28: Chapter 28 Su Qianxue Breaks Through Three Realms in Succession, Tribulation of Lightning Descends

Yin-Yang Resonance, Cultivation Skyrockets.

Inside the formation, the icy blue light surrounding Su Qianxue grew brighter and brighter. The phantom of the Golden Core in her Dantian continuously solidified, emitting a Cold Ice Dao rhyme. Under her feedback, Ye Fan's aura also climbed steadily, impacting his own Golden Core barrier.

Just as the two reached the most critical moment of their Breakthrough—an unexpected change occurred!

The wisp of green "Heart-Corroding Lead" lurking at the edge of the formation suddenly struck. It transformed into a poisonous needle as thin as a cow's hair, piercing through the defensive light screen and shooting straight at Su Qianxue's back. This strike was extremely vicious; not only did it contain deadly poison, but it also carried a trace of the Poison Elder's resentful Divine Thought, intending to disturb her mind at the moment of condensing her core, causing her to suffer from Qi Deviation.

"Watch out!"

Ye Fan was instinctively alert—too late to open his eyes, he fully channeled the Yin-Yang Two Qi within his body. Following the spiritual power bond between the two, he manifested a palm-sized Yin-Yang Taiji Qi shield out of thin air behind Su Qianxue's back.

Pfft—the poisonous needle struck the Qi shield. The deadly poison and resentment corroded it crazily, but the Yin-Yang Two Qi was the source of all methods. After holding out for only half a breath, it decomposed and neutralized the needle, annihilating the Poison Elder's trace of Divine Thought along with it.

However, the aftermath of the impact, along with the silent shriek before the Poison Elder's Divine Thought was annihilated, still allowed a trace to invade Su Qianxue's mind.

At this moment, she was at the most critical juncture of condensing her Golden Core. Although this sudden interference was weak, it stirred up ripples in her state of mind where she had forgotten both herself and the world.

"Ngh!" Su Qianxue groaned, the phantom of the Golden Core between her brows swayed slightly, and a trace of disorder appeared in her Profound Yin True Essence.

Condensing a Golden Core; a difference of a hair's breadth could lead to failure.

"Calm your heart! Focus your mind! The Dao is in your own heart; external demons cannot invade!"

Ye Fan's calm voice resonated directly in the depths of her mind; a majestic and gentle Yin-Yang Dao rhyme surged through their connection, instantly smoothing out the ripples in her heart's lake, stabilizing the Golden Core phantom, and straightening out the chaotic True Essence.

The softest part of Su Qianxue's heart was struck heavily. This unreserved protection had far exceeded the scope of a transaction.

She instantly discarded distracting thoughts, and her mind returned to clarity. Her hand seals changed, and she shouted clearly: "Profound Yin gathers, Cold Soul congeals, Golden Core—form!"

Boom—! It was as if a thunderclap had exploded within the underground Secret Realm. The icy blue Golden Core phantom in her Dantian suddenly shone brightly and rapidly solidified. A majestic aura belonging to a Golden Core Cultivator erupted, sweeping through the entire space.

The Golden Core had formed, and it was no ordinary Golden Core. Under the harmonization of Ye Fan's Yin-Yang Dao Qi and the accumulation of a hundred years of suppression, the Golden Core that Su Qianxue condensed was the size of a dragon's eye, crystal clear, with nine Cold Ice Dao patterns branded on its surface—a High Grade Profound Yin Golden Core.

Once the Golden Core was formed, Heaven and Earth resonated.

A vast and majestic Heavenly Might, filled with the intent of destruction and rebirth, ignored the layers of rock and descended with a boom, firmly locking onto Su Qianxue.

Golden Core Lightning Tribulation.

Cultivators act in a Heaven-Defying manner and must undergo the trials of Heaven and Earth. If they pass, the Golden Core stabilizes; if they fail, the body dies and the Dao vanishes. What was even more dangerous was that this was deep underground. When the lightning struck, one not only had to endure the might of the thunder but also face the risk of the rock layers collapsing and being buried alive.

"Young Master!" Su Qianxue's expression changed slightly.

"It is fine." Ye Fan sensed the several hostile auras approaching closer from upstream of the underground river, and looked at the Heavenly Might brewing above his head. A bold plan instantly formed.

"Su Qianxue, stabilize your Golden Core and prepare for Undergoing Tribulation. I will handle the Lightning Tribulation!"

He formed hand seals, and the Yin-Yang Two Qi within his body, which had reached the extreme of the Foundation Establishment Peak due to Su Qianxue's feedback, was fully activated.

"Yin-Yang Dao Body, harmonize all directions! With my body as a conduit, draw the Heavenly Lightning!"

He actually intended to actively attract and share the Golden Core Lightning Tribulation with his own body. This was playing with fire; the slightest carelessness could result in him being blasted into Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, and it might even cause the power of the Lightning Tribulation to skyrocket.

But he had no other choice. With strong enemies lurking outside and the Lightning Tribulation looming overhead, the underground environment was disadvantageous. The only way was to take a desperate risk and attempt to "communicate" with the Lightning Tribulation using his Yin-Yang Dao Body, which was his only glimmer of survival.

Rumble—the Heavenly Dao seemed to sense his "arrogance," and the Heavenly Might grew even stronger. The underground space trembled violently, and gravel fell with a rustling sound.

"It's coming!" Ye Fan's figure flashed, blocking above Su Qianxue. His hands held empty space, and a huge phantom of the Taiji Diagram condensed above his head, actively meeting the will of the Lightning Tribulation.

"The first strike, Gui Water Yin Lightning. Fall!"

From the endless heights, a bolt of lightning as thick as a water bucket, entirely dark blue and emitting a bone-chilling cold, ignored the obstruction of the rock layers and drilled out from the void, striking fiercely toward the Taiji Diagram.

Before the lightning arrived, the temperature underground had plummeted to freezing point; frost formed on the rock walls, and the surface of the dark river began to freeze.

Su Qianxue looked up at the back that stood before the Lightning Tribulation for her, spreading the Yin-Yang Diagram, and facing the Heavenly Might directly; her eyes blurred instantly. The hundred years of icy sealing and despair dissolved completely at this moment.

Upstream of the dark river, those several rapidly approaching auras suddenly paused, and exclamations rang out: "Golden Core Lightning Tribulation? How can there be a Lightning Tribulation underground?"

"It's that girl! She broke through! That kid... what is he doing? Actively drawing the Heavenly Lightning? He's crazy!"

"No! That is Gui Water Yin Lightning, its power far exceeds a normal Lightning Tribulation! Retreat quickly!"

The exclamations were filled with horror, but they did not actually retreat. Instead, they stopped in the distance, hid their auras, and waited for the Heavenly Lightning and Ye Fan to both be injured, so they could reap the benefits as the oriole behind.

The lightning crashed down.

The Taiji Diagram and the dark blue Gui Water Yin Lightning collided fiercely. There was no earth-shattering roar, only a silent light that seemed to be able to freeze time and space and annihilate everything, instantly filling the entire underground space.

In the light, Ye Fan's figure seemed to transform into a Divine Being at the beginning of the creation of the world, propping up the Chaos and dividing Yin and Yang.

Undergoing Tribulation underground, a counterattack in a desperate situation, the oriole behind—everything was intertwined and erupting in the lightning light of destruction and rebirth.