At this moment, the poison in Old Fox's body had already been neutralized, and his injuries had been treated with Healing Talismans. His pale complexion was entirely due to damage to his inner core, an injury Jiang Hao had no way to heal.
Hu Merchant looked at his daughter, his expression calm. He patted her shoulder and said, "Xinyue, don't cry. Perhaps the Hu family's calamity this time was a tribulation Heaven had arranged for us. Now that you have successfully passed your tribulation and found a husband as well."
As he spoke, he glanced at Jiang Hao beside her. "Serve your husband well from now on. With Jiang protecting you, I can rest easy."
Hearing her father say this, Hu Xinyue cried even harder. She grabbed Jiang Hao's hand and kept shaking it. "Husband, is there really no way to help Father?"
Jiang Hao thought for a moment and said, "A heavenly lightning tribulation can only be endured, not avoided. It would be useless no matter where one hid."
"When you passed your tribulation last time, I helped you withstand the tribulation lightning. You should originally have faced three lightning bolts, but it turned into six. Afterward, I considered that perhaps it was because I helped you that the three became six."
"I am a cultivator, and my strength is what it is. The Heavenly Dao cannot be deceived. I fear even my cultivation was counted in the trial. If I had been a mortal, perhaps there would not have been those last three lightning bolts."
"If I help Father-in-law, it may bring even more terrifying tribulation lightning, turning six bolts into nine. At that point, who could withstand it? I fear Father-in-law and I would both be reduced to ashes."
Hu Xinyue's face turned pale as she listened.