The sword seller, dressed in red, deserves applause for the prankster.

In the very center of the land shrouded in heavy thunderclouds, a colossal and towering tower miraculously appeared. The tower attracted the purple lightning, remaining unmoved despite being devoured by it.

In mid-air, amidst the lightning, a ragged young girl floated, her long hair billowing wildly in the storm, her eyes filled with a hint of arrogance.

"With a few words, Chi Miao can easily subdue nine tribulations of lightning... nothing more than this."

The girl's voice had improved after taking a large amount of elixirs, and the laughter in her voice, combined with the breathtakingly beautiful scene of lightning connecting heaven and earth, was astonishing.

"What...what kind of magical artifact is that tower? It can actually...draw away lightning tribulation?!"

"Drawing her away is one thing... but she stood there, and the essence of the lightning tribulation fell vertically into her body. Is there really such a wonderful method in the world to avoid the lightning tribulation without missing the essence? What kind of treasures has Nine Swords Mountain been hiding all these years!"

The people of Nine Swords Mountain were also dumbfounded!

What are they hiding?!

"This thing has nothing to do with our Nine Swords Mountain; she developed it herself." Chong Shuai's breathing quickened; he had never expected things to turn out this way.

He explained, but those outside the sect didn't believe him at all.

"Such a brilliant idea, how could she have come up with it on her own! You Nine Swords Mountain people are good at pretending, always acting like you're half-dead, but then you suddenly pull something big, huh?!"

"You're saying she figured it out herself? Who among us would believe that? Could she really predict she'd face a tribulation lightning strike when she broke through to the Foundation Establishment stage?"

"..."

Chong Shuai: "Ah, right, right, I pretended to be dead at Nine Swords Mountain."

grandma's.

You still don't believe me even after I've explained!

He set it up.

"It seems this tribulation of lightning is finally over?"

However, it does not.

"If the tribulation passes... the injuries on the person undergoing the tribulation will heal, and they will successfully break through to a new realm. However... Chi Miao has not seen any of these signs."

The purple lightning continued to strike, seemingly endlessly.

Chi Miao, standing nearby, was also puzzled.

It was at this very moment.

Yan Ge's expression tightened. "No...no! The stronger the lightning tribulation, the higher its spirituality. It hasn't ended for so long...the lightning tribulation knows that Chi Miao used this method to evade it!"

at the same time.

A mysterious and ancient voice resounded.

"Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown... You, the one undergoing tribulation, have dared to evade the lightning tribulation with such despicable means! Heaven will not allow it!"

"Punishment—!"

That is……

"A celestial sound?!"

"Xianyin has sent word... that Chi Miao is to be punished?!"

It was at this very moment.

Chi Miao felt the power of the heavenly thunder behind her growing stronger and stronger, to an unbelievable degree, and she felt a sense of crisis from the depths of her soul.

escape!

escape!

escape!

These few words were all that remained in her mind.

But she couldn't move her body. The lightning was so thick that it broke free from the lightning rod's attraction, dispersing into several currents that instantly turned the area into a thunderstorm zone!

Thunderous force!

Each strand possesses an extremely strong consciousness, as if it has countless eyes staring at one point.

Chi Miao suddenly became the target and center of this thunderous attack.

"Punish! Punish! Punish!"

Lightning makes such a sound.

It was as if all the gods and demons were venting their dissatisfaction with Chi Miao for avoiding the ninth tribulation.

"ah--!!!"

Chi Miao's voice suddenly ripped apart, as if the thunder from all directions was trying to tear her limbs apart and rip her flesh from her pores.

She was in so much pain that she was completely unconscious.

And it was at this moment.

A voice suddenly shouted.

"Concentrate!"

"Activate your internal energy!"

Chi Miao recognized the newcomer as Yan Ge!

His eyes were no longer the same as before. He completely lost his mind and pounced on Chi Miao. The laws of thunder disintegrated the spiritual power and flesh and blood in his body.

"So what if it's divine punishment?"

"You must not harm my disciple!!"

With a roar, a life form identical to him appeared, his avatar, transforming into a black hole that absorbed the lightning!

"Hahahahaha—"

"Nothing special! Nothing special!"

He said this, but like Chi Miao, he was bleeding all over.

The rules prohibit anyone from taking the lightning tribulation for another person.

He crossed the line.

Chi Miao's mind went completely blank. She never expected that, under such terrifying lightning punishment, Yan Ge would actually rush to protect her from this tribulation.

This is the first time someone has ever...

For the first time, someone truly kept their promise to protect her.

"What are you standing there for? Do you want me dead?! Activate your internal energy!!"

Chi Miao gritted his teeth and channeled his inner energy! Magical artifacts, elixirs! The light of merit! The Weeping Sword!

She uses whatever means are available to her.

The lightning showed no sign of stopping.

Yan Ge suddenly hugged her.

"It's okay..."

"A single divine punishment will only cause the death of one person."

"It will stop once one person dies."

"I've said it before, I will never let my apprentice die again."

Chi Miao was stunned.

The embrace that held her gradually lost its spiritual power. If she were to withstand the lightning punishment with her mortal body, the outcome would undoubtedly be death!

Chi Miao's mind was in complete chaos.

Her face was almost contorted.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness.

The huge millstone rolled out.

Everyone seemed to see the shadow of gods and demons pushing the millstone.

The millstone crushes the thunder...

Suddenly... Chi Miao and Yan Ge both fainted and fell to the ground.

The lightning strike vanished, as if everything from the previous second had been nothing but a dream, a dream of torrential rain falling, drip-drip-drip.

No one could believe what they were seeing.

"What...is that millstone?"

"It actually obliterated divine punishment? What on earth is that?!"

They looked in the direction of Chi Miao and Yan Ge, their hearts filled with turmoil.

Finally, a hole appeared in the very center of the dark cloud.

The light pierced through, tearing open the opening and forming a portal of light, allowing countless fresh and flowing breaths of air to enter everyone's nasal cavities.

The light from the portal shone on the surrounding rainwater, turning the transparent droplets golden, even a single drop—

The Heavenly Flowing Waterfall and the herbaceous plants, which were destroyed by the terrifying nine bolts of heavenly lightning and divine punishment, miraculously recovered and even grew rapidly.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and so it is.

It spread outwards and throughout the entire cultivation world.

Someone, still reeling from the shock, murmured:

"Golden rain...a blessing from heaven, a single drop...brings life to all things."

Suddenly, the sky cleared and the clouds dispersed!

Bright and clear!

The concentration of spiritual energy in the surrounding area was rising rapidly, and streams of magical energy flowed into Chi Miao's body, causing her to rise.

That distant and ancient voice finally rang out.

"Those who have undergone tribulation in Miaohua Continent have already passed the nine tribulations of Foundation Establishment Lightning."

"Congratulations to the one who has transcended the tribulation and established their foundation in the Heavenly Dao!"

"Congratulations to the one who has transcended the tribulation and established their foundation in the Heavenly Dao!"

"Congratulations to the one who has transcended the tribulation and established their foundation in the Heavenly Dao!"

The celestial music resounded three times, followed by an even more mysterious and immense power, as if speaking directly into everyone's ear:

"Blessings."

The celestial music faded away.

Everyone gradually recovered from their shock.

"Chi Miao, Foundation Establishment of the Heavenly Dao?"

suddenly.

Yan Ge, who had been lying on the ground pretending to be dead, also burst out laughing.

"Foundation Building of the Heavenly Dao?"

"Ha...hahahahaha! Hahahahahaha!"

"I knew it! My disciple, Yan Ge's disciple... is a peerless genius!"