Chapter 886: Invincible Divine Thunder

"Fairy, do you have any idea what is going on here?" Lu Yang inquired of the ancient immortal, his voice laced with trepidation.

The Immortal Fairy shook her head like a spinning rattle: "I have no clue. When this celestial achieved the Soul Transformation stage back then, no heavenly tribulation ever descended."

Lu Yang remembered now; during the ancient era, breaking through from the Nascent Soul stage to the Soul Transformation stage required no such trial. It was only after the Immortal Ying Tian ascended to immortality that this particular rule was established.

Damn you, Ying Tian, could you not have done something useful for once?

According to Ying Tian's philosophy, subjecting cultivators to the heavenly tribulation was meant to test the steadfastness of their Dao hearts, and passing it would grant immense benefits.

Lu Yang looked up at the pitch-black sky, where flashes of lightning gleamed faintly, withheld and gathering strength, as if biding their time.

Lu Yang felt that whether he could survive this tribulation had very little to do with how steadfast his Dao heart was.

It depended mostly on whether his life was resilient enough to endure it.

"Strange, just what kind of heavenly tribulation has Junior Brother Lu Yang drawn forth?" A senior brother of the Void Refining stage mused with a furrowed brow; he had never heard of a lightning tribulation that cleared the field with Mystery Divine Lightning first.

They stood upon other peaks, far removed from Tianmen Peak, and with the Mystery Divine Lightning flickering unpredictably around it, they could not discern his appearance at the very epicenter of the tribulation.

"Even when the Eldest Senior Sister faced the top-ranked Three Pure Heavenly Lightning Tribulation back then, nothing of this sort ever occurred."

"A heavenly tribulation that has never appeared before... Could it be that Junior Brother Lu Yang has drawn forth an entirely unprecedented tribulation?"

"A brand-new heavenly tribulation?"

"Not necessarily brand new. It could be a tribulation that someone once faced but failed to survive, leaving no name behind in history!"

Whichever the case, it was enough to show that the power of the tribulation Lu Yang faced would be utterly terrifying!

"Look quickly, the true lightning tribulation has appeared!" The junior brothers and sisters shouted, pointing toward the distant Tianmen Peak.

"It truly is a lightning tribulation never seen before!" The Void Refining senior brother said with absolute certainty. Even from such a distance, one could feel the subtle lightning permeating the air and the tremors in space, making it hard to imagine what Lu Yang was experiencing at the center.

"Is it an illusion, or does this feel several degrees stronger than the Three Pure Heavenly Lightning Tribulation?"

Sensing the anomalous mutation at Tianmen Peak, the Eldest Senior Sister left the Prisoner Peak and stood atop Dan Ding Peak, gazing toward Tianmen Peak with a slight frown.

Crack—

A purple-green celestial lightning descended, the divine lightning blazing majestically like a falling sun, blindingly bright and impossible to look upon directly.

This was a divine lightning that had never appeared in history!

The moment the divine lightning manifested, Lu Yang's hairs stood on end as he sensed extreme danger—this was absolutely not something he could withstand alone!

"Invincible Soul!"

The Invincible Soul manifested, its small face solemn, showing no intention of fleeing, but rather standing with Lu Yang to face the divine lightning together!

Ordinary cultivators would absolutely never dare use their Nascent Soul to help share the pressure of a lightning tribulation; the Nascent Soul was fragile, and the slightest mishap would cause it to perish within the tribulation, leaving no way to later transform it into a Divine Soul.

Yet the Invincible Soul was different; Lu Yang had long experienced its strength. Merely bearing half the pressure of the lightning tribulation would cause it no harm.

Furthermore, the fact that the Invincible Soul showed no intention of fleeing also indicated that it could endure it!

Lu Yang had tested it before; even after defeating the Invincible Soul, it would still want to run when encountering danger, except he could now control it and forbid it from fleeing.

The purple-green divine lightning split into two streams, striking Lu Yang and the Invincible Soul respectively. Lu Yang gritted his teeth, resisting with pure physical strength, enduring an agony beyond description as his clothes shattered and his flesh tore open. He felt as though even his bones and blood were numbed, soaked entirely in lightning.

Boom— Boom— Boom—

The purple-green divine lightning struck continuously, enveloping the entirety of Tianmen Peak in its divine glow, causing the mountain to tremble slightly.

This was heavenly might, not something a mountain could contend against.

"Strange, why does this heavenly tribulation look like the Invincible Divine Lightning?" Within the spiritual space, the Immortal Fairy muttered in a low voice.

No matter how softly she muttered, Lu Yang could hear her clearly.

"What do you mean by Invincible Divine Lightning?"

Taking advantage of the brief respite as a wave of divine lightning ended, Lu Yang hurriedly consumed elixir pills, allowing himself and the Invincible Soul to recover rapidly.

"It's just that back when Ying Tian was creating lightning tribulations, he said he wanted to make one that only cultivators with an Invincible Soul could pass, while no one else could survive it, and he asked this celestial for some reference opinions."

"What did you say at the time, Fairy?"

"This celestial said the more powerful, the better."

Lu Yang: "..."

Fairy, could you not leave me a path to live?

No wonder this lightning tribulation had never appeared before; as it turned out, this was a tribulation meant solely to strike those with an Invincible Soul!

Ying Tian, if you found the Invincible Soul displeasing, you should have gone to the Immortal Fairy. What kind of capability is it to bully me?

"Then what is the name of this lightning tribulation?"

"Ying Tian called this kind of tribulation something like the Supreme Heaven-Opening Golden Court Divine Lightning. At that time, this celestial said the name was too long to remember, so it would be better to call it the Invincible Divine Lightning, simple and pleasant to the ear, smooth and catchy."

After nine waves of divine lightning, Lu Yang was charred black, spitting out dark smoke, and the Invincible Soul was fares no better, severely injured. Seeing this, Lu Yang quickly had the Invincible Soul enter his dantian to rest.

The lingering power of the Invincible Divine Lightning flowed across Lu Yang's surface, slowly strengthening both his soul and physical body.

"With nine waves of divine lightning having descended, this should count as over, right?" Gu Junye said seriously; among his peers, he was the one who had studied heavenly tribulations the most.

Nine was the ultimate number; a lightning tribulation would only descend nine times, never a tenth.

"It ought to be so... Wait, why is there another lightning tribulation?" The Void Refining senior brother was just about to agree when he saw a new lightning tribulation actually brewing above Tianmen Peak!

"How can this be!"

"This is the Qian Sky Lightning Tribulation!"

"The Qian Sky Lightning Tribulation? Isn't that a tribulation one only encounters when ascending from the Soul Transformation stage to the Void Refining stage, and the top-ranked one at that?"

"Heaven only knows what is going on."

The crowd fell silent, worrying for Lu Yang's safety. For a Nascent Soul stage cultivator to survive the Qian Sky Lightning Tribulation, could that even be possible?

The moment Lu Yang saw the Qian Sky Lightning Tribulation, his heart turned half cold, wondering if it was still in time to write a final testament.

Isn't this lightning tribulation of yours a bit too far beyond the syllabus?

"Fairy, what do we do?"

"Uh, how about this celestial goes out to show her face and makes the heavenly tribulation leave?" The Immortal Fairy felt that perhaps the heavenly tribulation simply had poor eyesight and failed to recognize her; if she went out, it would surely give her some face and depart.

Lu Yang felt somewhat hesitant; the Immortal Fairy's existence was a secret, and he was unsure whether the Mystery Divine Lightning could conceal the traces of the Fairy's intervention. If the senior brothers and sisters saw the Fairy's existence, it would be quite unfavorable.

Sensing the Qian Sky Lightning Tribulation that had already locked onto him, Lu Yang suddenly said, "There is no need to trouble the Fairy to act just yet. I have a method that I happen to want to try out here. If it does not succeed, it won't be too late for you to act, Fairy."

"What method?"

Lu Yang smiled without answering.

Gazing at the Qian Sky Lightning Tribulation, which seemed to carry the power to destroy the world, Gu Junye and the others were filled with anxiety.

"Do you think Senior Brother Lu Yang can survive this?"