Chapter 166: The Ten Tribulation Thunders

Winds howled and clouds surged.

A heavy, oppressive tribulation cloud covered the sky and blocked out the sun. In no time, the surroundings plunged into complete darkness.

Violent gales roared, sending sand and pebbles flying.

Within a radius of dozens of miles, everything was thrown into chaos. Anything that could walk or move fled in a panic.

In this entire area, besides Feng Ke'er and Hu Li inside the Mustard Seed Space, there was not a third living soul left.

The dust and wind made it impossible to keep one's eyes open. Feng Ke'er spread her arms, standing resolutely against the fierce gale.

This spectacle was indeed terrifying. Since her transmigration, this was the first time she had encountered such a thing. To say she was not afraid would be a lie.

However, when disaster struck, what good was fear?

Since extending the head meant a blow, and drawing it back also meant a blow, why not face it directly?

Moreover, it was indeed true that she had taken shortcuts and broken the rules first.

If the heavenly retribution could wash away her identity as an unregistered entity, allowing her to walk freely under the sunlight from then on without having to hide away in a spatial ball like a criminal, then she was willing to accept the trial of the heavenly retribution.

When the purplish-red tribulation cloud turned purple-black, the gale suddenly stopped.

Immediately afterward, a brilliant golden light burst from the exact center of the tribulation cloud. In an instant, like a flare, it tore open the surrounding darkness.

Three breaths later, with a piercing crack, a sharp, deafening roar burst from the tribulation cloud.

Feng Ke'er opened her eyes and saw a ball of golden light, thicker than a large millstone, violently smashing straight toward her crown.

Needless to say, this was the first tribulation lightning descending!

Good grief, this was authentic lightning striking a person!

Seeing this aggressive ball of golden light, the psychological preparation she had built up instantly collapsed. She let out an instinctive gasp of shock and tried to lift her legs to flee.

Unexpectedly, enveloped by that ball of golden light, she felt as if she had been immobilized by an acupuncture technique, unable to move even a single finger, let alone run.

"Damn it!" She had no choice but to close her eyes and accept her fate.

At that very moment, she felt as if her head were on fire. A scorching torrent of heat rushed down from her crown point, instantly flooding all the meridians and acupoints throughout her body.

Every single one of her primary and secondary meridians felt as though it had been set ablaze, emitting a terrifying crackling sound.

Fortunately, the golden light moved very fast. In less than two breaths, it had passed all the way through Feng Ke'er's body.

Thank heavens, the first tribulation lightning had passed!

Without a second thought, Feng Ke'er sat cross-legged, brought her palms together, and hurriedly used the Spring Return Technique to heal herself.

The injuries were not severe. After the wood-element spiritual qi circulated through her body for just one full cycle, all her meridians were completely fine. Not only were her internal and external injuries fully healed, but Feng Ke'er also made a joyful discovery: tribulation lightning possessed the miraculous therapeutic effect of expanding and reinforcing meridians!

Not all tribulation lightning was necessarily a bad thing. The so-called cultivation meant seizing a glimmer of survival amidst heavy crises—the Master of Tongtian Sect truly did not deceive people.

Feng Ke'er looked up at the tribulation cloud overhead, seeing it churning wildly and devouring spiritual qi ravenously, and her joy instantly vanished.

With a formidable enemy right before her, she had to quickly adapt her body to the widened meridians. Therefore, she had to seize the time to practice the third tier of the Cleansing Heart Mantra.

About a quarter of an hour later, rumbling sounds echoed from the sky again. From within the previously dimmed tribulation cloud, an even more blinding golden light erupted.

Enveloped by the golden light, Feng Ke'er found herself immobilized once more.

Damn it, the second tribulation lightning was here! Other than smiling bitterly and waiting to be struck, there was nothing she could do.

"Crack—" The sound of the second tribulation lightning was even louder, shaking the bald hilltop twice.

As for Feng Ke'er's physical experience of it: it was far hotter than the first tribulation lightning. However, its speed was less than half that of the first.

Consequently, her newly healed body was once again scorched until it crackled.

After the tribulation lightning passed, the golden light vanished. Feng Ke'er could move again. Seizing the moment, she hurriedly used the Spring Return Technique to heal her injuries.

Compared to the previous time, her injuries this time were noticeably much heavier. The wood-element spiritual qi had to circulate through her body twice before she was fully healed.

Of course, the benefit of the second tribulation lightning was that her meridians received yet another, even more formidable expansion.

Now, the meridians throughout her entire body were a full fifty percent wider than before she underwent the tribulation.

However, the spiritual qi inside her body had not increased by even a tiny fraction. As a result, the spiritual qi within her meridians appeared significantly thinned out.

This was by no means a favorable phenomenon. One must know that meridians relied on the spiritual qi within them for nourishment. Without sufficient spiritual qi, the meridians would be like an underinflated tire, and all their functions would be drastically impaired.

Feng Ke'er looked up at that mass of tribulation cloud above her head. Its belly had turned a bright golden-purple. In other words, the third tribulation lightning had already formed.

Her preparation time was running out.

There was no time left to practice the third tier of the Cleansing Heart Mantra. Her only option now was to draw half of the wood-element spiritual qi from her sea of Qi to replenish her half-empty meridians.

As soon as the wood-element spiritual qi reached its place, the golden light arrived once again. The energy this time had clearly multiplied several times over. Shining down on her crown, it felt like Mount Tai pressing down upon her—heavy and immensely substantial. Enveloped by it, Feng Ke'er's vision blurred and her head spun.

"Clang-crack!" The tribulation cloud roared, shaking the earth and heavens!

The third tribulation lightning had descended.

The very moment it landed on the crown of her head, Feng Ke'er caught a whiff of a burnt stench—that was her hair being scorched.

Through numerous rounds of body refinement, her hair had also become extremely resilient, incapable of being ignited by ordinary mundane fire. From this, one could imagine just how formidable the third tribulation lightning was.

This time, the tribulation lightning traveled even more slowly. Like thick, viscous magma, it entered through the crown point, flowing drop by drop through her meridians. The entire process actually took a full fifteen breaths!

Fortunately, having gained experience from being struck, she had protected her meridians with wood-element spiritual qi beforehand. Therefore, although the tribulation lightning was many times more formidable, the resulting injuries were actually less severe than those from the first tribulation lightning.

Did it hurt? Feng Ke'er felt it was tolerable, remaining within a manageable range. Besides, she had no time to weep, because the tribulation cloud was already churning even more frantically to gestate the fourth tribulation lightning. She had to seize this brief interval to heal her injuries and use the first tier of the Cleansing Heart Mantra to recover as much of the depleted wood-element spiritual qi as possible. She didn't even have time to check the extent of her meridian expansion.

The interval this time was even shorter than the previous two.

Before Feng Ke'er could replenish the wood-element spiritual qi in her meridians, the golden light descended.

Without any suspense, the golden light was even more intense, manifesting as a scorching white-hot glare!

Moreover, the energy of the fourth tribulation lightning exceeded the sum of the first three combined!

Alas, the long hair she had just recovered was instantly burned away to nothing. That wasn't all; after leisurely devouring the spiritual qi in her meridians, this lightning actually made a halfway detour to check on her sea of Qi. Fortunately, the sea of Qi was far stronger than the meridians, and by then the lightning was at the end of its tether, so it caused no substantial damage.

After the tribulation lightning passed, Feng Ke'er shivered violently. The damned tribulation lightning had consumed ninety-nine percent of the wood-element spiritual qi in her body. Now, let alone the Spring Return Technique, she couldn't even cast a minor Rejuvenation Spell. Fortunately, all ten prepared bottles of Crimson Blood Pills were with her. Although these pills could not compare to the Spring Return Technique, having something was better than nothing.

Swallowing an entire bottle in one breath, ignoring her bald head and various internal and external injuries, she hastily used the Cleansing Heart Mantra to recover her spiritual qi.

Less than five minutes later, the fifth tribulation lightning descended. Without her hair to protect her, Feng Ke'er was struck directly on the head by the lightning, tearing open her scalp and revealing her stark white skull. Fresh blood gushed out, instantly drenching her into a bloody figure.

This could hardly be called truly tragic.

What was even more fatal was that her sea of Qi had also become a disaster zone. Seventy percent of the various spiritual qi within it had been obliterated by the tribulation lightning, leaving the sea of Qi on the verge of collapse!

With no other choice, she could only let her primordial spirit break out of its shell! Pondering this, Feng Ke'er swallowed three more bottles of Crimson Blood Pills like eating candy.

The bleeding on her head finally stopped.

However, before she could use the Cleansing Heart Mantra to restore her spiritual qi, the belly of the tribulation cloud spat out another blinding light!

Without the slightest hesitation, Feng Ke'er shouted, "Primordial spirit, exit the body!"

Her primordial spirit burst out from her crown point with a whoosh. The five-colored natal spiritual light immediately poured down like water, wrapping tightly around her physical body without leaving a single gap.

Wherever the natal spiritual light touched, all internal and external injuries healed instantly.

However, this was not her purpose for letting the primordial spirit leave her body.

As long as the green mountains remained, there was no need to worry about firewood. She was making her primordial spirit escape, wasn't she!

"Flee quickly!" she shouted.

Simultaneously, the fifth tribulation lightning roared and lunged downward with even greater ferocity.

"Clang!" It clashed head-on with the primordial spirit.

The primordial spirit let out an angry roar, suddenly transforming and extending a thousand hands. Fluttering like flowers, they instantly tore the tribulation lightning into countless strands.

In this battle, the primordial spirit won a complete victory!

Unexpectedly, the temperament of that tribulation cloud was a classic case of growing stronger when facing a strong opponent.

The primordial spirit's flawless performance drove it into a complete frenzy!

No sooner had the fifth tribulation lightning passed than, with a loud crack, the sixth tribulation lightning followed closely behind.

Damn it, this bastard had held something back earlier!

Looking at the impending sixth tribulation lightning, the only thing Feng Ke'er felt grateful for was that, shielded by the natal spiritual light, she was able to move and could still cast the Cleansing Heart Mantra.

To deal with the tribulation lightning, the primordial spirit once again employed the tearing technique. However, this time, she struggled noticeably harder. After stalemating with the tribulation lightning for a long time, she finally managed to tear it apart.

The tribulation cloud shuddered malevolently and spat out the seventh tribulation lightning in the blink of an eye.

The primordial spirit raised her thousand hands with difficulty.

However, that tribulation lightning was as hard as millennium iron crystal; she simply could not tear it.

"Crack!" With a roar from the tribulation lightning, the primordial spirit's thousand hands were struck one after another, snapping nearly a third of them in an instant like flowers battered by a violent storm!

The primordial spirit suffered a heavy blow, and the natal spiritual light vanished with a whoosh. Thus, she was once again plunged into the perilous predicament of being unable to move.

However, the tribulation lightning was finally torn apart as well.

How painful! Feng Ke'er swayed and spat out a mouthful of heartache blood.

"I'll fight you to the death!" Having reached the end of her rope, she had no choice but to urge her true essence to protect her body.

Yet the tribulation cloud grew more courageous with every battle, the subsequent bolts of tribulation lightning following one closely after another.

And Feng Ke'er could only rely on her true essence to put up a stubborn, desperate defense.

When the tenth tribulation lightning finally passed, Feng Ke'er's primordial spirit had been hacked into the likeness of Venus, tumbling backward like a kite with a broken string as it fell back into the sea of Qi.

"Ah—hehe..." Feng Ke'er split her bloody mouth, smiling a smile far uglier than weeping.

She had survived the heavenly retribution!

The price was that every single one of her thousands of primordial spirits had suffered heavy blows; the Governor and Conception vessels of her physical body were snapped; her spiritual qi was exhausted; and her sea of Qi was fractured.

As of now, she had only a tiny shred of true essence left to protect her heart.

Although she had not perished, she was truly on her last breath, not far from death.

"Master! Master! Let me out quickly!" The wooden plank wall inside the Mustard Seed Space had been clawed beyond recognition by the frantic Hu Li.

At present, Feng Ke'er was so weak that a gust of wind could blow her over, and she desperately needed someone to guard her cultivation. If she did not let him step out to fight for her now, her master would never need him to fight again.

At that very moment, a loud rumble of thunder echoed from the sky once more. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to cast recommendation votes and monthly votes. Your support is my greatest motivation.)

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