Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
The lights that were released from the runes floating around the array formation of the Dragon God Shrine got more radiant.
Like a glass sphere, the array formation engulfed the entire Dragon God Shrine including the platform.
Xie Yujia looked at the runes carefully and found that she didn’t know many of the runes. Therefore, she memorized them and decided to study them later.
The power of the Spells’ Origin Note Scroll that Old Grandma taught her could mimic all the techniques in the world, and the Life-Death Notes’ basic function was to create all kinds of runes and dharma notes.
Different runes and dharma notes had different effects, and one could control all kinds of powers with them. After reaching a high level, the cultivator would be free from the constraint of runes and dharma notes and control the natural powers at will.
Qingfeng Hermit used this Spells’ Origin Note Scroll to obtain her power, and the fact that she taught this scroll to Xie Yujia showed the ultimate trust.
Outside the array formation, the wind gathered, and the clouds surged up.
Similar to Zhao Kuo’s Heavenly Tribulation, the clouds in the high sky condensed into swirling vortexes which collided with each other and formed bigger vortexes.
With the activation of the array formation around the Dragon God Shrine, the surrounding nature essence moved swiftly and formed tribulation clouds at a great speed.
Some peak Qian-level cultivators didn’t dare to take the Heavenly Tribulation and thus dodged it with all kinds of methods, but some peak Qian-level cultivators embraced the Heavenly Tribulation and tried their best to fight it.
Su Han had prepared for her Heavenly Tribulation for nearly 20 years since she had decided to charge at the Heavenly Dragon Realm since the first year of her cultivation.
Even without the help of the Dragon God Shrine, she would activate her own nature essence to trigger the Heavenly Tribulation.
The golden runes on the platform lit up the sky, looking like countless golden light beams were swimming on the platform.
Su Han still sat on the ground cross-legged, but the longsword by her side had sensed the changes in the nature essence, and it hummed in vibration and rose from the ground slowly.
The level 4 inspectors who were remaining in the Dragon God Shrine also came from the building, including Qin Shaoyang.
Bang! Bang! Now the runes in the array formation turned purple, and they let out blinding lights in the air while more secret golden runes flashed around the Dragon God Shrine.
The nine Deputy Shrien Masters were astonished by the sight of the purple and golden lights flashing together. They knew the spirit essence was abundant inside the Dragon God Shrine but hadn’t expected such a great power outside of the building.
In the very center of this big platform stood the Dragon God Shrine which was surrounded by 96 big and small square-shaped arenas.
However, the arenas and the surrounding walls had collapsed due to Yue Zilong’s stomping when he was catching Zhen Congming, but 96 interacting runes appeared slowly from the positions where the arenas were stationed before.
The Dragon God Shrine that was in the center had naturally become the core of the big array formation!
It was the perfect platform for passing Heavenly Tribulations. The nine Deputy Shrien Masters suspected that the Dragon God Shrine had been built especially for today’s event!
Lichun, Yushui, Jingzhe, Chunfen, Qingming, Guyu, Lixia… All the 24 big arenas in each direction were named with the 24 Solar Terms. It made sense since they were a part of a big array formation!
The Deputy Shrine Masters of the Dragon God Shrine began to realize that things were going in the direction beyond their imaginations.
Bam!! The first heavenly lightning bolt accumulated in the thunderclouds and struck toward Su Han from the high sky.
It broke through the deep purple array formation of the Dragon God Shrine as if it had shot into a layer of glass, and its speed was greatly reduced.
All kinds of golden runes on the platform lit up, and Su Han’s longsword shot toward the heavenly lightning bolt.
Hua… The surrounding cultivators almost couldn’t keep their eyes open at the blinding white light.
When the light was gone, Su Han was still sitting on the ground cross-legged, not injured at all.
The nine Deputy Shrine Masters all retreated half a step.
Six of them had reached peak Qian-level, but none of them had experienced a Heavenly Tribulation before, and they were astonished by its power.
Seeing Su Han remained motionless after the lightning bolt scattered, Hao Ren relaxed a bit.
He had witnessed several Heavenly Tribulations, and the most powerful one was Lady Zhen and her husband’s, which was why he wasn’t that astonished while he watched Su Han withstand this Heavenly Tribulation.
Boom… All kinds of heavenly lightning bolts brewed and combined, forming a more powerful heavenly lightning bolt.
Su Han’s longsword hummed and released waves of green lights under her powerful presence.
After repeated refineries, her natal dharma treasure was close to a Supreme Spiritual Treasure!
The nine Deputy Shrine Masters were amazed inside when they Su Han’s calm expression and the suppression of her natal dharma treasure, knowing that her strength was probably greater than theirs!
Besides the Deputy Shrine Masters of the Dragon God Shrine, the metal-elemental dragon elders had also realized that Su Han’s strength had surpassed theirs.
While the power of the heavenly lightning bolts grew, the nature essence in the Dragon God Shrine was also gathering.
The Dragon God Shrine was helping Su Han withstand the Heavenly Tribulation with all the nature essence that it had! It was a great price to pay!
The metal-elemental dragon elders lamented silently while they calculated what things they should give to Su Han to draw her back into the metal-elemental dragon clan.
From their perspective, Su Han would pass this Heavenly Tribulation for sure! After all, not all cultivators had the Dragon God Shrine at their back.
Boom!
The second heavenly lightning bolt shook the Dragon God Shrine slightly while it crashed toward the platform from the high sky.
Su Han remained sitting while the longsword flew up and drew the heavenly lightning bolt to the ground. The lightning traveled along the array formation and gathered around Su Han.
A white barrier appeared around Su Han. It was an ice wall made by her metal-elemental and water-elemental nature essence.
When the heavenly lightning bolt struck onto the platform and then gathered around Su Han, its power had significantly decreased. After shattering her ice wall, it didn’t have any extra strength to strike her body.
The third heavenly lightning bolt struck down immediately.
Su Han drew up the longsword which had been inserted in the white platform and flew up lightly.
She leaped up by dozens of meters from the platform and withstood the third heavenly lightning bolt with the longsword and her body!
The power of this heavenly lightning bolt was no less than those at Zhao Kuo’s Heavenly Tribulation, but Su Han withstood it with ease!
Su Han slashed out her sword and blocked the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh heavenly lightning bolts consecutively!
The nine Deputy Shrine Masters and the metal-elemental dragon cultivators were dumbfounded, not expecting Su Han to have such great strength. She wasn’t risking her life in the Heavenly Tribulation. Instead, she had everything in her control!
She would become a Heavenly Dragon very soon!
This was a Nine Bolts Lightning Tribulation, and Su Han had blocked seven of them without any difficulty!
The six Deputy Shrine Masters calculated silently and knew that they could probably only block six heavenly lightning bolts. It seemed that Su Han would have a good chance of reaching the Heavenly Dragon Realm even without the support of the Dragon God Shrine.
Su Han who had done little in the Dragon God Shrine and lived quietly in the disguise of a university teacher in East Ocean City had reached such a high realm without their notice!
Seeing Su Han blocking the three heavenly lightning bolts consecutively, Zhao Yanzi and Xie Yujia were also sure that she could pass the Heavenly Tribulation. They wondered what would happen after Su Han become a Heavenly Dragon.
Standing beside Taiyi Cave Master, Xu Ke experienced the suppression of the heavenly lightning bolts with widened eyes of astonishment.
The lights from the heavenly lightning bolts lit up his body, bringing stinging pain to his skin.
“Disciple, answer my question. Who created you?”
In his white robe, Taiyi Cave Master asked Xu Ke abruptly.
“It’s you, Master,” Xu Ke looked at Taiyi Cave Master in alarm and replied carefully.
“It’s good that you understand it.” Taiyi Cave Master nodded with satisfaction before asking again, “Shouldn’t you make some contribution if your master can reach the Heavenly Dragon Realm?”
“Master, you mean…” Xu Ke looked up at Taiyi Cave Master and retreated half a step.
“You are a thread of my soul with your own consciousness. Why do you want to struggle?” Under the flashing light, Taiyi Cave Master got closer to Xu Ke and said mildly.
His old face looked distorted and vicious under the light.
“Master, you said that we came from the same origin. If I die, you die,” Xu Ke said in a panic.
Xu Ke had known from his birth that he was a split soul of his ‘master’, and he contained all the disobedient thoughts that Taiyi Cave Master couldn’t suppress.
In order to reach a higher realm, Taiyi Cave Master had split out the ‘dirty’ piece of his soul that distracted him from cultivation and injected it into a mortal who he had killed.
However, after the split soul got its own body, it developed its own consciousness. Its strong connection with the main soul in Taiyi Cave Master’s body still affected his cultivation, so he sent Xu Ke to the distant East Ocean City and gave him the golden shield for defense.
Xu Ke knew that he was a split soul of Taiyi Cave Master and thus couldn’t escape from him. Due to his mortal body, he couldn’t achieve a good cultivation result as well. However, knowing that Taiyi Cave Master couldn’t kill him, he had lived a free life.
Now that Taiyi Cave Master’s expression gave him a bad feeling, he turned to run.
“Humph! You’re getting more and more disobedient!” Taiyi Cave Master suddenly reached out his right hand at lightning speed and caught Xu Ke’s head.
Xu Ke turned to look at Hao Ren and the two girls and saw that they were all watching Su Han who was blocking the Heavenly Tribulation. Meanwhile, the metal-elemental dragon elders beside him were all turning their attention to Su Han as well, and none of them noticed his movements.
Crack! Xu Ke’s body collapsed onto the ground.
The metal-elemental dragon elders were not alarmed when they saw Xu Ke collapsing at their feet, thinking that he couldn’t withstand the mind-wrenching suppression of the heavenly lightning bolts due to his low realm.
“Die!”
Taiyi Cave Master suddenly launched a sneak-attack at the six metal-elemental dragon cultivators before suddenly changed into a black dragon and rushing toward Su Han who was blocking the last heavenly lightning bolt!
