has borrowed the lightning from his Tribulation to kill too many demons, he can’t be left alone anymore!
He must be killed!
The demons rushed to him like a tsunami.
At the same time, Gu Qing Shan swung the Earth Sword and struck a blood red bolt of lightning.
The blood red lightning after being hit by the Earth Sword turned into a thick red string, pierced and exploded inside the Faceless Giant’s chest, then continued all the way towards the sky.
Staggering for a few more steps, the Faceless Giant kneeled, then fell down face-first, crus.h.i.+ng numerous weaker demons on the ground before turning into dust.
Gu Qing Shan stopped and received the screaming rain of lightning chasing after him, knocking them away one after another.
The Tribulation lightning bolts were all heading towards the tsunami of demons.
In the very next moment, they crashed!
Boom!
Boom!!
Boom!!!
The Tribulation lightning exploded in succession, while the tsunami of demons began letting out cries of horror, agony and fear.
It didn’t take long before the entire wave of demons that tried to come towards him were dealt with by the lightning.
The rest of the demons ran away, not the least bit interested in pursuing the human cultivators anymore.
All they wanted now is to run for their lives and get away from the lightning as far as possible.
But the Heaven’s Tribulation was merciless and mechanical, it didn’t change at all no matter what happened below.
As time pa.s.sed, the amount of lightning only increased, gradually becoming too numerous to count.
Never mind the demons, even Gu Qing Shan himself was beginning to feel immense danger.
Gu Qing Shan frowned, then thrust forward.
Secret Art, [Drawn Shadow]!
Endless black sword shadows bloomed.
The lightning was being knocked away by the numerous layers of swords.
The descending lightning exploded like beautiful white fireworks, but also like falling meteors, cras.h.i.+ng and destroying large groups of demons, turning them to ash.
Wherever Gu Qing Shan went, the demons could only run or die.
Behind him, the army of demons was already scattered.
He was still heading towards the center of the battlefield.
All the cultivators watching this felt stunned.
Even now, they still don’t know just who this mad man is.
Although Gu Qing Shan was wearing the noticeable golden You Ji General armor set, his face was being hidden by the silver mask that blocked even inner sight, so no one knows for sure.
One female cultivator timidly asked: “What should we do now?”
It was now that Ning Yue Xi finally recovered from shock and hurriedly ordered: “Retreat! Make sure not to enter the range of the Heaven’s Tribulation, otherwise we’ll be harming him instead”
The cultivators all sighed from relief and quickly fell into line.
They were also about to reach their limits.
There were still some more giant demons left, but none of them reached the realm of the Beast Saints.
Facing the might of the Heaven’s Tribulation, all the giant demons stopped their feet, roaring in anger and helplessness.
Even the strongest of them, the Faceless Giant has fallen to the lightning.
None of them dared to advance anymore.
Behind them was the rain of fire, in front was the human’s Heaven’s Tribulation, terrifying calamities both of them.
What do we do now?
One of the giant demons thought for a bit, then started running in another direction.
Its action instantly created a chain reaction, as all the other giant demons followed after it towards that direction as well.
As the most powerful demons has begun to run, the rest of them followed suit.
They were running, pus.h.i.+ng, stepping on each other to follow the giant demons.
The demons were retreating with their tails between their legs.
Not too long after, there was nothing else around Gu Qing Shan.
All the demons have retreated.
Only the commanding ranks of humanity’s army stood around the perimeter to protect him.
“All of you pay attention, he saved everyone’s lives, make sure he’s protected well enough to make it through this Tribulation, do not make any mistakes” Ning Yue Xi ordered.
“Roger!” the cultivators responded.
However, everyone was all extremely curious, just who is this brave soul that thought of such an insane idea to get rid of the demon army.
One of them looked at him, then suddenly said: “This is a correct line of thought, maybe we could use this method to scare away enemies later on”
The person standing next to him wryly smiled: “If it were you, would you have dared to do this?”
The Heaven’s Tribulation is always the most fearsome and dangerous trial that a cultivator has to pa.s.s. It’s hard to guarantee being able to succeed even under the best possible conditions, never mind having to be careful of the demons while using the power of the Tribulation to kill them.
Even cultivators only have a single life, who would want to try risking it like that?
A single mistake means the end.
After thinking about that a bit more, he realized just how dumb what he just suggested was and sighed.
The lightning was still striking down, but it’s beginning to weaken.
About 10 minutes later, all that’s left in the sky was the rain and wind, there was no more thunder or lightning.
The Heaven’s Tribulation is over.
Gu Qing Shan waited for a bit.
But this time, his soul vessel didn’t leave his body to go into the s.p.a.ce-time vortex.
It seems the corpse was hurt really badly this time, enough that it didn’t have strength to spare to pull him over there.
Gu Qing Shan just stood in place, feeling the changes in his body.
The dragon manifestation inside his Dantian once again underwent a metamorphosis.
It began to change its form, slowly turning humanoid.
You could basically see that it was taking Gu Qing Shan’s form.
Humans are the treasure of heaven and earth.
Spirit energy taking a humanoid shape means that it’s able to connect with heaven and earth, fulfilling the triad of Heaven, Earth and Man. (1)
A Rejuvenation realm cultivator can use their miniature spirit form at any time to feel the Laws of the world, taking one step further on the path of understanding the nature of the world, otherwise known as Dao. (2)
From now on, the cultivator’s life span will increase a thousand years, they can instantly become the elder of any sect, flying becomes second nature, travelling around the world in a single day is no longer just a dream.
Gu Qing Shan’s miniature spirit form has finally manifested.
Note:
(1) Heaven, Earth and Man: There’s a saying in Chinese, to be able to guarantee success in anything, you need to gather the triad of “Heaven’s blessing, geological advantage, and human harmony”. “Heaven’s blessing” is another way to say “luck”, as ancient Chinese people heavily believed that if it’s time for you to succeed, you will naturally be able to do so.
(2) miniature spirit form: also called Rejuvenation form, the original word in Chinese carried both the meaning of “becoming younger” and “new born baby”. In cultivation novels, this typically means that the egg (golden core) hatches and reborn you anew inside yourself, giving you extra life span and making you become younger again, which is where the name Rejuvenation realm comes from.