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Su Yan jumped out of the pool and looked at Grand Tutor Jin, who was eating her second plate of shaved ice, and exclaimed in surprise:

"Grandpa! I've received a notice that I've been struck by lightning!"

Heavenly tribulations are considered calamities for cultivators, but from the perspective of the rules of heaven and earth...

This is an equal trial for all beings; the victor gains increased strength, while the loser dies and perishes.

Now, Su Yan has received a trial notice, instructing him to undergo the tribulation at noon tomorrow.

Heavenly tribulations are unavoidable. If you don't use methods that damage your virtue or shake your foundation, the heavenly tribulation will come to you on its own to give you a trial. It's not like you'll face a tribulation whenever a cultivator says so.

"Oh? A little earlier than expected," Grand Tutor Jin said without making any big moves. "However, everything else is as expected. The laws of heaven and earth have always chosen to conduct trials for water-element cultivators at noon when the sun is at its most intense and the humidity is at its lowest."

"Brother Su, you..." Zhou You looked at Su Yan with a face full of surprise and doubt: "How did your cultivation level improve so quickly?"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 481 Heavenly Tribulation: Customizing Our Humanity

"Brother Su, you..."

Zhou You, who was wringing out clothes nearby, was shocked to see Su Yan receive the admission notice for the Nascent Soul stage. He pointed at Su Yan with disbelief, not understanding why Su Yan, who had just advanced to the late Golden Core stage not long ago, could advance to the Nascent Soul stage so quickly.

In the early stage of the Golden Core, one gains the power of continuous circulation, while in the middle stage, the power of spiritual consciousness is strengthened, enabling one to expand spiritual consciousness to cover a range of several hundred meters around the body.

The late Golden Core stage is the final accumulation stage for human cultivators. The mana in their bodies needs to be accumulated to an extremely high level, and it is even possible to break through this bottleneck by relying on pills and secret techniques, and to draw on the power of heavenly tribulation to forcibly break through to the Nascent Soul stage.

In the past, the cultivation of demons was slow, and the physical strength of ordinary demons was several times that of humans, with some powerful demons of divine beast clans even having a difference of tens or hundreds of times. Demons generally did not have the concept of the late Golden Core stage; as long as they cultivated to the required level, they could obtain an admission notice for the Nascent Soul stage.

Su Yan's parents are of extraordinary bloodline; both are beings with an extremely terrifying amount of magical power.

"Uh, why is your cultivation so fast?"

Su Yan, who had just jumped out of the pond, faced Zhou You's shocked question. His cheek twitched slightly as he said, "It's probably... exchanged for spirit stones, right? It would probably cost several hundred thousand catties of spirit stones. Do you want to try?"

Su Yan's talent was not bad. Before a cultivator breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage, there are many stages where they need to accumulate and hone their foundation for becoming an immortal.

At home, the fox mother didn't really care about Su Yan's cultivation and accumulation. She mainly focused on making the little fox happy, since she and the dragon father had already planned to take care of the little fox for over a hundred years.

In the Xia Dynasty, due to the different environment and the atmosphere of making friends around him, his aunt would take Su Yan to the Pharmacist Qian's shop every now and then to take medicine. She would exchange a huge amount of spirit stones for pills for Su Yan to use in order to hone his foundation for becoming an immortal and accumulate the magic power to break through to the next level.

Because her aunt was willing to spend spirit stones, and because she was a member of the Pride Insect Clan, all the spirit liquids and pills she bought were at cost price. The alchemists didn't charge extra for labor costs or anything like that, treating it as a favor.

In other words, in less than two years, Su Yan may have made his aunt spend over a million spirit stones. After obtaining the sacrificial knife, Su Yan also spent a lot of spirit stones on it. He would even activate a powerful spirit-gathering array when he slept at night, allowing his golden core to circulate continuously and constantly inhale and exhale the misty spiritual energy.

In addition to the occasional nutritional supplements from the Lord of Night, and the delicious food and drinks his elders took him around, Su Yan's cultivation was being passively improved. As a result, Su Yan's cultivation was not lagging behind Xia Yu's friends, and was even subtly ahead of them.

Princess Luanming, Feng Shiqi, Jiao Nanwu, Zhou You, and Jin Lin—which of them didn't have powerful backers, or come from prestigious families with exceptional bloodlines and talents? After joining the Demon Suppression Division, Yu Yanning's cultivation level rose as if she were flying on a sword.

To compensate for the slow cultivation speed of the demon race, Auntie and Su Yan kept adding spirit stones to it.

"Need to smash spirit stones? I'm from a poor family, so I'll take my leave." Upon hearing this, Zhou You looked enlightened and quickly cupped his hands in farewell.

"Go away, don't defile my spirit pool."

As Zhou You approached the gemstone pool, he even bent down and rolled up his trouser legs, as if he wanted to soak his feet in the spirit pool to cool off. Grand Tutor Jin raised an eyebrow and gestured for Zhou You to crawl back into the garden.

Because of her parents, Su Yan is naturally clean unless she intentionally wants to get her fur dirty. Moreover, the nine-tailed fox of the Su clan will faintly emit a strange fragrance with magical effects.

Therefore, Grand Tutor Jin had no objection to Su Yan soaking in his own pool.

But Zhou You was different; if his sweaty feet stepped into the gemstone pool, he'd probably need to switch to a pool of spiritual spring water. Grand Tutor Jin couldn't accept that his scenic viewing pool was a foot bath.

Zhou You: "."

The heat alone did not affect Zhou You and the other cultivators much; they could even ride through the flames while enveloped in spiritual energy.

But the weather is not only hot now, it also contains a strange fiery energy. Breathing in this spiritual energy mixed with a little fire energy will make cultivators feel hot and subconsciously want to find a shady place to stay.

The Gem Pool was undoubtedly the coolest, but Master Jin didn't seem too happy about it.

………………

Time slowly brought us to the second day.

Su Yan, who was originally jumping for joy, thought she would not be able to sleep all night, but when her aunt came to find her early in the morning, Su Yan was lying on the bed, sleeping soundly with her head spread out and snoring softly.

"How can you sleep like this?"

With a helpless expression, her aunt stepped forward and woke Su Yan from her deep dream, saying, "Wake up, everyone is getting ready to head to Ruojian Lake."

Ruojian Lake is located northeast of Xia Yu City and is one of the largest lakes around the city. Because of its dense foliage that blocks direct sunlight, the cold, damp air that gathers inside is more abundant than that of ordinary rivers and lakes.

It is located in Xia Yu City and its surrounding area, making it one of the best choices for water-based cultivators when undergoing tribulation.

Grand Tutor Jin ordered the sealing off of Ruojian Lake yesterday, dispersing the water-based cultivators practicing inside, so that Su Yan could use the cold, damp air gathered there by himself.

The Nascent Soul stage tribulation is not difficult. There are three stages. As long as the cultivator's foundation is strong enough, and with the help of some pills and magical artifacts, they can walk out of the tribulation area in about half an hour.

But the main reason why heavenly tribulations are so terrifying is that they are very humane.

If Su Yan were to undergo tribulation, there would be three lightning tribulations. The first lightning tribulation would inevitably be lightning fire, which would directly bombard Su Yan's water-based Dao foundation with the extreme yang and strength of lightning fire.

The characteristic of lightning tribulation is its targeted nature. No matter what element a cultivator belongs to, the lightning tribulation will inevitably use a corresponding and restraining element to bombard them.

This is where a cultivator's foundation is tested; if a cultivator's foundation is unstable, they will die and their cultivation will be destroyed.

"Here it comes! Place your bets! One lightning bolt to withstand, odds 1.1; two lightning bolts to withstand, odds 1.3; three lightning bolts to withstand, odds 2; survive the tribulation unscathed and alive, odds 3."

"If you don't even get hit by a lightning bolt, the odds are 50% off."

When Su Yan arrived in front of Ruojian Lake, he not only saw his friends, but also those who had come to join in the fun after learning that a cultivator was going to undergo tribulation in Ruojian Lake the night before.

There were betting booths of varying sizes here, and the booth owners were enthusiastically urging cultivators to place their bets.

"You really are something else!"

Su Yan didn't feel anything was out of place when she saw the betting booth; on the contrary, she felt it was perfectly natural.

"How are the preparations going?"

Princess Wuxi, who had accompanied Grand Tutor Jin, came to Su Yan and asked, looking at the little fox lazily stretching in her aunt's arms.

"Everything is ready, and I'm in perfect condition." Su Yan jumped out of her aunt's arms, landed, and transformed into human form, saying confidently:

"So, Auntie, let's go to the gambling den and earn some spirit stones to treat everyone to dinner tonight!"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 482 Nascent Soul Stage (6,000 chapters please vote)

"Go, little fox, and give it a good beating!"

After placing their bets at Xia Yu's betting platform, Su Yan's aunt and friends escorted him to the front of Ruojian Lake Forest, but did not follow him into the forest. The Heavenly Tribulation was not like the novels Su Yan had read in his previous life, where there was a possibility that a powerful cultivator could dispel it.

If outsiders attempt to interfere, the tribulation might trigger some unique rules. Therefore, since her aunt and the others didn't go with her, Su Yan would have to face the tribulation alone.

"Don't worry, I'll be out soon."

Su Yan waved his hand lightly, expressing his confidence at this moment, and walked straight into the dense forest. His aunt and the other cultivators, seeing the protagonist's appearance, began to walk up to the pillars built by the earth element cultivators to watch this young fellow cultivator's tribulation journey.

The Heavenly Tribulation Trial is a customized thing; outsiders cannot gain experience from it, let alone glimpse any profound mysteries from it. Xia Yucheng's cultivator came here simply to watch the excitement and, incidentally, to bring his juniors who had never witnessed the terror of the Heavenly Tribulation to observe it up close and impart their experience.

………………

As Su Yan walked through the Ruojian Lake forest, the surrounding temperature was cool compared to the high outside temperature, and there was even a faint chill in the air.

Su Yan stepped onto the surface of Ruojian Lake, sat down cross-legged in the center of the lake, took out the pill given to him by Grand Tutor Jin from inside his clothes, and slowly waited for noon to pass before swallowing the pill.

The tribulations in this world are very special. When Su Yan read Xianxia novels before, he saw that the protagonists and the tribulations were basically fighting with wits and courage, using all kinds of magical treasures and pills, yet they were completely unaffected by the tribulations, and the lightning could not strike them even when they were jumping around.

Even more outrageous, he ripped off his clothes, grabbed the tribulation cloud, and wrung out the spiritual power within as if wringing out a towel after a bath. He then opened his mouth and gulped it all down, displaying boundless arrogance.

The rules for tribulation in the cultivation world where Su Yan lived were completely different from what he knew in his previous life.

The tribulations of this world cannot be avoided. Only by absorbing the lightning of the laws of heaven and earth can cultivators use the power of the tribulation to enhance their various supernatural abilities and improve the purity of their physique and inner magic power.

The power of the heavenly tribulation endured by beings undergoing tribulation is a direct standard for measuring the quality of a cultivator's foundation.

If one manages to dodge all three tribulations of lightning during the Nascent Soul stage, even if one were to advance to the Nascent Soul stage, one would be severely incomplete and would not possess the power expected of a Nascent Soul cultivator. Furthermore, it would be impossible for one to advance from the Nascent Soul stage to the Deity Transformation stage.

This is why Xia Yu's betting odds previously stated that if a cultivator failed to withstand a lightning tribulation, they would be paid out five times the amount. No cultivator would be so foolish as to sever their own foundation.

Su Yan's expectation was to accept all three thunderbolts. If he really couldn't withstand the power of the thunder, he would even use a sacrificial knife to weaken the power of the thunder to accept it all.

The time has come.

Just as Su Yan was sitting cross-legged and breathing, a feeling of unease arose in his heart again, and a short sentence came directly from his heart, informing him to take the exam.

The ripples on the lake caused by the gentle breeze froze the moment the warning appeared, and all things in the world were silent as if welcoming a certain being.

The blue sky and white clouds disappeared, replaced by a layer of pure black shadow, like ink spreading out. A powerful aura emanated from the ink-like clouds, and a white oval object appeared in the clouds, looking towards Su Yan's location.

The moment the oval eye appeared, identical clouds appeared around Su Yan, swirling around him, some even pressing directly against his face to scan him.

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, all the clouds and oval eyes that had been surrounding Su Yan disappeared.

Meanwhile, in the dark, lightless layer above the sky, blood-red hues gradually seeped in, and the dark red, dazzlingly bright sunset clouds slowly condensed and took shape.

"Boom!"

A thunderclap boomed in the sky, and a small earthquake suddenly broke out at Ruojian Lake, where Su Yan was located.

As cracks spread across the ground, the water stored in Ruojian Lake rapidly decreased. Orange-red flames erupted from the cracks caused by the earthquake, forming a fiery tornado that approached Su Yan, evaporating the surrounding water vapor and creating a vacuum zone completely devoid of spiritual energy.

"The lightning from the sky ignited the fire from the ground. The situation was not much different from what was expected."

Grand Tutor Jin sat on the railing, watching Su Yan's tribulation unfold. When he saw the earth fire surge forth, the solemn expression on Grand Tutor Jin's face faded, replaced by a smile.

"This time, we guessed right; there was nothing about wood element cultivators."

Su Yan's origins are very difficult to define. It is said that he belongs to the Yazi of the dragon clan but also has the characteristics of a nine-tailed fox. He is said to be a nine-tailed fox but also has the power to control water.

Therefore, the Grand Tutor was unsure whether Su Yan's tribulation was the same as that of the Dragon Clan and Water Element cultivators, which involved three tribulations: thunder and fire, metal and fire, and wood and fire, or the same as that of the Nine-Tailed Fox and Wood Element cultivators, which involved three tribulations: water and thunder, fire and metal, and earth and fire.

The tribulations that the nine-tailed fox and the wood element cultivators underwent were completely fatal to the water element cultivators, leaving them no chance of survival.

Fortunately, upon seeing Lei Huojie emerge, Grand Tutor Jin immediately realized that Su Yan belonged to the dragon race and did not go to the Nine-Tailed Fox's side to join the fun.

"Boom!"

The thunder roared a second time, and orange-red lightning bolts fell directly from the darkness, striking the center of the fire tornado and striking down on Su Yan, who was trapped inside.

Trapped inside the fire tornado, Su Yan, who was manipulating the various forms of the forest to prevent the fire tornado from shrinking, did not hear the thunderous roar because of the vacuum created by the flames, and was completely unaware that the heavenly lightning had already struck.