892: Chapter 893 Fourteen Colors of Thunder

Xue Shushu's face instantly turned deathly pale, like the finest jade porcelain losing all its color. A single drop of Essence Blood might seem minuscule, but it contained the very Origin of her thousand-year cultivation. Having it stripped away now was like having thirty percent of her Foundation uprooted!

What was even more lethal was that the Fusion of the Essence Blood into the pill embryo was not an instantaneous process. She had to use her own Divine Thought as a bridge, cautiously maintaining the resonance and Fusion between the Essence Blood and the pill embryo's medicinal properties. This continuous consumption was no less taxing than a great battle! Gritting her teeth as fine beads of cold sweat broke out on her forehead, she sat cross-legged, her entire mind tied to that single drop of Essence Blood, leaving her no room to attend to anything else.

“Leave the rest to me!” Yao Delong's voice carried a hint of exhaustion, but even more so, a rock-solid determination. He pushed the Glazed Hearth Fire to its limit, dividing his Divine Thought into billions of strands like a precision-woven net. He enveloped the pill embryo, guiding that drop of kindred Essence Blood to completely dissolve and flow evenly into the Nine-Orifice Meridians of the pill embryo. He performed the ultimate reconciliation and Fusion of the Nirvana life force from the Heavenly Demon Nirvana Flower Stamen and all the other violent medicinal properties. This was a slow, painstaking process that allowed for neither the slightest impatience nor the smallest error.

Time was stretched incredibly thin amidst this suffocating focus.

One day... two days... ten days...

Xue Shushu had long since reached her limit. The moment the Essence Blood completely fused into the pill embryo, she weakly withdrew from the Secret Chamber, which was then guarded by a stronger isolation formation personally set up by Mo Jue. The old Demon Emperor Mo Jue and Demon Emperor Xue Wuya's Dao Companion, Yun Xiu, waited outside the Secret Chamber almost every day for a brief moment. They felt the increasingly terrifying and perfected Pill Dao aura within the room; every breath they took was heavy with anticipation and unspeakable worry. The hope of the Qingqiu lineage, dormant for ten thousand years, and Demon Emperor Xue Wuya's dying life were all tied to this single cauldron!

An entire month passed!

Buzz—!!!

A massive hum that seemed to come from Heaven and Earth itself suddenly erupted from the xuanhuang creation cauldron! The cauldron's body shook violently as the Xuanhuang Qi roared and rose like an angry dragon! An indescribable, majestic Pill Qi—powerful enough to shake the rules of the myriad worlds—was like a volcano suppressed for eons. It crashed through the roof of the Secret Chamber and shot straight into the nine heavens!

Rumble—!!!

Above the Qingqiu Holy Land, the vast clear sky vanished! A tribulation cloud, heavy as lead and roiling like boiling water, manifested out of thin air, instantly blotting out the sun, moon, and stars! A destructive heavenly might—hundreds, even thousands of times more terrifying than the one during the refining of the great void spirit nurturing pill—ground down upon all of Qingqiu like an invisible millstone!

“The Pill Tribulation! It's here!” Xue Shushu had been waiting outside for a long time. Looking up at the firmament, her beautiful face was devoid of color, filled only with unprecedented gravity. She had seen Twelve-Colored Pill Lightning before; that was already the limit of the Demon King Realm, enough to make even an ordinary Demon Emperor's scalp tingle. But this tribulation cloud before her...

“What... what color is that tribulation lightning?!” a Fox Clan Elder cried out in shock.

At the center of that Chaos tribulation cloud, violent electrical light began to condense! Before the first bolt of tribulation lightning could even strike, the colors of the brewing lightning began to stack frantically! Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple... in the blink of an eye, it broke past the nine-color limit! Ten colors! Eleven colors! Twelve colors!

“Twelve-Colored Pill Lightning!” Mo Jue's pupils shrank suddenly. He had seen such a Lightning Tribulation before; its power was comparable to the full-strength strike of a Peak Demon King! However, the shifting of the lightning's light did not stop!

Buzz!

The thirteenth color, deep as ink and carrying an eerie fluctuation that could annihilate the Divine Soul, crashed into the mix!

Immediately following...

Buzz—!

The fourteenth color! A grayish-white color that seemed capable of freezing time and space and returning all things to silence spread out like a plague, instantly becoming the dominant hue of the tribulation lightning! Fourteen-Colored World-Extinguishing Pill Lightning! The aura of destruction contained within it caused even Mo Jue, an old Demon Emperor who had lived for ten thousand years, to feel a bone-chilling cold! This had completely exceeded the scope of an ordinary Ninth Grade Low Grade Medicinal Pill! Its power had firmly stepped into the level of a Mid-Stage Demon Emperor's full-strength strike, and it was still climbing!

“Shu'er! Fall back! Let your father handle this lightning!” Mo Jue's hair and beard flared with anger as he took a step forward, about to soar into the sky! He could not let his daughter take the risk!

“Father! You mustn't!” Xue Shushu grabbed Mo Jue's arm, her voice urgent and resolute. “Big brother's heavy injuries haven't healed. In our Qingqiu lineage, you are the only Peak Demon Emperor left! The Chaos Python Clan is watching us like tigers stalking prey. If anything happens to you and your Origin is damaged, Qingqiu will be in peril! Though this Pill Lightning is strong, it is still within the range of what I can endure! Please, Father, for the sake of Qingqiu's overall situation, stay here and preside over the grounds!” Her gaze was firm, carrying an unquestionable plea.

Mo Jue's body stiffened. Seeing the resolve to face death in his daughter's eyes, and thinking of his heavily injured, sleeping son and the fate of all Qingqiu, his raised foot finally fell heavily back to the ground. Pain and struggle flickered in the old Demon Emperor's eyes, but they ultimately turned into a heavy sigh: “Shu'er... be careful!” He knew deep down that what his daughter said was true.

Boom-crack—!!

At that very moment! The first bolt of Fourteen-Colored Pill Lightning, carrying a terrifying power that could pierce through Heaven and Earth, fell like a spear of Chaos divine punishment! Its target was aimed directly at the Secret Chamber below!

“Come!” Xue Shushu gave a clear cry as a nine-colored divine light erupted around her! Behind her, the phantoms of nine massive fox tails, as solid as substance and large enough to blot out the sun, suddenly appeared! She turned into a streak of light and took the initiative to meet that world-extinguishing lightning!

Bang!

The first bolt of tribulation lightning was forcibly dispersed by the simultaneous sweep of her nine tails! The powerful impact caused her delicate body to sway slightly.

Immediately after came the second bolt, then the third... the colors of the tribulation lightning grew deeper, and the grayish-white sense of death and silence became more concentrated! With every bolt that fell, Xue Shushu's aura fluctuated violently, and the light of her fox tail phantoms dimmed by a fraction. When the seventh bolt fell, she let out a muffled groan, and a trickle of golden-red blood spilled from the corner of her mouth!

Meanwhile, inside the Secret Chamber—

“Cough!” Yao Delong suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, his face the color of golden paper! After an entire month of mental exhaustion and the depletion of his Yuan Qi, his Primordial Spirit was like a candle in the wind, incredibly weak! His Sea of Consciousness was nearly dried up!

Had it not been for the robust Foundation of his Great Sun Sacred Body and the support of the precious medicines he had taken earlier, he would have collapsed long ago! He never expected that refining this improved version of the Nine Aperture Nourishing Soul and Replenishing Spirit Divine Pill would be so terrifyingly taxing! At this moment, even moving a finger was incredibly difficult, let alone driving the Glazed Hearth Fire to deal with the Pill Lightning! If Xue Shushu weren't holding the line outside, the mere residual aura of the tribulation lightning would have been enough to completely shatter his spent Primordial Spirit!

“I can't fall... only the last step remains!” A frantic fire burned in Yao Delong's eyes; he was relying entirely on willpower to stay upright! With trembling hands, he almost instinctively grabbed the top-tier precious medicines for restoring the Primordial Spirit and Yuan Qi that Mo Jue and Xue Shushu had prepared for him, stuffing them into his mouth as if drinking like a whale!

The majestic yet tearing pain of the medicinal power instantly exploded within his parched Meridians and depleted Sea of Consciousness! He ignored everything, frantically circulating his Cultivation Technique to squeeze out every drop of medicinal power, just to gather the last bit of strength to control the Glazed Hearth Fire and complete the final nurturing of the Divine Pill!

Inside the cauldron, the pill—its nine orifices throbbing, cloaked in shifting Chaos rosy light, and its aura becoming increasingly harmonious and flawless—was radiating the ultimate temptation. Outside the cauldron, the terrifying Fourteen-Colored Pill Lightning continued to fall, each bolt more lethal than the last! Xue Shushu's delicate body was like a lonely boat in a stormy sea amidst the lightning; every collision splashed with eye-piercing blood light!