Chapter 378: Golden Blessing
Soon after, the dark clouds parted.
They broke into nine bolts of lightning that were gleaming a menacing white.
In the blink of an eye, the nine bolts fell towards Yu Nianzhen and his body shuddered.
For the first time since the tribulation started, he felt the shadow of death.
Standing under the lightning, Yu Nianzhen felt like he was facing a primordial beast.
The beast was determined to devour him and his heart was horrified.
"I may not be able to carry it." He said with self-mockery in his eyes.
However, he did not give up.
Although he suspected that he was about to be annihilated, he still gathered all the power in his body.
He urged his body cultivation to the limit, covered himself with a thick layer of sword qi, and even added a layer of soul power to himself.
At the same time, he stuffed more than twenty Tree of Life leaves into his mouth; hoping to continuously counter the damage from the lightning.
"XiaoYue..." He muttered and sighed.
With a determined look in his eyes, Yu Nianzhen welcomed the nine bolts of lightning.
At first contact, his soul power and qi were immediately annihilated.
Seeing this, Yu Nianzhen didn’t panic.
He quickly stuffed some qi replenishing and soul power replenishing pills into his mouth.
Unfortunately, in the moment it took him to swallow the pills, the lightning had already broken through his body protection and entered his body.
Without much resistance, his internal organs began to burn and his meridians cracked.
At that moment, Yu Nianzhen wanted to die.
He wanted to escape the horrific pain but an image of Jiang Yue was stuck in his mind.
Seeing the beautiful face and playful smile on his lover’s lips, Yu Nianzhen couldn’t let go.
With shaking hands, he continued to swallow the Tree of Life leaves and for a while, his pain was relieved.
However, the relief was only for a moment.
Before he could take a breath to calm down, the searing pain started again.
’I have to contain the lightning.’ He thought urgently.
The white lightning of the tribulation was extremely destructive.
If he allowed it to continue running amok in his body, it would destroy his meridians and dantian.
At that time, he would be lucky to keep his life, let alone his cultivation.
While he was wondering what to do, a random thought crossed his mind.
The thought was ridiculous but Yu Nianzhen didn’t have time to think about its applicability.
Since he didn’t have a better option, he could only try his best and hope his best was good enough.
A moment later, Yu Nianzhen activated one of his nine origin treasure worlds and guided the tribulation lightning into the treasure world.
The origin treasure world contained the duality of lightning and heavenly gentle soil.
After repeated refining and comprehension, the origin treasure world was in a stable state of generating and overcoming.
Lightning generated the heavenly gentle soil but was also overcome by it.
At the same time, the heavenly gentle soil overcame lightning but also generated it.
In this way, the origin treasure world maintained a perfect cycle and neither attribute overwhelmed the other.
However, when the tribulation lightning entered the origin treasure world, the balance began to shift.
’I have to transform some of the lightning into the essence of the heavenly gentle soil.’ He thought and immediately began to do it.
Since the tribulation lightning was unrefined and he didn’t have a good understanding of it, Yu Nianzhen didn’t think about transforming it.
Instead, he chose the essence of his original lightning.
In this way, he would have a higher chance of pushing it to the extreme so that it could transform into its dual opposite.
Now that he had a direction, Yu Nianzhen calmed down.
He eliminated all the irrelevant thoughts in his mind and took a deep breath.
After that, he ignored the injuries on his body and began to transform his original lightning.
Time passed in this way and the tribulation lightning in his body became less and less.
When all the tribulation lightning was pulled into his treasure world, Yu Nianzhen opened his eyes.
His eyes were red and his body was covered in wounds but Yu Nianzhen was a little excited.
Although the tribulation lightning was only placed in the treasure world and was not refined, Yu Nianzhen already knew it would be more powerful than the previous.
"Once I refine it, I should be able to break through to the late stage of the core formation realm." He said with a smile on his lips.
However, it was not the time to think about that.
Now that his tribulation had passed, he had to accept the heaven’s blessing to complete his core.
As he thought that, the remaining dark clouds disappeared and golden clouds appeared.
A moment later, something rushed out of his body and hovered thirty centimetres in front of his body.
’Come to think of it...’ Yu Nianzhen thought and his heart skipped a beat.
At this moment, he realised that he had been so focused on crossing the tribulation that he didn’t pay attention to his core.
Like meridians and origins, cores were divided into different grades.
The worst grade was the white core followed by the green core, blue core, gold core, purple core, and finally the purple-gold core.
Originally, Yang Xu formed a gold core which was considered excellent in the Cangxing world.
However, after recultivating his realm, the grade improved to the legendary purple-gold core.
When they found out, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue also hoped for the purple-gold core.
After all, they both had an aptitude of ten, had awakened divine meridians, and forged divine origins.
Considering everything, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue had a high chance of forming purple-gold cores.
Unfortunately, Yu Nianzhen’s imagination was rich but the reality was thin.
When he saw his core, a confused look appeared on his face and his brows creased in a frown.
A moment later, he stretched out his right arm and looked at the star on his inner wrist.
"Grey again." He said.
He always felt that his grey star and core were special but he didn’t know what they meant.
While he was pondering, the clouds above his head radiated a golden light and began to rain.
The rain fell on his body and Yu Nianzhen subconsciously sighed in comfort.
Although he refined many pills and leaves, his body still had many injuries.
However, when the rain fell on him, the injuries began to heal at an incredible speed.
Within the time for a cup of tea, all the injuries healed and Yu Nianzhen belatedly remembered to take out his sword.
[Master, you have attracted a golden blessing.] The sword spirit shouted excitedly.
[Golden blessing?] Yu Nianzhen asked.
All he knew about blessings was that one would appear after the core formation realm tribulation.
He had never heard anything about different grades of tribulation blessings.
[The golden blessing is the highest level of blessing.] Shanjiang said and continued to mutter in a low voice.
[What did you say?] Yu Nianzhen asked.
[It’s only right to receive the golden blessing after surviving that kind of tribulation.] The spirit said sullenly.
[What’s the difference between a golden blessing and a normal blessing?]
[A golden blessing has countless benefits.] Shanjiang said and then fell silent for a moment before continuing.
[A normal blessing only heals tribulation injuries. However, a golden blessing will not only heal but also improve the body, soul, and qi of a cultivator. It will also make your core purer, more solid, and stronger.]
Yu Nianzhen couldn’t help but be excited when he heard that.
When he broke through to the nascent soul realm, his core would merge with his origin.
At that time, the benefits of a strong core would show because it would strengthen his origin.
Compared to an ordinary origin, the chance of a strong origin being damaged was lower.
[Is the golden blessing good for you?]
[My body was damaged a lot during the tribulation. The golden blessing can’t make my body more powerful but it can heal the cracks.] Shanjiang answered and Yu Nianzhen was relieved.
Although the sword gained a lot of benefits from the tribulation, it was also damaged. Because of this, Yu Nianzhen was prepared to warm it for a long time before it could be used again.
Fortunately, the golden blessing could repair the sword which would allow Shanjiang to refine the tribulation benefits sooner rather than later.
[Try to absorb as much of the blessing as you can.]
[Yes master.]
After that, Yu Nianzhen closed his eyes and continued to absorb the golden blessing until the rain stopped an hour later.
As soon as the rain stopped, Yu Nianzhen did not linger.
He took back the sword and grey core before activating the golden teleportation talisman to transfer to Jiang Yue’s side.
When he arrived, Jiang Yue fell into his sight, and his heart turned to ice.
