Chapter 21: Lightning Tribulation Inner Discord, Zero Qi Counts on Sun Yuan's Narrow Escape from Tribulation
As for making a lightning rod, it's completely based on what I read in posts online before, but now it seems that the idea of this lightning rod is somewhat brain-damaged! Although it hasn't been attacked yet, Sun Yuan subconsciously feels that as long as some of the thunder and lightning in the sky spills over, it would be enough to melt the lightning rod he refined into iron water.
Despite this, Sun Yuan quickly set up the lightning rod and sat cross-legged on the immortal stone, preparing to face the most critical moment of the Monkey's birth. If he succeeded, the demon pill would be formed; if he failed, Sun Yuan would die - there was no other choice.
At last the thunder in the sky seemed to have gathered enough strength, a bright lightning bolt slithered down along the funnel-shaped dark cloud, and in the blink of an eye, it reached the position of the lightning rod.
At this time, Sun Yuan opened his eyes wide and stared at the lightning rod. He wanted to see if the thing that the boring guys in his previous life had imagined out of thin air was really useful.
All that was seen was a spark of electricity, and the module in the air disappeared. However, if one looked closely, they could discover that at this moment, the purple lightning that struck down had a diameter slightly smaller than before.
Sun Yuan sighed with a bitter smile, it seemed that this thing had some effect, but it didn't seem to be of much help to himself. It looked like he still needed to toughen up on his own!
A purple lightning flashed across the void in an instant, striking Sun Yuan's body. Sun Yuan felt a numbness all over his body, and then a warm current was transmitted from the demon pill, which wandered around his body. Although the numbness gradually disappeared, severe pain immediately came from his body.
If there were outsiders present, they would find that the monkey in front of them had just gone through a calamity, and its body was now charred. However, its open eyes still shone brightly, and its entire body was still full of vitality.
At this time, Sun Yuan had only one sigh in his heart, "It turns out that with the demon pill, I'm not afraid of thunderbolts. No wonder when forming a demon pill, heaven would make such a big move."
Right after that, the second and third bolts of lightning struck down one after another. Although he had the nourishment of the You Dan, Sun Yuan's body still suffered heavy injuries this time around. The sharp gold properties contained within the lightning were like a steel knife, ruthlessly piercing through his body, the intense pain was not something an ordinary person could endure. Not only that, but at this moment even his meridians had been damaged from the lightning's attack.
Unlike the thunder tribulation in the fantasy world, this thunderbolt fell extremely fast. The third one had just finished, and almost didn't give Sun Yuan time to breathe. The fourth, fifth, and sixth ones struck down consecutively, and after several heavy blows, Sun Yuan was already badly battered, curled up on the ground, his body severely injured, and he nearly lost consciousness.
"Is it going to end like this? I'm not resigned to my fate!" Sun Yuan stretched out his charred claws, tightly grasping a rock on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits, struggling to climb up. However, when he looked up at the sky, his face revealed a disappointed expression. The dark clouds in the sky were raging, with massive purple lightning bolts gathering more and more, seemingly without any sign of stopping. Looking at this apocalyptic scene, Sun Yuan's heart only felt a sense of despair.
Sun Yuan didn't know that he had encountered a once-in-a-thousand-years Ninefold Thunder Tribulation, which could be said to be almost impossible for any demon to withstand. Even if there were those who managed to get through it, it was because they possessed top-grade magical artifacts to protect themselves, not solely relying on their physical bodies to resist. As for someone like Sun Yuan, a grassroots cultivator who relied solely on his cultivation to resist, the only outcome would be death.
Whenever a demon forms a dan, the heavenly way will descend with thunder tribulations as a test. The number of thunder tribulations ranges from four to nine, which has nothing to do with other things and is simply a test of the demon's aura. In short, it is a test of the demon's character! If your aura is sufficient and your character is good, the heavenly way will only give you four thunder tribulations. If your aura is insufficient and your character is very poor, then sorry to say, six or more thunder tribulations are prepared for you.
Looking at this situation, it seems that Sun Wukong's character is not good! In fact, there is a reason for this. For Sun Wukong, his soul comes from another universe, and it can be said that in this world he himself has no aura at all, belonging to the absolutely impossible zero aura. And the monkey he descended upon, if it weren't for his possession, this monkey would at most live for a hundred years. This monkey was just an ordinary yellow monkey, so its aura is also very low. The sum of the two is Sun Wukong's current aura. Although the total aura is now greater than zero, it is still infinitely close to zero.
In this world, his aura is almost negligible, so in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao, the guy who dares to condense a dan at this moment is an existence with an aura infinitely close to zero. How dare such a person condense a dan? This is a serious provocation to the Heavenly Dao! You don't have that kind of aura, just stay put and be obedient, what are you condensing a dan for? Isn't this courting death?! Therefore, the Heavenly Dao brought down the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation to kill the chicken and warn the monkey, lest all sorts of stray dogs and cats come to cross the tribulation!
Poor Sun Yuan, at this moment can only wait for the arrival of death, silently watching the lightning that is thicker than before, Sun Yuan has become open-minded, with a clear feeling in his heart, standing on the ground, quietly waiting for his fate, but he did not lower his head, instead, he stared straight at the lightning, with a kind of spirit that even if I die, I will face the bullet flying towards me.
As the purple lightning was about to gather completely, it suddenly swayed and collapsed on its own. Immediately, a series of lightning bolts began to accumulate in the dark clouds. Sun Yuan could see that these lightning bolts might be the seventh to ninth tribulations. Looking at the thickest bolt, Sun Yuan was almost speechless. The thickness of this lightning bolt was comparable to the width of an entire mountain peak. What kind of tribulation was this? Who could withstand it?
Sun Yuanjing stood still, waiting for death, but the lightning in the sky just wouldn't come down. Bolt after bolt of lightning appeared and then suddenly collapsed, only to reassemble again, collapse again, and so on. After a series of such events that lasted half the night, the calamitous cloud finally dispersed, while Sun Yuan escaped his destined doom in a strange and mysterious way.
But Sun Yuan was somewhat at a loss, however, the feeling of escaping from death made him throw away his doubts and replaced it with the excitement of surviving a disaster!
In fact, it can be said that Sun Yuan's survival this time is purely due to luck. Throughout history, there has never been a record of a demon surviving the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation, and there is no reason for this.
The ninth layer of the Nine Heavens' Thunder Tribulation, from the very beginning of the tribulation, he has been gestating in the tribulation clouds, until finally emerging to deliver the final blow to the object of the tribulation. The ninth layer of thunder tribulation is different from the others, it is a perfect thunder tribulation, it is the heavenly whip in the hands of the Heavenly Way, its power is enough to open up the heavens and split the earth, of course such great power naturally has its limitations, that is, it does not allow any defects.
