Chapter 229 : Chapter 229
Chapter 229 The Xuanhuang Shield Begins to Crack!
【“I told you before, but unfortunately, you chose not to believe me!”】
【You looked at Chen Tian and spoke without the slightest mercy.】
【You had originally thought that even if Chen Tian did not believe what you said, he would at least stay alert enough not to let the entire Hope Zone be destroyed.】
【In the end, you realized that you had still overestimated Chen Tian.】
【You paid no more attention to the two of them and instead headed back toward your residence with Xuanyuan Tianji.】
【What mattered most to you now was preparing for the next tribulation.】
【Now that you had the Xuanhuang Shield in hand, and your fleshly body had also broken through to the Spirit Bone Realm, you were very confident that you could succeed in every tribulation before the final Ninefold Chaos Lightning Tribulation.】
【As Chen Shu watched your departing figure, the words that had already reached her lips were forced back down.】
【After returning to your residence, you found that it had indeed already become a pile of ruins.】
【You cleaned up the rubble a little, then hastily put together a temporary wooden hut to serve as your place of cultivation.】
【One month later!】
【After making all your preparations, you went to a remote corner and began preparing to undergo tribulation.】
【As the Tribulation Clouds continued to gather, the aura of your tribulation drew the Chen siblings over.】
【Standing in the distance, they stared fixedly at you beneath the Tribulation Clouds.】
【“His cultivation speed is so fast. It has only been a few years, and he is already breaking through to the Seventh Tribulation Realm.”】
【Hearing that, Chen Tian nodded seriously.】
【But Chen Tian knew very well that with your strength, you had long since possessed the power to break through to the Seventh Tribulation Realm. You had only delayed it because of the tribulation itself.】
【As for what gains you had obtained in the Fallen Immortal Abyss, Chen Tian had no way of knowing.】
【In Chen Tian’s view, body cultivation had long since vanished into the river of history in the Qingxuan Realm.】
【Nowadays, body cultivators were almost nowhere to be seen.】
【Soon, you finished passing the Lightning Tribulation of the Seventh Tribulation Realm, and the Chaos Lightning Tribulation began gathering above your head.】
【You had originally thought that after breaking through to the Spirit Bone Realm, and with the help of all kinds of Immortal Herbs, passing this Chaos Lightning Tribulation would be easy.】
【But you had still underestimated its power.】
【Before the final bolt of Chaos Lightning Tribulation descended, you had already exhausted nearly all of your Immortal Herbs.】
【At this moment, your body had already reached its limit, blood flying everywhere.】
【You had a premonition that once the next bolt of tribulation lightning descended, you would be blasted into complete annihilation.】
【You had intended to rely on Protection of the Heavenly Dao or Dragonkin Undying to forcibly endure the final strike.】
【But unfortunately, neither of those abilities could be triggered beneath the Chaos Lightning Tribulation.】
【In other words, you could rely only on yourself to confront this Chaos Lightning Tribulation.】
【On second thought, the power of those talents came from the Simulator, while the Chaos Lightning Tribulation came from the power of laws. The Simulator’s power also originated from the Power of Laws.】
【BOOM—】
【Without giving you any extra time, the final bolt of Chaos Lightning Tribulation came at you like a vicious dragon.】
【You inwardly cursed your luck, then immediately took out the Xuanhuang Shield and raised it before yourself.】
【“So I still cannot do it...”】
【In the distance, after seeing you swallowed by the tribulation lightning, Chen Shu and Chen Tian could not help worrying for you.】
【Before that final bolt of lightning had descended, both Chen Shu and Chen Tian had already seen that your body had reached its absolute limit.】
【“Wait!”】
【“It looks like... he succeeded?”】
【As the smoke dispersed, Chen Shu and Chen Tian saw you still standing in place, holding a palm-sized shield above your head.】
【Crack—】
【You lowered the Xuanhuang Shield in your hand and saw a huge crack had formed across its surface.】
【The moment you saw that crack, your heart sank violently.】
【You did not know whether you had overestimated your own strength, or underestimated the might of the Chaos Lightning Tribulation.】
【This time, you knew that you had been careless.】
【Looking at the Xuanhuang Shield in your hand, you could not help feeling grateful to Xuanyuan Tianji. It was precisely because of her help that you had obtained this Xuanhuang Shield.】
【However, as you looked at it, you knew that it could withstand at most one more tribulation. It could not do as Xuanyuan Tianji had said and block three times.】
【After this experience, you stopped undergoing tribulation lightly.】
【The Xuanhuang Shield could be said to be your final trump card. Now that it had already been used once, without it, you did not even dare imagine how you would face the final Ninefold Chaos Lightning Tribulation.】
【Suddenly, Chen Shu and Chen Tian came over to congratulate you on your successful breakthrough.】
【When Chen Tian saw that you were unharmed, a strange look flashed through his eyes.】
【And you noticed that the way Chen Tian looked at you had changed yet again.】
【Chen Tian told you to cultivate in peace. There were still quite a few cultivation resources left in the Hope Zone, and he would hand all of them over to you to help you grow stronger.】
【The moment you heard that, you understood what Chen Tian meant.】
【You knew that Chen Tian was now staking all his hopes on you.】
【But you also knew that wiping out the Eldritch Race was not something that could be achieved overnight.】
【Let alone destroying the Eldritch Race, even if you merely managed to escape the Qingxuan Realm from their grasp and return to the Canglan Realm, that alone would already count as a victory for you.】
【Faced with an eldritch being at the Immortal Lord level, you were not even qualified to raise your head and look at it.】
【Still, since Chen Tian was willing to give you the resources, you had no reason to refuse.】
【You accepted the resources and resumed cultivating in seclusion.】
【At the same time, Chen Tian left the Ancient Emperor Ruins with Chen Shu and went into the outside world to gather information.】
【After the two of them left, you found Xuanyuan Tianji and gave half of the resources to her.】
【This time, the resources Chen Tian gave you were even greater than the ones Chen Shu had given you in the previous simulation.】
【The thirteenth year!】
【Over these two years, aside from your normal cultivation, you devoted all your energy to cultivating Divine Powers.】
【With the augmentation of the Great Dao Clarity talent, you cultivated techniques such as the Great Void Technique, the Great Desolate Sky-Imprisoning Finger, and the Taixu Sword Art to their limits.】
【Moreover, with the augmentation of Sword Emperor’s Successor, you had even already optimized the Taixu Sword Art, and it now had the potential to become an Immortal Art.】
【Of course, there was one ability of the Great Dao Clarity talent that you had never intended to use, and that was Great Dao Enlightenment triggered by consuming your lifespan.】
【You knew that it was an ability that came at the cost of severe overdraft.】
【Then, you thought of a very serious problem: cultivation arts.】
【At present, all the cultivation arts you practiced came from the Dead Land of the Canglan Realm. Whether it was the Azure Emperor Longevity Art or the Heavenly Evolution Art, they could only support your cultivation up to the Heavenly Venerable Realm.】
【Once you broke through to the Immortal Realm, those arts would no longer be able to sustain your future cultivation.】
【At that thought, you began to feel a headache coming on.】
【“Wait!”】
【You suddenly thought of someone.】
【You thought of Xuanyuan Tianji. She was royalty from the Weiyang Immortal Realm, so she surely knew no small number of cultivation arts.】
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