Chapter 37 : Chapter 37
Chapter 37: Nine Heavens Falling Thunder
Author: Guang Zhi Yueding
Updated: 2023/5/15 8:22:56
Word Count: 2542
The blade-like cyclones came one wave after another. At first, Lin Aoxue had been able to deal with them rather easily, but before long she began to struggle.
“Damn it, my strength is draining too quickly,” Lin Aoxue muttered in frustration. She immediately took out a large bottle of pills from her Storage Pouch.
These had been given to her by Ye Liuyun yesterday. The bottle was labeled Rejuvenation Pill. As for its effects, Lin Aoxue had glanced at them casually the day before. The Rejuvenation Pill was supposed to restore strength, though she had never heard of such a pill before.
She opened the bottle and poured one out. A blue pill rolled into her palm, radiating pill light and covered in intricate pill patterns. Lin Aoxue glanced at it and felt that the pill looked unnecessarily flashy.
“That guy is so pointless. If you are refining pills, just refine them. Why make them look so extravagant? It looks like some kind of luxury product,” Lin Aoxue complained.
She was not an alchemist and knew nothing about pill refinement. Naturally, she could not recognize pill patterns or pill light, nor did she understand how precious such a pill actually was.
Without hesitation, Lin Aoxue swallowed the pill.
She trusted Ye Liuyun completely. Although Ye Liuyun occasionally behaved a little improperly, she had always treated Lin Aoxue very well.
At first, Lin Aoxue did not think much after the Rejuvenation Pill entered her stomach.
But almost immediately, her expression changed in shock.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged toward her like streams flowing into a lake. The power that had nearly dried up inside her body began to recover at a visible speed.
What shocked her even more was that the pill did not simply restore her strength.
Even after her power was replenished, spiritual energy continued to flow into her body, constantly compensating for the spiritual power she was consuming.
“This… this effect? No way. One pill completely restored all my spiritual power, and it is still continuing to replenish it?” Lin Aoxue’s eyes lit up.
At that moment, Lin Aoxue suddenly realized that the secrets hidden within her boyfriend from two lifetimes might be far greater than she had imagined.
However, she did not dwell on it too much. Ye Liuyun would never harm her. The more skilled Ye Liuyun became at alchemy, the faster Lin Aoxue’s own strength would grow.
With the Rejuvenation Pills, surviving the three months here would certainly not be too difficult.
Besides, among the pills Ye Liuyun had given her, there were far more than just Rejuvenation Pills. There were also many strange and unusual pills.
For example, the Vajra Pill that Ye Liuyun had taken yesterday was also among them.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Lin Aoxue tested all the pills that seemed usable. After trying them, each pill surprised her more than the last.
Pills of the same category produced far stronger effects when refined by Ye Liuyun.
Take the Burst Spirit Pill, for instance. After taking it, Lin Aoxue directly broke through the bottleneck of the Spirit River Realm and stepped into the Spirit Sea Realm in one go.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun had once again begun refining some rather improper pills.
After staying quiet for a period of time, she was about to resume her peculiar “alchemy craft.”
Today’s pill combinations required the fusion of at least three medicinal ingredients, and they were a mixture of White Grade and Green Grade herbs.
Over the past few years, she had already experimented with every possible fusion between White Grade medicinal herbs. Altogether, she had created nearly fifty different new types of pills.
“Low-grade Green Grade Spirit-Guiding Flower, low-grade Green Grade Thunder-Nurturing Vine, low-grade Green Grade Bone-Refining Grass… I will start by fusing these three,” Ye Liuyun murmured while looking at the three herbs in front of her.
This was her first attempt at fusing Green Grade herbs.
Even pills refined from White Grade herbs had produced astonishing effects once enhanced with immortal power.
Green Grade herbs would likely produce even more exaggerated results.
But she had no other choice. She had already used up all the White Grade herbs she could obtain, so she could only turn her attention to Green Grade materials.
“Master… nothing bad will happen, right? I have a strange feeling that something might go wrong,” Ye Liuyun said hesitantly.
“If you are afraid, then behave yourself,” Lin Qingyou replied helplessly.
But hearing that only made Ye Liuyun even less inclined to behave.
“Afraid? Afraid of what? I cannot die anyway. Let’s do this.”
Ye Liuyun took a deep breath and tossed the medicinal herbs into the Myriad Elixir Immortal Cauldron.
The earlier steps of the process were naturally handled with ease. Even Green Grade herbs were completely under Ye Liuyun’s control.
However, just as the pill was about to begin forming—
A thunderous explosion suddenly resounded across the clear sky.
The thunder was extremely loud, as if it ignored every defense and rang directly beside the ears of every cultivator within the Yunxia Sect.
BOOM!
The cultivators who were meditating in seclusion were startled by the sudden thunderclap. Some were nearly thrown into qi deviation.
“What… what is going on? Thunder? My residence has a formation that blocks outside sounds,” many cultivators muttered in confusion.
The disciples outside instinctively looked toward the sky.
There were no dark clouds in the sky at all, nor did it look like rain was coming.
So where had that thunder come from?
“Thunder out of a clear sky?” some disciples wondered.
Of course, many people did not take the thunder too seriously.
But soon afterward, another thunderclap sounded.
This time it was as if someone had triggered heavenly tribulation. Dark clouds rapidly spread across the sky above the Yunxia Sect at a visible speed.
Perhaps the incident of the Heavenly River pouring down several years ago had already faded from memory, because no one immediately realized how strange these clouds were.
“Is it going to rain? How can the weather change so suddenly?”
However, they were thinking too simply.
The arrival of dark clouds did not necessarily mean rain.
After the clouds gathered, bolts of lightning began to roam through them like enormous thunder dragons. The thunder grew louder and more frequent.
“This is so annoying. Why is it constantly thundering? And the sound is even penetrating my soundproof formation. Could it be that someone is undergoing tribulation?” The cultivators of the Yunxia Sect who were in closed-door cultivation were forced to stop their training.
Ordinary thunder could not penetrate formations.
But the heavenly thunder produced during tribulation could ignore any formation or defense.
Because heavenly thunder was a trial imposed by the heavens upon cultivators. Naturally, no external force could block it.
The thunder roared continuously, making cultivation impossible. Many disciples stepped outside their residences and looked toward the sky to see what was happening.
“Heavenly tribulation lightning? Is someone in the sect about to undergo tribulation?” Yun Yun and the others also walked out of the main hall in confusion.
But if someone were truly undergoing tribulation, they should have sensed it.
Yet for some reason, as they looked at the lightning clouds overhead, they felt as though thunder could strike them at any moment.
It was almost as if the heavenly thunder had been drawn by them personally.
But they knew very clearly that they themselves were not about to undergo tribulation.
These lightning clouds clearly had not been summoned by them.
The dark clouds soon condensed into thunderclouds, and the sight made the disciples of the Yunxia Sect uneasy.
“This… this is not good. Quickly activate the Mountain Protection Grand Array!” Yun Yun watched for a moment and sensed that something was wrong with the thunderclouds. She immediately ordered the sect to activate its protective formation.
The strange phenomenon reminded her of the incident several years ago when the Heavenly River had poured down from the sky.
“Almost done forming the pill. This one looks interesting,” Ye Liuyun said with a grin as she looked at the pill forming inside the Myriad Elixir Immortal Cauldron.
Strangely enough, despite the thunder raging outside, she did not notice anything at all.
Meanwhile, the thunderclouds outside grew increasingly violent.
Soon a bolt of lightning descended from the sky, pierced through the Yunxia Sect’s formation, and struck an outer sect disciple.
“AH!”
The strike came too suddenly. The disciple had no time to react.
Even the sect’s Mountain Protection Grand Array had no effect, which meant this was indeed tribulation lightning.
“Pfft! What the hell is going on? I have not even reached the stage of undergoing tribulation yet!” The disciple who had been struck by lightning lay on the ground twitching violently, his hair standing on end as he spat out a puff of black smoke.
The other disciples were also startled.
“Damn it, so it turns out you are the one about to undergo tribulation. Why are you wandering around instead of cultivating in seclusion?” some nearby disciples complained.
However, the very next moment—
Lightning began falling rapidly from the thunderclouds.
The bolts accurately struck the disciples of the Yunxia Sect.
Several more people were struck and collapsed to the ground, paralyzed by electricity. Fortunately, the lightning did not possess the full destructive power of true heavenly thunder, so it did not kill them.
As the thunderclouds erupted, lightning fell like rain upon the Yunxia Sect.
At that moment, everyone became a target of heavenly thunder.
This included Yun Yun and the others.
However, Yun Yun and the other high-level cultivators had powerful cultivation bases and could resist the lightning when it descended upon them.
The Wheel Sea disciples, on the other hand, had no such ability.
“Th-this… what on earth is happening now?” The high-ranking members of the Yunxia Sect all turned pale.