321: Chapter 321 The Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation

These Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators all had inscrutable expressions.

They all hoped it was the latter, so that the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi could be restored.

Then they, these Nascent Soul Cultivators, could take another step forward!

The Cultivators on the periphery of the Ancient Forbidden Land were all speculating about what might happen.

Gu Changan sat in his Immortal Cave, completely unaware that his tribulation clouds had caused a sensation.

It wasn't until the first bolt of the Lightning Tribulation descended, smashing through the thick layer of earth above and landing on Gu Changan's body.

Only then did Gu Changan realize—the Heavenly Tribulation had arrived?

He hurriedly cast a shield around himself; by now, he had already advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage.

The shield had already reached the level of the Nascent Soul Stage.

While Gu Changan was still marveling at the shield's sturdiness, the second bolt of the Lightning Tribulation arrived.

It blasted a hole straight through the shield, leaving Gu Changan's entire body exposed to bathe in the lightning.

After the second bolt of the Lightning Tribulation vanished...

Gu Changan quickly replenished his shield, then picked up the top-grade primordial magnet mountain from the table and tossed it into the sky.

He used his Divine Sense to slightly control its direction.

Consequently, the third bolt of the Lightning Tribulation arrived, striking directly onto the top-grade primordial magnet mountain.

After being filtered by the mountain, the power of the third bolt was significantly weakened when it fell.

It pierced through Gu Changan's Nascent Soul Stage shield once more.

As the lightning coursed through his Physical Body this way, its power became acceptable.

Wisps of black smoke began to rise from his Physical Body.

It looked like the Impurities within his Physical Body!

Gu Changan was very gratified; he replenished his shield while simultaneously controlling the top-grade primordial magnet mountain in the sky.

He felt a slight depletion of his Nascent Soul spiritual power.

He hurriedly popped another top-grade nascent soul condensing pill into his mouth.

In this way, he replenished his spiritual power while dealing with the Lightning Tribulation.

Only then did he have the chance to spare a thread of Divine Sense to check the Lightning Tribulation on the surface.

What he saw shocked him to the core.

The thunderclouds on the surface blotted out the sun and sky, stretching as far as the eye could see.

Gu Changan used his Nascent Soul Stage Divine Sense to extend in the direction he had come from.

He probed all the way to the edge of the Ancient Forbidden Land.

Only then did he discover that the entire Heavenly Tribulation actually enveloped the entire Ancient Forbidden Land.

Of course, he also spotted the Cultivators outside watching the spectacle!

Gu Changan was so startled that he hurriedly retracted his Divine Sense.

Before long, several bolts of the Lightning Tribulation fell, and the top-grade primordial magnet mountain was shattered.

Gu Changan quickly replaced it and began using his Nascent Soul Stage Divine Sense to probe everywhere again.

When he had entered, there was a spatial tear to the left.

As his Nascent Soul Stage Divine Sense probed inside, he discovered what looked like a blurry Withered Well.

The rim of the well bore the mottled marks of time.

To the right was a boundless Illusion Array; now, his Nascent Soul Stage Divine Sense could probe deep into it.

Almost every inch was covered with Formation Flags.

Each Formation Flag represented a different scene.

Gu Changan didn't want to waste time on these two places, so he silently retracted his Divine Sense.

He tested it out and found that his Nascent Soul Stage Divine Sense could cover a radius of several hundred miles.

However, if he focused it in a single direction to probe...

It could extend for nearly a thousand miles!

The top-grade primordial magnet mountain above Gu Changan's head shattered again.

About nine bolts of the Lightning Tribulation had passed just now.

Gu Changan calculated silently. Back in the Golden Core Stage, it was roughly a Three-Nine Lightning Tribulation.

So for his Nascent Soul Stage, just how many bolts would there be?

Looking at the tribulation clouds that covered the entire Ancient Forbidden Land...

This time, it would likely be at least a Nine-Nine Heavenly Tribulation!

Gu Changan's heart felt heavy; the first nine bolts had shattered two top-grade Spirit Treasure primordial magnet mountain bodies.

Would his thirty top-grade Spirit Treasure bodies be enough to last until the end of the Lightning Tribulation?

Gu Changan made plans early, enduring the Heavenly Tribulation while...

Simultaneously activating the treasure gathering basin to begin replicating the top-grade Spirit Treasure bodies.

During the second nine bolts, three top-grade Spirit Treasure primordial magnet mountain bodies were shattered.

During the third nine bolts, five were shattered!

The power of this Heavenly Tribulation was simply incomparable to that of the Golden Core Stage!

Although the Golden Core Stage Heavenly Tribulation's power was Heaven-Defying, he had survived it.

But with the current Heavenly Tribulation, a single bolt was equivalent to the full-strength strike of a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator.

His Spirit Treasure bodies hadn't been refined through sacrificial tempering yet.

They relied entirely on the inherent hardness of the Spirit Treasure bodies to withstand strike after strike of lightning.

Starting from the fourth nine bolts, a single lightning bolt would shatter one Spirit Treasure body.

Then the lightning would pass through the shield and strike Gu Changan's Physical Body.

Both his Physical Body and Nascent Soul underwent the baptism of lightning.

His Physical Body became more translucent, expelling a large amount of black smoke.

His Nascent Soul became more agile, and his entire Divine Soul became more condensed.

The Nascent Soul, which was the size of a one-year-old infant, slowly shrank by a size.

It appeared that Impurities were being eliminated!

But Gu Changan began to panic.

If this continued, one bolt of the Heavenly Tribulation would waste one Spirit Treasure body.

His thirty Spirit Treasure bodies wouldn't even last through the sixth nine bolts!

He then began to frantically drive the treasure gathering basin to replicate more.

The Lightning Tribulation in the sky became faster and faster, striking down one after another.

Only the sounds of "crack, crack, crack" could be heard!

With every sound, a Spirit Treasure body shattered.

The Cultivators outside were completely stunned!

Just what was inside there?

Even a Soul Transformation Stage Cultivator wouldn't be able to withstand this, would they?

Yet Gu Changan remained safe inside, though he occasionally grimaced from the electric shocks.

Puffs of white smoke periodically billowed from his mouth.

By the time he passed the sixth nine bolts, the thirty Spirit Treasure bodies he had prepared were completely exhausted.

As the seventh nine bolts began, the power of the Lightning Tribulation doubled again.

Three Spirit Treasure bodies thrown out were shattered in succession.

A pillar of lightning as thick as a water bucket smashed into Gu Changan's body, pinning him down so he couldn't even lift his head.

Gu Changan thought to himself, "It's over."

How did the power increase this much?

Three weren't enough; did he need five?

There were roughly twenty-seven bolts left; five per bolt would mean one hundred and thirty-five pieces.

Would his accumulated Nascent Soul Stage Treasure Qi even be enough?

Unexpectedly, at that moment, a ball of lightning suddenly emerged from his Dantian.

It began to absorb the electricity within his body.

Gu Changan's brows furrowed slightly. What was this?

He suddenly remembered—wasn't this the Lightning Clone he had developed while practicing the Substitute Lightning Attraction Art?

He recalled that he used to call it Xiao Lei?

Xiao Lei now absorbed the lightning energy within his body.

It grew to roughly the size of a basketball, but the energy within it was already no less than that of a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator.

Xiao Lei flew directly out of Gu Changan's Dantian and hovered above his head.

Then, the second bolt of the seventh nine bolts smashed directly into Xiao Lei.

Xiao Lei absorbed it all, with only a few stray sparks of lightning energy leaking out.

These sparks then provided another baptism for Gu Changan's Physical Body.

Gu Changan finally felt relieved; it seemed he was safe this time.

He wouldn't have to consume so many Spirit Treasure bodies after all!

Who would have thought that a casual action from the past would help him so much now!

Otherwise, he would have been crippled this time, if not dead!

Above his head, Xiao Lei was like a revolving lantern, flickering with various colors of lightning.