Who Let Him Cultivate?! (WX)

Chapter 1121: The Number One Lightning Tribulation Keeps Breaking Records

“Is someone about to make a breakthrough?”

Everyone in the Dao-Seeking Sect looked up. Dark clouds blanketed the sky, and the unusually oppressive atmosphere made it clear that this was a heavenly tribulation that could only be brought about by a major breakthrough in cultivation realm.

“That direction is Junior Brother Meng’s cave abode. He’s about to break through to the Void Refinement Stage!”

“Why hasn’t the Second-in-Command come back yet?” Yun Mengmeng toyed with a strand of loose black hair. The Second-in-Command had run off with the freshly baked baozi without giving his feedback. How am I supposed to improve them next?

“Little Zhi, what do you think of these baked baozi?” Yun Mengmeng asked Yun Zhi beside her, who was forced to eat them.

“Quite delicious.”

“That’s it?”

“What else do you want?”

Yun Mengmeng looked disappointed. The Second-in-Command is still better. He at least offers suggestions when he’s around. Little Zhi just foolishly says, delicious.”

Yun Zhi finished the last piece of baozi wrapper. Although she couldn’t read minds, she felt that her good sister was badmouthing her.

“Why is there thunder? Is someone about to undergo tribulation?” Yun Mengmeng looked in the direction of the thunder. “Isn’t that the direction the Second-in-Command went?”

“Did Senior Brother Lu go somewhere else to undergo tribulation?” Ao Ling emerged from a pool. She had dug a large pool on Heaven’s Gate Peak, filled it with seawater, and soaked inside. It was indescribably comfortable.

“Why isn’t he undergoing tribulation here with us?” Jiang Lianyi lay on the ground in her original form, letting Jin Caiwei groom her feathers.

“The Second-in-Command must be afraid of damaging my oven.”

“And my pool.”

Yun Zhi scanned the devastated Heaven’s Gate Peak, now occupied by the Everlasting faction. I think that having Little Junior Brother undergo tribulation here would work just fine.

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“Cough, cough, Old Lu, doesn’t the power of this lightning tribulation feel a bit off?” The lightning tribulation caught the two off guard, leaving Meng Jingzhou dumbstruck from the lightning strikes.

If an ordinary Great Perfection Divine Transfiguration had been here, wouldn’t their soul have been blasted right out of them?

“Does it? I don’t feel much of its power at all,” Lu Yang replied dismissively, enduring the pain and flexing his limbs as if nothing was wrong.

Meng Jingzhou laughed heartily, appearing utterly unconcerned. “Hai, I was just bluffing, and you didn’t fall for it. What could a little lightning tribulation like this do?”

“As long as you’re fine. I thought you might have overdone your fist training and worn yourself out.”

“How’s that possible?”

The two smiled at each other, neither thinking that this lightning tribulation was particularly difficult.

At some point, the dark clouds above them had dispersed, replaced by a ten-thousand-zhang sea of purple lightning that was blindingly bright. Even from a distance, those with insufficient cultivation felt their eyes sting and involuntarily trembled.

Dai Bufan looked at the lightning tribulation in shock. “Isn’t this the Qian-Heaven Lightning Tribulation, ranked number one? Why is it already appearing in the first round?”

“Then isn’t Senior Brother Lu Yang in danger?” A newly joined disciple’s eyes were full of worry.

“It’s fine, it’s fine. Back when Junior Brother Lu was undergoing tribulation at the Nascent Soul Stage, he also faced the Qian-Heaven Lightning Tribulation, and he got through it easily without any injury.”

The lightning descended, each strike equivalent to five thunderbolts. Electric light crackled around them, yet they still had the leisure to chat.

“Old Lu, does it hurt?”

“Not at all. It’s not even itchy.”

The two grimaced, forcing smiles as they felt their bones tingling and numbing, but neither cried out in pain.

The purple lightning descended like a breached dam, far beyond any human’s ability to withstand. It instantly submerged the two of them, and they could no longer keep up their bravado.

“Isn’t this the Qian-Heaven Lightning Tribulation? Old Lu, is your connection even reliable?” Meng Jingzhou cursed. He had felt that the lightning tribulation looked familiar, but only after its full force struck and jolted his mind did he remember its origin.

If the first round is already the Qian-Heaven Lightning Tribulation, what monstrosities will come next?

“Defying Heaven Changing Name!”

Lu Yang had relied on this trick to fool the Qian-Heaven Lightning Tribulation at the Great Perfection Nascent Soul Stage. Now, he tried to employ the same method.

However, regardless of whether he changed his name to Lu Yin or back to Lu Yang, the lightning tribulation still struck him without fail. He couldn’t fool it at all.

Realization dawned upon Lu Yang. I was able to fool it the last time because there was no one controlling the lightning tribulation. This time, with the Heaven Mandate Immortal watching, it’d be a miracle if I could still fool it!

The merciless purple light washed over them. Bathed in the lightning tribulation, their skin split and blistered, and a charred smell filled the air. Their hair was singed, and their bodies were as black as charcoal.

“It’s finally passed.” As Meng Jingzhou spoke, black smoke emerged from his mouth. His throat was hoarse, and he was still shaken. He had thought he would die earlier.

Their physiques were extraordinary. Even if they had been reduced to such a sorry state, their bodies and stamina regenerated automatically.

But before the two could recover, the second round of lightning tribulation followed, giving them no chance to catch their breath.

“There’s more?!” The color drained from their faces. Forgetting all dignity, they frantically wolfed down pills as if they cost nothing, desperately trying to recover.

A colorful lightning tribulation descended, as if someone had kicked over a bucket of paint, making the lightning take on bizarre hues. It swept in all directions, destroying everything.

“W-why do I feel like this lightning tribulation is even more terrifying than the Qian-Heaven Lightning Tribulation?” Although the newly admitted disciple didn’t understand the classification of lightning tribulations, his sense of danger was exceptionally keen.

Dai Bufan wore an odd expression. He racked his brains but couldn’t find any lightning tribulation that matched. “I’ve never seen this kind of lightning tribulation before. Can new lightning tribulations still be born after three hundred thousand years?

“And its power is clearly greater than the Qian-Heaven Lightning Tribulation. Has the Qian-Heaven Lightning Tribulation been demoted to the number two lightning tribulation?”

Why do things always turn out so strange when Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou are involved?

One can even witness history just by watching them undergo tribulation.

Lightning shone resplendently, and heaven and earth shook. The sky was painted in riotous colors by the lightning tribulation, as if a great calamity was descending.

Suddenly, heaven and earth fell silent. The lightning tribulation lingered, but it no longer emitted any sound.

The greatest sound is soundless.[1]

The silence lasted only a moment. Then sound returned to heaven and earth, and the lightning tribulation erupted violently again, crashing down fiercely upon Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou.

Lu Yang brandished his sword, and Meng Jingzhou brandished his fist, trying to destroy the lightning tribulation before it descended.

Unfortunately, before the lightning tribulation that the Heaven Mandate Immortal had meticulously prepared for them, all resistance was futile.

The lightning tribulation traveled along the Qingfeng Sword and coursed through Lu Yang while simultaneously breaking through the fist seal and striking Meng Jingzhou.

After the second round of lightning tribulation, they could even feel lightning in their marrow and blood. They were so battered that outsiders could barely tell whether they were male or female, let alone distinguish who was who.

As they awaited the impending third wave of lightning tribulation, their intuition told them it would be even more terrifying than the second. It absolutely must not descend!

Meng Jingzhou seemed to remember something and hurriedly shouted at the sky to declare his allegiance.

“I’m on your side! I know Immortals’ Quotes by heart and can even recite them backward!”

The third lightning tribulation that was about to descend suddenly paused.

Just as Meng Jingzhou thought he had succeeded, the lightning tribulation changed again, evolving from its previous state and growing even denser, as if someone had temporarily increased its power.

It was so dense that it turned white, and it felt even more dangerous than before.

The lightning tribulation descended, illuminating their faces of despair.

1. This is from the Dao De Jing by Laozi. The complete version expounds his ideology regarding aesthetics. It advocates natural beauty over artificial beauty. ☜