Rumble!
The light from the sun dimmed immediately, and the sky turned dark. Black clouds filled the sky, and the sound of thunder reverberated in everyone's ears.
The tribulation had returned for the third time today.
Liu Feng looked up. He could feel it. Someone up there was enraged at him. After all, cultivation was to try and go against the heavens themselves. And to reach the Xiantian stage was something that the heavens would not tolerate.
The man who as holding Liu Feng's neck let go and retreated immediately. He did not dare do a thing to Liu Feng now.
Liu Feng had been marked by the heavens. The heavens wanted to kill him. Anyone who would try and get involved would face the heavens' wrath and that would be something that this man could not afford to defend, even though he seemed to powerful.
The heavens were all-powerful, and no matter how strong a cultivator got, the tribulation would be hard for them to overcome. With every passing step, it would get harder and harder.
Liu Feng took a few healing pills and stuffed them in his mouth. He could see a marginal improvement, but nothing more.
Rumble!
Sparks of lightning were visible for miles. The tribulation clouds had taken up the whole city this time, and all of them were locked onto Liu Feng. He could feel it. The fact that lightning would strike anytime soon.
And this lightning felt different when compared to the pill lightning that he had faced. This lightning felt like it would destroy him if he could touch it. It felt more destructive.
Clap!
A flash of light appeared, and the lightning bolt arced towards Liu Feng's head, going for the kill immediately.
Liu Feng's ethereal shield had appeared in his hands by this point, and he used it to try and defend this strike.
The moment that the lightning hit the shield, Liu Feng was forced onto the ground on his knees. Even though the lightning wasn't passing through the shield, it was more force than what Liu Feng could handle.
And he could feel some strange presence coming from this lightning. As if some of the energy of this lightning was entering his body. But this energy was not killing him. It felt like it was changing him, and changing his dantian.
His core was revolving, and it seemed to be taking the shape of something. Something that he could not understand, but whatever the tribulation was, it was essential for his advancement to the Xiantian Realm.
Clap!
Without giving him a break, the second bolt of lightning struck down as well. It had no mercy at all, and Liu Feng could feel a wisp of killing intent within it. But with his slightly strengthened body, he felt like the second lightning bolt was something that he could handle.
Again, when he was defending it, he could feel that something was changing his dantian.
He looked up at the heavens, and his resolute expression seemed to make it even more enraged.
Another bolt of lightning struck down, and this time, it felt a little bit stronger than the first two. More than a little bit, actually. Liu Feng was forced to his knees once more, but this time, his knees dug into the ground.
They were all bloodied up, and Liu Feng's breathing became a bit haggard.
"So that is what they meant when they told me to beware the threes. So there is an increase in power every three lightning bolts." Liu Feng realized and he got back up. He popped a few recovery pills into his mouth.
Until now, he was only defending. The Ethereal Shield arts were very handy in this regard. But he knew that they wouldn't last until the end. His proficiency of the skill wasn't enough, and it would be utterly destroyed by the lightning bolts that were increasing in power.
The next bolt did not appear as quickly as Liu Feng had expected. The clouds started humming in a rhythm and they seemed to be biding their time.
Then, the flash of lightning became visible, hurtling towards him. And along with the white flash, there was another color. A blue tint to the bolt.
"A colored lighting tribulation! What did he do to make the heavens so enraged?" there were gasps along the arena, but Liu Feng could not hear them.
Why would he, with the deafening sound of the lightning that was raging around him?
The moment that his shield had any contact with the lightning, he could feel what was different about the bolt of lightning.
This was a true attack from the heavens, one that had dao within it. And ironically, the heavens decided to use the dao of ice, to show him that they were the true rulers of the dao.
His shield had a cover of frost that was appearing, and it was not the good kind. The frost was trying to eat away at the shield, and destroy it.
"Scram!"
A blast of Qi from Liu Feng disintegrated the ice, along with the lightning bolt. Liu Feng looked within, afraid that this ice would make its way back to his dantian. But it didn't, thankfully. Still, he saw the changes and was surprised.
The dantian was changing slowly, and the core had taken the form of a man. And this man was oddly familiar to him.
"Not now. Later." Liu Feng quickly focused on the tribulation once more.
With the last bolt of lightning, Liu Feng had used too much Qi. He had to take a few Qi supplement pills, but there was clearly no time. If he was caught lacking, and the lightning bolt struck at that time, it would be game set and death right there.
And the situation of his body wasn't great. That attack from the man had shaken all of his bones and internal organs. This was not a great place to be in.
Rumble!
Once more, the clouds above started looking threateningly at Liu Feng, but also as if they were taunting him.
"Fine then. Do you think I am afraid of you? Come on!"
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